power - hofreps - 1970

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

(Australia) Pty Ltd was accepted for the supply and installation of a complete radio relay system, including the radio equipment, towers, shelters and power plant. [More…]
What power does the Commonwealth Conciliation and Arbitration Commission possess to make a binding order on parties to a demarcation dispute in which the members of I union are covered by a federal award and the other members belong to a State union and are covered by a State award. [More…]
If there is no power to settle such a dispute, has he taken any action to resolve the matter; if so, with what result. [More…]
What was the percentage of non-manual workers employed in the (a) transportation equipment, (b) electrical and electronic equipment, (c) chemical and allied trades, (d) food processing and (e) fuel and power industries, or their nearest equivalent industries, in each year since 1950. [More…]
Changes in the real purchasing power of the nominal minimum wage for a standard working week are influenced not only by technological developments but also by other factors such as changes in the stock of capital per worker, movements in the terms of trade, the educational level of the work force, managerial efficiency and economies of scale. [More…]
To what extent has technological change during the past 20 years resulted in an increase in the real purchasing power of the nominal minimum wage for a standard working week. [More…]
(a) and (b) Under the Public Service (Papua and New Guinea) Ordinance the power to determine the salary classifications of and the rates of overseas allowance applicable to positions in the Public Service of Papua and New Guinea is vested in the Minister. [More…]
In respect of the (Designations referred to this power has been delegated to the Public Service Board of Papua and New Guinea. [More…]
Will the Prime Minister do all in his power to discourage the use of our young people for objectives contrary to the patriotic principles of most Australians? [More…]
Section 69 provides the power for the making of regulations for the registration of organisations. [More…]
The use of this power is at present discretionary. [More…]
But everybody in this House knows that the Federal policy of the Labor Party is to wipe out State parliaments and to put all power in the hands of the Federal Parliament. [More…]
They have no real sympathy with the States, (f this vote of censure were carried, it might well lead to a further erosion of State powers. [More…]
The Senate has got over this restriction by the use of this curious power of request. [More…]
Small wound on left calf caused by power driven nail which was subsequently removed under general anaesthetic, and required four days’ hospitalisation. [More…]
I ask the Minister for Primary Industry for an assurance that he is doing ail in his power to have lifted the ban by the Australian Council of Trade Unions on the export of merino rams. [More…]
I am certain that many of them will respond to that opportunity, that we will see the great conservation tasks for which Australia is crying urgently carried out by a Labor government, that it will be in power to do this within the next 12 months or so, and that it will make the carrying out of this task, immediately it is elected, a No. [More…]
When I was speaking previously I mentioned the building of nuclear power stations by the year 2000. [More…]
I do not know whether I said the cost of these power stations would be $500m or $5,000m, but the figure is $5,000m. [More…]
Snowy Mountains Engineering Corporation will not be able to participate in the construction of those power stations. [More…]
In a case where the claim has been determined by a court, the appeal would be inoperative because the power of the Minister to make a determination is limited to cases where there has been a settlement of a claim by the parties. [More…]
In any case, the nature of the Minister’s power is such that the expense and delay of an appeal is not warranted. [More…]
The appeal is expressed to be either to the jurisdiction which determined the claim or, if the claim was not determined by a court, to the jurisdiction which would otherwise have heard the claim, in a case where the claim has been determined by a court the appeal would be inoperative because the power of the Minister to make a determination is limited to cases where there has been a settlement of a claim by the parties. [More…]
In any case, the nature of the Minister’s power is such that the expense and delay of an appeal is not warranted. [More…]
It refers to a paper on the ecological factors related to the siting, design and operation of a nuclear power station in Australia. [More…]
For what (a) railway, (b) road, (c) port, (d) water and (e) power projects has the Commonwealth made (i) grants and (ii) advances inthe last 25 years, and what was the amount in each case. [More…]
In what Commonwealth instrumentalities docs the head of the instrumentality enjoy the power to fix salaries without reference to the Public Service Board. [More…]
Tenders for the Jervis Bay nuclear power station closed on15 June, 1970. [More…]
When generating authorities decide to install nuclear power plants in their own systems they will almost certainly call tenders on a world wide basis as the Australian Atomic Energy Commission has done in the case of the Jervis Bay project. [More…]
Additionally an estimated $10,000 will be required to cover costs of installation and power connection. [More…]
(a) Extreme precautions are taken in the design, construction and operation of nuclear power reactors to prevent major accidents from occurring; in the most unlikely event of a serious accident occurring, additional precautions are invariably taken to limit the consequences and to safeguard the health and safety of operating staff and public. [More…]
These latter effects would be small and quite local and in any case would apply also to a conventional power station. [More…]
Many of the safety features of a nuclear power station are an intrinsic part of the plant required for normal operation, although a certain amount of duplication and additional engineered safety features are incorporated to ensure complete safety under all conditions. [More…]
In the case of the Jervis Bay nuclear power plant the Commission will be responsible for ensuring the safety of the public and the staff of the Commission. [More…]
The Jervis Bay Power Station will be owned by the Commonwealth and its financing wholly a Commonwealth responsibility, whereas the Gladstone Power Station is to be constructed by the State of Queensland and the Commonwealth assistance is to be in the form of a loan to meet part of the cost. [More…]
If so, will he make an early statement on precautions to be taken to prevent, or at least to assess, the costs and benefits of the Jervis Bay reactor plans as compared with alternative power projects including (a) the risks of a major plant accident (however unlikely) and radioactive ore transport leakage pollution, (b) radioactive waste disposal techniques and their long-term effectiveness, (c) environmental ecology, (d) the cost factor of safety provisions and (e) the independence of the Atomic Energy Authority from profitability motives or influence. [More…]
How will the borrowing, interest payments and cost of power production at Jervis Bay be offset and bow will the financing procedures differ from those of the Gladstone power house project. [More…]
The Authority has the power to recommend temporary duties. [More…]
The Liberal and Country Parties have now decided that to scare people is the easiest way of retaining power. [More…]
Somehow we should do everything in our power to stop this warfare. [More…]
The causeway will provide for: A 24-foot wide dual lane roadway; a 5-foot wide footway; water, power and communications services; and road lighting. [More…]
Was this near-fatal accident caused by (a) loss of power in the two engines on the port wing when seagulls were sucked into the engines or (b) the aircraft being seriously overloaded. [More…]
Have these students come direct from the war zone to give evidence to Australians regarding the invasion of their country by a foreign power? [More…]
You have to exercise power wherever power is, and Parliament is not the only place where there is power- [More…]
All nuclear power stations which operate on uranium fuel (whether natural or enriched) will produce plutonium. [More…]
The station, which will operate on the frequency channel of 690kHz with a power of 2000 watts, is expected to be completed in the financial year 1971-72. [More…]
Could the proposed nuclear power station at Jervis Bay and subsequent reactors be used as sources of fissionable material for the manufacture of nuclear weapons. [More…]
I am afraid that it is not possible for me to keep in my mind the power of every television and broadcasting station around Australian and what requests may have been made in relation to these stations. [More…]
T ask: Are investigations being carried out with a view to increasing the power of this regional station? [More…]
Will the Minister for National Development indicate whether the evaluation of tenders for the nuclear power station at Jervis Bay has been completed? [More…]
1 am advised that objections are occasionally made by employers and unions to a board of reference hearing a dispute or a matter which would involve the board exercising judicial powers. [More…]
While section 50 of the Conciliation and Arbitration Act empowers the Commission to confer certain powers and functions upon boards of reference, the Commission cannot, of course, delegate a power or function which it does not itself possess. [More…]
What have been the recurrent expenditures on government (a) primary and (b) secondary schools in the Australian Capital Territory in each of the years from 1958-59 for (i) non-salary allowances paid on account of teachers, (ii) costs of transfer of teachers moving from New South Wales to the Territory, (iii) school supplies, (iv) repayments to New South Wales, (A) including and (B) excluding teachers’ salaries and allowances, (v) heat, light and power, (vi) telephones, (vii) water and sewerage services (viii) school cleaning services, (ix) ground maintenance, (x) buildings maintenance, (xi) caretaker or janitor services, (xii) milk for school children and (xiii) school transport. [More…]
Do the Council’s rules and constitution require an absolute majority on all major’ questions and give any one Slate body power of veto. [More…]
What Government was in power when this company was established. [More…]
Would the Prime Minister be prepared to submit to the people iti a referendum a request for constitutional power to control prices? [More…]
Mr Chairman, I appreciate the point that was raised by the honourable member for Oxley (Mr Hayden), but I do not agree that clause 7 of the Bill is deficient in that it does not give the Australian Institute of Criminology power to allocate money to the States for the purpose of crime prevention and law enforcement. [More…]
I think that it would be inappropriate to confer such a function or power on the Institute. [More…]
My point is that it would be altogether inappropropriate to confer upon the Institute, which is primarily a research body, power to disburse large sums of Commonwealth money for purposes other than research. [More…]
Leave was not granted so it is outside the power of the Chair. [More…]
I point out to the honourable gentleman that unfortunately our powers seem to be limited for the moment, but we hope that as a result of the concrete pipes case now before the High Court of Australia the ambit of the Commonwealth’s power may be extended. [More…]
Will the Prime Minister give an assurance to the House and to the Australian people that he will now cease using the Communist bogey during any future election campaign, a bogey on which his and previous governments have relied so heavily to maintain them in power? [More…]
However, what I am sure about is that the more the Australian people understand the action taken by members of the Australian Labor Party associated with the more extravagant sections of the Australian Council of Trade Unions who will do all in their power to obstruct the visit of sporting teams to Australia, the more the public will resent and be horrified at their actions and they will express their displeasure in the proper place, and that is in the polls. [More…]
It is an insult to a country of great power and with which we conduct extensive trading operations. [More…]
My question is directed to the Minister for Defence, who will recall that as Prime Minister at the Five Power Conference in Canberra in June 1969 he said that the role of Australian forces- in Singapore and Malaysia was based on the concept of ‘the indivisability of defence of Malaya and Singapore’. [More…]
I ask the Minister: Do the Five Power arrangements drawn up in London last month apply to East Malaysia as fully as they apply to West Malaysia? [More…]
I should like to direct a question to the Minister for External Territories concerning the dam and power project in the upper Ramu Valley in Papua New Guinea. [More…]
While 1 welcome the extension of electric power supply to these people in New Guinea, I ask the Minister what investigations have been carried out to ensure that the revenue from users of this power will be sufficient to service the 7 per cent interest on the loan and the repayment of the loan, a matter that has been referred to by several honourable members in this House and particularly by the Opposition. [More…]
Will the charges for power be able to be kept at their present level and is there any risk that the Australian taxpayer will be called on to meet part of the guarantee that this House has given to the Administration for this loan? [More…]
What is the urgent need for Australia to introduce nuclear power bused on technology which is likely to be superseded within a few years. [More…]
Did any of the tenders of the Jervis Bay Power Stations have a condition attached that Australia must ratify the Non-Proliferation Treaty? [More…]
When was the last approach made to or by each State for it to refer power to the Commonwealth to operate shipping services within the State or to consent to the establishment and operation of such services by the Commonwealth? [More…]
No formal reference of power has yet been obtained or sought from any State of the Commonwealth. [More…]
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The need to pass laws relating to trade practices, consumer protection, consumer credit, securities markets and overseas control under the Commonwealth’s corporations power. [More…]
Is be able to say, whether the Act (a) subjects all persons on reserves to the direction and discipline of the Director, District Officer Manager, Councillors or other officers of the reserves and (b) vests in the Director the power to move an assisted person, not on a reserve, to any reserve in Queensland. [More…]
That the Committee of Privileges, when considering the matters referred to it on 7th and 13th September 1971, have power to send for persons, papers and records. [More…]
The Committee in undertaking its inquiries wishes to have this power granted to it and in accordance with practice the motion is proposed for the concurrence of the House. [More…]
2843, namely, that boiling water reactors and pressurised water reactors, which are the 2 main types of light water power reactors, can be. [More…]
I know the Minister will give sympathetic consideration to this matter and do whatever is in his power to take the mental load off this distressed truly Australian couple. [More…]
2835 that only one SGHW power reactor of 100 MW is in operation. [More…]
If so, on what basis of operating experience as a power reactor, does he have reasonable confidence in the safety, reliability and performance of the SGHW reactor. [More…]
Is it a fact that a sufficient number of light water power reactors have been operating long enough to undergo adequate development in the light of operating experience and could be regarded asproven. [More…]
What studies have been made to determine the effects of the proposed Armco Steel Works on (a) timbered frontages now facing a proposed tourist resort, (b) sea water temperatures considering also the effects of the proposed nuclear power house, (c) air and water pollution, (d) ecological changes and (e) the consequences for fishing, swimming, boating and camping in the area. [More…]
PWR, (ii) BWR Light Water and (iii) SGHWR Heavy Water Power reac tors are (A) in operation, (B) under construction and (C) on order as at 30th June 1971 and [More…]
What power does the Postmaster-General possess to take action against the establishment and operation of unlicensed and illegal broadcasting stations? [More…]
What are the estimated power requirements for: [More…]
The Tariff Board report on steam engines, boilers and power units has been received but is not being released at this stage pending international negotiations. [More…]
That Lake Pedder, situated in the Lake Pedder National Park in South-West Tasmania, is threatened with inundation as part of the Gordon River hydro-electric power scheme. [More…]
That Lake Pedder, situated in the Lake Pedder National Park in South-West Tasmania, is threatened with inundation as part of the Gordon River hydro-electric power scheme. [More…]
Does his Government acknowledge the fact that difficulties arise insofar as the Commonwealth Parliament possesses no general head of power to legislate with respect to the environment, save that power which may derive from the use of external affairs power? [More…]
Does this mean that the Commonwealth Parliament’s power with respect to environmental issues remains persuasive only? [More…]
Can the right honourable gentleman give an assurance that, if confronted with indifference to environmental issues by those authorities which have the power to deal with them, this Government will display resolution on the matter even to the point of being accused of centralism? [More…]
Also the gas turbines fitted in ships arc not as highly loaded as those in aircraft, where boost power, accompanied by smoke emission, is necessary on take off. [More…]
When was the last approach made to or by New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia and Western Australia for any of them to refer power to the Commonwealth to operate airline services within the State or to consent to the establish ment and operation of such services by the Commonwealth. [More…]
The most populous nation in the world, the only nuclear power in Asia, is now a member of the United Nations. [More…]
Which body has power to enforce these recommendations. [More…]
I preface my question, which is addressed to the Acting Prime Minister, by referring to the recent judgment of the High Court of Australia in the concrete pipes case relative to trading and financial corporations on which the Government depends for the validity of the Restrictive Trade Practices Act and from which flows the necessary power for nationwide regulation of stock exchanges as advocated by him. [More…]
Will he introduce or give his Party’s support to a Bill under the same powers to reduce the crushing burden of interest charges imposed on primary producers by hire purchase companies, pastoral companies and machinery firms? [More…]
Will he similarly support the exercise to their limit of powers flowing from the same judgment in relation to general living costs in both city and country areas? [More…]
Was this programme, in effect, a promotion of nuclear power at a time when the Government had decided not to take any action in the matter. [More…]
Stage 5 Extensions of the Stokes Hill Power Station, Darwin; [More…]
The Leader of the Opposition has indicated that if the Labor Party were in power it would institute a public inquiry into the inducement of people to have fewer children. [More…]
The humble petition of citizens of the Commonwealth of Australia respectfully showeth: That Lake Pedder, situated in the Lake Pedder National Park in South-West Tasmania, is threatened with inundation as part of the Gordon River hydro-electric power scheme. [More…]
That Lake Pedder, situated in the Lake Pedder National Park in South-West Tasmania, is threatened with inundation as part of the Gordon River hydro-electric power scheme. [More…]
This amendment which has been moved is a necessary reminder that the Commonwealth was accorded full power on this subject, and the Opposition is anxious that the Commonwealth Government should assume full power, lt has not launched this as an attack on the Government, but I am sure that the amendment will be so interpreted by many honourable members who arc yet to speak, lt is a reminder thai there was :i referendum and that all of us in this House from all political parties were united on this issue. [More…]
The referendum did accord new powers and the amendment is a plea for the new powers to be used. [More…]
1 am advised that the Constitution of the Commonwealth provides no general power under which the Commonwealth could take action to deal with man-days lost through industrial stoppages in industries covered by State awards, determinations or agreements. [More…]
However placitum (xxxv) of section51 of the Constitution empowers the Commonwealth Parliament to make laws with respect to conciliation and arbitration for the prevention and settlement of industrial disputes extending beyond the limits of any one State and under the Conciliation and Arbitration Act, made in pursuance of that power, the Commonwealth [More…]
The Commonwealth, under the Tasmania Agreement (Hydro-Electric Power Development) Act 1968, is providing Tasmania with bridging finance, subject to an overall limit to $47m, for a 5-year programme of accelerated electric power development. [More…]
Was $43m allocated to the State of Tasmania for the 5-year period beginning 15th July 1967 for the purposes of assisting the State in an accelerated programme of electric power generation. [More…]
These arise from Tariff Board reports on mining, metallurgical etc., machinery; steam engines, boilers and power units; tetraethyl-lead, tetramethyl-lead and antiknock preparations based thereon; and yeast. [More…]
Steam engines, boilers and power units; [More…]
If so, is it now the view of the Commonwealth Government that the transfer of power to levy pay-roll tax to the States has discharged its obligations on the survey? [More…]
I ask the Minister representing the Attorney-General: Will he suggest to his colleague the AttorneyGeneral that an examination be made of the recent judgment of the High Court of Australia in the concrete pipes case with a view to determining whether the Commonwealth Parliament possesses power to pass laws in respect of prices? [More…]
If it is felt that the judgment does not give the Parliament power to control prices, will be give consideration to the taking of a referendum for an amendment of the Constitution to add prices as a new placitum to section 51 of the Constitution? [More…]
Has the attention of the Minister for Defence been drawn to a statement by the Leader of the Opposition in New Zealand during a recent visit to Singapore to the effect that if his Party came into power at the forthcoming general election in New Zealand it would retain its troops in Singapore even if the Labor Party came into power in Australia and withdrew its forces. [More…]
(a) John Power, [More…]
John Power. [More…]
In view of the publicity given in Australia to the proposed amalgamation of 3 large metal trades unions under the leadership of Laurie Carmichael, a leading Communist, and the importance of giving information to the community on the possible repercussions from this amalgamation and leadership which, incidentally, has been supported by employers, will the Postmaster-General suggest to the Austraiian Broadcasting Commission that it again feature, preferably on ‘Four Corners’, that portion of its outstanding series ‘Profiles of Power’ in which Laurie Carmichael was the subject of an interview? [More…]
Let us be quite clear on just where the Australian Labor Party stands on the question of getting a centralised bureaucracy, a centralisation of power in order, to achieve what it believes will be the. [More…]
Has he read the paper delivered by the Registrar of the Commonwealth Industrial Court, Dr Ian B. Sharpe, to a recent seminar on industrial relations, in which he stated that it is very doubtful whether the Commonwealth Parliament had the power to legislate for enforceable voluntary agreements made outside the arbitration system. [More…]
Can he say whether somewhere between half a million and one million Indonesians lost their lives when the Soeharto regime seized power some years ago. [More…]
This might apply if the Labor Party got into power and got Pakistanis and people from all over the world to come here, but while this Government is in power I do not think it is necessary to worry about it. [More…]
The intention of this amendment is to vest in the Commissioner himself the power to determine the salary or range of salary applicable to a position in the service. [More…]
The way the trade union movement uses its power against individuals to deny them freedom is absolutely and completely deplorable. [More…]
If so, (a) when is it expected that transmission will commence, (b) what will be its power, (c) where will it be sited and (d) what will be the radius of satisfactory reception. [More…]
In what Commonwealth departments or instrumentalities has the management power to inflict fines on employees for disciplinary purposes. [More…]
Can he say what power the United States Federal Maritime Commission has covering freight rates? [More…]
The arrogance of power was illustrated by the attitude of the Minister. [More…]
Will his Department investigate the McWade Emission Control Unit which the inventor, Mr Duncan McWade submits is a means of reducing car pollution and which it is claimed will also reduce engine wear, ensure better performance and greater engine power. [More…]
I ask: Is the Minister aware that the present first advance of 110c a bushel was fixed in 1957 and that since that time dramatic Increases in wages and salaries and improved working conditions, in association with excessive tariff protection to secondary industry, have drastically eroded the purchasing power of this 110c? [More…]
We are doing all in our power to see that these records are made available as soon as possible. [More…]
I ask the Prime Minister whether these documents disclose that the Liberal and the Country Parties cannot be trusted due to their bungling and failure to safeguard this country’s interest during their period in power. [More…]
Since the entry into force of the Five Power Arrangements on 1st November 1971. there has been no occasion to request the convening of a Five Power meeting at Ministerial level. [More…]
That, in accordance with the provisions of the Public Works Committee Act 1969-1972, the following proposed work be referred to the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Public Works for investigation and report: Construction of a new power station at Tennant Creek, Northern Territory. [More…]
The proposal is for the construction of a power station comprising steel-framed power station building to house 3 1.4MW Diesel generators, auxiliaries, crane, switchgear and controls; steel-framed distribution workshop building; bulk fuel storage; and, services to the site. [More…]
At present, Tennant Creek is supplied with power by Peko Mines NL under contract, but notice has been given by the company that it will cease to supply power after 1st November 1974. [More…]
Pursuant to section 32b of the Snowy Mountains Hydro-Electric Power Act 1949-1966, I present the Twenty-third Annual Report of the Snowy Mountains Hydro-Electric Authority for the year ended 30th June 1972 together with financial statements and the report of the AuditorGeneral on those statements. [More…]
It should be borne in mind that all pension payments under this Bill are free of income tax and therefore they have a greater purchasing power than equivalent amounts of earnings that are subject to tax. [More…]
Can the Prime Minister inform the House which part of the Five Power Arrangements authorises Australia to undertake this hapless and objectionable task? [More…]
The second point to be made is that we have made it clear to the Malaysian Government that there has been no change whatsoever in the arrangements that were made by my colleague in London relating to the Five Power arrangements. [More…]
I refer the Prime Minister to the statement made by his predecessor to the Five Power Conference held in this Parliament House on 19th June 1969, when the right honourable member for Higgins said that the Australian forces in the Malaysia-Singapore region have ‘the objective of assisting - and I emphasise the word “assisting” - in defence against external aggression or subversion which can be clearly seen to stem from without the region and can be clearly seen to be supported by external regimes. [More…]
Do these guidelines include the power of veto over the interviewer, and the right to approve an interviewing panel and the questions that its members want to put? [More…]
This new authority should have the power to acquire, appraise and market the entire dtp and to regulate marketing through auction, sale by tender, long term treaty or any combination of these possibilities. [More…]
If a 35-hour week were implemented immeditely, what would be the percentage increase in unit labour cost of production in la) the oil industry, (b) the cargo handling industry and (c) the fuel and power supply industry. [More…]
This is due to the vastness and diversity of the Burdekin River Basin and the complex problems involved in considering future water needs for urban, irrigation, power generation and industrial (including minerals) purposes as well as flood mitigation aspects. [More…]
In that paragraph reference is made to 15 per cent of the total voting power. [More…]
What is the proposed or actual power of each of the television stations in the seventh stage of television development. [More…]
What approximate population would receive a satisfactory reception if each station was of high rather than low power. [More…]
The report I have just tabled is to advise the House that the Committee has been unable to complete its inquiry, and to recommend that a new committee be appointed in the 28th Parliament with the power to use the records of the present Committee in conducting its inquiry. [More…]
On what occasions and with what outcome have consultations taken place with the States, other than at the Fisheries Council (Hansard, 16th September (1970, page 1256 and 31st May 1972 1972, page 3391), concerning the proposed use of nuclear power in harbour construction. [More…]
vacillating on Australia’s troop commitment to the Five Power Arrangements, thereby calling into question Australia’s commitment and [More…]
As an interim measure the principles developed by the previous Government be adopted immediately and extended in accordance with the next recommendation; in addition, environmental impact statements be required at the Minister’s discretion after consultation with appropriate Ministers, where a proposal has significant environmental consequences and where Commonwealth funds are involved and/or where Commonwealth constitutional power is involved; as from 1st January 1974 the provisions of this paragraph to become mandatory without any discretion at all and the proposing Department or Authority be required to arrange, through the Department of the Environment and Conservation, for public hearings in the case of all impact statements involving the Commonwealth in order to ensure that the public is given an opportunity to express its views on the environmental impact of a proposal prior to the particular impact statement being prepared; the Department of the Environment and Conservation in consultation with other interested Departments to be directed to prepare draft guidelines for the requirements for and preparation of environmental impact statements and to advise on the need for and, if appropriate, the form of covering legislation. [More…]
It will therefore have no power to compel the attendance of witnesses. [More…]
He has shown undivided loyality to whatever government happens to be in power. [More…]
Has the concentration of economic power, in terms of ownership and share of domestic markets, increased in Australia in recent years? [More…]
If so, has there been a tendency for the concentration of economic power in either of these senses to increase more rapidly in the last 5 years than in the previous 5 years? [More…]
ls there any indication that the rate of increase, if any, of the concentration of economic power might increase in the near future? [More…]
Did the Minister also say that a person has to commit an offence which attracts a sentence of more than one year’s imprisonment before he has the power to consider his deportation? [More…]
The advertisement seeks a postal vote on whether people want to change the Australian flag; abolish the Crown in Australia; have the Federal Constitution destroyed and all power centralised in Canberra. [More…]
Has the Parliament the power to pass laws making authorities established by it directly responsible to the Parliament and not to the Executive? [More…]
Can the Prime Minister inform the House of those cases where this power has been exercised by the Parliament? [More…]
What increase in (a) the national wages bill and (b) unit labour costs will be caused by the introduction of 42 weeks maternity leave on full pay for all female wage and salary earners in the (i) Commonwealth Public Service, (ii) motor vehicle industry, (iii) fuel and power industries, (iv) iron and steel industries, (v) stevedoring industry, (vi) building and construction industry and (vii) retailing industry. [More…]
What increase in (a) the national wages bill and (b) unit labour costs will be caused by the introduction of equal pay for both sexes in the (i) Commonwealth Public Service, (ii) motor vehicle industry, (iii) fuel and power industries, (iv) iron and steel industries, (v) stevedoring industry, (vi) building and construction industry, and, (vii) retailing industry. [More…]
What increase in (a) the national wages bill and (b) unit labour costs will be caused by the introduction of 6 weeks maternity leave on full pay for all female wage and salary earners in the (i) Commonwealth Public Service, (ii) motor vehicle industry, (iii”) fuel and power industries, (iv) iron and steel industries, (v) stevedoring industry, (vi) building and construction industry and (vii) retailing industry. [More…]
What increase in (a) the national wages bill and (b) unit labour costs will be caused by the introduction of 4 weeks leave for all wage and salary earners in the (i) Commonwealth Public Service, (ii) motor vehicle industry, (iii) fuel and power industries, (iv) iron and steel industries, (v) stevedoring industry, (vi) building and construction industry and (vii) retailing industry. [More…]
What increase in (a) the national wages bill and (b) unit labour costs will be caused by the introduction of 4 weeks leave with 5 weeks pay in the (i) Commonwealth Public Service, (ii) motor vehicle industry, (iii) fuel and power industries, (iv) iron and steel industries, (v) stevedoring industry, (vi) building and construction industry and (vii) retailing industry. [More…]
Did Australia take any action concerning selfdetermination and Independence for New Caledonia (a) with the colonial power; and (b) within the United Nations Organisation during the period 1970 to 1972 inclusive; if so, what action was taken; if not, why not? [More…]
Briefly, by way of preface, I mention that the honourable gentleman will be aware of the pairing system, as a result of which the true voting power in a chamber is not temporarily altered by the absence of a member on proper business or due to illness and that this system applies in this House and in the Senate. [More…]
While the collection of information is not in itself unlawful, I repeat the undertaking already given by the Attorney-General in the Senate on 7th March 1973 in which he said that Australia would not permit illegal activities on behalf of any power in Australia and would not accept the continued presence in Australia of any agents for a foreign power who were conducting unlawful activities here. [More…]
This section amounts to parliamentary adoption in advance of a future State law without the legislative support of an existing reference of power. [More…]
There is power for the States to refer to a Commonwealth Parliament topics which can include intrastate civil aviation, but the power of this Parliament to legislate on that topic does not arise until the reference is effective. [More…]
In my opinion there is no power in this Parliament to make a law on a subject on which it has not yet any power. [More…]
Government that Australia matured as a middle ranking power. [More…]
Has the Minister for Minerals and Energy noted the intervention of the Victorian Minister for Fuel and Power in the Senate debate on the Pipeline Authority Bill? [More…]
What would be the percentage increase in the unit labour cost of production in (a) the oil industry, (b) the cargo-handling industry, (c) the fuel and power supply industry. [More…]
I would be very amazed if it was in the power of the Government to do this. [More…]
Have the Naval Air Power Studies, referred to in the third paragraph on page 35 of ‘A Survey of Future Needs of the Royal Australian Navy, August 1972’ (Parliamentary Paper No. [More…]
The honourable member was a member of the Party which was in power for some 24 years but which did nothing about this attitude. [More…]
He is quite willing to use the power of the Government socialistically to bring in measures the effect of which he does not know. [More…]
But around this measure there is - and I am speaking of the parent measure; the Atomic Energy Act 1953 - a strong flavour of the Oak Ridge mentality when it was presumed by one world power that it had a complete monopoly and would be able to retain a complete monopoly of atomic energy and its application to explosives. [More…]
I did campaign for the removal of the wine tax, and within a matter of weeks of the present Government coming to power that tax was removed as promised. [More…]
It is also within his power to determine which matters are important and which are not. [More…]
I think it is an example of a monopoly that has not always used its monopoly power in the way that theoetically one might suppose it could use that power. [More…]
I did have a conversation with the President of the Australian Council of Trade Unions, a member of the Reserve Bank board, last Wednesday night, and in the course of a conversation on many matters he told me that if the Government were able to moderate the rise in prices through the application of such constitutional power as it obtains the trade union movement would fully co-operate in restraining wages and incomes. [More…]
Does the Prime Minister persist in his undertaking given to the Premiers at the Constitutional Review Convention that he would seek a reference of power from them with respect to price control? [More…]
Were the Premiers of the States to refer a limited power on prices and incomes to the Commonwealth on the condition that both prices and incomes should be controlled and that the power should be given only for a limited period, would he still continue with his referendum proposal? [More…]
Is it not true that the Prime Minister, in fact, would persist with his referendum because he sees the referendum on power over prices as fundamental to his implementation of his policy of socialisation and not towards the control of inflation? [More…]
Pursuant to section 32b of the Snowy Mountains Hydro-Electric Power Act 1949-1966, 1 present the twentyfourth annual report of the Snowy Mountains Hydro-Electric Authority for the year ended 30 June 1973 together with financial statements and the report of the Auditor-General on those statements. [More…]
After the people give prices and incomes power to this Parliament, the Government will not be introducing rent control. [More…]
The national Government seeks that power. [More…]
I believe the public will give it that power and if, as I expect, the referenda arc carried on S December, we should be able to put the necessary land price stabilisation legislation through both Houses of the national Parliament in the following week. [More…]
If it is to be direct by local government authorities, under what statute has the Commonwealth power to give these grants direct to local government authorities? [More…]
The serious situation caused by the New South Wales power strike. [More…]
I have received notice from the honourable member for Wannon that at the next sitting he will move that this House censures the Minister for Minerals and Energy for his gross abuse of power in relation to the New South Wales power dispute. [More…]
I would like to know whether the Government is going to take this matter up and debate it now or whether it is to be held over for 10 days while this power dispute continues. [More…]
That all words after ‘That’ be omitted with a view to inserting the following words in place thereof: this House congratulates the Minister for Minerals and Energy for his firmness and wisdom in the balanced and flexible management of the Snowy Mountains hydro-electric scheme; condemns the Opposition for its blatant attempt to involve the Government in a major industrial dispute to which the New South Wales Liberal coalition Government is a party, and in which employees of the New South Wales Electricity Commission at the Tumut power stations covered by New South Wales industrial awards and under that Commission’s industrial discipline are involved; further condemns the Opposition for seeking to impose upon the national Government, in respect of State employees a course of industrial action which that Government is not prepared to take in any power station in New South Wales, knowing that it would result in a complete cessation of power generation.’ [More…]
No government before us, and certainly not our immediate predecessor, suggested a control on or recommended the way in which the Commonwealth Parliament should exercise its power in making these grants or required that it should be subject to a mandatory provision that the Commonwealth Minister must accept the nominees of the State Ministers who will be the beneficiaries of these grants. [More…]
That the Committee of Privileges when considering the matter referred to it today have power to send for persons, papers and records. [More…]
The committee when undertaking its new inquiry may wish to have the power granted by this motion and, in accordance with practice, the motion is proposed for the concurrence of the House. [More…]
Construction of stage 6 extension of Stokes Hill power station - Darwin, Northern Territory. [More…]
The proposal involves: Provision of two 23.5 megawatt turbo-alternator sets, with associated oil-fired boiler plant, auxiliaries, switchgear, unit transformers and 66 kV switchyard, construction of a 24,000 ton capacity fuel oil tank, and supply and installation of two 66 kV underground cables linking the power station and city zone sub-station together with modifications to overhead transmission lines in the Fannie Bay area. [More…]
Did he at any time give an undertaking or commitment of any kind to the British Minister for Defence, Lord Carrington, to the effect that Australia would maintain its forces in Singapore under the Five Power Arrangements. [More…]
The Corporation will be given the power to initiate particular investment proposals rather than having to wait for approaches from companies. [More…]
If only the prices power is passed at the referendum on 8 December, will the Prime Minister assure the House that the Government will not then use the prices power to control incomes and wages? [More…]
Clause 6 is a supporting clause which deals with the powers of the Corporation to achieve its functions. [More…]
The powers permit the AIDC to raise money otherwise than by borrowing - ‘to draw, make, accept, indorse and discount bills of exchange and promissory notes; to form, or participate in the formation of, a company; to carry on any business or activity’. [More…]
We believe that these confer on an agency of the Government the power to socialise any industry it wants to. [More…]
A Commissioner shall not exercise any power conferred upon him by this Act in any matter in which he has a direct or indirect pecuniary interest. [More…]
I referred to the provision in clause 9 that the power of the Chairman in regard to certain responsibilities can be exercised only after consultation with the Commissioners. [More…]
In clause 18, which we are now considering, powers again are conferred on the Chairman and it begins with the words ‘Subject to this section’. [More…]
A power of the Chairman under paragraph (2) (a) or (b) shall be exercised, as far as practicable, only after consultation with the Commissioners. [More…]
I am afraid that we overlook the fact that, when we are speaking of power in the world now, foreign policy comes down still to nuclear policy and to the possession of the weapons which dictate the power balance and which allow the possessors of those weapons to stand in a situation quite different from that of the rest of the world and of those which do not possess those weapons. [More…]
That the Committee have power to send for persons, papers and records, to move from place to place and to sit during any recess or adjournment of the Parliament. [More…]
Output has also been affected by Industrial disputes and power restrictions. [More…]
Does this not confirm the view of some eminent legal authorities that government power to control prices also carries with it power to control wages? [More…]
How many of these camps have electric power supplies from Commonwealth Railways services. [More…]
What charges are made by Commonwealth Railways for the supply of electric power to employees in these maintenance camps. [More…]
The present board has no trading powers and an important difference between it and the new Corporation will be that the Corporation will have power to engage in trading. [More…]
During the afternoon of Sunday, 23 September 1973 the Deputy Chairman of the Snowy Mountains Council sought the views of State Government representatives on the Council in turn by telephone about the circumstances then existing at the Tumut Power Stations. [More…]
Is it the intention of the Government to encourage the research and development of energy conversion methods which entail minimum pollution of the environment such as solar energy and tidal power. [More…]
<2) If so, what action has he taken to encourage research and development in respect of (a) solar energy and (b) tidal power. [More…]
The honourable member will be aware that at present the Australian Government has no direct price control powers except in the Territories and has therefore no power to arrange for a uniform price to be charged for motor vehicles throughout Australia. [More…]
All this clause does is to give the Minister for Primary Industry (Senator Wriedt)- of course the Minister is an instrument of the national Parliament and the Government - the power to bring in desirable co-ordination. [More…]
It is necessary for the Australian Government to decide its own policy for the mineral resources based on the long-term benefits for Australia, and for this special attention should be paid to changes in the international relation of supply and demand for mineral resources, to future changes in the competitive power of Australian mineral resources, to relations between other countries, to changes in the relative position and standing of Australia in the world, to changes in the industrial structure within Australia, to the development of technological reform, to changes in the degree of national interest in the development of technological reform, and to the promotion of living and education standards. [More…]
The Australian Transport Advisory Council of which I am Chairman has looked at suggestions made from time to time to issue driver’s and rider’s licences relating to the power of the car or motor cycle to be driven. [More…]
In so far as motor cyclists are concerned, Council is awaiting the results of a study commissioned by my Department of the relationship between motorcycle power, rider experience and accident involvement. [More…]
We are told that this is not a Bill to centralise power in Canberra; it is a Bill to decentralise power. [More…]
That the Committee of Privileges, when considering this matter, have power to send for persons, papers and records. [More…]
In accordance with the usual practice, the motion also seeks to give the Committee power to send for persons, papers and records, should it require to do so. [More…]
Is it true, as Mr Meagher claims, that there was delay in approving the grant caused by ‘bureaucrats in Canberra with an inordinate lust for power’? [More…]
Is the honourable gentleman aware that at the current rate of inflation, generally accepted as about 13 per cent, in less than 6 years $100 will lose half its purchasing power, and $1 will be worth two bob in 14 years? [More…]
Is he aware that at the rate of 20 per cent - does he see anything to prevent its rising to 20 per cent, say, by next Christmas - that in 4 years $100 would be worth half its present purchasing power, and $1 would be worth two bob in the space of 9 years? [More…]
That the Committee have power to send for persons, papers and records for any purposes related to this inquiry. [More…]
The CSIRO carried out research mainly on solar water heating, air drying, desalination, and aspects of solar thermal power stations. [More…]
-The Chair has no power to order the Minister to table a document if he says it is classified. [More…]
The area supplies coal to Swanbank power station and to 2 small booster stations which supply power to the whole of southern Queensland. [More…]
Is it true that coal shortages at Ipswich in Queensland are likely to cause power cuts with serious consequences to industry and employment in Queensland? [More…]
I am unsure of what the honourable member means by ‘formal procedures’ but impact statements are required where a proposal has significant environmental consequences and Australian Government funds and/or constitutional power is involved. [More…]
My colleague the Deputy Leader of the Country Party (Mr Sinclair) will be speaking on this Bill particularly in relation to matters raised by the transfer of fisheries power to Papua New Guinea and on what will flow from that transfer of power. [More…]
This legislation is, of course, part of the transfer of power from Australia to Papua New Guinea, firstly through selfgovernment and later through independence. [More…]
This Bill grants power to the Papua New Guinea Government to administer its own fisheries legislation. [More…]
We have witnessed a very historic occasion where the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) has demonstrated his hitter annoyance and frustration that the national Parliament of Australia has 2 houses - an upper House and a lower House - and that he wants to bring about the downfall of the Senate so that there is complete power in one chamber so that he, the Prime Minister, can lord it over the Australian people as well as this Parliament. [More…]
It is appropriate to remind the Minister that during the time when the previous Government was in power, thousands of non-white people migrated to Australia and satisfactorily settled into the Australian way of life. [More…]
I have no power to do that. [More…]
The most pertinent factor is that the present Government has been returned to power with 49.3 per cent or just about half of the total vote. [More…]
The Government won power in 1972 on 49.7 per cent of the votes. [More…]
It is holding power on 49.3 per cent. [More…]
I refer to the Minister’s answer to a question yesterday when he said that the price of land in Canberra skyrocketed until the Labor Government came to power and that the price was now stabilised. [More…]
I believe that this split goes right outside this House, but with this difference: In this House the pro-communist faction is in the majority; in the electorate outside I believe that the anti-communist faction is in the large majority and would not have voted this Government into power if it had realised what was involved. [More…]
If he has this power the Attorney-General can give directions on all sorts of matters. [More…]
The reason for this amendment is that despite the deletion from this Bill, as compared with the 1973 Bill, of certain additions to the powers of the Corporation, in particular the power to carry on any business or activity, yet it seems to the Opposition from a reading of the present statement of the functions of the Corporation as set out in clause 4 of the Bill, that the combination of the suggestion that the Corporation be empowered in pursuance of this provision to engage or participate in enterprises, with the powers conferred under section 5 (a) (c), which relates to the power ‘to form or participate in the formation of a company’ would be to confer power on the Corporation to act significantly in its own right in a particular line of business. [More…]
Mr Chairman, you will recall that the Minister for Urban and Regional Development (Mr Uren) could have given the power to a delegated public servant to override decisions taken by the elected State governments or the elected local government bodies throughout Australia. [More…]
I am delighted now that such an officer no longer has that power and that the Commonwealth can now enter into proper consultation with the States. [More…]
If the Australian Government is going to try to pretend that clause 6 (b) will preclude the Minister for Urban and Regional Development, who has his own constitutional authority and power, from declaring a region fit to be a growth centre, I think we have reached the highest point of plain ridiculousness that I have ever heard. [More…]
I do not believe the Act in any way derogates the power of the Minister for Urban and Regional Development. [More…]
4 precludes the Minister for Urban and Regional Development delegating to an officer his power to concur in the approval of such road projects. [More…]
Whilst the clause as originally drafted was a logical approach to the question of future growth centres and the delegation of the concurrence power, my colleague, Mr Uren, has agreed with me that we should not let the omission of these provisions stand in the way of bringing the legislation into operation as quickly as possible. [More…]
‘Export’ and ‘major commercial’ roads being roads which facilitate or would, if built, facilitate trade and commerce, or the development of trade and commerce, with other countries and among the States come within the constitutional power of Australia. [More…]
Clause 36 of the Bill provides for the Wheat Board to have the power to borrow commercially. [More…]
To ensure that this borrowing power is available at the earliest opportunity, I move: [More…]
Pursuant to section 32 of the Hydro-Electric Power Act 1949-73 I present for the information of honourable members the 25th Annual Report of the Snowy Mountains Hydro-Electric Authority. [More…]
1 July to 2 December 1972 when the Liberal/Country Party Government was in power. [More…]
I would have thought that there might be some power for a Federal Act to provide for circumstances in which a body incorporated in the Federal jurisdiction can also act for certain purposes in another jurisdiction and that this might well be an application of Federal power. [More…]
So I refer him to clause 5 which sets out the proposed new section 133A (5) dealing with the power of the Registrar. [More…]
I listened to the Minister’s words during an earlier explanation this evening in which he expressed very great concern that State industrial tribunals would have a modicum of significant power left to them. [More…]
Taking his offer at its face value- one could do nothing other than that when one looks at that gentle, caressing, Celtic countenance of the Minister for Labor and Immigration- I would suggest that proposed new section 133A (5) gives almost total power to the Registrar of the Federal court. [More…]
Almost no power is left to the registrars of any of the State tribunals, so I would suggest that the Minister might consider amending the Bill in the other place by altering sub-section (5) of proposed section 133A to read: [More…]
While it may appear that some authority is given in this provision for funds to remain where the State organisation might require them to remain, the sub-section as now drafted gives an unequivocal, undiluted and overwhelming power to the Federal Registrar. [More…]
In the Act as it now is the power of the union to enrol people who can be enrolled in a trade union has been widened to enable people to be enrolled other than as employees. [More…]
This legislation proposes to modify that power. [More…]
It is not a question of additional powers also being made available to employer organisations because that would seem to flow quite logically from the amendments which were made last year. [More…]
By way of preface I refer to an admirable speech given by his colleague and my friend, the Treasurer, in May this year in which that honourable gentleman said that a rate of 13 per cent inflation would mean that by the year 2000 $1 would have the purchasing power of 4c today and that a home costing $20,000 today would cost nearly $500,000 then. [More…]
Section 17 of the Principal Act is amended by omit ting sub-section (1) and substituting the following subsection: “( 1 ) For the purpose of exercising its powers and func tions the Authority, subject to this Act and the regulations in force by virtue of this Act, shall have power to make such orders, give such directions and do all such things as it thinks fit. [More…]
Will he provide a list of all research projects being undertaken in Australia into tidal power which are receiving financial support from the Government. [More…]
What proportion does this represent of funds allocated by all sources in Australia to research projects into the applied use of tidal power. [More…]
The Broadcasting Control Board, therefore, in exercising its censorship power under Section 101 of the Broadcasting and Television Act, does so in order to establish whether a program or portion of a program is suitable at all for television, or whether it is suitable for a particular time of transmission having regard to the nature of the known audience at the time. [More…]
I inform him that on Friday 1 November during the installation of a sophisticated machine on the 12th floor of the Australian Government Centre in Brisbane power was disrupted to the entire building and I was caught on my own in one lift for 15 minutes between the 10th and 11th floors. [More…]
But every other commission, the Schools Commission, the Universities Commission, the Commission on Advanced Education, has been given the entitlement- as measures going through the House this week will have demonstrated to honourable members- to adjust grants according to the changed purchasing power of money. [More…]
1 ) What steps have been taken to enlarge the power of the River Murray Commission to include control over water quality in the Murray River. [More…]
Proposed section 20a seeks to ensure that the Corporation consults with the appropriate trade union organisation and proposed section 20a (2) gives the Minister the power to give directions to the Corporation as regards consultation. [More…]
Nowhere in this Bill is the Minister given the power in any circumstances to direct the Corporation to accept a particular view. [More…]
But it does not in any way give the Minister the power or the right to direct the Corporation to accept any one view. [More…]
Because I have respect for the Minister’s integrity, his honesty and his willingness to give way and not stand stupidly on a pinnacle of power, I will accept what he says. [More…]
Does this indicate that Hanoi believes in the concept that political power grows out of the barrel of a gun? [More…]
The legislation proposes to give the Minister an overall power over the Commission. [More…]
There has been specific demand for this power not to be given. [More…]
The Senate’s amendment seeks to substitute for a ministerial power of direction over the Commission- that is, complete and utter control of the whole Commissiona device to delay which is taken from the National Capital Development Commission Act 1957. [More…]
-For the information of honourable members I present a statement, an exchange of letters and schedules relating to the transfer of defence power to Papua New Guinea. [More…]
Clause 263 (Power of Commission to obtain information, documents and evidence). [More…]
There is nothing more absurd than to say that this Housing Corporation must have the power of a building construction authority right throughout Australia because there may be a requirement to build a dwelling in a remote part of the Torres Strait Islands. [More…]
Legislation is necessary to give effect to the Tribunal’s findings because the Tribunal has power only to report on judges’ remuneration. [More…]
For constitutional reasons, the Tribunal could not be given the power of determination in this case. [More…]
I should like to recapitulate in very short terms the concern expressed to me by the States and by the road federation bodies throughout Australiathat is, the transport operators- that the Bill gives the Commonwealth Railways, or the Australian National Railways Commission as we perhaps now should call it, power much wider than that required for the purposes which the Bill is said to enact. [More…]
This amendment limits powers or the capacity of the Commonwealth Railways to activities rather like those of the State railways which in some cases also operate rather large road transport concerns. [More…]
It is fair to say that the Commonwealth Railways should have the same power in this regard as the State railways. [More…]
It is not within the power of the Australian Government to increase the area of the A.C.T. [More…]
Surely that is what was intended by the Constitution in stating that the Inter-State Commission should have a trade and commerce power. [More…]
This seems to me to give the Attorney-General a great deal of power. [More…]
He asked a fellow outside the House: ‘ Would you give this power to Dr Evatt?’ [More…]
I might give the Attorney-General this power but I think to leave it open for an Attorney-General either to take action himself or to give written consent to someone else to take action is tying it down so that it might be abused on some future occasion. [More…]
All that the clause in its present form would permit is a power to the court to modify orders in accordance with the new principles after the new law has come into operation. [More…]
Clause 40 gives to the Administrative Appeals Tribunal power to summon persons before it. [More…]
It appears to be contradictory to the general concepts of our company law, as it currently exists, that the mere ownership of the majority of shares or voting power should permit the Commonwealth to have legislative power in respect of corporations owned by or on behalf of Australia. [More…]
Most of the amendments referred to required alterations to the Bill consequent on members of Parliament becoming members of the Council, with the one exception mentioned by the Minister- that of the power of delegation held by the Council. [More…]
9 referring to the powers of delegation. [More…]
I thank the Minister for his co-operation in limiting the power of delegation, which as originally proposed was very wide. [More…]
and ( 10) The Australian Atomic Energy Commission consults with the various State electricity generating authorities on the relative merits of nuclear and fossil fuel power stations, and the prospects for nuclear power in each State. [More…]
The extent of consultation with each State body depends on the prospects and future timing for nuclear power in that State. [More…]
Representation on the National Fuel and Energy Commission will be related to the major energy resources of black coal, brown coal, petroleum, nuclear energy, hydroelectric power and solar energy. [More…]
Have all State Governments and their instrumentalities engaged in power generation and gas supply been consulted on their future requirements for, and sources of, natural gas and/or nuclear power. [More…]
under an enactment, a person has a power to do an act or thing in the exercise of a discretion or otherwise; [More…]
an enactment provides that application may be made to the Administrative Appeals Tribunal for the review of decisions made in the exercise of that power; and [More…]
a complaint has been made to the Ombudsman concerning a failure to do the act or thing in the exercise of that power, the Ombudsman, after having investigated the complaint, may, if he is of the opinion that there has been unreasonable delay in deciding whether to do the act or thing, grant to the complainant a certificate certifying, that, in the opinion of the Ombudsman, there has been unreasonable delay in deciding whether to do the act or thing and, if the Ombudsman does so, the person required or permitted to exercise the power, shall, for the purpose of enabling application to be made to the Administrative Appeals Tribunal under the enactment referred to in paragraph (c), be deemed to have made, on the date on which the certificate is granted, a decision, in the exercise of that power, not to do the act or thing. [More…]
The Deputy Ombudsman Tor the Australian Capital Territory has all the powers, and may exercise all the functions, of the Australian Ombudsman in relation to action taken by a Department or by a prescribed authority in the Australian Capital Territory, except the power to report to the Parliament under section 1 7. [More…]
The Deputy Ombudsman for the Northern Territory has all the powers, and may exercise all the functions, of the Australian Ombudsman in relation to action taken by a Department or by a prescribed authority in the Northern Territory, except the power to report to the Parliament under section 17 and the power to report to the Legislative Assembly of the Northern Territory under sub-section 18(5). [More…]
Nothing in this section prevents the exercise of a power or the performance of a function by the Australian Ombudsman. [More…]
Has his attention been drawn to indexed item 1 1- Environmental studies of the Jervis Bay nuclear power plant. [More…]
The Passports Act confers upon the Minister for Foreign Affairs discretionary power to determine whether any particular application for an Australian passport should be granted, deferred or refused. [More…]
That, in accordance with the provisions of the Public Works Committee Act 1 969- 1 974, it is expedient to carry out the following proposed work which was referred to the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Public Works and on which the Committee has duly reported to Parliament: Construction of naval transmitter building and power centre, Humpty Doo, N.T. [More…]
A secondary building will house the associated power supply. [More…]
At 30 June 1975 there were 159 nuclear power reactors of over 20 MW capacity in operation in 19 countries as listed below. [More…]
Can he say how many nuclear power stations are operating throughout the world, and in what countries they are situated. [More…]
Can he also say what fraction of the total energy generated world-wide comes from nuclear power stations. [More…]
Government will do everything in its power to co-operate with the of Government to try to overcome the legacy that we inherited. [More…]
It is significant that the first Bill associated with this year’s Budget that the Opposition, in its grab for power, should seize upon to achieve its purposes was a Bill for an Act to authorise the raising and expending of moneys for defence purposes. [More…]
This Government came to power by a conspiracy, cunningly conceived and crudely carried out. [More…]
It came to power through the ambition of one man and through a conspiracy of international proportions, a conspiracy which was cunningly conceived in the ambition of one man. [More…]
The Government is not concerned with power for itself. [More…]
Can we believe that the partner with whom the Minister has been practising was last seen hurriedly disappearing along the corridors of power, with the Minister- if I may use a phrase which he has frequently used- in hot pursuit? [More…]
I ask the Treasurer: Does he remember that when the Financial Corporations Act- that was twice referred to by- whatever he is- the transient Leader of the Opposition, obviously without any knowledge of what was contained in it- was being discussed with the finance organisations of this country we pointed out to them- this happened probably 1 8 months ago- that under section 8 (4) of the Reserve Bank Act the Reserve Bank has power to lend money without qualification or restriction at its discretion? [More…]
I therefore ask him: Is it a fact, as the same article states, that the Federal Government has told the New South Wales Attorney-General’s Department that it does not have the power to withhold information about divorce decisions? [More…]
Has he since noted that a spokesman for the New South Wales Attorney-General confirmed that information had been withheld from the general public on the case in question and asserted that the State Government had the power to refuse information to people who did not have a specific interest in the case? [More…]
Utah Development Company, which holds the exploration licences, is committed to a program of examining the feasibility of development of the Lake Phillipson reserves, particularly in relation to power generation. [More…]
To reduce the number of these, the development of an ultra-small behind-the-ear aid in the low and medium power range was added to the list of programs last year. [More…]
For public telephones, additional costs of $ 1, 600 would be incurred on average for the cabinet, instrument, exchange equipment modifications and the provision of power. [More…]
I do not think that the Attorney-General should use his power to inspect divorce files to obtain this son of personal information unless it is demonstrably in the public interest to do so. [More…]
If so, when does the Minister intend to act under the power given to him by the Act. [More…]
This Party came to power with the direct assistance of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and Cuba which organised some IS 000 Cuban troops to support the leftist takeover once again from the completely nonoperational Portugal. [More…]
As I said a moment ago, we are opening up the power of the commissioners to report and recommend to the Government, whether it be on planning, legal or financial matters. [More…]
a Judge of the Family Court of Australia who is appointed by the Attorney-General to be a person authorized to exercise that power or function; [More…]
What I said was that in the past Australia had always fought alongside a large provincial power. [More…]
Did he say, when speaking after reviewing the 25th Battalion Royal Australian Regiment in Toowoomba on 22 August, that in any future conflicts Australia would not be involved alongside any big power and that Australians should understand that in future they are on their own? [More…]
The other question of ex-nuptial children is more difficult from the point of view of this Parliament because it is really a question of power, and the honourable member has made that point. [More…]
Australia would not be involved alongside any big power. [More…]
Will the Minister assure the House that the Government will do everything within its power to ensure that essential airline operations are maintained in the Northern Territory? [More…]
Only an interstate commission with the power and authority that such a body holds is capable of carrying out the investigations needed to get over this problem. [More…]
One of the quaint things about Australian politics is the way this Government managed before it came into power to make it look as though it were a model of efficiency. [More…]
All these things have added up to a completely incompetent economic management of this country over the last 12 months by these men who grabbed for power on the excuse that they could manage the economy better. [More…]
Pursuant to section 32 of the Snowy Mountains Hydro-Electric Power Act 1949, 1 present the annual report of the Snowy Mountains Hydro-Electric Authority for the year ended 30 June 1976. [More…]
What steps have been taken to verify the allegations by Dr John Coulter and Mr Avon Hudson on the radio program AM on 2 and 3 December 1976 that the British Government had flown radioactive waste including plutonium from nuclear power stations in Britain to Maralinga, where it was secretly buried at night [More…]
For the information of honourable members I present the report of the Temporary Assistance Authority on bench or pedestal drilling machines not power fed. [More…]
Whether such submissions have been made, can be assure the House that the Australian Government will do everything in its power to ensure that these people are fairly treated? [More…]
He has drawn attention to the point that there is in fact a corporations power which has not been used and which could, for example, be employed to reinforce and strengthen the Arbitration Commission. [More…]
provided the Minister who was acting as Attorney-General also had the power to exercise this discretion under clause 10, sub-clause (3). [More…]
Total Power of Tractors Sold in the Period 1965-66-1973-74 [More…]
Total Power is estimated by multiplying the number of tractors sold in each size group by the average power (in kilowatts) for that group, in each year. [More…]
Average Power is estimated by dividing the total power for the year by the number of tractors sold in that year. [More…]
The total fleet as at 1973-74 was approximately 330 000 tractors with average power of each unit 48 kw approximately. [More…]
We have in power a conservative government which is mutilating the public sector, which is reducing the amount of money available for such matters as housing for aged people. [More…]
Companies Ordinance on my power to publish part only of the report, I have decided not to table the joint report in the Parliament. [More…]
Is the Minister aware that today marks the decennial anniversary of the granting of constitutional power to the Commonwealth to make laws for Aborigines? [More…]
I say to the honourable gentleman that the nexus with the corporations power in section 45D is the effect upon or the damage done to the corporation. [More…]
On the advice available to the Government as to the extent of the corporations power, it is in that respect, in the view of the Government, that the clause is a proper exercise of the corporations power. [More…]
It is a shame that the honourable member for Grayndler does not agree that we are injecting public interest into section 45D, under which secondary boycotts which are an abuse of union power and which affect business will also be subject to the provisions of the Act. [More…]
In 1970 amendments were made to House of Representatives standing order 28 and Senate standing order 36 which gave the Joint Committee on Publications quite broad powers to inquire. [More…]
However, the Committee does not have the power of most other parliamentary committees to travel and move from place to place. [More…]
Can the Minister clarify what he would do in the event of his facing the same situation as we did with the Australian Meat Board selection committee having the power to refuse to put up additional names? [More…]
The Opposition moves this amendment to give the Corporation the power to sell within Australia. [More…]
The amendment also will empower the Corporation to sell meat in conjunction with any promotion program, such when as the Australian Meat Board attempted to promote the sale of sweetmeats. [More…]
We believe that the addition of this paragraph would enhance the powers of the Corporation and more suitably equip it for the role which the Opposition envisages for it. [More…]
All such 27 Megahertz equipment which was previously designed for the U.S.A. market is being accepted for licensing for a period of two months only ending 3 1 August 1977 provided that the transmitters do not provide for operation on more than 23 channels and the transmitter power does not exceed the limit specified for use in Australia. [More…]
) On what basis has the Commonwealth transferred this power to the States. [More…]
Clearly we must regard most seriously the Inquiry’s findings that ‘the nuclear power industry is unintentionally contributing to an increased risk of nuclear war’ and that ‘this is the most serious hazard associated with the industry’. [More…]
-Has the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development seen or heard a statement which claimed that uranium and nuclear power is the most violent source of energy known to humanity? [More…]
Did the Government promise, in seeking power 2 years ago, to lower interest rates? [More…]
The current wave of strikes and abuse of union power throughout Australia. [More…]
I instance the Commonwealth Bank, Trans-Australia Airlines, Qantas Airways Ltd, and authorities concerned with power, telecommunications, railways and so on. [More…]
With the likelihood of a five hour crossing bringing an extra 60,000 people to Tasmania each year, will the Federal Government do everything in its power to support the establishment of such a service? [More…]
It arises from his answer last night on the television program This Day Tonight that the Government last week had lodged a joint application with the Victorian Government for the deregistration of the unions involved in the Victorian power dispute. [More…]
What does he see as the first consequence of deregistration of unions, the dismissal of workers involved in the power dispute and the use of non-union labour? [More…]
Has the Minister noted that the Salvation Army and other voluntary agencies in Victoria which have been providing emergency aid to families of people out of work because of the power strike have depleted their funds? [More…]
Printing of the annual report has been delayed because of the Victorian power strike. [More…]
-Let me remind honourable members that the exercise of absolute power and authority is often a very ephemeral matter. [More…]
Cook Islands- Northern Islands Power Study. [More…]
That statement accurately reflected the facts of world power at the time and as they have developed since. [More…]
The few foreigners who have visited this country since the new Government came to power have been severely restricted in their activities. [More…]
That the Committee of Privileges, when considering the matter referred to it on 28 February have power to send for persons, papers and records. [More…]
The Committee when undertaking its present inquiry may wish to have the power granted by the motion and, in accordance with practice, the motion is proposed for the concurrence of the House. [More…]
Pursuant to section 32 of the Snowy Mountains Hydro-Electric Power Act 1949, 1 present the annual report of the Snowy Mountains Hydro-Electric Authority for the year ended 30 June 1977. [More…]
1 ) Did he announce on the day before the recent Federal election that Australia was backing a United Nations resolution to enable all nations to use nuclear power under stringent safeguards, with particular emphasis on the needs of developing countries. [More…]
Did he imply that nuclear power technology should be allowed to countries that unreservedly forswear the nuclear weapons option; if so, does he include India among such countries; if not, why not. [More…]
The extraordinary kind of legislative power that is given to the Minister so that once a scheme is formulated by a Minister he has the force of legislation - [More…]
The amendments to clause 12, as I understand it, seek power that is already vested in councils under the Queensland Act. [More…]
This Part does not affect the power of a court in a criminal proceeding to reject evidence which, if admitted, would operate unfairly against the defendant. [More…]
This Part does not affect the power of a court in a criminal proceeding to reject evidence which has been obtained illegally or would, if admitted, operate unfairly against the defendant. [More…]
1 ) In the draft program to extend television services to the Eyre Peninsula, South Australia, where is it intended to establish the high power transmitter. [More…]
The Government came to power in December 1975 on the slogan: ‘Vote For Honesty’. [More…]
The Commissioner has told me that I may be assured, and the House may be assured, that he will in those cases exercise the specific power given to him to remit the penalty in whole. [More…]
Is it because he is afraid of the political power of the Premier of Queensland, as indicated in the Press statement issued on behalf of the Aurukun people? [More…]
1 ) Has the Government pursued the proposal which I put to the Premier of Queensland on 5 June 1974 that the Australian Government, in conjunction with the Queensland Government, should undertake an examination of the ways and means of increasing efficiency and reducing costs within the power system with a view to lowering the price of electrical energy in Queensland. [More…]
Has the Government discussed with the Queensland Government the future role of hydro-power generation in the Queensland electricity supply network, to which the Federal/State Burdekin Project Committee directed attention in its report of June 1977. [More…]
The great strength and the inner power which came from the support of Dame Pattie Menzies and the home influence are examples to all of us in this day and generation. [More…]
For any Prime Minister to have held power for 16 years at a time when rapidly growing Federal revenues made strict Parliamentary supervision of expenditure not always possible, without a breath of financial scandal touching any of the Departments of State, is an achievement worthy of mention and praise. [More…]
and (2) Australia is a party to the 1971 Five Power communique in which Ministers undertook to ‘co-operate, in accordance with their respective policies’, in the field of defence. [More…]
It is perhaps not surprising that the Sydney Morning Herald, in its brief and inadequate report of my criticisms, published the inaccurate smear of the honourable member for Eden-Monaro (Mr Sainsbury) that I have not opposed nuclear power in the Soviet Union. [More…]
On many occasions I have spoken against Soviet development of nuclear power but it suits the Sydney Morning Herald to publish such smears. [More…]
3 ) Are charges for ( a ) cleaning, ( b ) electricity and power, (c) fuel, (d) rent or lease, (e) repairs and maintenance, (f) replacements of plant, furniture and fittings and (g) depreciation of plant, furniture and fittings included for determination of canteen prices; if not, what was the estimated cost of each of these items in each canteen during 1 976-77. [More…]
He said that the Commonwealth would have no power. [More…]
I have power under the Act to take appropriate action, and I will not resile from taking that action unless they do the right and proper thing by the contributors. [More…]
Is it a fact that Australia leads the world in the field of low grade solar energy technology, is well advanced in the field of high grade solar energy technology and has made important advances in the field of wind power technology? [More…]
Let us go back to what happened prior to the New South Wales Labor Government coming into power. [More…]
Before it came into power in New South Wales the Liberal Government conducted exhaustive environmental studies on the development of Botany Bay. [More…]
I will do all in my power to make sure that it does. [More…]
Before the last State election in which Mr Wran came to power he promised the people that he would stop any work on any port development in Botany Bay and institute an environmental study. [More…]
Are charges for (a) cleaning, (b) electricity and power, (c) fuel, (d) rent or lease, (e) repairs and maintenance, (f) replacements of plant, furniture and fittings and (g) depreciation of plant, furniture and fittings included for determination of canteen prices; if not, what was the estimated cost of each of these items in each canteen during 1976-77. [More…]
If not, does the Act give the Registrar a specific power to require any modification of registered rules that omit requirements called for in the Act. [More…]
The largest single component is the approximately 1,500 personnel (mostly Air Force) posted in Malaysia and Singapore pursuant to the Five Power Arrangements. [More…]
Are charges for (a) cleaning, (b) electricity and power, (c) fuel, (d) rent or lease, (e) repairs and maintenance, (f) replacements of plant, furniture and fittings and (g) depreciation of plant, furniture and fittings included for determination of canteen prices; if not, what was the estimated cost of each of these items in each canteen during 1 976-77. [More…]
Are charges for (a) cleaning, (b) electricity and power, (c) fuel, (d) rent or lease, (e) repairs and maintenance, (f) replacements of plant, furniture and fittings and (g) depreciation of plant, furniture and fittings, included for determination of canteen prices; if not, what was the estimated cost of each of these items in each canteen during 1976-77. [More…]
1 ) The following public supply Australian power stations of a significant installed capacity (i.e. [More…]
1 ) Which public Australian power plants use oil as a fuel? [More…]
What is the estimated annual total oil consumption of Australian power plants? [More…]
155 of 23 December 1977 on metal working machine tools it has been decided that, in order to maintain at least the nucleus of a machine tool industry in Australia, the assistance currently provided is to continue and bounty assistance at the same rate is to be paid to Australian manufacturers of nonportable power operated metal working machine tools of the metal removing, forming or shearing type. [More…]
Is it a fact that the Reserve Bank of Australia has no power to defer decisions to approve or reject applications for the transfer of funds overseas. [More…]
Is he able to say whether the book claims that the operators of the Oyster Creek nuclear power station in New Jersey want to raise more than $ 100m over the next 26 years to seal the entire plant in a monstrous tomb of concrete and cover it with earth and that this latter-day pyramid will then be guarded for at least 100 years. [More…]
1 ) Is he able to say how many new power stations using (a) nuclear fission, (b) coal, (c) oil and (d) gas, as a primary energy source were ordered in the United Kingdom during each year since 1970 and what was their total generating capacity. [More…]
Is he also able to say how may orders for power stations using (a) nuclear fission, (b) coal, (c) oil and (d) gas as the primary energy source were (i) cancelled and (ii) deferred in the United Kingdom in each year since 1 970. [More…]
1 ) Is he able to say how many new power stations using (a) nuclear fission, (b) coal, (c) oil and (d) gas, as a primary energy source were ordered in West Germany during each year since 1 970 and what was their total generating capacity. [More…]
Is he also able to say how many orders for power stations using (a) nuclear fission, (b) coal, (c) oil and (d) gas as the primary energy source were (i) cancelled and (ii) deferred in West Germany in each year since 1 970. [More…]
1 ) Is he able to say how many new power stations using (a) nuclear fission, (b) coal, (c) oil and (d) gas, as a primary energy source were ordered in the United States of America during each year since 1970 and what was their total generating capacity. [More…]
Is he also able to say how many orders for power stations using (a) nuclear fission, (b) coal, (c) oil and (d) gas as the primary energy source were (i) cancelled and (ii) deferred in the United States of America in each year since 1970. [More…]
1 ) Is he able to say how many new power stations using (a) nuclear fission, (b) coal, (c) oil and (d) gas, as a primary energy source were ordered in the OECD during each year since 1 970 and what was their total generating capacity. [More…]
Is he also able to say how many orders for power stations using (a) nuclear fission, (b) coal, (c) oil and (d) gas as the primary energy source were (i) cancelled and (ii) deferred in the OECD in each year since 1 970. [More…]
1 ) Is he able to say how many new power stations using (a) nuclear fission, (b) coal, (c) oil and (d) gas, as a primary energy source were ordered in France during each year since 1 970 and what was their total generating capacity. [More…]
Is he also able to say how many orders for power stations using (a) nuclear fission, (b) coal, (c) oil and (d) gas as the primary energy source were (i) cancelled and (ii) deferred in France in each year since 1 970. [More…]
1 ) Is he able to say how many new power stations using (a) nuclear fission, (b) coal, (c) oil and (d) gas, as a primary energy source were ordered in Japan during each year since 1 970 and what was their total generating capacity. [More…]
Is he also able to say how many orders for power stations using (a) nuclear fission, (b) coal, (c) oil and (d) gas as the primary energy source were (i) cancelled and (ii) deferred in Japan in each year since 1 970. [More…]
and (2) In relation to nuclear power stations in the United Kingdom I am advised on the basis of information collected by the Australian Atomic Energy Commission that over the period 1 970- 1 977: 1(a)- [More…]
1 ) and (2) In relation to nuclear power stations in West Germany I am advised on the basis of information collected by the Australian Atomic Energy Commission that over the period 1970-77: 1(a)- [More…]
and (2) In relation to nuclear power stations in the United States of America I am advised on the basis of information collected by the Australian Atomic Energy Commission that over the period 1970-77: 1(a)- [More…]
1 ) and (2) In relation to nuclear power stations in the OECD. [More…]
1 ) and (2) In relation to nuclear power stations in France I am advised on the basis of information collected by the Australian Atomic Energy Commission that over the period 1970-1977: 1(a)- [More…]
1 ) and (2) In relation to nuclear power stations in Japan I am advised on the basis of information collected by the Australian Atomic Energy Commission that over the period 1970-77: 1(a)- [More…]
1 ) Which of the members of his Ministry have delegated to public servants their constitutional power to supervise and authorise the expenditure of moneys approved by the Parliament. [More…]
Delegation of Power to approve Expenditure (Question No. [More…]
power and fuel- food preparation and service; [More…]
Australia Post provides already many agency services on behalf of State Government Departments and Authorities, including, for example, acceptance of payments for power, water and sewerage, rates and rents, and the sale of duty stamps. [More…]
This conforms with the previous amendments which removed the power to exempt by regulations Commonwealth organisations and public authorities from efficiency audits. [More…]
This amendment, if agreed to, would remove the power to exempt, by regulation, persons holding or performing the duties of certain offices from efficiency audits. [More…]
3 of the legislation committee removed the power to exempt, by regulation, Commonwealth organisations from efficiency audits. [More…]
To be consistent with the committee’s amendment to section 48A(2) the power to exempt public authorities from the efficiency auditing provisions should also be removed, and that will be achieved if this amendment is agreed to. [More…]
So the Committee has available to it the power to obtain all the information that it wishes- both under the Audit Act in regard to the ministerial financial statement, and under its own Act as to specific, individual details of amounts and names. [More…]
As I indicated in my reply to the second reading debate, the Government does not accept the proposed amendments to clause 3 of the Bill, which deals with the power granted to the Attorney-General to reduce the amount of a foreign judgment if he is otherwise disposed to allow that judgment to be recognised or enforceable in Australia. [More…]
If the honourable gentleman is thinking that the defendant might well try to remove assets out of the jurisdiction, then I have no doubt that the courts in Australia have power to prevent that from occurring. [More…]
If he was making the point that that might not be practical because the Parliament could be out of session for three or four months and a delay could result, I point out that he has the power to reduce the amount of the judgment. [More…]
They are merely creating a weakness in the sense that an Attorney-General, with all his powers, nevertheless has human frailties and might be making decisions which could well jeopardise our national interest in these matters. [More…]
Before anybody else he recognised and measured very precisely the terrible power that could be unleashed on the world by the use of atomic energy. [More…]
He was horrified by the devastating potential power that science had brought to the world- [More…]
I do not appreciate a speech made in this House, which stands for democracy, one that obviously has been prepared in the office of an embassy in Canberra, by a foreign power. [More…]
Would the Government be prepared to use the external affairs power of the Australian Constitution to introduce a Bill of rights? [More…]
The Bill includes penalty provisions for non-payment of levy, recovery of amounts unpaid and power to call for returns. [More…]
The speech by the honourable member for Port Adelaide (Mr Young) this afternoon and the statement by the Premier of New South Wales last week indicating that a 37V4 hour week is to be introduced into the New South Wales power industry have signalled the fact that the big push for a shorter working week throughout Australia is on again. [More…]
Pursuant to section 32 of the Snowy Mountains Hydro-electric Power Act 1949, I present the annual report of the Snowy Mountains Hydro-electric Authority for the year ended 30 June 1978. [More…]
-I ask the Prime Minister: Does the Government support Sir Charles Court’s plans for the establishment of a nuclear power station in Western Australia? [More…]
190 of 6 December 1978 entitled ‘Certain engines not exceeding 7.46 kW; rotary cultivators; and tractors, having a power of less than 15 kW’, it has been decided to accord assistance by way of a scheme providing for the payment of bounty to eligible Australian manufacturers. [More…]
Bounty is to be payable at the rate of $40 per kilowatt of power output of the engine incorporated in the prime mover of a rotary cultivator, hoe or tiller which has an Australian content of not less than 60 per cent and which, during the period to which the Act applies, is manufactured and sold for use in Australia. [More…]
These amendments are consequential upon giving the Norfolk Island Legislative Assembly power to call its laws Acts. [More…]
Amendments Nos 42 to 52 are consequential on giving the Legislative Assembly power to call its legislation Acts. [More…]
These amendments likewise flow from the fact of giving the Norfolk Island Legislative Assembly power to call its laws Acts. [More…]
If so, and in view of the fact that the Reserve Bank of Australia cannot instruct the Board to seek alternative sources of finance, will the Prime Minister guarantee that the Minister for Primary Industry, who alone has legal power to direct the Board, will promptly issue such a directive? [More…]
Although critical of various calculational techniques used in the Rasmussen Study the Lewis Report in no way declared the safety of nuclear power reactors to be unac’ceptable. [More…]
1 am further advised that in his recent testimony to the Sub-committee on Energy and the Environment of the House Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, Professor Lewis emphatically agreed with the view that his Review Group Report ‘does not undermine the basis for confidence in the safety of licensed nuclear power plants ‘. [More…]
These people have enormous power at their control. [More…]
Unless they are prepared to handle it responsibly, I think the Minister should make some effort to see that the powers of the Australian Broadcasting Tribunal are increased so that these people can be brought to public notice and made to accept responsibility for the rumours that they are prepared to start. [More…]
Clause 4, page 2, lines 29 and 30, omit ‘the power conferred on him under sub-section 2 1 9b ( 5 ) or ( 6 ) of this Act or’. [More…]
Because the Minister and Comptroller-General are no longer empowered to authorise the issue of a warrant, a reference to the delegation of this power in sections 9 and 10 of the Act is superfluous. [More…]
-These amendments are, in our view, simply to remove the power of the Minister and the ComptrollerGeneral to delegate their powers to issue warrants under the Act. [More…]
As the legislation committee amendments have had the effect of removing their powers to issue warrants in respect of listening devices, there is no power left to delegate. [More…]
Clause 4, page 2, line 40, omit ‘the power conferred on him under section 2 1 9d of this Act or ‘. [More…]
It appears to me that under sub-section ( 1 ) there is no power to divulge any information and I suggest to the Minister - [More…]
The proposed new section is also of doubtful constitutional validity, because this Parliament only has power in relation to imported goods. [More…]
This is a serious consideration of taking a power from a particular Minister and diluting or distributing that power or bringing a second mind to bear. [More…]
Is it a fact that the oil crisis triggered off by Iran has created problems for the Japanese power and gas utilities? [More…]
While it is Government policy that the Trade Practices Act should make no distinction between professions and other persons engaged in trade or commerce, the Act does not apply to many professional bodies because of limitations on the Commonwealth’s legislative power under the Constitution. [More…]
That the Committee of Privileges, when considering matter referred to it on II September 197, have power to send for persons, papers and records. [More…]
The Committee of Privileges, when undertaking its present inquiry, may wish to have the power granted by the motion and, in accordance with practice, the motion is proposed for the concurrence of the House. [More…]
The device requires only a power supply (i.e. [More…]
Insofar as the power of deportation is limited to aliens and immigrants, the only persons upon whom a deportation order can have a deterrent effect are, of course, aliens and immigrants. [More…]
For these latter purposes there are provisions for appointment of authorised persons, power to call for returns and for penalties where persons fail to furnish returns. [More…]
Clause 37 (Power to summon witnesses and take evidence). [More…]
With the huge coal deposits and generation of electricity at our thermal stations, would it be possible for these irrigation plants to be changed to electrical power. [More…]
Does the Commonwealth Government, or do State Governments, possess the constitutional power to introduce petrol rationing. [More…]
1 ) Power to introduce petrol rationing resides essentially with the States. [More…]
Would this recommendation be consistent with the Government’s policy of restraint in public spending and its federalism policy of decentralising power and responsibility as much as possible. [More…]
General administrative expenses such as salaries for staff indirectly involved in the review, light and power, telephones and other general administrative expenses which cannot readily be apportioned would be additional to this amount. [More…]
Pursuant to section 32B of the Snowy Mountains Hydro-electric Power Act 1949 I present the annual report of the Snowy Mountains Hydro-electric Authority 1978-79. [More…]
Legislation will also be introduced to provide funds to help finance the construction of a new power house in Central Queensland at Gladstone. [More…]
My Government believes that this power station will result in the construction of an aluminium smelter - possibly the biggest in the southern hemisphere - and in other industrial development. [More…]
During the life of the Parliament the Australian Atomic Energy Commission will begin construction of a nuclear power station in Commonwealth Territory at Jervis Bay. [More…]
This increase in the power and. [More…]
It is not to be measured in terms of specific powers, individual acts of administration or areas of policy or increased financial delegations, but it will be apparent by the degree to which the Administrator’s Executive Council in future influences the Government’s attitude on important issues. [More…]
But the statement does not indicate that it is the intention of the Government to reduce in any degree the real power in Papua and New Guinea - expatriate power; nor does it establish the responsibility of Ministerial Members to a parliamentary majority in the House of Assembly. [More…]
There should now be a clear reduction of expatriate power. [More…]
The Minister at no stage suggested that there was any power. [More…]
This increase in the power and influence of the Council is qualitative in character. [More…]
It is not to be measured in terms of specific powers, individual acts of administration or areas of policy or increased financial delegations, but it will be apparent by the degree to which the Administrator’s Executive Council in future influences the Government’s attitude on important issues. [More…]
That may be influence; it is not power, lt is essential at this stage that the Ministerial Members should be trained in the exercise of power, not in the exercise of influence. [More…]
If the essence of power is in expatriate hands, Oppositions are in opposition to expatriates and that we will never encourage. [More…]
But what power did they in fact aspire to exercise. [More…]
Not that of a Prime Minister whom they never saw and therefore could not model themselves upon, but that of a governor with a plenitude of power. [More…]
So what has happened is that after 70 or 80 years of rule of their country by absolute power in the hands of the Governor, that is the model they had in mind and those are the powers they in fact now exercise. [More…]
For 80 years before Papuan and New Guinean eyes, whether demonstrated by the Germans or by ourselves, the model of government they have seen is a governor or administrator exercising absolute power. [More…]
Expatriate power overriding them ensures this and this is destroying them. [More…]
The belief of the people, and it is a right belief, is that power is actually in the hands of expatriates and members who reach one of these key ministerial member positions are expected to make representations to the real Government - the Administrator and his expatriate staff - seeking what they want but that these members do not go back often enough to the constituency to find out what the electors want. [More…]
They said yes to every power. [More…]
government as a list of powers. [More…]
The High Court has ruled in effect that the exercise of sovereign power over land by the Germans before us and by us now is established as valid. [More…]
I think that by the exercise of force the Government has reached the point where the best thing it can hope for in the future is a federation, with local government or provincial government in some of these areas exercising power over land as a means of defending the areas against Port Moresby. [More…]
But if one should go to those same Ministerial Members and suggest that the Government should take their land there would be a violent reaction in the other direction - a denial of powers to act or of justice in acting. [More…]
If an extreme exercise of sovereign power is possible and if land is taken by force at a price which the Government chooses to nominate it will be fair enough if that is done by a future native government to Burns Philp or someone else. [More…]
I am just warning the Government of the force of the example of the exercise of government power which it in fact has given. [More…]
Instead of transferring power, the prime concern seems to be with new ways of concealing what is essentially expatriate power. [More…]
The Commonwealth Government ought to be giving complete support to the International Labour Organisation’s decision on equal pay, because the Government has full constitutional power to apply equal pay to its own employees if it so wishes. [More…]
We want to see past the power, past the financial resources, down to a regional body which is well known as being established in the area to give service to the community, which has a high reputation in the com- munity and which is regarded as a personal, integral part of that community. [More…]
Section 40 of the Act at present provides that the Commission may delegate ils powers, except the power of delegation itself, to a Commissioner or the Genera) Manager. [More…]
In an organisation such as the Broadcasting Commission, which operates in all States of the Commonwealth, this restriction on delegation of powers has led to administrative difficulties in that only the Commission or the General Manager may, for example, incur expenditure or issue contracts. [More…]
The Bill therefore amends section 40 to provide that the Commission’s powers may be delegated to any person in the employ of the Commission. [More…]
The delegation of the power to appoint permanent officers of the Commission is, however, still limited to a Commissioner or the General Manager. [More…]
The financial regulations of all the Services empower the Minister or the Service Board to make determinations authorising the payment of certain allowances, etc., to members of the forces. [More…]
However, until the regulations of each Service were amended on 23rd September 1963, there was no power to authorise retrospective payments under such determinations, lt is therefore necessary to validate those payments authorised between 1st April 1961 and 23rd September r963, which involved any kind of retrospective payments. [More…]
The huge Murray power stations were completed several months ago and are now producing electricity from these diverted waters. [More…]
We have now spent over $700m on the scheme and some $100m will be required to complete it and the last and largest .of all the projects, namely the Talbingo Dam, its power station and all its appurtenant works, lt has taken 20 years to reach this stage in the project. [More…]
The power stations have supplied valuable peak load power to the New Sorb Wales and Victorian systems to the benefit of the industries and domestic consumers of those States. [More…]
In the last financial year the charge for power was $14 per kilowatt and for energy lc per kilowatt hour. [More…]
The principal engineering fields in which it will operate may be broadly described as those relating to the development of water and power resources and for underground works. [More…]
I shall have power to determine the total number of staff. [More…]
It is for that reason that the power of determination in these instances is given to a board.. [More…]
It will exercise the power in relation to Service pensioners which is exercised by the Director-General of Social Services in relation to age and invalid pensioners. [More…]
Under the Social Services Act the Director-General has a general power to review a determination whenever it appears to him that sufficient reason exists for doing so, and upon review he may affirm, vary or annul it. [More…]
Clause 3 of the Repatriation Bill gives a similar review power to a repatriation board in relation to the circumstances of married pensioner couples who may be eligible for the standard rate. [More…]
Having given a broad outline of the general administrative setup of the Department I say to the honourable member that I certainly will have a look at the case and we will do everything within our power - I can assure him of this - to make sure that if this ex-serviceman does undergo a medical examination he will not have difficulty in being transported anywhere for such an examination. [More…]
The Country Party has been in power in this nation for 20 years. [More…]
Given the sort of policies proposed by the Australian Labor Party, country people would end up as a second rate sector of the community and would be put in a perpetually mendicant position, in pawn to the whims of whatever government happened to be in power. [More…]
The big Liddell coal fired power station is under construction some 14 miles south of Muswellbrook and will cost $200m. [More…]
This power station has also provided Muswellbrook and Singleton with much development as many of the employees of the station have built their homes in those towns. [More…]
The employees of the contracting firms to the power station have done likewise. [More…]
These towns are receiving the benefit of the power station and the uplift in the coal industry which was in the doldrums in the last few years. [More…]
The S200m Liddell power station south of Muswellbrook is well on the way to completion. [More…]
Nevertheless, even if the more professional critics of the democratic society are prepared to accept this assessment, there remains the problem of those who protest at being excessively remote from the seats of power and lacking in any influence upon the decision makers. [More…]
Liberty offers few advantages to the weak if its results merely expose them to the power of the strong.’ [More…]
It can be very frightening to feel totally powerless. [More…]
1 think it is sometimes purely to obtain or retain power. [More…]
The strength, the power and the future of the Parliament in the decade of the 1970s could well be proven or could fall by the wayside according to the behaviour of all of us as private members. [More…]
I wonder if in this decade the situation that we are in, where our major former Commonwealth partner is vacating the South East Asian region and where there is a possibility that the United States of America will withdraw from the area, does not constitute a challenge to this nation to stand on its own feeL I wonder if it is necessary each time that there is an election to promise more and more to the people merely to achieve power. [More…]
I would like to hear this feeling propounded more by those in power and by those in opposition who seek to gain power. [More…]
I have seen some great, honest and courageous men in this place, but I feel that democracy will work and continue only as long as there are people who are prepared to query occasionally a decision of the Executive and stand up in this House and say: ‘I represent the people, not just a party or a power combine.’ [More…]
The Department’s Water, Power and Geographic Branch arranges primarily through State authorities for the recording of statistics on surface and underground water and pro duces maps showing the geographical location of this data. [More…]
It is a question of justice and the rights of all Australians, lt is not a question of power; it is a question of equality among Australians wherever they happen to live. [More…]
Its decision making powers in so many fields of policy, upheld by its financial powers, determine Australia’s development in a way in which no State government can affect or, indeed, could effect. [More…]
Yet this parliamentary division of functions and responsibility resides in a distribution of constitutional powers arrived at in the 1890s when no-one would be expected to have envisaged the development of Australia, the change in social and economic attitudes in our community and indeed throughout the world, the massive advances in technology that have produced these changed attitudes and the alterations that have occurred in the distribution of personal wealth and power. [More…]
In questions of power, let no more be beard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the constitution. [More…]
Through the story there runs the foresight of some, the conservatism of others, the attitudes of the capitalists of the day who had reached the height of their power and the slow gropings of the developing Labor movement which was then achieving the militancy and unity it needed for nationalism and its concept of democracy. [More…]
Should we not look at where the power of government and its delegation should reside and what rules should govern its delegation? [More…]
References dealing with dam construction, eradication of brucellosis and tuberculosis in cattle; forestry development, the Australian Atomic Energy Commission’s proposed nuclear power station, research into wild life and marine science are all relevant to the degradation of our environment. [More…]
Many people today say that Britain is on the way out as a country of power and influence. [More…]
I know that some villages close to towns now have power and better communications, but speaking generally things have not changed a great deal. [More…]
One is to produce motive power, that is, they carry something on their backs or pull a cart. [More…]
The indigenous farmers will take greater interest in their livestock, which will in turn give them greater purchasing power and assist the economy of the country. [More…]
This has in fact been the pattern in Australia, where we have observed an increasing Federal dominance of the system as Federal governments have come to realise the extent of the power which the Constitution, as interpreted, bestowed on them. [More…]
The other is to consider a conscious and orderly transfer of power to the Commonwealth, especially in such areas as transport, education, health and housing, where the Commonwealth increasingly is required to foot the bill on matters over which it has no direct control. [More…]
The implication was that there was a spy or spies in the Department supplying a foreign power with information. [More…]
As far as I am concerned - I come in contact with this sort of thing so often in relation to the naturalisation of people, the issuing of passports and other administrative decisions - we must by some means or other remove from executive authority the power by administrative decree to withhold from any Australian or any person a fundamental right [More…]
The amendments were wrong then and they are wrong now and ought to be struck out as soon as we have in power a government which has any repect for the rights of the citizens of this country. [More…]
In anticipation of this matter arising I did write a letter on, 1 think, 26th February to the President of the Australian Council of Trade Unions drawing his attention to the way in which things were shaping and asking him to use all the power he possesses to ensure that wiser counsel will prevail in the Waterside Workers Federation. [More…]
fs he also aware that the struggle for power will be decided at the Party’s conference at Easter time and that in the meantime each faction is trying to prove that it is more militant than the other? [More…]
They do this for the reason that they can attain positions of power and influence. [More…]
Having obtained and held their offices they then not merely pursue the industrial interests of the unions but also use their positions of power and influence to pursue their political or disruptive policies. [More…]
I want to go further and state in the most categorical terms that I believe the present Minister for Primary Industry and his counterparts in the States must share equally a large amount of blame for the problems and the difficulties in which the industry presently finds itself because the Ministers, both Federal and State, although holding the authority - the legislative power, the constitutional power - to take effective action to deal with this problem, did not exercise that power but preferred to say to the industrial organisation: ‘You have a look at this problem. [More…]
No power exists for alteration. [More…]
The belief that the Liberal Party holds domestically the powers to settle this matter is plainly illusory. [More…]
The result of the domestic quarrel in the Liberal Party could be that the Opposition comes to power all the sooner. [More…]
This tribute is sincere as in our Party, unlike the Liberal Party, the power of patronage is absent. [More…]
I do, however, blame this Government, which has been in power for over 20 years, for not adapting our forms of government to the late twentieth century. [More…]
We can see the way that the smell of power affected this man’s conduct towards the District Commissioner. [More…]
The other point I would like to make is this: I think the Australian people were tired of the situation that existed for so many years in relation to Aboriginal policy when the States contended that the Commonwealth had the money and the Commonwealth contended that it did not have the necessary constitutional power. [More…]
Now I believe the Commonwealth has the resources to attack this problem and it now has the constitutional power, since the prohibition on it was removed by the greatest majority of Australian people in history in the referendum of May 1967. [More…]
The Minister only has control of Aboriginal policy and has no power to mobilise the physical resources of the Northern Territory in the way that his predecessor had. [More…]
That the committee have power to send for persons, papers and records, and to move from place to place. [More…]
That the committee have power to consider and make use of the minutes of evidence and records of the Select Committees on Aircraft Noise appointed during the Twentysixth and Twenty-seventh Parliaments. [More…]
The motion reconstitutes the Committee with powers and functions similar to those possessed by the Committees in the 26th Parliament and in the first session of this Parliament. [More…]
In addition, it gives the new Committee power to consider and to make use of the minutes of evidence and records of the previous committees. [More…]
I feel that Ministers have no regard whatsoever for what the Committee has said up to this point and we feel that there is only one way to overcome the problems of some of these airports and that is to give the Committee the power to investigate alternative sites when it can see no solution to the present problem. [More…]
The only way to get around this is for the Committee to have the power to determine alternative locations for airports where the noise problem cannot be solved. [More…]
This has not happened in Australia because I doubt whether anyone has the power to direct the airlines on such a matter. [More…]
If local government bodies are powerless in these matters, as they arc tending to become, we can expect the public to be apathetic about them. [More…]
It is within the power of the Treasury benches to reverse this trend, because they and they alone have the resources. [More…]
Whilst we must continue to support the United Nations and its principles in the hope that mankind will learn to live in peace and harmony, we must, in the circumstances of world tension and conflict, do all in our power to establish an effective defence preparedness. [More…]
Not only must we maintain a national service training programme and improve the technical capacity of our weapons but we must also continue to strengthen our alliances with powerful friends and friendly neighbouring countries. [More…]
The Government, of course, has lacked and has deliberately refused to evolve anything in the way of a national fuel and power policy. [More…]
In the United States - let it be noted that in that stronghold of private enterprise there is a Federal Power Commission - the price of natural gas is 1.5c per therm. [More…]
In other words, the position is that a State which never had the constitutional power to do so is still dictating to another sovereign State the price that is to be paid for natural gas. [More…]
That being so all natural gas and crude oil is being produced on Commonwealth territory and it is the Commonwealth alone which has the power to fix at thegate valve - on the drilling platform in Bass Strait - the correct and fair price for natural gas. [More…]
Until the Commonwealth is prepared to use that power New South Wales will not be able to get the gas to which it is entitled. [More…]
We have never deviated from our claim - a correct claim - that the Comomnwealth has the supreme power. [More…]
Apparently he wields certain power in the Government, which is now tottering on the edge of defeat because of its limited numbers. [More…]
We have no formal power. [More…]
As far as I am concerned, I will do everything that I can within the limited constitutional power that I have to see that the interests of the Aboriginals in their ceremonies are properly and adequately preserved. [More…]
Further increases will merely shift borrowing power to the corporate sector, and might have politically unacceptable repercussions on the social structure. [More…]
The States attempt to lure industries by offering special conditions for power, transport or rates or other incentives - concessions for which the community ultimately pays. [More…]
The division of power as between the Commonwealth and the States makes this a very difficult problem to tackle, but I believe that this Government should do all in its power to ensure a better coordination of these activities. [More…]
Compared with America Australia has less than half the power assistance available per worker. [More…]
They have little voting power and accordingly their influence and ability to overcome and rectify the problems with which they are faced are all the harder. [More…]
It does not have much voting power or much influence but it requires help. [More…]
Finally, I once again make an appeal to this Parliament to have a look at the situation of those underprivileged sections of our community, small in numbers, who have such very great problems; those underprivileged sections of the community which do not have the influence because they do not have the voting power but whose problems nevertheless are far greater than those of most of the rest of the people living in this very affluent society. [More…]
The penetrative and persuasive power of television, the effectiveness of a sophisticated and developing radio technique and, of course, the daily Press have led to this result. [More…]
We have it in our power, as I said earlier, to influence and persuade, to inform and to enlighten. [More…]
He referred to the rise of Communist China as a nuclear power and to the growth and development of various countries of the region in which we live. [More…]
That is the most extravagant use of manpower. [More…]
We have the capacity to give every young Australian every advantage of mechanisation and fire power and the Army still marches - the whole nine regular battalions and the whole eighteen battalions of the Citizen Military Forces. [More…]
Even Romania in central Europe has been trying to force this policy on the Eastern powers. [More…]
Not only will we be the last colonial power because of our position in Papua and New Guinea, judging by the way we are going, but also we are sustaining some of the relics of the past in this regard. [More…]
Although one might not agree with several items in the programme or the crossing of the fs or dotting of the fs, it at least stated to our allies in the region in which we live, to our big brothers - always called SC - in America and others, exactly where Australia stands, as long as this Government is in power. [More…]
The Banking Act confers upon the Reserve Bank power to make regulations, with the approval of the Treasurer, governing interest rates in the trading banking system. [More…]
The cost of the operation of the jet depends on the number of hours it is functioning, but the cost per hour, when using full power, is approximately $15. [More…]
If the Administrator could not give permission for the University to renew one appointment and to make another then the level of governmental power which he exercises must be very low indeed. [More…]
Investigations are proceeding to determine whether power generation facilities should be included with the dam, but any such works would be financed by the Electricity Commission of Victoria and would not affect the functioning of the storage for water supply purposes. [More…]
Clause 9 gives the Commission the power of delegation which is usual for bodies of this type, but which had not previously been provided for. [More…]
Indeed, the Premier and his Ministers would be false to their oath of office, with no real power to act or make decisions of their own. [More…]
Then in 1842 partly elected legislative councils were set up with limited power. [More…]
Queensland was granted responsible government in 1859 and Western Australia in 1890, of course with certain limitations of power. [More…]
I know there are people who believe that, but in my opinion it would have been a retrograde step to give this power to the States and would have been inimical to the best interests of federation. [More…]
It includes such things as local government, roads, power, water and sewerage, housing, availability of land, pollution, decentralisation, valuation and rating principles, and a host of other matters. [More…]
Standardisation of building regulations, trade practices, manufacturing processes, electricity and power distribution all are matters in need of State and Federal close consideration and collaboration. [More…]
1 deplore the fact that when my own political party, the Australian Labor Party, is kept out of power for so long by a government coalition of so-called Liberal Party, Australian Country Party aud Australian Democratic Labor Party interests using, let us admit it, so often fear and smear tactics, imputing a lack of patriotism and engaging, as we saw tonight, in other untruthful methods to gain their ends, the needs of the people suffer so. [More…]
I emphasise the need to improve the processes of our democratic system because I recognise the present dangerous gulf between a relatively small and unrepresentative Cabinet which wields almost total power and the rest of the Parliament - and indeed the people. [More…]
Like other honourable members I am aware that there are constitutional impediments in relation to the control of prices, services and wages but surely if this Parliament is to have the power it should have to guide the destiny of this country it must have separate power over wages and separate power over prices and services. [More…]
The honourable member for Adelaide (Mr Hurford) referred to the report of the Constitutional Review Committee tabled in 1959 when the Menzies Government was in power. [More…]
If we cannot keep wages at reasonable levels and yet maintain adequate purchasing power we will be priced out of every secondary export market in the world. [More…]
The Leader of the Country Party and his followers have extorted concessions from governments over the last 20 years to keep themselves in power. [More…]
There was no consensus at the Genera] Assembly in favour of the proposition of law asserted in resolution 2603a, and the Assembly itself has no power to make international law by resolution. [More…]
What initiatives is Australia’s delegation considering or supporting for the United Nations Charter review this year, in particular with regard to: (a) a broader United Nations membership embracing rival de facto regimes without prejudice to their respective territorial claims, (b) voting power of each delegation being assessed in some relationship to the size of the population controlled by the regime appointing the delegation and without vetoes, (c) strengthening of United Nations arbitration, conciliation and peacekeeping machinery, involving sacrifice of some aspects of national sovereignty to supranational authorities in grave international disputes, (d) peaceful uses of the sea bed, (e) extension of the Antarctic nuclear-free zone and its proclamation as a war-free zone under United Nations jurisdiction and sovereignty and (f) ecology and the development decade. [More…]
As a Queenslander I am hit hard by the knowledge that sugar refining is on the list to be nationalised should Labor come to power. [More…]
The purpose of this Bill is to provide the legislative power necessary to deal with vessels and their cargoes in cases where there is pollution or threat of pollution to the Australian coast or costal water by oil. [More…]
This incident has highlighted the fact that under existing legislation the Commonwealth lacks the necessary power which would enable it to deal effectively with such an incident. [More…]
It has demonstrated the need to provide the Minister with powers to take urgent and effective action to ensure there is no delay in the removal of a potential hazard. [More…]
The Bill, which honourable members have before them, or will shortly have before them, provides the Minister for Shipping and Transport with the necessary legislative power to do these things. [More…]
I would have thought that under the defence power in the Constitution the [More…]
Consequently the extensions which we would ultimately seek to introduce in the terms of these conventions and the control of pollution are at this point beyond the constitutional power of the Commonwealth. [More…]
This will mean that, instead of acting in any way instead of the State legislation, this Bill will supplement the powers that are held by the several States and consequently will enable, in respect of all those areas that are within the constitutional power of the Commonwealth, action to be taken against ships where there is either pollution or threat of pollution. [More…]
I think that insofar as this new convention has been promulgated, when it is in a position where it can be ratified by the Commonwealth of Australia and necessary legislation is passed through this House, then based on the external affairs power the constitutional capacity of the Commonwealth to cover noxious cargoes from vessels which at this stage cannot be included by this legislation will be substantially increased. [More…]
This is not the first time that the question of placing the power to raise income tax in the hands of the States has been raised under a Liberal Federal Government. [More…]
Sir Robert Menzies in 1953 offered to give income tax powers back to the States. [More…]
Lacking power to levy income tax, the State governments are dependent on Commonwealth generosity to carry on. [More…]
The present dispute between the Commonwealth and State governments must be resolved according to the needs of the people, not the jealousies of those in political power. [More…]
The Australian Labor Party - the great Party that during the last 50 years has been elected to power on only 3 occasions - last year racked up its ninth loss in a row. [More…]
In view of the fact that recently representatives of all business interests and in addition a delegation of workers’ representatives have placed their views before you I urge that you meet representatives of the various pensioner organisations in order to permit them to present their views regarding the falling standard of living forced upon them by the ever increasing cost of living and lower purchasing power of their low pension rate. [More…]
1 suggest that the Government, both with its guidelines, principles and otherwise, properly considers matters as they come through departments and even the Reserve Bank of Australia, which exercises relevant power in this field; and that it would be most foolish of us to chase away industries and lose the great advantages to be gained from foreign investment and foreign know-how through fears unfounded. [More…]
I ask the Treasurer a question supplementary to that asked by the Leader of the Opposition, ls it not a fact that increased prices are the real cause of the overheated economy, leading to inflationary trends and resulting in the inevitable reduction of the purchasing power of wages and salaries? [More…]
One was matrimonial causes, where the Commonwealth had total power. [More…]
There was no question about the width of its power under the Constitution. [More…]
It is enough for me to say that I applaud the belated but nevertheless admirable determination of the Government, not least I should think because of the attitude which I attribute to the Attorney-General, that the Commonwealth’s powers over coastal waters should be asserted. [More…]
We have been mesmerised by an archaic and restrictive decision from passing laws under this power. [More…]
I would hope that the present Attorney-General might contrive a test of the Commonwealth’s corporation power as has recently come about in respect of external affairs, posts and telegraphs and fisheries powers. [More…]
In the United States of America, a much older federation than ours and a federation where the States have greater financial powers or resources than the States have in this country, there is no question as regards securities and exchange matters, for instance. [More…]
There has been no question since the early 1930s that this is a federal power. [More…]
I believe that the Commonwealth’s corporation power should bc assumed to justify the establishment of such a body. [More…]
I rather believe that the High Court might now be inclined to give to this power some of the generous interpretation that it has given to the arbitration power or to section 92 of the Constitution. [More…]
We would hope that the new Attorney-General would take a contemporary and comprehensive view of the Commonwealth’s corporation power. [More…]
As the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Whitlam) has said, there is no doubt whatever that the limits of the Commonwealth’s corporation power must be tested. [More…]
We have the power under the Constitution to do this. [More…]
Under the articles of agreement of the Fund, any proposal to adjust members’ quotas requires the approval of Governors representing at least 85% of the total voting power of member countries. [More…]
The Government will do all in its power to help and guide them in doing this and looks forward with confidence to co-operation in all sectors and at all levels of the community in bringing the change about wilh the minimum of difficulty and inconvenience. [More…]
I stipulate that period because this Government has been in power now for more than 20 years. [More…]
The Australian people have been fortunate because of those losses in that we have, without doubt, a more developed social services system than we would have had had the Labor Party ever come to power in that period. [More…]
The Prime Minister, when he first came to power, enunciated to the nation that he was interested in helping the needy. [More…]
Clause 9 gives power to the Director-General to pay moneys upon such terms and conditions, including conditions as to the conduct by the organisation of approved meal services, the use of those moneys and the keeping of accounts by the organisation, as he considers conducive to the purpose of the Act. [More…]
In handing over such powers to individuals outside the Parliament, we are making a grave mistake. [More…]
The Parliament is responsible for the legislation and is responsible to see that individuals get a go in the community, but governments have handed over too many powers to people outside the Parliament and outside the Government. [More…]
Provision is also made for lump sum compensation for the loss of power of speech, for severe and permanent facial disfigurement and for the permanent loss of capacity to engage in sexual intercourse, the disability about which the former honourable member for West Sydney, Mr Minogue, campaigned so strongly over the years. [More…]
The Commissioner will no longer have a nonappealable power in relation to a travel case involving a substantial interruption or deviation during a journey to or from the employment. [More…]
That the committee shall have power to appoint sub-committees consisting of four or more of its members; and to refer to any such sub-committees any of the matters which the committee is empowered to consider. [More…]
That the committee or any sub-committee shall have power to adjourn from place to place and to sit during any recess or adjournment of the Parliament and during the sittings of either House of the Parliament. [More…]
That the committee shall have power to invite persons to give evidence before the committee. [More…]
That with the consent of the Minister for External Affairs, the committee shall have power to call for official papers or records. [More…]
That any member of the committee have power to add a protest or dissent to any report, but the protest or dissent may not introduce new matter not referred to in the main report. [More…]
That the committee have power to consider the minutes of evidence and records of the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs appointed in the previous Parliament relating to any matter on which that committee had not completed its consideration. [More…]
It claims all the power and authority that flows from such a committee. [More…]
My colleague the honourable member for Fremantle mentioned the hysteria about an alleged attack on United States destroyers and the fact that the President was given power to move unlimited numbers of troops into Vietnam. [More…]
We are not trying to lake that power from the Executive. [More…]
It must be given power to investigate and to inquire into various aspects of foreign affairs. [More…]
We are not trying to take away any Executive power. [More…]
We want to see it given greater power, greater discretion and greater responsibility. [More…]
I preface my question by saying that there is a disparity in the purchasing power of pensions in the Northern Territory compared with their purchasing power in the south, because the recognised cost of living is about onethird higher in the far north than it is in the southern cities and settled areas. [More…]
Under its baleful influence, the conflict in Vietnam escalated into the longest and third largest war this century; it has been at the root of the massive blunders and massive bloodshed of this conflict; it has built up a tawdry totalitarian regime, running a fifthrate power, as the arbiter of Indo-China, while a hardly less totalitarian regime drags in its wake the prestige of the mightiest democracy the world has known or will ever know. [More…]
At the bottom of the alienation of so many and so much representing the best in our communities is the failure to answer this crucial question of our time: Why is our cause, the cause of democracy - embracing mankind’s hope for decency and dignity, backed as it is by unparalleled power - so vulnerable, and in this region so apparently impotent, in the face of the challenge of so obsolete, crude and brutal a creed as Communism? [More…]
It is part of the inevitable trend, the policy that any European power - and Britain today is exclusively a European power - must follow. [More…]
There is no more reason for Britain to have land forces in this area in the 1970s than for France, Germany, Italy or any other significant European power. [More…]
In this regard, it is quite irrelevant which party is in power in Britain. [More…]
I have heard a very eminent scientist recommend that if a country wanted eventually to become a nuclear power the first thing it should do is to sign and to ratify the Treaty. [More…]
It will be able, under inspection, to build up supplies of plutonium, and if and when it desires to become a nuclear power all it has to do is pull out of the Treaty and within a matter of months it can become a nuclear power. [More…]
It is of interest to note that the support which has brought the Treaty into operation has come from those countries which have no possibility or feasibility in the near future, or even in the fairly distant future, of becoming a nuclear power. [More…]
We want to know what is to happen to the greater powers. [More…]
They are both nuclear powers but they will not sign or ratify the Treaty. [More…]
Surely before we press ahead with committing ourselves - and we could commit ourselves irrevocably on this matter - we ought to determine what support the Treaty will get, and whether it will reduce proliferation or whether it will be like the nuclear test ban, during the operation of which we discovered that 2 new countries had become nuclear powers. [More…]
The main difference from the old foreign policy is that the main emphasis is no longer on supporting the traditional great and powerful allies and upholding military alliances. [More…]
The main emphasis is on Australia looking after its own interests and protecting itself as a significant power in the South East Asia region. [More…]
In the present world situation no outside power can for long force any South East Asian country to do its bidding. [More…]
Parliament with power: [More…]
It pointed out that the existing printing committees of both Houses could not undertake the task as they were severely resticted in their powers. [More…]
It went on to recommend, therefore, that a joint committee should be appointed with power not only to review the printing and publication of both parliamentary and government publications but also to undertake the function of the existing printing committees. [More…]
I refer to the River Murray Waters Act 1915 and amending Acts, the Snowy Mountains Hydro-electric Power Act, the Snowy Mountains Hydro-electric Authority Act, the Blowering Water Storage Works Agreement Act, the Menindee Lakes Storage Agreement Act and the Chowilla Reservoir Agreement Act. [More…]
He is a lawyer and he knows perfectly well that the Chowilla project could not proceed even if the Labor Party had come to power in the Federal sphere, lt could not proceed because there must be unanimous agreement on the part of the 4 parties to the River Murray Commission Agreement. [More…]
His Government was in power when the suspension was agreed to. [More…]
He is going to attempt to defeat it by saying that a Labor government would press on even though he knows full well that if he wins the next State election and attains power he would have to agree to Dartmouth dam. [More…]
It is doubtful if they are properly authorised under the regulation-making power of the Statutes and therefore if they are in accordance with their relevant Statutes; and [More…]
Apart from any previous regulations which may have been issued under the regulation making power of the Statute, the provision of this annual allowance is not an administrative detail but an important innovation more appropriate to substantive legislation. [More…]
The Government’s legal advisers are satisfied that the regulations are within the regulation making power of the Statutes. [More…]
lt has high class tourist facilities, ablution blocks, shelter sheds, supervisor’s home, modern kiosk, lawns and trees, and it also has 600 acres fenced in with water and power supplied. [More…]
Someone has said that the real worth of water is in producing power. [More…]
The faults existing in sections of the equipments after installation caused interference patterns in the picture, objectionable noise in the sound, and a reduction in the radiated signal power. [More…]
the exercise of executive power and authority for the control of joint operations through designated subordinate commanders; [More…]
If the Minister had wanted to move the gag then, that was his prerogative; but so power drunk is he that he decided to override everyone, including the Minister for National Development. [More…]
He said he and his associates had not even made up their minds whether they could make use of the resources of the Murray for a further power station. [More…]
Finally, is the new tsar of the Labor Party, the ambitious somewhat power hungry President of the Australian Council of Trade Unions, behind the infamous action to prohibit delivery of perfectly legal sales? [More…]
A Labor government was in power at the time. [More…]
Once an opposition believes, rightly or wrongly, that the Government is abusing the forms of the House, preventing the proper conduct of the proceedings of the House, and denying the Opposition the opportunities which it should have, then it becomes obligatory upon the Opposition, if Parliamentary rights and procedures are to be preserved, for it to use every means in its power to make it plain to the Government that those tactics will not succeed. [More…]
However, one thing that you have lost sight of is that in our motion we are trying to protect you above all people from a Government that is ruthlessly using the power of this Parliament. [More…]
An opposition it quite within its rights to oppose - indeed, it would be failing in the exercise of its proper function as an opposition if it did not strenuously oppose with every means in its power within the Standing Orders of this Parliament - legislation with which it did not agree. [More…]
It is equally the right of the Government to use every means in its power to see that the business of government is not taken out of its hands by the Opposition. [More…]
I hope that this rebellion inside the Parliament against the brutal use of power by an arrogant Leader of the House will produce a different kind of Parliament in the future. [More…]
Last night as 1 looked at the frightened expressions on the faces of the Ministers opposite when the shemozzle was at its height I realised that they were frightened because they were witnessing what could be the crumbling and crashing of their symbol of power. [More…]
Parliament is their symbol of power and without it no government could govern without military dictatorship and martial law. [More…]
My suggestion to the Prime Minister (Mr Gorton) and the conclave of power that he has surrounded himself with is that if they wish to govern by executive decree by all means let them do so. [More…]
On 26th September last year I announced to the House that the Commonwealth Government was prepared to provide a loan of up to $80ra to the Queensland Government to help the State finance the construction of a proposed large scale power station at Gladstone in central Queensland which would provide low-cost power and, through it, attract a viable export oriented industrial complex to central Queensland. [More…]
The result of these negotiations is that the Queensland Government has satisfied the Commonwealth that major export oriented industries are likely to be attracted to central Queensland through the provision of the low-cost power; and the Commonwealth and Queensland governments have reached agreement on the terms and conditions of a Commonwealth loan to the State to assist with the necessary works. [More…]
The estimated cost of the proposed power station together with local reticulation at Gladstone, at 1968 prices, is $155m. [More…]
For the purpose of the agreement the Queensland Government shall produce evidence satisfactory to the Minister for National Development that the State has entered into or proposes to enter into agreements, arrangements and options for the consumption of electrical power by industrial organisations which will export a substantial proportion of their products or which will produce goods of a kind which will be supplied to industries producing goods predominantly for export. [More…]
The actual amount of the Commonwealth financial assistance will depend on the cost of construction of the power station and local reticulation. [More…]
The assistance will be in the form of an interest bearing loan repayable over a period of 30 years commencing when the power station is completed. [More…]
There is, however, provision for the State to make payments of interest, instead of allowing the interest to be capitalised, once integral components of the station are commissioned and producing power. [More…]
Prior to its consideration of a major power station at Gladstone the State had already envisaged the construction of a thermal power station in the region as part of its programme for a general expansion to meet normal growth in the demand for electricity. [More…]
Against this background of resources and potential the Premier of Queensland in September 1968 raised with me the possibility of the Commonwealth assisting the State with capital in order that a power station could be built at Gladstone to provide the high load factor and low-cost supply required to attract’ major export oriented industries to central Queensland. [More…]
The Commonwealth, as a result of these investigations, is greatly impressed with the potential of the power station project both for attracting major industries to central Queensland and for bringing about a substantial lift in exports. [More…]
In fact, the Government believes, as the Governor-General said in his speech on 3rd March, that the power station will result in the construction of an aluminium smelter, possibly the biggest in the southern hemisphere, and in other industrial development. [More…]
We are confident, along with the Queensland Government, that the power station will attract a major chemical industry using the extensive salt resources in the area and we have high hopes that operations in this field may commence in 2 or 3 years time. [More…]
There is indeed a whole range of industries which could be attracted to central Queensland by the power station. [More…]
The Queensland Government has also asked that the Commonwealth give consideration to further financial assistance at a later date should the demand for power from the special export oriented industries to be established in the region increase to such a pronounced degree that further enlargement of the power station would then be required. [More…]
But this affords no excuse for resorting to, or encouraging, activities, based simply on the naked physical power of a mob, designed to force or embarrass a government into taking steps in conflict with the policies upon which that government secured a mandate to govern. [More…]
Such an illicit and dangerous abuse of power must have no place in our national life. [More…]
Yet this is described by the Attorney-General as resorting to, or encouraging, activities, based simply on the naked physical power of a mob, designed to force or embarrass a government into taking steps in conflict with the policies upon which it secured a mandate to govern … an illicit and dangerous abuse of power’. [More…]
Then between 1941 and 1945 Vietnam was treated as a mere pawn in the game of big power by the Soviet Union, China, America and Britain. [More…]
Then they were deprived of it by a big power arrangement at Geneva. [More…]
Then the world’s greatest industrial and military power, America, stepped into the shoes of the French - with the expressed intention of holding as much as possible of Vietnam under its control. [More…]
I think I may be able to claim to have more power to modify it in political affairs than perhaps anyone else in Australia. [More…]
The proper foundation for government is a universal law of right and wrong self-evident to the intuitive commonsense of every man; that freedom is a power of personal self-direction which no man can delegate to another; that the purpose of society is not the protection of property but fulfilment of the needs of living human beings; that good citizens have the right and duty, not only to overthrow incurably oppresive governments, but before that point is reached to break particular oppressive laws; and that we owe our ultimate allegiance, not to this or that nation, but to the whole family of man. [More…]
I will do everything in my power to prevent it from going wrong - but I am not going to work within the limits imposed by my political opponents. [More…]
More bombs have been dropped on Vietnam than were dropped on the whole of the Axis Powers during World War II. [More…]
The bombers strafe in such a way that it is true to say that no Americans have ever had fire power applied to them in the same way that it is applied to the Vietnamese. [More…]
The men who create power make an indispensable contribution to the nation’s greatness. [More…]
But the men who question power make a contribution just as indispensable, especially when that questioning is disinterested. [More…]
For they determine whether we use power or power uses us. [More…]
I can recall that the Prime Minister went to South Australia and tried to get Steele Hall into power a couple of years ago. [More…]
The concern that I have about direct negotiation is the degree to which powerful unions in an industrial sense are able to use the threat of strike action to coerce employers to give wage increases beyond the capacity of the economy to pay and in advance of the development of productivity. [More…]
It is likely to stratify income in the community, depending not upon the degree of skill that the worker enjoys and not necessarily upon the number of hours that he works, how hard he works, the effort that he puts into his work or anything of that kind, but to be related solely to the industrial power of the work situation in which he is. [More…]
For example, a carpenter working on the building of house frames or architraves or a joiner building furniture would have nothing like the industrial power that would he possessed by a worker in, for instance, the power producing industry. [More…]
It would be most undesirable that the industrial power possessed by somebody in that sort of sensitive industry could result in his having a significantly bigger increase in pay, enjoying a larger standard of pay and a better standard of living than the equally socially necessary worker in another area who is not possessed of the same industrial power. [More…]
I direct the House’s attention, as one example of this, merely to the Bill introduced yesterday for the establishment at Gladstone of this new power house to bring industries there which is perhaps likely to be one of the most forward steps taken in decentralisation in this country. [More…]
The reason for this sublime state of affairs is simple: hospital treatment in Queensland is free, and has been since 1946 when the Labor Government in power introduced the present system. [More…]
The Convention then deals, in Chapter III, with the power of the commander of an aircraft in flight to deal with persons committing, or about to commit, offences or acts on board the aircraft likely to endanger the safety of the aircraft, or of persons or property on it. [More…]
Article 6 empowers the commander to take whatever reasonable steps are necessary in the circumstances to restrain offending conduct. [More…]
As 1 have indicated, the provisions of Chapter III of the Convention confer on the commander of an aircraft power to take reasonable measures against persons on board who endanger the safety of his aircraft or of persons aboard, or who interfere with good order and discipline aboard, and powers to deal with such persons after landing. [More…]
The application of the Migration Act for the purposes of deportation has been used as a means of giving effect to the power contained in article 14 of the Convention of ‘returning’ persons who have been delivered’ or ‘disembarked’ by an aircraft commander or who have been involved in illegal seizure of an aircraft in flight. [More…]
A regulation making power is provided in clause 20 of the Bill. [More…]
The homes savings grant proposal was one of the magic tricks designed to return the Menzies Government to power with an increased majority. [More…]
believe the Minister should have the power to determine, as mentioned in clause 4 of the Bill, when a child will be in custody, care and control of the divorced person’. [More…]
In addition, because of its approach to investment in land, the Australian Labor Party introduced fringe banking when it was in power. [More…]
I would remind him that when the Labor Party was in power in this Federal Parliament the Chifley Government tried to introduce a national housing commission not along the lines of the existing State housing commisisons but for the whole of the Commonwealth of Australia. [More…]
He said if Labor gets into power it will scrap this scheme. [More…]
In the 21 years since the Liberal-Country Party coalition came to power we have heard a lot about the Communist Party but not one case of Communist Party subversion has been brought to trial in those 21 years. [More…]
Is it also a fact that the Australian Labor Party, when in power, fixed this residential qualification at 20 years, not 10 years? [More…]
They are known as power heads. [More…]
In normal use a 12-gauge cartridge is placed in the powerhead at the end of the spear gun and this cartridge detonates on impact with the object speared. [More…]
However, the power heads can be detonated by hand. [More…]
It is possible that similar instances will crop up there as a result of the careless use of power heads. [More…]
These power heads may be purchased at sports stores by children or persons of any age. [More…]
I do not intend ever to resist the application of those consequences to me, if 1 can maintain sufficient and proper control as I will do everything in my power to do. [More…]
Instead, I would feel that there is a much greater chance of success if power could be decentralised as far as possible. [More…]
If power were decentralised in the next few years from Port Moresby to the outer parts of the Territory, I think it is probable that the structure would hold together. [More…]
As power is being handed over to these newly independent countries, so also should the leaders of these countries have a greater amount of authority to decide how the funds of the Commission are to be spent. [More…]
Senator Fulbright said that the plain fact to come out of the Vietnam war was that North Vietnam was the paramount power in Indo-China. [More…]
I merely propose to accept it if it arises from the local power situation as something unwelcome but tolerable. [More…]
first, to face China on yet another front; second, to extend the influence of Russia as a world power; third, to fill the power vacuum in South East Asia consequent on Britain’s withdrawal and, perhaps, in anticipation of a slowing down of United States activity and influence should the Vietnam conflict be satisfactorily resolved; and, fourth - this is the most important to us - to compete with Japan, Australia and other countries for the growing trade opportunities which will develop in Asia. [More…]
As the Minister emphasised, whatever Russia’s motives are we can be sure that her involvement emanates from her self-interest and desire to be the ruling Communist power. [More…]
We will see Japan as a major economic power in the region. [More…]
Japan now has the highest gross national product of any country and she will play an important role in the area, both economic and political, and probably will re-emerge as a military power. [More…]
Secondly, since Britain has no power base and no ‘home’ presence in Asia, as she had when she had 3 million loyal Indian troops under her command in the Indian Empire, British intervention in Asia is likely to be limited at most to minor actions in peninsulas, never to an endless and undefinable commitment on the broad mainland of Asia. [More…]
If you invade the general mainland of Asia you undertake a limitless military commitment and you cannot prevent the forces opposed to you from being augmented in power. [More…]
The Soviet is in the position of being a satisfied’ imperial power possessing all sorts of territories and controlling peoples over which and whom she really has no claim. [More…]
China is in the position of being a revolutionary power vis-a-vis the Soviet Union. [More…]
De Gaulle asked the simple question: ‘If a nuclear attack is made on France will the United States on behalf of France make a nuclear attack on the other power - the Soviet Union, shall we say?’ [More…]
When Great Britain lost India she lost her empire and the power that she was able to deploy in this part of the world. [More…]
They have made a mockery of the word democracy’ for they have created a society where 3 million white people have unprecedented power over the rights and freedom of 16 million black and coloured people. [More…]
The Government has power to proclaim subcategories for certain categories within the Bantu and coloured categories for certain purposes. [More…]
The Government thus had the power to place a blanket ban over all organisations that were in any way critical of its administration or policies. [More…]
It was one in respect of which the Minister for Social Services said: There was a power of State veto that could be exercisable against the Commonwealth.’ [More…]
In the case of a federal state, where for domestic purposes supreme legislative and executive power is divided between the federation and its component states or provinces, the question frequently arises whether the control of off-shore resources is exercisable, as a matter of internal constitutional law, by the federation itself, or by its component states or provinces, or is shared between both. [More…]
On appeal, he contended, inter alia, that the Act was invalid, because Commonwealth power did not extend beyond the territorial sea. [More…]
But it is clear, and was expressly recognised by the Chief Justice and Mr Justice Windeyer in Bonser v. La Macchia, that pre- 1900 the colonies were competent, as the States still are, by virtue of their plenary power to make laws for the peace, order and good government of the territory assigned to them, to make laws that would operate extra-territorially - that is to say, beyond their land boundaries and in and on the territorial sea and, where necessary, the high seas beyond. [More…]
However, I might let the people of his electorate know, just as I intend letting the people of my electorate know, that during the debate speakers from the Australian Labor Party have risen and have announced to the Parliament that should their Party come to power they will move for the abolition of this scheme. [More…]
I want Mr McEwen to do all in his power to ensure that the speech he gave here today doesn’t circulate in my electorate. [More…]
We ought not to sell the principles and the policies of the Country Party on the basis that it is more important to have power than principles.’ [More…]
Honourable members should not forget that this decision was made after the Deputy Prime Minister, the Leader of and the most powerful man in the Country Party, had addressed this conference. [More…]
Instead of asking the Country Party to get right out of the coalition, the conference ‘passed by a big majority a motion that “this conference stresses the urgency of the financial plight of primary producers due to falling prices and rising costs, and informs our Parliamentary members of the power we expect them to exercise from their position of strength within the Government”.’ [More…]
In every State of the Commonwealth and in the Commonwealth sphere the same people are in power. [More…]
This time an intensified situation has been reached, because one side has been in power so long, that as Mr Henry Turnbull (Liberal, N.S.W.) [More…]
My answer to the substantive questions asked by him are as follows: The police force for which I am ministerially responsible, although it is naturally interested in the Biggs affair, has no legal power to compel any newspaper proprietor to divulge information about this matter. [More…]
This Government has no power to impound any money that may have been paid to Biggs or to somebody in trust for Biggs or his children. [More…]
The power just does not exist. [More…]
The next important form of relief is that the Commissioner will have power to grant an extension of time for the payment of duty in the light of any adverse circumstances of an estate. [More…]
In the past the Commissioner has not had power to grant an extension of time for payment except upon sufficient security for payment. [More…]
I have no doubt that the inspiration for this Film Development Corporation comes from Great Britain from that great British Socialist, Harold Wilson, now the Prime Minister of Great Britain but in 1949 President of the Board of Trade, who established a film corporation with Stg5m at that time, stating when he introduced the appropriate legislation that it would have ‘power to lend this money on reasonable commercial terms for film production’. [More…]
But it is not a nationalisation measure and if Labor were in power I have no doubt that it would nationalise the film industry because it has this mad, insane idea that everything must be nationalised and brought under government control. [More…]
The Corporation has power to do all things necessary or convenient to be done for or in connection with the performance of its function- [More…]
But there is a doubt whether, as a matter of statutory construction, the ordinancemaking power conferred by section 12 of the Seat of Government (Administration) Act 1910-1965 enables an ordinance to be given such an extra-territorial operation. [More…]
The present power in section 12 is to make ordinances ‘having the force of law in the Territory’. [More…]
This Bill provides instead for a power to make ordinances ‘for the peace, order and good government of the Territory’. [More…]
One could go further and say that if the balance is disturbed there is the strong possibility of the tidal systems of the Great Barrier Reef being also of such a nature and of such power that the whole structure of the Reef itself and the living side of the coral could be disturbed. [More…]
On the west coast of this continent, we know, a 38-foot rise and fall of tide could in gulfs become a great source of hydro-electric power. [More…]
By the time somebody gets into a position of power he is likely to favour the status quo. [More…]
I simply want to say that the grant of citizenship has been regarded for a century as a privilege, not a right, and as being properly a matter within the discretionary power of the executive government answerable to Parliament. [More…]
During the war the Colonial Sugar Refining Co. Ltd was commissioned to build a number of plants to produce power alcohol, or ethyl alcohol, for use as an additive to petrol. [More…]
If I correctly recall the reply that I gave to the Federation concerning the findings of my Department - i would be happy to let the honourable member have a copy - it was to the effect that whilst it was technically feasible to produce power alcohol from wheat it was not an economic proposition. [More…]
The real crux of the matter is that any plan to produce power alcohol calls for a capital intensive project and to make it a success there must be a continuity of raw material at a satisfactory price. [More…]
The South Vietnam Government did make a declaration saying that it would do all in its power to ensure that there was peace throughout the whole of Vietnam. [More…]
The rural industries made substantial contributions to the war effort of 1939-45. lt was apparent when this Government came to power at the end of 1949 that something had to be done because the economy depended so tremendously on export income, 90% of which was provided by the rural industries. [More…]
When so much power and expense must be devoted to research into the subject of tariff protection, it is pretty difficult for 1 or 2 members of Parliament or for a committee concerned with primary industry to find out the facts in that connection. [More…]
I remind both honourable members that they are also members of a Government which has been in power for over 20 years. [More…]
Most of these markets are in developing countries, and dietary habits and lack of purchasing power are significant factors affecting demand. [More…]
Will he do all in his power to foster the use of this port by coastal and international shipping? [More…]
Is it a fact that both these papers related to the environmental effects of the proposed nuclear power station at Jervis Bay? [More…]
Was the first paper on the agenda of the recent symposium of the Ecological Society of Australia and was it entitled ‘Ecological Factors in the Siting, Design and Operation of a Nuclear Power Station’? [More…]
I would like to make clear the second point that was referred to and which was brought out in the Press reports, that is, that this particular paper was to refer to the establishment of the nuclear power station at Jervis Bay. [More…]
This is entirely incorrect, because at this point of time we do not know the type of nuclear power plant that will be installed. [More…]
Until such time as we are aware of the type of power plant and the type of fuel that will1 be used it will not be possible to prepare any paper dealing with the subject. [More…]
However, the paper referred to by the honourable member dealt in a general sense with the effect of effluent from a nuclear power station on the ecology of the country. [More…]
I do remember - I think it came from an honourable member of the Opposition in private conversation - that we had our attention drawn in a defence speech to the constant use of ‘maritime capacity’ instead of the old fashioned ‘sea power’ which seems to mean much the same thing. [More…]
1m for the Snowy Mountains hydro-electric power project; S4m for payment to the Post Office Trust Account and S5m for buildings and works. [More…]
legislative power in Australia, enable the provision of the optimum standards of medical and hospital care for all. [More…]
Manufacturing industry, in the statistical records, includes thousands of small establishments designated as factories because they have 4 or more employees or use power. [More…]
There is absolutely nothing in its charter to clothe it with any power or authority for regulation, intervention, or coercion. [More…]
It meant that for the first time the great emerging nation of Indonesia and the great industrial power of Japan could use their influence and prestige in the area to find a solution. [More…]
Unfortunately the potential of this conference was destroyed by the blunt use of power. [More…]
What has been the cost to date of the Snowy Mountains Authority’s construction works in respect of (a) water storage and (b) power generation. [More…]
These works include all facilities for the control, storage, diversion and release of water as well as for power production. [More…]
Separate costs of works in respect of (a) water storage and (b) power generation have not been kept as they are inseparable in most instances. [More…]
Has consideration been given to the request for a higher rate of pension for social service recipients in the Northern Territory in view of the disparity in purchasing power of pensions in the Territory as against that in other parts of the Commonwealth. [More…]
If so, will he consider allowing the Assistant Returning Officers at major polling booths power to receive interstate absentee votes during the hours of polling. [More…]
38 of 1962 as amended (a) makes it compulsory for a workers’ organisation to be registered under the Ordinance, (b) gives the Industrial Registrar power to dissolve a workers’ organisation, (c) gives the Registrar power to remove from his office the secretary of a workers’ organisation, (d) prohibits a workers’ organisation from using its funds to support the political party of its choice and (e) proscribes strike action by a workers’ organisation unless such action is first approved in a secret ballot in which all members of the organisation are entitled to vote. [More…]
Section 26 of the Ordinance gives the Registrar power on grounds stated in the Ordinance to cancel the registration of an industrial organisation. [More…]
Honourable members opposite talk as though everyone has wealth, power and influence. [More…]
Just by chance tonight the former leader of the Opposition, the right honourable member for Melbourne (Mr Calwell), told us that if, in 1960, the Labor Party had elected Mr Ward as its deputy leader the Party would have been elected to power in 1961. [More…]
There is centralisation of power. [More…]
By the regrettable action of 1 Independent and by the capricious action of a totally irresponsible power hungry Opposition, we are now back, regarding an entitlement to water, to where we were at the 1915 level. [More…]
We have no doubts about the ultimate power and effectiveness of these policies when properly used. [More…]
Every Australian should do everything in his power to try to bring peace to this troubled land. [More…]
The most powerful nation ever known is doing this to one of the smallest nations in the world; it is trying to bomb this small nation into the stone age. [More…]
The War Service Homes Division is one sector of the housing field in which the Commonwealth has complete power. [More…]
While the workers are building up the instruments of their power in the form of Soviets, it follows that the workers must prepare - ideal 06,cally, politically and technically- for the struggle of the Soviets against parliament, for the dispersal of parliament by the Soviets. [More…]
We urge all true Australians to do all in their power to ensure that the Moratorium does not succeed, that the areas of its activities are not attended, and that we give as little comfort and aid to our enemies as possible. [More…]
In making these decisions, the Administration has doubtless applied a policy which it believes is best for the people of New Guinea; but equally we have to apply a policy which is best for Australia, lt is totally unreal, if not hypocritical, to suggest that while Australia holds all the power the decisions will be made only by New Guineans. [More…]
Decisions are made where the power resides. [More…]
The power resides with Australia. [More…]
In New Guinea the decision which has to be made is not merely when New Guinea will be ready to assume power over herself, but when Australia is prepared to hand over her power, and that is a decision for Australia to make. [More…]
And the United Nations is overwhelmingly in favour of immediate transfer of political power and economic power. [More…]
One would have to be totally innocent of all knowledge of history or human nature to believe that such a concentration of political and economic power could persist undisturbed. [More…]
What will happen if negotiations come and a ceasefire and some settlement are reached and the National Liberation Front then has a big share of power in South Vietnam? [More…]
Certainly the National Liberation Front would then be powerful in South Vietnam, but so too must some religious and regional groups or there can be no negotiations. [More…]
The Communists learnt in Korea that if ever again they amassed armies and moved across a border at one stroke they would bring the wrath and the power of the free world upon them. [More…]
The Opposition’s present policy of pushing the Territory into self-government by 1972 if, of course, it gets into power - a big ‘if - and independence by 1976 represents a drastic change from the policy pursued by the right honourable member for Melbourne Our policy is 1 of political change sanctioned by the people of Papua and New Guinea through their elected House of Assembly. [More…]
I understand that the matter of off-shore minerals was not mentioned and the main discussions which took place revolved around nuclear energy and power stations. [More…]
Apparently Mr Holding said - and so far he has not denied it - that if a Labor government were elected into power in Victoria he, as Premier, would parole those people who are now in prison in that State as a result of a breach of a Commonwealth law - the National Service Act. [More…]
Sixteen years ago the Geneva Convention resolved to end the blood bath and to recognise that the people of Indo-China were determined to remain unaccommodated to any foreign power, even to China, the greatest, strongest and most numerically powerful country in that region. [More…]
There are a number of other pollutants, not the least of which are the radioactive substances and the heat from power and industrial plants. [More…]
If it is suggested that we have no jurisdiction we could say with a smile that when the off-shore legislation is introduced we should have it then because at least we would have power to control the sea bed where this effluent is going to be disposed of. [More…]
The spending power and standard of liv ng of the people in those areas will be reflected throughout the Territory. [More…]
On 26th September 1969, after the Prime Minister (Mr Gorton) had made a statement announcing the Government’s decision to lend S80m to Queensland towards the cost of a power station in central Queensland, the Leader of “the Opposition (Mr Whitlam) said: [More…]
Naturally the Australian Labor Party welcomes the Commonwealth’s participation in the provision of electricity in central Queensland, which is an area where power ‘lias been hardest to come by and is the most expensive in Australia. [More…]
that power was the determining factor in the development of the natural resources in the area and the attraction of greater human resources to the area. [More…]
The fund will allow the Commonwealth to assist in such rail, power and water projects as I have mentioned. [More…]
The construction of the power station is rather definite but associated facilities and transmission are tacked on and these are significantly indefinite and costly. [More…]
At what voltage will the electricity from the Gladstone power station be generated - 66 kilovolt, 132 kilovolt or 330 kilovolt? [More…]
Will the Queensland electricity authority transmit the power to a company no matter how far it is established away from the power station? [More…]
In summary, will the Government transmit the power to the front doorstep of the companies or will it tell the companies that the power is at Gladstone and they should come and get it? [More…]
How will the favoured companies get their power? [More…]
Transmission refers to the transmitting of bulk power at high voltage. [More…]
Local reticulation can be taken to embrace not only transmission but also distribution of power at lower voltages to company townships or even throughout company properties. [More…]
Some of the companies developing in those remote areas have been expected to provide their own power, but in this instance more than $155m of Commonwealth and State money is being used, lt is as good as a loan to the companies concerned. [More…]
What generating authority in Queensland will control this new power station? [More…]
In his second reading speech, the Prime Minister announced that the amount of the original loan would be S80m and that the loan could now be exceeded if the estimated cost for the power station of S155m, made in 1968, be exceeded. [More…]
The Opposition would like to be assured that this will not be the case with this power station at Gladstone. [More…]
This seems to indicate that the construction of the power station is estimated now to take longer than was at first anticipated. [More…]
The Commonwealth shall not be required to make any payments under this agreement unless and until the State produces evidence satisfactory to the Minister that the State has entered into or proposes to enter into agreements, arrangements or options for the consumption of electrical power by organisations which will have in the aggregate a total requirement of installed generating capacity of approximately 600 megawatts of the proposed capacity of the said thermal station. [More…]
It could easily force the Queensland Government to give better terms on price of power and conditions to the companies to ensure that the 600 megawatt reserve is reached. [More…]
As I said, I appreciate that both governments are confident that industry will come to the area as soon as low cost power is provided. [More…]
The Queensland Government is so confident that already it has sought an assurance on the availability of additional finance to enlarge the capacity of the power station should this be necessary. [More…]
On behalf of the Opposition I give an assurance that if either tough negotiating on the part of industrial enterprises for better terms and conditions or influx of major power-using industries faster than anticipated causes embarrassment to the Queensland Government, a Federal Labor government would grant immediate financial assistance to the Queensland Government. [More…]
In Australia the various State governments own all the electric power resources, either directly operated as government departments or more usually organised as statutory corporations or commissions, or in a series of regional boards. [More…]
The proposed power house construction at Gladstone, to have a capacity of 1,100 megawatts, is to be a State undertaking. [More…]
At the end of that nine year period it was producing nearly 20 per cent more power than was originally planned. [More…]
The particular example which we have before us concerning the Gladstone power station comprises a mixture of finance from Commonwealth sources and State sources and, whether or not the Commonwealth funds are surplus revenues or loan funds, interest is to be charged at 6.4%. [More…]
If Comalco could only be induced to Gladstone on a subsidised basis and the benefits of decentralistion were thought to outweigh this cost, then a case could perhaps be made out for subsidy, although it is not really as simple as this because an unwitting advantage could be given to this firm at the expense of somebody else somewhere else, and the fairer method might well be to charge for power at its proper economic price and to pay the equivalent of the interest component, say to the Gladstone municipal authority, to provide community amenities. [More…]
Its coal reserves alone are estimated to be in excess of 2,000 million tons and this coal can be used to provide the low cost power to supply power intensive industries. [More…]
Under a Federal Labor government loans for developmental works similar to the Gladstone power station will be a feature of government. [More…]
The honourable member for Lang (Mr Stewart) has given us an interesting treatise upon the Gladstone power station agreement and as part of his treatise he has developed the philosphy of the Australian Labor Party concerning development. [More…]
The Gladstone Power Station Agreement Bill is concerned with the giant power station to be erected in the vicinity of Gladstone and for which the Commonwealth has pledged up to nearly 50% of the finance by way of loans. [More…]
Before doing so all of us must appreciate, above all, that this power station will become part of the economic complex in Australia. [More…]
Of all the power stations developed in this country in recent years this one is concerned rather preeminently with 2 of the vital supports of the Australian economy. [More…]
Therefore this power station, more than any other power station which has received Commonwealth support in recent years, is going to benefit Australia. [More…]
What relationship have these factors to the power station being developed in the Gladstone region? [More…]
The development of a power station in that region will act as an attraction to overseas capital and this will bring about a capital inflow which would not have occurred otherwise. [More…]
If this power station is to generate power at a cost of between .3c and 4c per unit this can come about only with the involvement of a high load factor. [More…]
Demand for power and the high load factor arise only as a result of a high rate of overseas capital investment in industries such as the alkali industry and the aluminium industry. [More…]
Without this high rate of capital inflow it would not be possible to establish this power station. [More…]
As has been stated, interest rates are extremely important not only to the final cost of reticulated power, brigalow development or whatever the project may be. [More…]
The same considerations apply to the power house at Gladstone. [More…]
The estimated cost of the power house together with reticulation to the town of Gladstone is approximately [More…]
The power house will have an approximate total installed generating capacity of 1,100 megawatts, and approximately 600 megawatts will be reserved by the Queensland Government for specific development in central Queensland. [More…]
The amount of the Commonwealth financial assistance will of course depend on the total cost of the construction of the power house at Gladstone under the agreement entered into between the Commonwealth and Queensland. [More…]
lt is well known that before plans were made to develop a giant power house in central Queensland the Government of that State was giving serious consideration to the establishment of more thermal power stations in the area. [More…]
It was recognised that the toy power houses - as I have called them many times - were simply not attract ing heavy industrialisation processes to that State. [More…]
The so-called toy power houses did a good job for rural services and light industry but the greatest retarding factor in the development of heavy industry in central and north Queensland was the complete absence of abundant and relatively cheap power. [More…]
The giant power house at Gladstone will be the nerve centre of concentrated mineral and chemical processing which will bring imense wealth to northern Australia as well as Australia generally in the earning of export income. [More…]
The paucity of large scale, relatively cheap power has been the greatest retarding factor in the industrialisation of Queensland. [More…]
Queensland lost the project because it simply could not provide large amounts of relatively cheap power unless it was heavily subsidised by either the Commonwealth or the State. [More…]
Although the missing link was power, we knew for many years that major industries wanted to go to Queensland. [More…]
The next requirement is low cost power, which is now to be provided. [More…]
But there must be low cost raw materials, the necessary integration between coal and iron ore, low cost power, low cost water to generate steam, and effluent disposal. [More…]
Before the suspension of the sitting for dinner I was discussing what type of industry might flow from the construction of a major power house at Gladstone. [More…]
I made the point that the northern part of Australia was blessed with the 4 major criteria essential for large scale industry, namely, the availability of cheap raw material, particuarly in the form of coking and steaming coal, the availability of iron ore, the availability of power - which was the missing link which is now to be provided - and the availability of ample supplies of water, which of course is necessary in any large scale processing works for the provision of steam. [More…]
These were the main reasons for building at Gladstone a major power house that will have a generating capacity of 1,100 megawatts. [More…]
One of the main advantages of a power house at Gladstone, as I said before, is that in association with Weipa, which has the greatest deposit of bauxite in the world, the alumina works at Gladstone has been the springboard which has triggered off a remarkable series of chain reactions of development activity throughout Queensland. [More…]
Ever since the Commonwealth scrapped the plan for a massive multi-purpose hydroelectric power scheme for the Burdekin Valley just after the Second World War the northern and central areas of Queensland have had no chance in the competition for attracting large scale industries. [More…]
They simply have not been in the race because they have not had access to relatively cheap power, lt seems clear that large scale aluminium works, aluminium being the next stage from alumina, and a chemicals plant will form the economic backbone of the area following the construction of the super power house at Gladstone. [More…]
The debate on this important Bill, the Gladstone Power Station Agreement Bill, has been a constructive one. [More…]
He referred to the lack of information about the charges for electricity supplied in the region from the Gladstone power house. [More…]
The whole of the industrial complex visualised can be in close proximity to the power station, and the transmission which is visualised will be purely on a local basis. [More…]
If the honourable member requires additional information on this matter at a later stage when the power house is under way and when we know more about the plants that will be established there, we will certainly be able to get that information for him. [More…]
He asked also why preferential treatment was being given to unnamed companies and I think this was based on the belief that there could be some concession in relation to power charges. [More…]
We cannot provide the information in relation to power charges but I can give an assurance that no preferential treatment is being given to the 2 companies that have been suggested will go into production in that region. [More…]
The honourable member also asked whether any requests had been made to the Government for special concessions in relation to power charges. [More…]
However in the short term it will be possible to obtain some early information after the power house goes into operation - it would be difficult to provide it before. [More…]
These prospects hinge in the main on the provision of a lowcost power supply. [More…]
Low-cost power, coupled with the other advantages in this area, will enable the establishment of large scale industries, low cost by world standards, and able to compete successfully on world markets. [More…]
In recognition of the development potential of the central Queensland area, the Queensland Government approached the Commonwealth for capital assistance in order that a power station could be built at Gladstone to provide the high load factor, low-cost supply required to attract major export oriented industries to the area. [More…]
As the Prime Minister indicated in the second reading speech on this Biil, these proposals were closely examined by both the Commonwealth and the State and under the agreement the State will be provided with a loan of S80m to assist in bringing the power station into being, lt is important to realise that the significance of the project goes far beyond the proposal to erect a power station. [More…]
I can say, however, that we are aware that the State and representatives of industries are progressing very vigorously and successfully towards arrangements for utilising large blocks of power for major export oriented industries. [More…]
together with the Queensland Government, we look forward to the impetus which will be provided by the power station. [More…]
While the major and real significance of this project lies in the development which flows as a result of it in the future we should not overlook the fact that the power station in itself is a project of major dimensions. [More…]
This will enable a power station with a capacity of the order of 1,100 megawatts to be built, a station comparable in size to the largest power station existing in Australia today and which when completed will still be amongst the largest. [More…]
To complete the project the railway from Blackwater which will bring coal to the proposed power station will be upgraded. [More…]
This interconnection will enable the new special industries to be initiated and operating in Gladstone, using southern power while the new power station is being built. [More…]
Also, it will enable the use of larger generators because of the availability, with the integrated grid, of larger blocks of stand-by power and thus giving complementary benefits to power stations within both grids. [More…]
The Gladstone power station will provide a ready market for this surplus steaming coal which would otherwise be stockpiled. [More…]
The State, under its agreements, has ensured that this coal will be available for the Gladstone power station. [More…]
The purpose of the Commonwealth loan is to meet the additional outlay involved in providing low cost power to attract export oriented industries to Central Queensland. [More…]
These industries will be large continuous consumers of bulk power and will produce commodities for export, or to replace imports and are industries that might otherwise be lost to Australia. [More…]
I am sure that the additional Commonwealth investment in the Gladstone power station project will be one of the most rewarding developments yet seen in this potentially rich region. [More…]
Queensland was left pretty much at the end of the queue for this type of development and it is the only State which has up to this time nol had any assistance from the Commonwealth for power development. [More…]
On 24th October 1968, not 18 months ago, the then Minister for National Development, the honourable member for Farrer (Mr Fairbairn), assured me that there were no figures available on the shipments from Gladstone and there were no figures available on the relative prices of bauxite or coal or power or freights; these were confidential to the Commonwealth Bureau of Census and Statistics. [More…]
He promises nothing until the State can guarantee contracts to buy more than half the power to be produced. [More…]
The Commonwealth will not be in it until the State has a guarantee of customers to buy the power. [More…]
The Minister for National Development referred in his rambling summary to beef roads, but these have nothing to do with the new industries which the power station will bring to Queensland. [More…]
The industries which will benefit from the new power station - the alumina industry and its subsidiaries - have done nothing to improve the housing situation. [More…]
There is no way in which it can catch up in the time required to develop the new power station. [More…]
The honourable member for Lilley had a lot to say about the high load factor necessary to get cheap power. [More…]
If public enterprise can produce alumina in Tasmania at a time of austerity, if it can find bauxite, if it has foresight and if it is willing to take a risk - this Commonwealth Government is not willing to take any risk in the project under consideration - it can produce alumina in Gladstone and it can produce cheap power for that city. [More…]
Why could not some of that money be put towards developing power that is a little bit cheaper instead of being used to develop dearer petrol? [More…]
That the committee have” power to send for persons, papers and records, and to move from place to place. [More…]
In reply to the second part of the question I would say that the Premier of Victoria who has been in power in that State for many years has made a number of promises for the development of that State and that all of them, as far as I know, have been kept. [More…]
Is Sihanouk any longer representative of any significant power element in the Cambodian Administration? [More…]
What is his attitude to the proposal that funds should be allocated by the Commonwealth to the States and directly earmarked for developmental projects such as transport, local government works, power, water and sewerage in the fast developing perimeter areas of the great cities? [More…]
But I would point out to the honourable member that there is a difference between our desire to see that a country is not overrun by aggression and have all its rights taken away and the exercise of non-democratic power in various nations in the world. [More…]
It is all right for the large unions to bargain in their own right with employers, but what about the smaller unions which represent many workers but which have not the power to do this? [More…]
At the present time there is no determination as to what amount of the total amount is to cover medical and hospital expenses: An arbitrary power is placed within the hands of the Minister. [More…]
These proposals refer to the power given for the Director-General to make a provisional payment of Commonwealth benefit in those cases where it is possible but not certain that there will be compensation paid in third party or workers’ compensation cases and where the amount of compensation paid would reduce the Commonwealth medical benefit. [More…]
8 refers to the power of the Minister to determine how much of a payment made in settlement of a claim under workers’ compensation or third party is attributable to medical expenses. [More…]
Undoubtedly, as I have said many times, when new or additional information becomes available this will be considered by an anomalies committee and we hope that the House will approve the taking of power under the Act to make by way of regulation changes in the Schedule. [More…]
The elderly people I speak of are mainly those who reared their families during the depression years; who, because of circumstances beyond their control, fought every inch of the way for years in order to feed, clothe and educate their children in a world that at that time was sick with poverty; who, many times denied themselves food so that their children could eat: who would have given anything within their power to have owned their own homes; and who worked 44, 48 and more hours a week at their jobs to earn a meagre living - and when I say worked, I mean worked, not just filled in the hours, because at that time there were 6 men ready to fill 4 men’s jobs. [More…]
It is a most wicked and impudent imposition to inflict on society; and for the law to allow such pests to ply their transport money making business at the expense of the suffering public is ridiculous and stupid and must be stopped by those in power to do so. [More…]
Thank heavens that such power and influence is now coming from the Government side of the chamber; perhaps something will be done about aircraft noise in districts such as mine. [More…]
Then the Minister for Primary Industry (Mr Anthony), using his full panoply of power, issued a statement, as was his entitlement, in which he questioned the statement which I had made and put his own point of view. [More…]
Reference already has been made to the need for American sca power in the Indian Ocean. [More…]
The Indian Ocean presents a broad spectrum of opportunities for the use of naval power to achieve political goals. [More…]
The United Kingdom withdrawal from that area is occurring at the moment, and it is surely not in the interests of this country that another major power should be substituted for the Un;ted Kingdom. [More…]
Arising out of naval power in the west, is the whole question of the evaluation of air power in our defence forces. [More…]
A decision has to be made as to how much of our air power is . [More…]
The maritime power in the Indian Ocean to be exerted by Australia is by both sea and air. [More…]
If the development of the maritime super-power is going to show itself in the Indian Ocean we must ask ourselves why this is being done. [More…]
Should the Commonwealth of Australia seek to create a political environment in which we will be able to stand in the eyes of the world and be recognised as being conscious of the fact that the maritime super-power is coming into our area? [More…]
The only danger in this is that it may destory the moral fibre of our country and make it more subject to the political pressures that will emerge from the presence of the maritime super-power in the oceans around Australia. [More…]
The threat that is emerging is the growth of this maritime super power - the USSR - and the growth of its forces in the oceans near Western Australia. [More…]
I do not believe for one second that he would assert that the planning for defence against the maritime super power, the USSR, ought to be on a basis that ignored reality. [More…]
That the committee have power to send for persons, papers and records, and to move from place to place. [More…]
I express the hope that the States will give their blessing to the select committee of this House which is proposed to be appointed and that they will do everything in their power to co-operate with it so that its findings will result in a set of rules and a national conservation policy of which the Australian nation can be proud. [More…]
However, if the power behind the throne of government has been so severe and has caused honourable members opposite so much worry over the last few months, the last few weeks and the last few hours until finally it put them in a spirit bottle yesterday or earlier this week by requiring amendments, that is all right, lt is no more than we can expect. [More…]
The Minister has power to vary the Schedule by regulation. [More…]
Section 22 gives the Minister power to determine the price at which this organisation wilt bc remunerated for this service. [More…]
I will now deal with the powers of the Corporation, which are covered in clause 7. [More…]
The powers are quite extensive and they will be seen in clause 7. [More…]
The Corporation has power to borrow moneys, to lend moneys, to participate in the formation of a company, to buy shares in a company, to form a partnership, to give guarantees to underwrite issues of shares, to appoint agents and attorneys, and so on. [More…]
The drafter has or drafters have maximised the use of constitutional power. [More…]
They have used protective clauses so that we do not go beyond the constitutional power. [More…]
We know that this Parliament is covered under section 51 of the Constitution as regards constitutional power. [More…]
Would it not then be entirely human for a Minister whose prestige was involved to take action through other areas of Commonwealth power to make sure that the enterprise succeeded? [More…]
This means that Parliament must have some sanctioning power over the directors. [More…]
The only assurance that one can have in these circumstances that such influence will be absent or negligible lies in the calibre of the directors who shall be appointed, lt is rather a shame that this Parliament does not have the power to advise and consent as is possessed by the United States Congress. [More…]
Thirdly, he must have sufficient personal means so that the Government’s power to renew his appointment will in no way influence his actions. [More…]
We are concerned, and a lot of people are concerned, that this legislation as it is at the moment could be used to assist specific favoured companies because of the power of the Government to appoint the Board. [More…]
The Government, through its powers, could have some influence upon the Board’s policy. [More…]
In any event, if this is occurring, these types of things could be corrected by an incoming Labor Government, as there are considerable powers within this leg slation for correcting these problems in regard to the appointment of the Board and the internal policy of the organisation itself. [More…]
If this occurred the Government would say: ‘Yes, we have the power under the banking regulations to refuse to repatriate.’ [More…]
Then the people of Australia voted out of power a government that was concerned with restrictive policies - restrictive policies in terms of banking legislation, restrictive policies in terms of petrol rationing and in general a complete distrust for the use of overseas funds for the development of Australia. [More…]
Consideration over the years could not foresee the loss of such savings, so many years later, as a result of the loss of purchasing power under Liberal governments. [More…]
They wished to issue titles themselves out to the continental shelf, with the Commonwealth merely having the authority to object if there was a Commonwealth head of power involved. [More…]
This type of behaviour and abuse of power is degenerating the national Parliament to a level where it is being openly treated with contempt by the State Governments and in fact by the people who elect us. [More…]
If he did in fact warn the Prime Minister and the Cabinet then the Prime Minister and the Cabinet, by ignoring the warning by the former Attorney-General, have shown a dictatorial and inexcusable abuse of power. [More…]
Is there any need for me to belabour to this House the mistrust that is presently being felt by State Governments on this matter, the bitterness towards the Prime Minister and his Cabinet because of this arrogant abuse of power. [More…]
J did everything within my power to see that the Government realised that I believed 1 had made this statement and this commitment and that many others also believed I bad made this statement and this commitment, f did everything possible to see the Prime Minister. [More…]
Articles had been written and experiments had been made, for example, of actually bulldozing with diesel power under the waters of the continental shelf. [More…]
In the Parliament of New South Wales it has been known for a responsible Minister of State, calling upon the full panoply of power in his department and all its expertise, to formulate a submission which has gone to his appropriate opposite number in the Federal sphere. [More…]
It is an issue of power and the exercise of power. [More…]
But 1 have not yet heard from any of the defenders of the Government’s action, and particularly of the Prime Minister any applications of their argument to the exercise of power in this matter. [More…]
I come back to the fact that this is an issue of the wielding of power and the way in which it is done. [More…]
The issue today, 1 feel, is of either standing with a man of honour or accepting dishonour as the price of power. [More…]
In the course of this discussion on the relationship of the Prime Minister to the States many issues have been canvassed and I want to establish why the Labor Party supports the censure morion in spite of the fact that on this question the Prime Minister’s position over the continental shelf is identical with the attitude of the Labor Party which is that it supports the Commonwealth having the power to make the bargains concerning the mineral resources of the continental shelf. [More…]
I want to make perfectly clear one or two things about our view on the power of the Commonwealth. [More…]
In my experience you have never behaved as though you had not your fair share of brain power. [More…]
This was also the use of centralised power. [More…]
Several proposals were made by the Australian Government to the delegation in order to ensure that the established institutions should do their best to mobilise world opinion in the interests of the free countries of South East Asia and in particular that we should do all in our power to ensure not only that Cambodia be free and independent but also that it remain a neutral power in that part of the world. [More…]
1 ask the Minister for National Development whether it is a fact that the first nuclear power station in Australia is estimated to cost approximately $l30m. [More…]
It is a fact that approval has been given in principle for the construction of a nuclear power station which will be designed to feed electricity into the New South Wales grid. [More…]
The actual cost of the power station is not known at this time. [More…]
1 would not like to refer to it at this time because only recently we called for tenders for the construction of the power station and the associated generating plant. [More…]
The short title - Immigration (Education) Act 1970 - indicates that the source of power for the Bill derives from the immigration provision in the Constitution. [More…]
Finance is government, and any government which lacks the power to control fully its national economy has sown the seeds of its own destruction and risks a major national economic catastrophe. [More…]
We are very extended morally, economically and politically, we ate bound to get our first margin call as a national power. [More…]
This clause relates to the powers of the Corporation. [More…]
(c) states that the Corporation has power: to participate in the formation of a company; [More…]
Paragraph (d) reads - states that the Corporation has power: to subscribe for or otherwise acquire, and to dispose of, shares in. [More…]
Paragraph (e) provides that the Corporation has power: to enter into a partnership or’ an arrangement for sharing of profits; and paragraph (f) states: . [More…]
I ask: Does he agree that due to increases in prices since the last increase in pensions the purchasing power of pensions has been considerably reduced? [More…]
I am confident that this Government will do all in its power to reduce the tensions and to try to ensure that all concerned will fight the common enemy and not one with the other. [More…]
I think it is more a mark of recognition of his important bargaining power within the coalition than it is a mark of the Liberal Party’s acceptance of the principles involved. [More…]
I would like to deal briefly with one area in which our export income has been suddenly cut off largely because, I believe, of inaction by the Commonwealth Government in a field in which it has power to act. [More…]
Meat inspectors are Commonwealth employees and as such are employed under conditions laid down by the Public Service Arbitrator and it is therefore within the power of the Commonwealth to act. [More…]
1 believe that Australian participation in industry, with Australian directorates having the responsibility and power to negotiate with their employees, is one of the major aims which any government should be seeking, lt is an aim which would have real effect on improving industrial relations. [More…]
It was also given power to purchase equity, although it has not yet done so. [More…]
The latter member, honourable members will’ recall, went so far as to say that his Party will put the AIDC to other and better uses when the Australian Labor Party assumes power. [More…]
I remind the House that the Reserve Bank still holds the power to cripple trading banks and their subsidiaries in Australia. [More…]
As a result railway lines, port facilities, power supply are privately owned. [More…]
If the Party for which the honourable member speaks were in power no development would take place in Australia at all because of the fear of nationalisation of the means of production, distribution and exchange. [More…]
This is the philosophy and the kind of system that brought the Liberal Party into power in 1949. [More…]
The Bank has power to borrow or raise money. [More…]
1 believe that this is a quite conscienceless abuse of public power. [More…]
We have, therefore, given the Commission power to investigate, on its own initiation, a wide range of subjects. [More…]
As I see it, the real principle that we are being asked to espouse here today - we on this side of the House give it what might bc called a qualified blessing - is the use of governmental power for private profiteering. [More…]
Why is it that they come in to protect the private banks against the free flowing exercise of the power of competition by the Commonwealth Bank? [More…]
The case involved unethical use by the Government of its power or, one might say, abuse of its power. [More…]
It is the essence of the pernicious nature of paternalism that decisions are made and influence is exercised from misguided good faith or from the assumption that those who have always exercised power know best how power should be exercised; or that those who have made decisions on behalf of others cannot accept the possibility that decisions could be made for them. [More…]
There is no directive or formal control, for these are not necessary in a self perpetuating power structure which instinctively has come to expect the objects of this paternalism to tell it only what it wants to hear. [More…]
Then in 1976, after 4 years of discussion, assuming the Labor Party had power to decide these things, you would commence your discussion about independence, lt is not a matter of pushing them off the cliff but at that time the discussions on the subject of independence might take place. [More…]
Having had an experience of the House of Assembly being used as an instrument to deprive them of their land there is a sentiment among them that they would not mind having provincial or State Governments with power over land just as Australian State Governments have, so that never again would Port Moresby authorise seizures of their land. [More…]
Honourable members opposite have advocated these decentralisations of power. [More…]
Insofar as the allocations for individual recipients of grants from the Fund for scientific and economic research are concerned, the Wool Board will retain the power to recommend grants for recipients other than the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation and the Bureau of Agricultural Economics. [More…]
To facilitate early establishment of such complexes, the Bill contains explicit provisions to empower the Wool Board to borrow money for the financing and/or the construction and equipping of the complexes. [More…]
In relation to the proposed borrowing powers for the reconstruction of the existing wool stores and for the establishment of intregrated wool selling complexes, any borrowings under this power will require the approval of the Minister for Primary Industry with the concurrence of the Treasurer. [More…]
Opportunity has also been taken to bring the existing borrowing powers of the Board in relation to the Australian Wool Testing Authority into line with those for wool stores and complexes. [More…]
A situation exists there in which 4 senators representing another Party than those represented in this Committee occupy a position of power because of the numbers of the various parties there. [More…]
These members are in a position of power because they happen to hold the balance of power in the other place. [More…]
I suggest that these deposits will never be eligible while we have this Government in power. [More…]
Yet the life of the college is so organised that brain power cannot be said to be its besetting passion. [More…]
The principal reason why we did not achieve an international currency was that the most preponderant economic power at the time, the United States of America, did not want it. [More…]
When credit entries in the books of an acceptable organisation become substitutes for cold, work on highways, railroads, harbours, power plants, hospitals, and schools of developing countries can take the place in gold mines. [More…]
If it is still thought that it is a systematic sort of economic appraisal to have people digging gold rather than, as the writer says, building highways, railroads, harbours, power plants, hospitals and schools. [More…]
The difficulty in being able to sell those products is the lack of purchasing power of the people to whom we would like to sell. [More…]
The power of the Parliament is becoming ever smaller and the power of the Executive is becoming ever larger. [More…]
I am prepared to guarantee at this moment that this is exactly what will happen in Victoria if Sir Henry Bolte gets back into power. [More…]
The universities do not want to do it, and I do not know whether the honourable member realises that universities are autonomous bodies or whether he has the view that if Labor was in power that they would cease to be autonomous. [More…]
He has had enough experience in the industrial jurisdiction to know that a Minister should not have that sort of influence or power. [More…]
I know very well that it is the policy of the Opposition to take unto itself as a political discharge of power the fixing of wages and conditions. [More…]
Whether this should be a tribunal consisting of a number of people representing interested parties or 1 person, perhaps to be designated Milk Commissioner, it should have the power to arbitrate in the disputes which have become all too common and hence cannot be considered in any sense to be of a passing nature. [More…]
For example, South Australia has such organisations as the highly successful Electricity Trust which supplies power at very low rates, and a more than adequate flow of water through the pipeline system from the River Murray, a scheme criticised very strongly when first introduced by Sir Thomas Playford. [More…]
On the other hand, exactly how much does this mean in additional spending power for the States that are receiving this money? [More…]
I ask the Minister for National Development whether he will give urgent consideration to convening a meeting of representatives of the New South Wales, Victorian, South Australian and Commonwealth Governments to discuss the .need to establish a Murray Valley authority with full power to develop the Murray Valley and control the distribution of the waters of the Murray River, preferably through pipelines, and so banish State jealousy and allow this fertile valley to be developed and populated to the advantage of Australia? [More…]
This is not the first nuclear reactor for the provision of power that has been or will be installed throughout the world. [More…]
In fact Australia, as a developed country, is one of the last to move into the field of power generation by the use of nuclear reactors. [More…]
A considerable amount of work has been done by the Commission, assisted by outside bodies, in this field and it is my intention, Mr Speaker, to seek leave at a later stage to make a statement when the contract is being let in relation to the establishment of the nuclear power station at Jervis Bay. [More…]
When this statement is made - I hope this will be before, the end of this year or at the latest early in 1971 - it will cover, all aspects, not only of the type of power plant that will be .installedthe type of nuclear reactor that will be installed - but the policy governing operation and all other technical matters which would include the results of the studies in relation to the ecology in the district. [More…]
The American Constitution prescribes that the Senate shall advise and consent on a great range of matters, from the treaty making powers of the President to his powers of appointment. [More…]
lt is on the basis of this power that the great committees of the American Senate function and have attained such extraordinary prestige and eminence. [More…]
It is that difference which makes this House the seat and source of the Executive and financial power of this nation. [More…]
This could bring a power struggle between the 2 systems and the 2 Houses for the lion’s share of the committee work and the limelight associated with a committee system. [More…]
I have seen this happen irrespective of the party in power, lt would be better for the investigation of suggested amendments to take place in Committee. [More…]
It may be said that because one party has been in power for so long the element of opposition and government has been lost. [More…]
1 should have thought that members and observers of the Parliament could hardly have doubted that, and those who do oppose such a development have to acknowledge, I believe, that what they are in fact arguing for is not only a monopoly of power for the Executive but a monopoly for the Executive of the benefit of available information and expertise as well. [More…]
I support this as well, not only for important practical reasons, which are largely self-evident, but also on the basis of my view as to the powers and position which this House should hold relative to those held by the Senate. [More…]
But I do say this much: Firstly, the method of election of the Senate is apt to leave half of that body well behind current community views which this House alone can accurately reflect; and, secondly, the Senate already has too much power as opposed ro responsibility. [More…]
This power is all the more objectionable when one realises how far the theoretical justification for it has departed from the reality. [More…]
I believe it may not be very long before every parry in this House has reason to regret and to object to the powers which the Senate already has without adding to them. [More…]
Finally, I believe that such an addition to the power and standing of the Senate would almost certainly accrue if this House fa Med to assert its own position in a matter as potentially important as the current committee system propositions. [More…]
If we take into account indirect losses such as loss of wages and the loss of the spending power of the cane cutter, mill worker or farmer, and apply the multiplier theory, the loss for the Bundaberg area is a very large one. [More…]
The relationship of the Burdekin Dam to the large areas commandable from Bowen to Townsville provides outstanding opportunities for a multi-purpose city power-water supply and drought mitigation project. [More…]
I would remind those who are suggesting that the scheme represents an unnecessary item of expenditure for the Commonwealth, that the Commonwealth Government still enjoys the power of taxing incomes and in time, perhaps not too far hence, we shall be reaping a considerable benefit from increased taxation from the greater and more reliable income that this scheme will bring to the Commonwealth. [More…]
that there would he merit in the establishment of a Special Projects Commission, or some such body, willi the power lo investigate proposals for major development projects, wherever they are located, to advise governments on them, and to publish its findings. [More…]
road, power and urban facilities. [More…]
At the moment discussions are going on between officers of my Department and representatives of the truck industry because the relevant Customs Tariff gives me, as Minister, and my Department power to admit into Australia duty free those goods for which a suitable equivalent is not reasonably available in Australia. [More…]
This arises because the philosophy upon which the Government largely bases its action in social welfare seems to be vote purchasing power which is cynically calculated. [More…]
I do not care who has the power just as long as the responsibilities are discharged in our community and that the job which has to be done for the Australian public is done. [More…]
I suppose most people, as I did until a few years ago, look on the deaf with pity and sympathy, not realising that they have been rewarded by nature with a power of concentration to compensate for their affliction. [More…]
Nevertheless, the complaints are real enough that the Commonwealth in essence, by reason of the power of the purse or the financial domination, is able to set the pattern of development even in those fields that arc still the constitutional responsibility of the States. [More…]
Use can be made of tax power directly and indirectly to do things that perhaps could not be done in a strict constitutional sense, and so on. [More…]
However the Commonwealth has no power to legislate to control production. [More…]
Such installations are now being removed and power points provided for electric heaters. [More…]
The action taken by other people, particularly by States, does not seem to me to be within the power of this Government to control. [More…]
Very clearly, many matters which are involved with the age of majority or adulthood fall primarily within State powers. [More…]
The Bill which I have introduced does not purport to touch any of those matters, even where they would fall within Federal power, as in the Territories or the Services. [More…]
The Bill deals solely with matters which are within this Parliament’s power. [More…]
I believe that if people were given the vote at 18 years of age one would not only remove a great number of the causes of discontent symbolised by student power but one would also remove a great number of the causes of discontent which one finds in the developing areas of the capital cities and in the provincial areas - the development areas of this continent. [More…]
That is the concept of the majority at 21: is one of properly rights in and power over children, as much as of a duty to protect them. [More…]
to implement a quota scheme tor wheat deliveries; and, second, to give discretionary power to the Australian Wheat Board to sell wheat in Australia for purposes other than human consumption at prices lower than the price for human consumption. [More…]
He issued a very fair warning that if a Socialist government came to power it would not stand behind the agreement to provide the money - alone, mind you - to maintain the payments to the growers. [More…]
The second provision of the Bill is to give the Wheat Board power to sell wheat for food purposes at a lower price. [More…]
Mr MAISEY (Moore) 8.19] - The Bill before the House is intended to amend the Wheat Industry Stabilisation Act in 2 respects; firstly, by throwing a cloak of legality over a scheme already in operation to restrict deliveries to the Australian Wheat Board and secondly, by giving legality to a discretionary power already being exercised by the Board in respect of the price of wheat used within Australia for other than home consumption purposes. [More…]
Let me warn the farmers of this country that if the Opposition is elected to power and it implements the 1 vote 1 value policy, as was announced by the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Whitlam), we will see the elimination of at least 2 wheat seats in this country, thereby reducing the voice of the fanner further and putting him further into the wilderness. [More…]
Labor has done everything in its power to try to spoil the markets for the wheat grower. [More…]
This debate has been worth while if only to prove to the Opposition that the Commonwealth has no power to restrict production. [More…]
The Constitution does no: give the Commonwealth any power in this area and it remains one of the sovereign rights of the States to control production and to determine prices. [More…]
The main purpose of this Bill is, if events like this happen, to allow the Government to have the power, or the various statutory committees to have the power, to be able to counter the situation immediately. [More…]
I instance the case of what could happen in the beef industry in Australia and I warn the industry to watch its step because of the growing power of chain stores like G. J. Coles and Co. Ltd and Woolworths Ltd. Once the chain stores get power it will be the end of the little butcher shops, particularly in provincial cities where already they are finding the situation quite difficult. [More…]
The great power of monopolies and oligopolies has reached right into the cattle market and eventually has forced down prices. [More…]
The honourable member pointed to my colleague, the honourable member for Dawson (Dr Patterson) who led for the Opposition in this debate, and referred to the dictatorial powers that could possibly be exercised under this legislation should the Opposition come to power. [More…]
Of course, there are no dictatorial powers under this legislation that any government could use. [More…]
It is not within the function of the Committee; nor has the Committee any power to recommend in relation to this matter. [More…]
Again, when it was suggested by the Opposition that the Committee could have powers to consider where an alternative airport might be located, the motion to this effect was rejected by division in this House. [More…]
It has been said that the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Whitlam) has the most tremendous power. [More…]
The coalition in the past 20 years has been inept in pursuing doubtful foreign policies based on interdependence with a major Western power. [More…]
Sections 109 and 111 of the Act dealt with industrial stoppages on the basis of the Commonwealth Industrial Court’s injunctionmaking power and its power to punish for contempt. [More…]
I believe that the existing sanctioning process which involves the use of the Court’s injunctionmaking powers under section 109 and its power to punish for contempt under section 111, are no longer appropriate or desirable. [More…]
Moreover, since the Bill would take away from the Industrial Court its power to order compliance with an award under section 109 and its power to punish breaches of such orders as contempt there will be a reduction of legal costs. [More…]
Power to amend or repeal the regulations by further regulations is preserved for the future. [More…]
If so, and in the light of growing public concern at the growing power of business giants in the national economy, will he give consideration to compiling more information so that the results and the significance of the growth of big business will be more readily available. [More…]
In such a condition 1 have no doubt whatever that there would be stratification of incomes not dependent on skill or social desirability but dependent only upon the possession of naked industrial power and I think that would be against the interests of our society and our economy. [More…]
That the House take note of the Paper and appreciates the action of the Administration in giving what support lies within its power to a group who have offered to attempt to find the solution to the problems of the Tolai people, particularly since that group has proposed to use mediation as its method and expresses its recognition of and appreciation to Mr Robin Kumaina and his colleagues who have shown a high sense of duty as citizens in coming forward and offering their services to mediate a solution to this grave division of their peoples, whose solution is or great importance to this country*. [More…]
We had an attitude of decentralisation of power as a background to his speech. [More…]
The intriguing feature about this is that the Leader of the most centralist Party in its own power distribution in the Anglo-Saxon world - except the Communist Party - would find the occasion appropriate to raise for discussion as a matter of public importance a subject concerning the fate, the existence and the welfare of] local government and semigovernment authorities. [More…]
It shows least interest in those matters which are directly within its concern, its power and its authority. [More…]
I will show that when the Labor Party has substantial power and authority in local affairs it raises rates and regressive charges more than any other body having authority in such affairs. [More…]
We do have a considerable amount of power under this Act in respect of persons who take or exercise control of an aircraft without lawful excuse, whether by force or violence or bv threat of force or violence to wilfully destroy an aircraft; persons who wilfully destroy an aircraft; persons who do anything capable of prejudicing the safe operation of an aircraft with intent to prejudice safe operation; who assault, intimidate or threaten with violence a member of the crew; and who threaten, or state an intention either truly or falsely to destroy, damage or endanger the safety of an aircraft. [More…]
The Minister is to have sole power of appointment. [More…]
The Corporation - will operate may be broadly described as those relating to the development of water and power resources and for underground works. [More…]
The Minister has said in his second reading speech that these may be broadly described as those relating to the development of water and power resources and for underground work. [More…]
Within Australia it has assisted in planning, design and construction of the Blowering Dam, Shoalhaven development, Liddell Power Station and the Eastern Suburbs Railway in New South Wales. [More…]
In Victoria it carried out a detailed site investigation of the Dartmouth Dam as well as a cost and energy study of various power installations. [More…]
This is the power of the Minister to control the number of staff which can be employed by the Corporation. [More…]
The present Minister in his second reading speech passed over this point by saying no more than: ‘I shall have power to determine the total number of staff’. [More…]
lt has developed an area both in power and in water. [More…]
We know that from the power point of view it has played an enormous part in developing the power resources in Australia. [More…]
Of course, the great advantage of hydro power is that there is a spinning reserve which can be brought on line in a matter of seconds instead of having to wait for hours for the older type of plant to get up steam. [More…]
Water is used for a very short period - perhaps for only an hour a day - to generate an enormous amount of peak load power and then offpeak cheap power is used to pump the water back again after it has been caught in a dam below the turbines. [More…]
The only way that the Snowy Mountains scheme could be initiated was under a defence power. [More…]
It is perfectly obvious that th;s defence power would not hold water now. [More…]
Such a defence’ power would not be accepted by the courts now. [More…]
Of course, the defence power was used first of all, and then the New South Wales and Victorian Governments passed special Acts Which gave constitutional authority for the construction of the Snowy Mountains scheme. [More…]
It does not have the power to do it. [More…]
The Commonwealth has power to do this only in the Northern Territory and the Australian Capital Territory. [More…]
But then suddenly a warning shot was fired by the AuditorGeneral who said that he doubted that the Authority had the legal power to undertake this work. [More…]
Even though the Government brings in a Bill it has no power at all unless the States bring in complementary legislation. [More…]
Overseas we have full power and therefore the Authority will be entitled, if necessary, to construct, although it is almost certain that it will not be doing construction; it will be supervising tenders as it is doing in Sabah. [More…]
When we came into power the total capacity of water storages for irrigation was 7 million acre feet throughout Australia. [More…]
1 recommend strongly to the House that this measure be accepted.. 1 am afraid, as I have said, that members of the Labor Party have completely failed, either intentionally or unintentionally, to understand that they do not have the power to set up an organisation which can go out and build dams wherever it wants to go. [More…]
They do not understand that they lack the legal power to enable this, authority to work in the States. [More…]
This evening the Opposition has demonstrated that if it occupied the treasury bench it would be a centralist political power. [More…]
In trying to cushion this tapering off, the Government has done all in its power to give these people other tasks to perform. [More…]
They have said that power is going to be too costly, but I think you would hardly find a person in Australia today who did not realise what a great project this is and what an enormous benefit it will be to the nation. [More…]
Those recommendations have fallen on deaf ears since this Government came to power. [More…]
I remind the honourable member lor Barton that one of the comments made in this chamber a moment ago was thai the Committee stages of the Bill were tor detailed discussion of t. I point out to the honourable member that I do not want his speech to develop into a discussion about the power of the Senate or ot this House in relation to Bills and to amendments by the Senate. [More…]
As soon as a Labor government comes into power one of the first things it will do wil be to reinstitute free public ward treatment in hospitals throughout Australia. [More…]
The principal engineering fields in which it will operate may be broadly described as those relating to the development of water and power resources and for underground works. [More…]
The Government is not allowing it to operate in Australia as a private undertaking but is allowing it to operate outside Australia as a private undertaking because the Government knows that there will be less profit to be made by helping the underdeveloped nations than there will be by building dams, bridges, roads and power stations in Australia. [More…]
We are almost in the age when we will have our own nuclear power stations. [More…]
According to Sir Philip Baxter, something like 3500m is to be spent on nuclear power stations before the end of this century, but the Corporation will not be allowed to act as a constructing authority in Australia. [More…]
It may design these power stations and it may supervise the work on them, but it may not call for tenders. [More…]
- I am sure that the Opposition will agree with the amendment that I will move because it is intended to extend the power of the Snowy Mountains Engineering Corporation. [More…]
The mere presence of such a reviewing authority might do much lo curb abuses of power. [More…]
lt goes on to say that the Bank in effect nas the power to fix terms and rates of pay and conditions of employment. [More…]
I ask the Minister whether he would reconsider the position, put the Corporation on exactly the same basis and give it the right to exercise its power to act as it should act if it is a commercial undertaking. [More…]
It is quite clearly set out in the clause that the provision gives the Corporation power to engage staff on any basis it determines. [More…]
Having heard the honourable member for Farrer (Mr Fairbairn) in his speech last night 1 suggest that he should hasten to the Snowy and have his name taken off the commemorative plaque in one of the power stations where it can be seen today. [More…]
As far as I and my Party are concerned it was made clear in the policy speech in 1 966 that the scheme would be implemented without delay because the tremendous power in this country of the wool brokers and the textile industry is such that there seems to be unlimited money to oppose anything that anyone puts forward by way of statutory authority or anything which would weaken the control which the wool selling brokers and a section of the textile industry have over the wool producers. [More…]
What are the conceptual and technical difficulties in separating out the contribution made by technological change to the purchasing power of the nominal minimum wage for a standard working week. [More…]
What changes have occurred during the past 20 years in (a) the stock of capital per Australian worker, (b) movements in the terms of trade, (c) the educational level of the work force, (d) managerial efficiency and (e) economies of scale, which have influenced the real purchasing power of the nominal minimum wage for a standard week. [More…]
There are many factors contributing to the purchasing power of the nominal minimum wage for a standard working week’, and the impact of each is widely diffused and frequently interrelated with other factors. [More…]
I understand that the power to do this resides with the Minister, but surely it would have been more desirable to have all of these questions resolved at the one time and in a cohesive and cogent way. [More…]
We examine it and find that the Bill gives greater power to the Federal Government over research and promotional funds which it contributes for these purposes. [More…]
It is a new principle in some ways because the Board previously had the power to make the recommendations on this matter. [More…]
Then we come to the other provision in this Bill which gives the Minister the power to select and nominate the Chairman of the Authority. [More…]
The States have full power. [More…]
This Bill also gives power to the Australian Wool Board to raise moneys for expenditure on wool stores. [More…]
The Bill gives power to the Board to borrow money for the financing of the construction and equipping of certain complexes referred to in the Bill. [More…]
The Bill gives power to the industry to borrow through the Australian Wool Board money to renovate these buildings if necessary. [More…]
It is no good saying, as the honourable member for Canning said a short time ago, that there is power in the Bill to resurrect all sorts of wool stores and wool complexes and build all sorts of wool villages. [More…]
Today too small a percentage of the return from wool is finding its way back into the farming community, because of which the farming community is depressed and its purchasing power is extremely reduced. [More…]
They have written to me asking that I do all in my power to ensure that the merinos remain in this country and that the attitude of the Labor Party on this question remains as it is. [More…]
If there are none can the AttorneyGeneral assure the people of Australia that he will seek to support the traditional attitude that matters of the distribution of power, authority and sovereignty between the Commonwealth and the States will remain a domestic matter? [More…]
1 ask the Minister for National Development: Do the tender documents for the nuclear power station at Jervis Bay contain reactor sm;ig criteria? [More…]
Irrespective of what government is in power, a decision which forces people to amalgamate will not be one seen favourably by those people. [More…]
The State insists that by thus guaranteeing the general public against books not too rugged for grown men and women in order to shield juvenile innocence, it is exercising its power to promote the general welfare. [More…]
The Government must set up a select committee of this House with sufficient power to investigate the problem areas that have been referred to not only by the honourable member for Angas but also by honourable members on this side of the House such as the member for Dawson, who moved the amendment for the Opposition, the member for Braddon (Mr Davies) and others. [More…]
Surely it is not reasonable to leave the amount allowed for funeral expenses at that very low figure, lt is pleasing to see that compensation will be paid under the new code for loss of power of speech and for facial disfigurement However, we are not satisfied with the amounts that are provided. [More…]
The Bill takes away from the court the power to issue an injunction under section 109 of the Act against an organisation or person to observe an award. [More…]
The Bill will preserve all existing bans clauses written into awards by Conciliation Commissioners but will provide that in future only a presidential member will have power to write a bans clause into an award. [More…]
1 could give many more similar cases of where a commission or a chairman of the Board had pleaded lack of power or indicated lack of inclination to take all steps necessary to prevent victimisation of a union delegate, shop steward or job representative. [More…]
I believe that the existing sanctioning process which involves the use of the Court’s injunction making powers under section 109 and its power to punish for contempt under section 111, are no longer appropriate or desirable. [More…]
It is true the Commission has power to include in its award a ban on strikes. [More…]
In my view, and in the view of reasonable people, the power to deregister should be sufficient in itself to discipline a union if that is regarded as necessary. [More…]
So we see that under the Conciliation and Arbitration Act there are disciplinary powers possessed by the court apart from the penal provisons which the Minister still claims the right to use under the name of sanctions and which we suggest should be repealed. [More…]
Surely what 1 have said indicates that there is sufficient power available in the existing legislation without the use of the penal provsions. [More…]
The power of the employer to withhold bread is a much more effective weapon than the power of the employee to refuseto labour. [More…]
The right to hire and fire gives to the employer an inbuilt power and discipline over every person he employs. [More…]
Mr Justice Higgins once remarked on the fact that although in theory the court had power to decrease wages as well as to increase them, every case he had ever handled had been to interfere by way of increase. [More…]
It should rather be called despotism in contract and this court is empowered to fix a minimum wage as a check on despotic power. [More…]
The power of the employer to withhold bread is a much more effective weapon than the power of the employee to refuse to labour. [More…]
We live in a society in which the wage and salary earner has lost the most basic of all human rights, which is the right to decide whether and on what terms he will allow another to use his labour power. [More…]
What could be more unjust than a law which fixes the price of the only thing which a worker has to sell - his labour power - but which places no restraint upon the price of the things he has to buy. [More…]
Once the unions forfeited the power to cease work they placed themselves at the mercy of the arbitrator. [More…]
1 believe that to be an exercise of executive power against people who are least able to resist it. [More…]
However, we make it clear that we oppose the proposal contained in clause 7 to give the Commission power to write into an award a provision that each day of a dispute shall be treated as the occasion of a separate offence. [More…]
On arrival at the slipway he saw that the fire was threatening the main transformer and returned to the substation with the Electrical Engineer and cut power from the slipway area. [More…]
The grants and loans which the Commonwealth has made to the States for each railway, road, port, water and power project in the 25 years ended 30 June 1969, together with the amount involved in each case, the period of repayment of and rate of interest on loans, the repayments made in 1968-69, and total repayments required on advances made by 30 June 1969 are shown in the attached table. [More…]
The Commonwealth is also proposing to make a loan of $80 million to Queensland for the Gladstone Power Station. [More…]
51 (1) (d) and (3), on Commonwealthfinanced water and power projects, which I placed on the Notice Paper on 4 March 1970. [More…]
If powered by electricity, was there an independent supply or was power from the main supply line to the slipway. [More…]
Similarly, since Australian coal presents special difficulties in the control and reduction of fly ash emission from power stations, research on this problem is being conducted as part of the fuel research programme of the CSIRO Division of Mineral Chemistry at Ryde. [More…]
Was a cost-benefit analysis made of the proposed nuclear power station at Jervis Bay; if so, will be table the report in Parliament. [More…]
What is the optimum level of electric power output proposed from the project. [More…]
(2) Beforea decision was taken, the Government considered an analysis of the likely costs and benefits arising from the construction of a nuclear power station at Jervis Bay. [More…]
The initial analysis was prepared by the Commission on the basis of a continuing study of the developing costs of nuclear power throughout the world and the translation of this data to Australian conditions. [More…]
The costs of electric power, conventional or nuclear depend upon many factors such as the type of station, its location, its capital cost, whether it will meet base load or peak demands, whether it is a single or multi unit station; upon its fuel costs, interest rates, penalties to be met for the avoidance of pollution and other factors. [More…]
The Commission’s general conclusion was that a first nuclear station, which would have great value in establishing this new technology in Australia and the opportunities for training and experience which this would provide, would deliver power at an acceptable cost. [More…]
Nuclear power stations using natural or enriched uranium produce isotopes of plutonium during their operation. [More…]
The plutonium produced will ultimately be recovered for use in a fast breeder reactor programme which is likely to produce the lowest costs of power. [More…]
How will the cost of electricity generated at the proposed nuclear power station at Jervis Bay compare with the cost of electricity from conventional power stations. [More…]
When will the generation of electricity by nuclear power be an economical proposition for Australia. [More…]
What are the main reasons for the decision to build a nuclear power station in Australia. [More…]
As South Australia prospectively has relatively high fuel costs, it will no doubt be attracted to nuclear power in due course. [More…]
In view of some recent apparently incorrect public statements, will he indicate the number of public references or displays which have been made or arranged during recent times in Australia on the subject of industrial nuclear power. [More…]
Recently the emphasis has mainly been on nuclear power, and a large exhibition explaining power reactor systems, engineering and economic aspects of nuclear power, and fuel development, is being shown at the Sydney Town Hall. [More…]
The Commission endeavours to meet all requests for speakers; in the past year over 30 addresses dealing with nuclear power have been given to community organisations, clubs and professional groups, and others are scheduled. [More…]
The Commission has held four exhibitions dealing with nuclear power in NSW, Canberra and Victoria, and it has equipped a mobile caravan dealing with Jervis Bay, which will shortly be making a tour of the Nowra area. [More…]
From time to time individual correspondents have called at the Commission’s Head Office on nuclear power, and telephone enquiries are answered every day. [More…]
It needs to be borne in mind that that decision dealt with the power of judicial bodies to inspect documents for the purpose of considering whether a claim of non-disclosure based on the public interest was justified. [More…]
To him life was duty - duty to a power in this world but not of this world; duty to his country and to his people; duty to his political principles as he saw them; duty to those who reached out for help and who sought the gentle instinct of a firm but very generous mind. [More…]
Has he received a letter from Mr Frank Power, a Justice of the Peace of Elwood, Victoria, replying to his letter of 27th February 1970, in relation to the possibility of achieving uniformity throughout the Commonwealth in the provision of swifter compensation payments for victims of the road toll. [More…]
The question of the Commonwealth’s powers in relation to third party insurance received some attention at Departmental level following receipt of Mr Power’s letter. [More…]
I have consulted all Ministers and have been advised by them that the following heads of Commonwealth instrumentalities have power to fix salaries without reference to the Public Service Board: [More…]
Has the Administration of the Territory of Papua and New Guinea failed to exercise its power to prescribe fees to be charged or paid in respect of the services of a Native Employment Agent; if so, why. [More…]
Our embassy was also told to do all in its power, to ensure that his civil rights were protected. [More…]
In 21 years of power the Government has not formulated a constructive national drought policy. [More…]
India has asked us again to put on the agenda the question of population growth and the Caribbean has asked us to have another look at the problems of race relations, particularly the issue of Black Power in several countries of the Caribbean. [More…]
As independence takes place a period of tension always develops between the new independent country and the former colonial power; but as one moves further away in time from that moment those tensions decrease and a new sense of understanding emerges. [More…]
I am as concerned about this situation of which I am so critical under a Liberal Government as 1 would be in the event of a Labor Government coming into power. [More…]
I will make no concessions on Standing Orders until we back benchers are given some countervailing power to try somehow to bold the autocratic power which the Executive is currently able to wield in this Parliament. [More…]
It is true, I repeat, that our role has diminished; the only power we have at the moment is to stand on our feet and talk. [More…]
It is limited power. [More…]
Usually when I get here as an itinerant I have to ask one of the Press gallery what is going on in the corridors of power. [More…]
I regard it as absolute nonsense to suggest that the Executive has suddenly decided that it has not enough power and it wants to get more by putting up a system such as this. [More…]
Was any special power necessary to acquire the land for estate development; if so, what authority was used. [More…]
All land is acquired in pursuance of power vested in the Director of War Service Homes under Section 16 of the War Service Homes Act. [More…]
These powers include acquisition of land by compulsory process but except where otherwise indicatedall land referred to in the table was acquired by negotiation and agreement with the registered proprietor of the land. [More…]
Is there no general power in the Commonwealth Industrial Court to (a) restrain conduct that conflicts with the clear policy of the law as expressed in the case of Short v. Wellings against the partisan use of union funds and resources as a means of enabling office-holders to hold office against challenge from the rank and file or (b) restrain conduct that conflicts with section . [More…]
If so, is this lack of injunctive power a defect in the Act. [More…]
Will he make available the reports on the (a) (i) geological, (ii) hydrological, (iii) hydrographical, (iv) meteorological, (v) ecological and (vi) environmental investigations carried out at each of the sites considered for the building of a nuclear power station, and (b) ability of each site to dispose of the radioactive and thermal waste from the proposed reactor. [More…]
Is the site chosen at Jervis Bay for the nuclear power station situated in one of the few remaining virgin areas in the region. [More…]
The area at Murray’s Beach, Jervis Bay, proposed for the site of the nuclear power station is a part of one of the undeveloped areas in the Jervis Bay region. [More…]
The Australian Atomic Energy Commission and the Department of the Interior are maintaining close liaison to ensure that any disturbance of the area occasioned by the construction of the power station will be as small as possible., thus minimising any effect on the aesthetics and general character of the area. [More…]
Has he any information as to whether privately-owned and operated industry in remote areas of Australia is interested in the purchase, construction and operation of nuclear power stations. [More…]
If so, does the Government intend to grant permission to private industry to enter this field of power generation. [More…]
The Government is not aware of any plans of private industry to construct and operate nuclear power stations in remote areas in Australia. [More…]
Will an adequate supply of plutonium be necessary to operate nuclear reactors for power generation when fast breeder reactors become commercially feasible. [More…]
It is not possible at this time to say for certain that adequate supplies of plutonium would then be available but those countries which have built thermal nuclear power reactors will have had the opportunity to accumulate plutonium for these purposes. [More…]
Japan, like a number of other countries such as the United Kingdom and France, has a large thermal nuclear power reactor programme and is actively engaged in fast breeder reactor development. [More…]
The earlier Australia embarks on a thermal power reactor programme the greater will be the amount of plutonium available for use in fast breeders when they become commercially available. [More…]
Has a decision been made that gas-cooled reactors are unsuited to the present nuclear power needs of Australia; if so, why. [More…]
However when ail potential tenderers for nuclear power stations were invited in December 1969 to register as tenderers it was ascertained that none of them were interested in submitting a tender based on a gas cooled reactor; therefore there has been no occasion to consider the suitability of these reactors for Australian needs. [More…]
A representative of the PostmasterGeneral’s Department has now advised us that without a great deal of expense - far less than was thought previously - we can increase substantially the power of the Phnom Penh radio station and that the stations in the north of South Vietnam and 1 other station, the locale of which I cannot name, will give, we hope, ever so much wider coverage than was previously thought to be possible. [More…]
However until both chambers of the Parliament exercise their constitutional power to give representation in the Senate to the 2 territories there can be no participation in the Senate by any representative of either of the territories. [More…]
The granting of representation in the Senate for the Territories could result in the case of a fairly evenly divided Senate, in Territory senators holding the balance of power. [More…]
The 6 States which first formed the Commonwealth may well hold a view on this matter, and indeed the people of the States might regard the election of Territory senators as a move by the Commonwealth to change the balance of power in the Senate. [More…]
However, the fact is that under the system of government for the Territories as it exists at the moment the Senate is given a very very important part to play, lt is given the power of disallowance. [More…]
I now want to say something about the bureaucracy - the public servants of Canberra who exercise such enormous power and who continually confront the people of Canberra. [More…]
Territorial government in the Australian Capital Territory comes directly from and is the law making power of the public servants and, beyond the public servants, of this House and of the Senate by way of review. [More…]
If we are to fill in time in this House and not make concrete decisions, those who criticise the parliamentary institutions - the young radicals and Marxists who are increasing in number and who are alienated from the system of government in Western democracies - will fr,el more convinced that this is a charade; that there is no sincerity in the performance we carry out here; and that periodically we come to this executive suite of the bourgeoisie to fulfil certain meaningless roles, because in the result power does not lie in the Parliament but with people outside the parliamentary system. [More…]
That the committee or any sub-committee have power to send for persons, papers and records, to move from place to place, and to sit during any recess or adjournment of the Parliament and duringthe sittings of either House of the Parliament. [More…]
That the committee have leave to report from time to time and that any member of the committee have power to add a protest or dissent to any report. [More…]
It is the old story of abuse of power leading to loss of power. [More…]
There is no single definable source of power within the Community to whom third parties can appeal. [More…]
The Commission as such has no power or interest in altering the Common Agricultural Policy. [More…]
For almost a decade we have known or we have been warned of the possibility of Britain and other countries joining this super economic power which, if Britain joins it, will become a super, super economic power. [More…]
As far as world trade goes it will be a power greater than the United States of America or Russia. [More…]
As reports by water conservation experts strongly favour the building of the Dartmouth Daa, and as my constituents and others urgently require their share of the increased water supply it will provide, will the Minister for National Development do all in his power to speed up the building of the very necessary Dartmouth Dam? [More…]
For my part I can assure the honourable member that the Government will do all in its power to see that this attempt at disruption does not succeed. [More…]
Each committee shall have power to appoint sub-committees consisting of three or more of its members; and to refer to any such sub-committee any matter which the committee is empowered to examine. [More…]
Each committee, or any sub-committee, shall have power to send for person (excepting Ministers of State), papers and records, to move from place to place, and to sit during any recess of the Parliament. [More…]
In general, we need a scrutiny of power rather than the exercise of power. [More…]
On the other hand I believe it is necessary for some mitigation of power, not necessarily the mitigation of my friends in the Ministry but a mitigation of the authority which flows through the Executive decisions of the nation. [More…]
There was a significant loss of employment in the bookbinding section of the printing industry, and there were very good reasons for that I hope that before I sit down I will be able to give some of the reasons which are not within the power of the Australian Government [More…]
My advice to unionists is to attend their union meetings, take responsible decisions and not to allow trade union leaders to use their position of power and influence to further their own political aims instead of the industrial aims of the members of the union. [More…]
President Eisenhower came to power on one issue. [More…]
Wherever the Party opposite has power and authority in local authorities in Australia, the increases in rates have been the most savage on the east coast of this country. [More…]
We only ask that when the people of Australia consider him as an alternative Prime Minister they consider what he proposes to do and what he has done in those fields where he presently has some power. [More…]
In the highly unlikely event of a Labor government coming to power it is obvious where it would come from - from printing presses working overtime. [More…]
In view of recent criticism regarding the advisability of Australia’s building a nuclear power station will the Minister outline the industrial benefits in addition to the generation of electricity which he sees accruing to the Australian people from the erection and operation of the proposed nuclear power station? [More…]
Will he also say why Jervis Bay was selected as the site for our first nuclear power station? [More…]
The honourable member has asked how Jervis Bay came to be selected as the site for our first nuclear power station. [More…]
Some years ago the Government, reviewing power requirements for the future, decided that there would be a requirement to supplement the present means of power generation by nuclear power. [More…]
A decision was made in 1968 to investigate the desirability of the Commonwealth’s constructing Australia’s first nuclear power station. [More…]
My predecessor, the honourable member for Farrer, visited all States early in 1969 and discussed the matter at length with representatives of the States with a view to seeing whether the States were interested in joining the Commonwealth in construction of a nuclear power station, the Commonwealth to take over the capital cost. [More…]
The second point on this very important subject is the question of benefits that will flow to Australia from the erection of its first nuclear power station. [More…]
I understand also that other States will be interested in training personnel at this first nuclear power station which is being provided by the Commonwealth with Commonwealth capital in conjunction with an agreement with the Government of New South Wales. [More…]
Will he speed consideration of the legislation to confirm the Commonwealth’s undoubted rights to the Bass Strait area so that it can exercise its undoubted power to fix the well head price of natural gas? [More…]
As he knows, under the petroleum legislation there is an agreement between the Commonwealth and the States which does not define clearly the sovereign power in relation to these matters. [More…]
The Government therefore retains the power to go on with Government business after 11 p.m. [More…]
I am afraid that they are being led unwittingly along the road to increasing costs and to the reduction of the purchasing power of the money of pensioners, wage earners and primary producers. [More…]
However, no increase would have been of any real or lasting benefit to the pensioner, to the lower income group or to the large family unless the Government was prepared to take strong measures to control the strike-happy, power-drunk Mr Hawke and the militant left wing union leadership who are the real enemies of the pensioner, the superannuitant, the lower income group and particularly the primary producer. [More…]
Nothing could more quickly force up cost to industry and particularly to the farmer, nor reduce more effectively the purchasing power of the pensioner, than the introduction of the 35 hour week. [More…]
A compulsory secret ballot in all union elections would eliminate almost completely the extreme left wing and the Communist dictatorship which have seized power. [More…]
Unless irresponsible, power drunk, strike happy disruptionists are controlled and unless the control of unions is restored to the hands of the decent rank and file members then the purchasing power of the pensioner, the superannuitant, the lower wage earner and the man with a large family, together with the exporter of primary products and manufactured goods, will continue to deteriorate at an ever increasing rate. [More…]
They know that their only chance of seizing power is by creating a pervading feeling of desperation through violence, hunger and misery. [More…]
They are doing so not because they care for or are really interested in the position of country people but because it appears to them to be a way to gain power. [More…]
If the Socialists gain power what would happen to our rural industries? [More…]
An example of this is the power drunk dictatorship of Mr Hawke and his associates. [More…]
do not agree with it in detail, t is on the whole a serious attempt to try to do something about the destructive powers which are increasing costs in this country and reducing the purchasing power of pensioners, superannuitants, primary producers and the low wage earners. [More…]
I conclude on this note: The greatest enemy we have in our country is those people who are forcing up costs and reducing purchasing power. [More…]
They are violent men intent on seizing power by acts of terrorism on their own countrymen. [More…]
The fact of the matter is that even if there had not been an increase in prices last year there would have still been a serious reduction in the purchasing power of wage and salary earners. [More…]
If be examines the Budgets of 1946, 1947, 1948 and 1949 it will be clear to him that when the economic health of the country was at stake the leaders of his Party, when in power, acted in what could only be described as a prudent and discreet way. [More…]
In fact, it did not represent the same value as regards purchasing power as did the amount of the $7 allowable income in 1954. [More…]
The people are losing in 2 ways: The value of social service benefits has been clipped just as though an extra tax had been imposed on the people, and people have moved into higher income tax ranges without getting any more purchasing power in their pay packets. [More…]
The second question asked by the honourable member related to a commtitee called, [ think, the Western Australian Power Alcohol Committee, members of which came to Canberra last Tuesday to have consultations with officers of my Department, the Commonwealth Scientific Industrial and Research Organisation and the Bureau of Mineral Resources, on the feasibility of converting grain into power alcohol. [More…]
This deputation came to see me on Tuesday and 1 told its members that the scheme was not practical although it was technically feasible to run a car on power alcohol, which they had done. [More…]
They ran a car from Western Australia to Canberra, adding 10% power alcohol to the fuel. [More…]
On Tuesday night the House was subjected to a 65-minute speech by the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Whitlam) who once again reached into the depths of his bag of political tricks in a further desperate bid to reach his pinnacle of power. [More…]
This body should have the power to arrange the sale rosters, to regulate the flow of wool onto the auction market, to negotiate big lot sales of wools not submitted for auction and to have some of the burry inferior types of wool semi-processed in Australia on behalf of the growers. [More…]
The body should have power to supervise generally the operations of the wool selling complexes and to encourage labour saving methods in the marketing of the clip. [More…]
They are the heads of government departments, main roads authorities, power stations and factories. [More…]
One of the Australian Labor Party’s major aims is to clothe the Commonwealth Parliament with unlimited powers and with the duty and authority to create States possessing delegated constitutional powers. [More…]
This Parliament would then become the supreme central power and when the Australian Labor Party said ‘give’ everybody would have to give and give heavily with no redress. [More…]
Australians had experienced for the first time something they had believed would eventually occur - a war with an Asian power in which they would be vastly outnumbered in manpower. [More…]
It was felt then, and not without some justification, that Australia could best cope with any future threats from an Asian power by building up her population. [More…]
Past a certain point manpower is irrelevant. [More…]
Certainly, if we are looking to numbers of people as a measure of our ability to defend ourselves against military expansionism of any Asian power, we are beaten before we start. [More…]
The population of Asia is near 2,000,000,000 and that of the largest Asian power, China, in excess of 700 million. [More…]
On the basis of the statements of the Treasurer (Mr Bury) as to past and anticipated rates of inflation, the Government is acting so as to provide that by this time next year pensioners will be at least 75c worse off in terms of purchasing power compared with their position this time last year. [More…]
They have used the economic bargaining power which full employment gives them for their own purposes without regard for the effects of their actions on their fellow workers and fellow citizens. [More…]
We have almost reached the stage where, unless the unions use their bargaining power by means of industrial stoppages, they will not get far. [More…]
The topic I wish to discuss concerns Australia’s use of nuclear power. [More…]
An amount of $2.4 m is provided for expenditure by the Australian Atomic Energy Commission in connection with the proposed nuclear power station at Jervis Bay. [More…]
Estimates given by Sir Phillip Baxter, Chairman of the Australian Atomic Energy Commission, anticipate the expenditure of at least $5, 000m on atomic power stations by the turn of the century. [More…]
Before doing this, I make it quite clear that I am not opposed to Australia using nuclear power. [More…]
The site was to be Jervis Bay, the cost SI 30m and the station would be of 500 megawatt capacity; it would be owned and financed by the Commonwealth and operated by the New South Wales Electricity Commission; the electricity generated would be fed into the New South Wales grid and the long term power requirements of the Australian Capital Territory would be guaranteed; the station was to be in operation in 1975. [More…]
How will the cost of electricity generated at the proposed nuclear power station at Jervis Bay compare with the cost of electricity from conventional powered stations? [More…]
When will the generation of electricity by nuclear power be an economical proposition for Australia? [More…]
Tenders for the Jervis Bay nuclear power station closed on 15th June 1970. [More…]
Australia is entering on to a project that is likely to cost $5,000m before the year 2000 and contracts are being evaluated, yet the Minister cannot give me specific information on comparative costs between nuclear power stations and conventional power stations. [More…]
His paper is entitled ‘Costs of Nuclear Power Stations and Coal-Fired Power Stations in New South Wales’. [More…]
He quotes as an example of a coalfired station the Munmorah power station in New South Wales and he gives official figures for the costs of construction, fuel, operating and maintenance. [More…]
Mr Ross has to rely on estimated figures for the cost of operating a nuclear power station, but in all instances he has taken a conservative figure. [More…]
For the Munmorah power station - the coal-fired station - the capital cost is 122c per kilowatt hour, the fuel cost is 159c per kilowatt hour and the operating and maintenance costs are .100c per kilowatt hour, making a total of .381c per kilowatt hour. [More…]
This is a difference of .213c per kilowatt hour or 55.9% higher than for a conventional coal-fired power station. [More…]
Mr Ross also queries the size of the reactor chosen by the Government and quotes a table showing the details of the first power reactor installed by member countries of the International Atomic Energy Agency. [More…]
There is probably a good deal of logic, however, in constructing a nuclear power station in Australia to enable local scientists and technicians to obtain familiarity with nuclear techniques. [More…]
Table 4 gives details of the first power reactor constructed by member countries of the International Atomic Energy Commission. [More…]
Rather it should be the minimisation of the total additional costs of generating electricity following the introduction of a power reactor. [More…]
Using this criterion it is likely that the most economic way of introducing nuclear power to Australia would be to construct a smaller nuclear power station in a State with higher conventional generating costs than New South Wales. [More…]
There is one further point that I want to make on the subject of costs, and it is that the Commonwealth is to provide power from the nuclear reactor to New South Wales at no more than the cost of thermal generated power. [More…]
At .213c per kilowatt hour above the generating costs of thermal power, this means that the Commonwealth will be subsidising electricity users in New South Wales. [More…]
The estimate is that most States will be capable of taking nuclear power by the mid-1980s. [More…]
The power station at Jervis Bay is expected to come into operation by 1975 so it seems that the Commonwealth will be up for quite an amount in subsidising electricity charges if Mr Ross’s figures are correct. [More…]
In an official document that I have there is mention of the selection of the site at Jervis Bay for the nuclear power station. [More…]
There has been much criticism of nuclear power itself and much doubt about safety standards and about whether Jervis Bay is the correct site for a nuclear power station. [More…]
I have read articles suggesting that our first nuclear power station should be built in South Australia and should be a combined generating and desalination plant. [More…]
I suggest to the Minister that consideration be given to referring either to a select committee of this Parliament or a standing committee of the Senate the consideration of such matters as the comparative cost of nuclear and thermal stations, the siting of the power stations, the relation of the first station to planning for the future power needs of Australia, constitutional limitations on the utilisation of nuclear power, the environmental effects of nuclear power stations and Australia’s preparedness for the advent of nuclear technology. [More…]
Establishment of a nuclear power station is a very big project; it is a project new to Australia; it is a project that not many other countries in the world have undertaken. [More…]
I am in favour of the introduction of nuclear generated power into Australia and I would say that most members of the Australian Labor Party are in favour of it. [More…]
1 have heard reference in the House to-day to the pressures on the provision of services - the millions of dollars required for education, the provision of water supply facilities, the National Health Bill and the provision of power, housing and many other like facilities for the migrants as they come in. [More…]
If the Government wishes to maintain the purchasing power of pensioners at the level established by a Labor Government it will immediately grant an increase to single pensioners to bring their pension to $18 a week, and will increase the pension payable to married pensioner couples to $36 a week. [More…]
Let Government supporters deny it if they will, but those people who bought Government bonds in good faith many years ago and who compare their purchasing power today would not believe it for a large number of them who are on fixed incomes today are caught up in the iniquitous foils of the tapered or tampered means test. [More…]
The main sources of this energy will remain petroleum products and coal, but with the introduction of nuclear power as a supplement, discoveries of crude oil and extensive deposits of low-cost coal, Australia is better equipped than ever to face the challenges presented by this demand. [More…]
That is the question of the development of the nuclear power station at Jervis Bay. [More…]
The Government, through the Australian Atomic Energy Commission, has kept a close watch on the world development of nuclear power. [More…]
In 1975 it is expected that 1 28,000 mega watts of nuclear power will be derived from 283 reactors in 21 countries. [More…]
Australia has come late to the use of nuclear power, mainly because we have substantial resources of low cost coal, and also because the small size of our generation systems did not allow us to take advantage of the low cost of nuclear power produced in large units. [More…]
This situation is, however, changing and studies made in 1969 suggested that nuclear power could be an important and economical supplement to our other sources of power in the later 1970’s and thereafter. [More…]
Early in 1969 the Commonwealth consulted the States on their plans for the introduction of nuclear power and as a result concluded that it should co-operate with New South Wales in constructing a large power station with an output comparable to the needs of Canberra in the late seventies. [More…]
Other States, although not able to accept such large units now, may anticipate being able to do so, by the early 1980s, lt has been suggested that Australia’s first nuclear power station should have been coupled to a large desalination plant located in an area of water scarcity, such as South Australia. [More…]
In deciding to introduce nuclear power the Government has been aware of the outstanding safety record of the nuclear power industry in other countries. [More…]
From years of experience, authorities overseas have established criteria for the siting and safe operation of nuclear power stations and the best of these have been adopted for Jervis Bay. [More…]
A large exhibition dealing with nuclear power was presented at the Sydney Town Hall in June 1970 and in Canberra in September 1969. [More…]
Several booklets have been prepared and widely distributed and others containing greater detail will be issued when the design of the power station has been fixed. [More…]
We anticipate that the power station will attract a large number of visitors and the Atomic Energy Commission is making special arrangements so that this unique development in Australia can be seen by as many citizens of Australia as possible, under conditions which will be safe, informative and comfortable. [More…]
As I indicated earlier when the selection of the reactor to be included in this power unit has been made a full and detailed statement will be made to the House. [More…]
Add to the Constitution a clause giving power to the Commonwealth Government to act to safeguard any species of wildlife that is endangered through any cause. [More…]
that Canadian nuclear power experts are claiming that the only tender for the nuclear power station at Jervis Bay which can be costed accurately is the tender submitted by Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd for a CANDU type reactor using natural uranium? [More…]
First of all, at this stage no tenderers can be confident that they will be successful in gaining the contract for the nuclear power station at Jervis Bay. [More…]
Canada has lost the” power to control the rate of inflation and the level of employment. [More…]
Yet they have been in undisputed power for 21 years. [More…]
He now wants power. [More…]
He believes that the greatest impediment to power is the Victorian Executive. [More…]
In other words, we are to have a face-lift for the Australian Labor Party, which has said: Look chaps, we have to take power somehow - by hook or by crook. [More…]
The men in the trade union hall and those members who are not present would not vote for this kind of radical militancy because they know that the minute a Labor Government gains power Australia will be in an impossible situation. [More…]
This militancy is being backed by the Australian Labor Party in its desperate bid for power. [More…]
It was a protest to get political power for the Australian Labor Party, for the Leader of the Opposition and for Mr Hawke, if he can win a seat some time after having failed in Corio. [More…]
I do not think any government should introduce a Budget which makes pensioners worse off in terms of purchasing power than they were a year earlier when the previous Budget was introduced. [More…]
When we get a drought situation such as exists today in western Queensland, north western New South Wales and throughout the Northern Territory there should be some way - I do not think it is beyond the power of our legal people and legislators to work out the appropriate ways - by which unemployment benefit can be paid to people in rural industries. [More…]
First and foremost, 1 think that it must be recognised that we, although a large primary producing nation, do not possess a big stick which we can brandish at other countries and say threateningly: ‘Look, we have the power; you do as we say’. [More…]
The speech was the speech of one desperately in search of power, and as a consequence of that desperation the honourable gentleman did not greatly care what restraints disappeared, what responsibilities were spurned or for that matter what realities were trampled upon. [More…]
And where we have the whiphand of complete power, as in Papua and New Guinea, the philosophy is worked out to its completeness. [More…]
Why is the lack of purchasing power for the people of Papua and New Guinea so disastrous for the economy of Papua and New Guinea? [More…]
The same point can be taken on freights and power charges and on development projects which have not been settled on according to economic criteria. [More…]
The planning should be coordinated by a federal economic advisory committee, backed up by a full time, expert staff and drawing on the advice of specialist committees on agriculture, natural resources, small industries, large industries, power, transport and communications, overseas trade and foreign investment, social services, labour, urban development and scientific and technical research. [More…]
Meanwhile business earns exorbitant profits which concentrate so much spending power into a relatively few hands that sectoral disequilibria follow and inflation becomes rampant. [More…]
Thirdly, it would give encouragement to those who seek not peace but peaceful submission to those who seek to promote the rule of the streets and the power of the mob with the consequent threat that that involves to the maintenance of law and order in this country. [More…]
Will the Minister assure me that he is doing all in his power to allay this anxiety? [More…]
On the other hand it has been held at its previous peak and it is now as high, in terms of real purchasing power, as it has ever been. [More…]
But I do want to remind the House that while the pension rate, which has received so much adverse publicity in the course of the last few weeks, has not improved in terms of real purchasing power, it is being held at an all-time peak. [More…]
In December 1949, when the last Labor Government ended its regrettable course, the value of the base rate pension, at present purchasing power, was $10.08. [More…]
In real purchasing power, therefore, the base pension has been increased some 55 per cent since Labor lost office, but this is far from the whole picture. [More…]
I am sure that it was no fault of pensioners that we did not achieve power. [More…]
We have inequalities, privilege waste and the things one expects from a government that has been so long in power. [More…]
Various factions, either wanting power or having different ideas, have been fighting within the industry for many years. [More…]
Of course it counts and more power to those who are endeavouring to get a fair deal for the workers. [More…]
If pensioners and superannuitants are going to blame anyone today, a very significant part of the blame must be levelled against the manipulators and passengers who are riding to power on the back of organised labour. [More…]
He was President of the Institute of Marine and Power Engineers. [More…]
Labor in power today means Hawke and Cairns, and the Corns pulling the wires. [More…]
Labor in power means the end of power for the people and power for the protesters. [More…]
The fact that fixed incomes in the Northern Territory do not have the same purchasing power as fixed incomes have in the southern States must be recognised. [More…]
We have, or certainly we ought to have, more power than judges. [More…]
Most will see it as another example of a stupid misuse of power. [More…]
The Australian Government will not giant any visa to anyone who promotes the rule of the streets and the power of the mob. [More…]
But I have his text here and he certainly said that this would give encouragement to those who seek to promote the rule of the streets and the power of the mob. [More…]
The Minister refers to the ‘rule of the streets and the power of the mob’. [More…]
Again we have an instance of the underlying intention of the Labor Party to seek to interfere with and to take over the operations of any successful free enterprise happening, and I am a little surprised that this specific question should have come from the honourable member from whom it came, because there is at the moment discussion going on and arrangements going on between the Queensland Government and a company which is intending to provide at Gladstone very large processes for making aluminium - probably one of the most important development projects in Queensland, made partly possible by this Government contributing loan funds for the establishment of cheap power. [More…]
There is within the Restrictive Trade Practices Act certain power given to the Minister for Trade and Industry to ensure that negotiations are undertaken between the shipping conferences, represented in Australia by a body known as the Oversea Shipping Representatives Association and a shipper body known here as the Australia to Europe Shippers Association. [More…]
The Government has no power to intervene in commercial negotiations which have been successfully completed. [More…]
In 1967-68 about 66 per cent of local authorities exercised their power to reduce or write-off rates. [More…]
The amendment I am proposing will provide the necessary power to appoint additional boards if and where required. [More…]
All he wants is power to become the Prime Minister of Australia and to bring into effect policies that he did not mention in his speech. [More…]
We have already done much: Our influence is already much greater than our numbers or military power would indicate. [More…]
But the world in which we must live and make our contribution contains much rivalry for power, great ideological conflicts which directly attack our basic principles and freedoms, a world in which one great group of power holds the principles of the Charter of United Nations in defiant contempt. [More…]
We face the reality that, for at least 20 years, military power will be the main force in international relations; not reason or law. [More…]
Yet the probability of world war between major powers has receded because of the deterrent of the nuclear equilibrium and I believe can arise only by miscalculation or accident. [More…]
Our policy is directed to maintaining the equilibrium of the present world power, underneath which the world may progress and build until more peaceful and co-operative days; protecting ourselves with alliances and a contribution to current issues as they arise; and doing our utmost to encourage all towards restraint and eventual - howbeit exceedingly slow - inert accommodation between nations. [More…]
Firstly, concerning the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, there is ample evidence around the world of aggressive intent to seize an advantage wherever possible, to exert sustained pressures, and amass an even mightier military power. [More…]
Mr R. Blackman, a British naval expert, has described growing Soviet maritime power in this way ‘What the USSR built in the 1960’s looks like rising to a flood tide in the 1970s’. [More…]
That country has a standing army of 3,000,000 men - about 150 divisions - and 2,500 aircraft, a greatly expanding military capacity in socalled conventional and nuclear weapons, with ICBM’s by 1972, soon sufficient to threaten major powers. [More…]
This strength has been used already to support aggression and subversion of neighbours and thus upset the world balance of power. [More…]
It carries with it the innuendo that if the Leader of the Opposition were in power the Budget would be radical and different. [More…]
In 1949 the Liberal Party came into power in Australia and it made 2 pledges which we should never forget. [More…]
In addition to that, it promised that it would introduce into Australia by 1952 a superannuation scheme for endorsement by the Australian people, lt is 21 years since it came into power and we are still waiting for that scheme. [More…]
They do not wish to work in an institution - perhaps the only institution in this nation other than power stations or gas stations - that keeps going for 24 hours a day. [More…]
I had no power to order the way in which the inquiry should be conducted. [More…]
We have watched the climb to power again of this young Hitler of the Liberal Party, in a most menial way- [More…]
No matter how genuine they are in their opposition they ought not to be deceived into believing that the way to express that opposition is, by their physical presence, providing support for the organisers of this Vietnam Moratorium who claim to represent people who indeed are totally opposed to the way in which those organisers would conduct their affairs if they ever came to power, ft is a tragic thing that some people who support the campaign do so with the best of motive. [More…]
This is a free, non-party vote to be taken by members of the Parliament who not only want to sec the Parliament work efficiently but also want the Parliament to be a permanent safeguard for the people of Australia against tyranny, despotism and the kind of abuse of power which governments sometimes take upon themselves. [More…]
Is it a fact that under the Income Tax Assessment Act, (a) notice is published in the Commonwealth Gazette requiring every individual who is resident in Australia and whose taxable income from all sources in and out of Australia exceeds $416, to furnish an income tax return, (b) the Commissioner has the power, under section 163, to demand from any person an income tax return and (c) males over 65 years and females over 60 years are allowed tax free income of $1,300 for a single person and $2,262 for a married couple. [More…]
In Australia the general expectation is that Japan should play a military role as well as being a great economic power. [More…]
Many believe that Japan in any case will become a military power. [More…]
It is not for me to attempt to interpret the mind of the Japanese Ambassador, but I can say quite clearly that there is no view reached by the Australian Government that Japan should become a military power. [More…]
The Government, in its few remaining months in power, should We criticised so the public will know its shortcomings. [More…]
There has not been one sincere word from the Government about this Department so far as the construction of a nuclear power station is concerned. [More…]
We had a discussion in our Party Executive - I hope I am not breaching any confidences about what took place there - about the provision or otherwise of a nuclear power system in Australia. [More…]
We have been told that if the proposal to build a nuclear power station is implemented it will cost something like $5,000m. [More…]
I think we were told by the Minister for National Development (Mr Swartz) that the submissions associated with this power station weighed some tons. [More…]
It is natural that we as Australians should know more of the United States than they would know of us since it is the greatest economic and political power in the world today. [More…]
Does it surprise honourable members to know that in its investigations the committee referred to what were the peaceful nuclear aims for Australia, yet the Government, as I said earlier this afternoon, is spending a tremendous amount of money, without debate as yet in this place, on a nuclear power station. [More…]
Constitutionally in Australia an elected government of whatever political persuasion has unlimited and unfettered powers of monetary and fiscal policy. [More…]
I believe there is evidence that shows that the present Government is prostituting that power to an alarming extent. [More…]
Its officers certainly wield great power and authority over the Treasurer (Mr Bury) and the Cabinet, because their financial considerations appear to be sacrosanct in every way. [More…]
If justice is to be given, that adjustment must be made to offset this decline in the purchasing power of money and it must be made in sufficiently frequent intervals to enable these people to keep pace with this continual decline. [More…]
How ridiculous it is to have what might be termed the centralist power of money, which the Government has, and the paralysis we have and at the same time have this anaemic condition that applies on all the perimeters - that is, in the States, lt is important that the people receive proper housing, education, health and other amenities that the States provide. [More…]
I applaud the Foreign Minister’s prompt repudiation of suggestions last week that Australia looked forward to a Japanese resumption of a military role in Asia, but we should also encourage Japan’s diplomatic role there, in the region of which she is the unsurpassed power. [More…]
Add to the Constitution a clause giving power to the Commonwealth Government to act to safeguard any species of wildlife that is endangered through any cause. [More…]
In view of the importance of a national energy policy to Australia and having regard to the huge cost involved in the introduction of nuclear power into this nation will he refer this subject to a select committee of the House for investigation and report? [More…]
I think I should point out at the outset that the production of power is principally a matter for the State governments. [More…]
In view of the answer he just gave to the honourable member for Macquarie, I ask: Do a number of questions relating to the introduction- of nuclear power in Australia appear on the notice papers of this House and of the Senate? [More…]
What is the reason for the delay in answering them when it is reasonable to assume that all the information sought would and should have been available to the Australian Atomic Energy Commission and the Government prior to the decision to build a nuclear power station at Jervis Bay? [More…]
Is the Minister aware that the United States Atomic Energy Commission, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, the International Atomic Energy Agency, the European Nuclear Energy Agency and many other governmental and non-governmental bodies periodically publish figures on estimated unit costs for the production of electricity for projected nuclear power stations? [More…]
The position in Australia, of course, is a little different from that in the countries that the honourable gentleman mentioned in that Australia does not yet have a nuclear power station and so we cannot yet maintain records or publish any data. [More…]
I can assure the honourable member that when a decision is made - and I hope it will be made before the end of this year - on the contract for our first nuclear power station and the type of station is known we will be in a position to indicate finally the capital cost involved and we will also have available to us data from countries operating stations of that type. [More…]
Has he or the Government considered that Committee’s recommendation for constitutional amendments to empower the Commonwealth Parliament to make laws with respect to, firstly, the manufacture of nuclear fuels and the generation and use of nuclear energy and, secondly, ionising fuels? [More…]
Has the Government made its decision to construct the nuclear power station in the Australian Capital Territory at Jervis Bay on the basis of its having totality of constitutional power in that Territory? [More…]
If so, has the Government restricted its area of construction because of its failure to seek constitutional power to the extent necessary in the interests of the Commonwealth? [More…]
Finally, will the Minister inform the House how the Government intends to control the introduction of nuclear power into the various States and particularly as to final waste disposal areas both for the Jervis Bay and other possible future stations? [More…]
The decision to build a nuclear power station in Australia was taken after consultation with all the States. [More…]
My predecessor, the honourable member for Farrer, spent some considerable time in discussions with the various States regarding the proposal at this point of time for the introduction of nuclear power as a supplement to existing power systems in Australia. [More…]
It was found as a result of those discussions that the New South Wales grid was the only one that could accept 500 megawatts, which is the proven minimum economic size for a nuclear power station these days. [More…]
Other States have indicated their interest in nuclear power. [More…]
I have mentioned that we had a conference on northern development last week and we discussed this matter in the context of power generation for the future with the States of Queensland and Western Australia. [More…]
That the committee have power to send for persons, papers and records, and to move from place to place. [More…]
There was no doubt whatsoever that the French were a colonial power and the locals wanted national independence. [More…]
The Soviet Union now, as a very great power following in every respect and in every detail the foreign policies of the Czars, deals with the respectable nationalist governments - the Nassers and others - and hopes to spread its power. [More…]
The honourable member for Farrer has asked: What do we think about the Soviet expansion of power in the Indian Ocean? [More…]
It is not much use standing here talking about the spread of Soviet power in the Indian Ocean. [More…]
I do not know what expansion of Soviet power has taken place in the Indian Ocean, except that country has submarines and warships in this area periodically. [More…]
They wanted to take power and set up the apparatus of the state and govern it. [More…]
Her influence is missing now from many Asian countries with the result that no major power has been able to fill the vacuum so created by her withdrawal. [More…]
Because the Government of South Vietnam has not been prepared to share political power with so many of the dissident factions, South Vietnam is still hopelessly disunited. [More…]
But the point is that almost all of these exercises in democracy in South Vietnam have been aimed specifically at one objective, and that is to legitimise the authority of those who have been in power. [More…]
Whatever power we possess, it must be seen by other nations to be a credible deterrent, and in my view the build-up of the Cocos Island facility would provide the proof of our determination to protect ourselves and to co-operate with our friends. [More…]
The Opposition’s policy changes from ALP Conference to ALP Conference and relates to the power struggles which are constantly erupting within its own ranks. [More…]
With Australia on the threshold of entering the field of nuclear power and in the light of the recent discovery of high grade uranium ore at the Nabarlek prospect in the Northern Territory, the time is opportune, I believe, for the Government to adopt a standard policy for the exploration and utilisation of our uranium deposits. [More…]
Sir Phillip Baxter, the Chairman of the Australian Atomic Energy Commission, is reported to have already discussed the Nabarlek find with representatives of the Japanese Science Technology Agency who no doubt see the Nabarlek strike as a reliable source for the massive uranium needs of Japan’s nuclear power programme. [More…]
The Atomic Energy Act 1953-1966 confers on Sir Phillip Baxter, as Chairman of the AAEC, power to negotiate for the exploration, treatment and sale of uranium. [More…]
Uranium is the key to the world’s power supply and with the serious depletion of fossil fuel reserves I believe the Government should exercise such controls as would guarantee all our future needs. [More…]
For example, the Nabarlek find would give Australia a nuclear fuel supply for only 25 power stations the size of the Jervis Bay project for a period of only 30 years. [More…]
As both Kathleen Investments and Queensland Mines Limited are incorporated in the ACT, the Federal Government would have the power to step in should there be any rapid increase in the nominee shareholdings in either company and I would recommend this course to the Minister for National Development (Mr Swartz) and the Prime Minister (Mr Gorton). [More…]
The proposal involves construction of major works to cater for increased demand on the town water supply and includes bore pumping equipment, collection mains and balancing tank, delivery pumping station and power supply, a 7 million gallon reservoir and a 30-inch diameter trunk main. [More…]
Does the Minister seriously contend that this was a reasonable increase in the purchasing power and living standards provided for pensioners in Australia, taking into consideration the inflationary spirals which have gone mad under the Government’s inadequate and incompetent handling of the Australian economy? [More…]
The only one not associated with an election occurred because of the grave and undeniable erosion of purchasing power of pensions which had fallen to the lowest level for the decade up to that year. [More…]
Irresponsible government financial policies - which I am sure would be the case if the Labor Party ever got into power - only lead down one road - the road to disaster and depression, ft is easy when one is in opposition to make promises but it is another thing for a government in power to fulfill them. [More…]
A government in power must take a more responsible and realistic approach to the economy. [More…]
Perhaps some day, if the Labor Party ever comes to power - and God help us if it does - the honourable member for Oxley may realise the truth of the words of the former Labor Prime Minister, Ben Chifley. [More…]
The increases in the pension will restore to the pension the purchasing power it held prior to recent increases in the cost of living. [More…]
By means of continual industrial unrest they have eroded the purchasing power of the whole community. [More…]
The Government has indicated that it will do all in its power to increase that rate as soon as it possibly can. [More…]
The present basic pension is worth 50 per cent more in actual purchasing power than the Chifley pension in 1948. [More…]
The monetary value of the increases granted to pensioners in this Budget has never been less, because the value of the dollar in terms of purchasing power has never been less. [More…]
In terms of purchasing power a 50c increase in the pension last year or the year before would buy more goods than the 50c given in this Budget. [More…]
It was the first increase in the allowable income since 1954 and in fact did not represent the same value as regards purchasing power as did the amount of the $7 allowable income in 1954. [More…]
The value of social service benefits has been clipped, just as though an extra tax had been imposed on the people, and the people have moved into higher income tax ranges without getting any more purchasing power in their pay packets. [More…]
More is being spent on child endowment but less is being received in purchasing power by the endowed children. [More…]
There was no increase in child endowment to make up for loss of purchasing power through inflation over the years. [More…]
The value of the funeral benefit for pensioners has dropped considerably and should be increased considerably in order to put purchasing power back into that benefit. [More…]
I have heard a lot of talk from the other side of the House about the Chifley Labor Government and how the present Liberal Party-Country Party rule, which has continued for over 20 years, has improved upon what Labor did when it was in power. [More…]
When Sir Robert Menzies - Mr Menzies as he then was - came into power, he increased the pension rate by 75c per week. [More…]
I for one would hate to see a Labor government using this power so cynically to buy votes. [More…]
It has been increased marginally but the purchasing power of child endowment today cannot compare with its purchasing power in 1949. [More…]
Do we see these people as being the possible cause of the inflationary pressures because we have given them a little extra purchasing power? [More…]
They are a very small section of our community and do not have a great deal of voting power. [More…]
Civilian widows, particularly those with young children, are not part of a strong pressure group: they are a small minority, a small section of underprivileged people who do not have the voting power. [More…]
It is interesting to note that since 1949, when this Government came to power- [More…]
I am quite sure that if the Labor Party was in power it would be more than happy to scrap all expenditure in the field of defence. [More…]
We reserve the right to do all in our power to prevent particular takeovers when, in the circumstances of the case, we would consider it to be bad in the national interest. [More…]
When the Commonwealth was given power to enter the field of social services it will be remembered that there was a social service tax assessment implemented over and above the income tax. [More…]
That is not now the position and any increase in consumer prices will militate against the purchasing power of the pension paid. [More…]
In Australia the general expectation is that Japan should play a military role as well as being an economic great power. [More…]
Many believe that Japan will in any case become a military power. [More…]
There is an attitude in certain quarters of the United States of America as well as Britain, Australia and other countries, that Japan should rearm to become the balance of power against the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
I praise the Minister for External Affairs for having said that but it is my view that irrespective of what he said, Japan has a very clear view at the present time - I hope it maintains this view - that it should not worry much about what Australia’s view is on whether it becomes a military power because Japan has recognised that the way to power, particularly in Asia, is not by using military power but by achieving economic power. [More…]
I believe that the United States will wage a ‘long-haul’ and that it will maintain its air and artillery power. [More…]
The United States has already dropped more bombs on Vietnam than the Allies dropped on Axis powers during the Second World War. [More…]
He is doing this because of his friends, the pro- Communist Sukarno regime, are now no longer in power. [More…]
In order to govern yourselves you have to exercise power wherever power is, and Parliament is not the only place where there is power. [More…]
I presume he means the power of demonstration in the streets, in the gutters and anywhere else he feels he can grab power. [More…]
He knows as well as anyone else that tonight he cast a slur on the South Australian police force when he said that it would not perhaps take any notice of the Government which has been elected to power by the majority of the people in that State. [More…]
To resort to strike action for political purposes is a gross misuse of industrial power and is contrary to the institutionalised status of the trade union movement in Australia. [More…]
When the rate is compared with the average weekly earnings of the male wage earner the loss of purchasing power Ls even more striking. [More…]
It sets out the constitution of the committee, the tenure of office of members of the committee, and then it provides for resignations, the filling of vacancies, the election of a chairman and vice-chairman, the number of members who would form a quorum, the procedure at meetings, the sitting of the committee during recess, the power of the committee to send for persons, papers and records, the powers, privileges and immunities of the committee and the functions of the committee. [More…]
(a) There was not a loss of power from two engines but there was an interruption to the power of one engine on the port side because of ingestion of seagulls, [More…]
Will the Minister therefore do all in bis power to preserve the right of workers to be covered by the unions they respect and to ensure that unions do not adopt attitudes designed merely to destroy the Australian Workers Union in certain States, such attitudes having been exemplified over a number of years by the shadow Minister for Labour, the honourable member for Hindmarsh? [More…]
Pursuant to section 32b of the Snowy Mountains Hydro-Electric Power Act 1949-1966 I present the twenty-first annual report of the Snowy Mountains Hydro-Electric Authority for the year ended 30th June 1970 together with financial statements and the report of the Auditor-General on those statements. [More…]
This is apparently a discretionary power. [More…]
The principle is that the sole end for which mankind are warranted, individually or collectively, in interfering with the liberty of action of any of their members is self-protection: That the only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilised community against his will is to prevent harm to others. [More…]
I note that as a result of an accident which occurred recently at the Gove airstrip near the township of Nhulunbuy in Arnhem Land the Department is installing flight aids which will include a flight service unit, a power house, airport lighting and a remote transmitter. [More…]
When we requested that the House of Representatives Select Committee on Aircraft Noise should be given the power and the right to inquire into whether Sydney should have a second airport and where that second airport should be sited so that the people’s representatives in this Parliament could make a decision or a recommendation on the matter, our request was refused by the Government. [More…]
The Government has power in its hands to begin to end the crisis in the countryside by taking in and paying for all wheat produced last season and this season within its own national ration. [More…]
He refused to take that course, and at that time there was no power which I or anybody else possessed to refer mutters to a magistrate for determination. [More…]
That power was granted by the amended regulations which were approved on 20th August, as I understand it. [More…]
The Post Office has no power to borrow and the Director-General of Posts and Telegraphs must continue to go cap in hand to the Treasurer (Mr Bury) for funds. [More…]
The Government went further and gave the British Post Office the power to raise loans. [More…]
He went on to point out how the public corporation might be empowered to raise money through the Commonwealth loan fund system, lt could raise money as do the State electricity commissions in some States - with approval to go to the market separately. [More…]
lt has a staff of over 100,000 and yet the administration has no power to deal directly with the wages claims of its employees. [More…]
The Government prefers to retain the Post Office as a department of state but wishes, despite the fact that political decisions of the government in power will be overriding, to conduct it as a commercial undertaking. [More…]
His finest flourish must easily win him the award of best actor of the year for his characterisation of Australia as little, innocent and largely defenceless in the face of the selfish power play of the EEC should Great Britain enter the Community. [More…]
Similarly, output of coal, steel and electric power give a reasonably favourable basis of comparison between the 2 blocs. [More…]
The monolith of political power is centred in Brussels. [More…]
Perhaps this is one of the reasons why the honourable member for Oxley was so much in favour of the European Economic Community; it represents a centralisation of power and policies. [More…]
For the reasons I have mentioned, we are opposed to this centralisation of power. [More…]
Since the producer groups are political as well as economic power centres, the Government is in some respects an agent confronting its political superiors. [More…]
Invariably we have developed an institution, such as the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission or the Tariff Board, with all the trappings and atmosphere and sometimes the power of a court which hears the sounds of conflict, pretends to be uninfluenced by them and finally emerges with an edict supposed to be objective and impartial. [More…]
The Arbitration Commission has been the greatest destroyer of the purchasing power of the pensioner, the people on superannuation, the small wage earner and of all export industry, both primary and secondary. [More…]
I ask them: Will they prohibit, if by any mischance they ever get into power, the sale of wheat to China? [More…]
I do not believe that Labor has a chance of getting into power unless the primary industries fail to face up to the fact that they are being hoodwinked or an attempt is being made to hoodwink them. [More…]
These are nations where the fight for political and economic power is on at the present time. [More…]
It is of no good talking about any other kind of representation, because if a big factory is to be built the voting power in the city attracts support for it like a magnet. [More…]
If the primary producer has the voting power in the country he will be able to bring about conditions that are favourable to primary producers and primary industry generally. [More…]
Australia can be a world ranking power in terms of the production of metals and their reduction from their ores if we choose to grasp the opportunities that are there to be taken. [More…]
They buy as one and they hit with all their buying force and buying power. [More…]
Even if a permit is given, the Ordinance gives power to senior commissioned officers of police to prohibit the holding of the procession or meeting, or to disperse the people who are present. [More…]
There is power to stop and control vehicles and to control traffic by closing off roads, and this power also is given to a police officer. [More…]
In the section which gives power to the Administrator or to a person appointed by him to decide whether or not a procession or a meeting can be held, and where it creates a right of appeal from that decision to a person called a commissioner, who is a stipendiary magistrate, it is spelt out that the commissioner may inform himself on the question in any way he thinks proper without being bound by legal forms or rules of evidence. [More…]
The Secretary for Law said when he introduced the Bill that many of the powers given were to be found in the common law, and he even quoted Blastone in support of this proposition. [More…]
Whatever the truth of that statement, the fact is that most of these old powers that he had in mind are dormant, virtually dead, and are not used. [More…]
The Ordinance gives power to a magistrate to make an order binding a person over to be of good behaviour and to comply with residential conditions. [More…]
The Secretary for Law also said when he introduced the Bill that it was necessary to have control so that the magistrates will have power to deal with these unemployed migrants. [More…]
However, the Ordinance is against him because section 21 of the Ordinance gives power to the court, where it considers it advisable for the preservation of peace and public order that a person should not be in an area where processions and meetings cannot be held without a permit, to order that the person should remove himself to another area, and that he stay outside a specified area. [More…]
Hie only sacredness about Tolai land claims today is that the Tolais happened to be in power when the white man arrived. [More…]
We saw recently how the organisers of the socalled Moratorium Campaign paid his fare to Australia and endeavoured to depict him as some sort of Black Power leader. [More…]
As Soviet power grows there will be a great aversion to Communist Parties everywhere. [More…]
Therefore the voice of the people who provide, handle and disburse this cash is powerful and persuasive. [More…]
In the first place Blue Cross and government together are exhorting the individual institutions which take their money ‘to think on a community-wide basis in planning their future’, and the exhortations are backed by an increasing use of legislation which already exists in all 50 States of the Union, giving the civil power the right to approve or prohibit new medical buildings. [More…]
The most dramatic case of this is the totally deaf child who can be helped to what is normal intelligence if it can be given by specialist training early in life, the power of conceptualisation and symbolisation through some medium other than the hearing that it has lost. [More…]
Another objective of it was to provide more in the pay packet by taxation remissions which are much more effective in buying power than the actual sum concerned because they are not subject, of course, to taxation at all. [More…]
I think it takes a fair flight of the imagination to argue that because the manufacturer of tractors will in due course have an increased bounty this money is being used to finance a campaign to establish power alcohol distilleries to use cheap wheat. [More…]
In order to govern yourself, ladies and gentlemen, you have to exercise power wherever power is, and Parliament ls not the only place where there is power. [More…]
Power also exists in the schools, in universities, in factories, in government departments, in banks and everywhere else . [More…]
Firstly, nowhere is it stated that power exists pre-eminently in Parliament. [More…]
By making universities, schools, business and financial processes agents in the search for power the honourable member will do this country a grave disservice. [More…]
Nowhere in that statement does the honourable member except families as a part of this process of politicalising power at every stage of the community. [More…]
I ask the House to deliberate on those agencies of Government which, within this century, have sought to implement and to find power in every aspect of society. [More…]
There is always a military aspect to the deliberation of power. [More…]
The philosophy which he has enunciated in terms of military responsibility dovetails, complements completely and is a twin to the definition of power as demonstrated by the honourable member for Lalor. [More…]
I often think of these two, the honourable member for Lalor and the Leader of his own Party, in the position of another social philosophy used to political power and a titular head. [More…]
Who is exercising the real power? [More…]
The organisation of power within that philosophy has been made clear by the honourable member for Lalor. [More…]
A political machine having been fashioned outside this House which would seek to take power to itself through every sector of society has its application in this passage on social order: [More…]
Finally I suggest that if one is to refer back to his tory one would find that Lenin the protagonist and Kerensky the man with the aparent power formed a more realistic example of the current situation than one would even dare to imagine. [More…]
We shall fight this Communistic ramp against individual freedom by every means in our power - political, legal, constitutional and physical. [More…]
He will use any power he possesses for a purely political purpose. [More…]
How can he explain 21 years of supreme power, the power and the glory, because he and his colleagues have had privileges, titles, honours - unchallenged power and rule. [More…]
When Labor comes to power it will abolish conscription but in Opposition the Labor Party has tried 3 times to have the law amended in accordance with the principle that there should be exemption for conscientious objection to particular wars. [More…]
He started off by saying: ‘When Labor comes to power.’ [More…]
Two interesting facets about this When Labor comes to power’ appear. [More…]
I am mystified as to why the Prime Minister (Mr Gorton), who says he is Australian to the boot heels, has not used his power to involve the Commonwealth in purchasing, in co-operation with the Stale and local authorities, our historic homes not only in the Parramatta area but throughout New South Wales and Australia. [More…]
Will he provide details of the agreement which has been reached between the Commonwealth and the Government of New South Wales covering the proposed nuclear power station at Jervis Bay. [More…]
The basis of agreement between Governments of the Commonwealth and New South Wales for the construction and operation of a nuclear power station at Jervis Bay are as follows: [More…]
The Electricity Commission of New South Wales will be responsible for operation and maintenance of the station as an integral part of the New South Wales power system, subject however to the standards, procedures and controls laid down by the Australian Atomic Energy Commission and the [More…]
I make it perfectly clear that neither I nor the Government has any power to compel doctors to join or to continue to participate in the pensioner medical service. [More…]
I will not elaborate upon them because I think that most honourable members can accurately recall who was in power there 4 years ago. [More…]
It is quite futile to say: ‘When we get into power we will provide housing finance at 0.5 per cent interest’ because this implies a certain state of liquidity in the economy. [More…]
Accordingly they are forced into the situation of living with in-laws or living in some rented room, lt is not that there is not a demand for housing; it is simply that many young people are unable to get to the first base of finding the wherewithal to acquire a home, i think he also made a statement that Labor tried to prevent home ownership when it was in power. [More…]
This is partly because land is so permanent and is a source of wealth and power. [More…]
Also, I think it is time that the Commonwealth and the States met to define the functions and powers of civil defence organisations in Queensland. [More…]
When cyclone Ada struck Mackay there was some confusion as regards the real function and power of civil defence units. [More…]
There is a steam power station on which will be expended $4.2m; construction of the northern zone sewerage scheme, $ 1.023m; provision of engineering services, more than lim; a powerhouse installation costing between $200,000 and $300,000; the augmentation of the Alice Springs water supply to cost another $193,000; and the Darwin River Dam to cost $8m. [More…]
What is happening all the time is that people are being attracted to the city because the city has the voting power. [More…]
If 1 were the honourable member for Mallee and I were concerned with the Country PartyI would be most outspoken in support of the system that keeps that Party in power. [More…]
It is a system under which those who always lose winandthosewhoalwayswinlose.IfI were the honourable member for Mallee very naturally I would support exactly the system of electorates that put him in power. [More…]
He is talking about a thing called ‘decentralisation of political power’, which means in short the overrepresentation of the Country Parly. [More…]
We, as a rich nation with a small population, must seek to defend ourselves not only by building numbers of people but by development and utilisation of the most up to date technology, with the emphasis, 1 believe, on the technology, in this respect, of course, as the population grows our resources in terms of manpower and brain power grow, and this will be reflected in technological developments. [More…]
When these failed, the whole system collapsed because the Government was too tired and complacent to examine and rectify defects in the law, and too drunk with power to listen to advice. [More…]
With regard to the authority of the state to wage war, it is explicitly stated that Christians may lawfully wage war upon just and necessary occasions’, and that God has ordained that the civil authority has been given ‘the power of the sword for the defence and encouragement of litem that are good and for the punishment of evil doers’. [More…]
In real terms the purchasing power of his salary which was much the same as a clerical officer in 1961, is now some 34 per cent below that of the clerical officer. [More…]
The Act at that time did not have a great deal of power but since it came into force we have seen the Act changed many times. [More…]
Having in mind proposals for the erection of a nuclear power station on Commonwealth territory and, in that connection, the need to examine the efficiency or otherwise of this scourse of energy, I move: [More…]
That the proposed expenditure be reduced by $10 as an instruction to the Government that a select committee of this House should be appointed to inquire into and report on the uses of nuclear power in relation to - [More…]
the projected power needs of the Commonwealth; [More…]
the comparative advantage derived from generating, power .in this way as against all other sources now being employed; [More…]
the effects of the establishment of a nuclear power station upon the environment; [More…]
the desirability of establishing a nuclear power station at this time pending the outcome of further technological developments taking place elsewhere. [More…]
An announcement was made in the Budget Speech that this year there would be an allocation of $2.4m for expenditure on the proposed nuclear power station at Jervis Bay and that more money would be made available if required. [More…]
The Opposition is far from satisfied that full and proper consideration was given to the decision before it was announced to build the nuclear power station at Jervis Bay. [More…]
Stimulation of the growth of nuclear technology in Australia, particularly by early Commonwealth initiative to establish a nuclear power station. [More…]
It will be seen that it is the Labor Party’s intention to encourage the development of nuclear technology in Australia, but we certainly do not want to be sold a pig in a poke for over $ 13.0m for our first power station. [More…]
Our amendment queries whether sufficient consideration has been given to the integrated power needs of the Commonwealth, the economics of nuclear power, the environmental effects, the safety standards for nuclear power stations and the timing of the establishment of our first nuclear station. [More…]
1193 and it seeks information on sites other than Jervis Bay which had been considered for the power station. [More…]
Were any other sites besides Jervis Bay considered for the building of Australia’s first nuclear power station? [More…]
1191 regarding studies made on ecological and environmental factors at the sites considered for a nuclear power station, the Minister replied: [More…]
Nobody in the community seems to be able to obtain any detailed information on very important factors surrounding the introduction of Australia’s first nuclear power station. [More…]
1109 the Minister referred to a paper by Messrs Davy, Giles and Charish entitled ‘Ecological Factors in the Siting, Design and Operation of a Nuclear Power Station’ and said: [More…]
I hope I have shown that the Parliament has been treated with scant consideration in its endeavours to obtain factual information on the establishment of the first nuclear power station at Jervis Bay. [More…]
The first nuclear power station was estimated to cost SI 30m when the announcement was made; but now there is silence on the amount that it will cost. [More…]
The Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission has indicated that by the turn of the century in the vicinity of $5,00On will have been spent on nuclear power stations throughout Australia. [More…]
There is the question of the efficiency of nuclear power at the moment. [More…]
Technologies are being developed throughout the world Which, perhaps, will outdate our first nuclear power station almost before it is in operation. [More…]
1 am convinced that risks are being taken in the establishment of our first nuclear power station at Jervis Bay. [More…]
After all, as I recollect, the Calder Hall atomic power station in Cumberland in the United Kingdom was developed in 1956 and investigations went on for a long time before that. [More…]
In fact, we now have something over 40 such stations in the world - I do not know the current figure - producing significant proportions of power in the United States and the United Kingdom. [More…]
But frankly I believe that it is a little beside the point to be worrying, as though the sole consideration is the economy of the operation, about the cost of power from this station. [More…]
After all, a blind man could see that the first nuclear power station in this country would not be set up for the prime purpose of producing the cheapest power of all time. [More…]
Before the last World War this country could hardly be said to be an industrial power of any description. [More…]
In fact .that is bow we find power stations and mining enterprises, partially or otherwise involving Government, developing from time to time and from place to place. [More…]
This Government’s policy to thrust Australia into the nuclear power race has been accomplished with sheer political arrogance and a complete contempt for public participation. [More…]
We are being asked to endorse a heavy appropriation of some $130m to construct a nuclear power station at Jervis Bay, and it is estimated .that some $5,000m will be spent on nuclear power over the next 30 years. [More…]
This Government arbitrarily decided to construct the nuclear power plant. [More…]
Firstly, what region of the Commonwealth would require or could absorb additional power and the economic costs involved? [More…]
Secondly, what region of the Commonwealth would benefit in power and water from a dual purpose reactor? [More…]
Further, that region provides the cheapest commercial power units anywhere in Australia. [More…]
Is the proposed nuclear power station to be economic? [More…]
We cannot get the figures so I must rely on Bruce Ross of Wollongong University College who estimates that the cost of power at Jervis Bay will be at least 50 per cent more than the cost of New South Wales power. [More…]
As a decrease in the cost of conventional coal produced power is possible, that subsidy could increase. [More…]
Had New South Wales been left to its own devices it would not have entertained the building of a nuclear power station at least until the 1980s. [More…]
This is confirmed by reference to a paper submitted to the Institute of Engineers by W. H. Roberts, Secretary for Fuel and Power in Victoria, and a former associate director of the Atomic Energy Commission. [More…]
In effect, whatever region of the Commonwealth is selected for nuclear power, in terms of power it will require a heavy Commonwealth subsidy and will be uneconomic. [More…]
Let us apply the next criterion; that is, whether the proposed power station should be placed in an arid zone to supplement existing water storage. [More…]
The suitability df a dual reactor has been rejected on the grounds that a detailed examination was not worth while as it would be more economic to provide arid areas with both power and water by conventional means. [More…]
If power is uneconomic, surely we must probe an evaluation of desalinated water. [More…]
Dr Alvin Weinberg of Oak Ridge National Laboratory in the United States of America predicted in a recent article in Nature’ that even with present technology nuclear power could be used to produce pure water from sea water at a cost of between 9c and 18c Australian for 1,000 gallons. [More…]
Let us have none of this rot of conventional power being cheaper. [More…]
The nuclear power station will be in an area where the average rainfall each year is between 35 inches and 40 inches, lt is certainly not an arid zone. [More…]
I am not against Australia’s entering the field of nuclear power, but I strongly condemn the combined Government and AAEC ludicrous facade of secrecy by which the Government gags its own expertise by way of the iniquitous provisions of the Crimes Act, the Atomic Energy Act and the Commonwealth Public Service Act. [More…]
This is the only thing which will give the Parliament power to protect Australia’s natural resources and guarantee Australian’ cor:porate independence. [More…]
At the moment section 51, placitum (xx), of the Constitution confers on the Parliament legislative powers with respect to foreign corporations and trading or financial corporations -formed within the limits of the Commonwealth. [More…]
The High Court held on that occasion that the Federal Parliament could not control the behaviour of the companies under section 51, placitum (xx) - the corporation power. [More…]
The Commonwealth does have an alternate but less desirable option open to it in relation to controls over companies searching and mining for minerals with a view to export, that is, to use its power under section- 51, placitum (i), of the Constitution to make laws with respect to trade and commerce with other countries, and among the States’. [More…]
Under this power the Commonwealth could refuse to grant a mineral export licence to a company unless it was incorporated in the Australian Capital Territory. [More…]
money, by having the -Department do its job as it should, as only it can, when this Parliament has legislative, power over companies that are participating ; in our national development? [More…]
I deal now with the subject of uranium in relation to Australia’s future nuclear power needs and to the selection of the reactor type for the Jervis Bay installation. [More…]
The advantages are: Firstly, cheaper fuel cycle than with fully enriched reactors; secondly, probable cheaper unit costs for power generation; thirdly, boilers are not required external to the core; fourthly, the use of pressure tubes for the coolant means that. [More…]
Mr Davy on 17th December 1969, agreed to present to the symposium a paper entitled ‘Ecological Factors in the Siting, Design and Operation of a Nuclear Power Station at Jervis Bay. [More…]
The only paper prepared and submitted for approval was entitled ‘Ecological Factors in the Siting, Design and Operation of a Nuclear Power Station’. [More…]
Nuclear power (Question No. [More…]
Add to the Constitution a clause giving power to the Commonwealth Government to act to safeguard any species of wildlife that is endangered through any cause. [More…]
The setting up of munitions factories as strategic points had drawn in the necessary labour power from the local and surrounding towns. [More…]
Is it true that the High Court of Australia over a period of years has said that the defence power increases or decreases according to whether there is war or peace? [More…]
Did Mr Justice Williams say that this power is one that expands or contracts according to the dangers to the security of Australia and that the power is peculiarly one with respect to which it is the duty of the High Court to be satisfied as to the facts? [More…]
As there has been no referendum on conscription, as there is no state of war and as there are a number of servicemen who are prepared to defend this country but who are unable or unwilling to serve in Vietnam, will the Minister arrange for a test case, by way of a stated case, to be submitted to the High Court to determine whether the legislation which compels servicemen to fight in Vietnam in a time of peace is within the ambit of the defence power of the Constitution? [More…]
I think that the firstpoint to make to answer this question is that there is no power under the Constitution for a stated case to be made to the High Court. [More…]
As to the main purpose of the question, the honourable gentleman apparently thinks that there is some shortage of defence power to authorise the legislation. [More…]
The defence power certainly does expand according to the degree of danger. [More…]
Were any other sites besides Jervis Bay considered for building of Australia’s first nuclear power station. [More…]
They gel themselves into these positions by assiduously applying themselves to union work, and having attained office they then use their influence, power and position to serve their political purposes, and too often they drag by the nose unsuspecting Australian Labor Party members. [More…]
As his initiative in this case was made possible only because the company concerned was incorporated in the Australian Capital Territory, I ask: Will he adopt a policy to give this Parliament more power over Australia’s natural resources by informing companies searching and mining for minerals, with a view to export, that the Government will not grant them an export licence for their produce unless each company concerned is incorporated in the Australian Capital Territory? [More…]
Europe, lt has negotiated, a treaty with West Germany because it has ambitions of becoming a super military power. [More…]
Russia has pursued the policies of a super national power and a super military power in extending into the Indian Ocean. [More…]
In the past Britain, a small nation compared to continental Europe, could usually rely on alliances to preserve a balance of power in Europe. [More…]
I think he said: ‘There is power in the streets, power in the universities and schools’. [More…]
This was done by governments of all political persuasions which were in power during those years. [More…]
If my memory serves me correctly, Labor was not in power in 1951. [More…]
When the Labor Party gets into power - and it will - its policy will be gradually to abolish sales tax, except for luxury items, and replace it with a more graduated scale of income tax which is an equitable tax. [More…]
1 say, frankly, that what they have put forward is not based on any economic realities and that if Labor were in power at this time - and God forbid - it would have no possible hope of reducing the incidence of sales tax. [More…]
What are the respective (a) advantages and (b) disadvantages to Ausatralia if (i) natural uranium or GO enriched uranium is adopted as the fuel for our nuclear power stations. [More…]
Under Australian conditions, the costs of nuclear power derived from natural uranium and enriched uranium may not be very different. [More…]
Cost of power is, however, not the only consideration. [More…]
Natural uranium power ‘ stations generally have higher capital costs than enriched fuel stations. [More…]
Australia has adequate resources of natural uranium to sustain a nuclear power programme. [More…]
Purchase of enrichment services overseas would cost a considerable amount of foreign exchange, and would make the nuclear power industry dependent upon the ability and willingness of foreign powers, at present only one, but in the future perhaps two or three, not only to continue to supply, but to do so at an acceptable cost. [More…]
Pursuant to the power given to it by Section 128 of the Papua and New Guinea Public Service Ordinance the Papua and New Guinea Public Service Board in its circular of 1st September 1970 issued the following directions to all officers and employees of the Papua and New Guinea Public Service in amplification of the Regulations. [More…]
In view of the general point made by a small number of commentators on Papua and New Guinea that the Pacific Islands Regiment in a postindependence situation might be inclined to take power because of its cohesiveness and discipline, can the Minister give an indication of what steps are being taken to inculcate a sense of political neutralism into the Pacific Islands Regiment? [More…]
The Army is well aware of the experience of other newly emergent countries which has shown that concentration on purely military training is not sufficient to ensure that the Army’s potential for power is not used for undesirable ends. [More…]
As the organisers, including one Labor member of this House, have said previously that the Country Party has ceased to be a power in the community, and as these opinions are contradictory, can the Minister clarify the position? [More…]
That, in accordance with the provisions of the Public Works Committee Act 1969, the following proposed work be referred to the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Public Works for investigation and report: Construction of an electricity supply power station, Alice Springs, NX [More…]
The proposal involves construction of a new power station to replace the existing station and to meet, increasing demands for power supplies in Alice Springs. [More…]
On this occasion the Government is considering the construction of an electricity supply power station at Alice Springs, which is a rapidly developing area and which is my home town. [More…]
Let us see also what these’ so called substantial income tax reductions will mean to their spending power. [More…]
If the taxable income were $2,500, which would mean that the man was earning more than $60 a week, the proposed tax reductions would give each member of his family the colossal increased spending power of 16c a week or. [More…]
Need I remind Opposition members, after all, that other Labor governments - the British Labor Government and the Australian Opposition when it was in power - administered taxation but they did not administer it so as to assume maximum growth. [More…]
For example, in the United Kingdom under the Labor Government it was found that between I I per cent and 14 per cent of households were at poverty level and it increased during the period that the Labor Government - the Democratic Socialists - had power. [More…]
In South Australia while our friends have power in that State. [More…]
The last time they were in power they were responsible for increasing the unemployment rate in South Australia by more than it had been increased in 2 decades. [More…]
income levels, it tries to claw back from those people, distribute it elsewhere and in fact commit the errors of the British Labour Government when it was in power for many years. [More…]
This evening, when referring to some rise in unemployment figures in South Australia, because there is a different government in power there to what he thinks should be in power, he had the bide and temerity - in fact, I should say. [More…]
Even the shareholding restriction on private companies is not effective, because the original shareholders in such companies can be allowed to retain shares with 25 per cent of the voting power after the takeover, or they can be required to give an option to the acquiring shareholders to enable the latter to purchase the shares with the 25 per cent of voting power within 7 years. [More…]
The Authority has the power to recommend temporary duties. [More…]
Did he notice that the same Mr Nicol said that the Prime Minister is power drunk? [More…]
The second comment I make is that whilst the Commonwealth has a responsibility to do all in its power to offset the difficult transition that is involved in the migration of people from one country to another, we should never reach the point where migrants in this community are placed in any position of preferment or privilege vis-a-vis Australians who are born here. [More…]
These Americans wield great power and they have deliberately caused chaos in the industry. [More…]
As 1 said before, it is a lack of uniformity and that insidious power in the hands of American personnel that is causing disruption in the industry. [More…]
Honourable members will be aware that when the Canberra College of Advanced Education was established in 1967 it was not given the power to award degrees for the satisfactory completion of courses. [More…]
Existing section 7 confers on the Minister power to erect lighthouses and other marine marks and allows faint to add to, alter, remove or vary the character of a lighthouse. [More…]
This arrangement overcomes problems of both a legal and practical nature concerning questions of exercise and delegation of the power by the Minister. [More…]
It is impossible with the great expansion of Commonwealth activities in this field for the Minister to be personally involved in the exercise of all the powers under the section. [More…]
It is thus proposed that the powers set out in this section should be exercised in the ordinary way by Commonwealth officers, with the Minister having the overriding responsibility, as roust always be the case. [More…]
When the Lighthouses Act was first enacted, it relied in the main on the Commonwealth’s constitutional power in relation to’lighthouses, lightships, beacons and buoys’. [More…]
It thus draws on the external affairs power under the Constitution to cover any apparent deficiency of a power that might otherwise have existed. [More…]
It is sometimes forgotten that the Commonwealth’s power over social services comes under section 51 of the Constitution. [More…]
As such, it is a concurrent and not an exclusive power. [More…]
So, as I say, it is a concurrent power. [More…]
If a Labor government were in power here - it is quite thrilling to bear this said by Liberals from time to time - which they knew would respond adequately to their needs, their claims would cease to be unnecessarily moderate. [More…]
The Labor Party would ruthlessly use the financial power of the Commonwealth to impose its views on what it considered was the most desirable way in which to run health services in Australia. [More…]
This is another thing that puts us on our guard and makes us realise that in this field, as in so many others, the Labor Party will ruthlessly use the financial power of the Commonwealth to impose control from Canberra. [More…]
The thermal power stations in New South Wales, where the reactor is to be located, are well known to be amongst the most efficient and cheapest producers of electricity in the world today. [More…]
The Government is back 20 years in its thinking and its attitude is enshrined in the archaic Atomic Energy Act which goes back to the early 1950s - an entirely different era when the United States and Russia were hugging to themselves the secrets of the construction of atomic weapons and also the secrets of nuclear power generation. [More…]
An atomic reactor at Murray’s Beach, Jervis Bay, is a sitting nuclear bomb ready to be exploded by enemy craft, not to mention the mishaps that can occur even in peaceful power generation. [More…]
There is the possibility of the supply of power. [More…]
That the proposed expenditure be reduced by SIO as an instruction to the Government that a select committee of this House should be appointed to inquire into and report on the uses of nuclear power in relation to- [More…]
the projected power needs of the Commonwealth; [More…]
the comparative advantage derived from generating power in this way as against all other sources now being employed; [More…]
the effects of the establishment of a nuclear power station upon the environment; [More…]
the desirability of establishing a nuclear power station at this time pending the outcome of further technological developments taking place elsewhere. [More…]
In addition, one of the questions that I posed to the Minister in this place some time ago was as to whether or not his Department or in fact the Government had concerned themselves in any way in the matter of what ought to be done in the national interest insofar as constitutional reform was concerned in the setting up of a nuclear power station. [More…]
It is true that information has been revealed concerning nuclear power in Australia. [More…]
In the United States for instance the Congressional Joint Committee on Atomic Energy has overview of all aspects of nuclear power. [More…]
A few examples of ils Hearings are: ‘Prelicensing Antitrust Review of Nuclear Power Plants’- 696 pages 1969 and 1970; Naval Nuclear Propulsion Program’ - 312 pages 1970; and ‘Environmental Effects of Producing Electric Power’, two volumes the first containing 1108 pages in 1969. [More…]
Over the last 2 years the Canadian Senate Science Policy Committee as part of its terms of reference has looked into the question of nuclear power. [More…]
Periodically, and prior to the start of its nuclear power programme, the British Government published white papers setting out its programme, the first being in 1955 - Command paper No. [More…]
When British power stations are proposed there is an option for public hearings prior to construction. [More…]
In 1967 the House of Commons Select Committee on Science and Technology published a report on the nuclear power industry. [More…]
This committee has a sub-committee on nuclear power policy and another on exploitation of power reactors. [More…]
Most parliaments have a comprehensive standing committee system within which one committee will have the authority to examine nuclear power legislation, or policy problems or administration. [More…]
The United States AEC is in the position where it initiates proposals, gives advice on their acceptance, runs a nuclear power programme, sets radiation standards, monitors its own operations- [More…]
We have a centralisation of power in Australia which is quite remarkable. [More…]
The honourable member for Cunningham (Mr Connor) in rather an unkind way referred to the Government’s intention to establish the first nuclear power plant at Jervis Bay. [More…]
By comparison the policy of the Opposition appears to be one of stagnation and its action in relation to these estimates, when we are moving for the first time into the field of nuclear power, indicates again its particular approach. [More…]
The whole of the Opposition approach to nuclear power seems to be on the basis that it is something entirely new in the world. [More…]
If we look at the position we find that to the end of 1969, outside of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics respecting which we have no complete records, there were 91 reactors with an overall installed capacity of 13,833 megawatts of electric power. [More…]
One of the main reasons why Australia is coming into this field a little later than some of the other developed countries is that we have had a sufficient supply of fossil fuels available for the generation of electric power. [More…]
The honourable member for Lang did pose a number of questions relating to the amendment which he moved and he said, in explaining one reason why he wished to delay the project, that an examination should be made of the projected power demands in Australia. [More…]
He said also that a study should be made of the effects of nuclear power on the environment. [More…]
It has no voting power. [More…]
It could well be made in Australia by an Australian, if we had an Australian such as Mr Newton N. Minow in a position of power and with the intestinal fortitude and intellectual insight to make such a speech. [More…]
Examples of Commonwealth measures include: a broad range of assistance to the ‘naturally decentralised’ rural industries (bounty/subsidy payments, tax concessions, marketing arrangements, special rural credit); the financing (in whole or in part) of a large number of development projects, such as the Snowy Mountains Scheme, Rail Standardisation, the Townsville-MountIsa railway, Beef Roads, the Brigalow Scheme and the Ord River Scheme; provision of financial assistance by way of loans to help finance the construction of a thermal power station at Gladstone; the establishment of Commonwealth defence installations at Salisbury and Edinburgh leading to growth of Elizabeth and Commonwealth investment at Woomera; provision of finance for rural roads under the Commonwealth Aid Roads arrangements; a petroleum price equalisation scheme which reduces price differentials between metropolitan and rural areas; provision of mining and mineral exploration incentives; and financial assistance for travel by rural workers under certain circumstances. [More…]
It has not the power to initiate inquiries or to make comprehensive assessments of conditions in the 3 armed services. [More…]
The Government relies absolutely on us accepting the right of Government supporters to speak on most matters when they wish, although the Standing Orders often give us an alternative power, but on every occasion in the last 12 months when we have asked the Government to apply the same ethic to us our request has been denied. [More…]
In Canada the national parliament has plenary power with respect to the criminal law- [More…]
Coming to the first part of the honourable gentleman’s question, which was on a rather different subject matter, 1 can say that the suggestion that the States refer power to the Commonwealth was not on the agenda for the meeting which I attended in Perth last week. [More…]
The Attorney-General of South Australia and I had a warm conversation - warm in the sense that it was friendly - because I was very pleased by his announcement that the Government of South Australia proposed to legislate to refer power to the Commonwealth. [More…]
In conclusion, I want to say this: Unless the Commission is permitted to fulfil the role given to it by the Constitution, with an apparent as well as actual, impartiality, 1 am afraid it is destined to just melt away, to be remembered by historians as a dream that might have become a reality but for a Prime Minister’s prostitution of his political power. [More…]
It is conducive to industrial anarchy because it recognises the strength of union leaders in positions of power and authority in those areas where the withdrawal of goods and services from the community or industry would be extreme for those persons. [More…]
That is what I mean by industrial power. [More…]
What I mean by industrial muscle men are the union leadern possessed of that power. [More…]
It is inflationary, and inflation is destructive to the community and to the workers who do not have that industrial power. [More…]
The ALP is both opportunistic and submissive to the power of union officers of whatever Party. [More…]
It is opportunistic because it wants to attract the support of people with voting power in the ALP organisation and in the unions. [More…]
It knows full well that the wage drift goes to the powerful unions and that 85 per cent of the community - the clerks, the carpet layers, the architrave builders and these sorts of people - do not have industrial power. [More…]
In our egalitarian society, where we judge that a man’s skill ought to be rewarded by the possession of skill, his willingness to work and the way in which he works, we believe that wages should be determined by relative wage justice and not by the possession of industrial power. [More…]
The major capacity in a money sense as distinct from a real sense would be distributed among the powerful unions. [More…]
So we would have new strata - the strata of those with high wages and therefore higher living standards would be those working in the industrial power area. [More…]
The other people - the remaining 85 per cent of the work force - would not enjoy the benefit of the living standard of those people working in the industrial power area. [More…]
But, periodically, we will find that the powerful trade union leader wants to strike the Commission down. [More…]
People on the other side of the House, influenced by the power of trade union leaders, must support them. [More…]
What has been happening in this industrial field is that that which the powerful union leaders want to destroy - that is, the Commission - they first rob of its probity. [More…]
In office, the Australian Labor Party would erode the Commission to the benefit of the musclemen and the powerful unions and to the disadvantage of 85 per cent of the workers. [More…]
Tt would disadvantage the wage earner who does not possess the power. [More…]
I would have thought that the honourable member had been in this House long enough to have read the Commonwealth Constitution which, of course, illustrates quite clearly that this Government has no power whatsoever - except under the Defence Act - to fix prices. [More…]
It is therefore quite wrong to say that this Government has not taken any action relating to the control of prices; under our Constitution it has no power to do so. [More…]
They would not have the power to go to the employers and fight for their causes. [More…]
Its power flows from section 51, placitum XXXV of the Constitution. [More…]
We all know that the Government has no direct power to make laws controlling prices or wages or implementing price or wage policy. [More…]
This is not to say that it should not have the power and should not work out such policy in a proper way. [More…]
was to proceed blindly in its work of industrial arbitration and ignore the industrial, social and economic consequences of what ii was invited to do or of what, subject to the power of variation, it had actually done. [More…]
If Australia wants a naval presence anywhere that means anything it must have a Navy nuclear engined and missile equipped; it must have submarines that are effective because they are nuclear powered; and it must look at its lamentably slow and weak patrol boats and replace them with vessels of at least the speed and hitting power of the Royal Navy’s Gay Bombardier class. [More…]
The Government h;is made clear time and time again that the Australian Labor Party’s negative defence attitude of limiting Australia’s defence contribution to Australia itself - a policy which in all honesty I must restate has been made and forced upon the parliamentary members of the Australian Labor Party by their non-elected masters - is a repudiation of the responsibilities that we must show we are ready to share if we are to play the role in our geographic region made possible by our economic, industrial and technical power. [More…]
We have heard all sorts of calls to arms: Churchilliantype phrases about what the Russians atc doing in the world: reference to the terrible situation that is facing the poor little Government of Rhodesia; cries of violence in the street and political power being taken out of the hands of the duly elected representatives of Australia and reference to our refusal to recognise Communist China and a refusal to recognise that Australia should disengage from the war in Vietnam. [More…]
It is obvious that the 5-power arrangement between Malaysia, Singapore, the United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand is simply not satisfactory to the Malaysian Government, so it has recognised the situation. [More…]
We want to live in an area in which there are no more great power rivalries, and we want furthermore our neutrality to be backed by two Communist powers.’ [More…]
In any event, since this Government has been in power there has been this deterioration in the defence forces, and it has manifested itself in a most acute form in the past 5 or 6 years. [More…]
How then is 1970 different from previous years and how does 1970 demonstrate this Communist growth of international influence and power more clearly than in any previous year in the 20th century? [More…]
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics now is the most significant power in the Mediterranean and has control of the Suez Canal. [More…]
The armies of die Warsaw Pact countries are the most powerful in Europe in 1970. [More…]
The forces of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation were the most powerful in 1960. [More…]
Add to the Constitution a clause giving power to the Commonwealth Government to act to safeguard any species of wildlife that is endangered through any cause. [More…]
I understand he is saving: Would the Commonwealth Government be prepared, if it had the power and not the State Government, to permit people who I think are squatting on Garden Island without any right to the land on which they live to retain their homes and shacks built in that area? [More…]
Will the Prime Minister also state what is immoral about a policy that admits almost 10,000 non-Europeans and people of mixed descent yearly, gives discretionary power to the Minister, has kept Australia’ free from racial hatreds and is based on the same principles as the immigration policies of practically every nation in the world? [More…]
This Government has been in power for 2 decades and the Minister for Housing now says that the Government wishes to achieve these aims as quickly as possible. [More…]
Labor says that more money should be made available for housing and that wider powers should be given to the Government to enable it to control housing, lt says that the Government should engage itself even more actively than it does today in the field of housing. [More…]
Labor says that if it were in power it would supply this money and the Government would operate in this way. [More…]
That was at the time Chifley was in power. [More…]
There is a lack of discretionary power for the Minister to act in respect of those technicalities, and there is little doubt that a large proportion of people who should qualify, if the intention of the legislation as announced on the eve of an election campaign were implemented, cannot qualify simply because of those technicalities. [More…]
We” would be foolish if we bought the best in technology in terms of the most advanced, in terms of speed, in terms of range, in terms of higher power, when we did not need it. [More…]
What he wants, and what we want is what we have always maintained, namely, that Communist China should cease its aggression against the smaller nations of South East Asia and should cease arming, helping and financing Communists in Indo China who are seeking to upset the governments that are presently in power in those countries. [More…]
One of the arguments against the sale of arms to South Africa is that it strengthens the South African nation, giving more power against its neighbours. [More…]
If we want to continue to talk about defence weaponry and so on, in the manner in which we have been talking, we should realise that Australia is in no different position from many other smaller countries of the world - indeed we cannot measure ourselves as a great world power - and that our whole thinking on defence has to be completely changed. [More…]
By a large majority in the 1967 referendum the Australian people gave power to the Commonwealth to legislate for the welfare of the Aboriginal people. [More…]
With the power of export licensing the Commonwealth has all the powers it needs. [More…]
It compares with the $2.4m provided for the Embassy in Washington - the acknowledged power base of the Western world. [More…]
I think it is a wicked and unnecessary thing - at least a very unnecessary thing - to shut a pensioner off from concessions which are very precious to him without pointing out to him how much he has gone over the limit.If he were told, it would be well within his power as a citizen to adjust his meansto bring himself back into the pension field. [More…]
I think that when these matters come before the arbitration tribunals it will be encumbent upon the Government to use the power under the Conciliation and Arbitration Act to intervene in the public interest and to put in the public interest the arguments against it or, at least, against too precipitate an arrival of it. [More…]
It is not even income, because it is specifically designed to replace lost earning power, lt is not regarded as income when a person who receives such a pension fills out his taxation return, but for the purposes of the means test it is regarded as income. [More…]
The pension is given freely to replace lost earning power. [More…]
The Minister sought to show by way of a complicated table that pensioners who have no means beyond their pension - the people who are really at the bottom of the income scale - were, in real terms of purchasing power, substantially above the poverty line datum as disclosed by the Melbourne survey. [More…]
Pensioners are not people with such power to exercise against the Government. [More…]
These measures might be described as the overhang, the vestiges, of what took place in this House on 12th June 1970 and subsequently in the Senate when there was an attempt to validate, by Commonwealth power, what had been declared unconstitutional by the High Court of Australia. [More…]
The Commonwealth saw a need to give assistance to the States and it used its constitutional power to bring forward Bills which would make valid those sections which had been found invalid. [More…]
If one maintains the argument that it is a regressive tax - 1 will come to the incidence of it in a minute because 1 think that is relevant here - and if one looks at the tax in terms of the whole of the Australian economy and criticises it in this way, then 1 believe one is assuming that the Commonwealth alone should have the power lo raise taxes. [More…]
That is a view which is nothing short of a plea for giving to the Federal Parliament practically the whole of the power to raise taxes in this country and I submit that, at this stage of our history al any rate, that is a very wrong course for us to take. [More…]
As to the quantum of this revenue, I understand it is an amount that can be calculated only by the States themselves, lt is a tax imposed by them, the Commonwealth merely lending its power to the States. [More…]
This brought us to the seventh episode when I think what could best be described as wheeling and dealing went on in the corridors of power. [More…]
He was concerned that the States would not have sufficient power to determine their own future and that by various means the States have had to develop a tax such as this in order to pursue their own paths of progress. [More…]
The Opposition has shown that it has an affection for that kind of taxation which it has implemented in those parts of the country where it has power and in fact in the State of Australia where this tax was to be increased more than any other the Labor Party welcomed the tax without opposition, without comment. [More…]
A 50c increase gives no additional purchasing power to the recipient. [More…]
It is not within the power of the Government to do it. [More…]
I was in this House when a Socialist government was in power - when it was selling the wheat growers’ wheat to New Zealand at less than its value. [More…]
It is not within my power or province, or within the power or province of the Government, to say which stations in what State will take a television programme that is being sent out. [More…]
The power of the Minister to fix rates will not be changed when lease rents are abolished. [More…]
It concerns the Commonwealth Government’s lack of emergency powers such as those recently invoked by the Government of Canada. [More…]
Does this mean that if, for example, a hypothetical state secessionist movement in Australia resorted to terrorisation the Commonwealth would not be able legally to invoke its defence power- [More…]
I content myself with saying that the scope of the defence power depends on circumstances. [More…]
It would be incorrect to say that the defence power could not be invoked in the case of widespread civil insurrection or civil war in the type of situation to which the honourable member adverts. [More…]
If the Government has determined that the Parliament should adjourn for the holding of the Senate election - nobody would deny that this must be done - it is within the power of thegovernment to call Parliament together after 21st November. [More…]
Therefore, I conclude by making 2 suggestions: The first is that, in my opinion, it is very important that the proposed Australian Wool Commission should, in its own right, have power to negotiate on freight rates, not merely when requested to do so by the Minister. [More…]
The increased freight will outweigh the gain to Tasmania’s industrialists of the electric power rebate which they get. [More…]
I can give him an assurance that the Government will do all in its power to introduce the Bill and have it dealt with in both Houses. [More…]
The assurance is that the Government will do all in its power not merely to introduce the Bill, not merely to have the Bill considered by this House, but to have it passed by this House. [More…]
So one can see that as far as the Constitutional powers of the Commonwealth are concerned no doubt whatever exists that the Commonwealth has the power to act in this way. [More…]
One weakness revealed by the incident was that neither the Government of Queensland nor the Commonwealth had the power to ensure that oil in the tanker was removed as expeditiously as possible. [More…]
We hope that the legislation will give to the Commonwealth the power to ensure that oil in a tanker is removed as expeditiously as possible and that when a ship runs aground, is involved in a collision or is in some accident which places it in danger the necessary precautions can be taken. [More…]
We hope that the necessary legislative power will be available to ensure that the owners, through their agents - either the shipping agents or the ship’s master - carry out the direction of the Department of Shipping and Transport. [More…]
5m thus far have led to an investment of $ 1,640m for hydro power works and multi-purpose river basin schemes, forest and mining industries, irrigation, drainage and related reclamation works, water supply, sewerage facilities and roads, railways, ports and channels. [More…]
In fact the United States of America - I grant it may be the power base of the Western world - contributes an estimated $202.7m. [More…]
The Commonwealth is required to pay for electric light and power consumed, arrange cleaning and ensure that the accommodation is maintained in good repair (fair wear and tear excepted). [More…]
The Commonwealth is responsible for light and power consumed and office cleaning. [More…]
The Commonwealth is responsible for cleaning of the leased area, payment for light and power and maintenance of the interior in good repair (fair wear and tear excepted). [More…]
The Commonwealth is responsible for light and power consumed, cleaning of the accommodation and is required to maintain the interior and its fittings in good repair (fair wear and tear excepted). [More…]
The Commonwealth is responsible for light and power consumed, cleaning of the accommodation and is required to maintain the interior and fixtures therein in good repair (fair wear and tear excepted). [More…]
Another item in its platform says that the Parliament should have the power to award conditions by legislation. [More…]
So the combination of the two would - but for constitutional reasons, I hope - empower a Labor Government to provide a 35-hour working week. [More…]
The economic and political climate is vastly different now from what it was in the immediate post war years when the public rejected the Commonwealth’s request for price control powers. [More…]
Labor does not see Commonwealth power to control and regulate the price structure in industry as being the control of every conceivable commodity price. [More…]
Rather the Commonwealth should have the power to intervene, when necessary, in those major basic industries, which exert a profound influence on the price level of the economy, such as steel, aluminium, oil, petrol and chemicals. [More…]
The present Liberal-Country Party Government throughout its 21 years of power has been opposed to any form of price regulation. [More…]
It has power under the tariff regulations and it should have power under the Trade Practices Act. [More…]
While admitting that the Commonwealth had no power in that field he suggested that we should have a national referendum designed to take that power from the [More…]
If the Labor Party comes into power and pushes ahead with its plan for a 35-hour working week it will be disastrous for you. [More…]
The major purpose of the Act at the time it was introduced was to provide means of examining those users of domi nant economic power or of collective arrangements. [More…]
The constitutional power that the Commonwealth possesses in relation to this matter is now being tested. [More…]
This is the pushfulness of powerful trade union leaders possessed of great industrial power and using it to force employers, by the use of naked force, to grant them wage increases and increases in conditions which the economy really cannot afford in real terms. [More…]
The vice of inflation, I assure honourable members, whether they know it or not, is the redistribution of income and assets in our community so that the persons who have assets or past savings, or who are wage earners in the non-powerful industrial areas, are the people who suffer. [More…]
There are old union members in the Opposition who have come up through experience in unions that have no industrial power. [More…]
They are being led; they are submissive to the strength and power of industrial musclemen, and it is time they learned the difference. [More…]
Perhaps the honourable member for Dawson has never been a member of a union or, if he has, it was of a union that possesses little power - of a union that possesses little capacity to influence political events. [More…]
In other words, the real standard of living of these people suffers a decline because they do not possess the economic power to maintain, to say nothing about improve, their economic position as do, say, the employers and the entrepreneurs of this country. [More…]
No-one that I know of is suggesting that the structure should be such that it would be a vast, bureaucratic machine exercising power over the prices of all commodities. [More…]
It is a salutary and rewarding exercise for industrialists, particularly the many of them in monopolistic positions who have at the moment in their own often inefficient, often greedy hands, the power of deciding prices, to have to submit their plans for increases to an independent office. [More…]
If Queensland had had a large scale water conservation and power scheme some years ago the aluminium smelter would not have been lost to the south. [More…]
This is one of the problems and one of the penalties that Queensland has had to endure because of a lack of large scale water and power scheme. [More…]
Basic data are necessary for the diversion and distribution of irrigation water and of course for the scheduling of power produced in the Snowy. [More…]
We have to know what our resources are so that we know exactly what is a safe yield of power. [More…]
Otherwise, the supply can be overdrawn so that power will not be available when it is required. [More…]
We have not been in power for 20 years. [More…]
The amazing thing about our projects is that they are all linked with the production of hydro-electric power. [More…]
When the Gordon River scheme is completed we will have 15 or 18 dams, arl producing power and some producing water for irrigation. [More…]
The Poatina irrigation scheme running to the north of Poatina through Cressy and Longford districts will be part of a scheme involving the use of water to produce power and the use of water for irrigation. [More…]
To have power to sell wool outside the auction system or have wool processed before sale in cases where such wool cannot be sold advantageously at auction. [More…]
This provision means that the Commission will have power to dispose of any wool purchased by it, or entrusted to it, in any way the Commission deems fit. [More…]
The Commission is empowered to purchase wool in two ways - through the operation of its flexible reserve price scheme after the wool had been offered at auction or, with the consent of the grower, before the wool is offered at auction in cases where it is considered that the wool cannot advantageously be sold at auction. [More…]
1 have raised with them some matters, which may ultimately require supporting State legislation, such as giving j compulsive power to the Commission to set the terms and conditions governing the sale of wool at auction; the control, if it should become necessary, of the private buying and selling of wool outside the auction , system; and the enforcement of standards of clip preparation for wool sold outside the auction system for use within a State. [More…]
The Australian Wool Industry Conference has asked for an assurance that the Commission should not have the power to establish quotas on wool production in Australia. [More…]
Such a power has never been envisaged for the Commission and, in any event, the Commonwealth Government could not, for constitutional reasons, confer it on the Commission without the approval of the States. [More…]
provides that the Commonwealth Parliament has exclusive power to make laws for the peace, order and good government of the Commonwealth with respect to any place acquired by the Commonwealth for public purposes. [More…]
For example, it will be necessary to modify provisions of State laws that confer judicial power on bodies that are not courts within the meaning of Chapter III of the Constitution. [More…]
However, the regulation-making powers would extend no further than necessary for purposes of this kind: if the Commonwealth wished to make other changes - for example, if it wished to increase the penalties for assault or other crimes committed in Commonwealth places - it would have to do so by separate legislation. [More…]
Where a State makes an arrangement, its authorities will be given the powers, functions and duties under the applied provisions just as if they were still State laws. [More…]
However, if a State does not make an arrangement, its authorities will not be obliged to perform any duties under the applied provisions, though they would have power to administer the provisions if they so wished. [More…]
Legislation places the power to exploit the water resources and to supply water with the Crown, and through the appropriate Minister the function is performed by the Engineering and Water Supply Department. [More…]
What is true of water is, I think, true with equal force about such things as transport, power generation and so on. [More…]
Now, semi-government includes the bulk of power distribution in Australia. [More…]
What sins are afflicting honourable members opposite at the moment are their responsibilities, and they should not try to turn the argument away by asking what we would do if we were in power. [More…]
That was a blatant use of industrial power to serve political purposes- [More…]
The power and wealth of the Commonwealth are needed to deal with monopolies whose activities extend beyond State borders and beyond national boundaries. [More…]
The Commonwealth has the power to levy taxes. [More…]
In its stead there has been progression to a modern system of electrification, a very modern approach in the provision of power and the expansion and development of the city of Sydney. [More…]
The Commonwealth Parliament does not have the constitutional power to intrude into many of these fields which come within State laws. [More…]
1 am always encouraged to suggest this course of action when f remember that States, such as the larger ones which have a great deal of political pressure and a lot of political power to develop, do not go out of their way to allow their officers to submit evidence before a body of this nature. [More…]
Whatever cost advantages industry based in Tasmania once had because of cheaper power and other concessions have largely disappeared. [More…]
In other words, has the Wool Board any power of nomination in this matter, or does it just mean that the Minister will go and have a bit of a talk with the members of the Wool Board and that perhaps he will take their nominations into account? [More…]
There is nothing in this Bill to say that the Commission has the power to acquire this .wool compulsorily. [More…]
Apparently it has not got that power. [More…]
Also, it would appear - again this is something that is not clear from the Bill - that under clause 21 (b) the Commission has the power to acquire wool other than at an auction direct from the broker if that wool can be classed as being detrimental to the auction system. [More…]
But I ask: Has the Commission the power to do this? [More…]
I am a bit disappointed that the Australian Wool Commission will have no power to negotiate directly on freight rates on its own account. [More…]
But I would have liked the Commission to have this power in its own right. [More…]
Bill comes down against the fact that the Government has been in full power and control of the destinies of this nation and its industries for 21 years. [More…]
It will enable the Government to learn more about business, to learn more about the nation’s greatest export industry, after 21 years in power. [More…]
That is an interpretation of the lack of power in this legislation. [More…]
The Government must know that it is necessary to enter the top and yarn market, but after 21 years in power it still says that it does not know enough about this market to do it. [More…]
It would be easily within the power of this Government to pay the cost of an interest holiday for wool growers and then for the next few years to pay the difference between 8 per cent interest and 3 per cent interest. [More…]
The Commission has power to do, in Australia or elsewhere, all things necessary or convenient to be done for or in connection with, or as incidental to, the performance of its functions . [More…]
The Commission has power: [More…]
A new and spurious bogy in the 35-hour working week has been whipped up to compensate for the waning market power of Communism at elections. [More…]
This is where I believe the Commission has a substantial power to dispose of certain types of wool. [More…]
On what grounds were the sites at Bristol Point and Scottish Inlet in the Jervis Bay area considered unsuitable for the construction of a nuclear power station. [More…]
Has Commonwealth assistance been extended to State Governments for electrical power production. [More…]
In the first case, under the Tasmania Agreement (Hydro Electric Power Development) Act 1968 the Commonwealth is providing Tasmania with bridging financial assistance, subject to an overall limit of $47 million to assist in the acceleration of a five-year programme of electric power developments which include the Mersey/Forth scheme and the Middle Gordon project. [More…]
In the second case, under the Gladstone Power Station Agreement Act 1970 the Commonwealth will provide financial assistance to Queensland by way of loans to help finance the construction of a thermal power station at Gladstone in Central Queensland. [More…]
The amount to be provided by the Commonwealth for the project is proportionate to the total cost of the power station in the ratio of 80 to 155. [More…]
The estimated total cost of the power station (together with local reticulation) at 1968 prices is SI 55 million and on this basis the estimated total amount of the Commonwealth’s financial assistance is S80 million. [More…]
The relevance of this project to electricity generation lies in the fact that the principal initial market for the natural gas is the Torrens Island power station. [More…]
When it gets into power, if it ever does, will it rescind that Agreement, or has it thrown this pledge overboard? [More…]
It appears to me that it has taken power right away from the woolgrower representatives. [More…]
Also this would give them a voice in the authority and some power to select their own chairman. [More…]
We have managed to incorporate in the functions and the powers of the Commission the right to assist in the development of technical improvements for the appraisal and handling of wool and the introduction of such things as sale by sample which leads to very obvious cost savings. [More…]
It has enabled us to give consideration to the Commission’s having power over the rosters and the offerings of wool and withdrawing faulty types of wool thus preventing them going on to the market. [More…]
The plan has given the Commission power to purchase wool, have it processed and resell it as a semiprocessed product. [More…]
It has given the Commission power over the whole Australian clip and power over the private buyers if it is found that their activities are detrimental to the general interests of wool marketing. [More…]
Under our proposed amendment the Minister would have the power to remove them. [More…]
There is no power for acquisition. [More…]
I assume that the owner would have no power to intervene. [More…]
Under section 21(b) of the Bill the Commission has power to ‘buy wool at auction or otherwise’. [More…]
Under such circumstances, the Government would then have complete negotiative power with respect to the rate of interest. [More…]
This is apart from the injection of spending power that wool makes possible in the country and the cities. [More…]
In reviewing the evidence as shown in the transcript it is abundantly clear that the woolbuyers have a very close organisation and have such power among themselves to enable them to keep down prices. [More…]
The constitution, rules and regulations of the Buyers’ Association give power to a committee to refuse membership to any buyer, to call upon any member to resign, and to expel any member for any reason that the committee thinks fit, and the member has no redress or any right to take legal action in defence of his rights. [More…]
The Commission, as I read the Bill, will have no power to stop him doing it. [More…]
Tasmania, as with the smaller partner in any enterprise lacks the flexibility and bargaining power of its larger relations - most notably, of course, New South Wales and Victoria - in economic matters. [More…]
In Tasmania hydroelectric power most notably primarily filled that role in the half century following the First World War. [More…]
Has the Government adequate power to cope with attacks on individual freedoms which are becoming more prevalent in Australia? [More…]
-The attempt to make some comparison with expenditure in World War II in absolute terms, as the honourable member does, does not really make any sense unless the purchasing power of the dollar of today is compared with the purchasing power of the pound which was in use during World War II. [More…]
As I had indicated to the House previously, of the 9 tenders that had been received originally for the erection of the nuclear power station at Jervis Bay, 5 had been eliminated and a concentrated evaluation was being carried out on the remaining four. [More…]
In the absence of Commonwealth legal power to legislate outside the boundaries of Commonwealth property, the Committee urges State and local governments, which have this power, to work together in taking immediate steps to zone land subjected to acute aircraft noise exposure in such a way as to achieve compatibility between the airport and its neighbourhood. [More…]
lt was obvious from the inquiry and from the evidence which was presented to the Committee that local government and State authorities are not prepared to hand over to the Federal Government the right to plan in areas adjacent to airports, in the same way as we now have power under the regulations to control the height of buildings adjacent to airports. [More…]
Therefore, if they are not prepared to give this power to the Federal Government, at least they should co-operate and have some regard for the people who have to live near airports. [More…]
Firstly, the Government did not give the Committee the power to tackle properly the problem of aircraft noise; in other words to inquire and determine where the airports should be located. [More…]
I believe the Committee should have had the power to make recommendations to the Government about the location of an alternative airport for Sydney. [More…]
The Aircraft Noise Committee should have been given the power to report the siting of airports. [More…]
But he went on to say that the Government had not given power to the Committee to seek and to recommend sites for new airports. [More…]
It is regrettable to think that the national Parliament was not able to give to the Committee, which could perhaps have brought forward very reasonable suggestions on the matter, the power to inquire into the suitability of existing airports and to make recommendations about where future airports should be located. [More…]
Because we did not have that power we virtually were stifled in making a number of recommendations that would have been of great advantage. [More…]
The Parliament must take the responsibility, because whether the Committee should have that additional power was the subject of a vote here, and the power was denied us. [More…]
However, we will again bring this problem to the attention of our Senior Training Captains and ask them to do everything within their power to minimise the nuisance of noise. [More…]
Education and Science (Mr N. H. Bowen) foreshadows about the power to award degrees that will be conferred upon the Canberra College of Advanced Education, and also the establishment of a national accrediting body which will certify graduation degrees from colleges of advanced education around Australia, than it is for the measures contained in the Bill to change the composition of the Council which governs the Canberra College of Advanced Education. [More…]
There will develop from it, first of all, a university of Canberra, a teachers’ college and an institute of technology, and if the Government confers upon a college of advanced education the power to award degrees then that sector of it will develop and develop until it becomes a university, f would welcome this. [More…]
This brings me to the other main provision of this Bill, and that is the question of degree powers. [More…]
Therefore if we say this institution may now have the power of conferring degrees it means not one whit or one jot if in fact the degree is not worth anything or at least is not worth what we expect of a normal undergraduate degree. [More…]
The Martin Committee’s report suggested that colleges of advanced education should be established with degree conferring powers. [More…]
Therefore, we are conferring a very important power upon colleges of advanced education. [More…]
lt sets out to give a degree awarding power to the Council of the Canberra College of Advanced Education, to put it more on the level of universities. [More…]
This power has been sought after and demanded. [More…]
H was not given when the College was set up in 1967. lt was not Government policy to grant such power then, but the Government has now changed its policy and is giving a degree awarding power to the College. [More…]
When it was originally formed it had no power to award degrees, and as part of the general trend it is now to be given that power. [More…]
As it stands at the moment, of course, we are giving the power of appointment in an unfettered way. [More…]
The honourable member for Fremantle (Mr Beazley) spoke of the power to confer degrees. [More…]
It only gives a power; it does not say what degrees will be awarded. [More…]
It gives the power and capacity to enter into that field under certain circumstances. [More…]
However, as I say, there is already provision in a general way and the Council itself has this power to co-opt. [More…]
This again, with a very heavy weighting of Canberra residents, on it would enable it, if it so desired, to use that power to secure able people from the Canberra community to add to the Council. [More…]
It has no power or authority whatsoever. [More…]
Also on the Council is Mr Robert Broughton Lansdown whose power base, as it were, is the National Capital Development Commission. [More…]
If we have to register the process of inflation in expenditure for increased salary we should remember that there is the same factor affecting the actual purchasing power of money appropriated for university and college of advanced education buildings. [More…]
The Commonwealth has a pretty high power body, the Australian Universities Commission, which is supposed to make the triennial grants. [More…]
lt is not the punitive power of sending someone to prison. [More…]
A 24-foot roadway, a 5-foot footway, water, power and communication services and road lighting arc to be provided on the causeway. [More…]
As is the custom with most legislation, the power to make regulations concerning the national service system is conferred upon the Minister and the Department. [More…]
Therefore we ought to limit as absolutely as possible the discretionary power of the Department wherever it Rows through the national service system. [More…]
The first one was with regard to the Minister’s discretionary power on conscientious objection, which was discussed yesterday in the other place. [More…]
We must resolve this question of the complicated legalism that flows as much from the power to make regulations and the method by which they are made as from the law itself. [More…]
So I am trying to highlight the difficulties that the whole system imposes, the continuing contradiction between values, human rights and the power of the State and the mystiques that have developed around the national service system. [More…]
Under the Act there is power for the Minister to declare classes of people who will be given deferment. [More…]
To understand what has happened and the amendment to what I understand the legislation seeks to achieve, we need to bear in mind continually the division of legislative powers between the Commonwealth and Slate governments. [More…]
Tn some areas, the powers overlap. [More…]
In other areas, the powers do not overlap. [More…]
We all know that the Constitution gives power to the Commonwealth Government to make laws on the subjects which are set out in section 51 of the Constitution, and we also know that it imposes certain prohibition and restrictions on the Commonwealth Government, which have the effect of making some of the laws which it might want to pass invalid for one reason or another. [More…]
of the Constitution which gives to the Commonwealth the exclusive power to make laws in respect to all places acquired by the Commonwealth for public purposes. [More…]
This means, as it has now been interpreted in Worthing’s case, that the States have no power to make laws that relate to such places. [More…]
The draftsmen had to be careful that in giving Commonwealth judicial power to State courts and tribunals they complied with section 77 of the Constitution, because many State tribunals are not constituted in such a way that they can exercise the judicial power of the Commonwealth. [More…]
I am rather glad that it has been for only a year, because I can recall in one of the great debates that have taken place in this Parliament since I have been here - the off-shore oil debate or the Vietnam Moratorium debate - when he was thundering forth I almost slipped under the bench because of th: power of his oratory and the damage which I believed he was doing to the Parliament. [More…]
There was no power in any person other than the claimant to accept or reject an offer of settlement. [More…]
Pastoral leases are similarly subject to basic covenants and reservations set out in the Crown Lands Ordinance, including reservations of entry and inspection, reservations of all minerals, reservation of a power of resumption, reservation of timber, reservations in favour of Aboriginal inhabitants of the Northern Territory, covenants to pay rent, to use the land for the purpose for which it is leased, to stock the land in accordance with the provisions of the lease, to destroy vermin and noxious weeds, to allow free passage of travelling stock, to avoid pollution of streams and water channels. [More…]
If so, has this appraisal considered competitive world prices and public incentives provided for Australian production including (a) rail freight and electric power rate concessions, (b) double taxation agreements, (c) caustic soda import duty concessions, (d) harbour dues and (e) land and water rates, etc [More…]
The Minister will- recall that some time ago the Atomic Energy Commission called tenders for a nuclear power station at Jervis Bay. [More…]
Can the Minister say whether ‘.the Commission favours a power station using natural or enriched uranium? [More…]
As the honourable member well knows, there are considerable constitutional limits upon the strictly regulatory powers of the Reserve Bank in the field to which he has referred. [More…]
Although there is considerable limitation on the strict legal power, there is an opportunity to exert influence by discussion and by exchange of views with both the Reserve Bank and the Government. [More…]
In accordance with the previous intention of the Government, tenders were called for the construction of a nuclear power station at Jervis Bay. [More…]
The Opposition does not object to the new financial and banking provisions of the Bill, the repeal of the section limiting compensation payments or to the raising of the limits imposed on the tight of the Commission to purchase, dispose of and lease property, but it feels that the amendment which seeks to widen the powers of delegation of the Commission is open to criticism. [More…]
At present the Commission can delegate to a Commissioner or to the General Manager all or any of its powers except the power of delegation. [More…]
As the Postmaster-General (Sir Alan Hulme) said in his second reading speech, this restriction of the delegation of power has led to administrative difficulties in that only the Commission or the General Manager may, for example, incur expenditure or issue contracts. [More…]
The new proposal should allow for greater efficiency and more expeditious decisions, but I cannot understand why the restriction on the delegation of power to appoint officers of the Commission has been retained. [More…]
the power to appoint officers of the Commission; and [More…]
this power of delegation. [More…]
I ask the PostmasterGeneral (Sir Alan Hulme) to consider giving power of delegation of authority to the General Manager in relation to appointing staff. [More…]
Very few people who go overseas do not sign a power of attorney appointing people who would have full responsibility for their affairs and who in the normal course would receive all their correspondence and therefore have a substantial chance of knowing what had taken place in relation to such a matter as this. [More…]
I do not want to raise the whole issue of student power and student representation in institutions such as universities at large. [More…]
I believe that basically it is not doing students a great favour to take ever increasing numbers of their body on to the ultimate governing body of an institution such as a university for the purpose of making them feel they have power. [More…]
Unless they have a potential majority of votes, they do not have power; they have only the appearance of power. [More…]
The power is there. [More…]
This in turn has resulted in increased production and increased spending and purchasing power. [More…]
Are former employees of the Australian Atomic Energy Commission restricted., legally or otherwise, from contributing to public discussion on nuclear power stations; if so, why. [More…]
If not, does a presidential member of the Commission have the power (a) to enforce employer acceptance of such rates by the insertion of a clause to ban the reduction or retrenchment of staff, or the closure of a work place or section thereof or (b) lo enforce employee acceptance of such rates by the insertion of a strike-ban clause in the award. [More…]
ls there any power under the Conciliation and Arbitration Act to force an employer to continue the employment of the (abour at wage rates which the employer deems to be uneconomic. [More…]
Is there any power under the’ Conciliation and Arbitration Act to prevent an employer from reducing staff, or from closing a factory, or from closing portion of an undertaking, in cases where [More…]
a nuclear power station, other than the site selected al Jervis Bay. [More…]
1191 (Hansard, 19th August 1970, page 252) infer that confidential studies of the environmental and ecological factors in the siting of the nuclear power station at Jervis Bay had been made. [More…]
Question 1191 which the honourable member in substance has repeated in Question 1560 asked if reports could bc made available on some six factors (2 of which were the environmental and ecological factors) in respect of each site considered for the proposed nuclear power station. [More…]
I would add that in relation to possible dangers from the release there will be a continuing monitoring after the nuclear power station has been completed so that any effect of the discharge on the environment will be kept under constant observation. [More…]
Was the Western Australian State Government approached when the site of the first nuclear power station in Australia was being considered. [More…]
Has his attention been drawn to a recent announcement by the State Electricity Commission of Western Australia that it is now interested in the construction of a nuclear power station. [More…]
and (4) I have no knowledge of any recent announcement by the Stale Electricity Commission of Western Australia that it is now interested in the construction of a nuclear power station. [More…]
Can he say whether Hamersley Iron Pty Ltd has expressed interest in installing a nuclear power station in Western Australia. [More…]
I am unaware of any interest recently expressed by Hamersley Iron Pty Ltd in the installation of a nuclear power station in Western Australia although in recent years there has been considerable speculation in newspapers on the possibilities of establishing such a station. [More…]
The attention at departmental level to the question of the Commonwealth’s powers in relation to third party insurance referred to in answer to the honourable member’s question no. [More…]
679 (Hansard 1.10, 18th August 1970), related to particular proposals for a scheme of uniform motor vehicle insurance which had been put forward by Mr Power. [More…]
My reply to Mr Power dated 27th February 1970 commented as follows: [More…]
Your proposals raise issues which have extensive implications for many areas of Government activity, and while the Commonwealth Parliament possesses limited legislative powers in relation to some of the fields involved, it is the prerogative of the State Governments lo lake all the necessary action within their own boundaries. [More…]
In particular, only a State Government would have the power to alter the “rule of fault”’ liability as it applies at present within the State’. [More…]
and (3) These questions raise much the same issues as were raised by Mr Power. [More…]
Does he intend to present to Parliament the Annual Report of the Australian Atomic Energy Commission for 1969-70 prior to the acceptance of the tender for the Jervis Bay Nuclear Power Station. [More…]
If either of the tenders for nuclear power stations using heavy water are chosen (a) what will be Australia’s annual requirements for heavy water to the year 1990, (b) at what stage will a local heavy water plant be justified, and (c) what are the likely sources of supply before such a plant can be built in view of the Canadian difficulties with the Glace Bay plant. [More…]
Can he provide information on the Government’s plans for nuclear power station development in Australia showing,- in particular (a) projected electrical energy power demand annually until 1990 and (b) projected nuclear power electric generation capacity annually until 1990. [More…]
The answer to the honourable member’s question is as follows: (() and (2) The Commonweatlh Government has no plans at present for nuclear power station development other than those associated with the proposed Jervis Hay project. [More…]
Power developments are primarily Stale matters but it is known that Stale Governments’ plans in respect of future nuclear power development are by no means firm nl present. [More…]
Has the Atomic Energy - Commission investigated Doctor dc Bruin’s concept of a combined nuclear power and water desulination plant for South Australia if so with what result. [More…]
Has the Minister stated that unit power generation costs from a 500 MW station will be higher than an equivalent coal fired station. [More…]
Has the United Nations recommended that the maximum sized station for the initial ‘ unit in a nuclear power programme should be 300 MW. [More…]
If so, can he indicate if the more comprehensive training and experience obtained in operating a 500 MW nuclear power station will be sufficient lo justify using a station of this size rather than a smaller station for which the subsidy required will be less. [More…]
The suggestion of locating .a combined nuclear power and water desalination plant in South Australia has been considered. [More…]
I have said that generation costs of the proposed Jervis Bay Nuclear Power station are expected to be higher than those of large new coal fired stations’ situated on the New South Wales coal fields. [More…]
I am unaware of any recommendation by the United Nations that the maximum sized stations for the initial unit in a nuclear power programme should bc . [More…]
Has any agreement been reached with any of the three governments who are parties to the agreement for collaboration in the development and exploitation of the gas centrifuge for enriching uranium (Great’ Britain, the Federal Republic of Germany and the Netherlands) regarding the supply of centrifuge technology to Australia if Australia should accept a lender for the nuclear power station at Jervis Bay from either the Nuclear Power Group of Great Britain or KraftwerkeUnion of West Germany. [More…]
Has the South Australian Government submitted a proposal to the Commonwealth to connect the South Australian and Victorian electric power grids with a view to establishing a nuclear power station to supply both States with electricity. [More…]
Are suitable sites available for this type of nuclear power station in the south-east of South Australia. [More…]
Would the economy of this type of power station be competitive wilh fossil fuel plants. [More…]
At the present time a nuclear power station would not bc economic in South Australia as electricity can be produced more cheaply from oil or natural gas. [More…]
Jervis Bay Nuclear Power Station (Question Nu. [More…]
Will he provide details of specifications required of all tenders for the nuclear power station at Jervis Bay relating to: [More…]
However all radioactive discharge from the Jervis Bay nuclear power station will he controlled to limits less than 1/10th of those specified as safe by the International Commission on Radiological Protection, the internationally recognised expert body on the matter. [More…]
Has his attention been drawn to the recent publication “Ecological Factors in ;he Siting, Design and Operations of a Nuclear Power Station’ by Dr Davy, M. S. Giles and E. Charash. [More…]
will he inform the Hou<e when and where Australian data relevant lo the ecological hazards associated with constructing a nuclear power station al Jervis Bay will be published with special reference lo (a) concentration factors of critical radionuclides in marine organisms found in the Jervis Bay area, (b) movement In tritium through the marine food chain of So:. [More…]
The paper presents a general discussion of the current approach lo ecological considerations for the siting of nuclear power stations and does not contain da in relating specifically .to. [More…]
ls he able lo state whether the United States firms Westinghouse and General Electric have developed nuclear power reactors which claim io reduce emissions of radionuclides to near zero levels by the development of sophisticated air hold up systems. [More…]
ls it a fact ibm this new system will only add about $1,000 per megawatt to the cost of a nuclear power reactor. [More…]
will he investigate the possibility of having such a system incorporated into the proposed nuclear power plant al Jervis Bay. [More…]
type accepted for the Jervis Bay nuclear power station,, and then the building of fast breeder reactors as soon as they become available. [More…]
The construction of nuclear power stations subsequent to the Jervis Bay plant will be the responsibility of the individual States. [More…]
For these reasons, it would not be prudent at this stage to commit Australia to a fixed approach to nuclear power. [More…]
Professor Sir Mark Oliphant, that the introduction of nuclear power to Australia should be delayed until fast breeder reactors are available. [More…]
ls he able to stale whether the first fast breeder power station is expected to enter the United Kingdom power grid well before 1980 and that a short time thereafter the majority of British reactors are expected to be of this type. [More…]
If so, will he consider delaying the introduction of nuclear power until these fast breeder reactors are available. [More…]
Subsequently the extent to which fast breeder power stations will contribute to the overall power supply of the United Kingdom will depend on the success of this unit. [More…]
It would be a mistake to delay the introduction of nuclear power to Australia. [More…]
What alternative sources of advice on nuclear- power, other than the Australian Atomic Energy Commission, are available to the Government (a) within the Commonwealth Public Service and (b) outside the Commonwealth Public Service. [More…]
Has the Government considered commissioning independent consultants to provide advice in the development of nuclear power in Australia; if not, why not. [More…]
Outside the Commonwealth’ Public Service the views of the Stales on nuclear power development will be made available- from the newly formed Commonwealth-States Consultative Committee on Nuclear Energy. [More…]
So far as the Jervis Bay project is concerned it has already been repotted that the Government has engaged the services of the Bechtel Pacific Corporation, lt is not considered necessary however to engage, independent consultants to provide advice on the general question of the development of nuclear power in Australia. [More…]
Nuclear power (Question No. [More…]
ls he able to say whether the Bolsa Island dual purpose nuclear power plant was ‘ejected by the Californian participants because the charge for water had increased from 22c lo -37c per 1,000 gallons. [More…]
If so, in view of these relatively high costs, will he initiate a detailed investigation with the object of establishing a dual purpose nuclear power plant in South Australia, instead of proceeding with the costly Jervis Bay project, which appears to be uneconomic in terms of the cost power. [More…]
Consideration was given to the construction of a dual purpose nuclear power/desalination plant at Bolsa Island, United States of America, but the project was abandoned because of poor economics, lt was estimated that the cost of water from the proposed plant would be in the range of 91c per 1,000 gallons for a 50 million gallons per day plant down to 56c per 1,000 gallons for a plant producing 150 million gallons per day. [More…]
There would appear little advantage in considering the installation of a duplex plant of the type proposed until the construction of such plants has been shown to be feasible by those countries with advanced nuclear power programmes. [More…]
Was the Australian Atomic Energy Commission established in 1953 becaues of (a) the increasing demand for industrial and domestic power, (b) Australia’s then limited resources and (c) the contention that nuclear power could provide a significant economic advantage over conventional power. [More…]
Is it a fact that oil and coal deposits discovered since 1953 have extended the guaranteed projected industrial energy supply by at least 100 years, while the economic promises of nuclear power have not eventuated. [More…]
to promote the search for and mining and treatment of uranium in Australia, with power to buy and sell uranium on behalf of the Commonwealth. [More…]
Promises of nuclear power have in fact eventuated and nuclear power is at present making a major contribution to the energy needs of highly industrialised areas such as the United Stales, Europe and Japan. [More…]
To enable Commonwealth and State Departments and Authorities involved to gain experience in ordering, constructing, commissioning and operating a nuclear power station. [More…]
If so, why is the Commonwealth entering this field of power production which is the responsibility of the Slate Governments. [More…]
Is it a fact that two-thirds of the cost of nuclear power arises from fixed charges such as capital cost and interest. [More…]
If so, how can the price of nuclear power become competitive with conventional power which has been shown to have remained constant since 1953. [More…]
and (2) The actual cost of production of electricity from all Australian coal fired power stations is not available in any published form. [More…]
These average selling prices to a great extent reflect variations in cost of production at power stations; in addition however they include costs of transmission and reticulation and the running costs of the electricity instrumentalities. [More…]
It is acknowledged that power production is primarily the responsibility of State Governments. [More…]
Conventional power stations in Australia’s Eastern States are very advantageously placed for fuel, water and proximity to load centres. [More…]
Nuclear power is already competitive in major industrial countries overseas which have passed through the stage of the favourable circumstances we at present enjoy. [More…]
Conventional stations have been developing over a long period and the scope for further technological development is becoming limited: nuclear power is a relatively new field still possessing considerable room for further technological advances. [More…]
If so, should nuclear power installations be designed not only for electricity production but also for the production of- additional fresh water. [More…]
Are there any reasons why it would not be better to invest in an experimental dual purpose reactor for the desalination of water as well as the production of electricity instead of the Jervis Bay plant designed only for industrial and domestic power production. [More…]
There is little merit in the -proposal for Australia’s first nuclear power station to be a prototype nuclear power/desalination complex. [More…]
Was his attention ever drawn to a press report of 14th October 1968 wherein the French Government, in a case where it had no power in law to prevent a share transaction, by an expression of disapproval effectively stopped a plan for the Fiat company of Italy to buy Michelin’s controlled shares in Citroen and so preserved the independence of the French firm. [More…]
1 went on to say that, although we expect the need to arise only on rare occasions, as a Government we reserve the right to do all in our power to prevent particular takeovers when, in the circumstances of the case, we would consider it to be bad in the national interest. [More…]
The Conciliation and Arbitration Act provides that, subject to the power of removal on the ground of proved misbehaviour or incapacity which applies to Commissioners and Conciliators as well as presidential members of the Commission: [More…]
In view of the Prime Minister’s answer to the honourable member for Macquarie in which he implied that there would be no increase in pensions m least until the presentation of the next Budget, does the right honourable gentleman agree that the purchasing power of the pension has been reduced since the pension was increased by the miserable sum of 50c following the Budget presented last August? [More…]
A rise in the consumer price index, which is the bench mark which has always been taken in these matters, does indicate, as it has indicated in past years, that there has been a reduction in the buying power of pensions since the last rise. [More…]
The last rise in the last Budget was sufficient to bring the buying power of the pension back into line with what it was the year before that, this taking place after 2 Budgets in which the buying power of the pension had been considerably raised in a period of time by, I believe, more than it has ever been raised before in a similar period of time. [More…]
The South Australian Government has within its power and jurisdiction the right to take the decision to seal the 300 miles of the Eyre Highway or to commence sealing it. [More…]
The short title - Immigration (Education) Act 1970 - indicates that the source of power for the Bill derives from the immigration provision in the Constitution. [More…]
Everyone knows the great binding power of small groups. [More…]
It is indicated that the data that is collected by the Department of National Development is integrated with the data provided by the Bureau of Mineral Resources and the Water, Power and Geographic Branch. [More…]
The screen was pulled down and the power leads were torn out. [More…]
While an arbitral tribunal deriving its authority under an exercise of the legislative power given by s. 51 (xxxv) must confine itself to conciliation and arbitration for the settlement of industrial disputes including what is incidental thereto and cannot have in its hands the general control or direction of industrial social or economic policies, it would beabsurd to suppose that it was to proceed blindly in its work of industrial arbitration and ignore the industrial social and economic consequences of what it was invited to do or of what, subject to the power of variation, it had actually done.’ [More…]
A scheme which would provide civilian service as an alternative for all national service registrants could be construed as “man power” control, in which case there would not be a constitutional basts for it at the present time, and would probably not be acceptable under the ILO Conventions.’ [More…]
If not, is it a fact that the opinion of the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission in relation to its power is binding on the Industrial Court. [More…]
If the Commission has such a power, does this deny the Court the right to exercise a judicial power reserved to it under the Constitution. [More…]
Has he considered (al the effect of such protection on the purchasing power of wages and the consequential demand for increased wages, (b) the extent to which full employment is dependent upon the present level of protection and (c) the costcmployment benefit of the present level of protection. [More…]
Will these requests be considered when formulating the 1971 budget or a supplementary budget to increase the purchasing power of pensions beyond their present declining levels. [More…]
Thus the increase in the pension rate for this period was about double that necessary to maintain purchasing power as measured by the consumer price index. [More…]
Uranium is not only a valuable mineral and the probable future source of much of the world’s future industrial power, but it is also a material of strategic importance. [More…]
This being the Grievance Day debate, it is my intention in the brief time available to grieve on behalf of two of my constituents who, despite their great financial burden, have made tireless efforts to give their two lovely children every comfort, aid and medical assistance within their power, although, according to expert medical opinion, the life expectancy of their children is not in excess of 10 years. [More…]
Wage increases paid to employees in marginally profitable industries, in Commonwealth and State semi-government enterprises and in the Public Service, will fail increasingly to make up for the loss of real buying power sustained by such groups. [More…]
They are all matters over which the Government has no more power today than it had 1 1 years ago when the Constitution Review Committee completed its report. [More…]
Last October the present AttorneyGeneral (Mr Hughes) expressed his pleasure at the announcement that the Dunstan Government proposed to refer the power to the Commonwealth. [More…]
The Prime Minister also said that if the High Court held part of the Act invalid, the Government would consider seeking more power by referendum. [More…]
Management of Australia’s economy has for too long been undertaken on the basis of inadequate powers. [More…]
Failing co-operation or reference by Liberal State governments or upper houses, Labor is willing to seek through referenda those powers without which, as Liberal governments have now 4 times demonstrated, effective economic management is a myth. [More…]
We will seek in particular effective power to eliminate restrictive trade practices and retail price maintenance and to control credit outside the banking system. [More…]
It would also reduce purchasing power and consequently reduce demand. [More…]
What that did was to pump into the economy not S720m extra of purchasing power as stated by the Commission but S900m or more. [More…]
I do not think that there is any economic mechanism within our power which can possibly overcome the effects of the Arbitration Commission decision, ft has made a decision. [More…]
This brings me to the statement made by the Leader df the Opposition during a Lahor-in-power conference last weekend that the Government was taking action which deterred private capital inflows into this country. [More…]
Increases in the pay packet are a cruel illusion when the buying power of each of those dollars is eroded by inflation. [More…]
Excessive wage and salary demands, illegal strikes, defiance of the law or irresponsible use of bargaining power must be met with firm opposition from this Government. [More…]
The ordinary citizen or worker does not have the power to start or carry on inflation. [More…]
The third area in which money can be obtained as a result of pure economic power is that of the few hundred giant companies which can take vast sums of money from the public for the sale of their products enough to cover all costs and to provide for great programmes of expansion and take-overs as well. [More…]
This is where the power to cause inflation lies. [More…]
To start inflation and to keep it going one has to have economic power. [More…]
Those who have the power to start inflation and carry it on can be seen from the statistics of company taxation. [More…]
The remaining 138,175 companies had the remaining 44 per cent of income and they would be small companies without any real power at all. [More…]
The power to determine prices, and therefore to start and carry on inflation, lies with some of these 936 giant companies. [More…]
The power to determine prices is the power to start and carry on inflation. [More…]
Inflation cannot be dealt with unless that power is dealt with. [More…]
These companies can turn away from stock exchange speculation when it suits them, bid up the price of land, erect multi-storey office buildings, take over companies until the snowball ceases to roll and then millions of other people have to pay for their power and folly. [More…]
This kind of massive growth in big business expenditure, based on massive big business profits derived from the power of massive big business to fix its own prices, could not go on without serious inflation. [More…]
The crucial thing about inflation is that it is a result of economic power and it is derived from economic power. [More…]
It is caused by the ability of the giant business concerns to take money from the public otto create it themselves to use their vast resources to increase further their own wealth and power. [More…]
Like everything else inflation is a matter of economic power and the more power one has the more one can cause inflation and the more one can gain out of it. [More…]
Inflation cannot be dealt with unless there is some countervailing of this economic power. [More…]
Inflation cannot ever be dealt with unless the Government acquires enough power and builds up a system of national planning to arrive at programmes of private investment as well as public investment which are not in excess of what the nation s resources can carry and ensures that no business concerns or any other concerns exceed those requirements. [More…]
Certainly in its own expenditure the Government has power to contribute to inflation and the present Government and its predecessors have allowed some forms of government expenditure to expand to extravagant levels. [More…]
We deal with inflation as it is occurring and where it is occurring and, as I have said and as the Treasury Information Bulletins’ confirm, inflation starts with the giant business concerns, the banks and other concerns and the great industrial empires which have independent power to get money and to use it to determine their own rate of growth. [More…]
In dealing with those companies something can be done by use of the powers of the Reserve Bank of Australia but there are weaknesses in those powers. [More…]
In dealing with the giant companies that cause inflation something can be done by taxation but it must not be forgotten that those giant concerns have the power to avoid taxation by passing it on in their prices as they have with everything else. [More…]
In no other way can the power of the giant companies be prevented from dominating this nation and its people. [More…]
Nevertheless the danger of inflation to our society and our economy is so serious that the Government must be prepared to take all useful actions within its power. [More…]
I know that this will be difficult for honourable members opposite, for it seems that they will promise anything to achieve power, even if they destroy the economy in the process. [More…]
It is that by increasing money wages beyond productivity people receive increased purchasing power. [More…]
This does not increase purchasing power at all. [More…]
The Prime Minister has indicated that we will not know our constitutional power until the High Court gives a decision in the pipe companies case which is before it. [More…]
The Prime Minister said that if the decision is that we do not have power, we will have to consider going to the people. [More…]
The Federal Government has the power to stop and to control the cumulative wage price spiral. [More…]
But the cold facts are that the Liberal Party-Country Party Government has been in power in this country for 21 years. [More…]
If that can be achieved then we can attain the real objective of most Australians and of this Government, and that is to see real buying power increased, flowing from increased real wages: to see continued expansion of industry to provide the employment we all say we want: to enable the building of the schools and hospitals the people want and to know that when plans and estimates are made by governments for such buildings the cost of the finished product will not exceed those estimates. [More…]
If a Labor government is not in office then it is the trade unions at fault, so in or out of power Labor can be blamed. [More…]
And it should be remembered that the Liberals came lo power with slogans of reducing prices and decreasing the size of the civil service by 10,000. [More…]
I want to add to that that I cannot be expected to know and the reason I cannot be expected to know is that the expertise available to the Government is not available to me; the power available to the Government is not available to me; and the facts available to the Government are not available to me. [More…]
This debate has thrown up a number of areas which demand at least consideration and, in some cases, early action, lt has shown the need for Commonwealth powers to regulate the fringe banking institutions. [More…]
It has shown the need for Commonwealth power on prices. [More…]
The extent to which prices are controlled is a matter for future consideration by governments as problems arise but, in general principle, the power has to be found. [More…]
It has shown the need, in the context of inflation, for fuller study of our tariff system, our immigration programme, our powers in respect of restrictive trade practices and of our taxation structure. [More…]
First, we should realise that we do not have constitutional power to do it. [More…]
Much discussion has centred upon price fixing but the Opposition knows that we do not have the power to enforce it. [More…]
But if the Trade Practices Act is ruled by the High Court to be invalid, action should be taken to see that we do get power to prevent collusive trading and unnecessary increases in prices. [More…]
I know that the States have the power to regulate prices. [More…]
The Commonwealth has not sufficient power to cover all its aspects. [More…]
Hie people of Australia will never give powers to the Commonwealth to govern all these demands, as my right honourable friend said a little while ago. [More…]
When he speaks of price control and getting the constitutional power for it we know what he means. [More…]
It is not elected by the people - the general public: - and it is about time this laissez-faire Government that has been sitting in power for over 20 years and which blames everybody but itself every time a crisis occurs, faced up to its responsibilities. [More…]
Why has the Government not used its taxation powers to curb this section of industry? [More…]
There are many powers within the Taxation Act which could assist in curbing and controlling the priorities within the monopoly sector. [More…]
Power is not lacking in our Taxation Act. [More…]
The Labor Party looks on it as a great black bear that frightens it and as something that will distract from its power or from the power of the unions. [More…]
But before I make those comments I would like to say that if we are to have such a system in this country - and that will be while ever the present Government is in power no doubt, and no doubt they feel a system as antiquated and alien as this is reflects the values they wish to foist on this community -I feel the people who are honoured should be honoured on more valuable grounds of merit than those that presently prevail. [More…]
A series of high power Japanese missions has visited Australia. [More…]
Electricity Supply Power Station at Alice Springs Northern Territory. [More…]
If it is to be run in the interests of a bureaucracy, of a party in power, of a government, of investors in the industry or of consumers without regard to the people involved, it is something which is known as ‘capitalism’ or ‘Communism’. [More…]
As honourable members know, there is what is described as subordinate legislation or the power to do certain things by regulation. [More…]
The improved services could be in the form of a relay station, a resident officer or increased power for the Renmark station. [More…]
The next proposition was that the Renmark station would be given more power. [More…]
But there seem to be some technical difficulties and one man from the Australian Broadcasting Commission whom I questioned on the subject said that if we strengthened the power at Renmark we would have to strengthen the power of a lot of other stations. [More…]
As the honourable member for Mallee has probably already told the House, at present the signal comes either from Horsham, which is some distance away from the Sunraysia district, including Mildura, or from Renmark, lt has been well known for a good many years that the signal coming from Renmark is of very low power. [More…]
The proposal to increase the power output of the Renmark broadcasting station might therefore be more attractive than’ a proposal to increase the power at the Horsham station, with consequent programming complications. [More…]
Whether the Horsham station should be upgraded, whether the power output of the Renmark station should be upgraded or whether there is room for a low output station at Mildura, I do not know But I support the remarks of the honourable member for Mallee. [More…]
If the stage has been reached when the Government of South Vietnam can send 40,000 or 50,000 troops into Cambodia - another country - and 10,000 or 20,000 troops into Laos - another country - it should be expected that that Government has the power to establish order in a small province some 40 or 50 miles from Saigon, a province more than half of which has never at any stage been strongly influenced by National Liberation Front forces. [More…]
The failure of the Government to make immediate adjustment in social service benefits to restore at least the purchasing power lost since the Inst Budget and its failure to ensure that no benefits fall below the poverty line established by the. [More…]
Inflation has eroded the purchasing power of all social service pensions by at least 3 per cent since the last Budget. [More…]
This sapping of the purchasing power of social service benefits is well illustrated in a table which, with the concurrence of honourable members, I incorporate in Hansard. [More…]
Not only are sickness and unemployment benefits defective in terms of purchasing power but they enforce a degenerating cycle of social behaviour which is crippling to human resources. [More…]
The purpose of this debate is to drive home to the Government the urgent need to, at the very least, increase social service benefit rates so that purchasing power lost through inflation is restored and so that in no case will payments be below the poverty line set in the Melbourne survey. [More…]
All that the Opposition is putting forward is a proposal to restore to social service benefits their lost purchasing power and, where appropriate, to lift those benefits to at least the poverty level. [More…]
That so much of the Standing Orders be suspended as would prevent me from moving: “That this House is of opinion that the Government should make immediate adjustment in social service benefits to restore at least the purchasing power lost since the last Budget and that immediate steps should be taken to ensure that no benefits fall below the poverty line established by the Melbourne survey into poverty.’ [More…]
Then, in short, the motion for the suspension of Standing Orders seeks to allow this House to decide whether pensioners or people dependent upon social service benefits should have their purchasing power restored to the extent that it has been eroded by cost of living movements, and whether pensioners should have their benefits lifted at least to the poverty level. [More…]
That so rauch of the Standing Orders be suspended as would prevent the honourable member for Oxley moving, That this House is of opinion that the Government should make immediate adjustment in social service benefits to restore ut least the purchasing power lost since the last Budget and that immediate steps should be taken to ensure that no benefits fall below the poverty line established by the Melbourne survey into poverty. [More…]
The Opposition lives on misery, it hopes for misery, and it wants to make misery because it believes that it will ride to power on discontent. [More…]
The failure of the Government to make immediate adjustment in social service benefits to restore at least the purchasing power lost since the last Budget. [More…]
When talking about the material standard of living of pensioners one should look at the value of their pension in terms of real purchasing power. [More…]
Allowing for the fringe benefits, which at present average over $5 a week, the real value of the pension under this Liberal-Country Party Government is almost twice what it was when Labor was last in power. [More…]
Do honourable members opposite remember what a Labor government did when it was last in power? [More…]
The record will show quite plainly that, when the Labor Party was in power, it did very little to advance social service benefits for the people in need in Australia. [More…]
As the Minister for Social Services pointed out earlier - I do not wish to dwell upon this fact - in the last year in which the Labor Party held power in Australia, that is, in the days of the Chifley Government before the present Government took office, prices were rising tremendously. [More…]
In the first Budget introduced by this Government when it came to power in 1950 the pension was raised by 75c. [More…]
I want to cite briefly some figures to show honourable members what has been done since this Government assumed power. [More…]
Let us now examine the value of the age and invalid pension in terms of purchasing power. [More…]
Many of us on this side would like to see a great deal more done, but it is not of much use raising pensions when people are deliberately eroding the purchasing power of pensions. [More…]
Those who suffer most from the erosion of purchasing power are the superannuitants, pensioners and people on small wages, particularly the family man. [More…]
Who are the main cause of their purchasing power being eroded? [More…]
But I want to stress very firmly that the erosion of purchasing power is by far the greatest enemy of the pensioner and the superannuitant, and- this has been promoted -and aggravated by too many members of the Opposition. [More…]
We want lo see a better deal for pensioners, but we first want to see that exploiters of the purchasing power of pensions are curbed, because it is not of much use increasing pensions unless we can make the purchasing power of the pensioners, the superannuitant and the man on low wages more effective. [More…]
Only by seeing some Labor governments in power could they properly judge such alternatives. [More…]
This Government has been in power for a long time and the reason is that the people have looked at the composition of this side of the House in an analytical manner. [More…]
If the Opposition came to power obviously the honourable member for Maribyrnong would stand by his principles. [More…]
The Minister’s powers are very limited indeed. [More…]
He has power only over those things that are brought into the country. [More…]
He has power only as the customs officer of the country. [More…]
He has no power to prevent any printery from printing anything it likes. [More…]
As I understand the position, he has no power to prevent any film maker from making what he likes. [More…]
Legal advice was received to the effect that it was not within the constitutional power of the Commonwealth to provide further funds for this purpose. [More…]
Would this not be contrary to the spirit of the referendum in which the Australian people gave the Federal Government power to legislate for the good of all the Aboriginal people? [More…]
We cannot act immediately on these other matters because we have not yet entered this field and in the interim we have no power to influence good management in these companies. [More…]
This wording implies that a single quorum is contemplated over the totality of the meeting of the House in which it exercises its powers. [More…]
If, however, there is power to have different quorums for different purposes, then the second defect arises. [More…]
In recent times this Government has granted a foreign power the right to construct in this country installations which will la the future, I regret to say, endanger the lives of Australians and the very existence of Australia as we know it. [More…]
1 understand that 3 States and the Commonwealth, which has power to .legislate in the Australian Capital Territory and the Northern Territory, are already .preparing legislation and that the other .States are preparing submissions for their Cabinets. [More…]
Even a provision giving the Commissioner of Taxation a discretionary power would be something, but I suggest that the proper course to adopt is to clarify the position now by stating that expenditure incurred in pursuance of a contract made includes the complete installation costs. [More…]
Earlier I asked whether or not there was any provision within the Act and whether there was any discretionary power vested in the Minister by the Act to exempt people from being called up on compassionate grounds. [More…]
Having heard the statement of the representative of the administering Power, [More…]
Invites the administering Power to cooperate fully with the visiting mission and to provide it with all the necessary facilities and assistance in the performance of its tasks; [More…]
Calls upon the administering Power to prescribe, in consultation with freely elected representatives of the people, a specific time-table for the free exercise by the people of Papua and the Trust Territory of New Guinea oftheir right to self- determination and independence, and to report to the Trusteeship Council and to the Special Committee on the action taken in that regard; [More…]
Requests the administering Power to intensify and accelerate the education and technical and administrative training of the indigenous peoples of the Territories and the localisation of the public service; [More…]
If these reports are correct it seems that with the bulk of American air power committed to Laos, the Canberra squadron has been committed to routine operations in the corps area. [More…]
Now with a major campaign in progress the Americans and South Vietnamese are calling on every ounce of airpower. [More…]
The neutrality of Laos has been shattered not for a few months, not for one or two years but for nearly 10 years by the active participation and aggression of North Vietnam in that part of what was once Indo-China It was not South Vietnam and the United States of America which shattered the myth of neutrality in Cambodia, as the honourable member for Wills (Mr Bryant) well knows and as he reported courageously in view of the environment of his own colleagues; it was the blatant aggression by North Vietnam and the determination of the Cambodian people to stand up for their own independence that ended Sihanouk’s regime, placed the present Prime Minister in power and began their struggle for independence. [More…]
If this were to happen the bargaining power of the trade union movement to obtain wage increases for its members would be reduced. [More…]
If you reduce the bargaining power of the Labor movement you create a pool of unemployed, which is the very thing we have been so concerned to avoid in this country for the last 2 decades. [More…]
It is a much different proposition completely to alter the existing tariff machinery so that Australia is no longer a country of protection, enabling our industries to prosper, but becomes instead a free trade country into which goods may be imported cheaply and, incidentally, very profitably for those involved with their importation, at the same time reducing the bargaining power of the trade union movement. [More…]
This is shown to have been a wanton official misuse of power. [More…]
I know, and every honourable member knows, that the State must possess immense powers to set aside individual rights even to the extent of individual injustice in a time of grave emergency to the State. [More…]
These powers exist for this kind of emergency but they have been exercised in a situation where no shadow of such an emergency appeared. [More…]
Thirdly, the land on which ‘Edrom’ stands fronts the ocean and a powerful overseas company has made an offer to Mr : Home for that land for a competing wood Chip industry. [More…]
I wish it was within the power of this Parliament to order it. [More…]
heat, light and power, (ii) telephones and (iii) water and sewerage for (A) government (i) primary and (ii) secondary and (B) non-government (i) primary and (ii) secondary schools in the Australian Capital Territory for each of the years from 1958-59 to 1969-70. [More…]
On 20th August 1970 the Governor-General pursuant to the power conferred by section 15 of the Papua and New Guinea Act gave instructions to the Administrator of the Territory of Papua and New Guinea. [More…]
The difficulty that is manifest is that unions and union leaders are using their industrial power to force these over award payments in order to receive money increases, forgetting altogether that the money increase turns out to be an illusory increase for it is only a money increase and does not constitute a real increase in purchasing power. [More…]
Despite its 21 years of power, the Liberal-Country Party Government has refused to recognise that national investment in natural resources is an essential requirement for the efficient use of those natural resources. [More…]
It would be eastern power based, if I can use that phrase. [More…]
The Commonwealth has the main financial strength to finance these projects, but it has not the power under the Constitution to take over the building or to make the decision as to what shall be done within Australia. [More…]
With regard to potential, the Clarence Valley would compare with the Snowy-Tumut development where the 2700 ft fall between Tumut Pond Reservoir and the outlet of Blowering Power Station is utilised, lt ls a question of a comprehensive investigation into a dual purpose scheme for both power and irrigation. [More…]
I recognise that there are elements of nationalism in the Saigon Government which are worthy of election by the people and I am quite sure that had the Vietnamese been allowed to govern their own affairs they would have shared power in a coalition with other elements, whether they, had been the National Liberation Front, the [Buddhists or other political parties opposed to United States involvement in their country. [More…]
They ave expected to be at all times subject to the direction of the civil power - completely subject. [More…]
Its powers are most limited in terms of finance; it has manpower. [More…]
The civil defence organisation has no legal power, for instance, in relation to a cyclone. [More…]
The civil defence organisation has not (he same power in Queensland as it has in New South Wales. [More…]
The clean air of public opinion should be allowed to flow through Canberra’s musty corridors of power. [More…]
The other objection, the Prime Minister will say, as he did on television last night, is that he cannot see how anyone could move a motion of no confidence in a government which had been in power only two or three days. [More…]
The factor which made for the destruction of the former Prime Minister more than any other factor was that he was not a safe man from the point of view of the stock exchange, business, Press proprietor, power complex. [More…]
Ever since he attained power in the Liberal Party and Packer’s man Alan Reid wrote the book against his attainment of power he has been a Packer target. [More…]
This event is of enormous significance because it means that having tasted power the forces which overthrew the former Prime Minister have been encouraged to go from strength to strength and from domination to domination. [More…]
In the last week we have seen a Prime Minister destroyed in a Press campaign of unprecedented power, lt was unanimous in the direction of its hostility and co-ordinated between the major daily newspapers. [More…]
There is a legitimate power of the Press. [More…]
The legitimate power is not exercised by setting out to destroy one individual by a biased selection of facts, as was done to the former Prime Minister. [More…]
Nor is that legitimate power exercised by setting out to build up an individual by glamourising him and romancing about him. [More…]
The power of the Press would legitimately be exercised in maintaining standards of government. [More…]
This debasement of public life was not criticised by most papers and the then State Premiers apparently took their premium shares and put themselves in moral debt to powerful foreign interests. [More…]
Baldwin summed up their aim by saying: ‘What these magnates want is power without responsibility, the prerogative of the harlot throughout the ages’. [More…]
Labor, a Party kept out of office by policies repugnant to the majority of Australians, now seeks to force back door entry to power. [More…]
One of the tenets of our Party - the Labor Party might take a little notice of this - is that it will not accept money from any organisation that might seek to- exert a power of dictation in the activities of this Government. [More…]
The plain fact is that these countries have viewed the conflagration in Indo-China as a power play between big powers who could not care less about the peoples of South East Asia. [More…]
The United States is a global power. [More…]
When the Liberal-Country Party Government came to power in 1949 only 39.15 per cent of the people of pensionable age were in receipt of pensions. [More…]
Furthermore, the increases which have been made by this Government have very substantially increased the purchasing power of pensions. [More…]
‘Put out more Socialism’, respond the sages of power in the ALP. [More…]
It is not a one-off job; it is not the building of a power station or the approval of a port where, having spent the money, one can say it will be right for another 20 or 30 years and we can forget about it. [More…]
It is 5 per cent, which is more than double what it was when the Government came to power 20 years ago. [More…]
First, there are the mainland territories of the Commonwealth, in respect of which this Parliament has plenary legislative power. [More…]
I also referred to the reduction of the power of State governments and local governments. [More…]
Bishop Crowther also has expressed solidarity with Black Power which relies on terrorism. [More…]
Some who possess power, and want a situation in which they take the best of the arbitration system and its benefits, put the system in jeopardy by saying: ‘Irrespective of what we have gained by the use of force we will press for more.’ [More…]
As the honourable gentleman would know, the Act gives the Minister for Customs and Excise, or his delegate, power to admit under by-law or duty free those goods for which a suitable equivalent is not reasonably available in Australia. [More…]
Amendments should be made to the Australian Wool Commission Act to give the Commission power, if authorised by the Government, to acquire wool and to abandon the auction system if this be in the interests of wool growers, the taxpayer and the nation. [More…]
At the same time the Commission should be given the power to negotiate and sell wool direct to manufacturers throughout the world. [More…]
The Commission should have, in regard to acquisition and disposal of wool, the same flexible powers over wheat as are possessed by the Australian Wheat Board. [More…]
After 21 years of uninterrupted power the Government has accepted repeated freight rises which are crippling industries, the wool industry among them. [More…]
My view at the moment is that the establishment of a superior court would be a further fragmentation of that judicial structure, lt is very easy to say: ‘Well, yes, it would be desirable to have this Commonwealth court to take over a number of areas of federal judicial power.’ [More…]
But there is power for the Attorney-General to refer matters to the law reform commission. [More…]
That power can be exercised at the prompting or suggestion of the commission itself. [More…]
While 1 commend the Government on the proposed erection of a S2.5m power station at Alice Springs 1 note that the Public Works Committee showed some concern about the delay in receiving the plans. [More…]
I hope that the delay which was thereby caused will not result in the citizens of Alice Springs being short of power in 1973. [More…]
-] support the proposal to augment the electricity supply to Alice Springs by the provision of a new power station. [More…]
a possible consequence of the ineffectual management of the proposal might be that Alice Springs will have a shortage of electric power in the winter of 1973. [More…]
When the term ineffectual management of the proposal’ is used it simply means the management of the proposal as it is brought to the Committee, the sequence of events and the timetabling which brought about the inevitable results that Alice Springs will be short of power by the end of 1973. [More…]
It was established to the satisfaction of government departments early in 1967, according to the expert evidence given to the Committee, that adequate supplies of gas were available in Alice Springs to meet power requirements - not just the requirements of the new power station but all the additional requirements which will inevitably flow from the development which is bound to take place in that flourishing area. [More…]
To a considerable extent oil for furnace or power purposes is still being imported. [More…]
The Minister for Customs and Excise (Mr Chipp) said that because the submission to the Public Works Committee was late there would be power deficiencies in [More…]
I want to emphasise that not only does this matter have a bearing on the supply of power but the fact is that if natural gas is to be utilised for any other purpose in Alice Springs a prior necessity is to integrate it into the power producing system; that is to say, it will never be utilised for any other purpose in Alice Springs unless it is used for the production of power. [More…]
I believe that it will not cost very much to convert this power station to gas at a subsequent stage. [More…]
I support the motion now before the House for the provision of more efficient power facilities at Alice Springs in the Northern Territory. [More…]
He has stated that if the power station is to be converted to natural gas it might cost up to $260,000. [More…]
That could mean that natural gas might become commercially available just after the installation of the power house facilities. [More…]
What we need for the Northern Territory is the cheapest possible power, in contrast to what has happened in the past. [More…]
The British North America Act gives the Parliament of Canada the exclusive power to make laws with respect to the criminal law, except the constitution of courts of criminal jurisdiction but including the procedure in criminal matters. [More…]
The State governments themselves readily admit that they are deficient in this field and need more resources for research, but if this research were done and these factors were established this Parliament would be the first to make the necessary funds available, lt could readily be done, and it is for that reason that the Opposition feels that it is essential to have research conducted in all fields and not have the Parliament ignored to the extent that we would not be able to initiate any aspect of research because we did not have this power under the terms of clause 6. [More…]
The point I want to make is that I or the Attorney-General of the day will have no power, as I see it, under the Bill as it is framed to hold up a hand and say: ‘You will not publish this and you will not publish that’. [More…]
I believe that clause 7 is defective in that it does not provide an additional power which would allow the Institute of Criminology to allocate financial assistance to the States for capital and recurrent expenditure on whatever conditions the Government thinks are, as a general policy guideline, nesessary to improve and expand the law enforcement, court, penal, parole and probation systems. [More…]
The honourable member implied that Bishop Crowther had advocated violent protest against the visiting Springbok team and that his expression of solidarity with the Black Power movement was an endorsement of violence. [More…]
The honourable member’s comment equating Black Power with violence is a testimony to his ignorance of the Black Power movement. [More…]
I can only assume that he has become somewhat confused with the terms Black Power’ and ‘Black Panther’. [More…]
I want to quote from a book entitled ‘The Black Power Revolt’, edited by Floyd B. Barbour. [More…]
I shall quote specifically an article entitled The National Conference on Black Power’ written by Chuck Stone. [More…]
I want to inform the honourable member for Lyne of these things because he appears not to have done any study whatsoever of the question of black power. [More…]
A week later SNICK’s chairman, Stokely Carmichael, marched through Greenville, Mississippi, leading the marchers in a new, militant chant, ‘We want black power, we want black power.’ [More…]
It scared the hell out of white people and that fear, voiced in shocked editorials and public denunciations from both white and black leaders, nevertheless ushered in the era of black power. [More…]
Thirteen months later, on July 20, 1967, the black power movement was formally legitimatized by the National Conference on Black Power in Newark. [More…]
I wish now to refer to the sort of programme that was undertaken at the National Conference on Black Power. [More…]
What the honourable member for Lyne does not understand is that black power means the use of the right to vote, the use of the legal rights of Negroes to gain their just rights and their human rights. [More…]
The Bunnerong power station - a public instrumentality - is also involved. [More…]
Whichever way one looks at Mr Hawke one sees that power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. [More…]
Today I place on record my condemnation of a Prime Minister who will not announce his Ministry, of Ministers who are uninterested, of those who are seeking only personal power irrespective of its effect on the nation. [More…]
I particularly emphasise the power it will have to make agreements in regard to salaries and terms of employment. [More…]
The second field of future activity of the Navy League should be to foster understanding in the community of the role of maritime power and the. [More…]
When the League is relieved of this administrative and financial load it should he able to devote more attention to expounding the role of sea power. [More…]
Yet we find that extreme criticism has been levelled at the action of the Commission in restoring some part of the purchasing power of wages and salaries formerly received by persons mentioned in the First Schedule to this Bill, lt appears to me that the Government feels that it is irresponsible for people such as the office holders covered by this Bill to expect to. [More…]
receive wages or salaries which will have a constant purchasing power. [More…]
As far as I am concerned I will do everything in my power, short of violence I suppose, or any real breach of the law, to prevent an act of violence being perpetrated against that young man in his being dragged off to Pentridge gaol or the minefields of Vietnam. [More…]
1 personally hold every member of the Government parties responsible and I will make certain, so far as it is within my power, that every one of my constituents, particularly those people who are of military age, know exactly where the Government’s responsibilities lie. [More…]
Victorian community and its many industries which are dependent on a continuous flow of power for their plants. [More…]
The Government is in power and it should be taking action now. [More…]
The rates proposed will not only be the highest on record in terms of money, but will also give to pensioners a greater purchasing power than at any previous time in Australia’s history. [More…]
A table has been prepared, having regard to the Consumer Price Index for the December 1970 quarter - the latest available - showing the actual purchasing power of the pension in force at various dates since 1947, expressed in terms of current prices. [More…]
The real level of the pension - that is, its purchasing power in terms of goods and services - is usually set at budget time at a level which, in terms of real purchasing power, generally, though not invariably, gives pensioners an increase. [More…]
In saying that it lifts the pension to a record level, not merely in money terms but in terms also of real purchasing power, I do not mean that the Government regards this as an ultimate goal. [More…]
If it does uphold the validity, the Act can be strengthened and lead to more internal competition, if the Court holds the Act in part invalid, then we will have to consider approaching the Australian people and asking them to give us more power to make the Act wholly valid. [More…]
The second challenge is larger and is separated into 3 main areas - Federal action based on international agreements: Federal action based on the legislative power of the Commonwealth; and Federal action to coordinate functions which are constitutionally the responsibility of the States. [More…]
Federal action based on the legislative power of the Commonwealth could include legislation for Commonwealth Territories, for areas of the continental shelf, for acts by departments under Commonwealth control such as the Postmaster-General’s Department and for various projects of national development. [More…]
The Commonwealth has power to levy taxes, lt could strive for uniformity by levying taxes in accordance with the legislation - for example, special taxes on pollution, tax incentives to encourage pollution control and, if necessary, a tax surcharge to encourage pollution control and to give grants to the Stales, local and semigovernmental authorities to ensure a system of policing the environmental effort. [More…]
The LiberalCountry Party Government in power there now has to face the problems left by 40 years of Labor government. [More…]
Problems could arise at Lucas Heights and subsequently at Jervis Bay and at all the other nuclear power stations which it is predicted will be established in the not far distant future. [More…]
We have the power to do it and having the power we must fulfil the responsibility to introduce these things; to give people a sense of security and to assure them that the community is concerned about their welfare and that in times of crisis need especially there will bc adequate support for them. [More…]
Even the honourable member for Sturt, with his power of insight, does not know. [More…]
We find that in 1946, when there was a Labor government in power, the base pension was 25.5 per cent of average weekly earnings. [More…]
The table incorporated in Hansard by the Minister clearly shows how this Government strove to keep pace- with the rising costs by increasing the purchasing power of pensions. [More…]
It is the purchasing power of pensions, not the amount - of pensions, which really counts. [More…]
If workers in industry with the power of their representation cannot keep pace with productivity, what chance has the pensioner? [More…]
Because of its high protein content - up to 96 per cent - the soya bean is by far the best of the edible fibres in terms of selling power. [More…]
I think it is fitting this evening that I place on record some facts associated with the Country Party proposals to gerrymander the Queensland electoral boundaries, a gerrymander that will certainly destroy democratic government in Queensland for many years to come and will guarantee that the Country Party-Liberal Party coalition will remain in power for many years, lt will also guarantee that the Liberal Party, now the junior party in the coalition, will have no hope of replacing the Country Party as the senior coalition party. [More…]
Those power crazy Queensland politicians - the Premier and the Leader of the Liberal Party - with their ruthless, Fascist style redistribution plan have gone to such lengths that the Liberal Party State Executive has demanded the rejection of the redistribution plan. [More…]
The subsequent redistribution of electorates in 1968 provided a striking illustration of the effect of these amendments, the disparity in electorate population and voting power and the complete negation of the principle of one vote one value. [More…]
That is why this undemocratic state of affairs and the system for which the Country Party fights and which it foists upon the Parliament by its ruthless use of power in the coalition must be changed. [More…]
There can be no doubt that democracy demands that electorates should have as nearly as possible the same population and equality of voting power. [More…]
With this Bill Labor would abolish country seats, and this is perfectly in line with the philosophy and policies utterly dominated by the big city votes, by Mr Hawke and the left wing union supporters and by the blind urge for power at any price. [More…]
Opposition members, particularly those who have been in this House a long time, think that if they do not get to power soon they will not get a ministry at all. [More…]
Old feuds and hatreds of Labor politics are revealed once again in the desperate attempt in this Bill to reach out for power. [More…]
In 1949, when this Government came to power, the gross national product was Sl0,000m; last year it had trebled to $30,000m. [More…]
For the past 22 years the Labor Party has been consistently beaten in its bid for power because people will not accept city orientated Socialist philosophies. [More…]
Today, once and for all, they have shown the people of Australia the sense of desperation and almost hysterical desire for power that resides within their bosoms. [More…]
Therefore, it seems proper that if a wage level is to be set within the maximum wage capacity of the less prosperous industries, it is only proper that the Arbitration Commission should be given full power to encourage industrial agreements for over-award wages and conditions in industries that oan well afford to pay above the minima set by the Commission. [More…]
Now that the judicial powers of the old Arbitration Court have been separated from the arbitral functions of the Commission, the creation of conciliation committees are probably within the power of the Parliament. [More…]
If they are not within that power, it only strengthens the Labor Party’s claim that a sensible solution of disputes between employer and employee cannot be finally and fully achieved without amending the Constitution. [More…]
A Labor government will, therefore, hold a referendum to seek approval from the Australian people for the removal of the anomalies and ridiculous restrictions inherent in today’s horse and buggy constitutional powers to settle industrial disputes. [More…]
The constitutional role of the Commission was perhaps best stated by its President, Sir Richard Kirby, in the 1965 national wage case, when he said that whilst price stability for the community at large should be considered - and I now quote him exactly - ‘to give it dominance rather than influence as one factor to be considered is not only wrong policy, but also something this Commission was not created to do, should not do, and has not the competence or power to do’. [More…]
We now have the absurd situation that if a demarcation dispute arises between a State union and a member of the State branch of a federal union, neither the Commonwealth Commission nor the State tribunal has any power to make a binding order for settlement. [More…]
When people try to say that their purchasing power has diminished, I point out that there are ample statistics to show that steady increases in real wages are taking place. [More…]
It is not within the power of this Government to legislate and to control in order to achieve greater productivity in this country. [More…]
In fact, it wants to reduce the level of wages and the purchasing power of wages in the community. [More…]
By heavens, I would not like to have been a widow with children when the Labor Party was in power. [More…]
The honourable member for Oxley (Mr Hayden) has made it clear that the rise in the buying power of pensions has been much lower than the rise in average earnings during the life of the Menzies Government, the Holt Government, the Gorton Government and the McMahon Government. [More…]
Within 14 months under the Menzies administration its value fell as low as 83c in real buying power below the pension level maintained by the Labor Government. [More…]
Yet over 22 years it has not managed to achieve anoverall increase in actual buying power. [More…]
On his accession to power the former Prime Minister, who has recently become Minister for Defence (Mr Gorton), announced the emergence of a new philosophy in relation to pensions under the Liberal Party. [More…]
The Gorton and McMahon Governments have restored that leeway and brought us back to the same old trend of increasing actual buying power by 1 per cent a year. [More…]
The decision was made to celebrate the Prime Minister’s accession to power. [More…]
If in 1947 a Labor Government could pay over 25 per cent of average earnings as the pension rate, there is no equitable or honourable way in which a government in this affluent society, in this lotus land as Mr Holt called it when he reduced the buying power of pensions, could justify paying less than 19 per cent. [More…]
I am prepared to accept the Government’s calculation that on 1970 prices the purchasing power of the Chifley pension would represent only $10.75. [More…]
The Government will respond by saying that pensions have increased in terms of purchasing power. [More…]
We must bear in mind the purchasing power of the pension today. [More…]
However it is the last pension that the Australian Labor Party was able to bring in, because it has not been in power for a very long time. [More…]
In point of fact, it is correct to say that not only in terms of money is it the highest level of pension but also - not by a big margin - it is in Australia’s history the highest level in terms of real purchasing power. [More…]
It is within the province and power of the Commonwealth to take action in this matter. [More…]
As it is impossible for this constituent to test the claim before the Supreme Court, and in view of what I have said, I ask the Minister to exercise his power as an act of grace and remit the small amount of tax that is involved. [More…]
Insofar as the acceptance of the qualifications depends on registration under State law, the Commonwealth has no power except in its own [More…]
Has the New South Wales Labor Council endorsed a campaign to win a 35- hour working week for the power industry in 1971 by direct strike action? [More…]
Will the Minister indicate the effect on the economy and on employment and conditions in other industries which are dependent on power? [More…]
The honourable member said power, which is a very critical industry throughout Australia, particularly in the State in which the honourable member is resident. [More…]
As I understand the situation, the honourable member was correct in saying that last night the New South Wales Labor Council unanimously adopted a programme in support of a 35-hour working week in the power industry. [More…]
I repeat that the Deputy Leader of the Opposition made no concrete proposal and gave no undertaking on behalf of the Opposition as to what it would do to increase the various rates of compensation payable if it were in power. [More…]
Imagine this young man,- standing against the Establishment, against power and privilege in this country. [More…]
I consider 1 would be acting irresponsibly as Minister if I did not take every step in my power to maintain the condemnation. [More…]
In addition an Australian hospitals commission would give a lead in modernising and regionalising our hospitals and a fuel and power commission would co-ordinate the operation and extension of [More…]
Commonwealth, State, semi-government and corporate power supplies based on coal, water, oil, uranium and natural gas. [More…]
Indeed the Opposition quite clearly wants to see economic problems because it feels that the only chance it has of obtaining power is to ride into office on economic difficulties. [More…]
The extra electrical energy required to drive them represented wasted money each year, as most of the power is used to move the weight of the train, not the passengers. [More…]
The people of Australia, this Parliament and 1 are still waiting to hear progress reports on the Ord River project, the beef roads scheme, the Nogoa scheme, the development in areas 1, 2 and 3 of the Brigalow scheme, the Burnett-Kolan scheme and the central Queensland power station project. [More…]
Certainly there is a case for this, but surely these areas, which are some of the poorer areas of Australia, are entitled to retain some of the royalties for the basic development of roads, power, education and health. [More…]
It is quite clear to anyone who has been listening to the debate that the whole purpose behind the Labor Party’s proposal is to indicate that Labor favours a system under which a central government has complete power over the whole of Australia. [More…]
Obviously this is what the Labor Party wants, because the Leader of the Opposition made the point that if Labor were elected to power it would negotiate a new financial agreement directly with local government, that is, from central government to local government. [More…]
Of course, centralism means the vesting of all power in the central government and the reduction of the State governments to puppets of the central power. [More…]
This means a spread of power. [More…]
Power is not centralised in one body but is spread throughout the Federal system on a national basis. [More…]
secure for the Commonwealth the growing and permanent source of revenue from the State earned increment in the value of land which comes silently from the mere accretion of population and from the exercise of the power of government. [More…]
Let us cease playing power politics. [More…]
The people have had enough of political interference with their earning power without any attempt to control costs, not only in the retail field but in the basic item so dear to every Australian heart - a home. [More…]
The official statistics also tell us that the purchasing power of the average wage and salary earner, that is his effective command over goods and services, has been rising by about 2i per cent to 3 per cent over the long term and by something closer to 4 per cent in recent years, again in round terms. [More…]
It is the purchasing power which in fact really counts. [More…]
In the flush of : his new power, on 7th February he went out of his way in arrogant condensation to tell Australia and the world that he would not be pushed into recognising China for the purpose of selling wheat. [More…]
The policeman has everything he has ever wanted to strengthen his arm when he comes to arrest people who may be guilty of a breach of law but now the policeman is to be given more power to read the riot act or the modern equivalent of it. [More…]
This Government is giving the power to disperse to anyone, be he a Nazi, idiot or lunatic. [More…]
That person is given the power to disperse in those situations where something that a group of persons might be doing is regarded as insulting. [More…]
The Minister said that duties of 30 per cent General and 20 per cent Preferential would apply to relays under reference, instead of the present duties of 7i per cent General and’ Free Preferential for power station and induction type relays, 474 per cent plus 5 per cent primage General and 221 per cent Preferential for telephone and telegraph relays, and 45 per cent General and 221 per cent Preferential for other relays. [More…]
Imports from New Zealand of power station and induction type relays would remain free of duty and other relays from New Zealand would be dutiable at 20 per cent [More…]
One has the feeling that most of the Australian people do not really know when they are free, nor do they know where power lies in Australia. [More…]
The public opinion polls seem to show that most of the Australian people think that power lies with trade union leaders, university students and street demonstrators. [More…]
The truth is that trade union leaders, university students and street demonstrators can do little more than plead aud cry outside the walls where power exists. [More…]
Power in Australia is held by those few hundred men of wealth who own or manage the great business corporations. [More…]
Power is held by the few nien of great wealth who own or manage the mass media of Press, television and radio, and who can dispose of a Prime Minister as soon as they make up their minds to do so, as they showed only a couple of weeks ago. [More…]
Members of Parliament, leaders of churches, professors of universities and heads of public services are little more than vassals of these men of power in industry, finance and the mass media. [More…]
That is where power lies in Australia today. [More…]
Power lies not with member of Parliament, bishops and professors little more than it lies with trade union leaders, university students or street demonstrators. [More…]
McMahon Government, this collection who are really puppets of the holders of power, does not propose to create better order at the stock exchange, . [More…]
to create better order amongst those people who so lack power that they .can do no more than protest in the street against an exercise of power. [More…]
The McMahon Government does not appear to’ know that Vietnam has been occupied by a foreign power since 1847. [More…]
Violence is inevitable because we are geared to America in every other way and America heads the wealthy, scientifically powerful forces of the world against the economically poor and suppressed coloured masses of the world. [More…]
The result is racial bigotry, military power and international exploitation - and that is the side we are on. [More…]
The economically poor and suppressed people, the wretched of the earth - of whom the Vietnamese are amongst the most wretched - will not any longer submit to this modern, scientific, religious affluent power, and because they will not submit to it violence is inevitable. [More…]
It was said by no less a person than Chief Justice Warren that this State law was merely a weapon let loose with devastatingly destructive power for the infringement of freedom. [More…]
University authorities have plenty of power to deal with students if they want to use it. [More…]
When I contacted the South Australian Police 1 was told that the police did not have power to remove these people from my office because it was Commonwealth property. [More…]
Perhaps he could explain how taking these young men to court is in fact an exercise of the power of the Commonwealth over the naval and military defence of Australia. [More…]
The South Australian Government in my view would be wholly entitled to release this young man from prison altogether and say to the Commonwealth: ‘Come and show cause that in fact this is a just and proper exercise of Commonwealth power’. [More…]
Who are the people who are prepared to use all the power of the law to suppress just union claims? [More…]
He has 37 per cent of the vote and exercises absolute power. [More…]
Authority is not power; authority carries responsibility. [More…]
With those people whom those opposite often appear to be backing - and in this debate certainly are - much power is exercised anonymously with the individual powermonger hiding within a group. [More…]
Dissident power has no such elective base and no public check to its aims except that of constituted authorities, in other words the Parliament and the law. [More…]
Surely if we have arraigned against us here parliamentarians of a determined and demonstrable quality exerting influence in their electorates and in this Parliament by their arguments, they will not find it necessary, as the honourable member for Lalor in particular does, to advocate that power should exist in the streets. [More…]
I worked long and hard to unseat a government that had been in power for 35 years. [More…]
But the fact of the matter is that as one gains in maturity and experience one is likely to hold the wheel of power. [More…]
It is depressing to think that we put this sort of power into the hands of people who, after a few years in the police force, develop this attitude to giving evidence. [More…]
Although I am not absolutely convinced one way or the other I can certainly see some arguments in favour of special powers being given to prevent the occupation of public buildings. [More…]
Commission, (c) Australia has not first sought, as required by the United Nations Charter, all possible peaceful means of settlement which include asking all powers involved to sign the Accords and to petition and submit all matters in dispute to the determinations of the International Control Commission, the International Court of Justice and United Nations instrumentalities and (d) there are reasonable grounds for presumptions that the Thieu Government came to power in Saigon due to massive foreign aid and maintains power by corrupt procedures and the Lon Nol faction threatened certain key members of the Cambodian Parliament to obtain a near unanimous vote ousting Sihanouk to offset his increasing international support, will he publish refutations in answer to these claims. [More…]
I do not want to be political about this, but I know that the Opposition has a tendency to want to see all power vested in a central government. [More…]
I believe, though, that the way through is not for us to dictate to the States, because we do not have the legislative power to do so, but rather to encourage the States to see the wisdom of what we have been putting forward. [More…]
Let me go through each of the elements of improved road safety and sum up what is being done by the Commonwealth within the constraints of constitutional power and administrative efficiency. [More…]
That dragging them out of the Department was strictly illegal, because until the Bill which is now before this House is passed there is no power to do that. [More…]
The Bill is necessary because there are many gaps in the law that should be filled; there are many inconsistencies that should be rectified; there are many penalties that should be made uniform throughout Australia so far as the Commonwealth has the power to do that; and in many cases there are penalties that should be made less harsh than they now are. [More…]
This is the sort of misuse of authority that brings the law into disrespect This is the sort of contemptuous use of power that brings Parliament into disrepute. [More…]
This Bill is designed to repress, to intimidate and to subdue these people at the whim of the administration or whoever happens to be in the power at the time. [More…]
The United Stales thinks that it is premature to be going along with the recognition of China, and it will be doing all in its power to secure the position of Taiwan China in the United Nations. [More…]
If we accepted the presumed policy of the Australian Labor Party that we should repudiate Nationalist China in favour of mainland China because of its greater power, does the Prime Minister believe that if we undertook this action it might well be that we would cause in the minds of the smaller nations of South East Asia with whom we have existing treaties doubt as to whether’ under the same circumstances we might well repudiate them in the future? [More…]
That the Committee, when considering the matter referred to it on 20 April, have power to send for persons, papers and records. [More…]
In undertaking this inquiry the Comittee may wish to have the power granted by the motion and in accordance with practice the question is proposed for the concurrence of the House. [More…]
I think honourable members remember quite well - some of us certainly - the standards which deteriorated very rapidly in a previous parliament when a Labor Government was in power. [More…]
I have felt the power of your position, Mr Speaker. [More…]
One of the things that used to incite me to a feeling of great indignation was the way in which supporters of the Liberal and Country Parties, who were then in Opposition, were treated by occupants of the Chair in those days when the Australian Labor Party was in power. [More…]
That will be to the eternal discredit of this Government because it and no-one else has the power to prevent the New South Wales Government from carrying out this crowning lunacy. [More…]
The view held by Government supporters is that democracy means that a government which wins power by gaining a majority of the votes is then constitutional and has the right to do virtually as it pleases for another 3 years. [More…]
If he listened to some of the debates that took place last year he would leuw that many honourable members on the Government side of the House regarded as offensive and usurping the power of Parliament and the Government that people should actually congregate outside this Parliament to express a view on Vietnam, on conscription and to try to bring influence to bear in order to change the view of the Government. [More…]
The police have unlimited power. [More…]
The matter came before the court and the magistrate, as I understand it, had the power either to fine those women up to $500 or order them to serve 6 months in prison. [More…]
We should not have taken the view that section 80 was intended to impose no real restriction upon the legislative power to provide what kind of tribunal shall decide the guilt or innocence on a criminal charge. [More…]
In other words, they were critical of what this Government does time and time again and has done consistently since it came to power many, many years ago by not having jury trials and by creating more and more offences, making them summary offences and putting them into the hands of the courts of petty sessions to be tried by a single magistrate, be he a good man or a bad man but a human being just the same. [More…]
Freedom of assembly in this country is on sufferance of the Government, State or Federal, which has power to cut it down or destroy it at any minute. [More…]
There is enough power in the law for a police state to be established in this country if the will of the Government and the circumstances appropriate for it were there. [More…]
Even if an assembly is not unlawful under this clause there is still power in the Bill for a member of the police force to act against the assembly, to act against anybody in it and to use appropriate violence and even severe violence in order to disperse that assembly. [More…]
The second point I would like to make in relation to this clause is that I do not think we should give to one man - a magistrate - power to determine the guilt of a person- for a crime punishable by imprisonment for 12 months. [More…]
I thought that the provisions regarding summary punishment were unreal in giving to a magistrate the power to send a person to gaol for 5 years without trial, dealing with the matter summarily. [More…]
of this clause and at the power which it gives to civilians, not policemen, to disperse a riot, it can be seen clearly that it virtually grants a charter of liberty to any individual who cares to break up a demonstration or assembly of any kind. [More…]
That is a most dangerous situation because it can be guaranteed that with powers like this it will be possible for agents provocateur, for members of the Democratic Labor Party, members of the Nazi Party and for other extremists of the right or, in other cases, extremists of the left, to cause violence. [More…]
(b) he is giving to any person at all the power to use such force as he believes necessary to disperse an assembly that has been told to disperse by a member of the police force of the rank of sergeant or above? [More…]
It is not a person who is asked to do so by a member of the police force and it is not a member of the police force, it is any person who is given power to use whatever force he believes to be necessary, reasonably proportionate to the danger that he envisages, in order to disperse this assembly. [More…]
This is the existing power in relation to riot situations. [More…]
However, I draw attention to the wide power of the Court under paragraph (1) of sub-section (1.) [More…]
Supreme Court of South Australia had power to make maintenance orders under the Matrimonial Causes Act. [More…]
In view of the rapidly expanding Soviet activities in the Middle East, North Africa and other countries in the Indian Ocean area, is this not further evidence of the Soviet intention to establish itself as the new colonial power east of Suez? [More…]
We also welcome the statement by the President of Pakistan that he will try to ensure that civil power is resumed as soon as possible. [More…]
That, of course, has been substantially on the basis of hydro-electric developments and the attractiveness of cheap power to some major industries. [More…]
The Commissioner will no longer have a non-appealable power in relation to a travel case involving a substantial interruption or deviation during a journey to or from the employment. [More…]
Clause 5 also provides that each Minister and each Secretary may delegate his powers and functions under the Act. [More…]
However, the power to grant or transfer licences in respect of foreign fishing boats, all fish-processing boats and all fishcarrying boats intending to operate in the proclaimed waters adjacent to Australia, may be delegated only to officers of the Department of Primary Industry. [More…]
The power to cancel a licence is now reserved to the Minister or the Secretary and may not be delegated. [More…]
To ensure a clear-cut division of responsibility in administering the Act, clause 6 empowers the making of separate proclamations of the waters adjacent to Australia and of the waters adjacent to the external territories where the Act is to apply. [More…]
Powers are also provided for the Minister to regulate the quantity of fishing gear permitted to be used from a particular boat, and to require that such gear be registered under State law before it may be used in proclaimed waters. [More…]
The former of these, combined with the existing power to close seasons and the power to close areas, completes the range of controls required to regulate the level of fishing effort. [More…]
The division of fishery jurisdiction between Commonwealth and States makes it necessary to link the power to regulate the quantity of gear permitted to be used in proclaimed waters to the State law, to prevent fishermen doubling up on the quantity of gear they are permitted to use by operating one set in State-controlled waters and a second set in Commonwealthcontrolled waters. [More…]
Third, power is provided for a licensing authority to endorse a boat licence to authorise the boat to operate in a limited licence fishery. [More…]
I should like to point out that the Bill, for convenience of drafting, reenacts the discretionary power conferred by the principal Act on licensing authorities. [More…]
The Prime Minister and his predecessor, now the Minister for Defence (Mr Gorton) are in conflict over the 5-power arrangements. [More…]
We are not nearly so large and powerful as West Germany but we are more significant in our region than our size and power by world standards would at first indicate. [More…]
We are comparable in size and power with Canada but rather more significant than Canada in the Pacific region. [More…]
It is this: Post-colonial governments will go to extremities to keep intact the borders inherited from the colonial power. [More…]
The United States Secretary of State has welcomed the 5 Power arrangement, and that should be noted. [More…]
power for a cause for which we stood. [More…]
I believe that in the future we will have to be prepared, to stand up and be counted, before the commitment of a major power, on something we regard as important. [More…]
But it may mean that we will not again be given the luxury of being able to stand in the shadow of decisions previously announced by major powers on matters we regard as important. [More…]
If there are any who doubt the strength pf sea power in the pursuit of national objectives, let them remember that it >s the Seventh Fleet that has prevented the invasion of Taiwan. [More…]
It was Russian ships in the harbour of Alexandria that moved the balance of military power in that part of the world in favour of Egypt by inhibiting counter-attacks from Israel. [More…]
These are policies of 3 major powers, all of which will impinge upon our own region and all of which will affect the world in which Australia must forge het own path in the years to come. [More…]
I wish to turn now to a country lc the north of Australia with a great power to advance the cause of developing East Asian and South East Asian countries. [More…]
No other country, in our part of the world has as great an ability and as great a power to assist the developing countries of East Asia and South East Asia as has Japan, and this is a function of power and wealth and of physical capacity in trade policies, aid policies and industrial and investment policies. [More…]
This conflict has the potential to turn this crucial region into a cockpit of great power rivalries that would make Vietnam look like a mere sideshow. [More…]
In return for a few meagre concessions China has received an overwhelmingly favourable response from its most powerful adversary. [More…]
It is a measure of the fascination of this huge and powerful nation that even the slightest sign that the barriers are starting to crumble produces such a response. [More…]
This explains much of the pathetically eager response of America to the first faint overtures from the power which has reviled and rejected it for so long. [More…]
To summarise these points, foreign policy in the next few years is certain to be determined by the balances between the 3 great powers - China, Russia and the United States. [More…]
It will be a very delicately-balanced triangle with constant manoeuvring and subtle shifts in the balance of power. [More…]
Regrettably, the machinery of Australia’s foreign policy, lacks the sophistication to secure the maximum benefits for this country from this fluctuating power structure. [More…]
Our whole structure of policy making and response is geared to this one great power. [More…]
We have been no more than an echo of whatever administration happens to be in power in Washington. [More…]
Numbering less than 2 million out of a total population of 144 million the Kuomintang to this day effectively control political, economic and military power in Taiwan. [More…]
It is a choice that rests in terms of sheer power. [More…]
But De Gaulle realised that at worst the Chinese distraction could be a factor in .war against a successful Russian thrust right through to the Channel Ports and at best in normal times stop the enormous increase in Russian pressure power on Europe if she occupied the other Communist countries. [More…]
She has got the power to put enormous pressure on Europe - that is westward - or, by swinging the pendulum south to put it on India, or, by swinging i! [More…]
For example, how will continental China exploit her growing nuclear power? [More…]
This policy was aimed at denying China its rights and recognition as a great power. [More…]
This policy was aimed also at preventing the expansion of Russian power because, interestingly enough, in the early 1950s, the official American view in this environment of antiCommunism was that China was in fact merely an extension of Russia. [More…]
Laos and Cambodia have been brought within the ambit of the Communist power. [More…]
My opinion is this: I am not concerned to give a blank cheque to Chiang Kai-shek who has held illegitimate power in Formosa for 20 years. [More…]
I would take the view and I realise that it is difficult to assess from so far away, that if the cricketers informed the South African Government that they intended to integrate cricket at all levels and to select the best players for overseas tours irrespective of their colour, the Government would back off and the greatest breakthrough in apartheid would have occurred since 1948, the year the Nationalists came to power. [More…]
I therefore strongly support the proposition that, we should do everything in our power to make it quite clear both to South Africans and to the world at large that we completely disagree with the sort of propositions which have been put up. [More…]
The Minister for Health insists that governments have no power to establish the incomes of doctors, but in fact few members of the Australian workforce are dependent on doctors not for income alone of which 75 per cent is derived from taxes collected or forgone by governments but for the Commonwealth scholarships which see 74 per cent of their number through university courses and the hospitals on which their practical training depends. [More…]
The United States, being a great naval power, has the right to exercise its fleet wherever it thinks showing the flag is desirable. [More…]
That the Publications Committee, or any subcommittee thereof, when conferring with a similar committee or sub-committee of the Senate, have power to move from place to place. [More…]
36 gave the Publications Committee board powers of inquiry. [More…]
However, the Committee does not have the power to move from place to place. [More…]
The power is required initially to enable the Committee to inspect the new Australian Government Publishing Service Printing Office, the Department of Supply Central Drawing Office and the PostmasterGeneral’s Department printing works in Melbourne during the winter adjournment. [More…]
As I have said before in this House, I do not mean price control over everything, but selective price control, giving the Commonwealth the power to intervene if necessary to stabilise the wage-price spiral in Australia. [More…]
I believe that if there were a referendum tomorrow on whether the Commonwealth should have the power of selective price control the farmers of Australia would vote overwhelmingly for such a measure. [More…]
The Commmonwealth has no power to operate within the States. [More…]
It has often been to fall at the feet of an invader, to be slaves of a foreign power. [More…]
The Pig Division of the Victorian Farmers Union has been seeking a poll of producers and an alteration in the constitution of the Federation to allow for any member group to have the power of veto rather than to allow for decisions to be made by a simple majority. [More…]
I have in mind such things as wage costs arising from our policies of full employment and our high living standards, high transport and power costs, and increased costs arising because the scale of production is often unavoidably small. [More…]
These were guidelines which expressed a balance of economic power at the” time which was very much in the United Kingdom but not in Australia. [More…]
A taxation board of review will accordingly have the power to grant a certificate of exemption should it conclude that the particular loan falls within the policy evinced by the legislation. [More…]
The most significant economic decisions that have been made in Australian history, have been those made to protect Australia from the full effects of economic power exercised by vast organisations in other countries, largely in western Europe and the United States of America. [More…]
In international trade economic power is used even more ruthlessly than it is in domestic trade, and the Australian Labor Party will never consent to any change which hands over to the foreign corporations more and more power over the Australian people. [More…]
Government supporters often say that the Commonwealth Government cannot do this because it does not have sufficient constitutional power. [More…]
They do not want to prevent favoured people from using their economic power to make excess profits. [More…]
This is not because they really believe that it cannot be afforded or done, but because they want to leave the power to do these things to what they call the market, and by leaving them to the market all it means is that they leave theses decisions to their own friends - the owners and managers of banks and other businesses. [More…]
If enough people believe them then the bank managers, business managers and financial newspaper proprietors will be left with all the power to say what is to happen to workers and their families. [More…]
It is also a matter of economic power and who shall exercise it. [More…]
In other words, he was going to use the instrument of a reduction in tariffs, particularly in the metal trades sector, as a way of cutting down the power of the trade union movement. [More…]
He was going to do this by reducing the bargaining power of the trade union movement and so reduce wages and employment in that sector of industry. [More…]
It is disturbed by reports that the Federal Government proposes to use a reduction of tariffs in key sectors of industry as an instrument to weaken some Australian industries, particularly those in the metal trades sector, thereby bringing about substantial unemployment in those industries with a consequent reduction in the bargaining power of salary and wage earners. [More…]
At the same time the Opposition is not opposed to any measure designed to reallocate capital, manpower and materials to improve national prosperity. [More…]
The Opposition will not support a reduction in tariffs unless such a reduction is supported by adequate guarantees that the reduction will not weaken the bargaining power of salary and wage earners and will not reduce their living standards. [More…]
This Government and the Tariff Board must do all in their power to safeguard the industry at Electrona in southern Tasmania for 2 reasons. [More…]
Proceeding from the premise that the Labor Party is a planning party, clearly a Labor Party in power would direct the Tariff Board to carry out policies in accordance with its master plan. [More…]
He referred to the position when Labor was in power. [More…]
The Minister for Civil Aviation (Senator Cotton) also has given an assurance in a very long letter to me as the Chairman of the Select Committee on Aircraft Noise, which letter the Committee was very glad to receive, that the Department is doing everything in its power to see that recommendations are made. [More…]
I refer to fuels such as atomic power, which has caused some doubt even at this stage. [More…]
The effect of the successful referendum in 1967 was to give the Commonwealth Parliament power to make laws in relation to the Aboriginals, as it already could for the people of any other race. [More…]
Work on the project will commence shortly, it involves the construction of an underground power station on the Ramu River with an initial installed capacity of 45 megowatts; approximately 320 miles of transmission lines; 4 transformer substations at Lae, Madang, Goroka and Mount Hagen; and the enlargement of transformer capacity at Kundiawa and Kainantu substations. [More…]
The fact is that State Governments have no financial capacity to alleviate this problem of the unavailability of adequate pre-school facilities and opportunities throughout Australia, because they lack the taxing power. [More…]
This Government, which has the taxing power, up to this point of time has shown no inclination to accept the responsibility to underwrite the States’ pre-school education programmes. [More…]
It is to be regretted that the Federation in some branches has also become the vehicle, along with certain other maritime unions, whereby minority elements within the trade union movement have sought to convert industrial power into political action. [More…]
This means that the position for the year beginning in July 1970 will be woree than it was for the year ended in June 1970 when State housing construction had dropped to 9.8 per cent of all constructions, one of the lowest ebbs in the last 2 decades during which this Government has been in power. [More…]
We know that we have limited power in this field but we will work in co-operation with the States and co-ordinate the forces that are available to us. [More…]
We are asking the people of Australia to elect us to office and to give us the power to carry out our proposals. [More…]
So it goes on, with cars and buses tearing up and down the streets, highways and byways, maiming, murdering and polluting, when all of it could have been avoided if only the government authorities had the money, vision and power to bring all these components together so that a proper civic design could be planned, obviating the necessity to have such unplanned chaos. [More…]
Their very size, power and speed make them dangerous bullies, and the traditional way of planning along streets allows them to affect all areas. [More…]
Where are the new cities that have been established in the last 2 decades while this Government has been in power? [More…]
lm net in 55 countries, for agriculture, education, transportation, electric power, water supply, telecommunications, industry, and project preparation and technical assistance. [More…]
We have the example of the Senate committees which make no move to cause and indeed have no power to indulge in that sort of frustration. [More…]
I advise the honourable member that the Ministerial Member is empowered under his own authority to issue permits, but I am not sure whether he has the power to deport. [More…]
New Guinea is particularly fortunate in that it has the potential for tremendous hydro-electric power development. [More…]
Originally it was proposed that this scheme should supply power to Lae alone, but it has been extended to supply power to Madang. [More…]
It is true that we are to build a very large power station in the Ramu Valley and that it will extend transmission systems up through Lae, Goroka, Madang and Mount Hagen. [More…]
It is true that the supply of electricity and power to this country is improving. [More…]
It is equally true that Papua New Guinea has great resources to permit the production of hydro-power, which ought to be exploited. [More…]
Except as the Bank shall otherwise agree, ELCOM shall: (i) make no reduction in its existing level of tariffs for electric power services from the date of this Agreement until June 30, 1976; and (ii) take all necessary steps to establish and maintain tariffs for electric power services and take such other actions as shall be required to provide revenues sufficient to produce an annual rate of return of not less than 9 per cent in the fiscal years 1972 through 1976 and not less than 10 per cent thereafter. [More…]
What we are doing, I believe, with this legislation is inflicting upon the people of Papua New Guinea a system which will prevent them from enjoying the full benefit of the electric power which would make a great difference to the standard of living of all the people there as well as to the production of the country. [More…]
But such is the general power of the purse and the Commonwealth’s initiative in large areas that this could be an essential factor. [More…]
If the honourable member is so imbued with those views he is entitled to them, but at the same time he is entitled to be well and truly condemned- for them and told that he is wrong and completely out of step with the majority of world opinion, expressed when sanctions -vere imposed on Rhodesia because of the manner in which the Smith regime came to power in that country. [More…]
I know that many people will say that this is a good thing and that a balance of power in the world will be achieved; that it will counter balance the power situation following the withdrawal of United States forces from South East Asia, and that the armaments of Japan will be needed following the United States withdrawal. [More…]
The Japanese are moving quickly to become a military power again, and I do not think that it is in Australia’s interests. [More…]
Has the Australian Wool Commission the power to negotiate directly with governments of other countries for the sale of wool at present stockpiled under existing legislation. [More…]
I refer to the strike programme yesterday by unions in the power industry in New South Wales in support of a 35-hour working week. [More…]
As the honourable gentleman has suggested, yesterday’s strike within the New South Wales power industry by certain unions is a further example of the growing militancy of unions in Australia and the attempt by some unions to exercise their industrial power in deliberately seeking to coerce both employers and the general community by taking direct action outside the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission. [More…]
The immigration power was given to the Commonwealth at Federation for very good reasons, and the same considerations to which I am referring - the lack of contact at the local level, and the creation of a hospital system which is malleable and adjustable to individual circumstances and the felt needs of particular communities of people and particular areas - was one of the principal reasons why the hospital power was left with the States. [More…]
If that is the intention, which it no doubt is, of the Opposition if ever it comes to power, it will have to spell out, not in a few words at the end of a speech but in an entire speech, what it means by the nationalisation of hospitals in this country. [More…]
We can no longer claim that this Parliament does not have the power to carry out those international conventions. [More…]
Since the 4-year- old referendum we have all the powers we need. [More…]
I. pointed out that there should be a fuel and power authority to co-ordinate those responsibilities of the Commonwealth, the States, semi-government authorities and international companies in these respects. [More…]
Notwithstanding what the Prime Minister said in introducing this legislation, in our view he has introduced this legislation so as to place a friend in a position of power close to him and so keep his support or at least remove an opponent. [More…]
The effect of the successful referendum in 1967 was to give the Commonwealth Parliament power to make laws in relation to the Aboriginals, as it already could for the people of any other race. [More…]
Australia is the last colonial power. [More…]
We are the last colonial power and what we. [More…]
The costs include labour fees, victualling costs, salaries for the crew members, power costs and everything else connected with overheads. [More…]
It was a powerful intrusion of outside thinking. [More…]
Then, the trustee or mandatory power assumed the full responsibility. [More…]
In Bougainville it was the issue of the power of the Administration to take over forcibly mineral bearing land on its own indefensible terms. [More…]
Opposition has consistently told the people of Papua New Guinea: ‘You will have independence in 1972 or early 1973 should Labor come into power at the next Federal election in Australia’. [More…]
It is a fact that no colonial power in history ever had as its first intention the betterment and uplifting of a primitive people. [More…]
I am going to say quite bluntly that 1 think the Ministerial Member of Immigration, or the Minister for Immigration if he is to become that, in Papua New Guinea should have the power of deportation. [More…]
All sorts of things in their lives have been imposed by outside suggestion of tha colonial power and in most respects this has been very good. [More…]
The power over immigration and emigration - who comes into their country and who goes out of it - would be a very important step in self-government and 1 believe that it would lead to certain changes in attitudes that might improve race relations. [More…]
The World Bank first of all makes a study to decide whether there is a need for a power supply. [More…]
From our own studies of the power needs of Papua New Guinea, power needs are rising by 20 per cent per annum. [More…]
I understand that in the area which the Ramu Valley operation will serve the power needs are even greater. [More…]
The honourable member will appreciate that the alternative source of power is thermal power and this is an area in which the World Bank did carry out a study of the technical and economic benefits of such an alternative source. [More…]
In fact, on the studies it made, a hydroelectric scheme as against a thermal power scheme over the 25-year term of the loan would lead to a saving of $30m. [More…]
In reply to that part of the honourable member’s question relating to the possibility of increased electricity charges, on present indications, owing to the economy and efficiency of the hydro-electric scheme, there will be no increase in charges for power. [More…]
Republic of China, which has nuclear power, and what has to be remembered is that in no circumstances would Japan bc able to engage in operations that involved nuclear warfare against that country, because Japan is so small in area that a few thermo-nuclear bombs would immediately destroy all of its productive capacity. [More…]
They could only resolve the situation that has crept upon Australia by putting into power another party that will have some new, modern ideas for dealing with industrial relations’. [More…]
On the question of demarcation the High Court has ruled that as the law now stands there is no power for a State industrial court or the Commonwealth Conciliation and Arbitration Commission to settle a dispute arising out of demarcation between the members of a State registered union and members of a State branch of a Federal union. [More…]
Whilst I personally have never made any claim in this Parliament to be an expert on primary industry, the plain fact is that I can appreciate, as can all honourable members, that this Bill affects a great proportion of the Australian people who, to a very large extent, depend upon the initiative and enterprise of this Government while it remains in power. [More…]
So, not only has a drop occurred in actual money terms but also tremendous erosion has taken place in the purchasing power of primary producers in this country. [More…]
I have in mind such things as wage costs arising from our policies of full employment and our high living standards, high transport and power costs … [More…]
Then again, it has been suggested by some that wool is a splendid fibre and if we could exercise some monopoly power in its distribution we should be able to jack up the price. [More…]
Wool does not have a monopoly and we cannot use monopoly power in this way. [More…]
If you are to play politics, tell all of them that they can stay on the land, that they will be wanted there, that the prize of wool will go up, that you can use a monopoly power, that you can provide suosidies and that sort of thing and they can continue with the kind of life to which they are accustomed. [More…]
The possible ambiguities are an interpretation of the section relating to lost leadering, giving the supplier too much power to misinterpret normal competitive practices as lost leadering. [More…]
The Attorney-General of South Australia and I had a warm conversation - warm in the sense that it was friendly - because I was very pleased by his announcement that the Government of South Australia proposed to legislate to refer power to the Commonwealth. [More…]
One can only hope that in the pending concrete pipes case in the High Court there will be a decision giving a contemporary interpretation to the corporations power in our Constitution. [More…]
If: the High Court’s decision shows that the Commonwealth’s constitutional power is still inadequate the Labor Party will certainly support any referendum to modernise, amplify, that power. [More…]
My other concern is that initially the legislation will be restricted to interstate trade, the Australian Capital Territory and the Northern Territory and States which pass complementary legislation or refer power to the Commonwealth. [More…]
It has referred power. [More…]
That is, the Trade Practices Act - will be found to be within the, legislative power of the Commonwealth, and so in a very real sense we may, like the caravin in ‘Omar Khayyam’, be going towards the dawn of nothing: [More…]
I think the House should not speculate too readily on the outcome of the High Court case, but if it is within power it will be because of the skill of my honourable and learned friend that the Parliament and the country can say: ‘Well, here it is. [More…]
The Parliament has power to legislate in this respect’. [More…]
I believe this Bill will inflict great damage on the thousands of small shopkeepers who are already being hit by the superior buying power of the supermarkets, the group buyers, the discount houses, the group bulk stores and so on. [More…]
The founding giants of the American system of capitalism then laid the basis for this enormous accumulation of capital and the concentration of capital and the power which goes with it, which is such a characteristic of the United States today. [More…]
These dangers of monopoly power revealed themselves to the Americans.,, as long ago as approximately 80 or 90 years. [More…]
In the .United States these statutes certainly have not and this legislation that we have certainly will not curb the tendency or the pressures in the sort of community that we have towards ever increasing : concentration of economic power - and perhaps abuse of that power. [More…]
American public has been made aware of where the economic and perhaps the real power in the community lies. [More…]
I do suggest that the real power of this legislation when it is eventually put into proper form - it is not in proper form now - will be along those lines, in order to make us understand in a sort of research sense, much as the British have done, just how this secret system that exercises this enormous power in our community does work. [More…]
It produces abuses of its own and it can be manipulated by the people who control the centres of power. [More…]
neither good nor bad in itself but it does have the power to be good or bad. [More…]
It can be seen, for .example - I will give only one example of this reluctance, as other members have given other examples - that in 1966 the Tasmanian Government gave the Commonwealth Government full power to make laws with regard to Tasmania in this respect. [More…]
In particular, I think we may be expecting too much of it in terms of the benefits which may accrue to the public purchasing power. [More…]
The purpose of this Bill is to implement the Government’s decision announced on 1st May 1970 to introduce legislation to ensure that the Commonwealth had adequate power to control the acquisition by local or overseas interests of large shareholdings in banks incorporated in Australia. [More…]
The Banking Act confers on the Government power to consider applications to open new banks in Australia and to recommend to the Governor-General that an authority should be granted. [More…]
Consistent with the power in relation to the granting of authorities to commence new banking businesses, the Government needs to have undoubted power to control changes in ownership of an authorised bank. [More…]
The Banking Act confers only limited power on the Government to control such changes in ownership. [More…]
Because it is not possible to foresee what developments in the structure or ownership of banks might be desirable in the future, the Bill confers on the Treasurer a discretionary power to allow a person to have an interest of 10 per cent or more in a bank. [More…]
This is a permissive power and is not one intended to frustrate desirable changes. [More…]
Without this discretionary power, the Bill would preclude the possibility of major changes in the Australian shareholdings of a bank in all circumstances. [More…]
Moreover, the recent merger of the ANZ and ES&A banks involved a change of ownership of the combined savings bank subsidiary and without the proposed discretionary power a merger of this kind in the future could be frustrated or at least impeded. [More…]
It should be emphasised that the discretionary power in this Bill is in effect an extension of the discretionary power which exists in the Banking Act for granting authority to set up a new bank in Australia. [More…]
The defintion is designed to cover situations where an interest in shares might be acquired which would enable a single individual or corporation, or a group, to control or influence the policies of a bank, or where the right to control the voting power of a share is exercised through intermediaries, for example, through a subsidiary company standing between the ultimate beneficial holder and the registered shareholder. [More…]
The Prime Minister told my Deputy a fortnight ago that he wished to wait until the Minister for Defence returned from his overseas tour before making any comprehensive statement on the S-power arrangements. [More…]
On Monday the Minister for Defence made it quite clear that the differences between him and the Prime Minister about the role of Australian forces under the 5- power arrangements are unresolved. [More…]
The Opposition, as has been made clear by my colleague the honourable member for Dawson (Dr Patterson), supports this measure for the very good reason that the Bill gives the genesis of the national organisation that we envisage some preliminary power. [More…]
The powers of the functions of the Commissioner have been greatly improved. [More…]
I did not think that it would have been possible to improve the section of the Act dealing with the Commissioner’s power and functions. [More…]
They ask: ‘Why can we not have the purchasing power of the pension maintained?’ [More…]
This is a tyrannical exercise of power by the Commonwealth. [More…]
He looked after the 5 per cent or 10 per cent of the population that put his Party into Parliament so that they would have some power in this place. [More…]
This is a more circumscribed power of arrest than the one passed through this chamber, but the particular restrictions are tailored to this Bill. [More…]
The liquor interests of this country have tremendous power and influence, and on occasions in order to achieve their objective they will resort to some grievous evils which are worse than any other monopoly organisation would resort to. [More…]
In March 1971 Mr Sobukwe’s application for an exit permit was approved by the South African Minister of the Interior who said that, as Minister for the Interior, he had no power to refuse an exit permit to a restricted person who wished to leave South Africa permanently. [More…]
In the Clutha matter, the power of a State to authorise the building of a jetty out from shore, for loading coal mined inland, involves different questions of law and policy, in relation to which the commitments mentioned by the honourable member do not provide a precedent. [More…]
In making comparisons between countries, “it should be borne in mind that the revenue from their own sources raised by various levels of government is affected’ by considerable differences in the distribution of (a) responsibilities to provide government services, (b) the power to levy taxes arid (c) the extent to which, transfers of funds are made between the different levels of government. [More…]
Did counsel for the Commonwealth appear during the course of the court martial, and present arguments that the court had no power to subpoena members of the Commonwealth Public Service. [More…]
The honourable gentleman does, of course, have a great depth of experience in industrial matters, and notwithstanding the mirth which the question has generated in the Opposition benches, it is fair to say that what the honourable gentleman is doing is drawing attention to one of the extreme examples of the excess of union power in Australia. [More…]
I might say to the honourable member for Riverina, who himself has recently also drawn attention to those excesses by public statement, that this is in every way a matter which the honourable gentleman ought to raise in the House and it is a proper matter for concern because the situation, as honourable members on the other side would be well aware, is that Broken Hill is a closed town and indeed is an example of the excess to which union power can run in this country. [More…]
I am sure that if the Opposition were in power for a short while there would be a terrific reaction. [More…]
This is the man who went tq China to play party politics with wheat and finished up by being a total advocate for the policy of a foreign power - the greatest Communist power in Asia. [More…]
We have also made progress with the 5-power defence arrangements for Malaysia-Singapore and we have become a member of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. [More…]
How frustrating it must be to be reduced to the position of having to seek power not on one’s own merits but through the difficulties of one’s opponents. [More…]
Today we see the Leader of the Labor Party brought to a state of trying to gain power, not through his own standing or his Party’s standing or their policies, but through the passing problems of another party. [More…]
He is brutal in his treatment of those who cross him and power-hungry in his dealings and manipulations of men and events. [More…]
From now on a vote for McMahon is a vote for placing the control of the country in the hands of a multi-millionaire Press baron who will have power without responsibility, which has been the prerogative of the harlot throughout the ages. [More…]
If he loses his preselection everybody will know that it was lost as a consequence of the inordinate pressure and power that this man Packer has over the Liberal Party. [More…]
Mission included economists and experts in agriculture, transport and power. [More…]
Can he say whether New Zealand authorities on nuclear power were of the opinion that the use of natural uranium fuel makes the most economic sense. [More…]
It is incorrect to say that any proposed nuclear power station at jervis Bay will be based on a technology which is likely to be superseded within a few years. [More…]
Can he say whether the (a) Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and (b) People’s Republic of China have any nuclear power reactors. [More…]
(a) There are several nuclear power reactors operating in the U.S.S.R. [More…]
There have been unconfirmed reports that there are nuclear power reactors in operation in the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
The cost of nuclear power generation in Australia will depend on a number of factors such as the size of the station, its location, the financial conditions involved, the type of reactor, the degree of local content and so on. [More…]
It is true that as a result of the assessment of the tenders received for the proposed Jervis Bay nuclear power station we now have a better knowledge of the relative costs of electricity generated from reactors using natural uranium and those using enriched uranium. [More…]
I would add, however, that under current conditions in Australia I do not believe that nuclear power stations are competitive with conventional ones. [More…]
The Invitation to Tender document for theJervis Bay Nuclear Power Station States: [More…]
It is the intention that the Jervis Bay Nuclear Power Station shall become fully independent of overseas fuel supplies and services. [More…]
If so, what arrangements are to be made for the insurance coverage of property and persons within the danger zone of the proposed nuclear power station at Jervis Bay. [More…]
Power reactors undergo continual development in the light of operating experience so that no plant currently, on offer can be considered fully proved although their reliability is generally quite acceptable. [More…]
SGHWR-J-The Nuclear Power Group, U.K. [More…]
Will he supply answers to questions Nos 2830 to 2843 prior to his promised statement on the successful tender for the Jervis Bay nuclear power station. [More…]
and (2) I have not so far been in the position to make a comprehensive statement on the proposed Jervis Bay Power Station but in the meantime I have provided answers to your questions Nos 2830 to 2843. [More…]
Who is making the long-term study of naval and air power referred to on page 11 of the Defence Report 1970? [More…]
by leave - On 28th August last year, I spoke to the House on the state of the proposal to construct Australia’s first nuclear power station at Jervis Bay. [More…]
Since that time the Government has decided to defer a decision on this power station for 12 months. [More…]
The Atomic Energy Commission has for many years been engaged in close studies of nuclear power developments. [More…]
It advised that the time was approaching when nuclear power would be competitive with other means of power generation in some areas of Australia. [More…]
As a result of the discussions, the Government concluded that the Commonwealth should give the lead by building a nuclear power station which would not only produce power but also serve for demonstration and training. [More…]
The practical experience obtained directly in Australia on the station would be of great benefit to Australian industry and the electricity authorities in their future nuclear power activities. [More…]
It was against this background that agreement was reached with New South Wales to collaborate in the construction of a 500 megawatt nuclear power station at Jervis Bay. [More…]
Power demand in Australia is increasing rapidly - doubling about every 8 years. [More…]
It is in the large unit sizes that nuclear power is likely to become competitive first with fossil-fuelled power stations. [More…]
From the tendered information estimates were made of the cost of a complete power station. [More…]
The total cost of a nuclear power station must include the client’s own costs, which are again a multi-million dollar item. [More…]
Australia is by no means the first country to have called tenders for a nuclear power station, only to decide to defer entering into a contract. [More…]
Expenditure on site preparation and services will of course not be lost if in due course a nuclear power station is built at Jervis Bay. [More…]
These studies are providing valuable information and the results will be important not only in the Jervis Bay context, but also in providing information directly relevant to the siting of nuclear power stations at other places in Australia in the future. [More…]
Work will continue also at Jervis Bay in restoration of the environment surrounding the road and the cutting prepared for the power station. [More…]
We are conscious of the potential importance of nuclear power not only to industrial development of Australia, but also to easing the growing problem of pollution of the atmosphere. [More…]
In this connection the Atomic Energy Commission will continue its studies of nuclear power technology and relate this to the Jervis Bay project. [More…]
As I have stated, the Government will keep developments under review and will continue to give careful consideration to the introduction of nuclear power in Austrafia. [More…]
Jervis Bay Nuclear Power Station ProjectMinisterial Statement, 18th August 1971. [More…]
That all words after That’ be omitted with a view to inserting the following words in place thereof: ‘a select committee of this House be appointed to inquire into and report on the uses of nuclear power in relation to: [More…]
the projected power needs of the Commonwealth; [More…]
the comparative advantage derived from generating power in this way as against all other sources now being employed; [More…]
the effects of the establishment of a nuclear power station upon the environment; [More…]
the desirability of establishing a nuclear power station at this time pending the outcome of further technological developments taking place elsewhere; and [More…]
In the statement that he made this afternoon the Minister informed the House that the decision to build a nuclear power station at Jervis Bay was taken late in 1968. [More…]
The Opposition moved an amendment in the debate on the Estimates in order to give the Government an opportunity to examine thoroughly the economics of the introduction of nuclear power in Australia, particularly as it had been estimated by Sir Philip Baxter, the Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission, that by the year 2000 something like $5,000m would have been spent on nuclear power stations throughout Australia. [More…]
Despite this fact there are grave doubts about the economics of having nuclear power stations in Australia at the present time. [More…]
If a decision had been taken to proceed with the construction of the Jervis Bay nuclear power station earlier this year and the estimated expenditure had been included in this year’s Budget, I have been reliably informed that the amount required by the Atomic Energy Commission would have been in the vicinity of $6m. [More…]
He and his advisers should have informed the House of exactly why the construction of a power station at Jervis Bay has been deferred. [More…]
He was referring to the Atomic Energy Commission - that the time was approaching when nuclear power would be competitive with other means of power generation in some areas of Australia. [More…]
The Minister referred then to the doubling every 8 years of the power demand in Australia and said: [More…]
This growth means that quite large units will he required in New South Wales and Victoria in the 1980s, lt is in the large unit sizes that nuclear power is likely to first become competitive with fossil-fuelled power stations. [More…]
In that speech he said that a station of about 500 megawatts was envisaged because the cost of electricity from a nuclear power station decreases sharply as the size increases. [More…]
His statement today talks about quite large stations being competitive with fossilfuelled power stations. [More…]
I would add, however, that under current conditions in Australia I do not believe that nuclear power stations are competitive with conventional ones. [More…]
I have a host of Press cuttings about the proposed power station at Jervis Bay. [More…]
If the leaks from the Cabinet are as numerous as the honourable member for Wentworth (Mr Bury) has suggested they are then it would appear that there have been leaks about the deferment of the proposed nuclear power station at Jervis Bay because the estimated price of the successful tender - the one that was recommended to the Cabinet - has been given and the name of the tenderer has been given. [More…]
The make of the atomic power reactor that was to be selected has also appeared in the newspapers. [More…]
There are 119 units of the PWR reactor and 69 BWR power units operating in the world. [More…]
But only 2 SGHWR power reactors are operating throughout the world. [More…]
The Government is not certain whether the project will proceed and it has used the fictitious excuse that the current economic climate has caused the deferment of the construction of the proposed power reactor at Jervis Bay. [More…]
So, in that 12 months of deferment, let us appoint a select committee, let it begin operating and let us get all the information possible so that before the taxpayers of Australia are committed to an expenditure of $5,000m by the year 2,000 not only the Government but also all members of this Parliament will know the true story of nuclear power generation in Australia. [More…]
I should have thought that all honourable members of this House would have agreed with the decision of the Government which has been announced by the Minister for National Development (Mr Swartz) to suspend or defer the construction of a nuclear power station at Jervis Bay. [More…]
In the first part, it states that the select committee which the honourable member wants to have established should look at the projected power needs of the Commonwealth. [More…]
The States have had the technical capacity to run their power stations for many years. [More…]
I can understand what Mr Askin, the Premier of New South Wales, would say if a Commonwealth select committee was to take his electricity authorities apart and ask questions about the known needs for power in future years. [More…]
The second part of the amendment refers to the comparative advantage or otherwise of thermal power stations or hydro-electric power stations against nuclear power stations. [More…]
I think that this information is well known because the honourable member for Lang, as have other honourable members, has had a look at the newspaper cuttings on this subject and the newspaper assessments, no doubt taken from people from Lucas Heights and elsewhere, indicate that the power station, had it been set up at Jervis Bay would have cost the taxpayer, not in capital costs but in subsidies at least $6m a year to compete with the coal operated electricity power stations. [More…]
With respect to the costs for the plant itself, the Government had in mind - again, I take this from the newspapers and not from leaks from Cabinet - that the original rough estimate to establish this SOO megawatt nuclear power station was approximately Si 30m. [More…]
This is almost double what was originally intended to be spent on the power station. [More…]
During the discussions on the calling of tenders for this power station it was learned that the power so generated would be generated from beneficiated uranium. [More…]
Honourable members would know that the uranium ore obtained from mines in Australia would have to be sent overseas before it could be used in a nuclear power station at Jervis Bay. [More…]
The Opposition’s amendment calls for the setting up of a select committee to inquire into and report upon the whole question of power insofar as it affects Australia generally. [More…]
lt has taken this Government more than 2 years to realise that nuclear power is not economic at this point of time. [More…]
The statement by the Minister for National Development (Mr Swartz) today, which is but one of his numerous statements made during approximately the last month, confirms the feeling, never more starkly portrayed than on this issue, widely held throughout the community that this Government’s policy is to thrust Australia into the field of nuclear power without any reference to Parliament, and without recourse to parliamentary inquiry, parliamentary debate, public inquiry or public debate. [More…]
Let me make this objective observation: If one compares the Australian Government’s attitude to questioning, investigation, parliamentary debate and parliamentary inquiries with other major countries which have gone deeply into the field of nuclear power one comes up with some interesting results. [More…]
Over the last 2 years the Canadian Senate Science Policy Committee, as part of its terms of reference, has looked into the question of nuclear power. [More…]
Periodically, and prior to the start of its nuclear power programme, the British Government published White Papers setting out its programme. [More…]
When British power stations are proposed there is an option for public hearings prior to construction. [More…]
In 1967 the House of Commons Select Committee on Science and Technology published a report on the nuclear power industry. [More…]
This committee has a sub-committee on nuclear power policy and another on exploitation of power reactors. [More…]
Most parliaments have a comprehensive standing committee system within which one committee will have the authority to examine nuclear power legislation, policy problems or administration. [More…]
There has been much talk about the need for a power station in Australia. [More…]
In the brief time available to me the point I want to make is that we should examine the possibility of a duplex plant in preference to the proposed nuclear power station at Jervis Bay because, undoubtedly, wherever a power plant is established in Australia at the present time it will not be economically viable. [More…]
At the same time significant industrial developments have been achieved, as shown from the nuclear power output on a global scale. [More…]
The lethal, long-lived solid wastes due to the proliferation of civil nuclear power plants in the United States alone will reach 58,000 cubic feet per annum in the year 2000. [More…]
With the postponement of yet another nuclear initiative - the power station at Jervis Bay - it seems appropriate to reassess Australia’s nuclear priorities and the procedures by which such initiatives are propounded. [More…]
In contrast to power distribution, water resources ignore the existence of State boundaries. [More…]
The point that 1 wish to make briefly is that there is a question as to whether we should have a duplex plant rather than a single power plant in Australia, and that question ought to be investigated at this point of time. [More…]
lt is a pity that we are not going on in a progressive way with this proposed nuclear power station. [More…]
AH the reasons which the Government and the Australian Atomic Energy Commission gave for the establishment of this power station still apply. [More…]
This is more so than ever because the demand for power is doubling every 8 years, as we see from this statement. [More…]
The States of Victoria and New South Wales were very anxious to see this power station go ahead in an area in which it has an assured market from the heavy industries on the South Coast and in the Illawarra district. [More…]
As it takes 5 years to build a nuclear power station and another 3 years to get all the bugs out of it, it would be 8 years before we got any results, even if we started to build the station now. [More…]
The States of Victoria and New South Wales will need a big nuclear power station because their requirements for electric power will quadruple in. [More…]
There is a tremendous amount of coal in the area where it is proposed to build the nuclear power station. [More…]
There is a thermal station in the area, and one would have thought that that thermal station could have met the extra demand for power. [More…]
But because the proposed nuclear power station will be a very large station, the question arises as to whether power from this station would be cheaper than power from the thermal station. [More…]
In other words, power, heat and energy account for the difference between $5 a ton and S275 a ton. [More…]
So we need a nuclear power station with an acknowledged power market. [More…]
We are losing this money because we are slow and tardy at going ahead and building a nuclear power station. [More…]
The Australian Labor Party is practically gloating over the fact that we are not going ahead with the construction of this nuclear power station at Jervis Bay. [More…]
It is an attack on progress and on Australia’s need for power. [More…]
The Labor Party began to spend S 1,000m on the Snowy Mountains scheme in order to produce power and to conserve a very small amount of water. [More…]
The proposed nuclear power station at Jervis Bay will cost a little over $200m. [More…]
The development of nuclear power stations has reached a high peak of efficiency. [More…]
Plenty of evidence is available to indicate that nuclear power stations are constructed on beautiful sites, such as that at Murrays Beach on the southern pincer of the Jervis Bay area. [More…]
I urge the Government to go on with this power station; there is no escape from going on with it. [More…]
Listening to the honourable gentleman when he spoke of the power of the Communist Party and of the North Vietnamese, of the infiltration of the North Vietnamese, of the fact that they have moved into Cambodia and Laos, of the strength of the Vietcong, of the withdrawal of the battalions in the Australian task force and of the fact that the absence of Australian forces would pose a threat to South Vietnam, one came to the conclusion that he could not have made a better speech if he had been Deputy Leader of the Liberal Party. [More…]
The developing military and nuclear power of China is another threat to us as it is to every other nation in this theatre of the world. [More…]
These are the matters that must concern Japan as a possible stabilising influence throughout Asia but later, perhaps, as a dominant power in the world and not always necessarily on our side. [More…]
I am not decrying the power of the Australian infantry battalions and I am not decrying the strength or the morale or anything else of the battalions in Vietnam, but in what possible way can they control the seas of Australia which are the only valid and relevant parts of Australia’s defence? [More…]
I cannot tolerate the morality of it and as far as I am personally concerned, while I have no particular grudge against any honourable member in this House - as persons I rather like all of them - if there is anything in my political power that can be done to remove from this House every person who has voted for this immoral act over the last 6 or 7 years I will do it. [More…]
The great crime of the United States Government - the Government of the most powerful nation on earth - is that it has inflicted over 10.000 million tons of TNT on the people of Vietnam. [More…]
It has exploded more explosive capacity on little Vietnam than the allies exploded in the whole of the Second World War on the Axis powers. [More…]
Those men, many of them in the Pentagon lusting for power, wanted to bomb these people back to the Stone Age. [More…]
I do not say that I believe that every power in the world will support these policies, but I believe that we should propose them because they are right [More…]
We do not increase our influence by taking that kind of action, but at least I feel 1 can say to this House 2 things: President Yahya Khan has publicly expressed his intention of transferring power, in an orderly way and in a stable environment, to democratic civilian institutions. [More…]
Australians have to realise that we are not a great power. [More…]
The influence and power we have are very properly and wisely concentrated where we do have a place and where we are considered very carefully by all the people in our area; that is our neighbours in South East Asia. [More…]
The Department of Labour and National Service has the discretionary power to treat them as conscientious objectors and refer them to the courts for determination of their status. [More…]
Where young men refuse to comply with the Act in any way and the Department refuses to use its discretionary power, then the odium of a 2-year gaol sentence remains. [More…]
The Labor Party would however retain the power of conscription, in the words of the Labor Party platform, ‘should the security of Australia be threatened’. [More…]
I simply make a statement here to members of the Opposition to make the point clear: As Minister for Labour and National Service I have no power to release young men from gaol. [More…]
Act that power is not within the compass of the Minister for Labour and National Service. [More…]
When a country like ours trades with a Communist country, the government of that Communist country has complete power to turn on trade or to turn it off like a tap. [More…]
This is a great lesson that we have to learn in our relations with any Communist power. [More…]
We have to reappraise our relationship with all of these countries - with Britain, the United States of America and the other emerging powers in our area. [More…]
However, I would like to say that we have witnessed the emergence of Russia as a world power, a sea power which has projected itself into the Indian Ocean. [More…]
We have witnessed the emergence of Japan as an economic super power. [More…]
What we do know is that in the field of international diplomacy the Leader of the Opposition has been found wanting to such an extent that if he were ever in a position to speak for this country on the question of China, he would find himself and Australia without bargaining power, without any cards left to play. [More…]
Everyone recognises that China is a great power and that she will exert increasing influence throughout the world, and particularly in Asia. [More…]
Let us not forget Chairman Mao’s dictum, which I have never heard him contradict that ‘political power grows out of the barrel of a gun’. [More…]
Does he know that the poorer classes in Vietnam are being forgotten while a minority of irresponsible people in positions of power think only of grabbing money and consolidating their power to continue to exploit the people? [More…]
I think we should ponder those words because we have seen certain shifts, movements and changes in this power situation. [More…]
Mainland China, any sense of satisfaction that it will always be that way, because when we see the Chinese people - and I have seen them all over the world, and some of you have, too, whether in Hong Kong or Thailand or Singapore or Bangkok, any of the great cities, Manila, where Chinese are there - they are creative, they are productive, they are one of the most capable people in the world, and 800 million Chinese are going to be, inevitably, an enormous economic power, with all that means in terms of what they could be in other areas if they move in that direction. [More…]
We were the only other power that could take those steps. [More…]
Later he bought a little ‘Red Book’ to read for himself and to study for the next peace conference - such philosophies as ‘War is the continuation of politics … by other means’; ‘the seizure of power by armed force, the settlement of the issue by war, is the central task and the highest form of revolution’. [More…]
Power will not work any more. [More…]
All the power of the United States and all the power of the Russians cannot make the Egyptians and the Israelis come to terms until they decide to do so themselves, not that the two great powers could not demoralise them and demolish them in 5 minutes, but because it cannot really happen like that any more. [More…]
It is just another big power.’ [More…]
We believe that it is possible to have a co-operative world; members on the other side of the House believe that they can solve problems by political and military power. [More…]
It was a small country that had suffered wars for centuries and that had dictatorial groups in power. [More…]
But obviously the Leader of the Opposition believes that matters such as these can be changed overnight without regard to the ramifications of important international affairs and without regard to the important ramifications which must obviously occur in the field of international relations and within the world power struggle itself. [More…]
China, if not yet a world power, is clearly concerned that her presence should be felt throughout the world as a power of consequence, as a revolutionary leader, and as a potential trading partner, and in the exercise of her diplomacy against Russia strategically, against Taiwan in undercutting its voting strength in the United Nations and against India, its Asian neighbour, with which it has its longest boundary. [More…]
A continuing British presence has been accepted in South East Asia in the form of a combined ANZUK force which is being established in Singapore and a 5- power consultative agreement on the defence of Singapore and Malaysia. [More…]
Prior to the Communist Government coming to power, the average life expectancy in China was 28 to 30 years. [More…]
This situation brought the Communist Party into power. [More…]
In the intervening period there have been significant changes in the cost of living which in particular have affected adversely the purchasing power of those pensions in existence at the time of the last increase. [More…]
There is neither private judgment for the individual Labor member of Parliament nor certainly private judgment for the man who should be given the proper power to judge how he should lead the Opposition. [More…]
outside control of the Labor Party still stands so that the power is officially still vested in the hands of the organisations outside Parliament. [More…]
As to the expressed aims of the Government of Pakistan, President Yahya Khan said in a broadcast on 26th March: ‘ … my main aim remains the same, namely, transfer of power to the elected representatives of the people. [More…]
We also welcome the statement by the President of Pakistan that he will try to ensure that civil power is resumed as soon as possible. [More…]
In November 1970 the South Australian Government introduced The Commonwealth Powers (Trade Practices) Bill 1970, the purpose of which was to give the Commonwealth plenary power to legislate with respect to trade practices in South Australia. [More…]
What 1 am trying to do is make known that I have the utmost respect for those who are to be appointed but I think that the Parliament, as a matter of principle, must be given the right to make an assessment of the proposal with a full knowledge of what is proposed and what powers are to be given to these people. [More…]
It is a question of the power of the Parliament and how this Parliament is to be treated. [More…]
The reason that the Prime Minister would not have him prepared as a Minister is because he knows that the honourable member is a supporter of the former Prime Minister and he would not put himself in the position where possible supporters of the former Prime Minister would obtain authority or power. [More…]
Is the appointment of the Assistant Ministers a move to defeat the possibility of the Liberal Pary caucus voting itself power to select the Ministry? [More…]
This Ordinance gives power to the courts of the Australian Capital Territory to impose minimum non-parole periods in the sentences imposed on persons who have been convicted in those courts. [More…]
The Australian Capital Territory courts did not have this power until the enactment of this Ordinance. [More…]
The idea that judges or magistrates should be given power to sentence a person to a term of imprisonment, and then order that he be not eligible for release on parole until a minimum period of time has expired, is relatively recent. [More…]
But I cannot help feel that in large measure it is a power given to judges to bolster their need for believing that the sentences they impose will not be undone by subsequent decisions by psychologists, social and welfare workers, and others who are charged with the duty of observing prisoners and assessing their chances of successful reintegration into society. [More…]
I was taught that it was always undesirable to confer on the Executive powers that are by their nature judicial, because when that is done safeguards associated with the exercise of judicial power are invariably left out or written down. [More…]
Such a system is completely wrong, and the ideals behind our much vaunted concept of the rule of law will be severely dented if a decision making power that so vitally affects the liberty of the subject is created in this way. [More…]
I ask the House to consider the powers given by section 5 of the Ordinance. [More…]
Those officers will have the power, in an unfettered way, to order the release or otherwise of a prisoner. [More…]
No member of Parliament could rise to his feet in this House and describe, as I have described, the people who have this power and who constitute the parole boards of New South Wales and Victoria and have the direct responsibility for the decisions they made. [More…]
Such an incident could occur if the officer exercised the power to revoke the order. [More…]
But this was before parole boards of the present kind were created and before the present system of giving power to a judge to impose minimum non-parole periods was created. [More…]
It is also vested with the converse power of revoking an order of parole in the event of a breach of the conditions imposed. [More…]
This is not a power which the Attorneys-General - at any rate, since I have been exercising the office - have delegated. [More…]
Therefore, I do not think it is proper to lay undue stress on the argument that the power is given to some officer in a back room. [More…]
Last week I described the role of the Barrier Industrial Council in Broken Hill as one of the extreme examples of the excess of union power in Australia. [More…]
The complex industrial situation that has arisen insofar as the Miners Federation is concerned is some cause for concern, although domestically the production of power and the coal requirements of industry have not been affected so far. [More…]
The Deputy Prime Minister was the little colonial boy lost running around the great corridors of power in London, hoping desperately that someone would rescue him and his Government from a situation they got themselves into because they had not done their homework in relation to the European Economic Community and Britain’s entry into it. [More…]
What Mr N. H. Bowen, Mr McMahon and Mr Anthony are really trying to tell the Australian people is that it is not reasonable for the Chinese to refuse to go into the United Nations as one China with some rival claimant to the same power sitting opposite them. [More…]
Apart from a few minority groups such as the little, dogmatic groups that keep the Government in power, there are not many people in the Australian community who agree with the policy of the Government. [More…]
We will never be a satellite of any power, close though our relationships with others might be. [More…]
We are not a great power and we cannot play a decisive role in resolving the big issues between East and West. [More…]
No medium power like Australia can negotiate effectively in sensitive areas of international relations in the full glare of the spotlights. [More…]
He found himself declaring, on behalf of his Party, a foreign policy for Australia that was not within his power to implement. [More…]
It is a policy in conflict with our national interest, and very much - so very much - in line with the policy of the greatest Communist power in Asia. [More…]
That is the Leader of the Opposition brashly telling one of the great powers of Asia and one that is likely to be, in the foreseeable future, a dominant power what it should do. [More…]
Because America is a super-power and China a great power I think it may be inevitable that they will treat on a bilateral basis on the big issues. [More…]
He said his Government would not be a satellite of any power, but every person, even school children, in this country know that this Government has been a satellite of the United States of America in regard to its policy towards Vietnam. [More…]
Of course, that commitment, that insurance policy, has cost nearly 500 young Australian servicemen their lives, over 2,500 young men have been maimed and over $200m of Australian taxpayers’ money has been spent, and the present Prime Minister who was a member of that Government talks with hypocrisy and says that he does not want to be a satellite of any power. [More…]
Japan is becoming an economic and industrial super power; Britain is turning towards the European Economic Community rather than a long way east of the Suez Canal; Russian influence and interest are on the increase; while China - the People’s Republic of China - has adopted a far less inward looking stance. [More…]
And we must do all in our power to persuade Mr McMahon that Australia’s token opposition to South African racism must be consistent and effective, that because of his mistake the world now sees Australia as permissively racist - and that would be the most charitable impression of us in the capitals of Asia. [More…]
The only other way in which the foreign policy of the Opposition could acquire popular support would be for Australia to reject completely the philosophies which have determined our economic and defence attitudes since many years prior to the Liberal-Country Party coalition coming to power in 1949. [More…]
I am assured by the Board that it will do everything in its power to ensure that the new requirements will be carried out. [More…]
Yet earlier this year, in a different portfolio, he was willing to concede that the Commonwealth had both responsibility and power to influence prices. [More…]
If there is ever to be an income-prices policy in Australia the Commonwealth must exercise and be seen to exercise the very considerable power it has to influence prices. [More…]
Equally, those people who are on superannuation, who have paid into funds and who believed that their payments ought to return a real purchasing power have been robbed also. [More…]
Big business has been too willing to pay higher wages which results in a rise in costs, and this destroys the purchasing power of the people. [More…]
They are sick to death of strikes, demonstrations and the would-be Fascist dictators like Mr Hawke who are trying to take power out of the hands of this democratically elected Government. [More…]
These are the means by which the extreme left hope to gain power. [More…]
This is the policy that has been pursued in every country where the extreme left has eventually gained power. [More…]
These people, although they do not represent more than a very minute portion of the trade union movement, have gained power because of the great Australian apathy. [More…]
So the purchasing power of the people in the community - the pensioner, the superannuitant, the man with a large family - is decreased. [More…]
I stress that no matter what is done by the Government in these fields it will be useless unless strong action is taken to restore the power and the determination of the Government to govern, and the strongest possible action taken to deal with the destroyers, the exploiters, the Communists and the extreme Left fellow travellers who are at present allowed to defy constitutionally elected governments. [More…]
The only alternative is to set up a special rural mortgage division of the Commonwealth Bank with the power to make loans on terms extending to 30 years at reasonable rates of interest. [More…]
I believe that these things are all within the power and the ability of this Government to do, if it has the guts and the determination to do them. [More…]
But where is the balancing power of the Army? [More…]
Instead of giving the job to an independent judicial-like body - a parole board such as exists in nearly all of the States of the United States of America, in New South Wales, in Victoria and in the other States of the Commonwealth - the power in the Australian Capital Territory is given to the Attorney-General or, strictly, to the Governor-General acting on the advice of the Attorney-General. [More…]
Is it a fact that because the Commonwealth holds all the major taxing powers, it has the power, which is denied the States, of instituting taxes on a wide variety of chemicals known to be environmentally destructive, and that the levying of such a tax would have the effect of encouraging the research and development of alternatives which are less environmentally hazardous? [More…]
The Leader of the Opposition obviously is terrorised by the political power of Mr Hawke and the unions. [More…]
But the Arbitration Commission is not really responsible for the present trouble which is caused by the wages drift, overaward payments by employers, either forced by ruthless use of union monopoly power, or by employers competing among themselves for scarce specialised labour. [More…]
The first is that it would be illegal because it is beyond our constitutional power; the second is that it would be undesirable; and the third is that it would be ineffective. [More…]
It leaves the social services and repatriation pensioner in the position where any adjustment to his income is left solely to the whim of the Government in power, with the manipulation according to whether there is a possible election forthcoming. [More…]
Let us have a look at what has happened since the Menzies Government was elected to power in 1949 on a policy of putting value back into the 1. [More…]
In view of the fact that the Postmaster-General’s Department will not go beyond a distance of 60 miles in assessing the number of people who will be served by a high power television station, surely a limit of 100 miles is a large enough margin to apply to ensure that reception will, of necessity, be unsatisfactory. [More…]
When low power stations are installed it would be reasonable to apply a distance limit in relation to the coverage provided by this class of television station. [More…]
This revealed who is the real leader, the master mind and the power behind the throne in the Labor Party. [More…]
It is now 4 years since the referendum which gave the Commonwealth power, together with the States, to pass laws concerning Aboriginals was carried. [More…]
In the absence of this information, it is very difficult to fathom what would in fact happen if the Labor Party were returned to power and what it would do in the very vital field of public finance. [More…]
Tn assessing the claims of applicants the judges of the Arbitration Commission surely take into account the cost of living ruling at the time and compare the real purchasing power of the wage under consideration at that time with its purchasing power at some arbitrary time before and not in the future. [More…]
In other words, any judgment increasing wages is given so that the purchasing power of the wage will be restored to a previously accepted standard and not increased above a previously accepted standard. [More…]
there has been and still is a powerful upthrust of costs, stemming largely though not wholly from large wage claims relentlessly pursued. [More…]
Are they to accept the direction of the Government and somehow give legal sanction to the need in fact to reduce the purchasing power of wages? [More…]
The Budget was designed to soak up excess spending power and free money in the system, so that employers would simply not be able to pay higher wages. [More…]
If Maxwell Newton’s views on Australia’s future are genuine one would have expected that instead of lauding the courage of the Billys he would have criticised the Government for not seeking power to enable the Commonwealth to introduce price control legislation to stop giant monopoly corporations such as the Broken Hill Pty Co Ltd from increasing the price of as essential a commodity as steel without reference to any tribunal irrespective of the damage of such action to the Australian economy with resultant hardship to the Austraiian people. [More…]
While an arbitral tribunal deriving its authority under an exercise of the legislative power given by section 51 must confine itself to conciliation and arbitration for the settlement of industrial disputes including what is incidental thereto and cannot have in its hand the general control or direction of industrial social or economic policies, it would be absurd to suppose that it was to proceed blindly in its work of industrial arbitration and ignore the industrial social and economic consequences of what it was invited to do or of what, subject to the power of variation, it had actually done. [More…]
While the people without power, the people whose faces reflect the many aspects of poverty, are urged to exercise restraint, and are castigated if they demand wage justice, the Government and the big corporations gain more revenue for the one and increased profits for the other. [More…]
Such is the cynicism of the Government towards those who are without power in this country. [More…]
Those who are powerless enjoy few of the fruits when they are abundant and are denied proportionately more when they are scarce. [More…]
With the diminishing purchasing power of the $1 the only person who suffers is the person on the low fixed income. [More…]
The Prime Minister (Mr McMahon) came forward yesterday and in answer to a question from the honourable member for Barton (Mr Reynolds) - keep in mind that it was not until the ‘Daily Telegraph’ had demanded that something be done about this - acquiesced to Packer’s power and said: 1 discussed this problem last Thursday with my colleague, the Minister for Civil Aviation. [More…]
It has slashed the spending power of farmers. [More…]
But all tenderers indicated that before approval to export would be given, their respective Governments would require that the nuclear power station would be subject to Safeguards administered by the International Atomic Energy Agency in accordance with its Statute and Procedures. [More…]
Thu survey which was undertaken separately by the Joint Coal Board in relation to supplies to cover industry in New South Wales indicates that there is no problem regarding the supply to industry in the future, nor is there any problem regarding the production of power in the future. [More…]
In addition to that, as I say, this report that will be available to me shortly covering the survey undertaken by the Bureau of Mineral Resources in conjunction with the Joint Coal Board and the various State departments will clearly indicate that the situation will be fully under control as far as supplies of all types of coal for power production and for industry in Australia are concerned, and will allow very substantial reserves for export. [More…]
It is a matter of regret that the Commonwealth does not provide codes within its power and jurisdiction on matters of legal procedure and legal substance. [More…]
In regard to the date that is set - 31st March - if there should be an election before then the new Liberal-Country Party Coalition Government in power would bring in the Act which would put this back into force. [More…]
I, with whatever power I have as a 125th part of this House, will not consent to this kind of procedure at any future time. [More…]
In other words, the existing exchange parity for the United States dollar overrates its international purchasing power. [More…]
In terms of buying power, the basic pension is now considerably higher than it was at the time of the last Budget, and is in fact higher than it was ever been in the whole history of Australian pensions. [More…]
Thus, between last Budget and this, pension rates have risen more than twice as fast as prices - that is to say that pensions as provided in this Budget will have an increased purchasing power. [More…]
This is the regular meeting time for Cabinet and it is necessary, whatever government is in power, for Cabinet to meet and carry on its business. [More…]
Regarding paragraph 3, there is in fact no inconsistency; Commonwealth policy is for the’ progressive transfer of powers in consultation with the wishes of the people of Papua New Guinea. [More…]
The Civil Aviation power is one of a number of functions of Government that are exercised in the Territory by Commonwealth Departments and instrumentalities. [More…]
The decision in the concrete pipes case was a momentous decision in that it extended what was previously thought to be a limitation on the Commonwealth’s power under the Commonwealth Constitution Act. [More…]
one of the extreme examples of excess of union power in Australia. [More…]
Under the Constitution the Australian Parliament has power to make laws with respect to foreign corporations and trading or financial corporations formed within the limits of the Commonwealth. [More…]
Early this year it seems that the last Gorton Government was going to use the trade practices legislation in the fight against inflation, that it would complement the incomes policy operated through the Arbitration Commission with a prices policy operated through other institutions within Commonwealth power. [More…]
Two of them were effective because the companies concerned were within the Commonwealth’s power, as then understood, over the Territories. [More…]
At the same time the decision threw new light on the power that section 51 (xx) of the Constitution has conferred on the Commonwealth Parliament to make laws with respect to foreign corporations and trading or financial corporations formed within the limits of the Commonwealth. [More…]
The Commonwealth’s case relied for its support entirely on the corporation’s power. [More…]
This decision has now been overruled by the High Court, which has made it clear that the corporations power in the Constitution can be used to support legislation dealing with restrictive trade practices of foreign and trading and financial corporations formed within the limits of the Commonwealth, that is, whether they are trading interstate or intrastate. [More…]
The Trade Practices Act, as drafted by my predecessor, who is now the Treasurer (Mr Snedden), had provided in section 7 that one of the heads of power relied on was paragraph (xx), and that this was included on the footing that it was doubtful whether the case of Huddart Parker and Moorehead was correctly decided. [More…]
That sub-section was included upon the basis that there would be reliance placed upon the corporations power. [More…]
Tn the light of the guidance that has been provided in the judgment as to the scope of the corporations power, the Government has decided that the immediate and remedial legislation will be founded on the corporations power. [More…]
This discussion of a matter of public importance is not restricted to trade prac tices; it is rather a vague and general discussion which refers to the general need to pass laws relating to trade practices, consumer protection, consumer credit, securities markets and overseas control under the Commonwealth’s corporations power. [More…]
It recommended a companies commission with a dispensing power. [More…]
It laid down in its report conditions so strict for companies that it thought there ought to be a Federal companies commission having a dispensing power to apply to companies which showed they could not comply with such conditions. [More…]
We should not think that this corporation power simply opens the door for a securities and exchange commission. [More…]
That decision was taken in 1909 and it placed a limitation upon corporation power. [More…]
By this I mean that it reflects the extremely rigid legalistic Constitution that not only divides power between the various governments and imposes limitations and restrictions on the exercise of that power, but also requires that the system chosen for us is a system that was chosen by gentlemen who lived and worked about 80 years ago. [More…]
They created it not for us but as a sort of compromise solution to the problems which they experienced at that time and they devised the powers contained in our Constitution to suit their ends. [More…]
The same High Court has now told us that we do have the power that it said in 1909 we did not have. [More…]
For many years government has been conducted in this country on the basis that this Parliament has very little power to enact certain types of laws. [More…]
The traditional excuse offered by our conservative governments when defending themselves against criticism that they are not doing anything about the problems of the country - the sort of problems that are touched upon in this debate - has been to say that they cannot do anything because the Constitution does not give them the power to do it. [More…]
This very restrictive trade practices legislation which the High Court has now held to be invalid, but for reasons not associated with lack of power but for reasons more the result of attempts to overcome a fear that there was a lack of power, has been the vehicle whereby the High Court has told us that we have had the power all the time. [More…]
One wonders, of course, how many other opportunities exist somewhere in the Australian Commonwealth through the imaginative use of legislative power, properly tested through the High Court and perhaps used, explored or revealed by the use of referendums. [More…]
Are you going to say that you do not have the real power or that the corporation power is too limited?’ [More…]
The influences and the forces that operate within the economy are examples of private power. [More…]
Intervention and stimulus by public power - not private power - are necessary in a democratic Australia. [More…]
That public power can be exercised only through this Parliament. [More…]
That foreign capital brings with it foreign ownership which is foreign private power. [More…]
That power also must be made responsible and accountable to the Australian people. [More…]
If it is to be done and done properly, the Commonwealth Parliament must have more power. [More…]
The recent decision of the High Court has indicated that there is one major source of that power which is now ready and available for use. [More…]
To me, federalism involves as a basic fact living under a federal constitution and if one is to live under a federal constitution it is one of the primary duties of the federal government, the national government, to explore the limits of constitutional power given to it under that constitution and then, having explored them with a view to ascertaining them by judicial decision, act within them in what one conceives to be the national interest. [More…]
I can imagine that honourable gentlemen opposite, if they gain the treasury benches, will wish to use the corporation power in very different ways from the ways in which I would want to use them. [More…]
The question is not one of transferring to the Commonwealth specific powers consciously left with the States under the Constitution, but of allocating between the Commonwealth and the States the power necessary to fulfil a responsibility of government which did not exist when the Constitution was originally framed but which, in the Committee’s view, is now generally accepted in the light of developments since Federation . [More…]
pursue internally can be set at nought by the economic power of countries and also by the highly integrated nature of capital markets, particularly the flow of capital into that country. [More…]
The decision of the High Court seemed to point to the fact that we have powers at our disposal which we have not used. [More…]
lt is that, if a preponderance of economic power exists in one part of the world or another a country is able to impact upon the economies of other parts of the world by reason of its ability to use overseas capital markets. [More…]
These are all matters that require a government to arm itself internally with greater powers of economic integration than certainly is currently the case in Australia. [More…]
It is not just that the judgment on one section of an act has set at nought the restrictive trade practices tribunal, but that during the course of the observations made in that judgment reference is made to powers which it was previously thought could not be exercised but which apparently can be exercised. [More…]
After all, they are lawyers but many of the matters that are contained in the judgment and which are being debated this afternoon deal with the question of the proper use of economic powers both internally and externally in order to secure the best integration of our internal economy. [More…]
That, at least, is something that my Party supports and that is why we have taken the opportunity this afternoon to draw attention to some other heads of power to which this Government should give its attention. [More…]
This is a debate on a matter of public importance and I have been wondering myself why <t has been raised at this stage, f can sympathise with the view expressed by the honourable member for Melbourne Ports (Mr Crean) that the Opposition felt obliged to raise this matter to draw attention to the extent of Commonwealth power in these matters and the general desirability of the Commonwealth embarking on activities in some of those fields that have been mentioned this afternoon and, indeed, some of the fields that are set out in the matter that we are debating this afternoon. [More…]
of the Constitution relating to the corporations power: . [More…]
Honourable members can see in some of the speeches made by the former AttorneyGeneral, Sir Garfield Barwick, that time and time again he referred to the various sources of power that can be drawn on by the Commonwealth to justify as a basis for restrictive trade practices legislation and emphasised again and again the uncertainty of many of these areas of power and their extent. [More…]
It is one that must still be and will continue to be the subject of the closest and most detailed examination to see precisely what is the extent of Commonwealth power and the way in which that Commonwealth power should be used. [More…]
It is not simply a matter of the High Court handing down last Friday a momentous decision, which indicates a wide extent of Commonwealth power and the Opposition then coming to the Parliament on the following Tuesday to castigate the Government for not immediately having on the statute books legislation which might in the long run be worth while but which is not there now. [More…]
But what the committee does not recommend is that the Commonwealth itself should seek or derive power from some source or other to take over this matter of government activity. [More…]
Our food production, for example, has increased by our switching from horsedrawn equipment to power-driven equipment. [More…]
The Commonwealth has power to levy taxes. [More…]
It gives the Government no power to deal with the real crisis in housing. [More…]
As an industry it is certain to expand; all the conditions necessary to enable unfettered growth are present by virtue of our laws, attitudes, demand, borrowing power, and technical skill. [More…]
He should know, as a once potential lawyer, that the Arbitration Commission has power to set only minimum wage rates which in neither theory nor practice amounts to setting actual wage rates. [More…]
The increase of $1.25 in the standard rate of pension and of $1 for each married pensioner provides a substantial improvement in the purchasing power of recipients. [More…]
Mr Deputy Speaker, I have pledged my Government to do all within its power to eliminate pockets of poverty. [More…]
He has thrust himself into power in a most devious and ruthless fashion. [More…]
So far as the situation in regard to our foreign affairs and defence is concerned I would point out that this is a novel situation in 1971 that we have never faced before, where our great and powerful friends are in the process of departing from our area. [More…]
There is also an enormous change in the balance of world power. [More…]
She may or may not become a military power to match her enormous economic strength that now rivals that of the other super powers. [More…]
We should always remember that galloping inflation - and this can happen almost overnight - brought to power Hitler and the social upheaval that produced World War II. [More…]
My generation at least will remember that violence, showmanship and radio brought Hitler to power. [More…]
If the right climate is created private initiative and personal endeavour can operate with their full power. [More…]
So much of that power is today held in reserve and not properly utilised. [More…]
Industries are unable to stock up on services such as power, light or transport as a hedge against the dispute. [More…]
It is quite possible that the High Court judgment in the concrete pipes case means that the Commonwealth has the power to control prices. [More…]
To plagiarise the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Whitlam), it seems that it has power without responsibility. [More…]
In America the nuclear power stations are facing a doubling in demand for power every 10 years. [More…]
Australia need not rush into this field because before we get nuclear energy we have to get enrichment of the natural material used in a nuclear power station. [More…]
We have to put in a plant for fuel enrichment before we can operate Our first nuclear power station. [More…]
Australia has to have a nuclear power station quickly. [More…]
Bauxite when it is taken out of the ground by power machine is worth from $5 to $8 a ton. [More…]
The difference is accounted for by the provision of power, energy and heat. [More…]
With the use of nuclear power at Gove Peninsula, Australia would receive an enormous income from the beneficiation of bauxite into aluminium. [More…]
Therefore, the first nuclear power station must be installed. [More…]
This will give Australia time to look at fuel enrichment plants and to install the first nuclear power station. [More…]
But we can wait 6 months or 12 months to find out what type of fuel we need and to obtain the latest type of nuclear power station. [More…]
I remember on one occasion that he said we had to soak up our surplus spending power. [More…]
Estimated electric power requirements are: [More…]
The Opposition is not opposed to conscription in principle but it could only use the power in predetermined circumstances; that is, when Australia is under direct and immediate threat. [More…]
But what the Minister has neglected to draw attention to - and of course one understands this - is that there will be a fairly significant erosion in the purchasing power of these payments in the course of the next 12 months, and on the basis of the data supplied in the Budget papers? [More…]
Of course, for one child there has been a long term run down of purchasing power relative to average weekly earnings because child endowment for the first child has not been increased for very many years. [More…]
At page 18 of the report Mr Menzies, speaking as an eminent legal practitioner, indicated that the Commonwealth does have the power to implement legislation to allow national superannuation to be introduced. [More…]
He pointed out correctly that under the Commonwealth Constitution the Commonwealth Government does have power over insurance, and while it does not have power to compel the States in this respect as to what they are to do, nevertheless it has power to introduce its own forms of insurance. [More…]
So there can be no quibbling that we lack power or authority to introduce a system of national superannuation, nor can there be any quibbling that the scheme is practicable. [More…]
A comparison of the value of the pension today with the value of the pension when the last Chifley Government was in power in 1949 - and God knows it is long enough ago - reveals that the single rate of $4.25 in 1949 would have a present value of $11. [More…]
I remind honourable gentlemen that the purchasing power of 50c in 1926 would be at least equal to the purchasing power of $2.50 today. [More…]
Social service expenditure this year will be 14i per cent higher than last year and represents a real increase in the purchasing power of the pension. [More…]
It means that pensions as provided in this Budget will have an increasing purchasing power. [More…]
Of course, I was fortified in this view by the magnificent speeches which he made from the back bench and on his rise to power in the Liberal Party. [More…]
Our social services which were once our pride have gradually deteriorated in purchasing power and benefit to such an extent that they do little more than maintain in a degree of poverty those unfortunate people in the community who may be aged, sick, widowed or unemployed. [More…]
The pension paid is supplemented by the employers to ensure that its purchasing power is equal to that of the original pension paid for on retirement. [More…]
If we look at what has happened in the field of social services over the last few years it becomes quite obvious that the present Government during its 20-odd years in power has never made or attempted to make any detailed or close study of what is actually required to improve or even retain the purchasing power of the benefits or allowances in the Act. [More…]
As I said, even if we wanted only to ensure the retention of the original purchasing power of pensions and allowances it would certainly be necessary to have regular reviews. [More…]
But even if that proposal is accepted, it is not sufficient in itself, because, to my knowledge anyway, there has never been since this Government took office a proper inquiry or study to determine what the purchasing power should be. [More…]
Actually, this Government has no intention of making regular and proper adjustments to the several social service items, whether in relation to cost of living, purchasing power, average male weekly earnings or anything else. [More…]
This was the first increase in the allowable income since 1954 and in fact did not represent the same value as regards purchasing power as did the amount of the $7 allowable income in 1954. [More…]
People are losing in 2 ways: The value of social service benefits has been clipped just as though an extra tax had been imposed on the people, and they have moved into higher income tax ranges without getting any more purchasing power in their pay packets. [More…]
The increase in child endowment does not make up for the loss Of purchasing power through inflation over the years, .lust recently Professor Ehrlich criticised the increase in child endowment not because the amount was insufficient but because the increase might result in more children. [More…]
In order to give the same benefit in purchasing power, the rates should be increased at least 4 times. [More…]
In following the honourable member for Stirling (Mr Webb) in this debate it is appropriate for me to remind the House that he is a member of the Australian Labor Party which has not been returned to power since 1949 after 9 Federal elections. [More…]
In 1949 when this Government first came into power the Labor Party was spending only a lousy $149m on social services. [More…]
It is most noticeable that whenever social services and the like are discussed, members of the Australian Labor Party dismiss completely and disregard the progress that has been made by this Government over the last 20 years.I should like to mention for the benefit of members of the Opposition some of the things that this Government has done since it came to power at the end of the 1940s. [More…]
Members of the Opposition have the audacity to underline all their speeches with political undertones and suggest that this Government has done absolutely nothing since it came to power in 1949. [More…]
I have been intrigued to hear this afternoon the similarity between the proposals put forward by the Opposition and the proposals for a social welfare programme made by the Opposition’s other partner in power, the Austraiian Council of Trade Unions. [More…]
Not long before his party went out of power, he said: i don’t see a future of achieving our social objectives by constantly shifting resources from the private to the public sector so that people have a less and less proportion of their income to spend as they choose. [More…]
He knew some of the facts of life, lt is rather interesting to eximane further the manner in which the thought of a talented Labor Opposition member such as the former Chancellor, Roy Jenkins, changed once he gained power. [More…]
Everyone knows too that decisions on wages by the Commonwealth Concilia tion and Arbitration Commission and other tribunals have immediate repercussions on national and State economies and help perpetuate the wages-cost spiral, lt is not within the power of the Commonwealth Government to control these 2 major facts. [More…]
However, the Government does not deny the great responsibility that devolves upon it to do everything within its power to offset inflation by its own example, or by following monetary policies that will ensure the rate of inflation does not exceed the growth in national productivity. [More…]
He accused them of placing undue emphasis, in the designing and marketing of automobiles, on style, power, comfort, prestige, sex-appeal and sales of safety. [More…]
car advertising stresses undesirable aspects of power, aggression and speed: [More…]
Can he say what constitutional power enables the Commonwealth Department of Civil Aviation to control all air traffic and air traffic accident investigations yet denies the same right of road traffic and road traffic accident investigation to his Department? [More…]
If they are what the honourable member for Sturt says they are, surely to goodness he must admit and the people of Australia must also admit, that if we have a treaty with a friendly power whom we hope will come to our aid in the event of hostilities we cannot expect to have it all the one way. [More…]
Over the 5 year period there would be a serious drop in the buying power. [More…]
Under the Government’s approach purchasing power is being gradually whittled away from the special rate pension. [More…]
How much longer should we go on accepting these conditions from a government which boasted back in 1949 that it would maintain the relative purchasing power of repatriation pensions but which has failed to do so? [More…]
It increases charges the impact of which will be felt not only by individuals whose purchasing power will be reduced unless they can increase their income but also by business undertakings which have the ability to pass on the increased charges. [More…]
I have not been able to ascertain with accuracy the area which has been decided upon but I understand that a high power television station is regarded as capable of serving an area within a radius of perhaps only 60 miles. [More…]
There is no power to borrow. [More…]
But the British Government went further and gave its post office the power to raise loans. [More…]
Yet the administration has no power to deal directly with the wage claims of its employees. [More…]
What I can say is that if the Australian Industry Development Corporation had felt it wanted to make additional funds available to the Australian interests to permit them to buy the shares and provided it and the would-be purchasers felt it was an economic proposition in the long run to purchase the shares at a higher price than that offered by the American interest, that was something that was within their joint power to do. [More…]
good features and has played its part, is now being manipulated and abused in a way which has never been seen before, even in the times after the Second World War when a Labor government was last in power. [More…]
I believe that the time has come for the Australian Government to cease being so secretive and to be completely honest as to the purpose of this installation and other installations around Australia which involve joint activity with another power. [More…]
Of course, the present Hawke-Whitlam axis has changed Labor’s policy in this regard and Australians may well have similar problems if a Labor government with an open door immigration policy ever comes to power. [More…]
Is it any wonder that the Australian people fear the power that this man has taken unto himself? [More…]
A number of speeches have been made in an endeavour to indicate that the Government is operating on a sound basis, that there is no problem with the economy and that this is a credit to the Government which has been in power for the past 22 years. [More…]
In one fell swoop you have destroyed the motive power pulling the country. [More…]
The Commonwealth charges the Queensland Government, for instance, 6 per cent interest on a loan to build a power house which will be responsible for much of our aluminium and other export earnings. [More…]
Yet this is a scheme to ensure cheap power and more irrigated farm land in our most populous States and the Australian Capital Territory. [More…]
The mushrooming greed for powerproducing fuel is creating a heat disposal problem. [More…]
New York’s power supply company has stopped its Sim a year urging of people to use more electricity and has switched to a ‘save a watt’ campaign. [More…]
He found that he already had the power to do what he wanted. [More…]
I think that the country should realise that the judgment of members of the Opposition - I will not say they are knaves - is so fallacious as to show that they are dangerous people ever to have power in this country. [More…]
The reason for this motion is that the Committee wishes to present an interim report in relation to kangaroos but it has not, under the terms of its resolution of appointment, the power to present interim reports. [More…]
He went on to observe that in the intervening period there had been significant changes in the cost of living which, in particular, had affected adversely the purchasing power of those pensions in existence at the time of the last increase. [More…]
I suppose it is right enough that those who put in SI in a particular year thinking that it would give them a certain entitlement on retirement would envisage that the entitlement would have a certain purchasing power. [More…]
In addition the sum that he would be entitled to on the day he retired would have to maintain its purchasing power, and we might even allow for some sharing in the increased productivity of the community. [More…]
I say without reservation or equivocation of any kind that the interdepartmental committee’s report has no statutory power whatsoever and, as I said previously, it will probably suffer the same fate as have other reports. [More…]
Australia must be aware that we cannot keep basing our society on more and more goods and higher and higher productivity because sooner or later we will either run out of power, energy, metals or the other resources, or pollution will make this planet uninhabitable. [More…]
The Order in Council authorising the callout of certain members of the Defence Force in aid of the civil power in Papua New Guinea was made on 19th July 1970 and revoked on 22nd April 1971. [More…]
The Leader of the Opposition has denied publicly that it is the intention of the Australian Labor Party, if it should come into power, to abandon the fee for service system. [More…]
I promised the Leader of the House (Mr Swartz) and the Minister assisting the Treasurer (Mr Peacock) that I would be brief on this subject but 1 hope I have been able to make the point quite clearly that this is a power that should stay in the hands of the Commonwealth. [More…]
Not only will it reduce the amount they take home but also, by increased costs, it will reduce the purchasing power of the people. [More…]
It relates to the power of the Country Party under the heading ‘Our Strangled Cities’. [More…]
In 1949 all pensioners were on the same standard pension and at that time there was a Labor government in power. [More…]
This policy to be supplemented by the use of power of government to purchase goods and place orders. [More…]
In that case we shall seek the necessary powers from the people to do these things which we consider so necessary for the proper control of our economy. [More…]
And we believe that such methods of inducement to price restraint will be effective - very effective - particularly when supplemented by the Government using its power to purchase goods and place orders in such a way as to favour those who are efficient and are not seeking exorbitant profits. [More…]
What we do envisage is using power over key prices. [More…]
In the meantime, we intend to use inducement, so that businessmen who have these great powers over prices are ‘persuaded’, and indeed induced, to justify their level of prices. [More…]
How long can a country tolerate a government with a former Prime Minister sitting on the back bench undermining morale and plotting like MacArthur for his return to the corridors of power while the Prime Minister does nothing about it? [More…]
The reason I have raised this matter is that bank lending is largely controlled by the Government through the Reserve Bank of Australia and it exercises this power in a manner designed to assist the Australian economy. [More…]
I am suggesting that it ought to be seeking this power. [More…]
I believe that the Government ought to seek powers which will enable it to control all of the lending which is made both by banks and by other financial institutions - not only a reducing percentage of it which at the present time is not much above 50 per cent. [More…]
They claim that much of our capital resources are diverted from productive fields to nonproductive fields such as the building of roads, schools, hospitals and power installations, the provision of water supplies and so on. [More…]
They made it quite plain tonight that they believe in the centralised power of Canberra over all States. [More…]
The alternative is to fall at the feet of an invader, slaves to a foreign power. [More…]
A loss of purchasing power also is involved. [More…]
That Lake Pedder, situated in the Lake Pedder National Park in South-West Tasmania, is threatened with inundation as part of the Gordon River hydro-electric power scheme. [More…]
I ask the Minister for the Navy: Having regard to the fascinating events now taking place in London involving the accredited representatives of a for eign power and what is termed ‘industrial espionage’, does the Minister assure the House of the security of naval establishments, dockyards and construction centres to design and build Australia’s new destroyers for our future defence at sea? [More…]
An examination of those conditions makes it perfectly clear that most of them- in fact all of them - are completely within the responsibility and power of those who have charge of land in local areas. [More…]
If the honourable member for Reid had gone a little further he would have seen that this is demonstrated not merely through’ the distribution of power in Australia but also through the fluctuations in costs. [More…]
The variation in land prices occurred because a freer market was established and because the basic positions of supply and demand with respect to urban land were varied in that city by those who have the power and responsibility to do so. [More…]
I am not one who would seek to impose upon that kind of situation a power which is determined, administered and calculated from the central capital city of Australia. [More…]
So where the honourable member’s own party has significant authority and power to determine local markets, all is not well. [More…]
I suggest that it is an expression of no confidence in his own party which has significant power with respect to all of these areas. [More…]
If the honourable member is going to criticise even indirectly, by means of this motion, his party’s local authorities, which have power in the relevant fields, let him do that explicitly, but let him not do it by proposing a matter in this House which would amount to - I say this very sadly - an effective nationalisation of land in Australian cities. [More…]
Honourable members opposite know that the Labor Party was continuously in power in New South Wales for 23 to 25 years. [More…]
When the Labor Party was in power in that State - and one cannot unscramble the eggs too quickly - it deprived the people of Sydney of the opportunity to develop and expand Sydney through the unavailability of land. [More…]
We all know that land prices have gone up, particularly in Sydney, because, as I mentioned before, of so much government interference in the long time that the Labor Party was in power in New South Wales. [More…]
Let us consider one such council area - Blacktown - where the cost of surveying and servicing a block with sewerage, water, underground power and roads is $3,500. [More…]
One would hope that he is not referring to the period when the last government of his own colour was in power during the Second World War. [More…]
If be was referring to that period of history he will be quite familiar with the state of the defences of this country when the Curtin Government came to power. [More…]
; Secondly, there is the developing military and nuclear power of China together wilh her history of helping subversion and insurgency movements throughout South East Asia. [More…]
Does he suggest that there could not be an incident or that there could not be a threat even from a second class power or a third class power? [More…]
But Japan is, without any doubt, starting to emerge as a military power. [More…]
For that reason, since the major withdrawal of British forces from this area, Australia has entered into an agreement not only with the United Kingdom but also with other small countries of the region for our mutual security - the Five Power Agreement. [More…]
The Australian Labor Party has made it abundantly clear that if it came to power it would not accept advice coming from men having the highest standards of professional military competence that we have in this country. [More…]
lt was not because they were afraid, not because they had no patriotism and certainly not because they lacked the desire to defend liberty, but simply because they could not be convinced that they were in fact going to defend anything at all, but rather were being used as expendable pawns in an international chess game which was clearly recognisable as a game of power politics. [More…]
An undertaking had been given to foreign powers that Australia would provide a given number of workers’ sons to fight. [More…]
Canada’s percentage is somewhat less than our percentage, but, as someone has already mentioned, Canada is in the shadow and umbrella of the United States and although it is a Pacific power, it does not seem to have made any attempt to take any active part with its services in the Pacific area. [More…]
The legislative power to call up men for service remains operative in the United States and has just been reconfirmed by Congress. [More…]
This was shown when the Australian people and the Government’s own supporters in this House turned against the Parties represented in today’s government, threw them out and put into .power a Labor government which did introduce national service even for service beyond Australian shores where there was a threat to Australia. [More…]
We did not have the Japanese coming down to the Brisbane line, as the honourable member who has just interjected perhaps would have liked to see happen, and which no doubt would have happened if his Government had remained in power. [More…]
Government is concerned with protecting the money power in this nation - big business, the crooked stock exchange manipulations and share dealings and the fringe banking institutions which charge young home seekers exorbitant rates of interest. [More…]
When I came into this Parliament I vowed and declared one thing: As I see it, there are 2 great powers. [More…]
There is the power of people’s hearts and minds and there is the power of money. [More…]
I will always come down on the side of the power of people’s hearts and minds rather than the power of money. [More…]
Can he also say whether the Commission’s decision to use Lake Pedder as a canal from the Serpentine Dam is due to the extra cost of by passing the Lake for the Gordon Power Scheme. [More…]
Estimates of cost for this arrangement were submitted to the Select Committee of the Legislative Council set up to examine the Cordon River and Thermal Power ; Station Development proposals in 1967. [More…]
You will appreciate that a decision by Parliament can only be reversed or modified by Parliament itself and the Government has no intention tion of recommending to Parliament that the j Gordon Power scheme should be modified. [More…]
That Lake Pedder, situated in the Lake Pedder National Park in South-West Tasmania, is threatened withinundation as part of the Gordon River hydro-electric power scheme. [More…]
That Lake Pedder, situated in the Lake Pedder National Park in South-West Tasmania, is threatened with inundation as part of the Gordon River hydro-electric power scheme., [More…]
That Lake Pedder, situated in the Lake Pedder National Park in South-West Tasmania, is threatened with inundation as part of the Gordon River hydro-electric power scheme. [More…]
It is my belief that we should do all in our power, in cooperation with other nations, to ensure that the import surcharge is taken off as quickly as possible. [More…]
In relation to the third question I believe that as a result of the recent decision in the concrete pipes case the Commonwealth now has authority under the Constitution to legislate with respect to financial organisations and that this power would cover at least three-quarters of the kind of organisation mentioned in the table that was prepared by the Deputy Governor. [More…]
Pursuant to section 32b of the Snowy Mountains Hydro-electric Power Act 1949-1966, I present the twenty-second annual report of the Snowy Mountains Hydro-electric Authority for the year ended 30th June 1971 together with financial statements and the report of the Auditor-General on those statements. [More…]
The whole emphasis on Australia’s defence should be on mobility, speed and hitting power. [More…]
It is to fall at the feet of an invader, to become slaves of a foreign power. [More…]
I can well imagine the screams from members of the Government if the time should come when a Labor Party were in power and there was conscription - I should hope that there would not be - and the conscriptive powers were used to carry out the United Nations propositions in Rhodesia. [More…]
Ordinarily if they were Commonwealth prisoners they would be entitled to the provisions of sections 4 and 5 of the Commonwealth Prisoners Act which in effect gives a power to the magistrate or the judge who deals with the particular person for whatever offence it is, to impose a minimum non-parole period. [More…]
For example, normally we give a power to a magistrate or a judge to sentence up to a limit, having regard to antecedents, good behaviour, good character, the nature of the offence, the inducement to the person who committed the offence and the motives behind the offence. [More…]
We give the magistrate or the judge power to look into these matters and to ask what is reasonable for this particular person. [More…]
Republic of China: Chinese bilateral assistance in 1970 was $US1, 171,040 and was primarily in the fields of agriculture (vegetable seeds, vaccines, water pumps, sprayers and other equipment); power (study or construction of a number of electric power projects); public works (including the continuation of the dredging project in the [More…]
Has he taken any action regarding motor vehicle advertisements that place undue emphasis on speed and power. [More…]
These advertising organisations responded most favourable and since that time the emphasis in motor vehicle advertising has been more towards highlighting safety, comfort and reliability features of cars than either their power or speed. [More…]
There have been instances where advertisements featuring motor vehicles have emphasised the speed and power potential of vehicles as a means of influencing sales. [More…]
These advertising organisations responded most favourably and since that time the emphasis in motor vehicle advertising has been more towards highlighting safety, comfort and reliability features of cars than either their power or speed. [More…]
Section 28 of the Act at present vests the power to make Rules of Court in the Judge of the Supreme Court. [More…]
Consistently with the increase in the number of Judges provided for by this Bill, clause 11 (a) provides for the rule-making power to be vested in the Judges appointed under subsection (1.) [More…]
The Federal Government’s reluctance to use its constitutional power to allow third grade meat from the Northern Territory to move freely on world markets is an example of bureaucratic indifference to the important problems that are to a degree exclusive to this part of Australia. [More…]
It had been alleged that seagulls were sucked into the intakes - of two of the motors and the aircraft lost power at a critical point. [More…]
I ask: For how much longer on everything from wool, wheat and the routes which aeroplanes fly is this Government going to bow down and go on its knees to the great American nation simply because it is frightened of the power which the Americans have? [More…]
Can the Minister for the Navy give the House some indication of the very serious recent decline in the naval strength and sea power of the United States compared with that of the Soviet Union? [More…]
I am sure that members of the House are interested to know the comparative strengths of the great nations of the world and their sea power. [More…]
‘Janes’ says: By any standards the Soviet Navy is now the super navy of a super power. [More…]
The policy which we carry out is one explicitly laid down by Ministers of a Labor Government when that Party was in power. [More…]
In addition to a non-recurring grant for special revenue assistance, and the Commonwealth’s continued support for a high level of borrowing programmes for State works and housing, the States received access to a new field of taxation when the Commonwealth agreed to transfer to the States the power to collect payroll tax. [More…]
The power presently available to a number of nations makes this course more necessary and more urgent. [More…]
They are principally, those who have vested interests in export licences as well as those who apparently do not want to lose any power or influence in the marketing system. [More…]
That the Authority have the power to organise the assembly and the shipment of fruit and to negotiate contracts for the provision of shipping to carry fruit to overseas markets. [More…]
But honourable members opposite can be assured that we will do all in our power to have those who arrive in Australia before 25th December with their families on that date. [More…]
I ask him when the House can expect to receive a Bill on this subject, which also is within the constitutional power of this Parliament, which also was promised more than a year ago by the Gorton Government, and which also has been more than ever justified by events in the meantime. [More…]
The case tor a Federal marketing power is all the stronger when probable future developments are taken into account. [More…]
The fact that the Prime Minister has the sole right to choose who will exercise the effective power of government divorces the Parliament from any area of control over the day to day decisions of the government. [More…]
The committees would have power to call public servants or members of the public during consideration of legislation. [More…]
Such committees would have the power to conduct public inquiries into matters covered by their terms of reference. [More…]
The committees should also have power to examine matters not directly before the Parliament. [More…]
I think it would be desirable if the Speaker had the power to direct Ministers to provide information to the Parliament where it is obvious that such information is required. [More…]
I am not going to suggest radical things like the honourable member for Corio (Mr Scholes) has suggested but I will put some simple reforms that might make all the difference and which are within the power of the House if it chooses to exercise that power. [More…]
But it is the Government that is in power and has been in power for over 22 years. [More…]
This would make far more effective parliamentarians, a far more effective Parliament and, much sounder government of Australia and would help towards increasing the power of the Parliament over the bureaucracy - surely a vital necessity for the future of Australia. [More…]
It is immaterial to me which Party is in power in this context. [More…]
Of course, because a government depends on power it is almost mandatory for it not to appear ever to give way on any issue. [More…]
I believe that not only would a Labor government do this but a Liberal government or any other party in power would certainly ensure that the Senate was represented in the Cabinet. [More…]
Irrespective of what party is in power, I cannot believe that an amendment with some meat in it has never been put forward by an Opposition. [More…]
of the Constitution the Commonwealth has power to make laws with respect to insurance, other than State insurance, and also State insurance extending beyond the limits of the State concerned. [More…]
The proof of it is this: It was the Prime Minister (Mr McMahon) who recently, in answer to a question from the honourable member for Oxley (Mr Hayden), admitted that under the terms of the concrete pipes case this national Parliament has the power to move against the hire purchase institutions. [More…]
Lack of power affects passing ability, uphill performance and safety in merging onto turnpikes. [More…]
That Lake Pedder, situated in the Lake Pedder National Park in South-West Tasmania, is threatened with inundation as part of the Gordon River hydro-electric power scheme. [More…]
That Lake Pedder, situated in the Lake Pedder National Park in South-West Tasmania,is threatened with inundation as part of the Gordon River hydro-electric power scheme. [More…]
They seem to me to be very worthwhile young people and if we can in some way relieve their difficulties I think we should do everything in our power to do so. [More…]
It is not within my power to direct the Queensland Government as to what it should do but I understand that that Government has undertaken measures to speed up construction of these dwellings and I’ hope that that will be done in the near future. [More…]
Parliamentary control means influence, not direct power; advice, not command; criticism, not obstruction; scrutiny, not initiative, and publicity, not secrecy. [More…]
We find that now we have tax powers that we did not know we had. [More…]
Since the concrete pipes case we may well have power in regard to trade practices, company law, overseas companies and the securities industry that we never knew we had before. [More…]
We have the United States in isolation, the European Economic Community coming up and the Soviet bloc and we need an Asian common market bloc to safeguard ourselves against the power punches from these other great blocs that have been set up. [More…]
When there is a system of subsidies or of market manipulation, there is frequently the power to control production. [More…]
According to Mr Lang Hancock, a well known Western Australian millionaire iron ore prospector, Japan is playing grand scale power politics with Australia to get greater control of Australian raw materials. [More…]
He said that mineral exports now were a matter of power politics on an international scale. [More…]
But no power can tear him from his immortal sepulchre in England’s heart’. [More…]
I have not the will power. [More…]
As long as the conservatives are kept in power the average Australian will have little opportunity for his children to get a decent education. [More…]
equipment, (j) common user data network equipment, (k) switchboards, cordless and cord types, (1) switchboard cable, (m) power rectifiers, (n) testing instruments, (o) data modems, (p) loading coils and (q) multi-line telephones in the years 1968-69, 1969-70 and 1970-71. [More…]
These tribunals exercise great power. [More…]
Section 11a of the City Areas Leases Ordinance gives a veto-like power - a Godlike power - to the Minister for the Interior to decide whether a person who wants to change the purpose clause in his lease may do so. [More…]
But instead of allowing him to go, say, to a court or even to a tribunal to argue his case properly and have a dispassioneddispassioned airing of the merits of his case section 1 1a gives power to the Minister to say I will put a certificate on and if I put that certificate on you cannot go behind it.’ [More…]
That is dictatorial exercise of power at its worst. [More…]
The real casualties of the Liberal power struggle are not the Ministers who have lost their jobs but the children who have lost their chance of a better education. [More…]
The resultant loss of spending power due to the removal of families from Parkes will result in a progressive reduction in the work force in service industries and commerce enforcing a movement of more people to the already over-crowded cities. [More…]
I think it is probably true that there is no constitutional head of power that permits us to legislate with regard to pollution. [More…]
I do not anticipate that we will strike any trouble, but if we do we will make those decisions that we regard as being in the best interests of this country even though we might have no constitutional head of power relating to pollution. [More…]
Party came to power we would have an Australian Hospitals Commission. [More…]
If the Opposition were to come to power - and for the sake of Australia. [More…]
Prior to this Government coming into power literally nothing was done in regard to health from the Commonwealth viewpoint. [More…]
It is only in the last 22 years that this Government has been in power that all these major changes have been made. [More…]
In the early days prior to this Government coming into power the major hospitals got together and created a voluntary fund in New South Wales called the Hospitals Contribution Fund. [More…]
I was looking through some of my old papers only the other day and I saw that a special committee was set up by Labor Government which was in power in New South Wales at the time the voluntary fund was established. [More…]
The health scheme at present operating was established by Sir Earle Page when this Government came to power. [More…]
Add to the Constitution a clause giving power to the Commonwealth Government to act to safeguard any species of wildlife that is endangered through any cause. [More…]
The resultant loss of spending power due to the removal of families from Parkes will result in a progressive reduction in work force in service industries, commerce enforcing a movement of more people to the already overcrowded cities. [More…]
One would think that we ought expressly to give some power of review in such matters which concern the rights of a very great number of persons to pursue occupations in Australia or to secure citizen rights in Australia. [More…]
That in accordance with the provisions of the Public Works Committee Act 1969, the following proposed work be referred to the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Public Works for investigation and report: Construction of stage 5 extensions, Stokes Hm power station. [More…]
This means that the Government is keeping ahead of the population growth in the Northern Territory with extensions to the Stokes Hill power station. [More…]
1 would hope that as a result of the extensions the reticulation to the south of the city towards Batchelor and the Adelaide River will be possible and also that reticulated power will be made available to some of the developing areas immediately to the south of the present city limits. [More…]
We have the International Wool Secretariat whose function is to promote wool throughout the globe - with very little power other than that. [More…]
It has some powers in respect of research and periodical investiga- tions in relation to marketing. [More…]
We have the Australian Wool Commission which has certain powers. [More…]
It is obvious that the most constructive move which can be made is to bring the management or the powers directing the production and marketing of wool in Australia under one head in one coherent body. [More…]
Firstly, the same sum as in 1948-49 would have a very different purchasing power in 1970-71. [More…]
Of course, the purchasing power of the money received is probably only . [More…]
I, like many other people, have heard of the possibility of a great shortage of power in the future. [More…]
This is not within our power. [More…]
The honourable member knows it is not within our power. [More…]
It is not within our power to fix the date of a coronial inquiry or inquest. [More…]
It is not within my power to do so. [More…]
MW (e) Light Water Reactors constructed in North America during the period 1969- 197 5 would he approximately $US246m, including 7i per cent escalation, interest during construction and very high labour charges, (b) a recent report by the Reactor Assessment Panel of the Edison Electric Institute gives an estimated capital cost of a twin unit Light Water Reactor power station of 2300 MW commissioned in 197S of approximately SUS220 per KW, including all client’s charges and escalation and (c) similar costs obtain iii Europe for Light Water Power Reactors. [More…]
Is it a fact that the 500 MW power reactor which was considered for Jervis Bay was estimated to cost approximately $US230m including all client’s charges and escalation. [More…]
For example in contrast with the estimates quoted by the honourable member, it has been reported that Jersey Central Power and Light’s 1140 MW Forked River nuclear power station originally scheduled for 1976 operation will cost $345/kW - but we do not know on what ‘ground rules’ this was calculated. [More…]
Even so at the time of providing these estimates the sudden and unexpectedly large increase in prices of nuclear power stations which have since occurred could nut have been foreseen. [More…]
External costs necessarily incurred by the owner in the form of providing road or water access, power, water., housing and amenities are also excluded by USAEC. [More…]
The cost per kilowatt for nuclear power stations decreases with size at much greater rate than is the case with conventional stations. [More…]
It is that tenders for construction of nuclear power stations in industrially developed countries which have already had experience in constructing nuclear stations (e.g. [More…]
Ensure that the Australian Government does all in its power to help bring about a political settlement which would be acceptable to the people of East Pakistan. [More…]
Ensure that the Australian Government does all in its power to help bring about a political settlement which would be acceptable to the people of East Pakistan. [More…]
Ensure that the Australian Government does all in its power to help bring about a political settle- - ment which would be acceptable to the people of East Pakistan. [More…]
Ensure that the Australian Government does all In its power to help bring about a political settlement which would be acceptable to the people of East Pakistan. [More…]
Ensure that the Australian Government does all in its power to help bring about a political settlement which would be acceptable to the people of East Pakistan. [More…]
Add to the Constitution a clause giving power to the Commonwealth Government to act to safeguard any species of wildlife thatis endangered through any cause. [More…]
Standing Orders 101 and 105 give the Government this power. [More…]
Is the right honourable gentleman aware that his former Cabinet colleague and the former Treasurer, the honourable member for Wentworth, acknowledged last Thursday that inflation had ‘largely passed beyond the power of the Government to do anything decisive about it’? [More…]
He did not want a transference of power and behind him was a majority that did not want that transference of power all the time. [More…]
There was the accident of the change of the attitude of the late right honourable Harold Holt, the Transference of Power Referendum was promulgate andthepeoplevotedoverwhelm- ingly for it. [More…]
But the power which was transferred by the people was never wanted and we continue to act as if the referendum had never taken place. [More…]
We on this side of the House fully recognise the fact that in 1967. the people by way of referendum gave power to the Commonwealth Government to involve itself in Aboriginal affairs. [More…]
Only last week a member of the Press said: ‘Shortly, when a Labor government comes into power, Papua and New Guinea will have self-government overnight’. [More…]
It is pretty well known in this House that people who originally said many years ago - and did not say it as a Black Power slogan either, but as a genuine conviction - ‘black is beautiful’, are the people of Buka and Bougainville, who are the blackest people in Papua New Guinea and have the habit of calling the browner people of other areas ‘red men’. [More…]
Elements of all 3 Services joined with forces from other 5 Power partners, including Malaysia and Singapore, in Exercise Bersatu Padu in July 1970. [More…]
Ensure that the Australian Government does all in its power to help bring about a political settlement which would be acceptable to the people of East Pakistan. [More…]
Ensure that the Australian Government does all in its power to help bring about a political settlement which would be acceptable to the people of East Pakistan. [More…]
Ensure that the Australian Government does all in its power to help bring about a political settlement which would be acceptable to the people of East Pakistan. [More…]
That Lake Pedder, situated in the Lake Pedder National Park in South-West Tasmania, is threatened with inundation as part of the Gordon River hydro-electric power scheme. [More…]
That Lake Pedder, situated in the Lake Pedder National Park in South-West Tasmania, is threatened wilh inundation as part of the Gordon River hydro-electric power scheme. [More…]
That Lake Pedder, situated in the Lake Pedder National Park in South-West Tasmania, is threatened with inundation as part of the Gordon River hydro-electric power scheme. [More…]
Commonwealth had adequate power to control the acquisition of local or overseas interests of large shareholdings in banks incorporated in Australia. [More…]
This Bill actually stems from doubts on the part of the Government as to the scope of powers contained in section 63 of the Banking Act under which the Treasurer (Mr Snedden) and, therefore, the Government have the opportunity and the undoubted power to control any general disposal by a bank of the whole of its assets or shares or to merge with another bank. [More…]
I look forward to another Bill being introduced so that we can restore to the banks the power and the privilege which they had prior to the Banking Act being introduced by this Government. [More…]
The honourable member who has just resumed his seat apparently did not listen to his successor as Treasurer when he said that the whole purpose of the Bill ‘was to ensure that the Commonwealth has adequate power to control the acquisition by local or overseas interests of large shareholdings in banks incorporated in Australia’. [More…]
Here we have this Government, which has every power to decide whether to charge interest or not, or whether to charge a certain interest rate, imposing an interest rate of 7 per cent on this $2*m. Over 30 years Tasmania will pay approximately $6m in interest to the Commonwealth for this loan of $21m. [More…]
Not so far from this part of Bengal is a narrow neck of land known as Naxalbari which joins India to the northeast frontier areas, and in that Naxalbari area has been one of the most vicious guerilla movements, one of the most powerful anarchist movements in the world, the Naxalite movement, and any sort of chaos is grist to its mill. [More…]
The Naxalite movement has spread over parts of India, but it is particularly characteristic of the north-east, and it has had some power in Calcutta and Bengal. [More…]
If India is sincere in its desire to minimise the refugee problem and to get the refugees back to their homeland quickly, the Indian Government must withdraw all support from the liberation guerrilla army and discourage its activities so far as this lies within the Government’s power. [More…]
We need to do it not only for humanitarian reasons but also because of the war that, could occur between the 2 powers if something is not done. [More…]
This is something we do not want to happen and it is something we must do all in our power to avoid in the interests of humanity. [More…]
Since my predecessor’s statement in the House of Representatives on 16th March, consideration has continued of the procedures for the employment of elements of the Defence Force in aid of the civil power in Papua New Guinea, should this become necessary. [More…]
That Lake Pedder, situated in the Lake Pedder National Park in South-West Tasmania, is threatened with inundation as part of the Gordon River hydro-electric power scheme. [More…]
That Lake Pedder, situated in the Lake Pedder National Park in South-West Tasmania, is threatened with inundation as part of the Gordon River hydro-electric power scheme. [More…]
That Lake Pedder, situated in the Lake Pedder National Park in South-West Tasmania, is threatened with inundation as part of the Gordon River hydro-electric power scheme. [More…]
Ensure that the Australian Government does all in its power to help bring about a political settlement which would be acceptable to the people of East Pakistan. [More…]
Ensure that the Australian Government does all in its power to help bring about a political settlement which would be acceptable to the people of East Pakistan. [More…]
Ensure that the Australian Government does all in its power to help bring about a political settlement which would be acceptable to the people of East Pakistan. [More…]
Ensure that the Australian Government does all in its power to help bring about a political settlement which would be acceptable to the people of East Pakistan. [More…]
Ensure that the Australian Government does all in its power to help bring about a political settlement which would be acceptable to the people of East Pakistan. [More…]
My question, which I address to the Postmaster-General, relates to the new booster shortwave radio station at Darwin which came into operation on full power, I think, early last month, broadcasting the ‘Radio Australia’ programme to South-East and Eastern Asia. [More…]
As from 1st July last the transmitter was operating at full power of 250 kilowatts. [More…]
He has already withdrawn it, but he made a stipulation and I said it was beyond the power of the Chair to accept a withdrawal with any stipulation whatsoever. [More…]
It also confers power, to be exercised through the making of rules of the Supreme Court, for the conferring of delegated power on the Registrar of the Supreme Court of the Australian Capital Territory. [More…]
The Bill also contains provisions for the exercise of disciplinary power over legal practitioners in the Supreme Court of the Australian Capital Territory. [More…]
As it will inevitably become increasingly important in the national interest for this Parliament by its legislation to seek out the limits, and make full use, of Commonwealth power under the Constitution, we must also remember at the same time that we shall also serve the national interest by making full use for Federal purposes of existing judicial organs in the States and Territories. [More…]
The Government has power at its disposal to curb this sector. [More…]
The Commonwealth should use its power to correct the use of these accrued resources by the life assurance companies. [More…]
The Australian Labor Party was in power for many years but it did nothing whatever about the housing problem. [More…]
Since it has been in power the Government has done, and is doing, much. [More…]
However, to advert to government activity in the housing field, in the period from 1919 to 1949, 63,000 homes were built under the war service homes scheme but since this Government came to power in 1949, up to June of last year it had built 261,217 homes. [More…]
We are not at all opposed in principle to the idea of a managed international reserve asset based on some concept such as SDRs, although it would be only realistic to note both the considerable practical difficulties which might stand in the way of bringing such a scheme to fruition and the disadvantages under which any reserve asset will labour that does not have behind it the backing of real authority and international power. [More…]
When the Agreement expired in 1956 when this Government was in power it changed that system and it gave a rebate of 1 per cent on the long term bond rate to the States. [More…]
If the Opposition is sincere with respect to this matter, let honourable members opposite exert their authority and influence in the regions where they have some power to exert it. [More…]
I have indicated Where some authority could be exercised by the Opposition in areas where it has significant power but where the Opposition has chosen not to do this. [More…]
Migrants have added to these problems certainly but, at the same time, they have in their way contributed to our prosperity and well being with their labour, skills and purchasing power. [More…]
Let me therefore repeat what has been said on previous occasions, that Australia is not obsessed with economic growth, that we do not seek power through population and we do not seek growth for growth’s sake. [More…]
Ensure that the Australian Government does all in its power to help bring about a political settlement which yould be acceptable to the people of East Pakistan. [More…]
That Lake Pedder, situated in the Lake Pedder National Park in South-West Tasmania, is threatened with inundation as part of the Gordon River hydro-electric power scheme. [More…]
Over the last 2 decades during which this Government has been in power, the interest burden of this authority has increased by 2,000 per cent. [More…]
When a Labor government comes into power after 1972 - and there is no doubt it will - it will set up a national resources fund which, with the co-operation of State and local authorities, will be used to assist in converting to a national park not only the foreshores of Sydney Harbour but also many other places of great beauty throughout this nation. [More…]
The honourable member for Reid said: ‘We will protect our heritage when we come to power’. [More…]
It may be some time before the honourable member for Reid comes to power. [More…]
The middle income earner is still getting a raw deal and will continue to do so whilst this Government remains in power. [More…]
In the few minutes which are available to me 1 want to refer to what I regard as being the central or focal point of the Commonwealth’s power with respect to industrial matters. [More…]
I want to say at once that I regard this power available to the Commonwealth to be completely and utterly inadequate for contemporary society. [More…]
1 believe this is to be found everywhere, but I am dealing with the power given to the Commonwealth Parliament to legislate, subject to the Constitution, with respect to conciliation and arbitration for the prevention and settlement of industrial disputes extending beyond the limits of any one State. [More…]
The power that this Parliament has with respect to industrial relations is couched in excessive legalism. [More…]
It is a very complex power. [More…]
It is a power which is incredibly limited in the sense that there must be a dispute in being before the machinery set up by this Parliament can intervene. [More…]
It is a power which is limited in the sense that a dispute must extend beyond the limits of one State. [More…]
It is a power that denies to any apparatus set up by this Parliament the power to make a common rule with respect to an industry. [More…]
The power that this Parliament possesses today is utterly inadequate for the responsibilities which are cast upon it and it seems to me to be in the nature of a massive charade that the Parliament is asked to deal with disputes in this sector of ‘he economy or in this part of the continent when in essence and in truth the Parliament has no power. [More…]
May I turn to the difficulty which is aroused by the failure of the Parliament to confer on its bodies the power to pass a common rule. [More…]
I do not want to offend any lurking sense of federalism that may exist on my side of the Parliament, but I have had enough of this and I believe that this Parliament and the people of this country should, in all conscience and in good sense, turn to the recommendation made by the Joint Committee on Constitutional Review and ask that the power should be conferred on this Parliament to deal, as the Committee put it, with: . [More…]
I join with the views passed by that most illustrious Australian, the late Sir John Latham, when he said in 1953 that the fear with respect to this power is illusory. [More…]
There is reluctance fn many quarters to approve any increase of federal power over industrial matters. [More…]
I suggest that what we must do is to alter the Constitution in order to enable the Parliament of the Commonwealth to establish industrial machinery for the resolution of all questions relating to, and the determination of, the terms and conditions of employment and the terms and conditions of contractual relationships with independent contractors; to extend Federal jurisdiction to State-employed teachers, nurses, police officers, fire fighters and the like; to give to the Commission power to grant applications for a common rule for all employers in a particular industry; to abolish the present system under which judicial and arbitral powers in industrial matters must be exercised by different bodies; to enable the Federal jurisdiction in industrial matters to be exercised by State industrial tribunals and wage boards; and to limit the High Court’s power of intervention to cases where a question of law is referred to it. [More…]
If that test were applied fire fighters would be within the scope of the Commonwealth’s power to deal with industrial matters concerning that industry. [More…]
.School teachers cannot ba covered by the industrial powers of the Commonwealth, if they are employed by a State government but they can be covered if they are employed by a private school. [More…]
High Court which said that there is no power within the Commonwealth Constitution to deal with managerial policy. [More…]
The High Court said that this could not be done, conciliation committees consisting as they did of laymen could not exercise judicial powers of the Commonwealth. [More…]
Since the Commonwealth Court of Conciliation and Arbitration at that time was still a judicial body, all of its powers were treated as judicial and there was not any way of determining or producing a dichotomy of power that then existed. [More…]
In answer to a couple of pre-arranged questions the Minister made a degrading remark about where a trade unionist wore his badge on badge show day and said that Broken Hill was an example of excessive union power, or words to that effect. [More…]
Ensure that the Australian Government does all in its power to help bring a political settlement which would be acceptable to the people of East Pakistan. [More…]
That Lake Pedder, situated in the Lake Pedder National Park in South-West Tasmania, is threatened with inundation as part of the Gordon River hydro-electric power scheme. [More…]
That Lake Pedder, situated in the Lake Pedder National Park in South-West Tasmania, is threatened with inundation as part of the Gordon River hydro-electric power scheme. [More…]
Is the arbitrary use of monopoly power in this way a deterrent to an effective decentralisation policy for Australia? [More…]
On our return to our country we will do all in our power to alert our Parliament and alert our people to the vital and urgent need for world opinion to come to your aid in reactivating the International Control Commission and in bringing all the signatories to the 1962 Accords to honour their pledge to maintain your neutrality. [More…]
It is not prepared to send one man to Malaysia or to any of the other countries in South East Asia under the 5-power agreement. [More…]
I hope the House will not let go unnoticed the significance and solemnity which attaches to the practice of an undisclosed official from an embassy - be it the United States or any other embassy, and I do not want to reflect upon that generous power - going to a government, even though it may be at low key level. [More…]
What if a power should come to Australia today and say: ‘Would you mind giving assistance to India because we want to clean up Pakistan and we want to be involved in the Middle East’? [More…]
I have observed that the United States of America has been and is a great and generous power whose people have been kicked in the shins all around the world. [More…]
The Government has power to bring about the necessary machinery that would result in an improvement in the Tariff Board’s reports. [More…]
It is a standard that goes beyond what would be established in Australia if we were freely vulnerable to economic power expressed through international trade. [More…]
When the Australian Labor Party is elected to power at the end of next year - if the present Parliament lasts that long - we will do something about the industry. [More…]
That Government has chosen to grant licences to people who are prepared to give the necessary financial support to the party in power at the particular time; so that unreal competition on international air routes has been created, to the detriment not only of Pan Am but also of Qantas. [More…]
Secondly, there would be the statutory boards with which we are familiar and which would have responsibility for water, power, sewerage, fisheries, residential lands, motor vehicles, cold stores, wildlife, etc. [More…]
If ever an insult was thrown in the face of a major world power it was thrown by our judicial system here in Canberra. [More…]
That Lake Pedder, situated in the Lake Pedder National Park in South-West Tasmania, is threatened with inundation as part of the Gordon River hydro-electric power scheme. [More…]
I should like to make clear one point, which must be reiterated on every occasion that a request is made for the Treasurer to instruct the Commissioner of Taxation to do anything and that point is this: The Treasurer has no power to instruct the Commissioner of Taxation. [More…]
He has no power under the statute and I think in principle he should have no power. [More…]
I believe that it would not be a good thing for this Parliament to empower anybody to direct the Commissioner as to the exercise of his discretion. [More…]
The honourable member might well remind himself, if things are going to echo down the ages, of the fact that the Government has put value into the pension, because the present real value of the pension, in terms of purchasing power, is nearly twice what it was in the lamentable days of the last Labor Government. [More…]
This means that the Govern ment has to find a mere$1 5m to subsidise the interest rate and has to use its power of guarantee instead of taking money from the tax pool. [More…]
In addition, the State Government undertook to provide, at a cost to the people of the State, the firm with essential services including housing for employees, rail facilities, roads, power and water. [More…]
Whether it is this Government which is in power at the end of next year, or whether it is the Opposition, that problem will need to be faced and we will be reminding this Government and the people of Australia of the economic consequences of what it proposes to thrust through Parliament today. [More…]
I do so as an instruction to the Government to prepare urgently and implement a national fuel and power policy. [More…]
We are also on the fringe of the atomic age and, here again, we as an Opposition have a very strong reason for criticising the Government, because from the very first moment when it decided to buy into nuclear power until the recent indications that it intended to opt out - and I refer to the Jervis Bay fiasco - the Government’s nuclear policy has been marked by ambiguity and secrecy. [More…]
It is noteworthy that Japan in particular, which of all countries most desperately needs atomic power, in its approaches to the United States has been rebuffed to this stage. [More…]
Labor will stimulate the growth of nuclear technology, particularly by the earliest possible Commonwealth initiative to establish nuclear power stations using enriched uranium in reactors of basically similar design. [More…]
If any Government ever ducked out of the field of nuclear power with a red face and a tarnished reputation, it was this one. [More…]
It is really fantastic to hear the honourable member for Cunningham (Mr Connor) criticising this Government for its failure in relation to the production of power and fuel. [More…]
There is no time tonight to go into detail, but there is no doubt whatever that, since this Government came to power, the production of coal in this country has been enormous. [More…]
I will go further than that and say that, had the Australian Labor Party been in power. [More…]
Such an examination could include the matter of fuel and power but this would be doing the thing we are doing now - isolating this subject to one sphere. [More…]
This statement is part of a comprehensive review of all present trends in the development of power generation in this country. [More…]
The source of power in the next few decades in Australia will continue to be fossil fuels and in the light of world supplies of fossil fuel Professor Kirov correctly points to the fact that a total review of the use of our fossil fuels is essential. [More…]
(2) The possibility of transferring some base load electrical power generation to nuclear power. [More…]
The Senate of the United States of America has set up a committee to go into the whole question of fuel and power in that country because of the shortage of oil and fuel. [More…]
Labor will stimulate the growth of nuclear technology, particularly by the earliest possible Commonwealth initiative to establish nuclear power stations using enriched uranium in reactors of basically similar design. [More…]
Members opposite apparently do not understand what a fuel and power policy is, nor do they understand what the Government has been doing for the last 20 years. [More…]
I have slanted my remarks a little tonight towards fuel and power because of the nature of the amendment. [More…]
The States have been involved in some criticism, but it is to the credit of the former New South Wales Labor Government that it developed one of the best energy programmes ever because it relocated its power stations on its coal seams. [More…]
We see that a function of the Department of National Development is the assessment and development of our national resources, our ‘ power resources and our public utilities, and the development of mining and non-ferrous metallurgical industries. [More…]
lt now appears that they might give us some of their knowledge on enriching uranium because they want to be part of the power proposition here. [More…]
It has been said here that this Government would be very well advised to consider dispersing the interest in any enrichment plant to the advantage of Australia, to make certain that no one power said that we could not produce the advantages, for ourselves. [More…]
Power costs, land costs, transport costs are all too high. [More…]
Such a body is required to probe the inefficient administration of the Atomic Energy Commission which has been responsible for such monumental fiascos as the Jervis Bay atomic power project. [More…]
The role of the new authority would be to set guidelines for atomic research at the Lucas Heights atomic research establishment; to make recommendations on the development of atomic power plants; to formulate a nuclear fuel policy; to give advice about Australia’s role in the world uranium enrichment industry; and to examine the relationship of atomic research to Australia’s defence requirements. [More…]
Apparently this research was targeted for powering such remote localities as the developing mineral areas. [More…]
The Jervis Bay nuclear power station proposal was the next fiasco. [More…]
I remind him that at the last election a commitment was made by the Prime Minister of this country that Australia would develop an atomic power station at Jervis Bay, but it has now been abandoned at enormous expense. [More…]
New South Wales was not to be equipped with a nuclear power station until the end of the 1970s or well into the 1980s when a nuclear plant might become competitive with coal fired stations. [More…]
New South Wales had coal fired stations capitalised and operating, and it was just not economical to propose that we should proceed to establish a nuclear power plant in New South Wales in that situation. [More…]
We are all familiar with the sudden burst that took place in 1961 after the electors of Queensland almost tossed the Menzies Government out of power. [More…]
One thing is certain: If there was a Labor government in power here now it would have a few words to say to Henry Bolte, Askin, Bjelke-Petersen and a few others. [More…]
Power development is vital to Queensland and vital to the north. [More…]
Money has been made available - at a very high rate of interest - but I think it is time we had a few more power houses constructed in the north. [More…]
I also want to re-emphasise the attitude of the Australian Labor Party towards this foreign company known as Clutha Development Pty Ltd. Great indignation has been aroused among people throughout Australia by the special privileges given to this company in the legislation passed by the New South Wales Liberal Government, with which the Commonwealth Government acted in concert, because the Commonwealth Government has power to control the granting of export licences for minerals and other commodities. [More…]
They are determined that this beautiful district will not be desecrated and mutilated by the power of money or favouritism through the action of the Liberal-Country Party Government in New South Wales. [More…]
The amendment related to a national fuel and power policy. [More…]
I suppose one could describe the Assistant Ministers as ghost like figures disappearing into the corridors of power from time to time. [More…]
These are symptoms of the arrogance of being too long in power. [More…]
Are those who hold power so arrogant that they use public money to keep power by political campaigning at the expense of the public purse in this way? [More…]
I can think of no reason why the people of Lowe ought to have more influence on the direction of the executive power of the nation than have the people of Wills. [More…]
I believe that the Prime Minister’s power is an anachronism. [More…]
That Lake Pedder, situated in the Lake Pedder National Park in South-West Tasmania, is threatened with inundation as part of the Gordon Riverhydro-electric power scheme. [More…]
That Lake Pedder, situated in the Lake Pedder National Park in South-West Tasmania, is threatened with inundation as part of the Gordon River hydro-electric power scheme. [More…]
That Lake Pedder, situated in the Lake Pedder National Park in south-west Tasmania, is threatened with inundation as part of the Gordon River hydro-electric power scheme. [More…]
That Lake Pedder, situated in the Lake Pedder National Park in south-west Tasmania, is threatened with inundation as part of the Gordon River hydro-electric power scheme. [More…]
Half of our fighter force is, in fact, maintained in Butterworth and if Indonesia were a hostile power those 2 squadrons would be wiped out of operation because we could not get them back to Australia. [More…]
As I am in a fairly generous mood today I should like to praise the former Minister for Defence, the right honourable member for Higgins (Mr Gorton), for standing up at the Five Power meeting in London in April and not bowing down to the absurd request that the Singapore Government was making at that time. [More…]
I trust that that $5.36m will be explained along with the other difficulties which the Government obviously is having in the Five Power arrangements. [More…]
I think time has shown that thinking to be valid, and if it is valid for a country with the power of the United States, how much more valid is it for Australia. [More…]
can be achieved; secondly, that we must seek to achieve a Navy of worthwhile strength - I support what the honourable member for Isaacs (Mr Hamer) had to say about this earlier in this debate this afternoon - and thirdly, that such a Navy must be properly and constantly covered by air power, and that means landbased airpower or airpower based at home to a great extent. [More…]
Basically, the thesis of these articles is that technological factors have changed entirely the basic concept of sea power. [More…]
When they are armed with proper guided missile systems they can be as formidable as any other ships and could well hold at bay larger, more modern and more powerful ships belonging to other navies. [More…]
But relatively they will be RollsRoyce ships, whereas our capacity and the new technological factors dictate that sea power can be asserted with much cheaper ships and more numerous ships. [More…]
Conditions of this kind offer Australia for the first time the prospect of becoming a considerable naval power. [More…]
A united effort of defence cooperation with our neighbours along these lines could in fact make the whole area and all the countries in our part of the world very much safer, and it would be extremely difficult and costly, in terms of losses and casualties, for any other power, however big. [More…]
After all, it would take 10 days to get here from the nearest part of China, and the information that they were on their way would seep through the corridors of power and the lobbies and would reach the Minister’s desk and be sent on to the Prime Minister (Mr McMahon), and eventually we would have a day’s notice. [More…]
What I do want to put to the Committee is this: This country cannot in all circumstances and at all times depend for its existence upon some other power. [More…]
The United States is a global power. [More…]
Australia is a local power in South East Asia. [More…]
Australia must recognise that in dealing with a great power she is bound to be frustrated. [More…]
We have the almost incomprehensible position where recently a representative of the Australian Government in the United States virtually chided the American Government because of the liberal policy it was pursuing on the question of China, and he was virtually telling the United States Government that American policy on China must change if the United States wanted the Liberal Party to be preserved in power in Australia. [More…]
It can only be to the good of our future if the two major powers which have been so antagonistic for two decades can live in a way in which it is possible for them to make concessions. [More…]
I say this because in a world environment which is changing throughout the 1970s - this may be a cause of alarm to my friend from Wills (Mr Bryant) - we will have a situation where, by 1990, the greatest naval power on this earth will be the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. [More…]
In addition to the holiday home owners, this area has been used by members of a power boat association for over 10 years. [More…]
Some 20,000 power boats are registered in Western Australia, and their owners will be denied access to some 7 miles of safe anchorage and beaches and could be further denied an area of water up to, I think, a quarter of a mile, which is defined for security reasons around the Island. [More…]
The people most affected will be the 380 members of the Cockburn Sound Power Boat Association, which is a club of 10 years standing. [More…]
It would damage the confidence in Australia’s role in the Five Power regions and of course it would immediately abolish the logistic support of the ANZUK forces and would mean that we would have unilaterally taken this step without adequate consultation with our neighbours. [More…]
by the New South Wales Government was taken to restore the purchasing power of State pensions but, as a result of this increase, my constituent’s social service pension was reduced from $16.20 a fortnight to $10.80 a fortnight, together with a loss of fringe benefits, including the telephone rental concession, the pensioner medical service and the reduced radio and television licence fees. [More…]
Ensure that the Australian Government does all in its power to help bring about a political settlement which would be acceptable to tha people of East Pakistan. [More…]
That Lake Pedder, situated in the Lake Pedder National Park in south-west Tasmania, is threatened with inundation as part of the Gordon River hydro-electric power scheme. [More…]
That Lake Pedder, situated in the Lake Pedder National Park in south-west Tasmania, is threatened with inundation as part of the Gordon River hydro-electric power scheme. [More…]
That Lake Pedder, situated in the Lake Pedder National Park in south-west Tasmania, is threatened wilh inundation as part of the Gordon River hydro-electric power scheme. [More…]
I would be very surprised if there were real criticism of this situation because it was included in the Broadcasting Act in the days when the Labor Party was in power. [More…]
They do change, and that is one reason why we have television today although we did not have it in the days when the Labor Party was in power. [More…]
One section of the reports says that under the proposed legislation the Victorian Minister would have power in an emergency to sink a ship if it was in danger of breaking up and threatening to spill oil in coastal waters. [More…]
Time after time these countries built up majorities for resolutions which they had no power to enforce. [More…]
I do not need to emphasise that Australia is a large land mass but it is of course a relatively small power. [More…]
Referred to the Committee for report are projects which include the Stokes Hill Power Station Stage 5 extension, the central zone sewerage scheme in Darwin at a proposed cost of $3. [More…]
situated in the Lake Pedder National Park in South-West Tasmania, is threatened with inundation as part of the Gordon River hydro-electric power scheme. [More…]
Pedder, situated in the Lake Pedder National Park in South-West Tasmania, is threatened with inundation as part of the Gordon River hydro-electric power scheme. [More…]
Ensure that the Australian Government does all in its power to help bring about a political settlement which would be acceptable to the people of East Pakistan. [More…]
Ensure that the Australian Government does all in its power to help bring about a political settlement which would be acceptable to the people of East Pakistan. [More…]
National Park in South-West Tasmania, is threatened with inundation as part of the Gordon River hydro-electric power scheme. [More…]
Is it not in Australia’s interest to support this move which provides for the exclusion of major power interference in our region and for non-intervention in each country’s affairs? [More…]
Does not the call for neutralisation of our region represent a rational response by these nations to the new situation created by the withdrawal of the United States of America from the region and by the re-emergence of China as an active, major power in world diplomacy? [More…]
In Czechoslovakia in August 1968 the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics gave a clear indication of its enormous military power and its ability with that military power to control internal policy within Czechoslovakia. [More…]
Because the Russian Government took the view that this constituted a threat to the internal as well as to the external security of Russia, it is common knowledge that enormous military forces, backed by the full power of the Warsaw Pact, moved into Czechoslovakia. [More…]
The threats against Israel have been constant over a long period of time and they have been supported, to a degree which cannot be challenged in this chamber, and greatly augmented by the power of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. [More…]
In recent days in this chamber we have had many discussions about naval power. [More…]
Government supporters have been expressing judgments and reflecting upon the ability and capacity of Australians to meet the demands for sophisticated naval power under the control of the Australian Government. [More…]
Not only are the major power relationships with respect to the area of South East Asia and the Indian and Pacific oceans regions in a state of some fluidity, but the position is complicated by the problems of emerging and newly emergent nations in the area. [More…]
Britain has of course been a major military and economic power in the region for as long as we have existed as a nation. [More…]
Japan, as the third industrial power in the world, obviously has an interest in conducting firm and continuing relations with the countries of South East Asia, and it is in our best interests, both in terms of trade and as a basis for stability within the region, that the Japanese are not regarded with suspicion as militaristic and economic dominators, but as valued trading partners and trusted neighbours. [More…]
Viewed from the outside, through the eyes of the representatives of the Pacific peoples, Australia is a huge, resource rich, economic power, which has not taken enough interest in the future development and well being of the countries of the South Pacific. [More…]
The great modern net ideology is sovereignty - the right of the State over the individual, the power to use the loyalty of the individual, the power to use force, the monopoly of violence. [More…]
We ought to be trying to mitigate the power of sovereignty - if that is the correct word - the absolute power of the State over the individual - the kind of thing we see happening around the world now. [More…]
We must nol become pawns to the giant Communist power In our region. [More…]
As long as it can fool the people it has a chance of getting into power, but it is when such a party gets in that the people have cause to be concerned about those promises which were never carried out. [More…]
They have not made any moves towards making public what will be an essential change in the United Nations Charter, to make the United Nations a legislative body capable of enforcing laws in those matters which cause disputes between nations and give it democratic elective representation instead of being a diplomats club, as it is at the present time, with no elective power. [More…]
So Australia’s power position has to be considered in the light of a changing Australian role in the world. [More…]
We are not in that sense a significant world power. [More…]
But we are already a significant power in our region. [More…]
Our wealth, our resources, our interests and our policies make it quite plain that we are a significant power in our region. [More…]
But our potential should make it just as plain that some day we will play a role as a great power in our region, and in this we have one abiding advantage which is dictated as much by nature as by our good intentions. [More…]
But the policies of the United States must never automatically commend themselves to us for the United States is a great power, but is not a domestic power in our region. [More…]
This woolly euphoria and isolationism is bound up in wild expressions such as, ‘Since the United States is withdrawing totally from Asia, we must’, ‘China has joined the United Nations and dropped all its old policies’; ‘Great powers will never again become involved in South East Asia’. [More…]
The certainties of the cold war and the relative simplicities of the Asian power struggle may well be succeeded by uncertainties and instabilities which are even more fraught with danger. [More…]
There is no doubt that the new balance of power is more complex and will induce more problems and uncertainties. [More…]
The uneasy semi-truce between the 4 major powers will inevitably involve them in misunderstandings of one another; and the smaller powers will not necessarily find the confusion of relationships easy to comprehend at home or comforting abroad. [More…]
His words flow very effectively - or would if only they had something to do with the subject which is the over-stress of power. [More…]
Generally speaking this attitude is based on the question of the balance of power which, I believe, is now irrelevant. [More…]
What we should be doing is surrendering our views about the inevitability of war and the threats of power, and asking ourselves whether these things are valid any more. [More…]
A country’s power or influence does not depend any more upon its battleships. [More…]
Our real task in this part of the world is to protect individuals against the eccentricity of state power. [More…]
State power is based on all sorts of things. [More…]
The idea is that because you are in power you have an absolute right to control the rights of the citizens. [More…]
I believe that the relationships between human beings are more important than the threat of power rolling on from battleships, aircraft or anything else. [More…]
I understand the power game and that politics is what it is no matter what the human beings are made of. [More…]
However, if we make allowance for the fact that the Government through the Department of Health is fairly effective in bringing about reductions in costs, I would expect a 10 per cent reduction in cost because the sort of buying power that the Department of Health would represent would not be unreasonable. [More…]
In the past it has been thought that Commonwealth powers were limited to television and radio, but the concrete pipes decision by the High Court makes is possible that the Commonwealth could control all forms of promotion by cigarette corporations. [More…]
If the Commonwealth has this power, surely it should use it. [More…]
We now find that in what has become known as the concrete pipes case a good decision has been made on the basis that surely this parliament should have power to legislate in respect of corporations and restrictive trade practices. [More…]
I should think that even our ancestors thought that this Parliament should have those powers because they in fact made some mention of them in section 51, placitum (XX). [More…]
I even found an article in an Australian law journal of 1934 by the present Mr Justice Holmes, in which he said that there were certainly good powers still left for the Commonwealth, despite the decision in Moorehead’s case. [More…]
Also there is a modern caravan park equipped with 500 power points, planted with lawns, trees and shrubs. [More…]
The power, which is supplied from the local regional electricity board, has failed on occasions. [More…]
Once when there was a power failure there was the farcical situation of an aircraft coming in on its approach when the power cut off. [More…]
The position is that there is no alternative power supply. [More…]
All that is needed is the installation of a power plant that would take over immediately the town supply cut out. [More…]
Again I urge the Minister for National Development (Mr Swartz) who in this chamber represents the Minister for Civil Aviation (Senator Cotton) to give consideration to the installation of an alternative or emergency power plant at these airports. [More…]
The purpose of the amendment is to clarify these general provisions to provide the Board with the specific power to participate in commercial ventures as a means of expanding existing markets or securing new markets. [More…]
Clause 10 provides for the insertion of a new section in the Act (Section 48d), which will empower the Director to advance money on mortgage to an ineligible person for the purpose of effecting a sale when exercising the powers of sale conferred by section 36, section 48 and section 48c of the Act. [More…]
While the usual practice of the Director is to sell properties under the powers conferred in these sections to eligible persons, it is sometimes necessary to effect a sale to an ineligible person, where, for example, the property is no longer suitable for sale to an eligible person, or where an eligible person is not available to purchase the property. [More…]
Under the existing provisions of the Act, the Director’s power to lend on mortgage is generally limited to eligible persons. [More…]
The fact that the Director does not have power, where it is necessary to effect a sale to an ineligible person, to receive part of the purchase price in cash and leave part out on mortage has created some very real administrative difficulties and sometimes results in a loss of moneys to the Commonwealth. [More…]
Other clubs, either having leases or in the process of acquiring leases, are: Ad works Rabaul Club, Aitape Sports Club, Angoram Club, Angoram Native Ex-Servicemen’s Club, Balimo Sports Club, Bamguina Club, Banz Pony and Track Club, Bereina Club, Boroko RSL Club, Bougainville ExServicemen’s Association, m,ke Passage Golf Club, Bulolo Bowling Club, Bulolo Golf Club, Bulolo Small Bore Club, Buin Country Club, Cameron Club, Cathay Club, Chimbu Sports and Social Club, Comworks Sporting and Social Club, Country Club, Daru Tennis Club, Farmers and Settlers Banz Club, Finschhafen Golf Club, Four Mile Club, Garamut Club, Gormania Club, Goroka Bowling Club, Goroka Farmers and Settlers Club, Goroka Golf Club, Goroka Sports Club, Goroka Tennis Club, Hagen Bowling Club, Hagen Country Club, Hagen Golf Club, Hagen Tennis Club, Hiri Club, Kainantu Country Club, Kambiu Club, Kamosa Sporting Club, Kameng Golf Club, Kar Kar Club, Kavieng Club, Kavieng Native Ex-Servicemen’s Club, Kerowagi Sports and Social Club, Kerema Club, Kieta Club, Kimbe Bay Sports and Social Club, King Chow Club, Koitaki Club, Kokopo Sports Club, Kone Club, Kowloon Club, Kone Tigers Football Club, Kuomintang Club, Kundiawa Social Club, Lae Aero Club, Lac Bowling Club, Lae Chinese Social and Sports Club, Lae Club, Lae Native ExServicemen’s Club, Lae Golf Club, Lae Power Boat and Yacht Club, Lae Pistol Club, Lae Rugby League Club, Lae Rugby Football League Club, Lae RSL Club, Lumi Sports Club, Madang Club, Madang Golf Club, Madang Ruby, League Club, Madang Small Bore Rifle and Pistol Club, Manus Sports Club, Mendi Valley Club, Namatana Sports Club, Native Settlement Society Club, New Britain Women’s Club, New Guinea Ambonese Club, New Guinea Club, North Coast Sports Club, Northern District Workers’ Association Club, Numa Numa Water Ski Club; Pagini Club, Papua Club, Papua Turf Club, Papuan Yacht Club, Pioneer Club, Pomio Sportsmen’s Club, Popondetta Club, Popondetta Ex-Servicemen’s Association Club, Popondetta Golf Club, Port Moresby Basketball Association Club, Port Moresby Gun Club, Port Moresby Rifle Club, Port Moresby Tennis Club, Public Service Sports Club, Rabaul Golf Club, Rabaul Native ExServicemen’s Club, Rabaul RSL Club, Rabaul Swimming and Life Saving Club, Rabaul Yacht Club, Rigo Country Club, Samarai Papua and New Guinea Recreation Club, Samarai RSL Club, Samarai Sports Club, Seagull Women’s Club. [More…]
That Lake Pedder, situated in the Lake Pedder National Park in South-West Tasmania, is threatened with inundation as part of the Gordon River hydro-electric power scheme. [More…]
Ensure that the Australian Government does all in its power to help bring about a political settlement which would be acceptable to the people of East Pakistan. [More…]
So far as lies in our power as a government we are determined to combat this pernicious trend, slow it down and hobble it. [More…]
A cynical kind of observation, I suppose, that one can make about the Government’s intention to increase the duty is that if, as anticipated, there is an increased yield because of the higher rate of tax, it will mean simply that the purchasing power of consumers is reduced in some other direction. [More…]
I am satisfied that the Minister is doing everything in his power now to stop this practice. [More…]
It was natural that as the head of a recently formed government I should welcome the opportunity for discussions with the leaders of 2 major powers who are traditionally close friends and allies of this country. [More…]
Moreover, changes are taking place in the world strategic balance of power which are of fundamental importance to us. [More…]
In this situation the voice and influence of a medium power such as Australia is becoming increasingly significant. [More…]
We reviewed the five-power defence arrangements for assistance in the defence of Singapore and Malaysia. [More…]
I am aware that the British Government is actively considering, with other Governments in the five power arrangement, further areas of co-operation in the defence field. [More…]
Australia, finding itself a middle power in this volatile area, has developed 2 strong lines of policy. [More…]
We have recently signed a 5-power agreement with the United Kingdom, New Zealand, Malaysia and Singapore under which we have Australian Army, Navy and Air Force units stationed to our north. [More…]
The fact is that some important changes in the world power situation are occurring, and it is essential that close communication should be maintained between the leaders of allied countries. [More…]
Indeed, a Western presence in the Indian Ocean would seem common sense to all but the Opposition as a logical back-up to our ANZUS and SEATO Treaties and the 5-power agreements for the defence of the Singapore-Malaysia area. [More…]
I am sure that in many ways the Thai Parliament could not possibly have the sort of power that we expect parliamentary democracies in the West to have. [More…]
One wonders now, if this SEATO alliance is aimed at protecting Thailand, what exactly is it aimed at protecting, apart from the financial and political interests of that minority who have seized power formally. [More…]
That Lake Pedder, situated in the Lake Pedder National Park in South-West Tasmania, is threatened with inundation as part of the Gordon River hydro-electric power scheme. [More…]
Tasmania, is threatened with inundation as part, of the Gordon River hydro-electric power scheme. [More…]
That Lake Pedder, situated in the Lake Pedder National Park in south-west Tasmania, is threatened wilh inundation as part of the Gordon River hydro-electric power scheme. [More…]
The Leader of the Opposition has indicated that if the Labor Party were in power it would institute a public inquiry into the inducement of people to have fewer children. [More…]
We are not using the existing powers of the Reserve Bank to channel this investment into other forms of construction. [More…]
We have existing powers under the foreign banking exchange regulations. [More…]
We should be using the power that we have. [More…]
The very first thing the Liberal Party of Australia should have done upon its return to power in New South Wales was to have this legislation erased from the statute book. [More…]
The Commonwealth has the power to lay down the conditions under which it makes funds available to the various State housing authorities. [More…]
The Sun’ claimed that Mr Dunstan acted on the conviction that the situation would change dramatically after the next Federal election with a Labor government in power. [More…]
Accordingly, the Committee has recommended that the Commonwealth Parliament should have power, concurrently with the States, to make laws with respect to rates of interest and other charges payable in connection with loans obtained upon the mortgage or other security of land. [More…]
Ltd that Australia can no longer financially tolerate the dairy industry type of protection given to that company and will he do everything in his power to allow American charter carriers into Australia or get Qantair to move into the lucrative United States market? [More…]
One of my friends in the wine industry has for some time been in touch with the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Whitlam) but he has had no satisfaction as to whether the Australian Labor Party, if it were in power, would abolish this tax. [More…]
As the level of growth of economic activity in this country lessens the spending power or the consumers’ ability to purchase the same amount of wine decreases because of the increase in price. [More…]
It is unrealistic to expect that this country will suddenly lay down its arms or wither away as an effective power. [More…]
Clause 7 provides for the insertion of a new section in the Act - section 30b - which will empower the Director of War Service Homes, when he enters into possession of a property in pursuance of a warrant issued under section 30a of the principal Act, to remove goods found in the dwelling house and store them in a safe place and to sell or otherwise dispose of the goods upon the expiration of a period of 3 months after a notice of the removal of the goods has been published. [More…]
I would say that this section of the Act is designed to give power to the Director so that the Division can enforce a law to exclude from provisions of the Act certain people who may have served in a war. [More…]
I want to deal with aspects such as the power of the Director and the Minister. [More…]
I want to consider the right of the Minister to define the power of the Director and to say what he can and cannot do. [More…]
I would like to receive a stricter definition of the powers of the Minister. [More…]
The Opposition wants to see a regulation controlling these powers. [More…]
In certain circumstances a second mortgage can be obtained from a bank provided that the bank lends the money as a personal loan and the home is not used as security because power of sale cannot be exercised against a war service homes title in the event of default unless this loan has been approved by the Director. [More…]
the constitutional powers believed to be available to sustain the legislation, it was open to legal objection. [More…]
The AttorneyGeneral ako pointed out that the High Court had made il clear that the corporations power in section 51 (xx) of the Constitution could be used to support legislation dealing with the restrictive trade practices of corporations and that the Government had accordingly decided that the immediate remedial legislation should be founded on that power alone. [More…]
The Bill accordingly provides for the repeal of the existing Act, and for the re-enactment of provisions that are similar except that, apart from the shipping provisions, they are founded on the corporations power alone. [More…]
The shipping provisions remain founded on the overseas and inter-State trade and commerce power but the other provisions of the Bill do not draw upon that power nor upon other powers such as the power with respect to the Commonwealth’s Territories. [More…]
The relationship of the Bill to the corporations power is provided for in a number of the operative provisions of the Bill such as those defining the agreements and practices that it covers. [More…]
As the Attorney-General indicated in his statement on 7th September 1971, the Government is satisfied that legislation thus based entirely on the corporations power will cover the vast majority of significant restrictive practices that could be covered by Commonwealth legislation if reliance were placed on all available powers. [More…]
The Bill does not make provision for complementary State legislation, nor does it draw upon the reference of power from Tasmania. [More…]
The examinable agreements and the practices covered by the Bill have been re-defined so as to relate them in each case to the corporations power. [More…]
The Bill accordingly authorises the Commissioner to retain documents he has obtained from other persons so long as the documents can be related to a relevant head of constitutional power. [More…]
It would indicate an extreme move of power and influence to the centre of government in Australia. [More…]
However, I doubt whether the increase in power at the centre is as great as the honourable member for Fremantle suggested. [More…]
Mr Acting Speaker, time will not permit me to say all I wanted to, but I do hope that the Government will do all in its power in relation to these matters. [More…]
That Lake Redder, situated in the Lake Pedder National Park in South-West Tasmania, is threatened with inundation as part of ‘he Gordon River hydro-electric power scheme. [More…]
That Lake Pedder, situated in the Lake Pedder National Park in South-West Tasmania, is threatened with inundation as part of the Gordon River hydro-electric power scheme. [More…]
That Lake Pedder, situated in the Lake Pedder National Park in South-West Tasmania, is threatened with inundation as part of the Gordon River hydro-electric power scheme. [More…]
Perhaps it is not easy to put one’s finger on a neat programme of solutions but at least there are some things that it is within the power of a government to do which this Government is refusing to do. [More…]
1 ask the Prime Minister: Has the Government any proposal to enable this House to decide and declare its privileges under the power which was provided 70 years ago in the Constitution but which has never been exercised? [More…]
Since August 1962 such loans have been further restricted to essential extra steeping accommodation and installation of water and power services, It is high time that all these rationing schemes were abolished and the full benefits of the War Service Homes Act restored. [More…]
In 1950-51, after the Menzies Government came into power, the loan available to ex-servicemen was $5,500 while the average cost of land and dwelling was $4,160. [More…]
I am asking those ex-servicemen, those crusading ex-servicemen, those young Turks of 1949 - and I put the Minister for National Development (Mr Swartz), who is a member of the Cabinet, in that category - to use their power to give to exservicemen this added benefit by increasing the loan from $9,000 to $15,000 to enable them to buy a home. [More…]
In fact, there are other provisions in the Act which give the power of ministerial direction and these provisions have been passed over by the honourable member for Reid. [More…]
Let me indicate the criteria of judgment with respect to second advances which have developed over the years and which may not have developed at the right time and in fact which may not have developed at all were such a power of ministerial direction to be deleted. [More…]
There is an attempt here to change the power of a Minister in relation to advances. [More…]
As I understand the Minister’s case, it is to the effect that it would be wrong to vest his power in Ihe Director and that the Director has the prerogative of looking at repayment capacities and things of this kind. [More…]
When the Opposition makes a proposal, as it has tonight for the establishment of an Australian schools commission, it has an obligation to say whether it is merely a promise which it has no intention of fulfilling or it is a promise which it is gong to put into effect in1 year, 2 years, 3 years or 20 years, that is, if it ever gets into power. [More…]
But if the Opposition makes all the promises on equal terms as though it would be put into effect immediately it became the Government, if it ever did come to power, then either it is expressing itself accurately, and if so its proposal is vastly expensive when put alongside the Opposition’s other promises, or it is not accurate, in which case the Opposition is not entirely honest in its approach to the wooing of votes at this time. [More…]
He went on to say, however, that he had no power to direct the Minister or to order an inquiry. [More…]
This policy to be supplemented by the use of power of government to purchase goods and place orders. [More…]
They know they have no power to cause inflation or anything else. [More…]
The originating causes of inflation lie not in wage increases but with those who have independent power to increase prices or to get their hands on enough money to be able to originate new expenditure. [More…]
To do this they must have power to acquire or create new money. [More…]
They have this power when they are in control of large monopolistic corporations which can take from the consumer for the sale of its products enough to spend in new investment, in take-overs and in many other ways. [More…]
When we turn to recession, we see that the causes of it lie clearly with those who hold economic power. [More…]
Inflation begins with the people who have money and who have economic power, and until this is recognised by the Government nothing of any effect can be done about controlling inflation. [More…]
Inflation is the result of the exercise of economic power and the people who are responsible for it are responsible in the proportion to which they do have economic power. [More…]
To stop inflation from happening those who hold economic power must be required to fit within a national plan for priority development without inflation. [More…]
In this way, it would effectively relegate the Commission’s position and erode its power. [More…]
It must do everything in its power to maintain the very fine balance I spoke about earlier, lt must not be panicked by a highly charged emotional debate into measures which could jeopardise the economy’s fundamental strength. [More…]
This Government has been in power for 22 years, lt is well to remember the famous oration delivered by the then Mr Robert Menzies He said: ‘We will put value back in the pound’. [More…]
Look at what has happened after this Government has been in power for 22 years. [More…]
This is the record of this Government which has been in power for 22 years. [More…]
The official indices of the Bureau of Agricultural Economics show that since this Government came into power in 1949 the index of prices paid by primary producers of Australia for materials, etc, has increased by 177 per cent. [More…]
In the last 12 months the consumer price index has increased by 6.5 per cent, and there is continual erosion of the purchasing power of our money. [More…]
So if this amount of money passed rapidly into purchasing power we would have those 2 problems superimposing themselves one on the other, and frankly we would quickly learn what it meant to innate ourselves out of the international market and to do many other things that were against our long term interests. [More…]
This of course meant a tremendous loss of purchasing power and was to the disadvantage of the ordinary members of the community. [More…]
T ask bini when the House can expect to receive a Bill on this subject, which also is within the constitutional power of this Parliament, which also was promised more than a year ago by the Gorton Government, and which also has been more than ever justified by events in the meantime. [More…]
In some fields in which prices are rising worst of all, such as in the cost of land for housing, the States have unfettered discretion and power. [More…]
If one seeks genuinely, as I believe most members on both sides of the House would seek to do, to see that the buying power, and therefore the prosperity, of employees is increased rather than diminished, the suggestion that wage increases alone are beneficial is open to grave question. [More…]
I do believe that prior to the discussions to which I have referred being held we should consider - I put it no higher than that - the possibility of asking the States whether they will agree to refer to the Commonwealth the powers over wages and prices which I am told the States have and the Commonwealth does not have. [More…]
In that way discussions could be held at which both parties would be able to make undertakings - one with the other - instead of one party being unable to make an undertaking to the Commonwealth Government because it has no power to do so. [More…]
Ensure that the Australian Government does all in its power to help bring about a political settlement which would be acceptable to the people of East Pakistan. [More…]
The Parliament shall, subject to this Constitution, have power to make laws for the peace, order and good government of the Commonwealth with respect to: [More…]
When the legislation was declared invalid by the High Court the reason given was that had it been founded on the power that I have quoted, namely, the power of the Commonwealth with regard to corporations, perhaps it would not have been invalid. [More…]
What we come up against the power of corporate activity in the modern economy. [More…]
There is not any doubt that following the decision in Strickland v. Rocla Concrete Pipes Ltd this Parliament has power to legislate with respect to trading and financial corporations formed within the limits of the Commonwealth and also with respect to foreign corporations. [More…]
I do not know why there was any kind of scepticism in Australia about our powers constitutionally over what are described in placitum 51 (x.) [More…]
If was argued that we had no power to operate in this field, lt was suggested from our side that we would treat this sort of thing as though it was within the scope of the constitutional power. [More…]
I would concede that we tended to suggest that we would regard il as falling within the banking power. [More…]
One of the astonishing things in the Strickland v. Rocla Concrete Pipes Ltd case was that although so much had been assumed as being beyond the power of the Commonwealth this seemed to be resolved almost overnight. [More…]
But we must do something to restrain the predatory power of the big corporation. [More…]
At least we are reaching the situation in Australia where we are becoming concerned about such problems as pollution, the size of the corporate undertaking and things that we loosely describe as bureaucratic power. [More…]
1 hope that when the Government is contemplating its substantial amendments they will be the kinds of things it wilt look aL ] hope that it will look at the role of corporate power which, if wc are not careful, can be one of the forces which overwhelms the reality of democracy in a modern economy. [More…]
Of course, Australia has a reputation abroad which this Government is determined to preserve as being the last frontier for economic banditry, a place where monopoly power rides unchecked by laws considered to be basic necessities in other modern industrialised nations. [More…]
The Bill does not make provision for complementary State legislation nor does it draw upon the reference of power - from Tasmania. [More…]
These have been defined to relate (hem in each case to the corporations power. [More…]
In this section - monopolisation’ means acquiring or using monopoly power with the intention of preventing a person from entering or expanding a business, or using monopoly power in a manner that is unreasonable and detrimental to consumers of goods or services; monopoly power means the power to fix, or influence substantially, the market price of any kind of goods or services, or to prevent persons entering or expanding business. [More…]
It boils down to this: These corporations exercise power in much the same way asthis House exercises power or tries to exercise it. [More…]
The difference, of course, is that when this House or this Parliament tries to exercise power it does so publicly. [More…]
All these things flow back to the original decision taken by a body which is exercising great power in the community but which is not responsible to anyone. [More…]
Fortunately for the people of Australia it said that the Corporations power of the Commonwealth was far more extensive than had hitherto been thought. [More…]
The Government has now come along with this piece of holding legislation and has more or less said: ‘We will not at this stage use the great power which has been given to us. [More…]
It is a difficult and complex power’. [More…]
The Government says that it is going to use this power eventually, but I have grave doubts as to its real intentions in this regard. [More…]
Bill limited to corporations, leaving aside the question of incidental power and things of that sort in the Constitution. [More…]
The’ Minister talked about introducing strengthening legislation to take advantage of the power given by the decision in the concrete pipes ca&e, the extended power under the corporation section, section 51. [More…]
Australia has a very high degree of concentration of economic power. [More…]
This power is not responsible to anyone. [More…]
It is power that is exercised often against the interests of the Australian community. [More…]
The Government has a Bill which, was once dependent upon accepting transfers of power from the States and using the other powers in the Constitution but now it relies entirely on Commonwealth corporation power. [More…]
I will not repeat what I said previously about this Bill except to say that it is a holding operation to ensure that during the parliamentary recess there will be in force some restrictive trade practices legislation, that the Commissioner has authority to act, and the authority to hold documents which are in his registry and the power to move forward with the consideration of cases and, indeed, the power to proceed with a couple of cases that are now to go before the tribunal. [More…]
It even means acquiring power with the intention of preventing a person from entering or expanding a business, or using monopoly power in a manner that is unreasonable and detrimental to consumers of goods or services. [More…]
In addition, it would go into a BUI, the whole structure of the administration of which, involving the Commissioner, his power to call for agreements to be registered relating to monopolisation and his power of administering the Act in relation to monopolisation as a practice would be aimed in a different direction. [More…]
What the Minister does not tell the House is that the person affected has no chance whatever until in the dim and distant future, if and when and as the Commissioner for Trade Practices finally gets around to the point of ultimately examining the legislation, there is no power of action for damages inherent in the person who suffers from the consequences of that registered contract. [More…]
1 think that the Federal Government should use to the maximum the power that is in section 96 of the Constitution, that is the power dealing with grants, to say that there is to be rural reconstruction there must be a completely revolutionary approach to the problems of restoring some of these large properties so that there is the prospect of maintaining pastoral activity in difficult times. [More…]
The Government is always claiming divine right after 20 years of power, so we said: ‘Your commitment is complete. [More…]
Before moving on to that amendment I would say that the Act which was introduced into this House last year to enable the setting up of the Commission was introduced under the constitutional powers of the Commonwealth of Australia. [More…]
The Commission was set up for the purpose of putting a buyer into the market, which is the only power in relation to this type of exercise which the Commonwealth had under the Constitution. [More…]
Under the Australian Constitution the States have powers relating to commodities produced within the States, and they have the sole power. [More…]
The Commonwealth does not have power. [More…]
That Lake Pedder, situated in the Lake Pedder National Park in Soulh-West Tasmania, is threatened with inundation as part of the Gordon River hydro-electric power scheme. [More…]
That Lake Pedder, situated in the Lake Pedder National Park in South-West Tasmania, is threatened with inundation as part of the Gordon River hydro-electric power scheme. [More…]
That Lake Pedder, situated in the Lake Pedder National Park in South-West Tasmania, is threatened with inundation as pari of the Gordon River hydro-electric power scheme. [More…]
That Lake Pedder, situated in the Lake Pedder National Park in South-West Tasmania, is threatened wilh inundation as part of the Gordon River hydro-electric power shceme. [More…]
Ensure that the Australian Government docs ail in its power to help bring about a political settlement which would be acceptable to the people of East Pakistan. [More…]
But the fact is that at the present time the United Nations is not an effective peacekeeping body and the Indian and Pacific Ocean area is emerging now, with the changing balances of power, as one of the danger areas for peace in the world. [More…]
Those whom it may concern, before they allow themselves to get uppity, should ponder this and remember the miasma that mushroomed up into a cloud when certain people didn’t like what Hardy said in his novel ‘Power Without Glory,’ [More…]
He is advised to marry and to put his power behind a newspaper tycoon called ‘Sir Jasper Storeman’, who can readily be identified as Sir Frank Packer. [More…]
If we are going to have measures to promote decentralisation then let us begin by doing everything within our power to retain the population we already have in these areas which are the types of areas in which we want to promote decentralisation. [More…]
Only the Commonwealth Government has access to the powers which permit the book entries needed to relieve the State, local and semi-government bodies of the crushing burden of interest on borrowings. [More…]
It has the power under the Constitution to better manage the financial affairs of the Commonwealth. [More…]
If it was imaginative and courageous it would use (he powers it has. [More…]
Cost advantages which industry based in Tasmania once enjoyed through cheaper power and other concessions have been whittled away. [More…]
Time and time again I have asked questions in this Parliament concerning the progress of particular projects - they may be concerned with roads, Water, power or land development - and every time 1 get the answer ‘lt is under investigation’. [More…]
For example, is there efficient use of finance on the Ord River project, the beef road, the brigalow area and the various irrigation and power projects throughout the southern States of Australia? [More…]
Black Power movement is that we are not keeping pace with Aboriginal expectations. [More…]
Finally, a great deal of attention has been focussed by the Press on the Black Power movement in Australia. [More…]
There is a very small Black Power movement, lt is led mainly by frustrated people. [More…]
She has been a prominent Aboriginal leader and in recent days she has gone on record as expressing her opposition to the Black Power movement’s use of violence. [More…]
The inclusion of this paragraph of the Bill - and he was referring to paragraph (xiv) in the referendum which was designed to give the Commonwealth power to do something for the people of the Aboriginal race - is necessary only because of what has become a complete anomaly in paragraph (xxxvi) of section 51 of the Constitution. [More…]
That paragraph gives to this Parliament power to make laws with respect to ‘the people of any race, other than the Aboriginal race in any State, for whom it is deemed necessary to make special laws’. [More…]
Honourable members opposite use all their power to pursue any young man who evades national service. [More…]
The Minister has Vo use ail hi.s authority, power, charm and whatever else he has and tackle the States. [More…]
Anything we can do to create in the House of Assembly the character of a collegium, which includes the effective responsibility of the Ministers to the House and the effective power of the House over the Ministry while there is a rudimentary party system we should do. [More…]
The powers in the Swiss Parliament; power to choose the Ministers and a close identity of the Ministers with the House, offer security against the emergence of dictators in Papua New Guinea. [More…]
I know that we cannot create unity in the voting in the Parliament, but there should not be an Opposition excluded from power and influence - a group apart. [More…]
1 think that the reality of the powers of the Minister for Immigration in Papua New Guinea may answer this. [More…]
One great advantage the Army has, and one that the Army exercised quite ruthlessly, was the power to ensure that any Australian officer or non-commissioned officer who was a morally harmful or arrogant element, an exacerbating element, an abrasive element - and there were some of them in Papua New Guinea; some of them helped to produce mutinies - was promptly put on the next plane south. [More…]
I hope that the Minister for Immigration would have as a reality in his hands, without it being an arbitary or damaging power, the right to allow or disallow continued residence because this is important for the maintenance of good race relations. [More…]
I do not like the idea of nominations of this sort with one individual having power over another, particularly in an elective system which is basically a system of equality in which all the people elected to the place are basically equal with equal responsibilities. [More…]
(a) Section 26 of the Marriage Act empowers the Governor-General to declare a religious body or a religious organisation to be a recognised denomination for the purposes of the Act. [More…]
The power is a discretionary one and there is no provision for an appeal from a decision by the Governor-General nol to declare a particular body or organisation. [More…]
That Lake Pedder, situated in the Lake Pedder National Park in South-West Tasmania, is threatened with inundation as part of the Gordon River hydro-electric power scheme. [More…]
That Lake Pedder, situated in the Lake Pedder National Park in South-West Tasmania, is threatened with inundation as part of the Gordon River hydro-electric power scheme. [More…]
That Lake Pedder, situated in the Lake Pedder National Park in South-West Tasmania, is threatened with inundation as part of the Gordon River hydro-electric power scheme. [More…]
Prior to 1961 the Australian States had the power to deal with legitimation. [More…]
Knowledge is power, but if the knowledge is all on the Government side because of the departmental advisers whom the Government has available to it, the Government starts off one up in any sort of debate. [More…]
The Australian Government will nevertheless continue to do all in its power towards bringing about a peaceful and lasting settlement. [More…]
The catastrophe on the subcontinent heralds fundamental changes in the uneasy power arrangements and accommodations which have maintained some semblance of peace in some of the world’s potential flashpoints. [More…]
Nor is it without significance that the 2 old imperial powers, Britain and Prance, abstained on this occasion. [More…]
This has applied to agreements relating to the Ord River, the brigalow, beef roads, irrigation and power projects. [More…]
One effect of maintaining full employment is that the balance of industrial power has moved strongly in favour of the trade unions. [More…]
The strongest unions have been able to use this power, often by direct action, to achieve increases in wages and improvements in working conditions at an accelerating rate and to a degree which has contributed significantly to a spiralling inflationary situation. [More…]
This has provided major problems for the system in endeavouring to provide wage justice for workers in smaller unions which have not had this advantage in bargaining power. [More…]
The implications of pressure for wage increases of this nature were expressed cogently in the Australian White Paper on full employment in 1945 - when a Labour Government was in power - as follows: [More…]
At the outset, it must be stated that it is not within the power of the Commonwealth Government to provide solutions to all problems in the industrial relations field. [More…]
Its powers to deal with stoppages in individual plants is limited because they are intra-State in character. [More…]
It is they who have had the power to make workable laws - and it is they who have failed to do so - since 1949. [More…]
What more power should be needed than the power already in the Act is beyond my comprehension and 1 will be surprised to see how this works. [More…]
The Government proposes to use another section of the Constitution to deal with this matter and it will be very interesting indeed to see what new fields of Commonwealth power might be opened up in this area. [More…]
How on earth it is possible, for example, to use that power to stop workers under a State award from going on strike for more social services? [More…]
Social services surely cannot be regarded as part of the Commonwealth’s trade and commerce powers, and therefore I think the Minister will find that a lot of thinking will need to be done before an amendment of this kind will be made feasible. [More…]
With all the strikes that have occurred since the Liberals last came to power in Canberra in 1949, the Government has not once seen any merit in putting to use the provisions contained in section 45 of the existing Act. [More…]
I ask honourable members to note these words - can only make the workers share the losses in times of depression, and it has no power to increase wages in times of prosperity when enormous profits are made in some industries. [More…]
The Government cannot go to the High Court to get an order for mandamus because the High Court would have to be exercising arbitral powers in the definition of economic matters before it could grant the order. [More…]
Since the High Court judges do not know very much about the law in some respects, because they will turn the law upside down every now and again, how on earth can the Government expect them, even if they did have arbitral powers, to decide what the economic consequences of a decision of the Commission might be? [More…]
Just how does the Government intend to use this strange power it is now talking about? [More…]
And, having identified the cause, the Government should then seek to use the power of State and Commonwealth authorities to codify and to enforce safety requirements. [More…]
The power of the employer to withhold bread is a much more effective weapon than the power of the employee to refuse to labour. [More…]
The right to hire and lire gives to the employer an inbuilt power of discipline over every person he employs. [More…]
Mr Justice Higgins once remarked on the fact that although in theory the Court had power to decrease wages as well as to increase them, every case he had ever handled had been to interfere by way of increase. [More…]
The power of the employer to withhold bread is a much more effective weapon than the power of the employee to refuse to labour. [More…]
We need it because hundreds of thousands of employees belong to unions which, without the Commission, lack the industrial power to demand even minimum wage rates. [More…]
If so, he would be trying to usurp the power of the Commission and replace it with award making by Government decree. [More…]
We must do everything in our power to control costs. [More…]
What legislation has been enacted by the Commonwealth under its powers in section51 of the Constitution, placitum xxiii A - benefits to students. [More…]
(2)Is it the intention of the Government to enter the field of primary education under this power. [More…]
Why has this power not been used to remedy the lack of educational opportunity throughout Australia. [More…]
Under this power the Commonwealth has introduced a wide programme of assistance to students in the form of scholarships and similar benefits. [More…]
That Lake Pedder, situated in the Lake Pedder National Park in south-west Tasmania, is threatened with inundation as part of the Gordon River hydro-electric power scheme. [More…]
That Lake Pedder, situated in the Lake Pedder National Park in south-west Tasmania, is threatened with inundation as part of the Gordon River hydro-electric power scheme. [More…]
Stokes Hill Power Station, Darwin. [More…]
The need for the proposed construction of stage 5 extensions of the Stokes Hill power station at Darwin has been mentioned, if not debated, several times in this House. [More…]
It is hoped that the actual design of the power house extensions in respect of pollution control will also be taken into account by Commonwealth, State and other authorities involved in the construction of similar power houses which cause pollution of the air and of the atmosphere in general. [More…]
I might add that yesterday I noticed a report that Alice Springs is to get a second power station. [More…]
The power house is situated on the south-east side of the town and during the winter period the prevailing winds come from the south-east. [More…]
This power may be within the ambit of the Bill but it certainly in no way is expressed by the statements of the Minister, and if one is to take literally his statements outside this House the proposition of the Committee would be contrary to his own views. [More…]
I repeat that the Commonwealth Government does have power to legislate comprehensively on this proposal. [More…]
It has power because of Australia’s signature tothe International Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs. [More…]
Provisions within that Convention place an obligation on this country and therefore give power under the Constitution of Australia to the Federal Government to legislate comprehensively on the matter of drug offences. [More…]
In any event it would appear that the Government has considerable powers to legislate comprehensively under its trade and commerce powers within the Constitution. [More…]
It would be more appropriate to pour money into these things, as the Government has the power to do. [More…]
This is why these poor people on the other side will never get into power, because people who have not had political experience like some of their older and more experienced colleagues make that sort of comment, and I have taken it up because I want it to go into Hansard. [More…]
I am sure that in their heart of hearts they would agree with me that the whole of the energies of this House - we owe it to this nation to do’ all in our power in this direction - should be directed towards applying the severest penalty not against those who are taking the drugs but against those who are wrecking the lives of so many young and older people in this nation. [More…]
I do think that it would come to the responsible stage of having legislation prepared and passed if there are a few odd individuals in that Department who are just itching to get their hands on a new group of people in order to build up their power. [More…]
Members have already made a monetary concession in holding back, though they had the power in their own hands to do otherwise, their entitlement to salary increases while salaries in the community have been rapidly rising. [More…]
The Governor in that State has the power to proclaim any substance that comes within the purview of that Act. [More…]
It has been suggested to me by a number of sources that it is very likely that the Government already has this power under the Constitution, specifically under the trading and commerce section. [More…]
It is said that the Government derives power there. [More…]
Certainly from my understanding of the law, confirmed by many people, we would gain the power by the authority that we derive under the Constitution from international agreements and through our signing of the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, an international convention. [More…]
Article 35 is a fairly wide-sweeping power which I believe would give the Commonwealth Government the sort of authority to legislate completely in the area at which it is aiming here and this would remove any doubt. [More…]
The foreign affairs power of the Commonwealth allows conventions to be ratified and acted upon and in that way to expand the power of the Commonwealth. [More…]
Has the Government considered using that widened power at least for the list of drugs which come into the Single Convention? [More…]
This would seem to be a very straightforward way of overcoming some problems which would otherwise arise in establishing full Commonwealth powers to act. [More…]
I repeat the question: Has the Government considered using this widened power? [More…]
If it has considered using the power and decided not to, could wes please have some indication as to why it should have arrived at that conclusion? [More…]
I invite the honourable member to advise us whether the Federal Government has this power. [More…]
The withdrawal of Britain as a key power in the South East Asian area, together with the implications of the Nixon Doctrine, have important consequences for Australia. [More…]
II members of this House who voted against those 2 persons receiving a gaol sentence of 3 months, because I do not believe that this House should exercise the power to impose such a penalty. [More…]
What concerned me when that motion was put was that I could see the hand, the power and influence of Sir Frank Packer coming into this Parliament. [More…]
Sir Frank Packer is a powerful man and he will go after issues in which he believes. [More…]
After all, I have the power to make these decisions and I will make the decision’. [More…]
That Lake Pedder, situated in the Lake Pedder National Park in South-West Tasmania, is threatened with inundation as part of the Gordon River hydro-electric power .meme [More…]
1 have decided that we ought first to approach that area upon which we have undoubted legislative power, and that is in relation to our own Territories. [More…]
But I think the honourable gentleman, having the interests of the lower paid workers at heart, would know that these days, with the great power of the big unions, particularly unions like the Amalgamated Engineering Union - [More…]
communications, housing, transport, water, power, light and fuel; [More…]
If the Labor Party had been in power it would not have thought of this scheme. [More…]
Surely the whole purpose of this grant of $2m a month, approximately, is not to help the farming people alone but to help all people in rural areas, cities and towns who may have been affected by the rural crisis because of the drop in purchasing power of farming people. [More…]
The making of a straightout grant of an adequate amount to a Catholic education authority in Tasmania which had a discretionary power to assign this sum of money according to need and which was able to make a greater grant to the most necessitous schools, seems to us to be a better system. [More…]
That is to say, at that time more than 50 per cent of the capital, voting power and the rights to dividends and other distributions are in the hands of a public company shareholder. [More…]
If a company is owned as to more than 50 per cent by a public company, and its voting power is controlled by the same company, it is treated as a subsidiary of that public company. [More…]
The Bill also proposes that a company which does nol meet the 100 per cent test will not be treated as a subsidiary of a public company unless, at all times during the year of income, it is owned as to more than 50 per cent and its voting power is controlled, again in the fullest sense, by a public company listed on the stock exchange. [More…]
Directors representing private interests, for example, could have the power to do this. [More…]
The station at Esperance will, I understand, be of very low power sufficient only to serve the town area. [More…]
He would have been under less criticism for the delay that has apparently occurred as a result of his having made early the announcement that these 38 low-power stations at relatively remote centres will be provided. [More…]
I appreciate the fact that the Postmaster-General has taken this step to promote this programme and to do all in his power and that of the Government to bring it to a conclusion and to provide these stations. [More…]
In my area there has been agitation for a high-power station at Roma. [More…]
These 38 low-power stations are to be provided at a cost of some S5m. [More…]
A reply I received about providing a larger station in this area to cover a wider radius indicated that there were no suitable topographical features from which a high power station could operate. [More…]
What can he do to defend himself when inflation is forced by relentlessly pursued wage claims by those who possess power? [More…]
Those who possess power are the ones who are able to protect themselves against inflation. [More…]
Mr Robinson fully recognises the gravity of the position and wants to do all in his power to improve and control matters. [More…]
Has the Australian Government given consideration to the use of its power to control television and radio advertising to ban cigarette and tobacco advertising; if not, will consideration be given lo the matter. [More…]
Will the Government take appropriate steps for a referendum to be held to increase the powers of the Commonwealth Parliament so that valid laws can be’ enacted to protect the victims of bushfires, floods, droughts and other natural disasters that are exercisable under the defence power in time of war and are described in legal terminology as being due to acts of God. [More…]
The Government has no statutory power to direct the Bank on the administration of loans made to particular customers of that Department. [More…]
In the event of a difference of opinion between the Government and th Board whether that policy, is directed to the greatest advantage of the people of Australia, section II gives the Government subject to the observance of certain procedures, power to recommend to 1 he Governor-General in Council that he determine the policy to be adopted by the Rank. [More…]
However, thin section does not empower the Government to make a determination or give a direction to the Reserve Bank with respect to a loan to a particular person. [More…]
The power conferred on the Government by section 1 1 of th? [More…]
Reserve Bank Act to determine, in certain circumstances, the monetary and banking policy of the Reserve Bank is an important power which is available for use should the circumstances envisaped in that provision ever arise (see also answer lr> O). [More…]
To date the power has not been invoked. [More…]
Whereas when this Government came into power in 1949 wage and salary earners, then a much smaller percentage of the work force, were sharing 68 per cent of the national income, now they are sharing 62 per cent of it. [More…]
Cannot even a Liberal Government see that if bank employees, who helped to put it into power 23 years ago, are now taking industrial action, the great majority of the Australian work force - the 90 per cent who depend on wages and salaries determined by arbitration and negotiation, constantly frustrated in the tribunals of this country by the present Government - are unconvinced? [More…]
From inflation the speculator or the industrially powerful is the beneficiary. [More…]
The next part of the matter under discussion refers to the Government’s exercising its powers. [More…]
What power does it have? [More…]
It has the power to intervene in general wage cases to put logical arguments and economic realities to arbitration tribunals so that when they give their decisions - for it is the tribunals that give the decisions - they can have in mind all these factors which are so important to the economic welfare of this country and therefore to the social wellbeing of the Australian people. [More…]
We are not going to have a body with arbitrary power. [More…]
It has been caused by the people who have power to determine their own incomes. [More…]
Yet the McMahon Government offers no objection whatever to a 5.3 per cent increase in steel prices at the same time as it uses all its powers to keep wages and salaries frozen and attacks and vilifies trade union leaders and the unions themselves. [More…]
They have to prove their case to an arbitration authority or to powerful employers, but the big corporations are free to do what they like whenever they like. [More…]
To establish such a policy the national Government must be aware of the power and responsibility of the giant corporations. [More…]
Does the national Government in Australia have power to do this? [More…]
It cannot ever be a national government unless it has this power. [More…]
The McMahon Government and its predecessors have always been pleased to say that the Australian Government has no such powers. [More…]
This is not because the power is not there; it is because the Government has no desire or intention to use it. [More…]
Hence the easiest course is to lead people to believe that there are no powers. [More…]
But there is in fact ample power. [More…]
There is now a strong probability that there is full and adequate power, even in the Constitution itself. [More…]
In the concrete pipes case the High Court of Australia recently appears to have reversed and invalidated the doctrine established in 1909 in the Huddart Parker case which has prevented the national Government from exercising this kind of power. [More…]
It is the first responsibility of the national Parliament fully to test and apply these powers. [More…]
But even if this constitutional power was not there, the national Government has full and adequate powers of other kinds. [More…]
Even the present Treasurer himself, when Minister for Labour and National Service, pointed to where these powers were. [More…]
Once it has done that the arbitration authority has the responsibility, and it must have the power, to ensure that industry does not make a farce of its award by immediately passing on into prices he wage increase which it has already found industry to be able ro afford. [More…]
It has power to do so. [More…]
We have the power to prevent these things. [More…]
We will use that power. [More…]
If anyone had doubts about the integrated nature of an industrial society, those doubts would have been removed after the electric power hold-up in Victoria. [More…]
It was a confrontation of political impotence and naked economic power. [More…]
It is the Government - the coalition in power that has access to Treasury papers and control of the legislative machinery of the country - which solely is responsible for what has gone wrong. [More…]
The Government pretends that it has no power. [More…]
The Treasurer said that the Government had no power to exercise restraint upon BHP. [More…]
The rates of unemployment and associated benefits are now higher than ever before, both in money terms and in terms of real purchasing power. [More…]
His scheme is to get an ALP government into power and then take over. [More…]
Did he at any time condemn the power strike or publicly urge the strikers to dump their left wing misleaders and return to arbitration? [More…]
The Government has been craven and servile before the power of BHP. [More…]
It has come to have value not only for what it will buy, but for itself - for it represents the power to buy or possess. [More…]
There are no proposals to allow for the rate of inflation which is accelerating in the community and which will erode the purchasing power of this money. [More…]
Recently the great power industry located in the Latrobe Valley in Victoria was thrown into jeopardy. [More…]
We had steep increases in both direct and indirect taxation in order to take away some of the community’s spending power - in other words, to contract employment and business and economic activity in the community. [More…]
The increases are of a material nature too, because not only are the new benefits greater in their amount but they are greater from the point of view of their purchasing power for the people who are unemployed. [More…]
The policy of this Government, which has been enunciated many times in this House since the Government has been in power for the last 23 years, has been a policy of full employment, and the Government has maintained that policy. [More…]
Never has there been a greater degree of employment thanthere has been in the 23 years that this Government has been in power. [More…]
The Minister advocates great hand-outs to big business as an alternative to stimulating the economy by giving deprived and underprivileged people a bit more purchasing power. [More…]
Unfortunately many people in my electorate found themselves out of work as a result of the State-wide power strike. [More…]
In emergency situations, such as the power strike, there seems to be an unbridgeable gap between the employer and the employee. [More…]
Big business and big unions have great power, as was so ably highlighted in a sermon titled ‘Power’ by the Most Reverend Dr Frank Woods. [More…]
Power is dangerous when vested in the hands of a few, particularly when innocent people are suddenly affected. [More…]
People must realise that this power is granted to them by God and it is to be used in the best interests of the people. [More…]
This was before the power strike. [More…]
Is it the intention of the Government to give the Australian Industries Development Corporation power to acquire full details of foreign investment in Australia and to compete with the International Finance Corporation on equal terms. [More…]
The Minister might have a great deal of power at his disposal but he is very short on history. [More…]
That is why countless people campaigned for 10 years to have the referendum which gave this Parliament the power to act for the Aboriginal people. [More…]
Our complaint today is that the effective power and responsibility placed in this Government is not being exercised. [More…]
He only has to exercise the power that is in his absolute control. [More…]
I must take the honourable member for Wills (Mr Bryant) to task for grandstanding to the public gallery because in it were about half a dozen young Aboriginal people who clapped him and gave him the black power salute. [More…]
Steam engines, boilers and power units; [More…]
In respect of steam engines, boilers and power units the Board has recommended rates of 25 per cent general tariff and 15 per cent preferential tariff but minimum rates on products for which there was no evidence of significant commercial production. [More…]
Although there is presently no local manufacture of steam turbines and parts, for which minimum rates are proposed, the Board considered production of some components for power station turbines could be a viable proposition. [More…]
Similar circumstances exist in regard to the report on steam engines, boilers and power units. [More…]
The Commissioner of the Commonwealth Teaching Service will have power under Part IV of the Bill to offer scholarships to persons wishing to train as teachers for subsequent service in Commonwealth schools. [More…]
The bombings and shootings will go on unless Stormont can show the Catholics and the world that it will eliminate injustice and share its power with the minority. [More…]
The man who brought these other men to power by his own great force has today left the Parliament unheralded and unsung, and not one member on the Government side has bothered to say that he wishes the Prime Minister a happy birthday. [More…]
That Lake Pedder, situated in the Lake Pedder National Park in South-West Tasmania, is threatened with inundation as part of the Gordon River hydro-electric power scheme. [More…]
the Gordon River Dam and related power generating facilities, all of which make up the Gordon River project, has substantially come from the Commonwealth I might say that the Opposition supported the Tasmania Agreement (Hydro-Electric Power Development) Bill 1968 to make available $47m in bridging finance. [More…]
No longer are we blinded by the power of our own technology, by economic growth for its own sake, and by the subjugation of nature. [More…]
None of the alternative schemes would affect the power generating function of the middle Gordon scheme at all, for the Serpentine-Huon system is mainly an extra reservoir of water. [More…]
It is difficult to see how this figure is arrived at, as no alterations to the power generation facilities are necessary for any of the alternative schemes. [More…]
I know that the hydro-electric authority in Tasmania has great power and that to some extent the economic future of Tasmania is involved, but from a long term point of view the beauty of Tasmania should be retained. [More…]
A citizens advice bureau should be established; it should be well known and it should have the power and funds to advertise and to announce to the world that it exists. [More…]
Inflation has been responsible for reducing the purchasing power ot all social service benefits and it will continue to do so. [More…]
1 think we ought to look at the real cause of rising costs and the lowering of purchasing power. [More…]
What are the real causes of the lowering of the purchasing power of these people and of the wage earner generally? [More…]
Every businessman and every manufacturer knows that the wage earner has the greatest purchasing power in this country. [More…]
The loss of productivity through engineered strikes results in higher costs, higher prices and a loss of purchasing power. [More…]
For example, a councillor of the Northern Riverina County Council in my electorate said that a 35-hour week would force the council to increase the cost of power to the consumer, the housewife, by at least 20 per cent. [More…]
It is when Mr Hawke and his left wing disruptionists, and sometimes big business, give wage rises without an equivalent increase in production that we destroy the purchasing power of the people and of this nation. [More…]
1 and to do as little as you can for as much money as you can get out of him will destroy the purchasing power of the country. [More…]
I have a few newspaper extracts relating to strikes in the last month from which I should like to quote, in an article from ‘The Mercury’ of Hobart under the heading ‘Victorian Power Strike’ it is stated: [More…]
Effects of the Victorian power workers’ strike are spreading beyond that State and it is certain that many more thousands of unionists in other States not in the slightest involved in the dispute will be without work unless a settlement is reached . [More…]
In my opinion, one of the things that has happened in Victoria after the recent State Electricity Commission power strike is that when factories were closed down, not because the employees were members of the union but because the blackout of industry, many employers decided that they would take the opportunity to get rid of those employees who had not been very efficient. [More…]
By the time the election comes around the people will have had enough of this Government and will toss it out of power. [More…]
We have to use everything in our power - politics or whatever it may be- to try to retain the biggest share that is possible in our traditional markets, and we have to recognise the potential for developing markets in Japan and Asia. [More…]
They are backed by powerful selling agencies, whether we like them or not, such as the Colonial Sugar Refining Co., Vesteys, Swift Aust. [More…]
The purpose of this Bill is to amend the Dairy Produce Export Control Act 1924-1966 to clarify the general provisions that give the Australian Dairy Produce Board specific power to participate in commercial ventures as a means of expanding existing markets or securing new markets. [More…]
The honourable member is really against an expansion of power for the Australian Dairy Produce Board. [More…]
That is why my colleague, the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Whitlam), suggested the other day that the economy can be stimulated quickest by putting purchasing power into the hands of the people who can spend the money. [More…]
Unless those who wield large blocks of economic power in this country display a degree of social responsibility, trade unions will continue to do the only thing they know - to organise collectively to maintain and to improve their conditions of employment. [More…]
This Bill has been introduced to give the Board power to use other moneys that it may be able to set aside for the expansion of thi-, type of investment. [More…]
In order to cope with those difficulties it is very necessary that we devise every means within our power to ensure that this country is able to gain an expansion of markets in any field that is open to it. [More…]
That Lake Pedder, situated in the Lake Pedder National Park in South-West Tasmania, is threatened with inundation as part of the Gordon River hydro-electric power scheme. [More…]
That Lake Pedder, situated in the Lake Pedder National Park in South-West Tasmania, is threatened with inundation as part of the Gordon River hydro-electric power scheme. [More…]
That Lake Pedder, situated in the Lake Pedder National Park in South-West Tasmania, is threatened with inundation as part of the Gordon River hydro-electric power scheme. [More…]
That Lake Pedder, situated in the Lake Pedder National Park in South-West Tasmania, is threatened with inundation as part of the Gordon River hydro-electric power scheme. [More…]
Never again could it be said that the Parliament or the Government had no power to deal with the last price rise by the Broken Hill Pty Co. Ltd. [More…]
The Treasurer has said from time to time that the Commonwealth has no constitutional power over prices. [More…]
These causes lie in the existence of economic and financial power where it is. [More…]
It occurs because the people who pay for these intense concentrations of buildings - the banks, insurance companies and giant industrial and commercial corporations - have so much power over the flow of money that they can direct it where they have put it so far. [More…]
But if this is to be achieved the power of the giants to control the flow of money in their own interests must be modified. [More…]
We all remember - at least those who are in my age group do - when Labor was last in power what happened in regard to the development of our resources. [More…]
We have come a tremendous way in the 23 years that the Government Parties have been in power in Australia. [More…]
It is a misuse of governmental power and of the words ‘public interest’ for the Government, in the name of public interest, to have the hide to send counsel before the Arbitration Commission to oppose an increase in rates to bring the national minimum rate up to $70 a week. [More…]
I agree with the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Whitlam) that as a result of the new found extent of the Commonwealth corporations power the Commonwealth Government, if it had the will, could find the way to introduce legislation to produce such a result. [More…]
However, I still think it is worth acting on the basis that there is power to introduce in relation to trading and financial corporations - those corporations that are mentioned in the corporations power - a system of prices justification. [More…]
We have seen the Government pushed increasingly towards a more integrated fuel power policy. [More…]
Other factors prominent in the development of the hydra-head system which we have at the present time are the ideology of the present Government we are suffering in power - the growth of a system of government preferment of vested interests and the isolation of Australia from new developments in economic thought and planning abroad. [More…]
For instance, if a Labor government were in power and the manufacturer required new plant and equipment, would the Labor government give its approval? [More…]
Is the Prime Minister aware of the concerted campaign to have the Commonwealth intervene in the Gordon River power development in Tasmania to prevent the drowning of Lake Pedder? [More…]
We have neither the power effectively to intervene nor could we take any other action which would compel the Tasmanian Government to change its mind. [More…]
If so, on what grounds does he justify public expenditure to maintain Country Party representation in the Parliament and his own precarious place of power in the political jungles of the Liberal Party? [More…]
If the honourable gentleman wants to make some statements about industrial relations, let him answer the question as to where he and his Party stand on the matter of sanctions in relation to the Commission because, in regard to industrial disputes and the role of the Arbitration Commission in this country, the people of Australia have the right to know that if the Australian Labor Party were in power its industrial relations policy, in terms of the cost of the various proposals which it has put forward, would bankrupt this country. [More…]
The difficulty about what the Leader of the Opposition has put is that he is suggesting that someone is entitled to disobey the law on the off chance that the Labor Party will come to power and alter that law. [More…]
We manufacture industrial power transmission equipment - gear speed reducers, couplings, clutches, chain sprockets etc., and most of these products are designed and developed in our own plant. [More…]
If these interests turned against this Government in the next 6 months Government supporters would hardly have a seat amongst them and I do not believe that any person who is not answerable to the community and the people at the ballot box should have that power in his hands. [More…]
I believe in the power and the persuasiveness of television. [More…]
I think the time has arrived when the owners of newspapers and the shareholders in broadcasting and television companies should realise that they hold this power in very safe trusteeship. [More…]
It is often used to gain support for the Liberal Party and Country Party from newspaper proprietors such as Sir Frank Packer who first sold his services to the Liberal-Country Party Government for a knighthood and has now emerged as the most powerful man in the Liberal Party. [More…]
His power is so immense that he was responsible for the sacking of the previous Prime Minister, the right honourable member for Higgins (Mr Gorton). [More…]
The United States of America, the richest and most powerful nation in the world, seems to have thrived over the years by using Mr and Mrs. [More…]
That Lake Pedder, situated in the Lake Pedder National Park in South-West Tasmania, is threatened with inundation as part of the Gordon River hydro-electric power scheme. [More…]
According to John Stuart Mill: ‘The only purpose for which power can rightfully be exercised over any member of a civilised community against his will is to prevent harm to others.’ [More…]
Even in the public interest one might find that it is not just ratbags in the community who are interested in how a particular station applying for renewal of its licence is handling its affairs but a number of interested groups who are realising more and more the power of the media and the wide range of subjects which may be raised not only at national or local level but also at international level. [More…]
We want to take away your power and take away the powers of the Board to move in on someone for some reason. [More…]
The power that you have now is absolutely amazing. [More…]
We want to take some of that power away from you. [More…]
I referred in a previous speech to the immense persuasive power of this media. [More…]
But through the tariff power the Tariff Board or similar body can do all the things it is doing in the case of woven shirts. [More…]
Those who are in a position to produce now in proportion to their existing power have the means to determine who will be in a position to produced tomorrow and under what circumstances and what they will produce. [More…]
In present circumstances in Australia the most effective way for the ordinary people to exercise some say in the use of economic power is through the government of the nation, and in present circumstances the most effective instrument of government in Australia in the exercise of economic power is in fact the tariff. [More…]
The Leader of the Opposition realised that, under the Constitution, the Commonwealth Government has no power of price control. [More…]
The power behind the big organisations ensures that they will not suffer. [More…]
No mention is made of whether it is economically sensible for Australia to have such an industry because of the availability of raw materials, power, transport facilities or all the other things that determine whether an industry is economic. [More…]
The fundamental purpose of the United States of America as the major world trading power and the largest economy was to ensure that it could create its trading balance. [More…]
7 have said consistently that while certain honourable members use their political power to pursue young men in this way I will do everything that my position offers to pour my scorn and contempt upon them, not for anything personal and not for personal cowardice but for the simple immorality of their action. [More…]
While the Government pursues people like young Barry Johnston as ruthlessly and as relentlessly as it is doing, I will do everything in my power to protect him. [More…]
I will do everything in my power to protect him and I will do everything in my power to show to the Australian community the immorality of the people who are pursuing him. [More…]
But in 1949, when the Menzies Government came to power, despite all the rhetoric at the time, it was quite happy to inherit part of Labor’s policy. [More…]
It has the power to direct this money through these major insurance companies. [More…]
The money spent or committed in this field since the present New South Wales Government came to power in May 1965 is S34.65m. [More…]
Thirdly, we must have lower power and telephone charges for an initial commencement period. [More…]
Although it is a State responsibility, if the Opposition gets into power it will set up several commissions for the purpose of the Federal Government - the Commonwealth Government - superimposing itself upon the States and acquiring land by resumption in every city in Australia, in order to create what the [More…]
On the one hand in the resolution the Opposition talks about regional development and in its policy it talks about the Government retaining where possible all lands vested in the Commonwealth, lt proposes that development commissions with power to acquire property for urban development would be established. [More…]
What is its proposal if it gets into power? [More…]
However, if the Labor Party gets into power it will see to it that the properties around these cities are resumed and sold on a leasehold basis. [More…]
I have no doubt that the people of Australia will never agree to a socialist policy such as this and to the centralisation of all power in this great young nation in Canberra under the direction of a Labor Government. [More…]
It is not a decentralisation party; it is a centralisation party that believes only in centralising power in this area so that it can impose its Socialist policies upon the people of Australia. [More…]
Despite the fact that it has been found in the centre of Australia, it lies neglected because this Government neglects country areas, which are doomed just so long as this Government remains in power. [More…]
The next report concerns steam engines, boilers and power units. [More…]
There are 3 matters I intend to look at: At the rich schools which are utilised as a weapon to destroy aid to all schools; at the validity of using overseas experience where Australian experience is appropriate; and at the actual administration of the Opposition’s policy by Labor governments where they have effective power. [More…]
Cri de coeur have come from (his place regularly over the years but, to their own detriment in a sense, Labor governments have been elected in a number of States in Australia and one can test their administration where they have effective power. [More…]
1 think that the honourable member for Hindmarsh is still upset at the great affection which Tom Dougherty and Edgar Williams still retain for him in their hours of great power. [More…]
I ask that the Prime Minister do all in his power to maintain the present design of our flag with all its national significance. [More…]
Nuclear power is very important to Japan, a country which not only lacks indigenous fossil fuels but is also subject to the risk of environmental pollution attendant upon a densely populated and highly industrialised State. [More…]
Its plans for installation of nuclear power stations envisage installation of 60,000 MW by 1985, and 220,000 MW by the year 2000. [More…]
The atomic energy industry in Japan is rapidly moving towards the export of nuclear power station equipment. [More…]
It is expected that it will have much to offer us in the way of information of use for our own future nuclear power programme. [More…]
I suggest that one reason is that the people who have the power to grant the money for this capital expenditure are living in Canberra. [More…]
Since values can be manipulated by arrangement between exporter and importer and since attempts at tariff avoidance will always appeal to some types of people, Parliament, in 1965, gave the Minister power to determine the free on board price of goods in certain circumstances - in the main, whenever he was satisfied that an importer and exporter had fixed the free on board price with the view of paying no duty or less duty on those goods. [More…]
Indirectly, of course, they have this power through (he 2 variables of the first advance of $1.10 and the total liability approved by the Government - or by this Parliament. [More…]
Although the Federal Government has no direct power in relation to farm quotas I believe that at all times it should make the States completely aware of the traditional small farm problem, because this is developing into one of the great problems of Australian agriculture. [More…]
There is no guarantee that the payments will retain their purchasing power. [More…]
One of the clear things about Australian agricultural development is that farms have tended to increase in size and have always tended to increase in size as the power unit has changed. [More…]
We find that farms, unless they are interfered with by government action that protects small farmers for any particular reason, tend to become of a size that fits the economic power unit. [More…]
The farms around me in my own area were developed to a size that fitted around what a 10 horse team could handle, and as the power unit changed they changed in size until they have become of a size that an economic sized power unit tractor can handle. [More…]
When this Government first came to power in 194.9 there was no effective medical plan for the aged, no nursing benefits, no supplementary assistance. [More…]
That was the record of the Opposition prior to this Government coming into power. [More…]
The Minister asked why it is that state schools have a lower retention power than do the non-state schools. [More…]
I heard the then Prime Minister - the Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports - when asked whether he would give assistance to non-state schools, say in calm confident but precise and succinct manner tones: ‘I have not the constitutional power’. [More…]
The Arbitrator or a Deputy Arbitrator is given power to make orders for the purposes of putting an end to or preventing that situation or orders which, in his view, are otherwise necessary or desirable because of the industrial situation. [More…]
There will be power for the Arbitrator or a deputy arbitrator by virtue of the proposed new section 1 2d, which is in clause 4 of. [More…]
The power of the Arbitrator or a deputy arbitrator to make orders is not expressed in specific terms, however. [More…]
More than half the questions which those behind him ask - the honourable member Diamond Valley (Mr Brown) is his principal pet - are made an excuse for attacks on the Australian Labor Party in this Parliament, where it is at present in opposition, and in the South Australian and Western Australian parliaments where it has already come to power. [More…]
The Western Australian Government has introduced one Budget since Labor came to power in that State. [More…]
These principles are: Firstly, a greatly increased expenditure on education; secondly, expenditure on education to be allocated on a basis of need so that education will overcome the disadvantages of those children from families with limited incomes - in other words, to provide equality of opportunity; and thirdly, decentralisation of decision making and devolution of power so that maximum autonomy is given to teachers and students. [More…]
It is my great fear that, if the Labor Parry came to power and introduced its policy on independent schools, and these schools were to fade away as surely they would under a Labor government, children would be forced to go to the schools which the bureaucrats dictated, with no choice for the individual. [More…]
The power resides with us, and consequently the final decision too must remain with us. [More…]
On top of that, major decisions could be made in this period on the power vested in the voting rights on the extra 6 per cent. [More…]
If the Australian Labor Party are our friends they can prove it by dropping their gleeful threat to abandon the Commonwealth defence agreement the moment they have power to do so, and to withdraw all Australian troops. [More…]
The five-power agreement makes it perfectly clear that if internal insurgency is inspired from outside - I repeat, from outside - it invokes the arrangement. [More…]
We have the 5-power arrangement. [More…]
I said in Singapore, and I repeat here, that neither the Malaysians nor the Singaporeans regard this Government as being fair dinkum about the S-power defence arrangement. [More…]
A rather Gilbertian situation occurred when the 5-power defence conference was held in Canberra. [More…]
I have said that the people of South East Asia do not regard Australia’s role in the 5-power defence arrangement as fair dinkum. [More…]
The people of South East Asia realise that the 5-power defence arrangements are so qualified by the Australian Government that they are not going to involve communal activities, communal dissension or internal dissension. [More…]
They regard the 5-power defence arrangements purely and simply as temporary arrangements because they are now organised towards a neutralisation programme whereby they are setting out to establish a zone of peace - the Minister for Defence talked about this - in the South East Asian area. [More…]
Their attitude is: Big powers keep out. [More…]
There are now 5 major power groupings: The United States of America, the Soviet Union, China, Japan and the European Community. [More…]
So the 5-power defence arrangements are transitional. [More…]
Take the 5-Power arrangements. [More…]
The 5-Power arrangements recognise the nature of power in the Asian region today. [More…]
There have been questions about the precise disposition of our troops in Singapore and Malaysia but there is no questioning of the general feeling in Malaysia and Singapore that the 5-Power arrangements are crucial to them. [More…]
I would be astounded if Mr Rajaratnam in bis interview with the honourable member did not make some other sorts of statements because we have heard so often that the people of the region believe in the 5-Power arrangements. [More…]
The ALP policy, as stated by the honourable member for St George, could crack the S-power arrangement. [More…]
If the 5-power arrangement does fail, and it could well happen if the ALP comes to office, the vacuum caused by this and the British withdrawal could be filled by some other power. [More…]
What confidence do we engender by breaking up the 5-power defence arrangement and scrubbing the only security arrangement we have with” Thailand and the Philippines? [More…]
The proposal is for the construction of roads, footpaths and drainage, and the provision of water supply, sewerage and electric power to 1,808 residential sites and 22 special sites for schools, shops, flats, service stations, etc. [More…]
We would welcome an arrangement which provided for agreed, balanced and effective limitation on great power naval forces in the area. [More…]
It is clear however, that such a limitation could only be brought about through negotiations on the part of the major powers directly concerned. [More…]
That proposal failed to win the support of a very significant number of members of the United Nations including the 2 major powers most directly concerned. [More…]
a government agency with the power to negotiate for better performance from foreign direct investors- [More…]
For instance, the further processing of raw materials - and with the power to block investment that does not make a net contribution to the Canadian economy or that does not accord with the objectives of the Government; [More…]
A former Prime Minister, the right honourable member for Higgins (Mr Gorton), noted for saying things but not for action - in government at any rate - has made something of a reputation for himself as an Australian by his warnings about the effects of foreign economic power in Australia. [More…]
Governments that give effect to money power, as this one does, cannot ever control money, and the problem remains. [More…]
Foreign banks - and British banks are foreign banks - have always been and still are powerful in Australia. [More…]
It was their power that brought the depression of the 1930s to Australia. [More…]
Thirdly, the level of foreign capital is already such that any Australian government in times of recession would be vulnerable to the power of foreign investors to cut the inflow of capital or to withdraw funds. [More…]
The concrete pipes case has put the power of the Commonwealth in this respect beyond doubt. [More…]
The criticisms of the honourable member for Fremantle seemed to hinge fairly substantially, as I recall them, on the fact that we will have an excessive centralisation of power in the hands of one man or woman who, in fact, will operate this system. [More…]
I am not quite sure why the service should have the power to negotiate for establishing faculties of education anywhere at this stage. [More…]
Instead, the Bill invests the Commissioner with power to determine standards of entry to the teaching profession. [More…]
Not only is this one more example of the dictatorial powers of the Commissioner but it is also a blatant failure on the part of the Government to recognise teaching as a profession with a consequential right to establish standards of entry. [More…]
The right honourable Sir Robert Gordon Menzies said that he had no constitutional power to give aid to independent schools. [More…]
I would think that this Commissioner in the initial use of his authority is much more powerful than any other person in the Australian public services - certainly in the Commonwealth Public Service, as I understand it. [More…]
We ought not to tolerate the creation of this single authority - and a single man at that - with such unchallenged power in the first exercise of it. [More…]
One point that I ought to make as strongly as possible relates to the power to post people hither, thither and yon. [More…]
Do we let administration of the laws depend on the whim, the personality or the mood of a particular Minister and his power to delegate legislation and lay it on the table of the House as an ordinance or as regulations which go through this House and the Senate? [More…]
To whom will the Commissioner delegate the powers that he exercises under this Bill? [More…]
He will have power to delegate all his powers. [More…]
He can virtually abdicate his powers, although not the power to delegate itself. [More…]
We know the realities of power in this House. [More…]
the Commissioner would have power to do that if he believed it to be in the interests of the Commonwealth Teaching Service and of the education authorities or departments to which he has a responsibility to supply teachers. [More…]
Clause 16 (3) (b) provides the Commissioner with the power to do just that, I am advised. [More…]
Clause 53 will give the Commissioner the power to establish advisory bodies or committees. [More…]
Much has been said about the power of transfer of an officer to another position of equal classification where there are excess officers. [More…]
So it is a power, if you like, of last resort. [More…]
The person responsible for the Service, I believe, must have that power. [More…]
I regard this as a power that, in large measure, is likely to be delegated to the education authority. [More…]
But at the same time, I would not believe that the fact that the power is in this Bill is a protection for teachers. [More…]
Consonant with our idea of its being a free teaching service, we do not believe that the Commissioner should have the power to compel a teacher to teach under any authority and not merely, as the Government provides, that the Commissioner should not have power to compel a teacher to teach outside Australia or Australia’s Territories. [More…]
The Government admits that the Commissioner cannot make a teacher teach in Samoa, for instance, but we believe that the Commissioner should not be empowered to compel a teacher against his will to teach anywhere. [More…]
The Government gives the Commissioner the power to compel a teacher to teach under any authority unless that authority is outside the Commonwealth and its territories. [More…]
It believes that this reserve power will be essential, not necessarily between educational areas - the Australian Capital Territory and the Northern Territory - but perhaps within an area. [More…]
This kind of reserve power applies, as I understand it, to all members of the Commonwealth Public Service. [More…]
Someone has said that the Commissioner should have the power to do the things that have been suggested. [More…]
As far as I have been able to ascertain, I think that the Commissioner will have the power inside Australia to do all sorts of things regarding the education system and the people who will teach in it. [More…]
To determine your eligibility for unemployment benefits under the Social Services Act in respect of the claim you lodged during the recent Victorian power dispute, it will be necessary to know the name of the trade union or association (if any) to which you belong. [More…]
The people I am talking about are employed in many industries other than the power generating industry. [More…]
In many cases they are employed hundreds of miles from any area where power is generated. [More…]
First, I shall deal with what was actually done in Victoria in regard to the last power strike and the courses which were taken. [More…]
Despite the undoubted improvements in the South Vietnamese forces it remains doubtful whether they can withstand the full power of their opponents when and if it is unleashed. [More…]
It will retain little bargaining power and certainly little ability to influence the final outcome of the war. [More…]
A further important consideration was the availability of supporting services such as facilities for the repair of ships, a reliable power supply and other services which an institute of this kind would require. [More…]
Before I do so, I repeat that the Post Office has a staff of over 100,000 yet the administration of the Post Office has no power to deal directly with the wage claims of its employees. [More…]
I refer, for example, to a power strike, a transport stoppage or some other outside dispute, which could constitute an ‘industrial situation’ within the present definition of that expression. [More…]
employees in the Commonwealth Clothing Factory could be affected by a power strike which brought production to a standstill at the factory. [More…]
Proposed new section 12d empowers the Arbitrator to call a conference of the organisations, departments or Ministers affected by the industrial situation and to make such orders as he thinks necessary or desirable by reason of the existence or likely occurrence of the situation. [More…]
Having regard to the width of the provisions, the Arbitrator could make an order that the pay of the Commonwealth employees at the Clothing Factory be suspended for as long as the power strike continued - even though the strike had nothing to do with the Commonwealth Public Service. [More…]
In such circumstances, the Bill before us will give power to the Arbitrator to permit management to stand down employees so affected. [More…]
The purpose of the Bill goes well beyond giving the Arbitrator and Federal Ministers power similar in scope to section 28 of the Conciliation and Arbitration Act. [More…]
On the contrary, the Bill before the House gives the Arbitrator power to deal with unions not party to the dispute, and the Government in a political capacity, through a Minister, can buy into a dispute by which public servants are affected. [More…]
A power strike, transport stoppage or waterfront dispute could consititute an industrial situation within the present definition of that expression. [More…]
Proposed new section 12e empowers the Arbitrator to make orders binding on organisations or sections of membership covered by the organisation. [More…]
Primarily this power is intended to enable orders to be made for banning continuance of work limitations or requiring stand down of employees. [More…]
Yet notwithstanding those duties of the public servant we have the Minister introducing without the courtesy of consultation a completely unregulated, undefined power to kick public servants off the payroll as soon as somebody - even somebody with a political motive - considers it may serve some industrial dispute - settling purpose to do so. [More…]
That sort of power for a Minister to intermeddle in Commonwealth service administration, for political reasons, should not be placed by the Parliament in the hands of Ministers. [More…]
There are no such technical but necessary refinements in the Minister’s slapdash new power vested in the Arbitrator to direct attendance of people who need not even be connected with the Public Service. [More…]
The Bill seeks to give the Public Service Arbitrator or a deputy Public Service Arbitrator the power to make orders for the purpose of putting an end to or preventing what the Minister calls ‘industrial situations’. [More…]
The Bill provides that the Minister or the Board, or an officer of an industrial organisation, if they consider a situation will or is likely to arise or that members of an organisation are concerned or are likely to be concerned, may give notice to the Arbitrator informing him accordingly and can make an application to him to exercise his powers under other sections of the Bill. [More…]
In the last part of the Minister’s second reading speech we can see the crunch in these proposed amendments in that the management can obtain from the Public Service arbitration tribunal the power to deal with any restriction on the performance cf work by making orders permitting the standing down without pay of employees who cannot be gainfully employed and/or by making orders affecting the pay of persons who refuse to perform the full range of their duties. [More…]
The first power - that is, the right to stand down employees if they cann: be gainfully employed, is surely a new departure from practices that have applied in dealings with matters under the Public Service Arbitration Act. [More…]
The power of the Arbitrator or a Deputy Arbitrator to make orders is not expressed in specific terms, however. [More…]
It sets a precedent for this terminology to be used in the Government’s planned industrial confrontation later this year, engineered possibly by the Department of Labour and National Service, at the direction of the Minister for Labour and National Service (Mr Lynch), in a forlorn effort to retain the existing Government in power. [More…]
The term ‘industrial situation’ which is used is so wide and takes in so many persons - employees or not - directly affected by the so-called industrial situation, that its powers are reminiscent of powers given to police forces in totalitarian states. [More…]
Why have these powers been introduced? [More…]
The Public Service Board, as an instrument of Government power and policy, knows full well that it is obliged to conform to Government policy. [More…]
The unions, the Government, the Public Service Board and anybody who has any knowledge of the trade union movement - I had 14 years experience of it, particularly in the Public Service sector - know that the Arbitrator has power to fix only minimum rates, not maximum rates. [More…]
Neither court nor Arbitrator has that power by way of decision or judgment. [More…]
Surely it can be said here that no responsible individual would suggest that there ought not to be the opportunity provided by the legislation for parties in dispute to be called into conference by the Arbitrator and that he should not have the power to take steps to prevent or settle industrial situations. [More…]
It is an extraordinary example of the misuse of power by the ACTU on a matter quite unconnected with the purposes for which that body was established. [More…]
Destiny places us in a part of the world where a very large proportion of mankind is subject to deep-seated causes of instability, social conflict, slow economic growth, and recurring pressures directed from outside to capture power for ideological or nationalist reasons. [More…]
At the same time global military and economic power is being redistributed among the great military powers. [More…]
It is essential to try to foresee the way in which the nations who are great in terms of military and economic power will exercise that power in the are.a of Australia’s strategic concern - an area which comprehends our northern neighbourhood and the sea and air spaces of the maritime environment of Australia. [More…]
From these developments the Five Power defence arrangements embracing Australia, Malaysia, New Zealand, Singapore and the United Kingdom have grown. [More…]
Nothing conveyed to me during my discussions in Malaysia and Singapore could confirm any view other than a view of the continuing relevance and importance of the Five Power arrangements, and of the significance for those arrangements of the continued presence of Australian, New Zealand and British forces in the area. [More…]
The physical presence of those forces is an integral part of the only Five Power defence arrangements that make sense in the present and in foreseeable circumstances - a fact which the present British Government immediately recognised upon coming to power, and a matter upon which there seems to be a measure of bipartisan agreement in New Zealand, our close neighbour. [More…]
It is accordingly a matter of regret to the Australian Government that, with the ink barely dried on the agreements pertaining to the presence of the forces - international arrangements which are explicitly linked to the communique of the Five Powers issued in London last April - attempts have been made to sow in the world new doubts and uncertainties about Australia’s intentions as a nation. [More…]
This Government’s judgment is that the withdrawal of the Australian force so soon after the arrangements and agreements had been settled would seriously undermine the Five Power arrangements. [More…]
This Government does not believe in the destruction of the Five Power arrangements. [More…]
The Defence Review refers to the Soviet Naval presence in the Indian Ocean and points to the present and potential strategic importance of this new manifestation of power. [More…]
Soviet naval power in the Indian Ocean poses the possible need for other nations to deploy forces to the area. [More…]
China’s military power is of growing rather than lessening importance in Australian security. [More…]
The Chinese nuclear armoury is already substantial enough to be taken into account by both of the super powers. [More…]
The fact that Australia is not a nuclear power and has every desire to remain non-nuclear does not confer upon us some invulnerability. [More…]
On the contrary it confers upon us a need to contribute as a non-nuclear power to the maintenance of the global nuclear equilibrium which is sustained by the United States. [More…]
They are the foundation for maintaining an effective balance of power in relation to a nuclear arming China - a consideration of great concern for Australia in the years immediately ahead as will be seen from the description of the subject in the Defence Review. [More…]
The only thing that has changed has been the power of the guns and bombs that the invader used. [More…]
It was not until the 1920s that they lost leadership to those who argued that the French could be expelled only by the Indo-Chinese themselves, and that there must be a campaign also against the Indo-Chinese ruling class who shared power with the French. [More…]
The fully documented evidence of the Pentagon Papers shows that the EisenhowerDulles Administration rejected the Geneva Agreement and its election, set up the Diem Government and began immediately to supply it with military power for only one reason - so that it could immediately set out to destroy the communists, as it was put, in South Vietnam and equally as much elsewhere in Indo-China. [More…]
The direct application of mechanical and conventional power now takes place on such a massive scale as to produce a massive migration from countryside to the city. [More…]
Does anyone in this House, even the honourable member for Lalor, believe - is anyone prepared to state - that there has ever been a free election in a communist dominated country where majorities of 98 per cent and 99 per cent for the government in power are the common thing? [More…]
She believes that the NLF would cease military tactics if it was not threatened by a Saigon government backed by a foreign power. [More…]
To me it has always been a matter for regret, and in many cases contempt, that members of the Opposition continue to do all in their power to detract from the splendid record which has been established by Australian servicemen in Vietnam. [More…]
In my view - and I repeat this - it is to our everlasting disgrace that the LiberalCountry Party Government of this nation ever allowed us to be a party to the destruction, by the world’s greatest military power, of the land of peasant people who were fighting against corruption, exploitation, serfdom and slavery for a better way of life. [More…]
The main purpose of this Bill is to insert in the Navigation Act power to make regulations for the measurement of ships’ tonnage in the way provided in the tonnage mark scheme. [More…]
Clause 6 provides the regulation-making powers that are necessary to enable Commonwealth tonnage measurement regulations to be made in place of the British tonnage measurement provisions. [More…]
of the new section 407a provides the general regulation-making power, and sub-section (2.) [More…]
provides specific regulation-making powers to ensure that there is no doubt that regulations may be made in respect of the matters mentioned in each of its paragraphs. [More…]
The powers contained in most of those paragraphs would seem to be selfexplanatory, but there are 2 which I should explain. [More…]
Unfortunately, when the Liberal Party and the Country Party did come into power in New South Wales they had second thoughts on the matter for some sort of domestic political reasons and they did not go ahead with the idea of an education commission of the type that they had promised in 1965. [More…]
In fact, it set up another kind of commission which has advisory powers only. [More…]
It seems to me that he is giving a veto-like power, in this case to the Public Service Board. [More…]
He will have the power of discipline. [More…]
If the Minister had given approval for 3 commissioners instead of one, with the commissioners having sufficient power to negotiate and make decisions on salaries in a professional area, that would have been a different matter. [More…]
In my view the Commissioner will be virtually powerless, under the terms of this Bill, to act in the critical areas of pay rates and conditions of employment. [More…]
Alternatively, will this be the position: The representatives of the Australian Teachers Federation will go direct to the Public Service Board, rather than have discussions with the Commissioner, in the full knowledge that the Board is an instrument of Government power and policy? [More…]
If the structure set out in this Bill is to be a model setup it ought to be based on the concept of having at least 3 commissioners with power to negotiate constructively on questions of rates of pay and conditions of employment in the Teaching Service. [More…]
We are saying that the Government is thrusting power on to the Commissioner and is relying on the backup of the Public Service Board. [More…]
Once the Commissioner, or any authority, is given power to determine salaries and promotional opportunities in the Service he is going to have a lot to do with the quality of education that we get in our community. [More…]
The point that has been missed and that I cannot seem to get across is that the Commissioner should have been empowered to sit down and discuss salaries and conditions on a conciliatory basis and, in a reasonable and responsible manner, look at the teaching service across the board throughout Australia. [More…]
Despite what the Minister has said, the Commissioner will have no power whatsoever to make any agreement with ‘the Australian Teachers Federation on rates of pay, salaries or conditions. [More…]
He will not have that power. [More…]
The only body that will have the power to endorse such agreements is the Public Service Board. [More…]
The Commissioner has no power to make any decision at all. [More…]
The only power he will have is the power of referral to the Public Service Board. [More…]
The Commissioner of the Commonwealth Teaching Service will have power under Part IV of the Bill to offer scholarships to persons wishing to train as teachers for subsequent service in Commonwealth schools. [More…]
But if the commissioner retires the officer from the service - this is the third power contained in clause 34 (d)- the officer does not get any protection from clause 36 because this is not covered in that clause, nor does he get any benefit from clause 37, so he can be dismissed on a subjective finding of the facts even though it is just a pure matter of opinion. [More…]
With a Labor government in power this would not happen. [More…]
I did read a report that the Leader of the Opposition had made it clear that in the event of a Labor government coming to power 2 additional electorates would be created in the western areas of Sydney. [More…]
It is well known that if a Labor government is elected to power there will be a redistribution based on a one vote one value principle, not on the basis of those enrolled but on a basis which includes children and migrants not yet enrolled. [More…]
Can the Minister for Social Services provide the House with any further information in relation to his decision to refuse unemployment benefit to certain persons in connection with the recent Victorian power strike? [More…]
I was advised that the only chapter on which we had any legal power to declare the book a prohibited import was the chapter on sex. [More…]
The matters referred to in the question arise as an aftermath of the power strike in Victoria. [More…]
It was not until a decision had been given in the High Court in the concrete pipes case that it could be said with any confidence that the Commonwealth Parliament had power to legislate in this area. [More…]
Firstly, there was doubt about the power of the Commonwealth Parliament to control this area, a doubt which has since been removed by the decision in the concrete pipes case. [More…]
We have seen the system appear to be operating in a practical way and on top of all this, we now have a High Court decision in the concrete pipes case which suggests very strongly that we have the power to come into the matter. [More…]
It is tired of the exercise of naked economic power, which somehow is defended in the name of private enterprise. [More…]
To my mind, a government which believes in private enterprise should not stand by and see this naked exercise of power, mainly by organisations which were not in this country 5 or 6 years ago. [More…]
Firstly, they relate to the power that exists in the Department of Customs and Excise and which is illustrated by the sections that this Bill seeks to amend and by a number of other sections to which I will refer. [More…]
I will be saying why I think there is something wrong with the division of power at present between the Minister for Customs and Excise and the Minister for Trade and Industry and why some quite important changes should be made. [More…]
This Bill changes the relevant sections of the Customs Tariff Act to give the Department of Customs and Excise the power to fix its own value and, of course, it has the power to fix its own value of any goods submitted for importation into Australia under certain circumstances. [More…]
These powers are most extensive and I am unable to know the extent to which they are in fact used. [More…]
This Bill, which is an amending Bill, opens up the field of power exercised by Ministers for Customs and Excise and the officers of the Department. [More…]
In fact, the extent to which the Department of Customs and Excise exercises power through its by-law provisions and through the other sections of the Act to which I have referred this afternoon is a matter which, to my mind, requires a reorganisation and a restructuring of the 2 departments - the Department of Customs and Excise and the Department of Trade and Industry. [More…]
I am quite sure that the Minister for Trade and Industry is not able to say that he is aware of how the sections which this Bill seeks to amend and the other sections to which 1 have referred operate in the Department of Customs and Excise and how many decisions are given one way or how many are given another way and what value of imports from time to time is so much affected as it is affected by the exercise of power under sections of the Act. [More…]
The proposed amend ment to the Act gives the Minister for Customs and Excise (Mr Chipp) power that he ought to have in this rather technical and very competitive field. [More…]
I agree with the general comment by the honourable member for Lalor that this Bill extends the power of the Minister for Customs and Excise. [More…]
I have nothing but praise for the way the Minister for Customs and Excise is presently administering his Department, but we should not ignore the fact that the Minister for Customs and Excise has surprising power. [More…]
As the honourable member for Lalor again quite properly said, this power is very important in the by-law area. [More…]
The honourable member would know, of course, that the Commonwealth has no constitutional power to introduce price control. [More…]
All I say on that is that there is not constitutional power for the Commonwealth to fix prices. [More…]
A great deal of concern is being expressed that there are ways and means within the various tariffs and duties schedules for those engaged in the manufacture of motor vehicles in Australia today to make applicato an officer of the Department of Customs and Excise or to certain sections of the Department which have power to reduce the amount of import duty on a number of components that can be and have been manufactured in Australia, to the detriment of the employment of the people in the tooling rooms of one principal manufacturer or, to some extent, the 2 principal manufacturers in South Australia. [More…]
It is being said within the industry - this is the reason I raise this matter, Mr Deputy Speaker, and I would appreciate your permitting me to say this - that in relation to some component parts listed in certain schedules which I haveN mentioned to the Minister, the Customs officer has the power, on the say-so of an importer, to say that these particular items are unprocurable in Australia, without saying they are not manufactured in Australia, and the import duty of about 50 per cent is decreased to about 7i per cent. [More…]
in reply - This is a relatively minor Bill which aims at closing a loophole that enables the evasion or the avoidance of tariff duty on goods being imported into Australia and gives the Minister for Customs and Excise power to determine the valuations. [More…]
I also appreciate that the Minister for Customs and Excise has great power to alter the tariff. [More…]
I would have thought that, looked at in the other way, unless the Minister for Customs and Excise is given the power of discretion the spirit and the true meaning of the wishes of this Parliament and the Tariff Board could not possibly be implemented because there would be so many clever people who would grab on to a form of words to avoid tariffs and evade the wishes and will of the Parliament. [More…]
than narrowly economic consideration, the slowing in consumer spending, at least in real terms, in part reflects the fact that price increases have had adverse effects on the purchasing power of those whose incomes depend on social service payments. [More…]
At long last it seems to acknowledge that spending power can be put quickly into the hands of people who will spend it and who will not hoard it. [More…]
It is our conclusion from a careful testing of opinion in Malaysia that it expects the five-power arrangements to be only transitional. [More…]
This approach has the added merit that it is capable of extension to other countries in the region beyond the five-power arrangements such as, for example, Indonesia, which the Government wants to help but cannot quite accommodate within its present formula. [More…]
Whatever the character of the Australian Government, it is likely that the five-power arrangements will prove transitional and be supplanted by bilateral defence arrangements with South East Asian countries. [More…]
For a second string power such as Australia, procurement is a matter of compromise and bargaining; it involves tradeoffs between sets of alternatives and tough analysis of proposed purchases in costbenefit terms. [More…]
We do need to have an assurance, as far as we can have an assurance, that the United States will stand behind us if we are attacked by a major power because, by ourselves, we cannot repell a major power. [More…]
In practice, the United Nations has proved a broken reed in this regard, largely because of the veto power of Russia and now China. [More…]
Our interest in the stability of South East Asia has led us to collective defence agreements - SEATO and the Five-Power [More…]
A new factor has been the rapid increase in Russian sea power, and their presence since 1967 in the Indian Ocean. [More…]
I suggest that we should urge America to consider an agreement by which both powers would keep clear of the Indian Ocean. [More…]
We have to order more destroyers as soon as possible, and we need to make an early decision on how we are to deploy air power at sea after the end of the life of the ‘Melbourne’. [More…]
What an extraordinary concept of the role of sea and air power. [More…]
The position has always been that our policy has been bound in with great power treaties. [More…]
All the time our defence reqirements have been tailored to suit great powers and the end result has been that the Australian defence industry has never had a chance to continually design and manufacture equipment for Australian forces. [More…]
It would be basically a hit and run weapon, but it has been proved pretty well throughout the navies of the world that this type of weapon carries a strike power that could equal that of a well equipped destroyer. [More…]
From these developments the Five Power defence arrangements embracing Australia, Malaysia, New Zealand, Singapore and the United Kingdom have grown. [More…]
In my visit to this area I visited the fivepower defence headquarters, in charge of which was Air Vice Marshal Ron Susans, a distinguished Australian and a gentleman with whom I have had friendship over many years. [More…]
We can be proud of this distinguished Australian who is in charge of the situation in the five power defence arrangements and we can be proud of the contribution that is being made by Australia to this area. [More…]
But surely anybody with any appreciation of power politics and the. [More…]
I would agree that this is one of the problems which will face whatever government is in power after the next election. [More…]
Persons who were unemployed before the strike and persons who remained unemployed after power was restored and industries had resumed work received unemployment benefit payments without delay. [More…]
We are in constant consultation with the departments concerned and will certainly do everything within our power to see that the situation is improved in the future. [More…]
There can be no question also that if the Labor Party came to power tomorrow or at the next elections he would be a senior Cabinet Minister responsible for defence operations in this country and with access to all the secret negotiations which this country must continue with its allies. [More…]
I think it cannot be denied that the newspaper report makes it clear that they support a Communist power - an enemy of Australia - and reject our strongest ally. [More…]
We have seen and heard at first hand the ALP’s approach to Australia’s responsibilities under the Five Power arrangements. [More…]
It must be disturbing, to say the least, to our allies to know that a significant power group within the ALP is antagonistic to our alliances and would seek to avoid our responsibilities. [More…]
It should be of crucial importance to every Australian to know and appreciate that the very security of this country could be threatened should the Australian Labor Party, as presently composed, ever come to power. [More…]
I believe that the people of North Vietnam have rights because this is basically a civil war into which a foreign power - the United States - has entered. [More…]
It should be borne in mind that since the French could not handle the situation in their own selfish interest and withdrew, the greatest power in the world has intervened in Vietnam. [More…]
We have seen that once the system of communism devised by Lenin screws itself into office, with its concentration of power in the top levels, no-one is able to get rid of it again. [More…]
I put it to the Leader of the Opposition that the ANZUS Treaty would soon be swept away should the Labor Party come to power. [More…]
Men like the honourable member for Lalor would use that power to undermine the defence capability of this country. [More…]
If the South is unable to prevent the communist takeover of Vietnam, and if the inevitable mass liquidations occur, the blood of hundreds of thousands of men, women and children will be on the hands, not only of the leftists of Australia, but those dogooders opposite and in the pulpits, universities and trade unions who have done all in their power to sabotage allied assistance to the South and insist on a withdrawal ahead of military prudence. [More…]
Lt is strange that he should say this because only last year the ALP was saying that if it came to power these forces would be returned to Australia. [More…]
The Opposition spokesman on foreign affairs, the honourable member for St George, while in the Malaysia-Singapore area recently, was doing his best to torpedo the 5-power defence arrangements. [More…]
All we hear from the Opposition is that SEATO, ANZUS and the 5-power arrangements are not highly thought of by people in Malaysia-Singapore, and that Indonesia is not a party to these alliances. [More…]
This White Paper seeks to plan our defence policy so that we will not be unprepared if and when the 5-power arrangements which I mentioned before - ANZUK, ANZUS and SEATO- are superseded. [More…]
No country in the world - not even a super power - can stand by itself. [More…]
It is a very changed world from the world of the cold war when there were 2 super powers. [More…]
Now we have the super powers not only of the United States and Russia; we have Japan emerging as a great super power economically but not yet militarily, though she could become so at any time. [More…]
We have China emerging with great manpower, but at present lacking in weapons. [More…]
Europe could conceivably become a fifth great world power. [More…]
We have to depend upon a great and powerful friend for defence against irresistible forces with which we cannot deal ourselves. [More…]
It may be that we will have to look after ourselves in the region, but we are helpless against super powers unless we have a friend in that quarter, and there is only one possible friend for us, and that is the United States of America. [More…]
I do not say that the threat will come from China, but 1 say that here is a super power in our area which has not in the past been friendly to us and against which we may - I hope we do not - need protection, and we will have to turn to the Americans for it. [More…]
Unless we are prepared for these things well in advance we shall not be ready when the emergency arises, lt was precisely 6 years from the time when Hitler took power from Hindenburg after the Reichstag fire in 1933 until 1939 when he was in a position to declare war upon the world, when millions of people were killed and tens of millions had their lives vitally affected. [More…]
We have the Five Power arrangements and we have the SEATO Treaty. [More…]
The shadow Minister for Foreign Affairs on the other side of the House says that SEATO is a dead horse and, as for the Five Power arrangements, he says that they are merely temporary and do not really matter at all. [More…]
No body is drunk with power in South Australia. [More…]
They make the greatest joke of all your stirring and your attempts to arouse Aborigines into forming some sort of black power movement. [More…]
If the adherents of black power down here went out into the country in my electorate they would be lost. [More…]
Whilst the River Murray Commission under its orginal terms of reference has not the actual power to deal directly with this matter, it is doing a tremendous amount in this field, as I have illustrated by the report I have mentioned, and will continue to take an active interest. [More…]
It relates to the payment of unemployment benefit to persons who were stood down during the recent power strike in Victoria. [More…]
But I think we have a different situation where people in entirely different industries have been denied unemployment benefits although they are members of entirely different industries and in some cases are members of a union which was very marginally involved in the dispute and played no key role in the manufacture of power. [More…]
Newspaper reports have referred to the release of plutonium 238 into the world environment in April 1964 as a result of the burn-up of the power generator contained in a United States satellite which disintegrated on entering the upper atmosphere after failing to gain the desired orbit. [More…]
Here in this matter alone is evidence, for all those who can see, of the inefficiency and delay that is caused by the division of power between the Minister for Customs and Excise (Mr Chipp) and the Minister for Trade and Industry, and of the need for reconstruction of these 2 departments. [More…]
When it came to voting for the wool bounty, or whatever we once had, a man with one bale, of wool had the same voting power as a man with 100 bales of wool. [More…]
We must face the fact that today the total control and power of the Commonwealth in arriving at conference decisions is effectively illustrated in this way. [More…]
The imbalance of power at these meetings is long overdue for change. [More…]
He went on to illustrate to the people of Queensland just what they would expect to receive in the future while the same gentleman remains in the office of power that he holds in the Commonwealth today. [More…]
I have yet to be convinced that the Assistant Ministers have any constitutional power in this Parliament at all. [More…]
An Assistant Minister has no power or right to reject or accept decisions with respect to amendments to Bills or to answer questions put by members of the Opposition in the committee stage or to make decisions with respect to clauses In a Bill. [More…]
All that Vietnamisation has done is to pit two huge and powerful armies against each other on the ground. [More…]
One side has the benefit of unlimited American air and naval power. [More…]
One might be that military power and technology do not suffice, even with the strongest resolve, to restore order or accomplish peace. [More…]
I make no distinction here between the people of South Vietnam and the people of North Vietnam, for they have been used as pawns in the big power game. [More…]
The Labor Party has been out of office ever since and I do not see it being returned to power for many years yet. [More…]
Perhaps I might make passing reference to the subjects on which petitions have been presented in order to show the power of the petition. [More…]
That example shows the power of petitioning. [More…]
So the power of the petition was recognised as long ago as that. [More…]
The power of the petition is recognised in the House of Commons and in all democratic parliaments. [More…]
I agree with my distinguished colleagues on both sides of the House who have said that there is still a residual power in the petition to influence, but it is a very indirect and very pallid power. [More…]
He and the right honourable member for Melbourne (Mr Calwell) would know that we do not have the power to nationalise a lolly shop or even one of the sex shops in Sydney about which we hear so much. [More…]
and shall have power to confer with a similar Committee of the Senate. [More…]
I have been advised by the Public Service Board that in all departments the Chief Officer has the power to impose fines on permanent officers for disciplinary purposes. [More…]
The Minister for Labour and National Service has advised that management in the following instrumentalities has the power to impose fines on employees for disciplinary purposes: [More…]
That Lake Pedder, situated in the Lake Pedder National Park in South-West Tasmania, is threatened with inundation as part of the Gordon River hydro-electric power scheme. [More…]
He will know that the reason why Australia has applied fewer International Labour Organisation conventions to her nonselfgoverning Territories than any other colonial power is that no country can apply a convention to such a territory unless it has itself ratified the convention and he will also know that a principal reason why Australia has not yet ratified scores of ILO conventions is that the Federal Government has been deterred by the lethargy and obstruction of the States. [More…]
Because of this the Commonwealth, in the area in which I have power under certain circumstances to declare certain imports prohibited, has a role to play. [More…]
if honourable members opposite get into power will they form another Prices Commission for Australia? [More…]
That means that should Labor come to power it would increase the price of crude which is set by an agreement which is in force until 1975, if my memory serves me correctly. [More…]
Therefore, if the price of crude oil is increased, as members of the Labor Party this afternoon stated that it will be if a Labor government comes into power, obviously there will be an increase in the price of petrol to the consumers in Australia. [More…]
Apparently if a Labor government comes into power this agreement will be altered. [More…]
I understood the honourable member for Cunningham (Mr Connor) to say that if a Labor government comes into power it will, as a government, explore for oil in Australia. [More…]
Thus this Bill continues the Government’s policy of increasing the pension by more than the rise in prices - that is, continually increasing the real purchasing power of the pension. [More…]
On some other occasion I shall hope to give the House a summary of the social service advances which Australia has made since 1949, when Labor was last in power. [More…]
In 1949-50, when this Government came to power, it represented 28.35 per cent of the then average weekly earnings. [More…]
Here we have the situation - under a government which is drunk with power, which is bereft of any ideas and which is on its way out - saying: We want the Standing Orders to be changed because these Assistant Ministers have been appointed. [More…]
We must not underestimate the power of a member of Parliament. [More…]
Of course, what Mr Meaney was suggesting was that he is disenchanted with the system of collective bargaining in the United States, a system which, if the Opposition in fact were in power, would be given far greater impetus than exists at the present time. [More…]
Whether they are encouraging the rise of black, power or any of the other modern ways of combating the law and attacking respect for law and authority, it is a power outside the law which they are advocating. [More…]
If we have this constant harping, and the attempts to make the Aborigines feel racially and become a black power operation, if we have this rather pathetic ‘embassy’ cluttering up the area in front of Parliament House, and if we are to adopt the policy of the Labor Party Opposition which was adopted in Launceston, and people are simply to be admitted without regard to race, colour and so on, and if there is to be a change in our present policy, for heaven’s sake let us look down the line. [More…]
Like South Vietnam, we are not a major power. [More…]
It has been said that power corrupts. [More…]
But the yearning for power also corrupts. [More…]
It is noteworthy that many members of the ALP attempt to prevent the use of air power where the South is strongest but make no attempt to condemn attacks by tanks and artillery against the South. [More…]
At the end of the Second World War we had an exercise in great power arrogance because then, as they have done in other times in the world, the great powers sat down and carved up the world like the turkeys that we carve up on Christmas Day. [More…]
Sometimes it was because of the divisive force of the French colonial power which had a policy of divide and rule. [More…]
The British and all other colonial powers have taken this point of view from time to time. [More…]
Not content with these attempts to scuttle Australia’s alliances, the Labor Party has thrown alarm into our colleague governments in Malaysia and Singapore by its attitude to what is known as the 5-power defence arrangements for that area, to which this Government subscribes. [More…]
Labor’s policy would cause the collapse of the 5-power arrangements and the destruction of confidence in Australia. [More…]
And then the Deputy Leader of the Opposition was prepared to fly in the face of expert international opinion - such as the SEATO military advisers and Britain’s just retired Commander-in-Chief in the Far East - and to gloss over the activities of Soviet navy forces in the Indian Ocean, which pose a new disturbing power factor in an unstable area following Britain’s withdrawal. [More…]
One would have thought that from all that power and heavyweight material we would have received some really effective announcements on what Australia’s foreign and defence policy in this context ought to be. [More…]
I for one do not want to see anybody win by military power. [More…]
I believe that it is a bad thing at this stage of the world’s history for people to achieve power by military means. [More…]
Diem was then installed in power as a result of the United States policy. [More…]
The only great power whose troops have actually been involved in Vietnam is the United States of America. [More…]
I leave those aside - but the basic United States diagnosis about Vietnam was that it was an area of confrontation with the major Communist powers. [More…]
So all the commentaries over recent years about Chinese involvement in Vietnam and about America really opposing China in Vietnam, not a minor communist power, like so many other things in American policy, will be disposed of in a 180 degrees turn in foreign policy. [More…]
A United party victory would see the retention in parliament of the creeping gradualism approach to political change and solid support for the Australian administering power. [More…]
I believe that after 22 years in power it is clearly an indictment of the Government that it is only implementing a reconstruction scheme now. [More…]
Party was in power wheat was being sold to New Zealand for 5s 3d a bushel when the export price for wheat on the free market was approximately double that figure. [More…]
Furthermore, many employees who were not stood down were not productively employed for long periods as a result of power restrictions and other adverse effects of the strike. [More…]
He will have the power to call a compulsory conference if this be necessary. [More…]
The registering power grants protection in various ways to the owner of the ship itself and all who sail in her, wherever she may be trading throughout the world, and also upholds the power of her master to command the vessel in accordance with that country’s national law. [More…]
Thus the country of registry of flags of convenience has neither the power nor the administrative machinery to impose effectively any government or international regulations. [More…]
Nor has the country the wish or the power to control - the companies themselves. [More…]
This Bill will give power to the Commonwealth, through the Navigation Act, to make regulations for the measurement of a ship’s tonnage in the way provided in the tonnage mark scheme. [More…]
Pending new Commonwealth legislation being introduced to supersede the British Acts as they apply to Australia, the Bill now before the House will provide Commonwealth power to make regulations for the measurement of ships. [More…]
It strengthens the position of Australian ships plying to foreign ports and gives the Commonwealth power to deal with foreign ships that are not registered under the tonnage mark scheme. [More…]
Because of the limitations of power over shipping in the Australian Constitution, is there the possibility of orders being made under the Imperial Merchant Shipping Aci 1894, applying shipping regulations to Australian Stales? [More…]
If so, does this emphasise the need for an amendment of the Constitution giving the Commonwealth Parliament more extensive power over shipping? [More…]
The Australian Parliament should have the same power over all Australian shipping as the Canadian Parliament and the United States Congress have over shipping in their countries. [More…]
There should not be any divided legislative power over navigation in Australia. [More…]
His Honour Judge Spicer in the marine inquiry into the sinking of the dredge W. D. Atlas’ in May 1966 referred to the complicated position that exists in Australia because of the division of power between the Commonwealth and the States. [More…]
I appreciate that the main purpose of this Bill is to insert in the Navigation Act power to make regulations for the measurement of ships’ tonnage in the way provided by the tonnage mark scheme, but I do not thing that it will help our shipping industry very much because there are fundamental problems involved. [More…]
When those requirements were met the Commonwealth had no power to detain the ‘Henna’ further. [More…]
Once the classification society, which is an overseas society, accepted the ship as being safe to sail and because the ship was an international ship, the Commonwealth had no further power in the matter. [More…]
The Commonwealth had no further power. [More…]
I know that these things can be arguable and that there is a certain amount of bargaining power. [More…]
I think that we have sold out too easily to those who want to invest in view of the very real powers that the country which owns the natural resources has by the mere existence of those resources. [More…]
What action does he propose to take to see that Commonwealth constitutional power is not transgressed in relation to the statement yesterday by Sir Henry Bolte in the Victorian Parliament that his Government would freeze the shares of Ansett Transport Industries Ltd until an inquiry into the Ansett-TNT takeover is held? [More…]
As a result of certain provisions included in the Central Queensland Coal Associates Agreement Act 1968, the Queensland Government will be able to purchase very cheap coal for use in State power stations. [More…]
It has the definite power under the Customs Act to do so by regulation and proclamation. [More…]
Only the Commonwealth Government has the power to do it. [More…]
That the committee have power to appoint sub-committees consisting of not less than 3 of its members, and refer to any such sub-committees any matter which the committee is empowered to examine. [More…]
That the committee or any sub-committee have power to send for persons, papers and records, to move from place to place, and to sit during any recess. [More…]
That the committee report to the House as soon as possible and that any member of the committee have power to add a protest or dissent to any report. [More…]
To have a member of the Country Party criticising the Labor Party in respect of electoral malpractices must be one of the most remarkable events of the age because the very Party which sits opposite is responsible for the gerrymandering of electorates in this country in a way that has given them false representation and power beyond the number of persons who voted for them. [More…]
If one were to study the records of that time one would see that Mr McEwen said the Country Party had lost power and votes. [More…]
It must cause him great anguish to see the seat which he has represented with such distinction become the butt of a sectional power struggle conducted amid a cross fire of inter-Party allegations of malpractice. [More…]
I remember my own experiences at the Gatton College, which is an agricultural college in Queensland, when the Labor Party was in power. [More…]
I hope I have highlighted the strains that are put on a government which suddenly comes to power and has to drag the State - the richest in the country, in natural resources - out of socialism, lift it from underdevelopment and bring it to the position of being one of the foremost States in Australia. [More…]
How many persons who applied for unemployment benefits during the recent Victorian power dispute were sent special questionnaires in February and March 1972 requiring details of their union membership. [More…]
On what (a) occasions and (b) dates have special questionnaires being used since April 1947 to seek details relating to an applicant’s union membership similar to those used during and after the recent Victorian power dispute. [More…]
, (4) and (5) The recent Victorian power strike was unparalleled in its impact on industry and the stand-down of employees which created a situation where it was not practicable to obtain from the applicants the information usually required to determine eligibility for benefit where unemployment was related to a current industrial dispute. [More…]
Then followed a lot of other piffle and gross misrepresentation of my view and again a gross usurpation of the powers, responsibilities and duties of a Minister, who in my view is the only person who has the right to be a spokesman for the Department of Foreign Affairs. [More…]
If he does so, the door is open for him, and I know what would have happened in the days when the Curtin and Chifley governments were in power. [More…]
In our view, the United States had done everything in its power to ensure a negotiated settlement and to maintain the independence of South Vietnam and not to abandon the people of that country. [More…]
Those so-called allies of the United States who helped to bring the world’s greatest power to such an impasse bear a heavy responsibility for this danger now confronting the world. [More…]
In a paper which he presented to the Institute of Engineers in Australia in 1970 the late Mr W. H. Roberts, who was Secretary for Fuel and Power in Victoria, emphasised the need for overall planning both within his own State and on a national basis. [More…]
would have the power to discharge the purchaser’s liability. [More…]
provides discretionary power to the Minister in the special circumstances which are described in that sub-clause, which special circumstances in the opinion of the Minister justify the release of a person from his obligation to pay an amount payable under the provisions of clause 6(1. [More…]
I assume that this subclause simply gives to the Minister discretionary power to carefully examine certain cases and where there is some injustice, to allow for the remission of whole or part of an amount payable under clause 7. [More…]
This, surely, is the ultimate failure of this war - that the world’s greatest power has been pushed into this dead end of futility. [More…]
He said that, broadly speaking, he thought the Government had this power at the present time. [More…]
I want to know whether honourable members opposite are sincere in suggesting the introduction of a first past the post voting system, or whether they are suggesting it just to win power. [More…]
What would the Labor Party do if it got into power? [More…]
As the residents of Wyee drive past Lake Munmora and Vales Point power stations day after day, they see hoses which are in operation 24 hours a day to beautify the gardens around these establishments. [More…]
The Minister will be well aware of the confusion and uncertainty surrounding the powers of the Australian Broadcasting Control Board with regard to the transmission of Sunday morning programmes by commercial television stations. [More…]
Is it a fact that the Board has no legal power to enforce the transmission of certain programmes on Sunday morning but can only seek the co-operation of the licensee? [More…]
Finally, when will amending legislation be introduced into this Parliament to correct and clarify the Board’s power so that the present anomalous situation can be resolved? [More…]
Certain power and authority are given to the Australian Broadcasting Control Board in relation to stan dards for programmes and advertising. [More…]
The Board laid down certain conditions in relation to television on Sunday mornings, but the Board had some doubt as to the reality of the power which it was endeavouring to exercise. [More…]
Cabinet reviewed the situation having regard to what had been said by the Board and to advice given by the Attorney-General that it was doubtful whether the Board had the power to insist. [More…]
However, the Acting Postmaster-General did indicate publicly what the decision of Cabinet was, that additional power to control Sunday morning telecasting could be given to the Board so that telecasts at that time would conform to a standard developed by the Board, namely that Sunday morning might be given to the particular considerations of minority interests or groups within the community, to religious services and items of that nature. [More…]
The Government made a decision that the power would be given to the Board and this decision was announced so that we might avoid further difficulties and perhaps have the co-operation of that one station. [More…]
In terms of purchasing power - in terms of what can be bought - the pension is something like 70 per cent higher today than it was in 1949. [More…]
Since this Government came into power way back in 1949 there has been a steady increase in the rate of pension, but there has been a much greater increase in the side benefits and all the other benefits which have been brought about by this Government to assist in this great problem of need and poverty. [More…]
The gradual liberalisation of the means test over the period this Government has been in power has helped tremendously, as has the alteration of the application of the means test, to where it was based partly on income and partly on property, creating the merged means test. [More…]
This list will include the following: Salaries and wages of industrial research and development employees including, as specified, those employed for part of the year: administrative salaries and fees; provisions for superannuation, long service leave and workers’ compensation; travel; hired staff; materials; technical information and reference services; plant including pilot and prototypes; repairs and maintenance work on plant; rent and leasing charges for the use of buildings, including notional charges where the buildings are owner-occupied; printing, stationery and general supplies; cleaning costs; telephone rentals and charges; light, power and water; computer charges; insurance; and contract expenditure. [More…]
Under the Constitution the Commonwealth has power to legislate for the prevention and settlement of industrial disputes. [More…]
If this is a solution the Government should hang its head in shame for never in 22 years of power having thought of it before. [More…]
While it is true that this Bill widens the inspection powers of arbitration inspectors, it leaves untouched the most essential reform of all. [More…]
I refer to the fact that at present inspectors have no power to sue for wages arrears. [More…]
Nor do they have any real power to prosecute for breaches of award. [More…]
Indeed, how can it control the national economy when its only power is to fix wages? [More…]
Even if one could justify government abdication from the functions it was elected to perform, is it fair to expect any body to regulate the national economy if that body is without power to control prices, profits, taxation, tariffs, interest charges, land prices and the many other weapons available to government in controlling inflation and unemployment. [More…]
The Government’s blatant opposition to a reasonable wage increase, and the methods used to achieve its end, is a disgrace to democracy and is condemned by the Opposition as a blatant abuse of power. [More…]
This is largely because parties are able to take their differences to the appropriate tribunal and, indeed, that tribunal has power to step in of its own volition when disputes occur. [More…]
As part of our total planning in our fight against inflation we are strengthening also provisions of the Act to deal with irresponsibilities of trade union power. [More…]
We are convinced that certain powerful elements in the trade union movement have exercised their strength on too many occasions in a totally irresponsible fashion. [More…]
We do not wish to see a weak trade union movement but, by the same token, we have to see a balance of power between employers and unions in the settlement of industrial disputes. [More…]
It has no power to control prices, trade practices, investments, tariffs or any of the ordinary agencies that are available to a government, which this Government does not choose to use. [More…]
All these functions have one factor in common, the object of ensuring a ‘fair go’; whether h be in settling disputes between management and labour, or ensuring that wages are not dependent on the use or misuse of industrial power, or watching so that the community in general, the public interest, ls preserved in the above processes. [More…]
Leaving aside for the moment the industrial relations aspect, if management attempts to make unreasonable profits by keeping wages unreasonably low, the purchasing power of the wage earners in the community is reduced and this eventually will be reflected in lower overall demand and lower business activity. [More…]
When the conciliation and arbitration system was introduced the balance of industrial power was probably in favour of the employer and means were needed to ensure that this power was not used irresponsibly to the disadvantage of employees. [More…]
The honourable member for Hindmarsh rightly drew attention to sections 32 and 33 which confer the power to include or vary bans clauses in awards exercisable by a presidential member only. [More…]
I believe that the existing sanctioning process which involves the use of the Court’s injunctionmaking powers under section 109 and its power to punish for contempt under section 111, are no longer appropriate or desirable. [More…]
The Joint Committee on Constitutional Review in 1959 advocated a widening of the economic powers of the Commonwealth. [More…]
It did not even bother to submit this proposal to the States to get that additional power or, if it could not get it by that means, to get it by means of a referendum. [More…]
It is true that the Commission has power to include in awards bans on strikes but one cannot expect a system of industrial arbitration to eliminate entirely strikes or other forms of direct action. [More…]
The laws of the land are much more easily applied by the State to individuals for the settlement of disputes between them than to exercise compulsion over powerful organisations such as trade unions. [More…]
It is then dealing with a powerful section of the community. [More…]
This will certainly give the Government greater power of intervention in cases so that an application will not be considered purely and simply on its merits; the question of the state of the economy will come into it as will also the effect of the Commission’s decision. [More…]
There is provision in this Bill to give to the Commission power to order the holding of secret ballots. [More…]
As their activities affect industries on which the whole community depends - transport, power and the like - somebody has to lose. [More…]
The growth rate of the year before he came to power was 8.7 per cent. [More…]
They are governed by what is called the territorial power, and many of the safeguards that exist in the Constitution for other Australians do not apply here. [More…]
I will have something to say later on about the extraordinary cult of anti-legalism which seems to be sweeping through the corridors of power. [More…]
The Commonwealth’s power with respect to arbitration is, in my vie.w, a limitation. [More…]
It can be seen from a reading of the Commonwealth convention debates in the 1890s, when the representatives of the colonies, as they were then, argued as to the power to be given to the Commonwealth with respect to arbitration and conciliation, that save for a few percipient minds, the majority of them were convinced that Australia as a nation was made up of 6 economies. [More…]
It seems to me that there was a compromise in terms of giving to the Commonwealth Parliament powers to deal with conciliation and arbitration. [More…]
The Parliament shall, subject to this Constitution, have power to make laws for the peace, order and good government of the Commonwealth with respect to: . [More…]
Surely a nation is entitled to have a clear fount head of power on national matters. [More…]
By referendum all shades of politics and all political parties have sought to alter this power to give it a new sense of proportion. [More…]
I believe that one would be right in saying that the referendum procedure at present offers very little scope to alter this power. [More…]
I would have thought myself that with the backing of every political party and on a non-contentious issue such as civil aviation the power would have been granted but the move failed. [More…]
In 1972, with the whole machinery of industry becoming more complicated, difficult and sophisticated, we cannot afford the luxury of having an inadequate power such as the one we have here. [More…]
I invite the Minister and the Government to consider this process of trying to inform the Australian community as to the difficulties associated with legislating under this power. [More…]
It is propped up by the incidental power. [More…]
Many of the powers now in the Conciliation and [More…]
Arbitration Act depend for their existence upon the incidental power. [More…]
There is reluctance in many quarters to approve any increase of Federal power over industrial matters. [More…]
Many are afraid of a parliament where a political party could in effect buy votes by raising wages, but there are many parliaments which have this power. [More…]
The amalgamation would bring about a large communist-dominated union possessing excessive power; [More…]
For this reason, I expect the new power to be used sparingly, but it will obviously be very valuable in certain circumstances. [More…]
We must never forget the limitation of power of the Commonwealth in industrial relations. [More…]
By the Constitution, the Federal power in this field is primarily limited to conciliation and arbitration in respect of interstate industrial disputes. [More…]
If a deal is negotiated by management and unions outside the system, the Arbitration Commission has no power to intervene unless an application is made to have the agreement certified as an award. [More…]
Of course, the Federal Government could not enforce price control, as it did in the Second World War under war emergency powers. [More…]
In any case, even if we had the power it would be most unlikely to be effective, quite apart from the enormous bureaucracy needed to administer price and quality control. [More…]
They will have the power to make awards or orders arising from conciliation. [More…]
By following relatively simple procedures agreements, with the power of awards, will be made and registered. [More…]
Government wants to see a balance of power between unions and employers because his bias is shown by the statement that industrial power has moved strongly in favour of the trade unions. [More…]
These contradictory statements will only accentuate the concern felt by the unions that the real purpose of these proposals is deliberately to reduce the power of the unions. [More…]
At a time when mining authorities claim that a large ore body exists in close proximity to a mine that the Broken Hill company is closing down because it claims the ore has been depleted it would be foolish to suggest to 650 retrenched mine workers at Broken Hill that their unions had loo much power, especially since the law allows the management to refuse the unions the right to have representation at an investigation into the amount of ore remaining. [More…]
I believe the Minister has made an excellent attempt to meet the problem or at least to give to rank and file members of unions - this is what T am interested in - more power than they had before when they were being pushed around by the bosses. [More…]
The reason why this Government is in power is that wage and salary earners are concerned about orderly industrial relations. [More…]
Many Australians saw the excellent programme on ABC television, ‘Profiles of Power’. [More…]
I do not know whether those gentlemen have ever bothered to read this book ‘Profiles of Power’ or to look at the interview of Mr Laurie Carmichael on the Australian Broadcasting Commission’s television programme, but my impression of many of them, and of any sections of business today, is that they do not look further than the next profit and loss account. [More…]
If I wanted to destroy the social fabric of Australia and bring about a new way of life, if I wanted a communist system instead of the present system as we know it, the first thing I would do if I had power would be to double wages every year. [More…]
Honourable members know of the constitutional problems and realise that we have not constitutional power to do it. [More…]
It is a power which any government could resort to. [More…]
I only hope that it will be a power resorted to with impeccable care and with a great sense of judgment. [More…]
Whoever goes into this position in this Commission under this Government deserves all the sympathy he can get because he does not know his status, he does not know his full power and he does not know how much economic responsibility and odium the Government wants to load on to him. [More…]
The only reason why legislation has been necessary in this respect is because the Senate took away from the responsible Minister the power to fix the salaries personally. [More…]
The Government tried to acquire the power to fix these salaries by regulation. [More…]
any of the terms is a term that the Commission does not have power to include in an award; or [More…]
Mr Polites, at that time anyway, was the main voice for the Employers Federation, an organisation whose views carry considerable weight with the Liberal-Country Party Government; an organisation whose members subscribe very largely to Liberal and Country Party funds; an organisation which over the years has done everything within its power to depress workers’ wages and prevent improvement in conditions; an organisation which has acted as best it could to deny wage justice to workers in one industry, if such wage justice could perhaps flow on to workers in another industry. [More…]
While an arbitral tribunal deriving its authority under an exercise of the legislative power given by s. 51 (xxxv) must confine itself to conciliation and arbitration for the settlement of industrial disputes including what is incidental thereto and cannot have in its hands the general control or direction of industrial, social or economic policies, it would be absurd to suppose that it was to proceed blindly in its work of industrial arbitration and ignore the industrial, social and economic consequences of what it was invited to do or of what, subject to the power of variation, it had actually done. [More…]
I am sure that he did not get there by any legal electoral vote such as is sought by this Government and which the honourable member for Hindmarsh and his Party would repeal if it ever got to power. [More…]
It would be a sorry and pathetic spectacle and frightening in its implications for the Australian community if ever a government of the type which is represented on the other side of the chamber were to come to power in the Federal sphere. [More…]
I believe it is clear from what we have heard during this debate that it would be the spectacle of a government controlled by the power of the unions which would be able to strike with impunity against awards of the Commission; a government which by withdrawing the sanctions provisions of the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission would relegate the position of that Commission and effectively erode its power; a government which wanted for the trade unions all the advantages of arbitration but apparently was not prepared to accept the obligations which that system necessarily imposes; a government which certainly would condone an increase in industrial unrest and strike activity; a government which would fail to protect the public interest in proceedings before the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission; a government which apparently refused to recognise the fundamental reality that the rapid escalation in wage and salary costs is the mainspring problem of inflation in Australia’s present circumstances; and a government which, because of that, certainly would fuel the fires of inflation and not contain them as contained they ought to be at present because of the impact that spiral has upon the disadvantaged groups in the Australian community. [More…]
Members on this side of the House have listened in vain for the projection of any of the new initiatives which the alternative government would take if it were in power. [More…]
I am reminded of the remarks of that eminent Justice of the High Court, Sir Isaac Isaacs, who in 1917 said that the real raison d’etre of the arbitration power in the Constitution is not the mere decision between 2 contesting parties as to disputed industrial conditions, though that in itself is undoubtedly important, but the desirability, sometimes amounting to public necessity, that the community may be served uninterruptedly and not compelled, when threatened with deprivation of perhaps the essentials of existence, to look on helplessly while those whose function it is to supply them stop their work to quarrel. [More…]
They betray what in fact they would do if they were in a position to do it and that, of course, would be to erode the power of the Commission and to effectively relegate its position. [More…]
No-one in this House can say that the Opposition has any effective policy to bring to bear to the might and power of the trade union movement at the present time. [More…]
The honourable member adverted to this question of constitutional head of power. [More…]
Equally, I am sure that the honourable gentleman will not be unsympathetic to the problems which would be caused in seeking to cover that situation by virtue of a constitutional referendum or seeking a reference of power for the States. [More…]
Under this Bill the power to include or vary bans clauses in an award will be exercisable only by a presidential member. [More…]
The new section gives exclusive power to presidential members and extends that power to the area of registered agreements. [More…]
The honourable member for Prospect (Dr Klugman) is quite right when he says that almost invariably it is because the conciliation commissioner hearing the matter or bringing the parties together in conference has the ultimate power to arbitrate the issue that the parties will come to agreement. [More…]
In these cases the commissioner, if he has arbitral powers to move in ultimately and settle the matter, can still rely upon his arbitral powers to bring about conciliation by saying: ‘The Full Bench has not decided this matter yet and unless my decision is set aside on appeal 1 am inclined, as at present advised, to do this with this particular matter. [More…]
This is the judicial use of arbitral power which makes it so much easier for conciliation commissioners to do the job they now do. [More…]
lt is a notorious fact that conciliators who have no arbitrary powers under the present Act find themselves with less machinery or with fewer weapons with which to do the job they are required to do, than has a conciliation commissioner. [More…]
If you accept the principle of having compulsory conferences and giving to a conciliation commissioner the power to call a compulsory conference, surely we must give the commissioner the right to say: ‘I want such and such an organisation here or the representative who has been intimately concerned with this matter and I want Mr So-and-so who is the president or the secretary of a particular union.’ [More…]
any of the terms is a term that the Commission does not have power to include in an award; or [More…]
Dunphy and Mr Justice Morgan, with the Chief Justice dissenting, that a rule of the union that gives a union executive power to expel a member for misconduct, when the executive is merely of the opinion that the person is guilty of misconduct, is an invalid rule because it is too vague, imprecise and uncertain as to its meaning, and therefore must be struck down and removed from the union rule book. [More…]
Any of the terms is a term that the Commission does not have power to include in an award. [More…]
This proposed new section enables the Government to bring about its wage freezing policy, because it provides that the power of the Commission to make an award or to certify an agreement for, or altering, the standard hours of work, minimum wages, female rates or annual leave is exercisable only by a full bench, during which proceedings the Commonwealth itself can intervene to put its case for wage freezing. [More…]
The fundamental problem with arbitration today is that we have no power to legislate. [More…]
The power of the Commission to make an award, or to certify, under section twentyeight of this Act, an agreement - [More…]
I should point out that there is not much point in giving the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission the power to certify an agreement which contains matters that could not be included in an award because this is beyond its constitutional power. [More…]
The aim of certifying an agreement is to give it the power of an award and if the agreement contains things which could not be included in an award constitutionally, the award obviously could not stand up to challenge. [More…]
A group of people can define what is in the economic interests of some of the employers, what is in the economic interests of some of the employees, or what is in the political interests of the party which happens to have power or those parties which happen to be able to exert the maximum political pressure- not necessarily those parties which govern. [More…]
it will be seen that it refers to the giving of power to a conciliation commissioner to refuse to certify a memorandum that has been reached by agreement between the parties where the parties have struck a bargain and are prepared to put the terms into a memorandum. [More…]
This provision will give power to a commissioner to refuse to certify the memorandum if he considers it is not in the public interest. [More…]
It seems to me to be a bizarre situation when a commissioner may say that in the public interest he will not do something and then to let someone say ‘I will appeal against that decision’ and then to give somebody else power to ask ‘well, is it sufficiently in the public interest that in the first place the public interest was or was not involved or that that interest was not sufficiently public or not of sufficient interest to the public that an appeal should lie? [More…]
But on the performance of the Government, if of course the public continues to tolerate it and leave it in power, this Government will again legislate to change the situation to suit that of the employers at any particular point of time. [More…]
The public interest is in effect a sectional interest decided on by who is in power. [More…]
The power under section 36 (1.) [More…]
The Full Bench shall have power to determine that a matter dealt with under section 28 of this Act is a matter exercisable by a Full Bench and not otherwise. [More…]
Anyone who listened last night to what the honourable member for Lalor (Dr J. F. Cairns) said the Labor Party, if it ever gets into power, will do in the public interest, and considers that in association with what the Labor Party regards as being in the public interest, would say that it gives the public and the workers of this country room for a great deal of thought. [More…]
A challenge was taken to the High Court and later to the Privy Council as to whether those governments had the power to pass the legislation. [More…]
I suggest to our friends opposite that public interest really depends on what government is in power and what judge or conciliation commissioner happens to be on the bench and what his leanings are. [More…]
I rise at this stage to refer to questions raised by the honourable member for Moreton (Mr Killen) and the honourable member for La Trobe (Mr Jess) who in their inimitable way have in a most forthright and vigorous fashion looked at .he question of giving the Commonwealth power to seek a review of conciliated awards. [More…]
What we would have seen, had the Commonwealth proceeded with that proposal, would have been parties negotiating fur more agreements outside the system without the Commonwealth having any power whatsoever to affect the matters which would be the subject of such agreements. [More…]
The Committee will be aware that part of the proposals in relation to the Bill includethe opportunities for parties who are respondents to the original award and who may not be involved in a wage negotiation which affects that award but who, because of their respondency to the original award to be affected, have the right to appeal to the Commission against that award and secondly on the question of public interest the Commission has power to certify that the matter is not contrary to the public interest. [More…]
The proposed new sections 32, 33, 34 and 35 give the Commission power to include in an award a bans clause or a clause relating to procedures for the settlement of disputes. [More…]
In those awards which contain clauses providing that it shall be an offence upon each individual worker to cease work, the issue of a prosecution certificate will give to the Industrial Court power to impose upon individual workers a maximum penalty of $1,000. [More…]
Where the provisions of an award treat each day of a dispute as a separate offence the court will have power to impose a maximum penalty of $500 a day upon each employee. [More…]
He was responsible for the Menzies Government being returned to power. [More…]
So, one wlD see that even up until that stage - 1951 - the Court obtained its power to punish strikes through its contempt powers and not from any other specific powers. [More…]
Later, as everyone knows, section 111 was added which gave the previous power to fine organisations $1,000 for failing to comply with an order of the Court. [More…]
Quite plainly, Dr Evatt did not put into the Act the specific power of the Court to impose strike penalties. [More…]
It is true, as we have heard tonight, that the Commission has power to include in its awards a ban on strikes. [More…]
The laws of the land relating to the settlement of disputes are much more easily applied by the State to individuals than to powerful organisations such as trade unions. [More…]
The State, in attempting to exercise compulsion over trade unions, is dealing with a powerful section of the community. [More…]
What a wonderful power lies in his hands. [More…]
It lies there not because he is so powerful but because not one honourable member opposite has one inch of grit, stomach, guts or self reliance. [More…]
Will the Attorney-General do everything in his power to ensure that the Commonwealth is represented at any future meetings and at any convention. [More…]
The cost of extending a radio telephone service beyond the15 miles radius depends on such factors as whether power is available, the type of country involved, the type of towers required, and the need or otherwise for repeater equipment. [More…]
Whilst they operate unmanned, maintenance is costly, and the provision of power is often more than a small problem. [More…]
In other words, the purchasing power is lost, to a large extent, in those areas. [More…]
In other words, if the purchasing power drops, obviously the spending power at the other end of the scale also drops. [More…]
J think that it poses some philosophical problems for all parties in a mixed economy, which means that there is some degree of private enterprise in industry and commerce and also a fair degree of public enterprise in such fields as railways and other forms of public transport, power and road making. [More…]
Disgraceful black power salute - [More…]
I venture to suggest that had the Labor Party been in power we would not have had the advantages that have accrued from the Government’s policy, though possibly we would not have the lengthy delay that exists at the moment. [More…]
But I have also been told by people in the field who know this subject that much more effective use could be made of the manpower and everything else that is available to us - 1 refer to the technicians and the materials that are available - if there were no limitation on finance. [More…]
I would like an explanation from the Minister for Education and Science (Mr Malcolm Fraser) why such a powerful recommendation, that there should be reports to the Minister on all matters relating to marine science and in particular the establishment of additional institutes, has been ignored. [More…]
Institute of Marine Science would have no power to investigate that problem if the State Government referred the problem to it. [More…]
In the case of a federal state, where for domestic purposes supreme legislative and executive power is divided between the federation and its component states or provinces, the question frequently arises whether the control of off-shore resources is exercisable, as a matter of internal constitutional law, by the federation itself, or by its component states or provinces, or is shared between both. [More…]
One of those bodies cannot give power to another which it does not have. [More…]
Let us assume, just for the sake of argument, that the States do have that power over the territorial sea and the continental shelf which they claim. [More…]
No matter who had the powers eventually over this area of water and sea, the Institute of Marine Science ought to be established, and I am sure that when members of the Opposition put their minds to this they will agree that that is so. [More…]
Unless the Commonwealth assumes its powers over the territorial sea, I do not know whether it will have any power to legislate to protect the Institute against these toxic effects, if these toxic effects are in fact present in the nickel refinery. [More…]
Is the Treasurer aware of any suggestion that sectional vested interests, purely on the basis of their industrial power, should be given representation on the boards of government and semi-government bodies and the boards of private companies and firms? [More…]
The Government identifies as the major cause of inflationary pressures excess wage increases, and it says that these are being won by a quite ruthless use of industrial power. [More…]
When that industrial power is used it leaves a legacy of difficulty for everybody else in the community, except those possessed of industrial power. [More…]
Senate, Senator Murphy, Q.C., had made it clear to our committee that there was no constitutional power- [More…]
I did not know that the Leader of the Opposition had offered his opinion on the constitutional power to the Launceston conference. [More…]
As far as the constitutional power is concerned, I would like to see the written advice of the Leader of the Opposition on the constitutional issue saying that the Labor Party does not have power mandatorily to require adequate representation of the trade unions in the management of such area as broadcasting and television, insurance and banking in which there is undoubted Commonwealth power to legislate. [More…]
had made it clear to the committee recommending the proposal that there was no constitutional power to bring in such legislation as was passed in West Germany by the Christian Democrat Government there, 20 years ago or thereabouts [More…]
Caucus has power to do that. [More…]
I would have thought that the Bill should have made the declaration that, for example, the title to the territorial seas be vested in the Commonwealth so that automatically the Commonwealth would have the power to go ahead and make laws with respect to these resources. [More…]
Because the Commonwealth had this power it would also mean that there would be some sections in the Act relating to penalties. [More…]
In passing, I observe that this is a singular limitation and if ever I were in a position to argue a case for altering our Constitution to give to the High Court power to give advisory opinions I should certainly do sp. [More…]
It is estimated that in the Pacific Ocean there are 17 times 10 to the 11th power tons of minerals. [More…]
Have those boats any power to come within Commonwealth waters? [More…]
It has been pointed out that the capacity to exploit the mineral resources and other natural resources of the seabed and the sub-soil is expanding and as technology extends the Governor-General under this legislation will have power to make by proclamation such extensions of the boundary as may seem fit to the government of the day. [More…]
This Bill, if it is valid as an exercise of Commonwealth legislative power, takes nothing from the States that they or any one of them had beforehand. [More…]
If it is invalid as an exercise of Commonwealth legislative power, ex hypothesi it takes nothing from the States. [More…]
There are cases in which there is no doubt as to the existence of concurrent legislative power with respect to a particular subject matter; that is to say, power resides concurrently in both the Commonwealth and the States. [More…]
In such cases, of course, the Commonwealth power will have ultimate effect in the case of an inconsistency because of section 109 of the Constitution. [More…]
But in such cases the Commonwealth, despite the fact that its concurrent power may be made to cover the field, may not wish to do so for perfectly proper reasons. [More…]
The existence of concurrent power does not in all cases compel its exercise so that the Commonwealth legislative Act will operate exclusively. [More…]
Here the nation is confronted with a question as to where the relevant legislative power resides. [More…]
Having regard to the vastly increased and rapidly increasing importance of our off-shore areas - an importance that derives in part from advanced developments in science and technology and in part from an enlarged public awareness of and concern with the need to preserve our marine ecology and our environmental resources from pollution of various kinds - this question as to the distribution of power as between Commonwealth and States is one that simply cries out for solution. [More…]
It is a principle that I would define by saying that it is the prime duty of a federal government, of a federal parliament, to explore by all legitimate constitutional methods the boundaries of federal power with a view to acting within the limits established by dint of the exploratory process and with a view, of course, to acting within those limits in what both the Government and the Parliament conceive to be the national interest. [More…]
When I decided, as it happened because I was Attorney-General, on my own initiative but with support from my Prime Minister, to endeavour to explore the limits of the Commonwealth’s corporations power, that was the principle that I was trying to serve. [More…]
The attempt may not have been agreeable to all manner of people but I do not repent of having made it, because it has at least contributed to an enlarged understanding of the limits of Commonwealth power. [More…]
I am bound to say, however, that I would feel more comfortable in my mind if the negotiations were taking place against a background in which Commonwealth constitutional power, or lack of it, had been definitively established by the High Court. [More…]
There is room for negotiation after sovereignty has been established, just as there was room for negotiation and agreement over the question of the treatment of Aboriginals after the Commonwealth received sovereign power over Aboriginals in Australia. [More…]
The ultimate purpose of myself is to see that this LiberalCountry Party Government remains in power. [More…]
In this attitude he was supported by the Solicitor-General of New South Wales who sought leave to intervene in the proceedings merely to agree with the submission of the Attorney-General that it was unnecessary in that case to decide the inner boundary of Australian waters to which constitutional power extended or the available inner limits fixed by proclamation. [More…]
The titles are, of course, valid and sound, but they are so because the States and the Commonwealth have combined to place behind them their power in concert. [More…]
Bill was not desirable and urgent; that in any way we questioned its intentions; that we would in any way promote or, insofar as it lay in our power, tolerate any challenge to the principles of this Bill. [More…]
The Opposition is committed to utilising to the maximum extent possible Commonwealth powers to prohibit advertising of cigarette and tobacco products in all forms. [More…]
To this extent it would use all those sorts of powers which might be available to it, whether they exist exclusively In Commonwealth territories, apart from the Commonwealth’s power under the Broadcasting and Television Act, or whether they exist in the Commonwealth’s power in the territories to regulate things such as newspapers. [More…]
In a different field we also have such a power and we already use it freely. [More…]
The Director-General of Health already has the power, which he freely uses, to ban or control the radio and television advertising of preparations whose promotion he believes would be injurious to public health, although the actual sale of these preparations remains perfectly legal. [More…]
The one to which I attach most importance is that the Director-General of Health already has the power, which he freely uses, to ban or control radio and television advertising of preparations whose promotion he believes would be injurious to public health, although the actual sale of these preparations remains legal. [More…]
This can be predicted in Australia, particularly since the Commonwealth Government has no power of control over newspaper, magazine or other printed advertising, including outdoor hoardings. [More…]
Czechoslovak enterprises have already indicated to the Government their particular interest in co-operation and trade with Australian firms in power generating stations and equipment, textile machinery and non-ferrous metals. [More…]
It could be that some of the countries which are involved in disputes around the world are merely pawns in a power game which is being played by some of the greater powers. [More…]
If Australia were threatened in the future and if, by some mischance, a Labor government happened to be in power, I am quite sure that it would turn to the United States for assistance, just as it did, and rightly so, during the last war. [More…]
The honourable member for Henty (Mr Fox) who has just spoken in this debate made the point that the world was divided between the communist powers and the democracies. [More…]
Pakistan is neither a democracy nor a communist power. [More…]
We have close relationships with Indonesia, which is neither a democracy nor a communist power. [More…]
If one surveys right around the world, from Brazil in Latin America and to many Asian countries, the honourable member’s simple division of the world into democracies and communist powers will be seen not to be valid. [More…]
The foreign policy of a nation tends to be an insurance against the power which can destroy that nation. [More…]
The Minister for Foreign Affairs in his speech referred to the five Power Defence Arrangements. [More…]
Malaysia does regard the Five’ Power Defence Arrangements as temporary, Singapore would not be overly concerned if our forces were withdrawn, and Indonesia does not care one way or the other whether our forces remain there or not. [More…]
Honourable members may also be interested to know that a leading member of the governing party in the Malaysian Parliament, Mr Musa Hitam, in a speech earlier this year in the Malaysian Parliament, fully agreed with the statements that I have made on the Five Power Defence Arrangements. [More…]
When the Labor Government went out of power, after the Labor Party had actively supported Indonesian nationalists in Indonesia, the Government immediately turned and supported the Dutch colonialists. [More…]
One would only wish that the Labor Party had been in power when the Vietnam question came upwhen this Government was supporting the French before Dien Bien Phu. [More…]
I was very disappointed to hear the honourable member for St George downgrade the Five Power defence arrangements that apply with respect to Singapore and Malaysia. [More…]
It was very disappointing to hear him endorse, with approval, statements by an American academic that the Five Power defence arrangements were meaningless and farcical. [More…]
I suggest that this is the type of attitude that is now reflected in the Five-Power Defence Arrangement and it is perhaps a pity that it was not seen and recognised earlier in the case of Vietnam. [More…]
Again, this is perhaps a long way from achievement, but it should be recognised that many countries in the region recognise that the Indian Ocean can become a competing playground for big power involvement and that countries in the region are not happy about it. [More…]
The new thinking in Asian countries amounts to a questioning or in some cases a rejection of the belief that the security of individual nations can be protected and national interests promoted on the basis of alignment with great powers and the cold war style of confrontation and containment of communism. [More…]
In a sense the 2 major super powers themselves have been responsible for stimulating the new thinking in international relations. [More…]
Both the Soviet Union and the United States have for some years been searching for ways of reducing the tensions between them, particularly those tensions that have buttressed the super power confrontation and have from time to time erupted into serious disputes that exposed the danger of nuclear war. [More…]
At the same time, the belief is that good prospects exist for a new, stable balance in international relations, offering in the form of interlocking relationships, perhaps with super-power guarantees, an alternative to heavy defence expenditure as a measure to a better and more realistic security, and a future basis for disarmament and arms control. [More…]
The advent of the cold war, and the aggressive style of the leadership of President Sukarno in Indonesia stimulated the fear that Australia might at any time be invaded by an aggressive Asian power from the north. [More…]
The British influence in Indonesia, in the recent happenings in Bangladesh and in Malaysia - the British contribution there as part of the Five Power treaty that has been mentioned on several occasions is not insignificant. [More…]
It means, of course, despite our general inability to see it, a great advance in Communist power. [More…]
We have seen what the Opposition would do to the five-power defensive arrangement between Malaysia, Singapore, New Zealand, Australia and the United Kingdom. [More…]
I refer, for example, to the power to require appearance and the production of documents. [More…]
This power may be exercised by the chairman or a member of the Committee. [More…]
It may be that the very next day the Committee could be inspecting a beef road, a power station in the Northern Territory or perhaps a residential college for Aboriginals in the Northern Territory. [More…]
This Bill gives the Government power to add 2 members to the Tariff Board for one main reason, that is, to speed up the process of review of those areas of the tariff which have not been explored for some years. [More…]
It is there that the impact of industrialisation, land filling, tourist development, power generation and other activities of man is greatest. [More…]
The Government has been in power for 23 years and has taken no action whatever on decentralisation. [More…]
Because of its taxation powers and because of the recent High Court decision in the concrete pipes case, the Commonwealth has a large amount of power to ensure that industry acts in the overall social interest. [More…]
All things by immortal power Near or Far Hiddenly To each other linked are That thou canst not stir a flower Without troubling of a star.’ [More…]
Combat concentrations of buying power and negotiate with shipping companies. [More…]
I refer to the atmospheric testing of nuclear devices in the Pacific by a power that will not test them near its own shores and contaminate its people. [More…]
When I made reference to Mr Speaker Rosevear, I was referring, of course, to a distinguished former Speaker of the House of Representatives who was in the chair of this House at the time when the last Labor Government was in power. [More…]
Under the existing legislation the Minister’s power to determine otherwise is limited to determining that, in the particular circumstances of a case, no payment need be made. [More…]
Under the terms of the Washington Treaty the United Kingdom held the preponderance of naval power on behalf of what was then called the Empire. [More…]
I point out to him that the civil aviation policy of the Labor Party, which the honourable member so conveniently omitted to detail, provides that we will examine the detrimental effects of rationalisation on the operations of TAA and on the travelling public and on the development of Australia; that we will support the policy of government business being carried by government-owned airways, and that a referendum seeking power for the Commonwealth Parliament to make laws with respect to aviation will be conducted. [More…]
We will do all in our power to achieve this but we will do it consistently with the national interest, which must be of paramount importance. [More…]
Our Government has neither the power nor the right to suggest alterations of the legislation of other countries in order to allow the payment of overseas pensions. [More…]
The examination also disclosed that the rules of The Australian Institute of Marine and Power Engineers provide, in relation to the qualifications and election of Federal Secretary and Branch Secretary, that ‘AH aplications shall be submitted to Committee of Management for approval of qualifications before a ballot for the office is held’. [More…]
The examination has also disclosed that the rules of The Australian Institute of Marine and Power Engineers provide, in relation to qualifications and election of Federal Secretary and Branch Secretary, that he ‘shall have been a financial member of the Institute for the preceding 5 years’. [More…]
However after the report had been completed in December 1971, it was noticed that “The Countryman’ for 6th January 1972 reported that an improvement in both power output and economy was obtained with a 10 per cent alcohol-petrol blend. [More…]
The fact is that power over the economy really rests here in the national Government and the national parliament in Canberra. [More…]
I also repeat the pledge that the Government will do everything within its power to maintain an expanding industrial ingredient in the economy and to continue its record of encouraging the development and profitability of Australian industries. [More…]
State and local government authorities wanted to safeguard the capital spent on streets, water supplies, schools, medical services, stores and power reticulation and to protect the homes of the people. [More…]
In other words, there is one law for those who have very little to live on, whether they be public servants or others, and there is another law for those who have the influence, the power and the money to carry on and make ends meet. [More…]
Has the Commonwealth sought an opinion on whether the Parliament has the power to pass legislation to provide that voluntary industrial agreements shall be enforceable under the Commonwealth Conciliation and Arbitration Act. [More…]
Has the Minister power to cancel out, in the public interest, a decision of the Australian National Line to increase freight rates? [More…]
Subsequently a pretence was made to the public in a series of utterances that what had been discovered was that the Commonwealth Government jacked legal power to cope with squatters on public parks. [More…]
When the case was before Mr Justice Fox, he pointed out that the Commonwealth had at all times had power oh an application to the court to remove the tent and that the Commissioner of Police and the Minister admitted that the Commonwealth had this power. [More…]
We now have a situation in which the Minister may empower an officer and that officer by instrument in writing can declare that an area comes within the scope of the regulations. [More…]
It is just this exchange of defined power to one exercised from an instrument in writing which gives force and possible objectionable character to the regulations about which people may not know. [More…]
Erroneous statements were given out from the Government to justify the promulgation of this ordinance to the effect that the Commonwealth lacked the power to prevent trespass. [More…]
What transpired was a deliberate evasion of the Parliament and the Minister’s counsel was unable to deny the point made by the judge in the court case that existing power was adequate for the Government if they went through the proper judicial process. [More…]
I do not agree with the utterances of Black Power people. [More…]
Many demonstrators were not associated with Black Power but were Aboriginal or partAboriginal persons genuinely concerned for their people. [More…]
York negro Black Power. [More…]
When the demonstrators arrived marching, there was then a strong element of what I suppose loosely could be called black power people. [More…]
The second point that I wish to make is that if he looks carefully at what I said he will find that I said that this was a problem that had to be solved on a Commonwealth-State relationship basis, because I believed that there were some powers that could be exercised by the States more effectively than they could be exercised by the Commonwealth but that the States had to be given the effective power in order to do so. [More…]
The honourable member is correct in questioning whether there has been a transfer of power in this area. [More…]
The power, as it is exercised and has been for some years, is that application is made to the Papua New Guinea Government by persons who may come from another country. [More…]
If an application is rejected, it is rejected by that Government and not by the Australian Government and, after all, this is a decision that should reside within the power of the Papua New Guinea Government. [More…]
Therefore, what has been said in this debate is that the Opposition has no power of its own in this Parliament to put out to the people of this country an industrial relations policy which is worthy of an Opposition. [More…]
At times the repercussive effects are considerable, particularly in the case of strikes in essential industries such as power and oil. [More…]
For this some share of the blame must be placed, as I said earlier, on the severe industrial unrest - especially the major disruptions caused by the State Electricity Commission power dispute and, of course, the recent dispute in the oil industry. [More…]
They want to manipulate disruption so as to gain power. [More…]
The greater the horse power of the tractors produced the larger was the bounty paid by the Government. [More…]
For instance, on a 40-horse-power tractor the bounty payable was $600; on a 50-horse-power tractor it was $640; on a 70-horse-power tractor it was $720; on a 80-horse-power tractor it was $760; and on a 90-horse-power tractor it was $800. [More…]
The horse powers referred to are belt power take off horse power. [More…]
asked the Postmaster-General, upon notice: (0 What will be the power of the proposed television station to serve Southern Cross, Western Australia. [More…]
To what extent would the power of the station need to be increased to extend the service to Koolyanobbing. [More…]
What would be the approximate cost of increasingthe power to that extent. [More…]
Would there be any significant delay in the establishment of the station at Southern Cross if it was decided to increase the power. [More…]
The effective radiated power of the proposed station in the direction of Southern Cross will be lkW (1,000 watts). [More…]
However, sufficient power will be radiated towards Koolyanobbing (22 miles distant) to permit the operation of a translator or community aerial system from the hill above this town. [More…]
At least 10 times and possibly 20 times the proposed power. [More…]
In view of Professor Philip Baxter’s recent categorisation of parliamentarians as scientifically illiterate, will the Minister recognise that this dangerous exercise of political power will prevent the free flow of scientific information and ideas, and will he have this obnoxious directive withdrawn forthwith? [More…]
It is, I suppose, an inevitable trend that in international matters the Executive has to take more and more power and that legislators then have the sole function of ratifying what Ministers have done at these international conferences. [More…]
First of all, we have the large commercial interests or groups on one side forming an area of great power which they are able to use in negotiations. [More…]
On the other side we have a great power - the massive union organisation or worker operations. [More…]
The Government has the power and the means and it should have the enterprise to overcome this situation. [More…]
I appreciate the fact that the Minister for Shipping and Transport has been good enough to come into the House, but I can only emphasise again that unless some assistance is given to Tasmania in its only means of contact with the rest of Australia, the State will continue to stagnate irrespective of what Government is in power at both Commonwealth and State level. [More…]
The Minister from his own observations now realises that something has to be done in regard to the ABC because he has found that the ABC has delegated some of its autonomous power not only to its executive officers but also to its employees who conduct interviews and appear on current affairs programmes. [More…]
The government recently returned to power there is led by a Party that was able to achieve only about 20 per cent of the vote but a total of 26 seats in the Parliament. [More…]
The Opposition hopes, however, that the Minister is giving active consideration to the removal from the Papua New Guinea Act of those sections of the Act which give the power of veto or reservation to the Administrator and to the Minister in Canberra. [More…]
I know that all the members of the House do not feel the same way as I do about this matter but I believe that the only way the people of Papua New Guinea will control the development of their country is by the expansion of parliamentary control over the executive and legislative power of the nation. [More…]
Having put that to the honourable member I say that it has been a view consistently stated by me that in regard to any functions prior to the attainment of self government and in regard to all functions still held by the Australian Government prior to the attainment of independence, I would seek the opinion of the Government of Papua New Guinea before exercising the power that was still residing with me. [More…]
In other words, in the areas of residual power I would seek the views of the Government of Papua New Guinea. [More…]
In regard to the question of the police force which was raised by the honourable member for Fremantle, this, of course, is also a basic power of government. [More…]
There will be a government coming into power in Papua New Guinea very inexperienced in the business field. [More…]
My comment on the field of education which we have just been discussing is that the whole of the scholarship system, which is a powerful determinant of economic assistance - unfortunately to those who need it least - is geared to the intellectual and verbal skills, and a child who does not possess verbal skills will appear to be unintelligent when intrinsically he is not unin telligent. [More…]
It stays the same in purchasing power, mostly, if it rises. [More…]
An increase in the value of the at home rate from $700 to $800 is simply standing still in relation to the purchasing power of money. [More…]
The Commonwealth has a direct educational power in benefits to students. [More…]
When grants are made to Aborigines to assist them with their education, this is done under the Commonwealth power of benefits to students but, after all, what is the reason for this special assistance to an Aborigine to receive an education? [More…]
Having regard to the small proportion of the market held by local producers and to the impact of the tariff on users costs, the Board proposed that: o certain power fed machines should in addition to tariff assistance receive assistance by county; o certain special purpose machines subject to minimum rates of duty should receive assist- ance by bounty; and o the majority of the remaining machines under reference which are subject to protective duties should continue to receive tariff assistance. [More…]
In accordance with this advice the Minister said the Government would provide bounty assistance of 33 and 1/3 per cent of the factory cost on a specified range of drilling machines, grinding machines, lathes and special purpose machines incorporating power feeds and numerically controlled machining centres. [More…]
This raises the questions of the Navy’s review of its air power needs and the future of the fleet air arm which I will refer to when discussing the DDL project. [More…]
A study of Navy air power is being made at the moment to determine the future of air capability once the ‘Melbourne’ finishes its effective life. [More…]
He said when speaking of the Labor Party’s proposal for the Osa and Komar type vessels that one could not really think we would then have anything with adequate sea-keeping capability or effective strike power or endurance. [More…]
It means that the Soviet Navy has developed a vessel which does all of the things that our DDLs will do, but the Soviet vessel does them using less manpower. [More…]
Although it is of a smaller size it has the same strike power as the DDL. [More…]
We would have adequate strike power. [More…]
What it really means is: ‘Big powers keep out’. [More…]
First of all he learned the correctness of the very thing on which I was pilloried by the Minister for Defence and by the Government, that Malaysia regards the five power defence arrangements as temporary and transitional. [More…]
Russia is concerned about the strategic power of the American ballistic missile submarines, and Russia’s operations in the Arabian Sea seem to be directed almost entirely at defensive measures. [More…]
We must make decisions on the future of our naval air power. [More…]
I think that when we look at the facts of life as they apply we realise that we can do very little about the Russian presence in the Indian Ocean because the Russians aspire, as the British did in their day and as other nations did in .their day, to be a world maritime power. [More…]
The Commonwealth has power over hanking and credit and power over income tax. [More…]
If so, does the Commonwealth have the constitutional and legal power to take appropriate action? [More…]
This was the time to put purchasing power in the hands of Australian families by restoring the value of child endowment or introducing family endowment. [More…]
The second is the power base. [More…]
The power base of the Australian Labor Party resides in the trade unions and the trade unions tell the parliamentary Labor Party what policies it can have. [More…]
With our diversified industrial base our powerful and diverse banking and financial systems our significance to the Western and other economies is growing dramatically. [More…]
We have the resources and the power to become a very great nation - let us say one of the top dozen - and by striving we can obtain greater independence economically, socially and in other ways. [More…]
One is the ecological studies that were undertaken at Jervis Bay at the site for the proposed nuclear power station. [More…]
These studies were undertaken to an extent to which they had not been undertaken anywhere in the world where a site was being considered for a nuclear power station. [More…]
Does the judgment give us any hope that other sections of the Australian community will be protected from similar vicious actions by overweening union power? [More…]
If the Government is planning to settle industrial disputes by forcing the bg battalions simply to bash it out against the employers - tearing down private property, resorting to arson, destruction, physical violence and revolution then I can only say they have forgotten that the French Revolution, the American Revolution and the Russian Revolution started because a few people in seats of power did not realise that right under their noses a revolution was erupting and could not see that when people were crying out for bread they could not be satisfied by being given cake when there was no cake to give them. [More…]
These changes will have no effect on the Minister’s power to direct that no subsidy be paid where fertiliser selling prices do not pass on the full benefit of the subsidy. [More…]
Consequently, those who must suffer are not the Ministers, not those people in power in this place, but the ordinary private member who constantly sees whittled away in this Parliament every right that he has and which he has fought for over the years. [More…]
This Budget is a phoney, lt was introduced by a union-hating and a union-baiting Government which has exhausted all the possibilities of political misfeasance which has over the years successfully returned it to power. [More…]
I repeat, Labor will really preserve the purchasing power of the Australian dollar. [More…]
Our broad prospect now is surely that of a flourishing dynamic economic power bound to grow increasingly important and influential in this sector of the world. [More…]
Part of this picture should be the growth of a powerful and influential money and investment market in close touch with countries of South East Asia and the financial centres of the United States, Japan and Europe. [More…]
It should be one of our objectives now to develop powerfully our own international finance industry. [More…]
This kind of market, underpinned by the Australian economy, should greatly increase the power and influence of Australia. [More…]
There was no way in the world of getting her a house on something like one-fifth of the take home pay of her husband, which used to be the ideal in the immediate post-war years when Labor governments were in power in at least New South Wales and the Commonwealth sphere. [More…]
Then there has been the frustration of unfair tax burdens on the middle and lower income groups as well as the fear of exploitation by power groups in both capital and labour or by foreign interests. [More…]
The Government is not prepared to see a separate race within a race developed in Australia, with an embassy from the Aborigines to the Government of Australia as though they were a foreign power. [More…]
So far, I have not even mentioned the trade union power base. [More…]
A student of the statements and actions of the ruling elite for Labor’s tomorrow can but tremble at the thought of power in the hands of men who, like Lenin, see little value in the decisions of this bourgeois Parliament. [More…]
The Communist Party is using these vigilantes just as Hitler used storm troopers to gain power. [More…]
They will have to choose whether they are prepared to discard the certainties and realities of Government achievement through parliamentary change for the superficial, slogan-ridden propaganda of the socialists, and underlying them the unreachable power of the union bosses. [More…]
A single pensioner is to receive an extra $91 a year, not in buying power but in inflated money. [More…]
But I would remind the honourable member for La Trobe that when he first came to power the former Prime Minister, John Gorton, made the famous statement: We are all Socialists now’. [More…]
The inequalities of power are very evident in the different administrations of the parties that sit on the opposite sides of this Parliament. [More…]
On the other side of the Parliament are the power drunk leaders who kick upstairs or downstairs at will anybody on their front bench. [More…]
The Australian Labor Party has a democratic and open method of deciding policy that is not recognised by the power drunk leaders on the other side of the House. [More…]
Our assets would not be sold out in the vain hope that the great and powerful friends to whom we sell them so cheaply will be here to protect us from the red hordes or the yellow hordes coming down from the north. [More…]
There are better ways to protect Australia’s assets than to sell them cheaply to our great and powerful friends. [More…]
What is really required for the area is a station of sufficient power as will provide a satisfactory reception over a distance of some 60 to 70 miles. [More…]
Tn support of our argument for the establishment of a high powered station I wish to point out that Esperance is a growing district both in population and production. [More…]
The station at Norseman is also of very low power. [More…]
So if the Government persists with its decision to set up only a low-powered station at Esperance also, it will mean that the people resident beyond a few miles from both Norseman and Esperance will be in no man’s land with no prospect of receiving a television service for many years to come. [More…]
What is the proposed or actual power of each of the television stations in the 7th stage of television development? [More…]
What approximate population would receive a satisfactory reception if each station was of high rather than low power? [More…]
But I feel impelled to speak tonight because of the systematic attempt that seems to be made for what I could not call anything else but grandstanding on the part of the Australian Country Party in order to raise what must be at any stage a very significant matter, and that is the exchange rate of one’s own country or, if you like, the purchasing power of one’s own currency relative to that of other countries. [More…]
The capacity of the Australian tourist industry to compete with the tourist industries of other countries would be diminished because the purchasing power of the currencies of the potential tourists’ countries would be less in relation to our dollar. [More…]
Mr Speaker may well decide that, on that particular day, he ought not to take the chair at all, and while I would honour his judgment in that matter 1 would reject any claim that he had that power. [More…]
If we have an attitude of blackmail, which today seems to be prevalent in Australia, with great favour shown in the negotiated agreements which are approved by honourable members opposite, 2 great power groups - the people who control our large industries and our large industrial unions - can come to an agreement to suit themselves their attitude being: ‘Hang the rest of the community who have to pick up the tab’. [More…]
Recently I mentioned the power dispute in the Latrobe Valley of Victoria where, as a result of strikes, $24m was lost in wages. [More…]
These great power groups - I refer not only to the unions but also to large industrial organisations - for the sake of peace make agreements. [More…]
Lance Sharkey, the then National Secretary of the Communist Party, in his book ‘The Trade Unions’, made it clear that the purpose is not primarily to bring about economies of scale and an increase of power in industrial relations, but rather to increase the political power of unions as revolutionary weapons - an objective which ought to be alien to trade unionism and which is essentially political and subversive in character. [More…]
But what will happen if the people on the other side of the House come into power? [More…]
It points out that productivity - in other words, production per person - is important because our standards of living depend upon it; that only by raising productivity can the purchasing power of pay envelopes be increased, and that productivity is not rising rapidly enough compared with the growth of money incomes in Australia. [More…]
In order to receive the same monetary value in purchasing power today a family of that size should receive $17.60, but it receives only $8.25. [More…]
The Australian Labor Party also will take other necessary measures to deal effectively with the great concentration of foreign and local monopolistic power which exist in Australia and to eliminate trade practices which restrict competition and produce inefficiency and inflation. [More…]
This follows the practice which has always obtained in the time of our government, that the pension should rise quicker than prices, so that the real value of the pension - its purchasing power - continually increases. [More…]
It will be given powers of acquisition should it require to use them. [More…]
The Commonwealth has no power at all to act on its own in this matter. [More…]
Admittedly, they form a very small section of our community with little voting power, and apparently are accordingly ignored by the Government in this election year. [More…]
Other vital issues which this Government has neglected in the Budget are the need for Federal assistance for local government finance, including sewerage; the need for Commonwealth assistance to tackle the problem of spiralling land costs which are pricing homes out of the reach of young couples; the need for a prices justification tribunal to require price increases of basic commodities to be justified - a proposal which the Commonwealth has full power to implement; the need to put teeth in the Restrictive Trade Practices Act and to take cognisance of the Bannerman criticisms; the need to bring fringe merchant banking under the umbrella of conventional banking controls - once again the Commonwealth has full powers to do this; and the need to introduce effective control over the introduction of foreign investment into Australia, laying down firm guidelines as to what investment is good for this country and should be allowed in and what is bad and should be kept out. [More…]
Again the Government has full power to control foreign investment. [More…]
The security of the world is no longer in the hands of 2 superpowers conducting a cold war, we being a satellite of one of them. [More…]
There are now in existence or emerging 5 super-powers, and we have to decide how to navigate in these difficult waters. [More…]
Unless we are blind we can see that local military power is still important. [More…]
In the Middle East it was the military power of Israel which determined the outcome. [More…]
In other words, local power is still immensely important. [More…]
That increased purchasing power may be injected by various means. [More…]
I do not have time to go into this matter in detail, beyond saying that the Government is performing this balancing act by what I believe is the best method; that is, by putting purchasing power into the pockets of the people to serve their satisfaction and to promote employment. [More…]
It has said: ‘We must have a situation where ever more powerful unions use ever greater blackmail to achieve their purposes’. [More…]
It is a reversion to the good old rule, the simple plan, that he may take who has the power and he may keep who can. [More…]
Secondly, neither the Labor Party nor any member of it is free to speak on economic matters because the Party is dominated by the interests of its trade union power base and is controlled by the Federal Executive. [More…]
He said that the pension increases simply return pensioners to the position they were at before inflation eroded the purchasing power of their pension. [More…]
Mr Bunting said in his reply that if the pension proposal were adopted, Parliament would no longer have the power to determine the amount of revenue to be allocated for social services, but it would still be responsible for raising that revenue by taxation. [More…]
The Sydney ‘Sun’ headline was ‘Black Power Win at Games’. [More…]
The question we must ask ourselves today is: Would a future Labor Prime Minister be in a position to bring out the troops if our nation were being brought to its knees through lack of power? [More…]
Communist union leaders made the following public statement several years ago in reference to Yallourn power: [More…]
When we get control of these unions we will have real power in our hands. [More…]
It does not see that the possession and use of industrial power by waterside workers, seamen or power workers is the way to improve their position at the expense of increased prices for the rest of the community. [More…]
Let me give a few illustrations of the manner in which the purchasing power of money has been eroded. [More…]
The Commonwealth’s power to deal with industrial matters derives from the Constitution 70 years old. [More…]
It works this way: When you are in the States you can abuse the Constitution and ignore the Commonwealth’s power. [More…]
There they can observe people who are creating enormous economic power throughout Asia on a basis such as never would have been compared 10, 15 or 20 years ago with the basis in this country. [More…]
They would come to realise that Japan at the turn of the century will be one of the great economic powers on this earth. [More…]
That being the case, and looking at the cost problem that faces Australia, particularly if a Labor government revalues the currency, I feel that we should make every effort to understand the facts of the argument and to understand our constitutional power. [More…]
Anybody sufficiently ambitious to pick up local union power can therefore generally gel it. [More…]
there is an over-representation of those who are willing to break their promises and their contracts without a moment’s compunction, who resort to threats, force, bullying tacics and some individual intimidation in order to bolster protection rackets that are mainly in protection of their own power but are sometimes more corrupt even than that [More…]
the increasing bite of the progressive personal income tax scale has combined wilh rising prices to restrict severely growth in the real purchasing power of take-home pay. [More…]
In summary, the Government’s record is of rising costs and prices; a sluggish economy; excessive taxes; declining family purchasing power; serious inflationary trends; declining business confidence and the highest rate of unemployment for a decade, with some 100,000 Australians out of work. [More…]
In fact the Prime Minister said only a few weeks ago that ‘the Commonwealth always has the power to be able to pay for the promises it makes and the legislation it introduces’. [More…]
This repudiation shows what trust the men who elected him have in him as their leader, and what trust they have in him as a man who demonstrably hungers for the power to govern the national economy. [More…]
I have heard it said that the Government should have cut sales tax to reduce the price of goods and give the public more spending power. [More…]
We then had to wait until Prime Minister Chifley of the Australian Labor Party was in power before any firm move was made to bring in the final planning for the abolition of the means test. [More…]
Instead, their decisions and their whole attitude to government are based not on whether Australia will benefit but on whether they will keep the LiberalCountry Party coalition in power. [More…]
The conditions: over award wage: fully furnished, near new house, all electric: meat, milk, power and eggs, all free; school bus to local school, 2 miles. [More…]
The strike by the Victorian power distribution employees earlier in the year, caused a loss of millions of dollars to the nation and to the men and their families who were affected by it. [More…]
On the question of a bank for the rural industries, I cannot see why the Government does not use its power and make the Commonwealth Bank do its work. [More…]
The legislation we plan to introduce into Parliament will include a provision making the new agreement determinable by the Commonwealth if a certain proportion of the voting power in the private enterprise airline, which is party to the agreement, is in the bands of any one foreign owner, or if total overseas ownership and control exceeds certain limits. [More…]
Probably the best region for development in Victoria is the Latrobe Valley, with Morwell as the hub and embracing in a 10-mile radius or less Moe, Yallourn, Traralgon and Churchill, where there is already an overall population of some 60,000 and there are the major facilities of a base hospital, the basic heavy industry of power production, a paper mill, an already established substantial industrial work force, which is very essential, and access to the port of Westernport at the present time but preferably the establishment of a port at Welshpool in the future. [More…]
The Government which has been in power for almost 23 years has created it. [More…]
I think it is most undesirable to give the Government the sole power of referral. [More…]
I accept that the Government must have power of referral, particularly with regard to takeovers, because these may arise at short notice and may require immediate action. [More…]
For this reason I believe it is essential that the Commissioner of Trade Practices should have power of referral to the monopolies commission under the same safeguards as are proposed to govern his referrals to the Trade Practices Tribunal. [More…]
The Budget will certainly achieve its aims of stimulating confidence, giving increased discretionary spending power to individuals and giving increased social justice. [More…]
Is this more exploitation of personal ruminations, or has the Leader of the Party the power to declare policy without reference to the Federal Executive of his Party? [More…]
Unfortunately it is not possible to separate consideration of this Budget from the previous disastrous Budget nor is it possible to consider it without premonitions about the next Budget if the Government is returned to power. [More…]
Extra purchasing power is not being used; resources are being diverted to savings. [More…]
For example, Canada has cut defence spending by something like 350 per cent, and no one would describe it as a negligible defence power. [More…]
I think too much control would be detrimental, irrespective of what Party is in power, but particularly if the Labor Party were in office. [More…]
The silent majority, on the day when this country goes to the polls, will return this Government to power because the people are frightened of what might happen if the Opposition ever occupied the treasury bench. [More…]
When Labor comes to power we will raise pensions to a level which will allow pensioners to enjoy a decent standard of living. [More…]
In purchasing power the child endowment then paid would be worth much more than it is today. [More…]
It certainly has not retained its purchasing power. [More…]
The tariff for electric power in country areas is also uniform with that applying in the metropolitan area. [More…]
In addition, according to the Treasurer, the increasing bite of the progressive personal income tax scale has combined with rising prices to restrict severely growth in the real purchasing power of take home pay’. [More…]
He has conceded that the total effect has been ‘to restrict severely growth in the real purchasing power of take home pay’. [More…]
The result, of course, was a sharp rise in unemployment, so that the total purchasing power of those still in employment was nowhere near enough to purchase the goods available. [More…]
To try to balance this and restore the total purchasing power of the community so that it can increase its spending and so restore ‘punch’ to the economy, the Government pays out unemployment benefits from its increased taxation revenue. [More…]
The purpose is to restore the total purchasing power of the community. [More…]
If that is so, why the disastrous effect on the real purchasing power of take home pay that was mentioned before? [More…]
However, since the referendum was passed giving the Commonwealth power in regard to Aboriginals we have seen positive steps taken to improve their lot. [More…]
Therefore, the taxes paid by the average income earners will have to be increased it a Labor government is ever in power. [More…]
His criticism was that the tax cuts of 10 per cent on average were not meaningful when it is obvious that, if the Labor Party were in power, ft would have to increase taxation by about 20 per cent. [More…]
Medical members of the Association shall be elected by the Council or by a Committee appointed by the Council wilh power in that behalf. [More…]
Every honourable member will recall that the non -Labor parties were returned to power in 1949 on a promise to abolish the means test and to put value back into the pound. [More…]
In fact, the pound has disappeared; it has given way to the dollar, which in purchasing power is also a casualty. [More…]
But even worse perhaps than the failure to provide services is the sense of futility which emanates from the lack of power resulting from inadequate finance and the lack of public interest. [More…]
We must ask why the Government has concentrated so much power at the centre. [More…]
Regrettably we cannot escape the conclusion of De Tocqueville who, referring to able and ambitious men, said that they will labour constantly to increase the scope of social power, for they all hope, sooner or later, to control it themselves.’ [More…]
I now refer to nuclear power and uranium. [More…]
As an alternative fuel source it has been estimated that by the year 2000 63 per cent of the world’s electrical power will come from nuclear energy. [More…]
Japan, for energy purposes, is the third major world power in the utilisation of nuclear energy, and, unlike this Government, is fully conscious of the pending world fuel crisis and is rapidly stockpiling its imports. [More…]
It is necessary for the Australian Government to decide its own policy for the mineral resources based on the long-term benefits for Australia, and for this special attention should be paid to changes in the international relation of supply and demand for mineral resources, to future changes in the competitive power of Australian mineral resources, to relations between other countries, to changes in the relative position and standing of Australia in the world, to changes in the industrial structure within Australia, to the development of technological reform, to changes in the degree of national interest in the development of technological reform, and to the promotion of living and education standards. [More…]
That is extraordinary because the people of Australia know full well that until this Government came into power 23 years ago no action of the sort that this Government has taken had been taken by any previous government. [More…]
The power of invention having been conferred by nature upon you, there are many who seek notoriety by indulging themselves in the role of a critic. [More…]
Would any person with 2 wits to rub together - I fear that may except one or two people - really contend that you can go to the Australian people with a referendum proposal and say: ‘Here it is boys, vote for giving all power to Canberra’. [More…]
This was tried in 1942 when the late Dr Evatt vent to the States asking them to refer all powers to the Commonwealth. [More…]
It is almost hilarious to imagine that you would ever get out of referendum these powers. [More…]
The only other way in which the honourable gentleman could possibly get these powers would be by persuading the States legislatively to vote themselves out of existence. [More…]
By what means does he propose to get these powers? [More…]
But even assuming that he should be successful - in other words, let us assume that the witch’s brew, if you like, should work and he should get all the power in Canberra - what has he got in his mind? [More…]
Who in Australia in the present situation would go and commit himself to the purchase of a car or a refrigerator on time payment when it is likely that the Government will take back with the one hand what it has given with the other, if it gets back into power? [More…]
There were other parts of this document that could well provide a grim foreboding for the Australian dairy industry on what might happen to this industry with the relaxation of margarine quotas if the Australian Labor Party were in power. [More…]
The Victorian Executive has the power to act. [More…]
But is it in the interests of the community to push up costs, to increase the cost of living, to make our exports dearer and less competitive, to reduce the spending power of the worker’s weekly pay packet? [More…]
Honourable members will recall how in this great Liberal Party that he represents he came to power. [More…]
He came to power by the political assassination of the previous leader of the Liberal Party who the Party then believed, quite wrongly, would be the most disastrous leader to take them to the next election. [More…]
No risk whatsoever because the Commonwealth always has the power to be able to pay for the promises it makes and the legislation it introduces. [More…]
The vital role which fuel and power play in national prosperity calls for positive forward - thinking and a coordinated policy on a national basis. [More…]
And let us not forget that the Government is all powerful in this country. [More…]
It can rescind laws, it can amend laws and it can introduce new Bills; it is almost all powerful. [More…]
If the Labor Party were in power, would it give permission for the price that the Wheat Board recommends to be paid? [More…]
If they’ had the power, , some ALP members would change our national anthem and our flag. [More…]
Having been in Tennant Creek last weekend, I know that Peko Mines NL proposes to cease supplying power to the town some time in 1974. [More…]
I commend the Government for setting in motion some plan to ensure that the people of the town of Tennant Creek will continue to receive a supply of power, despite the fact that in’ 2 years times Peko Mines will be using its own power at the Warrego mine and at the smelter it is building in that area. [More…]
The only other comment I wish to make is that, whilst I commend the Government for its action on this matter, I suggest that the power station should be sited in an area in which it will not cause any real distress to the townspeople. [More…]
The site of this proposed power station should have regard to the prevailing winds, noise and so on. [More…]
The honourable member for the Northern Territory made certain comments in regard to the siting of the proposed power station. [More…]
A power station is to be built at Tennant Creek and a power station, whether it is small or large, can have an environmental impact. [More…]
If the power station is to be built in the township, I would like to know the environmental impact it will have on this area. [More…]
An eleventh hour decision has been made and I would like to know whether an environmental impact statement has been prepared in regard to the siting of this power station in Tennant Creek. [More…]
The Government has been in power for 23 years and I have no doubt that the desperate men on the Government side will now pull everything out of the hat to try .to- [More…]
As a member of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Public Works I might mention that the Committee has visited the Tennant Creek area and made preliminary examinations, interviewed the townspeople and visited the site of the proposed power station. [More…]
I honestly believe that there is a need for this work because Peko-Wallsend Ltd has been expanding in that area as has the township and there is a bigger drain than ever on the power resources generated by Peko-Wallsend which has been the supplier of electricity to the township of Tennant Creek. [More…]
The company has advised the local authorities that after 1974 it will no longer be able to supply power to the township of Tennant Creek. [More…]
This makes clear the need for a power station. [More…]
My only regret is that the power station is to be fuelled with imported oil instead of Australian indigenous coal. [More…]
As to the solutions the honourable gentleman suggests, I doubt whether there is any power within my Department or the Trade Practices Tribunal to take action with respect to the withdrawal of competition; but I suggest the buyers in Western Australia themselves might take note of the concern the honourable gentleman has expressed in this House as I am sure that they as well as the growers at this stage are the sufferers from the practice they are pursuing. [More…]
However, let me remind the House that if we were in power, we would find much that we would do to improve the Bills. [More…]
He then told us that the Labor Party, when last in power in 1949, was in the process of dismantling sales tax. [More…]
It would mean a cutback in real purchasing power, that is, in our capacity to buy material goods and services. [More…]
The ACTU has said that this year it proposes to try to secure a 35- hour week for the oil industry and also for the power industry and then later announced that it would -postpone for another 9 months its application for the 35-hour week in the oil industry. [More…]
This Government cannot guarantee that there will not be a 35-hour week, any more than a Labor government could guarantee that there will be a 35-hour week, because it is beyond the power of government by statute to fix the standard hours of industry through the Commonwealth Parliament, and the Prime Minister knows that perfectly well. [More…]
These are 3 things for which this Government is solely responsible, it being the Government in power for the last 23 years with control of both Houses. [More…]
The Arbitration Commission is the only body that has power to award a 35-hour week for employees covered by federal awards. [More…]
In June of this year, metal trades unions employed by contractors engaged in building the Yallourn ‘W power station in the Latrobe Valley in Victoria imposed a 35- hour week limitation on work in support of claims for a new agreement covering wages and conditions including the introduction of a 35-hour week. [More…]
Perhaps he is suggesting that we should give more power to the Commonwealth Parliament to do this sort of thing. [More…]
I can assure the House that this is one thing that will change tinder a Labor government; we will not go into a court and say that because nothing has been done about prices the worker is not entitled to get some additional increment by way of higher wages As my colleague pointed out, how could we take off the market the goods that the farmers produce or the goods that the factories produce unless there is adequate real purchasing power in the hands of the 90 per cent or so of the people who are classified as wage and salary earners who are losing out in the equation because prices are rising faster than are wages and because real consumer standards are declining and being reflected in the ill health of the economy. [More…]
It should be called a campaign to reduce spending power. [More…]
Are the national interests and the community interest best served by pushing up costs, by increasing the cost of living, by making our exports dearer and less competitive on overseas markets, by raising the spending power of the workers’ weekly pay packet? [More…]
When people say that the real aim of the 35-hour week is more leisure they should remember that if they get that leisure it will be achieved at the cost of a corresponding cut in spending power. [More…]
If this Government is so much opposed to a 35-hour week for workers in the oil industry and the power industry why did it consent to a 36-hour week for Commonwealth public servants? [More…]
The ACTU Congress decided in 1963 - 9 years ago - to begin a campaign for a 35-hour week in 2 industries, the coal industry and the power industry. [More…]
To call meetings of unions employed in the power industry and the oil industry for the purpose of devising and approving appropriate methods of achieving reduced working hours in these industries. [More…]
That is, the power industry and the oil industry. [More…]
In other words, the balance of power in the Senate is now held by 5 DLP and 3 independent senators, all 8 of whom between them represent a mere fraction of the whole electorate. [More…]
The main matter concerning the Senate that I want to pursue at this stage is the argument that a multi-party, rather than a 2-party Senate is desirable in principle despite the minority balance of power situations to which it obviously lends itself. [More…]
The Constitution envisages such a system and empowers the Parliament to enact it. [More…]
The change proposed, as I have pointed out, is within the power of the Parliament and it would not require an amendment of the Constitution to achieve it. [More…]
One does not have to be very acute, much less original, to observe that, in terms of decision making power, the Parliament might as well not be here. [More…]
It is not a question of taking power from the Executive. [More…]
In 1963 the right honourable Sir Robert Gordon Menzies used his power over his satellites opposite to dissolve the Parliament when he saw the political time to be right. [More…]
I think that all members should be paid equally because each one of us has to apply his talents, what he has of them, to the full extent of his power. [More…]
First of all, we have seen a remarkable demonstration of the failure of ministerial responsibility and ministerial government and the misuse of regulatory power. [More…]
On 20th July, I think it was, under the powers conferred upon him by one of the Acts of this Parliament the Minister for the Inter.ior (Mr Hunt) had the forces of the constabulary descend upon the people opposite in the Aboriginal ‘Embassy’ and remove them from Parkes Place. [More…]
This is not a matter merely of the power of the people of Australia to stand up and answer back no matter what authority is against them, but it is a depressing symbol of the failure of this Government, and this Parliament to exercise its authority with responsibility. [More…]
It is equally normal for those people who exercise power - the Government - to sit and grin and ignore them. [More…]
But the Parliament cannot decide it because a cynical use or abuse of power prevents the Parliament from voting on the question. [More…]
This is so whether the expenditure concerns social services of all types, transport, power supply or water conservation. [More…]
If he cares to do so, he will see that there is also a statement by one of the judges hearing the case to the effect that irrespective of the operation or non-operation of the Ordinance, there is power in the Government to take action to remove persons in tents or to remove the tents. [More…]
For once see what can be done by establishing a rapport with people rather than exercising power over them. [More…]
I do not know whether it can be done now but it is time for the Government to stop in its tracks, to forget about exercising power, and to start to exercise tact and discretion and just be sensitive to human dignity and the long felt needs of the Aboriginal people for a change. [More…]
Australian Institute of Marine and Power Engineers. [More…]
All sections of the power generation and transmitting equipment are provided in triplicate to ensure that interruptions to the service do not occur. [More…]
Was the raid by security officers on the homes of a number of Croatian-born Australians, made under the provisions of section 38 of the Crimes Act, seeking evidence of whether Australia is being used as a base for subversive actions against a foreign power? [More…]
When is it intended to take the same action to determine whether certain Australians - I mention George Crawford as one - who recently visited North Vietnam were using Australia as a base for subversive action in support of a foreign power in its campaign to overthrow the Government of South Vietnam? [More…]
Only in the last year have State governments been able to move in this area, the Commonwealth having handed this taxing power back to the States which can use it however they wish. [More…]
I went on to stress that when a Labor government came to power it would see that the police were given better and more socially valuable duties to perform. [More…]
The Commonwealth has always had power to legislate with respect to trade and commerce among States. [More…]
When he does that he can tell us which of those 2 things he favours for development by this Government or a Labor government, should it come to power. [More…]
The House, by its failure to exercise authority, by allowing legislation of the kind contained in the Act to be passed and by allowing the regulation-making power to descend upon the Ministry without proper scrutiny, permitted the operations that took place here 6 or 7 weeks ago. [More…]
The Court of Petty Sessions Ordinance which gives power to appoint magistrates is at this moment invalid. [More…]
of the Constitution contained a provision that the Parliament had exclusive power to make laws with respect to the Seat of Government and that that provision of the Constitution had not been complied with. [More…]
The first thing we must do is to mute government power and authority. [More…]
We are not just the organs of administration of governmental power. [More…]
I take it that the ordinances we are validating today are rich wilh these pieces of free flowing administrative power. [More…]
I disapprove of the summary courts - the lower courts - having the power to send people to prison. [More…]
It is high time that we had in power a government that has decent respect for human rights, human dignity, the liberty of the subject and the rights of man. [More…]
It was about protecting the little man from the powers of the state. [More…]
It dealt with the accumulation of power that can be arranged against an individual, what he can do and the difficulties he faces in trying to protect himself against all the abrasiveness of the state. [More…]
Some of them spoke in the jargon of New York black power. [More…]
But this ordinance does not give power to permit a tent to be erected there for political purposes. [More…]
There may be a tent erected there for a fair, a circus, a carnival, a show or for any of those purposes but no-one has the power in the future to permit a tent to be erected there where the purpose is to demonstrate for Aborigines. [More…]
This ordinance does not give even the Minister for the Interior power to grant permission for a demonstration such as was tolerated for 7 months recently. [More…]
It would have been wiser to have left himself the power to grant the permission, but he did not do so. [More…]
The Minister can delegate power to the officer and the officer may, by instrument in writing, change the definitions of the area. [More…]
It has been told by the court that, under common law, it has the power to remove trespassers. [More…]
The Government has the power now, by due process of law, to remove any trespassers and it has the power to tolerate, if it likes, the presence of a tent or any other form of demonstration there under the existing law, to terminate it without this ordinance or to permit it without this ordinance which ties the Government’s hand and does not give it the power to permit a demonstration for the sort of purpose that existed when that tent was here for 7 months. [More…]
Legislation giving power to control camping on what might be described as municipal land is common throughout Australia. [More…]
He said that the Government had no power to put any pressure on the oil companies to stop them negotiating. [More…]
In order to ensure that the real value, or purchasing power, of the assistance is not reduced, but rather increased, the Bill now before the House provides for the rate of payment of subsidy to be increased from $5 to $10 a week and for the increase to take effect from the first pay-day after the legislation receives royal assent. [More…]
I think the Government should b2 congratulated because until 1954, when this Government was in power, nothing of this nature had been done for old people in Australia, It was this Government which initiated the idea of homes for the aged, and this has been a magnificent scheme which has been implemented throughout the length and breadth of Australia. [More…]
Of course, this would mean a centralising of power in Canberra, and this is in line with a lot of other things that the Labor Party advocates. [More…]
Upon looking at what this Liberal-Country Party Federal Government has done, I, as a member of one of those Parties, bear no shame for what this Government has done for the aged, because since it came to power in 1949 a great deal has been done. [More…]
Governments stay in power by responding to the wishes of the people and if, on occasion, a government can more than anticipate the needs of the people through proper planning, I believe that in so doing it is showing the nation that it is not a tired government that has been in office for 23 years and is showing that it is not time that it was kicked out because it is lethargic. [More…]
It was written on the basis that Federal members expected, whichever Party was in power after the election, to receive an increase in salary. [More…]
It is deplorable that the people of Perth have to suffer increasing noise pollution which is being wilfully imposed upon them by this Parliament which has the power to prevent such action but does not act. [More…]
A Commonwealth-State committee is dealing with this matter and the State people have as much concern and as much power as have the Commonwealth people. [More…]
Under section 12 of the Act the Board has power to invest employees’ contributions, and interest from investments is additional income for the Fund. [More…]
Whatever government is in power in Australia at that time, will have to make its decision according to the circumstances of the day. [More…]
I cannot see how anybody really can speculate as to what the circumstances will be at that time, but I think it can be said that if an Australian Labor Party government is in power it will not allow itself to be stood over by the United States Government in the way that the United States Government stood over the other governments of the Western world one year ago when the Smithsonian agreement was made. [More…]
We will do all in our power lo ensure that people get jobs and we will keep the unemployment rate to the lowest possible level. [More…]
I agree that this type of outrage is heinous and that the police in Australia, assisted by government agencies, should do all in their power to see that those who perpetrate the crimes are brought into the criminal courts. [More…]
And when one takes into account the fact that the States are still charged with the responsibility for such significant fields as education, health, road making, public transport, irrigation and power development and contrasts with that the limited scope of such functions that the Commonwealth has to perform, one can see that in some respects the great dependence that the States have on central finance perhaps does not make for the best pattern for reconciling the requirements of finance with the actual responsibilities of function. [More…]
If it gives to local government authorities direct access to the Australian Loan Council the bargaining power of those authorities and in particular of country councils - our friends in the Country Party should agree with this - would be greatly strengthened. [More…]
This would increase the bargaining power of local governments and give them a far greater opportunity to bring about necessary and important works programmes. [More…]
Local authorities would then have greater bargaining power. [More…]
1 want to show to the Parliament and the people how Labor behaves when it gets into power, as it is unfortunately and most regrettably in South Australia. [More…]
Perhaps the media are frightened of them, their potential power and their spending power or perhaps they think that it is better not to rock to boat. [More…]
I see in the intrusion of this largely foreign owned advertising agency the power for the final control over the third of these elements, namely, the Press and the news media. [More…]
I say that the Labor Party says one thing and does another, because all of its advertising is distributed by foreign owned agencies, and the more power that sort of agency accumulates the more it can dictate to editors and journalists generally on what they shall write and publish and what they shall not write. [More…]
The Western Australian Government has taken action in limited form because of its limited budget, but only the Federal Government has the taxing power and funds available to it to take the action that is needed finally to resolve the problem. [More…]
The motion is deliberately limited to matters of Commonwealth responsibility, in that this Parliament has the constitutional power to make laws with respect to external affairs, emigration and immigration, and trade and commerce with other countries, for instance, civil aviation. [More…]
The Commonwealth Police Force is assisting so far as lies in its power. [More…]
The Government for its part will do everything in its power to find and root out the beginnings of any cult of political terror in Australia. [More…]
The Commonwealth has constitutional power in relation to interstate trade. [More…]
I look to the Australian people to make this programme work, and I will do all in my power to educate and to help increase the public’s understanding of this new national policy. [More…]
May I deal with the question of the powers of the Commonwealth. [More…]
The Commonwealth Parliament has power over insurance companies and foreign investment. [More…]
Yet this Commonwealth Government had the power to persuade and guide insurance companies to decentralise their investments elsewhere. [More…]
The Liberal-Country Party Government, when it came to power in 1949, was happy to inherit part of Labor’s policies, but did not realise that encouraging secondary industries and immigrants was only half the story. [More…]
4112 (Hansard, 29th September 1971, page 1710) the New South Wales authorities consider that legislative action in relation to this matter cannot be taken until certain amendments are made to the United Kingdom Merchant Shipping Act which fetters the power of State Parliaments to legislate with respect to merchant shipping. [More…]
Records have been kept only in the last few years although this Government has been in power for 23 years. [More…]
It would wipe the legislation off the statute book if it were in power. [More…]
It is understandable in those circumstances that if the Labor Party were in power it would create a department to control the allocation of resources for housing. [More…]
Labor was in power in New South Wales for many years, until a short time ago when the Liberal Party took over there. [More…]
You need a power of money to provide all the facilities that might be available in city limits at the present time. [More…]
Consider how the sometimes excessive use of the power of privilege would be more easily resisted if Australia had a Bill of Rights. [More…]
The power of the courts to give protection against that sort of thing would have been greater if .Australia had a Bill of Rights. [More…]
When Labor was in power in New South Wales the advertising agency which at present handles Labor’s advertising, Hansen Rubensohn-McCann Erikson- [More…]
One thing that concerns me is that the Government has been in power for 23 years - almost a quarter of a century - and we still have not a positive plan for the alleviation of suffering caused by national disasters, particularly drought. [More…]
Over the 23 years that this Government has been in power we have seen a steady decline in the field of primary industry and in the incomes of those people associated with that industry. [More…]
Who would not be tempted to light the candles if a power failure occurred or in circumstances where it was felt that candlelight was appropriate or if it was desired to use them as a nightlight? [More…]
This, of course, is an aspect of Australian policy which is actually envisaged in the Australian Constitution because after reference to the power over external affairs vested in this Parliament there is mention of power to conduct relations with the islands of the Pacific. [More…]
In addition the Conference recommended that the new body should be equipped with wide powers including the power to compulsorily acquire the total Australian wool clip. [More…]
As I have intimated, under the constitution the Commonwealth cannot alone legislate to grant the power of compulsory acquisition to the Wool Corporation. [More…]
To grant the Corporation such power would require the consent and complementary legislation of the States. [More…]
On previous occasions when introducing measures to increase pension rates I have pointed out to the House the extent to which the increases have represented gains to pensioners in real purchasing power. [More…]
The table which 1 have incorporated shows that the level of purchasing power of the standard rate pension in 1949 - the last time that an Australian Labor Government was in power - would now be $11.27 as against its present rate of $20 without supplementary assistance or $24 with supplementary assistance. [More…]
Thus it will be seen that since the last time the Australian Labor Party was in office we have just about doubled the purchasing power of the pension for those who are most in need. [More…]
Mr Green points out that although he was himself in power later for 18 years, Menzies never took the trouble to proclaim the National Insurance Act which is still on the statute book. [More…]
In fact, since the Liberal-Country Party Government first came to office in .1949 the purchasing power of the pensioner has doubled; and this is as it should be. [More…]
the Treasurer chose the most direct and probably most widely acceptable way of aiding Industry and speeding expansion - by increasing the spending power of consumers. [More…]
According to the newspapers of last week, if a Labor government came to power there would be no increase in taxation. [More…]
We have the people already retired for whom the most significant feature, if they are age pensioners, is the basic amount of the pension and the certainty that that pension will retain its purchasing power. [More…]
The Opposition boasts of what it would do if in power. [More…]
Productivity has risen, and as it has risen not only has it been possible to raise the real level of the pension, which, as I have said, over the last 23 years has nearly doubled in terms of real purchasing power but also concurrently it has been possible progressively to ease the means test. [More…]
As my Deputy Leader reminds me, they have not reached the rate of repatriation benefits in 1949, the year that this Government came into power. [More…]
Members of the Opposition, in particular the Deputy Leader of the Opposition (Mr Barnard), have made statements which really do not give the Returned Services League or other interested ex-service organisations a definite indication as to what the policy of the Australian Labor Party in relation to pensions would be if it were elected to power. [More…]
When this Government came to power the general rate of pension was about 50 per cent of the minimum wage paid to a worker in Australia. [More…]
That pension has been allowed to deteriorate in terms of purchasing power under this Government. [More…]
The great problem in relation to the general rate pension - the Minister ought to appreciate this - is that when this Government came to power it was approximately 50 per cent of the minimum wage but it has been allowed to deteriorate to the extent that it would not be possible for any government in one Budget to lift that pension rate back to approximately 50 per cent of the minimum wage. [More…]
the Government used its power to drive thousands of people out of the wheat industry. [More…]
All power to the trade unions which are comprised of working men and patriotic Australians. [More…]
Today in Adelaide the Premier of South Australia said his piece too - and more power to him. [More…]
The honourable gentleman would know that the powers that I have to refer such matters to the Tariff Board are restricted with regard to the question of bylaw entry. [More…]
I also have power to make that decision without reference to the Tariff [More…]
Power station at Tennant Creek, Northern Territory. [More…]
I suppose it is a highly cynical exercise of legislative power to keep this sort of proposal as a kind of reserve up your sleeve. [More…]
In the application of Commonwealth Government policy there is a very great need for us to aproach the Aboriginal people not as though we are superior and know what should be done about them but in such a way that they have the power to make decisions about what should be done about themselves and to call upon Commonwealth and other assistance as they need it. [More…]
Much is still beyond the financial power of the States to do. [More…]
The old section 51, paragraph (xxvi), of the Constitution excluded the Commonwealth from the power to legislate for Aborigines. [More…]
Paragraph (xxvi) said that the Commonwealth had the power to legislate for ‘the people of any race, other than the aboriginal race in any State, for whom it is deemed necessary to make special laws’. [More…]
They are largely of Pacific Islander descent, wear dark glasses and go around with slogans of the New York Black Power Negroes. [More…]
If we do not, we have no right to complain about Black Power spokesmen whom we all say are really caricaturing the opinions of Aboriginal people. [More…]
Surely it would not be difficult for this Parliament with the power it has at its disposal to pass an Act - an Aboriginal lands Act - and declare all those reserves throughout Australia which presently have dotted lines around them Aboriginal land so that they could be tinkered with only by Act of Parliament. [More…]
In November 1968 the Commonwealth used its power to legislate in the Australian Capital Territory to prevent takeovers of life insurance holding companies. [More…]
However, the Commonwealth Parlia ment has always had just as ample powers to control the ownership of insurance companies in Australia as it has had to control the ownership of banks in Australia. [More…]
Nevertheless, since the Concrete Pipes case in September last year it has been quite clear that this Parliament has power to prevent the takeover of such companies, even if they are not registered in one of the Commonwealth Territories. [More…]
If people are worried about takeovers of pastoral companies in the Northern Territory, the Commonwealth has always had power to prevent them because since 1910 that has been a Commonwealth responsibility; there is no State responsibility involved whatever. [More…]
But, meantime, despite this plenitude of constitutional power, we find that the takeover of Australian pastoral companies and the overseas ownership of Australian pastoral properties has proceeded apace. [More…]
As a result we were caught with our pants down when a war was declared in 1939 and it was not until a Labor government came into power that anything was done to defend this country. [More…]
But we give a fair warning that if we are in power, while there will be an expenditure on non-government schools of no less than the sum total that will be appropriated in this Bill, the appropriation will be reapportioned - it will be reapportioned on the basis of need. [More…]
I draw attention to the other educational power of the Commonwealth Government and that is the power to grant benefits to students. [More…]
The Commonwealth Government has exercised this power in the case of Aboriginal children. [More…]
If we could reduce freights and peg them and if the Commonwealth Government would subsidise any losses this would have a tremendous impact on Tasmanian industry, Tasmanian employment and the encouragement of other industries to come to our island where hydro-electric power is the cheapest source of power in Australia. [More…]
The Government aims to use the federal system, not aiming to concentrate all power in some nebulous schools commission operating in Canberra. [More…]
Migration has helped to service the key industries which provide electricity power works and transmission lines, water and sewerage supplies, air transport and concrete and cement products, lt has reinforced our education facilities, particularly at the tertiary levels. [More…]
They are mainly situated in the industrial towns such as Maitland, many of them working the coal mining industry, in the erection of power houses, using their skills in a technical field. [More…]
They are similar to most statements in the Labor Party’s platform, which I believe have been deliberately framed in a vague manner to allow of any interpretation if and when the Labor Party gets into power. [More…]
He is aware that there are some people who have positions of affluence and power and he will give them a chance to bail out. [More…]
He said: We have no power to act’. [More…]
It hoped, it is disappointed and it has no power to act. [More…]
These monopolies are not 2 commercial firms; they are vast economic empires created and maintained by the power of the state in this country. [More…]
I doubt very much whether it can be achieved by a government telling an industry what its purchasing policy should be, and certainly it should not be achieved by the Australian Labor Party inciting the trade union movement to be the arbitrator by using its power of industrial threat to determine the matter. [More…]
As soon as we get into power the first cab off the rank for nationalisation is the steel industry because an industrialist himself says that it is inefficient’. [More…]
We have heard from the Labor Party a continual lament about the monopoly power of BHP. [More…]
The powers of an inspector include power to enter premises on reasonable grounds and power to investigate associated companies. [More…]
These provisions are likely to be very important during the early years of the legislation and include power to investigate where necessary. [More…]
They include a prohibition on unauthorised insurers carrying on business through agents, a power for the commissioner to inspect the books of an authorised insurer corresponding to a similar power in the uniform Companies Acts, secrecy provisions to be observed by the commissioner and his staff, general provisions on offences and penalties and a regulation-making power. [More…]
I have asked the Government repeatedly to exercise its constitutional power to give policy holders and insurers the protection and stability which the industry deserves. [More…]
The United States would certainly not be the super industrial power which it is today had she, at a similar stage in her development, not received substantial investment from Europe and elsewhere. [More…]
Renold’s plant provides employment for a considerable proportion of the manufacturing work force in the area and the spending power of the employees makes an important contribution towards the economic wellbeing of the locality. [More…]
Of course, one could mention the work that has been done in minerals, particularly including oil and gas, and in the development of power. [More…]
Then there is the question of cost of power. [More…]
Here again we have the extraordinary situation that very often power is more expensive just next to where it is being produced than it is many miles away in the city where it is offered at some special rate. [More…]
it’s because the Federal Government has the money but not the power and the State governments have the power but not the money. [More…]
What is known of the resources required, the rainfall, the power and water supplies and the sewage outfall and communications systems? [More…]
From the line that is to run from Gidgealpa to Sydney branches will provide gas as cheap power to country towns. [More…]
He said that if Labor came to power it would set up a department of urban affairs and regional development, the main function of which would be to control the allocation of resources. [More…]
There is great danger for Australia if Labor comes to power because its attitude will be to develop this country with centralised control, in which the authority of the States, local government and other authorities will disappear altogether. [More…]
I suggest that a report on such an important matter which was brought down shortly before this Government came into power, especially a report published by a Commonwealth department in co-operation with the comparable State departments, should be available to members of this Parliament for perusal. [More…]
Many countries have tried to set up huge monolithic departments with the power to solve environmental problems. [More…]
The result of the monolithic approach is the bureaucratic fights of the type we saw in New South Wales where 4 departments were fighting for power to control the emissions from motor vehicles in New South Wales. [More…]
Guidelines which the Department of the Environment can lay down are sets of rules which define environmentally-wise ways of doing anything; of building dams or roads or a new town; cleaning land, managing city air, planting forests, building and siting industries, designing transportation and maintaining natural ecosystems to allow evolution to continue, or managing our arid interior or our precious coastline, or harvesting wood, mining and exporting minerals, generating power or viewing the population policy, and many others. [More…]
A Labor government will make all impact statements available to the public and will require them not only where Federal money is involved but also where Commonwealth constitutional power is involved. [More…]
The constitutional power Includes the environmental protection of Commonwealth territory, the environmental impact of interstate or international trade particularly the export of natural resources, the regulation of corporations now that quite a few issues have been cleared up by the High Court in the so called concrete pipes case, and certain other areas. [More…]
In areas of environmental impact assessment which do not require Federal money or power and over which the Commonwealth has no jurisdiction the Commonwealth will act to work with the States for rational management and the protection of the Australian environment. [More…]
I want the Commonwealth Government to do something about it because it has the power to do so. [More…]
But the Commonwealth now has the power to look at these matters, particularly in the field of sewage. [More…]
The Commonwealth has the power now. [More…]
I have given instructions that the Parliamentary Counsel, with whom I have already discussed the matter, and other senior officers do all in their power to have a Bill prepared. [More…]
The Joint Committee on Publications, having power to initiate its own inquiries within its general terms of reference, resolved to inquire into the circumstances of the granting by the Post Office of the new contract. [More…]
The sincerity of the Government must be obvious to all in that the Commonwealth is moving ahead as quickly as its constitutional power permits into encouraging this great field of conservation. [More…]
1 only wish that this concern to combat pollution was even more widespread, and that individuals did ail in their power, which is considerable, to stop polluting the environment by such mundane but effective acts as not throwing cans and bottles about indiscriminately, not Uttering the countryside wilh all sorts of garbage and, in fact, by behaving like people who care about the surroundings in which they and other people live. [More…]
The cost of placing transmission lines underground, for instance, while technologically possible, may add so much to the cost of the provision of power that it becomes out of the reach of companies and individuals. [More…]
If we as a country are to become a world power with a strong voice in the management of world affairs we must improve the efficiency of the economy we already have and want, and we must make better use of what we possess. [More…]
We will need to provide power so that our industry and domestic life can continue. [More…]
T would like to give the Committee one example - that of power. [More…]
So we will have a large number of power stations. [More…]
If these power stations are not constructed, and we do not get the generating capacity I mentioned, the whole nation could come to a standstill. [More…]
When we talk of power we talk of the primary energy resources - coal, uranium, natural gas and oil. [More…]
Mr John W. Simpson, the President of Power Systems Company, Westinghouse Electric Corporation, in America put it fairly well, I think, in a speech he made not so long ago when he said: lt’ we lel ecology become a political football with legislators vying with one another to see who can get the cleanest anti-pollution bill on the books regardless of its consequences; or if we allow ourselves lo become panicky because some freelance writer has prophesied the collapse of our planet, then we are in trouble. [More…]
Many countries have tried to set up huge monolithic departments with the power to solve environmental problems, lt is a hopeless and futile path to take. [More…]
Let us examine those of the former Prime Minister, Mr Gorton, who in a calculated insult confined the operations of the Five Power Defence Arrangements to a non-existent country that he chose to call Malaya. [More…]
In an interview he gave on television before leaving Djakarta he immediately raised the question of how important the Five Power Defence Arrangements were so far as the Liberal Party was concerned. [More…]
nor do I think that there is any real necessity to have a 5 power arrangement so far as the United Kingdom, New Zealand, Singapore, Malaysia is concerned . [More…]
He refused to take up my question about what part of the 5-power defence arrangements authorised Australia to undertake this hapless and objectionable task. [More…]
They seek to take away any substance that might be given to the Five Power defence arrangement by wanting to withdraw our limited military involvement in the region. [More…]
It will give Australian representatives a unique opportunity to familiarise themselves more fully with the present trends in great power relationships, particularly as they impinge upon the prospects of security in the Asian region. [More…]
I do not think that it is realistic to suppose that a nation should continue as an economic giant and a power pigmy. [More…]
I believe that the Indo-Russian entente will have a very great influence on the patterns of power shifts which will take place in our region. [More…]
To them we are the metropolitan power. [More…]
I feel that the figure should be at least $100,000, and that after the Prime Minister has consulted the Treasurer and Minister for Foreign Affairs he should have the power to allocate up to Sim in times of emergency situations such as in 1970 when a cyclone struck East Pakistan. [More…]
They think that somehow a government in power can mix up actions it has to take for governmental purposes with the proceedings of some committee or other. [More…]
It is not in our interests that the whole of this area should become the cockpit of super-power politics. [More…]
I use the term ‘superpower’ because the Japanese, the Chinese and the Americans are all operative in this area, as is the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics. [More…]
This is obviously one of the points at which the super-powers meet. [More…]
Our policy on Malaysia and Singapore, particularly in the Five-Power pact, has been dedicated to a very similar end. [More…]
None of the people in that area seriously think that any of the five powers are a menace or are threatening their future. [More…]
As to the 2 specific questions asked by the honourable gentleman, it has been made clear that with respect to State jurisdiction the Commonwealth has no constitutional power to intervene. [More…]
Therefore, not only have they the power to nationalise health but also I believe, on the basis of the statements they have made and their actual scheme itself, they also have the will to nationalise health, and indeed I believe that they intend to do so. [More…]
Officials of the Department of Labour and National Service have assured me that they will do all in their power to ensure that this matter is brought before the Commission at the earliest possible moment and certainly not later than 4 o’clock this afternoon. [More…]
The bill provides for the Authority to have power to do all things that are necessary or convenient for the performance of its functions. [More…]
The Government is satisfied that the designation of the Australian Shippers’ Council, by extending negotiations under the Act to all export trades and providing a single research and negotiating body, will substantially strengthen the collective bargaining power of shippers. [More…]
This is the greatest total that has been allocated so far and it provides for the erection of an Alice Springs power station for $3m, the Katherine sewerage scheme for approximately Sim and other projects such as office blocks, power houses, water supplies for settlements and missions, houses, electrical reticulation schemes in many areas - not only in towns but across the whole Territory at missions and settlements - street lighting, police stations, several 12-bed hospitals at missions and settlements and sewerage systems at some missions and settlements. [More…]
In the proposed new works $5m is provided for the enlargement of the Darwin steam power station. [More…]
Power will be needed for the rapidly developing northern suburbs area of Darwin where the Government is building many houses to which I referred earlier. [More…]
This power also will be available for areas south from Darwin through the Batchelor area to the township of Adelaide River. [More…]
But I have criticised, and I still criticise, the Government for the fact that although it has been in power for 23 years we still have not a plan, or an announced plan, for a programme which will progressively lead up to self-government for the Northern Territory. [More…]
In the first instance it is axiomatic that there are certain powers which could be and are being given to the Legislative Council, I refer to powers relating to such organisations as the police force and prisons. [More…]
The need to hand over such powers is self-explanatory. [More…]
The second type of power which can be phased in would of course be powers relating to statutory boards, sewerage, water, power, fisheries, motor vehicles, cold stores, wildlife, parks. [More…]
The handing over of these powers would follow as a natural progression. [More…]
We have seen what has happened in northern Australia during the years that the Government has been in power. [More…]
I believe that this will be the la.st thing that will be given to the Legislative Council in terms of absolute power. [More…]
Executive power over State-like functions but gradually then leading into full self-government of the Northern Territory. [More…]
I believe in the next 3 years, and no longer, irrespective of what government is in power, a plan should be put forward to the Northern Territory people which will outline step by step the Northern Territory’s progress towards self-government. [More…]
This plan would outline the points that I made regarding the various powers that the Northern Territory Legislative Council would take over, which would lead to a Northern Territory cabinet, whatever one likes to call it, and under-secretaries who would be the equivalent of Ministers, until full self-government is given to the Northern Territory. [More…]
In the next 3 years, irrespective of what government is in power, the government should sit down with the people of the Northern Territory and announce a plan for self-government. [More…]
I can promise that a great deal of attention will be given to this matter by honourable members on this side of the Parliament when a Federal Labor government comes into power later this year, as we confidently expect that it will [More…]
I am happy to remind the people of Maranoa and the people of Australia generally that the trade unions and their leader will have the power to dictate policy to any Labor government, and the honourable member who interjected will find this position to his cost if ever he sits on the side of a Labor government. [More…]
The Opposition has pursued a policy which would withdraw the power to impose sanctions from the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission thereby effectively eroding its power and weakening its authority. [More…]
It has given a very powerful thrust to the whole concept of collective bargaining. [More…]
There is no suggestion that the present practice of Labor local authorities - where they have the power - is in any way to be altered. [More…]
The Commonwealth Government has complete power over such investment. [More…]
That is why the Commonwealth has powers of persuasion over the insurance companies to encourage that investment where it so desires. [More…]
Construction of a Power Station at Tennant Creek, Northern Territory [More…]
That in accordance with the provisions of the Public Works Committee Act 1969-1972, it is expedient to carry out the following proposed work which was referred to the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Public Works and on which the Committee has duly reported to Parliament: Construction of a power station at Tennant Creek, Northern Territory. [More…]
The proposed work involves the construction of a new power station with 4.2 mw diesel powered alternators, associated 22 kV reticulation, and other facilities. [More…]
The Committee concluded that there was a need for the establishment of a new power station and recommended that the work proceed to construction in this instance. [More…]
I would like to refer to the Tennant Creek power station and the Tennant Creek primary and preschool. [More…]
The power station to be provided is to cost $1. [More…]
I think the significant thing to say about these 2 matters - that is, the power station and the school - is that the Public Works Committee has satisfied itself that the community is to be sustained and will grow in the future. [More…]
So it must be a justifiable proposition to build a new power station at Tennant Creek. [More…]
The necessity for the power station emanates from the fact that the power station which has been in operation up to now is owned by the Peko company, which contracted in 1956 to meet the demand of Tennant Creek for 1,000 kilowatts of power. [More…]
Peko now requires the power station for its own purposes and seeks to terminate the contract. [More…]
We are told that there is a considerable demand growth rate for power in Tennant Creek running at the rate of about 15 per cent per annum. [More…]
We are also told that the proposal has been sensibly approached from the standpoint of all the environmental factors that are highlighted in discussions these days in that the power station is being put behind a number of hills south-west of the town and some distance away from the town in a position where the wind will blow the fumes away. [More…]
So the honourable member for Reid (Mr Uren) at least will be gratified to know that this project has a clean bill of health and there do not seem to be any environmental problems about the Tennant Creek power station. [More…]
The Opposition is pleased that the people of Tennant Creek are to have the benefit of a new power station and a new school. [More…]
A power station also is to be provided at Tennant Creek. [More…]
From evidence tendered to the Public Works Committee it seems that by 1972 there will be an increase of 18 per cent in the requirement for power at Tennant Creek. [More…]
The Peko-Wallsend company has given notice that it will be unable to supply power to the town after November 1974; so there is an urgent need for this project to be approved, for tenders to be called in 1972 and the contract to be let in early 1973 in order that this power station will be in commission by November 1974 when Peko-Wallsend which has supplied power to the town since 1956 will have to supply power to its own smelter and Warrego mine, both tremendous undertakings. [More…]
The company has assisted the Government substantially in the past by supplying power to Tennant Creek, and it is to be commended. [More…]
I realise that it charges for the power it supplies. [More…]
In certain circumstances of emergency the company is prepared to continue to supply power if there is a delay in the actual completion of the new power station. [More…]
hope that the Minister for Repatriation (Mr Holten), who provided me with the reply on this matter - and I realise that he does not have the power to reverse decisions of tribunals - will find out why this man was reassessed 3 times in 3 years at this age. [More…]
It certainly gives the Minister for Primary Industry more power. [More…]
This Bill establishes a Corporation combining the 2 organisations - the Australian Wool Commission and the Australian Wool Board - within the present establishment and gives the proposed Corporation the power to recommend what could be vast changes to the marketing and handling of the Australian wool clip as a whole, lt is being introduced at the behest of the Australian Wool Industry Conference because of the drastic changes that have taken place over recent times regarding financial returns to the wool growers. [More…]
Fundamentally this Bill establishes a corporation and gives it the power to recommend alterations to the whole system of wool marketing and handling the Australian wool clip including, of course, an acquisition plan. [More…]
It is about time, to coin a phrase, that the Australian farmers were made aware of what would be in store for them if the Opposition ever gained power in this country. [More…]
It uses the power of the state and all its paraphernalia to deny wool growers the effective power to regulate and control the marketing of their own product. [More…]
It is an attempt to blockade the grower’s power to regulate the price of his own product. [More…]
I think that acquisition would be the Labor Party’s solution to the problem, lt is worth remembering that under the Constitution the Commonwealth has no power to acquire the Australian wool clip. [More…]
Secondly, the Bill does not even give the Corporation the power to acquire wool even if there were an approved acquisition scheme. [More…]
The Bill is toothless as regards its powers. [More…]
Its powers are no wider than those of the Wool Commission as regards the buying and selling of wool. [More…]
It was stated that the original Bill setting up the Australian Wool Commission had no teeth and was powerless to do anything. [More…]
Clause 19, especially the last couple of lines, of the original Bill gave the Commission and the Government all the power it required. [More…]
In addition the Conference recommended that the new body be equipped with wide powers, including the power compulsorily to acquire the total Australian wool clip. [More…]
The high importance placed on this particular power by the AWIC derives from the central and direct control of the clip that it would confer on the Authority, so enabling it effectively to use the additional powers sought in areas such as clip quality control, land transport and shipping. [More…]
The House will note that the Minister said that the Corporation would be given specific powers. [More…]
I have looked carefully through the Bill and I cannot find that power specified anywhere. [More…]
Division 2 of the Bill sets out the functions and powers of the Corporation. [More…]
In clause 40 of the Bill we find set out the specific powers of the Corporation in relation to wool marketing. [More…]
If the Government intends the Corporation to have that specific power, as the Minister said it would, one would expect to see that specified in the Bill. [More…]
I will be interested to hear why it is not in the Bill and also by what means the Government intends to implement or extend that power to the Corporation. [More…]
In relation to its activities in the marketing field it will be given little if any power beyond what the Commission has at the moment. [More…]
Obviously it was not thought that we should give the Corporation power to introduce changes which might cost the taxpayers of this country money and which might have profound ramifications. [More…]
of section 20 of this Act,the powers of the Corporation include the power to- [More…]
If we look at clause 40 we find that the powers of the Corporation include the power to: [More…]
Clause 40 (b) contains the words ‘or otherwise’ which mean that the Corporation has power to operate a flexible reserve price scheme other than the auction system as we know it. [More…]
The power conferred under clause 38 (1.) [More…]
(k) is the power within which it is intended to extend the operations of the reserve price scheme to other forms of selling. [More…]
(k), it will see that the Corporation is given power: to keep under constant review the practice of the buying and selling of wool outside the auction system, and to make recommendations to the Minister as to measures for dealing with any detrimental effects that that practice is having in relation to the objects of this Act or the requirements of the next succeeding section and to take such measures as the Minister approves for the purpose of reducing or eliminating those detrimental effects. [More…]
That being in no way precluded from the functions of the Corporation because of the power conferred under clause 3 8(1.) [More…]
(jr.), it is not felt necessary or desirable to put the specific power ‘or otherwise’ in clause 38(1.) [More…]
of section 20 of this Act, the powers of the Corporation include the power to: [More…]
If this Government survives - and of course I do not think it will - I wonder what the Minister for Primary Industry (Mr Sinclair), who has the power of approval or disapproval under this Bill, would do with such a recommendation. [More…]
We have not the power to introduce an acquisition scheme. [More…]
Indeed the third amendment, which relates to clause 40, would add nothing to the powers that the Corporation will already have under the provisions of clause 38 and clause 40. [More…]
(o) provides a power for the corporation to develop a procedure which can then be submitted in the manner that I have suggested, [More…]
He suggested that the Corporation would have no power to operate a flexible reserve price scheme other than with the approval of the Minister because of the function of paragraph (c). [More…]
The honourable member for Maranoa (Mr Corbett) claims that the Opposition wants the Government to delay action for 6 months which suggests to his mind that the Labor Party does not believe that it will be in power in 6 months’ time; in other words, it would not be the government after the next election. [More…]
If the Labor Party wants to debate what it did in respect of the wheat industry when it first came to power, what it did to our friends in New Zealand and the wheat growers in New Zealand, I will be prepared to debate these matters with it any day it likes. [More…]
I want to know whether the Commonwealth has the power to acquire this property. [More…]
Has the Commonwealth the power to acquire this property? [More…]
If the Government does not have the power it should have the courage, decency and honesty to say so and should bring the appropriate legislation into this place to acquire the power in accordance with the Prime Minister’s statement of 26th January. [More…]
Please advise urgently whether Commonwealth has the power to compulsorily acquire Everard Park. [More…]
So, not only does he not know himself, but he does not even know the procedures by which he should go to the Crown Solicitor to endeavour to ascertain whether or not the Commonwealth has the power. [More…]
Does the Minister further appreciate that in these circumstances the benefit would be much more advantageous to them than the small increase given to these people as a result of the Government’s amendments to the Act foreshadowed in the Budget and would be of greater advantage to them in terms of purchasing power? [More…]
This is a power they are exercising not specifically under this Bill but under other legislation. [More…]
These changes will have no effect on the Minister’s power to direct that no subsidy be paid where the fertiliser selling prices do not pass on the full benefit of the subsidy. [More…]
The Board recommended that in addition to tariff assistance certain power fed machine tools should receive assistance by way of bounty and that certain special purpose machines subject to minimum rates of bounty should receive bounty assistance. [More…]
Has his Government reconsidered the decision or does it adhere to the decision of the Holt Gov.vernment to reject the unanimous recommendation of the joint all party committee on constitutional review that the Commonwealth should seek power at a referendum to permit the Commonwealth, and not just the States, to take steps to establish new States? [More…]
Is he further aware that the nationally reputed programme of hydro-electric power development in Tasmania now has a foreseeable end. [More…]
To what extent does the Commonwealth comply with the town planning requirements of local government authorities concerning (a) the provision of light, power, access roads and parking space and (b) the proportion of a site to be covered by buildings? [More…]
When the Menzies Government came to power the normal thing was for the Postmaster-General’s Department to provide the reticulated services to the door of the premises. [More…]
Moreover the national government, in changed circumstances in the future which might call for changed national legislation, could not itself legislate to change existing mirror legislation and ensure its sovereignty without altering the whole pattern of uniform legislation and with the sure knowledge, which it ought to have, that it had the power so to legislate. [More…]
When dealing with matters which include an aggregation of national responsibilities the Commonwealth speaks from the fountainhead of power given to it. [More…]
But I am bound to say at the moment that I think nothing is being done - to the tenth power. [More…]
Firstly, it has been suggested that the lack of resolution of the question between the Commonwealth and the States in some way restricts the Commonwealth’s legal power to negotiate international agreements. [More…]
The Commonwealth has power under the external affairs provisions of the Constitution. [More…]
So it has power to negotiate treaties, to enter into conventions and to make agreements regarding matters - any matters - relating to the law of the sea. [More…]
It has complete legal power, it can freely negotiate. [More…]
Although it is the sovereign right of the State to determine the organisation and development of its own resources, nevertheless the Commonwealth, because it is the financing power, because it has control over exports and imports and because it has particular and specific powers in relation to taxation fields, is of vital importance to the States when it comes to organised development. [More…]
First of all, the States just do not have sufficient funds for large scale development of land, power, water resources, transport etc. [More…]
Countries that we regard as less competent than ourselves, countries less endowed with natural resources, have adopted policies for energy and power which make this country seem to be a backward provincial area. [More…]
This truth has application in all forms of energy - of coal, oil, natural gas, nuclear power and other agencies of power. [More…]
The Labor Party faces this matter with a full knowledge of its responsibilities and, when in power, will introduce a national fuel policy. [More…]
I think that it is not generally known that the situation now is that unless bulk power using industries are attracted to Tasmania in a way which they have not been in the last few years this concentration of expertise, in the civil and electrical engineering fields notably, is in danger of running down. [More…]
That amount includes expenditure not only on the civil construction works in relation to dams and water storage and hydro-electric power development as such, but also expenditure on roads for tourists and timber access and even acquisition, lt involves fishing developments, fire protection and a certain amount of intrastate decentralisation. [More…]
In fact, as I said earlier, the failure to develop bulk power demands in the way in which they were developed during the interwar period and the immediate post-war period will have a very considerable impact on the economy of the State of Tasmania. [More…]
It is for that reason - this is not at all evident at the moment - that large power users such as the Electrolytic Zinc Co. of Australasia, the Australian Newsprint Mills Ltd, Comalco Aluminium (Bell Bay) Ltd and Associated Puip and Paper Mills Ltd are to be duplicated, if at all, in large numbers. [More…]
In fact, a message is received at the earth station - I think I am right in saying - at a strength of 100th of an ordinary torch battery and it is brought into the Australian system by increasing the power of the actual message. [More…]
I remind the House that the Commonwealth Constitution in Section 51 (XXXIII) expressly gives the Commonwealth power to acquire State railways with the consent of the State. [More…]
Two other areas which should be looked at in some depth are the future of the Navy’s air power capability, and requirements for long range maritime patrol and surveillance. [More…]
This is why I hope the Parliament will be able to bring to issues such as the replacement of the Neptune and the Mirage, and the revitalisation of naval air power, the same freshness and frankness revealed in the DDL debate last year. [More…]
Earlier this year the Prime Minister (Mr McMahon) made a clown of himself by running through South East Asia trying to create an issue out of the Five Power Defence Arrangement. [More…]
At the time of the last election the Five Power Defence Arrangement was the big issue. [More…]
This year the present Prime Minister was running around South East Asia trying to make something of the Five Power Defence Arrangement. [More…]
I am sure that all servicemen in this country accept and welcome the fact that they are subordinate to the civil power, but this civil power means the Government, not the Public Service. [More…]
We have manpower. [More…]
1 think that Australia is the ninth or tenth largest industrial power in the world. [More…]
More and more countries have to be self reliant because they cannot rely, as they have done in the past, on the great friendly powers - the United States of America and the United Kingdom - which are now withdrawing many of their forces. [More…]
This is why we have organisations and treaties such as ANZUS, SEATO and ANZUK so that we can help these people develop their own power. [More…]
The Liberal Government which came to power in 1949 adopted Labor’s immigration programme but not the associated regional development and decentralisation programme of the Department of Postwar Reconstruction. [More…]
However, authorities with comprehensive power would be highly appropriate for the planning and integrated development of each individual site chosen for selective decentralisation. [More…]
The Commonwealth owns the land and its legislative power is supreme. [More…]
These service corridors will carry transport systems, power and telecommunications amongst other things. [More…]
All new land in urban areas, especially on the fringes of our larger cties, would be acquired by a public authority before it is rezoned from nonurban to urban and developed by an authority similar to the National Capital Development Commission, having the power to hold the land in public ownership and to develop it on a leasehold basis similar to that practised in Canberra prior to 1st January 1971. [More…]
This action locates the power of decision at the dead centre of government, with the [More…]
This proves conclusively that an authority, given the power, can go ahead and implement policies. [More…]
We have to ask: What are the resources; what are we going to do about them; and what are we going to do in country areas which have water, minerals, electricity, power and transportation? [More…]
Of course, it does receive a great deal of favourable comment as an area with natural resources such as water, power and location. [More…]
We want to set up the administration of the new deal and make funds available to tackle telecommunications, freight and fuel, and power equalisation. [More…]
It is broad legislation which sets the mechanism for the development of the National Urban and Regional Development Authority which will have, according to clause 12 in the Bill, the power to investigate, and from time to time report to the Minister on, matters relating to urban or regional development. [More…]
in so far as those matters relate to any matter with respect to which the Parliament has power to make laws. [More…]
We find that the authority is powerless; that it is nothing. [More…]
It has power just to investigate. [More…]
The Government has the power and the authority to guide this type of investment. [More…]
What power will the proposed authority have to allocate funds? [More…]
There is an over-concentration of power in the central sphere; there have been no decisions on the allocation of resources. [More…]
The extra $11.50 a week is absorbed in part by the loss of purchasing power from the high rate of inflation in recent years. [More…]
Be that as it may, it does not mean that we should not do more for them if it is within our power to do so. [More…]
The honourable member may have noticed that in my second reading speech I referred to the fact that the Bill gives power to create conditions of any sort when granting approval to nursing homes. [More…]
The Council should be given a greater variety of powers in its negotiations; for example, it should have the power to call tenders in its negotiations with shipowners and to provide that no representatives of companies which are owned and controlled outside Australia are on the Council. [More…]
The shipowners appear to use their bargaining power to impose their conditions. [More…]
Let us not forget, especially when we hear the honourable member for Newcastle refer to the weakness of this legislation, that the consequences of noncompliance with these provisions of the Restrictive Trade Practices Act are very serious consequences indeed, because the Government has the power under this legislation, if the provisions of it are not complied with, to bring the conference shipping agreements to an end. [More…]
But in a country like Australia where we spend over S 1,000m on freight, when we talk of our exports and imports - this Bill is related primarily to export shipping - it seems to the Opposition that we have not paid enough attention to trying to break the power of the conference. [More…]
The assault has been avoided for the time being, but it would seem to me that the Minister has been more concerned to rationalise the shippers’ side of things on this occasion - I am not too sure that he has made out the case that this is the best form of rationalisation - and has paid very little attention to the great aggregate power that is possessed by the conference itself. [More…]
The Opposition thinks that the power of the conference is at least a significant matter for legislation. [More…]
We also feel that the Council or the Government, through the Act, should have provided itself with some more teeth for restricting the power of what is generally described as the conference. [More…]
This Federal Government has the power, I believe, to take action in this respect. [More…]
If it has not got the power it should attract the power to deal with these sorts of things. [More…]
The Government can pull them all in and tie them to the Conference system because the Minister has the power to direct once they have entered into agreements with the Conferences. [More…]
This Bill concerns the concentration of authority and negotiating power of exporters under the auspices of one body. [More…]
It concerns the concentration of authority or bargaining power as distinct from the fragmentation of that authority or power. [More…]
It would need only a similar kind of success through collaboration, amalgamation and concentration of negotiating power in the Australian Shippers Council to give more than a little hope that the same sort of achievement might be possible in relation to the shipping companies and the export trade in various goods from Australia. [More…]
An interesting constitutional question is involved in all this: If this is an exercise of power over labour, where does the Commonwealth get the power? [More…]
The Commonwealth has no power over direction and conditions of labour. [More…]
The Commonwealth, of course, has a power to grant educational benefits, and that is why we believe this power should be firmly founded by taking action under the Commonwealth Department of Education and Science. [More…]
Although I am not suggesting that anybody is particularly likely to challenge it, we do not think that as an intervention in industry under some purported industrial power the [More…]
The Minister may, either generally or otherwise as provided by the instrument of delegation, by writing under his hand, delegate to the Secretary to the Department of Labour and National Service all or any of his powers under this Act, except this power of delegation. [More…]
Clause 21 of the Bill provides that the Minister has power to delegate all his powers - except the power of delegation - to the Secretary of the Department of Labour and National Service. [More…]
The Opposition believes that this power of delegation should be exercised in favour of the Secretary not of the Department of Labour and National Service but of the Department of Education and Science. [More…]
The Labor Party wants to see the Government at least come up with a proposal to give real power to the child care standards committee. [More…]
Undoubtedly what is provided under this Bill is a social service, or could be readily defined as such, in which case the power of the Commonwealth is undoubted. [More…]
It operates in respect of power house employees in Sydney. [More…]
So, in order to meet the rise and fall of the purchasing power of money we have written into our amendment an escalation clause which will automatically adjust the total amount to which scheduled injuries are related by multiplying the national minimum wage for the particular city by 520, which would give for the city of Sydney a total sum of $26,936 compared to $14,500 which is proposed to be paid by the Government. [More…]
Of course it is not, because the total amount - the $26,936 - would apply only to a person who lost both eyes, both hands, both feet, a foot and a hand or the power of speech. [More…]
of this section, the permanent loss of the efficient use of a joint, organ, faculty, power, sense, limb or member, shall be deemed to be the loss of that joint, organ, faculty, power, sense, limb or member. [More…]
But the Government does not propose, except in special circumstances, to apply the legislation to takeovers of companies unless their assets exceed Sim, Two main powers are provided in the Bill. [More…]
The other main power will enable the Minister to limit the beneficial interests that a particular foreign interest or associated group of interests may have in a specified company. [More…]
This power will be available to ensure that the prohibition of one particular takeover proposal is not avoided by resort to some alternative proposal which would achieve the same ultimate effect. [More…]
In general such control will be treated as passing :f, as a result of the takeover, 15 per cent or more of the voting power would be controlled by a single foreign interest or associated group of interests. [More…]
A similar position will apply if in the aggregate 40 per cent or more of the voting power is controlled by foreign interests. [More…]
If a conclusion is reached that further investigation of particular proposals is desirable, the Minister will have power to issue an interim order prohibiting implementation of the proposal for such period not exceeding 3 months as is necessary for the further consideration to be given to it. [More…]
In addition a Supreme Court will have power, on application by the Minister, to make further orders against a person who commits such an offence. [More…]
It is to spread the burden of costs without sacrificing the power and freedom of the patient to receive first class medical and health care. [More…]
But the advances have not been made at the cost of the patient’s power and freedom to receive the good medical care of his choice. [More…]
This Labor policy would sweep away the patient’s power to purchase humane and dedicated medical care. [More…]
So Labor would destroy the fee relationship and so destroy the power of the patient over his doctor and his health scheme. [More…]
He even goes on to suggest that there is not enough power under the Australian Constitution for Labor to nationalise when he himself has said it would be wrong for Labor to hide behind the Constitution and pretend that it cannot socialise, nationalise or do what it wants. [More…]
In an oration which was reported in the ‘Medical Journal of Australia’ on 1 8th December 1965, when talking about the great power which the Commonwealth has under section 96 of the Constitution, he said: [More…]
Although the Commonwealth has no power to legislate for medical services, can it be doubted that the attachment of a positive condition to the tax reimbursement grant, making it payable only to States which exercised their legislative power to that end, would not be effective to achieve the desired result? [More…]
I would argue, firstly, that it is scandalous for a government that has been in power for so long and for a department of health that uses up a large amount of money on administration to be unable to supply a definite base line figure for Mr Justice Mason to work on and, secondly, that it is scandalous for the Government not to appear and oppose the proposition advanced by the AMA. [More…]
Clause 5 of the Third Schedule refers to the Minister having power over air services. [More…]
A glaring omission from this statement is mention of the very power - the substance - of the Northern Territory. [More…]
I believe that the Australian Government should have as much power as is possible to make laws regarding the Aborigines of Australia. [More…]
Why is it that the Government allows, for example, the Legislative Council to have power over the acquisition of urban land and its administration but refuses to allow the Council to have power over Crown land held in a very large way by foreign owners? [More…]
Under the terms which the Minister announced to the House today the Administrator of (he Northern Territory will have something like the powers of a governor. [More…]
This means, I assume, that the Governor-General will have no power of veto over any of the functions which are now exclusively those of the Legislative Council. [More…]
If the Administrator is given the power to refuse assent this has to be looked at carefully. [More…]
We accept the fact that selfgovernment will take time but we do not accept that it will take another 23 years - the period for which this Government has been in power - before a timetable can be laid down with a view to achieving the objective which I believe all Australians would want. [More…]
With these extra responsibilities, perhaps we will change the name ‘Council’ to Assembly’, even if, God forbid, the present Liberal-Country Party Government stays in power. [More…]
But the point in that clause is ‘the question of referred powers to be one for negotiation’. [More…]
Yet we have a form of local representation confined to a body called the Advisory Council which has no power. [More…]
They have no power. [More…]
Foreign competition reflects only money costs and international big business power. [More…]
The other interesting aspect of this Bill is that, for the first time to my knowledge - I might be subject to correction on this -we recognise in a legislative enactment that the Commonwealth does have legislative power in relation to finance and trading corporations. [More…]
We were always told that such a move was beyond the powers of the Commonwealth under the Constitution. [More…]
The 2 main powers set out in the Bill are concise and clear. [More…]
The Minister has power to make an order prohibiting a foreign takeover proposal, whatever its form, from being implemented if the Minister is satisfied that it would be against the national interest. [More…]
The second power will enable the Minister to limit the interests that a foreign concern or group of interests may have in a selected company. [More…]
These are effective powers which will prevent the possibility of some alternative proposition which could have the same ultimate effect. [More…]
The Government has power in both cases to make the final decision on whether a takeover should proceed. [More…]
Under this Bill the Government will have power to determine whether to control foreign takeovers or otherwise. [More…]
The legislation covers only one facet of the matters mentioned on 26th September and it can be got rid of by proclamation without even waiting for the Parliament to meet next year if, by some mischance, the Government scrambles back to power. [More…]
Another issue which shows a lack of sincerity on the part of the Government on this whole question of takeovers and monopoly power is the fact that a Bill entitled the Restrictive Trade Practices Bill (No. [More…]
This is simply another example of how vested interests of monopoly power have brought pressure to bear on the Government. [More…]
He had the fortitude to stand up and determine the corporation powers of the Government. [More…]
In an historic decision it was proven once and for all that the National Government of Australia in the Federal Parliament has the power to control foreign corporations and trading and financial corporations operating within Australia. [More…]
The Government proposes to give power to a Minister. [More…]
It has chosen not to give that power to an independent tribunal, which is what a Labor government would do. [More…]
But, before I go on to tell honourable members how the Government has given to a Minister this subjective power which, although the Government’s Ministers do not want to use it and will not use it - it is nice to frighten honourable members opposite and it is noticeable there is a deathly silence over the House - our Ministers could use, let me refer honourable members to some of the points that emerge from the haste which has been used in framing this legislation. [More…]
They are acting for business clients who are concerned about the way in which the Government has created this power. [More…]
The Government will give power to the Minister in what lawyers call the subjective form. [More…]
The power can be exercised secretary. [More…]
Yet the Government is giving power to a Minister - a person acting on the advice of some anonymous public servant somewhere, who may or may not be good at his job - to say: Make this order. [More…]
That is the power to punish for contempt. [More…]
The person summoned could be a little man or a big man, a powerful man or a weak man. [More…]
The Government has created a ministerial veil and it has given the Minister the power to say: ‘Off with your corporate head’ or ‘On with your corporate head’. [More…]
If it were not for the responsibility of the Australian Labor Party, another government could come to power in this country and could have a ball’ with this legislation. [More…]
I refer honourable members to clause 5 which is the clause which establishes the constitutional power for the Bill. [More…]
Paragraph (a) of clause 5 is the financial corporation power and paragraph (b) is the Commonwealth territories power. [More…]
The constitutional power for covering holding companies rests on the incidental power. [More…]
Therefore it was decided to separate that power covering the holding companies from clause 5 because of the experience in the Concrete Pipes case in which, when it was found that there was in law a fault, the court decided that the faulty section was not severable and then the whole of the legislation was brought down. [More…]
I believe it is this power which could be successfully invoked by the Government in passing this Bill and asserting the Commonwealth’s power to control marine pollution, irrespective of whether this is ratified by an international treaty. [More…]
This is the same power that the Gorton Government intended to assert when it introduced the Territoria’ Sea and Continental Shelf Bill. [More…]
If the Minister says that his legal advice is that the Commonwealth does not have the power, I suggest that his legal advice is different from that which has been given to me, to other members of the Opposition, to the right honourable member for Higgins (Mr Gorton) and to the honourable member for Moreton (Mr Killen). [More…]
We would still have the treaty ratified but the Government of Australia would exercise its legitimate sovereignty which I have no doubt 1 am sure that at least 2 honourable members opposite who voted with 1 the Opposition last week would agree - the Commonwealth does have the power to do. [More…]
The simple fact is that we do not have the power he believes we have. [More…]
The strong advice that has been given to the Government is that the way to obtain the power is by international convention. [More…]
What the honourable member proposed, in substance, would give Australia power to control a ship off the American coast, off the United Kingdom coast or off the coast of any country. [More…]
We now have the power, by complementary legislation with the States, to control shipping in our territorial waters. [More…]
We are awaiting the international ratification of the convention amendments to provide power to control spillage within the 50-mile limit and to be able to take international action to control the rate of spillage outside the 50-mile limit. [More…]
It is not that the Government lacks the power to introduce a proper Bill to give adequate protection of marine resources surrounding Australia. [More…]
It does in fact have the power. [More…]
This Government’s predecessor, the Gorton Government, certainly showed that it believed it had the power and I have no doubt that this Government really knows that it has the power which the Gorton Government attempted to invoke with the introduction of the Territorial Sea and Continental Shelf Bill. [More…]
But unfortunately this Government will not use that power. [More…]
The power exists under section [More…]
It really comes from the external affairs power under section 51, placitum 29, of the Constitution. [More…]
The power is in the Constitution. [More…]
All we have to do is to pass the law to invoke that power. [More…]
There is power in the Constitution to enable the Federal Parliament to make laws relating to foreign corporations. [More…]
That constitutional power had not previously been invoked but we know that it is there. [More…]
Last night and again tonight the Government acted to invoke that power by the simple passage of a piece of legislation. [More…]
Even without waiting for the treaty to be ratified by twothirds of the countries, surely there is no reason why the Australian Government could not take measures to pass a simple Bill which would give it the power to control all ships as from now. [More…]
I believe that the Commonwealth does have a power to act. [More…]
The honourable member for Kingston (Dr Gun) said that the Government had power to act in respect of international waters under its external affairs power. [More…]
The best advice available from the legal advisers to my Department is that we do not have authority to act under the external affairs power to which the honourable member referred. [More…]
Surely if we accept the advice that we do not have such power the proper way to seek authority is as we have done, under an international convention that gives us legal power to control all dumping beyond the 50-mile limit. [More…]
Power extends far beyond the 50-mile limit and out into the mid blue Ocean. [More…]
My advice is that we do not have authority under the external affairs power. [More…]
It is entitled ‘Powers Over and Protection Offered to Witnesses before Parliamentary Committees’. [More…]
Its purpose is to discuss the power of inquiry of committees appointed by Houses of the Parliament and the rights and duties of witnesses appearing before those committees. [More…]
This morning the Prime Minister made a statement which in my opinion confirms that while this Government remains in power the Jess Committee report will never be implemented. [More…]
If there is one thing which this Government has it is the constitutional power to act in this field. [More…]
From the use of this standard form which the companies employ and which does not give equality of bargaining power between the company and the individual all sorts of unfair situations result. [More…]
Following the completion of its inquiry into the distribution and pricing of Parliamentary publications late last year, the Joint Committee on Publications, having power to initiate its own inquiries within its general terms of reference, decided to investigate the publishing operations of government departments. [More…]
It is also our considered view that the 2 inquiries currently in progress should be completed and, in order to facilitate this and to enable any future Joint Committee on the Australian Capital Territory to take advantage of the work already done, we would recommend that the resolution of appointment provide - as does the resolution of the present Committee - that the Committee have power to consider and make use of the minutes of evidence and records of the present Committee relating to those uncompleted inquiries. [More…]
The Convention conferred upon an aircraft commander power to impose restraint in cases where the action was necessary for the protection of the aircraft or persons or property on board. [More…]
There was power also to return an offender to his home State or to the Territory in which he had begun his journey. [More…]
Yet Cape York Peninsula is one of the poorest areas in Australia in terms of basic development in roads, ports, power and so on. [More…]
If an invader came to this country we could fall at his feet and become slaves to a foreign power. [More…]
Is it that he has no power to get the information? [More…]
Has the Government the power to enforce the provisions contained in the Bill introduced into this House yesterday on foreign takeovers, if in fact they do apply, to cite the quantum of overseas plunder by way of nominee buying? [More…]
Further I ask the Minister whether the Act will have retrospective power to enable the recovery of Australian control of this major natural gas deposit? [More…]
The United States of America is now at a stage where the eastern part, in particular, faces yearly electric power shortages which have led to brown-outs in New York and other areas. [More…]
Its electric power and fuel costs are rising throughout the country. [More…]
Petroleum products provided 37.7 per cent, wood and bagasse 7.1 per cent, and water power 1.2 per cent. [More…]
In 1969-70 the corresponding figures were coal 43.3 per cent, petroleum products 48.9 per cent, wood and bagasse 3.7 per cent, natural gas - appearing for the first time - 1.8 per cent and water power 2 per cent. [More…]
There should be a plan to harness all of these resources in the production of power for the development of this country. [More…]
In relation to the question of the provision of high powered stations, it is to be noted that, if high-powered stations were provided for each site, the cost of the seventh stage of development would increase from an estimated $5m to $24.6m. [More…]
A further important consideration is that there is a limited number of television channels available and it would be technically impracticable for most of the stations included in the seventh stage of television development to operate on high power without interference being caused to reception of other stations, not only, in relation to the seventh stage stations but also in relation to existing television stations serving areas of earlier television development. [More…]
The power used by each station, up to an effective radiated power of 2,000 watts, has been adjusted to most effectively serve the areas concerned. [More…]
It is considered that a large number of the population not served by the proposed stations could eventually be served more economically and more effectively by translator stations or other means than by high powered stations. [More…]
Prior to the second series of French nuclear tests in the Pacific in 1967, the French Ministry of Information announced that ‘a small number of devices of limited power will be exploded’. [More…]
Is the Enrichment Study Group in the Japanese Central Electric Power Research Institute of the Japanese Government intending to assess the possibility of a uranium enrichment plant in Australia; if so, what aid has been given to them by the Australian Government. [More…]
The Enrichment Study Group in the Japanese Central Electric Power Research Institute is known to be interested in international enrichment projects. [More…]
It is reported that the corporation is to be 50 per cent owned by the State Power Board and 50 per cent by private and municipal utilities, (c) British Nuclear Fuels Ltd, is at present wholly owned by the United Kingdom Government. [More…]
It is determined to do all in its power to ensure that the opportunity is not lost to bring about a lasting settlement in Indo-China as, it believes, it was needlessly and tragically lost in 1954. [More…]
My Government will honour the terms of the Five Power Arrangements, but looks forward to the achievement of a neutral zone in South East Asia ultimately involving the phasing out of present military arrangements such as the Five Power Arrangements. [More…]
He saw the Australian Labor Party come to power under John Curtin, served as a Minister under Chifley, and shared the bitterness of defeat and the long years in the wilderness. [More…]
He lived long enough to see Labor’s return to power. [More…]
These vessels were very great advances relative to the power of the Australian Navy beforehand Bill Riordan had a very great logic about this, a belief that an air arm was vital in the great expanses of the Pacific which, of course, was one of the lessons of the Second World War. [More…]
1 remember his anger when he saw the payment of 32,000 to a particular naval rating who had invented the very fine torpedo which had not been used by the Australian Navy but had been so d to an overseas power. [More…]
He was one of several enlightened Canadians who have worked to transform their country’s reputation from that of an imperial dominion subject to British colonial tutelage and American economic power into an independent and distinctive force in the community of nations. [More…]
We are both medium powers in a world increasingly given to great power rivalries. [More…]
We are both seeking accommodation and new understandings with powerful neighbours. [More…]
Its ramifications could not have been fully apparent to him then, or to the rest of the world then, and it remains to us the manifestation of the ferocity of science and its sheer power. [More…]
When I sat behind the late President during the memorial service I could not help feeling what a powerful but lonely role this man played in carrying the great responsibilities of the Western World and yet how fragile and temporary that power was in the light of death. [More…]
It is related to an important matter of principle, namely, the request made by the Papua New Guinea Government for the transfer to Papua New Guinea of power over internal security. [More…]
Is it correct, as reported, that the Minister has stated that he has only noted this request, and is it correct that he will transfer this power only on certain conditions, one condition being that the transfer is revocable, in other words, that the power can be returned to the Australian Government at any time prior to Papua New Guinea gaining independence? [More…]
the Minister for Immigration nevertheless has power to make an order declaring that a particular Aboriginal does not require a permit to leave Australia even though he is subject to control; and [More…]
Since this Government came to power, many Australians have expressed concern about the complete lack of Cabinet government in the management of the nation’s affairs. [More…]
There are other areas relating to the industrial scene where the Government intends to use the power of government for an improper purpose. [More…]
It is bad luck that that Speech happened to be written before the Victorian Government made plain the dictatorial view of this Government in the housing policy that the Commonwealth is now trying to force upon the States - a policy that the Victorian Government is determined to reject because Victoria best knows its own priorities, best knows what is good for Victoria in this particular area and believes it Wrong that this power should be centralised in Canberra. [More…]
State governments, that the States will be fighting for their lives for any existence at all under a government that will be prepared to use the power of its own finances to take any authority or responsibility out of the hands of State governments. [More…]
On the question of Commonwealth and State power there are great differences between the Government and the Opposition. [More…]
There has been silence from the Government on the offer by the Chinese, revealed by supporters of the present Government, to cancel a $$60m wheat deal if it would help the Labor Party to gain power. [More…]
There will be a vast takeover of federal power and the States will be fighting for their lives. [More…]
We must, however, insist on seeking renegotiation of certain treaties where this is necessary to obviate the complete exclusion of Australia from any effective control over a defence installation on Australian soil or to obviate any possibility that Australia could be involved in war - and a nuclear war at that - without itself having any power of decision. [More…]
But in that 3-minute address was a reference to a nuclear power station which the then Government proposed in order to dress up its electoral grab bag. [More…]
We intend to govern the areas of nuclear power as well as coal and natural gas. [More…]
With only 19 per cent of the vote in Queensland, the Country Party holds a major share of power in the coalition Government. [More…]
I wield the power. [More…]
They have used the power of the State to bludgeon men to make them work. [More…]
They are afraid that such a union would represent power and would challenge the power that they and their political bosses pretend to wield over the whole community, such power being maintained by the forces of the State. [More…]
Very understandably, particularly amongst our neighbours and associates in the five-power pact. [More…]
My Government will honour the terms of the Five Power Arrangements, but looks forward to the achievement of a neutral zone in South East Asia ultimately involving the phasing out of present military arrangements. [More…]
The obligations which we assume under the five-power pact are, of course, rather loose. [More…]
So, when they are approached with ideas of new pacts and other new arrangements, they naturally view with suspicion a power which is showing so much disposition to conclude agreements and make arrangements with the communist world. [More…]
This, of course, includes our relations within the five-power pact. [More…]
The trouble is that, although the Government, through the Governor-General’s Speech puts out as its message - I will repeat this - the fact that is will honour the terms of the Five Power Arrangements, one wonders quite what that means in the Government’s view. [More…]
In fact, the Fire Power Arrangements are very loose. [More…]
We have talked about consumer protection, the need for upgrading the roads,’ the need for an extension to the powers of the Port of Darwin Authority and all manner of other things such as criminal law reform; the police and Senate representation. [More…]
We are criticised for making them the subject of specific specialised departments where they can be given proper attention with all the expertise, the facilities, the finance and the power of the Commonwealth Government for their solution. [More…]
vacillating on Australia’s troop commitment to the Five Power Arrangements, thereby calling into question Australia’s commitment and [More…]
Five Power Arrangements. [More…]
On 5th February the Minister for Defence (Mr Barnard) repeated the policy promise that the Government had decided to honour the full terms of the Five Power Arrangements and that this had been confirmed to Lord Carrington, British Defence Minister, on his visit to Australia. [More…]
We have come to the conclusion that despite this action we think the Five Power Arrangement is worth going on with and it makes sense and we shall do so. [More…]
Clearly Britain at least is unsure of what is intended by the Australian Labor Party and continues to plan for the future while the ALP power struggle on this issue continues. [More…]
This power was shown up in the Victorian Council of the ALP which met on the very day the Brenchley article appeared. [More…]
He has neither the courage nor the power to do it. [More…]
They can plan, but only on the basis of which faction of the ALP they believe will win the bitter power struggle, and let there by no mistake - there is a power struggle going on in relation to this matter. [More…]
He referred to the Five-Power Arrangements. [More…]
The Leader of the Opposition talked about the Five-Power Arrangements and particularly about the signals unit in Singapore. [More…]
The Australian Labor Party has stated consistently its policy towards the Five Power Arrangements and the ANZUK force. [More…]
My Party has stated consistently its policy towards the Five Power Arrangements and the ANZUK force. [More…]
The policy is to honour the terms of the Five Power Arrangements pending the establishment of a zone of peace, freedom and neutrality in the region. [More…]
It is for similar reasons that the Mirage squadrons will remain at Butterworth, where they play a valuable role in the training of Malaysian and Singaporean forces as well as making a major contribution to the Five Power Force as a whole. [More…]
This Government will continue with its policy of co-operation with the Governments of Malaysia and Singapore in the development of their forces and with its support of the Five Power Arrangement, which provides the framework within which this assistance is given. [More…]
This policy is understood by our partners in the Five Power Arrangements. [More…]
As the Leader of the Opposition pointed out, I recently held extensive talks with the British Minister for Defence, Lord Carrington, during which this Government’s attitude to the Five Power Arrangements was fully explained. [More…]
In short, there is nothing in the actions which this Government has taken since it assumed office which could ‘be interpreted as a weakening of the Five Power Arrangements. [More…]
This Government’s policy is well known to our partners in the Five Power Arrangement. [More…]
In this respect, in relation to the Five Power Arrangements, the charges of the Leader of the Opposition are without substance. [More…]
The 2 issues under consideration were: The question of the future of the Five Power Arrangements and the 121st Signals Squadron. [More…]
The Minister for Defence, of all people, was proclaiming the power of the backroom boys of the Labor Party over the Government’s defence policy. [More…]
The motion of censure moved by the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Snedden) talks about vacillating on Australia’s troop commitment to the Five Power Arrangements thereby calling into question Australia’s commitment. [More…]
The credibility gap - the Liberal Party’s credibility gap - began at the Five Power meeting in Canberra. [More…]
What he did in that ham-fisted way was to deny a substantial part of Malaysia the security to which Malaysia as a member of the Five Power Defence Arrangements was entitled. [More…]
When he got to London he was asked about the possibility of conflict between Asian countries in terms of the Five Power Defence Arrangements. [More…]
The next Prime Minister, Mr McMahon, in one of his more memorable remarks in an interview in Indonesia on 12th June 1972 said the Five Power Defence Arrangements did not really matter because it is only an obligation to consult and it doesn’t take us any further’. [More…]
The Five Power Defence Arrangements are a consultation mechanism. [More…]
Prime Minister McMahon at that stage made a most remarkable observation on the meaning and significance of the Five Power Defence Arrangements He said: [More…]
Let us get back to the one correct statement that former Prime Minister McMahon made - that the Five Power Defence Arrangements are a mechanism of consultation. [More…]
I think what we have to get down to is whether the efficacy of the Five Power Defence Arrange- [ ments is dependent upon having a handful of people in Malaysia and Singapore. [More…]
Let us look at what the Opposition members did when they were in power. [More…]
But the Opposition when it was in power deliberately set out to limit the interpretation of that agreement and so we had the United [More…]
It was the day on which the then Government sold out to another power the sovereign rights of this country. [More…]
The first statement to which I draw attention was that, as Prime Minister, I initiated a policy - which he apparently did not like- by making a statement at the Five Power Conference held in Canberra at which I referred to Malaya as distinct from other parts of Malaysia. [More…]
The Minister for External Territories said that this distinction started at the Five Power Conference here. [More…]
The essence of the censure motion against the Government is that it has jeopardised Aus tralian security, firstly, through vacillation In relation to the commitment of troops to the Five Power Arrangements thereby putting at risk the whole Five Power Arrangements and, secondly, by undesirable disclosures of security information. [More…]
Let me take the House through the events relating to the Five Power Arrangements for which the Minister for Defence was unable to give any explanation, and to Australian forces in Singapore. [More…]
The House will remember the significant achievement of the previous Government in negotiating the Five Power Arrangements and persuading the United Kingdom to reverse its previous decision to withdraw entirely from the Far East. [More…]
All are in favour of the Five Power Agreement under which Australia stations military forces In Singapore and Malaysia. [More…]
After uttering soothing words in the period prior to the election about the importance it attached to the Five Power Arrangements and playing down those provisions in the ALP platform which required it to bring the troops back to Australia, it was confronted with the imminent visit of Lord Carrington. [More…]
If the Government was to take this craven action and pander to its left wing by bringing the combat troops home, the next best thing it could do was to attempt to preserve the Five Power Arrangements by leaving the logistics forces in Singapore. [More…]
Pending neutralisation, we will honour the full terms of the Five Power Arrangements under which Australia agrees to provide Malaysia and Singapore with personnel, facilities and courses for training their forces and assistance in operational and technical matters and the supply of equipment . [More…]
The Five Power Arrangements do not require an Australian garrison in Singapore; the battalion and battery there will not be replaced when they complete their tour of duty. [More…]
This word was used deliberately in the five power arrangements so that we could overcome the idea of it being an agreement which constituted a definite problem relating to a military commitment in the 2 parts of Malaysia - whether in the peninsula or East Malaysia. [More…]
I hope from his point of view and that of the Government but, most important of all, from the viewpoint of the functioning of the national Parliament of this country that he will not see that experience sour too early simply because the power he already holds has gone to his head. [More…]
A reduction in the real purchasing power of money is a problem suffered by the employee and his family - by the little girl who tries to buy the meat that the children need to give them sustenance. [More…]
There is enough nuclear power in the world now to blow us to smithereens probably 100 times over. [More…]
Should I consider that a project concerns the environment, then I have a discretionary power to call for an impact statement; but after January of next year that discretionary power will no longer exist and the statement will be automatically expected. [More…]
Right throughout the meat industry there is a very uneasy fee ing with this Government in power, not attempting to do a thing to get our produce away from our ports. [More…]
From my own point of view, if there has to be a Labor government in power, I would prefer to see in charge of our defence a man who has flown the Fill and had served at the battle of El Alamein rather than someone less conspicuous. [More…]
If they were surprised then they must have been even more amazed when they heard Opposition members attributing all the ills that beset Australia to a government that had been in power for only 3 months. [More…]
I also refer to the brown coal deposits which provide our power resources throughout Victoria and which I undertook as a candidate to have researched as potential liquid fuel resources as a defence measure. [More…]
I assure them that 1 will do all in my power to represent them effectively. [More…]
1 economic power for a re-alignment of trade barriers and international currencies, bargaining by a United States Administration which is skilled in the art of the big league power play and not in any need of the advice of self-professed sophisticates from other countries, small or large. [More…]
The Governor-General’s Speech should be seen in the context of 2 main forces - the accelerating rate of change and the increasing concentration of power and property in the hands of a few. [More…]
In Australia, power and wealth are vested in property other than that used for consumption and unless this is shared more equitably, democracy and this ambituous program will never become a reality. [More…]
It is abhorrent to our Party as it must be to all concerned Australians, and members of the Parliamentary Labor Party, too, if they made known what was really in their minds, that no group should have the power of direction over the people’s elected representatives in this Parliament. [More…]
Now, in blindness to personal freedom and individuality, they force by abuse of their economic power compulsory union service for their low purpose of rewarding their political power base. [More…]
It does this in its eagerness to pamper its power base - the trade unions and their powerful leaders. [More…]
The Government has been prepared to allow relationships with traditional allies - the United Kingdom and the United States of America - to atrophy by placing its primary importance on the neutrality in South East Asia which will - I quote from the Speech - ‘involve the phasing out of present military arrangements such as the Five Power Arrangements’. [More…]
Achieving the zone of peace is not even within Australia’s power. [More…]
This Federal Parliament has within its power the ability to see that we do not have to face another major adversity to make us realise that democracy, freedom and the Australian way of life we enjoy are not inevitable. [More…]
The program outlined by the Government is a clever one; it is cleverly designed to shift the whole balance of political power in Australia to Canberra. [More…]
In truth, the phrase hides a wholesale takeover of State authority and responsibility by the calculated use of Commonwealth economic power. [More…]
As Commonwealth agencies, backed by the financial power of the Commonwealth, they are bound to become the fourth tier of government in this country. [More…]
By their very nature, with the Commonwealth economic power behind them, they are likely to reduce State governments to mere appendages instead of healthy legislative organs vital to a healthy nation. [More…]
Associated with policies to put pressure on prices through the establishment of a prices justification trubunal and stronger controls on the existence of monopoly power, this Government will be placing the emphasis on inflation control where it should be - on those who set the prices of commodities and services in this community and not on those who have to pay them. [More…]
But if one looks outside the Speech, at the performance of the Australian Labor Party over the years and at its performance since it became the Government on 2nd December, it leads one to believe that what is going to happen is that there will be a heavy concentration of power in Canberra and decisions which should properly be made at the local level by local councils and by State governments will be made by public servants in Canberra and the money will be dished out in Accordance with their subservient attitudes. [More…]
At present this is the subject of a tender to the Southern Electric Authority of Queensland for the purpose of establishing a power house. [More…]
Advance notice is served that I am totally opposed to the centralisation of power in Canberra by the devious method of eroding the powers, and rights of the individual - and this is surely the most sacred right of all - and attempting to destroy the State and local authorities. [More…]
History has recorded that the classic Federal position deteriorated as the States lost fiscal power. [More…]
The effective power, the power of the purse, firmly resided in Canberra. [More…]
the extension of the concept of excise duty by the ruling of the High Court in the case of Western Australia v. Chamberlain Industries, the inability of that court to limit the Commonwealth’s power to impose conditions on grants under section 96, have led to the situation where the finances of the State are dictated by the whims of the Federal machine. [More…]
He said: ‘Lel your fall from power sting you into the realisation that you win only succeed if you listen to us mora closely in the future. [More…]
The Commissioner will have power to vary or cancel the weekly payments payable in death cases to take into account a change in the financial circumstances or needs of a dependant or for any other sufficient reason. [More…]
The Bill includes also a provision which will empower the Director to call up a loan where after the loan has been made available it comes to the knowledge of the Director that the purchaser or borrower or that person’s wife or husband as the case may be, was, at the time the loan was granted, the owner of another dwelling house. [More…]
A power for the Director to call up a loan in such circumstances is essential in order that he may enforce the requirements of the Act. [More…]
In the comparatively short space of 3 months the Minister for Health has seen his Department decimated by the power hungry Minister for Social Security. [More…]
I am sure that many State and local government authorities will be appalled at the recent statements by the Minister for Labour (Mr Clyde Cameron) that the present Federal Government would demand a power of direction as to the use of any similar future provision of funds to counter unemployment. [More…]
We have to understand, for example, that we have a new basic assumption in relation to constitutional matters which is that the outer limits of Federal power should be explored and not merely the safe inner core. [More…]
I made this criticism of the previous Government when it was in power and I will continue to make it whichever government is in office. [More…]
After all, it is not from the electors’ point of view so important which government is in power or which gov ernment is not in power. [More…]
I do not think the people who voted the Government into power really understand that such massive changes in this and other fields were contemplated. [More…]
It is a field which was set as one of the targets of the outgoing Government which undoubtedly it would have dealt with effectively if it had been returned to power for these 3 years. [More…]
We must, however, insist on seeking renegotiation of certain treaties where this is necessary to obviate the complete exclusion of Australia from any effective control over a defence installation on Australian soil or to obviate any possibility that Australia could be involved in war - and a nuclear war at that - without itself having any power of decision. [More…]
We must, however, insist on seeking renegotiation of certain treaties where this is necessary, to obviate the complete exclusion of Australia from any effective control over a defence installation on Australian soil or to obviate any possibility that Australia could be involved in war - and a nuclear war at that - without itself having any power of decision. [More…]
But was there any renegotiation over the Five Power Arrangements when Australia so stupidly ratted on the other parties to those arrangements. [More…]
Whereas previously the Director-General of Works had full power in letting contracts, now the approval of contracts will be taken over by myself acting within my ministerial responsibility - [More…]
In his public declamation of the Board the Minister is seeking to convert that body - with its long-established history of independence - to a rubber stamp for union demands and to force the Board to become the pacesetter for wages and conditions throughout the community; this, in spite of a very clear interpretation of intention in the Act that the Public Service should not be used for purposes of political patronage by whatever government happens to be in power. [More…]
The Minister for Labour has also foreshadowed amendments to the Conciliation and Arbitration Act which will have the effect of increasing the already excessive monopoly power of the trade unions, and this in turn can only lead to gross maldistribution of our productive resources. [More…]
And between these limits, unions are being encouraged by the Government to use their monopoly power to extract crippling overaward wage increases. [More…]
Our relations with the United States have sunk to the lowest level since the last Labor Government was in power. [More…]
Although I was Opposition Whip for 17 years, which is a record period for a person to hold the office of Whip of a major Party in the Federal Parliament - when Labor was elected to government I did not desire to contest the position of Government Whip - and although I found myself completely and fully occupied as Opposition Whip, it was maddening sitting in Opposition to see the Liberal Party-Country Party coalition returned to power with monotonous regularity at 9 elections. [More…]
They find themselves armed with executive power, both exciting and frightening. [More…]
It is headed ‘Labor to Power!’ [More…]
He told me: ‘In 1940 we estimated we would be in a position to take over Australia in 20 years; we would get control of the unions handling power, transport and food; and we would move from the unions into the universities, and then into the schools. [More…]
We would not need numbers, only power. [More…]
The Commonwealth will be able to use its power to control excessive price increases. [More…]
As the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) has pointed out on a number of occasions, the Commonwealth has great power to take action as it is the main authority letting contracts, granting subsidies and determining tariffs. [More…]
It can use this power in order to control the pricing policies of the corporations producing basic commodities in our community. [More…]
Not only will the Commonwealth use its power to contain price increases, but it will also use its great power - and rightly so - to ensure adequate working conditions for all employees engaged under Government contracts. [More…]
I refer to the gradual drift of Australia towards the Left since this Government has been in power. [More…]
The power of direction, advice and/or guidance is reserved for the Federal Conference and between conferences, the Federal Executive. [More…]
But perhaps the House has not paid sufficient regard to what happened in Tasmania 2 or 3 days ago when the socialist Left exerted its power and the Tasmanian delegates to that Conference are now split 3 - 3, right and left. [More…]
They arc here in the text if only people would read them, if only people would understand what they did on 2nd December and realise whom they put into power. [More…]
But actually they were voting to give power to a Labor Conference and to a Labor Executive. [More…]
Again I say that what has been happening recently in Tasmania may well throw the balance of power in that Conference on the side of the Left. [More…]
Exchange rates, in a free market, tend to reflect the differences in the internal purchasing powers of various currencies. [More…]
The value of any currency can be seen in its internal purchasing power, purchasing power being dependent upon national productivity; in other words, how a country manages its manpower and resources. [More…]
The United States dollar today retains 59 per cent of its 1949 purchasing power but the Australian dollar retains only 37 per cent of its 1949 purchasing power. [More…]
We have appreciated against sterling by 45 per cent while the pound is holding its purchasing power. [More…]
As there is a naval air power study under way I believe that no decision should be made on the DDLs until that time. [More…]
The climb to power by the Labor Party started in 1966, the year in which Harold Holt led the Liberal and Country Parties to the greatest victory of any Australian government since Federation. [More…]
The unions consequently grow more powerful and more wealthy and at election time they have more money to donate to the ALP to keep a Labor Government in power. [More…]
In just 3 months we have witnessed a retreat towards isolationism, an attempt by a section of the Labor Party to destroy the American alliance, and the intensification of a campaign to terminate the Five Power Defence Arrangements. [More…]
It was immensely gratifying to see the pleasure it gave to so many staunch supporters of the Australian Labor Party - those who are young and were able to see a dynamic, progressive government come into power - a government which was obviously prepared to represent their hopes and aspirations and which was to be attuned to the direction they wanted this nation to go. [More…]
These are the people who still believe the ranting and raving of the Opposition about socialism, about peace and about having a democratically based party in power. [More…]
The Commonwealth has the constitutional power, through the Interstate Commission, to ensure that this disadvantage is reduced. [More…]
The whole constitutional system of the United States of America rests on the fact that the American people, not without the best of reasons, have the utmost suspicion of people who wield power. [More…]
There is a conjunction of circumstances, with this power in the hands of one man, a front man to deal directly with the people, and his being told what he shall do by somebody unelected, outside this House. [More…]
That was when the Liberals came to power. [More…]
No-one can deny that all the cranks, odd bods, drug addicts, homosexuals, abortionists, pornographers, Women’s Liberation supporters and all the demonstrators in the world were brought together in one unified force to get the Labor Party into power. [More…]
The people were horrified when this Government came to power. [More…]
What 1 find astonishing is that in all this talk about the first 100 days or, if you like, the first quarter of the life of this Government members of the previous Government which had been in power for the best part of 100 quarters- 23 years - seem to want to be consoled only about the figures of the last quarter. [More…]
Acts covering the employment of staff of statutory authorities, etc., generally give power to the authority to determine terms and conditions of employment. [More…]
A generation ago, when Labor was in power, young people were considered unready to assume these responsibilities because they were not as well educated, not as mature, not as sure of themselves and not as richly endowed intellectually, physically, socially or economically. [More…]
It is a far more difficult task, however, to create and maintain the necessary social conditions to advance a growing generation to the point at which its members can exercise responsibly this most important power. [More…]
They are saying to young people in effect: ‘We are now in power so it is only proper that you should now seek to work within the system. [More…]
That system is only undemocratic when the other group, the group now represented by the Opposition, is in power’. [More…]
It will be asking them to work within the system in order to give the Labor Party the power to work outside the system. [More…]
I hope that the unscrupulous political organisers to whom I alluded a moment ago will not feed their lust for power by insidiously campaigning among our young people. [More…]
The simple fact is that this matter has been unfortunately interpreted in the past as politics at its lowest level; not politics as it should be and not politics in the sense that it is a democratic exercise of will or power to implement changes that are to the advantage of the great majority of members of our community, bringing into play a clash of ideas, a clash of ideologies and a clash of thoughts so that all people will benefit as they will by the passage of this legislation. [More…]
Although many of these fields are legislated for by State governments the Australian Government also has power in certain areas. [More…]
If that age is less than twenty-one years, the restrictions on the Parliament’s legislative power implicit in the opening words of s. 41 would have no application. [More…]
Equality of voting power became a secondary consideration. [More…]
The 1968 redistribution of electorates starkly revealed the effect of these changes and the disparities in electorate population and voting power. [More…]
The bitterness apparent when its citadel of power was invaded and the determination of the Country Party to cling to office on its unprincipled scheme of electoral gerrymandering was revealed by the shameful events in the Queensland Parliament at that time. [More…]
Of course there was a decision to leave the Australian currency unchanged when the currency of the greatest power on earth, America, was devalued. [More…]
I believe that the Government’s power under this measure should be extended. [More…]
It will be a matter for each university to determine who should receive, assistance but I would expect that grants would be made available to students who are in extremely difficult financial circumstances following misfortune outside their control, such as death, injury, serious illness or desertion by breadwinners of families on ordinary incomes; the annihilation of family income in flood, drought or bushfire; seasonal or chronic unemployment of the breadwinner; loss of earning power by the breadwinner for any other reason; unreasonable refusal of financial support by parents; and to the children of age, invalid or widow pensioners. [More…]
There are also social considerations - the valid use of the tax power to exempt from certain taxation classifications goods that are otherwise within those classifications and therefore bear tax, in order to achieve social purposes. [More…]
The House will remember that in 1948 the people of Australia rejected, among other things, a proposal to give the Commonwealth power to control prices. [More…]
I believe that the Australian people would support any move to give the Commonwealth power to regulate prices. [More…]
Those of us on this side of the House who represent wine producing electorates - the honourable member for Angas, the honourable member for Paterson (Mr O’Keefe), the honourable member for Wakefield (Mr Kelly) and others - will be doing everything in our power to force the Government to go beyond the politically motivated froth and bubble of the excise as contained in the second reading speech to this Bill and get down to the hard yakka of the really important problems of the industry. [More…]
They had the power and they imposed it. [More…]
All I think I can say about the general matter which the honourable gentleman raised - I would like to praise him for his attitude throughout his life in this Parliament as well as outside for his many activities in this field - is that the Australian Government is resolved to press ahead by every constitutional method available to it - in particular since the 1967 referendum and under the external affairs power - to see that any traces of racism in Australia’s legislation or administration are expunged. [More…]
This high level of reserves attracted criticism from the US Secretary of the Treasury, Mr Schulz, in a very thinly veiled threat that the US would use its power to introduce restrictions on exports of meat, wool and products that we export to the US. [More…]
That the committee have power to appoint subcommittees consisting of four or more of its members and to refer to any such sub-committee any of the matters which the committee is empowered to consider. [More…]
That the committee or any sub-committee have power to send for and examine persons, papers and records, to move from place to place and to meet and transact business in public or private session and notwithstanding any prorogation of the Parliament. [More…]
That the committee have leave to report from time to time and that any member of the committee have power to add a protest or dissent to any report. [More…]
That the committee have power to consider and make use of the minutes of evidence and records of the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs, appointed in the previous Parliament, relating to any matter on which that committee had not completed its consideration. [More…]
That the committee have power to appoint subcommittees consisting of three or more of it member and to refer to any such sub-committee any of the matters which the committee is empowered to examine [More…]
That the committee have power to send for persons, papers and records, to move from place to place and to sit during any recess or adjournment of the Parliament. [More…]
That the committee have leave to report from lime to time and that any member of the committee have power to add a protest or dissent to any report. [More…]
They want decent shelter, water and power while they are employed for a short time. [More…]
If the land is non-transferable under a proposed new title, does this mean that a full blood or a part Aborigine, once having obtained that land outside the reserve has no power to sell his land? [More…]
My own impression is that there has been an increasing tendency for concentration of economic power in Australia. [More…]
Personally I am not gravely alarmed about the existence of concentration of economic power if we are .talking about, for instance, monopolies or oligopolies in the economy because in Australia I believe there is a sound case for large scale production to achieve economies of scale. [More…]
ls it true that New South Wales, being a sovereign State, has full power over this decision? [More…]
That the committee have power to appoint subcommittees consisting of 3 or more of its members and to refer to any such sub-committee any of the matters which the committee is empowered to examine. [More…]
That the committee have power to send for persons, papers and records, to move from place to place and to sit during any recess or adjournment of the Parliament. [More…]
That the committee have leave to report from time to time and that any member of the committee have power to add a protest or dissent to any report. [More…]
That the committee have power to consider and make use of the minutes of evidence and records of the Joint Committees on the Australian Capital Territory, appointed in previous Parliaments, relating to any matters which are again referred to the committee. [More…]
7) That the committee have power to appoint subcommittees consisting of 3 or more of its memhe rs and to refer to any such sub-committee any of the matters which the committee is empowered to examine. [More…]
That the committee have power to send for persons, papers and records, to move from place to place and to sit during any recess or adjournment of the Parliament. [More…]
That the committee have leave to report from time to time and that any member of the committee have power to add a protest or dissent to any report. [More…]
The profanation - to use that word in its technical sense - of the ceremony by its incorporation in school curricula might help to dissolve the power and the significance of it for Aboriginal people. [More…]
We could find the exercise of all political power in this country suddenly concentrated in a very limited number of hands - probably as few as one. [More…]
Honourable members on this side of the House who have exercised the power of government for some years know that the 2 basic things in government are that the total resources are limited and that the establishment of priorities is absolutely essential. [More…]
There probably will be no focus - we do not know, but I will be interested to find out what emerges from this process - on the giant rises in costs which, since the Government came to power, have been hidden. [More…]
The Victorian Government, which is acting purely in an election situation, has no power or authority in this field but has a Minister running around the country making all sorts of irresponsible statements. [More…]
State Development in Victoria said that the Victorian Government would investigate what action it could take within its legislative power to ensure that the people of western Victoria could send their wool and other products through the port of Portland. [More…]
Particularly in the end will it affect those who have massive industrial power and are able to protect themselves unto the last against the impact of inflationary pressures. [More…]
As though the evidence I supplied were not enough to convict the last Government, through its Attorney-General, of misleading the Parliament and the nation, of deceiving a friendly foreign power, of imperilling the lives of Australian citizens by shutting its eyes to the evidence of organised terrorism, there is yet another perhaps more glaring example of the existence of a dangrous, violent Croatian revolutionary terrorist organisation in Australia. [More…]
Man-made sources of radiation include mining for radioactive material, medical use of radioactive material both for diagnostic and treatment purposes, nuclear power production, miscellaneous sources such as electronic tubes emitting X-rays, but not designed for that purpose and, of course, nuclear explosions for both peaceful and non-peaceful purposes. [More…]
In any case the World Court has no power to enforce its injunctions unless the Security Council decides to support it. [More…]
I refer also to the Government’s legislation for 4 weeks annual leave for Commonwealth public servants as a lead to the rest of the work force; and I refer to the Government’s support for the 35-hour week, ostensibly only in the oil, power and vehicle industries, but in fact since it cannot be quarantined there, in industry at large. [More…]
But quite suddenly we get a group of people coming into power in this nation, wanting to twist our ideologies and change the whole character of this country. [More…]
Local authorities should be entitled to make their own approach to the Grants Commission or some other instrumentality, and in that way power will be effectively given to local government. [More…]
By the way, local authorities are as suspicious as most Australians are at the moment of the Commonwealth Government’s centralising of control and power, completely in accord with socialist, communist domination. [More…]
There has been a gradual whittling away of local control and power, and it is being done in a very effective manner. [More…]
Is it not obvious that the Whitlam Government is bringing the power not to the ministers generally, because they have been appointed on the basis that they will be mainly ineffective, and all power will come back to 2 or 3 men and eventually to one? [More…]
That use of dic- tatorial power, albeit for a short period, is un-Australian and should never be repeated in the history of this country. [More…]
The use of such power to enforce a principle of doubtful national significance seems indefensible. [More…]
Will the Minister affirm the Government’s policy to ensure the long term stability of the Australian shipbuilding industry and also assure honourable members that the Government will do an within its power to guarantee immediate continuity of work at the Evans Deakin shipyard, contrary to the attitude of the last Government, which failed to do this? [More…]
It will be a matter for each college of advanced education to determine who shall receive assistance, but I would expect that the grants would be made available to students who are in extremely difficult financial circumstances following misfortune outside their control, such as death, injury, serious illness or desertion by bread-winners of families on ordinary incomes; the annihilation of family income in flood, drought or bushfire; seasonal or chronic unemployment of the bread-winner; loss of earning power by the bread-winner or any other reason; unreasonable refusal of financial support by parents; and to the children of age, invalid or widow pensioners. [More…]
Australian Wool Commission was given the power to examine and request prices and costs charged by groups which were operating in competition with the public utilities owned and run by the Wool Commission. [More…]
The power given to the Wool Commission was restricted to the private sector. [More…]
Inflation misallocates resources, erodes savings, puts at a disadvantage the economically weak and aids speculators and those prepared to exploit ruthlessly their industrial power. [More…]
It is only members of the Labor Party, because of their power position, who are unable to make that objective statement. [More…]
Have they not been successful in enforcing their claims by strike action - that is, if they possess industrial power? [More…]
Only those unions with industrial power can enforce claims. [More…]
What the trade union movement and the Labor Party are acquiescing in is the creation of class distinctions in this community among wage earners, depending on whether as an organised trade union they possess industrial power. [More…]
It should be eradicated from their minds because it is the very people who are going to be harmed by inflation who are economically powerless. [More…]
It was the economically powerless who elected this Government to office. [More…]
This is not deniable, and anyone who claims to deny it is not arguing from fact but from the position of being commanded by the political power of unions. [More…]
With the flick of a finger his crusade was abandoned because of the power that he encountered and the end of economic realities was writ clear in Neon signs. [More…]
But we will not let it terrorise, abuse or falsely use the power of government against the industrial sector of Australia, which is the sector which provides jobs and growth and is the hope for the continuing growth of the great Australian nation. [More…]
The terms of reference proposed for the Joint Committee have been drafted deliberately so as not to restrict the inquiries of the Committee, which will have the power to discuss any matter relevant to prices, and to receive expert evidence from economists, accountants, lawyers and others, from within the Public Service or elsewhere. [More…]
The committee in the final analysis anyway has considerable power of determination because a power of authority is given in section (1) (c) of the terms of reference which reads: [More…]
The object of appointing a joint Parliamentary committee on prices is to make that committee part of the machinery that the Government wants to set up for prices justification in the community in order to inhibit price rises and thus reduce the rate of inflation and increase purchasing power. [More…]
It has by no means full power over wages, yet the Australian people look to it alone to provide stability, growth and opportunity. [More…]
The committee will have great powers, including power to compel attendance before it, to send for persons and papers and things of that character. [More…]
It will have a large and perhaps even an unwieldy staff, but the fact that it will have staff will add to its powers. [More…]
I am worried about the possible exercise of the power to appoint subcommittees consisting of 3 members without the precaution - and perhaps this will not happen in practice - of ensuring that the Opposition is represented on those subcommittees. [More…]
There have been a couple of lamentable lapses from this policy but by and large the Commission has held the view that if prices rise without an increase in productivity, it is nonetheless incumbent upon the Commission to increase wages to maintain and to sustain the purchasing power of wage earners. [More…]
I believe that we have pretty ample evidence already of what can be done by examining the prices of particular goods and services and then the Government threatening to use its power to give? [More…]
During that time there has been a very considerable decline in the spending power of members’ salaries and their relativity to the incomes of the rest of the community but no reduction in their necessary personal and political expenditure. [More…]
People in country areas have been concerned at actions taken by the Government particularly when they saw an 18 per cent difference in the value of the Australian dollar compared to its value prior to the Labor Government coming into power. [More…]
The Country Party is determined, so far as it is within its power, to maintain the status of the Country Party in this Parliament. [More…]
In his policy speech the Prime Minister without equivocation said that all Commonwealth employees would receive 4 weeks annual leave but within those first heady days of power the Prime Minister backed away from his promise. [More…]
This concept of pace setting, now espoused by the Government, has clearly dangerous implications for it can only be an open invitation to unions to entice the Minister for Labour to join in concerted action against private industry by the irresponsible use of Commonwealth economic power and indirect industrial pressure. [More…]
We must do everything in our power to maintain the soil so that in the years to come it can give us the same quality of produce. [More…]
Will the Prime Minister assure the House that good Australian citizens who have fled their homeland will not come under political charges on advice from a foreign power without such advice being weighed against information from Australia’s own security and police forces? [More…]
Has the Commonwealth Government power to take any action deemed necessary to protect the rights of residents whose homes and land are to be resumed? [More…]
If the Government of Australia has such power, will steps be taken to guarantee fair and just compensation to people involved and/or will the introduction of a proper resettlement scheme be considered? [More…]
The Australian Government has no direct power over these land resumptions. [More…]
The question of cost also might be a very important consideration with a large number of honourable members, and this obviously cannot be determined except by means of a committee with power to call for persons and papers and to investigate the matter with the aid of people who have special information to give. [More…]
That the committee, for any purposes related to thisinquiry, have power to send for persons, papers and records. [More…]
This Joint Committee is set up by statute under the Parliamentary Proceedings Broadcasting Act which invests it with various powers for the transaction of its business. [More…]
It does not, however, have the power to send for persons, papers and records. [More…]
It is felt that if the Committee is to be given this inquiry in relation to televising proceedings of the Parliament it should be granted this power to examine witnesses to enable it effectively to conduct this inquiry. [More…]
Provision, therefore, for this power has been incorporated in the proposed amendment. [More…]
I am by no means satisfied that some of the initiatives which have been taken since the present Government came to power answer this test. [More…]
I refer to an actual case that has already happened since this Government came to power. [More…]
At the beginning of this week the newspapers wrote up a conference which was attended by the Prime Minister only last week at which he confronted the Victorian Executive of his Party and, with great oratory and as the possessor of respect and great power, convinced the delegates of the Victorian Executive of the Labor Party that the Government could not make available information in relation to American bases in this country. [More…]
Labor was not elected to power to single out for privileged treatment the members of the unions which support it and traditionally contribute to election funds. [More…]
This, of course, is not to deny that the Public Service Arbitrator has legal power to determine changes in annual leave entitlements subject, of course, to the general power of Parliament to disallow an arbitral determination which is in conflict with legislation it has passed. [More…]
That must mean that he and his Government were directing the Public Service Board, because the Government has no power to ensure that determinations and their benefits apply to everybody. [More…]
I thought that the Commonwealth Public Service and the Commonwealth Government, irrespective of which Party is in power, as a beneficent employer should set the pace. [More…]
We reject the opportunism of the Labor Party to use its power in office now to consolidate office for itself in the future. [More…]
But there would be an uproar in Canada if there were reproduced in Canada what exists in South Africa - that is, a deliberate arrangement of electorates to keep the Nationalists permanently in power. [More…]
In the Westminster system where there will be monopoly of power for that side which has the majority of seats, there is a very clear moral obligation to ensure, so far as it is humanly possible, that the side which has the majority of seats has had the majority of votes. [More…]
Government is entitled, indeed obliged, to hold a redistribution in Western Australia; but the Government wants a general redistribution on a basis that would reduce the rural voice in this Parliament and maximise the power of the Labor vote in the cities. [More…]
In his second reading speech the Minister spoke about the equality of representation but what he was really talking about was equality of voting power. [More…]
The Minister for Urban and Regional Development (Mr Uren) talks of decentralisation of industry while the Minister for Property and Services acts to centralise political power. [More…]
We say that it is wrong that political power should be concentrated in a few great cities, swamping rural expression. [More…]
For a nation which needs greater dispersal of population, inland development and less overcrowding of cities, it seems crazy to accentuate the drift of political power and dominance. [More…]
We say that even without any alteration to our present law there is growing a heavy imbalance of political representation concentrating more and more power in city areas. [More…]
To the contrary its members would be failing in their duty if they did not fight with all their power to protect the limited rights of country people and to give them, to the maximum possible degree, something at least approaching equality of representation to which they, as Australian citizens are entitled. [More…]
In 23 years of power and enshrined privilege in government, the former Government did nothing in this respect. [More…]
The Government’s objective is to redraft what is a demonstrably fair and equitable electoral act so that it can be manipulated to give the party in power a long term advantage. [More…]
He said that Country Party members exercised power above and beyond their responsibility in the community because they had limited and material objectives and did not worry about the community’s interest. [More…]
There ought to be some discretionary power, some flexibility, and some trust reposed in the Commonwealth Distribution Commissioners. [More…]
Colleges for Advanced Education with the power to make grants or loans to destitute students, so also should money be made available to Councils, to enable Councils to aid, or loan money to destitute people. [More…]
Over the past 23 years of Liberal-Country Party economic mismanagement the worker of this country has seen a steady eroding of the real purchasing power of his wage. [More…]
In this way the oligopoly in the food industry has as much power as, or greater power than, an oligopoly in a non-food industry has. [More…]
Now the Labor Government is in power but absolutely nothing has happened about these promises. [More…]
I ask the Minister for Defence: Has the Government yet decided its continuing policy under the Five Power Defence Arrangements with Singapore and Malaysia with respect to the defence of that region? [More…]
The Government announced during the course of the last election campaign that it would honour the Five Power Arrangements. [More…]
T am talking at this time of the 3 decisions made in relation to the matter raised by the Deputy Leader of the Country Party, that is, the disposition of Australian troops in this region and those who are there under the Five Power Arrangements. [More…]
I can assure the Deputy Leader of the Country Party that no decision will be made until such time as the countries which are parties to the Five Power Arrangements have been informed of the policy and the intention of this Government. [More…]
I should hope that more of this would begin to be evident in Australia and also that there would be a realisation that in Australia the States have far more power in these fields than they have cared to exercise. [More…]
As my colleague, the honourable member for Stirling (Mr Viner) pointed out to the House earlier this month, the iron ore companies in the Pilbara alone will lose approximately $11 2m in income this year as a result of the decisions of December and February decisions which were taken without the Ministers responsible for fuel and power, industry and primary industries even being present. [More…]
One cannot get better iron ore or minerals and better certainty of supply and sanctity of contracts than from Australia, irrespective of which government is in power. [More…]
He was wrecked by people like the honourable member for Farrer who stood up as a States’ righter and did everything in his power - and was successful - to delay the passage of the Territorial Sea and Continental Shelf Bill which gave the Government sovereignty over the offshore wealth of Australia. [More…]
Since the Government came to power great uncertainty has existed with respect to tremendous projects in Australia. [More…]
However, authorities with comprehensive power would be highly appropriate for the planning and integrated development of each individual site chosen for selective decentralisation. [More…]
This is the exercise of power by the sheer weight of numbers; it is not an exercise of responsibility. [More…]
In turn, because of low enrolments in Country Party electorates, the people in country areas have a greater voting power than people in the cities. [More…]
I can foresee, as Mr Martin, the President of the Young Liberals in Queensland, apparently had the foresight to realise, that if the Liberal Party wishes to sit idly by and allow the Country Party voting power to develop to such a degree that one vote in the country is worth 1 or 2 votes in the city there certainly will be a reaction from people living in the cities. [More…]
This is a cunning plot and a frightening prospect to those of us who do not want a socialist government in power ad infinitum. [More…]
These developments, depending as they do on road and rail transport, lie within the power of the State Government to correct. [More…]
In most cases they are leftovers from the political power of the landed squattocracy and the wealthy of the last century. [More…]
If we look at the upper Houses that exist in the 5 States other than Queensland we find that in New South Wales the upper House may delay Appropriation Bills for only one month but not reject them; otherwise its powers are unlimited. [More…]
In South Australia it may not initiate financial legislation, but here again its powers are practically unlimited except only in that regard. [More…]
So in every one of the States we find that the power of the upper House is far beyond what it should be in a democratic society. [More…]
Efforts to give this upper House some semblance of democracy in the past have always been rebuffed by the use of the undemocratic power that it has consistently used against the political interests of the people of South Australia. [More…]
employees’ willingness to transfer from the older power stations to other establishments does not assist their case for a shorter working week; [More…]
Regarding the development of the Pilbara, I assume that the honourable member is speaking about the proposed Pilbara complex, lt is certainly true that the two most important variables associated with the successful development of this area will be the supply of cheap power, in the form of gas, and also the supply of water. [More…]
I believe that the situation is now so serious that the Government must take whatever further action is within its power to put an end to these incidents. [More…]
Rather than being critical of the present Government, Evans Deakin has been high in its praise of the action which this Government has taken since coming to power on 2nd December. [More…]
Moreover the incidence of problems encountered by the member is not directly related to the number of voters in an electorate but to the social environment that produces these problems and to the alternative avenues of redress open to the electorate - a mixture of lobbying power and wealth. [More…]
The way to guarantee that the people are equally serviced by being equally represented is to ensure that there are sufficient resources and facilities available to the member to carry out his duties - more facilities and backup personnel rather than more dollars or voting power to the individual member. [More…]
In the Westminster system where there will be monopoly of power for that side which has the majority of seats, there is a very clear moral obligation to ensure, so far as it is humanly possible, that the side which has the majority of seats has had the majority of votes. [More…]
It would become impossible to have continuity of representation, whatever Party happens to be in power. [More…]
They are designed purely and simply to favour the perpetuation of an ALP government through the deliberate policy of concentrating political power in the major cities to the disadvantage of all the other areas of Australia, not only the purely rural ones but the regional cities as well. [More…]
Whilst the national Parliament has not the power to direct the States what to do on this matter, at least by meetings such as those of ATAC agreement can be reached on standards that can be written into the requirements for the manufacture of motor vehicles. [More…]
Does this centre remain open in defiance of the Commonwealth Government which has the constitutional power to direct its closure? [More…]
Of course, the Post Office has power to register publications for transmission at concessional rates. [More…]
Wherever this airport is established, not only will it avoid problems for the neighbourhood communities, but it could bring to the area great advantages in the form of fast road and rail systems, a properly planned urbanisation, new job opportunities and community services such as communications, water supply, sewerage and power reticulation. [More…]
The legislative councillor went on to mention that the power grabs of Ministers in Canberra have resulted in the diminution of the effective operations of the Department of the Northern Territory and have finally removed from the Northern Territory the opportunities which were there for the provincial government to participate in decision-making in the Northern Territory. [More…]
This body could then have absolute power over local authority such as estimates and laws leaving the broader aspect of development to a commission. [More…]
Having set up the basis of government, additional powers could be transferred to it from time to time until ultimately self-government is obtained. [More…]
When the Minister visited the Northern Territory before the election he said that he saw future political independence in the Northern Territory as being part of its relationship with the Federal Parliament, but that this would only be defined after talks with local elected representatives if Labor won power. [More…]
Labor has won power. [More…]
I turn now to the fragmentation which has taken place since this Government was elected to power. [More…]
The broad questions of national development, minerals, natural gas, oil and all the other agencies of power and resources should be considered by this Committee. [More…]
Yet here the Minister in introducing his Bill is not able, to bring forward a power in the Bill to regulate this by a regulation-making power. [More…]
The Australian people are not willing to sit quiescent while a government attempts to use its power of numbers in this way. [More…]
The rule of law protects us against the arbitrary use and abuse of power. [More…]
Australians do not want this atmosphere; it has been too often used in other places as a strategy to win tolerance for abuses of power. [More…]
But most Australians were deeply disturbed at this arbitrary display of Commonwealth police power. [More…]
By the kindest interpretation, then, the AttorneyGeneral is not fit to be in charge of our security forces and certainly not the expanded and increased police power he is trying to amass for himself. [More…]
am determined to do all in my power as Minister to keep political terrorists out of Australia and to apply the deportation provisions of the Migration Act to the fullest extent, consistent with our system of justice. [More…]
Any information will be brought to my notice and whatever action is necessary will be taken within the powers given to me, as Minister, by the Parliament. [More…]
I repeat my earlier undertaking to do everything in my power to stop any more such people entering the country and I repeat my warning to those who are already here and who embark upon acts of violence and terrorism. [More…]
Neither the Cabinet nor the Prime Minister has power to give any individual Minister authority to override the provisions of a Commonwealth Act. [More…]
The AttorneyGeneral may be responsible for the administration of the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation Act, but he cannot take upon himself any power or authority to administer ASIO other than in strict conformity with the Act under which ASIO was established. [More…]
The Attorney-General cannot administer it as he would have power or authority to administer his own Department. [More…]
He was careful not to mention that our honoured guest had been an officer of the infamous UDBA, the secret police of the Titoist Yugoslavs, and that this is how he achieved his rise to power. [More…]
Whatever anyone might say about the Broken Hill Pty Co. Ltd and whatever criticism may be levelled at the economic and perhaps industrial power that company exerts, no-one can deny that BHP has set a magnificent example in Australia in showing just how much can be done to prevent industrial accidents. [More…]
Excise, in referring to the discrimination displayed by the new Government in removing completely, by regulation in the (first couple of weeks of its coming to power, the excise on wine. [More…]
Under the transferred power this after all is Papua New Guinea’s right. [More…]
I would say that the most notable example would be the development of the Manapouri power resources for the conversion of alumina into aluminium. [More…]
Australia is getting the advantage of New Zealand’s cheap power and New Zealand is using Australian resources. [More…]
He helped to put pressure on the previous Government in the sense of supporting on behalf of the Maltese Government and the Maltese Labour Party, which, in fact, is in power, efforts to bring about this sort of legislation. [More…]
It does not in any way give us the power to negotiate with other countries in order to protect the pension rights accruing from overseas of people who have come to settle permanently in Australia. [More…]
Until this Government came to power there was no consultation whatever between authorities such as the Australian Wool Commission, the Australian Wool Board, the [More…]
The Federal Government has power under the export control provisions to place quantitative restrictions on the export of beef if it thinks such action is necessary in order to reduce the price. [More…]
It gave no pledge that it would take the whole of the lifetime of this Parliament to do that and I believe that if we had been returned to power and, most certainly, if I had been Minister for Social Services, the means test would have been abolished in the Budget of 1973. [More…]
It was inflation in Germany that brought Hitler to power. [More…]
It is particularly important that the Prime Minister should not have the power to break with impunity the Standing Orders and rules of this House and have for that purpose a kind of hold over the Speaker. [More…]
In addition there is the lack of capital and lack of power to delegate to others. [More…]
It provides opportunities for the expression of independence, initiative, enterprise, the play of competition, the encouragement of special talents and technical skills and a counterbalance to the concentration of economic power. [More…]
The previous Government assisted in the development of hydro-electric power resources in Australia. [More…]
I hope that in the not too distant future Australia will have its first generator, making nuclear power from uranium. [More…]
One is the overt pressure and power being exercised by multi-national corporations on national governments or sovereign States, and the second is the world energy crisis. [More…]
The committee will report on the need for constitutional reform including the delineation of Federal and State jurisdiction in labour relations and the limitations of Commonwealth power. [More…]
Labor believes that ultimately there will have to be an expansion of Commonwealth power in the field of industrial relations because, to quote from our Party’s platform, to allow the Commonwealth power to deal with industrial matters to remain in its present form is like expecting to control modern motor traffic with laws taken from the horse and buggy days’. [More…]
However, the question of increased Commonwealth power is one we must postpone for later consideration. [More…]
Our immediate aim is to give effect to those aspects of industrial policy which can be dealt with within the rather limited area of power granted by the Constitution. [More…]
The central position of power occupied by the tribunals, however, could never have been attained or maintained without popular approval and especially without the support of the trade union movement. [More…]
They are: The removal of existing barriers to trade union amalgamation; the protection of organisations and their members from civil actions for tort in connection with industrial disputes; the removal of the Commission’s authority to ban strikes and the removal of all penal sanctions upon strikers; procedures to ensure that certain types of agreement are acceptable to members of organisations affected by them; provision for democratic control of unions and the fullest participation by union members in the affairs of their organisations; provision to enable action to be taken for the recovery of wages at law within a period of 6 years instead of the 12 months’ limitation that now applies; the removal of the various defects which have been shown to exist in the 1972 legislation; elimination of the power to award costs in proceedings before the courts, the Registrar or the Commission; and provision to overcome some of the problems created by the Moore v. Doyle case. [More…]
It is determined to keep in proper check those gigantic forces of capital, privilege and power that penetrate the lives of the community at every point. [More…]
The Bill provides that the unions themselves will have the power to conduct amalgamation ballots. [More…]
These ballots will not be open to challenge, although the Court will have power to investigate ballots conducted by the union itself. [More…]
In the past, conciliators were given a final power to act as arbitrators if the need arose. [More…]
The Bill provides that all presidential members and commissioners shall have the power to exercise both conciliation and arbitration functions with the proviso that a member of the Commission who has exercised the function of conciliation may not arbitrate in a particular matter if any party to the proceedings objects. [More…]
The Government proposes to abolish the power to make orders for costs against parties in proceedings arising under the Conciliation and Arbitration Act. [More…]
The Attorney-General, of course, has the power to make ex gratia payments in respect of costs after the event, and many such payments have been made where unsuccessful litigants of poor means have been threatened with sequestration of their worldly possessions. [More…]
Commonwealth Arbitration Commission has no power to make an award, or certify an agreement, binding on the State union. [More…]
The State Parliaments have this power. [More…]
The Government believes that the National Parliament must have similar powers. [More…]
I have explained that we will remove those provisions which discourage amalgamation of unions; that we will protect organisations and their members from civil actions for tort in connection with industrial disputes; that we will remove completely from the Act the power to prohibit strikes or enforce penal sanctions against strikes and that we will build the framework for more democratic control of unions. [More…]
That the committee have power to appoint subcommittees consisting of 3 of its members, and refer to any such sub-committee any matters which the committee is empowered to examine. [More…]
That the committee or any sub-committee have power to send for persons, papers and records, to move from place to place, and to sit during any recess or adjournment. [More…]
That the committee have power to authorise publication of any evidence given before it and any document presented to it. [More…]
That the committee or any sub-committee have power to consider and make use of the minutes of evidence and records of the Select Committee on Road Safety appointed during the Twenty-seventh Parliament. [More…]
That the committee have leave to report from time to time and that any member of the committee have power to add a protest or dissent to any report. [More…]
That the committee have power to appoint subcommittees consisting of three or more of its members and to refer to any such sub-committee any of the matters which the committee is empowered to examine. [More…]
That the committee have power to send for persons, papers and records, to move from place to place and to sit during any recess or adjournment of the Parliament. [More…]
That the committee have leave to report from time to time and that any member of the committee have power to add a protest or dissent to any report. [More…]
I think a substantial argument can be advanced that it is necessary that the Committee should at least have the power to consider prices in the public as well as the private sector. [More…]
I do not put it beyond the bounds of possibility that the Committee, if it does have the power, may find that there are areas in the public sector which are out of line or which have an impact on prices in a way that is troubling it in respect of its recommendations on private prices. [More…]
Neither the tinsel of power nor the transient grandeur of position had the slightest effect upon the remarkable man whom we recall today. [More…]
This would appear to be a natural consequence of our close Commonwealth relations, of Britain’s major role in the negotiation of the partial nuclear test ban treaty and of its responsibilities, as an administering power, in respect of a number of Pacific territories. [More…]
The indulgent nature of these conditions is a salient indication of the extent of the weakness of the employers, vis a vis the bargaining power of the Waterside Worders Federation, the degree to which wages and salaries are a major cost factor and the extent to which they have added to our inflationary experience. [More…]
This is a philosophy which will disadvantage small unions and small employers, fixed income earners and pensioners - in fact, all those sections in the community which have no access to monopoly power. [More…]
It is a matter which commands the attention of the Minister for Labour because he knows that the Waterside Workers Federation has become a vehicle, along with certain other maritime unions, whereby minority elements within the trade union movement have sought to convert industrial power into political action. [More…]
He should be the first person to know that if one has regard to the former Government’s capacity and strength in relation to industrial agreements it was a government that was prepared to say of both of the principal parties that they exercised, on the Australian waterfront, a cynical abuse of monopoly power. [More…]
It has the legislative power to prevent the transfer of goods out of those areas and to force the shipping companies to load the goods in the areas concerned. [More…]
However, the legislation gives power to the Authority to make this charge. [More…]
I hope that the Minister for Housing will be given more power to co-ordinate building requirements throughout the Commonwealth insofar as it is sensible from a practical point of view. [More…]
In New South Wales consideration should be given to widening the powers of the Housing Commission to enable it to build footpaths, in particular and, if necessary, to build houses with garages and to provide park and recreation areas. [More…]
A private developer today has to provide footpaths but the Housing Commission, under its powers, is not obliged to meet this requirement. [More…]
Consideration should be given to giving the Housing Commissions the power to build houses with garages. [More…]
It has come to power on the boast of open government, but honourable members, particularly on this side of the House, fully recognise- [More…]
The present Government has come to power under the guise of open government. [More…]
Has any other Minister power to authorise deportations. [More…]
That the Committee, for any purposes related to this inquiry, have power to send for persons, papers and records. [More…]
What an extraordinary performance for a sovereign power to indulge in, to hold 3 nationals of another country in prison with the prospect of execution and not seek to inform the country to which they belonged. [More…]
It is the first case that I have encountered involving dual nationality where the master national state has not sought to inform the other state that it is holding within its power people who hold themselves out as being citizens of that state. [More…]
But can we blame any foreign power which in the 23 years of Liberal-Country Party rule did not take Australia seriously, which looked at us masquerading under the image of another country, with a royal style and title that was confusing, a flag that was confusing and a national anthem that belonged to another country? [More…]
We are a government that has been in power in reality for only about 5 months. [More…]
In the forefront of that speech, as anyone who takes the trouble to read it will see, I said that Australia in relation to other powers was a middle power. [More…]
Professor Pollard also stated that the necessary criteria for pension adjustments, if superannuation schemes are to achieve that aim, are that adjustments should take place automatically, that they should maintain the purchasing power of the pension and that they should be made frequently. [More…]
The adoption of his proposal will result in the pensioner receiving the guarantee that the purchasing power of his full pension is more than maintained. [More…]
The Bill also proposes to extend the power to make regulations to include non-continuous ports and to remove some existing limitations in relation to other ports. [More…]
When the Labor Government came to power it decided that it would dispense with the National Service Act, and it will always maintain that it can get the required recruits into the regular Army on a volunteer basis, and so it has resorted to this type of action to enable it to get the recruits. [More…]
The most difficult problem is that, whilst the Bill provides for a 5 per cent deposit to be acceptable, a valid second mortgage cannot be registered against the title which would enable a second mortgagee to exercise a power of sale against the security in the event of default. [More…]
I think the Minister should have the power to do that. [More…]
The first is that a State government, a sovereign power, said that the Centre was entitled to be there, to be manned and to put out statements and comments. [More…]
If the Australian people had known the truth they would have put that government out of power at the election immediately following Australia’s involvement in that war. [More…]
What increase in (a) the national wages bill and (b) unit labour costs will be caused by the introduction of long service leave for casual employees in the (i) Commonwealth Public Service, (ii) motor vehicle industry, (iii) fuel and power industries, (vi) iron and steel industries, (v) stevedoring industry, (vi) building and construction industry, and (vii) retailing industry. [More…]
The House will remember the last embassy on the lawns - the Aboriginal embassy - which was so brutally dispersed by this Opposition when its members were in power. [More…]
I suppose I can add as part of my answer that personally I am glad that they are not in power now - otherwise the women’s embassy would probably be dispersed in like manner. [More…]
I think it gives power and a great deal of glory to a few at the expense of the financial structure generally. [More…]
1 think it is fair to say that State governments have constitutional power over price control. [More…]
It is open to the Party of which the honourable gentleman is a member to take action in this matter because it has the constitutional power to do so. [More…]
The New South Wales Government has the constitutional power to take action but, as I have said, I am sure it will not do anything about it. [More…]
It is easier for members of the Parties which form the New South Wales Government to talk in this place, which does not have the power to take any action, and then to go back to the electorates and say that another government will not do anything about it. [More…]
The States have this power and also with the power an excuse that it is not practical for a State to act in isolation on such matters, although the South Australian Government has done so rather successfully over a number of years. [More…]
It has been in power for 6 months. [More…]
As the solicitors, Messrs E. H. Tebbutt and Sons have pointed out to Mr Crawford, Minister for Agriculture in the State Parliament of New South Wales, these companies have far too much power; they can get people to go heavily into debt and at a whim of any source finish him up and nothing will the State Government do. [More…]
I believe that honourable members opposite - perhaps not individually but carrying out as a body the instructions which they are bound and pledged to carry out - will be trying with every means in their power to make Australia a fully socialist state and will stop at nothing in order to do that. [More…]
This Government will go to any lengths if it has the power. [More…]
The amendment of the Australian National Airlines Act to widen TAA’s powers is one matter concerning which this Government is in complete agreement with the previous Government. [More…]
It therefore has no hesitation in bringing forward this Bill, which is designed to give TAA the additional powers mentioned so that it will be in a fair and equitable position compared with Ansett Transport Industries Ltd in respect of its operations under the 2-airline policy. [More…]
Clause 5 sets out the basic functions of the Commission, lt largely restates existing functions in different language, but adds the power to transport passengers and goods by land as well as by air, or partly by each means, and to provide for the Commonwealth aviation, land transport and engineering services and other services which are within its resources. [More…]
Clause 6 is designed to enable TAA to operate intrastate services, nol only in Queensland and Tasmania where it already has the power to do so, but in any State where the State Parliament refers the matter of air transport to the Commonwealth or adopts the relevant part of the Commonwealth Act. [More…]
I said that it will be a matter for each university to determine who shall receive assistance, but I would expect that grants would be made available to students who are in extremely difficult financial circumstances following misfortune outside thencontrol such as death, injury, serious illness or desertion by breadwinners of families on ordinary income; the annihilation of family income in flood, drough or bushfire; seasonal or chronic unemployment of the breadwinner; loss of earning power by the breadwinner for any other reason and so on. [More…]
I have argued the general case before the International Monetary Fund, but we want a world monetary system which is fair to all parties, not a system that would place in the hands of an international organisation a power of direction which would weaken legitimate national interests. [More…]
The establishment of this committee is, of course, temporarily taking it out of the hands of the experts and putting it into the hands of great authority, thus passing from the realm of greater knowledge to that of greater power. [More…]
I have in mind the development of great sources of power, and the discovery of oil and extensive mineral deposits. [More…]
He is talking about power, because unhappily the Prime Minister has power and the Prime Minister will be- [More…]
Mr Speaker, may I inform the House that the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Defence, Mr Barnard, left Australia last Friday to discuss the Five Power arrangements with Malaysia and Singapore. [More…]
It is consistent with the development of monopoly union power. [More…]
Under Labor’s industrial policies, those who are suffering most are the pensioners, fixed income earners and those on superannuation benefits, whose assets are constantly eroded by the continuing escalation of prices, and the small unions and the small employers who do not possess monopoly power. [More…]
The Government, in its manic preoccupation with the operation of industrial power and bargaining by duress, would be well advised to recall the words of the Oxford economist and a former senior economic advisor to the previous United Kingdom Labour Government, Lord Thomas Balogh, who reported the industrial relation experience of the last British Labour Government in these terms: Free bargaining Increased inequality; it resulted in a relative ‘worsening of the position of the poorest paid and least aggressively organised classes of society . [More…]
Imperfect competition in many industries may enable unions and employers to combine to exploit their market power at the expense of other members of the community. [More…]
The main advantage of having an enforceable freely negotiated agreement is that it gives more bargaining power to the unions. [More…]
The immense power of the union movement - backed by the concept of the solidarity of all unions which the ACTU can promote - will ensure that in the so-called direct negotiations for agreements the union movement will be allpowerful and subject to no restraint. [More…]
Amalgamation concentrates major power in the hands of a few officials and there are a number of officials in Australia today who are clearly using their office for political objectives, as is the case with the major left wing trade unions. [More…]
The concentration of power and additional resources in the hands of fewer officials will be an inducement to those officials to engage in political and industrial activities not consistent with the public interest of the nation. [More…]
The concentration of power must be examined in the context of this Bill, which seeks to confer civil immunity to those officials and to remove the liability for actions contrary to the terms of agreements by removing the threat of sanctions. [More…]
The Government’s clear intention to cause the rapid concentration of union power we believe to be misconceived. [More…]
The resultant numerical and financial power of giant unions may become too great for employer organisations, the ACTU or even the Government to deal with effectively. [More…]
Other industrial countries are now finding that the restraint of union power is a most intractable problem and one which has not been satisfactorily resolved. [More…]
Yet this Bill clearly foreshadows a considerable increase in the monopoly and coercive power of the labour unions. [More…]
It is a stopgap arrangement more pertinent to the problems created by the power struggles within the Transport Workers Union than to the central difficulties created by the judgment in Moore v Doyle. [More…]
The Opposition believes that there are 4 possible solutions: The enlargement of Commonwealth power to legislate for terms and conditions of employment in industry and for trade unions; the transfer of certain powers to the Commonwealth by the States without referendum; complementary State and Federal legislation; or the encouragement of unions to go through the procedures required by law for the dissolution of State unions and the formation of State branches of federal unions. [More…]
Perhaps it might be advisable to remind honourable members that it is not and has never been the purpose of conciliation and arbitration in Australia to weaken or destroy the bargaining power or capacity of employees. [More…]
That is the way in which it is desired in our Constitution - it is the purpose of the conciliation and arbitration power. [More…]
It is foolish and unfair to compare and relate the bargaining power of the corporation with the bargaining power of individual employees. [More…]
It is in such industries that the col lective bargaining power of the employee is important; otherwise he is powerless as an individual. [More…]
When we speak of union power we speak about something which is irrelevant alongside the economic giants which have been developed in recent years. [More…]
The first area of concern is the whole question of union leadership itself and the second is the degree to which the left wing of the trade union movement is wagging the right wing tail in order to ensure that the changes will bring greater and greater power to people outside the Australian parliamentary system. [More…]
It is designed to give to the trade union leadership significantly greater bargaining power than it has had before without the legal responsibility which sanctions enforce upon it. [More…]
Section 51 of our Constitution provides that the Parliament shall have power to legislate for the peace, order and good government of the Commonwealth with respect to conciliation and arbitration. [More…]
This view has been favoured by many leaders of the arbitration system, particularly presidential members or, in other days, when the Commission had judicial as well as conciliatory and arbitration powers, those who happened to be the head of the institution for the time being. [More…]
The present Bill provides for this to be repealed, supporting the action that has been taken already in clause 5 and giving the union representatives power to do virtually whatever they want to do. [More…]
The balance of strength as between the trade unions, the employers, the Government and the Arbitration Commission is changed so seriously that no longer can one think that influences other than the predominance of trade union power can play an important part in ensuring the public interest in the way in which the former governments since the time of Sir Robert Menzies have incorporated this concept in the Act; in other words, to further the objectives of inducing co-operation between unions and employers and trying to engender a far better feeling throughout the whole complex of industrial relations and to establish the Arbitration Commission as a body that can respect the public interest, bring the parties together and bring about an award that we all hope will be for the benefit of the country rather than for the destruction of arbitration itself. [More…]
When the Parties opposite were in a position to wield power they worked very hard to bring in legislation which was designed entirely to destroy the powers of the trade union movement and the effective organisation of working men into bodies that could take a role in the whole field of the betterment of society. [More…]
In the minds of reasonable Australians, how can it possibly be said that either a working man who refuses to provide his labour - the only bargaining power that he has is his ability to labour and his skills - or his organisation should be prosecuted and fined and he in the long run, under the present provisions of the Act, gaoled? [More…]
This Parliament has power to make laws for the peace, order and good government of our Commonwealth with respect to conciliation and arbitration for the prevention and settlement of interstate disputes. [More…]
There is a danger in monopoly power of any kind. [More…]
No power or privilege - private, business or union - within a community should be allowed to go unchecked. [More…]
If Australia is to have collective bargaining, let the legislation plainly and unmistakably spell it out, together with the rights, obligations and privileges of the participants and the protection for the public from the monopoly power of unions and of employers. [More…]
I have listened to honourable members opposite speaking on this Bill and have heard them say mat they are concerned at the power to be given to trade unions, that the Government Bill ignores the effects of industrial unrest and seeks to give unions carte blanche to become involved in industrial disputes and that no decision could be effective unless it is enforceable. [More…]
We did not have the power under the Constitution of the Commonwealth to do any more than we have done up to the present - that is, to establish the conciliation and arbitration machinery that will in fact settle a dispute. [More…]
Inflation does harm the person who is a member of a union without great industrial power. [More…]
When that action is taken to protect the economy the Government will enter into a deflationary period in which people will be thrown out of work and there emphasise that I am talking about powerful groups like the Amalgamated Metalworkers Union which is a combination of what were formerly the Boilermakers and Blacksmiths Society, the Sheetmetal Workers Union, and the. [More…]
Amalgamated Engineering Union and has about 180.000 members - have immense political and economic power. [More…]
The fact that it disadvantages the workforce in a community - fellow workers - and that it makes life intolerable for those people who rely on electricity, transport, power or bread and children who enjoy drinks and ice cream, matters not when a political strike is called for the trade unions’ purposes. [More…]
Can the House imagine what would happen with amalgamations which would form a big transport group and a big metal workers group and the power that these groups would bring to bear upon a government? [More…]
Can the House imagine the power that would be brought to bear on the public when these 2 amalgamated union groups get together or future amalgamated groups get together? [More…]
I believe that to take away any statutory provision relating to amalgamation is simply to turn over to the powerful officials at the top of the trade unions a tremendous accretion to their power. [More…]
They are already powerful men. [More…]
After this Bill becomes law they will be excessively powerful men. [More…]
I am quite sure that the Minister for Labour will live to regret this day because he will have to deal with this power, and what we have seen in the past is that when a Labor politician is confronted- [More…]
The Minister for Labour will have the problem of dealing with them, and everybody knows that when he has been confronted in the past with trade union power he has buckled. [More…]
That is what will happen in the future because he will be confronted with even greater unions power. [More…]
On the one hand the power of shop stewards is to be exalted and this will make for disruption in a sense directed against the central powers of their own unions. [More…]
I believe that we have to try to protect not only the whole community but also members of trade unions against that kind of abuse of power. [More…]
If this occurred, it would be outside, the power of the court or the Commission and if the Act purported to give the Commission such power, the Act would be ultra vires the Constitution. [More…]
What the honourable member does not seem to understand, although I believe he has had some legal training, is that there is no constitutional power to write into the Conciliation and Arbitration Act any international obligations under conventions of the International Labour Organisation. [More…]
I am sure that the honourable member for Moreton (Mr Killen) and the honourable member for Stirling (Mr Viner) are not very serious in their opposition to the amendments because what the Bill does specifically is to prohibit any person exercising the power of conciliation, and subsequently arbitration, unless both parties to the dispute consent to his exercising the arbitral function. [More…]
The procedures have operated with substantial success in that industry as well as the stevedoring, container and power and fuel industries. [More…]
We, as a government, then had no power of intervention in this case whatsoever. [More…]
The Minister for Labour (Mr Clyde Cameron) must appreciate that one of the emerging problems which has caused concern to governments around the world in relation to the trade union movement has been the increasing power of the shop steward. [More…]
There is no doubt that throughout industry - I am glad that the officers of the Department of Labour are in attendance, because they understand the problem full well - one of the emerging difficulties in the future will be the rise to power of the shop stewards. [More…]
The lesson has been a marked increase in industrial unrest; a rash of strikes and, for the first time in the last quarter of a century, strikes which have been officially blessed by the Government, and honourable members know the examples of this in recent times; the rapid escalation in inflationary pressures; the build up of union monopoly power. [More…]
As a consequence they have been competed out of international markets and slowly and steadily we found, until the Heath Government came to power, the United Kingdom balance of payments changing too rapidly and Britain losing its competitive influence in world affairs. [More…]
Do we want that same kind of anarchical condition to be introduced to Australia or do we want to stand on the law as it exists at me moment and ask that these people observe section 138 of the Act and not be put in a privileged position with power to do whatever they feel is right and which they think is in the interests of the organisations they represent? [More…]
I wonder what could be worse than giving individuals like these the great power that is vested in them. [More…]
Here is another example of the Acton dictum that absolute power inevitably corrupts. [More…]
Some suggestion has been made that the total proposal to amend section 5 is in some way a move to give improper power to shop stewards to build up union monopoly power, as I think the Deputy Leader of the Opposition (Mr Lynch) put it. [More…]
Where there is union power, to use the words of the Deputy Leader of the Opposition, this provision is not required and it certainly is never used. [More…]
I repeat that where there is a strong organisation - where there is union power, as the Opposition puts it - whether monopoly or otherwise, there is no need for statutory protection of shop stewards, because they have it in a much more effective way. [More…]
If we also take into account the proposal, which I do not debate here, to confer civil immunity in certain circumstances on trade unions and their members, we have a situation in which there no longer will be any sense of restraint upon the principal parties, particularly the trade unions, having regard to the very potent nature of the power that they wield at present. [More…]
Because of the tremendous power that trade unions wield in the community, they cannot be allowed to strike with impunity in the conciliation and arbitration area or, indeed, in the civil jurisdiction because the public interest is very much at stake. [More…]
I believe that the increase has taken place against a realisation by the trade union movement that now it has in power a government prepared to support its strike activity and which, in respect of the enforcement of awards, will take no effective action against the unions but certainly will take strong action against the employers. [More…]
The power of the employer to withhold bread is a much more effective weapon than the power of the employee to refuse to labour. [More…]
He remarked on the fact that although in theory the court had the power to decrease wages as well as to increase wages every case he had ever handled had been to interfere by making an increase in wages. [More…]
I say on behalf of the Government that we cannot ensure sensible industrial relations if, by using its power in another place, the Opposition forces the Government to try to administer a law that incorporates this form of penalty. [More…]
I have never said that there is within the wit of man the power to evolve a statute that will eliminate all strikes, but I do say that without the powers that the Government is now seeking and without the amendments to the Act that it is asking the Parliament to grant in this Bill, the Government cannot maintain industrial sanity and it will not be the Government’s fault if it fails to do so. [More…]
The main cause today of industrial disputes is failure to consult - management standing on the so-called sacred rights of managerial prerogatives and saying that the worker is nothing but a servant, that the manager is the master, that the old 18th century relationship between master and servant still survives and that no spiritual, temporal or any other power of the Parliament, unions or anybody else should interfere with this long-established but longoutmoded so-called right of managerial prerogatives. [More…]
In other words, it completely neutralises one aspect of the Conciliation and Arbitration Act; that is the power to ensure that awards are regarded as contracts that have to be observed by both parties. [More…]
I believe that this power - that is the power to include a bans clause and also the power to be able to ensure its effectiveness - is so vital tha unless we in this chamber are successful in having the clause retained we will have no alternative but to divide and to vote against the Government’s proposal. [More…]
In the minute and a half remaining to me I want to point out that we know that today the power of the trade unions is infinitely greater than the powers of management. [More…]
The whole trend and thrust of the Bill now before the committee is to reduce the capacity and power of the Government and of the Arbitration Commission and to give greater power to the trade union movement, to make it a law unto itself. [More…]
I believe that the Bill will give to the trade union movement a power that can not only gradually change social conditions in this country but can also create the elements, the basis upon which inflation will become permanently part and parcel of our economic and social life. [More…]
The right honourable gentleman, with his great and supernatural power, had the late Mr Healy trembling in his shoes. [More…]
So that is the power of the right honourable gentleman. [More…]
I think the Minister would agree that it is fair to say that at that time the balance of power lay with the employers. [More…]
Bui of course now, compared with the situation in 1904, there is one very important difference, and that is the balance of industrial power to which I referred before lunch. [More…]
This balance of power has now completely changed. [More…]
No longer are the unions in a defensive position as they could have been considered to be then; they are now in an offensive position, and there is overwhelming contemporary evidence to show that on occasions they are willing and ready to abuse the balance of power they now hold. [More…]
If the Government has its way this sort of irresponsibility, this abuse of power, will be encouraged. [More…]
So the Government is cynically prepared to run the risk of lockouts because it feels, probably with some justification, that union power is such as to make lockouts in fact very unlikely. [More…]
The imperative need for a social power, countervailing that of property, over-shadows everything else. [More…]
The power to withdraw their labour is for the workers what for management is its power to shut down production, to switch it to different purposes, to transfer it to different places. [More…]
As I have pointed out the effectiveness of the organised working people to protect and advance their conditions of life is based to a significant degree on the power of their unions to organise a withdrawal of labour as the last resort. [More…]
As you said a moment ago, Mr Speaker, it is not within my power now to debate the substance of the matter. [More…]
Gorton Government in power. [More…]
It will be noted that either the Tribunal itself or the Minister will have the power to initiate inquiries. [More…]
The Tribunal’s power to inquire and report will not be confined to proposed price increases subsequent to the date on which the scheme comes into effect. [More…]
The Tribunal will have the power to inquire into prices being charged by a company at any time. [More…]
Any person or body of persons may apply to be made a party to an inquiry, but the Tribunal will have the power to grant or refuse such applications. [More…]
Yet reports from London indicate that in recent months, since the new Government has come to power, there has been a decline in the number of people indicating an interest in migrating to Australia from the United Kingdom. [More…]
But when I hear honourable members opposite telling me today that we are limiting the time I will refer again to what they did on General Business days when they were in power. [More…]
The legislation is to try to do just that - to take the power of repressive laws away from women in this community. [More…]
The validity of rights is only as strong as the powers that protect them. [More…]
Rights can only be realised when they are exercised, and the state, once it grants rights, is obliged to use its full power to enforce and protect those rights regardless of sex, colour, race or creed, or even financial standing. [More…]
It seems to me that if a child is not going to be wanted, there is a very heavy responsibility resting on those who have the power to set the life process in train to take steps to prevent conception. [More…]
a dual responsibility on those who have the power to start the life process? [More…]
A royal commission has power to summon witnesses and call for papers. [More…]
This truth was well enunciated in the Vatican 2 Declaration of Religious Freedom where it was stated that truth cannot impose itself except by virtue of its own truth; that is, one can seek to impose truth, not by the force of the law and the power of the state, but rather by the force of its own influence on the mind. [More…]
These provisions, which aim at the orderly withdrawal of such persons and companies from the insurance market and include power to investigate where necessary, will be very important during the early years of the operation of the legislation. [More…]
Although the Commonwealth’s legal power to negotiate international treaties and to enter into agreements and conventions has not been disputed, an intolerable situation may yet arise if we should have to seek State agreements before ratification. [More…]
I emphasise, however, that this clause requires the Minister to be satisfied that special circumstances exist to justify his doing so’ before he exercises this power of exemption. [More…]
Pending the promulgation of regulations, the Bill, as does the petroleum legislation, gives the Minister the power under clause 74 to issue directions on any matters with respect to which regulations may be made. [More…]
The buyer did not have the legal power to demand and acquire, without appeal, land from any other person. [More…]
There has been no real power. [More…]
What does he do as soon as he is elevated to power? [More…]
Money, of course, is the major power and there is no doubt that with the power of money vested in the Commonwealth the States will be completely powerless and impotent to exercise any authority whatever. [More…]
We must not have complete centralised power in Canberra. [More…]
The practicability of the matter is bound up in land and the attitudes of people as people looking for a place to live, the economics and price of land and the supply of public services such as water and power, ease of communication with major metropolitan centres, climate and the availability of the recreational areas such as lakes, beaches and the snowfields, as I mentioned. [More…]
What will happen if the Australian Government decides that it does not want to become an imperialist power by becoming the landlord of Papua New Guinea and owning all the industry and investment in thai country? [More…]
The power generation requirement amounts to $24m. [More…]
The treaty making powers of the Government were discussed long ago in the Goya Henry case. [More…]
Although there is some doubt about the ambit of those powers it is quite apparent that they extend to regulating the terms of any Act which this Parliament may validly make. [More…]
there is no constitutional power to write into the Conciliation and Arbitration Act any international obligations under conventions of the International Labour Organisation. [More…]
1 am, as I have said, well aware of the implications of the Goya Henry case and subsequent cases which have followed from it, in regard to the limitations of the Commonwealth Government’s treaty-making power. [More…]
But it is surely obvious that the treaty-making power extends to any matter in which the Commonwealth Government may itself validly pass a law. [More…]
I have no power to fix it - I wish I could - but I hope that the Public Service Board is listening. [More…]
It is lucky for the permanent head of the New South Wales Department of Labour that this year he received his invitation before I got into power. [More…]
By and large the protection provided for is that pensions should keep pace with the cost of living, that is, that they should maintain their real purchasing power by annual increases designed to meet rising prices. [More…]
It has been suggested that the adjustment proposed is likely to result in a provision that is somewhat better than a matching of the cost of living, that is, that the purchasing power will be more than maintained to provide the pensioner with some share of increased productivity. [More…]
However the previous Government recognised this fact in that it introduced some years ago the notional salary method of adjustment of those pensions under which the Commonwealth segment of the pension was reviewed every 5 years and adjustments were made to this segment in line with the actual changes in the purchasing power of money. [More…]
Under the new provisions superannuation payments will be maintained at the current level of purchasing power. [More…]
As John Stuart Mill observed many years ago: ‘A state which dwarfs its men in order that they might be the more docile instruments in its power will find that with small men, no great things can be accomplished’. [More…]
The Bill contains provisions to extend the power to make regulations, to include non-continuous ports and to remove a number of existing limitations in respect of other ports. [More…]
They are: The high cost on the waterfront, the cost plus position, the financial indebtedness of the Australian Stevedoring Industry Authority, the excessive cost of idle time and the featherbedding which presently obtains, surplus labour on the waterfront, the indulgent nature of conditions throughout the industry, the level of industrial unrest, the influence of overseas shippers - I put that on the record - the capacity of the Waterside Workers Federation and the Association of Employers of Waterside Labour to negotiate agreements borne of cynical exploitation of monopoly power without a sense of concern for the public interest. [More…]
There is increased demand for fuel and power and there is an all important stability in the local labour market. [More…]
All these benefits have come from the extra spending power generated by the increased returns from crops grown under irrigation and the increased business activity in what is generally speaking a dry farming area. [More…]
The particular legislation I have in mind is in the racial discrimination field, where it would appear to be necessary for us to use the external affairs power in order to override offensive State legislation. [More…]
However, I would point out that the government of which he was a supporter and which held power through a succession of leaderships for 23 years, although no doubt concerned, did nothing about these problems. [More…]
Here we have a Government which has been sponsoring inflation with all its mad action through the period of weeks that it has been in power, and now it is setting up a prices justification tribunal and we are not to be permitted proper debate on it. [More…]
If one looks at the maps held by the Federal Power Commission in Washington one can see that the whole of the United States is criss-crossed by pipelines often going over one another and under one another. [More…]
I make this point because a number of the pipelines now operating are intrastate and the Commonwealth has no power over the operation of these pipelines. [More…]
This has happened particularly in the case of natural gas in the United States where the Federal Power Commission set an extremely low price. [More…]
Many oil men put this down to the extremely low price which the Federal Power Commission allows people to charge. [More…]
Clause 18 continues in sub-sections (b) and (c) to give tremendous power to ‘demolish, destroy or remove on or from land so occupied, any plant, machinery, equipment, goods, workshop, shed, building or road’. [More…]
In the United States of America the Federal Power Commission has jurisdiction over the interstate transportation of natural gas and over the sale of natural gas in interstate commerce for resale. [More…]
I want to avoid the danger where some oil companies as a consortium might use the power they had over transportation unfairly to treat their competitors in the oil field who did not own shares in that pipeline authority which would transport the product. [More…]
It would again, I think, be an improper use of a public utility of great value if it were able to buy and sell and, because of that power, charge itself less and put itself in a position of unfair competition with others who wish to have the same goods transported through its pipeline. [More…]
It is probably true that it should have the power to buy and sell on its own account but I think that the points which I have raised are absolutely essential if this is to be not only successful but also a fair use of public money for the public benefit. [More…]
The Authority should not have the power to discriminate between producers. [More…]
The Sydney Council Council purchases power at wholesale rates and reticulates it to the metropolitan suburbs, to people living within Sydney. [More…]
Every citizen of Australia is interested in obtaining power in order to enjoy the fruits of modern living. [More…]
The rest of us are very concerned at the degree to which there is an availability of power within Australia in order to ensure that we can enjoy this general advantage which comes from the application of energy in the various technologically advanced ways which make the work of the housewife easier and business and communications so much more rapid and simpler than they were not many years ago. [More…]
I believe that the power to convey, through the pipes operated by the Authority, petroleum belonging to the Authority or to the other persons is necessary in the general context of the Authority operating pipelines, but I do not believe that sub-clause (c) relating to the buying and selling of petroleum is necessary. [More…]
Clause 17 of the Bill provides power to enter land and take levels. [More…]
The power given in this Bill can affect every householder in Australia. [More…]
Their block, be it big or small, is equally subject to the power of intrusion, the power of construction - with minima! [More…]
notice required - and the power to enter upon and occupy the land specified in the Bill. [More…]
It is interesting to see in the Bill the sources of constitutional power that the Minister is endeavouring draw upon. [More…]
In clause 13 (2) he first seeks to draw upon the Commonwealth’s legislative power in respect of trading corporations within the limits of the Commonwealth, and it may be no accident that this authority is declared to be a body corporate. [More…]
Then of course it is intended to draw on the power to make laws in respect of territories and next the power relating to trade and commerce with other countries, among the States and between territories or between a territory and a State. [More…]
Finally the Minister, in a time of undoubted peace, seeks to draw on the defence power of the Commonwealth. [More…]
If nothing more would show the purpose, drawing on the defence power in a time of undoubted peace indicates what the Government is all about. [More…]
However, the clause goes on to say that the Authority is to have the power to buy and sell petroleum, whether in Australia or elsewhere. [More…]
So the Authority would have a monopoly power of the most insidious kind. [More…]
The second point to be noted is that a high proportion of research expenditure in the United States in recent years has been in the area of nuclear power and a very minute proportion has been in MHD - that is the conversion of fossil fuel whereby one can reduce the pollution content. [More…]
Solar energy and nuclear power must not be forgotten simply because Australia is late in developing its natural gas. [More…]
Power is to be granted to buy and sell the commodities that the pipeline will carry. [More…]
This bears some significance to the power that is taken to buy and sell the commodities defined in the Bill. [More…]
The power to buy and sell gives the measure greater significance. [More…]
The only objection that we voice by our amendment is the power given to the authority to control production and distribution of the commodities carried by the pipeline. [More…]
But the purpose of that scheme was to supply water and bulk power. [More…]
Clause 16 contains 13 paragraphs giving the proposed authority the power to do all sorts of things - to purchase land, to take land on lease, to take easements over land, to sell or otherwise dispose of land, to release any easements over land, to purchase or take on hire plant and so on. [More…]
One of the paragraphs in clause 13 will empower the authority to buy and sell petroleum, whether in Australia or elsewhere. [More…]
Natural gas is a very important source of power. [More…]
The Bill in its present form gives far too much power to the Federal Government. [More…]
Upon studying it clause by clause, one will see that the Authority has power over practically everything. [More…]
The purpose of the particular power provided in the Bill is to acquire all 5 shares in that company which are held by the Australian Gas Light Co. [More…]
That the committee have power lo appoint subcommittees consisting of 3 or more of its members, and refer to any such sub-committee any matter which the committee is empowered to examine. [More…]
That the committee or any sub-committee have power to send for persons, papers and records, to move from place to place, and to sit during any recess or adjournment. [More…]
Thai the committee have power to authorise publication of any evidence given before it and any document presented to it. [More…]
That the committee be provided with all necessary staff, facilities and resources and have power, wilh the approval of the Speaker, to appoint persons with specialist knowledge for the purposes of the committee. [More…]
That the committee have leave to report from time to time and that any member of the committee have power to add a protest or dissent to any report. [More…]
Honourable members will also note that all references to the power output of tractors are expressed in metric terms in conformity with the move to total metrication of our weights and measures. [More…]
The consumer loses because the dollar is depreciating in purchasing power by 6 per cent per annum. [More…]
The pensioner loses because his income is fixed and is being systematically reduced in purchasing power. [More…]
That is to say, we do not propose that, initially at least, any powers to determine prices should be assumed by the Tribunal or by the Government. [More…]
It is important to note in this respect that the Bill invests the Tribunal with the power to initiate its own inquiries. [More…]
The real purchasing power of the minimum wage has now increased by one-third since 1966. [More…]
When the previous Government was in power we were endeavouring to arrange an accommodation with the communist countries, slowly but surely, while still retaining our friendship with countries like the United States of America. [More…]
Since the Whitlam Government has been in power the reverse has since been the case. [More…]
It came to power after promising extensive and expensive programs in almost every aspect of our affairs - health, education, social security, housing, urban development and protection of the environment. [More…]
Only minimum wages are controlled, and it is above-award wages obtained by unions ruthlessly using their monopoly power that are the dominant cause of cost-push inflation. [More…]
The Constitution, however, only confers on the Commission the power to arbitrate disputes. [More…]
In other words, if employers and employees agree on wage increases, as they have increasingly done in collective bargaining, the Commission is powerless, except by refusing to register or certify such agreements or endorse them as awards. [More…]
It had this power under the previous Government’s Conciliation and Arbitration Act, and has retained it, in a regrettably watered down form, in the Bill we have recently passed. [More…]
I would like to see the Arbitration Commission use its power and refuse to register those agreements it disapproved of. [More…]
Secondly, of course, the Committee then will have the power of recommendation and referral. [More…]
Of course, the Tribunal will not exercise any punitive powers. [More…]
But it will have that great power of exposing to the public as a whole unfair tactics and activities as well as incorrect prices and prices which help to create inflation in this country. [More…]
All these measures add up to the first worthwhile attempt to tackle the important matter of inflation since Sir Robert Menzies won power in 1949 on the slogan of bringing value back to the pound. [More…]
We will not permit this’, all as though he were speaking with some sort of executive power. [More…]
I remind the Government and the honourable members here that whatever criticism they may like to make of resource allocation in this country - the Minister for Social Security (Mr Hayden) talks of resource allocation with great frequency - and whatever new policies they think ought to be implemented, the wealth of this country today that they have to use to implement their welfare and other policies was created under the climate of Liberal-Country Party governments which were in power, as the House knows, for many years. [More…]
Australia some years ago had put to it a referendum on prices powers for the Commonwealth, and it was defeated. [More…]
Perhaps, if the referendum were put again, the public would not take that point of view, but we still have to remember that that was its view - no more power to Canberra. [More…]
They have said that, even though the Government does not have full power. [More…]
There is no com fort in this Bill for those who utilise their power and position to gain wealth for themselves by exploiting others who are unable to defend themselves from the erosion and attack of inflation. [More…]
They have little power. [More…]
On the one hand, Australia is looked to by other States to undertake certain international actions and, on the other, the only government recognised internationally as representing Australia has no municipal power to execute those actions. [More…]
The High Court appears to have recognised this problem in part in its interpretation of the external affairs power. [More…]
Likewise our founding fathers were aware of the problem when drafting the Consi tut ion, and generally attempted to locate external or national power in the Commonwealth. [More…]
But any attempt to pre-empt a court’s power to decide the issue can only be regarded as an attempt to alter the boundaries of internal waters from some theoretical or posed standard, contrary to Section 123 of the Constitution, and will be ineffective in preventing litigation on whether or not there has been an alteration. [More…]
It is probably quite desirable that the States have some power to regulate activities in the territorial sea which closely affect their territory. [More…]
Apposite to this I make reference to section 122, which relates to territorial powers, insofar as it applied to the acquisition of the Ashmore and Cartier Islands in Western Australia. [More…]
I can only express a hope that if the High Court should not support the assertion of sovereignty in this Bill - I shudder to think of it - some government will go to the people and ask them at a referendum to give it that power. [More…]
If the High Court does not uphold the principle, the mining code means nothing because the Parliament would not have the power to make it. [More…]
In fact he and the honourable member for Moreton (Mr Killen) and the honourable T. E. F. Hughes, the previous honourable member for Berowra, were the 3 people in former governments who were consistent in trying to ensure that the Commonwealth had adequate powers in the area in which they believed the Commonwealth should be asserting itself. [More…]
I refer firstly to the Territorial Sea and Continental Shelf Bill for which the right honourable member for Higgins and also the honourable member for Moreton suffered at the hands of their own Party, and their collective efforts with the honourable member for Berowra in relation to the corporation power of the Constitution which was tested in the High Court of Australia at their behest. [More…]
The result was a judgment which reiterated the restrictive trade practices legislation and gave this Parliament power to introduce a uniform companies law and laws over all trading and financial corporations. [More…]
In those 2 areas - the area of offshore legislation and the area of comprehensive company law - which are vital to this Parliament, this Parliament has extended powers. [More…]
This type of provision would have been written in to the Commonwealth legislation had the previous Liberal Government asserted that the Commonwealth did have power in this area and that the Petroleum (Submerged Lands) Act was under the exclusive control of the Commonwealth as is the mining code incorporated in Part III of this Bill. [More…]
But before I do that may I refer to the fact that the honourable member for Blaxland (Mr Keating) who preceded me in this debate is doing so under at least one misapprehension, and that is that the Commonwealth Government has not the power to deal internationally with the problems which face us not only in this Bill but in two other measures which were before us both yesterday and today. [More…]
There is no doubt that so far as the external power is concerned the Commonwealth has the power and this power is not in any way objected to or contested by the State governments. [More…]
I repeat, each of these Bills contains a vast extension of power. [More…]
Far from that being the position, the Authority has power from the well-head to the point of distribution to control every single aspect of production and distribution. [More…]
If honourable members read the Act with a great deal of interest and attention they will see that the Authority has the power to intrude very nearly onto the factory floor and into practically every avenue of production. [More…]
An extension of power has been given to the Australian National Airlines Commission which operates Trans-Australia Airlines. [More…]
As I look at the position the powers of TAA extend, to put it shortly, from Casinos to contraception. [More…]
If one examines the preambles to and the titles of the Bills it will be seen that nowhere could it be seen that there would be an extension of power in the way provided in this Bill. [More…]
What is the relevance in terms of those who say that we are not inhibited with respect to the external affairs power? [More…]
I recall vividly the presentation of some views on the history of the external affairs power that were not received with rapture in some places. [More…]
The only purpose, apparently, is to resolve an abstract question of power as to whether the Commonwealth Parliament or the State Parliaments have the power and authority. [More…]
In the Australian federal system, it is I think, clear that off-shore control is exercisable in accordance with the constitutional division of powers between the Commonwealth and States, the territorial sea being for this purpose treated as part of the territory of the State concerned. [More…]
Accordingly, the control of the oil resources of the sea-bed beneath the territorial sea would normally appear to fall wholly within State authority, subject of course to such Commonwealth powers as those with respect to defence. [More…]
But in this field as in all others, it is the Commonwealth and not a State which is internationally responsible for any exercise of power, whether by the Commonwealth or by a State, which affects other countries or their nationals. [More…]
The following countries are some of the federations with divisions of power between the State and Federal authorities similar to Australia: The United States of America, Canada, the Federal Republic of Germany, Malaysia and Nigeria. [More…]
When I was in the United States 6 years ago, a commissioner of the Federal Power Commission told me that he did not expect to see the end of litigation on the United States’ off-shore areas during his lifetime. [More…]
Even if a State did not have any power below low water mark it still would have to play a major part in the development of any off-shore mining venture as it would have to provide so many on-shore facilities such as housing, roads, schools and police stations, lt could, I suppose, exercise the ultimate sanction of preventing the development of an off-shore mine merely by preventing a mine from landing its ore in the State concerned. [More…]
The Commonwealth, of course, has supreme power in the off-shore areas in relation to the execution of any of its functions, just as it has on the on-shore areas. [More…]
What it is seeking to do here is to extend its powers to the complete exclusion of the States. [More…]
Earlier in this debate the right honourable (member for Lowe (Mr McMahon) said that the Commonwealth now has power to deal internationally and if there is any inconsistency between State law and Commonwealth law the Commonwealth law will prevail. [More…]
Certainly the Commonwealth has the power to deal internationally. [More…]
Commonwealth Government is the Government of this nation which has international legal personality and it does this by invoking the external affairs power under the Constitution. [More…]
When we talk about the boundary between Papua New Guinea and Queensland and about inland waters and historic bays, these are matters on which the Commonwealth has constitutional power. [More…]
They include such actions as the use of exchange controls to restrict overseas borrowing to support exploration in Australia; the use of the export control power to control the export of minerals, including petroleum; the removal of tax incentives for the raising of risk capital; the removal of petroleum subsidies to explorers; the instigation of a national fuel and energy authority; the implementation of a national pipeline authority; and, now, the last piece in the jigsaw, the last act to put the lid, as it were, on the resource policy of this Government has been to introduce this Bill. [More…]
I refer to legislation introduced by the present Government for the simple purpose of centralising all power in Canberra. [More…]
It is amazing how absolute power corrupts absolutely. [More…]
I have seen examples in this Parliament of the discrimination that comes from blind prejudice where certain members of the Parliament have stood in this place and made speeches based upon blind prejudice accusing upright, decent Australians of being enemies of the State and agents of a foreign power, based purely upon political hatred and political prejudice.. [More…]
The provisions of the Bill propose to vest TAA with wide powers to engage in intrastate transport; that is, air and land, aerial services - that is, general aviation - hotels and other establishments or enterprises providing accommodation, recreation and entertainment or other services or facilities as incidental to the primary functions of the Commission as set out in section 19 (1) (a). [More…]
That relates to the corporation power. [More…]
It is invoked on a basis which is clearly intended to give TAA the widest possible powers to operate hotels, accommodation services, etc., permissible under the Constitution. [More…]
to the extent that those powers are capable of being conferred on the Commission in the exercise of the power of the Parliament to make laws under paragraph (xx.) [More…]
As the present Government has argued for a wide interpretation of the corporation power, it is a gross deception not to have invited Parliament’s attention to the fact that provisions were included in the Bill which seek to make vast inroads into existing areas of State sovereignty without the approval of State governments. [More…]
For example, by virtue of this section, a reference of power is not necessary before TAA engages in purely intrastate air and road services, and it can do so without the permission of the Premier. [More…]
It must be suspected that an intention of this provision is to test, for other purposes unconnected with TAA but under the cloak of TAA’s respectability established during the previous administration, the scope of the corporation power of the Commonwealth. [More…]
What I am saying is that while the Government has the power in this House to introduce most or all of these measures giving TAA the advantage of unfair and unequalgain the Minister should not have attempted to make out that it is merely picking up the previous Government’s proposals. [More…]
It is on the strength of those words that the Minister has introduced a Bill that will in its effective use of the corporation power and paragraph (xx) of section 51 of the Constitution give a Federal government instrumentality unbridled power and unlimited advantages, financial and otherwise in civil aviation, road transport, the hotelmotel industry and many ancillary industries. [More…]
It is this Bill which so clearly attempts to usurp the sovereign power of the States which the Minister says has the agreement of the Government and the Opposition. [More…]
The excesses of power in all fields proposed for TAA in this Bill are streets ahead of the moderate proposals and incidental powers proposed by the previous Government. [More…]
Clause S sets out the basic functions … in different language, but adds the power to’ transport passengers and goods by land as well as by air, or partly by each means, and to provide for the Commonwealth aviation, land transport and engineering services and other services which are within its resources. [More…]
Firstly, there is no suggestion that TAA’s power to engage in road transport is in any way related to or limited by its activities in air transport. [More…]
The potential power in this clause is even more clearly understood when the financial power to be given to this body is known. [More…]
As can be seen from clause 13 of the Bill, the Commission’s financial capacity comes in 2 ways: From the power to borrow moneys necessary for the exercise of its powers, with the Treasurer’s approval, and from money appropriated by the Parliament. [More…]
There is an obligation on the Treasurer to agree to allow the Commission to borrow money if the Commission determines that the loan is required for the exercise of its power and the performance of its duties or functions. [More…]
The significant addition to the principal Act are the words ‘the exercise of its powers’. [More…]
The combination of this power with the financial power means that TAA can take over, buy out or buy part of any transport operation that it likes, and there are no limits at all to the number of operations into which TAA can enter. [More…]
It can, in the exercise of this power, take over established operators like Thomas Nationwide Transport, Brambles or IPEC. [More…]
As I said earlier, these powers extend to the area of ‘hotels or other establishments or enterprises providing accommodation, recreation, entertainment or other services or facilities’. [More…]
Again, this clause is given further unknown power and unmeasured thrust by calling into use in the Bill the powers conferred by paragraph (xx) of section 51 of the Constitution. [More…]
By the inclusion of that Commonwealth power in this clause, we are left to wonder whether the Labor Government wants to challenge State laws on TAA property. [More…]
Again, it is a far cry from an incidental activity or power as proposed by the previous Government. [More…]
Once again, this power is not explained by the Minister in his second reading speech. [More…]
Also where powers had been referred by a State, TAA’s rights were clearly understood. [More…]
It is quite clear from this provision that the Commonwealth Government is asserting that the concrete pipes case gives it unlimited power in the State. [More…]
This Bill seeks to test to the ultimate the corporations power of the Commonwealth. [More…]
Never before, or rarely, have I seen put in a Bill where they propose to get their head of power from. [More…]
I invite the country to look at clause 6 which deals with a reference of power before or after the commencement of a particular sub-section. [More…]
Since when is a government, no matter what its political kidney may be, entitled to assume that there will be a reference of power made to it either by the people or by the State? [More…]
But here, the honourable gentleman, led by the Minister for Transport, is proceeding on the basis that this power will be referred to this Parliament. [More…]
One cannot, you know, simply describe it as TransAustralia Airlines from now on because, if this power is a valid use of power, TAA is put in a position where it can branch into any form of activity at all. [More…]
But under the power provided in this proposed new section a hotel could be established at Cunnamulla for the purpose of providing a country retreat for members of the Labor Caucus. [More…]
I warn this House and I warn the country that this Bill is the first major foray by the new socialist Government to test the extent of the Corporation’s power. [More…]
Surely the Government airline is entitled to have the power to engage, in a small way, in these additional activities. [More…]
The power of the Commission . [More…]
The Bill will extend all the powers of the Commission to the full extent of the corporations power, as yet undefined by the courts. [More…]
The Commission’s power to operate in each of these fields will be extended by the full backing of the corporations power. [More…]
Not only does the Bill extend TAA’s functions into new areas but also, with the financial powers it has under this legislation, the Commission - not TAA - will be able to monopolise every industry in which it engages. [More…]
The Commission will be all-powerful and untouchable. [More…]
The Commission will have power to do all things necessary or convenient to be done for the performance of its functions. [More…]
This is the type of power that would be conferred on the Commission by this legislation. [More…]
We do not have the power to do it because section 92 of the Constitution will stop us’. [More…]
What he should do with this legislation, if he wants to amend it, is to say that there will be an even handed dealing in competition between TAA and Ansett and that TAA will have the power to do these things, but only incidentally to the operation of its airline service. [More…]
We will introduce amendments which will have the effect of reducing the effect of the Bill from the present statutorily unlimited monopolistic capacity which it gives to the Airlines Commission and pull it back to where it ought to be, as we both agree, that is, to give statutory power to the level of the policy statement that we as a government made last year. [More…]
Ever since the Liberal-Country Party coalition came into power in 1949 TAA has been at a disadvantage compared with the private airlines in Australia. [More…]
If they did not see fit to make a close study of what the Party would do when it achieved power, it is a little late to start crying and whinging now. [More…]
Territorial government in the Australian Capital Territory comes directly from and is the law-making power of the public servants and beyond the public servants of this House, and of the Senate by way of review. [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…]
The Australian Wool Corporation is the most powerful organisation the industry has ever had by way of a marketing authority. [More…]
It has the power to acquire the clip given the concurrence of all State governments. [More…]
Now that it has the power, it is no sense running to government or the industry through the Australia Wool Industry Con ference every time it has a problem. [More…]
In this friendly frame of mind I feel I should thank - and I would be most ungracious if I did not take this opportunity to thank - the honourable member for Wimmera (Mr King), because it may not be known that he brought the power of his realm to bear on Eden-Monaro in the intersts of the Labor Party. [More…]
As is customary, projects are selected in the light of priorities proposed by the Government of South Vietnam and include several water supply projects, the reconstruction of the Bien Hoa hospital and the supply of equipment to the Vietnam Power Co. and the Posts, Telegraph and Telecommunications Department [More…]
The company made it after our examination had shown that we had no power in this case. [More…]
One of the reasons why it might not have been supported was the fear of what a Labor Government would do if it got into power under the kind of arrangements that were then being pursued by the Australian Labor Party. [More…]
There is no consultation, and this is typical of an arbitrary government that believes in a unitary government - one government alone, no division of power, all power in Canberra, no need to negotiate, no need to consult. [More…]
This one is very interesting because it is one on which the Country Party came into power. [More…]
What talk has there been since the Government came to power of the statement made in its ‘It’s Time’ booklet that long term stabilisation plans would be provided for the canning fruit industry? [More…]
Since this Government came to power there has been a meeting of the Ministers involved with this scheme. [More…]
In the meantime many fruit growers were lulled into the false belief that things would be changed if a new government came to power. [More…]
When introducing a Bill to amend the Australian National University Act on 27 October 1970, the then Minister for Education and Science, the honourable member for Parramatta (Mr N. H. Bowen), spoke of the introduction at a later stage of further amendments to the Australian National University Act to give the University power to control traffic within the University. [More…]
1 am in agreement with my predecessor on the need for the University to have such a power. [More…]
The Bill gives the University a general power to make statutes for the regulation of traffic and parking on the University site. [More…]
It also gives the University specific powers: To appoint its own traffic officers; to regulate access to the University roads; to set up parking meters and charge for parking; to tow away vehicles; to prescribe fines for traffic offences proved in court; and where parking or stopping offences are involved, to fix a small penalty which the offenders may choose to pay rather than undergo prosecution. [More…]
The statute-making power proposed for the University with respect of traffic control, is, however, restricted to the making of provisions which are not inconsistent with the provisions of the Australian Capital Territory Motor Traffic Ordinance. [More…]
The University’s Council has pressed for a traffic control power for some time and I am satisfied that without such a power the University will not be able to develop its site effectively or have adequate control over daytoday activities upon the campus. [More…]
The other substantial amendment effected relates to section 30l which creates the power for the Attorney-General to deport people who are members of an unlawful organisation. [More…]
If the LiberalCountry Party government had remained in power and if I had been the Minister for Social Services there would have been a development of the program that we had under way. [More…]
I want now to put before the House 2 of the things which quite inevitably would have been done had we remained in power and which I believe should be done. [More…]
While the previous government was in power we tried to clean up one by one the more pressing pockets of hardship in the community. [More…]
Another factor of interest is that the level of purchasing power of the standard rate of pension was increased very considerably. [More…]
This angle must be kept under observation and consideration by the Government in power to ensure that the pensioners of this country are not disadvantaged by the inroads of inflation on the pensions provided for them. [More…]
Whilst 1 welcome the Bill, I trust that this consideration will continue to be given to pensions, both in relation to their purchasing power and in relation to increasing the standard of living of pensioners compared with the general standard of living in the community. [More…]
The States have the power to group them into more economically efficient areas. [More…]
They have the responsibility to limit the rating powers of local government. [More…]
They have the responsibility to empower local government to carry out services. [More…]
We must have the clear responsibility stated and those who have the responsibility must have the power to carry it out. [More…]
The strange story is that during the 23 years that his Party was in power, the population of the non-urban areas of Australia fell from 31 per cent of the total population of Australia in 1947 to 14.7 per cent of the total when the previous Government went out of power. [More…]
The Australian Government has no power to intervene, even if it wanted to, in the question of boundary determination. [More…]
I have read the tribunal report on the Vehicle and General crash in Great Britain and it clearly revealed that the Board of Trade had the responsibility but regrettably not necessarily all the power required to do what was needed. [More…]
I note that in the United Kingdom Bill there is provision in clause 38 which asserts power to make regulations as to the form and content of insurance advertising. [More…]
It is my view that local government should have wider power than it now has to raise revenue. [More…]
At the same time I must say that this issue was put very fully from time to time before the Australian people, and at the last election they voted the present Labor Government into power. [More…]
They may disagree violently with some points of policy outlined in a policy speech or mentioned in the election campaign and yet, because of other major items which appeal to them or because of something they dislike in the policy of the other party, they vote in favour of that particular party and return it to power even though they disagree with items in the policy speech. [More…]
However, it is one of a number of important issues which were put before the Australian people and I think it is fair to say that the Australian people would be entitled to expect this Government to carry out its promise when elected to power. [More…]
In the distribution of State and Commonwealth powers the area of local government is one, perhaps above all others, which our founding fathers retained for the States. [More…]
There is no Commonwealth power to legislate in respect of that. [More…]
There are different views on how power should be distributed in Australia, and what may have been the distribution of powers in 1901 may not be the ideal distribution of powers in the minds of many of us in 1973. [More…]
We have to decide what is our philosophy on the distribution of powers in 1973, not by indirection and not by this kind of Bill. [More…]
I suggest very seriously to members of this House, including the Minister for Urban and Regional Development, that it is important when distributing powers in a democracy to have checks and balances. [More…]
having simply one central source of power. [More…]
It might be thought and properly argued that local government has now reached an age and a measure of power, independence and influence sufficient to enable it to carry out its wider community responsibilities. [More…]
But it is a wellknown fact, and well known throughout local government in Australia, that the rating system of raising finance for local government has reached saturation point where people cannot afford to pay any more money by way of rates and so it is necessary, with the wider powers that local government has had to assume, that local government bodies be able to find additional sources of revenue. [More…]
I suggest that the administrative principle we should follow is that power should be delegated to the body closest to the people iia which that power can be effectively exercised. [More…]
But power cannot be effectively exercised without financial independence. [More…]
One of the great erosions of the independence of the States was the transfer of their taxing powers to Canberra so that they became financial clients of the Federal Government. [More…]
But power, of course, has its responsibilities. [More…]
The amendment moved by the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Snedden) and accepted by the Prime Minister to require in the Act as it will become that there should be consultation with the State governments before these regional groupings are approved in my opinion is a great improvement, but nevertheless the ultimate power rests with the Minister for Urban and Regional Development. [More…]
He is the one who will give his approval on these issues and I do not believe that this is a proper power to give the Minister because he does not have the staff or the organisation to make rational judgments on this issue. [More…]
The other reason seems to be that the Government sees an opportunity to deal a sharp blow at the prestige and power of the State governments. [More…]
Just a few weeks ago the honourable member for Mackellar and I, together with hundreds of others, walked 10 miles in a walkathon to raise money for the power boats operated in the Warringah peninsula. [More…]
I am not talking about basic equipment such as surf reels which are financed mostly by club members or donors, but I am speaking about sophisticated equipment of high cost such as power boats, beach buggies, towers and so on. [More…]
More purchasing power and massive tax remissions for the privileged minority are not the antidote for the chronic sociological ailment which is our nation-wide housing crisis. [More…]
Other countries have seen increasing value in having power diversified. [More…]
I believe that the Australian people have always wanted and will continue to want some balance of control against the exercise of power in Canberra. [More…]
A federal system, such as Australia has, does not mean that all power resides with the States. [More…]
It does not mean that all power lies with the centre, in our case the Commonwealth. [More…]
It means preserving a balance of power. [More…]
This proposed legislation is the most striking method of taking away the powers of the States without direct constitutional change and to that extent it is dishonest. [More…]
This Government and the Labor Party have no generosity when it comes to other bodies having power and influence. [More…]
The Prime Minister believes not in the Federal system but in a unitary system of government; that is, one central government with absolute power, residing in Canberra. [More…]
In any case, whether that distinction is accepted or not, the truth is that, on the authority of the Uniform Tax Cases, the independence of the States can be destroyed in a perfectly legal manner by a combination of the Commonwealth’s taxing power and grants power. [More…]
In spite of this constant cricitism from State sources, Commonwealth governments have shown no inclination to refrain from exercising their power to attach conditions to State grants. [More…]
On the contrary, it is evident that Commonwealth governments of all political persuasions, in the security of their control of the financial resources of the country, are coming more and more to recognise section 96 as the means of enabling them to overcome the constitutional limitations on Commonwealth power, and as a strong stick with which to beat the States into accepting the role of executive agents for Commonwealth-conceived policies. [More…]
Australians want to see decentralisation of power. [More…]
They will be displeased, to say the least, if this Commission is used as a vehicle for the centralisation of power. [More…]
in association with the carrying on of that business and to the extent that those powers are capable of being conferred on the Commission in the exercise of the power of the Parliament to make laws under paragraph (xx) of section 51 of the Constitution. [More…]
to the extent that those powers are capable of being conferred on the Commission in the exercise of the power of the Parliament to make laws under section 122 or paragraph (!) [More…]
The proposed section invokes paragraph (xx) of section 51 of the Constitution - that is, the corporation power - on a basis which clearly intends to give Trans- Australia Airlines wider powers than we believe are necessary for it to have to expand its activities to meet the agreed position between the Government and the Opposition in this matter. [More…]
The extent of the Commonwealth’s power under this paragraph is extremely uncertain and awaits further clarification by the High Court when a suitable issue arises. [More…]
As a result it was assumed that the Commonwealth did not have power to enact a uniform Companies Act covering all trading corporations. [More…]
It could only incorporate or regulate corporations carrying out any enumerated power such as inter-nation or interstate trade and commerce; for example, the National Shipping Line, the Australian National Airlines Commission and the Overseas Telecommunications Commission. [More…]
In 1971 the High Court in the Concrete Pipes Case - Strickland v Rockla Concrete Pipes Ltd - took a much wider view of the corporation power and a number of judgments suggested, in passing, that the Commonwealth might be able to enact a uniform Companies Act and might also be able to form trading companies engaging in domestic trade and commerce within the confines of a State. [More…]
Until the corporation power of the Commonwealth is fully defined, it is not acceptable to give the Commission a blank cheque to exercise that power to the full extent that the power is capable of being conferred on the Commission in the exercise of the power of the Parliament. [More…]
This is especially so since many other provisions of the Bill give the Commission all the powers that are necessary. [More…]
This proposed section relies on the corporation powers to permit Trans-Australia Airlines to operate intrastate. [More…]
It is quite recent thinking to rely on this head of power. [More…]
As this is recent thinking and an innovation as far as the powers of the Commonwealth are concerned, and so that the Bill can be proceeded with - through both Houses, I hope - the Government is prepared to accept this amendment. [More…]
It was this paragraph that really frightened in particular the people in the road transport, hotel and motel industries who were unaware of the complete power of it until a High Court challenge ensued. [More…]
The Minister for Transport and Minister for Civil Aviation (Mr Charles Jones) may well argue his side of the story but the simple truth is that the people engaged in the industries mentioned earlier were, to use an expression, dead scared of the force of this power because the power is unlimited. [More…]
It has never been tested in the High Court and it is definitely not necessary to have this power to secure for TAA those additions to its operations which we believed when in government and which we believe in Opposition it should have. [More…]
When this power is added to the agreement reached with the Director-General, of course crop duster and many others would be nervous. [More…]
One of the proposed amendments to the Act, while retaining the Minister’s control over the Corporation will give him the power to allow certain works as prescribed by the Minister to be undertaken without specific submissions for approval. [More…]
When in Opposition the Australian Labor Party worked for those changes insofar as it was in our slight power to do so. [More…]
There was one man whose position gave him unique power to achieve these changes and I here gratefully acknowledge the pivotal role played by President Nixon in ushering in a new and saner phase in our relations with China; in clearing the way for more intensive commercial, scientific, technical and cultural exchanges between the United States of America and the Soviet Union, and thereby achieving a successful first round of the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks and ending foreign intervention in Vietnam. [More…]
Our ending of the last vestiges of Australia’s military commitment in Vietnam and Cambodia signalled our determination to do all in our power to end foreign intervention in Indo-China. [More…]
The centra] aim of my Government’s foreign policy will be to do all we can as a medium-sized power to help all nations including the great powers and not least our great ally, to make the most of the new opportunities now presenting themselves. [More…]
It was therefore only logical that we should from an early stage have examined the possibilities of bringing into existence the kind of regional community which, as I said in my speech to the Summer School of the Australian Institute of Political Science on Australia Day, would be ‘an organisation genuinely representative of the region, without ideological overtones, conceived as an initiative to help free the region of Great Power rivalries that have bedevilled its progress for decades and designed to insulate the region against ideological interference from the Great powers’. [More…]
We believe that our pledge to uphold the FivePower Arrangements does not require the stationing of forces abroad on permanent garrison duty for its redemption. [More…]
We believe that there should be full co-operation between Australia and the other participants in the Five-Power Arrangements and that one way in which this co-operation can be effective is through the holding of joint military exercises. [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 transfer of power to the government of a United Papua New Guinea. [More…]
In Victoria when the Labor Government was in power prior to the present Liberal Government, a total of 15,000 commission homes were constructed. [More…]
I know that Prime Minister Curtin and Prime Minister Chifley had firm ideas on home ownership when they were in power and that they introduced measures to assist the States in this matter. [More…]
It is very pleasing to see that the Minister has recognised that the co-operation of the States with local government is vital and that the States will have the power to advance to local government by way of bridging finance moneys that will be used by local government to provide essential amenities, such as park and recreation areas, community centres, swimming pools and so on. [More…]
The Commonwealth has the power to lay down conditions under which it makes funds available to the various State housing authorities. [More…]
He had extreme power then in the Liberal Party. [More…]
We ran into opposition from Ministers from States such as New South Wales who were determined to retain the quota in the interests of their political sectional power base, the Country Party power base. [More…]
In situations of this sort where there is an inequality of bargaining power, is it the Government’s intention to take any action which might redress the imbalance that so often causes hardship? [More…]
I certainly have noted the intervention of Mr Balfour, the Victorian Minister for Fuel and Power, in the debate. [More…]
1 do not question that that was what the Leader of the Opposition was referring to but the whole intent and thrust of what he was saying was that there should be removed from the Bill all possibility of political patronage in the exercise of powers relating to councils. [More…]
Therefore we would prefer that the power to approve bodies representing regions as regional associations also should be the subject of regulation. [More…]
We would not wish it to be thought that we were suggesting that the present Minister would be likely to exercise the power of approval of regional associations, which will remain if this amendment to clause 17 is carried, for political reasons or in response to particular pressures. [More…]
In fact we do not envy him the task with which he will be confronted and the pressures which will be upon him in exercising the powers if this amendment is passed. [More…]
However, to us it seems wrong in principle to legislate in such a way that a result is possible under which a Minister is to be placed in this position and to place it beyond the power of Parliament to scrutinise the exercise of this particular power. [More…]
At present there are few regional bodies with sufficient statutory power so this degree of flexibility is needed. [More…]
The Parliamentary Draftsman looked at the matter and he - I am informed that it was the Parliamentary Draftsman and from examining it I am sure it must have been - suggested that the proper method was to eliminate the whole of clause 17 and to include in clause 27 the regulation making power which would pick up what was contained in clause 17. [More…]
Is this not another example of an attempt by the present Government to ride roughshod over the States through the power of the purse? [More…]
Mr Dickie, the Minister for Housing in Victoria, has asked what power the Commonwealth has to direct Victoria how to spend money raised from Victorian taxpayers for the betterment of Victoria. [More…]
Through its taxing power, it has raised this money from Victoria and other States, and is merely returning capital to be applied through the elected State Government apparatus. [More…]
What a fantastic direction to be received from a Government that has no constitutional powers to direct us to do a thing but only has the power of the purse strings by which to try and call our bluff. [More…]
I believed that the constitutional convention to be held this year was to look at the powers of the States and Commonwealth and make recommendations where it felt changes were necessary. [More…]
But this socialist government in Canberra has seen fit to move quickly ahead of the constitutional convention and by using the power of the purse strings proposes an agreement which will mean a complete takeover in the housing field. [More…]
In the Conciliation and Arbitration Bill at present before the Parliament, the Government is proposing to give power to inspectors to seek an interpretation of an award. [More…]
I think it would be pertinent to remind the House that after the war, in 1945, Labor was in power. [More…]
That was the last time it was in power until the last few months. [More…]
After 23 years of being in the wilderness Labor is in power again and is up to its old tricks to build up a rental community. [More…]
We should do all in our power to increase facilities to allow higher home ownership figures to be achieved. [More…]
But with demand rising very strongly; shortages in various industries occurring with growing frequency; the power of the left wing trade unions being ruthlessly exploited to extract higher wages; the impact of the $2.50 and the 2 per cent increase in the national wage, adding at least $850m to the current wage bill, or about 4) per cent to average earnings - these are Commonwealth Government figures - and the $9 increase in the minimum wage - the cost of which cannot be accurately determined by anyone but which the Minister for Labor thought would add about $300m to the wage bill - we would have to be extremely lucky in this ‘lucky country’ to prevent average earnings rising by less than 12 per cent during 1973-74. [More…]
There is the Government’s support for the 35-hour week, ostensibly only in the oil, power and vehicle industries, but in fact, since it cannot be quarantined there - and we would not have it quarantined there brought in over a reasonable period - in industry at large. [More…]
What priorities does this economist hold when he is prepared to cut back on the very issues on which this Government was put into power? [More…]
This is an example of union power gone mad. [More…]
I am talking about the power of combined unions which can - I do not say that they always do - stand a country up. [More…]
The important part about this is that it does show that there is a power in the union system that can be used to pick off one section of an industry after another. [More…]
undertakingsin which articles are manufactured, altered, cleaned, repaired, ornamented, finished, adapted for sale, broken up or demolished, or in which materials are transformed, including undertakings engaged in shipbuilding, or in the generation, transformation or transmission of electricity or motive power of any kind; [More…]
It was my Party which in 1959 widened the voting power of the member for the Territory and in 1966 introduced legislation which ensured that he had the right to vote on any matter coming before the House. [More…]
It is a nice legal question whether the power given by section 122 of the Constitution to give representation to Territories will allow of the appointment of a person who actually becomes a voting senator and one who is counted in making a quorum. [More…]
In fact, if the present Bill is valid, it would rest within the power of this Parliament not only to allow separate Senate representation for the various islands such as Norfolk Island, Christmas Island and Cocos (Keeling) Island - maybe we would not do that, but maybe we could - but it would also permit us to provide that the Australian Capital Territory and the Northern Territory were entitled to have 3 senators or 5 senators or 10 senators each, according to what was considered at the time to be a fair representation according to the position of the Territory. [More…]
It might be thought that they ought to be put on an equal footing with the States and be given 10 each or an odd number which, of course, would alter the balance of power in the Senate. [More…]
But even while the system of proportional representation remains in force as the way of voting for the Senate, this Bill could have the effect of passing the determination of the balance of power in the Senate to the Territories. [More…]
As I have said, they could control the balance of power. [More…]
It is suggested that this method of appointing 2 senators for the short term coming after the House of Representatives election and having 2 senators possibly carrying the balance of power in the States chamber should not be put into effect before the States have had an opportunity, as the Constitution really contemplates, of passing their opinion on the matter. [More…]
It has widened the voting power of the members for the Northern Territory and the Australian Capital Territory in the House of Representatives. [More…]
Section 122 gives to the Parliament legislative power of a different order to those given by section SI. [More…]
That power is not only plenary but is unlimited by reference to subject matter. [More…]
It is a complete power to make laws for the peace, order and good government of the territory - an expression condensed in section 122 to ‘for the government of the Territory’. [More…]
What the Minister for Services and Property and the Labor Government are attempting to do is to translate section 122 into a power which would enable the Government to control and trample upon every other power in the Constitution. [More…]
It has shown ever since it has been in power that it is determined to run the Northern Territory from Canberra. [More…]
Well, I do not think the people of Australia are anxious to find themselves with all power centralised and centred in the Australian Capital Territory. [More…]
Of course, if this were done we would end up with a hotchpotch Senate representation which would take away the power of the Senate to protect the rights of the States. [More…]
In fact, the former Government over the years extended greater powers to the member for the Northern Territory who today has full voting rights in this chamber, as he should. [More…]
It is true that, in the phrase used by the honourable member for Parramatta, the Constitution is not only a legal document; it is also a compact between the States and as a compact between the States it does embody a certain inequity in voting power. [More…]
Their constituents will not be happy about having their tails twisted all the time by a small minority holding the balance of power in the Senate. [More…]
Yes, but when the principle of one man one vote, one vote one value is departed from it causes damage and a lack of faith in the body politic, not if it is done to equalise the States but if it is done to ensure that the Australian people do not get the government for which they voted; when it is an arrangement to ensure that a minority can stay in power. [More…]
When a government was in power without a majority h would have been able to create baronets. [More…]
Can he provide details of (a) the nuclear weapons tests carried out by the People’s Republic of China during the last 5 years, (b) the dates on which these tests took place, (c) the location of these tests and (d) the explosive power of each device tested. [More…]
and (d) The reported dates and reported explosive power of the tests are as follows: 22 September 1969-200 kilotons. [More…]
Furthermore, will he do everything in his power to stop blatant breaches of the Telephonic Communications (Interception) Act through tapping activities and enforce the law applicable to the illegal practice of tape recording of telephone conversations irrespective of whether it is done by priest, politician, policeman or any other person in our society? [More…]
The whole rationale that lies behind all this is that the Commonwealth Parliament has power to make laws on the subject of interception of telephone calls. [More…]
The authority of the United Nations is ruined very largely because of the equality of the voting power which is exercised by nations which have only a few hundred thousand people as against nations which have a few hundred million people. [More…]
For example, why should India have only the same voting power as Fiji or some country like that? [More…]
It was not to be permitted to act as a constructing authority, and the principal engineering fields in which it was to operate were broadly described as those related to the development of water and power resources and for underground works. [More…]
The Commonwealth Parliament has power to limit the extent to which the Corporation may perform functions with the authority of State law, and it has done so. [More…]
That State legislation permits the Corporation to operate legally within a State in relation to those matters with respect to which the Commonwealth Parliament does not have power to make laws. [More…]
The other thing that should be remembered is that this legislation follows a Tariff Board report, which, although the Minister does not speak of it, recommended a duty of 30 per cent on tractors with a power rated at less than 20 horsepower. [More…]
This is a serious state of affairs and we must do everything in our power to safeguard this Australian industry. [More…]
The greater the horse power of the tractors produced the larger the bounty that was paid by the Government. [More…]
That Schedule takes into consideration low horse power tractors and extends up to tractors in the 80 to 100 horse power bracket. [More…]
Indeed, until recently, they were classified as class 5 officers and to the credit of this Governfment since it has been in power the Public Service Board has at least upgraded them by one salary range. [More…]
If evidence were needed of this the demonstration of the way in which the North Vietnamese Army has resisted massive naval and air power should have provided a profound lesson for us all. [More…]
The present Labor Government promised unequivocally while in opposition that if it was elected to power the ANL would be directed to take over the King Island service and would negotiate with the owners of the Straitsman. [More…]
It would not exempt such companies from the Act as a whole; the Tribunal would still have the power to inquire into their prices if it so wished. [More…]
This of course is an enormous discretionary power when it is the clear intention of the legislation to require all companies with an annual turnover in excess of $20m to justify and make known alterations in their pricing structure. [More…]
Moreover, this discretionary power is to be exercised by the Tribunal without any apparent reference to the Government or in fact to the Parliament itself. [More…]
The amendments as designed give the Chairman of the Tribunal power to exempt a specified company, or companies included in a specified class of companies, from the requirement to notify the Tribunal of proposed price increases. [More…]
However, my major misgivings relate to the discretionary power given to the chairman of the Tribunal in the proposed amendment. [More…]
I do not believe that the Tribunal should have absolute discretionary power to select which companies will be examined. [More…]
I believe the power ought to rest in the hands of the Treasurer as a form of safeguard against any form of prejudice or abuse of power. [More…]
We know that when this Government came to power it did many things by administrative action. [More…]
The case drawn to my attention involves an order for 4 small special screws for a power drill. [More…]
These small screws for a power drill were unobtainable. [More…]
Can he assure the Australian people that his Government will do all in its power to prevent activities in Australia which may assist terrorists in Yugoslavia, Rhodesia or any other country? [More…]
That the committee have power to appoint subcommittees consisting of three or more of its members, and refer to any such sub-committee any matter which the committee is empowered to examine. [More…]
That the committee or any sub-committed have power te send for persons, papers and records, to move from place to place, and to sit during any recess or adjournment. [More…]
That the committee have power to authorise publication of any evidence given before it and any document presented to it. [More…]
That the committee be provided with all necessary staff, facilities and resources and have power, with the approval of the Speaker, to appoint persons with specialist knowledge for the purposes of the committee. [More…]
That the committee have leave to report from time to time and that any member of the committee have power to add a protest or dissent to any report. [More…]
There was the action to remove our troops from Singapore and Malaysia by the end of 1973, thus threatening the stability of our friendly neighbours in South-East Asia, threatening our Five Power Agreement. [More…]
He knows perfectly well that as the Minister he now has the power to agree to or refuse any applications for export. [More…]
It seems to me that what he is seeking to do is to transfer from himself to the Authority the power to decide whether there should be exports. [More…]
The Minister has transferred to the Authority, and not even to the fuel and energy authority, a power which he already has, a power which one would expect to be exercised by the Government after it had available to it the best possible information. [More…]
Similarly I am apprehensive at the extension of the power included in proposed paragraph (g), to secure, control and retain reserves. [More…]
To my mind, the implications of this further extension of power are quite frightening for those who have to date contributed significant sums of money to the discovery and exploitation of resources around this country. [More…]
It is necessary that there be a body of knowledge and expertise available to apply the resources in a manner meaningful to the whole community and to reduce the power involved in the amendments is just a further step towards removing the actual right of decision from the Government and removing the opportunities for exploitation which’ have been paid for significantly by private investment, albeit with the supplement of the subsidies provided by the previous Government. [More…]
The Government, of course, has in its hands full power to prevent exports which are against the national interest. [More…]
It can do that by the exercise of its export control powers. [More…]
I point out that there is nothing in the Bill to give the Minister for the Government any power or direction over the Authority. [More…]
I would have thought that it was a grave as well as dangerous precedent for the Government to hand over to an independent authority controls of a vital nature to the public interest, such as export control power. [More…]
The Government has ample power to preserve in the national interest whatever natural resources we have. [More…]
Briefly, in reply, I refer honourable members to paragraph (b) of sub-clause (1) of clause 13 which provides power to convey through the pipes operated by the Authority petroleum belonging to the Authority or to other persons. [More…]
The entry of natural gas into the pipeline without power to enforce the removal of undesirable associated gases would also produce chaos in the system. [More…]
The first is whether there is not an irreconcilable inconsistency between our attendance at such a conference as an observer on the one hand and on the other hand our maintenance of ANZUS and the Five Power Defence Arrangements and the continuance of American bases in Australia, including the North West Cape signal station. [More…]
With Malaysia and Singapore too, with whom the previous government had established a close understanding and relationship, especially by reason of our entry into the Five Power Arrangements, our relationship has now become clouded. [More…]
The backing and filling of the Labor Government and some of its Ministers over the Five Power Arrangements and the Prime Minister’s extraordinary statement that it was necessary to keep 600-odd troops in Singapore in order to conceal the presence of an Australian spy unit there, which he thereby publicly revealed, has made Australia look ridiculous and has reduced our reputation and standing in those 2 countries. [More…]
I would not disagree with that description, although the balance of power in our region is not easy to assess because the poles are of different orders of magnitude and of interest. [More…]
But in doing so we must never allow our foreign policy to be dictated simply by a priori assumption or rigid ideological convictions whichever party is in power in Australia. [More…]
Again, if Papua New Guinea after independence became fragmented and if, for example, Bougainville separated and approaches to Bougainville were made by some great power for the concession of a naval base in return for aid, this again could have implications for Australia. [More…]
We dealt with the upheaval in international affairs over recent years when the Vietnam conflict and the emergence of new great powers transformed the international environment. [More…]
We recognise that military strength is not the sole criterion of the ‘great power*. [More…]
We are a colonial power only because we have an obligation to the people of Papua New Guinea. [More…]
When the Labor Government came to power in 1972 it inherited a widely respected foreign policy. [More…]
For example, the Governor-General’s Speech said that the Government ‘will honour the terms of the Five-Power Arrangements, but looks forward to the achievement of a neutral zone in South East Asia ultimately involving the phasing out of present military arrangements such as the Five-Power Arrangements’. [More…]
On the contrary, what we have done is solidly based on a clear appreciation of the gradual but nevertheless real shift in international affairs which has been going on for years and which can be summed up as a change from the bipolar world which characterised the years of the Cold War to the multipolar world which emerged from such events as the split between the Soviet Union and China, the integration of Europe through the European Common Market, the emergence of Japan as a major power and the Nixon Doctrine of greater self reliance in defence preparedness. [More…]
In security matters our closest relationship is with the United States of America, but that does not rule out participating in the peacekeeping operations of the United Nations, honouring our obligations to our partners in the Five-Power Arrangements, including Malaysia and Singapore, encouraging the development of Association of South East Asian nations and the concept of a zone of peace, freedom and neutrality in South East Asia and engaging in defence co-operation with other countries in our region. [More…]
The LiberalCountry Party coalition Government, which was quite properly and rightly ejected from power in December last year, made the Land Acquisition Act. [More…]
The Naval Air Power Study is continuing. [More…]
The Study is complex involving the examination of Australia’s strategic circumstances, the definition of possible operational tasks, the analysis of the effectiveness of naval air power in competition with other weapons and equipment systems, and the projected costs of acquisition and operation of various mixes. [More…]
Section 100(6) gives the Director-General of Health power over advertising of medical material on radio and television subject to appeal to the Minister for the Media. [More…]
Otherwise, powers relating to advertising on radio and television are vested by the Broadcasting and Television Act in the Australian Broadcasting Control Board. [More…]
Is there a Naval air power study under way. [More…]
In terms of overall naval procurement, is there a relationship between the DDL review or requirement and the Naval air power study. [More…]
The results of the naval air power study are expected to be available early in October 1973. [More…]
As at 30 April 1972 (the latest date to which statistics are available) 181 persons had been deported from Australia since the present Government came into power on 5 December 1972. [More…]
This power has not been exercised in respect of Camp Hill. [More…]
If such power were exercised, Regulations made under this Ordinance would prevent a person taking a vehicle into a reserve or park except into a portion especially provided for vehicles. [More…]
There are constitutional limitations on the Australian Parliament’s power to legislate in relation to matters referred to in the honourable member’s question. [More…]
The Australian Institute of Marine and Power Engineers was due to appear before Mr Justice Sweeney this afternoon at 3 o’clock. [More…]
Defence pay and allowances will be automatically adjusted each year to preserve their purchasing power. [More…]
I ask: Considering important court decisions both in Australia and Great Britain, does the Treasurer not consider that it is now established that the Government has power under either the banking or corporation powers of the Constitution, or both, to exercise direct control over finance companies and/ or similar money lending institutions? [More…]
Will he take steps to exercise these powers at an early date? [More…]
I mention this also in the context of withdrawal from the FivePower Agreement and the withdrawal at short notice of an adviser to draw up the program for the SEATO exercises, which run counter to the arrangements between our friends in South East Asia, and with respect to the Five-Power Agreement, with New Zealand and the United Kingdom. [More…]
We are the thrusting middle ranking power referred to by the Prime Minister, a power of some influence in the world today. [More…]
As I explained at the outset, in the context of the Government’s comprehensive welfare plans this Bill represents only a small interim measure, designed to maintain the value, in terms of purchasing power, of the assistance being given to aged persons hostels. [More…]
Australia is not a global power, but we have twice this century become involved in world wars and could not remain unaffected, and probably uninvolved, were global conflict once more to threaten. [More…]
The ability of the 2 super powers, the Soviet Union and the United States, to destroy each other by nuclear exchange has placed substantial restraint on direct military confrontation. [More…]
Pending neutralisation, this Government will continue to honour the Five Power arrangements. [More…]
The Naval air power study will assist in this examination. [More…]
With the paying off of HMAS ‘Sydney, and other economies, savings in both Service and civilian manpower can be achieved. [More…]
I turn now to the manpower position in the right of the Government’s general policies, the need for some restructuring of our forces to which I have referred, and the manifest scope for economies. [More…]
This Government abolished conscription soon after it came to power. [More…]
Since this Government came to office the Parliament has not sat past 11 o’clock at night; whereas, as I said earlier, we were here all day and night when the previous Government was in power. [More…]
That the committee have power to appoint subcommittees consisting of three or more of its members and to refer to any such sub-committee any of the matters which the committee is empowered to examine. [More…]
That the committee have power to send for persons, papers and records, to move from place to place and to sit during any recess or adjournment of the Parliament. [More…]
That the committee have leave to report from time to time and that any member of the committee have power to add a protest or dissent to any report. [More…]
That the committee or a sub-committee have power to authorise publication of any evidence given before it and any document presented to it. [More…]
The legislative power of the Commonwealth shall be vested in a Federal Parliament, which shall consist of the Queen, a Senate, and a House of Representatives, and which is hereinafter called ‘The Parliament’, or ‘The Parliament of the Commonwealth’. [More…]
It would not be out of point to observe that Professor Eugene A. Forsey in Royal Powers of Dissolution’ - the word ‘dissolution’ is on the lips of a surprising number of people on both sides of this Parliament - wrote: the danger of Royal absolutism is passed; but the danger of Cabinet absolutism, even of Prime Minister absolutism, is present and growing. [More…]
Against that danger, the reserve power of the Crown, and especially the power to force or refuse dissolution, is in some instances the only safeguard. [More…]
When this Government came to power some of the first things that I called for were the progressive reports on the Federal evaluation of the Burdekin proposals. [More…]
I would like to make it clear that Mr McBride has the power to recommend a restoration of tariff protection or protection in some other form, if that is desired. [More…]
On the other hand, he has the power to give effective adjustment assistance so that beneficial changes can be made and so that they will not fall directly upon employees or the industries concerned. [More…]
I had no power under Acts of Parliament or otherwise to sign any agreement. [More…]
We have the real policy making power in this place. [More…]
It would have put back the clock and it may still do so if this Government is determined to use its financial authority and financial power to do what it wants and to ignore the wishes of Victoria and the generally accepted Victorian decision and position which supported the view of the Victorian Government. [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…]
As I have already noted, the Government’s real objective is to redraft what is a demonstrably fair and equitable Electoral Act so that it can be manipulated to provide the party in power with a long term electoral advantage. [More…]
If there is any urgency in having a redistribution at this time it is purely to serve the cynical political motives of the Labor Administration now in power. [More…]
These mean nothing to the Administration now in power because apparently on this question and in so many of the other basic areas that concern the interests of the men and women on the land it is prepared to cause those electors and those persons to be stabbed in the back because of the wanton disregard by the ALP in this House of the real needs of the people on the land. [More…]
All in a democracy should have equality of power. [More…]
What this Party, this Government, seeks to do is to give them a free and open book to do as much as is necessary to achieve equality of political power for all of our citizens. [More…]
All electors, irrespective of their income, religion or colour or place of residence are entitled to expect equality of power to decide who shall govern them and who shall make the laws which they are bound to obey. [More…]
The thing which amazes me most about this argument is that although this Government is seeking to put beyond its own power the capacity to gerrymander its political opponents are fighting it all the way down the line. [More…]
Inequality of voting power between citizens is a denial of liberty which cannot be accepted. [More…]
My view is that those who truly believe in democratic government will consider this Bill on the ground of principle, not in a narrow and cynical way concerned only with grabbing political power or with the obsession to maintain disproportionate representation. [More…]
James Madison agreed, saying ‘If the power is not immediately derived from the people, in proportion to their numbers, we may make a paper confederacy, but that will be all’. [More…]
However, the Act does give power to the Government to order a redistribution at any time. [More…]
But to resort to this part of the Act in the absence of any justification for redistributtion under the other provisions I have mentioned would represent a serious abuse of Executive power and in the absence of parliamentary approval or parliamentary changes in the Act would represent a complete contempt for the Parliament. [More…]
Despite this, I have no doubt that the Minister’s obsession with this legislation will lead to a resort to use of this power if the legislation is again rejected by the Parliament, as it should be and as I have no doubt it will be. [More…]
I want to make it quite clear now that every member of the Australian Country Party in both Houses will oppose this legislation and that when the Minister proceeds to abuse the Executive power of government and asks the Governor-General to direct that a redistribution be held, they will express their opposition. [More…]
In a country such as Australia an electoral system based on the concept of one vote, one value theoretically will achieve a strict mechanical or arithmetical quality of voting power at the exact time of a redistribution, but distortions will begin to appear as soon as the boundaries are drawn and there will be increases as population patterns change. [More…]
The people were not going to tolerate a government trying to change the system in New South Wales by giving power to one party. [More…]
Entrenching itself in power is the only objective a government can have in introducing legislation such as this. [More…]
If the wielders of practical political power also become the focal point of allegiance, then they can become very dangerous. [More…]
Hitler was an example of a person who both wielded practical political power and was the focal point of allegiance. [More…]
Insofar as the Monarchy therefore is the focal point of allegiance without wielding practical political power, it acts as a lightning conductor; it stops the people who are wielding political power assuming that they are permanent. [More…]
For that reason if for no other I certainly would not like to see a weakening of the power and authority of the Crown. [More…]
Not only will growers in our State lose income totalling $500,000 but road transporters will lose about $125,000 in cartage fees and Hobart business houses will feel the effects of the reduction in spending power. [More…]
The Australian Government has some power to protect certain rights of the consumer under legislation such as: [More…]
Is it also a fact that the Government is prevented from taking similar action to protect the rest of the Australian population from soaring prices because the structure of our outmoded Constitution leaves power over prices with the 6 States instead of with the nation’s Government where it belongs? [More…]
In the Territories, one of the few places where the Australian Government does have power on these subjects, a certain amount has been done in recent months. [More…]
For economic management the ultimate source of power and responsibility rests with the Australian Government, where it should lie. [More…]
but that power is denied to it. [More…]
The other is in getting nuclear power accepted by the public. [More…]
After all, as the Commission points out, uranium is expected to become the basic fuel for man’s energy needs in the latter part of this century, both for power and for nuclear powered ships. [More…]
The power to make nuclear weapons - the Commission must be the Government’s adviser in this matter - is now proliferating among other nations. [More…]
The University will have under this Bill and a statutes made by the University Council power to control moving traffic on university roads. [More…]
The police, of course, have the right to act when public roads and public places are concerned and no University statute can take away any powers conferred on the police under the Motor Traffic Ordinance. [More…]
Under the amended Act and by virtue of the statute the university will have power also to erect signs and notices relating to parking and traffic, particularly in those areas to which the public has access. [More…]
It gives the Council of the ANU power to make statutes to control traffic and parking. [More…]
This measure will give the ANU power to control parking. [More…]
The Bill gives the University Council power to have vehicles towed away and discretionary powers in respect of fines. [More…]
There is a restriction on the statute-making power proposed for the University and that is that its statutes will not be inconsistent with the provisions of the Australian Capital Motor Traffic Ordinance. [More…]
As the Minister has rightly pointed out, he has responded to the wishes of the University Council to have power to control traffic adequately, to help with the orderly development of the campus and also to have day-to-day control of activities on the campus. [More…]
The other, in the some hundreds of acres of campus of the ANU, is the power to regulate traffic quite stringently. [More…]
I confess the wry thought that this is a government which came to power on so many delusions. [More…]
The basis for the opposition found by the Canadian Committee was that the rules adopted would have given the Government not only the power to push its legislative program through the House, but also the power to establish the time spent on each item of business coming before the House. [More…]
This was unacceptable to the Opposition because one of the most important powers of the Opposition is to choose what resources of time and manpower it wants to devote to each parliamentary battle. [More…]
Many backbenchers have come into this House disillusioned as they see that they are not incorporated in the power centres and the decision making to a great degree. [More…]
If it cannot be achieved by this means then the States should be called upon for the temporary reference of such power as would be needed to apply the freeze on prices and incomes. [More…]
But they will not cede powers to the Commonwealth merely in order to satisfy socialist centralism. [More…]
Unofficially its contents were known earlier due to the deplorable practice of leakages which appear to persist irrespective of who happens to be in power. [More…]
I can recall extremely well that in my early days in politics a Labor government was in power in New South Wales and that government took an incredible time to build dams. [More…]
In fact it was an extraordinary thing that during the time that the New South Wales Labor Government was in power for 20 years it never commenced a dam which was completed, lt is true that it completed dams that had been commenced before it came into office. [More…]
The economic power of sectional interests can be a significant inflationary cause and here the changing relationships of the great and powerful amalgamating unions and employers can be a significant factor in causing inflation. [More…]
Most powerfully of all, the increase in Government spending in todays circumstance is the greatest inflationary factor of all. [More…]
While it is in power the Government must choose. [More…]
No one, other than possibly the State governments, has power in the field of prices. [More…]
They did it when the previous Government was in power too, but not quite so vocally. [More…]
It tightens the grip of centralised power by expanding the expenditure of the central Government by more than twice the rate of receipts payable to State governments. [More…]
I make it quite clear that the Opposition welcomes the emphasis placed on education, social welfare and Aboriginal advancement but it is unfortunate that these concessions are acknowledged in the context of the erosion in the purchasing power of disadvantaged groups. [More…]
I suggest that if the Liberal Government were still in power it would not have revalued or taken any action to control the inflow of foreign investment. [More…]
I suggest that perhaps an equally worthy motive might be that priorities should go into providing schools and housing for low income people at least until such time as the Commonwealth has the legislative power to control capital issues. [More…]
Rolling strikes, so dear to the Government, would not occur, whether it be in the Post Office, the building industry, the power industry or anywhere else, if the people who, very often for the worst purposes, were organising them were not confident that they had a great friend in the Federal Government. [More…]
The seasons are such that the rural industry is certainly enjoying fruitful crops and a fruitful time in spite of the Government that is in power. [More…]
The country men produce and support the major earning power of this country and millions of city dwellers provide the domestic consumption. [More…]
Let me tell those draculas, those blood suckers, that when we were in power there was no unusual generosity towards the dairy farmers. [More…]
What a disaster - what an indeterminable tragedy - will hit those industries if this Government remans in power. [More…]
It is intent on centralising power in Canberra. [More…]
Without co-operation between all sections of the community and without people involved in production and in the market place taking a long term view, no government would ever have the power to control inflation. [More…]
The Country Party is so desperate for political power that it is trying to marry that dear old girl, the Democratic Labor Party. [More…]
The small businesses will be sacrificed on the altar of socialistic power by men displaying Stalinist ruthlessness. [More…]
My power in the Northern Territory is different from my power in the Australian Capital Territory. [More…]
There has been a continuing decline in share prices since the Government came to power and yesterday was one of the blackest days in stock market history, with shares falling alarmingly. [More…]
But we give a fair warning that if we are in power, while there will be an expenditure on non-government schools of no less than the sum total that will bc appropriated in this Bill, the appropriation will be reapportioned - it will be reapportioned on the basis of need. [More…]
It does not only mean digging enormous holes, driving huge drills into the earth and sea or producing power. [More…]
The Corporation is given power to initiate particular investment proposals itself, rather than having to wait for approaches from companies. [More…]
In particular, I believe that honourable members will approve of the power to determine financial assistance to union members being taken out of the political arena and being given back to an independent statutory authority in the person of the Indus trial Registrar. [More…]
Indeed the primary producers of this country can thank their lucky stars that the Australian Labor Party Government came into power at a time that coincided with a resurgence in world trade and demand for their products. [More…]
He proceeded to tell us of all the advantages of democratic socialism, which I would say is simply gobbledegook for totalitarianism - power from the top down. [More…]
Fortunately the Government has the power, through its banking legislation, to regulate the flow of money, and fortunately this Government has the preparedness to do something about those matters. [More…]
By the time the next $1.50 is provided inflation will have taken a further toll of the purchasing power of the pension. [More…]
I believe that pensioners should be given greater encouragement to supplement their pension income and so do something to offset the erosion of the purchasing power of their pensions by the frightening rapid increase in the rate of inflation now taking place. [More…]
As I have said, those 2 gentlemen retired in 1950, and honourable members opposite do not need to be reminded of the fact that this was just after the Liberals returned to power. [More…]
Judges are reluctant to retire until such time as the party of their political persuasion - if they have a political persuasion - is in power because they know that the person who is appointed to replace a retiring judge could be a person who is favoured by the government. [More…]
Labor Government in Canberra will control the new urban development in Western Australia and, I predict, ultimately land generally, including farming and grazing land, because the land commission will have power to designate any area in Western Australia. [More…]
The actual powers are along these lines: The land Control Bill provides power to place specified land under government control. [More…]
It provides power to resume all or part of any controlled land at any time the government wishes during the period the land is under control. [More…]
It provides power to fix the price of controlled land according to valuation on a date which the government may specify. [More…]
Of course one supports measures to reduce the price of land to reasonable levels and of course the State governments have power at their disposal to implement and adopt measures to do just that. [More…]
The whole problem of land prices is one in which the States have the power to provide some of the solutions - I emphasise the words ‘some of the solutions’. [More…]
The possibility of making urban development more efficient is an area where the States have the power to provide some of the solutions, and again I stress the words ‘some of the solutions’. [More…]
The Australian Government has no power to freeze land prices. [More…]
I stress the point that we have no power to freeze or even to stabilise land prices. [More…]
However, the States have the power to do both, if they desire to do so. [More…]
Yet the Government has the cheek to go around and say: ‘We are going to defend Australia; we are going to play our part in regional defence arrangements; and furthermore we are going to walk the stage of the world and be a powerful middle power.’ [More…]
I have done everything in my power to effect a smooth turnover with minimum hardship to the ICEM staff that had to be terminated and to the migrants involved. [More…]
I should remind honourable members that war pensions are paid free of income tax and, in terms of purchasing power, have a greater value than equivalent earnings. [More…]
The Government has demonstrated over and over again this year that it has neither the power nor the will to restrain its union cronies. [More…]
Nevertheless, that is an innovation because never before has the Government accepted a situation where inflation will run riot, and accepted it at 10 per cent, which has previously been held to be a most unacceptable rate at which the purchasing power of the dollar should decline. [More…]
The Leader of the Opposition speaks about price and wage freezes, but he is not being fair dinkum because he knows as well as any other members of this Parliament that the Government has not the power to control prices. [More…]
We heard of the Liberal Premier of New South Wales, Mr Askin, crying his eyes out about inflation, but he will not take one action to control prices although he has undoubted power to initiate control over prices. [More…]
I sincerely hope that when the Leader of the Opposition and honourable members behind him say that something needs to be done about inflation and that there needs to be price control, they will support the Government if it goes to the people and asks for power to control prices. [More…]
I hope that the Government, supported by the Opposition, will be able to go to the people of Australia to ask for the power to control prices. [More…]
It is often forgotten that under the 1949 Commonwealth Bank Act introduced by the Chifley Government the Commonwealth Government was given power to enter the field of hire purchase. [More…]
One of the first actions of the Menzies Government when it came to power was to introduce legislation to restrict its ability to raise fresh capital. [More…]
The day will come when the people will have to be asked whether they think the Commonwealth should have power to control doctors fees. [More…]
The Commonwealth Constitution lays down very clearly that the Commonwealth has 39 powers. [More…]
Following the last referendum the number of powers may now total 40. [More…]
The powers are very clearly outlined and expressed. [More…]
I know that the States have power to delegate responsibilities. [More…]
The whole problem of land prices is one in which the States have the power to provide some of the solutions. [More…]
The Australian Government has no power to freeze land prices or even to stabilise land prices. [More…]
However, the States have the power to do both. [More…]
At last he has gravitated to a position of power. [More…]
Other matters also have been beyond his power. [More…]
What we must do is follow the notion that the Government is pursuing a high external value for Australian currency but by its conduct is constantly eroding its internal purchasing power. [More…]
This growth was well under way before the Government came to power. [More…]
The Minister for Urban and Regional Development said that the Australian Government must have power to control prices. [More…]
Many price increases are now in the pipeline, and the simple theory put forward is that if the Government has power to control prices all will be well. [More…]
That is why I personally resist any idea that power to control prices should be transferred to Canberra on a permanent basis. [More…]
Ths power is not really wanted for price control. [More…]
Price control is merely the deception to get a favourable vote to transfer power to Canberra. [More…]
The Budget lifts basic pension rates by $1.50 and at the same time unleashes the forces of inflation which will negate the purchasing power of the pension increase and decrease the value of savings. [More…]
But I do not think that anyone in Australia would doubt that if this Government is given the power and the mandate to do something in that field, or any other field for that matter, that it will act. [More…]
Because of Western Australia’s isolation, this feeling - whatever government may be in power - remains today, not so much in the younger generation but in the people who perhaps are in my own age bracket and beyond. [More…]
In the Australian Capital Territory and to a lesser extent in the Northern Territory, the Australian Government has the power to act directly for the welfare of its citizens. [More…]
It is my intention that these Territories should act as beacons, pointing the ways in which our society can develop not, of course, because the Territories should be singled out for special attention in any way but merely because they can be examples where the Australian Government has the power that it lacks in the rest of Australia. [More…]
I am not one to say that the Opposition did nothing right and everything wrong during its 23 years in power. [More…]
I ask Caucus to do just that in accordance with the technical power that resides in its members. [More…]
What influence does he now exert over the Liberal Party which is in power in Macquarie Street and which has the ability to plan but which has so far failed to make any decision? [More…]
I ask the Minister for Immigration whether it is a fact that Sir Robert Askin, the Premier of New South Wales, stated on 30 August 1973 that his Government had no power to stop Mr Alexander Barton from leaving Australia. [More…]
I believe that Sir Robert Askin, the Premier of New South Wales, did make a statement to the effect that neither- he nor the New South Wales Government had the power to stop citizens from leaving Australia. [More…]
Finally, the Bill grants certain powers to postal investigation officers. [More…]
In 4 States, postal investigation officers have been granted some police powers under relevant State legislation - in the remaining 2 States no appropriate legislation exists - but advice has been given that, in any case, at common law, no person whether he be a police constable or merely a private individual can, in general, detain any other person against his will. [More…]
Any power of detention or search must be conferred by statute so that it follows that State police have no general power to detain or search and neither do investigation officers who hold State appointments as special constables. [More…]
To overcome this problem it is not proposed that any general power of detention and search be granted. [More…]
Rather the legislation proposes that the power of detention and search be granted in respect of offences against 4 sections of the Post and Telegraph Act only. [More…]
The powers are to be given only to those officers whose duties require them and then only on written authorisation from the Postmaster-General. [More…]
I do not know whether he won or whether money power won. [More…]
I am prepared to accept that it was the power of money that actually got the decision. [More…]
The community had to put up with the inconvenience of the diversion along a dog-leg road at Hexham due to the arrogance and the power of money of the late Baron Brown. [More…]
Such reviews will continue to be necessary whatever government is in power in order to update the whole system of government and ensure that policies, whether they cost money or not, do not become so entrenched that they disappear from view and are forgotten while nevertheless continuing. [More…]
Had the Leader of the Opposition made his suggestion about the price-wage freeze when his Party had the power to do something about it, people may not have thought, as they do now, that it was simply a matter of cheap politics. [More…]
Do they suggest, for instance, that the Australian Government has the power to do a great deal about inflation when the major States of Australia - under the control of Liberal-Country Party governments - have consistently refused to exercise any of the powers that they hold on price restraint? [More…]
The task of controlling inflation is next to impossible while the States hold the power of price fixation and refuse to use that power. [More…]
I believe that if a referendum were put to the people of Australia asking them to give the Australian Government the power of price fixation, it would be carried overwhelmingly. [More…]
The attitude of this Government towards the housing situation would be one of the clearest examples we have had so far of a centralist power attempting to dictate to the States and telling them how to run their own business. [More…]
So let us have no more crocodile tears about what this Government is doing and no more hypocrisy after what the previous Government did not do in the long period it was in power. [More…]
However, the Australian Government is the only Federal government that does not have the power to control prices. [More…]
Unquestionably, the Australian Parliament should have legislative power over prices, whatever the government in power. [More…]
The Federal Government must have the power of price control to win that war. [More…]
What is the alternative that now exists to those who advocate a prices-incomes policy without change in the distribution of power between the States and the Federal Government? [More…]
If we have separated powers working in opposite directions the inflation could well be aggravated or bring about unnecessary profit squeezing. [More…]
He is caught in a cleft stick because he will not agree to referring essential powers to what he terms a centralist government. [More…]
What confidence can we have in his cohorts if they see co-operation in terms of centralism and will not refer any powers over prices to the national government? [More…]
They have nothing to lose, for it is a power they have never exercised. [More…]
The second objective fostered by the Government is to lift incomes, the wages and salaries, the real private spending power of the electorate which the Government professes to represent. [More…]
So I stress again that the Government wants to enlarge the public sector by spending up on social welfare, city development and the rest, and Mr Clyde Cameron, together with, the broad mass of the electorate in a perfectly legitimate way, wants higher incomes and more money for the goods and services they choose to acquire; in short, they want more real private spending power. [More…]
The honourable member spoke about combating inflation, about the real value of money and about putting value back into money and purchasing power. [More…]
Sir Robert Askin, -who has the power but not the inclination? [More…]
He has the power to do something about fixing and controlling prices but he certainly does not want the responsibility that that action would entail. [More…]
I thought that the honourable member might have taken the opportunity here to issue a challenge to his State colleague to take up his power to institute price control in New South Wales. [More…]
This Government will bring more real purchasing power to the mass of Australians. [More…]
When the 2-man Government that I have mentioned came to power inflation as indicated by the consumer price index was diminishing and was then at an annual rale of 4.8 per cent. [More…]
In this country for ages we have been paying lip service to the maxim that Australia stands or falls by its education system, that only a high level of brain power will enable us to match the rest of the world in science, technology, and pure research. [More…]
Tourism is yet another field where the Budget shows a more enterprising spirit than the so-called free enterprise Opposition ever did in its 23 years of power. [More…]
Since this Government came to power the rate of inflation has risen to a yearly rate of more than 13 per cent and the Budget implies an acceptance of an annual rate of inflation of 10 per cent. [More…]
We can only come to 2 conclusions: either the Treasurer and the Government have no conception of the necessity to take all embracing action to curb inflation even if it means becoming unpopular with their political masters; or, on the other hand, the Prime Minister and the Government are cynically cold bloodedly and deliberately generating a state of economy designed to lead people to the conclusion that the Federal Government has not sufficient power to deal with inflation and therefore that the Australian people in desperation will acquiesce to the demands for total centralised power in Canberra. [More…]
The question of this Parliament’s having no power or authority to impose such a freeze is also ignored in their scramble and desperate attempts to gain some political favour in the electorate. [More…]
Many industries are seething with discontent as workers have the feeling that they are not earning sufficient to maintoin an acceptable level of purchasing power. [More…]
Truth has a power of its own. [More…]
It can deal only with corporations with a turnover of more than $20m a year and it has no power to enforce its eventual decisions. [More…]
Having refused to use the Budget to fight inflation, the Government now has the temerity to ask the States to hand over the power to control prices. [More…]
As a rider, the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) has said that the Commonwealth would accept also the power to control incomes but he has carefully refused to commit the Government to using that power. [More…]
We are told that it would conflict with the Commonwealth industrial power under which the arbitration system was established. [More…]
I warn the Minister that just as I was tenacious when my own Party was in power in my endeavours to ensure that a new airport for Brisbane was built, so will I persist now and it will be so much easier for me to continue a campaign against the new Labor Government, not just on the airport issue but on many matters of policy which adversely affect the standard of living of the people not only of the electorate of Griffith or of Queensland, but of the whole of Australia. [More…]
There is no scope of power in this amendment for the commission to inquire into the effect of an abortion on women. [More…]
If the amendment is accepted then the commission of inquiry will have no power to inquire into that aspect either. [More…]
The commissioners should have access to the records of all Federal authorities, including health, social security, matrimonial causes and income tax authorities, and should have power to seek the cooperation of the respective State authorities in these jurisdictions, including the State law enforcement and child welfare agencies; as far as practicable, the commissioners should comprise a mother who is experienced in social welfare work, a medical practitioner and a criminologist; and the commissioners should be assisted by senior counsel and have power to sit in camera. [More…]
That the Commissioners have access to all Federal authorities’ records relating to health, social security, matrimonial causes and income tax and have power to seek the co-operation of the respective State authorities in these jurisdictions and including the State Law Enforcement and Child Welfare agencies. [More…]
The Commissioners to be assisted by senior counsel and have the power to sit in camera. [More…]
The Government is mindful of the acceleration of technical progress, the growth of mass production, the increase of purchasing power and the widening and growing complexity of markets. [More…]
All through history people with power have exercised it not to keep people patriotic but to keep them loyal to those in power. [More…]
The nominal increases in rates simply leave the pensioner, in terms of purchasing power, where he or she was before. [More…]
This is one of the things which would have been tackled by the Liberal Government had it remained in power. [More…]
Therefore, relative to the buying power of people on fixed incomes, pensioners were better off. [More…]
The Minister conveniently referred back to June 1972 and tried to present a picture that would suggest to the casual reader of this table that Labor had done so much since it came to power, that immediately after the election there was an increase of some 17.8 per cent for the single pensioner, and that after the present Budget increase it would be 26 per cent. [More…]
That is difficult because we have no power here, but what we have done in this Budget is to provide that supplementary assistance, that is assistance to those pensioners who have to pay rent, would also be increased by $2 to $4. [More…]
They are $13.82 a week better off in real terms, in buying power, than they would have been under the previous Government. [More…]
As recently as last October, before the previous Government went out of power, a person under 18 years received an unemployment benefit of $7.50. [More…]
Honourable members on this side of the House have seen the double means test converted into a merged means test, the disincentive features of the merged means test abolished by the introduction of the tapered means test and then a promise in our election policy speech to abolish totally the means test if we had been returned to power. [More…]
Now that the Labor Party is in power it is shutting the books and not telling anybody anything. [More…]
Well, you people were in power for 23 years. [More…]
You remained in power for 23 years. [More…]
This is a significant step and it will represent the secondoccasion on which the Commonwealth Government has sought powers to control prices. [More…]
I think that I should read to the House part of the Opposition’s official reply to what is the most positive action this Government can take, that is, to seek power to control prices. [More…]
In the relevant debate there the Prime Minister asked the Premiers of Victoria and New South Wales whether they would cede to the Commonwealth on a temporary basis the power to control prices. [More…]
The fact of the matter is he made the offer as Leader of the Opposition knowing full well that he had no power whatsoever to carry out any offer that he made and knowing full well that the State Premiers would not cooperate. [More…]
As late as last week the Premiers indicated clearly in public that they were not prepared to co-operate in ceding to the Commonwealth, even on a temporary basis, powers to deal with the problem of prices. [More…]
It is easy to say that the Commonwealth should do this and the Commonwealth should do that, but the fact of the matter is that the Commonwealth has no guaranteed power - a power which cannot be at least challenged in the courts - even to ask those persons who increase prices unreasonably to justify the increases. [More…]
It may well be that the power does exist but its use can be frustrated by long court action taken by those people who can afford to take such action - and they are not the members of the general public. [More…]
It is up to the Opposition in both Houses of the Parliament to decide whether it wants the Commonwealth Parliament to have sufficient power to deal with a situation which the present Opposition partly created and which is part of the world economic management scene. [More…]
Australia is the only developed or relatively developed country, possibly the only country of any sort in the world, whose national government does not have the legislative or administrative power to control prices. [More…]
It is a fact that our predecessors did use all the constitutional powers open to them to control, to restrict, to limit wages and salaries. [More…]
The present Australian Government believes that it is high time that the Australian Parliament should have power and that the Australian Government should exercise power to control prices. [More…]
Everywhere in the world national governments and parliaments have that power; many of them exercise it. [More…]
The State parliaments all have that power. [More…]
The State governments could usually get that power. [More…]
Has he any indication from the New South Wales Government or its Liberal Federal colleagues as to whether they are prepared to confer power on the Australian Parliament to control the price of Australia’s national delicacy? [More…]
South Australia has chosen to exercise the leglislative power. [More…]
New South Wales has not chosen to exercise the legislative power. [More…]
It is well to recollect that both parties in South Australia have exercised this legislative power. [More…]
The Playford Government, the Steele Hall Government as well as the Walsh and Dunstan governments have continued to exercise this power. [More…]
That the Treasurer’s proposed extra banking legislation based on the corporation power be introduced as expediently as possible to provide a mechanism where liquidity in finance companies, merchant banks, building societies and other institutions can be varied on the statutory reserve deposit principle by requesting that a percentage of funds be deposited with the Reserve Bank. [More…]
We have not the power to do that. [More…]
No wonder the Caucus is starting to overthrow some of the decisions that have been taken by the 3 power men of Cabinet. [More…]
Has it fed the fires of inflation in a calculated attempt to create chaos and then to seize absolute power over the economy and the lives of the “people so that it can shift them from A to B and take control of their day to day activities, or is it just an inept, crazy government without any sense of economic responsibility? [More…]
This Parliament possesses no comprehensive power over prices. [More…]
The Government believes it is unreasonable that the Australian Parliament should lack a power possessed by the national parliament and national government of nearly every comparable country. [More…]
We cannot obtain this power by any law of this Parliament or with any prospect of success by any other arrangement. [More…]
Accordingly we wish to invite the people of Australia to confer that power upon their national Parliament. [More…]
The Bill itself does not, cannot, give the power; it merely gives the people the chance to have their say. [More…]
It gives the people the chance to say that they believe the Australian Parliament should have reasonable powers to ensure the best possible economic management of this nation. [More…]
It is in that perspective, and the perspective of international economic pressures, that the Bill should be seen; it is in that perspective that the power the Government seeks from the people under this Bill should be seen. [More…]
I said that I did not assert or concede that an effective prices policy could not be established under the corporations power, but that any action taken under that power would be subject to immediate, longlasting and debilitating appeals in the courts. [More…]
The Parliament can obtain the power by reference, by some or all State Parliaments. [More…]
The reference of power could be permanent or temporary. [More…]
I have to say, to put it in the mildest way, that nothing in the public or private responses of the Premiers of New South Wales and Victoria - not to mention the Premier of Queensland - gives the slightest room for hope that they are prepared to refer such a power to the national Government. [More…]
We seek for the national Parliament a concurrent power. [More…]
We are not seeking to take a power from the States and transfer it to the national Government. [More…]
We seek a power for the national Parliament which the States already have, which they will retain, but which they either have refused to use or have been unable to use. [More…]
We recognise, for example, that the effectiveness of the Prices Justification Tribunal partly depends upon its persuasive powers, working through informed public opinion. [More…]
Yet it will help the effectiveness of the Tribunal immeasurably if the people know it is backed by a comprehensive and undoubted power, as is sought through this proposal. [More…]
Such a power will increase public confidence in the Tribunal. [More…]
And, if the power we now propose for the national Parliament is granted by the people, it will increase the confidence of those who have to work through the industrial tribunals for their wage and salary increases. [More…]
The effectiveness of the industrial arbitration system itself will be increased if those who have to operate within it know that there is a reserve power, with a government willing to exercise that power, to prevent their hard-won increases being filched by unjustified rises resulting in unfair profiteering. [More…]
This power would provide that additional element of confidence. [More…]
At the same time, as leader of the Opposition he is all against the national Parliament having power to implement a prices and incomes policy. [More…]
Sometimes he says that the national Parliament should not be trusted with power over prices and sometimes he says that the national Parliament should have a double power or twice the power - over both prices and incomes. [More…]
We believe the national Parliament of Australia should have a power possessed by every other national parliament, particularly when it comes to dealing with an international problem. [More…]
He expressed concern that there should not be an unduly restrictive approach to the discretionary power of consent and that what was required was a proper review of the whole course of an offender’s conduct so that a request for extradition on additional charges could be considered in its proper perspective. [More…]
The RSL is concerned at a spate of rumours drifting round the corridors of power that the Repatriation Department may be absorbed into a Health and Welfare complex, and Repatriation hospitals transferred to either Commonwealth or State control. [More…]
I remind the House again that these follow on the immediate increases made when the Government came to power. [More…]
When Labor came to power on 2 December 1972 an increase in Age Pension was granted from the first pay-day thereafter, 14 December 1972. [[More…]](https://historichansard.net/hofreps/1973/19730917_reps_28_hor85/#subdebate-24-0)
What has happened since the Labor Party came into power? [More…]
If a strict economic return were to be the criterion for government action there would be few roads in the country areas of Australia, there would be no railways, there would no extension of power lines into rural areas, there would be a limited number of airports and there certainly would be no telephones. [More…]
So, short of the States handing over the power to the Australian Government, there is very little we can do. [More…]
In the main the decisions taken in regard to them were finalised before the present Government came to power. [More…]
It would be very much to the advantage of the whole country if the States, particularly the 2 major States, were now to refer this power over prices or these powers over prices and incomes. [More…]
It is clear that in New South Wales and Victoria in particular there are no difficulties in referring such powers because in each case the Liberal Premier has a majority not only in the Legislative Assembly but also in the Legislative Council. [More…]
I will certainly accept on behalf of the Government any reference of powers by the States. [More…]
To be precise, I would accept a reference of powers over prices and incomes or prices alone. [More…]
I also undertook that at the same time we would be putting a referendum to enable the Australian Parliament to refer to the States any of its exclusive powers on the same conditions - duration, revocation and so on. [More…]
To reiterate, certainly the Australian Government will accept any reference, even if it is a temporary one, by the States as long as there is, of course, a reference by the 2 major States of power to legislate with respect to prices and incomes. [More…]
Will the carriage of a prices referendum or reference of powers from the States to the Commonwealth on this matter give the Commonwealth power to restrain increases in land prices along the lines of the action of the South Australian Government? [More…]
He opposed the Submerged Lands Bill which would give this Parliament power over our resources from the low water mark to the edge of the continental shelf. [More…]
The people most harmed by inflation are the young and the old; those on fixed incomes; those who have saved; those who have only weak industrial power. [More…]
Against this massive problem the Prime Minister wants the power to control prices. [More…]
In the Bill there is no discussion whatsoever of the extent of the powers which the Government believes would be given to the Commonwealth by inclusion in section 51 of the simply 6-letter word ‘prices’. [More…]
Does a power over prices mean that the Government can fix a price at a ridiculously low level and thereby effectively prohibit production of selected goods? [More…]
If it does include a power over wages, will it empower a government to virtually direct the way in which people will conduct their work and what sort of work they will do by controlling how much they can be paid for it? [More…]
Also there is no indication whatsoever of the intentions of the Government as to the way in which it will exercise the power if it is given to it. [More…]
Present day events do not justify the Commonwealth Government asking for a power of massive proportions for all time when it is designed to cure a present problem. [More…]
In fact the power would give the Commonwealth an immense capacity to order social and economic events to suit its own ideology and that of the unions. [More…]
One needs only to look at the platform and policy of the Labor Party and identify certain parts of it which will be able to be developed with this power. [More…]
Two examples will suffice to show the intention and the capacity to completely socialise Australia which is inherent in this proposed power. [More…]
The Prime Minister said yesterday that nothing in public or private responses of the Premiers of New South Wales or Victoria gives the slightest room for hope that they are prepared to refer such a power to the national Government. [More…]
I quote Sir Robert Askin at the Constitutional Convention: the Prime Minister has asked the States to give something - to wit, the power to control prices. [More…]
Subject to the control of prices being linked with an effective and agreed-upon control of incomes policy - and I regard this as indispensable - I am willing to recommend to the New South Wales Government the reference of power over prices provided the Commonwealth does a bit of giving, not just taking all the time, and agrees to the states receiving a much more equitable and guaranteed share of income tax, sufficient with our other sources or Income to make us self-supporting under normal conditions. [More…]
Sir Robert made it clear that if there were to be an effective and agreed-upon control or incomes policy he would recommend his Government to refer power over prices. [More…]
Trade union power is preventing inflation control because it refuses to let the Labor Government have an incomes policy. [More…]
The Prime Minister said that this Bill gives the people of Australia the chance to say that they believe the Australian Parliament should have reasonable powers to ensure the best possible economic management of the nation. [More…]
And the simple fact is that the Australian Government does have reasonable powers to ensure the ‘best possible economic management of this nation, otherwise we would not have a record for the last 23 years with which few other countries could compare. [More…]
It already has those powers, but it refuses to use them. [More…]
The Government has within its control every power it needs to act immediately and firmly to reduce the rate of inflation, yet it will not act. [More…]
I hope the Australian people, whom the Prime Minister is asking to give him very strong powers, will weigh very carefully the credibility of his claim that the Budget, more than anything else, set up excellent defences against inflation. [More…]
It is the Prime Minister’s and the Government’s failure to see this, and their general economic incompetence, that has led us into this whole inflationary mess, and which is going to get us deeper and deeper into an economic quagmire if the people are persuaded to give the Prime Minister the powers he wants. [More…]
How could I support this proposal knowing as I do, that there is simply no need for the Commonwealth to take these powers to itself; knowing that the States are ready and willing - despite what the Prime Minister might say - to co-operate with the Federal Government in a comprehensive attack on inflation - the only kind of attack^ as I said before, that has any chance of succeeding? [More…]
How could I support such an all-embracing power being given to the central government, knowing that it will make the authority of the States impotent in such wide areas of their present responsibility? [More…]
But the Australian people will be making a grave mistake if they give the Government this power. [More…]
It is the Prime Minister’s inability to grasp these simple economic principles that underline the danger of giving him the kind of power that he wants. [More…]
The Bill, he says, is aimed at giving the Australian people a chance to say whether the Government should have power to control prices. [More…]
Yet that is what die Prime Minister is asking the Australian people to agree to in giving him power to control prices while he refuses to do the things already open to him to control inflation. [More…]
So, effectively, members of the Opposition would get the 2 things they want - a prices-incomes policy and the power to apply such a policy. [More…]
But let us look at the process of ceding this power. [More…]
All that is proposed is that the people of Australia should be allowed to indicate how they feel about this proposal to give price control power to the Government. [More…]
Those are the important and the operative words - to give price control power to the Government. [More…]
All we are asking for is authority so that we can have available to us a broad power - an economic tool - so that it can be applied selectively to regulate the economy at appropriate times. [More…]
Earlier I heard concern expressed by the Leader of the Country Party (Mr Anthony) that in seeking this authority from the public to control prices where needed - the public would decide whether we should have the authority - we would be denying the States of a power which they have. [More…]
It is a power which they rarely use and it makes little impression on the general public to hear members of the Opposition talk about a temporary ceding of powers to the Commonwealth and doing things which the States already have the power to do. [More…]
The power to administer this must be national. [More…]
The first occasion on which they are tested they backslide, and they will backslide all the way out of the door of this Parliament rather than face up and back up their brave words during the winter recess with action to introduce a companion Bill in this House during the currency of this week’s sitting to ensure that our proposals to seek power through a referendum for a prices policy can be supplemented by proposals to have power obtained from the community for an incomes policy. [More…]
It is unnecessary when all State Liberal leaders have offered to transfer this same power by constitutional reference, subject to the conditions outlined by the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Snedden). [More…]
It provides the political and moral, not to say economic, grounds for the introduction of effective wage restraints and for the fairly drastic changes in the economic power of trade unions which such restraints must inevitably involve. [More…]
These groups make income claims, based on expectations as to the future inflation and income movements for other groups and often backed by considerable market power, which are inconsistent with a stable price level in Australia. [More…]
If this Government is given the power to control prices and as a consequence of union pressure throughout this country imposes controls, the result must be obvious. [More…]
This Bill seeks to have a referendum to give the Australian Parliament a power it does not have over the economy of Australia. [More…]
Opposition supporters describe this Bill as a Bill that seeks to give the Australian Parliament a power to administer the Australian economy - as an attack on the Australian people. [More…]
One does not often see them in their true colours but one often feels that what they are saying is: ‘We seek a power if the Australian people will give it to us to do something about inflation.’ [More…]
The Opposition to a man, they say, refuse to give us that power. [More…]
In that year the Commonwealth Conciliation and Arbitration Act was enacted because the Constitution gave this Parliament the power to make a law on that subject. [More…]
Of course if this Opposition had been here at that time it would have argued that we should not have had that power. [More…]
It would not have this Parliament have any power because it is in the interests of the people it represents that this Parliament should have as little power as possible. [More…]
But back in 1907 that power to make laws with regard to the settlement of industrial disputes was enacted and approximately 85 per cent of Australians since that time have had a very effective series of controls over wage and salary increases. [More…]
With the very limited constitutional power we have the Government has done a few things. [More…]
It has revalued the Australian dollar to reduce the price of imports but, because the Opposition apparently does not want us to have the power, we cannot ensure that the reduced prices for imports are passed on to the consumers. [More…]
However, it artificially divides areas so that there is division of power. [More…]
He wants some kind of a 90-day freeze on prices coupled with some kind of a 90-day freeze on wages but he knows that the Australian Government has no power to act in this way. [More…]
If honourable members examine section 51 of the Constitution and the paragraphs thereto they will see there set out the powers of the Australian Parliament. [More…]
From the corporation power. [More…]
I put this to the House: The Government, with the limited powers that it has, has taken more steps in the 8 to 9 months it has been in power to do something about the inflationary situation - a defenceless situation it inherited from the previous Government - than the previous Government ever did. [More…]
The Constitution does not allow the Australian Parliament - the Parliament that is thought by Australians to have the power to govern for them - to do what it can with the limited facilities given to it. [More…]
If honourable members examine section 51 they will see the powers given to the Australian Parliament back in 1900. [More…]
It was given power to make laws concerning banking. [More…]
If the Australian Parliament had not been given that power and the Labor Government in 1973 sought power with respect to banking the present Opposition would be hollering blue murder and saying: TOo not give the Government power’. [More…]
The Australian Parliament was given power to make laws with respect to bankruptcy. [More…]
If it had not been given those powers and we were seeking them mow the Opposition would ‘be saying ‘Do not give the Australian Parliament power to make laws regarding bankruptcy’. [More…]
The Australian Government was given powers for defence purposes. [More…]
I know that this is an extreme case but I have no doubt that if, for one reason or another, our founding fathers in 1900 had not seen fit to give the Australian Parliament power with respect to defence and we were now seeking such power because of some threat, the same voices would be heard from the Country Party and the Liberal Party saying: Do not give the Australian Parliament power. [More…]
I have no doubt that if it had not been given that power - say because they had not been invented then - and we now sought power we would be told: ‘No, you do not need it. [More…]
In power they did nothing. [More…]
Honourable members on this side of the chamber say: Give us the legal power so that we can try.’ [More…]
I am aware of the great power that some monopolies have, and the power they use sometimes, to take advantage of their position. [More…]
If he gets the power he seeks it will not make possible an effective antiinflationary program. [More…]
The thing I regret more than anything else is that we are having our attention diverted from doing things that we know we can do, by going through this charade of a referendum on the subject, when we know that if we get the power we cannot make such a policy work. [More…]
However, it is not necessary to make it work in the short term to have the power given in this way to the Goverment. [More…]
The Prime Minister made it clear in his second reading speech that, if the Australian Parliament, is given the power and authority to regulate and to control prices, his Government will use such powers responsibly and selectively as one of the elements in an anti-inflationary strategy. [More…]
It is not clear how such a freeze would be enforced, particularly as this Parliament has no power to adopt such a course and the Opposition opposes the Parliament acquiring such power. [More…]
With added power, they may make it worse. [More…]
The Australian Parliament is the only democratic body in the industrially developed world which does not have power to regulate prices. [More…]
The Australian people wish this Parliament to have this power. [More…]
Of course, it is significant that the Opposition is opposed not only to the referendum seeking to grant that power but also to the measure which will allow the Australian people to vote on this important question. [More…]
Action has been taken by the unions to restore the purchasing power of wages and salaries. [More…]
Price control is worth a fair trial and I believe that the very existence of power to control prices could well dampen down the rate of price increases. [More…]
Should they be allowed to say whether or not this Parliament should have the power to control prices? [More…]
This Parliament possesses no comprehensive power over prices. [More…]
The Government believes it is unreasonable that the Australian Parliament should lack a power possessed by the national parliament and national government of nearly every comparable country,. [More…]
This afternoon we have heard honourable members talking about other nations and about other parliaments of the world which have this power. [More…]
On the one hand, they said that America and Europe have price control and, on the other hand, they are asking us to give them the same power, apparently, to take the price of meat and other foodstuffs to the level which exists in those countries. [More…]
The States have their constitutional powers also. [More…]
It will be a very sorry day for this country if this Government is successful in doing what it is proposing to do not only in these measures but also in a number of other measures such as proposing to take away the powers of the States and centering them in Canberra. [More…]
The States have had power to control prices since federation. [More…]
They can use that power if they so desire. [More…]
I read a newspaper today which stated that the Premier of New South Wales would offer assistance to this Government if it is dinkum in its prices policy and wants to utilise the powers of the States. [More…]
In fact, the Government wants centralised power in Canberra. [More…]
If the Government considers that price control is the answer as it apparently does, it should get round the table wim the States, which have the power, and endeavour to work out something. [More…]
They have criticised the Government bitterly for what it is doing in trying to centralise power in Canberra. [More…]
It is a Bill which will enable the people of Australia, if they so choose, to confer certain power on the Australian Parliament to control the economy, namely, the power to make laws on prices. [More…]
It is most important to note that the Bill does not give the Australian Parliament power to control prices. [More…]
It asks the people of Australia to decide by referendum whether they want the Australian Parliament to have that power. [More…]
The Liberal and Country parties have of course seen the public opinion polls and they know the overwhelming majority of Australia, people believe that the Commonwealth should have power to make laws on prices. [More…]
If the Liberal and Country parties believe they have a sound case for opposing Commonwealth power over prices they should go out and convince the people of their case but this cowardly attitude of trying to deny the people’s right to decide for themselves is typical of the opposition parties’ contempt for the electorate. [More…]
Even apart from that there is a latent power which the Commonwealth possesses to control incomes through the taxation mechanism. [More…]
The Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) offered today to facilitate the passage of a Bill for a referendum on whether the Commonwealth should have power to control incomes if the Opposition wished to put that up. [More…]
There is only one way in which the Commonwealth can obtain power over prices and that is by an alteration to the Constitution. [More…]
The purpose of this exercise, that is, to give the Commonwealth power over prices, is not to implement a great network of artificial controls. [More…]
It is absurd that the national Government does not possess that power already. [More…]
Section 51 provides that the Parliament shall, subject to the Constitution, have power to make laws for the peace, order and good government of the Commonwealth with respect to 40 different functions of government, such as taxation, naval and military defence, banking, currency, coinage and legal tender, and insurance. [More…]
These powers are concurrent with powers of the States, as the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) pointed out yesterday. [More…]
Theoretically, both the Commonwealth and the States may exercise the power. [More…]
The concurrent use of power is, however, subject to one vitally important constitutional qualification, that when a State law is inconsistent with a law of the Commonwealth the latter shall prevail and the former shall, to the extent of the inconsistency, be invalid. [More…]
It must also be interpreted against the context that real power rests with the Commonwealth Government in the sense that the power of the purse establishes clear superiority. [More…]
It seems prudent before we become too involved in argument that we should first draw this distinction: The Bill is designed to amend the Constitution to empower the Commonwealth Parliament to make laws relating to prices. [More…]
The Commonwealth Parliament must, if it wants actually to exercise power over prices, introduce a Bill into this House and have it passed into law by the Parliament. [More…]
Two separate conditions are necessary: Firstly, the constitutional power and, secondly, the exercise of that power by Parliament. [More…]
Heaven help us if these failures are the basis for the attempt to change the Constitution to give power to the Commonwealth to control prices. [More…]
Is this the kind of government to which greater power should be given? [More…]
The Government already has the necessary power to control inflation and therefore prices, but it will not effectively use the weapons available. [More…]
In other matters where we have the constitutional power but not yet the statutory power we are moving to bring in Acts which will enable us to tackle inflation. [More…]
As we have said for a great length of time in this House, and as recently as yesterday, the Australian Parliament, alone among the national parliaments of the world, does not have power to legislate to control prices and incomes. [More…]
I mention first country dwellers, not to mention of course country industries including State and municipal governments’ power generation authorities and other bodies. [More…]
We developed power and minerals. [More…]
There will continue to be a drift of population to the cities while this Government is in power and while it brings in legislation of the kind now before us. [More…]
Power kerosene and distillate prices also will rise. [More…]
He believes in centralism with all power residing in Canberra, even if he cannot administer it. [More…]
The Commonwealth Government has seen fit, however, not to approach the States for discussions, but has acted as if it was the only one with any power, jurisdiction or interest below low water mark. [More…]
I believe that there should be, in as many cases as are appropriate, the insertion in the legislation of objective criteria which the Designated Authority should observe in the exercise of his discretionary powers. [More…]
An advisory authority could be established immediately, with Commonwealth and State representation, to collate information on Australia’s present and future needs of all forms of fuel and energy and power, and to act as an appeals board for appeals against decisions of designated authorities. [More…]
There has been no such unilateral extension by an Australian State, nor does it seem possible that an Australian State would have power so to alter its boundaries. [More…]
If a claim to sovereignty is made by legislation and there is power to pass such legislation, it will be binding without recourse to historical title. [More…]
Honourable members opposite sit there as national parliamentarians and say that we should not have the power to legislate from low water mark to the edge of the continental shelf. [More…]
Furthermore, not only are we not supposed to have the power, the Opposition objects to the fact that we want to use it to regulate the operation of oil companies operating off the Australian coast. [More…]
Already those with power, money and influence are seeking to exploit the oceans. [More…]
Is this race to go to the more powerful, to the strongest? [More…]
The outward sign of internal self-government would be the formal divesting by Australia of its powers by amendment to the Papua New Guinea Act. [More…]
The scope of power conferred at internal self-government would probably need to reflect Australia’s continuing obligations under the trusteeship agreement with the United Nations. [More…]
But at the time of this divesting of powers under the Papua New Guinea Act other Commonwealth legislation affecting the bulk of Papua New Guinea’s internal affairs would have ceased to be applicable to Papua New Guinea. [More…]
There was some discussion last year and prior to that as to whether the power over internal security should pass to Papua New Guinea on self-government. [More…]
It was thought that the power over external affairs and defence would naturally remain with the metropolitan power - the administering authority - but that it may be wise to retain some area of responsibility over internal security. [More…]
I did not necessarily subscribe to that view but in any case the Government has adopted the attitude - the Government has not put it to us but we have had to glean it from a number of remarks - that internal security and the power over internal security will pass to Papua New Guinea during the period from selfgovernment to independence or prior to 1 December. [More…]
If the power is to be transferred, this House should be fully informed of the ramifications and, more particularly in the first instance, of the details of the transfer. [More…]
All I want is for the evasive Minister, a Minister who belongs to a Party which came to power on the promise of open government, to speak on this matter in the House. [More…]
The Commonwealth is not assuming a centralised power in this matter when assuming the obligation to finance the system. [More…]
This Government professes to espouse the cause of open government and it alleges to have come into power in Australia on the basis that it would reveal the workings of the Government and would present the people with a degree of administrative skill and a degree of probity such as they have not had before. [More…]
The Government was no sooner in power when it asked Colonel McArthur to present a Meat Board report on how the Government could reduce the price of meat. [More…]
What the Minister has to face up to is this simple point: Is he to be a power unto himself? [More…]
Is the honourable member prepared to give to the Minister for Labour of the day the power to appoint his own industrial police force, or does the honourable member not have a preference to have all of these people under the general superintendence of the Public Service Board? [More…]
It is a very significant one because the Minister was proposing to vest inspectors with additional powers. [More…]
It is my understanding now that he was prepared to have the power vested in himself and not in the inspectors. [More…]
I do not care who appoints people, as long as I have the power to direct. [More…]
As the Minister said a moment ago that he does not want the power to appoint and is quite happy to operate under the power given by section 125 (4. [More…]
I do want the power to appoint. [More…]
So the only argument is whether the Minister should have the power to appoint as inspectors people who are already public servants or whether there should be a wider power to appoint persons who are public servants and persons who are outside the Public Service. [More…]
All this clause does is to give to the Minister power to appoint persons who are public servants or otherwise. [More…]
We do not think that the Minister should have the proposed power. [More…]
It seems to me that their sympathies lie generally with employers rather than with employees and that they see all power residing with employers, none residing with employees. [More…]
I say by way of summary that the impact of this clause, regrettable and retrogressive in its implications and application, will add considerably to the power of shop stewards. [More…]
Unions are more aware of their power than they have ever been. [More…]
Furthermore, some of the provisions of clause 6 would have a powerful and harmful effect if the Government were later able to muster a majority for its proposals concerning tort, to give union officials immunity from certain aspects of the civil law. [More…]
It would add enormously to the power of shop stewards and I had thought that it was the Minister’s intention to strengthen the hands of fulltime union officials rather than those of shop stewards. [More…]
If that is the Minister’s object, this Bill does not achieve it because some of his proposals concerning union democracy would seriously weaken the negotiating power of such officials in industrial disputes. [More…]
The Minister is well aware of the changing power relationship between management and unions. [More…]
On the one hand they weaken the arbitral powers of the Full Bench and thus the authority of the Commission. [More…]
This compares noticeably with the increased power and protection the Minister seeks to give shop stewards under clause 6, as I have already mentioned. [More…]
Since the inspectors already have the power to prosecute for breaches of an award, we can see that the Minister is establishing a position in which his personal appointees could have a substantial impact on the conduct of industrial relations. [More…]
Surely the whole potage of industrial relations would be better for a tidy-up of relations and powers between shop stewards and union representation. [More…]
One of the greatest bugbears of the industrial system in Australia and one of the most telling factors in the weakening of the arbitration and conciliation powers has been the growth of shop steward power by way of comparison with the master union. [More…]
Simply put, the shop steward system which is one of the less desirable imports from the United Kingdom, has prostituted the trade union movement, and the Minister would be better put tackling the total problem rather than giving such bludgeoning power to the shop stewards. [More…]
That is, from the Constitution in respect of conciliation and arbitration as stated in section 51- and the national Parliament should have ample plenary power over the whole question of terms and conditions of work. [More…]
All those limitations, on using conciliation and arbitration - the narrowness of the concept of an industry, the concept of a dispute or the extension beyond one State - should be swept away and the plenary power that is necessary in a single national economy should be vested in the national Parliament. [More…]
But having read again what was said by the honourable senator it seems to me remarkable that what he said then in the name of the Government is now being denied by his own Caucus through its refusal to allow the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) to agree to a proposal for a referendum which would give the Commonwealth power over incomes. [More…]
For the life of me I cannot understand how the honourable senator can say on behalf of the Government that the Constitution should clothe the Commonwealth with plenary power over industrial relations, which power must include incomes, and then for his own Caucus to deny the holding of a referendum to give effect to that proposal. [More…]
It would be recreant to its duty if it did not do everything in its power to ensure that industrial disputes and their resolution did not create economic problems which affected the public interest. [More…]
On many occasions I think many Australians misunderstand the powers which this Government or this Parliament has in relation to this matter. [More…]
It is dealt with in section 51 of our Constitution which states that the Parliament shall have power with respect to [More…]
Therefore, the Act is extremely complicated perhaps for that reason, namely, that there are very limited powers within the Constitution on which the Act can be drawn. [More…]
However, before the present Government came into power on 2 December 1972 the Minister for Labour had said on many occasions that when his Party came into power it would solve all the problems within this area because he had all the answers. [More…]
I draw the attention of the House to a Press cutting from the ‘Australian* of 5 December 1972, 3 days after the present Government was voted into power. [More…]
But the Minister, before his Party came into power, said that a Labor Government would have a better opportunity to deal with industrial unrest because it understood the work force better than those who sat on the other side of the parliamentary chamber. [More…]
Sometimes there is the monopoly power of a big industry group opposed by the monopoly power of a big union group. [More…]
I refer to the proposed referendum which would give power to the Commonwealth to control prices. [More…]
The present situation arises because a desperate Opposition is clamouring for power which it cannot get. [More…]
He should have known that he had no power to change it and it was wrong to mislead the people of Papua New Guinea in that way. [More…]
1 believe that no other administering power in the world has been able to bring a country to selfgovernment with such close relations between it and the administered area as has Australia - no country, except perhaps Britain with Fiji, but that might be the only example, and even that I would challenge. [More…]
There was a mutual suspicion of Port Moresby as a sort of central power. [More…]
I think that delay means shadows, a shadow line, grey areas, uncertainty as to who has the power and who has the responsibility. [More…]
I think the country needs now a vigorous assertion of legal power. [More…]
The power of a foreign derived law, as it has had, could itself precipitate an anti-Australian movement within the country. [More…]
Administrative control or administrative action is concerned with authority whereas political action is concerned with power relations and decision making. [More…]
This Bill goes part of the way towards making the power formal. [More…]
We are severing the umbilical cord between our 2 nations without any real reason for such action except that a Labor Government is now in power in Australia and people and governments throughout the world obviously are criticising that Labor Government for the continuing colonial trends or tendencies with respect to Papua New Guinea. [More…]
In other words, on 3 occasions we have affected the purchasing power and selling ability of the people in Papua New Guinea. [More…]
But how do our revaluations affect the spending power of the people in Papua New Guinea? [More…]
I think the people there were impressed by the fact that an all party delegation from this Parliament could express very similar views that, no matter what government was in power in Australia, it would continue to support them. [More…]
We should do everything within our power to see that extreme nationalist movements are not given the food they could feed on eventually to undermine the stability of the country. [More…]
I think this flowed from the attitude of mind of colonial powers. [More…]
Because of this reluctance Indo-China, Algeria and elsewhere throughout Africa were reluctant to give up their position as colonial powers. [More…]
We members of the Australian Labor Party, mindful of this experience, decided not this year but several years ago that our policy would be to bring Papua New Guinea to self-government and independence not through conflict but by the colonial power saying: ‘We believe that you have a right to make your decisions in your own way. [More…]
The Special Committee notes with satisfaction that Papua New Guinea is making steady progress towards the achievement of the goals proclaimed in resolution 1514 (XV) and that progressive steps to this end are being taken by the administering Power. [More…]
The Special Committee endorses the view that the House of Assembly, as the duly elected representatives of the people of Papua New Guinea, in consultation with the administering Power, should decide the date for the attainment of independence of the Territory in the light of General Assembly resolution 2977 (XXVII) of 14 December 1972. [More…]
Pursuant to that resolution, the Special Committee calls upon the administering Power, in consultation with the Government of Papua New Guinea, to prepare a timetable for independence. [More…]
But we have moved quickly and one of the first acts of the Government, in January, within a month of taking over power, was to redesignate what used to be called the ‘PIR’, the Pacific Islands Regiment. [More…]
As I pointed out in my second reading speech, these are historic Bills but I believe that with the co-operation of all groups within Australia, with the continuing cooperation of the Government, the House of Assembly and the people of Papua New Guinea we can bring about an orderly transfer of authority from a colonial power to its former colony. [More…]
I think that situation is related to the previous Administration which was in power for 23 years and had control of Aborigines. [More…]
They are proud now of the fact that they are Aboriginals and they look to this Government to do something about the impoverished and shocking conditions in which they have had to live for many years, especially during the period of time when the previous Government was in power. [More…]
Both of the previous Liberal Prime Ministers appreciated this fact and, when they were in power, they made statements that were contrary to the views expressed in the 1965 statement of Commonwealth and State Ministers. [More…]
I think we all appreciate that the Commonwealth has unrestricted power in the Northern Territory but it shares power with the States elsewhere. [More…]
The purpose of this legislation is to transfer power from the States to the Commonwealth - to give the Commonwealth wider powers. [More…]
I do not believe that it matters very much which Party is in power. [More…]
It was suggested that this would be done but members opposite were in power for 23 years and did nothing about it. [More…]
If the 2 proposed amendments to the Constitution to give the Commonwealth Government control over prices and incomes are passed at the referendum to be held later this year, will he assure the House that his Government will use both powers and not just the power over prices? [More…]
In the expected application of the incomes power which the Australian Government hopes to obtain does the Prime Minister agree that it will involve imposing a maximum income which can be charged and paid and that it will create an offence, which will be a criminal offence, for exceeding it? [More…]
It represents, as members of the Labor Party all know, a total volte face by the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) who, firstly, opposed in the Caucus the concept of price control and then proceeded to introduce a price control Bill into this House; and secondly, rejected publicly a prices and incomes policy as outlined by the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Snedden) but is now proceeding to seek power over both prices and incomes at federal level. [More…]
The whole fact of the matter under debate at the moment is that we are seeking an extension of the Commonwealth’s power. [More…]
The issue concerns not prices and incomes but whether this Parliament should have power to exercise with respect to incomes. [More…]
Australia is a federation similar to West Germany, the United States of America and other countries where the governments of those countries have complete power over the national economy. [More…]
The Government of a country like Australia should have had these powers many years ago. [More…]
He said that the Government was seeking power over prices when really it knew that the problem would be resolved only by combined action on prices and incomes. [More…]
The fact of the matter is that we see an opportunity io bring to the Austraiian people a right to make the choice whether this Parliament should be given power over prices and incomes and to extend our constitutional power to govern the national economy. [More…]
Who can argue that in a country like Australia with its enormous development the Australian Parliament should not have adequate constitutional power over the national economy? [More…]
That means power over incomes, over prices and over other economic factors. [More…]
It is an example of a power hungry Government that is wanting more power for itself, but not on the merits of the case. [More…]
Already it has refused to use the powers it has in relation to inflation. [More…]
It refuses to cooperate with the States which have offered co-operation because it wants power for itself for power’s sake and for the sake of more power alone. [More…]
So the matter that is urgent is the strike situation and the power situation in New South Wales. [More…]
Whilst the Prime Minister has sought to say and did say at his Press conference yesterday that this is not a matter for the Commonwealth or for this Parliament - he made that quite plain at his Press conference and he made it quite plain that the Commonwealth will not intervene - one of his Ministers has quite directly intervened in this case on the side of the power unions. [More…]
He has supported the power unions in subverting the industrial laws of New South Wales. [More…]
The people of Australia, under this Bill, from all we have read about it in the Press - we have not heard one word about it so far in this House - are to be asked to give power over incomes to the Commonwealth, and we are asked to pass it all - I have forgotten exactly what the hours proposed were - by 4.15 or 4.30 today. [More…]
That will allow about 2 hours debate for this House to decide whether or not the people of Australia should have the opportunity to vote for the most far reaching powers they have ever been asked to give and for powers which the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) perpetually did not want. [More…]
Has it no confidence in its power to explain what it is it wants and why it wants it? [More…]
The Bill that I now present is a companion to the Bill passed by the House last week which sought the approval of the people for our national Parliament to have the power to legislate on prices. [More…]
This new Bill seeks from the people a corresponding power to legislate with respect to incomes. [More…]
The question whether an effective campaign against inflation can be mounted through the use of a prices power alone has been debated at great length in the Parliament. [More…]
For our part, we have taken the view that if the national Government were armed with an explicit prices power its ability to restrain inflation would be strengthened and the upward pressure upon wages and all other incomes would be greatly relieved. [More…]
But a complementary power over incomes is an additional power that it would be useful to have should the need arise. [More…]
It will be for the people to decide, if both the relevant Bills are passed by the Parliament, whether the Parliament is to have power over prices or incomes or both. [More…]
There is no doubt that a power over incomes could be used if necessary to reinforce a power over prices. [More…]
Given both these powers the Government will certainly be better equipped to deal with all aspects of the inflationary problem and to introduce broader measures should these prove necessary or desirable. [More…]
In short, we regard the power over incomes as a helpful adjunct to the power over prices that we are seeking. [More…]
I do not want to give the impression that the Government, if given these powers, will im mediately seek to implement rigid policies of control in the whole area of prices and incomes. [More…]
Above all, it will seek to maintain and improve the purchasing power of the people’s earnings. [More…]
Nor do I want to give the impression that the Government, if this Bill is approved by the people, would exercise the new power in a purely negative fashion. [More…]
The State Parliaments have always had the power, and the New South Wales Parliament in particular has frequently exercised the power, to guarantee certain basic standards to wage and salary earners outside Commonwealth awards. [More…]
We are of course aware that there are differences of opinion whether this power over incomes, in addition to the power over prices, is really necessary to deal with inflation. [More…]
We, for our part, take the reasonable view that the possession of both powers by the Australian Parliament would be consistent with the position in most other countries and that we should now advance the proposal that it be sought from the people for their national Parliament. [More…]
The second reading speech says that the Government will seek to maintain an improved purchasing power of the people’s earnings. [More…]
Its attempt to maintain the purchasing power has totally failed up to now, as the statistics on inflation and price rises prove. [More…]
Does it mean a power to level down in the community to maintain basic standards? [More…]
We are of course aware that there are differences of opinion whether this power over incomes, in addition to the power over prices, is really necessary to deal with inflation. [More…]
It created the temporary inflationary situation and it wants to hoodwink the Australian public into giving it permanent powers which it does not need for curing the problem we are confronting today. [More…]
The Government is looking to get power to change the whole social and economic order of Australia tomorrow. [More…]
For this it needs no extra powers or referendum at all. [More…]
Now, as a travesty, it has put forward 2 separate proposals, one on prices and one on incomes, in a grab for permanent power. [More…]
The granting of the power will be an encouragement to create that situation. [More…]
I have proposed a package of measures to fight inflation across the board in cooperation with the States and not by seeking permanent new powers for the Commonwealth. [More…]
Such permanent powers are not necessary to meet what should be temporary problems of inflation - and would be only temporary if the Government had had the courage to tackle them. [More…]
So we must ask ourselves whether, by seeking permanent powers, the Labor Government anticipates permanent problems with inflation. [More…]
Many believe the Labor Government wants a permanent high rate of inflation to fill the coffers of the Treasury which would enable it to meet some of the unrealistic election promises which won it power and which now seem meaningless. [More…]
He has always claimed constitutional power for such justification. [More…]
I did have a conversation with the President of the Australian Council of Trade Unions, a member of the Reserve Bank board, last Wednesday night, and in the course of a conversation on many matters he told me that if the Government were able to moderate the rise in prices through the application of such constitutional power as it obtains the trade union movement would fully co-operate in restraining wages and incomes. [More…]
At first it seems strange that we have no more than the assertion in the 2 pieces of legislation that the Labor Administration wants a permanent shift of power to control incomes and prices. [More…]
Does the Government - the Caucus which has the power, and the puppet Cabinet - know what it wants to do with these powers? [More…]
Surely a responsible government would consider these things - the use of the powers and the consequences. [More…]
Firstly, what is the power over incomes to cover? [More…]
The second point is: How long will the Government impose the power? [More…]
We know that the Government says it wants the power because it gives it total domination over every aspect of economic life. [More…]
We know that Labor wants those powers for the central government forever. [More…]
Has the Government thought how long it would use these powers to impose income control? [More…]
They ought to tell us now when they are before the Parliament asking for the powers. [More…]
Australians are scared of the socialist authoritarianism and arrogance in power. [More…]
To give the Labor Government these powers on a permanent basis is to give it all the powers that it needs by a Caucus whim to destroy our free enterprise system. [More…]
We do not want this given to it as a power secretly and deceptively achieved. [More…]
For these measures there is no shortage of power at all. [More…]
There is no shortage of power collectively. [More…]
When the Prime Minister attempted to denigrate this proposition he said that it was essential for the New South Wales and Victorian Governments to refer these powers. [More…]
They are unwilling to surrender the power permanently I think that they are right in that view. [More…]
the Government would be able to say how ii would use the powers and would not be fiddling, fidgeting and ducking when asked. [More…]
The Labor Party is concerned with concentrating power in the Federal Government to do what and how it likes. [More…]
A real attack by collective power would be effected in a matter of weeks. [More…]
The referendum calls for more concentration of power in the Commonwealth Government. [More…]
This referendum would provide power to impose unforeseen Government rules and regulations on people without their consent, for once given in a referendum this power could be used as the Government wishes. [More…]
With power on prices and incomes the Government will be able to say: Interest rates are up, but you are not allowed to charge those increased rates’. [More…]
There is no need for a permanent power to deal with a temporary situation, however grave. [More…]
It has a mania to acquire more power for itself. [More…]
It has also ignored the fact that there is no power to implement such a policy. [More…]
As soon as the Opposition’s bluff is called, as soon as we say to the people of Australia ‘Give this Parliament the power to act’, the Opposition wants to bow out and wants to go the opposite way. [More…]
There is reluctance in many quarters to approve any increase of federal power over industrial matters. [More…]
But there are many parliaments which have this power. [More…]
He went on to advocate why the parliaments in the several States of Australia should have this power. [More…]
The parliaments in the several States of Australia have this power now. [More…]
Have they been prepared or courageous enough to abuse that power? [More…]
The Government is asking the Parliament to authorise a referendum to give it power to control incomes. [More…]
But in so doing, it has not been prepared to describe the manner in which these powers, if granted, will be used. [More…]
As the Opposition has made clear on previous occasions, it is neither responsible nor honest to seek this type of power without outlining the reasons for requesting the power or the manner in which the power is to be implemented. [More…]
It is clear that the major quid pro quo for the Caucus acceptance this week of the proposal it rejected last week is an assurance that powers over incomes will not be used until measures have been taken to control prices - and then only in a token form. [More…]
I challenge the Minister for Social Security, who is to follow me in this debate, to make clear to this House in a precise form which allows of no misrepresentation whether this Government is prepared to guarantee that the incomes power will be used along with the power to control prices. [More…]
The first is why the Government has now thought it necessary to introduce legislation for a referendum on the question of whether the national Parliament should have power to legislate, and override the States, on incomes. [More…]
The second issue involves the reasons for the request to the electorate for powers to be vested in the Australian Parliament to legislate on both prices and incomes. [More…]
The wage paid to an unskilled labourer, the fee paid to a lawyer for advice or representation, the cost of a pound of butter, the salary of a professor of economics, the interest paid on a loan all represent the price of a good or a service; in the first case the price of the services, the work of the labourer; in the second that of the servicesofthelawyer;inthethirdthatofthe specified quantity of butter; in the fourth, that of the teaching, research and administrative services of the professor; in the fifth, the price charged for the use of money, that is, purchasing power. [More…]
Therefore, it should toe sufficient for the present Government’s purpose, which is to seek the power to implement effective economic policy measures especially with respect to the control of inflation, simply to have the power to act on prices. [More…]
That is, we want the power to act directly on the prices of final goods and services, like the price of butter to the consumer, and on the prices of intermediate goods and services, like wages and salaries, the price of land, the return on capital, and so on. [More…]
That is why we propose to ask for powers on both prices and incomes. [More…]
Why then do we feel it necessary that the Australian Parliament should have power to legislate on prices and incomes? [More…]
Clearly, as the quotation I have used indicates, power over prices is intimately connected wilh the management of the economy. [More…]
We have huge and powerful corporations, which can for all practical purposes set their own prices, and by a process of hectoring of the Government and deception of the consumers, adapt economic conditions to suit themselves. [More…]
In such circumstances, to argue that Government power to control prices directly is an unwarranted and unnecessary intrusion into the working of the market is pure nonsense. [More…]
Thus in many cases of practical economic policy it is desirable that there should be power vested in the Government, which has the responsibility for national economic management, to interfere with the inefficient and imperfect, the collusive and distorted, workings of the markets of the Australian economy. [More…]
Thus, even if we were not in the grip of the world-wide disease of inflation, spreading from country to country, we would want the powers to act on prices and incomes. [More…]
They could include attempts to drastically reduce the spending power of the community and thus diminish demand pressures. [More…]
As soon as the Government began to make practical moves towards obtaining the power to implement a prices and incomes policy, the gentleman opposite ran for cover. [More…]
We intend to equip ourselves with the powers to effectively and properly manage the Australian economy. [More…]
Power over prices and incomes is essential to this. [More…]
How we shall use this power, and in combination with what other instruments of economic policy, is a matter which we shall elaborate for the benefit of honourable members opposite in the coming weeks, as we prepare for the referendums. [More…]
It has no meaning other than giving to the Australian Labor Party in Government power which it is incapable of exercising in a meaningful and commonsense fashion. [More…]
There is no inclination by the Australian Labor Party under its present leadership to give the Australian people any time or opportunity to consider other than a brief pattern of how this Government seeks to extend its powers. [More…]
A constitution alteration, of course, refers to an extension of powers, in this instance into the whole field of incomes. [More…]
How does the incomes power, for example, in the terminology of the Bill, relate to the power that already exists under placitum (xxxv.) [More…]
Are we to see a conflict between the power of incomes and the power of conciliation and arbitration? [More…]
Unless this Minister can answer the charges laid against him, he has reduced the power output from the Snowy Mountains scheme to New South Wales in a secretive and despicable fashion to try to subvert the industrial authority and law in New South Wales. [More…]
We all know that this power strike arises over a claim for a 35-hour week and that the matter began in 1971. [More…]
The claims of the power unions were put to the New South Wales Industrial Commission which reported some considerable time later, after an exhaustive examination, that there was no cause to reduce the period of the working week from 40 hours to 35 hours. [More…]
It led to power restrictions. [More…]
Even though the unions concerned knew last Thursday that there was going to be a report very early this week, there were black-outs and shortages of power over the weekend. [More…]
Either he did not know what was happening or he did not know what his Minister for Minerals and Energy was doing or he was conniving with the Minister to keep this matter secret from the people of Australia, because the Commonwealth has intervened on the side of the power unions. [More…]
The Minister has acted through bis power to direct the Snowy Mountains Council, which can in turn govern the amount of power flowing to New South Wales or to Victoria. [More…]
The Minister’s power was a power to direct the Council itself, the governing body of the power producing plants. [More…]
Despite the intervention by the Minister, despite the discussions that the Minister held, the Snowy Mountains Council by a majority vote voted to provide the normal supply of power to New South Wales. [More…]
The maximum power entitlement for New South Wales is between 1,600 and 1,900 megawatts depending on a particular situation. [More…]
Word would have come to members of the power unions who man the Tumut power stations, if they had not obeyed those legal and lawful orders and worked in accordance with them they could have been laid off. [More…]
But I am informed that before that happened this Minister for Minerals and Energy issued an instruction, using the power the Act confers upon him, to reduce the power supply to New South Wales. [More…]
It was making quite sure that the Council would conform to the dictates of the power unions, that it would not do anything that might cause any trouble, but that it would make quite sure that restrictions on power in New South Wales would be much more severe than would otherwise have been the case, thereby causing great inconvenience to many people. [More…]
The Minister has used the power of direction conferred upon him by the Act. [More…]
So instead of the normal supply of 1,400 megawatts, New South Wales was supplied on Monday morning with 200 megawatts, and the amount of power has varied a bit either way since then. [More…]
But the power supply has been less than normal. [More…]
I am informed that the power unions have spoken to the Minister requiring his support for this action. [More…]
They want to reduce power from the Tumut stations so that the strike will hurt the New South Wales people and the citizens more severely than would otherwise have been the case. [More…]
I am informed, as I have said already, that the instruction had the effect of ensuring that the Council conformed to the dictates of the power unions and conformed to their particular requirements. [More…]
Unless the Minister can answer these charges in clear and precise terms it is plain that he has revealed in the starkest sense the power of certain unions over this Government and the power of certain unions over this Minister. [More…]
He has shown the power of the unions over the Government; he has shown that he secretly intervened and acted to overthrow the normal processes of law and it has been seen that the [More…]
Responsible management of water at Blowering Dam has required the curtailment of energy production from the upper and lower generating stations of the Tumut power system. [More…]
At its meeting today, the Snowy Mountains Council decided to set down operation guidelines which will have the effect of curtailing power production from the Tumut stations so as to prevent flooding in the Tumut River below the Blowering Dam, except in situations where natural inflows by rainfall in the Blowering valley cannot be fully controlled by the water storages of the system. [More…]
The excessive demands on electricity generation are such that in the 4i months of the planning year, which commenced last May, the New South Wales Electricity Commission has used 70 per cent of its total yearly allocation of water for purposes of power generation. [More…]
Blowering Dam is the main reservoir at the lowest level of the Snowy Mountains Scheme, where generative water has been trapped from the Tumut power stations for subsequent release for irrigation. [More…]
As I said earlier, it is overflowing at the rate of 1,800 cubic feet per second at a time when it should reasonably still be capable of receiving water from continued power generation. [More…]
The choice that faces the Snowy Mountains Council has been between maintaining adequate water supplies for Australia’s main food bowl in the Mumimbidgee Irrigation area and generation of power beyond the excess safe capacity of the Snowy Mountains scheme, with the added embarrassment of Tumut valley flooding. [More…]
In his political bias, the honourable member for Wannon, who with his rural interests should have been one of the chief advocates of prudent curtailment of power generation, has rushed in, to his own embarrassment. [More…]
This would have been all right if this Government which is presently in power had in the recent Budget amended the relevant legislation so that its payments to home nursing associations were not tied to the amount of money paid by the State governments. [More…]
Any man - he does not even need to be a Reg Swartz; he could even be a member on the front bench on the other side- can talk for hours, being relevant, albeit, but wasting the time of the chamber; and the Speaker has no power over him. [More…]
I feel that more power should be vested in Mr Speaker. [More…]
Indeed, I should like to see Mr Speaker’s powers more commensurate with those of the Speaker of the House of Commons at Westminster. [More…]
I believe that this Parliament would function much better if there were more powers vested in the Chair and if the Chair had a greater discretion, for example, to pull up a Minister who was obviously making too long a statement in reply to a question without notice on a matter which, according to the best practice of this Parliament, should really be dealt with at the end of question time, because invariably leave would be granted to a Minister to make a statement on a matter of importance at the end of question time. [More…]
So, I hope that we will all bear in mind Mr Speaker’s plea and that the Standing Orders Committee will also take note of my suggestion that it should have a look at this question of giving more power to Mr Speaker. [More…]
Basically the United States experience is not appropriate to our situation because of the divisions of power between the President, the Executive and the Congress, and because the President’s Cabinet is not part of the United States Parliament. [More…]
As a result of the separation of functions in the United States there is a system in which powerful congressional committees have been established with the right to summon and question the presidential appointees to particular positions, whether they be the Secretary of State, foreign affairs, defence or whatever the home affairs in that country are called, and the multifarious Cabinet positions in the United States. [More…]
But the situation of the division of power between the United States Executive and Congress makes the committee experience in that country really inappropriate to our system. [More…]
Even in the United States we find the central Government has far greater power than the Australian Government has. [More…]
Nevertheless, the facts are that this Parliament has far less power than the parliament of practically any other democracy in the world. [More…]
For example, what other national government does not have the power to control prices? [More…]
Australia is the only nation which does not have that power. [More…]
I can understand small States feeling that the equality of representation that they have in the other place might suffer and that a change in the power base would not be so good for that State. [More…]
But the big problem that the people of Australia have posed for us - I am sure that honourable members on both sides of the chamber can see what I am trying to drive at - is the impossibility of continuing our progress and evolution towards a properly specialised form of division of powers, in other words, the committee system, without the complement to mount properly an efficient exercise. [More…]
The honourable member for Wannon (Mr Malcolm Fraser) referred to the division of power within the Parliament and, indeed, within the Party system. [More…]
Eventually I think that regional representatives or local government officials must assume more power than they have at present. [More…]
The Leader of the House takes delight in continually reminding the Parliament that the Labor Party is in power and how he sat in Opposition for 2i decades. [More…]
Irrespective of the industrial action directed at the Tumut Power Stations of the Snowy Mountains system by the hydroplant operators of the Electricity Commission of New South Wales during the past several days, responsible management of water at Blowering Reservoir required curtailment of energy production from the Tumut system. [More…]
At its meeting today, the Council set down operational guidelines which will have the effect of curtailing power production from the Tumut stations, so as to prevent flooding from the Tumut River below Blowering Reservoir except in situations where natural inflows cannot be fully controlled by the water storages of the system. [More…]
As Canada and Australia face an appalling density of foreign control in both the petro-refining and mining sectors of 74 per cent, 65 per cent, 80 per cent and 62 per cent respectively, and as the efforts of bothcountriesthroughtheirrespectivecor- porations - the Australian Industry Development Corporation and the Canadian Development Corporation - are attempts to break the power of multi-national corporations– [More…]
Already a question has been asked in the Victorian Parliament by the Australian Labor Party member for Morwell, Mr Amos, of the Minister for Fuel and Power, Mr Balfour, as to whether the Victorian Minister had been asked by the Minister for Minerals and Energy (Mr Connor) to co-operate in joint research on alternative uses for brown coal. [More…]
Today I am repeating a hope which has been expressed in parallel terms by enthusiasts who have seen and predicted from time to time a need for Australia to produce its own furnace fuel and fuel for the generation of power and the production of electric light, and to produce hard fuel such as char. [More…]
Today, with huge dredges the size of small ships scraping brown coal off the surfaces 200 to 300 ft below ground level, with about 100 ft of soil above, with endless belts running direct to our huge electric power stations, briquette factories and on to rail waggons hauled by electrically powered locomotives, 400,000 tons of coal are won each week. [More…]
In addition there was some most interesting work being carried out on the use of power from brown coal by pulverising brown coal and using a turbine. [More…]
But there are many other forms of power. [More…]
It is time that we looked at power from the sun. [More…]
When speaking on the Atomic Energy Bill recently I said that I thought the Atomic Energy Commission would be an excellent body to carry out research into power from the sun. [More…]
There is tidal power. [More…]
We know that in the north-west, Australia has available vast amounts of tidal power. [More…]
Unfortunately, it is not where most of the power is required and there would be problems of transmission and cost of transmission. [More…]
We should move quickly into atomic power and hydro-power but unfortunately when it comes to hydro-power we are inclined to say: What is the use of having a vast source of hydro-power such as we have in the Snowy Mountains if the unions can cut off this power at will?’ [More…]
I want to pay my tribute to Dr Andrews for the work that he did, to the various Victorian State governmental authorities for the work they have done in the generation of power from brown coal which is, at best, a medium quality fuel and also to what was done with the production of gas under the Lurgi system. [More…]
Sir Harold Ragett pointed out that the Australian fuel and power scene had changed very much over a period of 15 years. [More…]
If we go in for nuclear power during the 1980s and retain our present reserves, or at least control their export, we will have sufficient fuel for electricity to see us through the first half of the 21st century. [More…]
It is good to recount that at the present time the Queensland Government is considering, among other matters, the allocation of some Millmerran coal for the purpose of supplying the fuel needs of a new power station to be set up. [More…]
With the election of 3 Labor senators the balance of power in the Senate would be completely disturbed and would fall more favourably into the hands of the Government. [More…]
If the Government picks up one senator from here and one senator from there it can eventually erode the balance of power in the Senate and put it in a much more favourable position. [More…]
It may find that the Constitution is a vibrant and living document which curtails any ambition for power which it may have. [More…]
The Commonwealth Government, having control of all the expenditure in the Territories, can more readily persuade voters to its point of view - that is the Government in power at the time - than would be likely to be the case if there were self-government in the Territories. [More…]
The facts of the matter are that these Bills are designed to give this representation without altering the balance of power in the Senate. [More…]
The people of the Territories will not have the right to vote in the referendum on 8 December which seeks to give the Government power to control wages and prices. [More…]
We accepted similar thinking when we assumed power. [More…]
But in the Senate where the Country Party has power and can do something, what does it do? [More…]
Consequently we are now giving expression from the place of power to principles that we have espoused for years in respect of representation for the Australian Capital Territory and the Northern Territory. [More…]
House were deliberately intended to hoodwink the people of New South Wales and of Australia into believing that he in no way intervened in restricting the availability of power supplies to the people of New South Wales, lt is therefore essential that, this document be tabled in order that the Parliament may consider the circumstances of the denial of natural justice- [More…]
The document which we seek to table demonstrates that the Minister sitting at this table, the Minister for Minerals and Energy, has deliberately instructed the responsible officers of the Snowy Mountains Council to withhold power to New South Wales in order to further the intentions of the 35- hour week committee. [More…]
It is a document which obviously is intended to go completely contrary to the expressed answers which the Minister gave today in the Parliament to questions by the honourable member for Wannon (Mr Fraser), the Deputy Leader of the Opposition (Mr Lynch) and myself - answers which did not in any way relate to the real reasons for his instructing the Snowy Mountains Council to restrict the availability of power to New South Wales. [More…]
There is a lack of availability of power to the sick, to the invalids and to every citizen of New South Wales. [More…]
There is a direct intention by the Minister for Minerals and Energy to contribute to this reduction of availability of power. [More…]
That at the next sitting I will move that this House censures the Minister for Minerals and Energy for his gross abuse of power in relation to the New South Wales power strike. [More…]
The point is that the Minister has used his statutory authority to support the 35-hour week co-ordinating committee in New South Wales and to try to stop power going into the system in New South Wales. [More…]
After nearly 2 years of exhaustive inquiries the New South Wales Industrial Commission recommended to the Askin Government that there was no justification in the power generating and power distribution industry for a 35-hour week. [More…]
Earlier this year we had a power blackout, during which time thousands of people - in fact, millions of people - in New South Wales and elsewhere were inconvenienced. [More…]
The Labour Council in New South Wales has lost control of this situation because of a left-wing intrigue in New South Wales trying to take over the power industry in New South Wales. [More…]
Sir Robert Askin was told by the union leaders that if the Industrial Commission had examined the case of the power generating employees as a separate issue it would have been a different story. [More…]
The Industrial Commission then studied this fresh application for a 35-hour week in the power generating industry as a separate issue. [More…]
The workers control movement has threatened to take over and take control of the power generating stations of New South Wales. [More…]
It appears that not only are they going on strike but also the strikers are going to take over the power houses of New South Wales to prevent any executives, or indeed anybody, from generating power. [More…]
Obviously, we are seeing an industrial blackmail by these unions in New South Wales, supported by the Minister for Minerals and Energy using his authority under the Act to stop the generation of power if it conflicts with the co-ordinating committee’s objective of a 35-hour week. [More…]
Mr Speaker, at the present time within the State of New South Wales, which is under the control of a Liberal Government, certain restrictions are operating in respect of the generation of power. [More…]
The overriding consideration, and the main one which has been under consideration by the Snowy Mountains Council since 14 August last, was the excessive drawing of water from the Snowy for power generating purposes by the State Electricity Commission of New South Wales. [More…]
I acted quite deliberately, and if a situation arises where there will be flooding I will terminate the generation of power until the situation can be corrected. [More…]
Did he at any time give an undertaking or commitment of any kind to the British Minister for Defence, Lord Carrington, to the effect that Australia would maintain its forces in Singapore under the Five Power Arrangements. [More…]
I gave no undertaking or commitment of any kind to Lord Carrington that was inconsistent with the Government’s announcement on 4 July concerning Australian forces in Singapore or with the Australian Labor Party’s 1972 Policy Speech, which was made before Lord Carrington’s visit, in which I said that we would honour the full terms of the Five Power Arrangements, under which Australia agreed to provide Malaysia and Singapore with personnel, facilities and courses for training their forces and assistance in operational and technical matters and the supply of equipment; but that the Five Power Arrangements do not require an Australian garrison in Singapore and that the battalion and battery there would not be replaced when they complete their tour of duty. [More…]
That this House censures the Minister for Minerals and Energy for his gross abuse of power in relation to the New South Wales power dispute. [More…]
It is necessary to recall that the power dispute in New South Wales began in about 1971 when the 35-hour week case first went to the State Industrial Commission. [More…]
But there were significant power cuts throughout New South Wales a few days before the actual report of the Commission came down. [More…]
This was industrial blackmail, it was in breach of an agreement, and the shortages of power, the cuts and the hardship have continued ever since. [More…]
But this strike is also over the control of the power generation equipment in New South Wales, and Ron Ross, secretary of the 35-Hour Week Committee has made that claim in the Communist Tribune’ of 28 August. [More…]
It is against this background of striking against 2 decisions of the Industrial Commission or striking for worker control of the power generation equipment in New South Wales that we need to examine the role of the Minister for Minerals and Energy. [More…]
On 26 September the Minister was charged with secretly directing the Snowy Mountains Council to produce power only in accordance with the dictates of the 35-Hour Week Committee. [More…]
The Minister was charged with supporting the striking power unions against the Industrial Commission of New South Wales, against the Government of New South Wales and against the people of New South Wales. [More…]
He has not denied that he gave over the control of the Snowy Mountains power stations and the Tumut system to the 35-Hour Week Committee. [More…]
The Council reacted in the proper way and made a decision to produce normal power. [More…]
It is an abuse of power and a misleading of this House which should be condemned. [More…]
If the Minister had not issued this directive and if the Snowy Mountains Council had operated as it ought to have operated and then, as a result, there was a strike and possible stand-downs in the Snowy MountainsTumut power stations, professional engineers from the Snowy Mountains Authority or from New South Wales could have kept the system going. [More…]
And that, if the unions were not to operate the power stations, professional engineers would. [More…]
But giving in to the demands made by the power unions is not routine. [More…]
This is an abuse of power. [More…]
It is an act undertaken secretly on the side of the power unions against industrial law, the Industrial Commission and the New South Wales Government, because it is a Liberal-Country Party Government. [More…]
The directive was an abdication of authority because it gave control of the Snowy Mountains Authority to the power unions. [More…]
The bans are still imposed on the Tumut power stations as a directive of the 35-Hour Week Committee. [More…]
The production of those power stations yesterday morning and this morning is running at 200 megawatts, a mere fraction of the capacity of the system and adding greatly to the difficulties in New South Wales. [More…]
The Premier in a letter yesterday to the Prime Minister, which has not yet been answered, said that in an endeavour to eliminate serious effects to industrial production caused by unscheduled and widespread disruption of electricity supply to factories and to avoid blackouts to domestic users and some important essential services such as smaller hospital and convalescent homes, the New South Wales Government has introduced power rationing. [More…]
He said that, however, power stations had arbitrarily reduced output yesterday morning below that being supplied over the weekend and operators of the Tumut power stations also restricted their output in an endeavour to cause load shedding and to thwart the Government’s efforts to maintain orderly supply arrangements. [More…]
The Premier was strongly urging the Prime Minister personally to act in this matter and as a matter of urgency to take action to cause the Prime Minister’s colleague, the Minister for Minerals and Energy, to withdraw his directive issued on 23 September and put in writing on 24 September requiring the Snowy Mountains Council to act in conformity with the wishes and dictates of the power unions. [More…]
That is one action that the Prime Minister, who is reported to have wanted to give the Minister for Minerals and Energy another job but the Minister refused, in this particular instance will not take because he cannot take it as he has not the power or the authority to act upon it in that way. [More…]
There are disciplinary powers which the Public Service Board would not use without the approval of the Prime Minister of the Government. [More…]
Those powers have not been used and it looks as if Sydney airport will be closed indefinitely. [More…]
If the Goverment were not prepared to use those powers or if the strike continued there would certainly be technicians- [More…]
If he wishes to act to solve it he has the power to do so. [More…]
He has the power to use Royal Australian Air Force or Royal Australian Navy technicians to get the aerodrome operating. [More…]
This is a measure of the lack of his bona fides in relation to the power dispute. [More…]
The Minister stands condemned for a secret abuse of power and for misleading this House - that has been proved from his own mouth and from his own pen - and the Prime Minister stands condemned for protecting him. [More…]
I can think of only one other abuse of power of an equivalent kind which is just as bad. [More…]
It occurred a fair way back in an earlier period when the Labor Party was in power. [More…]
This present instance is blackmail of a State and tens of thousands of ordinary workers, housewives, women and children, people in hospitals, people in convalescent homes, by the power unions which will not accept the arbitrator’s verdict, the umpire’s verdict. [More…]
Those power unions have been given material and moral support by the Minister for Minerals and Energy - support which is condoned and supported by the Prime Minister. [More…]
Power politics are being played in New South Wales by a Liberal Government in the present power dispute. [More…]
The impasse in Snowy power generation which I forecast at our last sitting week has now arrived. [More…]
The intensification of the New South Wales blackouts is a direct result of the New South Wales 35-Hour Week Committee dispute, as lamely admitted by Fuel and Power Minister Fife. [More…]
Nevertheless, it has been quite prepared through its representatives on the Snowy Mountains Council to provoke such an industrial flare-up amongst its State Electricity Commission employees who work on the Snowy Mountains hydro-power stations. [More…]
I was- not prepared to place the Snowy Mountains power system in a worse situation than that operated by Premier Askin. [More…]
The second is to generate large quantities of peak load power for New South Wales, Victoria and the A.C.T. [More…]
I now table the draft provisional minutes of the Snowy Mountains Council meeting held on 14 August last which noted a report from Operations Engineer Douglas that power generation at the then current high rate beyond September could cause flooding in the lower Tumut River and that the New South Wales and Victorian Electricity Commissions’ planned entitlements of generating water would be exceeded. [More…]
Its planned function is to trap all water discharged from power generation during the winter and to store that water for release during the warmer months to the Murrumbidgee Irrigation Area. [More…]
The notes also show that if power generation were restricted to the extent necessary to avoid flooding the Snowy scheme could not meet demands and load shedding could become necessary in New South Wales. [More…]
On Saturday night, 22 September a request not to operate the Tumut No 3 power station was acceded to. [More…]
Hydro Operators of the Tumut Power Station [More…]
hydro operators of the Tumut power stations of the Snowy [More…]
At 6 p.m. on Saturday, 22 September, demand was placed on the Operations Engineer by the Co-ordinator of the New South Wales 35-hour Week Committee through nominated representatives in the Tumut power stations, not to operate Tumut 3 power station from 6 p.m. Saturday, 22 September, to midnight the same day. [More…]
The officers controlling power supply from the Snowy were not advised by the E.C.N.S.W. [More…]
On Sunday morning, 23 September 1973, a further demand was placed on the Operations Engineer to limit power generation from the combined Tumut nations to 200 MW from 12.37 p.m. on 23 September 1973 until 6 a.m. on Monday, 24 September 1973. [More…]
New South Wales power requirements from the Snowy were met within this limit of generation from the Tumut Stations during the afternoon of Sunday 23 September 1973. [More…]
hydro operators in the Tumut power stations of the Snowy Mountains Scheme who were not prepared to follow the directions of the Operations Engineer of the Council, should be stood down, and that the operations tasks should be performed by alternative manning forces, provided by the E.C.N.S.W. [More…]
I told Mr Reiher I was not prepared to accept the consensus of view of the Council which would place the Snowy Mountains hydro-electric scheme in a worse position than that of the New South Wales power stations. [More…]
I also asked to be provided with daily reports of both the restricted power outputs and their effect on the water conservation system. [More…]
Irrespective of the industrial action directed at the Tumut power stations of the Snowy Mountains scheme by the hydro plant operators of the Electricity Commission of New South Wales during the past several days, responsible management of water at Blowering Reservoir required curtailment of energy production from the Tumut system. [More…]
At its meeting today, the Council set down operational guidelines which will have the effect of curtailing power production. [More…]
New South Wales, with only 20 per cent of its water generating power quota left, has to conserve it for peak hour production. [More…]
Mr Speaker, I second the motion moved by the honourable member for Wannon (Mr Malcolm Fraser) that the House censure the Minister for Minerals and Energy (Mr Connor) because he has abused his power in relation to the New South Wales power dispute and has deceived the House in the information that has been provided to it. [More…]
But this action was the culmination of one week’s effort to try to obtain information from the Minister regarding his involvement with the Snowy Mountains Council in the New South Wales power strike. [More…]
He has given in to this industrial power. [More…]
The Melbourne Age’, which is more patient than most other newspapers, last week eventually came to the conclusion that the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) must be wondering how much longer the Minister for Minerals and Energy can be safely left to rampage in the corridors of power. [More…]
New South Wales power dispute and the administration of the Snowy Mountains Council. [More…]
What we are concerned about is not only the abuse of this power by a Minister of the Crown; the overriding issue is the manner in which the Minister for Minerals and Energy has explained, or not explained, to this House his actions and decisions. [More…]
Let us look at the events leading up to the Minister’s intervention in the New South Wales power dispute, including some matters which have not been made public, and certainly they had not been made public by the Minister until today. [More…]
Following rejection of this request by the Commission the 35-hour Week Committee of the New South Wales Labour Council resolved to reduce progressively the output of power stations, and in Sydney there were some blackouts on the night of 23 September. [More…]
Speaking on television on the night of 23 September the Minister for Labour (Mr Clyde Cameron) said that he supported a 35-hour week for the power industry. [More…]
The 35-hour Week Committee soon intensified its activities and severe power restrictions occurred in New South Wales. [More…]
In the New South Wales Parliament on 3 October the New South Wales Minister for Power said that the Electricity Commission was drawing on supplies from the Snowy Mountains in a bid to minimise serious hardship throughout the State. [More…]
New South Wales had used 80 per cent of its power entitlement from the Snowy up until the end of September. [More…]
Meanwhile, industrial trouble had spread to the Snowy Mountains power stations. [More…]
He related this to the fact that Lake Eucumbene was 50 per cent empty to keep up the supply of power and that if the overflow from the Blowering Dam continued there would a shortage of water for irrigation. [More…]
The rules adopted by the New South Wales Water Conservation and Irrigation Commission allow for a discharge from Blowering through the power station or irrigation valves at a rate of 3,000 cusecs. [More…]
If flows occur over the spillway on Blowering the release through the power station or the irrigation valves is reduced accordingly. [More…]
With these water reserves, high rates of power generation could be maintained for 12 months or even for 2 years without concern over irrigation supplies. [More…]
The real issue is that the documentary evidence shows that the Minister on the afternoon of 23 September told the Deputy Chairman of the Snowy Mountains Council to obey the demands of the people running the New South Wales power dispute. [More…]
He is directly responsible for much of the hardship resulting from the power restrictions in New South Wales. [More…]
He has acted contrary to the stated attitude of the Prime Minister who said that his Government had no right to become involved in the New South Wales power dispute. [More…]
If the Prime Minister at a time of a major ministerial reshuffle is to ignore the behaviour of this Minister, I believe that not only the Minister stands condemned but also the Government stands condemned for its attitude towards this 35-hour week strike and the Snowy Mountains power authority. [More…]
They came to put one simple case, which was: Would there be in fact a continuation of past policy whereby first priority was given to cheap power, or would there be a new priority for irrigation for food supplies? [More…]
They asked that there be a directive, and the Minister for Minerals and Energy said: ‘When it comes to a choice between cheap power and the food supplies of the nation, I will opt every time for the nation’s food supplies’. [More…]
Rex Connor, MHR, to release more water from the Snowy for power purposes. [More…]
Power authorities have used 70 per cent of year’s water allocation in 4J months. [More…]
On Wednesday, 26 September, the honourable member for Wannon (Mr Malcolm Fraser) proposed that a matter of public importance be submitted to the House for discussion, namely, the serious situation caused by the New South Wales power strike. [More…]
During the debate the honourable member for Wannon charged the Minister for Minerals and Energy with having exacerbated the effects of the power strike by ordering - perhaps ‘directing’ is a better word - the Snowy Mountains Council to operate in accordance with the 35-Hour Week Committee’s direction. [More…]
Never for one moment had the Minister mentioned the 35-Hour Week Committee’s decision, which we all knew was the reason why the Minister directed the Snowy power cuts. [More…]
Surely the Minister could not have been naive enough or stupid enough to believe that the reasons for his actions were not already fully known and understood by the New South Wales Government and by the power and water authorities. [More…]
Did he for one moment imagine that the Opposition would be so gullible as to say: ‘How convenient it was for the Minister that he had to order the Snowy Mountains Council to reduce power production because responsible management of water demanded this action be taken’? [More…]
Obviously the availability of irrigation water - or the lack of it - had absolutely nothing to do with the Minister’s decision to restrict Snowy power output. [More…]
It could also be used for irrigation as well as power. [More…]
For some time the Electrical Trades Union members employed by the Electricity Commission of New South Wales have been limiting power output to attempt to force on the New South Wales Government their demands for a 35-hour week. [More…]
They decided not to abide by arbitration but to continue to restrict power so as to cause the maximum inconvenience to the public. [More…]
Munmorah power station, for example, the second-largest in New South Wales had to shut down completely. [More…]
Still the power situation in New South Wales was not sufficiently bad to bring about the severe blackouts which the Electrical Trades Union needed. [More…]
One reason was that the Snowy was feeding between 1,600 and 1,900 megawatts daily into the New South Wales power system. [More…]
Despite the decision of the Snowy Mountains Council to continue normal power production, the Minister, using his power under section 16.i.6 of the Act, directed that the works be operated in a manner that did not run counter to the intentions of the 35- Hour Week Commitee. [More…]
It mattered little that in the process a man in hospital died when power was cut off from his ward, that children received third-degree burns when candles ignited their cots or that a man with a heart attack died because the doctor who was called to help him could not find a light. [More…]
One con sideration relates to irrigation and the other relates to power generation. [More…]
Presumably at that stage - because the fighting would have been in the Minister’s territory and not that of the New South Wales Government - the New South Wales professional engineers would have been told to do the work of the striking men who normally generate the power. [More…]
It has no power in its own right to grant the claim. [More…]
It does not have the power to grant working hours less than 40 hours. [More…]
I want it clearly understood that I believe that the broad concept is to be commended, but the way of achieving it is very questionable because it is another move towards centralising power in Canberra and even . [More…]
Although mention is made of the States and links with them, I can see the State authorities either being phased out or by-passed by the power of money. [More…]
Therefore, the Commission could be fairly said to be another move to centralise more power in Canberra over a far-reaching range of government departments, State and Federal. [More…]
I would like anyone who does not think that the fears I have expressed in the amendment I have moved, to the effect that this organisation could be a tremendous move towards further centralism of power in Canberra, are warranted to listen to the quotation I wish to make from the transcript of the interview on ‘Monday Conference’ with Mrs Coleman. [More…]
Mrs Coleman and her Commission have outlined for themselves a huge ambit of power and influence. [More…]
The Minister did not dispute the fact that it is generally recognised that where the funds come from lies the power. [More…]
I stick to the principle that the source of the funds will turn out to be the source of the power and the body that will dominate this scheme. [More…]
It virtually puts in the hands of a chairman, a deputy chairman and 9 commissioners, who together with their respective staff are all being paid by the taxpayers, the power to appoint a committee on any matter at all, and as far as I can see the committee can be of any size. [More…]
What I have tried to make clear about these increases in duties is that they add directly to the rise in costs and prices in their impact on tha man in the street and that this effect, in all the circumstances, outweighs any restraining effects through a concealed curtailment of spending power. [More…]
Caught as it is in the intricacies of socialism and endeavouring to nationalise all power in Canberra post haste and in an endeavour to smash free enterprise, rural industries and people who live in rural areas and rural towns, the Caucus could not even wait for the Commission to come up with its findings and recommendations. [More…]
The present Treasurer also said - this is something which I have already said - that the States are responsible in such significant fields as education, health, public transport, power, irrigation and roads. [More…]
I realise fully that since the Commonwealth Government assumed the power with respect to Aboriginal affairs the amount made available for this purpose has risen annually, but the. [More…]
At this point, which in its general political correlative is described as ‘dual power’, one reaches a revolutionary situation- [More…]
Workers’ control demands and tactics as outlined above provide a testing ground today for even greater challenges in the coming years to the power of capitalism and its State machine. [More…]
The 35-Hour Week Committee concerning the power stations in New South Wales is part of this game. [More…]
The House can judge how far this movement towards a state of revolution has already gone by what happened last Friday when the Minister responsible for the generation of power in New South Wales was refused normal admission to a power station by a mob of power workers who were perhaps not technically on strike but who were having a consistent program of go slow. [More…]
I regret very much that it is not appreciated how far this has already gone, how far these people have been able to manipulate the unsuspecting power workers who do not realise what is being done to them and how they are being used as pawns in this revolutionary game by far sighted and unscrupulous communists who are out to double cross and betray their own men. [More…]
Did he state on 27 January 1973, in relation to his concept of a regional organisation that it should be genuinely representative of the region without ideological overtones, conceived as an initiative to help free the region of great power rivalries that have bedevilled its progress for decades and designed to insulate the region against ideological interference from the great powers, and that the Government would be punctilious in consultation? [More…]
Since hitherto the Arbitration Commission has always declared a minimum and not a maximum wage and, indeed, until the referendum is carried may have no constitutional power to declare other than a minimum, not a maximum, wage, does the statement by the Prime Minister mean that, if the referendum is carried, he will instruct the Arbitration Commission under his new powers to outlaw over-award wages and payments, or does the statement mean that he will instruct the Arbitration Commission to declare minimum, not maximum, levels for other incomes and allow those other incomes to have over-award incomes. [More…]
We believe that the Australian Parliaments conciliation and arbitration powers are well exercised by the tribunals appointed by legislation of the Parliament. [More…]
Where the Australian Parliament has the power, as it has in respect of conciliation and arbitration, then it ought to be quite clear that the present Australian Government would never exercise that power in order to produce a freeze. [More…]
There are 2 instances where there have had to be ad hoc committees of inquiry because the Australian Parliament and the Australian Government did not have constitutional powers. [More…]
But it would be better still if an experienced standing body like the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission were to have such powers in respect of incomes as a whole, particularly in respect of specific fields. [More…]
Will the Prime Minister use any power at his disposal to prevent any Australian nationals leaving this country to take part on either side of the warring factions in the Middle East? [More…]
The facts are that in every Budget brought down during that time the purchasing power of the pension either increased or was held steady, as it was on one occasion. [More…]
In conclusion, last Sunday the right honourable gentleman referred in a broadcast and telecast to prices and incomes and the power to control them. [More…]
We spoke about power generators, blankets and sheets. [More…]
The guilt feeling which had been building up for some time found its expression in the referendum of 1967 when nearly 90 per cent of voters supported the proposition that Aboriginals should be counted as Australians and that the Federal Government should have power to make laws for their welfare. [More…]
But it is my belief that the new spirit of aspiration and expectation that has been raised amongst the Aboriginal people of Australia by the exercise of the power of this Government and the resources placed at its disposal will go a long way towards achieving that. [More…]
The Attorney-General seems to have been carried away with the power which he has been given. [More…]
In the short time that this Government has been in power it has a very proud record in matters of law reform which normally come within the province of the Attorney-General. [More…]
We have the residuary powers. [More…]
Prices Controller in order to clarify the question of whether the Prices Controller, as such, is responsible for fixing prices or whether the ultimate power lies with the Minister. [More…]
By the time that the LiberalCountry Party Government had fallen from power that percentage had fallen to 30 per cent. [More…]
The Minister for Urban and Regional Development (Mr Uren) has something like a 50 per cent increase in funds this year for the NCDC, and $93m is to go to the Commission - a very significant increase - to make up for what the previous Government did or did not do during all its years in power. [More…]
Under the Navigation Act he has power to allow vessels to operate on the Australian coast under permit for single voyages or, in some cases, any number of voyages. [More…]
But he has that power to allow them to operate. [More…]
He also has power to ask of the people who are operating these ships that they place an order for a vessel to carry out this work with an Australian shipyard within a certain time and place a bond with the Australian Shipbuilding Board. [More…]
How would the Minister like to live in an area that had a big, thick blue line drawn on it one year to indicate the path of a freeway, with the people wondering whether they were going to stay or go, and suddenly see a party come to power which says that it is going to stop freeway construction? [More…]
I suggest that the honourable member for New England might go to Sydney and give his friend Askin some help to see what can be done to settle the power dispute which has been going on for God knows how many months. [More…]
I am endeavouring to relate the figures from this report to the statement of the Minister a few moments ago that Sir Robert Askin and his Government were responsible for the power shortages in New South Wales. [More…]
I make the point that if the Government want to help the world gliding championships - members of the Opposition would approve - surely this should be done through the Department of Civil Aviation, as was done when the previous Government was in power, and not by draining funds away from the Royal Australian Air Force. [More…]
This applies to the Labor governments that were in power in that State for a number of years and also in recent years, to the Country Party-Liberal Party Government. [More…]
The Prime Minister at his Press conference the previous day - and I have a verbatim report of that conference - said that if the referenda were carried and if he got new powers over prices and incomes he would apply to non-wage incomes the principles that were already applied to wage incomes, and he spoke of bringing them before the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission. [More…]
Indeed, under the present arrangements I do not think that the Commission has any constitutional power to declare maximum wages. [More…]
If the prices and incomes referenda were carried it would certainly acquire the power, if the Australian Government so directed it, to declare maximum as well as minimum wages. [More…]
That would surely be not consonant with any possible effective economic control through the new powers. [More…]
Or does he mean that he would use the new constitutional powers to direct the Commission to outlaw over-award payments, to put a real ceiling on them? [More…]
The situation - I make this statement quite categorically - is that the Senate has the power under the Constitution to refuse supply. [More…]
That power is present because of an accident of time. [More…]
I ask honourable members opposite to give very serious consideration to what the situation will be if this House hands over the power of government to the Senate on a permanent basis. [More…]
That will happen if there is an election in the near future and the Labor Party, as it most certainly will, goes out of power. [More…]
We want to see very substantial changes in the Bill, because we think it will lead to too much centralisation, inadequate consultation, and at the same time leading to too much power being in the hands of the Minister. [More…]
We want to push power in education right out to the periphery of the system. [More…]
He ignores the provisions in the Bill that give the Commission, with the sanction of the Minister for Education, power to set up all kinds of consultative bodies in the community. [More…]
It lends weight to the body of criticism that has plagued the concept of the schools commission for the last 2 years, and that was that once it was set up we would see all power with respect to education centralised in Canberra. [More…]
Let me remind the honourable member that when I was a lad in Brisbane, and no doubt when he was a lad there, under a Labor government which was in power in that State for over 40 years there were 2 State secondary schools in the whole Brisbane metropolitan area. [More…]
Since the Liberal-Country Party Government came to power in Queensland in 19S7, State secondary schools have been established in every Brisbane suburb. [More…]
Do honourable members imagine for a moment that this Commission will not use the power of the purse to interfere in the way in which schools all over this country will spend their money? [More…]
Here is a fruitful field of advice as to how the Australian Government may exercise its power to grant benefits to students. [More…]
That is really beyond the power of the Schools Commission but certainly we can tackle the disadvantages of being born into an Aboriginal family rather than a white family. [More…]
If the Bill is to be mangled in the way that is proposed by the Opposition and if the Senate’s amendments are no more intelligent, then the Opposition will be advising the Government how to exercise its power to make grants under section 96 of the Constitution without having a schools commission. [More…]
As far as the developing countries are concerned, past trade and aid policies have done little to improve their relative position and we will need to look more realistically at the major issues that are presented by the imbalance of economic power associated with the large scale, highly organised, usually non-competing enterprise system which characterises the developed countries and which operates to the disadvantage of the economically weak economies and less well organised and more highly competitive enterprises of the developing world. [More…]
I ask you to pass my comments on to him because I feel that with the new Government in power there is a need for us to look at how we can get legislation through this House far more rapidly than has been the case in the past. [More…]
These controls have been made necessary because at present the Government lacks the power directly to control the fringe banking institutions, but we expect that the Parliament will soon - that is, this year - pass legislation to give the Government the power it needs. [More…]
When the Government has that power, private housing will be able to be allocated in the same way as public housing - that is, according to the order in which applications are made and not according to who can meet the highest repayments. [More…]
A report was previously produced when the Liberal-Country Party Government was in power. [More…]
It will certainly be looking at the institutional frame work, the proliferation of authorities and the constitutional power which has been mentioned. [More…]
Perhaps it is an incipient government, not yet acting and certainly under this Governemnt not likely to act as a truly independent body, but it has a certain amount of power. [More…]
I believe that this is an instance which needs to be driven home to the people of Australia of how power is now running to the heads of the members of this Labor Government. [More…]
However it will be apparent that constitutional power over land use rests with the States, some of which have in recent years been paying greater attention to this problem. [More…]
A very great number of trade unionists and their wives believe that the Australian Parliament should have the some power as every other national Parliament in a comparable country already has - the power to pass laws on both those subjects. [More…]
Does anyone really believe that the Minister’s belief that we can base our defence planning on a trouble free period for the years ahead stands up when we contemplate the current Arab-Israeli conflict - a conflict in which great power rivalries are deeply involved? [More…]
If great power rivalries can take place in the Middle East and involve warfare of the severity which is now taking place, why is it impossible to contemplate them spilling over into South East Asia, the Pacific or the Indian Ocean? [More…]
The Prime Minister is asserting Australia as a middle ranking, thrusting power. [More…]
In big power terms and stating the position baldly, I expect the next few years to be marked by a fairly stable equilibrium between the 3 major nuclear powers - the United States of America, the Soviet Union and China. [More…]
The small states of Asia and the Pacific will be handled rather gingerly by those 3 powers. [More…]
Such a situation would not preclude the existence of informal spheres of influence operated by the major powers, though these would be much less rigid and exclusive than those to which we have been accustomed. [More…]
The other aspect to which I refer concerns various reports which have been submitted by the Commission to the Government this year and in several years past when my Party was in power. [More…]
The additional powers to be given to this corporation with newly enlarged powers will, in fact, be positively harmful in their economic impact. [More…]
The new Bills provide the Corporation with power to take control of Australian companies and to form new companies. [More…]
These powers would enable the AIDC to operate, manage and control Australian companies. [More…]
The Corporation would be given power to initiate investment activities itself and would no longer have to wait for an approach from companies and then have to divest itself of shareholdings that it acquires for the companies it assists in their enterprises. [More…]
This Bill gives AIDC power to ask people to support it with their savings. [More…]
It never had that power before. [More…]
If it is believed desirable that we buy back the farm, we need to ask why we require a large bureaucratic organisation of awesome power to achieve this objective. [More…]
If it is control, then the Minister for Minerals and Energy, for example, is doing a good job in demonstrating very forcibly the power of the Government to exercise control, however capricious, over the operation of business in Australia. [More…]
Once again we are to see yet further proliferation of statutory organisations, each having vast individual economic powers, and able to exercise very substantial influences in the operations of the economy, its direction and nature. [More…]
The ultimate effect of this bureaucratisation must be a dispersal of power away from the elected representatives of the people to organisations whose links may be very direct with the Government but very tenuous with the Parliament and therefore with the people. [More…]
Indeed the situation could be reached where Ministers may exercise a general supervision over the operations of these bodies, but real power will rest with statutory corporation not directly or even largely responsible to the Parliament or to the Government. [More…]
The real centres of economic power will become dispersed away from government and legislators. [More…]
In fact, the Bill dealing with the fund does not even mention these securities except where it gives a supervisory council the power to get information on the fund from the Corporation. [More…]
will see that the National Pipe Line Authority has been given the power to intrude very nearly onto the factory floor and into practically every avenue of production. [More…]
And of the new charter given to the Australian Airlines Commission, I said that its powers extend, to put it shortly, from ‘casinos to contraception’. [More…]
This, I believe, is beyond constitutional and legal power. [More…]
The new powers which the Government wants to confer would destroy this concept. [More…]
The Corporation was not given power unilaterally to interfere in the operations of Australian companies. [More…]
But to make certain that the functions and powers of the organisation are enlarged in a comprehensive way, the Bill provides for other changes to the Act which I shall now mention. [More…]
Clause 5 of the Bill, amending section 6(1) of the Act, puts in 2 dragnet clauses which provide that the functions of the organisation shall include power to provide finance to any industry or activity connected in any way with other functions of the Corporation and, in paragraph (a) (ii), to engage in any activity that has any relation to any activity or industry in which the Corporation is interested. [More…]
While there are many words involved in these clauses, they are unnecessary because proposed new paragraph (ca) of section 7 (2) of the principal Act confers power to carry on any business or activity whatsover. [More…]
As I have indicated, this is an omnibus power which could make legal interference with virtually every aspect of our lives. [More…]
But in this Bill Labor seeks such power. [More…]
This is the comprehensive and compulsory power of nationalisation contained in proposed new section 8 (b). [More…]
Under sub-section (6) (c) these moneys are not to be taken into account for the purposes of sub-section (3) of section 7 of the Act - that is, the limitation on the power of the Cor poration to borrow money shall not apply to action taken under this section. [More…]
This power, associated with other provisions in the Bill, relating as it does to any type of business, provides the legislative framework within which the Government can nationalise any industry or business without reference to or debate in this Parliament, subject only to advice from a national interest committee of such people as the Minister appoints, including one person nominated by the Minister for Minerals and Energy. [More…]
A power of this kind should be exercised only with the authority of a specific Act of the Parliament which has been freely debated in this House and in the media and which obviously has the approval of the Australian people. [More…]
Finally, I refer to another power which has received little attention. [More…]
Spattered about in the 2 Bills and the Act - the Australian Industries Development Corporation Bill and Act and the National Investment Fund Bill - are clauses and sections dealing with the capital of the AIDC, its borrowing powers and command over finance. [More…]
A close examination of these powers will clearly show the manner in which the Australian taxpayer and investor may be exploited by the Government. [More…]
As honourable members will see, the legislation proposes to give the AIDC and its associated organisation enormous financial power and an extensive range of functions and powers - far too many to be entrusted to a government, let alone a statutory corporation. [More…]
It is certainly not a power which should be entrusted to a government of the Whitlam kind. [More…]
The 2 Bills before the House and others I have mentioned will empower nationalisation intrusion and interference on a grand and arbitrary scale at the whim of an individual Minister or the government. [More…]
The real power in this Bill rests with the Minister for Overseas Trade. [More…]
It is there - founded on the corporation’s power which has been considerably emancipated in recent times and goodness only knows precisely what limitations may be placed upon it. [More…]
I must confess for myself that I have the greatest of intellectual difficulty and understanding in appreciating various doctrines of infallibility, but let me say this to the Minister: I find it an annihilating experience to say that he should have in his hands the power to determine what is in the nation’s interest. [More…]
They, too, went for a corporation but the power remained always with the Minister. [More…]
I do not want to see that sort of thing happen with our resources where more and more control and, therefore, more and more power fall into hands over which the people of Australia do not have the control. [More…]
It stands for free enterprise, but where is the freedom if we do not have the power to invest? [More…]
I think it is an affront to the Parliament that the honourable member for Farrer should be getting up and talking about how we should develop a policy when he was the principal opponent of giving this Parliament power over the offshore of Australia, prepared to destroy his own Prime Minister and prepared to allow these matters to be taken to the Privy Council in London for decision and to see the High Court’s nose rubbed in the dirt. [More…]
The Pacific Light and Power Corporation has had a representative sleuthing around this Parliament for months. [More…]
The Pacific Light and Power Corporation, through AGL, offered a price of 90c f.o.b. [More…]
All I can say is that it was an unfortunate day for Western Australia when this Government came into power. [More…]
But I remind the honourable member that one of the reasons probably why I am in this place at the present time is the utter frustration that I experienced as a result of 23 of those years when Liberal-Country Party governments were in power and the paucity of funds that came through to government schools. [More…]
The United States of America and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics’, they said, ‘have a special responsibility to do everything in their power so that conflicts on situations will not arise which would increase international tensions. [More…]
Though President Nixon appealed to Chairman Brezhnev to co-operate in getting a cease-fire along the Suez, and Secretary of State Kissinger urged Huang Hua of China here to co-operate in a big-power effort to stop the fighting, the plain fact is that Washington got no co-operation. [More…]
Of course, the virtual uselessness of the United Nations in the absence of big power agreement has been obvious for years, but it was always possible to find a reason for its inactivity in a particular case which left room for hope that it might yet find a peace-keeping role at least on the periphery. [More…]
There is nothing I have to add to previous answers I have given about the present Government’s intention in respect of using the incomes power if the Australia public confers it on this Parliament on 8 December. [More…]
The Australian Parliament will be able to do that when the people give it the power to legislate with respect to incomes. [More…]
I agree with my predecessor as Prime Minister - the right honourable member for Lowe - who, it will be remembered, urged during the election campaign last November that there should be a referendum to give the Australian Parliament power to legislate with respect to prices and also to legislate with respect to incomes. [More…]
I clearly pointed out in the debate relating to the referendum on prices that I was implacably opposed to the granting of any such power to the Federal Government. [More…]
I am more than ever convinced that a prices and incomes power in the hands of a Labor government would be administered contrary to the best interests of the Australian people. [More…]
The newspaper was dated 23 November last, not 18 months ago but less than 11 months ago, and the article was headed ‘PM wants power over pay, prices’. [More…]
Mr McMahon said he would like next year’s convention reviewing the Commonwealth constitution to discuss the possibility of giving the Federal Government power to fix wages and prices. [More…]
They are to be delayed here and then the Opposition will use whatever influence or power it has in the Senate perhaps to emasculate the Bills or do something else because members of the Opposition are the defenders of privilege, the defenders of wealth and the enemies of the average Australian who wants to share in progress and the ever increasing amount of wealth that is being produced in this country. [More…]
A concentration of economic power has taken place in this country. [More…]
We arc seeking to legislate against the concentration of economic power that has taken place in the country, power that is not accountable to the public at the present stage. [More…]
As that great American publicist and politician of some years ago, Estes Kefauver, once said, the wealth and the power are these days in too few hands. [More…]
The other part of the Bill to which the amendment of the Deputy Leader of the Opposition relates is the section of clause 5 that gives the AIDC power to form a company. [More…]
It has come from AIDC because the Corporation has found, in the conduct of its operations under the old Act investing in companies, that the time has arrived when, in order properly to safeguard and look after its interests it has faced problems which required it to have these powers. [More…]
It is before the House because the AIDC Board and Sir Alan Westerman believe that to do their job properly they need these powers. [More…]
by omitting sub-sections (4), (5) and (6) and substituting the following sub-section: - “(4) The power of the Corporation to borrow moneys may be exercised both within and outside Australia. [More…]
Their fees simply cover their costs and, with the wage increases and galloping inflation which have come about since the Labor Government came to power, the fees are fast becoming beyond the reach of the average family. [More…]
I assure the honourable member that I will not have the power of decision as to what university sets up an Asian language faculty. [More…]
If I had the power to make those sorts of decisions it would really be the centralisation of which we are accused coming in with a vengeance. [More…]
What better can a government do for those people seeking power? [More…]
The right honourable member, as a former Prime Minister, knows that he had power to transfer questions to any Minister he thought more fittingly able to answer them. [More…]
I reemphasise that I have no power to instruct the Prime Minister to answer a question if he desires to transfer it to the Minister for Minerals and Energy. [More…]
TV could be a power for good, now it is being used to propagate all that is worst in human nature. [More…]
I remind the honourable member for Ballaarat, who is trying to interject, who has never been distinguished by his contributions to this House and who had less success in the lobbies of power than he had here in the forum of this national Parliament, of this fact. [More…]
The Opposition rejects the proposal to give the Australian Industry Development Corporation the power to augment moneys constituting the National Investment Fund, in addition to the issuing and selling of investment bonds, by the authorisation of the establishment and maintenance of superannuation, retirement and savings schemes. [More…]
It seems to me that the Australian people have already clearly indicated that whilst they are happy and satisfied with the general private enterprise nature of the economy, they want to see a properly constituted public authority express a little more power and a little more competitive influence in this situation. [More…]
If the AIDC is to get this power - I hope it does not do so - I trust that the Corporation also will be subject to the 30-20 rule or any changes of that rule which requires that there should be a diversion of life office funds to governments. [More…]
As the Minister for Overseas Trade (Dr J. F. Cairns) said a few moments ago, it is near impossible to buy back the farm which, in minerals and energy, is so overwhelmingly controlled by foreign capital both in equity and in voting power on boards. [More…]
And this is bad and dangerous because the Commission will have sweeping powers, and it will exercise those powers and make public its views in such a way as to place the Government in an intolerable position. [More…]
Not only will it be mandatory for the Government to refer assistance proposals to the Commission and to receive the Commission’s advice before it can act, but also the Commission will be empowered to initiate its own inquiries and to present recommendations to the Government without waiting to be asked by the Government to do so. [More…]
And the serious implications of this are that we are being asked to create a powerful central planning authority with extremely wide terms of reference - far wider than those of the Tariff Board - and a body which will, by the nature of its genesis in the national Parliament and the deference with which it will inevitably be treated by the Government, exercise an influence of such power as should not be vested in any organisation outside the Government itself. [More…]
But, as I said earlier, the the Government is asking us to approve the establishment of a Commission of such power and such authority that the Government will find it virtually impossible to reject or amend the Commission’s recommendations - and that is something which should not be acceptable to this Parliament. [More…]
The Leader of the Country Party referred to the Commission as a central planning body with vast powers. [More…]
It has not any powers other than the power to advise. [More…]
That, no doubt, is why the Leader of the Country Party is so sensitive to the power of the new Com mission. [More…]
Finally, on this very topical issue of what the Government has done to primary industry since it came to power, I cannot emphasise too strongly that had this Commission been in existence when this Government was elected the rape of the rural sector which has taken place since 2 December would have been impossible. [More…]
As I was saying, the payment of these forms of support which were made to keep a government in power long after it had run out of ideas and energy is something which will be a stain on the administration of this country for too long. [More…]
We are denying the rest of the public, and for too long this denial has occurred as a payoff to the various powerful, albeit minority interests, in the community who have been able to prop up a tired lethargic government that had run out of inspiration at least a decade ago. [More…]
This program which was not necessary was introduced because of the power of a particular lobby in the community. [More…]
It has, over the last generation during which the Liberal Party has, willy-nilly, been forced to accept what it knows to be dishonest in order to retain the perks, if not the realities, of power, diverted public funds to rural areas, without examination or justification. [More…]
When misuse is made of economic resources - money is only the representation of those resources; it represents the power or the authority to command those resources and to direct them within the economy - there is waste. [More…]
In this statement by the archbishops and the bishops and the members of the heirarchy there is a reference to poverty in Australia and a reference, no less, to the situation in 1969 at the great zenith of the power of the McMahon-Anthony administration. [More…]
Honourable members can be sure that if the Australian Labor Party were not in power, whatever members of the Liberal Party felt about the Bill they would be stood over by their Country Party coalition partners who would do what they have done on every occasion in this Parliament that a progressive measure suggested by this Government has been debated - oppose it. [More…]
All I can say is that I have tried to put this on the record and I shall endeavour, by every means at my power, to have this matter published in the Minister’s electorate so that his constituents can gain some kind of knowledge of the standard of truth which is embraced by the honourable member who represents Grayndler in this Parliament. [More…]
When one bears in mind the ever increasing tendency for business to become concentrated into fewer and fewer hands, with all the consequential problems of economic power, one realises the importance of giving assistance to small businesses. [More…]
We have put through the Parliament Bills for the people on 8 December to vest the power in this Parliament to pass laws with respect to prices and also with respect to incomes. [More…]
I stated that I was implacably opposed to giving the Commonwealth Government any further power. [More…]
This proposed new bureaucracy with power to follow its own initiatives, power to restrict the authority of Cabinet and to restrict the opportunity for quick action to be .taken by the Government, really resembles the central planning authority which is a feature of the socialist systems in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, the People’s Republic of China and some other countries. [More…]
Its bargaining power would be much reduced in the face of cohesive and comprehensive reports upon some industry matters. [More…]
Clause 9 (2) (a) and (b) sets out the powers of the Chairman to convene meetings and so on. [More…]
The Bill as it stands provides that that power shall be exercised ‘as far as practicable’ only after consultation with the Commissioners. [More…]
We suggest therefore that the clause should more appropriately provide that the Chairman’s powers be exercised only after consultation with the Commissioners. [More…]
A Commissioner shall not exercise any power conferred upon him by this Act in any matter in which he has a direct or indirect pecuniary interest. [More…]
The disguise was ripped away from its face when the Coombs Task Force report disclosed to the world how many hidden subsidies and how many disguised bounties had been amassed to themselves by the members of the Country Party over many years, forcing, pushing, blackmailing perhaps, the Liberal Party into a situation where if it was to retain power it had to do what the Country Party demanded to be done in the interests of the Country Party. [More…]
This Government, apparently unable to determine the range of important issues that affect the provision of assistance to industry, seeks to pass such power to the Commission. [More…]
He said that these statements will now be required for all departmental projects within Australia which have significant environmental consequences where Australian Government funds are involved or where federal constitutional power is involved. [More…]
Sydney has been plunged into chaos by the power strike in support of a 35-hour week, in which the Minister for Minerals and Energy played such a discreditable role. [More…]
any future Australian government - the sort of government which might come into power if this motion were carried and, at the subsequent election, the government changed. [More…]
How right the public is to show desperation when this Government moves into the New South Wales power generation dispute and supports the unions to help force a 35- hour week by using blackmail tactics. [More…]
There are more people in employment in Australia today receiving higher wages than they received before and they have more purchasing power than they had before. [More…]
The backbone of an expanding economy is, in the long run, rising consumer purchasing power in the hands of the great majority of the people. [More…]
What we have to have in Australia, because of the magnitude of the capital investment involved, are priorities and the only regulator in the finish of what the priorities should be is government in the name of the people as a whole and not the predatory instincts of those who wield economic power. [More…]
They seek to blame the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) and this Government for the power strike in New South Wales. [More…]
The power dispute was a classic example of a government deliberately attempting to provoke an industrial dispute to subject the people of New South Wales to misery and suffering in order to gain some form of political advantage. [More…]
It believes in a federal system with all power in the Federal Government. [More…]
When this Government came to power some of the first things I called for were the progressive reports on the Federal evaluation of the Burdekin proposals. [More…]
Council matters the Minister had his marching orders from the power unions of New South Wales. [More…]
What would that have done to the power disputes in New South Wales, to the mail dispute and to the radio technicians dispute which hamstrung Sydney (Kingsford-Smith) Airport, with domestic and international transport, for so long? [More…]
It has the powers under the Public Service Act. [More…]
It will be interesting to find out what happens when the President of the Australian Council of Trade Unions recognises publicly that a referendum on prices will include the power to control wages. [More…]
Recent legal decisions in South Australia make it quite inevitable that power to control prices will include power to control wages. [More…]
He tried to compare those increases unfavourably with the 8 per cent increase that occurred in January 1972 when we were in power. [More…]
But I rather think that 3 per cent and 5.5 per cent make an increase this year of 8.5 per cent rather than an 8 per cent increase as was the case when we were in power. [More…]
In relation to the New South Wales power strike, the Minister for Minerals and Energy (Mr Connor), who has now left the chamber, played a shameful role. [More…]
Me wrote a secret letter to the Deputy Chairman of the Snowy Mountains Council, basically instructing that power be cut and provided in conformity with the demands of the power unions. [More…]
There will not be any double dissolution on either of those issues because the Government knows quite well that the power and seats will come to our parties and to the Leader of the Opposition at the first chance that is available. [More…]
He did not touch upon the Australian Parliament’s limited constitutional power to intervene directly in industrial relations. [More…]
He dodged the issue because he is an intelligent and widely read man who knows perfectly well that the Australian Parliament has no power to deal directly with labour relations. [More…]
Unlike the Parliaments of the 6 States which have unlimited powers to deal with industrial relations and labour disputes, the Commonwealth power over industrial maters can be exercised only through the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission in accordance with the powers which the Australian Parliament may confer on the Commission. [More…]
Even the Parliament’s power to confer powers on the Commission is severely limited by the Constitution. [More…]
The Parliament cannot just confer upon the Commission whatever powers it thinks the Commission ought to have to do its job. [More…]
It is severely limited in the powers it can confer upon the Commission. [More…]
For example, the Parliament cannot give the Commission power to deal with intrastate disputes like the recent New South Wales power strike, the recent garbage strike in New South Wales or all these other strikes for which the Commonwealth Government gets the blame - strikes that occur in industries working under State awards. [More…]
The Commonwealth Parliament has no power to intervene in these disputes, the Government has no power to intervene in them and the Arbitration Commission has no power to intervene in them. [More…]
Even in the case of interstate disputes the Australian Parliament is severely limited by the Constitution in the kind of powers that it may confer upon the Commission. [More…]
It cannot grant power to settle disputes caused by issues like union membership, demarcation disputes and managerial policy. [More…]
The High Court has held that these are not industrial matters and are therefore outside the scope of the Commonwealth Parliament’s power. [More…]
Commission has any constitutional power to settle or intervene. [More…]
Even in the industries covered by State awards, the State parliaments and State governments concerned, which have unlimited power to intervene if they wish to, never have moved and will not move to intervene. [More…]
The Government has no power to act in labour relations. [More…]
The Parliament cannot act of its own accord directly in labour relations, and it is unfair to expect the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission to do its job if we are to deny it the new powers which the Government’s Bill proposes. [More…]
When you talk like that and when you can truthfully say that to a group of men, that is what gives a union official his power to implement and honour an agreement. [More…]
But you take the power away from him the moment you allow agreements to be registered that have not been ratified by the rank and file. [More…]
He has told us nothing of how he is going to ensure that his colleague, the Minister for Minerals and Energy (Mr Connor), does not pursue his claim in support of those who are striking in power homes throughout New South Wales for a 35hour working week. [More…]
Second, the existence of the taxing power of the Commonwealth and the unlimited use which may be made of section 96 of the Constitution render it possible for the dominance of the central government to increase. [More…]
It is my view that the division of power and responsibility is a means both of preserving the liberties of the individual and of providing a better quality of government for people. [More…]
Under existing arrangements however, State and local authorities are unable to discharge this responsibility because of limitations of their power to raise taxes or borrow for capital works. [More…]
However, the present financial relations are deficient in that the States’ constitutional powers and electoral responsibilities are not matched by financial independence and authority. [More…]
Both the loss of independence and dissipation of responsibility could be lessened if either the States passed over some of their powers or alternatively gained a new measure of independence. [More…]
The third alternative is for the States to continue to have extensive powers but for the exercise of those powers to be determined in detail by the Commonwealth through its financial leverage. [More…]
The Labor Government is using the financial power of the Commonwealth to impose conditions on State government decisions and is therefore guilty of undermining the entire concept of Federal government. [More…]
If it wishes to centralise power in Canberra, it should openly press for the constitutional amendments that are necessary to accomplish its purpose. [More…]
It seems to me that it is time we acknowledged some of our past errors and looked forward to some kind of new policy because, after all, I am sure that when we get back into power, which will not be long, it will be necessary for us to have a different kind of financial policy in some, though not all, respects. [More…]
Britain is in fact the only Western power which pledged to remove its officials from Taiwan; yet Taiwan had no consulates in the United Kingdom and therefore was not placed in the difficult position in which we placed her earlier this year. [More…]
Other Western powers were not as discourteous or as undiplomatic and their diplomacy will pay dividends. [More…]
They are currently subsidised at the rate of 5c a day, which is half of what the aid was in 1964 in money terms, with no allowance for any decrease in the purchasing power in the intervening period. [More…]
So their rise to power was based on a very fortunate escape at the time. [More…]
A number of Australians work at that aluminium smelter, where Australian resources, in the form of bauxite, are processed by the use of New Zealand power. [More…]
Hitherto she had merely yapped like a well-trained poodle behind the powerful flanks of the great Dane, the American power bloc. [More…]
The sphere of our influence during the last quarter of a century has been so subservient to powerful friends and allies and therefore so predictable that the emergence of an Australian upon the international stage courageous enough and confident enough to represent a young nation rich in natural resources and equally rich in the talents, energies and abilities of its people has, not unexpectedly, taken them by surprise. [More…]
I intend making a few theoretical points on the very complex issue of power. [More…]
Of more importance is that a certain stance by a major power or powers dictates events far beyond the time of the policy’s currency but this also can be exploited beneficially. [More…]
These surface movements are evidence of very significant economic and social forces which, if successfully exploited by statesmen and diplomats, may change the ingredients of power itself in the future. [More…]
The disintegration of global bipolarity has allowed greater interchange between countries formerly in the common defence bloc as before the superpower was always heavily involved. [More…]
If these tendencies continue to mature along the lines stated, an international system whose characteristics are grossly different not only from the bipolar world but also from previous balance of power relations could emerge in the 1980s. [More…]
It is possible, but always recognising the possibility of unpredictable contingencies at the same time, that the nature of international power itself will change. [More…]
If power is defined as the capacity of a country to influence other countries to accede to its objectives, then in a system characterised by multiple and cross-cutting coalitions formed around a variety of issues, mainly economic, the political currency of international power will be promissory notes on the lines of a wheeling and dealing operation - ‘We will support you on this issue if you support us on that’. [More…]
The power maximising country would be the one that could most successfully negotiate a situation where its pledges always would be honoured and valued. [More…]
Although hitherto power has been in the form of promises to apply or withhold military capabilities - this still would be paramount in vital security issues - this will have little utility compared with other forms of power, even a negative effect, in bargaining over non-security issues. [More…]
The threat of the use of military power may debase one’s bargaining currency. [More…]
Although America and Russia still will be best placed to be the most powerful, due to their control of resources, it will be constructive co-operation with smaller countries that will win them more votes in global and regional forums. [More…]
The European Economic Community could well emerge as an equally powerful unit due to its techno-economic capability, cultural ties, geography and diplomatic skills. [More…]
In fact, Japan is maximising power in future terms as I see them by skilled resource diplomacy. [More…]
It may be able to champion third world countries and be their nuclear leader, but the limits of this will be the degree to which the other 4 great power blocs provide assistance to them. [More…]
I do not think that we will have a five sided balance of power, because the usable kinds of power are not commensurate. [More…]
So rather than multi-polarity which implies hegemony, I believe we shall see a full blown system of multiple interdependence where power is exercised largely in the form of constructive exchanges of valued resources. [More…]
If the Australian people on 8 December give the Australian Parliament the power to make laws with respect to incomes, the Australian Parliament will be able to legislate to introduce periodic cost of living adjustments to wages and salaries. [More…]
The States have such a power in respect of employees who are not covered by awards of the Australian Conciliation and Arbitration Commission. [More…]
If the Australian Parliament achieves the power to legislate with respect to incomes which, of course, not only Belgium but every country one can call to mind already has vested .in its national parliament, we can make a great contribution to the good government of this country. [More…]
The United .States proposed to turn over that monopoly power to the United Nations. [More…]
In 1945 and 1946, the nuclear bomb- the fission bomb - was, I think, decisive in terms of power, but not decisive in terms of necessary annihilation. [More…]
When, in the early 1950s, the fusion bomb superseded the old fission bomb, the power of the nuclear weapon became immensely extended. [More…]
Furthermore, as knowledge became more disseminated and science found new ways of doing things, the power to make these bombs got into more and more hands. [More…]
I suppose that is just a fact of the multi-polar power situation. [More…]
I believe that at present North Vietnam is the most expansionary power in South-East Asia. [More…]
Now everything has to be done in a hurry, and Papua New Guinea, which has never had to pay for its armed forces, is faced with the prospect either of paying for them all of a sudden, which would be financially ruinous, or of getting rid of them, which might be socially disastrous, or of asking the former colonial power to pay for them, which is potentially troublesome from a political standpoint. [More…]
We have arrived at the question whether the Liberal Party, if it ever came back to power, would not continue to recognise China. [More…]
The point is that the Australian Labor Government came to power at a time when the whole world’s approach to China had changed not so much because of the attitude of the rest of the world to China but because of the attitude of China itself. [More…]
The report recommends the discontinuance of what has existed in the past, where those who are in positions of power and who have plenty are the very people who have been receiving the most assistance from the previous Government. [More…]
and Lenton Power. [More…]
There has never been a suggestion that the Upper House should exercise such powers, and the proposed action, if successful, is against all the traditions of our British system. [More…]
The Upper House is elected on a fancy franchise, is only a House of Review and has no power to deny Supply, morally or historically. [More…]
Democracy, the will of the people, accepted practice, the law and order of our society are to be overturned so that the Opposition may attempt to regain power simply because the opinion polls are with it and it has plenty of money. [More…]
In May 1971 there were 7 deposed Ministers on the back bench, as Ministers were chopped and changed as the power struggle went on within the Liberal Party. [More…]
These are the men who wish to deny the Government trying to run the country and cause great suffering and disadvantage to the Australian people in their wish or hope for power motivated only by unprincipled opportune political gain. [More…]
We do not believe that a handful of journalists have such power. [More…]
There is no question that we have the power to do so for interstate voyages, but up to this point, as I have said previously, the shipping interests have always opposed it. [More…]
In that respect I am sure that he shares the hope which members of this Government have, that in the event of this Government being clothed with powers over prices in the near future it will be prepared to fill a vacuum in any part of Australia, in any State, where the State government itself does not exercise the power it already has to regulate the price of land. [More…]
Accepting that certain restricted numbers of babies are coming and will come to Australia - young babies have arrived in recent days; a close relative of mine has received a young baby from South Vietnam in the last week or two - I ask the Government to do all in its power to speed up the processes both here and overseas. [More…]
This highlights the bureau’s lack of real power. [More…]
I hope that the Postmaster-General will do everything in his power to overcome this problem. [More…]
As I have said previously in this Parliament, when the Liberal-Country Party government returns to power after the next election if it acts in the same manner as the present Government has acted towards the people of Brisbane in their desire for a new airport, I will be just as- vociferous and will attack and condemn it just as strongly. [More…]
This Government came to power nearly 12 months ago with all the enthusiasm and glory of newfound power and boasting of what we could expect in the years ahead. [More…]
I say this because the Government is a socialist government and it has obtained power under pretences. [More…]
It has obtained power as the agent of the international socialist movement. [More…]
Section 9 amends section 64 of the principal Act to allow the Minister to delegate his power to enter into an agreement with a land owner before or after compulsory acquisition on the amount of compensation to be paid for his land. [More…]
Leases or licences over land for power lines, telephone poles, etc., could be up to 30 years or more. [More…]
The Government also directed that consideration be given to the amendment of Acts, which currently give statutory authorities power to make their own approaches or to arrange their own rentals with a view to having the Department of Services and Property established as the negotiating authority. [More…]
One measure that does not arise from Budget decisions is designed to ensure that companies that are essentially public in character, but fall in some insignificant way to qualify as public companies under specific tests in the law, will not be taxed as private companies by reason of a restriction on the circumstances in which the Commissioner of Taxation may exercise a relevant discretionary power. [More…]
The effect of the Court’s ruling was that the Commissioner’s discretionary power to treat a company as public for income tax purposes cannot be invoked unless the company would, as a consequence, be relieved from a liability for additional tax on undistributed income. [More…]
I refer to sewerage works, power houses, schools, laboratories and so on. [More…]
And this is extremely important - and who will measure the efficiency and economy of all Departments and fearlessly bring to light all failures and with power to report direct to Parliament on the same principle as the Auditor-General is expected to fearlessly bring to light any lapses in honest and accurate accounting . [More…]
Honourable members may be assured that the delegation did all within its power to achieve a successful outcome to the negotiations and its efforts were fully recognised by all participants at the Conference. [More…]
It will have power to review determinations of the Commission upon the application of an interested party. [More…]
The constitutional power of the Australian Parliament to enact legislation such as that contained in the Bill was clarified by the very important decision of the High Court in what is known as the concrete pipes case. [More…]
For present purposes that case established that restrictive trade practices and monopolisation legislation contained in the Australian Industries Preservation Act could validly derive support from the corporations power in the Constitution. [More…]
It also established that legal problems can arise when provisions that depend on that power are drafted so as to be inextricably mixed in their operation with provisions that depend on other powers. [More…]
But these provisions are given by clause 5 a separate operation in reliance upon other powers. [More…]
But the first thing the Labor Government does when it comes into power some 30 years later is to remove the subsidy and state that it was introduced for the benefit of the dairy industry. [More…]
They are the people who voted this Government into power. [More…]
The former Government had been in power for a quarter of a century, but those who are now bleating about the isolated people did nothing for them. [More…]
On 29.7.70, at about 9 a.m., I was in the Offices of Johnson, McCaw & Co. re Blue Mountains City Council v. Power. [More…]
As a result of the sales tax decision, one million bushels of apples will have to be dumped in Tasmania unless other uses can be found for them, lt will mean not only a loss of $500,000 to our growers but also that road transporters will lose about $125,000 in cartage fees and Hobart business houses will feel the effect of a reduction of spending power. [More…]
We of the Country Party oppose at all times any moves by the Labor Government which seek to centralise all power in Canberra and which tend to downgrade the rights of the States. [More…]
The Constitution gives us the power to regulate completely advertising in those fields. [More…]
The Constitution does not give us the power to regulate advertising in the other media. [More…]
The power to bring the Scholarships Act into operation was granted by the Parliament to the Executive and any decision on this matter is one for the Executive as a matter of policy. [More…]
They are deliberately planning to lower living standards because they believe that by so doing they can produce a revolutionary situation, and they have decided to occupy sensitive pressure points in power generation and other places. [More…]
There can be no cessation of industrial troubles in Australia while the present Government remains in power. [More…]
I believe that the warmth of the reception I and my party received in Peking demonstrates that China like Japan recognises, to a greater extent than some Australians may believe, the growing importance of Australia as a middle power, especially in the Asian and Pacific region. [More…]
The Prime Minister appears to have dealt with at least some of the doubts and uncertainties in the minds of the Japanese which have arisen since the Labor Government came to power, these doubts and uncertainties of course being caused by the Labor Government itself. [More…]
The index of fuel and power industry shares has fallen from 238 in January to 176 on 1 November. [More…]
I repeat that we do not accept the Opposition’s suggestion and we will oppose it by every means within our power. [More…]
We have always had power to refuse exports and on occasions when we have found it necessary we have refused exports. [More…]
The Opposition is concerned to see that adequate sources of power and energy are available to meet the needs of the nation. [More…]
It bears a relationship to the marshalling of economic power in this country. [More…]
When one turns further into the Bill to clauses 45 to 50 one recognises the tremendous power this Commission will have, and one recognises the fact that the men who are appointed to the Commission should be men who are highly skilled and highly qualified, not just people whom the Labor Party wants to push up the line or push sideways, but people who have the ability to cope with the provisions of the legislation. [More…]
The second is the administrative power to rule on proposed acquisitions and mergers, which is concentrated in the Commission, the Tribunal or the Commissioner of Trade Practices. [More…]
Another major defect in clause 50 of this Bill is the power it concentrates in the Trade Practices Commission and the Tribunal to regulate mergers. [More…]
If the courts are to be given the power to determine who a monopolist is, it is vital that the Bill include some guidelines for the determination of a monopolist. [More…]
It is now 15 years since the Constitutional Review Committee, which included, as you will recall, Mr Deputy Speaker, representatives from all parties, recommended unanimously that the Parliament should seek power by referendum to deal with restrictive trade practices including resale price maintenance. [More…]
Nobody will doubt, reading those reports, that the consumer protection bureaus and councils themselves are acutely aware of the limitations of their power, especially when it comes to dealing with the great corporations with which this Parliament has only recently gained the power to deal. [More…]
It is not hard for the mechanism of naming a used car lot or a radio and television repair man to be evoked effectively at State level, but there is an abundance of evidence to show that the interests of consumers are abused by organisations of a scope whose power, influence and standing in our community enable them to ignore being named by a consumer bureau in its report to a State parliament. [More…]
The United States cases, which are the only guidance, have, in general, treated a person as having monopoly power if he is in a position to control or exclude competition in the relevant market. [More…]
At the present time United States authorities, in both the legislative and judicial fields, are more concerned than ever with defining precisely when monopoly and oligopoly conditions exist and what constitutes an abuse of monopoly and oligopoly power. [More…]
It is ludricous to make comparisons between the almost insignificant power of the individual consumer and the mighty power of the giant global corporations. [More…]
Our Liberal-Country Party governments have been very loath indeed to interfere with the power of their rich and powerful benefactors. [More…]
It is a ludicrous position when we consider the power and might of these giant corporations. [More…]
It is ludicrous to expect the individual Australian consumer to be able to compete on equal terms with such mighty power. [More…]
Many of these multi-national corporations have the power in their grasp to determine whether or not many Australian manufacturers have the right to exist. [More…]
The Leader of the Opposition does not believe it proper to give the courts powers to legislate, as he puts it; but he sees nothing wrong with the actions in the past which give to the Commissioner of Taxation enormous legislative powers in dealing with tax assessments. [More…]
He sees nothing wrong with the long history of giving to the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission the power to legislate. [More…]
The power for individuals to act is another important consideration. [More…]
Individuals have power to act by way of injunction or to sue for damages. [More…]
Is he the type of man who should be given such power? [More…]
We have heard complaint from the Opposition today that this Bill transfers a great deal of power to the legal and administrative arms of our decision making processes. [More…]
These were collusive tendering, collusive bidding, persistent price cutting at a loss to drive a competitor out of business and the use of monopoly power to disadvantage competitors or consumers. [More…]
Of course, the classical argument for the policy of competition, which I am sure is accepted by both sides of the House, is that a policy of greater competition serves to restrain the improper exercise of economic power. [More…]
It was to be declared invalid so that the corporation power of the Commonwealth could be revamped. [More…]
The corporation power, of course, extends right back to Federation. [More…]
Of course, the upshot of it was if the corporalion power were to be reinstated the constitutional premise for the old Restrictive Trade Practices Act was such that the Act was completely and totally invalid except for the section dealing with resale price maintenance. [More…]
The Committee reported in 19S8 that the Commonwealth Parliament could make laws for the control of harmful restrictive trade practices in interstate trade and commerce but that its legislative power did not extend to harmful restrictive trade practices adopted in intrastate commerce or productive industry. [More…]
The Committee considered that the Commonwealth Parliament should have an express power to deal with restrictive trade practices so far as they were contrary to the public interest and, for the purpose of determining whether a business practice was contrary to the public interest, it proposed the reconstitution of the Inter-State Commission for which section 101 of the Constitution provides, with a minor change in the method of constituting that Commission. [More…]
of the Constitution, which confers power upon the Commonwealth to make laws with respect to foreign corporations and trading or financial corporations formed within the limits of the Commonwealth, would enable the Parliament to prohibit harmful practices of the corporations described in the paragraph. [More…]
The Parliament’s power to control trading practices and monopolies in the course of external and interstate trade was clear enough but section 5 and 8 of the Act, applying a similar interdiction to the corporations specified in paragraph (xx.) [More…]
So that corporation power remained dormant until the High Court revalidated it just 2 years ago. [More…]
It must also indicate to the Australian public the cynicism of a Government seeking total centralised powers to control prices and wages. [More…]
It seems to me that the ruling of the Supreme Court in South Australia means that if the Australian people give the Whitlam Government power to control prices they will thereby give it power to control wages, irrespective of the outcome of the wages question in the referundum. [More…]
Once the powers are handed over they will never be handed back, and a vote ‘Yes’ for either proposal is a vote for ‘Big Brother’ style control over all our lives. [More…]
The scheme is so bad, so incredibly doctrinaire in its determination to achieve centralised power over the whole community that the true facts are almost unbelievable. [More…]
This Tribunal will have very wide powers. [More…]
It is not, of course, within my power to discuss those powers in relation to the set of clauses under discussion because you, Mr Chairman, would very properly rule me out of order if I were to do that. [More…]
But I make the passing observation that the Tribunal will have very wide powers. [More…]
During the whole of its operations that Government did not abuse the powers. [More…]
Surely any government dealing with a power is at liberty to be somewhat venturesome. [More…]
If .the courts of this country are to be given .the power to determine who is a monopolist, then it is vital that the Bill include some guidelines for the purpose of determining who is and who is not a monopolist. [More…]
A company in a dominant position is defined as one which has the power to behave independently of its competitors, its purchasers or suppliers, with the capacity to determine prices without reference to demand and supply conditions in the market place. [More…]
I would like to draw the attention of the Committee to the original proposals of Sir Garfield Barwick in 1962 when he defined monopoly as acquiring or using monopoly power, which was essentially the power to fix or influence market price or prevent competition, with the intention of stopping entry into the market or an expansion of it. [More…]
Of course, it will be left to the court to decide what constitutes monopoly power or monopoly influence. [More…]
It has to be left open in that way to determine where power has been the influence. [More…]
It is quite possible that IS per cent to 20 per cent of market share could be sufficient to influence the market and to be exercising all those advantages which flow to the monopolist or oligopolist in exercising that 15 per cent to 20 per cent power. [More…]
If one has the power and can obtain the right price one can make a greater profit at the consumer level. [More…]
The purpose of government in this field has always been to chart a course between the Scylla of unbridled competition and the Charybdis of ruthless monopoly power, and the star to chart that course has always been the public interest. [More…]
They had the bald statement first of all in the Sherman Act that monopolies are wicked; no one is to have a monopoly power. [More…]
I suggest that they have mistaken the existense of a monopoly for the ruthless exercise of monopoly power. [More…]
The way in which postal charges have been manipulated bv this Government in the Budget may well be regarded as exercising a monopoly powers which is pernicious. [More…]
These practices and the exercise of ruthless monopoly power can be exercised by state monopolies. [More…]
It was because of the power exercised by monopolies in Elizabethan and Tudor times that the Statute of Monopolies of 1624 was introduced by the Parliament of that time. [More…]
We are still faced with remarkable cases in the United States of America of the naked exercise of monopoly power notwithstanding the fact that that country has had trust busting legislation since almost the turn of the century. [More…]
The officers of that Office have done a magnificent job for the Government since it came to power. [More…]
But those people who are travelling home at present and listening to this broadcast will place the blame for the current power disputes in Victoria where that blame properly belongs. [More…]
The Bill will also give this Parliament power to grant funds to these bodies in the same way as it does to the States. [More…]
When Labor was in power prior to 1949 it tried to establish a Commonwealth housing commission and to get complete Commonwealth control over housing, but it found that this was illegal. [More…]
A Labor government was in power in New South Wales for 24 years and it established the position whereby it completely destroyed the investment in rental homes so that anybody who owned a home as an investment and who rented it go rid of it. [More…]
The Australian Parliament has only very limited power to deal with industrial relations, and this power must be exercised through the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission. [More…]
But even this power has been further circumvented by the recent refusals of Liberal and Country Party senators to permit the Government to give legislative effect to its clear mandate for industrial reform. [More…]
I believe that the High Court will take the same realistic attitude towards Commonwealth power in the field of industrial relations as it did in the recent concrete pipes case which overturned the Huddart Parker v. Moorehead decision of some 40 years earlier. [More…]
I believe that the High Court will find that the Constitution gives to the Parliament the power to do all the things upon which the Conference is likely to reach agreement. [More…]
However, in the event of the High Court refusing to uphold the powers needed to implement the agreement reached by the parties, the Prime Minister will convene a conference of State Premiers to ask the States to transfer to the Australian Parliament such powers as are necessary to enable the Australian Government to give the agreement reached at the Industrial Peace Conference the necessary legislative backing. [More…]
If the State Premiers reject the Prime Minister’s request, the Australian Government will seek the necessary amendment to the Australian Constitution to clothe the Australian Parliament with the same powers to regulate labour relations as those which presently reside with the 6 State parliaments. [More…]
In Victoria there is a strike of power workers, with 150 men on strike. [More…]
There is hardly a plant in Victoria today that is not working on alternate days simply because of the power strike. [More…]
The effect since the Labor Party came into power, as everyone knows, has been exactly the opposite. [More…]
He is one of the first in the queue to use the power of financial blackmail that is possessed by the Federal Government which is centralised here in Canberra. [More…]
I believe with conviction that the exploitation of postal voting is such that it could prevent a party going out of office and ensure a party coming into power, depending upon which party is on its feet and is more agile in whizzing around and obtaining these votes. [More…]
I would hate to think that when my Party is returned to power it won power by the exploitation of a voting system. [More…]
They do not number very many in terms of voting power. [More…]
I hope that the Government does this while it is in power rather than wait for the next Government to return. [More…]
In short, he was saying that one day his Party would come to power and would do so much so quickly that even if it lost the next election it would leave the country in such a state that it would be difficult for the returning Liberal-Country Party coalition to restore the damage. [More…]
When the Country-Liberal Party coalition came to power in that State in 1957 there were dire warnings from the outgoing Labour Government that this scheme would be abolished. [More…]
I ask the Government: Is it insensitive to the loss of $9m in wages over the last 2 weeks as a result of power rationing in factories? [More…]
This Australian Labor Party Government, for the basest of reasons, stands idly by while mothers are forced to give cold meals to their childen and to put them to bed in the dark with no warmth on cold nights because of power restrictions. [More…]
The charge made for camp power plants, provided at nine of the camps is 6.6 cents for the first 12 KW, 3.47 cents for the next 28 ‘KW and 2.09 cents for any additional consumption. [More…]
In the 11 months since Labor came to power, interest rates have spiralled to levels far beyond the range of previous Australian experience. [More…]
We have not the power to do that. [More…]
This is a Government which came to power promising low interest rates. [More…]
Since Labor came to power it has never been more difficult for the working man to finance the purchase of his own home. [More…]
The Opposition is opposing the constitutional attempts to obtain power over prices and wages. [More…]
I go a stage further by saying that if honourable members believe what the Leader of the Government said yesterday that Parliament has enough power and what he has said before it is perfectly obvious that the Government does not need the powers for price and income controls that it intends to refer to the people by referenda during the course of the next few months. [More…]
He said that the States have adequate powers. [More…]
I add the words ‘if only they had the guts and the will and the wish to implement those powers and to do so effectively’. [More…]
It had gone up by 26 per cent during the financial year 1972-73, of which 17 per cent occurred in the first half of that year when the previous Government was in power. [More…]
The people of Australia will prove to the Minister that bread and butter will beat power and money. [More…]
The Minister’s ideas are getting a low candlepower reception from the Australian public. [More…]
The only thing that matters to members of the Opposition is that power shall be distributed to their friends. [More…]
The decision was made in April 1973 by the Australian Government to participate in a joint FederalState Burdekin project committee to undertake a comprehensive study of the Burdekin River basin in Queensland with particular reference to water availability and the requirements of urban irrigation, power generation, industrial and flood mitigation purposes and, against the background of such a study, to develop proposals for the future development of the region. [More…]
I wish that the Leader of the Australian Country Party (Mr Anthony), who was setting out to denigrate the work of the Minister for National Development, were here to hear these figures, because he was the Deputy Prime Minister prior to the Labor Party’s coming to power and was partially responsible and, I would say, would have had a big say in the lack of development in the north. [More…]
He was in a position of power. [More…]
In the few moments remaining to me and because anything to do with Darwin has to do with northern development or, certainly, the other part of the Minister’s portfolio, I draw the Minister’s attention to the fact that in the Estimates last year an amount of $5.6m was set aside to be spent on stage 4 of the Darwin steam power station to 30 June 1973. [More…]
There have been recent power failures at the Stokes Hill power station. [More…]
I am asking the Minister to strain every nerve to get the Stokes Hill power station back into operation again. [More…]
Owing to power crisis workshop and office facilities losing S hours per 24 hour day. [More…]
Let us face it, this Government and the previous Goverment have spent a lot of money on the Stokes Hill power station. [More…]
However, they are used to air conditioning, and because of the power failure, none of the offices have fans or air conditioning. [More…]
The last point mentioned by the honourable member related to the Darwin power supply. [More…]
We have even had investigated the possibility of an oil rig in the harbour generating power for the Darwin area, but the rig generates direct current whereas the commercial transmission is alternating indirect current. [More…]
It is also being suggested to me that perhaps we should divert a battleship or even a submarine to the area to generate sufficient power for Darwin. [More…]
If he or anybody else has any suggestion of how suddenly to overcome the problem which has arisen, whereby a major part of the supply of power to Darwin will be cut off because of the collapse of this unit, I can assure them that I will look at it very seriously. [More…]
I have even investigated this afternoon the possibility of using top experts from the Snowy Mountains Engineering Corporation who I thought perhaps could help because they have a tremendous knowledge of matters relating to power. [More…]
However, this is a mechanical problem and one which we must solve in terms of ancillary power units. [More…]
We are looking at the possibility of closing off or minimising some of the drains on the power by, say, the Australian Broadcasting Commission, Radio Australia and such operations. [More…]
It is obvious that the desire for power by a small group of people, particularly the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) and the Deputy Prime Minister (Mr Barnard), led them to take that action as they considered the Minister to be a threat to them. [More…]
This grave injustice highlights the imbalance of the present Cabinet and shows the strong grasp and dictatorial power exercised by the Prime Minister and one or two of his colleagues. [More…]
Dealing first with the all-pervasiveness and the power of the media, I would say that technology makes this field as important as, say, the development of nuclear weapons, or jet aircraft, or modern earth-moving equipment, or the electronics industry - for example, in the field of computers. [More…]
Minister of a government and who has power in this field, because anyone who seeks to establish power in perpetuity in the political field looks first of all to the media. [More…]
I have mentioned the power, the all pervasiveness and the strength of the media. [More…]
It may be said that it is the newspaper proprietors, the television proprietors, or whatever: I do not mind which way it is put, but I say that there is enormous power in these unelected persons. [More…]
Power has moved from elected persons to unelected persons inasmuch as this platform here, the Parliament, no longer matters, and instead this tremendously elevated platform is being used by unelected persons who can use it to express their own biased views. [More…]
I refer to the power of the media in the community today. [More…]
The loss of the purchasing power of the postmaster and his staff must be felt by any local traders in these small towns. [More…]
I would like the Minister to elaborate at some stage this evening why his Department, some 5 months after his Government came to power and some 3 months before the Budget was brought down, told Christmas card manufacturers that they had to make changes because his Department would change the allowable weight. [More…]
When the Labor Government came to power it carried out its promise and set up a royal commission into the Post Office. [More…]
Yet a whole year has passed since the Labor Party gained power, and the Postmaster-General has complained about the fact that his Department has had to pay $179m in interest to the Treasury. [More…]
He will hear what his Government had in store for the country if it had remained in power. [More…]
It is burdened with an interest debt that was introduced in the 1960s by honourable members opposite who were then in power - an interest debt that has now escalated to $179m. [More…]
Among the obvious agencies are the State housing authorities which use the files in relation to arrears of rent Also included in the list are semi-government authorities and power generating and distribution authorities, to name but a few. [More…]
This was yet another victory for the integrating power of our land. [More…]
They have shown an abuse of power. [More…]
We know what the Minister for Minerals and Energy (Mr Connor) did in relation to the Snowy Mountains Council and the power dispute in New South Wales. [More…]
He secretly sent a letter to the Snowy Mountains Council demanding that it produce power only in conformity with the wishes of the striking power unions. [More…]
In that instance the Minister plainly acted on the side of the striking power unions and against the New Souh Wales Industrial Commission and the Government and people of New South Wales. [More…]
In so doing he has again abused power. [More…]
Of course there should be a 35-hour week in the power industry just as there should have been an increase in the shearing rates in 1956. [More…]
I was right this year in supporting the 35-hour week proposed in the power industry just as you were right in opposing the employers in 1956 for resisting the increase sought in the wages of shearers. [More…]
What about the political promise of the Prime Minister who, when Leader of the Opposition, said that there would be less industrial trouble when Labor came to power? [More…]
The next attack relates to the power dispute. [More…]
Let me remind him that the Prime Minister of this country (Mr Whitlam), in a truly statesmanlike way, attempted to offer the facilities of the Commonwealth Conciliation and Arbitration Commission to facilitate a resumption of work in the power industry. [More…]
The second administrative amendment to the Bill is to widen the regulation making power contained in section 13a. [More…]
2)- which this House has passed on 2 occasions and which the Senate has twice rejected - one of these Bills would not now be necessary and the people of Australia would have equality of voting power. [More…]
The Government reply accurately that the Opposition used to do exactly the same when they were in power. [More…]
Under an Act of Parliament which he has no power to alter because of the operations of a gerrymandered Upper House in his State. [More…]
If the Government has that power to enable it to feed local government and to starve State governments we shall move to a constitution similar to the Constitution of the United Kingdom which provides for Westminster and county councils. [More…]
The simple fact is that, by the Constitution, the Senate has been given a position of power. [More…]
It was given that power by those who founded the Constitution. [More…]
It was debated at length and it was decided that the Senate should possess powers which are contained in section 53 of the Constitution. [More…]
It makes the Senate a powerful House. [More…]
It has had that power all its existence. [More…]
If the Government wants to change the power of the Senate, why does it not do so directly? [More…]
If the Government wants the power of the Senate to be reduced let it go “to section 53 and take away from the Senate the power to introduce any Bill or the power to disallow or reject any money Bill. [More…]
The only power the Senate does not have is to amend or originate a money bill. [More…]
Possessed of that power - a majority in the House of Representatives and in the Senate - there is no reason whatever why the Government cannot introduce and pass legislation which would return the Senate from its present proportional representation system to some form of election which would lead to the ludicrous position which it had in its earlier life when, at one stage, there were 2 Opposition senators to 34 Government senators and when, from 1946 to 1949, there were 3 Opposition senators to 33 Government senators. [More…]
There is every reason to suspect that the real purpose of this Bill is to deprive the Senate, by a backhanded method, of the power which it possesses. [More…]
In the entire platform we will find that the Labor Party is committed to socialisation of this country, centralisation of power in Canberra and abolition of the Senate. [More…]
We would become the greatest centralised power continent in the world. [More…]
Further, the growing constitutional development of the right of Heads of Government to secure a dissolution of the popular House upon request, in my opinion, makes it imperative that the Prime Minister should not have the power to treat the States’ House as an appendage of the Popular House and take one-half of the Senate to election at the will of the Executive Government. [More…]
It is no alibi for the Government to bring on this referendum when it has the clear power in its own hands to bring about simultaneous elections as from next year. [More…]
This constitutional amendment process is unnecessary because the power is in the hands of the Government. [More…]
I do not see how anyone can agree with the proposition that by carrying this Bill and by subsequently putting a question to the people at a referendum we would be depriving the Senate of its power. [More…]
The Senate has the power at any time to reject legislation, provided that the number of senators who are in favour of such rejection vote that way. [More…]
The power is already there for him as Prime Minister to bring them back into phase. [More…]
The House of Representatives has always had in its power the capacity to go to the people and to synchronise elections if it so desires or if it does not so desire, to call elections out of phase for the House of Representatives alone or to call for a double dissolution subject to the approval of the Governor-General. [More…]
In those circumstances, even the Prime Minister acknowledges that there is no substance whatsoever in the suggestion that there is not the power in this Parliament for this Government to bring the elections of the Senate and the House of Representatives back into uniformity again. [More…]
For example, under the British parliamentary system the House of Lords lacks the power that the Senate, the Upper House in this Parliament, enjoys; that is, the power to deny the passage of legislation and the power to force the Government to an election. [More…]
Our Senate has been given additional powers. [More…]
It has been given additional powers because for all that it is denied by those on the other side of this House I still see the Senate as a States House. [More…]
In other words, it does accept that the Senate is still a States House and that the powers that are there for the Senate should be preserved for it. [More…]
I am quite concerned that there should be no breakdown of the powers and functions of the Senate. [More…]
I am concerned that there should be no derogation of the power that a senator exercises as a result of his election for a term of 6 years, and that is where it comes in in this Bill. [More…]
I believe that when a Senate election takes place at the time of a House of Representatives election the very nature of this chamber, the nature of the election of government, the nature of policies that originate in this chamber and the machinations of power that those who abuse it in the Labor Party seek, are likely to distort the democratic process, and particularly the democratic process that applies to the election of senators. [More…]
It is part of the beginning of the erosion of the power of those who are members of the Senate. [More…]
There can be no doubt in the minds of the Australian people that the Labor Party, in its machinations of power, seeks, through this legislation as a first step, to try to destroy some of the power which is now exercised by the Senate. [More…]
Instead of achieving its policy objective in a valid way - instead of turning to section 53 of the Constitution and looking at the exercise of power as it is applied to the Senate in the Constitution - it is seeking to do so in a backhand way. [More…]
As I recall it, amongst all his illogicalities, the one logical reason the Deputy Leader of the Country Party (Mr Sinclair) advanced for the retention of the current balance of timing between both Houses was the sheer additional power that the Senate possesses beyond that of upper Houses in other countries where bicameral systems exist. [More…]
We do not care whether it is a Labor Government or a Liberal Government which is in power - we know that a Labor government will be elected in New South Wales on Saturday- [More…]
The honourable member for Bradfield (Mr Turner) talked about the erosion of the power of State governments. [More…]
What about the erosion of the power of local councils, loading them with responsibilities and denying them access to the necessary funds to enable them to carr> out their duties? [More…]
Honourable members will recall that it was the same Askin Government that promised, when it was trying to get into power in 1965, to take teaching out of the realm of Public Service Board control and to treat teachers as members of a really professional body by setting up an education commission. [More…]
One was to give the national Parliament power to make laws with respect to the organised marketing of primary products unrestricted by section 92. [More…]
Involvement of parents in school affairs, and hence their power in the school, is minimal; indeed in many cases no organised parent body exists. [More…]
This power is already available. [More…]
Everybody must wonder, upon looking at that section, why it is necessary to amend the Constitution to give the Parliament power to do something which it now possesses power to do. [More…]
It has always possessed that power. [More…]
We have the power in this Parliament. [More…]
We now have a proposal to add certain words to that section which, if adopted, will give a new power. [More…]
If the proposed new power is examined according to the rules of interpretation it will be seen that it is a lesser power than the power that already exists because the present power is totally untrammelled and unqualified. [More…]
Yet there is no absence of power in this Parliament to introduce legislation to do exactly the same thing which this Bill proposes. [More…]
There is no want of power at all. [More…]
Yet we are going through this facade of a referendum to give us power to do something we already possess power to do. [More…]
Firstly, it would take away forever the power to divide on the basis of electors and it would require it always to be on the basis of people. [More…]
If one adds the fact that the Government does not have the power to do that to the proposal for distribution according to the number of people in an electorate, one doubles the problem. [More…]
I shall read the power that is given to this Parliament under section 30 of the Constitution. [More…]
That power is untrammelled arid unqualified. [More…]
Therefore, under the Constitution we have total power to say that everyone who has red hair and is 10 years of age can have a vote. [More…]
That is a stupid proposition but I put it in that sense merely to explain that the Government does not lack that power. [More…]
Yet, for some unexplained reason the Government is to put a referendum to the people to change the Constitution in order to give it power to do everything which it now has power to do. [More…]
Again, if this proposal was passed, a proper legal interpretation indicates that it would have a diminishing power to what was originally granted. [More…]
It exists pursuant to legislation enacted under the power of section 30 of the Constitution. [More…]
According to the Government we are going to the people to ask them to give everybody direct power to vote, and everybody who is aged eighteen or more the right to vote. [More…]
The powers which the Government is trying to obtain by putting, a referendum to the people to alter the Constitution it already possesses. [More…]
The Government wants to go to the people at a referendum to ask for the power to do something which is already provided for in the Constitution and has always existed. [More…]
The first is that the Bill is unnecessary because all the things it would do we already possess the power to do just by legislation. [More…]
It will also give the Australian people the first opportunity since colonial days to end the cynical manipulation of political power in certain of the States. [More…]
Electoral boundaries should be drawn to suit the convenience and to guarantee the rights of citizens, not to allow the manipulation of political power that we have seen in this country in the past. [More…]
There is also a provision in this Bill which seeks to give to the High Court of Australia power of original jurisdiction, power to exercise a control over manipulation of Australian electorates, a power which will be a safeguard, a sentinel, on behalf of the Australian people. [More…]
We see a power hungry socialist Government in operation. [More…]
Coming back to the proposal to insert a new section into the Constitution dealing with the election of members of State parliaments, I must say that I find it quite remarkable that the Prime Minister is so filled with a sense of power that he has taken it upon himself to initiate this matter. [More…]
This certainly accords with his well-known views on the powers and the rights of the Commonwealth, and on the role of the States. [More…]
If the words subject to this Constitution’ in section 106 mean the Constitution as passed into law in 1900, then the Prime Minister cannot use the amending power of section 128 to cut down the rights of the states under section 106 simply by the device of inserting a new section called 106a. [More…]
He also supported the proposition that the legislative powers of the Commonwealth could not ‘be used directly to deprive another Government of powers or authority committed to it or restrain that Government in their exercise . [More…]
It may be that section 106 provides the restraint upon legislative power over the States which differentiates it from power over the subject, and that no law of the Commonwealth can impair or affect the Constitution of a State. [More…]
Why, he has a Party that since 1949 has only once polled more than 10 per cent of the vote of the people but has exercised 16 or 20 per cent of the power in this Parliament. [More…]
They seek by malapportionment to cling to power in this Parliament, and the Country Party will fight to the last in order to ensure that. [More…]
That is, they ask you, the people of this country, in whom true sovereignty resides, to transfer from the States to the Commonwealth constitutional and legal power over a wide range of matters. [More…]
It will be a permanent and complete transfer of power. [More…]
From 6 State parliaments, governments and bureaucracies spread throughout the length and breadth of the Commonwealth to one all-powerful parliament, one government and one bureaucracy, centralised in Canberra, isolated from the people and remote from their needs. [More…]
You, the electors of this country, would be transferring power to a group in Canberra which, as a group, is apt to think that their interests and inclinations are paramount and dominant. [More…]
No matter how much you might subsequently regret the transfer of power, you will not be able to have another go - another chance - as a result of your experience and more considered opinion. [More…]
You cannot recall a power once it is given to the Commonwealth. [More…]
With one exception, none of the powers proposed to be transferred by the referendum will benefit the people of this country in a personal way, as was done in 1946 in the amendment, by referendum, to section 51 (XXIII a) of the Constitution which conferred power on the Australian Parliament to make provision for such benefits as child endowment, unemployment, sickness and hospital benefits and family allowances. [More…]
I readily confess that my belief in federalism stems not only from the belief that a wide division of powers and the widest debate and discussion in and out of Parliament is in the interests of the people themselves. [More…]
I also believe - and history confirms - that too great a concentration of power is apt to corrupt, and that corruption feeds on the inevitable failure of secular gospels based on the conviction that some in high office are all powerful and have a monopoly of wisdom. [More…]
Hence it may be concluded that there is no limit to the power to amend the constitution, but that it can only be brought into action according to certain modes prescribed. [More…]
One of those occasions was in 1954, when the election was contested on boundaries drawn up under the supervision of the late Mr Calwell when the Labor Government was in power. [More…]
I point out also that under the Constitution the Commonwealth already has power to pass laws relating to such matters. [More…]
Why then does the Labor Government seek to write specific laws of this kind for which it already has general power under the Constitution? [More…]
The whole purpose of the referendum procedure is to enlarge the powers of Parliament, and the referendum procedure was devised with precisely that in mind. [More…]
Does anybody say that this Parliament does not have that power today? [More…]
The only new thing in this Bill, in respect of which this Parliament does not have power, is power to control the States. [More…]
This is the Mediterranean of this Bill’s proposal, because it seeks to confer upon the Commonwealth Parliament power to legislate directly for local government bodies. [More…]
I eschew the temptation to deal with any second reading consideration, but I want to invite the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) and the Minister for Urban and Regional Development (Mr Uren), who is directly concerned, to consider quite directly what is involved in conferring upon this Parliament power to legislate with respect to borrowing of money by the Commonwealth for local government bodies. [More…]
No greater legislative power can be imagined than the power to create and the power to destroy. [More…]
The simple truth of the matter is that this Parliament has no power to create tocal government authorities and no power to destroy local government authorities, but the States have that power. [More…]
Why seek to confer a plenary power in section 517 I suggest that, on the assumption that the Government received a plenary power under section 51, this could well be in direct conflict with section 105a. [More…]
This would give the Commonwealth power to make laws with respect to the borrowing of money by the Commonwealth for local government bodies. [More…]
There will be this concentration of power in Canberra. [More…]
The first part of this referendum would provide power for the Commonwealth to raise loans for local government. [More…]
At the present time that power relates only to the States. [More…]
Pursuant to this power we will do it’. [More…]
It so happens that if it were done that way, as I believe it should be done - the money would go to the States and the States would distribute it among the local governments - that is exactly the power that we possess now. [More…]
There is not a local government body that cannot have alterations made to its boundaries, its number of councillors, its powers or its authorities. [More…]
Here is a proposal to have a referendum which asks the people to give this Parliament power in respect of something we cannot describe. [More…]
If this legislation is passed, if the Constitution is altered and then legislation is passed pursuant to that power, it will be to the great disadvantage of the people of Australia who want the services, and it will be to the great disadvantage also of those people of Australia who see our Constitution as a bulwark which is essential for the protection of our standards, our way of life and our democratic centralisation of power in Canberra. [More…]
They have centralised power in their capitals. [More…]
If there is any real centralism, it is in the States, particularly Queensland, New South Wales and Victoria, which centralise their power in Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne. [More…]
If we are to have real progress in co-operative federalism we have to have equal power for the Australian Government, the State governments and local government authorities. [More…]
In the last 24 hours we have seen the unprecedented farce in this Parliament of the Government using its repressive powers to guillotine the debate so that Opposition discussion is limited and so that the fallacies of the case which the Government has presented cannot be exposed. [More…]
I have never seen such an abuse of and such an intoxication with power by a government as we have seen displayed by this arrogant, almost dictatorial Government. [More…]
It is quite obvious that the reason for seeking this amendment to the Constitution is to enable the Australian Labor Party to pursue its policies aimed at centralising all power in Canberra. [More…]
The Commonwealth would, by financial inducement, take over responsibility for loan raising and be a consequentially more powerful force in the loan market. [More…]
Its financial power would be greater, its policy leverage more direct. [More…]
Let us be vigilant against those who are obsessed with concentrating all power in Canberra by eroding and emasculating the authority of State governments. [More…]
I might add that at that time, as I remember it, the Liberal-Country Party Government was in power in Canberra. [More…]
They believe that powers such as those sought by this Bill should be available to the Federal Government. [More…]
Secondly, there are those who conveniently find refuge for their lack of initiative in passing the buck to the Australian Government, knowing full well that it has not the power to act in the matter. [More…]
However, an alteration to the Constitution is not needed to give local government more money; the power already exists under section 96 of the Constitution for the Commonwealth to give what it wants to give. [More…]
The first is to section 51, which at present, in placitum (iv) gives the Commonwealth the power to borrow money from the public purse. [More…]
The proposed new placitum (ivA) gives the Commonwealth the power to borrow money for local government. [More…]
The second addition - they are only additions to the Constitution - is to section 96, which at present gives power to the Commonwealth to grant finance to any State as this Parliament thinks fit. [More…]
But the Government wants to insert a new section 96a to give this same power to grant finance to any local government body on such terms as this Parliament thinks fit. [More…]
It must be obvious to all people in Australia that this Government is out to destroy the Federal system in its entirety and to centralise all power in Canberra. [More…]
Right through the whole ambit of legislation this attempt to centralise power can be seen. [More…]
Maybe they are, but the Government wants to centralise all power in Canberra. [More…]
If that proposal is passed by the people who are deceived into believing that prices can be controlled by giving such control to the central government, this power will operate in conjunction with all the other proposals I have mentioned to centralise power in this one government in Australia. [More…]
If the people fall for the drive for power by this Government the ultimate result will be that Australia will be a completely socialist country under a republican dictatorship. [More…]
More power must not be given to this Government. [More…]
It is drunk for power and it is dictated to by unions of Australia. [More…]
Why cannot the Labor Party be honest and ask the people of Australia straight out for power to abolish the States? [More…]
There is no doubt that all the Labor Party wants is power. [More…]
She wants power to do as she will; and she will centralise all that power in Canberra. [More…]
There would be too much obvious loss of freedom of the individual and too much power vested in the central government. [More…]
It is not unfair to say that in the past State Premiers have regarded any proposals for the direct financing of local government by the Federal Government as an intrusion into State rights and responsibilities, and have been loath to let their power go. [More…]
In general, local government’s powers over expenditure and regulation are adequate for these purposes. [More…]
The approval of this Bill will give the Government power to grant financial assistance to any local government body. [More…]
This proposed referendum to give the Federal Government power to raise money and to make it available to the various local government authorities has not been acclaimed by the various State governments in Australia. [More…]
It must be done that way because the Privileges Committee has tremendous power and it must not be used improperly. [More…]
Now, in a state of intoxication of power as Prime Minister, he thinks that he can make slanderous remarks about members of the Parliament, particularly members of the Opposition, and go unquestioned or unchallenged. [More…]
When asked for an observation on what Australia’s involvement would be under the Five Power Arrangement if there were any border dispute the comment of the right honourable member for Higgins was: [More…]
That is the type of style under which the foreign policy of Australia was run before this Government came to power. [More…]
The right honourable member for Lowe had discussions in Indonesia about the Five Power Arrangement. [More…]
The Arrangement was dealt a mortal blow under the leadership of the former Government when the right honourable member for Lowe said that the Five Power Arrangement is not very important; that it is in fact only a forum for consultation. [More…]
Whether you yourselves really wish actively to contribute to this shift of political power, which having regard to the present policy statements of the Opposition would lead inevitably to the imposition of conditions of Australian control of American bases- [More…]
For the reasons I have stated, I believe that the contribution made by migrants very greatly exceeds the cost of the demand they make on Australia or on the public purse for increased services by way of roads, water supply, power supply, hospitals, schools and so on. [More…]
Yet when our Government took over the reins of power in this country 11 months ago there were no plans. [More…]
The second area is in the provision for fuels for transportation from distillation and fermentation of plant material, and the third is in electrical power generation. [More…]
The work at Flinders University is directed mainly towards electrical power generation, and it is likely that four or five years of intensive research work is required before the full promise of this aspect can be properly assessed. [More…]
Since it would then require a further 5 to 10 years for engineering and pilot plant studies to be carried out, this will take us into the latter part of the century before significant contributions to our power industry can be effected. [More…]
By this time our oil and gas reserves will be tight and power costs will have escalated. [More…]
All of these proposals depend on money, and money is power. [More…]
The proposals will grow with the power of money. [More…]
There are other areas in which the Federal Government can act within the limits of its own power to assist in meeting the demands of the western suburbs. [More…]
Twelve industries, including the steel, automobile, shipbuilding and petrochemical industries, have been requested to cut consumption of oil and power by 10 per cent. [More…]
When the Parliament gets power to pass laws with regard to prices it will put the powers of the Tribunal beyond challenge. [More…]
I regard it as quite improper that debt collecting agencies, such as State housing authorities, local government bodies and power distribution authorities, should be able to trace people indebted to them through personal records in the Department. [More…]
I regard it as quite improper that debt collecting agencies such as State housing authorities, local government bodies, and power distribution authorities____ [More…]
Might I add that the State governments have had the power in the past to carry out this action, if financial arrangements had been made. [More…]
The power in a progressive community is never quiescent or stationary. [More…]
Clause 2 (c) is an attempt to whittle away the federal system and the powers of the States; to take away power from the sovereign people of this country; to do so without adequate consideration of the meaning of the words and the consequences of the proposed change; to do so in such a way as to prevent proper public discussion; to do so by stealth; and to prevent the referendum Bill from truly reflecting the will of the Australian people. [More…]
His approach though is marked by one narrow furrow by way of an objective, and that is to get power and to keep power - and, of course, he has never disguised that for one moment and he is to be heartily commended. [More…]
In this context what they obviously mean is that we ought to put the clock back by strengthening the States at the expense of Commonwealth power. [More…]
It is true that Alfred Deakin, with remarkable prescience, talked of the way in which the small States would be drawn into the orbit of the large and of the way in which the power of the new Federal Government would increase. [More…]
I believe that each one of them is a direct and overt expression of this Labor Government’s intention to divert more power to Canberra. [More…]
Whether it be on 8 December when the people of Australia are considering a referendum on another matter or whether it be on another occasion when they consider the referendum which will flow from the Bill that is now before the chamber, the people of Australia must be conscious that each one of these measures is not presented just for the overt change of the Constitution in the way that the Bills suggest but rather in a covert fashion to ensure that additional powers can be exercised in Canberra. [More…]
I suggest that through the exercise of those powers, the powers of the State governments and local governments will be eroded. [More…]
Of course, in the implementation of the socialist platform of the Labor Government, the powers and rights of the individuals of this country will be eroded. [More…]
Court and also by the exercise of the taxation power by this Parliament. [More…]
He said that this was a direct and overt expression of the Australian Labor Party’s thirst for power, or words to that effect. [More…]
Then he talked about the power of the States. [More…]
I wonder what he meant by the word ‘power’. [More…]
Of course, what honourable members opposite have established is that they are more concerned with power than with people. [More…]
But just consider the records of the State governments and municipal councils when it comes to the arbitrary and capricious exercise of their power over people. [More…]
It wants to centralise all power in Canberra. [More…]
I have also pointed out that that is as it should be because the people of this country in whom sovereign power resides - at least the qualified electors of this country in whom sovereignty resides - should be the people who determine what changes should be made to the Australian Constitution, not only as a matter of logic but also to comply with the provisions of section 128 of the Constitution. [More…]
I admit immediately that I held the strong view that there should have been at those times 2 amendments to the Constitution - one relating to industrial relations and the other giving to the Commonwealth more complete power relating to interest rates and monetary policy. [More…]
I do not believe that we should go to any great lengths to facilitate changes unless there is a clear and unmistakable expression of opinion on the part of the Australian people who are themselves qualified to vote - the people of this country in whom the sovereign or quasi-sovereign power resides - that a change is necessary or desirable or unless the Government has clearly and honestly come to the conclusion that these qualified people themselves desire that an amendment to the Constitution be made. [More…]
In contrast, in the time since the Government came to power we have witnessed the beginning of a period of basic investigation and planning of defence needs and capabilities which is without precedent in the peacetime history of this nation. [More…]
Unlike them when they were in power, this Government has no fears of giving the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Snedden) or his relevant spokesman access to defence planning documents if they have the wit to request them. [More…]
The Arab countries - the countries in the Organisation for Petroleum Exporting Countries - are quite clearly prepared and determined to use their bargaining power ruthlessly. [More…]
Honourable members opposite had been in power for 23 years. [More…]
I refer to previous remarks and representations made by me to the Minister and the Minister for Works about the crippling power failure in Darwin caused by breakdowns at the Stokes Hill power station. [More…]
The Government is deeply concerned at the breakdowns of various power plants in the Northern Territory - the No. [More…]
What I will be suggesting to various Ministers of the Government is the possibility of having in Australia at least one, or more than one, stand-by power plant that can be put into action when disasters like this occur again. [More…]
Dripstone High School, Darwin, Northern Territory; and Stage 6 Extension of the Stokes Hill Power Station, Darwin. [More…]
That the Committee have power to send for persons, papers and records, to move from place to place and to sit during any recess or adjournment of the Parliament. [More…]
There is no doubt that if the Liberal-Country parties were in power, wheat farmers generally could look forward to a very bright future. [More…]
I think the Deputy Leader of the Country Party will find it somewhat embarrassing to move that amendment, however, as the power of direction was first inserted in the Act in 1954 by his predecessor, Sir John McEwen. [More…]
Explaining the new provision to give the Minister power of direction, he said: [More…]
This problem could never have arisen were it not for the fact that the Minister has the power of positive direction over the Board. [More…]
When the Bills were introduced into the Federal and State Parliaments to give legislative effect to the Plan, growers were dismayed to learn that the clauses in the 1946 legislation which gave the Minister a power of veto over the Australian Wheat Board, were to be amended to extend this power of veto to a positive power of direction and bring the Board under complete Ministerial control. [More…]
Federation any reason to believe that the Governments required the power of direction over the Australian Wheat Board. [More…]
The Federation had requested that the clauses already contained in the Legislation and giving the Minister power to veto action of the Board should be deleted, and the Board should be relieved completely of the possibility of Ministerial interference. [More…]
It is this thought which has been the motivating power behind this written statement, in order that a permanent record may exist of the very strong objections of this Federal Body. [More…]
The above matters are, however, relatively small when measured against the fact that a grant of powers, qualified only by a power of veto exercisable by a Minister only when the Board offends against public interest, constituted a clear and very valuable Trusteeship which has beneficial psychological effects on producers and Board alike. [More…]
It highlights the danger of writing into the Acts supporting the Board the power of ministerial direction and control and cuts right across the vital principle that the produce of the land belongs to the producers subject only to the payment of his just debts. [More…]
It is a matter of deep regret to me that this power of socialisation was written into these Acts by a former leader of the Party to which I belong. [More…]
The Australian Government has no power to impose quotas. [More…]
Because we believe that it was not intended by Mr McEwen, as he then was, and Sir Philip McBride who introduced the legislation on his behalf, that that legislation should apply in this form, we have moved this amendment which will ensure that the ministerial power is restricted to the area where the Wheat Board can and should be directed only if the interests of taxpayers or the interests of wheat growers, insofar as the sale covers a price or conditions less than a reasonable market return, are concerned. [More…]
The ministerial power will be restricted in a narrow confine which relates particularly to areas where it would seem reasonable for it to be capable of being applied. [More…]
This power has not been exercised in the past by any previous government. [More…]
I do not believe the fact that this provision was introduced by an earlier Country Party Minister has as much importance as has the fact that the power was never used. [More…]
To me, the important aspect is that if the power had been used in the past it would have been used with restraint and in a non-political manner. [More…]
It is for that reason that the Opposition believes that the original legislation should be amended and that this changed form of words should be inserted to place the necessary restraints on the abuse of power which we believe the Labor Government has used in this instance. [More…]
I am concerned that if the power remains in the Act for the Minister to interfere in the affairs of the Australian Wheat Board and that provision is not qualified by the amendment moved by my colleague, the honourable member for New England, the situation could be reached in which a dictatorial governmentcould insist on the Australian Wheat Board selling, on a long term contract basis, its product to one country. [More…]
Did members of the Government Party go to Kalgoorlie before the election and say that this is what they would do if they were put into power on 2 December 1972? [More…]
Considering all the speeches about this industry made in this House over the last year or two before the Government came into power, it did the very reverse of what it said it would do if it were in power. [More…]
As there is evidence of grave concern that the establishment of the proposed plant will result in air pollution affecting a large residential area of Brisbane, I ask the Minister: Has the Australian Government power to intervene with a view to preventing the construction of this plant? [More…]
But, to use Treasury’s own words relative to inflation, our expectations were rudely shattered early in 1973 - the time of the advent of Labor to effective power. [More…]
As such, I believe that they can more effectively represent a country which, after all, as long ago as 1901 was prepared as a nation to accord to the Federal Government the power to represent this country in the international arena. [More…]
It may be that British power is not so great east of Suez as once it was but at least there is still - let me say the brutal truth again - a British nuclear capacity which might be essential at some stage for the survival of Australia. [More…]
The point I highlight here, Mr Deputy Speaker, as I have done on previous occasions, is that although this Government came to power pledged to a process of consultation, in so many areas that process has been totally ignored. [More…]
It was to be another city based, centralised university, lt would have put back the clock and it may still do so if this Government is determined to use its financial authority and financial power to do what it wants and to ignore the wishes of Victoria and the generally accepted Victorian decision and position which supported the view of the Victorian Government. [More…]
I do not use this forum tonight as an opportunity to speak in any depth about the question of educational philosophy, except to say this: We, as an Opposition Party, certainly do not believe in the centralisation of power. [More…]
We recognise the importance of decentralisation and that form of devolution of power which leads to diversity and experimentation in approach and which we believe is essential for the best interests of this country as far as its education advancement is concerned. [More…]
The Government in fact has no appreciation whatever of the importance of the State governments, of their constitutional powers and of their rights. [More…]
Indeed, if one looks at the various Bills which have been brought down in this House it is quite clear that the present Government is determined effectively to erode the powers of the States in the field of education and in those other areas for which the States have responsibility. [More…]
If my memory serves me correctly the promise was made in the policy speech of the present Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam), in particular, and in the policy document of the Australian Labor Party that the Australian Labor Party would, if it came to power, take over financial responsibility for tertiary education and that that was followed by a very significant phrase, namely, that the money thus released will be available for primary and secondary education undertaken by the States. [More…]
In the day to day routine of the handling of the many by-law applications received, the power to make determinations in accordance with established policy guidelines, which ensure consistency in granting concessions without derogation of the tariff protection local industry fairly merits and which reflect the more flexible approach of the present Government, have been delegated to officers of the By-law Branch of the Department. [More…]
It is not seeking centralised power. [More…]
Mr Bednall will be employed on a similar basis to an adviser to the previous Government, Mr K. Sinclair, who is still under contract but has had little work since Labor came to power. [More…]
For the information of honourable members, I present the report by Mr T. C. Winter on Power Over Prices and Incomes. [More…]
The fourth criticism that I would offer of this Bill, in brief, relates to clause 15, which gives the Minister power to place nongovernment, non-systemic schools into categories. [More…]
Under this proposal, we would hand back to the political parties and to the Ministers of the various States the power to feather their own nests, as they have done in the past. [More…]
We have promised the people a permanent schools commission and the people have the right to expect permanency, regardless of what government is in power. [More…]
But we give a fair warning that if we are in power, while there will be an expenditure on nongovernment schools of no less than the sum total that will be appropriated in this Bill, the appropriation will be re-apportioned - it will be re-apportioned on the basis of need. [More…]
I come from New South Wales where the Liberal Government has been in power for quite some time and where there is a means test on secondary grants. [More…]
We are also suggesting that a tribunal should be established by regulation - a later amendment will give the power for that to be done - and that the regulations should also prescribe the criteria against which schools have been categorised. [More…]
Island sewerage, $180,000 for Bamaga sewerage, $300,000 for Weipa South sewerage, and $236,000 for power supply in various settlements, making a total of $1,601,000. [More…]
The power to do so was in the hands of the Holt, Gorton and McMahon Governments respectively. [More…]
They had the power as a result of the referendum. [More…]
The Minister now has the power - the legislation has been amended - to decide how he wants this Fund dealt with. [More…]
Donkeys, like other domestic animals which have gone wild are not protected under the Fauna Conservation Act of Western Australia, and as they are not indigenous fauna I have no power to ensure their protection and safe treatment However I share the honourable member’s concern that all animals should be treated humanely and I am pleased to find that the South Australian Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals has taken action in the matter. [More…]
Did he also say that Dr Coombs and others held most of the real power in the Department of Aboriginal Affairs. [More…]
I do not recall the honourable member going on record in its favour at the time when the Party that he supports - more or less - was in power. [More…]
I have looked at the report entitled ‘Power over Prices and Incomes’ which he tabled yesterday. [More…]
The whole power in the Bill and the emphasis in the existing Act limits its borrowings in Australia. [More…]
We do not have that power at the moment. [More…]
Similarly, there is a very real need - although not quite so urgent - for some of the domestic consumers in the colder climates to give thought to using electric power, of which there is plenty in Australia, thank God and thank the Labor governments in New South Wales and Queensland which achieved a plentiful supply of electricity generated from coal. [More…]
The Sydney Fuel and Power Index in January 1973 stood at 238. [More…]
The Sydney Fuel and Power Index at the end of October 1973 was 176. [More…]
These functions include the control of the export from Australia of fresh apples and pears and the Corporation has been given, in clauses 7 to 9, powers appropriate to the performance of these functions. [More…]
These include, the power to recommend to the Minister the terms and conditions of export; the persons who may engage in export; packaging and labelling for export and quality standards and grading for export. [More…]
It also has power to determine quantities for export by State and country of destination, and to negotiate shipping arrangements. [More…]
For its trading operations, the Corporation is empowered to charter ships and, under clause 30 of the Bill, to borrow moneys subject to the approval of the Minister and the Treasurer. [More…]
The power to trade will be a significant power available to the Corporation in a major task confronting it, namely, the development of new markets. [More…]
The Corporation’s trading power is qualified by a requirement that it must seek the approval of the Minister to engage in trade in competition with Australian concerns and must conduct any such trade in a manner that accords with commercial practice. [More…]
There is also expressed in clause 7 (3) of the Bill a general requirement that the Corporation must comply with any directions given it by the Minister with respect to the performance of its functions and the exercise of its powers. [More…]
This power of direction over the Corporation is a power which would only be drawn on in unusual circumstances. [More…]
The Commission is given adequate powers to allow it to perform its functions, including the power to hold private and public inquiries, and to engage outside consultants. [More…]
Many thought that it would be a true black Parliament, when it will have no such function or power. [More…]
It underlines the attitude quite properly taken by the Opposition Parties earlier this year and their attitude in the Senate, based not merely on the unilateral application of Commonwealth laws to States - for example, Western Austraia - but on the enormity of the power that was to be vested in the Minister by Part III of the Bill. [More…]
The Liberal Party has always favoured some restraint on extensive discretionary powers. [More…]
This was almost the epitomy of widespread discretionary powers being vested in a minister. [More…]
Under section 51 (xxxi) of the Constitution the Commonwealth is entrusted with the following power: [More…]
The acquisition of property on just terms from any State or person for any purpose in respect of which the Parliament has the power to make laws. [More…]
The Lands Acquisition Act 1955-1966 is the legislative means by which this power is exercised. [More…]
Clause 4 of the Bill seeks to empower the Minister instead of the Governor-General to authorise the acquisition of land by the Commonwealth for a public purpose by agreement. [More…]
Section 64 of the Act gives the Minister power to delegate any of his powers or functions under the Act, presumably in this case to officers of the relevant department. [More…]
Under this Bill there will be no limitation on the power of the Minister to delegate his authority to departmental officers in dealing with compulsory acquisition cases and compensation amounts. [More…]
It is unreasonable that there is proposed in the Bill a power of complete delegation by the Minister to public servants who may on their own authority enter into an agreement with the owner of the land as to the compensation payable in cases of compulsory acquisition. [More…]
If the theory that power corrupts is correct, I would hate to see such unfettered constitutional power corrupt the worthy Minister. [More…]
I should point out that both rates are considerably below the rate at which the purchasing power of money is diminishing. [More…]
These experiments, at the Bomana Prison Farm piggery, use pig manure to produce methane gas for boiling water, providing light and power, operating a gas refrigerator and powering a 6- cylinder combustion engine? [More…]
In that debate he said to the then Government, in effect: ‘I give you fair warning that when we are in power’ - what a good judge he was; we got into power - ‘we will establish a commission. [More…]
The Australian Labor Party came to power on the firm pledge that it would do right by Australian education and by the school children of Australia who needed assistance. [More…]
The Labor Party came to power pledged to put that situation right as soon as practicable. [More…]
But we give a fair warning that if we are in power, while there will be an expenditure on non-government schools of no less than the sum total that will be appropriated in this Bill, the appropriation will be reapportioned - it will be reapportioned on the basis of need. [More…]
I would rather see the statutory authority, the Development Corporation, as the vehicle for control, having full power of acquisition over a designated area which can be seen by all the community as a denned plan, that is, a strategic action plan of achievement and not merely the taking of a great deal of land and putting it, so to speak, in a bank for future calling upon. [More…]
The Minister will see that by sub-clause (2) the Corporation is given power to do all things necessary or convenient to be done for or in connection with, or as incidental to, the performance of its function. [More…]
That carries me on to sub-clause (3), which gives the Minister power, unqualifiedly and not subject to any supervision of the Parliament, to declare any State Act a complementary Act, which is then published in the Government Gazette. [More…]
The fact that we were in power for 23 years did not give the Labor Party an opportunity to show just what sort of drift it would have had if it had been in power. [More…]
In the old days - and I talk about the time when I first went on to my property - it was a manpower job. [More…]
In those days 10 men did less than 3 men would do towards the end of my time, because- manpower has been replaced with machinery. [More…]
I believe that if a Liberal-Country Party Government had remained in power it would have been extremely likely that the Authority would have recommended that Albury-Wodonga be one of the first areas selected as future growth centres. [More…]
Will subsidies be provided with respect to freights, rates, land costs, power costs, and fuel costs which, of course, as my colleague from Gwydir (Mr Hunt) pointed out have recently been increased? [More…]
They include a statement by Senator Geitzelt on 28 November 1972, that the people of Albury-Wodonga would think Father Christmas had arrived when the Labor Government got into power. [More…]
Decisions by governments at the 3 levels - Federal, State and local - and expenditure of public moneys by governments in the provision of public services such as water, sewerage, power, construction of public buildings, all add to the value of land. [More…]
There can be no planning without the power to influence the allocation and reallocation of substantial resources. [More…]
Planning is about power; planning without power is singing to the seagulls. [More…]
Co-operation between the States governments and the Australian Government in the acquisition and development of land as a result of this legislation will provide a new quality of power in planning and development. [More…]
Many times we have heard talk about the centralism of power in Canberra. [More…]
One much more important thing to my mind is the centralisation of power in the major capital cities. [More…]
Most of their powers are delegated powers under the various local government Acts. [More…]
If a local government organisation wanted to run buses, because neither the State government organisation nor private enterprise was prepared to do so, it would not be able to because it does not have the power to do so. [More…]
I should mention that within its broad functions, this Committee will have the power to formulate principles for the determination of fees in respect of medical services which are of undue length or complexity. [More…]
The development corporation ought to be vested with power to plan and develop the area. [More…]
It will mean regional development, the development of the Bunbury port, increased power generation at Collie and increased employment opportunities throughout the region. [More…]
When the Australian Labor Party was in power in Queensland it charged a royalty on coal of exactly 6d a ton for the first million tons, 3d a ton for the second million tons and Id a ton thereafter, no matter how many millions or billions of tons were taken out of the ground in Queensland. [More…]
The Chairman, Chief of Staff Committee, now has no command power. [More…]
Have top engineers and physicists voiced strong and considered opinions that solar energy could be the main source of power in Australia within the next decade? [More…]
It was not within our power to move an amendment. [More…]
But we give a fair warning that if we are in power, while there will be an expenditure on non-government schools of no less than the sum total that will be appropriated in this Bill, the appropriation will be reapportioned - it will be reapportioned on the basis of need. [More…]
On Saturday, 8 December the Government is seeking, by referendum, permanent powers over prices and incomes. [More…]
In so doing it has deliberately avoided outlining how these powers would be used. [More…]
Under this Government additional power over incomes will not be used as a restraint but will be used to introduce quarterly wage adjustments which were previously rejected by the Commonwealth Conciliation and Arbitration Commission as inflationary. [More…]
This is the Government’s objective and the decision to seek powers over incomes can be regarded as nothing more than a subterfuge and a smokescreen to cloak the Government’s determination to obtain controls over prices. [More…]
The Opposition Parties specifically reject the application of permanent price control or conferring this power permanently in the hands of the Federal Government. [More…]
Power over prices is a temptation best kept out of the hands of politicians: inevitably, it tends to be exercised on basic products, such as bread or steel, or on large companies (such as ones with annual turnovers of more than S20m). [More…]
I repeat that what the Government is seeking is constitutional power over prices and constitutional power over incomes. [More…]
I believe that the States, which had power and never used it and are now saying that they are willing to hand it over, have been very recreant in their fields, particularly in the field of land prices, which my colleague the Minister for Urban and Regional Development (Mr Uren) will talk more about in the next few minutes. [More…]
Power over prices, power over wages, or power over incomes is not the answer to inflation. [More…]
You have to have fiscal powers; you have to have monetary powers; you have to have control over restrictive practices. [More…]
All we are wanting is at least to give this central Goverment - the only Government that can exercise such powers - the ability to produce in Australia what the Constitutional Review Committee said some time ago was an integrated economic policy. [More…]
What he has done is explain why he sees there is a necessity for more power to be passed to the Commonwealth Government, or the Australian Government as its supporters like it to be termed. [More…]
In fact, the Treasurer has demonstrated, firstly, that the Government has no policies that it will implement if it gets the power; and secondly, it is uncertain whether, were the power to be exercised, it would really control inflation, because if it would control inflation the Government would be prepared to come out and expose those policies. [More…]
The T. C. Winter report refers to land control and includes the suggestion that if price control is introduced there will be a power for the Commonwealth Government to contain the price that the average home owner receives for his house when it is sold. [More…]
We have not heard from the Treasurer or Minister for Urban and Regional Development how that power is to be implemented. [More…]
It was opposed in Caucus by just short of a majority of members of the Caucus, so that there is a significant body of opinion within the Government that does not accept that there should be an incomes policy, and it is of no use for either the Prime Minister or the Treasurer to come in here and advocate that they need more powers. [More…]
They do not tell us how they are going to apply the powers, but tell us that they need more powers for something that a significant percentage of their people are not prepared to support anyway. [More…]
It is entitled ‘Power over Prices and Incomes’. [More…]
The only reason why they are advocating a yes vote is that they seek more power for the Commonwealth. [More…]
Again, if we look at other aspects of the application of the Winter analysis of the control of power over prices and incomes, in paragraph 27 of his report we are told: [More…]
Others believe that while a national prices and incomes policy may not be required at present Governments should have this power. [More…]
It is seeking an aggrandisement of the power which it can exercise in Canberra. [More…]
We believe that this Government is concerned only with an increase in its power. [More…]
Of course, something must be done about prices, but it is curious that, every time a Labor Government is in power in Canberra, it finds that its constitutional powers are insufficient for it to handle the economy. [More…]
In 1948, the Labor Government wanted power to control prices. [More…]
The Government had this power in the early stages of its administration, during the war, and wanted to continue it after the war. [More…]
Now we have a Labor Government and inflation is running at 14 per cent, on a conservative estimate, and rising and the Government says: ‘We do not have enough power. [More…]
Certainly there is going to be a question on the ballot paper proposing to give the Commonwealth Government power over incomes, but does anyone in this House seriously suggest that the Government would dare to do anything about over-award payments and about other things that are mentioned in the Winter report? [More…]
‘Give us power over prices’, pleads the Treasurer. [More…]
‘Give us power over prices’, says Mr Whitlam, ‘and we will fix it’. [More…]
When it comes to the income power alone, we all agree that industrial disharmony is causing wastages and indeed is one of the causes of inflation. [More…]
So far as the acquisition of land in the States is concerned, the Commonwealth is bound under the Constitution to exercise those powers of acquisition in accordance with section 51 placitum (xxxi) of the Constitution. [More…]
That placitum requires the Commonwealth in the acquisition of property to acquire it on just terms from any State or person for any purpose in respect of which the Parliament has power to make laws. [More…]
But next Saturday the Government will ask the people to confer upon the Australian Government wide powers over prices. [More…]
If one listens to the speeches of the Minister for Urban and Regional Development and notes his concern - which is shared by all - regarding the escalation of urban land prices one can see that that Minister would use the prices power to confer upon the Australian Parliament power to acquire land in the States. [More…]
He has spoken of an Australian lands commission and, with power over prices and positing the legislation upon the basis that land would be acquired for the purpose of stabilising land prices, we would suddenly find that this Commonwealth acquisition legislation would have a far wider effect upon the average citizen, the average householder and the average small allotment holder. [More…]
If the people are to be so mistaken in their view as to fall for the emotional argument and grant prices powers, and if those powers are to be used to stabilise land prices, those who own land which is acquired deserve justice under the Australian Constitution. [More…]
I understand this product has been approved by the New South Wales Rescue Squad, the Flood Relief Rescue Organisation, which is a branch of the Civilian Defence Department - by the way, I am not getting any commission for advertising this invention, if anyone has any thoughts that way - and the Power Boat Surflifesaving Association of Australia. [More…]
In the same way, it prevents the Minister from interfering with the discretionary power of the Grants [More…]
Ensure government purchasing power is used in encouraging Australian industry to accept and use the latest technology. [More…]
It does not seem to have much lobbying power and therefore it has often been very much ignored. [More…]
Often greed and ignorance of farmers and a lust for power in their organisations caused all the complexities which exist in any sort of political set-up. [More…]
When talking about an extension of a power, one is entitled to discuss whether that power is adequate - of course. [More…]
This power may be exercised by prohibiting imports absolutely, or from a specified place, or prohibiting their importation unless specified conditions or restrictions are complied with. [More…]
A similar section applies in respect of exports and contains similar discretionary powers. [More…]
However, if this is the intention, then this regulation power should be confined to that specific purpose, that is, to the prohibition of importation of endangered species. [More…]
Without the proposed amendment there would be in the minds of many people a question mark as to just what power the Government would have under this Bill in relation to some of our industries, and particularly to the whaling industry in Australia. [More…]
The power of the Australian courts to restrain the Attorney-General from deportation - that is a very real power, as the Government knows - has been lost because he is outside Australia. [More…]
Are we to put this kind of power into the hands of any Attorney-General, let alone the present Attorney-General? [More…]
To the treaty and to the law one adds the power to satisfy this simply by giving an undertaking. [More…]
It will be necessary for the Government to act through the Prices Justification Tribunal and the use of its prices power, if the people next Saturday vote for the Government proposal for a price control power. [More…]
When this Government came to power, it inherited an economy heading for a boom and it inherited a strong external balance. [More…]
In the present situation of serious and worsening shortages of goods of all kinds, the worst possible thing the Australian people can do on Saturday is give the Government power to control prices. [More…]
72 that production is well above the level of a year ago when the previous Government was in power. [More…]
We have held inflation down to 12 per cent or so when it would have reached 20 per cent if the Opposition Parties had remained in power. [More…]
Would the honourable member for Berowra, in all honesty - I do not know whether he is to follow me in this debate - suggest that if the Liberal-Country Party had remained in power and had inherited this mess, a horror budget such as this country had never ever seen would not have been introduced? [More…]
The previous Government tried to save its power structure at any cost. [More…]
This Labor Government seeks to have the power to exercise them in this ever-changing, rapidly-changing world. [More…]
We seek to give the Australian Government power over prices and power over incomes and to let the people have a choice on whether we should have these powers. [More…]
It is true that some of the present problems are due to power shortages in New South Wales and Victoria, which in one State at least were fostered by a Minister of this Government, and an enlarged incidence of industrial unrest, absenteeism and labour turnover, all of which contribute to the present situation. [More…]
In this situation the Government now seeks from the people powers to bring in price control. [More…]
It also talks about incomes control but we would not see any of that even if the people of Australia chose to confer the power on the Government. [More…]
The power strike had a substantial impact on the ability of companies and manufacturers to supply the Australian market. [More…]
The power strike was a very good example of that. [More…]
It did not work then and if there is some grave misunderstanding - that could be the only explanation if the Australian electorate agrees to price control; I do not believe it will - and price control power is given to the Government we will find that productivity will be further eroded. [More…]
Anyone would think from listening to the honourable member for Mcpherson (Mr Eric Robinson) who has just resumed his seat, that when this Government came to power it inherited a sound economy, an economy which was in good shape. [More…]
This compact should truly reflect the fact that we live in a federal system of government and consequently that changes should not be made which would deprive the States of power and give it to the Commonwealth. [More…]
Construction of stage 6 extensions of the Stokes Hill Power Station - Darwin, ‘Northern Territory. [More…]
5 meggawatt turbo-alternator sets with associated oil fired boiler plant, auxiliaries, switchgear, unit transformer, and 66 kV switchyard: construction of a concrete chimney; construction of a 24,000-ton capacity fuel oil tank; supply and installation of two 66 kV underground cables linking the power station and city zone substation together with modifications to overhead transmission lines in the Frances Bay area. [More…]
The Committee concluded that it was reasonable to plan for the future on the basis of a growth rate of 17 per cent per annum, that there was a need for additional generating plant to be operating by 1977, that the present site was suitable for the final additions to the Stokes Hill Power Station, and that the work proceed to construction in this instance. [More…]
I should like to speak in support of this proposal for extensions to stage 6 of the Stokes Hill power station. [More…]
In doing so, I should like to commend the Minister for Housing and Construction (Mr Les Johnson) and his colleagues for the work that they did in getting the Stokes Hill power station back onto the power stream, despite all the trouble that they had and still are having. [More…]
But in speaking to the proposal for the concluding stage of the project, I notice that stage is for a power station using fuel oil, which is used also throughout the rest of Stokes Hill power station. [More…]
I see in the report that the site for the new power station is to be on Quarantine Island off East Point. [More…]
I urge very strongly that the Public Works Committee examine that proposal with a view to recommending the use of natural gas to power the station’s motors. [More…]
I am glad to see that the work is going ahead and I hope that the work is also proceeding with speed on the standby power station that the Minister and his colleagues arranged to be put on the site. [More…]
in reply - I thank the honourable member for the Northern Territory (Mr Calder) for his remarks and I am pleased that the very serious position in regard to the power shortage at Darwin appears to be at least temporarily relieved. [More…]
Very strong efforts were made by my Department to keep up the power supply to Darwin. [More…]
Even the possibility of using a power ship from New Zealand was investigated but, regrettably, it was not available. [More…]
The only other matter I want to mention is that of course, due regard will be given and has been given to what the honourable gentleman put about the possible utilisation of natural gas for the generation of power in the Northern Territory. [More…]
The power generation equipment proposed is of a convertible nature, and if it proves to be undesirable to use oil for power generation purposes it will be quite inexpensive to switch over to the use of gas. [More…]
When the Australian Labor Party came to power our foreign exchange reserves were at a very high level - $4,800m, or considerably more than our annual import bill. [More…]
I note with some interest that the Corporation will have power to negotiate freight rates and its success or otherwise in this field will have a corresponding effect on the industry. [More…]
Clause 7 (3), which gives the Minister complete power to direct the Corporation, states: [More…]
This Corporation will have the power to develop these and other markets, and these markets must be developed and expanded if the industry is to survive. [More…]
All the functions of the proposed Corporation, diverse and important, will, I believe, for the first time give this Corporation a substance and power that the Apple and Pear Board never had. [More…]
The power to control exports is essential. [More…]
The power to charter and to arrange shipping is also essential. [More…]
The power to organise sales within Australia is of tremendous importance because unless breakthroughs can be made with new export markets - and I wish the Minister well in his discussions with Japanese officials on the problem of codling moth which is affecting our exports to that country - particularly apple markets there will be tremendous pressure on the domestic market as the export sales to our traditional markets become less and less. [More…]
The power in respect of research and promotion is also welcomed. [More…]
After all, it has been given a statutory monopoly as a growers organisation with real power. [More…]
The Opposition will not attempt to delete paragraph (f) of clause 6 although it does give power to the Corporation to extend by regulation its powers when we have, one would hope, in the Bill restrictions of a legislative nature. [More…]
This power of direction over the Corporation is a power which would only be drawn on in unusual circumstances. [More…]
It either has faith in this Corporation to act on behalf of the industry - in which case it will give it the power to carry out its responsibilities - or it should openly state that it has not any faith in the industry or the apple and pear growers representatives or the members of the Corporation who have special qualifications because there will be a head prefect to keep them in line and to overrule their decisions. [More…]
Many growers in the industry, rightly or wrongly, believed that such an authority would be established after Labor came to power. [More…]
When one considers all the other problems the industry faces and the other promises made by a Labor opposition anxious to get into power, one would hope the Government will now fulfill those promises to a greater extent than it has done so far. [More…]
They are a power unto themselves. [More…]
All I can do is to back the words of the honourable member for Murray and express the hope that these kinds of bodies examine carefully all proposals and tap opinions at grower level if they are to be placed in a similar unrivalled position of power to that of the Apple and Pear Corporation. [More…]
I have moved this amendment because a search of the legislation relating to other statutory authorities has revealed that this sub-clause gives additional power to the Minister for Primary Industry. [More…]
In respect of the Wool Corporation the reserve power vested in the Minister concerns only the reserve price. [More…]
Under the apple and pear stabilisation legislation the reserve power relates to minimum prices at which fruit will be sold overseas. [More…]
This is a very broad undefined power that the Minister can exercise. [More…]
In other words, the Minister already has the power to prevent the apple and pear industry from selling fruit at an uncommercial price which will lead to an excessive drain on Commonwealth finance. [More…]
But one may ask: If the power is not provided to enable the Minister to ensure that the industry sells fruit at a commercial price, why should it be in the Bill? [More…]
When one looks at the wheat situation one wonders whether this power is put in this legislation so that the Minister can have special power to enable him to make to another country a political sale which is not in the best interests of the apple and pear industry. [More…]
That is the reason why we have moved for the deletion of this power. [More…]
Because we believe this is an unnecessary power to be given to a Minister, because it is against the best interests of the industry and because it is detrimental to this new Corporation which is being set up, I have moved for its deletion from the Bill. [More…]
But I want to make it plain that the power provided in clause 7 (3) of the Bill can be viewed as a power which would be used only in unusual circumstances. [More…]
It seems reasonable that there should be a residue of power with the Minister who is responsible to the Parliament and to the nation so that he would have the power to bring about a desirable co-ordination. [More…]
There should be a power available for co-ordination, particularly inter-industry co-ordination and national co-ordination. [More…]
The Government proposes to deny the freedom of consumer choice by saying that if consumer choice is developed through promotion and marketing of a particular type of product - say for orange juice as distinct from milk - the Minister for Primary Industry (Senator Wriedt) has the power to prevent this natural consumer choice from having effect. [More…]
It is the same as saying that the Wool Corporation should have power to prevent synthetics from being manufactured in Australia if their manufacture will be to the detriment of the wool industry. [More…]
This Bill sets up a corporation to give the unity, the power and the authority to the industry. [More…]
I want to say simply this: In the misappropriation of the stationery of the House, in the forging of an honourable member’s signature, in the misrepresentation of the views of an honourable member to be put about in the community on the eve of an important referendum, in the misrepresentation of the legal position in respect of the prices question - we all know well that the legal opinion is in fact opposite to that expressed in the forgery, that when the questions of prices and incomes are raised together, in the event of the incomes question being lost, the prices power could certainly not be interpreted to cover incomes - in) those 4 important respects this is a matter that demands the attention of the House and of the Privileges Committee. [More…]
There is only one matter introduced by the honourable gentleman to which I will refer, and that is the question which he introduced as an argument concerning whether or not prices power would include wages. [More…]
The way in which the honourable gentleman put it was that if prices power were granted it would not include power over wages because, as he put it, if the referendum on incomes were rejected the High Court would say that it had been rejected as incomes, including wages, and therefore wages could not be fitted into prices. [More…]
I ask the Prime Minister whether he seeks a Yes vote at Saturday’s referendum in order to transfer powers to the Federal Parliament in order to contain inflation or for some other reason. [More…]
Does he assert and maintain that all economists, as he told the House a while ago, believe that the Parliament should have power over prices and incomes? [More…]
First, they have been proposed as a means of controlling or reducing monopoly power in the economy. [More…]
It is no surprise to the public in general that the leaders of the Country Party should be resisting prices and incomes powers being reposed in the national Parliament because they do not want monopoly power in Australia to be controlled or reduced. [More…]
Parliament having the power to pass laws on prices. [More…]
My view is and always has been that the Australian Parliament should have the concurrent power with the States to pass laws with respect to prices and incomes, as it always has had the concurrent power with the States to pass laws with respect to taxation, bounties, borrowings, currency, coinage, legal tender, banking and insurance. [More…]
How can there be any such nonsense, except from honourable members opposite, suggesting that the national Parliament should not have these other concurrent economic powers over prices and incomes? [More…]
If anything is to be done about prices and incomes policies in this country, it will be done on the initiative of the national Parliament, armed by the Australian people with the necessary contemporary economic power. [More…]
Is it not a fact that State parliaments already have the constitutional power to control prices but that to implement price control the State parliaments must assert their power by passing appropriate legislation? [More…]
The State parliaments always have had the power to pass laws with respect to prices and incomes. [More…]
It is because the New South Wales Parliament has passed laws with respect to incomes that in that State all wage and salary earners, male and female, were able to get equal wages and salaries, paid annual holidays, paid long service leave, quarterly cost of living adjustments, sick leave and a great number of other benefits - all done by a Parliament which had the power to pass laws with respect to incomes. [More…]
All the State parliaments have had that power to pass laws with respect to incomes. [More…]
The Department of Primary Industry has power to control exports of protein meals under the Customs (Prohibited Exports) Regulations. [More…]
The Committee has therefore recommended that the power of the Austraiian Government to regulate the export of meatmeal be applied more stringently, not only to ensure that the domestic market has priority in the use of available supplies, but also as a means of reducing and stabilising the price of meatmeal. [More…]
This Minister, who has the power I have just mentioned, was quoted in the ‘Sydney Morning Herald’ on 6 September 1972 as saying: the Labor Party is a Socialist Party and its aim as far as medical care is concerned is for the establishment of public enterprise; [More…]
Without hesitation the Prime Minister stood and responded without equivocation: It would give us the power to fix doctors’ fees, to make the decisions of the tribunal mandatory on doctors’. [More…]
That Party came to power in that State many parliaments ago with a new platform and a new policy, one which it had until that time completely rejected and bitterly opposed. [More…]
The public sector of medicine is growing whatever government is in power and whatever system is operating. [More…]
We had the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) at the Press conference - at which, as the Opposition spokesman said, the Prime Minister was trounced by the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Snedden) in the debate on the prices and incomes referendum - making it absolutely plain for the first time that he will completely control doctors’ fees if he gets the power he seeks in the referendum. [More…]
This is a question of the power of the patient to affect his own health care. [More…]
The power and the rights of the patient are at stake in the face of the alternative Labor health scheme. [More…]
The concept of free medicine and free care can only take away the power of the patient to determine the quality and nature of his care. [More…]
But in any case, in reality what the Prime Minister said was that if the people decided next Saturday to give the Australian Government power to legislate with regard to incomes this Government would implement the decision of the Medical Fees Tribunal. [More…]
It is because the present scheme provides that and this one provides the very opposite that I oppose it with every force in my power. [More…]
It is not just a matter of one saying we have a mandate and so we are going to do this; the fact is that we have commitments to the people who put us into power to do what we said we would do and there can be no backing down from that. [More…]
In view of the decisive rebuff at the weekend to his request for constitutional power over prices and incomes, is he now prepared to make more intensive and more extensive use of powers already available to him to contain inflation? [More…]
Will he use the industrial peace conference as a vehicle for discussing such proposals, including areas involving State co-operation, in the same way as the conference was intended to be used to discuss the exercise of the prices and incomes powers? [More…]
Some months ago, in the first week of September, the Premiers of the 3 smaller States - the Labor Premiers - did in fact offer to refer to the Australian Parliament the power over prices, either indefinitely or for, say, one year. [More…]
Ever since they have asserted this principle and have promised at every election that they would not reverse it, they have maintained power, albeit on a minority vote, in the Queensland Parliament. [More…]
That the Committee of Privileges when considering the matter referred to it on 6 December, have power to send for persons, papers and records. [More…]
The Committee, when undertaking its present inquiry, may wish to have the power granted by the motion, and in accordance with practice the motion is proposed for the concurrence of the House. [More…]
There are plenty of powers which the Government can exercise. [More…]
We have already had months and months of procrastination with the Government taking no real steps against inflation but constantly looking to the future and saying: ‘If you will only give us the power’. [More…]
Well, the Government has not been given the power. [More…]
They find that as fast as they save their money, inflation overtakes its value and reduces its purchasing power; at the same time, they must also face the problem of the value of land increasing and the cost of building rising also. [More…]
What inflation does is to relocate capriciously power in the work force. [More…]
If a person is a member of a powerful union which by its actions can pull out trains, pull out trams, pull out a means of supplying power, pull out bread baking or, specifically, the Transport Workers’ Union pulling out those who supply fuel, or if one is a member of any of the other powerful trade union organisations in our community, that person can protect himself against inflation. [More…]
That is what power is in an inflationary situation. [More…]
But if one is an ordinary person - say, a clerk, a member of the Public Service, a carpet layer or a curtain hanger; just one of the ordinary people engaged in tertiary industry in Australia - one does not have that power because one is not in the special privileged class of belonging to a powerful trade union. [More…]
The public has refused to give the power to Canberra. [More…]
I can remember that when I first came into this House back in 1951, when the House was discussing price control, it was said: ‘The Federal Government cannot do it; it does not have the constitutional power’. [More…]
If the Commonwealth did not have the constitutional power and presumably the States did, the States also have done precious little about the problem. [More…]
Of course we know there has been a world inflationary spiral, but that was all the more reason for a firm rein to be applied by the Treasury, the Government and those in the corridors of power who have completely negated that responsibility and failed miserably to take any of the positive actions which it was within their power to take. [More…]
There has been merely an ad hoc approach to the economy dictated by union pressures, by a philosophy of socialism and by a power drunk government which cannot see where it is going. [More…]
But what about the other actions, such as the excessive expenditure in the public sector at a time when there was over-demand for resources, available goods and manpower? [More…]
Canberra will make the judgments and not the States in just about every area in which this Government is able to perpetrate its socialist, centralist policy - a policy which undoubtedly impinges very heavily upon the capacity of the States to exercise even the limited power that they have unless there is some overall plan agreed to by the Commonwealth and the States in a proper and constructive way. [More…]
We find the Government again running away from the responsibility of dealing with those things which are within its power to deal with. [More…]
The Bill declares that the power of the Reserve Bank over exchange control applications is to be taken as including authority to decline approval if the transaction involves avoidance or evasion of Australian tax. [More…]
In spite of the absence of constitutional power to enact the reforms as law, it is open to the Federal legislature to authorise the formation of a body for inquiry into law reform. [More…]
It should not be overlooked that in respect of the Territories of Australia the Australian Parliament has undoubted plenary legislative power, and the Territories are coming to represent an increasingly significant proportion of the Australian population. [More…]
It includes all laws, whether statute law or the rules of common law or of equity, that this Parliament has power to amend or repeal. [More…]
The Commission is to be an independent statutory corporation with power, subject to appropriate controls by the Treasurer and the Attorney-General, to submit its own estimates, operate its own bank account and engage its own staff. [More…]
The Bill gives the Federal Government power to establish health community centres virtually anywhere in Australia without reference to a State. [More…]
If one were ever presenting unlimited power to a Minister to dictate to the States so that he had their health care systems at his mercy, one is doing it in Schedule 2 of this Bill because it is so terribly vague. [More…]
It leaves the Minister all the power he wants in order to dictate to the States. [More…]
Does this mean that once an agreement has been reached between a State and the Minister, that State - although constitutionally hospital services are supposed to be within its power - is unable to alter the bed charges without the approval of the Federal Minister, therefore making him once more the dictator of the whole of the Australian hospital system? [More…]
With the power of the Minister - and there are no safeguards in this legislation against this at all, although there was a vague promise in the White Paper that there would be a safeguard - what happens if the hospital staff is required to carry out abortions in that hospital contrary to the wishes of the administration and the staff of that hospital? [More…]
Yet he completely omits to say: ‘We are taking it out of your pockets, Queenslanders, and we are going to give it to the State Government’- The Queensland hospital system has been continued by the Country-Liberal Party Government since it came to power in 1957. [More…]
This is the very reason why we express concern about this Bill, because it gives the Minister and the Labor Government the power to take over private practice, if it wishes. [More…]
As the Minister would know, when he prescribes or makes a regulation that regulation lies on the table of the House for a certain number of days during which this House and the other place have power to allow or disallow that regulation. [More…]
This amendment would give the Parliament the power to disallow expenditure which would be allowed by the Bill in its present form if the Minister, whoever he may be - he may be Labor, Liberal or whatever - does something outrageous. [More…]
We will not be going to the barricades on it at this stage because we know very well that the Minister or any Federal Minister has the power to do what we fear he could do by way of section 96 grants at the moment. [More…]
It is true that the Federal Government can attempt to widen its power by using grants under section 96 of the Constitution but I believe this is an improper use of this power. [More…]
That is the reason for the suggestion by the honourable member for Hotham that where this Hospitals and Health Services Commission has the power to make grants under the approval of the Minister, the organisations to which the grants are given should be prescribed organisations so that the Minister would have to approve the grants by regulation which could if desired then be debated by the House. [More…]
We should like to have the power to see what is happening in time to prevent it. [More…]
It gives the Commission power, with the approval of the Minister, to make grants upon such conditions, if any, as the Commission determines, of financial assistance out of the moneys of the Commission to State, Territory, regional local government and charitable organisations, and to other persons involved in health care or in research related to health care. [More…]
But this suggestion that one House should have the power to sort out which schemes it wants is fairly irresponsible, especially when one looks at the record of the previous Government in this field. [More…]
The Opposition parties should remember that any tying up of proposals by the use of their numbers in the Senate in order to take away from Ministers the power or the authority which they normally have exercised in the past not only will reflect on the present Government but also will hamper very seriously all future governments in their operations. [More…]
The referendums were an attempt to transfer more power from the States to the Commonwealth Government, and of course they failed. [More…]
one should ask: Why bother to have referendums, because these powers can quite easily be transferred from the States to the Commonwealth just by a simple Bill such as that which we are discussing. [More…]
Until now the States have had the major responsibility for hospital and health care services, particularly the physical construction of these services, and yet here we have them, to a certain extent, being made redundant or bypassed and, until this amendment was promoted, not even being consulted, so that the Minister for Health (Dr Everingham) has once again this direct power from Canberra over this most important aspect of our lives. [More…]
This is to me a very dangerous infringement of any sort of autonomy, and it goes against the assertions of the Minister’s whole proposition that local areas or regions are best able to care for things themselves and should have some power in this regard. [More…]
As I see it, with a member of the Commonwealth Government perhaps on all of these bodies, these areas or regions will have less and less power than they have ever had before. [More…]
Again I say, as I said earlier today on another occasion, thank God for the Senate because, if it were not for the Senate which has the power of amendment and the power of protection of the people of Australia against despotic action by this Government using its brutal majority as it does in this House, there would be no recourse against, dictatorship in Australia. [More…]
There is no need to specify that the Commission has power to bring out reports. [More…]
Australian voters on Saturday denied Federal Labor the power directly to control prices and wages. [More…]
But the intention of myself and the industry, I think it is fair to say, is to have this Government or any government which is in power make quite plain that it will not allow to be foisted on the Australian public brandies of very questionable and doubtful origin. [More…]
I would like to end on the note that this case highlights the difficulty of handling a problem like this where one does not have direct power vested in the Australian Government and the State governments seem reluctant at this stage to act directly themselves. [More…]
Whilst welcoming the setting up of a government meat inquiry committee to establish why falling meat prices are not passed on to the consumer, I ask: Would the Minister examine the possibility of establishing, as the best and only method of stabilising meat prices to both producers and consumers, a Federal statutory meat marketing authority armed with power to handle the entire meat industry in order to guarantee and stabilise prices to producers and exporters, to fix prices from the paddock to the place and, overall, to keep this important industry on a secure, stabilised and even-keel basis, thus avoiding the great fluctuations in prices which have bedevilled the producers and consumers for years? [More…]
The other point of view, of course, is that the Government has no power with respect to a Federal statutory marketing authority. [More…]
Clause 7 endows the Tribunal with the power to determine salary and/ or annual allowance in respect of First Division officers, full-time and part-time statutory officials, members of Parliament and office-holders of Parliament and allowances - but not salaries - for Ministers of State. [More…]
However, I add that we believe it to be important that the power of inquiry held by the Commissioner as provided in clause 3 of the Bill should not be applied beyond the reasonable requirements of the screening assessment. [More…]
It invokes the interstate trade and commerce power, the overseas trade power and the defence power as well as the right of the Commonwealth to make laws in respect of Territories. [More…]
That is the constitutional source of power upon which the Bill draws. [More…]
It is to no purpose to look at clause 9 and say that that limits the extent of this Authority’s power to act. [More…]
About that I say only this: I have grave doubts that it does validly draw upon the constitutional powers expressed in clause 9. [More…]
Having regard to section 109 of the Constitution which renders paramount over any State law a law of the Commonwealth, let us assume that a declaration of a petroleum exploration area made under clause 43 of the Bill is a valid exercise of Commonwealth power. [More…]
It has no lawful authority when it stands alongside the exercise of Commonwealth power, assuming, as I say, that the constitutional validity is there. [More…]
It is within our power now to do that. [More…]
Of course, there must be some doubt as to whether the Government possesses the constitutional power to set up an authority to explore for and mine minerals and petroleum. [More…]
I do not see anywhere in the Constitution that a government has such a power. [More…]
But even if the government has the power, should this allow the Minister virtually to usurp the power of the State Mines Departments? [More…]
Under this Bill, it will have the power for such acquisition and can take over such a company at whatever price it feels like paying. [More…]
It must look at the costs of transport and power. [More…]
At the moment oil and natural gas account for 50 per cent of Australia’s energy consumption while coal and hydro-electric power and other types of power account for the rest, but we are not sitting back and saying that we are well off. [More…]
So again we get back to the foolishness and the naivety with which the Opposition approaches the question of energy and power in Australia. [More…]
Let us look at the powers of the Authority. [More…]
It has power to employ its own personnel and equipment in search for petroleum and minerals. [More…]
If more stringent controls are required, then what is needed is a most efficient use of the existing range of powers. [More…]
Secondly, adequate powers exist for the regulation of the industry without such massive use of the corporation power. [More…]
Fourthly, the legislation itself is hastily drafted and full of inconsistencies, short cuts, crossed corners, duplications, dangerous precedents and unfettered powers. [More…]
If the Government is so blindly opposed to farm-ins why does it give this power to the Authority to do the very thing which it denies to private enterprise? [More…]
More than 63 per cent of the total world power petroleum resources are located in the Middle East and that constitutes some 50 million metric tons or 60 per cent of world recoverable reserves. [More…]
By 1980 oil will claim some 48 per cent, gas some 20 per cent, coal some 25 per cent, and the remainder will be chewed up by way of hydro and nuclear power. [More…]
Financial resources are a measure of buying power alone and do nothing to benefit the population unless they are combined with physical resources and human skills. [More…]
Unrestricted financial power can distort the needs of the population in monetary terms and distort the real benefits it could enjoy. [More…]
I hope that natural gas and petroleum products will keep Australia going for many years without having to resort to the use of nuclear power because I can see problems in the disposal of nuclear waste. [More…]
While the great nations of the world plead for energy, for power, for gas, for petrol and for the sources of energy of all kinds, let us be realistic in this country. [More…]
The first substantive clause is clause 5, which empowers the Minister and the Secretary to delegate their powers under the Act, subject to the reservation of licensing powers in relation to foreign vessels, fish processing and fish carrying vessels which may be delegated by the Minister or Secretary for Primary Industry only to officers of the Department. [More…]
Power provided in clause 7 to cancel or suspend a licence may not be delegated at all. [More…]
Clause 5 also gives effect in the Act to the principle that an official upon whom statutory powers are conferred should be subject to the directions of the Minister in the exercise of those powers. [More…]
It further provides for the Minister, 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…]
Clause 6 empowers the Minister to close an area to the taking of a specified kind of fish except by vessels with licences endorsed for that fishery in that area. [More…]
To complement the control over the number of vessels, the existing provisions relating to registration of fishing gear are repealed and a new power is provided to regulate the quantity of fishing gear permitted to be used from a vessel and to require that such gear be registered under State or Territory law before it may be used in proclaimed waters. [More…]
To deal with the situation of 2 fisheries in the same area using similar gear but having different management regimes, power is provided to prohibit carrying one or other kind of gear on a vessel in the area unless that gear is stowed and secured. [More…]
A new power is provided for endorsing a boat licence to authorise its use in a controlled effort fishery. [More…]
The discretionary power to grant or refuse a licence is re-enacted. [More…]
This power will continue to be exercised in accordance with the principle that unless there is good reason, consistent with the purposes of the Act, for refusing a licence, it will be granted. [More…]
Clause 8 gives effect to the principle that an official on whom statutory powers are conferred should exercise those powers in accordance with directions given by the Minister. [More…]
It also takes a further step in the transfer of power to Papua New Guinea by enabling the Minister for Foreign Affairs to delegate his powers under this Act to the appropriate Minister in the Papua New Guinea Government who may exercise those powers independently. [More…]
Clause 9 empowers the Minister to close an area to the taking of a specified sedentary organism except by persons or by the use of boats with licences endorsed to permit the taking of that sedentary organism in that area. [More…]
Clause 10 empowers the placing of endorsements on licences to authorise the holders to take sedentary organisms in effort-controlled situations. [More…]
He uses this great power to endeavour to destroy the professional reputation of economists whose only crime is that they differ with him on a technical matter. [More…]
Will the Minister give an unequivocal assurance that the curfew will be retained at the unprecedentedly high level that his operated since the Labor Government came to power a year ago? [More…]
The building works, light and power, and fire protection systems will all be extended to match existing facilities. [More…]
However, once Labor came to power as the Government, this undertaking evidently was forgotten because since that time there have been 2 surveys of this scheme and nothing further has been done to ease the means test. [More…]
Even though that might be the position, other officers - not permanent heads - will not be included within the ambit or power of this authority. [More…]
The power of this Parliament to legislate with respect to the criminal law is restricted to the 2 Territories. [More…]
We know by looking at the platform of the Australian Labor Party that it not only wants to abolish the Senate and take off all the brakes on its own arbitrary actions in this House but that it has in its platform the proposition to take away all real power from the States and make them simply agents of the Central Government here in Canberra operating in one chamber and with complete dictatorial powers. [More…]
We have to be on our guard lest the present Government, without saying what it is doing, moves gradually towards that objective of abolishing the States, putting all power in Canberra and putting all power in one House of Parliament. [More…]
I have seen in the year that is behind us many moves which could be interpreted in that way - moves which on the surface seem fair and reasonable and attractive enough but when they are put together into a pattern seem to move towards this funda mental Government objective of destroying the Australian States, destroying every other form of democratic government and centralising everything here in Canberra in one House of Parliament so that the man who obtained the Prime Ministership by some quirk or chance of fate will be able to perpetuate his power, be able to over-ride everything in the Constitution and have complete control of the whole Australian economy, social structure, family life and everything else that one can imagine. [More…]
But when you take to yourself the adjective ‘Australian’, you deny to the States the power to describe themselves as Australian States. [More…]
We know that we are dealing with a Government which is denying to this House the power to debate Bills of major significance and which has used the guillotine to truncate debate, in a way which is absolutely without precedent, on major matters which go right to the root of the Australian community. [More…]
In addition to the ordinary full-time staff required for the Institute, clause 27 of the Bill confers on the Director, with the approval of the Attorney-General, power to arrange for persons with knowledge or experience in legislative drafting or other relevant matters to assist in the performance of the functions of the Institute. [More…]
We are no longer a colonial power. [More…]
We are no longer in thrall to bogies and obsessions in our relations with China or the great powers. [More…]
in our power to promote the forces for peace in our region and the world. [More…]
27 November: Power over Prices and Incomes - Report by Mr T. C. WinterTabled by Mr Whitlam. [More…]
What proportion of Australia’s energy requirements is met by (a) petrol, (b) natural gas, (c) diesel oil, (d) coal, (e) hydro-electric power and (f) other sources. [More…]
If so, of what quality is this coal, and is the quality such that it can be successfully used in the ETSA power stations at Port Augusta. [More…]
The Trust is obtaining information on this deposit to see whether it could be of value for future power generation.’ [More…]
The Annual Report also indicates that proven reserves of Leigh Creek coal suitable for open-cut production will be appreciably higher than previous estimates and that ample coal is therefore available for the Playford Power Station at Port Augusta. [More…]
With regard to consumer protection in the ACT, my colleague, the Minister for the Capital Territory, administers the Consumer Affairs Ordinance which gives the Consumer Affairs Bureau the power vices and to conduct research into matters affecting consumers. [More…]
The Australian Government does not at this stage have powers in the area of consumer protection applicable to the operations of commercial organisations in the States. [More…]
The Council is a purely advisory body and as I stated in the Senate on 23 October it has at no time had power to spend money. [More…]
Has his attention been drawn to statements by the Chairman, Mr St. John, at the opening of the Conference for the Retention of Australian Ownership, that the Liberal Party’s failure to stop foreign ownership in Australia was one of the main reasons why Labor came to power in thelast Federal election, that the Labor Government despite its initiatives had not stemmed the flood of foreign ownership and that no detailed figures relating to foreign ownership were available; if so, are these statements well founded. [More…]
As the power to levy payroll tax was transferred from the Commonwealth to the States on 1 October 1971 the amount included in the Tentative Territorial Account was intended to disclose the revenue collections for the period 1 October 1971 to 30 June 1972. [More…]
If so, has has attention been drawn to the serious situation which could have arisen as a result of a main power supply pole being washed into the swollen river. [More…]
The footbridge was closed for some time because a power pole on the west bank was vibrating and looked as though it might fall across the bridge. [More…]
The power house was fully manned at all times. [More…]
Should a power pole have been washed into the river, the power supply would have been disconnected instantly by automatic protection equipment installed at the power station. [More…]
My Department is looking at alternative proposals for feeding power to the west side of the Todd River to prevent the possibility of future interruptions to power supplies. [More…]
He has failed to inform the Parliament of the concessions which have been granted since the Whitlam Government came to power which have really been the catalyst to give us an anticipated loss factor of $35m in this financial year. [More…]
If others took the same approach there would be no power, no water, no public transport, no police, no shops, no flying, no entertainment, no petrol, no milk, no television, radio or newspapers - in fact, the community would come to a standstill. [More…]
This example shows how that Government was dictated to by sectional interests and how it was prepared to look after the people who supported it and kept it in its position of political power. [More…]
Honourable members will recall that, during the first meeting of the Constitutional Convention in September last year, heads of delegations agreed in principle that the Constitution should be altered to allow for interchanges of powers and to remove the existing doubts about the operation of the present power. [More…]
Honourable members will also recall that, during the Convention, I announced that we would seek to amend the existing power by referendum and have a new provision included to permit matters to be referred by the Australian Parliament to the State Parliaments. [More…]
Further, I announced our intention that, in any interchange of powers, whether from the Commonwealth to the States or the States to the Commonwealth, the same provisions should be available as to duration, revocability and the power to apply terms and conditions. [More…]
The Bill before the House, therefore, covers both the introduction of the new power and clarification of the existing power and makes corresponding provisions with respect to both. [More…]
The new power of reference by the Australian Parliament is dealt with separately by the proposed new section 108a. [More…]
The other proposed new section - section 108b - contains the provisions concerning terms and conditions, duration and revocability applicable to interchange of powers whether from the Commonwealth to the States or the States to the Commonwealth. [More…]
To illustrate, if the Australian Parliament desired to empower the States to levy a tax which technically came within the category of excise duties - as to which the powers of this Parliament are exclusive - it would not seem appropriate to speak of the Australian Parliament referring the matter, for the power of the Australian Parliament as regards excise is to levy a Commonwealth tax to be paid into the Commonwealth Treasury and not a State tax paid into the State Treasury. [More…]
Of course, no State will be bound to exercise the new power so conferred. [More…]
I hope that these provisions will encourage the States to refer to this Parliament powers such as family law, defamation and shipping and navigation which, in this context, have been raised at the Constitutional Convention. [More…]
On the other hand, it might suit this Parlia ment, as well as the States, to refer to the States, the power to make laws with respect to Commonwealth places within the States. [More…]
Without goodwill, a reference power will not be of any value anyway. [More…]
Therefore, the Government will assert its will by the sheer power of numbers. [More…]
There is the extraordinary curiosity about this matter: What honourable members opposite want to achieve by this referendum proposal can be achieved by the Prime Minister of his own volition, entirely constitutionally within his own power, just by going in his white Mercedes-Benz to Government House, and the Governor-General would not refuse his request. [More…]
lt has the balance of power. [More…]
If the Prime Minister claims that the Senate is obstructing him, there is constitutional power for calling a double dissolution. [More…]
He wants no balance of power at all. [More…]
power to say that. [More…]
What greater concentration of power and what greater centralisation could there be in those 3 cities? [More…]
It wants to create responsibilities within regions and to give power back to the people, where it should lie. [More…]
This Government is determined to meet the legitimate demands of local government and it will ask the people to give it the support and power under the Constitution to do so. [More…]
Against this must be offset the possibility of increased interest rates payable by State governments, the increased concentration of borrowing power in Canberra and the duplication of existing machinery in State departments and, indeed, local authorities. [More…]
Now that they have lost control of this House the Liberal and Country Parties and their Democratic Labor Party running mates - the wedding mate of the Country Party - are abusing the power of the Senate to frustrate the popular will. [More…]
Democracy is not something that people should incline themselves to when the occasion demands, and neither is it something to be treated as a toy of those who command power. [More…]
One has only to cast a glance at some of these Bills to see that their ultimate purpose is to try to downgrade the power of the Senate so that all political power in Australia will be placed in the hands of the Whitlam Government, if there is half a chance. [More…]
I remind the Leader of the House that a referendum was held on 8 December when a No-No vote was given in the most unmistakable terms by the people by which they denied to the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) his desire for the aggrandisement of Commonwealth power. [More…]
That is what the referendum sought and that is what these Bills represent, a desire by the Prime Minister to aggrandise the power of the Commonwealth and the position of the Prime Ministership which he holds. [More…]
To adopt some of the terminology of Government supporters, the referendum on 8 December asserted the public will for the retention of State power in the areas that the Commonwealth sought to take over. [More…]
It is an exercise which is designed only to enhance the power of this Government, to entrench it in the electorate of Australia by manipulating the electoral laws through constitutional change rather than through a meaningful examination by the Commonwealth and the States of those areas of the Constitution which might well be adapted to meet the needs of 1974 more fittingly. [More…]
I am indebted to the honourable member for Mackellar for reminding me that it is almost as long as section 51 of the Constitution, which is the main fountain-head of power of this Parliament. [More…]
The Parliament shall, subject to this Constitution, have power to make laws …. [More…]
It may be that in this new clause we are giving to the Commonwealth power to borrow for local government, but we are not giving it power to borrow for local government outside the boundaries of the financial agreement. [More…]
This Bill seeks to confer upon the Australian Parliament power to borrow on behalf of the Commonwealth for local government bodies. [More…]
What greater sense of power does the Prime Minister require than the power to be able to snuff out of existence a local government authority as was done in the case of the Sydney City Council, and then to bring it back to life as was done in the case of the Sydney City Council. [More…]
What I want to put to the Prime Minister is this: The borrowing power of the Commonwealth is entrenched in section 105 a of the [More…]
This is not to be read subject to the Constitution; this power stands on its own - completely on its own. [More…]
What is to be the effect if, for example, pursuant to this power the Commonwealth borrows money on behalf of a local government and lends it on such terms and conditions as it may think fit, and it does in fact breach, say, section 92 of the Constitution? [More…]
If the Parliament has power to give assistance to the States would not the term ‘local government’ fall within the general ambit of the States? [More…]
The Constitution in section 51, listing the legislative powers of the Parliament, gives the Parliament power to make laws with respect to paragraph (iv.) [More…]
The Constitution has always had the provisions in section 51 (iv) with respect to giving this Parliament power to make laws with respect to borrowing money on the public credit of the Commonwealth. [More…]
Under clause 2 of the Bill it is intended that power be given to the Commonwealth to refer certain of its powers to a State. [More…]
A reference to the Constitution indicates that the only matters in relation to which it makes any sense for the Commonwealth to refer power to the States are those matters in relation to which the Commonwealth has been given exclusive power. [More…]
But when it is a concurrent power, all that the Commonwealth has to do in order to refer the power back to the State is to remove the appropriate legislation from the statute book. [More…]
So we need to look at what are the exclusive powers of the Commonwealth. [More…]
Let us look quickly at what are the exclusive powers of the Commonwealth, lt has power to make laws with respect to the seat of government. [More…]
The Commonwealth is not likely to refer that power. [More…]
The Common- wealth has power to make laws with respect to Commonwealth places. [More…]
The Prime Minister has already referred to that as a possibility, but it is not sensible to refer that power because there is ‘already on the statute book complementary legislation passed by this Parliament and the parliaments of the various States. [More…]
The Commonwealth has power to make laws with respect to the departments of the Public Service of the Commonwealth. [More…]
That power will not be referred to the States. [More…]
The Commonwealth has the power to make laws imposing duties of customs and excise and granting bounties. [More…]
I think we can exclude the power in relation to bounties from the possibilities and, on all practical considerations of Commonwealth finance, I think we ought to exclude the power relating to customs and excise also. [More…]
The Commonwealth has power to make laws with respect to the Commonwealth territories. [More…]
It has power in relation to coinage and in relation to the raising and maintaining of military forces for the defence of the Commonwealth. [More…]
I think many Western Australians would be glad to have the defence power of the Commonwealth over the territory of that State referred to the State of Western Australia. [More…]
The Commonwealth has power in relation to borrowing money on the public credit of the Commonwealth, naturalisation, service and execution of documents throughout the Commonwealth, and the recognition throughout the Commonwealth of State laws. [More…]
The Commonwealth has power concerning the relations of the Commonwealth with islands of the Pacific. [More…]
It is unlikely that the Commonwealth will refer that power to the States. [More…]
It has power over the acquisition of State railways with the consent of the State. [More…]
Obviously that power cannot be referred. [More…]
So is there any practical exclusive power of the Commonwealth which will be referred to a State? [More…]
That indicates that this whole exercise of supposed interchange of powers is a charade. [More…]
So it is of importance that this Parliament be given time to consider a Bill of major constitutional proportions which can fundamentally change the structure of government in Australia by altering the balance of distribution of powers between the States and the Commonwealth. [More…]
When it can be seen that the traffic can operate in any sensible way only in one direction, it is obvious that the motive and the purpose of the Prime Minister in introducing this matter before the Australian Constitutional Convention last year was to provide a vehicle for State Labor governments to transfer powers to the Commonwealth and so, as I said in referring to another matter before this House, to fulfil the ambition of the present Government and to enable the Prime Minister himself to aggrandise the power of the Commonwealth at the expense of the States. [More…]
It may seem a rather schoolmasterly performance - I hope I will be excused for being involved in it - to observe that the powers of this Parliament are to be found principally in one section of the Constitution, that is, in section 51. [More…]
All of the powers of the Parliament are spelt out there, including a power which reads to this effect: [More…]
So the various placitums in this section provide the power to legislate with respect to trade and commerce, taxation, quarantine, fisheries and so forth, and include this power of the Parliament of a State to make a reference. [More…]
This, I suggest, should be acknowledged, if for no other reason than that this is a source of the legislative power of the Parliament. [More…]
This power conferred by placitum (xxxvii) remains a potential power. [More…]
If the Parliament of a State refers a power to this Parliament then this Parliament may legislate with respect to it - otherwise it cannot. [More…]
It is not as though this power has been frequently used in the past. [More…]
I venture the view that it is not a power which, as of this moment, may be likely to appear as one which will be used frequently in the future. [More…]
Probably the most conspicuous example of an attempt to use this reference power came in 1942 when there was a debate in this chamber. [More…]
The powers of reference were, of course, used on a few occasions before then and have been used on a few occasions since. [More…]
For example, in 1915 the State of New South Wales referred to the Commonwealth Parliament power with respect to the conduct of World War I. Victoria, circa 1920 or 1921, referred powers to the Commonwealth Parliament with respect to air navigation. [More…]
Tasmania referred powers to the Commonwealth Parliament in 1952 and 1966. [More…]
It cannot be regarded as a power that has been frequently used in the past. [More…]
The power of the Parliament of the Commonwealth to designate a matter under this section is not limited by the provisions of this Constitution - [More…]
Neither did he bother yesterday afternoon to give any indication to the House as to what Parliament conceivably would place on the sort of condition this Parliament or any reference by this Parliament of any power to the States. [More…]
The point is simply that if a reference is made by a State to the Commonwealth, it is not an exclusive power; it remains a concurrent power. [More…]
Subject to the provisions relating to paramountcy the Commonwealth can assume the field but it does not extinguish the power of a State to legislate in this field. [More…]
If the people carry it, this measure will take power away from us and give it to the States. [More…]
If this measure succeeds we will be giving power to the States. [More…]
The States will not give us power - we know that - because they want it for themselves. [More…]
It goes against human nature for people having power to want to give it up. [More…]
We are saying: ‘Let us have the power to give something to them and see whether we can reduce the opposition that exists at the moment to their giving power, where it is appropriate, to us so that we can move towards a better system’. [More…]
The idea is to ask them to let us have power to give power to the States. [More…]
This Bill, more than anything else this Government has brought forward, nails the idea of centralism in the obscene way in which it is sometimes described by Opposition spokesmen because it seeks to have the Australian people say to the Australian Government: You can have power. [More…]
You do not have to exercise it, but you can have power to give away power - power to give it to the States’. [More…]
All power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. [More…]
It is true that this matter is one which involved the concern of the States both as to their future and present financial status and as to the way in which they might be able to receive powers referred from the Commonwealth and pass powers to the Commonwealth so that the true concept of federalism might be achieved. [More…]
First, the Committee would favour the inclusion of some provision whereunder the Commonwealth Parliament might bind itself, if it saw fit in any instance, to refrain from the exercise of its legislative power in any area where it had designated that its power should be made exercisable by a State. [More…]
This, it was thought, would have the effect of making the reference of powers appear truly mutual and would enhance the electoral appeal of the measure considerably. [More…]
I express my profound regret that such a meaningful and purposeful change in the Constitution is unlikely to be effected simply by the desire of the Government to assert its centralist power instead of proceeding in a co-operative way and presenting to this Parliament a measure which could have been universally supported. [More…]
In respect of this paragraph New South Wales and Victoria have proposed that the reference power should be amended to remove doubts both as to power to refer for a limited term and as to power to revoke a reference. [More…]
New South Wales also has suggested that the Commonwealth should be authorised to refer powers to the States. [More…]
It would be useful to the Parliament of the Commonwealth to have the power to refer to the parliament or parliaments of any State or States any matter within the exclusive power of the Parliament of the Commonwealth. [More…]
There must be some revision of the division of powers between Federal and State authorities. [More…]
What this House must do, and I hope what the Constitutional Convention will do, is determine where the political responsibilities should lie and what constitutional powers should be allocated to deal with these responsibilities. [More…]
For example, it is not certain whether a reference can be made on terms and conditions and the States are far from certain whether once a power has been handed over it will be gone for good. [More…]
The other point is that if this process of transfer and rationalisation of powers is to work effectively it must be carried out on a 2-way basis. [More…]
The Federal Government must have the power to delegate its powers to the State governments. [More…]
The 3 matters were: Firstly, whether a power referred to the Commonwealth by the States or vice versa would be an exclusive power; secondly, whether the power would or would not be revocable; and, thirdly, a request that if a power was referred to one State that same power be offered to all States by the Commonwealth. [More…]
In relation to exclusive powers, the Government has taken the view, which I think was expressed on many occasions at the meeting of Standing Committee B, that we want to introduce a measure that will be used. [More…]
I cannot see any Australian government of any political colour being willing to refer a power to the States if it is going simultaneously to divest itself of the power it has under section 109 of the Constitution which provides that Commonwealth legislation has precedence in cases of inconsistent legislation. [More…]
Surely no government will refer any power to a State if it is going to turn around the next week and legislate inconsistently. [More…]
One would not think it would be reasonable for the Commonwealth to refer a power to a State government and then the next week to legislate under section 109 to invalidate completely the reference that it had already made. [More…]
If the Opposition is asking the Commonwealth to divest itself of its power under section 109 after any reference, then it is asking for a measure that will never be invoked. [More…]
It is a considerable advance on the present situation in which the Commonwealth cannot refer powers to the States, whether they be exclusive or concurrent. [More…]
The other matter that was put to the Australian Government was whether a power should be offered to all States if it were to be offered to one State. [More…]
But do we have the power retrospectively to suspend a standing order of this character? [More…]
Although we can certainly suspend a standing order prospectively for anything we do in the future I am not at all certain that the House has the power to suspend retrospectively the operation of a standing order which has already come into effect. [More…]
This the IBRD does by extending loans on conventional terms to credit-worthy member countries to help finance soundly conceived and economically viable infrastructure projects in such fields as agriculture, irrigation, road and rail transportation, highways, port development, telecommunications, and electric power generation. [More…]
If they are pensioners they are concerned about the erosion of the purchasing power of the pension. [More…]
This must surely involve consideration of the manpower resource for honourable members te work effectively as representatives of their respective electorates. [More…]
Undoubtedly the power base should be this national Parliament. [More…]
That the committee, for any purposes related to this inquiry, have power to send for persons, papers and records. [More…]
That the committee have power to appoint subcommittees consisting of three or more of its members, and refer to any such sub-committee any matter which the committee is empowered to examine. [More…]
That the committee or any sub-committee have power to send for persons, papers and records, to move from place to place, and to sit during any recess or adjournment. [More…]
That the committee have power to authorise publication of any evidence given before it and any document presented to it. [More…]
That the committee be provided with all necessary staff, facilities and resources and have power, with the approval of the Speaker, to appoint persons with specialist knowledge for the purposes of the committee. [More…]
That the committee or any sub-committee have power to consider and make use of the minutes of evidence and records of the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Aboriginal Affairs appointed in the first session of the twenty-eighth Parliament. [More…]
That the committee have leave to report from time to time and that any member of the committee have power to add a protest or dissent to any report. [More…]
But when the Government wished to put to the people a proposition which would give this Parliament power just to consider that proposition, the Opposition opposed it. [More…]
This involves a move to decentralise power and to decentralise assistance and to get community involvement in what is a true community responsibility. [More…]
A lot of credit must go to the Prime Miinster of Australia for what he has done to make this country a progressive and friendly middle power in our area. [More…]
The goal of an egalitarian and just society has been jeopardised by the progress of those with bargaining power and the decline of those without. [More…]
The tragedy of the Whitlam Government is that Australia as a nation is now, as a consequence of misguided government policies and general mismanagement, confronted by crippling inflation and economic instability; a severely impaired defence capability; a crisis in the housing industry, excessively high levels of industrial unrest; a massive erosion in the purchasing power of fixed income earners and pensioners; uncertainty and stagnation in the mineral and oil exploration industries; the highest interest rates in the history of this country; and huge increases in personal income tax. [More…]
If the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam), who knows little or nothing about economic matters, were to check the record he would find that under his lamentable administration pensioners have had -their percentage of average weekly earnings subject to erosion since the Labor Government came to power except for this particular increase. [More…]
It is all very well for this Government to back excessive wage increases before arbitration tribunals, but or course it is the unions today who have the strength and the bargaining power and, as I have said elsewhere, it may well be that before pensioners are able to receive their just entitlement of the percentage of the gross national product of this country they may be required to unionise. [More…]
We need to take account of the evolving Great Power relationships. [More…]
It seems to me that our primary responsibility is to ensure that this Parliament remains the home of democracy and that it does not vacate its power or authority to an unrepresentative, unanswerable and increasingly influential pressure group, whether it be European or of some other nationality. [More…]
When the present Government came to power Aborigines all over Australia complained bitterly that no one would take any notice of their views and that money was being wasted in all directions. [More…]
Of course nothing is further from the truth, because the Australian Labor Party, even before it came to power, sent a delegation overseas to win markets around the world. [More…]
Since the Government has been in power it is no longer a matter of where we will find markets but how we will produce enough to fill them. [More…]
In the end what we have to deal with is not all the forces we cannot control - we can adjust as best we may to them - but we have to do all those things which it lies within our power to do. [More…]
In this respect the honourable member for Oxley (Mr Hayden) who frequently debates these matters and repeats his old story, which he hopes people will believe, I suppose, has made the point that the big expansion in money supply did in fact start in the last year of the previous Government and before the present Government came to power. [More…]
But, at the same time, that is merely adding to the number of money payments, adding to the money supply, adding to the balance of purchasing power in the community. [More…]
That purchasing power is chasing no more goods or services. [More…]
So there is a natural cleavage here between one school that thinks there should be fiscal honesty and that money and funds for paying for these things should be collected - in other words, the purchasing power should be destroyed to make room for the Government - and the other school that says: ‘Do not worry about all this: Just leave taxation where it is and hope for the best.’ [More…]
One thing that worries me is that before the Australian Labor Party came to power it said it would do all sorts of things in relation to wool marketing if it came into power. [More…]
We have very good relations today with the whole of Asia, even though the Opposition may not like that, and they are far better relations than those achieved by the Opposition when it was in power. [More…]
Australian government for many years has been a record of one group after another using the power of government to benefit itself. [More…]
That the committee have power to appoint subcommittees consisting of three or more of its members, and refer to any such sub-committee any matter which the committee is empowered to examine. [More…]
That the committee or any sub-committee have power to send for persons, papers and records, to move from place to place, and to sit during any recess or adjournment. [More…]
That the committee have power to authorise publication of any evidence given before it and any document presented to it. [More…]
That the committee or any sub-committee have power to consider and make use of the minutes of evidence and records of the previous House of Representatives Select Committees on Road Safety appointed in the second session of the twenty-seventh Parliament and the first session of the twenty-eighth Parliament. [More…]
That the committee be provided with all necessary staff, facilities and resources and have power, with the approval of the Speaker, to appoint persons with specialist knowledge for the purposes of the committee. [More…]
That the committee have leave to report from time to time and that any member of the committee have power to add a protest or dissent to any report. [More…]
The Prime Minister also went on to say that the Whitlam Government would honour the terms of the Five Power Arrangements with Malaysia, Singapore, the United Kingdom and New Zealand. [More…]
Despite this promise, under the compulsion of the left wing of the Party and because of a series of ghastly errors of judgment by him personally, the integrity of the Five Power Arrangements has been undermined and will, if Labor remains in power, be destroyed. [More…]
Service manpower has been reduced from 81,144 in mid 1972 to a permanent force today of about 69,000 of which 31,700 only are in the Army. [More…]
Male officer resignations have grown alarmingly since Labor has been in power. [More…]
In McMahon’s case at least he was a trier, but somehow he never could quite get it right His last visit to South East Asia was meant to highlight the importance of Five-Power Defence. [More…]
Unfortunately a journalist asked the Singapore question in Jakarta with the result that Australian televiewers heard that the Five-Power pact was unnecessary. [More…]
I do not envy the job of the local Liberal Party trying to convince the electors of Robertson that the face of education has not changed since Labor came to power. [More…]
To see the greatest nation on earth caught in the throes of constitutional and leadership crises is tragic, and it can happen here as easily as it has happened there because the reason for Watergate, the reason for the whole American turmoil, is the unbridled chase for power. [More…]
In Australia the power brokers in the trade union movement are active, ruthless men who would seize upon the opportunity of an unsettled world to catch this country off guard and create an atmosphere of dissent and dissatisfaction which will only lead to crises in Australia. [More…]
The unions are running free before the winds of unshackled power. [More…]
There has been no unleashing of the latent power of the work force to increase productivity. [More…]
Ten per cent of Australia’s population are pensioners and those 10 per cent have less purchasing power today than they had 18 months ago. [More…]
The Post Office is a great public utility - a great service with years of tradition, in supplying the public with a need - but it is being dragged down by the militants and by the power brokers who have no concern for the people. [More…]
It is robbing people by reducing the purchasing power of their savings. [More…]
Wages have increased but the public has less purchasing power. [More…]
The Minister for Labour has announced that the Government will support in the Commonwealth Conciliation and Arbitration Commission a 35-hour week for the power industry. [More…]
There is no secret about the socialist ideology to concentrate all power in Canberra, to get rid of the second House - the Senate - and to make one man all powerful. [More…]
Possession of financial power by the Federal Government does not necessarily make it the sole source of administrative wisdom. [More…]
There can be no denying the fact that the Labor Government upon achieving power in December 1972 was faced with an underlying growth in the money supply of more than 25 per cent a year. [More…]
They cannot add to their income or assets to cushion the destroying effect of rising prices on the purchasing power of their weekly pension. [More…]
For 25 years the people of Queensland had to put up with that sort of situation, but the Labor Party had an inbuilt power to destroy itself and the day came when Queensland was saved. [More…]
He led the fight in this House and outside it to encourage the people of Australia not to give the Australian Government the power to control prices. [More…]
It has a very badly rigged electoral system, a system which is capable of being rigged no matter which party is in power to provide almost perpetual electoral success. [More…]
The only reason the present State Government ever got into power in Queensland - I would hope those people who are always crying would have mentioned this - is that there was a split in the governing party which enabled a change of government, which subsequently led to a reverse gerrymander so that the new governing party can stay in office in perpetuity. [More…]
But, for both the demand and the supply of funds, interest rate differentials unequivocally favour the larger borrower or lender, that is, the person with the greater bargaining power. [More…]
As a consequence, in times of rapidly rising rates of interest - when the actual quantity of loan funds available is subject to very high levels of demand - those with the greatest bargaining power can negotiate the most favourable loan terms whilst the smaller borrower or lender is, at least to the same extent, arbirarly disadvantaged. [More…]
If his life-time savings amounted to $1,000 when Labor came to power, in net terms he would be at least $100 poorer today. [More…]
For the IBRD to be able to do that it needs the full support of the developed countries, and we should do all in our power to assist it and its sister organisation, the IDA. [More…]
The Bank makes loans broadly speaking, on commercial terms for economic projects related to capital works, water, transport, power and production. [More…]
As I have mentioned there is an industrial concept in this operation to help industries to get the water and the power which are the bases of industry. [More…]
He is the man who supported a 35-hour week for some industries - in the power and the oil industries. [More…]
If the power industry received the 35-hour week there would be an increase in the cost of power alone of some 4 per cent and of course the flow-on from that increase would further increase costs. [More…]
Labor’s critics have attacked the national health insurance scheme as a classic example of the Australian Government’s power hungry centralism. [More…]
If they wish to take the credit for it, this situation has been brought about by those powerful pressure groups which wanted to maintain the status quo. [More…]
He mentioned that inflation robs people by reducing the purchasing power of their savings, distorts resource allocation and encourages a rush into supposedly inflation-proof real assets such as land or housing. [More…]
There was no indication that legislation would be introduced in order to give the Government power to direct more money into selected areas of housing need, nor that there would be any co-operative housing schemes. [More…]
One of the things they said was: ‘If we have Labor in power it may have more influence with the unions and we will have more industrial peace; we will be able to go forward, to progress and to develop this country’. [More…]
power. [More…]
What has happened to the defence of this country since this Government came into power? [More…]
All efforts by the Government to tackle the problem, including the referendum seeking a national power over prices and incomes, have been resisted and in fact opposed by the Opposition. [More…]
zoning is a State responsibility and they will have to give local government power to exercise responsible zoning. [More…]
This particular propaganda was put abroad in an attempt to imply that the Queensland State Government was responsible for the flooding that occurred by allowing people to build on flood plains and by allowing land adjacent to rivers to be used, which some mystic power of perception should have prevented it from doing that; and that the Brisbane City Council, which knew all this, would have prevented it had it had the power. [More…]
The people of Australia opposed the referendum and everyone who voted ‘no’ in the referendum was perfectly aware that the Government had within its power means of taking positive steps to control inflation which for reasons of its own it refused to use. [More…]
Let us look at the position when this Government came to power. [More…]
Let us look at the record of this Government since it came into power. [More…]
The Labor Government came to power some time ago with a great belief in open government. [More…]
If the mine pumps have to be kept going, which in fact is the case, because of the power shortage the people in the town cannot have any amenities. [More…]
Electricity is very severely rationed with power blackouts by the hour during the day. [More…]
The road is the only means at the moment by which to get power fuel or motor spirit into Alice Springs and fuel can be supplied to Tennant Creek through Alice Springs. [More…]
The Government came to power 15 months ago. [More…]
We have the power to do so under the Ordinance which, I think, was initiated by my colleague, the present Minister for Secondary Industry and Minister for Supply. [More…]
Such policy initiatives, which the Minister claims to have introduced, as the development of new and expanded welfare services, the schools program, the examination of the problems of over 60 inner city schools in Melbourne, the emergency telephone service, expanded facilities for teaching English, the policy of re-union of families - which was announced in 1968 - and expanded migrant counselling services were all announced before the Minister came to power. [More…]
I have no power to curtail that. [More…]
He has suggested that it is not within his power to stop it, but he will certainly be curtailing debate on the issue. [More…]
The United Nations in its resolution of 12 December 1973 noted that ‘the House of Assembly has affirmed its right as the duly elected Parliament of the People of Papua New Guinea to decide when independence is to come and that the administering power accepts that the House of Assembly represents the wishes of the people on the question of independence’. [More…]
It could be called upon if the Chief Minister and his Ministers raters decided there was a need to use it in circumstances of internal security matters or as an aid to the civil power of the police. [More…]
If the Government feels that it can act unilaterally and walk through the provisions of the Commonwealth Constitution by using, allegedly, the foreign affairs power, it will be acting against the spirit and the wording of the Constitution. [More…]
Section 123 alone vests the right in State governments to determine the changes in their boundaries and no foreign affairs power can override the express mention of that section in the Constitution. [More…]
I understand that both the Liberal Party and the Country Party will do all in their power to ensure that the unique and special relationship between Australia and Papua New Guinea continues irrespective of the manner in which the movement is taken towards independence. [More…]
It also stressed our commitment to the spirit as well as the letter of the FivePower Arrangements. [More…]
It is worth noting that in his statement last week the Prime Minister abandoned his pretence of honouring the spirit of the Five-Power Arrangements. [More…]
At present new great power relationships are emerging, new super power defence concepts are being discussed as SALT II gets under way, the international monetary and trade situation is increasingly complex, the oil crisis has raised new and uncertain problems, and the broader matter of resources and energy intrude more into foreign policy. [More…]
He insinuated - and this was a statement that was made by a representative not just of a political party but of the whole Australian people - that any change in government in Australia would be entirely unacceptable to the United States and he invited the United States to consider for itself whether is really wished to contribute actively to a shift in power. [More…]
Rather, the Australian Government now seeks to present its policy in terms of the world as it is, in terms of an independent outlook, no longer the shadow image of a stronger power. [More…]
The United States is aware of the changing patterns of power and strategies without Australian political parties thinking they can make this an internal political issue. [More…]
In this age of tremendous power being vested particularly in the super powers - the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and the USA which have the capacity to bring about a nuclear holocaust - one cannot have detente unless there is some understanding and some alleviation of tension. [More…]
That will succeed only if there is a balance of power between them both and if one force unilaterally is not allowed to gain strength over the other so that it can then use that strength against the rest of the world. [More…]
Detente or the alleviation of tension can occur only if there is a balance in the world power structure. [More…]
Two years ago Australia was a SEATO member, an ASPAC member, a Vietnam ally and a mainstay of the Five Power Arrangements. [More…]
Professor Pollard pointed out the necessary criteria for pension adjustments if superannuation schemes are to achieve their aim, namely, that adjustments should take place automatically and that the benefits should maintain their purchasing power. [More…]
I say this because of some bitter experience I have had with superannuation schemes which have not made automatic adjustments and provision for maintaining the purchasing power of the benefits. [More…]
This raises some important questions for the future of the River Murray Commission whose officeholders we are discussing today, including widening the powers of the Commission to include control over water quality as well as water quantity. [More…]
This means the power to regulate discharges of any type of pollution from any source into the River Murray - pollution which will affect people further downstream in the Sunraysia area and in South Australia generally. [More…]
A figure of $50m - the annual return for power generation from the Snowy Mountains Hydro-electric Authority - has been mentioned as a suitable sum by leading Labor Party spokesmen. [More…]
If the Minister for Minerals and Energy had allowed the proposition concerning the refining of Mereenie crude gas at Alice Springs to go ahead the present crisis would not have arisen because that refinery would have been in operation now and could have produced all the fuel for power generation, motor spirit, aviation gas and liquid petroleum gas required by the Alice Springs and Tennant Creek area. [More…]
Fortunately no power will ever be able to stop the forces that are now in train in education. [More…]
When it found that Communist China, which is on the Security Council with the power of veto, was going to exercise that power it wrote a pathetic note to the President of the Security Council. [More…]
Since the People’s Republic of China is apermanent member of the Security Council and has veto power, this leaves little hope for any constructiva debate or positive action. [More…]
When, in this area, its power is first tested, the United Nations is paralysed by the fear of a Chinese veto. [More…]
If the United Nations is powerless to resolve the dispute over the Paracels, do honourable members think it is in a position to offer security to Australia? [More…]
It is not a little thing because what is in question is the power and the willingness of the United Nations to act. [More…]
When it comes to action the United Nations is not only shown to be powerless but is acknowledged by this Government to be powerless. [More…]
A man like this should not be allowed to remain in power and office. [More…]
Since this Government has been in power the most incredible series of decisions has been taken. [More…]
They have stood idly by allowing their Ministers to mislead this House and this country on the premise that it might affect their hold of power. [More…]
In other words 12 months after Labor came to power our inflation rate had increased by almost 400 per cent compared with the 10-year average, and [More…]
I believe that, given our limited power, we have honoured more of our promises than would normally have been expected. [More…]
In the debates on the Government’s monetary policies, industrial disputes, policies to curb inflation and the power strike in New South Wales, the Opposition showed how out of touch with events and responsibility it was when not backed by the expertise and the nursing of the Public Service. [More…]
Again, at the same meeting the Party decided to revert to its old practice of having a non-elective ministry - if and when it returns to power. [More…]
We can see what could happen and what would have happened if the previous Government had been in power during the recent energy crisis. [More…]
Every extension of government power and control means less freedom of choice for the people. [More…]
By remaining indifferent to the wealth producing industries and by discriminating against the private sector of the economy, the socialists turn the illusion of wealth into a fraud, with money being worth less and purchasing power less, lt is this illusion of prosperity that reduces the incentive to work and to produce goods. [More…]
When the Labor Party was defeated in 1970 the Hall Government realised that while the Liberals held power by this unfair and undemocratic system they could not hold up their heads in South Australia. [More…]
Since the Australian Labor Government came to power people cannot say that we do not have the markets. [More…]
Indeed, it could have been a crisis for Western Australia where the previous State Liberal governments, with the agreement of the Federal Liberal governments, had ‘abandoned the policy of using local resources in the manufacture of power, with the introduction of oil fired burners. [More…]
The Its Time’ theme which was the bandwagon upon which Labor came to power in 1972 was a wonderful theme for that day. [More…]
In this regard it is instructive to go back to the first years of Liberal-Country Party government when the anti-Labor parties came into power at the end of 1949. [More…]
Since the Labor Government came into power the consumer price index has risen by 13.2 per cent between the December quarters of 1972 and 1973. [More…]
All States realise that while Labor remains in power at the Federal level this will be a fight to the death as far as. [More…]
The suggestion is that the Australian Government is constantly trying to grasp power to itself at the expense of the States. [More…]
If ever there was the chance to use financial clout to demand power and authority, this was surely it. [More…]
The States consider - and I believe that this is the case - that they now have fewer rights, less power and less room to manoeuvre. [More…]
Australia has seen a development in which more and more power is going to the centre, to the detriment, I believe, in many cases of good decision making. [More…]
I should like to ask a question of the honourable member: Why did he not do that when he was a Minister and when he had the facilities and the power? [More…]
The honourable member for Petrie interjects that this also strengthens the power of the central Government. [More…]
We have power to do this because we are not imposing an additional obligation upon the Government. [More…]
It also gives effect to the Budget decision to abolish the special compensation allowance for a serious incapacity, and removes from the Act the power to prescribe the remuneration of members of the Seamen’s Pensions and Allowances Committees, in consequence of the Remuneration Tribunal Act 1973. [More…]
These figures show the index of purchasing power of the standard pension rate as of now compared with that of December 1972. [More…]
The Library tells me that if the December quarter of 1972 is 100 as an index of purchasing power, as of tonight, 20 March 1974, the purchasing power of the pension is 97.9, which is a drop of 2.1. [More…]
Notwithstanding the Minister’s claim that the pensioner is better off, the point I am making is that today, in the supermarket, the pensioner is worse off than he was in 1972 in terms of purchasing power. [More…]
The interest savings that such people accrue might rise by a couple of per cent because of the high interest rates, but they do not rise enough to compensate for the fall in the purchasing power of their capital. [More…]
Can he reconcile that assertion, which I and I believe most of my colleagues on this side of the House support, with his own advocacy of the Australian Labor Party’s platform, which includes a clause for the abolition of the Senate, and also with his advocacy of the forthcoming referenda, one of which will involve a reduction in the terms of office of existing senators and thereby a reduction of the power and significance of the Senate? [More…]
In the December quarter of 1972, before the present Government came to power, there was a low level of manufacturing activity. [More…]
Allowing for the effects of inflation, that man’s real income in terms of purchasing power after tax was up 66c. [More…]
Pensioners are suffering not only from the failure of their pensions to keep up with the rate of inflation but also from the loss in purchasing power of any savings they might have. [More…]
I am going to look at the purchasing power of the December quarter figure when the consumer price index, commonly abbreviated to CPI, was 144.6. [More…]
I will refer to the purchasing power of the pension as expressed in those prices. [More…]
At current prices the November 1972 pension which we left for this Government would have a purchasing power of $22.64. [More…]
That is the purchasing power at today’s prices of the pension of S20. [More…]
The purchasing power in terms of those prices was $23. [More…]
The purchasing power of the pension as at 15 March last in terms of the same prices was $22. [More…]
That means that between November 1972 and November 1973 the real purchasing power of the pension rose - it is true - by some 36c. [More…]
Today the real purchasing power of the pension is down to $22, in other words 64c below the figure of 15 November 1972. [More…]
The final matter that the former Minister mentioned was the erosion through inflation of the spending power of pensions. [More…]
No matter what sort of pension scheme we have in operation the Parliamentary Government must have the power to alter, amend, reject or accept what it likes when it likes. [More…]
If it falls below the minimum wage appropriate action will be taken at the appropriate time to restore the purchasing power of that pension. [More…]
However, we cannot under the Act - the Act could not give us the power, because the Constitution would prevent that - avoid some of the delays that are built into the system by the Constitution. [More…]
Apparently the Government is hoping that in the ignorance of the Australian people, these constitutional changes might be made so that greater power will be in the hands of the central government and so that the Labor Government might entrench itself in office by a gigantic manipulation of the electoral laws, a gerrymander such as we have never seen before in this country. [More…]
It came into power promising that it would deliberately plan to reduce interest rates wherever practicable. [More…]
The most celebrated fraud of an epoch of frauds since the Labor Government came to power has been in housing. [More…]
We have acute shortages of the essential elements - manpower, materials and money - in this field. [More…]
If the Minister complains about overseas control he is in fact complaining that he is unable or unwilling to use the extensive power that he has available to him. [More…]
When the Labor Government came to power in December 1972, it fell heir to the oil search and oil production policies initiated by the previous Liberal-Country Party Administration. [More…]
The Minister for Social Security (Mr Hayden) recently revealed in reply to a question from my colleague, the Deputy Leader of the Opposition (Mr Lynch), that since Labor has come into power his Department alone has added over 1,800 public servants to its staff, and as a consequence more than $10m annually to the Department’s costs. [More…]
I say quite frankly that this section of the Act gives all the power that is required to see that the price of wool is maintained at a reasonable level. [More…]
What is important now is not what the Government will do in relation to new legislation, although that may be of some importance, but what it will do in relation to the legislation that is on the statute book in the form of the Wool Industry Act 1972, which gives to the Government and the Corporation all the power in the world to do what needs to be done at the moment in relation to the provision of finance, which is what this Bill is all about. [More…]
The fact is that the previous Government wrote into the legislation that the bounty should be phased out by the end of this year and all the signs are that if the Opposition parties were in power they would be removing the same subsidy. [More…]
It is of no good continuing the attitude of even the previous Administration when it was in power. [More…]
The estimated income of nearly 800 million individuals - 40 per cent of the 2,000 million total - is (in US purchasing power) only 30c a day. [More…]
To quote Mr Martin, ‘National pride, desire for personal gain or political power, weak bureaucracies, have all contributed in varying degrees in many countries to the waste of scarce resources, more often their own than ours’. [More…]
He said he had become increasingly inclined to see the power structure of Indonesia as the product of a dovetailing arrangement between the Indonesan Army leadership and the Western and Japanese business corporations pressing for access to Indonesia’s raw materials, and he had been struck more and more with the parallels between current patterns of technocratically rationalised exploitation and those which existed under Dutch colonialism before the war. [More…]
Unless the country is very small, the more secondary elections there are, and the more power the winners gain by election, the more democratic we assume the society. [More…]
Does it support persons who might replace those now in power? [More…]
At that meeting the honourable member for Adelaide (Mr Hurford) stated quite specifically that when a Labor government came to power in this country donations to welfare agencies of this sort would be tax deductible. [More…]
It is a great pity that each of the Ministers in charge of portfolios, no matter which party is in power, has had so much on his plate and he does not have the time to sit down for a few minutes to make a study of this very important industry. [More…]
Since the ALP Government came to power it has adopted the attitude that the airline passenger must pay for every conceivable aspect of expenditure incurred. [More…]
It is up to this Government which has come to power to set about combating the decline which has occurred, not necessarily because of the fact that it has become the Government in Australia, but because of a number of other factors. [More…]
I want to make a special appeal to those in power to make money available for the development of these industries, particularly where they are not yet commercial propositions, even though they may be in the long term. [More…]
The power for such action generally rests with the respective State authorities. [More…]
The Government will do everything in its power to see that the benefits of the lower costs arising from tariff cuts and exchange appreciation are passed on to the consumer. [More…]
Quite apart from the transfer of fisheries powers is the problem of a definition of a foreign boat. [More…]
Where the delinquency comes in so far as the Australian Government is concerned is that shortly after it was elected to power the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) indicated that he had power under the Constitution unilaterally to transfer that power. [More…]
My argument with this Government is not at the root of independence and transfer of power - [More…]
I hope that in the transfer of power there will continue to be co-operation in the field of developing an understanding of what ocean resources exist, to what extent they might be available for exploitation and how they can be best turned to the commercial advantage of both Papua New Guinea and Australia. [More…]
Certainly, in money terms their nest egg has increased by 6 per cent or 7 per cent but in actual terms the purchasing power has gone down by 14 per cent and the net loss - the negative rate of interest - is of the order of 7 per cent. [More…]
But it was left to the Labor Government when it came to power to have a look at the Superannuation [More…]
It is a matter of the gravest misuse of power and the gravest misrepresentation to the Australian people and to this national Parliament. [More…]
The Government has stooped to a level which indicates that it will stoop to any level to try to gain power in both Houses of this Parliament to entrench itself in office and it will tell any untruth and will deceive the Parliament in trying to excuse itself for what it has done. [More…]
Now, when the Senate has had its confidence completely shaken by the dishonest actions of the Government, it has a right to exercise its ultimate power of rejecting this Government by stopping the Appropriation Bills. [More…]
Did the Australian people give Labor a mandate to centralise more and more power in Canberra, or to seek to change the Constitution to help Labor even to water down the process of bringing about changes in the Constitution? [More…]
The height of its hypocrisy is the opposition that it put forward to the proposal whereby an exchange of powers between the Commonwealth and the States could take place. [More…]
When the Labor Government puts forward the proposition: Give us the power to give away power, to give power to the States, if they are minded to accept it and give something in return for if it meets with their agreement, the Opposition says that not even that should be agreed to; that that is centralism. [More…]
It says that the power to give away power is centralism. [More…]
When the Opposition was in power, the businessmen were screaming out: ‘God save us from them’. [More…]
The last speaker, the Leader of the Australian Country Party, quite incorrectly said that the Labor Government was elected to power on the votes of the people in Sydney and Melbourne. [More…]
In this short time - 15 months - that we have been in power I have yet to hear one proposal put forward by the Opposition on any of these major matters of social concern. [More…]
I remind the Minister for Secondary Industry that the Government came to power on the basis of policies of low inflation, low taxation and low interest rates. [More…]
As a nation we are now confronted with massive inflation and severe economic instability, the highest interest rates since federation, excessive increases in direct and indirect taxation, a crisis in the housing industry unparalleled since the immediate postwar period, record levels of industrial unrest, a severely reduced defence capability, a massive erosion of the purchasing power of fixed income earners and pensioners, uncertainty and stagnation in the mineral and oil exploration industries, an immigration policy which has heaped confusion upon confusion and a breakdown in communication between the Government and the major constituent groups in the Australian community. [More…]
When the Government came to power the rate was 4.6 per cent and decreasing. [More…]
In short, 16 months of Labor Administration have seen the progress of those with bargaining power and the decline of those without it. [More…]
Nowhere is this more evident than in the Government’s capitulation to the powerful vested interests of the trade union movement and its attempts to weaken the statutory processes of industrial settlement. [More…]
Where, in fact, is the justification for a government that, as a result of union pressures, is prepared to adopt a form of - economic indexation that favours those with strong bargaining power, but refuses to apply the same form of indexation to those of very real need in the Australian community. [More…]
For both the demand and the supply of funds interest rate differentials unequivocally favour the larger borrower or lender; that is, the person with the greatest bargaining power. [More…]
As a consequence, in times of rapidly rising rates of interest when the actual quantity of loan funds available is subject to very high levels of demand, those with the greatest bargaining power can negotiate the most favourable loan terms whilst the smaller borrower or lender is, at least to the same extent, arbitrarily disadvantaged. [More…]
I say to this Government that it came into power - as the radio listeners and the people who are sitting in the Speaker’s gallery are well aware - pledged to low inflation, low interest rates and low taxation. [More…]
It has sacrificed that national interest to suit the cynical and narrow objectives of its socialist ideology and its political power basis. [More…]
The Prime Minister’s almost pathological preoccupation with power and authority has been reflected in the pervasive authoritarianism of his Government. [More…]
The Government’s reservations, all or some of which are shared by people outside the Australian Labor Party, can be summarised as follows: Firstly, while it is pleasing to note that the previous and existing inequalities in voting power as between the electors in various divisions have, on the whole, been reduced - this refers not just to inequalities between urban and rural electorates, but also among urban electorates themselves - the position is still unsatisfactory. [More…]
Incidentally, this comment relating to the inequality of voting power between electors in Kalgoorlie and Swan is not based on party political considerations, but on the consideration of equal voting power, as nearly as is practicable, for all Australians, irrespective of their place of residence. [More…]
An instrument signed by a Justice of the Peace would give the Commonwealth Government power of entry into any property, whether it be of a company or an individual’ Having got the right of entry the Bill would then give the Commonwealth Government power to remove practically everything - not just nominated minerals such as iron ore and bauxite. [More…]
That piece of legislation gives the Commonwealth Government power to remove sand, gravel, soil, clay, rock and I think it refers to timber. [More…]
The Commonwealth Government would have power to come in anywhere, irrespective of title - it would not matter if a person were mining or drilling or producing oil - and set down its rig and start to produce from the same field that a person has established and from which he is producing. [More…]
The Authority’s functions are set out in the Bill and they show the complete powers it has. [More…]
We doubt whether the Government’s legal advisers are confident that it would survive challenge, and it may be that the idea is to see, from the litigation which will undoubtedly follow the passage of the Bill, what the outer limits of power appear to be. [More…]
The aim is to distribute wealth and power more widely among the Australian community. [More…]
There is a great deal of concentration of economic power in Australia. [More…]
What the Government is trying to do with the National Investment Fund and the Australian Industry Development Corporation is to offset a little of this enormous concentration of economic power that exists in Australia and to give the ordinary citizens, through the National Investment Fund and through the operations of the Australian Industry Development Corporation some chance to have a share in the ownership of their own country. [More…]
limit the power of the Corporation to providing assistance upon request rather than as the result of an independent initiative by the Corporation; [More…]
limit the power of the Corporation to the provision of financial assistance and participation in companies except in special cases of national interest as approved by the Parliament. [More…]
They are going to have to wait until the Opposition gets back into power and we build and expand the training programs we had introduced and which should have been significantly expanded in the last 18 months. [More…]
To quote constitutional convention appropriate to the House of Lords - a hereditary House of great honour and distinction but whose powers have been obviously and properly curtailed because it is a hereditary House - and to suggest that it is appropriate to Australia is to deal with a different set of circumstances. [More…]
Certainly there is great reluctance to invoke the power the Senate has to vote against Supply - to vote against an Appropriation Bill. [More…]
Because of that proper reluctance, which we would all share, this power has not been used in the past. [More…]
Senator Murphy agrees that there is power - there is no doubt of that - and certainly agrees that it is proper to use it in appropriate circumstances. [More…]
One difference is that Senator Murphy was prepared to use it in any circumstances, as we know he is prepared to do anything in any circumstances to try to get control of a chamber, to raid an organisation or to invade the liberties of individuals, but we would use that power only in extreme circumstances. [More…]
As a result, it is not the Treasurer for whom we have sympathy but the great body of people in Australia who will suffer disaster on disaster the longer this Government stays in power. [More…]
Yet, when the price control referendum which, if it had been carried, would have given this Government the power to ensure that all benefits were passed on to the Australian consumer, was put to the people, the Opposition strenuously opposed it as it has opposed every measure the Government has introduced to combat inflation. [More…]
In this situation, but also because of other factors, such as our relative remoteness and noninvolvement, the prospect of direct strategic pressure against Australian interests by a major power, as distinct from possible political pressures, remains remote. [More…]
No regional power has or is likely to acquire for many years the capability and motive that might require an Australian defence response. [More…]
We are maintaining full support to the Five Power Arrangements, and the 2 Royal Australian Air Force Mirage squadrons in Malaysia comprise the largest single contribution of the 3 external powers, Australia, Britain and New Zealand, and they help Malaysia and Singapore in developing their air defence capability. [More…]
The Government should not be surprised if the Australian people asked themselves what new threat emerged on Sunday and came to the conclusion that a group of frightened men on that day felt themselves threatened by a loss of power. [More…]
I am not aware of the naval air power study in full, but I do hear some rather sombre rumblings from the Department of Defence and I should like to congratulate the Minister for Defence for taking the wider view of his advisers’ and his own personal attitudes on this matter as well as the advice of the Government’s Foreign Affairs and Defence Committee. [More…]
The situation has changed with respect to technology in the last month or so in regard to naval air power. [More…]
50 per cent more effective in terms of strike power than the A4s which we have. [More…]
It is the vehicle by which we intend to demonstrate to the Australian people that we believe power exercised by the Labor Party in office in the Federal Parliament has gone to an extreme which calls upon us, for the first time since Federation, to take measures in the upper House of the Parliament to ensure that these Bills are not passed. [More…]
The first, of course, was the deplorable exercise of power by the Attorney-General in the raid undertaken by officers of his Department on the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation. [More…]
These raids were undertaken in the wee small hours of the morning in a completely un-Australian manner in order to assert the absolute power which this Commonwealth Attorney-General sought to exercise. [More…]
The second example of the abuse of power and the degree to which this Government is prepared to engage in culpable activities concerned the administration of the Department of Aboriginal Affairs. [More…]
However, the report of the Commonwealth AuditorGeneral drew attention to the degree to which this Government is culpable in its exercise of power. [More…]
The Senate represents the people of the past - those who governed for 23 years as though their power in Australia should never end. [More…]
Those who should be accused of immorality are those who refused to accept the elected Labor Government of December 1972, those who have become inflated with power for 20 years previously, and those who set out to obstruct and hinder the elected Government of Australia in every possible way. [More…]
None of this can be done without some transfer of power in the Australian community. [More…]
But this increase in power has been limited by the previous Government to the very smallest amount that is necessary. [More…]
In Bills like those for the Australian Industry Development Corporation and the National Investment Fund we have asked for no more power than is necessary to allow the AIDC to be the co-ordinator of investment, in fact the co-ordinator of internationalised investment in large economic projects in which, without AIDC Australians will have little say at all. [More…]
This would mean some increases in the power of government but if Australians want to see a solution of the problems in industry, in their community, in/their health services, in con- trolling their own country and in their own destiny, the national Government must have a little more power. [More…]
Except as provided in this section, the Senate shall have equal power with the House of Representatives in respect of all proposed laws. [More…]
If one is to take section 53 of the Australian Constitution, one is drawn inexorably to one conclusion, namely, that technically speaking the Senate has a right to reject a Supply Bill, but the very moment that it accepts that right it infringes the Constitution because it is no longer exercising a power which is equal to that of this House; it is exercising a power which is superior to that of this House. [More…]
Never have I heard described in a more eloquent way than tonight the brutality of numbers and the nakedness of ambition and lust for power by members of the Liberal Party, the Country Party and the Democratic Labor Party. [More…]
For the sake of political gain they seek to destroy every vestige of democracy in this country and to throw out the popularly elected Government for sheer political power. [More…]
Now honourable members opposite are seeking to put Mr Gorton and others - the people they condemned - back into power. [More…]
When one considers the people who left this House or the other chamber to take up other posts it is clear that Sir Robert Menzies’ purpose was far from the notion of disposing of potential threats to his power as Prime Minister and Leader of the Liberal Party. [More…]
They were in no sense threats to his power or authority and, as I say, it is one of the great myths of Australian politics that these people were cut down by Prime Minister Menzies. [More…]
One of the great problems of governments in the 20th century - it grows greater every day - is the power of the executive government over Parliament. [More…]
As long as the Prime Minister of Australia has power to do this as the head of the executive government, why should the parliamentary processes of Australia not have the countervailing power to that which the Prime Minister has? [More…]
As my friend the honourable member for Moreton has expressed it, there is all the difference in the world between the powers of the House of Lords- [More…]
Since when has it been part of democratic theory that a government should be put into power and never touched by the Parliament? [More…]
Why should we give the Prime Minister the right to decide when the people should have a say and not give that right and power to the Parliament when it actually exists in the Constitution? [More…]
There will be a concentration of power in Canberra. [More…]
But, if the honourable member for Petrie can see an opportunity to make a buck or to achieve a quick rise to power, he will throw the whole tradition of that law out of the window. [More…]
There can be no doubt also that if the Labor Government were not in power - if the Liberal and Country parties were in power - those government factories would be facing considerable retrenchments. [More…]
Is it a fact that due to the defeat of the prices referendum last year the constitutional power presently available to the Australian Government would not enable the effective enforcement of a price freeze? [More…]
Is it also a fact any reference of price control powers to the Australian Government by the States for a limited period only, as called for by the Opposition last year, would be a cumbersome procedure giving price fixers ample time to raise prices before the freeze could be imposed? [More…]
We want battle, to meet you at the polls, but your forces are doing everything in their power in another place to avoid going to battle. [More…]
The basic object of my Government’s policy is to restore to the Aboriginal people of Australia their lost power of self determination in economic, social and political affairs.’ [More…]
If not, (a) were thousands of Arabs and Asians massacred or deported from Zanzibar in 1964, (b) were approximately 500 Asians deported from Tanzania in 1967, (c) were approximately 1,500 Asians deported from Tanzania in 1970-71, (d) does the President have power to nationalise any industry or acquire any property he chooses; if so, has he exercised this power; if not, who authorised the nationalisation of industry over the years 1971-73 and (e) which Tanzanian politician has proclaimed the philosophy that nationalisation is a vital ingredient of full sovereignty. [More…]
Under the Interim Constitution, legislative powers are exercised by the National Assembly comprising a majority of members elected on the basis of universal adult franchise. [More…]
The President has no power to legislate without recourse to Parliament. [More…]
May I say first of all that in the present dispute concerning the Australian Institute of Marine and Power Engineers, the union made an application to Mr Justice Ludeke for 4 sets of study leave of about 1 6 weeks each. [More…]
Council unanimously adopted a resolution that the Institute of Marine and Power Engineers and the A.C.T.U. [More…]
I repeat that this is a most irresponsible act on the part of the Institute of Marine and Power Engineers, which up to this point - I have been in contact with it over the years, and I have been in ship building - I have always considered to be a responsible union, but I have had to change my opinion of it. [More…]
It is an excess of buying power in a community over available goods and services in that community. [More…]
When buying power increases by 10 per cent or 20 per cent as it has done recently there cannot possibly be a matching increase of goods and services and there must be some inflation. [More…]
The Constitutional position with regard to the power vested in this Parliament to provide representation for the 2 Territories as proposed by this Bill is clear. [More…]
Furthermore, it was not until Labor came to power that the real nature of the energy situation was identified, and the mistakes of the Liberal-Country Party governments revealed. [More…]
But of course that is about par for the course with the Government that we have in power. [More…]
As the Leader of the Country Party (Mr Anthony) said in his excellent speech on the second reading, the whole sinister purpose of this Bill is to seek to give to the Australian Labor Party perpetuity of power. [More…]
It is this: Power, Mr Minister, has a most corrosive influence. [More…]
In other words, the whole of the precept of the Labor Party in this legislation before us tonight is designed not to enhance democracy, not to add to the political voice, but rather to add to the power of the Labor Party, to give it a chance of having a majority in the Senate and to give it the opportunity to manipulate the power base by changing the electoral laws to ensure it perpetuity of office. [More…]
Those people who are going to be something less than full senators not only are to have something less than a full voting right for the Territories they represent but also of course are going to erode significantly the power of the States and the voice of the States in what is the States’ chamber. [More…]
It is true that in the guillotine motion he isolated one Bill from the other but it is also true that if we had accepted a cognate debate on these Bills there would have been no opportunity to identify the problems which exist in bringing before the Parliament legislation designed peculiarly to add to the power base of the Labor Party. [More…]
Tragic though it might be, all he is really doing is trying to add to the power of the Labor Party. [More…]
I have pointed out that the States and the senators representing the States will have their power reduced. [More…]
So, why is there such panic amongst members of the Opposition that this is some plot to gain power for the Labor Party? [More…]
This shows completely and absolutely how illogical a government can be when it desires to grasp power in any way, when it will do anything to get centralised control. [More…]
Our Press people at the moment seem to see a little glimmering of truth in what we have been trying to get through ever since the Australian Labor Party came into power in 1972. [More…]
This legislation is further evidence of the fact that there is a continuation of the desire to grasp power, to get centralised control. [More…]
It gives him complete power to fix a sum, a supplementary daily bed payment. [More…]
They consider that this is a monstrous piece of legislation; that it has been badly conceived and poorly drawn up, that it gives unfettered, enormous power to an authority, a Minister and a government over which Parliament has little scrutiny; that it conflicts with many of the sovereign rights of the States in the handling of mineral affairs; that it gives to the authority and the Minister enormous power to acquire mineral projects in Australia; and that it gives the authority unlimited advantages which discriminate very severely against private mining operations in this country. [More…]
If the Pipeline Authority is to become simply a common carrier and not to exercise its acquisition powers effectively we should be told so. [More…]
It would seem more sensible for one commission to exercise power over all aspects of industry including pipeline construction than for a multitude of authorities to exercise particular functions, as exists at the moment and as would exist in the future if this additional piece of legislation is accepted. [More…]
In summary, the concept of a central authority with broad regulatory and advisory functions is one that we do not dismiss, but it is not a compatible function with associated powers of competition, particularly discriminatory competition, in the industry. [More…]
The Opposition wants to see that power reside with the States so that corrupt city-State governments like the Queensland Government can let the contracts to private companies. [More…]
I want to refer to only a few of the clauses including the financial clauses - clauses 32 and 33 - which seem to give to the Minister an almost unlimited financial power. [More…]
The Authority shall comply with the directions (if any) of the Minister in relation to the performance of a function or the exercise of power by the Authority under this Act. [More…]
Energy the power to issue instructions to his Authority, if he can find among the many thousands of Justices of the Peace in Australia just one complacent or compliant or corrupt, to go on to anybody’s land, to destroy anything. [More…]
The Government’s action since it came back into power has been one of confusion heaped upon confusion. [More…]
This the IBRD does by extending loans on conventional terms to credit-worthy member countries to help finance soundly conceived and economically viable infrastructure projects in such fields as agriculture, irrigation, rail transportation, highways, port development, telecommunications and electric power generation. [More…]
It will include a regulating dam, pumping station, a treatment works near the dam, bulk supply mains to Canberra, a power supply ‘and an access road to the site. [More…]
In this area, the Minister for Mines and Power, representing New South Wales, and myself as Minister for Urban and Regional Development, representing the Australian Government, convened a Joint Technical Committee on Mine Waste Pollution of the Molonglo River. [More…]
In May of this year, the New South Wales Minister for Mines and Power agreed with me that the Committee should proceed to tender readiness for the implementation of the works as recommended by the Committee. [More…]
One would think that it was within the power of this Government or the alternative Government, which had 23 years to do it, to solve all industrial disputes and to prevent them by somehow going along to the union and saying: ‘Please, will you do what the court says? [More…]
Consequently, the price of land in Canberra sky rocketed until this Government came to power. [More…]
What a sham this is, because the Government has made no attempt to increase nursing home benefits in the 18 months that it has been in power. [More…]
They do not change, nor can they change, ownership, power or control in Australia. [More…]
This Parliament would have had the power further to reduce the opportunity for postBudget profit-taking had the Government’s prices and incomes referendum been successful last December. [More…]
There are 2 fields in particular where the Tribunal can make a larger contribution if it is given the necessary powers and resources. [More…]
We have decided to give the Tribunal the necessary powers and resources. [More…]
In other words, the Tribunal will now have a general power to inquire and report into prices charged by companies, irrespective of their turnover, or the industry concerned, but the obligation to notify price increases still applies only to companies in <the over $20m class. [More…]
Where the Tribunal itself exercises this general power, it will have 4 months to conduct its inquiry and furnish its report. [More…]
Thus, loans have been made to assist the development of infrastructure facilities in the electric power, transport and communications sectors as well as for agriculture, water supply and education projects. [More…]
The Attorney-General is to have a limited power to give directions to the Commission. [More…]
Comments that have been made on this provision have tended to overlook the very limited nature of the power. [More…]
The power is not applicable in relation to the Commission’s quasijudicial functions of granting authorisations or clearances, but it will enable the AttorneyGeneral to give a direction to ensure that the legislation is otherwise being administered in an appropriate manner. [More…]
The scope of the Commission’s functions and the discretion vested in it are such that a reserve power of this kind is desirable. [More…]
The power of direction is accompanied, however, by a requirement that any direction given must be made public. [More…]
It will have power to review determinations of the Commission upon the application of an interested party. [More…]
The constitutional power of the Australian Parliament to enact legislation such as that contained in the Bill was clarified by the very important decision of the High Court in what is known as the Concrete Pipes case. [More…]
For present purposes that case established that restrictive trade practices and monopolisation legislation contained in the Australian Indus tries Preservation Act could validly derive support from the corporations power. [More…]
It also established that legal problems can arise when provisions that depend on that power are drafted so as to be inextricably mixed in their operation with provisions that depend on other powers. [More…]
Clause 46 as now drafted makes it clear that it does not prevent normal competition by enterprises that are big by, for example, their taking advantage of economies of scale or making full use of such skills as they have; the provision will prohibit an enterprise which is in a position to control a market from taking advantage of its market power to eliminate or injure its competitors. [More…]
It will be necessary for the application of the clause that, in engaging in such conduct, the person concerned is taking advantage of the power that he has by virtue of being in a position to control the market. [More…]
For example, a person in a position to control a market might use his power as a dominant purchaser of goods to cause a supplier of those goods to refuse to supply them to a competitor of the first mentioned person - thereby excluding him from competing effectively. [More…]
In such circumstances the dominant person has improperly taken advantage of his power. [More…]
In addition there is a power similar to the one in the existing Act to exempt by regulation or ganisations concerned in the marketing of primary products. [More…]
There is also power to provide exemptions by regulation for practices related to inter-governmental arrangements. [More…]
Problems of limits of jurisdictions and of power to deal with a particular matter have thus been avoided. [More…]
However, the answer to the essential question whether there should be a court created by the Australian Parliament under its constitutional power to deal authoritatively on an Australia-wide basis with questions of Federal law cannot be determined by reference to the prestige and status of State Supreme Courts. [More…]
But, if I did, I would be offering prayers and saying: ‘Thank God there was a change of government in 1972 and those who were in power up until that time were not allowed to continue with the people in the community who were out to get rich quickly by escalating their prices’. [More…]
It is somewhat ironic that it should happen that, in referring to poverty, he had to use the first report that systematically studied the extent of poverty in Australia, a report that was not prepared when his Party was in power, but in the term of the present Government. [More…]
If the Government does not support the Corporation, the Corporation can exercise its power to cancel the sales and make advances to the Australian woolgrowers who have their clips up for offer in this series. [More…]
I am confident that if the Corporation was forced to exercise its power to cancel the sales and to make advances to the affected growers - a decision quite within its power - the brokers would be prepared to make their contributions to clear delivery and so on. [More…]
One of the powers granted to the Australian Wheat Board under the Stabilisation Bill is the power to pay to exporters of wheat products an amount equal to the difference between the home consumption price at which the exporter has purchased the wheat content of the manufactured products, and the ruling export price of wheat. [More…]
That the committee have power to appoint sub-committees consisting of three or more of its members and to refer to any such sub-committee any of the matters which the committee is empowered to examine. [More…]
That the committee have power to send for persons, papers and records, to move from place to place and to sit during any recess or adjournment of the Parliament. [More…]
That the committee have leave to report from time to time and that any member of the committee have power to add a protest or dissent to any report. [More…]
That the committee or a sub-committee have power to authorise publication of any evidence given before it and any document presented to it. [More…]
The Bank makes loans, broadly speaking, on commercial terms for economic projects related to capital works such as water, transport, power and primary production. [More…]
The power is required only for temporary access. [More…]
The Deputy Prime Minister was most polite to me and said he would do what he could but shortly thereafter there was an election followed by a strike by marine and power engineers. [More…]
We request your urgent support in seeking dispensation by the Australian Institute of Marine and Power Engineers to release the vessel Australian Endeavour presently strike bound in Port Melbourne. [More…]
This has been just a chapter of the misfortunes and tragedies visited on small sections of the Australian public because of the power of people to stand up the rest of the community. [More…]
Unfortunately, the ship has been delayed as a result of a stoppage by the Institute of Marine and Power Engineers. [More…]
If pension purchasing power is to be restored there is a very pressing need for a substantial pension increase. [More…]
Today the annual rate of increase in average weekly earnings and in the cost of living is so high that pensions must be raised in the next Budget by at least $3 a week and possibly substantially more if the real value of pension spending power is to be maintained. [More…]
I refer to Mr Hawke’s latest demonstration of his power to dictate the policies of this Government, that is, the reversal of the Government’s announced decision to run down the work force in certain defence factories in the absence of orders to keep them properly employed. [More…]
We know of the effects that the strike by the Institute of Marine and Power Engineers had on Tasmania and the mass unemployment that was threatened. [More…]
He did it in a speech to the Industrial Relations Society of Australia in June when he referred to employment relations in terms of a power struggle and a perpetual conflict that is endemic to the industrial situation. [More…]
The Minister has said that the role of the Government is that of an honest power broker. [More…]
It can determine the size of the market for labour and it can actively intervene, not to even up the balance of power but to influence actively and decisively the outcome of disputes. [More…]
More importantly, the combined effects of the progressive and outdated taxation scale and the 14 per cent rate of inflation have eroded average weekly earnings to the extent that the average wage earner in 1973 was almost SI a week worse off in terms of take home purchasing power at the end of the year than at its beginning. [More…]
Some unions are ahead in relation to this eroding purchasing power and some are behind, but the determination to preserve and improve relativities ensures constant struggle until the forces of disruption - taxation and inflation - are moderated. [More…]
If this forecast is true then the unions involved will most certainly provoke further industrial action, an effect hardly consistent with the balance of power argument, advanced by the Minister, which implies that increased unemployment should weaken the position of the unions. [More…]
Certainly the Government stepped beyond the role of honest broker when the Minister for Labor and Immigration appeared on television last year to support a 35-hbur week for power workers in New South Wales. [More…]
Following that piece of provocation the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) then made the statement, which is demonstrably false, that unemployment was confined to New South Wales and to industries employed by the State Government, such as the power industry. [More…]
The Government must adopt a stance in industrial disputes that serves the wider ends of peace and justice, instead of attempting to strengthen the bargaining power of favoured unions. [More…]
He put forward this week the outline of a manpower policy and, above all, he has put forward a scheme which is designed to train trade union officials at all levels so that they may exercise their power with responsibility and skill, and with the motive of ensuring that the rights of employees shall be protected and the rights of the community will not be harmed. [More…]
It is as well for this Parliament and for those who read the reports of this Parliament to realise that only a very limited power is given to the Australian Parliament pursuant to the Constitution to legislate in relation to industrial disputes. [More…]
That power does not entitle the Government or this Parliament to legislate directly in respect of industrial matters; it may only establish machinery for the prevention and settlement of industrial disputes. [More…]
They attempt to lump together all the stoppages, irrespective of whether the Australian Conciliation and Arbitration Commission has power to deal with them. [More…]
What about the power dispute? [More…]
This was one of the important initiatives in respect of road safety that this Government took soon after coming into power. [More…]
That the committee have power to appoint subcommittees consisting of four or more of its members and to refer to any such sub-committee any of the matters which the committee is empowered to consider. [More…]
That the committee or any sub-committee have power to send for and examine persons, papers and records, to move from place to place and to meet and transact business in public or private session and notwithstanding any prorogation of the Parliament. [More…]
That the committee have leave to report from time to time and that any member of the committee have power to add a protest or dissent to any report. [More…]
That the committee have power to consider and make use of the minutes of evidence and records of the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence, appointed in the previous Parliament, relating to any matter on which that committee had not completed its consideration. [More…]
In a sense I felt that perhaps we could have gone a little faster than we had gone, but I was mindful of the enormously complex problems that existed both within the structure of the Public Service and in trying to define the areas of relative responsibility as between the Commonwealth Government and a Legislative Council with executive power. [More…]
I know that in the Northern Territory there has been a fear that if too much power is given to the Legislative Council it will mean a much higher cost and tax structure for the people in the Territory. [More…]
That the committee have power to appoint subcommittees consisting of three or more of its members, and refer to any such sub-committee any matter which the committee is empowered to examine. [More…]
That the committee have power to send for persons, papers and records. [More…]
That the committee or any sub-committee have power to move from place to place, and to sit during any recess. [More…]
That the committee or any sub-committee have power to authorise publication of any evidence given before it and any document presented to it. [More…]
That the committee or any sub-committee have power to consider and make use of the evidence and records of the House of Representatives Select Committees on Road Safety appointed in previous Parliaments. [More…]
That the committee be provided with all necessary staff, facilities and resources and have power, with the approval of the Speaker, to appoint persons with specialist knowledge for the purposes of the committee. [More…]
That the committee have leave to report from time to time and that any member of the committee have power to add a protest or dissent to any report. [More…]
It is a great pity that one of the reasons why road safety is not going ahead in Australia and why we on the Committee are not able to get all the information which we need, is that there is such a diversion of power at the present time between local councils, State governments and the Australian Government. [More…]
That the committee have power to appoint sub-committees consisting of three or more of its members, and refer to any such sub-committee any matter which the committee is empowered to examine. [More…]
That the committee have power to send for persons, papers and records. [More…]
That the committee or any sub-committee have power to move from placeto place, and to sit during any recess. [More…]
That the committee or any sub-committee have power to authorise publication of any evidence given before it and any document presented to it. [More…]
That the committee be provided with all necessary staff, facilities and resources and have power, with the approval of the Speaker to appoint persons with specialist knowledge for the purposes of the committee. [More…]
That the committee have leave to report from time to time and that any member of the committee have power to add a protest or dissent to any report. [More…]
That the committee or any sub-committee have power to consider and make use of the evidence and records of the House of ‘Representatives Standing Committee on the Environment and Conservation appointed during the Twenty-eighth Parliament. [More…]
Indeed, in this context in this discussion, I pointed out last night that the associations which determine the policy for the AEWL and the source of its power need close examination. [More…]
The constitutional power of the Government in regard to these matters has been well established by the SolicitorGeneral of the time, who is now among us here in a different capacity as the honourable member for Wentworth (Mr Ellicott). [More…]
The Australian people gave the Australian Government power to overrule the State governments in matters of Aboriginal affairs and to legislate on behalf of the Aborigines. [More…]
generally recognise that any such government must operate under powers delegated to it by the Australian Government and that the Australian Government should have a power of veto which would be exercised only in exceptional circumstances, in much the same way as the State Government exercises a power of veto over local government councils in New South Wales. [More…]
The Minister for Overseas Trade might say that this section would give the Minister for Customs and Excise the power to enlarge the quota to cope with stimulated1 increased consumer demand. [More…]
The Government stands condemned for the 4 reasons that are outlined in the motion now before the House; the Government stands condemned because it has failed to uphold the principles by which parliamentary democracy should work; and the Government stands condemned because henceforth any fall in the Australian wool market will be not the fault of the Australian Wool Corporation and not the fault of the market forces that previous spokesmen have tended to support but the fault of Labor machination in order to assert and abuse the power which, fortunately, will not be Labor’s for long. [More…]
A power of delegation by the Minister to any public servant is unlimited under clause 10. [More…]
(1) The Minister may, by instrument in writing, delegate to an officer of the Australian Public Service, either generally or otherwise as provided in the instrument of delegation, all or any of his powers or functions under this Act, the Royalty Act or the regulations, except this power of delegation. [More…]
A power or function delegated under this section may be exercised or performed by the delegate in accordance with the instrument of delegation. [More…]
This Bill provides the power to take away all rights to continue with work regardless of previous expenditure or undertakings. [More…]
I see this shift of power. [More…]
That is the way the shift of power is going. [More…]
There is power to take away all rights to continue with work regardless of previous expenditure or undertakings and this discretion is left to the Minister and not to the Parliament. [More…]
The Commonwealth of Australia does have constitutional power to legislate in respect of the off-shore, and we will assert that power through the Territorial Sea and Contitnental Shelf Bill’. [More…]
The first part declared that the Commonwealth of Australia had power off-shore and the second part was a mining code which would allow for the physical mining of the area after the declaration of sovereignty. [More…]
The Senate destroyed that Bill by agreeing to that amendment, because it realised that without the mining code the declaratory Part I of the Seas and Submerged Lands Bill was powerless. [More…]
It will say that the Federal Parliament does have power to introduce this legislation. [More…]
We believe that the Australian Parliament through the Australian Constitution has that power. [More…]
I think we are aware of the attack which the Government is making on the States in those areas in which the States have been exercising power. [More…]
Are we to say that the States should have no powers? [More…]
Certainly we will not say that they should have all power. [More…]
I pre dict that we will see from this Government, the longer it stays here, more and more attempts to take unto itself more and more power. [More…]
I think that power, as well as economic development, is what these Bills are all about. [More…]
The essence of democracy is not unitary rule by Whitlam but divided power. [More…]
The essence of democracy is divided power - divided between the chambers, divided between the Commonwealth and the States. [More…]
We believe, however, that it is desirable for a government to possess the broad powers contained in this Bill. [More…]
If a case can be made for subjecting the banking system to these controls, I believe that as a matter of equity the Government ought also have the power to impose direct controls over the non-bank sector. [More…]
If a government is to exercise responsible control over ‘the national economy it is absolutely vital that it be clothed with the power it needs to take any measure which it sees as appropriate at any particular time. [More…]
The Financial Corporations Bill, which we are examining tonight will provide the Government with a further option to those powers which it already possesses. [More…]
This Bill will extend the present powers which the Government, through the Reserve Bank, has over the banks to the non-bank financial institutions. [More…]
It does not follow that the Government will bring in a whole range of direct controls over the non-bank financial institutions, any more than the existing powers have resulted in direct controls over the banks. [More…]
But it is important that the powers are there to be used judiciously if and when necessary. [More…]
In the 1940s, when the then Labor Government introduced similar powers over the banks under the Banking Act, it appeared at the time that they would be sufficient to exercise adequate monetary controls. [More…]
There is no question that after this measure we ‘are debating tonight has been adopted everyone will come to accept that it too is a normal and quite proper power for a central government to have in controlling the non-bank financial institutions. [More…]
But it was in power for many years - more than 20 years - and it did nothing about it. [More…]
However, it is important that the Government should have the power to enforce its monetary policy should that need arise. [More…]
Power should not be given to the Government to exercise these powers permanently, ruthlessly and maliciously or as an alternative to reckless and inadequate government policies as a whole. [More…]
There is power under the United Kingdom Banking Act for the Bank of England with the consent of the Chancellor to exercise the appropriate banking controls. [More…]
In Australia, whilst there is power under section 50 of the Banking Act for the Reserve Bank to make regulations with the approval of the Treasurer for, amongst other things, provision for or in relation to the control of rates of interest payable to or by any banks or in the course of banking business, it has never been used. [More…]
What has been suggested is that the intermediate process - that is, the regulations to be made by the Executive - should be the subject of affirmative resolution by the Parliament and not determinations of the Reserve Bank, and that determinations should be a Reserve Bank reserve power to be used as a last resort and as a strong psychological influence in precisely the same way as interest rates are used in banking. [More…]
The second amendment proposes that clause 14 relating to lending policies be amended to make it clear, to use the Treasurer’s own words in the Explanatory Notes, that the regulations under sub-clauses (2) to (6) inclusive are restricted to granting power to the Reserve Bank to make ‘determinations’: ‘. [More…]
If not, is this power available to the States? [More…]
The Commonwealth’s power in this regard stems from its responsibility to legislate with respect to corporations, and also for trade and commerce with other countries. [More…]
The Prices Justification Tribunal is empowered already to deal with the prices charged by large corporations. [More…]
The Prices Justification Bill 1974, at present before the House, will empower it to legislate with respect to trade and commerce with other countries. [More…]
The honourable gentleman points out that the State governments have the power - always have had the power - to fix the prices, or to regulate the prices, of goods being sold not only by corporations but also by firms and individuals supplying any products or any services within Australia. [More…]
The Minister would be better not to delude himself that he can escape in that way, because the law, except in matters of agreement between the Government and the Opposition, is the same as when the Liberal-Country Party Coalition was in power. [More…]
The law is the same as when the Liberal-Country Party Coalition was in power, but the industrial situation is infinitely worse. [More…]
With the strength that the unions now have, not only in this country but also in other countries of the world, as measured against the power of capital to resist those demands, the sellers of labour are -in the position of living in a buyer’s market. [More…]
In the power game that is played inside industrial relations all over the world the trade unions are calling the tune, and they are going to go on calling it. [More…]
Another example is the strike by the Australian Institute of Marine and Power Engineers which upset the whole of Tasmania and caused unemployment. [More…]
Corporations which are capable of exercising power to control the market in such a way as to impair that freedom are accountable to the public interest. [More…]
For the purpose of this section, a corporation in a position substantially to control a market for goods or services includes a corporation which by reason of its share of the market, or of its share of the market combined with availability of technical knowledge, raw materials or capital, has the power to determine prices or control production or distribution for a substantial part of the goods or services in that market. [More…]
A corporation that is in a position substantially to control a market for goods or services shall not take advantage of the power in relation to that market that it has by virtue of being in that position - [More…]
The first is to add after the words ‘shall not’ in clause 46(1) the word ‘wilfully’ so that that portion would read: ‘A corporation that is in a position substantially to control a market for goods or services shall not wilfully take advantage of the power . [More…]
There would be circumstances where the corporation may have power but exercise it unwittingly. [More…]
of the market, or of its share of the market combined with availability of technical knowledge, raw materials or capital, has the power to determine prices or control production or distribution for a substantial part of the goods or services in that market. [More…]
The Commission does not have power to grant an authorization under sub-section (1) to a corporation to make a contract or arrangement, or to enter into an understanding, if the contract or arrangement has already been made or the understanding has already been entered into. [More…]
The Commission does not have power to grant an authorization under sub-section (1) to a corporation to continue to be a party to a contract, arrangement or understanding unless - [More…]
After clause 155, insert the following new clause: “ 155a (1) In any proceedings under this Act instituted in the Court bv the Attorney-General or the Commission, or in any application to the Commission under Part VII for an authorisation or to the Tribunal under Part IX for a review of a determination of the Commission, the Attorney-General or the Commission shall at the request of a party to such proceedings or of the applicant disclose or furnish to him any documents or information in the power possession or control of the Attorney-General or the Commission which establishes or tends to establish the case of such party or applicant. “ [More…]
1 have the gravest of doubt that they would know that this power is available to them. [More…]
It will have power to fine and imprison and enforce its own orders. [More…]
It will have power to fine for contempt. [More…]
It is intended to exercise and would exercise tremendous power over our citizens. [More…]
I need not stop too long to explain the complexity of the judicial power in Australia - honourable members will be familiar with that - which surrounds the jurisdiction exercised by courts in this country. [More…]
They regarded the power to establish Federal courts, more by way of reserve if any State should close its courts or obstruct the determination of federal matters’. [More…]
It is the opinion of the writer that section 51 (xx) of the Constitution will provide the requisite constitutional power so to do. [More…]
Such a court must have the power to examine the substantial merits of the cases before it, and must have the power to base its decision not only on the terms of so-called free contracts, which are usually forced upon shareholders by managements, but also on equity and justice. [More…]
One of the problems which have confronted this country in the last 18 months or so is that the new Government came to power with a belief that everything that previously stood needed to be upturned and changed before we could get some semblance of organisational efficiency. [More…]
Yet the present Government comes to power and very early during its occupation places on the notice paper its intention to introduce the Superior Court Bill. [More…]
The Liberal-Country Party Government when it was in power did not because it does not believe in or attach much importance to that aspect. [More…]
This Committee has a somewhat shadowy role and composition in the legislation, and the Opposition will be moving an amendment to provide that its members should be appointed by the GovernorGeneral instead of by the Minister so that the Parliament has the power to override any appointment. [More…]
We are very conscious of the potential power of this institution in the economy, and for this reason I will be moving an amendment to limit the net ability of the Corporation to issue investment bonds to a level not exceeding $500m, which would be the maximum difference between bonds raised and bonds redeemed. [More…]
We did not have to wait to be further angered by misuse of office and power. [More…]
We have done more in relation to pensions than has ever been done before and that, of course, must be our first responsibility, to put real purchasing power into these people’s pockets and not to have them suffer the burden of economic discrimination as part of economic recessionary measures which past Liberal-Country Party governments implemented. [More…]
The public should realise that there are thousands of helpless old people who are simply being ignored as Ministers jostle for power while drawing government salaries of $34,000 a year. [More…]
Labor Government came to power more and more public debate has been taking place on all issues that come before this Parliament and people are much better informed. [More…]
The provisions of the earlier Bill giving the Corporation power ‘to raise money otherwise than by borrowing’ and ‘to carry on any business or activity’ have been omitted from clause 5. [More…]
Let us look at the National Pipeline Authority Bill, the Petroleum and Minerals Exploration Bill and this Bill which seek to give - and I have examined them closely - immense powers to nationalise, which I understand is the preferred word, very important sections of the Australian economy. [More…]
I repeat what I said about the probable testing of the power in section 51, placitum 31 of the Constitution. [More…]
In particular, I should like to refer to the part of the Bill which gives the Australian Industry Development Corporation the power to carry on any business whatsoever. [More…]
It is very clearly set out in the explanatory notes given and it shows the extent to which the powers have been increased. [More…]
Let us look at the words themselves which set out dramatically the extent to which this power can be exercised and the extent to which the nationalisation program may be pushed. [More…]
However, I believe that this clause gives the power that should not be reposed in an Executive even though a guarantee has to be approved by the Treasurer before certain activities can take place. [More…]
This Bill does not, in my view, add very materially to the power of the Government to subvert the Australian economy. [More…]
It is an instrument which can be good, which is very powerful and which can be abused, but there are so many other instruments in the economy which could be abused that it is really not relevant to say this can be made an instrument of socialisation. [More…]
Those instruments already exist and the course of our development will be decided not so much by this Bill or that Bill but by the nature of the government in power and the intentions of the government in power. [More…]
It is a very powerful instrument. [More…]
That centralised the power to borrow so that the States and local government authorities lost their access to markets overseas. [More…]
The AIDC has the power to borrow overseas. [More…]
However, it would seem - given the importance of the matters that are likely to arise in this area - that the membership of the Committee should be as far removed as possible from the hurlyburly of the political scene and also that the appointment should be made in a way which enables the Parliament to have power to scrutinise and, if it were the opinion of the Parliament, to override the appointment. [More…]
But this is the normal thing in an organisation like the Wool Corporation because this is the way in which the farmers and their organisations over the years have become involved in positions of power. [More…]
But by investing foreign funds in the National Investment Fund it would not be contravening those regulations or policies because the actual power would not be conveyed to that enterprise or project but would remain in the hands of the National Investment Fund or, through it, the Australian Industry Development Corporation. [More…]
It is proved to be garbage by the very acts of the Government since coming back into power. [More…]
It increases charges the impact of which will be felt not only by individuals whose purchasing power will be reduced unless they can increase their incomes but also by business undertakings which have the ability to pass on the increased charges. [More…]
He has done everything in his power to cut back any form of decentralisation by the use of the Post Office. [More…]
But if the transfer of power to a statutory corporation is to remove from the eyes of members of this House and the questioning of the members in this House the responsibility of the Govern ment for the failings of the Post Office I believe it will be a mistake. [More…]
In terms of purchasing power it is very much the highest and this again I regard as a good and not a bad thing. [More…]
It would have been done 2 years ago had we remained in power. [More…]
He begrudgingly made himself out to be an honest member of Parliament by saying that he acknowledged that there has been some change in the rate of inflation since the Labor Government came to power. [More…]
That was when the Liberal-Country Party Government was in power. [More…]
Regrettably, in the last 18 months, since this present Government came into power, we have seen the erosion of their position. [More…]
I think a Minister who does not know in the middle of one week what is going to be done in the beginning of the next week should be called upon to explain why he cannot tell a representative of the people in this House what his intentions are about raising the pension, when he will link it to average weekly earnings, and give the people an assurance so that they will know when their purchasing power will be restored, thus taking pensions out of financial and political considerations. [More…]
Is there some almost forgotten power to enforce greater control over bank lending? [More…]
If so, what is the almost forgotten power? [More…]
The building will be airconditioned with an emergency power plant to supply essential lighting requirements and to maintain a power supply to certain types of laboratory and engineering equipment. [More…]
It moved from being a body in which there was a dominance of official appointees to a body on which 3 non-official appointees held the balance of power, and to the present Council of 17 members, 11 elected by vote and 6 public servant appointees. [More…]
A change of status in the constitution of a territory should be the subject of a referendum within the territory and not, as now, entirely al the whim of the government in power at any given time. [More…]
A change of status in the constitution of a territory should be the subject of a referendum within the territory and not, as now, entirely at the whim of the government in power- [More…]
Government in power’- at any given time. [More…]
If the Labor Party does get a majority no doubt considerable power will be given to the Assembly. [More…]
The third area of contention relates to the transfer of powers and responsibilities to the Legislative Assembly from the Commonwealth, and also consideration of revenue raising requirements consistent with the authority, whatever it might be, which is given to the Council. [More…]
This Government has gone so far in one area but has neglected to give the proposed Legislative Assembly greater power than the Council now has? [More…]
What are the powers of this newly elected body going to be? [More…]
Since the present Government took power, the Northern Territory has lost power in respect of its limited government. [More…]
In fact, as I have indicated, this Government whittled away many of the existing powers of the Territory. [More…]
Since the Labor Government came to power with its campaign of vandalism against isolated areas the territory has suffered grievously. [More…]
The suffering is a poor reflection on the power of advocacy of the Minister for the Northern Territory in Cabinet and in Caucus. [More…]
The Minister for the Northern Territory said that another glaring omission from the statement of the then Minister in 1972 was the mention of power to deal with land and minerals. [More…]
What executive power will be given to the Administrator’s Council? [More…]
It provides for the Tribunal to be given a general power to inquire into and report on prices charged by companies irrespective of their turnover, or the industry concerned. [More…]
As an alternative to stating that it does not intend to hold an inquiry in the case of a particular price increase, the Bill empowers the Tribunal to notify the company concerned of any lower price that it considers to be justified. [More…]
Where the Tribunal exercises its general power, it will have 4 months to conduct its inquiry and furnish its report. [More…]
In response to that appeal from the Prime Minister of Australia to give this national Parliament the powers that are enjoyed - not only enjoyed but exercised - by every other national Parliament in the world, the Opposition successfully sought to defeat the transfer of power. [More…]
This national Government has only very limited powers. [More…]
The State governments have the powers to take action. [More…]
Apart from action taken in one or two areas - and particularly noteworthy is the action that the South Australian Government has taken in certain areas - the State governments have done nothing but criticise this Government for failing to take action, conveniently forgetting that they, not the national Government, have the powers. [More…]
The State governments m the exercise of their normal powers have added to the increase in the cost of living. [More…]
Again, these are areas of the consumer price index which have a very powerful effect on the cost of living. [More…]
By referendum i his Government sought powers to enable it to pass funds directly to local governments to assist them. [More…]
We as the national Government sought from the Australian people the power to give funds directly to local governments so as to assist local governments in meeting these costs. [More…]
All right, we torpedoed that, but we did not torpedo or seek to torpedo the Bill establishing the Prices Justification Tribunal, and we do not seek to torpedo the Bill at present before the House to enlarge the powers of the Tribunal. [More…]
The Minister referred also to the referendum on prices and incomes, when the Government sought separate powers in relation to prices and incomes. [More…]
Nothing was clearer at that time than the fact that the Government had no intention of using these powers. [More…]
Certainly it had no intention of using the incomes power - and the one power is of no effect without the other. [More…]
Indeed, was it not the President of the Australian Labor Party, Mr Bob Hawke, who was in the vanguard of the opposition to the incomes power? [More…]
In addition to the classic supply and demand equations there are differences in bargaining power at each of these pricing points. [More…]
Perhaps the best basic assumption in analysing bargaining power is that everybody is greedy, hence people will always attempt to get the maximum return from the position in which they find themselves. [More…]
This Bill, which provides for the extension of the Tribunal’s powers to examine prices arises from the experience of the Tribunal’s limitations. [More…]
The giving to the Tribunal of a general power to inquire into and report upon prices charged by companies, irrespective of the industry involved and irrespective of the annual turnover of the industry, will only extend its charter, exacerbate its frustrations and increase its work load. [More…]
However, if the Tribunal feels it can function more appropriately under its general charter, it should by all means be given the powers contained in this Bill. [More…]
But, as honourable members will be aware, such penalties do not exist in the legislation because of the grave doubt that exists about the Australian Government’s constitutional power to require adherence to the Tribunal’s decisions. [More…]
From the point of view of the overall philosophy let us look at it this way: The real issue is prices, which we endeavoured to get power to control in a referendum. [More…]
We did not get the power from the people. [More…]
The power resides in the State governments. [More…]
His Government has lost the power of decision. [More…]
Therefore we should give the public the power to use these capital facilities without charge for the capital that already has been expended. [More…]
That situation has been quite definitely thrust upon it by 2 actions of the Labor Government, firstly, by its financial strangulation of the means by which local government stays in existence, and secondly, by its deliberate and rather blunt use of the instrument of power to dictate to the representatives of local government what their policies shall be, on what they shall operate and how they shall spend their money. [More…]
We want to make the point that we are diametrically opposed to all power being centred in Canberra. [More…]
The central issue in all this is the power of the patient. [More…]
Firstly, it has a consequence on the power of the individual patient to determine both the quantity and the quality of his health care. [More…]
Secondly, there is the effect which I have noted on the power of the health care system to raise sufficient funds to do the job properly. [More…]
The worst crime is that it takes away the power of the poor to have the quality of treatment they deserve. [More…]
It also takes away the power of the patient to be a determining influence in the sort of health care he or she receives. [More…]
Medical members of the Association shall be elected by the Council or by a Committee appointed by the Council with power in that behalf. [More…]
They will be denied this access by this deliberate attempt by this socialist Government to centralise all power in Canberra and to dictate its whim and point of view to all people. [More…]
He knows darned well that in the near future with the rocketing costs which have beset this country since the present Government came to power his scheme will require the injection of millions of dollars more than he ever talks about or predicts. [More…]
Is he really on this occasion following the multi-national conglomerates of the world in their rise to size and power through the accumulation of capital by the eating up of smaller competitors or corporations which, for the time being, have run down? [More…]
If he is asking this House to do that he is asking us to approve the concentration of power within a small number of unions. [More…]
He is not asking us to approve the concentration of power in small unions but the concentration of power in a small number of unions by larger unions gobbling up and submerging the special interests of the group of individual workers who, by reason of their particular craft, calling or vocation, wish to form themselves into a union of their own. [More…]
If that is to happen in Australia, we can see then a path to confrontation between these large unions, few in number with concentrations of power, and Parliament itself and the Government itself. [More…]
In other industrialised countries of the world concentrations of power in a few unions have led to the most dire consequences for the community itself. [More…]
We know that, quite apart from the legal protection that might be given to small unions through the legislative provisions of the existing Conciliation and Arbitration Act, large unions can exert a nonlegal power in a way which small groups cannot withstand. [More…]
There can be great damage to the union movement in Australia if continued concentrations of power are allowed to develop into ever larger and larger unions. [More…]
We know from recent history that these large unions will seek not only to exercise that power in respect of industrial matters but also will seek to exercise that power for political purposes which are quite alien to the objectives for which those unions are registered under the Conciliation and Arbitration Act. [More…]
The honourable member for Phillip knows perfectly well the truth of what I am saying because in the Federated Clerks Union a small corrupt communist coterie got control of the balloting machinery and by abuse of that machinery was able to maintain itself in power. [More…]
The present law is, however, uncertain regarding the Minister’s powers in cases where a registered organisation presents a ‘package’ application for a variation in medical or hospital benefits and contribution rates. [More…]
One interpretation is that the Minister’s power is limited to acceptance or rejection in toto of an application by a fund to vary benefits and contributions. [More…]
Recent events have made it abundantly clear that some funds intend to take every step within their power to ensure that, when the present system of private health insurance ends and the new universal program commences, they retain intact the vast and excessive reserves which they have built up through consistently overcharging contributors over many years. [More…]
As I understand it, the Bill vests power in the Joint Committee on the Broadcasting of Parliamentary Proceedings to determine the manner in which the joint sitting of the Parliament next week is to be televised. [More…]
This reposes a great deal of power in that Committee, and I assume that we are not reposing it without due consideration of the objectivity of the members of that Committee while conferring on the manner in which the joint sitting will be televised. [More…]
In South Australia 2 men who became members of this Parliament on the same day as I did in 1966 witnessed the blatant misuse of political power, but they were not prepared to display the same patience and tolerance as I did. [More…]
That the committee have power to send for persons, papers and records. [More…]
That the committee have power to move from place to place, and to sit during any recess. [More…]
<10) That the committee have power to authorise publication of any evidence given before it and any document presented to it. [More…]
That the committee report within the shortest reasonable period and that any member of the committee have power to add a protest or dissent to any report [More…]
In the first instance, the Bill weakens the Commission’s power to safeguard the public interest. [More…]
Under the present legislation and under legislation which this Government accepted as recently as 13 November 1973, the power of the Commission to protect the public interest was maintained in relation to awards and agreements. [More…]
It also weakens the Commission’s power under section 32 in relation to observance of agreements. [More…]
Power would be transferred to shop stewards and union leadership would weaken and be encouraged to be irresponsible. [More…]
The powers of the Commission are also weakened concerning cancellation of a certified agreement. [More…]
The powers are not altered so far as they affect arbitrated awards, but they are weakened for agreements. [More…]
The Full Bench has complete discretion about the manner in which this power is used. [More…]
So there is no power in that direction. [More…]
The proposed new sections 282F and 282G conflict with section 32 which gives the Commission power to include a clause relating to hindering observance of the award so long as it is exercisable by a Full Bench. [More…]
The new dimension in industrial disputes is the power of the shop committee. [More…]
The unions of Australia at the present time wield tremendous power. [More…]
Yesterday in this House we had a debate on the concentration of power which would come about if the amalgamation of unions that the Minister would like to see are allowed to be pursued through the legislation he introduced. [More…]
In the Minister’s terms, because of the uncertainty of the power the Minister has over applications from the funds to increase benefits or contributions when presented to him in a package, he has seen fit to introduce in a very hurried fashion this amending Bill. [More…]
According to us the Act presently gives the Minister power to reject or accept those increases which are applied for from time to time. [More…]
Admittedly, if a fund disobeys the Minister’s direction the only power he seems to have is that of deregistration. [More…]
The Minister for Social Security in his second reading speech mentioned uncertainty of power. [More…]
I would thank the Minister if, in his reply, he would inform me as to who advised him about this uncertainty of power. [More…]
This Bill amends the Act to give the Minister additional power to vary applications for increase. [More…]
Instead of saying yes or no, to accept or to reject, this Bill gives the Minister power to vary. [More…]
This Bill gives the Minister that added power. [More…]
In the hands of a Minister who wants to destroy the private health funds - I am completely persuaded that this Minister and this Government want to do that - this is rather a strong power. [More…]
The Bill also gives power to a person to take out an injunction against a fund if it is operating against the Act or continuing to operate against the Act. [More…]
AH of this problem could have been overcome without the necessity for this grandstanding, because we believe that the power to meet the problem is in the Act already. [More…]
This Bill seeks to add to section 73b of the principal Act by placing a power in the hands of the Minister to enable him to direct that variations be made in the rates of hospital fund benefits payable by organisations to all or any of the contributors. [More…]
Under the present provisions an organisation is not subject by legislation to ministerial power in respect of the benefits that an organisation offers. [More…]
The Minister has some wide general powers which he can exercise on the recommendation of the Registration Committee and which he can then impose upon an organisation. [More…]
Under this power he could direct a benefit organisation not to increase the benefit. [More…]
The point I want to draw to the attention of the House, and I invite the Minister to comment upon it, is that the power that he is taking by this Bill would give him the authority to prevent any organisation from increasing its benefits. [More…]
This legislation places that power in the Minister’s hands. [More…]
But I am alarmed when I see in this Bill the inclusion of an additional power, an implied power, a condition precedent on the continued registration of an organisation, namely, a power to refuse an organisation’s application to increase the benefits. [More…]
The major reason he gives for the amendments proposed by this Bill is that at present he considers there is uncertainty as to his power to vary an application for an increase in benefits or contribution rates. [More…]
In July the Minister said that he did not have the power to vary an application from a fund with respect to contribution rates but a letter dated 18 June signed by his delegate in response to an application from another fund in another State states that the Minister had the power and he directs the fund to adopt a different rate. [More…]
Why does the Minister have the power one month and not the power the next month to do what is required and what is being asked for now - to direct a variation? [More…]
But if, the moment he receives this additional power from this legislation, he proceeds to act in an arbitrary manner, to penalise or attempt to penalise these organisations and, through them, the majority of the people in New South Wales, then he must be judged on this other basis of being out to kill anything of a private nature in our health system. [More…]
First of all, the advising of the uncertainty in relation to the power of the Act where a packet deal, if I can use that term, is concerned, that is, in relation to an increase in contributions and benefits is provided vis-a-vis the Government’s power to decide to allow one and not the other, came out of discussions with the Attorney-General’s Department at an early stage of consideration of what action could be taken to protect contributors interests. [More…]
They also throw further discredit on the Government’s much vaunted claims that it came to power on a reasoned, researched and consistent policy offered to the people of Australia. [More…]
Redrafting is required urgently for the Bills violate State constitutional authority force substantial increases in State motor taxation reduce effective expenditures on roads ensure chaotic delays in road programs threaten to penalise States for possible actions by local authorities and place power to veto elected State government decisions in hands of Commonwealth public servants. [More…]
Urgently request action to stop this blatant abuse of financial power. [More…]
The obvious inflationary effects of these proposals and the costly construction of a new and all powerful central bureaucracy remote from and inexperienced in the realities of road needs. [More…]
The people of Australia have, every right regardless of whether they are workers, employers or pensioners to have the real benefit of income which is based upon real purchasing power. [More…]
The Australian Democratic Labor Party, the Party which maintained the Opposition in power for a generation, was utterly destroyed. [More…]
The basic principle in the Roads Grants Bill - that the Commonwealth will have the power of decision making at all levels - will quickly reduce State and local governments to the position of post offices. [More…]
The Prime Minister chose to interpret my attitude as advocating centralism and concentration of power. [More…]
Could it be that these people are being intimidated by the power of the pursestrings held by Canberra already? [More…]
One wonders therefore why there is this urgent need to transfer the power from those people who have, responsibility and skills at the moment to this Government. [More…]
If we have problems, as we no doubt do, in relation to transport, they are not necessarily solved by bringing all the power back to Canberra and hoping that we will be able to do a job better than we did, say, in relation to data systems. [More…]
From a reading of the Sydney Area Transportation Study there is reason to conclude that it may be desirable that we examine some of our own powers in relation to transport matters. [More…]
I refer honourable members specifically to page 31 of the Transportation Study where the positive suggestion was made as to what the Commonwealth Government could do in relation to its own power. [More…]
What we will have by this sort of technique is government in accordance with those who are is power and in accordance with the cities to which they belong. [More…]
I do not want that sort of power myself. [More…]
The Opposition has specifically proposed an amendment that will remove the power of the Federal Government to tell the States how they will spend the money that they raise. [More…]
I turn now to the ‘blatant misuse of political power’ in South Australia. [More…]
In any event, 1 should remind the honourable gentleman that the Government itself, as a government, under the Constitution has no power directly to intervene in these industrial disputes. [More…]
The High Court of Australia has said time and time again - in no fewer than 166 different cases since 1904 - that the Australian Government and the Australian Parliament have no power directly to intervene in industrial relations. [More…]
The only power we have is to pass legislation to give the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission limited powers to act. [More…]
But they are very limited powers which means that even the Commission has very little power to do the things that are sometimes necessary. [More…]
If we had the powers which the New South Wales State Government has - indeed which all the State governments have - in relation to industrial matters, then we could be blamed, 1 suggest, whenever we failed to exercise those powers to bring about settlements. [More…]
It has no power directly to intervene. [More…]
Very often the Commission has no power to do the things that are needed. [More…]
If the Minister wants this power let him call a meeting of the Australian Transport Advisory Council and secure agreement from the State Ministers. [More…]
No Act of this Parliament should convey that power and privilege without first seeking the agreement either of the Australian people or of the elected State governments. [More…]
The Australian Government is trying to subvert the Constitution and to seek power in another fashion. [More…]
Sub-clauses (2), (3), (4) and (5) and, I think, (6) and (7) of clause 4 give the Australian Government power to control the use of its own funds. [More…]
But it is within sub-clause (1) that the power is given to the Government to control the expenditure by a State government of funds raised by State taxation and expenditure by local government of funds it has raised through rates. [More…]
If we are to change the system and concentrate power in Canberra let us do it by way of referendum. [More…]
It uses the knuckleduster - that is the sort of fight this is - because it has the power of the purse. [More…]
This Government will strangle other governments and, in strangling those governments, put all the power here in Canberra. [More…]
The issues are these: Is there to be a concentration of all decision making power in the Minister for Transport and his delegate, or is there to be a continuation of the involvement of State and local government bodies in that process? [More…]
The quality of democracy is that power is spread between Commonwealth Government, State governments, local government bodies and their respective employees. [More…]
I have the power to delegate certain authority to officers in my Department. [More…]
The power to delegate authority which is contained in this Bill is no different from that under which authority ? [More…]
Power is delegated to all these bodies. [More…]
Delegation of power is the standard procedure in a public service. [More…]
We are dealing with responsible men to whom power has been delegated. [More…]
Honourable members opposite know full well that those men did not abuse it and that they will not abuse any authority entrusted to them under this proposal any more than will public servants who have been delegated power by a State government or a local government authority. [More…]
We are still delegating power to public servants to approve things. [More…]
There is nothing original in the question of delegating power. [More…]
There is no point in enshrining in legislation the fights between power hungry departments. [More…]
There is simply no parallel between a Minister for Transport or his delegate granting a single voyage permit for a ship to sail up the coast and, as under this Bill, a Minister for Transport giving power to a delegate to override the authorities of other constitutional governments, either State or local. [More…]
This situation has been accepted by Western Australia, irrespective of what political party has been in power there; by Queensland, irrespective of what political party has been in power there; and, of course, by the Northern Territory which is Australian government territory. [More…]
What he says, knowing of course that 1 agree that the proposition that this particular road proposal is most undesirable, is: ‘How else will we be able to stop this proposal unless I and, presumably, the Minister for Transport have this power?’ [More…]
For that reason I do not want to see a transfer of power simply to achieve even what I believe to bea desirable objective. [More…]
1 want to take this a little further, not along the lines that I was pursuing when you called me to order but in relation to comments made today by the Minister in relation to this question of power. [More…]
Power is what is referred to in the clause to which I propose to move the amendment which has been foreshadowed. [More…]
We are talking about the transfer ofthat power from the State Government which has the responsibility at the moment, to the Federal Government. [More…]
This clause seeks to give the Treasurer the power to write to any local government body in Australia and demand from it, at any time he chooses, detailed information regarding roadwork expenditure in that local government authority area. [More…]
A power so delegated may be exercised in accordance with the instrument of delegation. [More…]
A delegation under this section is revocable at will and does not prevent the exercise of a power by a Minister. [More…]
The honourable member for Gippsland (Mr Nixon) is concerned about the delegation of power. [More…]
I give a simple explanation of delegation of power and how it works and how it is so evil to delegate power to Australian public servants. [More…]
A power so delegated may be exercised by the delegate in accordance with the instrument of delegation. [More…]
A delegation under this section is revocable at will and does not prevent the exercise of a power by the Minister. [More…]
This move represents a complete contradiction of the Constitution in which the power lies. [More…]
Once again, this clause gives the Minister a power to delegate authority to any officer of his Department. [More…]
Once again we come back to the old question of delegation of powers. [More…]
In all States the Minister does not retain total power. [More…]
He has the right at any point to intervene and to make decisions but, in the main, he delegates power. [More…]
That is delegated power. [More…]
So at any time any delegated power is abused it is always subject to cancellation at a moment’s notice if a Minister intervenes. [More…]
Again I give an example of delegated power. [More…]
What are the delegated powers and responsibilities of the Director-General of Civil Aviation? [More…]
My God, he really has powers delegated to him which allow him to walk on Lake Burley Griffin. [More…]
There is no one more responsive to popular wish, yet real power over the most vital issues is almost removed from his hands. [More…]
It is, in truth, 2 issues - one of people and one of powers. [More…]
my concern for the moment is with decentralisation of powers. [More…]
It is unashamedly and with commendable consistency committed to centralised power. [More…]
Major taxing power is at the centre. [More…]
We can, on track record, dismiss any hopes that the Whitlam Government of its own initiative will do anything to decentralise powers. [More…]
The transfer of power too often does not depend on legislation in any case. [More…]
In the face of current politics and government policy the one hope is that the States will make a stand together and use what political muscle they can muster to defy the usurpation of those powers that it was constitutionally intended they should exercise. [More…]
I believe that they would have been next in line for relief if we had remained in power. [More…]
The repeated rejection of this Bill is part of a pattern of obstruction adopted by the Opposition since the Australian Labor Government came to power. [More…]
Let me also make this clean It is not an instruction to the Distribution Commissioners to make the difference 20 per cent; it is a capacity or a power that the Distribution Commissioners have to make the difference up to 20 per cent if they can see that there will be great movements in population. [More…]
We say that without any alteration in our present law there is arising a heavy imbalance of political representation concentrating more and more power in city areas. [More…]
We of the Australian Country Party would be failing in our duty if we did not fight with all our power to protect the limited rights of country people and to fight to secure for country people something approaching the equality of representation to which they, as Australian citizens, are entitled. [More…]
The Opposition argues that Labor is gerrymandering electorates to entrench itself in power. [More…]
In my own State in the electorate of Wimmera 56 people have the same voting power as 100 people whom I represent. [More…]
Immediately to the north of Wimmera in the electorate of Mallee 57 people have the same voting power as 100 people in the electorate of Diamond Valley. [More…]
Day after day he argued that it was undemocratic and unfair that a government should be frustrated by senators who in some cases had been elected several years before Labor came to power. [More…]
The people flatly refused to grant that extra power for which their Prime Minister asked. [More…]
The Westminster system of government under which we operate gives to the party with the most seats in the lower House an absolute monopoly of power in that House. [More…]
It has been reelected to keep an eye on a government that the people of Australia obviously are not prepared to trust with the full power over both Houses. [More…]
Of course, there must be proper Executive power to any Government, but our British, our English idea, in a special sense, has always been a system of balanced rights and divided authority, with many other persons and organised bodies having to be considered besides the Government of the day and the officials they employ . [More…]
That the ALP gained power in 1972 with 49.71 per cent of the vote and held power in 1974 with 49.3 per cent of the vote indicates that the system is not as the Government attempts to make it out to be and is not loaded against the ALP Government as it would like the people to believe. [More…]
This Bill seeks to break down the authority of the Senate, to weaken the power of the Senate and to deny to the States that voice which our Federal compact sought to give to them. [More…]
We ought to recognise that the Labor Party is a party which, since it has been in Government, has exercised a power of patronage and corruption which is unequalled anywhere in Australia’s history- and the record of some of the States does not bear too close a scrutiny. [More…]
They will have the voice but not the power, and not quite the term of ordinary senators; indeed not quite the term in a form which was rebutted by the Australian electorate in one of the referenda proposals which were submitted to the Australian people on 18 May. [More…]
If one cares to look at section 122 of the Constitution one sees therein power for this Parliament to provide for Territory representation in the Parliament; so it is nonsense to say: ‘For the time being we are giving a voice to 2 Territories alone- the Australian Capital Territory and the Northern Territory’. [More…]
Of course, that might be carrying the argument to extremes but it is true that that is possible within the extension of the abuse of power which this Government is perpetuating by the changes which this legislation represents. [More…]
Mr Chairman, we believe that as the Northern Territory moves towards statehood it should be given an opportunity to have the same sort of Senate voice as every other State, not a watered down Senate voice with senators who are to be elected for less than a full term and senators who are to be restricted in such a way as to reduce the power of those who are normal members of the Senate. [More…]
It says that that section provides sufficient power for legislating in this manner. [More…]
Yet the Government is seeking to achieve that aim and providing power to do so in the legislation now before us. [More…]
I want to take the assumption- a rather extravagant one albeit- that this Bill, as an Act, is found to be a valid exercise of power, and I want to show to the Parliament the effect of it upon the Constitution. [More…]
Great persuasive powers had to be brought into play. [More…]
I hope that one day the abuse of power by the Opposition senators will persuade voters that the Senate is dispensable. [More…]
In moving to diminish the limits of power of the States through the Senate, the Government is taking another bold step to violate State rights by eroding the Senate’s power, influence and prestige. [More…]
It was largely due to the pressures applied by the honourable member for the Northern Territory and the elected members of the Northern Territory Legislative Council that the former Liberal Party-Country Party Government made a firm offer to the Northern Territory towards constitutional advancement and executive power. [More…]
Wherever we can detect a Federal interest or power we should provide for it in advance without waiting for public clamour or the long agitation leading up to an amendment of the situation. [More…]
We should provide in advance for all conceivable Federal contingencies, strengthen the Federal Government and trust the Federal Parliament to use its powers wisely. [More…]
While the Senate has constitutional authority and I have power to persuade in the country, I will use my vote in the Senate to establish the right of the people who voted for me. [More…]
The 6 original States are guaranteed equal voting power in this Senate, and no one can detract from that except by persuading the people to allow an amendment to be made to the Constitution. [More…]
Nobody can introduce into the Senate intruders who will weaken the power of the States on that compact. [More…]
The only way that political power can be exercised by people is by their being a part of the political institutions. [More…]
Those discussions reached the conclusion that at this stage at least the District of Columbia should not be represented primarily because of the danger inherent in a Public Service State having, perhaps, a balance of power. [More…]
With what nostalgic envy must members of the Labor Party look back to those heady days immediately after Labor’s election to power, when its confidence knew no bounds, when the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam), inordinately pleased with himself and puffed up with the sense of his own importance, was confidently proclaiming himself to be the greatest Foreign Minister Australia had ever had. [More…]
Perhaps this was the first indication to the Government that the people of Australia were not prepared to trust it with any more power than it already had. [More…]
Just think what the position would be like today if this incompetent, disorganised government, now in public disarray with half a dozen Treasurers and would-be Treasurers, had been given the powers for which it asked in these referenda. [More…]
For example, whilst it is proposed that representatives of Territories in the Senate should have full voting powers they would differ in important respects from other senators. [More…]
We are told that section 24 of the Constitution is not to apply to them yet they are to attract to themselves power equal to those of the true Senate representatives of the States. [More…]
During our time in government Territory representatives in the House of Representatives gained full voting powers. [More…]
By the Minister’s own statement this new Legislative Assembly will not have one extra power over the present Advisory Council. [More…]
There is only one place in which these additional public ward beds will be required and under this Bill the Minister has power- time does not permit me to go into this- to do just that. [More…]
He has complete power to do so under section 34 of the Act. [More…]
The Minister will have dictatorial power over private, religious and charitable hospitals. [More…]
The result of those referendums or elections put honourable senators and members on this side of the Parliament into power, and the proposed health scheme was part of our policy at those elections. [More…]
It never concerned the Opposition in that other large field of public health carerepatriation medical services- when it was in power. [More…]
We have taken some of the power out of the centralised bureaucracies of the States. [More…]
Nothing that this Government does can be considered other than in a context of power and its propensity to stretch the Constitution to its very limit. [More…]
The commonsense of the Australian people was manifest when the Constitution was first -adopted, because in the matter of health only one power was conferred on the Commonwealth Government- the power of quarantine. [More…]
When, after the Second World War, the social service amendments were made to the Constitution, further powers in respect of health, hospitals, medical benefits, etc., were conferred upon the Commonwealth Government, but not so as to authorise any form of civil conscription. [More…]
Everything that is done by this Government is done in the context of power. [More…]
In terms of health, which is the most intimate of social services, the Government does not want to put itself in the position of sharing power with anyone else. [More…]
We have the specific mandate of the electors of Australia, who returned this Government to power, following a double dissolution election in which this legislation was a major issue. [More…]
It has been conceived out of prejudice and it is motivated by the desire for more political power. [More…]
The Government already has all the power it needs to control, to regulate and to direct the mining industries of this country. [More…]
Why is the Minister so anxious to have this new powerful authority? [More…]
Never have we seen such far-reaching powers being given to a Minister or such wide-ranging all-embracing powers being given to an authority as exists in this legislation. [More…]
Surely such powers and such highly contentious issues deserve a great deal more explanation from this Government than we have had up to date. [More…]
This socialist Government that we have in Australia at the moment is set upon giving all power to this Authority so that it can control the industry, nationalise it and socialise it if it so wishes. [More…]
The Deputy Leader of the Country Party said that it is the Government which has power over this matter. [More…]
The policy of all previous Australian governments was to allow one company to take up permits under its own power and control and responsible to nobody and, when it could not itself explore the resources, to farm out to other companies under its control. [More…]
Under the export power of the Constitution, the Commonwealth already has complete and absolute power to control and regulate policy. [More…]
There is no need for a further extension of power, particularly to a government which so clearly has abused and misused so many of the powers which are available to it at the present time. [More…]
The top 25 oil corporations control 84 per cent of oU, 72 per cent of gas, 50 per cent of coal, 80 per cent of atomic or nuclear power and 60 per cent of electric power. [More…]
I believe analysis shows, even if it should be that this BUI proves to be constitutional- that is a matter for the courts to decide, not for anyone to say what he thinks will happen- that it gives practically uncontrolled power to the proposed Authority and to the Minister and the Government and provides for practically no parliamentary oversight. [More…]
It Will have power to acquire exploration areas, even when these are held by others. [More…]
It will have power to acquire an interest in any actual or proposed mining venture upon its own terms. [More…]
It will have unlimited powers in relation to the terms under which it can employ staff. [More…]
It will have power against the wishes of the occupier to explore, occupy and mine anywhere in Australia, including areas already held under lease and worked by State authorities, private companies or individuals. [More…]
It will have power to interfere with exploration or mining activities already being lawfully carried out to the extent necessary for the reasonable exercise of the rights and performance of the duties of the Authority. [More…]
The Authority is not subject to State law because its powers flow from the Constitution and it would be a denial of the Constitution to make the exercise of its powers subject to a State. [More…]
I ask the House to compare it to the defence power. [More…]
As State mining laws do not apply it is necessary to give the Authority alternative means of gaining access to areas for its activities; hence the declaration provisions in Part VI of the Bill and the powers of entry in clauses 13 and 14. [More…]
Much has been made of the powers of the Authority in clause 12. [More…]
These provisions simply reflect those powers which the articles of association of any oil or mining company would contain. [More…]
This is, of course, nonsense as the powers to lend moneys, underwrite shares and give guarantees will clearly indicate. [More…]
Major companies in key industries have enormous power of persuasion with the people and with legislators. [More…]
The top 25 oil companies in the United States now control 84 per cent of all oil, 72 per cent of all gas, 54 per cent of all coal and 80 per cent of all atomic power, together with 60 per cent of all electric power in the United States. [More…]
We do not comment on government policy in relation to petroleum exploration and production, whichever political party is in power, though we may report events that follow from the implementation of government policy. [More…]
In that debate Mr Anthony, who is the Leader of the Australian Country Party and the right honourable member for Richmond, said among a number of things that the Bill gives unfettered enormous power to an Authority, a Minister and a Government over which the Parliament has little scrutiny. [More…]
But I suggest that in order to have this proper measure of control there is ample legislative power within the present construction of our Constitution, and through taxation and other means. [More…]
In the first place, it envisagesthis is the area to which I have the greatest objectionthe establishment of a vertically integrated company with the power to enter, to research, to develop, to trade in, to transport and indeed to market anything in the area of petroleum and minerals in this country. [More…]
Even a vertically integrated company with vast power may be bearable in a certain context, but this is a company with vast, privileged powers. [More…]
But how is such a partnership to be achieved under the shadow of this instrument of truly awesome power that is now before the House? [More…]
Yet the Government is now accepting the amendments moved in the Senate because it is not prepared to face up to the Australian people with the tactics it was pursuing to have more and more central power in Canberra. [More…]
Obviously he is the man with all the executive power while the Prime Minister is nothing more than a constitutional mark. [More…]
1 ) A corporation that is in a position substantially to control a market for goods or services shall not take advantage of the power in relation to that market that it has by virtue of being in that position- [More…]
“(6) The power of the Governor-General to make appointments of members of the Commission or to make regulations under this Act may be exercised at any time after the day on which this Act receives the Royal Assent but any appointment or regulation so made shall not take effect until the date fixed under sub-section (3). [More…]
In clause 46, after sub-clause (2), insert the following new sub-clause: “(2a) For the purposes of this section, a reference to a corporation being in a position substantially to control a market for goods or services includes a reference to a corporation which, by reason of its share of the market, or of its share of the market combined with availability of technical knowledge, raw materials or capital, has the power to determine the prices, or control the production or distribution, of a substantial pan of the goods or services in that market. [More…]
It was the previous Government that established before the High Court the wide powers under the corporations power in relation to trade practices. [More…]
However, the Government is not prepared to accept the first 2 amendments, which relate to the power of the Minister for Transport to declare a road an export road or a major commercial road. [More…]
In the Government’s view there is no difference in principle between the declaration of an ‘export’ road, or a ‘major commercial’ road and those which the Minister was able to declare without the States’ agreement when the Opposition was in power. [More…]
It remains the intention of the Government that the Minister’s power under clause 4, sub-clause 1, should apply only to urban arterial roads. [More…]
For that reason he has accepted the Opposition’s amendment to take away the power of the Australian Government over local rural roads, rural arterial roads and local urban roads in the cities throughout Australia. [More…]
and the State Ministers are powerful enough in their own right to resist the all-power dominance of the Australian Government. [More…]
When we came into power we sought from the Commonwealth Bureau of Roads information as to whether there had been any study of the environmental, social and economic aspects of freeways. [More…]
The honourable member for Parramatta (Mr Ruddock) was concerned that we should ever have the legislative power to do this; now he says that we have to do it by persuasion. [More…]
In the meantime the States have their power. [More…]
It needs to have a say in it, but it cannot have a veto power that enables it to say that the States are wrong and the Commonwealth will not let the States do what they want to do. [More…]
Amendments Nos 6 and 7 remove the power of the Treasurer to advance funds to the extent that he is satisfied that such funds are required by the States and to obtain certain information in regard to the administration of the Act. [More…]
It is also planned to commence investigations during the coming financial year into the potential for hydro and thermal power generation in the Burdekin Basin. [More…]
But I will not support a resolution of this nature which gives you the power to remove a member from this House perhaps months after the event has occurred. [More…]
I conclude on the point that the essence of democracy is divided power and the essence of parliamentary proceedings in this House is fairness. [More…]
We do not claim to have any great power to avoid the increases we have made. [More…]
The increases have been in response to a changed purchasing power of money; I do not dispute that. [More…]
The ‘ Government appears to be quite helpless in the face of this problem, and of course this is not surprising in a world in which the power of the trade unions exceeds the power of elected governments, particularly this Government that we have at the moment. [More…]
This should certainly be the case in the strategic industries, such as fuel, power and transport. [More…]
I want to remove some of the power which Mr Mundey and others like him have to bash the Australian community. [More…]
The powers of the Commission are exercisable only by a presidential member or by a full bench and not otherwise. [More…]
That is not our section; that is the section which was put into the Act by the Opposition when it was in government The Opposition proposed that in no circumstances could the government exercise this power. [More…]
Only the party to an award has the power to make an application, not the government. [More…]
Act to clarify the authority of the House of Assembly to legislate in the offshore area, as defined in the new section, and provides that such authority shall not be construed as limiting by implication any other power of the House of Assembly to make laws under the principal Act. [More…]
The words of that distinguished gentleman were that if the left wing of the communist unions obtained control of the power union, the transport union and the supply union it could bring this country to its knees. [More…]
The fire power was greater than that of other tanks in the field at the time. [More…]
I think that ultimately it will be a good test of power, and we will see who really runs this Australian Government or some of its Ministers, whether they are controlled by the overseas forces or by the trade unions. [More…]
But information has been given to the Opposition by persons close to the power centre such as the honourable member for Port Adelaide (Mr Young). [More…]
He is close to the power centre. [More…]
It was well within the power of the honourable member for Leichhardt (Mr Fulton), who was then the ViceChairman of the Committee, to insist that it be done. [More…]
Many public initiatives are being taken in the area including a new health centre, a new primary school and high school, a new power station and sewerage in the town. [More…]
Economic and social conditions in most developing nations have suffered a marked deterioration since the Liberal and Country Parties were last in power. [More…]
Projects financed by Asian Development Bank loans cover such development activities as construction of highways, processing of agricultural products and development of fishery fleets, industrial plants, water and power supply, ports, airports, multipurpose development schemes, irrigation, medium and small industries through national . [More…]
Having done that, the second piece of legislation- the Papua New Guinea Billamends the principal Act by transferring to the Papua New Guinea House of Assembly the power with regard to off-shore mining. [More…]
This is necessary to ensure that there is no doubt that the Papua New Guinea House of Assembly has absolute power over legislation in respect of offshore mining. [More…]
You have a situation here giving power to the Papua New Guinea House of Assembly over an area that is not consistent with the boundary between Papua New Guinea and Australia. [More…]
The distinction between self government and independence is broadly that when an administered area reaches self government it is responsible for all the domestic legislation and control of its own affairs within its own borders at that date, but there are certain powers that devolve and remain existent in the metropolitan or controlling power- the administering authority, if you like- and that is the Government of Australia. [More…]
But some powers were not transferred on the date of independence, and we are dealing with one of them now. [More…]
It seems to me to be totally wrong both to deny the constitutional provisions of this country and to seek to act unilaterally, to find that you are bashing your head against a brick wall because the State Government of Queensland is vested with the right of an exercise of power in this area and to do little or nothing about this matter so soon before independence. [More…]
It is delicate in the sense that no matter what country in the world is moving from an area where it is an administered power to becoming an entity internationally in its own right, there will be divergences within its community as to the timing. [More…]
We are a Common Law country enjoying a system that has evolved over centuries, a system that protects the individual, a system that provides for those who violate the law or abuse their power or their privileges. [More…]
I say that at this point you were wrong because there was no power in the Speaker to do this. [More…]
Subsequent to the Joint Committee’s report, the power of the Australian Government to regulate the export of meatmeal under the Customs (Prohibited Exports) Regulations has been applied more stringently, primarily to ensure that the domestic market continues to have priority in the use of available supplies. [More…]
No Speaker has had the power to ask anyone answering a question to terminate that answer. [More…]
The other unions are the Marine Cooks, Bakers and Butchers Association of Australasia, the Federated Marine Stewards and Pantrymen’s Association of Australasia, the Federated Shipwrights and Ship Constructors Association of Australia, the Merchant Service Guild of Australiait shocks me to see that union includedthe Professional Radio Employees Institute of Australasia and the Australian Institute of Marine and Power Engineers. [More…]
I rise to draw attention further to the tragic circumstances in Western Australia where legislation which has been sent from the Lower House to the Upper House proposes to take from Australian citizens their basic freedoms at law and to give to an elected government powers which were not mentioned during that government’s election manifesto. [More…]
I refer to the Fuel and Power Resources Act Amendment Bill which was introduced by the Western Australian Liberal Government. [More…]
The Law Society of Western Australia, trade union leaders, State Opposition members and community leaders are expressing their abhorrence of the proposals which take from citizens the right to trial by jury, which gives the Government the power of summary arrest, and which enable searches of homes without warrant to be carried out at a Minister’s direction. [More…]
It is useless for a Minister or a member of any Party to say that they would not use the power in this way. [More…]
These State people are obviously power crazy. [More…]
Let us recognise that when some State authority has sold its principle for power and personal gain. [More…]
I believe that some people in Western Australia would be prepared to seize all power and even secede, no matter how illegal such action would be, from the federation to establish a totalitarian system of some son without giving [More…]
Interestingly enough, where their market power is reduced, as it is in the dishwashing/liquid detergent part of the market (where they control less than 45 per cent), cost increases have been absorbed with the result that the rate of price increase has been less frequent than in other sections of the market. [More…]
At present the Act provides for the Tribunal to determine the salaries of statutory office holders but does not give it power over many similar positions which have in the past been dealt with by the same salary fixing procedures as statutory office holders. [More…]
The Tribunal will have the power to determine salaries for universities and colleges of advanced education established by law in the Territories and will recommend the rates of salaries which should be used as a basis for grants to the States. [More…]
Clause 6 goes on to list offices for which the Tribunal will not have power to determine remuneration. [More…]
There is no constitutional obstacle to the Tribunal having power to determine salaries for these people but it is desirable for the sake of consistency that they should be considered by the Tribunal in conjunction with judges. [More…]
Clause 9 amends section 7 of the principal Act which gives the Tribunal power to determine remuneration for parliamentarians, First Division officers and statutory office holders. [More…]
The Tribunal itself will have power to decide when to make reports and determinations. [More…]
It increases charges the impact of which will be felt not only by individuals whose purchasing power will be reduced unless they can increase their incomes but also by business undertakings which have the ability to pass on the increased charges. [More…]
The Democratic Labor Party had the balance of power in the Senate and it was prepared to take the popular stand. [More…]
This will result from the responsible decision made by this Government soon after it came to power to appoint a royal commission to inquire into the Australian Post Office. [More…]
It is true that the passage of this Bill will enable the Australian Wheat Board to exercise the additional powers which it is to be given in accordance with the extended provisions of clause 36 of the Bill. [More…]
But the Opposition is concerned that this extension of power should not be used by the Government purely to avoid its responsibility to maintain the free flow of trade. [More…]
For that reason, this amendment is acceptable only if it is for the purpose of exercising the legitimate borrowing power and is not being proposed because the Government seeks to avoid its responsibility. [More…]
But, because the reason given by the Minister relates to powers expressed in clause 36,I think it is necessary that the Committee consider the implications of the early passage of the Bill. [More…]
I trust that, in presenting the argument that he has presented tonight, the Minister will accept the proposition that the power to borrow commercially should not be used by the Government as a device to avoid its responsibility to maintain the availability of fuel to enable trains to move the grain from the inland terminals to the ports, its responsibility to keep ships handling cargoes which have been presold and on which letters of credit have been received and to ensure that industrial disruption does not prevent vessels in port from loading their cargoes, or the Government’s responsibility to keep the commodity flowing in the way that it should flow and in areas in which the Government has a responsibility so to do. [More…]
They asked our predecessors to remove them, but it was not until the Labor Party came into power that there was a 25 per cent reduction in tariffs. [More…]
I agree with the provision that the Australian Wheat Board is to have power for two seasons beyond the duration of this stabilisation scheme because to grow and market wheat is no small operation. [More…]
In the old legislation the only power the Treasurer had was to approve of a bank but now the Minister is subservient to the Treasurer. [More…]
As honourable members are aware, the sewerage backlog in our major urban areas in Australia was a major social problem when we came to power. [More…]
Never has a government been as fortunate as the present Labor Government was when it came to power. [More…]
This was the situation when Labor came to power. [More…]
In fact, taking into account the astronomical rises in costs since this Government came to power, it is doubtful whether the price guaranteed today is any better than the disastrously low prices of a few years ago. [More…]
How many honourable members opposite, how many Ministers, would like to suffer a 50 per cent reduction in their purchasing power in one year? [More…]
All it is doing is taking unto itself more and more power because it has control of the purse. [More…]
Government power is further centralised. [More…]
In other words he had achieved a situation in which the unions- the working man- had less bargaining power. [More…]
Because in this capitalist system we are so dependent on the whim of businessmen and their investment decisions, because we do not have a majority in the Senate, because we have a lack of co-operation in many of the States, because the Opposition went out onto the hustings less than a year ago and fought a sensible referendum giving this Australian Parliament powers that are possessed by every other equivalent parliament in the world- power over prices and incomes- we had a landing from these boom conditions which now do demand very careful treatment, and very careful treatment they will get from a very sensitive government. [More…]
The ultimate result of every action that has been taken since Labor came to power in 1972 has resulted in an aggregation of rural holdings and a strengthening and build-up of corporate bodies. [More…]
It is incontrovertible that since the Labor Government came to power there has been a huge increase in costs of production. [More…]
The Australian Wool Corporation now has powers to control the flow of wool on to the market and the nominal power to persuade growers to hold wool on their property. [More…]
The Australian Wool Corporation in my opinion needs to have the power to buy outside the reserve price scheme if an opportunity presents itself. [More…]
It also needs to have the power to trade in other than greasy wool. [More…]
I think it would be advised to absorb its new powers and work towards refining the plan it has put up to the Government. [More…]
When we talk about distributing money to wool growers or to anybody else we must always bear in mind, if we are to be responsible about this, that if we are to give a benefit to some group, such as wool growers, we must deny funds and deny buying power to some other section of the community. [More…]
It is clear that there is a policy of creating an image of a union with irresistable power. [More…]
I say on behalf of the Opposition that the removal of the superphosphate bounty, which was done more or less overnight, was one of the greatest blots on the history of the Labor administration since it has come to power. [More…]
The Bill is a clear illustration of the use of probably the most emancipated power in the Australian Constitution, and that is the grants power under section 96 of the Constitution. [More…]
The Bill is a reminder to us all, I think, of the potential use of that power, that it can be used in such a fashion to reach out and to say in most explicit terms: ‘Here is money which is made available and it shall be spent in this specified fashion. ‘ [More…]
One recalls the unemployment in 1960 and, of course, not long before we came to power exactly the same situation existed. [More…]
When one goes through the Treasurer’s speech one finds that in so many areas there is a relentless transfer of resources and power to the Federal Government. [More…]
If the Liberal and Country Parties ever get back into power they will go back into their same old style of no ideas, of no concepts, of no understanding of the community and of giving money to the States and saying: ‘We hope that it will be spent in the right way but do not blame us if it is not’. [More…]
But given the cumbersome appearance of the federal system, it is not surprising that the Federal Government has succumbed to the temptation of trying to centralise power at the expense of the States and existing local government authorities. [More…]
It is superficially tempting to do this, but in a country of Australia’s physical size and growing complexity and diversity the centralisation of power in the hands of one government would be detrimental to our development. [More…]
I believe it is sensible to record now that I am concerned by the obvious intentions of the Government to centralise power in Canberra. [More…]
In the case of a very strong Prime Minister, it could mean centralisation in the hands of one person, and where the Cabinet was generally lacklustre it would mean that power could reside in a few non-elected officials. [More…]
The granting of taxation powers and logical liberal High Court interpretation of the Federal Government’s powers have assured this. [More…]
Power usually resides where the purse is fullest, and such centralisation of power would actually reduce the effectiveness of government in Australia. [More…]
For even if power were made to reside in a few hands, wisdom would rarely reside in the same hands. [More…]
It is a tribute to Mr Hawke’s charisma that people think he is powerful. [More…]
His counterpart amongst the employers, Mr Polites, is equally dependent upon his considerable powers of persuasion. [More…]
There are, of course, some people who seem to find comfort in this fragmentation and who fear that more centralised union power will fall into the hands of militants. [More…]
To them I can only reply that this is quite possible but that history shows us that more often than not real power brings a sense of responsibility and accountability. [More…]
Who in our society has the most to gain from the initiatives in the field of transport, education, health services, social security and other public services which this Government has taken since it came to power? [More…]
This was a tremendous rise and one which led to the great problems which this Government faced when it came to power. [More…]
These are the people who stumped the country urging voters last year to reject the referendum which was designed to give the Government power to control prices of a restricted range of commodities. [More…]
They know that they do not want a government which is going to take over from them all the power ultimately to make decisions which affect their own lives. [More…]
They know that a government which takes more and more dollars from people through this escalating tax slug in times of inflation is taking from people the power to make decisions. [More…]
Subsequent to the Joint Committee’s report, the power of the Australian Government to regulate the export of meatmeals has been applied more stringently, primarily to ensure that the domestic market continues to have priority in the use of available supplies. [More…]
We intend to exercise that power and in the right of our ownership. [More…]
In addition, we have control over uranium in the States by virtue of the defence power. [More…]
Government members may not be aware that the Canadian royal commission on taxation- the Carter Commissionstated quite clearly that every increase in economic power, no matter what its source, should be treated the same for tax purposes. [More…]
property confers advantages on its owner independent of, and additional to, the income it yields: it serves as a reserve of spending power in emergencies and thus reduces the need to save out of income, it provides security for old age and heirs, it provides opportunities for reducing income tax liability by income-splitting, it gives the owner access to credit, it is a necessary condition of business enterprise, and it confers social status and prestige. [More…]
Now we are, in a measure, retreating to say: ‘We give the Minister power to determine what in fact is a university.’ [More…]
The greatest shift of power in recent years has taken place not inside the campus, but in the transfer of authority from the campus to outside agencies. [More…]
It is a question of utilising the brain power and the capacities of the universities to the maximum extent possible. [More…]
However, the point about the definition is that it does not give me capricious powers to ignore private initiatives that are recognised by the States should they become universities. [More…]
It does not give me the power to recognise in the States what the States would not recognise as universities, about which they have not legislated and declared to be universities. [More…]
Tasmanians have seen that the so-called rural rump which comes from Tasmania has no influence and no power whatsoever within Caucus to see that Tasmanian farmers, Tasmanian manufacturers and the Tasmanian mining industry get a fair go. [More…]
It is obvious that the present Labor Administration is hog-tied to the powerful trade unions which exist on the mainland. [More…]
I note that defence expenditure in 1971-72 when a LiberalCountry Party Government was in power totalled $1,1 64m. [More…]
The honourable member for Swan (Mr Bennett) should know that the dollars that we were spending on defence meant something and that since this Government has been in power those same dollars have depreciated in value by approximately 40 per cent. [More…]
It is a stable community- or was, before this Government came to power. [More…]
It became quite impossible to restrain that feeling after this Government came tc power. [More…]
So, the Government possesses enough power. [More…]
It does not need more power. [More…]
The powers are there. [More…]
One factor in the amendment moved by the Leader of the Oppositiongovernment power is further centralised- is a criticism that I have made of government, of the Executive, not only from this side of the House in opposition but also when my party has been in government. [More…]
But recently there have been a series of articles in our newspapers talking about the power of the Public Service and the control it sometimes exercises over Ministers in government. [More…]
I believe that if this power were centralised in Canberra to a greater degree- and there is this tendency at the moment- then the bureaucracy would become so powerful that it would be dangerous to the future progress and development of Australia. [More…]
Centralise that procedure in Canberra- and I do not mind whether it is a Liberal Party-Country Party government or a Labor Party government in power- and it would be impossible for a Minister to see all the deputations and all the people who would desire to come to Canberra to place their case before him. [More…]
I believe therefore that among the other comments in the amendment the comment that government power is further centralised reflects something that should cause concern to all people in Australia. [More…]
I may have minor arguments with some of the details, but broadly speaking I think the people I represent in this House have benefited greatly in having a Labor Government in power for the last 1 8 to 20 months. [More…]
Therefore there are still some 150,000 to 200,000 more people in employment now than there would have been had the previous Government continued in power. [More…]
Is there any future for generation of power by tidal forces in northwest Australia? [More…]
The Atomic Energy Commission complies with my directions in relation to the performance of its functions and the exercise of its power. [More…]
So we have another 40 years of production, another 40 years of power to be supplied by conventionally enriched reactors. [More…]
The effect of the first 2 amendments is to remove from the Bill clause 12 (lines 30 to 36) and paragraph (b) of clause 13 (line 39) which gave to authorised officers power to examine persons on oath or affirmation and imposed a penalty for failing or refusing to be sworn or to make an affirmation. [More…]
The Government proposed these amendments because it considers it to be improper and unnecessary for legislation to give powers of this kind to officers unless there are special circumstances making this necessary. [More…]
Clause 1 1 of the Bill gives authorised officers powers to require answers to questions and to require documents etc., to be produced. [More…]
These powers are considered to be so adequate for the administrative tax collection purposes of this Bill as to render unnecessary the additional power to examine on oath or affirmation. [More…]
For example, this year it is proposed that Queensland will receive $32m towards the cost of the Gladstone power house. [More…]
7 ) Government power is further centralised, [More…]
I would like to have said something tonight on the power of multinationals, as my mind was prompted by the very sincere speech of my friend, the honourable member for Scullin (Dr Jenkins). [More…]
The things that were crippling Australia then, as they are today in a greater degree, were inflation, unemployment, crippling interest rates and so many other perpetrations by this Government since it has been in power. [More…]
Unfortunately, past history shows Commonwealth aid road grants have never been related in any way to safety features and we believe that it is the responsibility of the Australian Government to use the power of direction it has through the Commonwealth aid road grants to ensure that the highest standards of safety are implemented. [More…]
I have noted your concern and wish to advise that I am doing everything in my power to achieve a settlement in this dispute. [More…]
In the recent Budget that amount has been increased to $160,000 on a dollar for dollar basis for the provision of surf life saving equipment, and an additional $70,000 has been provided to help needy clubs and also for the purchase of power boats. [More…]
I point out to the House that the maintenance costs alone of a power surf boat are $ 1 ,000 per annum. [More…]
The equipment now being used includes the power boats of a very sophisticated kind, a helicopter service and up to date radio and telecommunications equipment. [More…]
When we came to power in 1972 we inherited from the previous Government proposals for new nursing home benefits arrangements that were authorised by the National Health Act 1 972 for implementation from January of 1 973. [More…]
The first concerns the powers of the Broadcasting Control Board to regulate appropriately the programs of commercial broadcasting and television stations. [More…]
This power existed in the Act until it was amended in 1 956. [More…]
In recent years some stations have challenged the Board’s powers in the programming area by relying on a narrow legal definition of the word ‘standards’, and the Government’s legal advisers have confirmed that this approach has had some validity. [More…]
The Board has consistently drawn attention to this lack in its powers of the past 7 years, but no action has been taken until now to correct the anomaly. [More…]
The relevant section of the Act is section 16, which sets out the powers and functions of the Board. [More…]
Unfortunately, however, the Act does not provide the Board with a power comparable with that function. [More…]
The proposed amendments to section 16, which are included in clause 6 of the Bill I now present, specifically provide the Board with a general power to carry out all its functions. [More…]
Further, it inserts two new specific powers. [More…]
The first will become paragraph (e) of sub-section (3) of section 16, and provides that the Board shall have power to determine rules and standards to be observed by licensees in relation to commercial broadcasting and television programs. [More…]
The second new power is provided by the new sub-section (3) (a) which specifically provides power to the Board to determine, subject to the Minister’s approval, requirements with regard to programs of Australian origin. [More…]
It will have power to decide when to make reports and determinations, and the Minister will have to table a copy of the determination in each House within IS sitting days of receiving it. [More…]
Either House will have the power to disallow any determination within 15 sitting days after tabling. [More…]
But for my part I would not accept that view; rather I believe it is only reasonable to recognise that the vitality and competitive power of Australian manufacturing will benefit from the greater rationalisation of manufacturing industry. [More…]
The Government, lacking power over prices and incomes and able only to fine-tune the economy by exercising the controls it has over the flow of money both into and within the country, and its powers of currency valuation and tariffs, sought to make the market more competitive and less speculative by using those powers. [More…]
Even in countries like the United States, which has the power to control prices, he will react like the beef producer and withdraw his cattle from the market until the price freeze is over. [More…]
Government power is further centralised, [More…]
When the members of the Australian Labor Party came to power in 1972 they did so because they had said to the people successfully on that occasion, as they had said unsuccessfully on many previous occasions: ‘If you elect us we will do all sorts of things for you. [More…]
Sufficient to put them into power. [More…]
He does not mean the same people in a physical sense; he means the people occupying the same positions of power and influence- have no answer to the problem of world inflation. [More…]
It will provide for hydro power, flood and drought mitigation and an umlimited water supply for people, industry and agriculture. [More…]
He asserted at the outset of his speech that since the Labor Government had been in power the value of money had depreciated by approximately 40 per cent. [More…]
But if he meant what he said, that is, that the value of money had fallen by 40 per cent since Labor came to office, it would imply that in his opinion prices had increased by 67 per cent since Labor came to power. [More…]
The process of obtaining indexation is not easy for the Government because it does not have the powers to legislate directly for indexation of wages and salaries or any other incomes in this country. [More…]
We sought at the end of last year powers to control incomes, but this was denied us by the Australian people. [More…]
Because we have not that power we have had to pursue the process by means of the conference of unions and employers before Mr Justice Moore of the Australian Conciliation and Arbitration Commission. [More…]
The Bank has such powers as are necessary for the purposes of this Act and, in particular, and in addition to any other powers conferred on it by this Act, has power . [More…]
It has power to lend money to corporations such as building societies. [More…]
I ask the Acting Treasurer whether in those discussions that occurred between the Government and the Reserve Bank, the Bank has been explicitly instructed not to utilise that power with respect to building societies which are concerning many people in my own State. [More…]
If the Government contends that it has not that power, it certainly has the power under regulations which it could bring down pursuant to the Reserve Bank Act and possibly even in relation to the Financial Corporations Act. [More…]
The incredible thing is that this interventionist Government, this socialist Government, that has sought to intervene nearly everywhere else in the economy where it has a right to intervene and where it is foolish to intervene, refrains from taking action under this section in an area where I believe it has explicit and clear power to act. [More…]
Unfortunately it was followed immediately by the onset of a vicious cost inflation as income earners of all sorts scrambled to maintain their purchasing power in the face of repeated price increases generated during the demand phase. [More…]
The media could remain sceptical about the overtures that the Government has made and the response those overtures have drawn from the unions without doing everything in their power to deny to the community the hope on which, after all, confidence depends. [More…]
The balance of economic power in the world will not be the same again. [More…]
In the last year that the previous Government was in power, it paid $52 1.9m to the State of New South Wales in financial assistance grants. [More…]
It reveals clearly and finally the destructive and humiliating policies of the power drunk people who sit opposite. [More…]
Power unlimited was given to Dr [More…]
The purchasing power of the pensioner’s current pay cheque is far less than it was during our term in office. [More…]
The honourable member said that we were power drunk. [More…]
We are called power drunk. [More…]
Later in this letter, Mr Clark says: … the Company will do anything in its power to assist the Departmental Officer in his investigation. [More…]
The Bank has such powers as are necessary for the purpose of this Act, and, in particular, and in addition to any other powers conferred on it by this Act, has power- [More…]
The attitude of the Country Party is to provide drought relief for 6 months and flood relief for the next 6 months as long as the people elect it to power. [More…]
Let there be no doubt that when the Leader of the Country Party speaks in this Parliament he speaks because he must speak in return for the money that was contributed to his Party to try to return it to power. [More…]
As I have said, there are other parameters affecting other Government authorities which operate under similar power and which do not apply to ANL Therefore in the Committee stage I will be moving an amendment that will go some way to protect the taxpayer, ANL, other shipping companies and indeed the Minister himself. [More…]
As well as having the power under section 17 of the Act to direct ANL to enter a trade he also has the power under section 19 of the Act to approve the freight rates in such a trade. [More…]
This Government came to power some 2 years ago. [More…]
When the Labor Government came to power an impasse existed between the South [More…]
It fed the power houses in Port Augusta which at one time provided 75 per cent of the State’s power. [More…]
Since the construction of new power houses in South Australia that percentage has dropped, but Leigh Creek coal is still a very big factor. [More…]
It was announced recently that the South Australian Electricity Trust will probably build another coal fired power station in Port Augusta, which makes it very important that that line be kept open. [More…]
As I said, when this Government came to power there was an impasse. [More…]
The Opposition was in power for 23 years and the flooding of the northern line did not start when the Labor Government came to power. [More…]
It remained at that stage until the 1950s when, due to pressure from the South Australian Government to bring Leigh Creek coal down to the power houses it was building in Port Augusta, Commonwealth Railways built a broad gauge line from Port Augusta to the Leigh Creek coalfields and then extended that line on to Marree. [More…]
Not only did the State Liberal and Country Party governments, along with their cohorts in this place, help to defeat the referendum that proposed to give the Australian Government the power to control prices and incomes last year, but they also have now gone further and have levied extravagant charges on goods and services, which in every case will make it even more difficult for whatever government happens to be in power in this Australian Parliament to control inflation. [More…]
1 of the Budget papers shows that in 1973-74 the States were provided with $4, 179m, which represented a 2 1.2 per cent increase on the amount of money provided in the previous financial year, during half of which year the Liberal-Country Party Government was in power. [More…]
I doubt whether free enterprise parties opposite would support this sort of drastic use of Government power. [More…]
The Opposition has a great greed for power and would do anything to gain control of this country again in the name of big business. [More…]
The Opposition would rather accept profit for itself without qualification and the power that goes with it rather than question what can be achieved with it and what is the result for the common good. [More…]
The Government was elected on a grand design for income redistribution combined with social welfare policies to help the low income earners within our community, but it has ignored the fact that inflation is reducing the real purchasing power of income, that there is a rapidly falling value of money, that prices for goods and services are rising and that there is a lower net income as taxes increase. [More…]
The people of Australia will long remember the incompetence and, in spite of that incompetence, the depths of deceit to which this Government stooped to hold the fruits of power. [More…]
Inflation was running at 4.7 per cent in December 1972 when the Labor Government came to power but it took off and it was only a matter of months before it was running at about 1 2 per cent, then 1 3 per cent, 1 4 per cent and so on. [More…]
The political troglodytes on the other side of the House have made speeches referring to communists, Caucus power and the trip of the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam). [More…]
The editorial is referring to the prospect of a double dissolution or an election and the Senate power to obstruct a duly elected government. [More…]
No matter how you dress up the political system in Australia with fine sounding phrases and meaningless conventions, it ultimately resolves itself into a game of opportunism- or grabbing power when it is going. [More…]
With this uncertainty which arises from the possibility of an election, a change of power and a change of government in any one year, it is no wonder the business community of Australia does not really know what it is in for. [More…]
In the early part of this year, after 18 months of the Labor Government’s being in office and taking correct economic decisions, revaluing the Australian dollar, cutting tariffs, increasing imports, supplementing our own lagging domestic production, to try to beat prices, holding referendums on price control and on wages control and having them defeated, using every constitutional power available in this Parliament to this Government in the economic arena, introducing legislation for which we were given a mandate in 1972 and religiously carrying out the document that the Prime Minister read in his policy speech, the Opposition parties forced this Government to an election. [More…]
As a result unions, quite rightly tried to preserve the purchasing power of the wages of their members. [More…]
We have done everything within our power as a Government to do something about inflation. [More…]
We have used every power available to us to do something about inflation. [More…]
The Treasurer (Mr Crean), who is a very nice fellow, kind and gentlemanly and liked by many, unfortunately fell to the pressure of power at any price by those who are dominated and known for their leftist extremist views. [More…]
In 1973 the Opposition began to feel the power of its control of the Senate while at the same time experiencing the frustration of the lack of control of the treasury benches in this House. [More…]
All they wanted to do was to have those people sacked and left out on a limb on the labour market in order to give themselves more power. [More…]
In a very significant sense Labor cannot gain power at all simply by winning an election. [More…]
To describe this decision as being one which merely hits people of opulence, of power and of position is to take a quite bizarre regard for the facts. [More…]
It was the policy of the Chifley Government -it has been our policy since the Commonwealth in 1942 took over the power to impose income tax- to have rebates rather than taxation deductions. [More…]
The Opposition is greedy for power. [More…]
At the time it introduced the 1974-75 Budget the Government announced its acceptance of the recommendations by the Schools Commission that the programs of capital and recurrent assistance available to both government and nongovernment schools under the States Grants (Schools) Acts 1972-73 and 1973 should be supplemented in recognition of the reduced purchasing power of those grants brought about by cost increases. [More…]
It has recommended additional sums to be added to grants to States so as to restore the original purchasing power of these programs. [More…]
I suppose that that limitation is in the hope that it will therefore bring the provision within our constitutional power. [More…]
It is a provision that would give to a Federal body, or the State branch of a Federal body that is not incorporated in a State, the power to participate in the industrial affairs and activities of a State under certain circumstances. [More…]
It seeks to give to the Commission a power which there is probably no right for this Parliament to give to the Commission. [More…]
For reasons that I have stated, the provision to consult with a State registrar or officer is really a provision that gives no power or influence to the State registrar. [More…]
If that is so, and if that means that each State must have identical or roughly equivalent rules, there is obviously going to be great turmoil within the union movement as a result of the application of this power and of the solution to the problems caused by the Moore and Doyle case. [More…]
-That might be, but how far does this power go? [More…]
That ought to be spelled out because I think that the power is so limited that it is virtually meaningless in terms of giving any real autonomy or any real control over its affairs, to a State branch. [More…]
Here we come to section 142 A, which I mentioned was also likely to be outside the Constitution, giving the Commission power to demark. [More…]
If the demarking power was used in such a way as to deny to this union the right to represent such people in Queensland the demarcation disputes which would result would put any of the problems flowing from the Moore and Doyle case in regard to the Transport Workers Union very much into the pale. [More…]
But if the Minister’s past history in the AWU is in fact driving him forward, if it were proved that the power to demark was a valid power to be given to the Commission once it was established, if that power were then used under ministerial nominees, note the Minister is wanting to limit the terms of appointment to the Commission to get the people there that he wants, and if that power were then used in the wrong way, it could be used to dismantle any Federal union around Australia. [More…]
The non-use of the brain power and the money to finance a system to bring about a solution such as is contained in this Bill is an indictment of a system which has allowed itself to be exposed to attack and has been allowed to continue in this way for a period of 5 years. [More…]
By virtue of sub-section (5) of proposed section 133a the Registrar is given power to exempt an organisation from providing for autonomy of funds to a branch of a Federal organisation. [More…]
Sub-section 5 gives the Registrar power to exempt partially as well as wholly. [More…]
If the Australian Registrar is to have this power which really allows the protection in the funding proposals of Mr Justice Sweeney to be overridden at the discretion of the Registrar, an alternative approach could well be for an appeal to be allowed to the appropriate tribunal concerning the Registrar’s decision. [More…]
There is no appeal in this particular matter and property and many things can be involved in the exercise of the Registrar’s power. [More…]
If the unions cannot get their rules in order within the year that is allowed under the Bill the Registrar still has power to give a further extension of time to them in order that they might do so. [More…]
I am just saying that no matter what new powers are given to the Registrar, section 88F of the existing Act always takes care of whatever powers the Registrar has because it is so broadly drawn that it is wide enough- it has an omnibus effect- to take in any exercise of power by the Registrar. [More…]
The words ‘for the purposes of this Act’ are very important because, if we go back into the institutional history, we know that in the Jumbunna case, and the Minister will recall that, the High Court said that incidental to the industrial power organisations of employers and employees could be established. [More…]
It may be that the Minister has a reason for taking out the words; it may be that he could not press this amendment to the Act, but I do suggest to him that because of the history of the constitutional interpretation of the industrial power those words are tremendously important and to omit them could lead to the invalidity of section 136 and therefore of a very significant section. [More…]
Section 58 adopts a somewhat unusual form of limiting the powers conferred upon the organisation as a corporation but there can be no doubt as to its meaning. [More…]
It does create a corporation but a power strictly limited to the purposes of the Act. [More…]
Commonwealth Registrar power in relation to the rules of organisations. [More…]
In certain circumstances the proposed sub-sections require the Registrar to consult with the States, but it is only a question of consultation and the State Registrar really would have no power in relation to these matters. [More…]
The other clause to which I would like to refer is clause 11 which seeks to insert new section 142 A giving the Commission power to demark between unions. [More…]
If that is so, this is again something which requires consultation with the trade union movement because if it were used in the wong way, if it were used in the spirit that the membership of unions State by State had to be as nearly the same as possible, if not identical in relation to the trades, callings and jobs which they were representing, clearly the exercise of powers under proposed section 142A coupled with the exercise of the additional powers given to the Registrar in relation to the rules of organisations could lead to a situation in which some unions would have their present position completely decimated. [More…]
I think that it would need some reassurance that these powers could not be twisted against it. [More…]
When I look at clause 14 1 am concerned in the same way that the State authorities should have some significant power in respect of jurisdiction. [More…]
That seems to take away almost any significant power which a State industrial authority would have because those sections of the Act which would be excluded from State jurisdiction cover such things as the disallowance of rules, the performance of rules, applications for membership and disputed elections. [More…]
But by virtue of proposed new section 142 a power is to be given to the Commission to say that only one of those 2 organisations may have the right to obtain an award. [More…]
The direct purpose of this amendment is to exclude State jurisdictions from exercising any power in the matters presently dealt with by sections 140, 141 and 144 of the Commonwealth Conciliation and Arbitration Act. [More…]
There being such silence from the Minister and having regard to the obvious intention of the legislation, I am rather fortified in the view that I expressed earlier in the second reading debate on this Bill that the intent is to concentrate power in Federal . [More…]
In any event, if there were no such problem at all, is it not desirable, is it not essential in fact, that this Parliament should clothe the Australian Conciliation and Arbitration Commission with the power to settle demarcation disputes? [More…]
We must be vitally concerned and we must attempt to give the power to the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission to resolve these issues. [More…]
Of course the honourable member for Wannon raised the old question about the constitutional power. [More…]
It is often forgotten that the Constitution could have simply given to the Commonwealth the power to make laws to deal with industrial disputes when they were national in character, leaving it to the Parliament of the day, as time moved on, to decide whether a system of compulsory arbitration was the best method of settling industrial disputes, whether a system of collective bargaining was the best method, or whether some other system of industrial regulation would bring the required measure of industrial peace. [More…]
So we have this strange provision of the Constitutionthat is, strange by contrast with the other provisions of the Constitution which grant a general power to the Commonwealth- which actually limits the way in which the Parliament of the Commonwealth can legislate to make laws for a system of preventing and settling industrial disputes. [More…]
The States, on the other hand, are unlimited in the legislative power that they have to provide a system to settle industrial disputes. [More…]
That is because the State of Victoria having the ample legislative power that it has, has decided that some other system would be better for that part of the country. [More…]
So, gradually, the Federal organisations have become stronger and stronger in the industrial power that they have. [More…]
So, a balance is struck between those organisations which are already registered and the new organisation which seeks to spread its wings and to extend its industrial power. [More…]
The second way in which the Federal union can extend its industrial power is by the awards that it obtains from the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission. [More…]
As time has gone on, from the days when an award might simply apply to 2 States in order to give it its interstate character, Federal unions have sought to extend their industrial power by extending the award coverage which they have beyond the original States. [More…]
Generally speaking, what has happened in this kind of situation is that, when the Federal union seeks to extend its industrial power either by amending its rules and extending the class of worker that it can cover or by extending its award into Western Australia, it inevitably seeks to take away from a State registered union that area of coverage which the State union occupies. [More…]
To me, what this legislation, which has been brought down in an attempt or in a justification of the desire to overcome the difficulties presented by Moore and Doyle, can do is to concentrate power in Federal unions. [More…]
When we look at the pattern of development in the industrial field in Australia particularly post war, we do see a rapidly accelerating concentration of industrial power in federal unions. [More…]
I think that if anyone recognising that fact asks himself honestly the question whether there has been more or less industrial peace in Australia post war, under a system of that kind with a concentration of power in Federal unions, the answer is ready and at hand. [More…]
I believe that one of the great challenges for any Commonwealth Government is to see to the diversification of industrial power in Australia back to the workers themselves and not by way of a concentration of power into the hands of a small group of officials at the top of the pyramid which is the federal organisation. [More…]
I firmly believe that if we allow this Bill to pass without effective checks and balances and controls through State legislation we will inevitably see that concentration of power in federal organisations and the very rapid withering away of State industrial jurisdiction. [More…]
If there is one thing that experience in this field of industrial relations tells us it is that power does not necessarily come from the written word, from the law which is passed, but from control of the workers; and control of the workers is achieved through control of their organisation. [More…]
It is nonsense to say that this Bill concentrates power in the hands of federal unions. [More…]
The Commission’s objective of supplying cheap power to all parts of Papua New Guinea and of utilising the excess capacity of low cost generating plant installed for heavy industry is an important component of Papua New Guinea advancement. [More…]
I propose to put a proposition to the House of Representatives Standing Orders Committee aimed at giving Mr Speaker a discretionary power in relation to both the length of questions and the length of answers by Ministers. [More…]
Has the Minister noted the comments made in Melbourne earlier this week by the President of the International Gas Union, Mr Clark, to the effect that using natural gas to fuel power stations, as is proposed by the Victorian Government for the projected Newport power house, is a wasteful practice and justifiable only in the early years of development of a natural gas field? [More…]
If so, can the Minister say whether the Australian Government is able to take any action to prevent the Victorian Government fuelling any future power stations with natural gas? [More…]
This was a natural brake on the activities of our Government when we were in power and it should have been a natural brake on the activities of this new Government in its early months of office. [More…]
Finally we see a situation in which individual party committees almost have power in this place. [More…]
It is worth consideration by this House that other parliaments have taken away the power of individual members to call quorums. [More…]
The division of power and responsibility between the legislature and the executive is clearly denned in the United States. [More…]
This is a matter which goes beyond any party which happens to be in power for the moment. [More…]
A firm line, yes, with a paternal eye on the power of political patronage. [More…]
Being one who feels very strongly that the trade union movement should, as far as possible, be a separate organisation- a completely separate entity- I think that the Government should have as little power over the trade union movement as possible. [More…]
If we want to preserve liberty in a democracy we must insist that in a pluralist society the different sources of power have as much power as possible. [More…]
Let us reflect on this: When we went out of power there were 2 1 other nations in the world which had a worse inflation rate than Australia. [More…]
Since the Labor Government came to trouble- I meant to say ‘power’ but these 2 words are synonymous- our inflation rate has soared to such an extent that only seven or eight other countries have a worse inflation rate than Australia. [More…]
because that country is a major power. [More…]
The Labor Government has failed to meet the crucial test of housing in the Capital Territory where it has direct and clear power and cannot blame the States, multi-nationals or some other bogy. [More…]
I do not approve of such an attitude, but at least it demonstrates to the people in the rest of Australia what is likely to happen to them if the Government stays in power. [More…]
They will not become general because fortunately the Government will not be in power much longer. [More…]
The Minister has stated that whilst in his view the actions of the Corporation could have been regarded formally as outside its guidelines, he accepts that the Corporation did not have the power to cancel or significantly reduce wool supplies at auction without the concurrence of other members of the Joint Wool Selling Organisation. [More…]
The pension is now worth, in terms of purchasing power, including purchasing power as disclosed by the CPI yesterday, a much higher figure than it was when the Government came into office. [More…]
One of the solutions that he seemed to bring forward for that state was to cut down on Government activity and to reduce taxation and thereby, I would think, to increase purchasing power at the same time. [More…]
Members of the Opposition think that just because we happen to be in power all the fault is ours and none of the responsibility lies with them, and they come along with these sorts of airy fairy motions and make all the suggestions that we should now do what they did not do in the their 20 years of unimpeded occupation of the treasury bench, with nobody in that funny place upstairs to knock back what they wanted to do. [More…]
Housing approvals are falling at the fastest rate since Labor was in power during the war-, and we are not at war. [More…]
The penal powers would be back in action. [More…]
The only thing the Opposition would do to deal with inflation would be to try to break the power of the organised workers and that would be the purpose of the Opposition who rightly enough consider that more should be done to deal with inflation. [More…]
The Treasury approach is based on sound- at least they were sound- Keynesian principles, that is, if we reduce purchasing power we reduce demand and therefore we make it more difficult for employers to raise prices, we make employers resist union demands more and we create unemployment and a bad environment for unions to seek further wage increases. [More…]
But it must be remembered that these union leaders can exert the power they wield largely because of the unrest and dissatisfaction which inflation is causing among their members. [More…]
However, I wish to direct my remarks to the whole history of the corning to power of Labor governments right down through the years. [More…]
Time and again Labor has come to power in times of crisis, and this occasion is no exception. [More…]
There can be no doubt that these proposals arise from the dynamics of the present economic power plays within the Ministry and among its economic advisers. [More…]
Obviously with him is where most of the power lies in the Australian Labor Party today. [More…]
Take, for instance, the Citizenship Act under which the Minister has the power to grant a certificate of Australian citizenship. [More…]
Well before this Government came to power that company had made the decision to close. [More…]
During the discussions on the level of the fourth replenishment, it was decided that essentially the same voting power arrangements which were made under the third replenishment should continue to apply. [More…]
I believe that anything that can be done for war widows should be done by any government, no matter what political party or parties are in power. [More…]
On many occasions since the Labor Government has come to power, I have warned the people in the former Repatriation Department that they were in danger of being merged with other departments and that the individuality and the speciality of the Department would be submerged in the Government structure. [More…]
Surely the aim of the Australian Government, irrespective of what party is in power at what time, should be to provide for these people especially so that they can live in dignity. [More…]
But I do think that it is important to relate the Bill to actions taken by the Government from the time it came to power in December 1972 until the presentation of this Bill and its forecast of what it intends to do in the autumn session. [More…]
At a time when rents are increasing and the purchasing power of the pension is being eroded the Government has introduced legislation to provide an extra $1 a week in supplementary allowance to pensioners. [More…]
This is a 10 per cent increase, but to get back to the real purchasing power and what was the real value when the Liberal-Country Party government went out of office would require an increase of at least 40 per cent. [More…]
So even with this new 50c, the child’s allowance in terms of purchasing power will be far below what it was when we were in office. [More…]
But to me it is a problem irrespective of what government is in power. [More…]
During that time I remember that even when the previous Government was in power every time an increase was made in the rate of pension or in the level of allowances such as are contained in this legislation, up went the means test for tenants, including pensioners, widows and deserted wives, who were living in Housing Commission homes, and up went the rents. [More…]
But when it comes to the crunch, the Board has not the statutory power to back up its guidelines. [More…]
What I am asking today- this is my particular grievance, Mr Deputy Speaker- is for the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam), then the Minister for the Northern Territory (Dr Patterson), the Minister for Urban and Regional Development (Mr Uren) and I will throw in the Minister for Agriculture (Senator Wriedt) for good measure, to define here and now what the powers of the new Legislative Assembly in the Northern Territory are going to be. [More…]
Are they going to persist with the policy and the promises that they have so frequently and flamboyantly enunciated when they have galloped through the Northern Territory like a kangaroo on a red-hot roof that the new Legislative Assembly would have effective and authoritative power? [More…]
Let them define that power here and now. [More…]
Let them tell the people of the Northern Territory just what power the Legislative Assembly will have. [More…]
We have upgraded the Commonwealth Development Bank of Australia and widened its power of assistance to rural industries. [More…]
Time does not permit me to detail everything in the Bill but I make the comment that general discretionary power is given to pay other benefits, but medical and hospital benefits are to be covered by the proposed national health scheme, which scheme is not yet law in its final form. [More…]
Thus there are very strong reasons for the adoption of a system for compensating victims of accidents and sickness which eliminates the necessity to prove fault, and it is fitting that it be provided, if possible, by the national Parliament exercising the great social services power of this Commonwealth. [More…]
The other matter to which I should like to refer is this: The constitutional power to abolish the common law right appears to be open to considerable doubt. [More…]
It seems that this is beyond the constitutional power of the Commonwealth. [More…]
If, as is quite possible, the High Court holds that there is no power to abolish the common law right to damages it will produce a chaotic situation. [More…]
Having said that by way of preliminary comment, the next observation I would like to make is this: If this Bill is within power, that is to say, if it is within the power of the Australian Constitution, we may as well tear up the Australian Constitution. [More…]
It is perfectly true that a government is entitled to go right to the perimeter of constitutional power with respect to its legislation, and I do not quarrel with that. [More…]
I merely sound the warning that if this Bill is within power then the Australian Constitution has taken on a form which I venture to say was never intended by the founders of the Constitution or by those who have directed their minds to a consideration of it over the years. [More…]
How does one get at the truth when one gives to a committee of this nature no power for those who appear before it to be crossexamined, to test their qualifications, for all their qualifications to be revealed and for the quality of the evidence to be assessed? [More…]
One cannot be looked after from the cradle to the grave by any government, no matter what their declaration of benevolence, without submitting to the power of the government that seeks to control one. [More…]
Once you surrender to a government the power to look after you in all facets of life, you surrender your personality and your being to that government. [More…]
We test them on this occasion to vote in favour of the motion that this House appoint a select committee, which it has the power to do under the Standing Orders. [More…]
Where the exercise of a power by the Secretary is dependent upon the opinion, belief or state of mind of the Secretary in respect of a matter and an officer is authorised under this section to exercise that power, the officer may exercise that power upon his own opinion, belief or state of mind in respect of the matter. [More…]
There has of course been an assault by the Labor Government since it came to power on the beef industry. [More…]
What else happened while the LiberalCountry Party Government was in power? [More…]
It is complete heartbreak to see that pensioners who have received increases amounting to $ 1 1 in the pension since this Government came into power, plus a rise in rent assistance, are finding that they are off on the rat race once again. [More…]
The Government proposes to introduce as soon as possible legislation to establish an Australian Housing Corporation to undertake all of those housing functions for which the Australian Government has constitutional power. [More…]
I will not berate him for what he may or may not do about the new executive power which will be given to the Legislative Assembly. [More…]
His own Government was in power for 6 years after he came into this place and apparently he did not have anything rectified during that time. [More…]
There is little doubt that it will continue to do so in the future as long as it is in power, which will be for a long time. [More…]
This problem could be overcome to a great extent by harnessing the waters of the Burdekin and Herbert River basins, which could possibly supply half of Queensland with water and cheap hydro-electric power. [More…]
The Department of Northern Development was eatablished in December 1972 with the advent of the present Government There have been difficulties in staffing which occur in any new department, but the Department has continued a number of important activities initiated by the previous Government- the Brigalow development, the Gladstone power station, the Bundaberg irrigation works, the Ord River project, the Fairbairn dam projects, the beef cattle roads. [More…]
Here we have something which is extremely important to the Northern Territory: The Stokes Hill Power Station, stage 6, and the more significant projects in terms of this facility will be commenced on behalf of the Department of the Northern Territory. [More…]
-Previously, under the Northern Territory Administration Act, the elected representatives were able to deal with ordinances with powers of assent resting with the Administrator and the Governor-General. [More…]
This will give them greater power. [More…]
I believe that everyone in this country should accept that the Australian Labor Party was 2 years ago and again a few months ago elected to power in Australia on a clear policy of not only developing Australia’s great resources of minerals and energy in a rational way but also to see that those resources were in the hands of Australians and that decisions were not being taken elsewhere in the world as so often they were in the past. [More…]
Prior to the 1960s Australia’s coal production was largely geared to domestic needs for iron and steel production, power generation and general industrial use: Exports were of little significance. [More…]
Up until 1973 Japan had been pursuing a determined policy of seeking alternative forms of energy- producing fuels- and was using large quantities of petroleum fuels, with the result that between 1960 and 1969 the percentage of coal used for power generation was reduced from 35 per cent of the total to 2 per cent. [More…]
The Government has put through the Seas and Submerged Lands Bill, against opposition from the other side of the House, so that the Australian Government does have power over the off-shore of Australia and it is not left to all of these city-State, rotten borough, pocket State governments to make agreements with foreign companies. [More…]
Now that the former colonial powers which abused their relationships within their colonial empires and obtained cheap fuel and cheap resources, and have squandered them, as the Americans have done on large cars with big V8 engines and with massive uses of power for air conditioning and all sorts of other comforts, they are complaining to the world that they have energy shortages and are expecting everyone to fall over backwards to make sure that they are supplied with their needs at bargain basement prices. [More…]
I say this to the Minister All power to the committee, but if, as I understand it, the deadline for its report is June 1975 and the report then has to be processed by Government and changes to procedure implemented, perhaps including any statutory change that it may be necessary, can we expect a positive industry policy this side of 1976? [More…]
When the Labor Party came to power in 1972 it set about identifying those problems and has carried on from there. [More…]
In that statement he did list as a first task for the defence force in the late 1970s operations in aid of the civil power, involving antiriot operations where the police are forced to ask for help from the defence forces. [More…]
We will under all circumstances and to the limits of our power oppose any attempt that will be made to alter that pricing structure, which comes up for review in September of next year. [More…]
I move the suspension of Standing Orders because I regard this as a matter of vital public importance, not merely because of moves that have been taken in the last few days to indicate support for the expulsion of South Africa from the United Nations but also because in the almost 2 years that this Government has been in power we have had only one major debate on international affairs. [More…]
The power to issue ministerial directions, which already exists under the present legislation, will enable Government policies, for example, on economic relations with particular countries, to be reflected in investment insurance decisions undertaken by the Corporation. [More…]
We have been told for nearly 2 years now that we are living in a different world, that our foreign policy had been based on the assumptions that detente was sure to work, that the international atmosphere was rapidly brightening and that a threat to Australia during the next decade and a half was scarcely conceivable, and it was, after all, these assumptions alone that gave any plausibility, such as it was, to a policy characterised by a carelessness towards allies, a global busyness which no interest required and no power supported and the rapid rundown of our defence forces. [More…]
The honourable member for Kooyong has made no propositions about what the Opposition would do if it ever came to power. [More…]
Will it proceed with the bungling on the five Power arrangement which the right honourable member for Lowe (Mr McMahon) when he was Prime Minister and the right honourable member for [More…]
This Government came into power 22 months ago with the specific intention of redefining Australia’s foreign policy. [More…]
These small states look to Australia for economic assistance, for guidance and leadership in major diplomatic issues and, in the final analysis, for security should their national integrity ever by threatened by some outside power. [More…]
In Portuguese Timor itelf, despite the small size of the politically conscious minority, which probably amounts to less than 3,000 at the outside, there has been a surprising amount of political activity since the new Government disbanded the political police and allowed freedom of political activity, shortly after coming to power. [More…]
Another interesting fact of which honourable members opposite ought to be cognisant is that since the Labor Government came to power there has been an increase in the pension in real money terms of $ 12.75 a week. [More…]
They identify the difference between a Government which cares for people in the community who are underprivileged, who may need assistance from the Australian Government, and a Party which was in power from 1 949 to 1 972, which had the opportunity to do something, but ignored it, and made the plight of these people worse. [More…]
Although there have been glowing words of praise for the increase in expenditure from the other side of the chamber our information is that the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Snedden), if in power, would cut spending in this area. [More…]
But what do we find now under the Labor Government, which, I might add, came to power professing to have the interests of the migrants at heart? [More…]
I want him to explain the difference between retrenchment payments as a result of Government decisions and payments for retrenchments brought about by the failure of industry through a lack of purchasing power or a lack of confidence. [More…]
It is the result of changes which have occurred in the developed nations, in particular from the growth of mass production, the acceleration of technical progress, the increase in the purchasing power of the average citizen, and the widening of markets. [More…]
It uses the power under section 96 and it uses the appropriation power of section 8 1 in that way. [More…]
We should never forget also, I would suggest, that behind the written form of the Constitution lies a kind of power relationship that existed in the nineteenth century but which changes. [More…]
When people like the Victorian Attorney-General- a Liberal Minister in the Victorian Parliamentspeak as though they want it to go back, they speak of advocates for the existence of this power relationship in a community that existed then and which was based essentially on privilege and elitism; something which this Government rejects out of hand. [More…]
That the committee have power to appoint subcommittees consisting of three or more of its members, and refer to any such sub-committee any matters which the committee is empowered to examine. [More…]
That the committee or any sub-committee have power to send for persons, papers and records, to move from place to place, and to sit during any recess. [More…]
That the committee or any sub-committee have power to authorise publication of any evidence given before it and any document presented to it. [More…]
That the committee be provided with all necessary staff, facilities and resources and have power, with the approval of the Speaker, to appoint persons with specialist knowledge for the purposes of the committee. [More…]
10) That the committee report as soon as possible and that any member of the committee have power to add a protest or dissent to any report. [More…]
Finally, Mr Speaker, advantage is being taken of the opportunity provided by this Bill to insert a machinery clause in the principal Act to permit the Director-General of Social Security to delegate his power to approve grants. [More…]
At present the Director-General has no such power of delegation and as a consequence every grant- and every amendment to a grant- has to be approved personally by him. [More…]
Many Post Office workers are as anxious as ever to give the sort of service for which the Post Office has been known over the years but many seem to be in the hands of radicals who want to use their power to cause industrial trouble and general difficulty for the Australian community. [More…]
They will have autonomy and the right to delegate power within their regions. [More…]
1 have very definite ideas about naval air power. [More…]
Even though the naval air power study- I have not seen it- was not too optimistic about the future of conventional modern aircraft carriers in Australia there are many alternatives and these are beingexamined. [More…]
I would hazard a guess that even the naval air power study has suggested that seaborne platforms for logistic roles and for other roles involving helicopters are very much things that the Navy should continue to have and will continue to have. [More…]
No regional power has or is likely to acquire for many years the capability and motive that might require a substantial Australian defence response. [More…]
However, if we bear in mind that the primary object of having armed forces is to defend the Australian mainland, it is clear that a defence policy must aim towards providing the essential sea and air power to enable sufficient forces to be available to ensure adequate control of the seas close in to Australia, to be able to patrol well out into the ocean areas and to strike if necessary. [More…]
It is clear, as the honourable member for Barker (Dr Forbes) and other honourable members on this side of the chamber have said, that unfortunately defence has a relatively low priority under the present Government and that the proposed expenditure falls short of what in fact was promised before the Australian Labor Party came to power in terms of the gross national product. [More…]
Yet on the other hand all the capacities, abilities, local knowledge and intellectual brain power certainly do not reside in Canberra. [More…]
I believe that the State governments are far too jealous of the power that they have over local government and that the time has come for a change. [More…]
In contrast to the Opposition which clearly is set to divide country and city because it wishes to maintain its shrinking power base- to demonstrate the lengths it will go to maintain that shrinking power base I need only mention that it would decimate the democratic principle of one vote one value- and vilify our policies for the rural sector, quite conveniently forgetting to point out the millions of dollars that are injected into the rural area through the several programs of the Government, and in particular the combined and integrated programs of the Minister for Urban and Regional Development, the Government, through the Minister, has undertaken detailed negotiations with the State governments and local governments. [More…]
Its lack prevents local government from being able to exercise power. [More…]
How can it be an agency and also be a centralist power? [More…]
Valid criticism can be made to the effect that the Department at present is merely a self-perpetuating power house letting off steam but no action. [More…]
The BUI introduced in the other place provided for the Commission to have the power to do all things necessary for the performance of the functions set out for it. [More…]
Provision was made for the Minister to be able only to give general directions to the Commission in respect of the overall performance of its functions, except in those functions relating to the making of films for Australian governmental purposes out of funds directly appropriated by Parliament for these purposes, where it was proposed he should have a power of specific direction. [More…]
The power of specific direction was retained merely to ensure that the Government’s film program was carried out in accordance with the situation which has existed for some thirty years now, whereby the Minister is immediately accountable to Parliament for the way in which those funds are expended. [More…]
However, the Senate Opposition sought the deletion of the Minister’s general power of direction, ostensibly for the noble purpose of ensuring the complete and absolute independence of the Commission. [More…]
The BUI also provided for the Australian Film Commission to have power to direct exhibitors that a specified portion of the screening time given to short films must be devoted to films certified by the Commission to be Australian short films. [More…]
They criticised and had deleted from the Bill a provision giving the Minister power to direct the Commission to observe Australia’s international treaty obligations. [More…]
The point I make is that only a little more than $2m is involved and if the Government were to do more in this regard it would make a great contribution to the earning power of this nation and would remove a heavy load from the ratepayers concerned who sweat and toil without the advantages of those living in more favoured areas on the coast but who yet make an immeasurable contribution to the earnings of this nation. [More…]
The reason I rose to speak to the House was to raise a matter which I regard as being of considerable importance and on which I believe it is within the power of the Australian Government to take appropriate remedial action. [More…]
The power of advertising was highlighted by the interviewer’s report that the children showed preference for one brand of chocolate because of its association with the catchy TV and radio commercials for that brand of cigarette. [More…]
As the Government has power to prevent this practice by putting a total import embargo on this product, I would suggest that this action be taken by the Government at the earliest opportunity. [More…]
It has direct power under the law to do this. [More…]
Let it be clear from their speeches here today that they will denude the Prices Justification Tribunal of power. [More…]
by omitting from sub-section (3) the words “The Board shall have power’ and substituting the words ‘The Authority shall have power to do all such things as are necessary for the effective exercise of the functions of the Authority and, in particular, but without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the Authority shall have power ‘; [More…]
I observed in the course of my second reading speech today that there were 3 powers given in the Act whereby the Board could seek to act. [More…]
These are section 16 under which determinations could be made, section 17 under which orders could be made, and the regulation making power, section 134. [More…]
We in the Opposition parties take the view that great powers such as are proposed should at least- I want to add some emphasis to that- be subject to the scrutiny of the Parliament. [More…]
We are not seeking to take something from the Act simpliciter and to say that the Board should have no powers; we are seeking so to rearrange the powers of the Board that the Parliament can exercise a general superintendence. [More…]
Clause 6 of the Bill is what I may describe, without disrespect to the draftsman, as the powerhouse of the Bill. [More…]
I want to ensure that the powerhouse has the right sort of control over it. [More…]
I am left almost with the impression that the Minister for Science (Mr Morrison) has succumbed to such blandishment power as I may command and is even tempted to agree in general principle to the Opposition’s suggestion that these powers should be transferred to the regulation making section of the Act. [More…]
The purpose is to take them out and reinsert them, pursuant to a further amendment, under the regulation making powers whereby those who sit in this Parliament can have a say about what goes on. [More…]
-As the honourable member for Moreton (Mr Killen) clearly pointed out, clause 6 of this Bill is the powerhouse provision of the Bill. [More…]
It will be noticed that the Australian Broadcasting Commission has been given licence to control its own destiny and to exercise its own powers but, as can be seen from the speech of the Minister for the Environment and Conservation (Dr Cass) in introducing this Bill, clause 6 provides that the Board shall have power to determine rules and standards to be observed by licencees in relation to commercial broadcasting and television programs. [More…]
It specifically provides power for the Board to determine, subject to the Minister’s approval, requirements with regard to programming. [More…]
As the honourable member for Moreton mentioned, obviously there must be certain regulations and powers with respect to all organisations in order to protect the public, but the point is that in this Bill there is no way whereby the private enterprise sector can appeal against a decision that is made. [More…]
The point is that under the existing powers of the Board standards have been laid down and have been adhered to. [More…]
It is amazing that every time the socialists introduce a clause of this nature they say: ‘We do not intend to use this power. [More…]
The power is there purely and simply as a means’. [More…]
Of course the power will be used, and used effectively, by the socialist Government at the earliest opportunity. [More…]
However, he went on to say that power is an evil thing. [More…]
He instanced how power was misused in the United States of America to bring about the downfall of a President. [More…]
Good Lord, that is exactly what will happen here: This socialist government will provide the Authority with the power to bring about the downfall of private enterprise in the television and broadcasting industry. [More…]
As I mentioned before, clause 6 is the powerhouse provision of this Bill. [More…]
The powers proposed are unlimited and undefined and will result in total control by the authority without there being conferred on the licencees any right of appeal against decisions of the Authority. [More…]
Of course the powers will be used. [More…]
I do not believe that any government, a socialist government or in the near future when there is a change of government that government, should have such power over the private section of the industry. [More…]
I would like to see nothing more than all the communications industry placed in the power of the people of Australia and not in the hands of a few private monopolists. [More…]
What he is proposing to do is to give an unrepresentative handful of individuals completely undiluted power over the air waves. [More…]
The amendment proposed by the honourable member for Moreton seeks to take out of the Act sub-section (3) (c) whereby the Authority has power to determine the hours during which programs may be broadcast or televised and sub-section ( 3 ) ( d ) whereby the Authority shall have power to determine the conditions subject to which advertisements may be broadcast or televised by licensees. [More…]
The Opposition’s amendment seeks to delete from the Act that power of the Board, or the Authority as it will become. [More…]
I ask the honourable member for Moreton where in his proposals he gives the Authority or anybody powers to make regulations to set down standards under which the commercial television stations will operate. [More…]
I put it to the Committee and to the honourable member for Moreton that nowhere in the foreshadowed amendments is any power set out whereby the Broadcasting Authority can lay down standards for commercial television stations. [More…]
I ask the honourable member for Moreton again to say where in his foreshadowed amendments the Authority will have the power to direct rules and standards. [More…]
We are discussing the power to regulate television advertising, particularly the type of advertising that takes place during children’s programs. [More…]
We are also discussing the power to regulate the degree and amount of violence which might occur during children’s programs. [More…]
The powers in the Act at the moment are not very specific and therefore we are trying to strengthen them. [More…]
I told the women representing the welfare clubs not to underestimate the power of commercial television operators to put pressure on certain people to prevent teeth being put into this legislation. [More…]
by omitting from sub-section (3) the words ‘The Board shall have power’ and substituting the words ‘The Authority shall have power to do all such things as are necessary for the effective exercise of the functions of the Authority and, in particular, but without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the Authority shall have power’; [More…]
I do not for one moment deny the fact that I certainly would not approve of giving to the Board the power to control programs as is proposed in clause 6. [More…]
Under clause 6 (b) of the Bill power is being given to the Board or the Authority, call it what you will- I do not think in terms of eternity it counts for tuppence- to control programs containing matter of any class or character specified in the determination. [More…]
This is the power, nevertheless, that is available. [More…]
I come back to the eminently sensible point made by my friend the honourable member for Bendigo (Mr Bourchier): Why ask for a power if you do not propose to use it? [More…]
So one cannot say it is just some group that has the power. [More…]
I refer to that for the sake of those speakers who were saying that all the power is in the hands of a few people. [More…]
I do not want to take up undue time on this clause but I suggest that powers contained in this Bill to amend the Broadcasting and Television Act are such as to cause very serious concern. [More…]
The position as I see it- it has been stated by other speakers in this debate- is that a government is not entitled to take on powers under the guise that it will not use the powers. [More…]
If a government introduces into an Act powers which it will be able to use at some time in the future obviously this would be senseless unless there was some intention to use them. [More…]
As far as it is within the power of an Opposition to ensure that there is a desirable freedom, we are trying to ensure that this freedom is available. [More…]
There is nothing tremendously exciting in the proposition that we have put forward, apart from the fact that the Authority should be empowered to consult with those organisations and interest groups that have some relevance. [More…]
We see no reason why we should limit the power of the Authority just to talk to people that the Opposition may have in mind. [More…]
For the purpose of exercising its powers and functions under this Act, the Board shall have power to make such orders, give such directions and do all such other things as it thinks fit. [More…]
The Bill that we are now discussing does not propose any amendment to this sub-section, but the honourable member for Moreton wants to alter it by adding a provision to make this power subject to regulations. [More…]
I would have no quarrel with that if the regulation making power enabled the Authority to make the appropriate regulations to allow the Board to determine the standards observed by the commercial television stations. [More…]
I repeat the point I made before, that if one looks at the regulation making power foreshadowed by the later amendment of the honourable member for Moreton, those powers at present in the Act are not conferred by regulations. [More…]
Section 16 in its present form provides that the Board shall have power to determine the hours during which programs may be broadcast or televised. [More…]
Under the proposal of the honourable member for Moreton the power will not be there to determine. [More…]
All he says is ‘empowering the Authority to give or issue a direction’, and then later: . [More…]
In other words, rather than power to determine the hours, the amendment provides that the Authority will now, subject only to regulation, have power to determine directions with respect to ‘matters affecting,’ and I would suggest that there is a very wide difference between the power to determine such matters and the power to determine with respect to matters affecting those matters. [More…]
I would suggest that the same distinction must be drawn here in the amendment suggested by the honourable member for Moreton where he proposes that the regulation making power will no longer enable the Authority to have power to determine those matters at present in clause 16, sub-section (3) (c) and (d), of the existing Act. [More…]
That power will be taken away. [More…]
The only residual power will be power to give directions with respect to matters affecting those mentioned. [More…]
When he rose to speak earlier I think he did say that he did not favour allowing the Authority to have those powers to determine directly those matters which it has had power to determine in the past. [More…]
If the Minister does not propose to use the power which this amending Bill seeks, why seek it? [More…]
But this Bill is concerned with power. [More…]
It is concerned with the power to direct, power to control and power, if need be, to destroy. [More…]
This power which is sought to be put into this Act, if used by an authority or by a government, would be sufficient to control completely all private television throughout Australia. [More…]
This Bill points to building up the power already in the Act for the Board to give determinations. [More…]
There is the power pursuant to section 16 under which the Board can write to a particular station and say: ‘Do this’. [More…]
There is the power under section 17 of the Act whereby the Board makes orders, and there is the power under section 134 of the Act whereby the Board makes regulations. [More…]
I would suggest that it is a pretty good test of the good faith of the Government in this matter to inquire: Why not put under the regulation making power the powers you seek under section 16, so that the Parliament has an opportunity of considering the ramifications of any regulation which may come down and so that at the same time Parliament will have the opportunity of pronouncing, and properly so, on any discriminatory attitude adopted by the Board? [More…]
Where did the Board get this power to produce these standards? [More…]
The Board gets its power to produce standards and to pass them on for observance in the television industry from the Act as it stands now. [More…]
One wonders why there is the need for these powers- powers about which I will deal in a more definitive way in a moment. [More…]
The other thesis which is being vamped by the Prime Minister, the Minister for the Media and one or two other honourable gentlemen is that the Australian Broadcasting Control Board today is virtually without any power or authority whatsoever. [More…]
The Act as it now stands has an amplitude of power- the power to suspend a licence, the power to revoke a licence. [More…]
What greater power could be given to any Board, to any authority, to any government than the power to revoke a licence, the power to suspend a licence? [More…]
If a private television station engaged in behaviour which the Board adjudged to be unacceptable behaviour the Board has the power at its disposal to deal with the matter. [More…]
So the argument which is being belted up by the Prime Minister and by the Minister for the Media that the Board is powerless is an argument which is not merely unattractive; it is an argument which has no substance in it whatsoever. [More…]
There have been 2 judicial challenges to the power of the Australian Broadcasting Control Board since television was introduced in 1956. [More…]
As it is to be called, not the ‘ Board ‘ - shall have power to do all such things as are necessary for the effective exercise of the functions of the Authority and, in particular, but without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the authority shall have power - [More…]
A more plenary power I could not imagine being made available under any Act. [More…]
I want honourable members to reflect upon the consequence of that Under that power it would be possible for the Authority, as it is proposed to be called- an expression in paranoia itself is the fact that the name has to be changed from ‘Board ‘ to ‘Authority’, but one may have an opportunity of observing something about that later- to say to a particular television station: ‘You will run at a particular time- say between 6 and 8 o’clock at night- a particular character of program ‘. [More…]
Then the clause goes on further to give to the Authority power to make rules which shall be observed by all television stations. [More…]
The other major alteration to which I propose to refer, albeit briefly, is that which gives the power to the Board to grant the restoration of a licence for a period of 3 months. [More…]
It is not enough to say: ‘If a channel misbehaves itself, is contumacious or refuses to bow to a reasonable request we cannot do anything about it as we have no power’. [More…]
The fact is that the Board has ample power. [More…]
It has the power to suspend and to revoke a licence. [More…]
If those powers are not enough, I do not know what is. [More…]
If the Minister for the Media takes the view that these powers are so urgently needed, why does he not put them under that section? [More…]
Why does he not put them under the regulation-making section and give the power to the Parliament to have its voice heard as the occasion may arise? [More…]
Institutions must be raised between those who wield power and those against whom power is wielded. [More…]
I do not intend to canvass some of the points that he made, but, towards the end of his speech, the honourable member did express some concernI accept his observations- about one important aspect of this matter which he used the word ‘power’ to describe. [More…]
Therefore, I think it follows that any responsible government must accept its responsibility to make certain that this power is never abused. [More…]
I wish to refer briefly to the enormous effect that the abuse of power in the communications medium can have on individuals or an individual. [More…]
I think the classic case- I hope that the honourable member for Moreton will accept this- of the uncontrolled power of television concerns its use to destroy a President of the United States of America. [More…]
It seems clear that it was always the intention that wide discretionary power should reside in the Board. [More…]
2) is about power and, quite obviously, the use and dissemination of that power. [More…]
As people of commonsense, the Opposition has to look with great suspicion upon the proposed use of this power and there are good reasons for its doing that. [More…]
Insofar as this cnamber, this Parliament, is concerned with power and is concerned with information, it has to express a view about these matters. [More…]
But it is a fact that no great.power has the right to traffic in the independence of small nations. [More…]
Probably the most authoritative speech on the possibilities of the misuse of power in this area was made by the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) himself. [More…]
Some of the contents of that speech can be appropriately considered in the context of power. [More…]
The Prime Minister acknowledged the existence of an authoritarian streak with respect to power in relation to the electronic media in Australia. [More…]
I refer to the late Dr Goebbels and I merely indicate the power that is involved. [More…]
The vicious circle of the control and power begins to close. [More…]
A power sought will be a power utilised. [More…]
If a power is sought it is appropriate to ask for what purposes it can be . [More…]
I will be very interested to see the attitude of the Government to the amendments which have been proposed by the honourable member for Moreton (Mr Killen), so that regulations made under the powers for the clarification of standards can be scrutinised by the Parliament itself. [More…]
Insofar as he is more directly concerned, barriers, cushions and safety fences ought to be erected between the Minister and the exercise of that power. [More…]
If one is concerned with the dissemination of power such a licence held by a political party runs too close to the principle of trafficking in information. [More…]
Honourable gentlemen who spoke out this morning in praise and in defence of human freedom not only have lived with this situation of the monopolisation of communication in Australia ever since they came to power in 1949; they have actively abetted the process by which consolidation increased. [More…]
The honourable member for Moreton this morning made great play of the fact that the Broadcasting Control Board has the power available to suspend or revoke a licence. [More…]
The enormity and finality of the power are sufficient to ensure that it will never be invoked. [More…]
In fact, he threatened to invoke the power to revoke the station’s licence. [More…]
Now, of course, the members of the Press with their habitual honesty and power of evaluation- these are men of discernment- have evaluated the position, and perhaps they have been influenced a little by the results of the elections that have been held around the country. [More…]
Power would be given to this Government, and particularly to the Minister, who may then delegate authority to people of his own choosing. [More…]
Not for the first time an Australian Labor government finds itself in power at a time of profound international difficulty. [More…]
Over the years we have developed a huge meat export industry and when this Government came to power in 1972 we immediately witnessed an onslaught on this valuable export meat industry. [More…]
With no nation is our new aspiration symbolised more than it is with China, a power not only in our region but in the world. [More…]
This Government has been in power now for 23 months. [More…]
If the Opposition had been fortunate enough- that might be a debatable term- to be returned to power at the last general election it would have been wrestling with those issues, too. [More…]
In conjunction with unregulated flow in the Bowen and Burdekin river systems, the storages provide an annual water supply for irrigation in the lower Burdekin of 83,000 megalitres (67,500 acre feet) after allowance for supplies totalling 12,300 megalitres (10,000 acre feet) for Collinsville town and power station, Goonyella coal development and stock and domestic water supplies. [More…]
The Federal-State Burdekin Project Committee, established in 1973 on the initiative of the Australian Government, is at present assessing the potential for development of resources of the basin for industrial, urban and agricultural development, for power generation and for flood mitigation. [More…]
Because of the increasing volume of matters of detail before the Commission, especially in relation to building and equipment programs and the desirability of quick decisions on them, the Government has decided that there should be provision for a power of delegation from the [More…]
Nor has there been an official pronouncement about the proposed acquisition of the Leyland land for the simple reason, I suspect, that the Commonwealth Government has no constitutional power to purchase either of those pieces of land. [More…]
Town jobs are also in jeopardy as spending power becomes very restricted. [More…]
The system of providing capital grants to the States follows arrangements that were made at the June 1970 Premiers Conference when the previous Government was in power. [More…]
In fact in the current year further wage and cost pressures stand to undermine further the purchasing power of the funds that have been available to them. [More…]
The debate surrounding this controversy has been disappointing in that it has usually developed into a slanging match between the State and Federal governments, regardless of which parties happen to be in power at either of the levels. [More…]
This Bill, I suggest, is just another example to force the States into a more difficult and more humiliating financial position and to throw much more power, in terms of control over State affairs, into the hands of Ministers in Canberra. [More…]
This whole Bill is aimed at trying to reduce the financial responsibilities of the States, to grab more power in Canberra, to exacerbate inflation, to embarrass the State governments and to enable the Commonwealth Government to do everything it can to discredit the State administrations and to build up its position vis-a-vis that of the States so that after a period of this type of State administration, a period of putting the States in a position in which they cannot carry out programs on an adequate basis, the people may be prepared to say: ‘OK, let us do away with the States, if that is what you really want’. [More…]
This doubling of the rate in respect of the territories in such a short time should be compared with the fact that payroll tax when this Government came to power in December 1972 was still being imposed at the same rate as that originally introduced in 1941, that is, at the rate of 2Vi per cent. [More…]
It is sufficient for me to say that in respect of the Liberal Party and the Labor Party, their complexion, their power base, their area of support have changed very little; so little, in fact, that it does not warrant attention in the remarks that I intend to make this morning. [More…]
It is a well known fact that the central power base of the League in those times existed in Dalby, and this was accepted by the honourable member for Maranoa (Mr Corbett). [More…]
Tragically we have had a 2-year hiatus in development of these resources since the Labor Government came to power in 1972 and we have had the administration of the Minister for Minerals and Energy (Mr Connor). [More…]
It will also provide for the establishment of a board with power to release a person wholly or partly from estate duty where its exaction would cause serious hardship for a beneficiary. [More…]
The wording of this section, and the way it is drafted, has given rise to some uncertainty as to whether the section gives power to make regulations with respect to all types of overseas transactions. [More…]
The absence of a specific power over extraterritorial transactions in the existing legislation could enable avoidance of the requirement to seek exchange control approval in respect of contracts, etc., with non-residents entered into outside Australia. [More…]
Under existing section 39 (3) and (4) the Reserve Bank, which is responsible for the administration of exchange control, has the power to reject applications for exchange control approval on the ground that the transaction involves, assists in, or is associated with the avoidance or evasion of Australian tax. [More…]
In other words, the formal power in relation to tax implications of proposed transactions is to be transferred from the Reserve Bank to the Commissioner. [More…]
The Monarto growth centre had already been started by the State Government when we came to power. [More…]
I can well remember the period before Labor came to power when every Federal member of Parliament was sick and tired of trying to get financial help for local government. [More…]
We were determined to do something about this matter when Labor came to power. [More…]
Probably, it is the first time since the last Labor government was in power. [More…]
This is certainly because local authorities are kept under the control, power and influence of State governments. [More…]
It does have by the operation of valuations some power to vary rates m certain areas. [More…]
We are the Party which went to the people and asked for power to control prices and we were refused. [More…]
We do not have the power to control the situation. [More…]
It will not be long before it becomes crystal clear to them that the control of the Country Party- now called the National Party in Queensland- no longer rests with the power base that at one time controlled that organisation. [More…]
This power is being exercised to assist eligible widows, seriously incapacitated applicants and other whose family obligations make it difficult for them to accumulate the normal minimum deposit, and to purchase a home on a minimal deposit. ‘ [More…]
(3) As the right honourable member is aware the Government proposes to introduce legislation in the current sittings of Parliament to establish an Australian Housing Corporation which will be empowered to cater for homeseekers within the Australian Government’s constitutional responsibilities. [More…]
I am glad I am able to refer to the ‘Australian’ of 1 1 November which refers to the unbelievable change that has occurred in the Australian economy since the Labor Party assumed power and what a muck up Labor has made of it all. [More…]
But in that editorial leader that newspaper claimed that whilst the Government came into power at a time of prosperity, a time when all things were imaginable, with every conceivable advantage that a government could want- the preceding Liberal-Country Party Government had left it that way- it has made an intolerable muck of the economy. [More…]
That is the sort of thing that will be done by the next Liberal-Country Party Government when it comes into power. [More…]
If a sufficient number of trade unionists make increased use of their monopoly power, this will price their members out of jobs. [More…]
Some ‘monetarist’ economists, while admitting that this is a theoretical possibility, deny that union power has been used in such a way, and claim that British inflation and stop-go episodes can be explained by other means. [More…]
Moreover, even if union power has not been used in the past to push up the sustainable unemployment rate, and therefore to tempt governments into inflationary policies, there is nothing to prevent this from happening now; and this is what many casual observers, without refined statistical techniques, believe is happening before their eyes. [More…]
The question is best considered from the point of view of a union leader- not necessarily the man at central headquarters but the one who exercises shop-floor power. [More…]
The gains from restraint in use of monopoly power are what economists call ‘public goods ‘. [More…]
But if the Opposition is ever returned to power, it will chop back the grants to the Queensland Government by $75m. [More…]
However we are told that there will be more money made available for roads and more money for oil search subsidies when a coalition government is returned to power. [More…]
Whilst the Corporation already participates in the determination of wool auction sale rosters and the scheduling of offerings, it does not have power to control the quantity of wool offered for public sale. [More…]
These are very wide powers and hence the necessity for some ministerial control over thenuse. [More…]
It is not envisaged that the Corporation will use all of these powers immediately, but rather as and when circumstances warrant it. [More…]
The legislation therefore provides a framework for approval to be given to the Corporation to engage in particular forms of trading activity appropriate to the needs and best interests of the wool industry and in accordance with any guidance provided by the Minister for Agriculture concerning the exercise of those powers. [More…]
Transactions that could be undertaken, for instance, may involve sales of wool on a forward basis as forward selling involves a risk due to market price fluctuations, the Corporation is being empowered to buy and sell wool futures with a view to reducing that risk. [More…]
The exercising of this power is also to be subject to the approval of the Minister for Agriculture. [More…]
The Schools Commission has recommended that additional sums be added to the grants to the States to restore the original purchasing power to the grants provided for these programs. [More…]
Of course the real reason he would not give any such promise was that he will not be Treasurer beyond then and the Labor Government will not be in power beyond that time. [More…]
What I am concerned about is why it is that over the years when the Liberal-Country Party Government was in power it did not have the same obsession about the thousands of schools scattered throughout Australia that existed in absolute educational poverty, as I would call it. [More…]
It is quite obvious that the diminishing purchasing power of grants has frustrated plans to expand and improve educational services. [More…]
It has therefore recommended to the Government this supplement to the funds currently provided so that the achievement of program objectives will not be impaired by the huge reductions in the purchasing power of the original grants. [More…]
This would at least assist from a Federal member’s point of view in any future protests from schools if this Government allows inflation to continue out of control and takes measures that further weaken the purchasing power of our dollar. [More…]
It said that to the extent that educational costs increase at a rate greater than the rate of general cost increases considered tolerable by the Government, the aim of restoring the intended purchasing power of recurrent grants will not be completely achieved though the recommendations contained in the report. [More…]
If we are to obtain value for the large increases in educational spending by all our State governments and the Federal Government in the long term the diminishing power of our currency must be controlled and productivity must rise in our service industries. [More…]
We are trying to maintain the purchasing power of their grants by this legislation in precisely the same way that we are trying to maintain the purchasing power of the State schools grants. [More…]
I want to say this for the sake of the honourable member for Bennelong who was proving, what I at any rate would never have disputed, the nature of this Bill: In order to offset recent cost increases and thus maintain the purchasing power of the original financial recommendations of the Interim Committee of the Schools Commission, the Government agreed to supplement both recurrent and capital funds made available to schools through the programs of financial assistance administered by the Commission. [More…]
In point of fact, in the case of non-government schools we have had to increase the capital grants for libraries by nearly $3m to maintain the purchasing power of the building grants for what was left under the old programs of 1972. [More…]
I would concede to the honourable member for Bennelong, and I would never have dreamt of suggesting otherwise, that an attempt is being made, as it will be made by other legislation which will be introduced in regard to universities and colleges of advanced education during this week, to maintain the purchasing power of the original grants. [More…]
Labor in government has no genuine respect for State or local government authorities and is intent on grabbing all real power for itself as the centralist authority. [More…]
This deals with giving the court the power to order a stay of proceedings under mortgage. [More…]
We do not believe that the compensation power sought by the Minister and the Government is proper. [More…]
How would the Minister like it if such powers were directed against him and his family? [More…]
The Government wants to have it both ways; it wants to be praised for giving the Territory its own Par.liament, but having done so it does not want that Parliament to have any real legislative power. [More…]
At that time the Government was prepared to transfer full authority to the Council and concomitant executive power to a Northern Territory Executive hi respect of a number of State type activities. [More…]
Returning to the matter which is allegedly under discussion, under section 51(xxxi) of the Constitution the Commonwealth has the power to acquire property on just terms for any Commonwealth purpose. [More…]
Subject to general acceptance in the Northern Territory, the Government is prepared to transfer full legislative authority to the Legislative Council and concomitant executive power to a Territory Executive for the following State-type activities: [More…]
In addition I hope that the Minister has not forgotten that in recent legislation in which he had the utmost co-operation from the Opposition in this House and in the Senate, legislation that was passed in relation to the Moore v. Doyle situation and which has been dear to his heart, although perhaps it should have been delayed until the Minister had reported back to the House on certain matters, power was given to the Arbitration Commission to demarcate in an industrial dispute between 2 unions. [More…]
The Arbitration Commission was given that power only 2, 3 or 4 weeks ago, if the legislation has been proclaimed. [More…]
It would be odd, I think, to pass legislation which took that power out of the Commission’s hands in relation to a particular instance. [More…]
This legislation seeks to do* in this instance what the demarcation power given to the Commission would have allowed the Commission to do in more normal circumstances. [More…]
But the Minister is not prepared to wait to give the Commission a chance to use its new-found power. [More…]
Did not the Liberal and Country Party members actively campaign against this Parliament being given such power during the campaign which preceded the 1973 referendum on prices and incomes? [More…]
If he has not the power in Cabinet and Caucus, then he ought to abandon his attempts. [More…]
As she said, the personnel must have the experience, wisdom and ability to recognise the problems and to do whatever is within the power of the Commission to overcome them. [More…]
If one refers to other Government agencies and corporations one will find provisions whereby those drawn from the particular industry over which that statutory authority is to exercise power are allowed to sit on commissions provided they disclose their interests. [More…]
Why not take from the proposed amendments the power given to the Minister? [More…]
Let us consider some of the immense powers proposed to be given. [More…]
Why not leave this power to the Commission? [More…]
In the first amendment, dealing with the exercise of this vast power, the Minister, under this proposed section, gives a direction and within 15 sitting days after giving that direction shall lay before each House of the Parliament a copy of the direction together with his reasons for giving the direction. [More…]
Why did not the Government, when it introduced the Bill, indicate that when such powers were given to the Minister they would be exercised subject to parliamentary scrutiny? [More…]
I would hope that no person would believe for one moment that the deletion of this immense power is going- to use the in word- emasculate the Bill. [More…]
It will give to it proper powers for it to exercise, and in general terms we do not complain about those powers. [More…]
The honourable gentleman says: ‘Well, if the Minister is exercising a power you can question him’. [More…]
This brings me to the second great power. [More…]
The first power is that the Minister will have the ultimate control of saying to the Commission: ‘All right, boys, turn this out’. [More…]
So there is the first power to which I have referred. [More…]
But the Minister under the second power would be able to go to any theatre, to any drive-in, and say: ‘You will screen this film’. [More…]
There was no suggestion of ensuring that everything had to be met and approved by the Minister, and no power was given to the Minister to intrude in the fashion in which this Bill seeks to give power. [More…]
The Opposition in this place sought to take away from the Australian Broadcasting Control Board certain of the powers that it has had for many years. [More…]
They were powers that the previous Government had for many years. [More…]
They relate particularly to cases in which the Board could direct television stations in the matter of hours of screening certain programs and in relation to advertising powers that the Board has always had. [More…]
The Opposition wants to take away these powers, even though when it was in government it had these powers for many years. [More…]
The Minister has had a power to direct what sort of films would be produced by Film Australia or by its predecessor, the Commonwealth Film Unit. [More…]
Now, the Senate opposition has taken away this power from the Minister. [More…]
Surely in a case like this- it is an absolutely unanswerable case- the Minister should have the power to ensure that these films are produced by Film Australia. [More…]
If the Opposition’s views on this matter are upheld by the Parliament, the Minister will no longer have those powers which he has had for many years. [More…]
I know that it has been asserted that it would be undemocratic for the Minister to have this power to direct Film Australia. [More…]
Apart from the point I have made already, that the power has been there for many years, the Government wants to provide even additional safeguards. [More…]
I know the view has been held that the Australian Government lacks the constitutional power to invoke these recommendations of the Tariff Board. [More…]
We have the foreign corporations power. [More…]
I think that is a fairly unequivocal power. [More…]
We also have the power applying to trading and financial corporations operating within Australia. [More…]
Admittedly that is something that has not really been fully tested in the High Court of Australia, except I suppose in the concrete pipes case, but certainly I think the foreign corporations power ought to be specific enough. [More…]
The clause relates to the power of the Minister in relation to the functions of the Australian Film Commission. [More…]
The right honourable member for Higgins (Mr Gorton), who has just finished his remarks on this legislation, sought to make a case of the powers of the Minister. [More…]
Provision is made for the Minister to be able only to give general directions to the Commission in respect of the overall performance of its functionsthe Minister can act only in that sense- except in those functions relating to the making of films for Australian Government purposes out of funds directly appropriated by Parliament for these purposes, where it is proposed he should have a power of specific direction. [More…]
Parliamentarians and democrats have always been faced with the problem of the power that any government can give to a statutory corporation. [More…]
They are faced with the problem of how much power they, as the elected representatives of the Australian people, should give to such bodies. [More…]
Surely it is a power, as I have said, that has been reflected in a large number of Bills and Acts of this Parliament which were passed when the Liberal-Country Party was in power and when the Labor Government was in power. [More…]
It is a democratic power, and the rights of the Minister who is responsible through this Parliament to the Australian people should be safeguarded. [More…]
Therefore I have moved this amendment which intends to bring to this Parliament the power that Parliament must exercise. [More…]
It is a power that Parliament can exercise through a Minister. [More…]
I fail to see the difficulties that are foreseen obviously by the Opposition in regard to ministerial power over prescribed sections. [More…]
Let us not forget that it is very strange that the Opposition all of a sudden has put forth the proposition that any statutory corporation should have full and ultimate powers. [More…]
If this Parliament loses the control and hands over complete power to any statutory corporation we are denying the democratic rights of this Parliament, and that is why I have moved the amendment. [More…]
The regulations may make provision, not inconsistent with this section, with respect to any matter in relation to the exercise of the power to make requirements under this section (which may include provision with respect to the proportions that are to be, or may be, specified in such a requirement), and that power shall not be exercised otherwise than in accordance with any regulations so made and in force. [More…]
8b The Minister shall give such directions to the Commission or an authorized person under section 7a as he thinks necessary for the purpose of ensuring the observance, in the exercise of powers under this section. [More…]
But to enshrine this code in an amendment such as this with the Minister again having the power of direction as he thinks fit for the interpretation of that Code is to me not only ludicrous but somewhat dangerous. [More…]
The way to cut down on freight costs is to endeavour to have as much as possible drawn by the same power unit. [More…]
I know from my own experience of practice in the industrial field how anxious the Federation is to extend that monopoly right around the coast and to intrude into areas such as the one where by statute it presently is excluded and also to intrude into ports where previously it did not have the monopoly power. [More…]
Furthermore, the Bank was concerned by the then Labor Government and wanted to get it out of power. [More…]
At that stage, the Bank was recruiting people to work as full-time organisers for the Liberal Party to endeavour to put the Chifley Labor Government out of power. [More…]
It will be the most high powered deputation from the coal consuming interests in Japan that has ever visited this country. [More…]
On Tuesday of this week I was interviewed by a representative of a major American power generating group who indicated that the group would take at least 10 million tonnes of coal a year if we were in a position to provide it, and that this would escalate to 30 million tonnes a year. [More…]
The Government that occupies the Treasury benches is in power because of a fraud put over the Australian people. [More…]
The Banking Bill 1974 seeks to put beyond doubt the power of the Australian Government to make regulations with respect to all types of overseas transactions. [More…]
In doing this it proposes to take full advantage of the constitutional powers of the Government to regulate overseas financial transactions. [More…]
Section 39 of the Banking Act provides the Government with the power to make regulations on exchange controls to protect the currency or the public credit of Australia or to conserve, in the national interest, Australia’s foreign exchange resources. [More…]
However, as it is now worded there is some uncertainty as to whether it provides the Government with the power to make regulations in respect of all types of overseas transactions. [More…]
Other amendments proposed in this Bill cover such considerations as secrecy of information divulged for the purpose of applying for a tax clearance, the power of the Commissioner to obtain relevant information and the matter of offences in this area. [More…]
The heart of the Banking Bill lies in the proposed new section 39 which is a much more detailed recitation of the powers which it could be construed accrue to the Commonwealth under the various placitums under section 51, namely section 51(1), 51 (12) and 51 (20). [More…]
In a few words the proposed new section 39 makes it perfectly clear that there is immense power which the Commonwealth has under the Constitution, which is granted and delineated clearly in terms of the Banking Act and able to be administered by the Reserve Bank in relation to overseas countries, foreign investment, the purposes to which investment may be directed and the circumstances in which it would be allowed. [More…]
The powers contained in the legislation mean a great deal domestically too because immediately the powers under proposed new section 39 are nominated one comes face to face with the proposition: to what extent are the domestic living conditions and economic conditions in Australia a prey to overseas circumstances? [More…]
It ensures that he will be garmented, that he has every covering in regard to his dealings with the rest of the world and there is conferred on him and on a government immense power which can be wielded in an appropriate manner. [More…]
The preamble to the proposed new section 39- which I have said is the heart of this legislationis interesting in comparison with the present one under which the Governor-General is given an umbrella power with respect to regulations on foreign exchange for two general purposes- for the protection of the currency or the public credit of the Commonwealth, or in order to conserve in the national interest the foreign exchange resources of the Commonwealth. [More…]
That is the end of the 2 general powers. [More…]
In clause 39 there is an additional power explicitly conferred on him, and that additional power relates to, in the words of the clause: foreign investment in Australia, Australian investment outside Australia, foreign ownership or control of property in Australia or of Australian property outside Australia or Australian ownership or control of property outside Australia or of foreign property in Australia. [More…]
So there is conferred quite explicitly on the Governor-General the additional power concerning the nature of foreign investment to and from this country. [More…]
When as a result of those matters we find that, due to domestic economic conditions, private enterprise is retracting and actually reducing its production, when we find as a result of that that there is an actual physical decline in the work force employed in Australia in the last month, a decline of 9,000 persons- and this is not a failure to grow quickly enough but an absolute, actual decline- this has a relationship to the powers which are proposed to be conferred under this Bill. [More…]
They are powers which the Reserve Bank always thought related to it and its administration of the various sections in the Banking Act. [More…]
We only ask that in the use of this power the Government be careful and wise. [More…]
And it is in relation to those things that I ask the Minister, or those Treasury officials who may be available to advise him, how it is intended to use these powers in relation to the prospect of massive Arab investment in Australia. [More…]
Immense investments have been attempted to be made- mainly equity- in other sources of energy or power, even oil, in other parts of the world. [More…]
Secondly, I ask in relation to clauses 39 (5) (a) and 39 (5) (b): In case corporations are involved in these transactions will regulations be made with respect to the corporations power under this section to prohibit or to encourage such investment or with respect to the circumstances in which there will be a prohibition or an encouragement of such an investment in this nation? [More…]
Under this legislation the Government will be seeking to exercise its complete constitutional power over overseas transactions. [More…]
I think that this is one of those powers which the Government has the responsibility to use to the fullest. [More…]
It is a government’s responsibility- we recognise it and the present Government recognises it- to see that the legislation which operates and gives power for these controls is kept up to a proper standard so that these practices are not allowed to continue. [More…]
It will be of long term benefit for the generation of power. [More…]
If we are to have a growing industrial base we must have power resources available to us. [More…]
I invite him to cast aside his narrow political attitudes of the past and, even at this late hour, use the example set by these 3 measures to accept the genuine opportunities that are offered to him so frequently by this Australian Government elected by the same people that he believes put him into power, even though under the electoral gerrymander system existing in Queensland they had little opportunity to do otherwise. [More…]
I remind members of the Government that these projects were all started prior to this Labor Government coming to power. [More…]
The economy will not prosper until there is in power a government which does understand this most vital part of our economy. [More…]
Since coming to power they expanded Government spending in various directions, many of them admirable in themselves, but which should have been allowed to wait until they could be afforded. [More…]
The suggestion in them is a fairly remote conclusion to draw from the Press statements that I have made on the question of the potential air pollution arising from the powerhouse at Newport. [More…]
I issued a couple of Press statements in August last suggesting that there were some doubts about the safety of the power station, in view of its potential to increase photochemical smog. [More…]
We did not consider the total environmental consequences of the proposed power station. [More…]
The discussions were related purely to this one issue of the possible increase in photochemical smog associated with the proposed power station. [More…]
I do not quite understand the logic of drawing the conclusion from those sons of discussions that I support the proposed Newport power station. [More…]
I said that we will have to wait indefinitely because I could not imagine that it would be possible in the present climate to get the necessary referendum carried to give the Australian Parliament the power to introduce democratic socialism. [More…]
So there is no limitation whatever on the power of any State parliament, except that of New South Wales, to extend its term of office. [More…]
Because of Australia’s unreal and completely irresponsible exchange rate it was a bargain for overseas countries to buy Australian resources in terms of their real spending power. [More…]
I urge honourable members on both sides of the House not to allow cynical attitudes to prevail with the result that political power is used either to amend the law in the interests of the Australian Labor Party, which is now in office, or to prevent its amendment in a way which would improve our electoral system in the interests of the electors. [More…]
The $9.6m promised for projects commenced in 1973-74 if received tomorrow would be reduced through inflation to $8.1m, a loss of real purchasing power of $ 1.5m. [More…]
Average weekly earnings adjusted or deflated for changes in prices increased in real purchasing power by 3.2 per cent in the year ending June 1973 and by 3.9 per cent in the year ending June 1974. [More…]
The second is that property confers advantages on its owner independent of, and additional to, the income it yields: it serves as a reserve of spending power in emergencies and thus reduces the need to save out of income, it provides security for old age and heirs, it provides opportunities for reducing income tax liability by income-splitting, it gives the owner access to credit, it is a necessary condition of business enterprise, and it confers social status and prestige. [More…]
Thirdly, the requirement will be extended to encompass proposals which involve the constitutional power of the Australian Government. [More…]
The procedure will not give to environmental considerations a veto power in decision making. [More…]
Perhaps it is not the time now to debate futuristic measures of water control, whether such measures involve use of atomic power or membrane type nitration systems. [More…]
-In the last couple of days I think the Opposition sought in fact to take from the Australian Broadcasting Control Board the power to take the action that the honourable member for Angas (Mr Giles) has advised that it should take. [More…]
The Government will do everything within its power to preserve the Palace Hotel in Perth and it will seek the co-operation of the Commonwealth Bank. [More…]
I shall use whatever power the law puts at my disposal to bring down our wrath upon the guilty persons. [More…]
1) That paragraph ( 12) of the resolution of appointment of the Joint Committee on Pecuniary Interests of Members of the Parliament be omitted and that the following paragraph be substituted: ‘(12) That the Committee report within the shortest reasonable period, not later than 29 May 1975, and that any member of the Committee have power to add a protest or dissent to any report. ‘ [More…]
Perhaps he could tell us when he sums up today what constitutional power the Government had to buy the Glebe lands. [More…]
It would be wrong to say that I do not want to extend the powers of the Australian Parliament. [More…]
I support the extension of powers to the Australian Parliament in such matters as the petroleum submerged lands legislation and the environment which are so important nationally and internationally and which are interconnected in the world in which we live. [More…]
So on those broad bases I support the extension of powers to this Parliament. [More…]
As far as I am concerned I am committed to a policy of power to the people. [More…]
I want to give power back to the people. [More…]
I do not want to centralise power here in Canberra. [More…]
There is not even power in the Act for the responsible Minister to withdraw the special account subsidies from an organisation. [More…]
Clause 1 5 provides for a specific power to vary by regulation the rates of additional Australian Government nursing home benefits for pensioners with pensioner medical service entitlement and their dependants and the rates of nursing home fund benefits for insured patients. [More…]
I give a guarantee now to the Minister that when we are back in power, by the middle of next year, I will be more considerate to him than my predecessors were. [More…]
We also support the hardship clauses which empower the Minister to grant a measure of relief to persons in difficulty as a result of a higher rate of interest applying to the increased mortgage limit. [More…]
The power of the Minister to intervene in such matters is a typical example. [More…]
Now that they have the power to do these things, they are not happening. [More…]
In this particular Bill we have seen other examples of ministerial powers introduced and sponsored by the Minister which are in absolute contradiction to views expressed by members of the Government when in Opposition. [More…]
They do show that he believed in certain things when in Opposition and now, when he has the power in government, he has suddenly forgotten all the things that he believed in when in Opposition. [More…]
First, Labor kept itself in power in Queensland for 42 years with the greatest known gerrymander ever in Australia’s history. [More…]
There do not appear to be any legal impediments to Council’s power to renovate and manage the theatres and associated retail development (Pan XXV Clause 799(1) Local Government Act). [More…]
Section 20 of the Act provides power for the Minister to grant special financial assistance of various kinds to the owner of a designated building to help ensure its preservation. [More…]
The Act gives the Minister power to approve developments that are larger and higher than would normally be permitted but the development proposed would still be subject to the provisions of a Report by the Board of Works or the Council and there may be many other planning requirements which may make the maximum development proposed difficult to achieve. [More…]
I mention this fact in relation to Warringah because I can remember very clearly the enormous hubbub that was made in 1972 by the then Opposition before it came to power about the unemployment statistics that then obtained throughout Australia. [More…]
Laboratory services, for example compressed air installation, distilled water, liquid petroleum gas reticulation, etc., will be installed, as will a small emergency generating plant to provide stand-by power to certain areas. [More…]
The purpose of the loans include the purchase and installation of refrigerated vats, necessary modifications to dairy and power supply and the construction of on-farm access roads. [More…]
The purpose of clause 15 is to assist dairy farmers to change over to refrigerated bulk milk by the provision of interest free loans for the purchase and installation of refrigerated vats, for any necessary modifications to the dairy or the power supply and for the construction of on-farm access roads. [More…]
That power existed. [More…]
For a government which says it wants price control, it is worth recalling that one cost which the Government can control throughout Australia and the one cost which it has power to control effectively throughout Australia is the cost of money. [More…]
The other day a Bill was presented here concerning exchange powers. [More…]
It has been made clear here in terms of the administration of budgets and of the Reserve Bank of Australia powers that the Government has a wide and very pervasive control over the domestic money supply in Australia. [More…]
As the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) was fond of saying when he was in Opposition, the Government has more financial powers centrally than most central governments -not Federal governments- in the world. [More…]
When this Government came to power there were indications of an overheating in the economy and for the first 12 months of its administration it did nothing to control that overheating. [More…]
The Minister has stated that whilst in his view the actions of the Corporation could have been regarded formally as outside its guidelines, he accepts that the Corporation did not have the power to cancel or significantly reduce wool supplies at auction without the concurrence of other members of the Joint Wool Selling Organisation. [More…]
I want to refer to some of those views which obviously have been discounted by the Government and which I think need to be considered if an adequate consideration of the extension of the powers of the Australian Wool Corporation is to be effectively given. [More…]
They have presented a submission to us in which they quite strongly express their concern at the degree to which increased Corporation power and supply management might disturb the sensitivities of supply demand in the wool market. [More…]
I believe this criticism to be understandable, but I believe it is a factor which the members of the Wool Corporation need to take into account when determining the way in which they will use the additional powers for which this legislation provides. [More…]
The wool buyers have said to me that the trading powers strike at the heart of the market forces present balance and if they were used to influence existing established markets, particularly in terms of the export of processed wools, they could quite seriously prejudice the operations of those in the private sector. [More…]
With respect to the additional powers to be included in section 40 of the Act, as amended by clause 13 of this Bill, it is necessary that the Australian Wool Corporation does not abuse particularly the power to buy and sell at auction or otherwise. [More…]
This additional power means that the Australian Wool Corporation can go quite outside the presently established means of acquiring wool. [More…]
If it does so, it must be quite conscious of the degree to which, by the tremendous power it can exercise, it can distort the powers of the market place in such a way as to prejudice the long term returns to wool growers and the long term interests of the wool industry itself. [More…]
Paragraphs (c) and (d) of proposed section 40 (4) provide for an extension of power with respect to the processing or arranging for the processing of wool and for the buying, selling and exporting of wool products. [More…]
Again those 2 powers, if abused, might well lead to detrimental and adverse effects for the wool industry. [More…]
But the Opposition is concerned to see that the Australian Wool Corporation, with the tremendous power that this legislation will give it, does not abuse that power and those who are members of the Corporation continue to act with the very same high measure of responsibility which they have demonstrated to date. [More…]
As to the Minister for Agriculture being given power of direction, which is the conception embodied in proposed new section 20a(2), this is completely repugnant. [More…]
Why should the Minister intervene in an area where the corporation is given adequate power? [More…]
In this Bill we are giving the Corporation exactly that power so that it might be able to process wool and push it along the pipeline closer to the point of consumption. [More…]
Giving the Wool Corporation full trading powers allows it to do just that and to trade in wool in any geographic position around the world, in any state of processing towards the final consumer. [More…]
I think that such power is in order and that the futures market should be used, but there is some concern and some disquiet as to just what effect the futures market has on the wool industry. [More…]
I urge the Corporation and the Government to pay heed to what I have said about that aspect of the wool industry because I believe this Bill has given the Corporation power to consider this problem. [More…]
The Australian Wool Industry Conference still nominates people for appointment to the Corporation but the Minister simply has the power to select. [More…]
Let us have a look at the new powers that we are giving to the Australian Wool Corporation. [More…]
These are indeed persuasive and wide powers. [More…]
Whilst the Corporation already participates in the determination of wool auction sale rosters and the schedules of offerings, it does not have the power to control the quantity of wool offered for public sale. [More…]
I put it strongly to the House that, while the court should be satisfied that a marriage has broken down before granting a divorce, the law should do everything in its power to aviod promoting or continuing hostility between parties after divorce. [More…]
The court will also have the power to advise the parties to attend counselling, not for reconciliation but for the purpose of trying to improve their relationship to each other. [More…]
The court will also have the power to order supersivion of custody and access orders by welfare officers and where necessary, it will have the power to enforce compliance with such orders. [More…]
It also introduces the general rule that each party is to bear his own costs, but includes a power for the court to make an order for costs where the circumstances warrant it. [More…]
There has been a remarkable improvement in pay, an increase in pay, for Service officers since this Government came to power. [More…]
During the course of my administration of the portfolio I did everything in my personal power to ensure that when money was paid it was supervised inside the reasonable limits of my not becoming a Big Brother. [More…]
There is a power of delegation in the Bill ‘. [More…]
It is perfectly true, and I suppose it is one of the paradoxes of political history in this country, that the person who pioneered the emancipation of the grants power was a man who at one time or another in his life stood at this despatch box and at another time- for 16 years- stood at the despatch box on the other side of the table. [More…]
We say that it accords with commonsense, we say that it accords with the spirit of this country, that grants should be given not subject to an infinite array of conditions and not subject to great powers put at the disposal of the relevant Minister. [More…]
Grants should be given on this basis: ‘Here is the money, we have the power. [More…]
2) requires any detailed examination, except that I should point out that the Bill, which provides an additional sum of $5 1 m, is necessary not because of an expanded program of capital expenditure but to meet the diminishing purchasing power of the Australian currency brought about by inflation. [More…]
The Australian Parliament has the necessary power to proceed in this way and should exercise that power. [More…]
When this measure was being discussed in the Senate the Attorney-General (Senator Murphy) had occasion to cite a legal opinion given by a Solicitor-General- the present honourable and learned member for Wentworth (Mr Ellicott)-to the effect that the Bill indicating Australian accession to the Convention was within power. [More…]
It is of further interest to recall that when the Australian Constitution was passing through the British Parliament and the external affairs power was under discussion in the House of Lords, the Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies, the Earl of Selborne, said: ‘I want to assure my noble lords that the existence of this provision’- that is the external affairs provision- ‘does not indicate that Australia will ever have a paraphernalia of ambassadors and consuls separate from the British Empire.’ [More…]
It is worth pointing out that whilst the present Government came into power with a promise that our foreign aid would reach a target of .7 per cent of gross national product, the fact of the matter is that in the last 2 financial years the percentage of aid in relation to GNP has amounted to a mere .52 per cent in 1973-74 and in 1974-75 is estimated at .59 per cent. [More…]
No sooner was the Labor Government in power than we had, as the Prime Minister says, unemployment and inflation marching side by side. [More…]
I believe that when the Prime Minister reshuffles his Cabinet- it is a pity that he cannot shuffle some of his Ministers out of the Ministry, but he has not the power to do it- he should make the present Minister for Labor and Immigration Minister for Public Works or give him some portfolio right out of the public arena. [More…]
When Labor came to power in 1972, just one day more than 2 years ago, the establishment realised that the honeymoon was over. [More…]
The Government is being advised that the new legislation must provide the screening authority with power to examine foreigner-to-foreigner transfers of Australian assets and resources. [More…]
There is little doubt that when we came to power in December 1972 funds were flowing into Australia as they have never flowed in before. [More…]
I do not think there is one objective Australian who would do anything but recognise that since the Labor Party came to power there has been a new feeling of nationalism in Australia. [More…]
This proxy had the effect of reducing the voting power held by Bowater-Ralli to under 15 per cent, thus enabling Eastralian Securities Limited, or Escor Limited as it is now known, to avoid classification as a foreign company under the Act. [More…]
This means that we are transferring two most important reserve powers to Papua New Guinea, namely, the power over defence matters and the power over foreign affairs. [More…]
I would say that if we examine the relationship between metropolitan powers and administered entities- whether it be with African countries, whether it be Fiji and the United Kingdom or what other entity one chooses- we would see that there has probably not been an administered area which was as close to the metropolitan power, not geographically but in the way it moved towards its independence- as Papua New Guinea used to be to us. [More…]
In clause 3 of this Bill Australia proposes to transfer the power over foreign relations and defence to Papua New Guinea. [More…]
These powers will cease to be reserve powers to Australia- reserve in the sense that when Papua New Guinea achieved self government on 1 December 1973 certain powers remained with the metropolitan powerAustralia namely, defence, foreign affairs, the supreme court and certain other stated matters. [More…]
Those powers are being removed from our control. [More…]
resolves in agreement with the administering power - [More…]
requests the administering power to notify the Secretary-General of the date on which Papua New Guinea will accede to independence and on which the Trusteeship Agreement shall cease to be in force. [More…]
The remaining 423 persons will be playing a role along the guidelines produced by the Minister for Defence in Papua New Guinea, Mr Albert Maori Kiki, if there is any need to bring out the Papua New Guinea defence force in support of the police- in other words, in support of the civil power or to put down any form of uprising. [More…]
The single exception is the deletion from the principal Act of the reserve power over defence and foreign affairs. [More…]
As I have said, rights, authority and power create responsibilities and obligations. [More…]
I believe that we are all motivated by a very high instinct to ensure that we as one of the last colonial countries in the world are able to transmit the power, the authority and the responsibility to a former colony so that this transition can be undertaken without hardship, without catastrophe and without disaster to the colonial country. [More…]
I exclude my colleague, the honourable member for Kooyong from these remarks because he was not the Minister at that stage, but we had the spectacle of the former Liberal-Country Party Government- a gunhappy government- talking about and preparing for the call out of forces to aid the civil power in the Gazelle disturbances in July 1 970. [More…]
There was the very easy assumption- an assumption which the present Government found very difficult to remove- that the soldiers were a line of easy resort in a call out to the civil power. [More…]
The Bill also gives enormous power to the permanent head of the Department of Social Security or his delegate. [More…]
As I understand it, it gives the permanent head power to say to a voluntary organisation: ‘You will build your home here’, even though a State Government might believe that that is the worst possible place to build a home. [More…]
It gives the permanent head power to determine the size of a nursing home. [More…]
It also gives the permanent head or his delegate power to determine standards both for nursing homes and for outside services being provided for them. [More…]
I believe that eventually these bodies will or could live to regret this action because of the power conferred on the Minister in this legislationa power to determine how those organisations or those nursing homes will operate, down to the approval of budgets and even, perhaps, to the siting of new constructions. [More…]
I do not see the present Government, now that it is in power, doing anything about this part of the Act. [More…]
The power of the Minister to destroy private health funds was questioned, in fact torpedoed, by a judgment of that Court. [More…]
It sickens me that a Government Minister can have that sort of power and that he has the effrontery to put this sort of Bill up to a House of Parliament. [More…]
In other words, the Minister is asking this Parliament tonight to pass a Bill which gives him power to simply go to a fund and say: ‘You do this’. [More…]
If the fund does not do so the next step is a judicial manager who has the power to wind up all the affairs of the fund. [More…]
He has the powers of an official receiver. [More…]
It is like giving the Minister power to say of the parliamentary retirement fund or whatever it is called, to which all of us have contributed over-generously over the years, ‘Look, your parliamentary retirement fund is too great. [More…]
The Liberal-Country Party government would disband the Health Insurance Commission if returned to power at an appropriate time. [More…]
The major part of it concerns, first, the quest for dictatorial power for the Minister over the health insurance funds; secondly, matters relating to increased nursing home subsidies; thirdly, the correction of anomalies with the handicapped children payments; fourthly, the widening of the provision with respect to hearing aids to enable the supply of other surgical appliances by ministerial regulation; and, fifthly, the extension of full approval rights for certain friendly society dispensaries. [More…]
The major part of the Bill concerns the quest for power over the voluntary health insurance funds. [More…]
Now, by this Bill, the Minister wants to take them over by ministerial power and, as the honourable member for Hotham (Mr Chipp) has pointed out quite clearly, he will have the power to appoint inspectors and then judicial managers, and once the latter are placed in this position of control over a fund by the Minister and are subject to the Minister, they will decide to accept an agency arrangement for the Government’s proposed scheme. [More…]
Medical members of the association shall be elected by the Council or by a committee appointed by the Council with power in that behalf. [More…]
The difficulty is that the only Federal Minister with any constitutional power in this field is not even a member of the Council. [More…]
I refer to Senator Murphy, who is using his Customs powers to implement major conservation policy. [More…]
It states that the heads of power relied upon are the appropriation power, the Territories power, the power with respect to Territorial water and the Continental Shelf, the external affairs power, and the trade and commerce power. [More…]
Secondly, it is clear that the Government has vested power in itself under the provisions of this Bill to proclaim any land in the States vested in the Commonwealth either as a national park, reseve or wilderness area, and place it under the control of the Director of the National Parks and Wildlife Service. [More…]
While I do not in” any way argue against the Australian Govenment exercising its powers in this regard in the interests of conservation, the Opposition is concerned that such actions could be taken without consultations with the States concerned. [More…]
The fifth area of concern is clause 19, where it is clear that the Minister believes that his head of power under the external affairs provisions of the Constitution, as a result of having signed international agreements, is such that he has the power over all wildlife in Australia. [More…]
Not only will the Director, subject to the Minister’s approval, have powers to manage parks and reserves in Commonwealth Territories but he will be empowered to control wildlife throughout Australia not necessarily on reserves, and will formulate and control culling and commercial harvesting of wildlife, again not necessarily on reserves. [More…]
God forbid that such powers should be concentrated in Canberrra. [More…]
On behalf of the Opposition I will move to amend clause 19 to ensure that there is Commonwealth and State co-operation in such a program and to ensure that the States are not rendered powerless in this area. [More…]
I am thinking of the balance of power in the Middle East. [More…]
One can illustrate it, dramatise it, by the report that at the time of the visit to this country of the Shah of Iran he had ordered from France some 5 nuclear power stations, half a dozen major plants or factories, including a steel plant, three or more railways, and so on. [More…]
What I am saying is that that will amount to a massive transfer of real wealth, real goods, to Iran from the French whose standard of living will not grow over the next years as resources which would have produced things for them, produce these power stations, factories, and so on, for the Shah. [More…]
If a project costs less than $100,000, the RED Ministers authorise me to approve of it on their behalf, provided that I report to them at the subsequent meeting what projects I have approved under that power. [More…]
Although I have not checked it, I believe that one can properly say that never before has such a phalanx of power been marshalled to support a single measure before this Parliament. [More…]
However, uncertainty as to the extent of constitutional power should never of itself be a reason for opposing an otherwise worthwhile legislative exercise of power; nor should it prevent a government, properly advised, treading where angels of constitutional probity have formerly feared to tread. [More…]
Clause 6 contains a series of sub-paragraphs which no doubt were intended by the draftsman to indicate the basis of power. [More…]
To some students of constitutional law that may seem at first strange, but of course in the books there is some support for the view that because on Federation there was created a nation, out of that nation there springs implied power to do certain things. [More…]
Whether of course it would bring power sufficient to enable national parks and wildlife reserves to be established is a matter for the future. [More…]
Clearly the Commonwealth has power to pass laws with respect to parks in the Territories. [More…]
Here again we have a reference to a power which has not yet been fully explored. [More…]
In Burgess ‘s case in the High Court reference was made to the power of the High Court over external affairs. [More…]
The big question will arise, of course, in the High Court, if this Bill should ever be challenged, as to whether treaties in relation to wildlife are an external affair which enables this Parliament to pass laws under that head of power. [More…]
Here again there is a reference to a power- the trade and commerce power- which has not previously been used in quite this way in relation to tourism between the States and between other countries and Australia. [More…]
A great deal of reliance has been placed by the Government on the external affairs power. [More…]
The other reliance on the external affairs power to which I would refer is found in clause 7 (c) of the Bill. [More…]
This means that for the first time this Parliament would be giving power to the Governor-General to proclaim a national park over an area of the high seas. [More…]
Of course, it involves a degree of control over the high seas and this to a substantial extent as can be seen from a consideration of the proposed regulation making power. [More…]
One only has to cast one’s mind quickly through clause 70, the regulation making power, to see the extent to which the Minister would be able to control a park which was declared over an area of the high seas. [More…]
The implications that flow from the degree of control that this regulation making power, which may well be apt for a reserve on land, would give over areas of the high seas may not have been thought through. [More…]
Clause 42(2) contains a similar power for a warden to do things outside a park. [More…]
I make it clear that the Bill does not empower the Government to buy land; that power rests solely in the Lands Acquisition Act. [More…]
The Minister could quite rightly claim that he has introduced environmental protection legislation which gives the Minister power to call for environmental impact assessments. [More…]
Very wide powers and very wide powers of discretion are given to the Minister. [More…]
The reason that we of the Opposition have moved to have this change made to clause 10 is that we wonder why the Minister for Minerals and Energy should be given this special power to approve mining within a park area. [More…]
We know that he has a general power in regard to mining. [More…]
I do not think for a moment that the legislation should be used to invoke the powers of either the Minister for Minerals and Energy (Mr Connor) or the proposed Petroleum and Minerals Authority which is currently under challenge before the High Court. [More…]
If approval or authority is to be given for mining to be undertaken on Kakadu National Park or in any other area that is reserved or proclaimed for the purposes of wildlife and nature conservation I believe that this should be done by the corporate body of the executive of the Government itself rather than that power being vested in the hands of a sole Minister who, being a Minister for Minerals and Energy could, of course, have a degree- and I do not say this would be the case with the present Minister for Minerals and Energy but at some future date a Minister for Minerals and Energy could be a mining fanatic - [More…]
I want to make it quite clear that the Minister of State for Minerals and Energy has no power at all under this legislation except that he is to do something in accordance with the plan of management relating to a particular park or reserve. [More…]
Dr Mosley felt that the power should be vested in the Director to enable scientific research to take place under his direction in accordance with his authority until such time as the plan of management is ultimately determined and approved by both Houses of Parliament. [More…]
A simple way to achieve the desired result would be to amend the clause to provide that ‘the Director may in co-operation with the State formulate and implement’, and leave it at that, thus restricting formulation and implementation by the Director in his own power to the Territories. [More…]
So, the amendment moved by the Minister does not quite meet the situation, as we see it, vis-a-vis the States because, on the face of it, if this power is granted, it would enable the Director to formulate and implement a program without regard to the interests or the attitudes of the State concerned. [More…]
There will be no question but that a State will have power to formulate and implement programs for the preservation of wildlife. [More…]
I concede that when the Australian Labor Party got to power many of us on the Government side in 1972 and at the beginning of 1973 felt that we had gained office because- among other reasons- of our concern for the environment and conservation. [More…]
The Australian Government has no direct power over kangaroos. [More…]
Senator Murphy indicated to me that he had power and that he was prepared to act. [More…]
-This is possibly not the appropriate time to speak, but in my speech on the second reading I referred to the provisions of sub-clause (4) of clause 40 and the fact the warden was able to exercise such wide powers anywhere in Australia. [More…]
The warden had power to arrest without warrant a person anywhere in Australia. [More…]
In my speech on the second reading, I indicated that I thought these powers were too broad. [More…]
I think the Minister understands the objection that we have to this broad power of regulation to implement treaties. [More…]
I would only suggest to him, having in mind that this Bill has to get through the Senate, that he might take into account the possibility of putting in a schedule those existing treaties, to which Australia is either a signatory or which it has ratified, and which the Government would wish to implement through a clause such as this, so that specific power could be given consideration to them, but we should omit a broad regulation making power of this description. [More…]
It is felt that this paragraph provides too broad a power base for any Government to enact law by regulation rather than by a Bill for an Act. [More…]
In relation to the first amendment, the Opposition feels that there should not be regulationmaking powers to encompass an area other than an area to which this legislation is directed. [More…]
I have moved the second amendment because the Opposition feels that paragraph (2)(s) gives far too much power by way of regulation by regulating or prohibiting the use of vessels in, and the passage of vessels through, parks and reserves and the landing and use of aircraft in, and the flying of aircraft over, parks and reserves. [More…]
Paragraph (4)(e) gives regulationmaking powers with respect to external affairs, including the implementation of agreements between Australia and other countries. [More…]
The Bill we are debating gives the Minister power to ensure that any project of any organisation or agency or, indeed, the Commonwealth Government or any project involving Commonwealth funds within the States which is likely to have a significant effect on the environment should be accompanied by an environmental impact statement. [More…]
For example, it would appear that the Minister has given a great deal of power in calling for or refusing an environmental impact statement. [More…]
Naturally, the Government will not be willing to undertake a full study of every proposed work because of the expense, the manpower and the total resources involved, but there should at least be an opportunity to appeal against the Minister’s decision. [More…]
It will not grant me the exclusive power of veto over proposals or policies. [More…]
It will not give individual citizens the power to stop bad projects or to set conditions for moderate ones. [More…]
In my electorate, for example, it was proposed to set up an atomic power station. [More…]
While one might accept that the discretionary provisions that the Minister has referred to give the Commonwealth and the Minister power to exercise a discretion, to say that he will not require an impact study in this particular case, that clause of the Bill which deals with this matter by itself also has inherent in it other dangers which 1 do not believe people in the community would be aware of to date. [More…]
It is disappointing to me to go through a Bill like this and to see Commissioners given very wide power. [More…]
The Bill’s provisions will apply to proposals which are being developed by Australian Government departments or instrumentalities and to situations where Australian Government money is involved or where Australia ‘s constitutional power is involved. [More…]
However, it also needs mentioning that the Minister will have the power to order a public inquiry where an impact statement has not been prepared. [More…]
This measure will give the Wool Corporation a wide power in relation to trading that I believe will be for the benefit of the wool industry. [More…]
I therefore suggest to the Minister for Northern Development and the Northern Territory (Dr Patterson) who is sitting at the table, that the Government might look at the powers now exercised by the Prices Justification Tribunal with respect to wool brokers and other who, within the joint wool selling organisation determine selling charges but whose function is now inhibited by the Prices Jusification Tribunal. [More…]
Therefore, I ask the Minister seriously to consider asking the Prime Minister to write a letter to the Prices Justification Tribunal asking that the Prices Justification Tribunal should not exercise this function and stating that power is given under this Act to the Wool Corporation to determine selling charges. [More…]
I think it was terminated whilst the Liberal-Country Party Government was in power in 1970. [More…]
At the same time the United Kingdom Minister for Defence made it quite clear that his country would continue to co-operate with Australia and New Zealand and the other countries which are parties to the Five Power Arrangements. [More…]
It costs him $20 a week just for the space plus power. [More…]
Other engineering services to be supplied include sewerage, water and storm water drainage, fire protection systems and emergency power supply. [More…]
The Commonwealth Government has the Constitutional power to provide medical and hospital services for pensioners, and with it the responsibility to make a significant contribution towards the hospital care of pensioners. [More…]
On return to power we will take those actions that I have just described. [More…]
The Liberal-Country Party Government would disband the Health Insurance Commission, if returned to power at an appropriate time, Mr Don Chipp, Shadow Minister for Social Security, said today. [More…]
We see them as being no different from the Bills in relation to the national health scheme which we have opposed ever since the Labor Government came into power. [More…]
The Opposition has already warned what will happen when we return to power. [More…]
I say that some time in the next year or so when we return to power this Commission will be dismantled by the incoming government. [More…]
Average earnings have increased in real purchasing power by more than 7 per cent under the Labor Government. [More…]
Every financial weapon, every constitutional power at our disposal has been used in our fight against inflation and unemployment. [More…]
In his statement the Prime Minister said: ‘Every financial weapon, every constitutional power at our disposal has been used in our fight against inflation and unemployment.’ [More…]
My colleague’s view was that the regulations were in fact valid, but I am sure all honourable members will be in agreement with the Government’s view that the important thing is to put beyond doubt the power of the Board to make regulations in this important area. [More…]
Whilst we do not have any objection to its intention in principle, we have suggested that certain safeguards should be put in by way of amendment to ensure that this additional raising power, with the Australian Government guarantee, does not allow the Corporation to act in a way which would give it a preferred position in raising money and lending it on the Australian market. [More…]
I think it is also fair to say that today there is a good deal of caution on the part of the Opposition as to how this Corporation might be used by a socialist government such as the one in power at the moment. [More…]
The idea of giving this guarantee to the Corporation will enable Australia at least to borrow some of those funds, because no doubt those countries are not prepared to lend to private enterprise in this country while the present regime is in power. [More…]
Provided the Government is prepared to accept -naturally it is, as can be seen from the amendments that have been circulated- the suggestions of the Opposition to ensure that the borrowing power of the Corporation does not exceed $250m and to ensure that the Treasurer’s discretion does not allow funds to be lent at a preferred rate to that at which they are borrowed, the Opposition supports this legislation as being useful in allowing Australians to maintain equity in Australian projects. [More…]
In other words, I do not believe that the present turmoil in the Australian economy is so much the result of the present Treasurer’s intervention as the product of other decisions which he had little power to arrest. [More…]
As I said before, the Government believes that the powers of the Corporation would be weakened if the amendments were accepted. [More…]
One of the most important aspects of this Bill is that it provides for wider trading powers. [More…]
The powers provided for in this Bill include the power to manufacture and to process wool if necessary. [More…]
It is all right for members of the Opposition to talk about private enterprise and to go through all the rigmarole and emotionalism connected with this, but the Government wants to give to the Australian Wool Corporation powers which will not hamper it in any way so that it is able to carry out its job in the best interests of the wool industry. [More…]
In addition, new developments in the demand for steaming coal for power generation, following the oil crisis, indicate that Japan will be importing 10 million tonnes p.a. [More…]
For which of those authorities for which the Government does possess power to set a growth limit has the Government set a limit or target. [More…]
Their intrusion here is a shabby and short sighted move to serve the personal ambition for more power by the Country Party Leader (Mr Anthony). [More…]
Especially in view of the really great amount of responsibility that members of the Legislative Assembly have been showing since the cyclone disaster in Darwin, will the Minister advise the Parliament when executive power and responsibility will be passed to the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly so that Territorians may have a rightful say in their own affairs? [More…]
In view of the fact that so many Darwin people are transient or are out of Darwin at the moment, the whole terms of reference given to the parliamentary Committee with respect to executive power and other important matters dealing with constitutional reform may have to be looked at again. [More…]
If one takes those 2 things together, what they mean in simple terms is that over a short period wages and salaries will lose their purchasing power- a classic ingredient for industrial disputation. [More…]
The absence of sewerage, water and power, the lack of accommodation and the fact that health facilities were strained to the limit for a city of over 40 000, all leading to a very real threat of disease, clearly justified my decision to evacuate the city which was discussed with the Acting Prime Minister (Dr J. F. Cairns) and the Leader ofthe Opposition (Mr Snedden) on Boxing Day. [More…]
The Commission should clearly have power to do this in the performance of its functions. [More…]
On 2 1 May 1970 Senator Keeffe received a letter from the then Minister-in-Charge of Aboriginal Affairs, Mr Wentworth, in relation to the Queensland legislation observing that, as a result ofthe 1967 referendum, the Commonwealth had concurrent legislative power with the States regarding Aborigines. [More…]
What is objectionable in the existing Queensland Acts is the power they give to Queensland officials and councils to discriminate between one Aboriginal or Islander and another, allowing one on to the reserves but not allowing another. [More…]
The standard of conduct now required is at the discretion of persons in authority who have, in effect, the power to arbitrarily eject individuals from reserves. [More…]
It is intended that this power should only be able to be exercised where an individual’s conduct is unreasonable. [More…]
Indeed, we face the situation from time to time in which the only authority, the only power, that a Minister has to try to effect some sort of compliance is either to suspend or deregister the funds. [More…]
As the Minister for Social Security (Mr Hayden) has pointed out in the House, a court case is pending- I understand that it is listed for 14 February, later this week- in which the validity and the power of the HCF and the MBF in New South Wales to charge and collect not only higher contributions but also arrears following increases in contributions which are backdated will be challenged. [More…]
That is why in the Bill that the Senate has amended we felt it was necessary to take away from the Minister powers which he was seeking to give him ultimate control over the non-government health funds. [More…]
If he believes they are so disgraceful no honourable member could look very happily at the sorts of power which he sought in the Bill which the Senate was sensible enough to carve up in this fashion. [More…]
My concern is that this Parliament should do everything in its power to complete the process of making the High Court of Australia Aus talian final court of appeal from all Australian courts. [More…]
One ofthe specific platforms of policy on which this Government was elected to power- and reelected is that we would expand the activities of the Australian Industry Development Corporation to enable it to do its job more effectively. [More…]
Super-power rivalry is an obstacle to the achievement of a zone of peace in the Indian Ocean and emphasises that in present circumstances the concept of a zone of peace is unreal and we ought not to believe in unrealities. [More…]
The Prime Minister in part of his statement recognises the need for a balance of great power interests in Asia and Europe, but he continues to deny the need for the same balance in the Indian Ocean. [More…]
Never once has he offered to go to China, except on a very fleeting visit, and yet he is making suggestions tonight about this power that is likely to invade us. [More…]
The real attitude for Australia to adopt is one of leadership, to indicate clearly to the world that we want the Indian Ocean to be a zone of peace, and not to accept a bargaining arrangement between 2 powers about what is going to happen to Diego Garcia, because the Russians properly say that if that base is going to be built up they are going to establish a base as well, and they are going to build it up on that basis. [More…]
The President who followed him has not got the support of the major powers. [More…]
The Leader of the Opposition should not come in here and say that these troubles can be solved simply by running along with some other power. [More…]
They still are the right principles, but do not always expect that somebody in power in some other country will operate in a fair fashion. [More…]
The question of how the power which resources represent should be utilised in the general framework of foreign policy is, frankly, both a political and an economic question and is too important to be left to either the Prime Minister or a czar like the Minister for Minerals and Energy (Mr Connor). [More…]
One thing can be said now: A narrowly nationalistic approach to resources is not only morally indefensible but is also positively dangerous, for if resources represent a source of political power they also represent a tempting target. [More…]
So far detente has done nothing to lessen the growth of the Soviet’s military power. [More…]
Fears that it may destabilise the central balance between the super powers are not groundless. [More…]
He was talking to the American people- should consider whether you yourselves really wish actively to contribute to this shift of political power which, having regard to present policy statements of the Opposition, would lead inevitably to the imposition of conditions of Australian control of American installations in Australia which would be, asI personally am inclined to think would be intended to be, entirely unacceptable to the United States. [More…]
The consistent policy of this side of the House in government was that Australia as a middle-ranking responsible power should have a position in which it was able to assert its point of view independently, responsibly, consistently and reliably in all the theatres of the world in a way in which it would be listened to and respected. [More…]
All the advantages of money and power then lay with employers. [More…]
On the Government’s performance to date it looks as though the hardpressed beef industry will have to wait for the return to power of the Liberal and Country parties. [More…]
In relation to clause 22, it seems to me to be impracticable for the Minister to have the power to approve the appointment of a person to be the deputy of a member, if members of the Commission desire to have a meeting at short notice and an absent member wishes to be represented by means of a deputy. [More…]
I want now to turn to the regulation making powers of the legislation, which are contained in clause 61. [More…]
The width of these powers as prescribed in this Bill, could set back the progress of Darwin politically for as least 5 years. [More…]
Clause 61, particularly paragraph (b), gives the Government power which could result in the shrinkage of the rightful role to make laws for the order and good government of the Territory. [More…]
I see no reason why the legislation making powers of the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly should be made subservient to the Commission. [More…]
It was only when this Government came to power that we started to look at the real social problems of the city of Gladstone, which is a great example for every honourable member opposite to look at. [More…]
This program covered work from 25 December to 29 January and included the restoration of full generating capacity of the power station. [More…]
Where emergency power was required, this was provided from approximately 540 sets supplied from all over Australia. [More…]
When water supply failed because of power distribution problems, mobile generators were used to restore water to most suburbs 3 days after the cyclone. [More…]
After that, many committees will be established, as is set out and provided for in clause 5 1 of this legislation- some of them by the Reconstruction Commission- to enable the voice of the people to ring out effectively in the decision-taking corridors and places of power, if you like. [More…]
One can read the clauses and see where the extreme power, the allpowerful authority of the Minister, applies to the Territory. [More…]
The Minister for the Northern Territory has absolute dictatorial power in relation to every clause of this Bill. [More…]
That is absolute power to plan and this would have an effect on the value of land. [More…]
.the Commission has power, for or in connexion with the performance of its functions- [More…]
Who is the superior power- the Minister, the Commission or the Australian Government? [More…]
All we know is that the Bui does give the Commission power to override completely this town planning ordinance and allow it to make its own. [More…]
Is it necessary for the Commission to have power over the area within 60 kilometres of the centre of the city? [More…]
Why is it necessary for the Commission to be able to exercise power over any Crown land throughout the whole of the Territory? [More…]
I am not surprised that the Opposition has objected to clause 55 which provides that the powers and functions of the Commission are not to be affected by the Northern Territory Town Planning Ordinance. [More…]
It is essential that the Commission, in exercising its powers and carrying out its functions, should not be impeded by local legislation relating to a Darwin town plan devised in 1966 and subsequently amended. [More…]
The Town Planning Ordinance will, of course, continue to operate outside Darwin but the Commission, in carrying out its functions of planning and reconstruction, must have the power to act quickly and to recommend to the Minister and the Government a plan of action. [More…]
The Prime Minister went on to say further that the courts should do everything in their power to avoid promoting continuing hostility between parties after divorce. [More…]
I submit that there is sufficient power in the existing legislation to help in this type of situation. [More…]
I say that the Bill is unfair to women because it does, unfortunately, give to the man the power of casting off a woman. [More…]
I look forward to this significant initiative being emulated by State Governments in respect of proposals outside the constitutional power of the Australian Parliament [More…]
I merely want to correct Senator Rae’s falsified version and to show the Press and the public one example of the dubious tactics of the Opposition in its frenzied bid to grab power at any cost, even at the cost of truth. [More…]
Does the Attorney-General recall that, notwithstanding the suggestion of the Opposition, the Government refused to include in the Act a general power to grant exemptions? [More…]
It seems to me most strange that the Department of Transport itself has not the actual power to ground such persons. [More…]
After 23 years in Government, their utter disbelief that they could be thrown out of office caused them to make a grubby grab for power in May 1974. [More…]
It will go to any lengths to stop these things coming into operation so that the Opposition can keep the power which it desires, so that it can stop the reforms which the people of Australia want and so that democracy in Australia can no longer be viable as we all hope it could be. [More…]
The present Labor Government when in Opposition used to give me some hope that if ever the day arrived when it came to power it would be interested in privacy. [More…]
What is being demonstrated is that there is one set of rules for Liberal-Country Party coalition governments and a different set of rules when the Labor Party is in power. [More…]
When the Liberal-Country Party coalition was in power the thought was monstrous that the Senate should withhold Supply. [More…]
But what is the position when the Labor Party is in power? [More…]
But what is the position when the Labor Party is in power? [More…]
It is my belief that the action of the Premier of New South Wales squares very soundly with his action in threatening the power workers in that State. [More…]
However, I not only disagree entirely with most of his political philosophy; I also disagree with the whole approach to his exercising of power. [More…]
It is an anomaly of POliCY in this country that although the Australian Government possesses a substantial reserve of power in the housing field, that power has never been fully gathered together, concentrated and mobilised for the benefit of the people. [More…]
The Australian Government does not have complete constitutional power to perform all housing functions, but it does have substantial powers. [More…]
Those powers have been used in this Bill to create machinery which will give this Government and its successors a powerful new vehicle, capable if properly directed of fulfilling our national housing aspirations. [More…]
For example, the Corporation will have a power to acquire land, but any proposals to acquire land for a specific development purpose would need to be in accordance with regulations made for that purpose. [More…]
Where settlement cannot be achieved, the Commissioner will have power to commence legal proceedings before a court to have the legal issues between the parties determined. [More…]
To ensure that the operation of the Act is not frustrated by a lack of co-operation on the part of a respondent, the Bill gives the Commissioner the power to call a compulsory conference for the purpose of inquiring into a complaint and endeavouring to effect a settlement. [More…]
In Canada, compulsory evidence gathering powers are given to the human rights commissions and similar powers are vested in the conciliator established by New Zealand legislation. [More…]
The absence of evidence-gathering powers in the United Kingdom legislation has been said to impede seriously the effectiveness of that legislation. [More…]
When he displays that insouciance of manner what, in effect, that really is is a resolution to do everything possible to confirm the Labor Party in power. [More…]
Those who seek to influence national political events by the power of wealth and finance rather than by argument and logic will be forced into the open. [More…]
The rich and powerful corporations will have only the same power as the less affluent groups in the community to influence events. [More…]
His blood pressure rises at the thought of the secret, furtive meetings in the night- the knock at the door at 2 a.m., not by the Minister for Services and Property but by some rich and powerful friend of his from outside this Parliament; some representative perhaps of the International Telephone and Telegraph Corporation or United Fruit or one of the other international conspirators who will knock on his door, not to take something out of the fridge but perhaps to leave something under the bed or some other appropriate place. [More…]
In fact, the high expenditure is denying the ordinary citizen the right to contest an election because he cannot stand up to the onslaught of power and wealth which is organised by political pressure groups. [More…]
If we have any such evidence, if we have any such proof, surely this, the national Parliament, is the place in which we should be receiving this information from the Government in power today. [More…]
The honourable member for Moreton (Mr Killen) presented a number of very powerful and persuasive arguments against this Bill and he has left no doubt in our minds about just how far this Government is prepared to go in intruding into the freedom of people in this country. [More…]
It could take the form of social ostracism, industrial activity or political discrimination by an opposing party if it gains power. [More…]
It will favour the govenment that is in power. [More…]
We have become a nation of restrictions since the Labor Party came to power. [More…]
The Liberal Party and the Country Party Will be back in power. [More…]
The Australian Government, not long after it took power in 1972, gave 18-year-olds the right to vote. [More…]
-The purpose of this BUI is to provide for the disclosure of financial support received by Australian political parties, not from their own members, not from the little people in our society, to use a term that the late Mr Chifley used to use, but from powerful business interests or others in this community who might from time to time, given one election or another or given the issues that come before the people at those elections, place substantial amounts of money behind a political party in order to give it an unfair advantage, in order to wield real economic power. [More…]
The other thing that intrigues me about this piece of legislation and the arguments that have been advanced by Government speakers is this: 1 wonder how some of the expenditure incurred by the Department of the Media in the name of informing the Australian public would stand examination under some of the clauses and provisions of this Bill, because since this Government came to power we have witnessed a massive increase in the amount of public money expended in the interests of propaganda on behalf of the Government. [More…]
But I say to the Australian people that this legislation represents a forward step in line with thinking in democratic countries which seek to keep politics free of the implications and imputations which go with money power poured into party funds. [More…]
I need to mention one other matter in this regard before I come to what would be the power house of the Bill and those sections of it which require sensitive matters of justice and fairness to be implemented. [More…]
That is the power which this BUI gives, that is the power of judgment which this BUI would confer were Parliament to make that the practice in Australia. [More…]
I have dealt only with two provisions but they are the power house clauses. [More…]
If diversity existed in the State courts it could be cleared up by appeal to the High Court and the Attorney-General of the Commonwealth could take power to ensure that this could be done at his instance by removing diversity appeals into the High Court. [More…]
There are many matters of detail with respect to which the expert body should be trusted and empowered to make rules of its own having the force of the law. [More…]
It is sufficient for Parliament to have a power of disallowance over such rules. [More…]
I ask the Minister for Labor and Immigration whether entry visas have been granted during the period since the Labor Party came to power to representatives of the PRG and African liberation movements. [More…]
In fact, we all suffer from it, no matter which party is in power. [More…]
Certainly the honourable member pointed out accurately that policies have to change, and thank goodness we have had in power a Government which is responsive to the changes in the economy and changes its policies accordingly. [More…]
At the same time we have in our Constitution a complete gap relating, for example, to the control of nuclear power in Australia. [More…]
In the course of recent weeks- recent weeks, mark you- various State Premiers have sought to give expression to their views as to what should be done regarding the establishment of nuclear power stations in Australia. [More…]
The fact of life is that there is a grey area of doubt as to where this power rests. [More…]
If so, under what head of power? [More…]
Is it a power which resides with the States, even though unexpressed? [More…]
It may be true that the Commonwealth, by dint of signing an international convention relating to nuclear power in some form or another and the control of nuclear waste, would be able to assume a clear responsibility in this field. [More…]
They have now clearly established that they do not believe that the tenure of office of governments elected to govern has any relevance whatsoever where it interferes with the personal ambitions of men whose greed for power would destroy the whole parliamentary system if necessary. [More…]
I do not believe that the power, the effectiveness or the activities of the Senate will be in any way altered by the proposed amendment to the Constitution. [More…]
This legislation is typical of the unsatisfied hunger for power of the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam). [More…]
It wants a power monopoly in the House of Representatives and it is endeavouring to achieve this by typically socialistic tactics- by stealth and erosion from within. [More…]
He is after power for power’s sake, and he wants to control the workings of the Senate, an independent body, the House of the States. [More…]
It should not and, we submit, it cannot be changed merely at the whim of a person who, for his own political advantage and cheap notoriety in the short and long term, seeks to continually put propositions before the Australian people which will have the end result of making all power reside in one House of the national Parliament. [More…]
Because of the fine balance in the mind of the electorate the balance of power in the Senate can change. [More…]
There is expressed explicitly in the Constitution a balance of power between each institution of government- the Parliament, with its 2 parts, the Senate and the House of Representatives; the executive government drawn, in the Westminister tradition, from that parliament; and the judicature, separate from parliament and the executive. [More…]
The Constitution gives paramountcy of power to the House of Representatives. [More…]
The power and control exercised by the Government stands or falls in the House of Representatives. [More…]
Power to limit the matters in which special leave may be granted by the Privy Council is conferred on the Commonwealth Parliament by section 74 of the Constitution. [More…]
Government is of the opinion that this power should be exercised so as to make the High Court the final arbiter in all matters of Federal jurisdiction, that is to say, constitutional questions, matters arising under Commonwealth laws and the various other matters which the Constitution has, in sections 75 and 76, specifically recognised as being appropriate matters to be brought in the High Court. [More…]
If the legal process is to retain the confidence of the nation, the extent to which the High Court exercises its undoubted power not to adhere to a previous decision to its own must be consonant with the consensus of opinion of the public, of the elected legislature and of the judiciary as to the proper balance between the respective roles of the legislature and of the judiciary as law makers. [More…]
Plainly Dr Evatt apprehended the fact that the requesting power in the Statute of Westminster could be used in quite a spectacular fashion and he was there echoing the views put 6 years prior to that by one of the greatest lawyers this country has ever known, the late Sir Owen Dixon. [More…]
He spoke of this requesting power in the Statute of Westminster- I know that this is not the sort of argument to excite rapt attention throughout the country; nevertheless it is a very important position as far as the States are concernedat page 100 as follows: [More…]
Would the Attorney-General, for example, be attracted to a proposition to ask of the British Parliament to pass an Act that the requesting power in the Statute of Westminster should never again be resorted to by a Commonwealth Parliament? [More…]
The requesting power has already been used on 2 occasions by this Parliament. [More…]
It is clear that the time is ripe for the repeal of the Colonial Laws Validity Act in respect of the Australian States and for the extension to them of the ‘Autonomy’ provisions of the Statute of Westminster, so as to give them full legislative power commensurate with their responsibilties as component parts of the Commonwealth of Australia. [More…]
It is true that there is an area for philosophical discussion whether or not the centralist administration of power or federalist administration of power is in the best interests of the Australian people. [More…]
It is my strong view, a view which is shared by all members on this side of the House, that the distribution of power among the people of Australia and the exercise of that power among the people is better implemented by a federal system which extends through the threetier system of Government- local government, State government and federal government. [More…]
As far as CommonwealthState matters are concerned, I think this matter needs to be seen in the light of the recent appointment of Mr Justice Murphy and in the light of the continued suspicion- a natural and justified suspicion- by the States of the abuse and exercise of centralised power by this Government. [More…]
The honourable member said: ‘Try the reference powers; ask the States to give it up’. [More…]
Let the honourable member try asking the States to give up this power that they have in the interests of Australians generally and see how far he will get. [More…]
Reference has also been made to the referendum power. [More…]
But they are speaking only of matters relating to their own power base, whatever they might be. [More…]
But then honourable members opposite sit down and say: ‘Oh, do not use the request and consent power; do not use that. [More…]
If State politics require some State politicians to go over to the United Kingdom and say, ‘Look, I want to preserve some link with you even if it means degrading me in the eyes of Australians generally by relying on some colonial link, some link that is based on subservience, some link that puts me in the position of colonial as against metropolitan power’ there is and there must be a wider social interest involved otherwise this country can never advance and put the seal of adulthood on its affairs. [More…]
When that Federation occurred a balance- at times we have seen historically an extremely delicate balance- of power was established between the new Federal Government and the various State governments of the Australian Commonwealth. [More…]
In return there was an implicit understanding, written as far as possible into the Constitution of Australia, that in no circumstances would that delicate balance of power between the Federal government and the State governments be disturbed except by the consent not only of the majority of the Australian people but also by the consent of the majority of the States which formed that Federation and entered into that compact. [More…]
However, the Bm that we are now debating is of a different kind, because in respect of this Bill the Parliament is seeking to exercise the power that it has under section 74 of the Constitution to make laws limiting the matters in which leave to appeal to the Privy Council may be sought. [More…]
The objection was raised by the Opposition that this was a bit far reaching, that it was perhaps giving us power for conventions as yet not considered. [More…]
In the course of discussion the suggestion was made that if we were prepared to amend the Bill- this came out more forcefully in the Senate- in order to provide this power to make regulations for conventions to which we had agreed to become a party up to this stage and perhaps to specify those conventions in a Schedule to the Bill the Opposition might be interested in the proposition, but it insisted upon future conventions being put to the House for agreement before we proceeded to make regulations relating to those conventions. [More…]
He said: I, Billy Mackie Snedden, have no power to determine who that successor will be. [More…]
I have no power under the Liberal Party constitution. [More…]
I have no power under the Australian Constitution. [More…]
It is only now under this new Liberal leadership, leadership which the Liberal Leader is always proclaiming, that the Federal Leader of the Liberal Party is without power and without influence. [More…]
I was about to say that if the previous Liberal-Country Party Government had remained in power, and I was the relevant Minister at the time it was removed from office, by this time all persons over 65 years of age would have been drawing a means test free pension in accordance with its promise and the policy which it put forward. [More…]
If that story is confirmed, as I believe it most certainly will be, it is a disgraceful use of the Government’s immigration power and its visa power to give the Prime Minister an apparent trade victory as a result of that particular venture. [More…]
Let the countryside recognise what will happen on that disastrous day a long way from now when the people opposite take power. [More…]
Of course, the situation is that, if the High Court holds that this Parliament did not have the power to pass that legislation, then this Parliament has no authority in terms of sovereign rights, to quote the Minister’s phrase, over the off-shore area in relation to mining activities. [More…]
When the Labor Government came into power in 1972 it took deliberate action to destroy that spirit of co-operation epitomised by that Act. [More…]
This case will determine whether this Parliament has any legislative power over the off-shore areas of Australia. [More…]
If the High Court upholds the powers of the national Parliament in this field he can reintroduce the Bill in a way which is likely to receive acceptance by not only this Parliament but also by the parliaments of all the States of Australia. [More…]
Nevertheless, in this legislation we are being asked to give to the Government a blanket power to prohibit the private health insurance funds from carrying on business after a date which the Government is able to choose at will. [More…]
The Commonwealth Government has the constitutional power to provide medical and hospital services for pensioners, and with it the responsibility to make a significant contribution towards the hospital care of pensioners. [More…]
This Bill places undue power in the hands of the committee of management of the unions. [More…]
If the Minister had one atom of concern for rank and file control over trade union affairs and less concern for the internecine power struggle within the AWU, his old union, and for trying to pay off past debts, he would let these amendments through and let the rank and file members have an influence, and a real influence, in the affairs of their own unions. [More…]
Legislation in relation to companies, and also other significant power groups in the community- organisations of employers or employees- ought to be there to advance the general public interest and to ensure that the standards of all Australians can in fact be raised. [More…]
It also ought to be noted that in many areas the trade union movement is now more powerful than even the most powerful companies in Australia. [More…]
That shows, I think, the significance of union power in a number of instances, if it is, in fact, misused as it is in a number of significant circumstances. [More…]
Honourable members opposite, of course, would like to take a far more pious position than that and would like to decree from a position of power what shall happen to those who are ordinary members of ordinary trade unions. [More…]
Their psychotic fear of large organisations and the power that they have is not shared by me. [More…]
I suppose, to be realistic about it, many of the unions because of their size probably do have a far greater power or a potentially greater power than they have ever in fact put into effect. [More…]
They have enough power now. [More…]
If they had greater power through amalgamation of unions they would dominate this Government even more. [More…]
I believe that, in the main, when larger trade unions do amalgamate it leads to greater arrogance on the part of the union leaders, who have enough power now. [More…]
There is one other aspect which I think ought to be brought to the attention of the House, and that is the consequences of allowing the greater concentration of union power into fewer and fewer unions because this is what inevitably will happen if this Bill is passed. [More…]
There will then be an even higher degree of monopoly power in unionism in Australia than there is at present. [More…]
When we hear members of this Government, particularly members such as the Minister, making an outcry against monopoly power of corporations within commerce and industry in Australia it is little wonder that the public cannot understand why this Government is not concerned about the increasing monopoly power of unions within Australia. [More…]
In the same way as monopoly corporate power can have anti-social consequences for a community through, for example, restrictive trade practices, price fixing, cartels operating, commercial boycotting of competitors and so on, then the same kind of antisocial practices can derive from monopoly union power. [More…]
All of these are weapons of monopoly power. [More…]
There will come the time very shortly when the Australian community will want from this national Parliament effective laws which will control monopoly union power in the same way as it desires effective laws to control monopoly corporate power. [More…]
If Mr McGarvie had read the Minister’s Bill which at its last reading was 6 months old or at an earlier time when it was 12 months old or more, he would have known that the Commission would have no power to deny the agreement that would be proposed under the terms of the legislation the Minister is now introducing into this House. [More…]
That power is being taken away from the Commission and in the future if this Bill becomes law- God forbid it does- the Commission will only have power to refuse to certify a particular agreement if it is, in the view of the Commission, a major detriment to the public interest. [More…]
This particular legislation would deny the Commission any power to deny the certification of agreement in those terms. [More…]
Matters that would affect standard hours of work, altering minimum wages on the grounds of the national economy, annual leave provisions, long service pay and benefits are at present powers to be exercised by the Full Bench alone. [More…]
This means that there will be a significant difference in the future between the powers of the Commission in relation to awards and in relation to agreements. [More…]
The legislation gravely weakens the Commission’s power in relation to agreements. [More…]
They give the Corporation power to raise money in Australia as well as overseas. [More…]
There might be a national need to try to have more Australian ownership and control, and this is what the AIDC was set up to achieve, but let that Corporation use the power which it has at the moment without thrusting this vast power upon it. [More…]
There is not any way, at least within the power of the AIDC, to increase saving. [More…]
Perhaps I should recount some of the allocations that have been made by this Government since it came to power. [More…]
In making this point I emphasise that before this Government came to power a little over 2 years ago, none of these programs was in existence despite the continuous appeals by various honourable members, including the honourable member for Reid who is now the Minister for Urban and Regional Development, myself and others to do something to overcome the very serious needs of Sydney’s western suburbs. [More…]
Telephone - reports, however, indicate no casualties but some damage, especially to power reticulation systems, and flooding. [More…]
Whether one agrees with the Vietnam war, which is now a thing of the past, or not the people these characters represent shed good Australian blood and did everything in their power to destroy our young men. [More…]
I want to stress again the fact that a far more insidious influence is being brought to bear on honourable members opposite, and that is based on one of two things: It could be based on their dedicated belief, such as that held by the Deputy Prime Minister (Dr J. F. Cairns), in an extreme form of socialism, in an extreme form of centralism, in an extreme form of taking away from the individual his rights and centralising power in Canberra, appointing bureaucratic boards and appointing people who lack entirely any experience. [More…]
I think honourable members will note that the real value of supplementary assistance in terms of purchasing power is now much less than it was when we went out of office, and this is one of the ways on which pensioners have been short-changed by the present Government. [More…]
This is also one of the purposes of the new sections 31a and 3 IB which empower the Commission to provide land transport and engineering services and provide that the Commission is not limited to purely railway services. [More…]
Consequently if the Australian National Railways are to provide the same range of services as former State railways it is essential they have the power to operate such ancillary services. [More…]
I said also in my opening remarks that one of the purposes of the proposed Bill is to ensure that the powers, duties and functions of the proposed Commission are, where possible, consistent with other statutory authorities with a similar nature. [More…]
The purpose of the new financial provisions is also to provide the new Commission with a degree of financial autonomy including the power to open and maintain bank accounts- clause 57d. [More…]
That power has been cut down, but I do not think it will restrict to any substantial extent the operation of the AIDC, if the present Bill is passed, other than on a very limited scale. [More…]
It is within the control of government to do so and therefore, if it cares to exercise that power, it can effectively see that control is maintained either by means of ownership or by executive action under the law or the Parliament itself. [More…]
For that reason alone I would give the Government no more power. [More…]
When one looks at these measures in combination one finds that slowly but surely power is being taken over a wide spectrum of Australian industry, including the extractive industries. [More…]
We believe that much of this legislation will give the AIDC a considerable amount of power which in the future could well be inimical to the individual interests of Australian citizens, although it may well act in the overall interests of a specific Australian government. [More…]
On the other hand, the Government put it to Parliament and to the nation that it was necessary to develop the scope and powers of the Australian Industry Development Corporation in the interests of developing Australia’s basic resources over a wide field, and strengthening Australian control of those resources. [More…]
Now, after 3 parliamentary examinations of this legislation, after the appointment of a Senate committeeand the Senate has full power to make available the report of that committee if it wishes- after that very lengthy process of debate and examinationI suppose one of the most lengthy and intensive on any measure that has ever entered this Parliament- finally the Opposition has agreed to accept the Australian Industry Development Corporation Bill. [More…]
The AIDC should have the power and responsibility of designing some kind of organisation that will bring these needs to those farmers. [More…]
New sub-clause (3) of clause 8 has been included to cover our objection to the Minister’s power to direct the Commission. [More…]
Clause 12 in its simplified form overcomes our objections to the power to require information which was contained in the original Bill. [More…]
Clause 14 has been amended and inserts the Minister’s approval and removes the delegation of the Commission’s powers to a member of the staff. [More…]
The Opposition has unsuccessfully argued for the deletion of the phrase on the grounds that, firstly, it is undesirable to so control by ministerial oversight the day to day operations and directions of a statutory authority and, secondly, political censorship could arise, with accompanying power to influence people ‘s minds, especially via the compulsory exhibition directives in clause 10 of the Bill. [More…]
This Bill does not directly tackle one of the principal areas of recommendation by the Tariff Board report, in which it described the concentration of power that now exists in the hands of a few major exhibition chains, the opportunities for overseas film provided by this concentration and the control exercised over exhibition chains by the owners of these films. [More…]
Whilst we support the rotation of board and Council membership, we must be continually aware that a permanent bureaucracy will, in such a situation, have more assertive power than should be the case. [More…]
In these circumstances, everything possible must be done to maximise the decision-making powers of the boards and the Council and the position of administrative figures should be that of enablers, and implementers of democratically arrived at decisions. [More…]
We reject totally the notion that the Council should consist of intinerant and possibly ignorant friends of whatever government happens to be in power. [More…]
If we do this we will create a coterie and a power struggle within these boards. [More…]
-I believe that an organisation that is responsible for the matters that this organisation is being given power to deal withand those objects are stated in the Bill- ought not to be able to live under a name that does not indicate clearly what are its functions, obligations and objects. [More…]
The Minister has power to appoint more boards by notice in the Australian Government Gazette. [More…]
There is a tendency on the part of those at the head of the organisation to assume an alarming amount of power. [More…]
Does the Council seek to identify that need in its purchasing policy or does it, in exercising its purchasing power, take a risk and attempt to buy a world famous art form such as ‘Blue Poles’ or House Under Construction’ with neither of which the Australian people may ever identify? [More…]
That is the quandary with which, on the one hand, those’ people in positions of power in this matter- I refer to those who have been called the elite’ in this field- will need to cope in due course. [More…]
The amendment substitutes for the ministerial power of direction over the Commission- formerly clause 9 of the Bill- an archaic device taken from the National Capital Development Commission Act 1957 whereby disputes between the Commission and the Minister may be determined by order of the Governor-General. [More…]
-This is a vital clause in the Bill and it seeks to give to the Minister absolute power over the Commission. [More…]
The Government does not agree with some of the amendments, including the clause which gives to the Minister for the Northern Territory, who is discussng this matter with the Minister for Urban and Regional Development (Mr Uren), who has an interest in the matter also, total and absolute power. [More…]
If that does not invest in the Minister total and absolute power I would like to know what does. [More…]
Since this Government came to power it has set up several development authorities. [More…]
Opposition speakers have used terms such as ‘absolute power’ and ‘total power’. [More…]
My Government has included in other legislation ministerial power to give directions appropriate to the development of growth centres and cities. [More…]
The New South Wales Government, the Victorian Government and the Austraiian Government agreed, as is set out in paragraph 5(16) of the Albury-Wodonga Area Development Agreement that the Minister or Ministers should have the power of direction. [More…]
The purpose of the amendment was to ensure that there were checks and balances on the exercise of absolute power by the man who is Minister for the Northern Territory in the Federal Parliament, so that the Minister’s Cabinet colleagues, acting under the power given to them through the Executive Council and through the application of the Governor-General’s authority, might ensure that if there were differences of opinion between the Commission and the Minister they might be resolved in a reasonable way. [More…]
We believe that the power given under the clause as it is now and as it is accepted by the Government is completely autocratic in nature. [More…]
Whitlam, have no power to determine who Jim Cairns appoints, keeps on his staff and those whom he will dismiss’. [More…]
He went on to say: ‘I have no power under the ALP Constitution, I have no power under the Australian Constitution, I have stated my views clearly, frankly, without fear and without seeking power. [More…]
It is important to note that the Department has the power to ground the pilot as a pilot, but the Federation has the power to ground him only as a parachutist. [More…]
That power is within their authority and certainly they did have authority to make the arrest. [More…]
The Australian Parliament is vested by the Constitution with the power over trade and commerce with other countries. [More…]
The Government should have devoted more attention to this issue and should have sought to influence the course of events in a direction which would have posed no threat to Australian or Indonesian interests and to the relations between these 2 powers. [More…]
The Whitlam Government inherited soundly based close relations between Australia and Indonesia, a relationship which had been carefully groomed since the Suharto Government came to power. [More…]
The Department of Housing and Construction proceeded promptly with the task of clearing the streets, restoring electric power, water supply and sewerage, and with repairs to buildings. [More…]
I have received a telegram from the Nightcliff Residents Action Committee concerning the overall power of the Minister for the Northern Territory contained in the clause. [More…]
The basic issue involved relates to the ministerial power of direction. [More…]
To take this power of direction from me and to place the responsibility not on a member of Parliament, not on a Minister, not on this Parliament or the Government but on an outside body I believe could not be in the best interests of the community and certainly would not be in the ‘ best interests of the taxpayers of Australia. [More…]
It could be argued, of course, as occurred in the Senate, that the Commission could be given certain powers, and for the Commission to inform the Minister of what is taking place. [More…]
Certainly it was incorporated in the National Capital Development Commission Act which provided for the development of Canberra over a number of years- that is the principle underlying that argument- but the Government believes that the Minister should have power of direction with respect to the reconstruction of Darwin because of the emergency of the situation and the tremendous amount of money involved. [More…]
Because this Amendment substitutes for a Ministerial power of direction (formerly Clause 9 of the Bill) over the Commission an archaic device with built in delay taken from the National Capital Development Commission Act 1957 whereby disputes between the Commission and the Minister may be determined by Order of the Governor-General. [More…]
in reply- I again emphasise the point that this Government and Liberal-Country Party governments on many occasions gave power of ministerial direction as is proposed in this legislation. [More…]
It would be unthinkable with respect to the emergency situation in Darwin if the Darwin Reconstruction Commission Bill were to have provision for less power of direction for the Parliament, the Government or the Minister than that found in other legislation. [More…]
As I have said before, the power of ministerial direction does not mean that I will make unilateral decisions which will be contrary to the wishes of the Government or Government policy. [More…]
This Bill achieves few of the reforms envisaged by those who support the need for the creation of an effective, expert and fast acting investigatory and regulatory body with power to act. [More…]
It gives relatively novel and relatively unbridled power to an Attorney-General to change, by regulation, the whole economic and social structure of corporations. [More…]
Under clause 36 (2) and (3), the Attorney-General has a power to provide written directions to the Commission on matters of general policy and this, when combined with the paramountcy of regulations over rules, raises the question where power really lies under this Bill. [More…]
The Governor-General’s power is exercisable where ‘he considers it necessary or desirable to do so for the protection of persons buying or selling securities or in the interests of the public’. [More…]
To reiterate, it seems quite unreasonable that the Governor-General- in effect, the AttorneyGeneral would be provided with a basic power of this type. [More…]
The Government should confine itself to exercising its power over the industry through the Commission, members of which are to be accepted as those with expertise in the area, and not directly as also evidenced in clause 284. [More…]
Whilst recognising that a rule-making authority must be given power to ensure effective and speedy regulatory action by a Commission, there is no justification in our view for such powers to be unlimited in duration; not subject to appeal; and given also to the executive Government upon an equally unlimited basis as to duration and ambit. [More…]
They should be essentially emergency powers to ensure that obvious or reasonably suspected abuses and malpractices can be immediately prevented whilst the matter is further considered, debated and, if then desired, provided for by way of legislative amendment or statutory regulation. [More…]
The Commission’s power should be to close the gate before the horses get out. [More…]
But, although the Securities and Exchange Commission in the United States is provided with wide rule-making power, in practice almost all its powers, other than those relating to agency organisation procedure or practice, are subject to public hearings. [More…]
The Australian Commission is to be empowered to obtain information, documents and evidence without any limitation. [More…]
Notwithstanding the Commission’s virtually unlimited powers to make rules and to obtain information the Government has provided a quite unsatisfactory opportunity for appeals against its decisions. [More…]
There is power, unappealable and of unlimited duration for the Government to suspend, for any reason of alleged public interest, all the stock exchanges of Australia. [More…]
Clause 267 provides the Commission with power to send its officers to meetings of the directors of companies. [More…]
The Commission to be set up under this Bill will be given the power to establish stock exchange rules. [More…]
The regulatory power there is very much wider than is usual. [More…]
The Bill provides the power for prospectuses to be reviewed, to be investigated before issue. [More…]
What exactly is the power of the representatives and what is their purpose in being at the meetings? [More…]
One of the major factors, I believe, in this matter is the power that is given to the Commission. [More…]
Complete power is. [More…]
One of the more substantive points raised by the Deputy Leader of the Opposition (Mr Lynch) and other honourable members this evening has been the socalled enormous powers of this Commission. [More…]
The Governor-General has the power to make regulations and the Governor-General has the paramount power. [More…]
Another honourable member made a statement in relation to the Commission’s power to withdraw prospectuses. [More…]
So that is why the Commission has the powers vested in it to cut off the prospectuses immediately. [More…]
But I do not accept that this body has enormous powers that go beyond the powers of other parliamentary bodies or commissions and I do not accept that there are no review or appeal procedures. [More…]
In Australia at present there is no body or group of bodies which has, individually or collectively, the responsibility, the jurisdiction, the power and the expertise to ensure the adequacy and effectiveness of regulation of the securities market and related public company activities. [More…]
First of all, it overlooks the fact that the stock exchanges have limited jurisdiction and power. [More…]
And under proposed sections 40, 41 and 43 it is given power to hold what seem to be judicial hearings and proceedings for any of the purposes of the Act, including to summon witnesses, to force them to answer questions, and adjudicate on matters involving contempt. [More…]
This raises the most crucially important question and constitutional issue of the separation of powers between legislatures Executive and judiciary. [More…]
Rightly the judicial power of the Commonwealth must be exercised under section 7 1 of the Commonwealth Constitution by the High Court of Australia and not by an administrative tribunal. [More…]
The Conciliation and Arbitration Commission and the Taxation Boards of Review are examples of administrative tribunals without judicial power, particularly power to fine. [More…]
Under clause 36 (2) ofthe Bill the AttorneyGeneral may give directions to the Commission on matters of general policy in connection with the performance of its functions or the exercise of its powers. [More…]
But nothing in this provision entitles the Attorney-General to give a direction to the Commission in relation to the performance of its functions, or the exercise of its powers in a particular case. [More…]
This power is not necessary because clause 284 confers on the Governor-General power to make regulations in general terms prescribing all matters that are required or permitted to be prescribed or necessary or convenient to the carrying out or giving effect to the Bill. [More…]
With knowledge of the unlawful, intemperate and arbitrary acts of the former Attorney-General it would not be wise to confer powers on the incumbent uninformed and inexperienced AttorneyGeneral when there are more effective methods of achieving the same goals through regulations that may be disallowed by either House. [More…]
The Minister for Labor and Immigration has the power to enforce that requirement and he should exercise it. [More…]
At the very time when Mr Stonehouse had made up his mind to resign from the House of Commons it was the Press that was able to inform him that it was highly unlikely that the House of Commons would have the power, or if it had the power would exercise the power, to expel him. [More…]
He is interested only in power and the survival of himself and his own Government [More…]
We all know the power of the Press. [More…]
Clause 21, which is relevant to my references to this quite possibly becoming an academic area, relates to the Governor-General’s power of appointment of persons to the Commission. [More…]
After all, we are imposing on members of the Commission inordinate powers. [More…]
I think that clause 20(2 )(c) illustrates that to a very large extent this legislation must have been drafted in great haste because it has all the indications that the draftsmen and the Attorney-General thought: ‘Maybe there is something that we left out; so we will clothe this Commission with a bit more power’. [More…]
The argument seems to be around the size of the Commission, the extent of its powers or the choice of language used in creating those powers. [More…]
No one has ever argued that there should not be a statutory corporation type body beyond the Parliament with its day-to-day administration of the system and that it should have a rule making power. [More…]
The rule making power is set out in clause 20. [More…]
The language in the clause hardly enlarges the power. [More…]
It is the duty of the Commission to the extent to which the Parliament has power to confer that duty on the Com-, mission. [More…]
There is not a conference of power there so much as a conveyance by the Government to the Commission of what the Government thinks the Commission should try to do, namely, to protect persons who invest in securities in corporations. [More…]
In other words the Commission is to act within its powers and the power comes from the proposed Act. [More…]
What we are considering in this and many other clauses is not that there should be some power but where the limit of that power should be. [More…]
I take it that under the existing provisions of the Commonwealth Constitution this means that the Commission will have power over existing State corporate affairs commissions and so forth which are already doing precisely this sort of thing. [More…]
Under clause 32 a meeting of 3 members of the Commission can delegate to an officer of the Commission- qualifications unstated; sense of judgment unknown- power to prohibit trading of securities on a stock market under clause 60; stop trading for the day. [More…]
It would be bad enough if the Commission made an error of judgment, but if for some reason or other the officer took the powers under clause 60 and said: BHP shares will not be traded iri for 2 1 days ‘ - [More…]
I deal now with the fact that the Commission cannot delegate and that it holds power to suspend. [More…]
The honourable member for Moreton (Mr Killen) made his first mistake when he said that there was power to delegate. [More…]
The second is the power of government in the ultimate resort and the power of the Governor-General acting on the advice of government if necessary to take appropriate action. [More…]
I think the simple answer- and this may have escaped the attention of the honourable member- is that subclause (2) provides for an exemption- one can call it a power of temporary dispensation, if one likes- which it has been thought desirable to provide in order to avoid drastic action of the sort that perhaps the honourable member had in mind where there is a reasonable explanation for the absence of the copy of a certificate of registration. [More…]
It seems to me that they have a power which is quite unrelated to the power in clause 58. [More…]
But clause 59, when taken into conjunction with other clauses in this Bill, creates a breadth of power which is really quite startling. [More…]
We find similar breadth in respect of clause 59- the power of the Commission to require amendments to constituent documents of registered stock exchanges. [More…]
The breadth of power, for example, is indicated in clause 59(1) which, in the first 3 lines, states: [More…]
It goes on to set out the powers of the Commission. [More…]
If there is not, then that power is indeed very wide. [More…]
If one examines clause 59 (3) one sees a similar breadth- again I read only part of the clause- which gives the Commission power to have regard to the rules of the Commission and states: . [More…]
I just mention this on the basis that unless there is, and there certainly was not when we had to consider this Bill, adequate appeal procedure, then the powers are so broad as to suggest that the Government did not have a clear idea of what it intended this Commission to do. [More…]
It was giving the Commission inordinate powers. [More…]
At the same time it was basically leaving everyone without the power of appeal other than the possible disallowance of regulations by the Senate, and as we all know the present situation in which . [More…]
I think I have made my point sufficiently without amplifying it except to say that there is a package of power which has caused alarm. [More…]
The absence of powers of review again has caused alarm. [More…]
It certainly should have left more power with this Parliament to amend by legislation rather than to have amendment by regulation. [More…]
It refers to clause 60, dealing with the power of the Commission to prohibit trading on the stock market. [More…]
What I want to put to the chamber, as I did last night, is why the Commission ought to have the power and not leave appeals for 6 months if we want to prevent trading in a certain number of shares. [More…]
On the sheer mechanics of this, if the Commission or even the stock exchange is not given the power which the New York Stock Exchange has it will mean that should appeals arise people in similar situations to those in the Poseidon affair will be able to get away with exactly the same sort of scandal. [More…]
This is a failure on the part of the stock exchanges themselves because either they did not want to exercise the power or they did not have the regulations to do this sort of thing. [More…]
Had they had the power and had they taken that action, a lot of heartache would have been saved in this country in the 1969 boom. [More…]
Nowhere in this Bill to date have we seen a reasonable explanation of the relationship between the stock exchanges and the Commission, insofar as the power of the latter presumably is much greater than that of the former; but I would have thought that since it is the actual exchange which has to handle the day to day administration of an exchange in terms of actual buying and selling of shares it should be mandatory on the Commission, if it is in command of facts which it believes to be relevant to trading on the floor, to pass that information on immediately to the actual exchange. [More…]
On the question of public interest, of necessity the Commission has a rule making power. [More…]
To provide an extra safeguard, if one is looking for safeguards, we have the other regulation making power of the Governor-General which can override the rule making power. [More…]
It is within the power of the Crown to make such an assertion. [More…]
I said in relation to earlier clauses, and it is equally applicable to these clauses, that the whole question of the limit of power is involved in the debate on the clauses of this Bill. [More…]
It is not enough to say, as has been said several times by speakers on the other side of the chamber: ‘We need a body, therefore let us set up a body and give it all the power it needs to deal with what it thinks fit’. [More…]
What I am trying to explain is that it is the duty of this Committee and this Parliament to set limits on the power that it delegates. [More…]
It is not a justification of the clause for the Minister to say: ‘We have to make the powers wide because we do not know how to inhibit actions properly and anyway, the fellows who are to be appointed will be jolly good fellows and we can trust them’. [More…]
I emphasise the argument that was put earlier and say that some criteria should be set down to state what is desirable so that this power is restricted to some extent. [More…]
At the moment the power is exercised- to use the ugly word power’- by the exchanges. [More…]
We know that they have the power- I am using the ugly, abrasive and naked word that we often run away from. [More…]
They were seen to have the power and they were subsequently seen not to be doing much about it. [More…]
Surely it is better to give the power to a body that is publicly accountable; that has to present an annual report to the Parliament; that has a Minister responsible for it who will be answerable to the Parliament for what the body does or does not do; and that has a rule-making power that can be overridden by this Parliament. [More…]
Under these provisions, a regulationmaking power will be given to the GovernorGeneral. [More…]
None of these exists at the moment to soften or cushion the power of the exchanges. [More…]
It is desirable to inhibit the Commission, to provide powers, and so on. [More…]
The point is whether or not the power to be given to the Commission is too wide. [More…]
It is a limitless power. [More…]
All the Opposition is seeking is an inhibition of that power, the insertion of some criteria into the Bill to give an indication of where that power should end. [More…]
The point is whether the words ‘It is desirable’ can be sharpened up a bit so that it will be known exactly what is to be the limit of the power. [More…]
I ask the Attorney-General, if he has any reply at all, whether he will consider inserting some criteria into the Bill that will to some extent limit that power so that the people who are interested in practising in the field will have some idea of how far the Commission can go. [More…]
There are incalculable implications and great dangers in that power. [More…]
There is one small difference: At the time that concept was brought by them into this Parliament when they were in power they had a man of principle in Sir Garfield Barwick to do so. [More…]
An editorial in the Institute’s official journal ‘The Chartered Accountant in Australia’ says that the States have the power and the responsibility for the control of companies. [More…]
On the one hand it is saying that many of the powers of the Commission are too wide and arbitrary, while on the other aspects, it says, the Commission should nave stronger powers In other words he is indicating that the Commission should have the power to act more quickly and decisively. [More…]
That is a power about which I would have thought that even the most ardent socialist planner would have thought twice. [More…]
That is plainly a power in this Bill. [More…]
That is a mere example of the hundreds of powers which the Government proposes to give to this Commission subject only to the most distant and the most ill-defined forms of parliamentary scrutiny. [More…]
The power is clear. [More…]
This power means that a government could shut down an entire stock exchange, because it is the conventional rule that the Governor-General acts on the advice of his Ministers, although it is useful to recall that a former leader of the Australian Labor Party, Dr Evatt, observed that surely it is wrong to assume that the GovernorGeneral is a mere tool in the hands of the dominant political party. [More…]
For all practical purposes, one may say that this proposed section would give to a government a power to shut down- indefinitely, mark you- an entire stock exchange. [More…]
I ask the AttorneyGeneral to state the circumstances in which he envisages there would be recourse to a power of this nature. [More…]
This is a very significant power. [More…]
It is one of the great powers proposed to be given to the Government in this Bill. [More…]
It is not a power to be used by the Commission. [More…]
I believe that, as there is a gathering comprehension of this power, there will be widespread concern. [More…]
It is not enough to say: ‘The power will never be used’. [More…]
I am asking the honourable gentleman to say, firstly, why there is a need for the power and, secondly, under what circumstances a government in command of a parliamentary majority would seek to resort to the use of this power. [More…]
This is a very great power indeed and I think honourable members are entitled to a reply from the Attorney-General couched in terms of acute candour. [More…]
If at the Executive caprice of a government a stock exchance can be closed down, I seriously wonder whether honourable members opposite who support the potential use of the power contained in this clause have any real conception of just what damage would be done if a mistake were made in the exercise of that power. [More…]
I am not suggesting that the situation might not conceivably arise when the sort of power which is envisaged would be exercised. [More…]
The so-called home of capitalism, which is the United States, has the power to suspend trading, and it was introduced for a very good reason. [More…]
It was because of their failure to act responsibly in a corporate national sense that he was forced to enact the powers that we want in this particular legislation. [More…]
The mere fact that the power is there ought to exercise sufficient restraint and responsibility on people who move into the stock market to ensure that we have no recourse to the legislation. [More…]
I conclude on this point: I trust that the power never has to be used. [More…]
What is envisaged is an extreme power to be exercised and it would be exercised only in an extreme emergency. [More…]
This matter has been touched on by speakers from both sides of the House, but it is a power that exists at the moment in the private stock exchanges. [More…]
They can invoke such a power. [More…]
At the moment the power to say whether the trading on a security should stop or should not stop is given to a group of often anonymous people who are not elected by the public in the same way as we are elected as politicians. [More…]
But the power which we seek in this Bill is already in existence. [More…]
-What I am putting to the House is that the exercise of this extreme power should be in the public hands. [More…]
For example, to come back to, with respect, the absurd example that the honourable gentleman gave, if this power were to be exercised it would obviously have to be considered by the full Cabinet. [More…]
It is obviously a power that would be exercised only in extreme situations, but at least its use is publicly accountable. [More…]
-Let me put the point that this power would be exercised only in a crisis situation, which the honourable gentleman has himself admitted could arise. [More…]
Which people in the stock exchanges who have this very power now have to expose themselves and be subjected to those checks and balances to which ministers are subjected continuously? [More…]
It is to leave a decision of this sort- this power which might never be used- to a group of individuals who are not responsible or accountable to anyone and who could be sick, who could be imbeciles or who could be malicious. [More…]
If the power were abused it could in some circumstances bring down the governmentand rightly so. [More…]
There may be other alternatives, such as the various measures that the honourable member for Bennelong has suggested, but I put it to honourable members that given the safeguards and given the fact that the power now exists we are only subjecting the exercising of the power to democratic controls. [More…]
The power exists now and it is exercisable by people who are not accountable to anyone except themselves and their own interests. [More…]
This will transfer the exercising of that power to properly elected governments. [More…]
Therefore one cannot help wondering whether the Government would not take a different view a little later on once it had this power. [More…]
This provision gives to the Commission a power to cancel or to suspend a stock exchange from all forms of activity if the stock exchange has, in the opinion of the Commission, repeatedly failed to take adequate steps to enforce or to give effect to the business rules of the stock exchange. [More…]
The first amendment is simply designed to ensure that the provision is clearly within constitutional power. [More…]
The reference to securities in the present clause might otherwise be construed as a reference to securities of corporations that are not prescribed; that is, corporations over which the Australian Parliament does not incontrovertibly have power to legislate. [More…]
Great powers must be used with great discretion. [More…]
I have taken the view that this is a power that should be put into statutes with very considerable caution. [More…]
The purpose of this amendment is to ensure that apart from express limitations the Commission’s scope for rule making will be, as to subject matter, as broad as the regulation making power of the Governor-General, which is spelled out in the Bill. [More…]
Clause 4 extends the existing powers of officers authorising them to board and search fishing vessels, to cover all foreign fishing vessels in the declared fishing zone. [More…]
As well, the existing power of officers to seize fish taken contrary to the Act or vessels and fishing gear used contrary to the Act, anywhere in waters proclaimed under the Act, has been redrafted for the sake of clarity. [More…]
Clause 7 makes it clear the power of courts to order the kinds of forfeiture already provided for in cases of both the existing and the new offences. [More…]
This Bill follows discussions which were begun prior to the present Government coming to power and which were continued by the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) in talks with President Suharto of Indonesia last year. [More…]
I said that it would be an absurd proposition to answer that question unequivocally because if we were unfortunate enough not to resume power after, say, 3 years, the Medibank scheme would be woven fabric of Australian society as it was in the United Kingdom. [More…]
All this Government seeks is total power for the Government [More…]
The Corporation would have the power to determine the terms, conditions, circumstances and classes of persons to whom such loans may be made. [More…]
Clause 53 of the Bill gives the Government virtual total power to make any regulations which are not inconsistent with this Act. [More…]
In short, the Corporation using this power can lend to whom it wishes and on whatever terms it wishes, and can do all things except borrow money. [More…]
Under Clause 49 the Corporation is given power to compulsorily acquire any land for its own purpose, including land that is Crown land of a State. [More…]
it is another example of Commonwealth power grabbing to strengthen the control of the central Government over the everyday lives of the citizen. [More…]
The Labor Government controlled Corporation would have the power to acquire land anywhere in a State, including Monarto, and to build houses for sale or for rental as it pleases. [More…]
In addition, it would have the power to determine the class of person’- the words consistently used in the Bill- to live in these houses. [More…]
I believe that behind the facade of pious ideals the motives and the opportunity to exercise totalitarian-style powers by the Corporation is absolutely unlimited. [More…]
The Bill states that the Corporation will have the power: [More…]
But the Minister for Housing and Construction in his speech just made a fleeting comment on this matter and the general thread running through his speech was one of cutting criticism that Federal power in this field is fragmented and that he wants control. [More…]
It is accepted that the Commonwealth has power to provide finance pursuant to or incidental to any matter which has been bestowed upon it by the Constitution. [More…]
The Commonwealth in the area of housing has to rely upon the provision of housing being incidental to its power to make laws with respect to: Family allowances; the Aboriginal people of Australia; immigrants, and Commonwealth employment. [More…]
It has no power under the Constitution to make specific laws dealing with housing. [More…]
Although the Corporation is given power to do all things necessary or convenient for the performance of its functions by clause 7, and has power to do a wide range of actions specifically listed in clause 8, its powers for lending money, granting money and selling, leasing or building dwellings are all limited by the provisions of Part V. Loans may not be granted, except for investing the capital of the Corporation, unless regulations have been made prescribing the persons who are eligible and the type of dwelling for which loans may be given. [More…]
But does the absence of this provision from the list specified in clause 6 make it impossible for regulations to be made for this vital, important and needy sector which falls within some other head of legislative power? [More…]
They also are capable of challenge in the courts if they exceed constitutional power. [More…]
It is the constitutional power itself and not the provision in sub-clause (3) of clause 6 to which a court will look in determining whether any regulations actually made are valid. [More…]
If this legislation becomes law and the Corporation, under clause 49, is given power to acquire land for the purpose of the Corporation, it is to be hoped that the Corporation and the State authorities can co-ordinate development by ensuring that the Corporation is controlled by the land commission of the State so that the Corporation acquires land only in areas that the State land commission considers should be developed. [More…]
That has been the situation not just in the last 2 years since the Labor Government came to power; it has been the situation in the community for many years. [More…]
Before concluding my remarks, I point out that the preceding Liberal-Country Party Government was in power in the Federal sphere for 23 years and in that entire 23 years it produced no policy whatsoever for housing those people who cannot afford to buy their own homes. [More…]
I am attracted to the proposition that the family allowances power in the constitution will be utilised in order to help certain families and certain classes of families who presently are not eligilbe to obtain the finance that is available. [More…]
Regulations are unsatisfactory in that respect as a means of merely handing over power. [More…]
As the Minister said in his second reading speech, the Bill concentrates and mobilises the power which the Australian Government possesses in the housing field for the benefit of the people. [More…]
For the first time we are invoking constitutional powers to provide a new and co-ordinated scheme for those people who are the responsibility of the Australian Government. [More…]
The Corporation may perform its functions to the extent only that they relate to matters with respect to which the Parliament has power to make laws and, in particular, may perform its functions- [More…]
I propose to take honourable members through that speech and to examine a number of his comments, then to take them through the Bill because quite clearly there is no reference in the Minister’s speech to the sort of powers this Bill assumes for him and the Government. [More…]
It does assume powers for him because he has power to direct his Corporation as to how it is to behave. [More…]
The Corporation may perform its functions to the extent only that they relate to matters with respect to which the Parliament has power to make laws and, in particular, may perform its functions- [More…]
My concern about this particular provision is that by the very matter of the Commonwealth’s taking unto itself the greatest possible power it can assume under the Constitution- and that is what the Minister is seeking by this powerful new vehicle- it is assuming responsibility for only some people within the Commonwealth of Australia. [More…]
The Bill we are discussing is another example of the Government’s bringing to itself power to deal with certain people in the community- and that is what has happened- while we abrogate our responsibility to deal with foreign affairs, immigration, defence- all the matters for which we have specific responsibility, about which I feel very concerned and on which I rarely have an opportunity to speak. [More…]
The Bill has in it powers that enable the Commonwealth Government to assume and take over land of the States. [More…]
Clause 49 gives the Commonwealth power to acquire land, even Crown land of a State. [More…]
The Liberal-Country Party Opposition in this Parliament will go down as the people who exercised the methods of obstruction frustration, delay and deferment in its cynical campaign for power and in its cynical method of approach while it tries to settle itself down and to overcome its bitter internal fighting in order to present itself to the Australian people at a future election. [More…]
We have seen this repeated, for example, by the Minister for Minerals and Energy (Mr Connor) in the formation of the National Pipeline Authority and in the Petroleum and Minerals Authority, both Crown corporations intended to concentrate ownership in the state which, coupled with the financial power of the Commonwealth, intrude into the activities of the community in a large measure. [More…]
When one has regard to the massive financial power available to the Commonwealth through the taxes that it raises from the people and when that massive financial power is diverted, not to private individuals or private corporations but to Crown or public corporations, it places those corporations in a tremendous position of advantage within the economy. [More…]
I dare say that we will, or we would if this Government was allowed to continue, see a repetition on a grand scale of the formation of Crown corporations in all those fields of activity which are encompassed in the powers given to the Commonwealth by the Constitution. [More…]
I believe it is wrong for any community to allow the concentration of such power in the hands of public corporations of this kind. [More…]
To the extent that financial power through income and wealth is diverted from individuals and placed into the hands of the state through Crown corporations such as this, individuals are denied economic freedom, and economic freedom is a fundamental of personal freedom. [More…]
We need in this Parliament a Speaker who can stand aside from the personal abuse of a Prime Minister when he, the Prime Minister, believes that that gentleman in the Chair is not acting in a manner which is consonant with the party political stance of the government in power. [More…]
In circumstances in which question time has been abused by Ministers, where the opportunity to ask questions has been halved compared with the average time permitted and the number of questions recorded during the days when the Liberal and Country Parties were in power, there is absolutely no reason for question time to be denied tomorrow to the Parliament. [More…]
No more can any Speaker or Chairman of Committees of this House feel confident that when he makes a decision which may or may not suit the side in power he will not be stabbed in the back or let down. [More…]
The Opposition parties, when in power and not, have shown that they will continue the principle of continuity of the Chair and will not let the Chair down. [More…]
Never again while the Government remains in power will the Opposition have complete confidence that power is not being exerted over the Chair. [More…]
The Australian Government does not have full constitutional power to perform all housing functions, but the full powers - available to the Government for housing have never really been fully taken up. [More…]
This is not the first time that the Packer organisation has been found misusing its power and control over the media. [More…]
The only decisions that have been made by myself in relation to those students, especially the tertiary ones, are in relation to our power to grant benefits to students. [More…]
This Parliament has never taken power- in my view it should not take power- to control the Australian National University. [More…]
The State Parliament of Victoria has never taken power to control the actions of the universities. [More…]
I do not want to suggest to the headmistress of the Methodist Ladies College or to the Asian students that in making any inquiries about this matter I do so with authority or with the power to direct the university. [More…]
I do not seek that power. [More…]
They would have no power of arrest. [More…]
These factors alone- no power of arrest and no arms for protectionwould detract from the benefit of having any security service operating at these places. [More…]
It is possible, of course, to use the injunctive powers contained within the Bill to provide for judicial separation but, having examined the legislation, I would have to say that the injunctive power necessarily is a power that is basically for a short term. [More…]
The court will be a superior court of record with power to punish for contempt, and will have jurisdiction under clause 31, in all matrimonial causes instituted or continued under the provisions of the Bill. [More…]
The Family Court has the power under Part XIII of the Bill to enforce all decrees made under the proposed law. [More…]
Under clause 108, it has power to punish persons for wilful disobedience of any decree. [More…]
My continuing worry in relation to the power and operation of the Family Court is to ensure that its decrees and orders, particularly with regard to welfare and custody of children and maintenance of property, are observed and that responsibility for compliance with and observation of the court’s decrees remain a function of the court itself, or one of its agencies. [More…]
Precisely because children are automatically members of a family and can have no choice in the matter, and be- ….. they lIe subject try parental authority their - ——– j - - — ~j— j~ ——– ——- “j : - ~ - interests must be guaranteed by the state, as it must guarantee the rights of a member of any association which exercises effective power. [More…]
She is therefore less subject to the economic power of her husband. [More…]
But what grounds could there be for this continuing interest of the state in a relationship which is rapidly becoming a partnership of equals rather than a subjection of one to the power and authority of the other? [More…]
This is a problem which may not be within the power of the Constitution to overcome, unless at the same time arrangements are made with the States to achieve a more flexible arrangement. [More…]
What comes out of it is his willingness to search for a squalid abuse of power. [More…]
That is all it was- a squalid abuse of power by the Prime Minister, supported by those members who sit behind him. [More…]
It means a Speaker who genuinely has the power and the capacity to lead the Parliament into a full discussion of the major national issues of the day that are before it and to examine all the legislation. [More…]
It is not surprising, however, that the Parliament was ashamed to witness this squalid abuse of power. [More…]
He wants to elevate himself into a position of absolute power and it is a direct challenge not merely to the Opposition but to supporters of the Government not in the Executive and, for that matter, a challenge to members of the Executive as to whether they will allow absolute power to be put in that man. [More…]
It is aroused by the Prime Minister’s obsession for power. [More…]
He will do it because he is obsessed with a lust for power. [More…]
He is obsessed with the abuse of power. [More…]
We saw the Speakerand every future Speaker, if this Government remains- stripped of his power and authority to control this House and enforce its Standing Orders, thus destroying the whole basis on which the House operates. [More…]
We saw the Speaker overthrown and his power and authority violated and usurped by a Prime Minister dictator. [More…]
We saw the House reduced by this Government to impotence in the most basic and vital of its functionsthe exercise of its powers to protect itself against assault. [More…]
Some of us, myself included, have experienced the power which the Parliament can wield in its own defence, but all of us who have transgressed against the Standing Orders and the dignity and decorum of the House have been dealt with as required by the rules, the customs and the traditions of the Parliament. [More…]
It is those very powers- the powers of protection and preservation of the Parliament- that have now come under direct challenge and threat from the Prime Minister with nearly everyone of the members of the Government as his accomplices. [More…]
All of these practices have been prompted or condoned by the Prime Minister, a man who is intent on the pursuit of power at any cost, a man who is prepared to execute publicly first his Deputy Prime Minister, secondly his Treasurer and now the former Speaker of the House. [More…]
If men in positions of power feel free to breach the rules with impunity, how long will those who feel disadvantaged or deprived or denied power play according to the rules. [More…]
He has chosen authority in favour of respect; he has chosen power instead of leadership, and vindictiveness instead of restraint and moderation. [More…]
Only the class of person favoured by the Government and selected by the Minister, with the power of regulation to which he has just referred, would obtain finance as a result of this Bill. [More…]
Furthermore, I see no reason why the Government should not arrange for the banks, which it has power to do, to take family income into account when granting loans rather than male income only, which is the system under which banks and financial institutions operate at the moment. [More…]
This is one of the occasions on which I think we should really be thankful for the existence of the Senate and its power to review hasty, ill considered and ill digested legislation which this Government puts before us from time to time and which it endeavours to railroad through the House. [More…]
The Corporation may perform its functions to the extent only that they relate to matters with respect to which the Parliament has power to make laws and, in particular, may perform its functions- [More…]
This power would enable the Corporation to be set up as a very large construction authority. [More…]
What I instanced was the fact that under section 51 ofthe Constitution, placitum (XXIIIa) there is a power to make allowances for families. [More…]
That being the case, we are able to invoke that power which we propose to do. [More…]
The invocation of that power will enable us to provide support for rental housing, not just for the public servants and the other specified categories but for all the people of Australia. [More…]
The Corporation may perform its functions to the extent only that they relate to matters with respect to which the Parliament has power to make laws and, in particular, may perform its functions - [More…]
The fact is that the functions which the Corporation is to exercise are clearly related to those areas in which the Commonwealth has power to make laws. [More…]
The Minister has tried to imply that by the .use of this rather nebulous placitum of section 5 1 of the Constitution which deals with family allowances a remarkable extension of power is going to be achieved. [More…]
Commonwealth to enter into appropriate agreements with those States that have the powers and the constitutional competence to legislate in these areas and to develop programs which can give effect to them. [More…]
This is housing legislation which gives the total and complete power to the Government and which pushes aside all the States and their housing commissions. [More…]
As is the case with the Defence Service Homes Act, it is necessary to prescribe ancillary powers to enable this primary function to proceed- for example, power to purchase or take on or hire and dispose of plant, machinery, equipment or other goods; to enter into contracts; to erect buildings or to demolish buildings; to set out, construct and maintain roads; to make accessible and transfer land in an area being developed for housing, for use as a park or recreation; to sell or lease land, to charge interest; to take mortgages; to make charges for work and so on. [More…]
Even in the context of the defence service homes scheme, which principally exercises its function by lending at extremely low rates of interest, these powers are available and utilised. [More…]
The principal weight of the Opposition attack on the Bill related to the allegation that there was an unusual degree of regulation-making power conferred under this Bill, and that the Australian Housing Corporation, unlike other organisations, would be largely free of parliamentary supervision. [More…]
The legislation confers less discretionary power on this Corporation than can be found in most corporations, a large proportion of them introduced by the LiberalCountry Party coalition. [More…]
The Australian Industry Development Corporation Act, for instance, provides in section 9 that in the exercise of its powers the Corporation is not subject to direction by or on behalf of the Commonwealth. [More…]
Honourable members will find nothing so derogatory of the power of Parliament in the present Bill. [More…]
In the Australian Film Development Corporation Act, a piece of legislation introduced by the Gorton Government, there is power to make loans on such terms and conditions as the Corporation thinks fit. [More…]
This is a very wide discretionary power indeed which is not given to the Australian Housing Corporation. [More…]
I am most sympathetic personally to the use of this power contained in placitum 23a in respect of housing. [More…]
I am most sympathetic to the use of the family allowances power in respect of housing. [More…]
A great deal of flexibility- and surprising flexibility- can apply to the Commonwealth Government in the use of this power. [More…]
I am not one who believes that because such powers lie within the States, therefore the Commonwealth ought not to avail itself of the fact that they are there. [More…]
It seems to me that, in this Bill, an attempt has been made to go around and to grab every piece of power with respect to housing that it was possible to grab and to incorporate those powers in one piece of legislation. [More…]
But to grab every piece of power and to put it in one piece of legislation without indicating the purposes for which such powers will be used is beyond common sense and, I believe, is beyond the current mood of the Australian people. [More…]
Such a statement is clearly within the competence of the Government party in power. [More…]
We can take action domestically and within our own power to ensure that we, more than any other country, with the possible exception of Germany- it seems to be able to perform miracles- are able to ensure that our own people are not unemployed and do not have their standard of living consistently eroded. [More…]
It was established to our satisfaction that any transfer from national to local control does not and cannot involve any final and irrevocable loss of ultimate power to the Commonwealth. [More…]
Under section 122 of the Constitution, the Parliament is given legislative power in relation to Territories. [More…]
The exercise of legislative power by a Legislative Assembly for the Australian Capital Territory would therefore be and remain the exercise of a delegated or subordinate power from the Australian Parliament. [More…]
It follows from the constitutional position as we understand it that it is rather for the national Government to retain powers unto itself than to nominate a series of functions to be transferred to local control. [More…]
Our approach has therefore been to recommend the powers that the Commonwealth should retain rather than the powers the local assembly should have. [More…]
It is our conviction that in one area at least the Australian Government should retain full power, and that is in the area of planning development, land management and leasehold administration. [More…]
This Bill gives the Minister absolute power over every health fund in Australia. [More…]
Another point is that the powers that the Minister has in relation to the funds were increased in 1974 by amendment to the National Health Act. [More…]
I agreed with him, so we on this side of the House and also in the senate agreed to the amendment and we believe that that additional power gave him sufficient powers. [More…]
This Bill allows the Minister to have the power to transfer the reserves between medical and hospital funds and vice versa. [More…]
The controls in this Bill would give the responsible Minister very great powers over the funds. [More…]
Reading from that, it would give an irresponsible Minister enormous powers over the funds. [More…]
What powers are provided in this Bill? [More…]
If the Minister wants- to use the vernacular- to knock off a health fund or to take it over he then says: This Bill gives me the power to indulge in an exercise of talking to myself. [More…]
So once he has come to that decision after that monologue, after dichotomising himself, he then has power to send in an inspector of his own choosing. [More…]
If the inspector, the Minister’s stooge, believes that that health fund needs somebody sent into it the Minister then can send in a judicial manager who can have all the powers that the administration and boards of directors of the funds now have. [More…]
The Minister must be out of his mind if he believes for one moment that any responsible Opposition would accept such a ridiculous set of circumstances to give that kind of power to a Minister. [More…]
It is headed: ‘Statement by Chipp- Shadow Minister for Social Security’ and states that the Liberal Party-Country Party government would disband the Health Insurance Commission if returned to power at an appropriate time. [More…]
As I see it, if this Government remains in power the people will have no rights at all. [More…]
The Minister makes the shallow excuse that the reason for his desire to have the power to appoint an inspector to investigate the affairs of a medical benefits or hospital benefits organisation is his concern that the only punitive action open to the Government under the National Health Act is the deregistration of the organisation. [More…]
The only reason he wants this power is so that he will be able to dictate to, and pry into the affairs of, the voluntary health funds. [More…]
It is a power grab by Ministers and a power grab by the dictatorial Labor Government. [More…]
It is a true saying that power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. [More…]
As this Government continues with its power grab, so will the level of its corruption increase. [More…]
So I reject out of hand the whole of clause 1 1 of the Bill, with its power to appoint an inspector and its statement of the inspector’s powers and duties. [More…]
So on the one hand the Minister is saying that the special account is a very valuable instrument of health policy and is adding to it and on the other he is taking away from it and adding to his own power over the health funds. [More…]
Clause 5 lists the functions, and clause 6 the powers, of the Centre. [More…]
The powers comprise those necessary for the discharge of the functions, including power to arrange for printing and publication of materials. [More…]
A member of the Bar, of course, is dependent on his own brain power. [More…]
The Bill was designed primarily to ensure that the Australian Broadcasting Control Board had adequate powers to carry out its functions effectively to ensure that adequate and comprehensive programs are presented by the licensees of commercial broadcasting and television stations. [More…]
On the legal advice provided to the Government the Board appears not to have sufficient power to carry out the functions entrusted to it by Parliament. [More…]
When comparing the basic letter postage rates of Australia and those of other overseas countries, recognition must be given to the prevailing economic conditions and the local purchasing power of the currencies. [[More…]](https://historichansard.net/hofreps/1975/19750305_reps_29_hor93/#subdebate-51-5)
We all know what dictatorship is, but let me remind the House that parliamentary democracy is balanced and shared power and opportunity. [More…]
Why should people be bound together after a marriage failure and after 12 months if they have sincerely done everything in their power to save the marriage? [More…]
Therefore, the main purpose of the Bill is to cloak Commonwealth Railways with the power to take over the administration of a State railway system where a Sate has agreed to that takeover. [More…]
I am not sure they are all the telegrams I have received, but they all express the same and common concern that the power in proposed new section 3 1b gives the Commission an absolutely open cheque in setting up road transport operations anywhere in Australia in competition with private road operators. [More…]
This clause, as has been the case with much of the legislation the Government has introduced, highlights the Government’s socialistic tendencies and its attempts to make a really big grab for power. [More…]
I am surprised that the Government thinks that it can make such amendments to Acts, that it thinks that the Opposition will accept the giving of this tremendous degree of power that the Government wants included in the Railways Act. [More…]
This Government, in its hunger for power, is prepared to grab tenaciously at any proposition which will strike at the heart of the States, which in our opinion are the very core of the Australian nation. [More…]
The title of this Bill is a replica of Labor Party thinking- one control, no respect for convention and established practice and all power to reside in Canberra. [More…]
What we need in Western Australia is a State Government with business acumen which will not put its lust for petty power before State and national interests. [More…]
The Australian Government has in fact released the States from bearing the obligations and expenses that they had to bear before it came into power. [More…]
Perhaps Western Australia will be fortunate enough to find a leader of his calibre in the future who will put people before power and we will have true national co-operation. [More…]
The Government is more concerned about gaining the sort of power which is exemplified in what is intended to follow this Bill than it is with the good government of Australia. [More…]
Notwithstanding that and my concern about what is happening, I wish to draw the attention of the Minister to the clause in the Bill which I understand was meant to give him the power to enter into these areas. [More…]
But perhaps he was advocating a policy that we ought to return to the use of steam power. [More…]
The Minister might comment on whether, when his Government has the power over these particular matters, he intends to revert to the use of steam. [More…]
I want to pause to observe, without elaborating upon it, that the external affairs power as a consequence must be seen in prospect as being one of the most emancipatory powers at the disposal of any government. [More…]
There are 2 views on it- the view expressed in the 1930s by His Honour Mr Justice Evatt and His Honour Mr Justice McTeirnan in the celebrated case of Burgess in which they expressed the view that if government enters into an international agreement or signs a convention and it is a proper matter for signature and for government ratification, then it can be received into municipal law even though there is not a clear head of power and beyond that and more importantly, even though it finds itself in conflict with other aspects or provisions in the Constitution. [More…]
There is the other view expressed by the late Sir Douglas Menzies in one of the airline cases when he took a more constrained or, should I say with respect, a more restrained view of the potential of the external affairs power. [More…]
I do not want to trespass upon the patience of the House but I just want to observe that potentially the external affairs power must be seen as one of the great powers available at the disposal of any Commonwealth government. [More…]
It does not rest upon the Attorney-General, who has all the apparatus of power to prove. [More…]
What power has the Commission to authorise these extra charges to pensioner patients. [More…]
If such elections had been held they would almost certainly have resulted in the power over a unified Vietnam under Ho Chi Minh. [More…]
But Vietnam has a power over the Australian conscience for one particular reason. [More…]
If the contacts that he has made in many countries- in Hanoi, Peking, the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe- are of any account surely his voice is one that could be heard with power and influence. [More…]
Of course, here there is a basic difference between the Government and the Opposition, because the Opposition believes that as a result of changing power relationships between the major powers the world is a more unstable place and there is greater likelihood of difficulties occurring in one part of the world or another. [More…]
That in particular has implications for the middle and smaller powers. [More…]
Clearly the question of involvement in any particular military conflict is one of enormous concern to any country and particularly to the great powers with their nuclear capability. [More…]
They need to ask themselves whether military power is the appropriate answer. [More…]
But if a day ever comes in which the United States ceases to be respected for her power and her willingness to apply the right power when it is needed then that day will bring us within the defeating moment of world catastrophes. [More…]
It was the credibility of American power that prevented conflict over Berlin not once but 3 times and over Cuba. [More…]
If United States power is once challenged and found wanting, no matter what the nature of the challenge, then the free world credibility everywhere is threatened. [More…]
That was the very critical view of the way communism exercised power put forward by the Buddhist monk Thic Nhat Hanh but I deplore each of its essential features which are features of communism almost everywhere else. [More…]
But it still remains that China under Mao Tse Tung is no worse off than would China have been under Chiang Kai Shek; North Vietnam under Ho Chi Minn no worse off than North Vietnam under the French; and South Vietnam under the National Liberation Front is no worse off than South Vietnam under Diem or his successors or under American bombs and firepower. [More…]
No foreign power has a right to do to Vietnam what America has done, and what Australia has run along with, because of the difference between the Communist Vietnamese and those we have backed. [More…]
Poverty and desperation are not new in Asia, but they have become worse at a time when the possibility of removing them by the power of science has become greater. [More…]
Countries which have tasted colonialism- or, rather, provided a feast for the imperial powers; countries where there has been inequality; countries in which the stirrings of nationalism have joined in complex relationships with ideologies; countries in which there are cultural or racial differences: There is no identikit to fit all of the nations, but the common thread is the need for reform- social reform, political reform, agrarian reform. [More…]
The tragedy of Vietnam was that instead of a political solution there was military intervention with a blind reliance on technology and an obsessive belief in the power of bombs and the might of machines. [More…]
Vietnam has proved that where there is a government incapable of social reform or political reform, incapable of ending widespread corruption, incapable of disproving dependence upon a foreign power, not all the armies and bombs in the world can save such a government. [More…]
They used the expression ‘that super power which seeks world hegemony, which, while mouthing the slogans of detente, engages in subversion, pressure and terrorism, which militarily occupies those unfortunate enough to be called its allies and which is trying to win the emerging world into its orbit’. [More…]
Mistakes have been numerous; errors were made, by the Americans and their allies in particular, not because the objective was wrong but because we made the fundamental mistake of assuming that mere military might would be able to defeat what was essentially a guerrilla enemy and that mere military power would be able to defeat a very deeply committed Communist movement in Vietnam. [More…]
This Labor Government that stands before the world mouthing new standards of intellectual platitudes fails to appreciate the fact that when the Ho Chi Minn Government took over in North Vietnam, with the failure of the French and their withdrawal, over 1 million North Vietnamese were taken from their villages, hamlets and towns and most of them never returned because members of the Communist regime of the North appreciated the fundamental dictum that their power would remain only while they were able to crush, utterly expunge from their society any possibility whatsoever that there would still remain a flicker of freedom in the minds of men. [More…]
We fought the First World War essentially over a piece of paper because one small nation was invaded by another great power. [More…]
According to some people in the world, it was important that the power struggle be brought into play, that the Foster Dulles concept of China being contained be immediately implemented in Vietnam. [More…]
These recommendations include giving the Board power not to act if the complaint is trivial or the complainant no longer wishes to continue with it, making it unlawful to discriminate on the grounds of nationality, and recognising that the complainant should have the right to go direct to court if he or she so desires. [More…]
But it will enable positive action to be taken against such discriminatory activities and it will help mould community attitudes, not only because of the existence of the legislation but also because the Commissioner will have the power to promote education and research. [More…]
Both Bills seem to give expression to the same obsessions -to break down the long-established system of British common law, to lay down a means of prosecution that will ultimately destroy the professed objectives of the legislation and to use oppressive abuse of power against the fundamental rights of the individual. [More…]
The Bill provides a healthy breeding ground for sneaks, informers, pimps, jealousy and revenge, and an army of racial officials whose role will be of an inquisitorial nature with wide powers of law enforcement. [More…]
The commissioner is extended coercive powers greater than the powers possessed by the police forces. [More…]
Such powers enable him to require persons to attend before him. [More…]
Moreover, he has no power to grant legal representation to the person attending. [More…]
The commissioner would have the power to call that person before him to explain why. [More…]
Let us hope that the Government agrees to the amendments that take away the power and privileges of the pimps provided for in this legislation. [More…]
That is the first power that the commissioner has under the provisions of the Bill. [More…]
That the other cultures provided alternative methods of social organisation was not considered and superiority was defined in terms of power, both economic and military. [More…]
The honourable member will know that the Australian Government does not possess the constitutional power to control wages. [More…]
A referendum seeking that power for the Australian Parliament failed to pass in December 1 973. [More…]
The main causes of inflation in Australia happened in the time when the former Liberal-Country Party Government of which the honourable member was a member was in power. [More…]
I think the whole essence of the contract is that the power of the Government be reinforced with the capacity of the Commissioner to act. [More…]
While I admit that the question of race discrimination is something in the hearts and minds of people, and it will not be resolved by law, the fact is that in this country the law is not only an expression as outlined in legislation but also it has to have the look of force or the effect of governmental power behind it before most people will take it seriously. [More…]
In other words, there has to be some power by which the Commissioner can enforce his will. [More…]
It is not unknown for conciliators also to have power to commence proceedings following conciliation. [More…]
1 ) The Commissioner may, either generally or otherwise as provided by the instrument of delegation, by writing signed by him, delegate to an officer or employee of the Commissioner all or any of his powers under this Act, except this power of delegation. [More…]
The powers given to the Inter-State Commission included powers of investigation over a very wide range of matters going well beyond matters relating to interstate trade or commerce and power to determine a great variety of disputes, including disputes as to preferences or disadvantages given or made by any State or by any common carrier in contravention of the Act or the provisions of the Constitution relating to trade and commerce. [More…]
The Commission was given wide powers to grant relief to the parties before it and was empowered to grant injunctions. [More…]
The High Court, by a majority, held that section 101. of the Constitution did not authorise the establishment of the Inter-State Commission as a court and therefore the provisions of Part V conferring judicial powers upon the Inter-State Commission were invalid. [More…]
This Bill gives the Inter-State Commission the power where it is equally sorely needed over all the other modes of transport and is not narrowly restricted to carrier operations. [More…]
The Commission would be an appropriate body to arbitrate and it has power to enforce its decision. [More…]
They stand as a monument to the wisdom of those in power who decided that the Aboriginal, without education and without assistance to assume the degree of responsibility necessary, could handle liquor. [More…]
But I believe it is their right to have the power to decide who should be allowed to visit or live on the settlement. [More…]
Surely there are people on the Government benches who can see the wisdom, in accordance with their own policy and philosophy, in leaving the power to decide who shall enter the reserves in Queensland to the elected Aboriginal councils. [More…]
There is legislation at present before the Parliament to exercise those corporations powers which the High Court has said repose in this Australian Parliament. [More…]
In fact, this constitutional power was availed of by our predecessors in a couple of instances, the Restrictive Trade Practices Act 1971 and the Companies (Foreign Take-Overs) Act 1972. [More…]
There is a responsibility on the Government and also a responsibility on the Oppositionprobably a greater responsibility on the Government because the Government has the power and the numbers which would be necessary to achieve reforms if it so wished. [More…]
The Opposition has a role to play, but it is the Government which has the power to act. [More…]
While this Government is in power, we will cooperate with it in achieving these objectives. [More…]
When this Government is out of power, if it has not acted, we will act in these matters. [More…]
According to the Liberal program he will set up an industrial inspectorate with extravagant powers- powers to penalise individual employees, powers to penalise and fine individual union leaders and powers to fine and penalise individual employers with or without the consent of the other party. [More…]
If these proposals were implemented we would see in Australia the emergence of a kind of industrial Gestapo where someone knows better than the parties concerned, where a governmentappointed individual inspector will have the power to penalise an employee for a breach of an award even though the employer does not want this action to be taken. [More…]
They were fighting also two other major powers. [More…]
I remind those on the Government side of the House who say that history shows that the Vietnamese and Chinese have historical and cultural differences, that in their own Party expediency dictates at times that they bury their differences and unify for the purpose of power. [More…]
The Liberal Party knows where the power is and it takes its orders. [More…]
The Government indicated in the Senate that it was prepared- to accept this amendment with the proviso that the provision which has always existed in the Defence Service Homes Act whereby the Director has power to acquire land in a State should be retained. [More…]
I think that the Opposition is going to find it very difficult to argue that the Australian Government should not have power to acquire land from anybody in the public interest under, for example, the Lands Acquisition Act. [More…]
As the honourable member for Curtin (Mr Garland) has pointed out, enormous discretionary power is then placed in the hands of a Minister or an electoral officer. [More…]
In most cases the change is proposed in order to help the Labor Party stay in power. [More…]
The Labor Party is in power in England when it received something of the order of 35 per cent of the vote. [More…]
How did it get into power? [More…]
It is absurd that people, parties and Parliament should be kept in suspense for days as to who definitely won the May 18 elections, for a fortnight as to the size of the Government’s majority, and for several weeks as to the crucial balance of power in the Senate. [More…]
We would also enable minority groups in the community to be represented without their being able to use political blackmail by using a balance of power. [More…]
These groups, which have a consequent advantage at school, are those which have an economic and power advantage in modern society. [More…]
It always appears to be acceptable to this Government that a secretary of a department here in Canbera can nominate, that a schools commission established in Canberra can nominate and that the Minister in Canberra can nominate, but give that power of nomination to anyone else and the Government is opposed to the idea. [More…]
The objects and functions of the proposed Road Safety and Standards Authority are: The promotion of road safety; the promotion of the means for the control and reduction of noise, fumes and other emissions from road vehicles; and the protection of the interests of persons who buy or otherwise acquire road vehicles in the design, construction, durability, performance, maintenance and repair of their vehicles, so far as those matters relate to matters with respect to which the Parliament has power to make laws, etc. [More…]
I am unable to discover the head of power upon which the Bill is based. [More…]
From a paper I have received from the Commonwealth Parliamentary Library on this matter it appears that clause 4 of the Bill has been drafted in such a way as to deny any attempt to exceed the constitutional powers and to make the fullest use of constitutional powers without attempting a complete statement of them. [More…]
These constitutional sources of power are in effect stated by some but not necessarily all the relevant sources, and the incidental power is not expressly mentioned. [More…]
The Library points out that this could be a wise drafting approach as in particular circumstances other sources of power, for example, the defence power, may become operative. [More…]
Further it is possible that following some future High Court decision another source of power will be available or, strictly, will be held to have been available. [More…]
The Library points out that clearly the Australian Parliament has no express power to make laws on the subjects of road safety, control of nuisances by road vehicles or standards for road vehicles. [More…]
The point I wish to make is that clearly the objectives of the proposed functions of the Authority can only be achieved and reach their full promise if the Authority proceeds to secure the full support and co-operation of the States, which clearly have the power in many of the fields of activity proposed for study by the Road Safety and Standards Authority. [More…]
I wonder why the Minister is given that sort of power in that clause and yet the remuneration and allowances of other members of the Authority, excluding the Chairman in this instance, it seems to me, are in fact fixed by the Tribunal. [More…]
Thus it must be understood that this is one body in relation to which no State authority can utilise the challenge of centralisation of power for it is an additional source towards saving Australian lives. [More…]
In this connection, the Board has no power to restrain recording companies - [More…]
They are dying the worst deaths at the hands of the Khmer Rouge, who owe a dual allegience to the communist movement and the exiled Prince Sihanouk, a man who changes allegience to suit his own power base a n .-._d purpose. [More…]
The Snowy Mountains Hydro-electric Power Act 1949-1973 provides for a Commissioner and 2 Associate Commissioners and that these be fulltime officers appointed for 7 years. [More…]
It is intended that the Secretary to the Department will continue to be responsible, subject to any directions of the Minister, for the general administration of the scheme, but that the Secretary should have authority to delegate the necessary power to conduct the day to day operations of the scheme to the Corporation. [More…]
What sort of power or function is that to give to a commission which the Government wants to do a job quickly and efficiently? [More…]
I support the Bill, secondly, because, although I think that the Federal Government is bungling and bureaucratic and that this is not the best way in which to meet the situation, it should in an emergency such as this be given the power to do what it as the government thinks fit to meet that emergency. [More…]
A Party of the same political colour as himself was in power for 2 1/2 years before being turned out of office, and quite properly so, by the people of Tasmania. [More…]
The Committee on the Integration of Data Systems found that these separate and often incompatible departmental systems have developed because there is no statutory authority with power to co-ordinate the statistical efforts of individual departments and no central authority to advise or decide upon the allocation of priorities among urgent and competing needs. [More…]
Thus, it recommended strongly that an Australian Bureau of Statistics be established as a centralised statistical authority with power to set standards for governmental statistical systems and to coordinate the data collection activities of other departments or authorities. [More…]
Let no man cast a stone and say that I am being critical simply because the Labor Party is in power. [More…]
Perhaps it is because we now have a socialist government in power and socialists will stop at nothing. [More…]
The facts are that, in the depressed economic situation under which we exist now that Labor has come to power, farmers have had to sack many of their staff and farm hands and have had to work on the farms themselves. [More…]
One cannot blame the people in Canberra for everything because they are directed by the Government which is presently in power. [More…]
There was a time when the best way to buy was with cash; a consumer’s best bargaining power was the ability to pay in cash. [More…]
I want to emphasise that in my opinion the Trade Practices Commission should have discretionary power, and I believe that such power should be provided for in the legislation. [More…]
The letter illustrates the need for some discretionary power to be given to the Commission. [More…]
Secondly, it emphasises the need for discretionary power to be given to the Commission. [More…]
Apparently the view of the Government- I am not being critical of the Labor Government in this respect because the position is exactly the same now as it was when the Liberal-Country Party Government was in power in that both governments have been influenced by the bureaucrats- is that they are not good enough to be hung in government buildings throughout the nation and they are not bad enough to be allowed out into government offices; so they are stored in these deep, dark vaults in the War Memorial. [More…]
In other words there will be no legal capacity or power to remove altogether, the penalty applying to marihuana although there are significant numbers of people in the community who believe that that should be done as well. [More…]
The Australian Government has no direct constitutional power to interfere with internal mining. [More…]
We have the power, the wit and the wisdom to take the necessary action so that we can advance in Australia and not be subject to the sheer economic chance of the actions of other countries. [More…]
It must not be caught up in ideology, in outdated economics, in foolish personal pride or in internal competition for influence and power within the Government and the Cabinet. [More…]
The Government should make it clear to the Australian people that it is activated and motivated by their interests and from responsibility in government so that when the next election comes, which I will do all in my power to see we win, we will not be haggling over the carcass of an economy which has been stripped of its muscle and flesh. [More…]
He never defines the term ‘special circumstances’, but obviously the special circumstances will be the circumstances which create a state of temporary unpopularity which will make it profitable for the Opposition once again to misuse its power in the Senate to refuse the elected Government the money needed to govern. [More…]
Power then resided with the employers and management and it was ruthlessly used. [More…]
The Government has failed to learn from the experience of the last 2!6 years it has been in power. [More…]
The corporation would have to encompass a structure with sufficient power and autonomy to run an effective planning development, promotional and land management operation. [More…]
The corporation also needs to be powerful enough to coordinate all levels of government as well as private and public investment. [More…]
The Australian people are looking to the Government for the answer because it is the Government that has the power to act. [More…]
In these circumstances, it is nonsense to suggest that the Opposition should say where and how it would curb the rate of Government expenditure when it comes to power. [More…]
We would at the same time establish a truly federal system of government and prevent the concentration of overriding political and economical power in one place. [More…]
While there is need for the Federal Government to have complete control of the economy, we must at the same time recognise that there are many other economic powers now in the possession of the present Government which are not needed for the mechanisms of economic control. [More…]
If some of those powers were decentralised so that the States asserted a greater influence over their own affiairs the prospects of economic irrationality and of gross extravagance would be much less than they are under the systems that have been created in the last 2 years. [More…]
As prices were forced up in the competitive auction for products and people were willing to pay inflated prices in order to get possession of goods which were in short supply, inevitably at the same time employees’ organisations were bound to push for higher wages, higher salaries, in order simply to maintain their purchasing power and to ensure that they could buy as much at the end of 1973 as they had been able to buy at the beginning of the year. [More…]
In Australia the major taxing powers rest with the Commonwealth. [More…]
Moneys flow to the centre and at the same time effective powers flow from the centre. [More…]
The categories are not nearly so broad as they used to be and the Minister in Canberra often retains a power of veto, a power which in practice is exercised by his officers. [More…]
The power of the Commonwealth to make specific purpose grants to the States under section 96 of the Constitution and the States’ unbridled power to make specific grants to shires has resulted in a steady flow of power to the centre. [More…]
Admittedly, the process started long before the Australian Labor Party came to power in Canberra. [More…]
I urge the Government to do everything in its power to see that an international presence is maintained in those Communist controlled areas of Vietnam and Cambodia to ensure that a level of sense is made to prevail, particularly in the case of the political situation that will follow the military situation that exists at the moment. [More…]
But up to date- we are almost a quarter of the way through this yearthe members of the Assembly who have been elected by the people of the Northern Territory have not really been given any authority or any executive power. [More…]
A breach of such ethical standards can be made the grounds for a complaint to medical registration boards, which have the power to deregister a doctor for such unethical behaviour. [More…]
… to the extent of $79m, while trying to maintain the purchasing power of the Karmel grants to all schools, as the honourable gentleman has said. [More…]
By introducing this Treaty ratification into the Parliament the Government could then, as I understand it, use the external affairs power to impact and improve its laws and regulations on to the States. [More…]
Certainly in the case of users, certainly in the cases of dependent persons, the persons who are caught on a drug, as far as possible one should treat them as cases of sickness, as cases where medical and hospital attention is required rather than threats to put them in gaol, although one should bring to bear the full power of the criminal law against the trafficker, against the person who exploits somebody in a vulnerable situation of this sort. [More…]
After all, what is involved in the Commission is an enormous grant of power, and the Opposition is concerned to ensure that this power be utilised for the purposes for which the Government claims it wants the power. [More…]
I have always believed, and I still believe, that this grant of power to the Inter-State Commission is a very important grant of power, and that there is in these apparently simple words relating to trade and commerce an enormous grant of power, a reserve force of power, the magnitude and importance of which probably even the framers of the Constitution in launching it hardly realised. [More…]
But these grants of power, when analysed from the juridical standpoint, are pregnant with meaning and potentiality. [More…]
All the Opposition is concerned to do is to ensure that these grants of power have relation to the purpose for which the Bill has been introduced into the House. [More…]
Constitution, which states that the Commonwealth shall have power with regard to trade and commerce with other countries and among the States, I see the overall perspective in which we have to look at this legislation. [More…]
In the case like this, where a word like ‘goods’ is being defined- and for a long time it is difficult to find out in the Bill itself just where the word ‘goods’ in fact is used other than in the definition clause of interstate transport and clause 12- one knows it has been trumped up in order to divert power surreptitiously from the States to the Commonwealth Government if it can be done within the terms of sections 101 and 51 (i) of the Constitution. [More…]
By specifying that in definition D it becomes clear that its transportation by means of a pipeline is included within the ambit of the power of the Inter-State Commission. [More…]
The Bill seeks to create a commission that will exercise supreme power in those areas. [More…]
Although under the Constitution the Commonwealth has been granted power over trade and commerce between the States, and with overseas countries, section 92 of the Constitution states that trade, commerce and intercourse among the States shall be absolutely free. [More…]
Thus the Commonwealth’s power over trade does not extend to intra-State trade and may not be exercised in such a way as to impair the freedom of interstate trade. [More…]
One of the major ways in which the Bill would alter the constitutional balance of power is in its effect on the States. [More…]
Thus it is within the power of the Commission to determine the question of whether a piece of machinery is hired, leased or purchased outright. [More…]
There are other clauses in the Bill which are so wide that the Commission is permitted to exercise powers and undertake functions which Parliament has never permitted any other single body to have. [More…]
I have already mentioned the power granted to the Commission in clause 13 (1) to override the determinations of other tribunals established by Acts of this Parliament. [More…]
Clause 13 (1) also permits the Commission ‘to exercise all or any of the powers … of any authority . [More…]
This, in combination with the power granted to the Commission in clause 17 to prevent any person engaging in interstate transport without the licence or consent of the Commission, would mean effectively an end to the 2-airlines policy. [More…]
The Commission has power under clause 13(1) to take over the operations of the Australian National Line. [More…]
There is no provision for the Commission in the exercise of its powers to be subject to the power of the Minister or even of Parliament. [More…]
Once this legislation is passed, an all-powerful and supreme body will have been created which will exercise its wide powers without reference to the wishes of the Government of the day or of this Parliament. [More…]
The powers vested in this Commission are wider than any which have been granted to another body in Australia. [More…]
The Opposition believes that the need exists for a body which will have power to regulate transport in Australia within the limitations provided for in the Constitution. [More…]
The Constitution gives the Commonwealth power over interstate and overseas transport, but the Commonwealth must not exercise its power over interstate trade in such a manner as would restrict, curtail or control interstate trade. [More…]
There is a considerable amount of judicial authority to support the view that the Commonwealth has power to regulate interstate and overseas transport, and the extent of this power of regulation is quite adequate to permit the planned and co-ordinated development of transport services in Australia. [More…]
Since the States have been left with control over intrastate trade and transport, a commission exercising power of regulation and advice would be a purely federal body in the sense that its functions would be to uphold the Constitutional provisions as they relate both to State and Commonwealth powers over transport. [More…]
If the Government wants to show its bona fides in its wish to create an interstate commission for which the Constitution provides and which will exercise regulatory power over transport in a manner which is truly in keeping with the federal nature of the Constitution, the Opposition will support such legislation. [More…]
The Committee recommended also that the Commonwealth Parliament should have an express power to make laws on restrictive trade practices found by the Commission to be contrary to public interest. [More…]
-This legislation has about it the elements of one of the most historic pieces of legislation that the Government has introduced since it was elected in December 1972- not historic, I believe, in the sense that it will go down on the statute books of this Parliament as having made a massive contribution to the resolution of interstate difficulties and difficulties between the States and the Commonwealth Government, but historic in the sense that never before in the period that the Government has been in office has an attempt been made to establish a body with such tremendous power under the cloak of such benign justification. [More…]
From that it is quite obvious that what the Government intends to do is to re-establish the Commission, to re-establish the bones of the mechanism, use if for transport purposes in the first instance and, as time goes by, gradually add to the functions and the power of the Commission in the light of what plans the Government may have. [More…]
We have heard a great deal of reference by ‘ the honourable member for Shortland to the question of resolving constitutional doubts about the extent of the proposed Inter-State Commission’s powers. [More…]
That proposition is that a government has absolutely no responsibility to make a value judgment as to whether a proposal of the Government is within power. [More…]
I argue that it is the responsibility of the Government to give some consideration to whether something is within power and that it is a gross breach by the executive arm of government for the attitude to be taken that if there is any problem it can be resolved by the High Court. [More…]
I think that as a responsible Government it ought to give some responsible consideration to whether legislation it proposes is within power. [More…]
Of course, on many occasions particularly in recent years those State governments have been led by Premiers more powerful than the former government’s Prime Ministers. [More…]
It is a little difficult for them to understand now that a united Australian Labor Party Government is in power which is prepared to put its policies into effect. [More…]
Mr Nicholas, the counsel assisting the Commission, said: … the powers of the Commission, if properly exercised, might be made great instruments in carrying out the designs and desires of Parliament with reference to the maintenance and promotion of trade and commerce and commercial relations between the States and with other countries. [More…]
The Commission would have absolute power to ascertain whether private individuals or corporations had entered into any agreement by which they might monopolise trade. [More…]
The bodies referred to in this clause would include not only those which exercise power in relation to interstate trade and commerce but also those with power in relation to corporations because, so far as a law under the corporations power extends into trade and commerce, it is a law of the Constitution relating to trade and commerce. [More…]
There are no indicia; no directions as to what is intended to be reasonable; no directions as to what is intended to be just and yet the Commission is to have the broad power to determine them. [More…]
It should not fall within the responsibility of a body even though set up with the high status and great powers of investigation to lay down the law on these matters for the future, without reference back to this Parliament. [More…]
I know that their decisions may be amended by law, but it is an extremely wide power to give to such a body. [More…]
The Commission is given power to make orders requiring the observance of terms and conditions in relation to the provision of services by way of or in relation to interstate transport. [More…]
Clause 17 contemplates even wider powers under other Acts of Parliament being vested in the Commission. [More…]
The effect of the Bill is to give the power of determination to the Commission. [More…]
Further, if the Corporation’s power is wide enough to enable the Commonwealth to make price-fixing laws applicable to the prices of goods and services sold or supplied by foreign companies and Australian trading and financial companies, as it may be, the Commission could also act as a price-fixing authority, again, of courseand I stress this- in connection with the sale of goods or the supply of services interstate, subject to section 92 of the Constitution. [More…]
Yet this legend of success can be interfered with by this Commission on the basis of trade and commerce- supreme power in the absolute sense. [More…]
The Opposition has made wild assertions about absolute power, supreme power to the Inter-State Commission, the fourth legislative arm and so forth. [More…]
The Commission can investigate; it can arbitrate- and that is an important power. [More…]
Honourable members on the Government side do not realise that they are setting up another body with greater power than even the Federal Parliament. [More…]
They are happy to pass the power from the Parliament. [More…]
They are happy to give to the fourth arm of government power to introduce through legislative and arbitrative processes decisions which affect the rights of every individual in the community. [More…]
Let us be clear on one thing- that this Parliament has clear power over trade and commerce in the States. [More…]
That power exists not only with regard to transport directly constituting part of such trade and commerce, but also includes within its sweep the transport of goods which are the subject of such trade or commerce. [More…]
The purpose of this definition is to take full advantage of this power. [More…]
The freight rate can be loaded in those operations and then the Commission has no rights of investigation, no power under the amendment proposed by the Opposition to issue any direction as to unfair and unreasonable competition. [More…]
Transport charges are most important components of the States’ budgets and social policies and the Commission’s influence on these charges would be prejudicial to the States’ constitutional powers. [More…]
The proposed power under clause 16(5) to make orders having the force of Commonwealth law could limit or alter the basic functions of State transport authorities. [More…]
In relation to the ministerial power of direction of the Commission, and reviewing the Bill as a whole, there is potential for a most dangerous concentration of political power, free of customary democratic checks and balances and quite contrary to the whole concept of federalism. [More…]
For example, clause 9 presumably empowers the Commission to rule out of order any limitations placed on road or other transport under the transport policies of the State. [More…]
Perhaps that might result in greater power being given to the Government airline, Trans-Australia Airlines. [More…]
The fundamental purpose of the Snowy Mountains Hydroelectric Power Bill is to make a simple amendment to . [More…]
It has the enormous responsibility of managing about 8 power stations as well as about 16 dams which have been constructed under this enormous scheme. [More…]
I ask that question and make that allegation because of the experience in 1973 when the Minister, at the behest of the Committee of Management for electrical workers in New South Wales, gave a direction to the Snowy Mountains Engineering Authority to abide by the instructions of that Committee in relation to the restricting of power to New South Wales. [More…]
At the time this Committee was trying to break the New South Wales Government into agreeing to a 35-hour week for the power generation section of the electrical industry. [More…]
A great engineering undertaking such as this, which has cost $800m to date, which includes 16 dams, 6 major power stations, numerous roads, villages, aqueducts and all the rest of it will be handed over to a parttime chairman. [More…]
Do they wonder why that great Australian organisation, the Snowy Mountains Hydro-Electric Authority which was producing approximately 5000 kilowatt hours of peak load power, a vital key in our whole electrical grid in New South Wales and Victoria, should come under a person employed in a part-time capacity? [More…]
-The speech that we have just heard from the Leader of the Australian Country Party (Mr Anthony) is completely irrelevant to the Snowy Mountains Hydro-electric Power Bill which is being debated. [More…]
He obviously does not realise that the power generating function of the Snowy Mountains Hydro-Electric Authority has been transferred by an Act of Parliament to the Snowy Mountains Council whose chairman has been nominated already and who happens to be the secretary of the Department of Minerals and Energy. [More…]
The Snowy Mountains Council has the responsibility to generate the power and sell the power. [More…]
This proposition does not stand examination because the technicians operating the Snowy Mountains Councilthese are the people who are skilled in generating and delivering power- are not the engineers who are required to build new schemes. [More…]
We have an organisation which is geared to sell power. [More…]
The Snowy Mountains Council, on the other hand, is a strong and virile group which will exist as long as the organisation is generating power. [More…]
I can only say that our power to investigate exactly what the States are doing depends upon the States having the opportunity to run the program for a year and, with technical colleges opening in March, a program which began on 1 January can hardly be investigated completely or condemned in April. [More…]
This indicates that there has been a substantial redistribution of purchasing power to pensioners and social security beneficiaries under this Government. [More…]
Yet apparently it is to be so constituted that the Government will be in a position, through its exercise of power on the committee, to direct to a degree where that money is to be spent. [More…]
A secondary power is incorporated in the Bill. [More…]
It was not referred to in the second reading speech made on behalf of the Minister for Labor and Immigration (Mr Clyde Cameron) by the Minister for Services and Property (Mr Daly), but it gives a power to the President of the Commission to assign a commissioner to act as the Tribunal. [More…]
But on repeated occasions since coming to power this Government has tried to amend the Conciliation and Arbitration Act so that references and appeals can be made to a Full Bench only where the matter is considered to be of grave detriment to the public interest. [More…]
The power to make provision repealing or modifying the common informer provision in section 46 of the Constitution is provided by section 5 1 (xxxvi) of the Constitution in conjunction with the words ‘Until the Parliament otherwise provides’ in section 46 itself. [More…]
This Bill is an exercise of that power. [More…]
The Houses’ power to refer questions of disqualification to the High Court will remain unaffected. [More…]
The power of assignment is given to the President of the Australian Conciliation and Arbitration Commission. [More…]
If there is no intention to use the powers why has the legislation been introduced at all? [More…]
The purpose of this Bill is, frankly, power. [More…]
It revolves around powerpower sought by the Minister for the Media, power to control private commercial television stations in this country- and it ought to be identified as such. [More…]
The Bill provides for the power to direct, the power to control and, if need be, the power to destroy. [More…]
The power sought by the Broadcasting and Television Bill, if used, would be so all-embracing that it would permit total control of all private television throughout Australia. [More…]
The fact of the matter is that the Australian Broadcasting Control Board already has power under the existing Broadcasting and Television Act to produce standards and to see that the industry keeps up to them. [More…]
The Minister for the Media has also alleged that the Australian Broadcasting Control Board is virtually without power at the moment. [More…]
The Board has the power to suspend a licence and the power to revoke a licence. [More…]
What additional power is required? [More…]
The Leader of the Opposition (Mr Malcolm Fraser) has indicated the Opposition’s attitude to elections, and properly so, but we are unutterably opposed to this Bill that revolves around power, to vest in the Minister for the Media power to control private television in Australia, and we will not sanction it under any circumstance. [More…]
Whilst the honourable member for Kooyong says that there is a power in the present Act, all the members of the legal luminary have an alternative opinion. [More…]
However, if it is, as the honourable member suggests, if the power does not reside in the Australian Broadcasting Control Board to carry out the philosophy of the Act, then all the Bill does is to provide that power. [More…]
The original proposition that was considered in another place was designed to put beyond question whether or not the Broadcasting Control Board did have the power to which the honourable member for Kooyong referred to carry out and exercise its functions under the existing Act. [More…]
The Federation of Australian Broadcasters would not have the power it has today. [More…]
If his authority is so’ extensive at the moment and if the authority of the Australian Broadcasting Control Board is so powerful, then why is it necessary to introduce additional measures? [More…]
If the industry itself is disturbed by actions that have been taken by the Minister under what the Government will no doubt allege is limited power now, then how much more dangerous would it be if additional powers were given to the Minister or to those designated by him? [More…]
I think we have to look- this Parliament is required to look- at the question of the monopoly power of television stations. [More…]
The reason why the Government is seeking clarification of the powers of the Broadcasting Control Board is that these powers are under legal challenge. [More…]
I want to say that again: The reason why the Government is seeking these powers in this amendment to the Act is that the powers in the existing Act are under legal challenge. [More…]
If such elections had been held they would almost certainly have resulted in the power over a unified Vietnam under Ho Chi Minn. Rather than face this prospect the regime in Saigon, urged on by the then United States Administration, refused to hold elections. [More…]
There can be no doubt that the individual policeman has capacity to exercise a great deal of power over an individual citizen on occasions when they perhaps confront each other. [More…]
I want to indicate the sort of situation that we, as a government, inherited when we came to power. [More…]
He also ignored the existence of a Five Power Arrangement that could require a forward deployment under certain circumstances. [More…]
Our policy ought to be to maintain the independence of that grouping and to see that it does not come under the domination of any major power. [More…]
This incredible reversal in the balance of power has taken only 5 short years, and we are observing right now in Indo-China the first consequence of this reversal. [More…]
In general terms, the fault lies in vesting too much executive power in the Public Service and thereby emasculating the responsibility of the Service chiefs. [More…]
The AGIO W111 have power to enter into agency agreements, whether as principal or agent, and to conduct business outside of Australia. [More…]
I ask the Minister: Could this give the Authority power to control future or existing training programs at universities and colleges of advanced education and technical colleges, such as I referred to a moment ago, which are conducting courses, even where the Authority had made no financial contribution to them? [More…]
Industrial relations should not be a party political plaything to be dealt with according to the attitude of which political party happens to be in power. [More…]
The Opposition believes it desirable that a bi-partisan approach should be aimed at to sweep away outdated notions about the balance of industrial power and the need to reduce the supposed advantage held by employers. [More…]
The facts are that the trade unions and trade union confederations now wield tremendous power in the community. [More…]
Many trade unions have greater resources and facilities than employer associations, and in almost aU cases of confrontation between a trade union and an enterprise, it is the community, the public interest, which suffers from any imbalance of power. [More…]
They have received full support, particularly from the South Australian Labor Government since it came into power. [More…]
Undoubtedly we will hear about the power of the unions being misused. [More…]
The power of the unions will be misused only when there are those who are not given the opportunity to understand what their proper role and function is. [More…]
We are also inclined to overlook the fact that there is a dichotomy of power between the State parliaments and the national Parliament. [More…]
People who come to Australia from the United Kingdom, where the system is such that the shop steward is a power unto himself on the factory floor, fail to understand why some person, whether a trade union official or an employer organisation representative, who is very far removed from the work place, should be able to dictate to them what they should do. [More…]
It is worth pointing out also that the present Government, which came to power with the clarion call that it understood the trade union movement and therefore would bring to Australia a greater degree of continuity, less industrial violence and so forth, has been proved in the last 2Vi years to have been speaking absolute rot. [More…]
That the concentration of power involved is constitutionally unsound, and inimical to the proper administration of justice is, I think, beyond question. [More…]
I note that in South Australia the power over police is exercised by the Chief Secretary; the Attorney-General is a separate Minister. [More…]
In Western Australia the power over police is exercised by the Minister for Police; the role, of AttorneyGeneral is exercised by the Minister for Justice. [More…]
The whole balance of political power and military strength has now been altered in favour of the communists in one of the most potentially unstable regions of the world. [More…]
Yet members of the Opposition come here today and criticise the Labor Government for seeking even at the eleventh hour- we have been doing this ever since we came to power in 1972- a negotiated settlement of that war. [More…]
A patient with astigmatism greater than 3.0 dioptres and requiring lens for distance correction of plus power plus 3.0 dioptres or greater in one meridian in the dominant eye. [More…]
He has a tilt at the Opposition by pointing out that when the Liberals were last in power the pension was only 2 1 per cent of average weekly earnings. [More…]
1 was delighted to hear the honourable member for Hotham (Mr Chipp) say that pensions would not, if the Opposition were in power, be a political football. [More…]
When this Government came to power it made a promise which it has kept. [More…]
This indicates that there has been a substantial redistribution of purchasing power to pensioners and social security beneficiaries. [More…]
So disregarding the supermarket list presented by the honourable member for Petrie (Mr Hodges), the buying power of the pensioner has certainly been increased since this Government took office. [More…]
However, it could not be said that there has been an 80 per cent increase in supplementary benefits or dependent children’s allowances since Labor came to power. [More…]
One of the great frustrations of the Government has to be seen in its inability to persuade Australians that such measures as are applied in this Bill- age pensions at record levels, the abolition of the means test and unemployment benefits at unprecedented rates, not to mention the provision of better education, roads, hospitals, recreation facilities and so on- are all part of the standard of living and have to come out of our net disposable income, there being no way to provide them indefinitely in addition to former levels of net disposable income, especially where the latter term is talked of by way of reference to real purchasing power. [More…]
If it does become a long term measure, one will find that in other Bills, as in this Bill, large amounts of money will be spent, but the dollars proposed to be spent will not have the buying power which we would all want them to have. [More…]
Let me say this finally: In the task of making purchasing power appropriate to the money expended, the Government ought to rid itself of the delusion of persecution mania. [More…]
If the Government is able to do so, it will be able to get the country back to a situation of full employment and of very little inflation, and it W111 be able to introduce social services legislation about which, when we read in the last sentences that $300m, $400m or $500m of funds are to be expended, we can all rest confident that that expenditure represents real dollars and not illusory purchasing power. [More…]
There must be a chink in the wall of power grabbing and confrontation at some stage. [More…]
I refer to a pre-school at Croydon and the infants home at Ashfield which have received respectively $48,000 and over $1 1 1,400 since Labor came of power. [More…]
Even if she had the will she no longer has the power. [More…]
The United States of America still has the power, but what about the voices that are being raised from the Government encouraging isolationism in the United States? [More…]
The propositions that are corning from the Government are treason to Australian because they are inciting our American friends to abandon us if we face the kind of situation which Vietnam has faced and against which we have no protection in our own power of defence at the moment. [More…]
There is virtually no power in them now. [More…]
Last December we indexed that sum upwards by $79m to maintain its purchasing power. [More…]
There is a provision for indexing to maintain the purchasing power of these triennial funds. [More…]
After question time and the discussion of a matter of public importance today I will be introducing 2 Bills which are designed to maintain the purchasing power of the expenditure on colleges of advanced education and universities. [More…]
Recently, doubts have been expressed as to the power of the Supreme Court to order a change of venue in criminal proceedings before it. [More…]
Ultimately, when a government intrudes into intimate institutions such as the family and when it intrudes into the responsibilities of families with respect to children, the power of that government will play a very great role in determining ultimately the values of the community. [More…]
It will determine this basically because it has the power of the purse. [More…]
The power of the purse constitutes real power and with an interventionist government it is appropriate for us to look where the power of the purse is being directed. [More…]
In all of this, through the power of the purse, the power of an interventionist government, there is a decreasing of the ability of families to make their own decisions concerning their own children. [More…]
I remind honourable members that section 96 confers upon this Parliament the power to grant financial assistance to any State on such terms and conditions as the Parliament thinks fit. [More…]
Because we have started a program, the Opposition now suggests that we will not have the power to deal with the matter directly ourselves and that we should become a mere cipher or a mere rubber stamp and allocate the money without any idea of how it will be spent or where it will be spent. [More…]
By the end of next year, if this Government stays in power, we will have 176 000 houses short, which is one year’s full supply. [More…]
It has the power to do so. [More…]
We have the power to prevent these things. [More…]
We will use that power. [More…]
The Labor Party is in Government now and it has the power but it is not using it. [More…]
The Queensland Government is establishing new housing for workers in the new coal fields in Queensland and also for the power workers at Gladstone. [More…]
Concern has been expressed for decades regarding the extent of the rule and law making power, the extent of administrative discretion vested in Ministers and departmental officials and the need to have an effective method by which these decisions should be reviewed. [More…]
It has become increasingly obvious with the development of modern technology, the changed way and pace of life and the increasing acceptance on all sides of the welfare state that there has been increasing government involvement in the citizens’ daily life and a dramatic expansion of the Executive ‘s power. [More…]
In our present way of life our community planning, the developing interrelationships between individuals and between the individual and public bodies, the standards we enjoy could not have been achieved without giving powers to certain public bodies or to have certain controls and rights to protect the community but which of necessity affect individuals. [More…]
The delegation of legislation from the legislature by conferring regulation making powers is another factor. [More…]
The honourable member for McMillan (Mr Hewson) in a preceding debate referred to the Subordinate Legislation Committee of the Victorian Par.liament in which members of both Houses of Parliament and of aU political parties examine the regulations as is necessary to ensure that they are properly within the relevant power. [More…]
The power of Parliament as the grand inquisitor of the realm has long gone unchallenged; but likewise has the limitation of the power of the Parliament to exercise power over the executive. [More…]
That it is constitutional and agreeable to usage for the House of Commons to declare their sense and opinions respecting the exercise of every discretionary power which whether by Act of Parliament or otherwise, is vested in any body of men whatsoever for the public service. [More…]
Its power over the executive is exercised indirectly, but not the less effectively, through the responsible Ministers of the Crown. [More…]
The Subordinate Legislation Committee filled a very important role in the policing and correction of the regulations made by statutory bodies which had powers to make regulations outside of Parliament. [More…]
The regulations had to be consistent with the powers conferred on the statutory body and at all times the rights of individuals had to be protected. [More…]
The Committee had power to scrutinise and report upon any discrepancies. [More…]
It relates to the organisation, powers and duties of these authorities. [More…]
Broadly speaking, a discretion exists where an officer or office has power to make decisions within a certain area but precise rules as to what decisions must be made in what precise circumstances have not correspondingly been laid down. [More…]
For example, a decision is subject to administrative review when it has become beyond the scope of the power of the decisionmaker. [More…]
The Tribunal would have the power to affirm, modify, reverse, substitute or return for redecision, any matter upon which an appeal was lodged. [More…]
Clearly, these powers are wide and substantially more comprehensive than those already existing in the hands of the courts. [More…]
Previouslyand as is the present situation- the courts have been hamstrung in their operations in administrative review because of the restrictions on their power and ability to provide remedies which do not first require resort back to the original administrative body from which the cause to appeal arose. [More…]
While supporting the Bill the Opposition is critical of its provisions because it does not spell out completely the power of the Tribunal to the extent which the Bland Committee recommended. [More…]
I am referring to an industry which I think has had an extraordinarily rough deal from this Government over the 2Vi yean it has been in power. [More…]
The Labor Party promised to remove this tax if elected to power in 1972. [More…]
At the same time, the Government must have the power to override decisions by such bodies when there are sufficient and necessary political reasons to do so. [More…]
Recently we all received a circular letter from The Professional Musicians’ Union of Australia enclosing a fairly bulky paper which contains a comment under the heading of ‘The Power of Television’ with which I agree very much. [More…]
However, last night on the adjournment debate time did not permit me to conclude my remarks in connection with a very serious problem that affects all Australian people, a problem that grew up under the present Opposition when it was in power. [More…]
The Commonwealth Serum Laboratories today sought power to manufacture some of the drugs most commonly used in Australia. [More…]
In 1972, when it tricked the people of this country into putting it into power, the Labor Party made rash statements to the effect that it would reduce the rate of inflation. [More…]
The Defence Force Ombudsman is also given power to investigate any of these actions even though a specific complaint has not been made to him. [More…]
This is not an exclusive power; we share it with the States. [More…]
I am philosophically opposed to the notion that a government body with this kind of backing and with all the advantages that go with it, no matter what the legislation may ultimately say, will have the opportunity to invest in private enterprise and have the opportunity to buy up private companies, extend its tentacles and then give the Government an undue power to influence and control the economy. [More…]
But, if ever the day comes when the present Government has control in the 2 Houses, the insurance industry has a great deal to fear and so has the rest of the country because of the power that this provision would give to the Government over the private sector. [More…]
The Constitution gives this Parliament a wide power over all aspects of insurance except for State insurance not extending beyond the limits of the State concerned. [More…]
Under this power the Parliament has enacted a number of important Acts regulating the insurance industry, the most recent being the Insurance Act 1973. [More…]
Part of its charter will be to destroy private enterprise, to destroy individual initiative in Australia and to take more power for this power-mad Government in Canberra. [More…]
Clause 14 of the Bill gives the Government Insurance Office power to decide that those classes of insurance which it cannot undertake on a commercial basis are in the national interest. [More…]
The residual char that is left needs to be disposed of and the routine method of disposal is for it to be burned in power stations specially constructed for that purpose. [More…]
We have the power to prevent these things. [More…]
We will use that power. [More…]
I hesitate to reflect upon the prowess or staying power of the Attorney-General, but I do not think that that will be one of his accomplishments. [More…]
The Australian Government has no power at all to stop any State government at all from issuing mining leases to dig up any areas it likes within that State. [More…]
All that the Australian Government has power to do is to have a say at the end of the line in relation to whether or not the products mined can be exported. [More…]
The court has power … to make orders of such kinds, and to issue, or direct the issue, of writs of such kinds, as the Court thinks appropriate. [More…]
Clause 34 gives a wide discretion to the court and confirms the power of the court in relation to matters in which it has jurisdiction to make orders and to direct the issues of writs of such kinds as the court thinks appropriate. [More…]
The clause also enables particular writs and orders, including new kinds of writs and orders, to be prescribed without prejudice to the general power of the court in the matter. [More…]
In subclause (3) of clause 21 there is power by regulation to add to the number of judges. [More…]
I hope the Attorney-General understands that when he is dealing with clause 75 he is dealing with a veritable power house of fault, fault, fault, blame, blame, blame and guilt, guilt, guilt. [More…]
Paragraph (n) therefore, provides the widest power that would be needed- it gives a clear instruction to the court. [More…]
In consultation with the Presiding Officers of the Houses of Parliament, the Government made a decision to implement recommendations of the Joint Publications Committee, made at a time when the Liberal Country Party coalition was in power, with respect to the pricing of Hansards. [More…]
Will the Minister inform the House how it is possible for the development of the Northern Territory uranium deposits to take place within 2 years in order to enable Queensland Mines Ltd and Peko-EZ to meet their 5 contracts for the supply of yellowcake to 4 different Japanese power companies? [More…]
Where there are Federal powers, as in the Territories and on the sea bed, my Government has exercised powers and has introduced laws of the widest application. [More…]
Tomorrow my colleague the Minister for Environment will be introducing the Bill, under Federal powers, to make a Great Barrier Reef marine park. [More…]
We do not have powers within the States. [More…]
We do have powers in the Territories, and the National Country Party is irked because we are exercising them. [More…]
We believe that we have power in respect to the sea bed and we are exercising that power. [More…]
Because we believe that, we are introducing a Bill tomorrow to exercise that constitutional power in respect to the seabed. [More…]
They are urging in other respects that we disregard the laws where we had the power to make them. [More…]
The Bill provides the Council of the University with a power to make statutes regarding only those kinds of fees which it is intended should remain payable by students. [More…]
Since it is intended that this policy should have effect from the commencement of the 1974 academic year, the Minister is empowered under section 5 of the Bill to direct that specified fees otherwise payable for the years 1974 and 1975 shall be deemed not to have been payable. [More…]
The Bill provides the Council of the College with a power to make statutes regarding only those kinds of fees which it is intended should remain payable by students. [More…]
Since it is intended that this policy should have effect from the commencement of the 1974 academic year, the Minister is empowered under clause 4 of the Bill to direct that specified fees otherwise payable for the years 1 974 and 1 975 shall be deemed not to have been payable. [More…]
At present there is no power under the National Health Act requiring manufacturers or distributors of pharmaceutical benefits to supply information about costs to the Government and consequently the Department of Health depends on negotiations to try and achieve fair and reasonable prices for pharmaceutical benefit items. [More…]
The degree to which the Distribution Commissioners choose to exercise this discretionary power is left entirely to their independent judgment. [More…]
To give the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) credit, he could not have chosen a more expert person than the Minister for Services and Property to ensure that the Australian Labor Party is entrenched in power through amending the electoral legislation and bringing in redistribution proposals. [More…]
There is no one better than the Minister to help to devise the means to keep the Government in power in spite of the fact that the greatest inflation in the history of this country is occurring and we have one of the highest levels of unemployment. [More…]
The Australian Labor Party is now trying to bring about a system that exists perhaps in the United Kingdom whereby the Labour Party is polling a little over 30 per cent of the vote and is in power with a very substantial majority. [More…]
There was an occasion in the latter 1960s when the then Liberal Premier of South Australia Steele Hall, realised that the Liberal Party could not go on as it had been holding power by a pretty unbalanced distribution of seats. [More…]
It is to be found in section 124 of the Matrimonial Causes Act which deals with the power to give injunctions as the law stands now. [More…]
I suggest that that power is not abused. [More…]
In other words, the injunction power can be used to protect and preserve the family. [More…]
The sub-clause contains a power that could be exercised capriciously, wilfully or even for political purposes. [More…]
A number of members of the Opposition hold the reigns of power in State governments which operate State Government Insurance offices and I do not see any of those members ever going to the people in those States and suggesting they will do away with the State Government insurance office. [More…]
With regard to clause 13 I would observe that by giving the Minister power to direct the Corporation to enter into a particular class of contracts of insurance the Government proposes to undermine the much-vaunted autonomy of the AGIC. [More…]
The Board may, by resolution, delegate to any person, either generally or as otherwise provided by the resolution, any of its powers under this Act, other than this power of delegation. [More…]
It has been rightly pointed out by the honourable member for Balaclava (Mr Macphee) that in clause 13 we see another example of quite substantial ministerial authority in relation to the actual powers of what we have been told will be an autonomous and yet government-controlled organisation, if one can imagine such a combination. [More…]
However, in clause 1 1 the Board is given very substantial power if one takes into account that those powers which are enumerated in Part III, clause 12, can be given to any person merely by resolution of the Board without reference to the Minister. [More…]
I would have thought that if the Minister is to have the powers that are enumerated in clause 13 there would also be a case for him to have similar powers in relation to clause 1 1. [More…]
I would have thoughtand I leave it with the Minister because I have not looked at it very carefully- that there is no need now for the Treasurer to have the power of approval conferred by clause 43. [More…]
Unless there were power to enable him to do so he would not be able to accept such employment without exposing himself to a charge of misbehaviour. [More…]
On further consideration- certainly on my reaction to seeing the clause for the first time- I thought it inappropriate for such a power to be vested in the Minister. [More…]
It does not affect the power of the President to direct another member not to sit. [More…]
I move: Before sub-clause ( 1 ), insert the following subclauses: (1a) Subject to sub-section (1b) an application may be made to the Tribunal for the review of a decision made by a person in exercise of a power conferred on that person by a provision specified in Parts I to VI of the Schedule to this Act. [More…]
( 1 b) The review by the Tribunal of a decision shall be subject to the limitations or extensions (if any) contained in the Schedule and set opposite the provisions by which the power to exercise that decision is conferred. [More…]
(lc) The right to apply to the Tribunal for the review of a decision made by a person in exercise of a power conferred by a provision specified in Parts I, II, IV and V of the Schedule shall be in substitution for any right of appeal against or review of that decision whether by a court or other body given by that provision or by the enactment of which that provision forms part. [More…]
like the United Kingdom and the United States of America, has been brought up with a history of obedience and respect for the rule of the law, and a healthy dislike of arbitrary power. [More…]
But legislation such as this which seeks to establish a structure for achieving administrative justice by putting a brake on arbitrary power, is itself subject to arbitrary power. [More…]
As I have said, the person whose decision ought to be reviewed has the uncontrolled power to decide whether or not it shall be reviewed. [More…]
That, I would have thought, it the ultimate of arbitrary power. [More…]
I would have thought also that the intention behind this legislation is to put a brake upon the arbitrary power of that kind. [More…]
Parliament, through the power of disallowance, retains ultimate control. [More…]
I think that honourable members would agree that the power conferred by sub-clause (2) of clause 28 is an extremely wide power. [More…]
The use of this power would enable a Minister and a department to escape the scrutiny of the Tribunal. [More…]
We think that this is an extraordinarily wide power. [More…]
Moreover if one looks at clause 36, sub-clause (3) of the Bill one finds that there is power there for the Tribunal to overrule a decision by a Minister that information should be withheld from an appellant unless the information relates to defence, national security, international relations or Cabinet proceedings. [More…]
But when we give it this financial opportunity it is now suggested that we have not got the legal power to do so. [More…]
For instance, the Bill now explicitly is made subject to various other Insurance Acts passed by this Parliament in pursuit of its constitutional power. [More…]
It is an enemy that the farmer is almost powerless to fight. [More…]
He has less purchasing power with that reduced income. [More…]
The so-called mentors of the National Country Party adopt the tactic of advocating assistance for local government but when the Government seeks the constitutional power to enable it to give this assistance, it is opposed by the National Country Party. [More…]
I hope that before long their position of power and influence in the Liberal Party might be able to change the attitude that currently is presented in this House by the members of the Liberal Party who have spoken on the redistribution proposals. [More…]
A redistribution from a party political point of view not only is unjustified but also is a misuse of parliamentary power. [More…]
It wields no power from the corner benches. [More…]
It wields power only from the Treasury benches and unless it is part of the coalition it will never sit there. [More…]
Because one electorate- I think it is the electorate of Grayndler- is 4 per cent of the size of the electorate of Mallee, he wants in Mallee 25 times the power of voting in a metropolitan electorate. [More…]
Labor got into power with 49.5 per cent of the vote. [More…]
That would be totally wrong because, particularly when there is a socialist government in power, a federal government would not dare do it. [More…]
The Government is so devoid of ability to govern that it has to resort to any means to stay in power. [More…]
As the honourable member for Gippsland (Mr Nixon) clearly pointed out, if the Government is able to achieve success in respect of these proposed electoral boundaries, we will have in Australia a situation in which the Labor Government, with a 45 per cent share of the total votes as against the 49 per cent share that it achieved at the last election, will remain in power. [More…]
The rump on the Opposition side holds power and influence over the Liberal Party out of all proportion to the votes it gains at elections. [More…]
As a former Minister, he knows that the Minister responsible for electoral matters has no power of direction to, no control over and no right to dictate to Distribution Commissioners in any way at all. [More…]
Mind you, these remarks were made when he was a newer member of this Parliament, that is, before he got a lust for power and the determination to stay in office. [More…]
These are the seats that really count so far as holding power in Australia is concerned. [More…]
The Labor Party knows that it is electoral history in the rural areas of Australia and that its last hope of hanging on to power is to hold the large urban areas of Australia, particularly in Sydney and Melbourne. [More…]
Quite clearly, the need for a unified railway was in the minds of Australia’s founding fathers in 1897 when they incorporated into the Australian Constitution Section 51 (xxxiii), which gave to the Australian Parliament power with respect to: [More…]
When this Government came to power on 2 December 1972 it immediately set about a long overdue reform of the Australian electoral laws- laws that had helped one government to stay in power for the previous 23 years and which had helped to keep the Australian Labor Party out of power for a total of 55 years of the previous 70-odd years since Federation. [More…]
The Opposition has also told us that the optional preferential procedure will help the Australian Labor Party stay in power for the next 100 years. [More…]
We have proposed to give the Chief Australian Electoral Officer power to vary the form of postal vote applications at each election to prevent the dubious practice of stockpiling partially completed forms. [More…]
Clause 4, as it now stands, gives a tremendous power to the Minister. [More…]
That power was vague as defined in this Bill when introduced in the Senate. [More…]
It was said by Senator Wheeldon, when he introduced the Bill into the Senate, that the Minister’s powers will be delegated to persons acting on his behalf to determine to whom compensation may be paid, the amount of the compensation and how it will be assessed. [More…]
If the proposal is not amended, it gives very dangerous power, which I think is far too great, to the people who will advise the Minister. [More…]
I told the people in the 1972 election campaign and in the 1974 election campaign that the Australian Government, which has of course complete power within the Northern Territory in such matters- largely, I am happy to acknowledge, due to the legislation introduced by the Menzies Government over 20 years ago- will not allow mining, including mining for uranium, to take place on lands to which the Aboriginal people of Australia have a legitimate claim. [More…]
It was not until this Government came to power that positive decisions were taken. [More…]
It empowered the Australian Wool Corporation to operate a minimum floor price scheme for wool equivalent to 250c per kilogram for clean 2 1 micron wool sold during the 1974-75 season. [More…]
That is the sort of decision making in which members of the Opposition indulged when they were in power. [More…]
They said that they completely supported the philosophical objective that the High Court should be the ultimate court of appeal from all decisions made within the Australian legal system but they also said they regarded the Commonwealth as having no legislative power to abolish appeals to the Privy [More…]
One failing in this respect is that the power of the ombudsman is not binding. [More…]
They ought to be trying to bring to the attention of the Australian people and the Australian Government the advantages that private enterprise practices can achieve and the economies of scale that are derived from the size of purchasing power, efficiency in purchasing and expertise associated with the whole industry of purchasing which large companies utilise. [More…]
As I was saying, the major benefit of size in any corporation, commercial activity or buying operation is the bargaining power that attaches to the purchaser. [More…]
The Purchasing Commission will give the Australian people, through the Australian Government, just that power. [More…]
In fact, there is such an enormous aggregation of power to the Commonwealth Government and the Purchasing Commission under this Bill that it could change the whole face of Australia and, in an economy which is on its knees, no longer would we say that the socialist program would be to soak the rich - [More…]
But there has to be some limit to the power given to a Minister- and, for that matter, to others- by Bills. [More…]
The Opposition believes that in this respect the Bill goes too far and that the powers given to the Minister are too wide in several respects. [More…]
What I am suggesting to the Minister- and I specifically excluded him from my remarks- is that the power would be there for a Minister to exercise in this way. [More…]
In our view there is enough evidence to support the suspicion that the power might be used in a way other than to get the best quality of goods at the cheapest price. [More…]
In clause 6 (c) there seems to be ample power to demand more and more statistics and with sanctions. [More…]
But as part of the system that we operate in Australia under the heading of parliamentary representative democracy is divided power. [More…]
Such a wide power is clearly open to a lot of political intervention. [More…]
There is a need for the Australian Government to avail itself of economies to be derived from bulk purchasing and in consolidating the many individual purchases into a single purchasing power. [More…]
It could be put forward that in the operations of the Commission under the provisions of this legislation user departments’ interests could be disadvantaged by the powers prescribed under the Bill. [More…]
So the Minister of the department concerned will still have the ability and power to involve himself in the authorisation to purchase. [More…]
Does the Commission come under the powers of the Trade Practices Act? [More…]
The Commission will nave virtually the power of life and death over firms. [More…]
This is a tremendous power which it will possess. [More…]
What enormous power over industry this gives it. [More…]
I suppose it had to happen that a state created commission -the creature of a deliberate act of Parliamentwould seek to confer on a commission power to impose a fine upon a government department. [More…]
I do not say this lightly against my friend, the Special Minister of State, who is sitting at the table, but I am not prepared to confer this power upon all Ministers who serve with him. [More…]
In providing the Telecommunications Commission with the exclusive power to construct, maintain or operate a telecommunications installation within Australia, the Government has provided for the continuation of exemptions granted to certain railway and tramway authorities and to certain other people who set up installations wholly within their own premises. [More…]
It follows that, in respect of almost all matters concerning those parts of the National Estate within the States (not being places acquired by the Commonwealth), the States have full and complete powers of conservation and preservation. [More…]
Thus the States have ample power to create, control and manage systems of national parks; to identify, protect by acquisition or planning, maintain and enhance buildings or groups of buildings which are part of the National Estate; to provide and maintain open space and parklands in or near urban areas; to control mining and other development; to provide fauna and other reserves. [More…]
The Interim Committee recognises that the Australian Government has- the Territories apart- a limited constitutional power to legislate to protect heritage sites. [More…]
The Bill provides power for the Commission to compile national registers of items of historic and scientific interest. [More…]
How much embarrassment has there been from this Government since it came into power? [More…]
I remind the honourable member for Lyne of the policy on wool when the Liberal-Country Party Government was in power. [More…]
In broad terms, the Government has quadrupled the rate of inflation and more than doubled the rate of unemployment since coming to power- and this in a country with perhaps more natural advantages than any other in the world, a country largely insulated from the inflationary effects of the rise in oil prices, a country rich in resources with a well-educated and skilled work force. [More…]
The existing powers are to be assumed by the Corporation with additions in 3 main areas where it is considered that a change would benefit the industry and improve the Corporation’s operations. [More…]
First, the Corporation’s regulatory functions will be strengthened by providing it with specific power after consultation with appropriate industry bodies to determine the quantity of dairy produce which will be exported to a particular country or countries in the course of the season. [More…]
Second, under clause 7 the Corporation will have monopoly trading power for specific export markets by regulation after consultation with the industry. [More…]
Currently the Board has this power for the United Kingdom and by voluntary industry arrangement for cheese to Japan. [More…]
The purposes contained in this clause remain unclear, although it can be argued that the over-riding duty imposed on the Minister may be beyond his power. [More…]
Might I tell the 2 honourable members from South Australia, the honourable member for Sturt (Mr Wilson) and the honourable member for Angas (Mr Giles), that it would be very wise for those ultraconservative forces of the Adelaide Club that dominate the Upper House of South Australia to give a little more power to the planning authorities in South Australia in order that they themselves might carry out some authority under the planning authorities without having to acquire everything. [More…]
If the honourable member for Sturt who criticised us is as sincere as he sounded, it is about time he got off his tail and got stuck into those conservative forces in the Upper House which will not give real power of planning to the South Australian Government. [More…]
This legislation gives them the power to make bequests to the nation. [More…]
No power is given to the Minister to give general policy directions to the Commission, but the Commission must report to the Minister on request and also make an annual report. [More…]
The Commissions will have power to determine their own charges but the approval of the Minister will be required for the following charges: Standard postal articles, registered publications, standard telephone rentals, telephone calls and telegrams. [More…]
The Treasury will provide the balance at interest, although the Commission is given the power to borrow moneys from other sources with the approval of the Treasury. [More…]
Pensioners are one of the few groups in the economy without any economic bargaining power to raise their income share during inflation. [More…]
They were the figures, or somewhere about the figures, for increases in the consumer index while we were in power and were associated with a 9 per cent increase in salary. [More…]
The right honourable member for Lowe, the honourable member for Curtin and other honourable members who sit on the Opposition front bench who previously held power in government, ignored for a generation, for almost a quarter of a century, the right of Australian public servants to have a modern pension or superannuation scheme. [More…]
I was interested to note, I think some time in March, that a regulation was gazetted which now gives the HLIC power to underwrite second mortgages. [More…]
Being a lawyer, the honourable gentleman should know that the Australian Government does not have the power to nationalise a lolly shop. [More…]
Every State has the power to nationalise any business conducted within its borders if it wants to do so. [More…]
The States have the power to nationalise. [More…]
The Australian Government does not have the power to nationalise. [More…]
-I am sure that a lot of people throughout Australia would agree with the comment of the honourable member for Sydney (Mr Cope) that the Australian Government does not have the power or ability to control a lolly shop. [More…]
It has to be said at the outset that I have no power to require disclosure that would reveal links such as those referred to in the honourable member’s question. [More…]
I want to devote most of my attention this morning to the disastrous record of the Whitlam Government since coming to power, particularly in the economic field. [More…]
In 1972, when this Government came to power, inflation was at a rate of 4.5 per cent. [More…]
In 1972 when Labor came to power the number of people unemployed represented 1.77 per cent of the work force. [More…]
In 1972 when Labor came to power the overdraft interest rate on borrowings was 7.75 per cent. [More…]
Private ownership of the means of production and the market are the main causes of inequality of power and wealth in Australia and of the harmful consequences that result. [More…]
It utilises radio communication services and power boats and on the beach it administers oxygen and other advanced first aid and paramedical treatment. [More…]
In December 1973, I announced the abolition of the separate Departments of Navy, Army and Air, and the intention to create by statute the office of Chief of Defence Force Staff with power of command of the Defence Force and located in the Department of Defence as a very senior statutory officer; and to redistribute, by legislation and regulations, the functions performed by the Naval, Military and Air Boards. [More…]
Time and again we have heard the accusations of gerrymander and the accusation that we are trying to keep Labor in power forever with such Bills. [More…]
Let us remember that those redistributions were made under the terms and conditions which have stood the test of time since Federation, until the Labor Party came into power and decided to alter the conditions and the criteria so that it could achieve, from anyone who felt that he could comply with the conditions, a redistribution which would be helpful to the Australian Labor Party. [More…]
These people desperately want to see their member: The beef producers, in the grip of a mammoth disaster; the wool growers, who are the pawns in a power struggle in the Cabinet and the Caucus; the producers of minerals, who are confounded by the attitudes of a Minister who will not even spell out the rules of the game and is more interested in off again, on again, secret midnight negotiations for a huge loan, for what purpose nobody has yet been willing to tell us or even give a hint; and the primary producers in desperately serious trouble because they have been sacrificed by the Government on the altar of political expediency. [More…]
It is a national disgrace that this Government is not as assiduous, purposeful and determined about tackling the massive economic problems of this country as it is about taking measures to entrench itself in power. [More…]
Where is the humanity of this Government- this allegedly humane Government that came to power in 1972? [More…]
It is not concerned with any objective other than to contrive a situation that will keep it in power. [More…]
What the Government is saying to this Parliament and to the Australian people is: We want a redistribution that will allow us to obtain only 45 per cent of the vote and maintain our present number of seats and our position in power. [More…]
Quite frankly, if the Prime Minister (Mr Whitiam) and the Labor Government believe that they can pull off an election now and win power in the House of Representatives and in the Senate I say: Let them go ahead. [More…]
The Liberal Party is more interested in staying in power in conduction with the Country Party than in supporting the sort of principles that on the hustings of this country at election time and in other statements in this chamber it says it supports. [More…]
Plans are under way to construct 35 nuclear power plants in Japan by 1985. [More…]
The Minister states that contracts between Australian companies and Japanese power companies for the supply of uranium will be met initially out of the Atomic Energy Commission’s stockpile. [More…]
We know that the establishment of nuclear power stations in Japan is vital to Japan’s energy sources in the 1980s and beyond. [More…]
Therefore Japan is interested in moving into nuclear power and enriched fuel. [More…]
We should not think, as obviously the Prime Minister does, that all those views are outdated, that nobody minds all power being centralised in Canberra and decisions being made in accordance with his wishes. [More…]
It is a course of conduct which seems to be aimed at enabling the Prime Minister to have very great power and at minimising very much any opposition that might appear to his wishes. [More…]
Surely the essence of democracy is divided power- a division of power around the country. [More…]
Allowing no government or minister to have full and unfettered power is what democracy is all about. [More…]
The holding of simultaneous elections would not affect the Senate’s power in any way. [More…]
The people just will not vote for constitutional changes that will have the effect of reducing the power of the Senate which will be to the Senate’s disadvantage and to the disadvantage of this country insofar as its administration and law are concerned. [More…]
The next point that I want to make clear is this: I do not believe in giving increased power to any government that has already indicated beyond any shadow of a doubt that it cannot effectively manage or adminster the government of this country. [More…]
Most of the Government’s actions from the time it came to power shortly after 2 December 1972 have had unfortunate repercussions upon the people of this country and are working against their interests. [More…]
For that reason, if for no other, I would not give the Government any more power. [More…]
In fact, it would be my intention to restrict its power by kicking it out as soon as I possibly could. [More…]
Another way is to distract attention from the vital issues with which we are faced today and it is another means by which he hopes he can sustain himself in power for a greater length of time. [More…]
That expresses a constitutional concept in the clearest of language and means that the Senate is a State’s House and is intended to represent the States’ views, Changing this section necessarily means that the Prime Minister wants to whittle away the power of the Senate to reflect the views of the States. [More…]
It was to ensure that the Prime Minister or the Government of the day could not intimidate or blackmail members of the Senate by threat of a double dissolution or by any other means when exercising their constitutional powers, to ensure that the Senate is a States’ House reflecting the views of the States and a House of review having all the qualities and power that a House of review needs to express the mature view and the long term attitude of the Australian people to constitutional change and the business of government. [More…]
I finish on this note: I would not give the Government any more power and neither would the greatest politicians of our time extend power in the way envisaged in this Bill. [More…]
For those reasons I will do what I can to sustain the Senate’s prestige and power and to prevail upon the Australian people to support our action against this Bill. [More…]
Not only is this a measure to reduce the power of the Senate, it is also a measure designed to ensure that the Australian Constitution will be arbitrarily changed so that there will not be available to the Government the option which is now available to it. [More…]
The Government is in a position, thanks to the constitutional powers that are accorded it by sections 12, 13 and 32, to ensure that House of Representatives and Senate elections are held at an identical time. [More…]
It is not only totally opposed to such an accelerated resubmission of a proposal so recently rejected by the people but also it is opposed to this Bill because it obviously is intended to lessen the power of the Senate, the one chamber of this Parliament which at the moment is protecting the interests of the Australian community, if the decisions of recent weeks are to be taken as any indication. [More…]
In other words, honourable members opposite try to get simultaneous elections to reduce the power of the Senate not because they really see the matter as urgent and not because the Constitution is inadequate but because they are intentionally trying to give to the Labor Government a security of tenure which its actions should deny it and which I am quite confident the Australian people equally will deny it the next time it goes to the polls. [More…]
The National Country Party of Australia regards this Bill as unnecessary and repugnant and as a Bill which would significantly reduce the power of the Senate in relation to the House of Representatives. [More…]
Any mineral or environment policies in Australia are essentially based upon co-operation between a national government with powers over export licences and State governments which have the power to issue mining licences. [More…]
The Minister for Transport (Mr Charles Jones) pointed out in his second reading speech that there is a constitutional provision in relation to these measures, namely, section 5 1 of the Constitution, which gives the Australian Parliament power with respect to: [More…]
The long-term effects and full extent of direct federal power which can be imposed as a result of the agreements is not easy to predict. [More…]
That is why provision is made in section 5 1 (xxxiii) of the Constitution for the Australian Parliament to have power with respect to: [More…]
Since coming to power the Government has taken some quite positive steps to ensure that its long term aims are put into effect, at least in part. [More…]
The previous Government certainly did discuss these matters, but when the Labor Party came to power there was nothing on the statute book in relation to these railway lines. [More…]
It was not until such time as the present Government came to power that the Minister was able to successfully negotiate with the South Australian Government. [More…]
Prior to our coming to power there was difficulty between South Australia and the Commonwealth about these particular lines. [More…]
It is a fact that once the Labor Party Government came to power it was able to negotiate successfully with the South Australian Government, with the result that these 2 proposals were able to proceed. [More…]
The Liberal-Country Party coalition came to power in that State and withdrew the offers that had been made prior to that time. [More…]
My own opinion is that if any State stood to gain by a Commonwealth takeover of its railway system it would be Western Australia, but the people in power in that State allow their politics to colour everything they do including the decisions they take and because there was a Labor Government in Canberra at that time they withdrew all their offers. [More…]
It was left until the Labor Government came to power before any positive moves were made in this field. [More…]
It is this: That there be written into the agreement the power for the Tasmanian Government to take back the railways in the State at some distant date. [More…]
Our hydro-electric system provides us with the cheapest electric power in Australia. [More…]
All States have to import diesel fuel to run their diesel engines, but we generate our own hydro-electric power in Tasmania. [More…]
The rest of the amendments are purely consequential, except one machinery amendment to insert a new clause 5 lA, which provides that the Council may, either generally or otherwise as provided by resolution of the Council, delegate to a member of the Council or to an officer of the Authority any of its powers under the Act, other than the power of delegation. [More…]
Honourable members will notice in paragraph (a) of subclause 6 ( 1) the words ‘with the approval of the Minister, for the purpose of promotion’ and in sub-clause (3) the words ‘The Minister shall not exercise his power to approve the expenditure of moneys from the Research Account for the purposes referred to in paragraph 1(a)’- the paragraph to which I have just referred- ‘except in accordance with recommendations of the Committee’. [More…]
I shall be returning to that central issue later, but in the meantime it is important to remember that the benefits gained by waterside workers have been at the expense of lowering the purchasing power and the standard of living of every Australian who buys any imported goods and at a cost to every Australian exporter. [More…]
It is false for the Minister for Transport to claim that the Australian shipbuilding industry has seen an improvement since the Labor Party came to power; on the contrary it has declined. [More…]
When Labor came to power the ANL had 2 steel carriers of approximately 7800 tons deadweight on order from the Newcastle State Dockyard and a 13 000 tons deadweight bulk carrier on order from a Japanese yard. [More…]
Always preach true democracy, but seize power as fast and ruthlessly as possible. [More…]
1 ) do all in its power to inform the Australian people as to the extent to which civil, political, social and religious rights continue to exist in South Vietnam, [More…]
This extraordinary power that the private funds have is a result of the collusion on the part of previous Liberal governments and the present Oppositioncontrolled Senate. [More…]
The Government still has not power to control the activities of the funds except by deregistration, which obviously is an extreme measure to have to take and would disadvantage contributors. [More…]
But that state of affairs we can blame on the Oppositioncontrolled Senate which resisted the attempts by this Government to have adequate power over the funds to protect the public’s money. [More…]
The taxation burden has to be reduced, and the Australian people need to believe that a firm and determined Government is in power, not a politically irresponsible rabble such as we have seen over the last 48 hours. [More…]
I hope that when my Party returns to power it will in fact continue to bring about open government in the area of surveys. [More…]
The Senate has amended the Racial Discrimination Bill in a number of respects, the most important of which are as follows: First, the power vested in the Commissioner for Community Relations to commence legal proceedings where he is unable to effect a settlement by conciliation has been removed. [More…]
Second, the power of the Commissioner to apply to a judge to obtain evidence to assist the conciliation process and prevent its frustration has also been removed. [More…]
It would have preferred that the Commissioner, as representative of the public interest, should have had power to bring proceedings on behalf of disadvantaged persons, persons with language difficulties and persons who may be diffident about enforcing their rights under the legislation. [More…]
The Race Relations Board of the United Kingdom has such a power. [More…]
The Government would have much preferred to have had retained the power to require evidence to be given before a judge to assist in the conciliation process and prevent its frustration. [More…]
This is a modified form of a power that is contained in the Canadian and New Zealand legislation, but it has been misrepresented by the Opposition as a ‘star chamber’ procedure. [More…]
The effectiveness of the Race Relations Board of the United Kingdom is widely recognised as being impeded by the absence of these powers and their absence in the United Kingdom permits the Board’s attempts at conciliation to be virtually ignored. [More…]
The Commissioner will have power to engage in programs of education and research to combat racial discrimination. [More…]
The Commissioner is cast in the role of an independent conciliator and will have power to act on his own initiative as well as in respect of complaints made to him. [More…]
The Commissioner will, in addition, have power to promote programs of education and research. [More…]
He has been placing orders overseas, and spending money with abandon, with the approval of the several Treasurers that we have had since Labor came to power. [More…]
The Senate was unable to agree to the inclusion in the Bill of the Government’s proposal to give to the Australian Telecommunications Commission the power to take over from the Overseas Telecommunications Commission the international telecommunications service. [More…]
Time and again the time of the courts and the costs of litigants are eaten up by argument over jurisdiction in our courts- questions of Federal and State jurisdiction, questions relating to the writs of mandamus and certiorari and the like, questions asking whether this is judicial or adminstrative power that is being exercised. [More…]
One instance that can be given is this: If jurisdiction under chapter III were given to a person of the nature of a magistrate and it happened to be the judicial power of the Commonwealth, that jurisdiction would have to be given to a magistrate who was appointed for life. [More…]
Of course it is always very easy for those mental health experts on the other side to interject and say that this is brought about by the Party in power in Canberra, but what they consistently said when they were in power was that this is primarily a matter for the States. [More…]
The Health Insurance Act at present provides that such claim forms, other than for public hospitals, are to be prescribed and, further, section 133 of the Health Insurance Act provides a general power to make regulations. [More…]
The regulation-making powers to which I have just referred will enable forms, not at present required to be prescribed, to be prescribed when suitably revised. [More…]
I instanced the case of a magistrate who was exercising what we call Federal judicial power. [More…]
I am simply drawing attention to the fact that there are occasions when the judicial power of the Commonwealth ought to be exercised by judges who have a limited tenure as judges. [More…]
As interpreted, Chapter III of the Constitution confines the courts to the exercise of judicial power. [More…]
That is to say that they cannot exercise what is called administrative power. [More…]
They may not be so familiar, however, with cases such as Kotsis v. Kotsis in which it was held that the prothonotaries and masters of State courts and, indeed, the prothonotary and Registrar or master of the High Court cannot exercise any part of the judicial power because they are not appointed for life. [More…]
Because of the interpretation which has been given to judicial power since the early 1920s, the fact is that the High Court has restricted its judgments to matters, that is, to matters involving the decision about rights, duties, liabilities or the obligations of the parties. [More…]
The real issue under debate in this Bill is: Should the Australian Government threaten and undermine the powers of the States in the judicial field? [More…]
One cannot deny that technically the power to establish a federal court additional to the High Court is within the Constitution. [More…]
The establishment of this additional federal court could well provide an unending incentive for backdoor attempts by a centralist government, such as the present one, to bypass constitutional heads of power and to expand its influence throughout the nation. [More…]
If this legislation becomes law and the Superior Court is established there will be no end to the ultimate erosion of the States’ powers in the hands of this Government. [More…]
We shall witness more and more power being transferred to the Commonwealth as it steadily expands the causes of action and the jurisdiction of its Superior Court. [More…]
During the course of his second reading speech the Attorney-General rightly drew attention to the fact that doubt had recently been expressed as to the power of the Supreme Court to order a change in venue in criminal proceedings before it. [More…]
The Assembly has not up to this time had any executive power given to it by the Labor Government despite 2 reports which have been brought up by the Joint Committee on the Northern Territory. [More…]
No one could expect this Government to correct all of these things in the time it has been in power. [More…]
I point out what took place in 1 97 1 just before this Government came to power. [More…]
They are the average figures for the residual spending power of people who own beef cattle. [More…]
It was merely a by-product of the internal power struggle within the Party. [More…]
For the Labor Party the fight between the Cabinet and Caucus and its implications on the power base of the Party far outweighed the real issues of ensuring stability, progress and prosperity of the wool industry. [More…]
It was put forward then- 12 October 1972 -but it has subsequently been forgotten by the Labor Party since it came into power. [More…]
It is said that this power might be used by the Corporation to interfere unjustifiably in normal trade transactions, interstate or intrastate. [More…]
We think that such powers of the Corporation are necessary in that it has a function to operate with respect to exports and we think that if it is so to operate, it needs to have powers of this character. [More…]
Powers of this sort surely must be necessary if the Corporation is to function at all in a truly efficient way. [More…]
One sees what a very flexible and efficient industry it has been, and the power that it has within itself for adjustment. [More…]
He said that he thought there should be more power in the legislation to enable the responsible Minister to guide factories as to what they should produce. [More…]
This suggestion also raises the interesting question that if the Minister has the power or is given the power to guide factories or to dictate to factories what they should produce and that guidance or dictation is wrong, will the Government then support the industry when there is an excessive build-up of stocks? [More…]
Since the Government has been in power we have had a 20 per cent currency appreciation and this has had far more impact- at least three and probably four times as muchthan the 25 per cent tariff cut that has got all the blame. [More…]
Under the terms of the legislation the Ombudsman is empowered, after investigation of a complaint, if he feels that a decision of a department or an officer of a department should be reversed or should be mitigated in some way, to so advise the department. [More…]
In addition to the power of the Ombudsman to report to Parliament in respect of specific investigations there is provision in the legislation for an annual report to be furnished to Parliament. [More…]
It will mean that the activities of this person, who I think all honourable members will admit will be given enormous privileges and powers, will come under consideration. [More…]
While it is true that specifically the ombudsman has no power to change a decision, the mere fact that one man, given the independence and the statutory protection of a special Act of Parliament, will be given power to go behind the exterior of government to investigate complaints and to talk to Ministers and to departmental heads, indicates that he will be a very significant person in the Administrative processes of our nation. [More…]
During the course of the Opposition’s consideration of this legislation very careful attention was given to the question of whether an ombudsman would be given power to investigate decisions of Ministers. [More…]
The Committee believes that it would increase the power of the Executive and reduce the power of Parliament, if grievances were to be put in the hands of yet another department, with the Member simply being a person to transfer grievances to it. [More…]
Then of course he has the reserve power of certification. [More…]
I think that this is wise when we realise that that is the power to publicise and report reveals the issue. [More…]
I ask the Minister: What power does the Australian Government have under the Broadcasting and Television Act to supervise the conduct of telethon appeals by radio and television stations? [More…]
I repeat that I stand here as one who believes in parliamentary democracy, who wants it to be successful, who wants this country to be effectively governed no matter who may be in power. [More…]
Thus the power of the retailers has acted as a balance against the power of the processors and has brought benefits to the consumer as well. [More…]
Yet the Government tempers the blow by stating in clause 8 (3) that the authority has power to perform any of its functions in co-operation with Queensland, with an authority of that State or with a local governing body in that State. [More…]
This Bill, as did the National Parks and Wildlife Conservation Bill, seeks to embrace a great deal of Commonwealth power, but basically it has to depend on the external affairs power and on the convention on the continental shelf. [More…]
That power is given to Australia as a sovereign nation for the purpose of exploring and exploiting the shelf, and with it goes that degree of sovereignty that is necessary. [More…]
One of the questions that has to be considered in relation to this measure and particularly clause 65 is whether it bases itself soundly in constitutional power, because it would be tragic if Australia and this Parliament had no power to control the marine environment of the Great Barrier Reef. [More…]
As I raised a doubt then, I want to say now that it does seem to me that there is sufficient power to be gleaned from the continental shelf convention in order to support this measure. [More…]
Clause 65 (1) might appear to go beyond power. [More…]
-However-and I do not want to disappoint the Prime Minister- clause 66, with which we are also dealing, gives a very wide regulation-making power. [More…]
Because it attempts to assert or seems to assert a great deal of control but yet subjects it to the obligations under international law there is, I suggest, a grave burden on the draftsman drafting the regulations to ensure that he stays within power. [More…]
The reason I rise on this matter is merely to highlight the fact that that situation exists and that the draftsman might give attention to this most difficult problem- first of all the situation as to foreign vessels vis-a-vis our own vessels, and secondly the extent of power under the continental shelf convention, which relates to exploitation and conservation of natural resources. [More…]
The right of movement over the high seas has to be taken into account, and therefore what might seem on the face of it a very wide regulation-making power, in order to stay within validity, should be read down so that the measures that are taken are clearly relevant to the protection and the conservation of the marine environment concerned. [More…]
I would suggest that as a means of asserting the obligations of nations as well as assisting the powers of this Parliament it would be helpful in a future convention on the continental shelf to find such a power to exist. [More…]
We have been constructive and the Senate in particular has protected the interests of Australians from some of the rapacious powers sought by a power hungry and centralised government. [More…]
The Purchasing Commission legislation gives the same authoritarian powers to another Minister. [More…]
That the Committee have power to appoint subcommittees consisting of three or more of its members and to refer to such a sub-committee any matter that the Committee is empowered to inquire into. [More…]
That the Committee or a sub-committee so appointed have power to send for persons, papers and records, to move from place to place and to sit during any adjournment or recess of the Parliament. [More…]
10) That the Committee have leave to report from time to time and that any member of the Committee have power to add a protest or dissent to any report. [More…]
That the Committee or a sub-committee have power to authorise publication of any evidence given before it or any information obtained in the course of its inquiries or any document presented to it. [More…]
This is in paragraph ( 10) of the motion which proposes that the Committee have leave to report from time to time and that any member of the Committee have power to add a protest or dissent to any report. [More…]
The Bill provides penalties for non-payment of levy by the due date with a power to remit such penalties in appropriate circumstances, and also provides for recovery of amounts of levy or penalty due. [More…]
Clause 9 of the Bill deals with the powers of an authorized person to enter premises to exercise his functions of search, examination and measurement in relation to what might be leviable land. [More…]
The Bill also amends the principal Act to extend the permit power to borrow in the exercise of any of its powers under the Act. [More…]
This is presently confined to borrowing only for the exercise of its power to engage in trade. [More…]
The building will be constructed of reinforced concrete and will be airconditioned, with lifts, fire protection, emergency power, and other engineering installations. [More…]
a body that has the power to take evidence on oath or affirmation and is constituted by, or includes among its members, a person who is a Justice or Judge of a court established by a law of Australia or a person who has, by virtue of an Act, the same status as a Justice or Judge of such a court; and [More…]
action is taken by a person in the exercise of a power or the performance of a function conferred by or under an enactment; [More…]
the person does not exercise the power or perform the function by virtue of holding, or performing the duties of, an office established by, or in accordance with the provisions of, an enactment; [More…]
the person is not authorized to exercise the power or perform the function by reason of his being a Judge of a court of, or a magistrate of, a State or Territory, the action shall be deemed to have been taken, for the purposes of this Act, by the Department responsible for dealing with the matter in connexion with which the action is taken. [More…]
The Government opposes the amendment, not out of any sense of being difficult but because we trunk it restricts the power or the capacity of the Ombudsman. [More…]
Nor is it within my power to establish an ordinary (presumably private) pharmacy adjacent to the Centre. [More…]
As a result of the increases in pensions/benefits and changes in the income tax structure there has been a considerable real distribution of purchasing power to the poorer sections of the community. [More…]
What would be the equivalents of the endowment, pensions and assistance that would have the same purchasing power today as the recommendations based on the value of the Australian Dollar at August 1 973 in the Commission ‘s Interim Report. [More…]
The table below gives the weekly endowment, pension and assistance rates recommended in the Commission’s Interim Report and shows what these rates would now have to be to have the same purchasing power as in August 1973- the recommended rates as at August 1973 have been updated by the increase in the Consumer Price Index to March quarter 197S. [More…]
In relation to national development, we have only to look at what has happened since his Government has been in power from 1 972 to this year. [More…]
He has chosen power instead of leadership. [More…]
The danger of giving one man- not the Treasurer- immense and unrestrained power has never been more apparent. [More…]
I ask the House: Was it not a reasonable exercise of my power as Treasurer to give letters to a private individual asking him to try to find available funds for the nation, and that if he were successful appropriate commissions could be paid? [More…]
I think it is time that this Parliament looked seriously at these activities and these pressures and decide whether there is to be any limit to the power of the Press to destroy or to damage prime ministers, deputy prime ministers or members of the national Parliament by these methods and by the use of the power of money. [More…]
I think the average citizen also should take note of the power of the media and of the power of money. [More…]
He had this power. [More…]
I might point out that those rules were laid down by the Control Board long before we came into power. [More…]
In view of the fact that TVT has had a very satisfactory record of compliance with the Board’s standards you will understand it is not my desire to exercise my power under Section 86 of the Broadcasting and Television Act - [More…]
In view of the fact that TVT has had a very satisfactory record of compliance with the Board’s Standards, you will understand that it is not my desire to exercise my power under Section 86 of the Broadcasting and Television Act to take action to suspend the licence for the operation of the station. [More…]
Have economical methods of generating electric power from solar energy been developed in any country. [More…]
5 deleted a provision empowering the Minister administering the Act to permit a full-time member of the Tribunal to engage in outside paid employment. [More…]
Senate amendments Nos 14 and 16 restrict to the Attorney-General the power to give a certificate entitling information or documents to be withheld from parties to proceedings before the Tribunal. [More…]
The position at present is that there can be no appeals to the Privy Council on matters that relate to the limits of power as between the Commonwealth and the States. [More…]
The Australian Government takes the view that it wants to go to the limit of constitutional power because it has to change the absurd situation whereby an appellant in a State system of courts- in the New South Wales Supreme Court or the Victorian Supreme Court or the South Australian Supreme Court or the Western Australian Supreme Court or the Tasmanian Supreme Court or the Queensland Supreme Court- can bypass the High Court and go to the Privy Council, thus setting up 2 different competing lines of authority. [More…]
Yet here in 1975 the Opposition- the Liberal Party and the National Country Party- is able to say that a situation should exist by which the Privy Council located in England should rule on what is the law in, say, New South Wales, or what is the correct legal solution to a problem between 2 Australian citizens living in Hobart or Perth, merely because the Australian Government, according to one view, does not have the constitutional power to say what the Canadian Government said back in about 1933. [More…]
I suggest that if the Government chooses to put forward a sensible referendum proposal, one which is not designed solely to accrue more and more power to the Federal Government, it might have a Utile more chance of success. [More…]
The new patient contributions will still be less in relation to purchasing power than at the time of the previous rise since prices generally rose by 53.8 per cent on a cumulative basis in the 4 years from June 1971 to June 1975. [More…]
Unfortunately, as I have said, the provisions of this Bill are clearly designed to provide, by typical artificial control, for the interests of the Party which is presently in power. [More…]
In a short generation they have taken her from a world power to a third rate state. [More…]
1 ) The Ombudsman may, by instrument in writing, delegate to a Deputy Ombudsman, to a member of the staff referred to in sub-section 31 (1) or, with the consent of the Minister, to any other person any of his powers under this Act, except this power of delegation or the power to report under section 15, 16, 17, 18 or 19. [More…]
Quite clearly we should not permit- we have the power to do this- overseas companies to put franchise restrictions on the Australian subsidiaries so they cannot export where they want or compete where they want. [More…]
Over the period the Foreign Takeovers Committee of the Treasury has advised successive Treasurers, and even though the Act limits the power only to disqualifications of taking over the acquisition of voting shares. [More…]
Though we had not power under the Act to do it in many cases- it was voluntary- this was nevertheless accepted by the companies concerned because they realised that it needed only the passing through the Parliament of an Act to provide the power if they wanted to run the gauntlet of refusing to accept the decision of the Treasurer in that regard. [More…]
It is not a matter of working outside the law; it is a matter of the Commonwealth Parliament having the power to pass an Act in this matter. [More…]
The companies understood that the Parliament had the power. [More…]
One can look at the questions of mineral rights and the takeover of assets of a company and other things like splitting shareholdings so that a large shareholding group split into a number of smaller groups has greater voting power than perhaps one group would have; business takeovers by means of leases or licences over the assets of a business; the arrangements of boards and the commercial bigamy of boards which can be used to usurp powers of a company from a distance. [More…]
The present Act does suffer from certain limitationsfor example it does not give the Treasurer the power to screen takeovers of assets and companies which are foreign-controlled but which have some Australian equity. [More…]
The power which the Treasurer has under this legislation is very broad indeed. [More…]
Let me refer to recent cases of foreigners involved in Australian businesses where the Government has no power under the existing Act to intervene. [More…]
With the sort of Act that we have without guidelines a great deal of harm can be done when that sort of power is exercised in the hands of the wrong people. [More…]
It gives the Commissioner the power to distribute, apportion or allocate income between related parties ‘ to such extent as is necessary in order to prevent evasion of taxes or clearly to reflect the income of any such parties’. [More…]
How many divisions does he command, overlooking the power of prayer? [More…]
Section 1 of our Commonwealth Constitution speaks of the legislative power of the Commonwealth. [More…]
Section 61 speaks about the executive power of the Commonwealth. [More…]
Section 71 speaks about the judicial power of the Commonwealth. [More…]
It may be true that by dint of the conventions of responsible government over the years that command in chief vested in the Governor-General has been trammelled by the fact that upon the advice of the Executive Council the Governor-General exercises that power. [More…]
Are they to have the power of veto? [More…]
The Government is attempting to centralise power in the hands of one man. [More…]
The honourable member for Kennedy seemed to think that just because he did not happen to be the Minister for Defence, any powers given to the Minister were completely undemocratic or completely against the Services. [More…]
But when he was Minister for the Army the power that he had under the legislation which specifically related to him was as follows: [More…]
Under this legislation the power of the Secretary- the Permanent Head- of the Department of Defence is read down because part of the powers that would be exercised under the normal Public Service concept of a Secretary or Head of a department, such as powers in the field of administration, are exercised by the Commander of the Defence Force. [More…]
I drew attention to the fact that section 1 of our Constitution bespeaks the uttering together in one indissoluble Commonwealth and the fact that the legislative power under section 51 is invested in the Commonwealth. [More…]
They refer to the executive power of the Commonwealth, not of Australia, and to the judicial power of the Commonwealth. [More…]
This is a situation to which we could return if the Opposition should come to power. [More…]
Is Medibank to be dismantled whenever a conservative government returns to power in this country? [More…]
I point out to the House that it is 4 months since the Leader of the Opposition took power in Australia as leader of the alternative government. [More…]
As the honourable member for Port Adelaide mentioned, when we came to power in 1972, there were 1020 schools described by the Schools Commission as being sub-standard, affecting 400 000 children. [More…]
It is the Government’s power to cause actions on the part of its servants without any regulatory or legislative basis. [More…]
What was the basis, what was the power that the Government had to carry out those actions? [More…]
I equate it with things like the regional employment development scheme, the Australian Police and the various interim commissions which were established when the Government had no directive or power from the Parliament to carry out those actions. [More…]
May I make clear for my part and for the Opposition’s part that the Bill does not give to the Defence Force Ombudsman the power to interfere in respect of matters which are disciplinary in nature. [More…]
If I may put it in a homely way, if a seaman should tell the chief petty officer to go to Bourke, and tender further advice to him, the chief petty officer is not left in some powerless, hapless state of mind unable to rectify the blemish of conduct. [More…]
The Defence Force Ombudsman may, by instrument in writing, delegate to a member of the staff referred to in sub-section 30(1), or, with the consent of the Minister, to any other person, any of his powers under this Act, except this power of delegation or the power to report under section 17,18, 19 or 20. [More…]
a body that has the power to take evidence on oath or affirmation and is constituted by or includes among its members, a person who is a Justice or Judge of a court established by a law of Australia or a person who has, by virtue of an Act, the same status as a Justice or Judge of such a court; and [More…]
action is taken by a person in the exercise of a power or the performance of a function conferred by or under an enactment; [More…]
the person does not exercise the power or perform the functionbyvirtueofholding,orperformingthe duties of, an office established by, or in accordance with the provisions of, an enactment; [More…]
the person is not authorized to exercise the power or perform the function by reason of his being a Judge of a court of, or a magistrate of, a State or Territory, the action shall be deemed to have been taken, for the purposes of this Act, by the Department responsible for dealing with the matter in connexion with which the action is taken. [More…]
The other amendment which we applaud is the clarification of the powers of the Council of the Australian National University with regard to the statutes that it itself can make. [More…]
Under the Act as it now reads, that Council has power to deal with the terms upon which students become matriculants for entry to the University. [More…]
In these days when there is an effort to broaden the opportunities of people to expand their education by entering tertiary institutions and, in particular, universities, to confine the power of the Council to regulations relating to matriculation is, if one puts a strict interpretation on that word, to limit the opportunities for tertiary education to people who have obtained traditional academic qualifications at secondary level in the form of matriculation examinations. [More…]
We, therefore, are very keen to indicate our support for the amendment to this statutemaking power on the part of the Council of the Australian National University to enable it to make statutes with regard to the matriculation, admission and enrolment of students. [More…]
But the Bill as it now stands gives frightening power to the Director-General of Health and through him to 3 unknown people in the Department of Health who form the pricing bureau and who decide what prices will be paid to drug manufacturers for prescription drugs dispensed under the national health scheme. [More…]
In fact one could call the Director-General of Health a drug dictator when he received this power. [More…]
The legislation would give him, or through him the pricing bureau, the power to make or break companies that could be employing thousands of people. [More…]
It gives them the power to decide whether or not a company will continue in Australia. [More…]
No other department, no other person to my knowledge, would have such power over people in this country, nor for that matter in this area of drug revelation and cost, in any other western country. [More…]
This Bill, as it is now, as I said earlier, gives frightening power to the Director-General of Health or to these 3 unknown people in the pricing bureau. [More…]
There is also the question of whether the establishment of a pricefixing power by one, two or three people in a department is constitutional when this country has not accepted a referendum in favour of price fixing. [More…]
There is at present no power under the National Health Act to require that the Government be given the details of costing. [More…]
Either he wants to give the Government power to get information on the particular products it is considering for listing or has listed as pharmaceutical benefits, or he wants to give the Government power to get all the information about all the financial transactions of all these manufacturers world wide. [More…]
The Agreement serves to keep a super power, that to which we are allied, in the area until such time as detente is achieved. [More…]
Surely the Government recognises that one of the greatest threats to stability in the world today lies in the uncertain relationship between those 2 communist powers. [More…]
He alleges treachery simply because the present Opposition had the foresight and the responsibility to take out an insurance to bring the greatest power in the world into a position where it would be aligned with us. [More…]
It did not have to bring that agreement before the Parliament as the Executive had the power to conclude the agreement and to let it run with aU the force of law. [More…]
That debate was to determine whether or not we should grant to a foreign power the right to establish a base in Australia in time of peace. [More…]
If it is to be joint control’- as was argued by the Labor Party at that time- ‘joint control would put into the hands of the people at the base representing the Australian Government the power of veto’. [More…]
We were not prepared to say to the United States: ‘You can have this base only if we have the power of veto To do so would have inevitably meant that the United States would not have agreed. [More…]
The Labor Party’s purpose was to renegotiate to give joint control- in other words, to assume the power of veto. [More…]
So there is a competition for power, a competition for influence in the Indian Ocean and the South-East Asian region. [More…]
Remember that the Soviet has massive sea power and airborne sea power. [More…]
The Chinese have no sea power or airborne sea power but they have plenty of ground power. [More…]
If we want a United States presence in the Indian Ocean as a balancing force to the competition between the Soviet and China then we must encourage the United States naval and air power into the Indian Ocean. [More…]
The issue is simple and clear- will we or will we not grant to an ally, albeit a foreign power, a base on our Austraiian soil in a time of peace? [More…]
It is expected that each nuclear submarine would carry from 15 to 20 nuclear warheads, with a striking power at least 10 times greater than that of the bombs which were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. [More…]
That power was invested in the President of the United States who could give the submarines the order to fire. [More…]
It provides that the power of the President of the United States of America shall be restricted so that without consultation he cannot give orders to the base to contact nuclear submarines and give the order to fire. [More…]
In other words: ‘Are you prepared to back Australia if we are threatened by an external power?’ [More…]
The British fleet is no longer here and the British power can no longer protect us. [More…]
This is nonsense and the tragedy is that it is being uttered by supporters of a government which has no intention of allowing Australia to regain any defence capability, a government which brought in’ a Budget only a couple of nights ago which provides for a diminution in the manpower of the Australian forces, a government which knows that by ourselves we have no adequate capacity to determine the continued existence of the Australian nation. [More…]
Yet this is a government which, embarrassed by its pro-communist left wing, is out to break what ties we have with the United States and to provoke the United States, insofar as it lies within its power, into abandoning the defence of Australia and the reality of the ANZUS Pact. [More…]
and (4) The requirements are set out in ‘Jervis Bay Nuclear Power Station- Invitation to Tender on Nuclear Steam Supply System and Related Services’ dated 28 February 1970, which document was sent to parties expressing an interest in tendering. [More…]
So taken all round I believe that this Government has done all in its power to assist, to ensure that this shipyard is kept in operation and to make sure that work is available for the men there. [More…]
Is it a fact that the honourable gentleman has on 3 occasions during the past 9 months used his power under section 90 of the Act to compel the Trade Practices Commission to grant authorisations in respect of proposed mergers? [More…]
The UDT and the rival Fretilin party are struggling for power in Dili and in many parts of the interior. [More…]
The Pharmacy Guild adhered to the agreement which it had reached in 1972 and to which it believed the present Government adhered when it came to power. [More…]
Why is it that regardless of whether a Liberal or Labor government is in power, whether a Medibank scheme is in operation or whether a pharmaceutical benefit scheme is in operation, if the patient has to pay there is a drop in the call upon prescriptions? [More…]
This new move, one might say, probably would have been made had a Liberal-National Country Party government been in power. [More…]
-Does the honourable member support the Five Power Agreement? [More…]
The honourable member refuses to answer whether he supports the Five Power Agreement. [More…]
The reality is that the Five Power Agreement still operates. [More…]
We are still members of an arrangement which involves members of the Services in the Five Power Agreement. [More…]
What is the worth of the Five Power Agreement? [More…]
In part of my electorate the Commonwealth railway system carries the coal down to serve the power houses in the northern Spencer Gulf region. [More…]
It is a clear example of the power of the purse. [More…]
We came in with our superior money power and took over the responsibility for tertiary, secondary and primary education, and we went on to assume responsibility for roads. [More…]
Since Labor came to power taxes have taken a 25 per cent bigger proportion of his wages from the man on average weekly earnings. [More…]
If people have lost their power to choose, how does it happen that there are 608 000 people undertaking technical education now compared with 400 000 people undertaking technical education when we came into office? [More…]
The matters upon which the Leader of the Opposition concentrated were, I suspect, not the matters upon which he would really concentrate if in power. [More…]
There has been a consensus that either income tax should be indexed or the income tax scale should be reformed in the interests of reducing pressure on the purchasing power of wages and salaries, and the Treasurer has brought down a completely new system of income tax which combines the advantages of tax scale reform and tax indexation. [More…]
According to the economics writer of the Bulletin, Mr Peter Samuel- no friend of this Government- the purchasing power of pensioners has been lifted by 25 per cent over a period of less than 3 years. [More…]
First he has continued to exploit inflation, which increases money wages without increasing their purchasing power. [More…]
What did his Government do for local government during the 23 years it was in power? [More…]
By means of one system we have given the council in my electorate nearly $2m since this Government has been in power. [More…]
In all the years that honourable members opposite were in power they did little enough that was inventive. [More…]
Whichever side was in power would have to introduce this kind of measure. [More…]
One of the peculiar effects of this legislation may be that it will limit the power of the Senate later to call the Government to account by refusing Supply. [More…]
Of course, they would not want to have limited in any way their power to act in the future against a government which, to some of us, seems to be misbehaving, financially and otherwise, in such a terrible fashion. [More…]
It was written in terms which implied that there would be handouts if the Opposition were to be in power. [More…]
The record of the Liberal Party and National Country Party when in power shows clearly that they do not want social reform. [More…]
The truth of the matter is that if the Opposition were in power the fields of education, health and social services- areas of major expenditure by this Government- would have suffered disastrous cutbacks. [More…]
One of the things the Leader of the Opposition said is that the Opposition would do away with the Overseas Trading Corporation if it came to power. [More…]
The amount of purchasing power in the community today can be illustrated by the fact that savings banks deposits rose by $3 11m in June this year to an all time peak of $ 12,768m, and these deposits are earning very substantial interest. [More…]
This is a direct result of the Labor Government’s disastrous economic policies since it came to power. [More…]
Honourable members can see that when this Government came to power it was faced with a disastrous situation with which it has now firmly dealt. [More…]
The people of Booligal need electric power. [More…]
It is a great pity that they do not have power at the school to enable them to use it. [More…]
Ever since the Labor Government came to power we have heard the old cries about wage push inflation and industrial turmoil. [More…]
What has happened, of course, under the Labor Government since it has come into power is that there has been a great increase in expenditure. [More…]
By how much would we have had to increase postal charges had we not received tax from the additional 232 000 people who have been employed since we came to power? [More…]
and (4) The following information has been made available in relation to environmental studies of the Jervis Bay nuclear power plant: [More…]
Giles and E. Charash Ecological Factors in the Siting, Design and Operation of a Nuclear Power Station, Proceedings of the Ecological Society of Australia, Volume 5, 1970, pages 153-168; [More…]
Davy, ‘Nuclear Power and Environmental Pollution’, Atomic Energy in Australia, Volume 14, Nos. [More…]
We are complying with a request by a friendly power, Portugal, to help her in carrying out her duty in her colony. [More…]
The size of our aU volunteer Services reflects the great improvements in pay and conditions since this Government came to power. [More…]
The emphasis from now on must be on the more efficient use of manpower. [More…]
It is also proposed to give the Chief Australian Electoral Officer power to vary the form of postal vote applications at each election, in order to prevent the dubious practice of stockpiling par.tially completed forms. [More…]
-The Bills before the House are the final historic legislative instruments in the transfer of power to Papua New Guinea. [More…]
We come now to a point at which Australia is no longer a colonial power. [More…]
As of the expiration of 1 5 September Australia will no longer be a colonial power. [More…]
Even though the Minister for Defence has described us as a colonial power, we were not a colonial power in the true sense of the term. [More…]
If we were such, we were a very benevolent colonial power. [More…]
The Minister made some play of the significance of Australia not being a colonial power any longer. [More…]
Papua New Guinea and Australia are lucky that it was Mr Somare ‘s coalition which came to power and that they did not remain in opposition. [More…]
Until now Australia has been a colonial power. [More…]
As I outlined to the House before, because of the contingencies which arose and because of the shocking neglect of 23 years of ineffectual government before we came to power, the amount of spending in the social welfare, education and urban development areas in particular had to be massive; the expenditure outlays had to be massive to overcome the anomalies that were present in the Aus.tralian community. [More…]
In this society a great deal more power and credibility have been given to the emerging intellectual and scientific groups. [More…]
It is a fact of life- and it must continue- that business will never again have the exploitative and unequal powers that were vested in it during the 1950s and 1960s. [More…]
To disclaim direct responsibility for increased charges in this area is to surrender the power of Government to an instrumentality. [More…]
He is interested in power and in academic niceties. [More…]
It does not matter to the Prime Minister whether welfare policies work so long as all power is in his hands. [More…]
It is the power that the Attorney-General has under section 90 of the Trade Practices Act in effect to compel the Commission to issue authorisations. [More…]
On 3 occasions prior to 30 June the AttorneyGeneral saw fit to direct the Commission, as he has power under the Act to do, to issue authorisations notwithstanding the fact that on two of the three instances in question the Commissioner had determined that the practices being carried on were anti-competitive and in relation to the other one, a proposed merger- I know the interest which the honourable member for Hunter (Mr James) has in these matters- the Commission had not only held that the practice was anti-competitive but it had also determined that it was against the public interest. [More…]
Yet the Attorney-General, exercising his power under section 90 of the Act and without giving any reasons at all apart from using the statutory form of words set out in section 90, instructed the Commission that it had to issue an authorisation and the Commission, as it is bound to do under the Act, went ahead and issued that authorisation. [More…]
I think there are very, very good reasons why this type of power should not be given to the Attorney-General. [More…]
Prior to 1972 when Labor came to power these Catholic schools were really struggling. [More…]
But thank God since Labor came to power the children who attend these schools are now receiving the same educational opportunities as everyone else. [More…]
The state schools system has also made tremendous gains since Labor came to power. [More…]
We are now in a critical time with the British power gone, with the American power wavering and isolationist and with situations emerging to our north in Timor and in Papua New Guinea which might easily bring a ring of fire round the north of the Australian continent before many months are out. [More…]
It Will not be long before there is another government in power. [More…]
I am sure that when we are in power we wm be trying to achieve with what will then be the Opposition a genuine bi-partisan policy on what is probably, unhappily the most vital problem in front of the Australian people. [More…]
During the course of this examination several obstacles have been encountered which include the constitutional problem of Federal, State and Local power to administer such taxes and devising measures to ensure that the tax is not passed on to the final purchasers of the land. [More…]
The Liberal Party, when in government, instituted a requirement that each of the West Irianese coming into Papua New Guinea, for which Australia was then totally responsible, had to sign an undertaking- I remind honourable members that that was done at the instigation of the Liberal Party when it was in power- which stated: . [More…]
The great paradox of socialist governments is that, from the time they assume power, they undermine the foundations of the private enterprise sector and deprive themselves of their capacity to implement their expensive social welfare policies. [More…]
Since Labor came to power over 3000 of these small businesses have already gone broke. [More…]
Unfortunately we are compelled, while Labor remains in power, to live with consequences of this kind. [More…]
It has done all within its power to sabotage the economic recovery that this Budget will usher in. [More…]
The Budget for the year after Labor came to power increased expenditure from $9 billion to $12 billion. [More…]
The President of the Australian Council of Trade Unions and President of the Australian Labor Party organisation- the same man, Mr Hawke- does not enjoy being at variance with the Australian Labor Party when it is in power, but he sees the weaknesses and the unrealities which exist in the implementation of policies of the present Government. [More…]
The Liberal-Country Party Opposition, as a result of 3 years in Opposition, has learned some of the lessons that the Australian people were hoping it would learn in 1972 when they tipped us out of power. [More…]
Let us hope that when it goes out of power it will recognise that one of the reasons for it going out of power is that most of the Australian population- it does not matter whether I refer to working men or farmers- reject socialism. [More…]
Prior to its coming to power we had a Public Service which comprised people who had the capacity to serve any government loyally. [More…]
In real terms, in purchasing power, it implies only a modest increase in spending this year. [More…]
When Liberal governments were in power apprenticeshipwithout government support, or with very little of it- fell away markedly during the regular cycles of recession periods which the Australian economy suffered. [More…]
In 1947, just prior to the former Government taking power, 3 1 per cent of the Australian population resided in rural areas. [More…]
I do not know what the particular power play is in the Queensland Government at the moment or between the coalition parties which form that Government. [More…]
He is finding it very difficult to adjust to the changed power structure in the Liberal Party. [More…]
In answer to a question he said that there were about 95 000 unemployed when Labor came to power. [More…]
The Leader of the Opposition (Mr Malcolm Fraser) has said where the Prices Justification Tribunal will go when we get back into power, and that is out the door which is the best place for it. [More…]
I believe their lust for power is exceeded only by the desire to rape the country of those who control them, the multinational corporations. [More…]
This is something that industry never did while the previous Government was in power because it was always cheaper to import skilled tradesmen than to train apprentices in Australia. [More…]
On 9 occasions since 1949 State governments of the opposite political persuasion to the Federal Government in power have had to make that decision. [More…]
We follow the precedent that was created by the Liberal governments in the early days of this century when they curbed the power of the House of Lords on money Bills. [More…]
The often quoted but nevertheless valid words uttered by William Pitt in the House of Lords in 1770 that ‘power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely’ are significantly true of the situation in Queensland today. [More…]
To summarise the attitude taken by the power drunk Queensland Premier, it is important to reflect that within hours of Senator Milliner’s death he took the attitude that he would keep his options open. [More…]
What this amendment could lead to is this: If there were a plane crash and the Party in power in a State decided to change the complexion of the Senate there would be nothing to stop it from filling the Senate with people from that Party, irrespective of the political complexion of those whom these appointments would be replacing. [More…]
Power generation and fares will increase. [More…]
If it is passed on is extra charges to the users of electricity- that is every Australian, because power generating plants do use coal sometimes- what does that matter to him? [More…]
Three nations seem to have super-economic power. [More…]
The objective of wage indexation is to preserve the real purchasing power of wages and thereby to take a major element of potential heat out of wage negotiations. [More…]
Under the export control power, these measures were achieved. [More…]
There is no provision in the legislation for this discretionary power to be given to the Minister for Minerals and Energy or to the Government. [More…]
There is a discretionary power relating to high quality coking coal. [More…]
But that is the only discretionary power that there is and it relates to whether the charge is $6 a tonne or $2 a tonne. [More…]
Need I remind the House that when we came to power we said that we would honour some of the indifferent and very poor contracts in relation to uranium which were rushed through by the then Government in its declining days of office. [More…]
When in power we introduced a scheme to provide housing under a home savings grant scheme which was pooh-poohed by this Government which set about dismantling it. [More…]
There have been many gains in the 3 years that this Government has been in power. [More…]
This was something which the previous Government had rejected completely in the many years it was in power. [More…]
On coming to power we altered the priorities. [More…]
When we came to power I think the allocation for education was just over $200m a year. [More…]
Since the Labor Government came to power the subsidy has been increased to $4 for $1. [More…]
The Government has, since it came to power, substantially increased repatriation benefits and introduced new benefits for ex-servicemen. [More…]
When the Liberal and Country parties were in power and again during the last 2lA years I have asked the Ministers concerned to do something about this matter. [More…]
seat and with his power base in this State would find it singularly embarrassing to be accused of offering his own State less favourable terms than he gave South Australia. [More…]
Naval transmitter building and power centre at Humpty-Doo Northern Territory (9th report 1975); and [More…]
The Prime Minister alluded to remarks I made in this chamber last Tuesday evening when I said that I believed the Public Service Act should be suspended after the Opposition is returned to power so that it could cleanse and remove from the Public Service some of the appointments that had been made since the Labor Government came to office. [More…]
Since this Government came to power we have seen half the Australian shipbuilding yards closed, including those of the Adelaide Ship Construction Co., Walkers Ltd in Maryborough and now Evans Deakin in Queensland. [More…]
I am assured that there are certain members of the Liberal Party who are only hanging on in anticipation that their Party may get into power at the next election. [More…]
Then I understand that the honourable member for Lilley (Mr Kevin Cairns), due to the swinging nature of his seat, is an aspirant if the Liberals get into power to be one of the Olympic commissioners and a special adviser on short and long distance running because of his special talents in this regard. [More…]
I understand that when the Liberals get into power again the right honourable member for Lowe (Mr McMahon) aspires to be appointed to the International Bank. [More…]
I understand that the right honourable member for Bruce (Mr Snedden), due to his disappointment over losing the leadership, is first cab off the rank for the first judicial post that becomes vacant should the Liberals get into power. [More…]
It is also very unlikely that such a project would have been undertaken if a Liberal-Country Party Federal government were in power. [More…]
No country can hope to maintain employment if sections of the community misuse their industrial power to obtain a larger share of a decreasing national cake at the expense of their fellow citizens. [More…]
Income tax has been cut, placing more spending power in the hands of those with the highest marginal rate of consumption, that is, the people who are forced by needs and circumstances to spend more per dollar of their income than those on higher incomes. [More…]
The people are heaving a sigh of relief that the Opposition is not in power but merely revelling in the fantacies and joys of irresponsibility that is the trademark of the Opposition and that it is not in a position to destroy our mixed economy. [More…]
The excuse for this was that there are only 410 habitable houses out of 1440 but, as I say again, surely this Government should have realised the responsibilities of the Darwin City Corporation for financing its normal services such as rubbish collection, power and water supply and so on. [More…]
It is the only way in which we can restore the confidence of the investing public in Australian companies, and therefore it is one way in which we can begin to curb the growth and power of the multinationals [More…]
He failed to do the one thing really within his power- a simple statement that the basic principle he has again and again acknowledged shall apply, a simple statement that parliamentary democracy will not again be falsified as was attempted in 1 974. [More…]
Under this Bill the Overseas Trading Corporation is given complete power to trade in all goods produced in Australia. [More…]
The Commonwealth Government possesses absolute power, through its control over exports, to prevent any Australian producer from selling his goods abroad. [More…]
This power could be used to force Australian exporters to trade through the Overseas Trading Corporation by making export approval conditional on using the Corporation. [More…]
By refusing to grant export licences the Government could use its power over export controls to force Australian exporters to sell their products to the Corporation.This may be an extreme point of view; but do we believe that this Government can be trusted with the means to carry such sweeping powers into effect? [More…]
The functions and powers of the Corporation contained in clauses 7 and 8 of the Bill are extremely wide. [More…]
I draw particular attention to clause 8 (1) (b) which gives the Corporation power to buy or sell goods including goods exported or imported by it. [More…]
In other words, there is no limit on the Corporation’s power to buy and sell and trade in goods on its own account. [More…]
I think it would be wrong for this Parliament to create a corporation with unlimited powers to deal in goods within Australia. [More…]
Another provision which is relevant to this is the power contained in clause 40 ( 1 ) (a) for the Corporation to borrow moneys from an approved bank. [More…]
Although the proposed amendment will remove the most blatant example of the Corporation’s power to displace existing Australian exporters from the market they have built up, the qualifications still contained in clause 10(1), paragraphs (a) to (d), represent a grave threat to many Australian exporters. [More…]
It has great power with respect to national interest. [More…]
The rest of the words in the clause do not matter a row of beans in interpreting the power of the Corporation. [More…]
-Prior to its coming to power in December 1972 we were told by the Australian Labor Party that it had all the answers to the problems of industrial relations in Australia. [More…]
Unfortunately, the story does not stop there, because this disastrous Government is still in power, and worse than that, it is still running true to form. [More…]
But what did the Government do on coming to power? [More…]
It has done nothing to stop industrial disputes and it stands condemned by the record level of industrial disputation which has occurred since it came to power. [More…]
A little while ago there were reports that the present Minister for Labor and Immigration was about to introduce amendments to the Conciliation and Arbitration Act to protect the public interest, to give the Government power to appeal against decisions of single members of the Commission and to require commissioners to observe the indexation principles and guidelines of the Full Bench. [More…]
Also the Australian people might have a hard look to see what they are faced with if the alternative government on the other side of the House came to power. [More…]
Do honourable members opposite suggest that some court should have the power to say to the electors of Corangamite: ‘You should not have elected Mr Street; he has been unfair and he cannot take his place in the Parliament.*? [More…]
One of the sad facts is that the Government has not used the power which it has to intervene. [More…]
It has therefore committed itself to support the guidelines of the Commission but it has, in fact, failed to do so by the use of its fiscal, monetary and taxation powers. [More…]
If that is coupled with the power to act as principal, the power to acquire ownership of goods, to import and to export, one sees that the Bill does not provide safeguards for industry at all. [More…]
-I am a little concerned about clause 13 mainly because of the very great power and discretion which I think it gives to the Minister for Overseas Trade. [More…]
A similar general power is provided in the Australian Wheat Board legislation. [More…]
If one cannot get satisfaction from the Corporation, Australia guarantees the debt and I would not have thought that we would want any suing power against Australia. [More…]
I am very glad that since coming into power the Labor Party has seen the light and has adopted the suggestion which I think I was the first to put forward. [More…]
… the balance of power in the Senate is now held by 5 DLP and 3 independent senators, all 8 of whom between them represent a mere fraction of the whole electorate. [More…]
I then went on to discuss a number of myths about the Senate, the suggestion for example that it really is distinctively useful as a House of review; that it can realistically be looked to for protection of the rights of the States; that a multiparty rather than a 2-party Senate is desirable in principle despite the minority balance of power situations to which it lends itself. [More…]
It would tend to provide clear rather than narrow majorities in the Senate and an improved prospect of the power in both Houses resting in the same party. [More…]
Finally- and not least important- the proposed change is within the power of Parliament itself to enact. [More…]
It is time the Australian people realised the difficulties under which members of Parliament labour arid the difficulties under which they confront increasing inroads on their time, increasing slabs of power in legislation, and increasing delegation to statutory corporations. [More…]
We know that in another place, because of the system of election for that place, there will always be a delicate balance of power. [More…]
So long as they pursue their power hungry course those who are frustrated and who are not allowed to see their will as expressed at the ballot box run for 3 years as they believed it would in the government they elected, will make their voices heard. [More…]
This must be done, as I say, for the sake of the safety and security of this country even when it means that an election is held at a time when the party elected to power has had a shorter period in office than the term for which it was elected. [More…]
I suggest that if the Constitution had been drawn up about 12 or 15 years later than it was the situation we have at the moment would not have occurred, because about 1910 or 1911 after a constitutional crisis in the United Kingdom the House of Lords had the power to refuse money taken away from it- or it agreed by virtue of the circumstances that it could not refuse money to the Parliament. [More…]
I believe that that sort of power would have been enshrined in the Constitution if it had been drawn up about 1 5 years later. [More…]
No government can govern effectively if every 6 months when Supply Bills come before the Parliament that party elected to power at the preceding election has to go to the people. [More…]
In answer to the point that was made by the honourable member for Lyne about the need to take action in certain circumstances, let me say that there have been occasions in this Parliament when a government has fallen, but it has fallen in the House of Representatives and it has fallen because the Party in power has not been able to have a majority of members in support of it. [More…]
Power does not grow out of the barrel. [More…]
The Prime Minister that morning endeavoured to exercise power out of the barrel. [More…]
Unfortunately, because of the situation in regard to the allocation of funds- it does not matter who happens to be in power- any money that may be left over goes to the Par.liamentary building. [More…]
Of course, a brain drain was alleged to be occurring in Australia in all the years that the Opposition was in power. [More…]
A stimulus to the scientific research field has been given since the Labor Government came into power by its promotion of so many other institutions than those narrow ones that honourable members opposite have put forward. [More…]
Consistently since the Government came to power the Opposition has questioned its attitude to the economy and financial matters. [More…]
The Government has sought to blame it on overseas events since it came to power. [More…]
That is what has occurred in this country since this socialist Government came to power in 1 972. [More…]
The failure rate of business in Australia, if one cares to have a look at it- I ask honourable members to remember that the people involved are the ones who provide employment for the vast majority of Australians- has trebled since this socialist Labor Government came to power. [More…]
The estimates presented before this Government came to power show that there was no overlapping in other areas. [More…]
Most of them were performing thenwork long before the Labor Government came to power. [More…]
I have never heard anyone deny that the relationship of power or authority between us and the Aborigines in the main has always been with the European population having authority over the Aborigines. [More…]
I do not want to hear people here saying what was not done during the 23 years of Liberal-Country Party Government for Aborigines, because in actual fact a lot was done for Aborigines during that time before the present Government came into power. [More…]
Extensive handouts or white intervention in the affairs of these tribal people, I believe, will only erode the power of the Aboriginal tribal structure with a consequential breakdown in their whole community. [More…]
This is a big improvement on the situation that existed when this Government came to power. [More…]
The oil exploration industry has been forced out of Australia and will not return while this Government is in power. [More…]
It is a system which guarantees political freedom and the rights of the individual by decentralised power. [More…]
The rush towards centralism and the undermining of the power of the States which has been a feature of the Whitlam Government is central to the implementation of socialism in Australia. [More…]
When the Australian Labor Party Government came to power in 1972 it inherited a statutory authority called the National and Urban Regional Development Authority. [More…]
I think that there are enough sensible men in the Senate, like the new honourable senator from Albury Senator Bunton, and Senator Steele Hall, to ensure the Opposition does not have its selfish, arrogant wish to get back into power granted. [More…]
That is all it is- a power drunk Opposition. [More…]
If we switch on a light, turn on a stove or a refrigerator, we are using socialised power. [More…]
Look out, you fellows on the Opposition side; you might get an electric shock next time, using this dreadful socialised power. [More…]
Broken Hill received no Federal assistance until the present Government came to power. [More…]
Labor will encourage research and development of energy conversion methods which entail minimum pollution of the environment, such as solar energy and tidal power. [More…]
By all means let us do as I certainly did when I was Minister and as I know my successors did- let us do everything to discover and assess all the means of power and of energy that we have available in this country. [More…]
They include, of course, solar energy, hydroelectric power, fossil fuel, oil from coal, nuclear energy, tidal power, the lot. [More…]
Doubtless these will be followed in the very near future by nuclear power. [More…]
I understand the United Kingdom is already obtaining something like 17 per cent of its power from nuclear sources. [More…]
It has been a controversial subject since this Government came to power. [More…]
But the proposed Act goes further and says, in section 119, that the Australian Government is a foreign power. [More…]
Try to act a Utile more intelligently The fact is that since this Government has been in power there has been proposed to be established and has been commenced to be organised a Bureau of Labour Economics which should make a significant contribution in regard to the establishment of proper labour statistics. [More…]
There will be some mismanagement and some misuse of power. [More…]
The cost of money has cut his borrowing power dramatically. [More…]
And it is not uncommon to hear, in country areas of this State, the complaint that New South Wales stands for Newcastle-Sydney- Wollongong the areas where the political, administrative, commercial and industrial power of the State is centralised. [More…]
It claims that the reason for its ill conceived policy is to prevent the concentration of power in a few hands. [More…]
I point out that more action by a national government need not mean more power. [More…]
They decry concentration of power, yet their proposals under this revamped, lately thought about new federalism will concentrate power in each State capital, and by concentrating power in each State capital effectively strangle the autonomy of local government. [More…]
This Prime Minister, who talks about convention, himself set the low standards of convention when he involved himself in intrigue with the then Senator Gair to try to get him out of the Senate so that the Prune Minister could get power there. [More…]
However every power, every executive, judicial or legislative act, and the basis for such power and such actions are to be derived from the Constitution. [More…]
The Constitution establishes the boundaries of power for the Parliament. [More…]
Our Constitution provides that the Parliament shall have power for the peace, order and good government of the Commonwealth. [More…]
I would like to examine some of the actions of our present Government and to compare them with their basis of power and their role as fitting within the context of a constitutional monarchy and the parliamentary democracy that we have. [More…]
Has the Cabinet, has the Prime Minister, the power to decree? [More…]
I mention also the national parks and wildlife legislation which has been passed on the basis of some sort of foreign affairs power. [More…]
The House will be aware, and in particular my colleague the Attorney-General (Mr Enderby), who is sitting opposite, of the extent to which the High Court, as the only arbiter in Australia of the constitutional limits of the power of the Commonwealth Government, literally is bogged down in adjudicating on matters involving the constitutional power of Acts passed by this present Government. [More…]
Whilst I would never deny the proposition that it is the place of the High Court in the final analysis to determine whether or not a law of this Parliament is valid I put it to the Committee that any AttorneyGeneral of this country has an obligation to advise the Government that he serves whether or not Acts passed by this Parliament are within constitutional power. [More…]
I think when one examines the fate of the Acts which have been passed by this Parliament since this Government came to power one finds that the quality of the advice tendered to the Government on so many occasions has not been perhaps what it should have been. [More…]
The Senate is entitled and expected to exercise resolutely but with discretion its power to refuse its concurrence to any financial measure, including a Tax Bill. [More…]
There are no limitations on the Senate in the use of its constitutional powers, except the limitations imposed by discretion and reason. [More…]
Little did we realise that the great law and order politicians on our right, like their Chilean compatriots, believed that the system is meant to work only when they are in power. [More…]
The Australian people rejected this naked grab for power and an Australian Labor Party Government was re-elected with a comfortable majority in the House of Representatives and increased numbers in the Senate. [More…]
The ABC is a statutory authority and, as honourable members on the other side will recall, when they were in power and sought to give a positive direction like that, quite reasonably, the ABC thumbed its nose at them. [More…]
At present, uncertainties exist as to the manner in which placitum (xxxvii) of section 51- the ‘reference power‘operates. [More…]
‘The limited use made of the power in. [More…]
It is considered that, by constitutional amendment, these uncertainties should be removed by providing, for example, that references of legislative power by States to the Commonwealth may be made for limited terms and that repeal of a reference act has constitutional efficacy, and also that the Commonwealth Parliament might refer to the States any legislative power of the Commonwealth. [More…]
On 6 September 1973 I announced to the Convention that heads of government delegations, except for the Queensland delegation, had met and agreed on the principle of references of power either way and with removing existing doubts about operation of the present power. [More…]
I also announced our intention that in any interchange of powers, whether from the Australian Parliament to the parliaments of the States or from the State parliaments to the Australian Parliament, the same provisions should be applicable as to duration, revocability and the power to apply terms and conditions. [More…]
It would be indeed surprising if the principle of the Bill were to be opposed because in itself it will effect no transfer of power either way. [More…]
First, the Convention agreed on the voices that the matter of defamation should be the subject of uniform references of power by all States to the Australian Parliament subject only to any power so referred not extending to the making of laws with respect to the privileges of State Parliaments or State courts. [More…]
Again, the Convention unanimously recommended that matters relating to legitimacy, including family inheritance as it affects children legitimised by legislation of this Parliament, adoption and maintenance, other than in divorce proceedings, should be the subject of references of power by the States to the Australian Parliament. [More…]
These matters would complement the powers already conferred by the Constitution on the Australian Parliament with respect of marriage under section 5 1 (xxi) of the Constitution, and under section 5 1 (xxii) with respect to divorce and matrimonial causes and, in relation thereto, parental rights and the custody and guardianship of infants. [More…]
It is absurd that fragments of the general powers to legislate with respect to what in essence is family law should be retained by the States while the substance of the subject matter is reposed in the Australian Parliament. [More…]
As an example and first instance in the reference of powers from this Parliament to the State parliaments, the Convention unanimously resolved that the matter of the law to apply in what have become known as ‘Commonwealth places’, for example, airports, post offices, military establishments, might be dealt with by an appropriate referral of powers by this Parliament to the States in the event of the inter-change of powers proposal being approved at a referendum. [More…]
And, on the basis that the seas and submerged lands legislation is valid, it would suit the Commonwealth as well as the States to refer to the States the power to make laws with respect to such matters as jetties, marinas, moorings and water sports. [More…]
The Government wants the voting system and the electoral boundaries so rigged that it might be able to hang on to power a ‘little longer. [More…]
In particular, the legislation is designed to seek by foul rather than fair means the preservation in power of a party that is rapidly falling into decay. [More…]
To hang on to power by introducing legislation which cannot adequately be debated in this House is no basis for legislation to be passed at all. [More…]
In expressing our views on these proposals and in using our numbers in another place to defeat them we are exercising a right and a power lawfully given to us by the Electoral Act under which the redistribution proposals were carried out. [More…]
If they do all the things they say they do in servicing those areas, why did they not pressure the Government, when they were in power before 1972, to provide some of the facilities that have since been provided by the present Minister? [More…]
It just says: ‘Give us the power; give us the seats. [More…]
In 1 972 they got 9 per cent of the votes and they got 16 per cent of the power in this Parliament. [More…]
That is the kind of system that honourable members of the Country Party want to force on this countryloaded, rigged and gerrymandered boundaries all designed to keep in power a party which cannot get a majority of the votes and which represents less than 10 per cent of the Australian people. [More…]
It has decided to have a redistribution because it can see that under the existing boundaries, it needs a better redistribution than the ones it now has to stay in power. [More…]
In addition the Labor Party believes that people everywhere are equal in respect of their votes and the domicile of a person should not give him twice, three times or fifteen times the voting power- as is the case in Western Australia under a Liberal-Country Party Government- of another man who lives in the city. [More…]
There seems to be an ideological battle going on aU the time between centralists and State lighters- those who think that all power should be at the centre and those who think that for some reason the States have some inalienable rights. [More…]
If they say no, then the power remains with the States. [More…]
A Liberal Government has been in power in Victoria. [More…]
In addition, we know what was done by the Opposition at the federal level when it was in power. [More…]
The other sharp contrast between the Government’s approach and that of the Opposition when it was in power is that this Government places a maximum premium on planning. [More…]
In his feverish drive for power at any price he clutches at straws. [More…]
It must be assumed that if honourable members opposite ever gain power again they Will dismantle the fine educational edifice that we have painstakingly built. [More…]
The situation would, of course, become complicated if a foreign power were to recognise the unilateral declaration of independence by Bougainville. [More…]
Has the Service the power to make payments for casual work; if so, of what nature. [More…]
Has the Service the power to fund travelling, meals or other expenses for people taking part in demonstrations against government or other authorities [More…]
After the Atomic Power Station at Jervis Bay was dropped in 1971 as a national economy measure, was any request received from the New South Wales Government to restore this project to meet the power generation needs of that State. [More…]
17) Do the charges to the States for Snowy power cover the wear and tear on the Snowy plant and energy used or lost in the pumped storage operation. [More…]
By way of introduction, the operation and maintenance of the works of the Snowy Mountains Scheme is under the control and direction of the Snowy Mountains Council, a body on which the Australian Government, the Snowy Mountains Authority and the States of New South Wales and Victoria are represented; the agreement is the agreement entered into between the Australian Government and the States of New South Wales and Victoria dated 18 September 19S7 and comprising the First Schedule to the Snowy Mountains Hydro-electric Power Act 1949-1975; the Supplemental Agreement is the agreement entered into between those parties on 14 December 1957 and comprising the Second Schedule to that Act. [More…]
No, when the Scheme was launched and the Snowy Mountains Authority was created in 1949 the initial and primary purpose was as stated in the long title of the Act namely ‘An Act relating to the Construction and Operation of Works for the Generation of Hydro-electric Power in the Snowy Mountains Area’ and this was reflected in the prescribed powers of the Authority which make no provision for constructing storages and diversions for irrigation purposes. [More…]
The Federal Labor Government has misused this power by trying to make more and more State money available only as section 96 grants with socialist strings attached. [More…]
If New South Wales were to supplement the Australian Government grant for capital grant purposes to government schools to maintain the 1974-75 purchasing power without any increase, it would need to allocate $32m from that increased amount of $68m which is available in the untied grants. [More…]
The real fact is that the Opposition just wants power. [More…]
I generally believe that if a government is elected to power in the Lower House and has the numbers and can maintain the numbers in the Lower House it is entitled to expect that it will govern for the 3-year term unless quite extraordinary events intervene. [More…]
The Australian Government is the power that provides money under section 96 for all types of things, particularly matters that concern the States and which the States believe should be carried out. [More…]
On both sides of the great divide the interational balance of power swamped the class struggle. [More…]
I do not wish to disparage the gains made to Europe and to the whole world by the European Security Conference, but I cannot resist the idea that if the countries of eastern and western Europe had been allowed to determine their own future rather than to have it imposed upon them by outside powers, the European Security Conference might never have been necessary. [More…]
The situation is no different from the Congress of Vienna of 1814 when the imperial powers imposed their will on the hapless smaller and weaker states of Europe. [More…]
In our own area, right now the people of Timor are struggling to determine their own future, but they are encountering the efforts of an outside power to impose its will upon them. [More…]
Small states invariably accommodate to the fears and aspirations of their great power neighbours. [More…]
This disturbs me especially when I ask myself how the Government has spent money over the period of almost 3 years since it has been in power. [More…]
On that day Mr Hayden stated that upon the Labor Party’s assuming power later that year it would immediately introduce a community health program and that for the first time a Federal government as it was called then- it is the Australian Government nowwould give funds towards that program. [More…]
Scientists in Australia and throughout the world have been quietly and steadily accumulating evidence about the danger of lead, but such is the power of the industry that they have considerable difficulty in having their views published. [More…]
In the short time left to me let me merely mention some of the many other benefits for which many of my colleagues and I, along with exservice organisations, strove when we were in Opposition but which did not come to pass until a Labor government came to power. [More…]
That was a benefit for which we fought for many years, but which was never granted until a Labor government came to power. [More…]
Who would have thought that during 23 years in power a government would not provide that kind of assistance to prisoners of war. [More…]
Well, it has welshed on that promise too because the pension rate now is approximately the same percentage of average weekly earnings as it was when the Government came to power in 1 972. [More…]
It is a fraudulent government that gained power by a fraudulent policy which it knew to be based on a lie. [More…]
The Capital Territory Health Commission has power under Section 74 (2 ) of the Capital Territory Health Commission Ordinance 1975 to remit or postpone, either in whole or in part, payment of an amount payable by a person to the Commission in respect of a service provided by the Commission. [More…]
We are doing, and will continue to do, all that is within our power to ensure that experiments are carried out in a proper, humane and sensible manner. [More…]
-The Government’s attitude is that it would be undesirable for the 2 super powers to have any mutual escalation of their armaments in the Indian Ocean. [More…]
The Indian Ocean hitherto has been the most free of all the world’s oceans from such military rivalry between the super powers. [More…]
ponderant military power in the hands of one super power as against the other. [More…]
I know that they are engaged as the political desperadoes of Australia, desperate to try to get power by any means, to use any strategem, to use any tactic to try to grab power. [More…]
I know from meeting with these groups of people that they would far rather have a Labor Government in power than the old reactionary conservatives that were in government for so many years. [More…]
I have learnt since I placed my question on notice that the Australian Broadcasting Control Board does not have any real power to order an inquiry. [More…]
The problem is that under the Broadcasting Act the Government has no power to demand the information which I sought. [More…]
This is a serious deficiency in the power of the Broadcasting Control Board. [More…]
The honourable member for Kennedy is reported in the Northern Territory News as saying that when the Liberal-Country Party coalition gained power it would take every step to make the Legislative Assembly effective and meaningful and would set about granting full powers that would lead to statehood. [More…]
The action by Nader is a classic example of what we could term ‘people power’. [More…]
The Federal Government simply does not have sufficient legislative power to cover the field. [More…]
Electric power may be generated economically by utilising solar energy in exceptional situations, such as remote telecommunication stations, where conventional power sources are not available. [More…]
No economical method of utilising solar energy for large scale electric power production has as yet been developed. [More…]
The United States has instituted large research programs aimed at the development of economic methods of electric power using solar energy. [More…]
Australia is contributing to research into the production of electric power by the conversion of solar energy through studies of heat absorbing surfaces, of heat storage methods, and of direct conversion techniques. [More…]
In addition, studies of solar biological processes aimed at the production of fuel are pertinent, since fuel so produced could be used to power conventional power stations. [More…]
The national interest is not served by this cynical attempt to ride to power on the backs of the unemployed. [More…]
This situation has been encouraged deliberately by some irresponsible and cynical sections of the Opposition- the desperadoes for power. [More…]
Since this Government has been in power more than 3000 of these small businesses have already gone broke and thousands are hanging on by their fingernails hoping for a change of government so that the private sector can again begin to plan with confidence. [More…]
If the position at that time was the worst for 10 years, it has been multiplied more than threefold since this Government took power. [More…]
Consumer power is increasing due to individuals like Ralph Nader and voluntary organisations. [More…]
Practices Act which is based on the corporation’s power. [More…]
We have the power to set national standards which every manufacturer knows will be then accepted and will override any State standards that are either greater or less than those standards. [More…]
… the mere existence of a Media Department was alarming because of the potential for abuse of power. [More…]
I believe that the suspension was an attempt by the Minister to demonstrate his power. [More…]
I think it is very dangerous in our society to have this concentration of media power in too few hands. [More…]
I am saying that there is too much power in too few hands. [More…]
Do not let any honourable member ever underestimate the impactive power of the media, particularly television, in moulding public opinion. [More…]
It sounds strange to hear the honourable member for Franklin (Mr Sherry) talking about too much power being in too few hands in the media when his Government introduced the charges to force the small newspapers, radio stations and television stations right out of business. [More…]
The other alternative is to return the commissions and boards which were in existence when Labor came to power to their former departments and to lay off the extra staff put on since then plus one superfluous Minister. [More…]
One of the ways of achieving freedom of expression is to have a lot of people who have power to publish without restriction on their opinion. [More…]
However well intentioned the Minister may be personally, there is always a danger that the concentration of this power will lead to its abuse. [More…]
It is of more than passing interest to note that the Department of the Media is high on the Opposition’s list of priorities of departments to be axed .if and when honourable members opposite come to power. [More…]
When we consider that this unique and tremendous power is in the hands of 3 main groups in this country it becomes more and more obvious that a Department of the Media dedicated to encouraging the communication and dissemination of a wide variety of opinions is essential to our democratic way of life. [More…]
Why did you not do something when you were in power? [More…]
Yet the honourable member for Moreton seems to think that a Liberal-National Country Party Government would have to undertake a full assessment of the adequacy of Army fire power. [More…]
We read in the defence report that there is no possible danger- that we are living in a world of peace and that the prospects of direct strategic pressure against Australian interests by a major power remains remote. [More…]
The real purchasing power of savings declines and higher interest rates on mortgage finance increases the deposit gap. [More…]
The programs did not exist when their party was in power. [More…]
I want them to have a complete relationship with the Department because I believe that the Department will make a real impact on the development of urban and regional communities, which was not achieved when the Opposition was in power. [More…]
Recent huge increases in water charges, in transport costs, in workers compensation and in power costs are creating additional pressures. [More…]
-When this Government came to power it was quite obvious that urgent steps had to be taken to ascertain those areas of administration and legislation concerning women where the Australian Government had previously been passive, inert, negligent or insensitive. [More…]
A Minister has the right to ignore that request, but the Speaker has no power other than to make a request. [More…]
In summary, the effect of these two proposed sections is intended to clarify the power of the Commonwealth Parliament to refer powers under the Constitution to the State parliaments and, conversely, to clarify the power of the State parliaments to confer on the Commonwealth Parliament residual powers that the States have. [More…]
The measure provides that the designations of power as they are described in the Bill may be on such conditions and terms as are agreed at the time when a referral takes place. [More…]
I know that on many occasions when the Opposition asks the Government to take into account the views of the States on particular measures, if the matter is within the legislative power of the Commonwealth Government the Government suggests that whilst the views of the States may be interesting and relevant, it is in no way encumbent upon this Parliament to take their views into account. [More…]
Nobody could logically argue that in a matter which affects the powers of the States under the Commonwealth Constitution the full views of the States ought not to be known by this Parliament. [More…]
That theory is that there should be a clear and unambiguous facility under the Constitution for an interchange of power between the Commonwealth and the States. [More…]
A legal power in a government to provide a service is no power at all unless the Government with responsibility to provide that service has the financial resources to meet the obligation. [More…]
They see in it the most fundamental recognition by any political party or grouping of political parties in Australia of trie need to have a partnership between the arms of government in Australia, and a partnership which involves not only a legal distribution of power but also an effective distribution of the financial muscle required to discharge responsibilities which flow from a legal distribution of power. [More…]
The power of the Parliament of the Commonwealth to designate a matter under this section is not limited by the provisions of this Constitution other than this section. [More…]
During his remarks the Prime Minister mentioned a number of matters which he thought might become the subject of a referral of power from the State governments to the Federal Government. [More…]
For example, I find it anomalous that the Commonwealth should have a power in respect of family law matters covering divorce, property rights arising out of divorce situations, marriage and so forth, whereas the States retain legal responsibility for such matters as legitimacy and adoption. [More…]
I think honourable members on this side of the House would be interested to know of the types of powers the present Commonwealth Government might feel could be the subject of a referral from the Commonwealth Parliament to the States. [More…]
If the Government is really genuine in claiming that the purpose of this measure is to facilitate the exchange of powers between the Commonwealth and the States, I think we are entitled to ask it to give us some indication of those areas where it believes there might be a transfer from the Commonwealth to the States rather than giving us a number of examples where it believes the powers could all be referred from the State governments to the Federal Government. [More…]
It is for that reason that the Opposition supports in principle the idea of removing any ambiguity which may presently exist in relation to the legislative power of the State governments and of the Federal Government to effect an interchange of powers. [More…]
As I said earlier, what we are interested in seeing and what I think a number of the States would be interested in seeing is whether the present Commonwealth Government is prepared to match a legal distribution of power between the Commonwealth and the States with a financial distribution of power between the Commonwealth and the States. [More…]
The history of the Australian Federation during the past 10 years has been one of a gradual transfer of power from the States to the Federal Government, yet during that period of time that transfer of power has on no occasion been facilitated by an amendment to the Constitution, except in respect of the referendum to give the Commonwealth power over Aboriginal affairs. [More…]
So over the past 10 years we have seen a most substantial shift of power from the States to the Federal Government. [More…]
What that illustrates is that the financial distribution between the Commonwealth and the States is as critical as the legal distribution of power. [More…]
The experience of the States during the past decade in the Australian Federation is that whilst they have been left with de jure responsibility for particular areas of government services, because of their financial starvation they have been forced again and again to hand powers over to the Federal Government. [More…]
Whilst it is an attractive proposition to remove legal doubts regarding the capacity of this Parliament and the Parliaments of the States to transfer power it really avoids the issue. [More…]
There is nothing inconsistent in our approach to inter-governmental relationships with the sort of transfer and referral of powers envisaged by the measure we are debating now. [More…]
Above all our policy towards federalism is this: It is all very well legally to divide power and responsibility in a federation but unless you give to each of the elements of government in a federation financial power to discharge their responsibilities the legal division will be illusionary and a fiction in many cases. [More…]
Its supports in principle the removal of any doubt regarding the constitutional capacity of the State governments and the Federal Government to exchange powers. [More…]
It is, of course, one of the quirks of the Constitution that while it makes provision for the transfer of powers to the central government from the State governments, there is no reciprocity. [More…]
In effect there is no provision for the transfer of powers from the central government to the States. [More…]
Candidly, I think that the founding fathers overlooked the necessity to provide a two way flow for the transfer of powers. [More…]
I go so far as to suggest that this lopsided power has given rise to the justifiable suspicion by the States that any exercise of power automatically reduces their sphere of authority. [More…]
The nearest we have come to recognising formally a need to give additional constitutional sanction to power sharing between governments has been through the Commonwealth-State Financial Agreement and the subsequent inclusion of section 105a in the Constitution. [More…]
The very existence of these bodies demonstrates the incapacity of the present division of power under the Constitution to cope with the evolving needs and demands of our society. [More…]
Ideally, of course, there are, as this House well knows, a number of areas where it is clear that there is an overwhelming need for a reordering of the powers of the central government and the States. [More…]
Whatever might be done in reordering and restructuring the division of power between the national government and the States, in my opinion it would be wrong to leave open still the question of recognising in the Constitution the need for giving formal constitutional authority to the interchange of powers between the Federal government and the States. [More…]
The result has been that whatever the economic and social realities have been at a particular time, in terms of the allocation of constitutional powers, change can and may soon make them outmoded. [More…]
What was satisfactory yesterday or even today as a means of regulating government power might, because of some completely unforeseen circumstance, be manifestly unsuitable tomorrow. [More…]
Given this power the Federal and State governments would be in a position to promote their own best interests without reducing the totality of their powers. [More…]
The States would, by this amendment, be placed on an equal footing with the Federal Government in relation to the transfer of powers. [More…]
Furthermore, such a change more clearly opens up possibilities for power sharing, backed by formal constitutional means, hopefully enabling us at least to minimise the duplication of effort which is now sometimes required. [More…]
The proposed amendment would also be a more practical and certainly less explosive way than many involving necessary and important changes in the use of government power to meet the need for changes as they develop from time to time. [More…]
When the Constitution was being drawn up a provision was put in section 5 1- it is in section 5 1 that the great majority of the powers of the Commonwealth Parliament are to be found- at placitum (xxxvii), which provides that matters can be referred to the Parliament of the Commonwealth by the parliaments of the States. [More…]
Basically, one can say that the 2 major references have been in regard to air transport in Queensland and Tasmania, as I remember it, and Tasmania also referred power in respect of trade practices to the Commonwealth. [More…]
One of the reasons for the lack of use of this provision was that the State parliaments did not know, because there was no sufficient judicial interpretation, whether they could refer powers for a limited period, whether they could revoke the powers once given or whether if they gave them, they forever rested with the Commonwealth. [More…]
There were also some doubts as to whether if there was a reference of power it would be a power which remained with the States to pass legislation which would then be effected only by section 109 which would give the pre-eminence of legislative authority to the Commonwealth. [More…]
Also, there was a very serious shortcoming in that although the States could refer power to the Commonwealth there was absolutely no provision which enabled the Commonwealth to refer power to the States. [More…]
The uncertainties concerning the power of State parliaments to refer power to the Parliament of the Commonwealth [Section 5 1 , placitum (xxxvii).] [More…]
Indeed it was this very question of the interchange of powers which had largely led to the movement for a convention. [More…]
A case had been decided by the High Court in which it was held that the exercise of the States applying a receipt duty tax was an excise power and it was therefore unconstitutional for the States to do it. [More…]
It is an interesting echo from the past in today’s context as to the power of the Senate in relation to money Bills. [More…]
In any event, in order to get rational financial relationships with the States, the Commonwealth seriously contemplated the possiblity of giving the States excise powers to impose taxes. [More…]
Equally, the States were anxious to have that power so that they could exercise what they regarded as responsible government in raising taxes and being answerable for them. [More…]
At the same time there are many other powers which would be better exercised by the Commonwealth than by the States. [More…]
So there was mutuality between the Commonwealth and the States for a refurbishing of the Constitution to put powers in the appropriate parliaments where they would be exercised better. [More…]
The power of the Parliament of the Commonwealth to designate a matter under this section is not limited by the provisions of this Constitution other than this section. [More…]
That will raise great fears on the part of many people that the Bill is proposing to alter the Constitution quite dramatically by allowing the Commonwealth to pick up a piece of power, which it now does not have, and give it to the States. [More…]
One is that it is very unlikely that the Commonwealth would attempt to give the States a power which it does not itself possess. [More…]
The second thing is that I believe, on the meaning of the words, that the Commonwealth cannot designate more power than the remainder of the Constitution itself in fact gives to it. [More…]
We could use the power of numbers to push it through this House. [More…]
At present, uncertainties exist as to the manner in which placitum (xxxvii) of section 51- the ‘reference power‘operates. [More…]
The limited use made of the power in the past is no doubt attributable in large measure to such uncertainties. [More…]
It is considered that, by constitutional amendment, these uncertainties should be removed by providing, for example, that references of legislative power by States to the Commonwealth may be made for limited terms and that repeal of a reference act has constitutional efficacy, and also that the Commonwealth Parliament might refer to the States any legislative power of the Commonwealth. [More…]
I believe that if one increases the power of a central government one increases the dangers of bureaucracy in this country. [More…]
I come back to the point I made that too much centralised power means inevitably that decisions would be made by bureaucrats, in many instances without the ability of the Minister to be able really to give the full study and consideration that he should give to the decisions. [More…]
If there is too much centralised power there is the danger that we will take away power and authority from the States. [More…]
Without conceding that that is a correct way of putting the proposition, I say that the honourable member should appreciate that the Government tries to face up to this problem of power just as indeed the honourable member for Lyne tries to face up to that problem. [More…]
The position of the Government is different from that of the honourable member for Lyne and the Opposition Parties in the sense that the Government recognises that power exists in the community. [More…]
If political power is fragmented and weakened, far from achieving the results that those on the Opposition side want to achieve, when the excesses of power are avoided, we believe that in turn excesses of power are created which are not accountable to anyone. [More…]
Insofar as there is any power associated with them, it is responsible power for which they are accountable in a democratic way. [More…]
But if a political power is fragmented in some form or another, in some constitutional or federal system, a confederate system or in some other system, so that political power is watered down to such an extent that we will find a concentration of that power of a different kind in a different area- say, the private sector- we will get for example enormous economic power, corporate power, which is not accountable to anyone. [More…]
We believe that that type of power does not serve the interests of anyone. [More…]
We believe in a democratic accountability of power. [More…]
The second method of change which the Constitution provides is to be found in section 51 placitum (xxxvii) which enables referrals of power by the States. [More…]
We know that the Founding Fathers thought that it might be appropriate for the States to give one of the powers that they have to the Australian Government. [More…]
We know that the States have hardly ever done that because nobody likes to give up power. [More…]
Also I think they have argued on the other hand that they might not be able to get back the referred power, as the language is unclear, and they might want to attach conditions to the exercise of power by the Australian Parliament. [More…]
So, that referral of power has hardly ever been done. [More…]
This measure seeks to overcome that situation by changing the Constitution to permit the States to have returned the power that they have referred if they want it back and to attach conditions if they wish to do so. [More…]
In turn it Will allow us to give to the States some powers that it might be more proper that they should have than we should have here in the Australian Parliament. [More…]
More change, for example, came from the decision of the High Court in the concrete pipes case in terms of a transference of power from the States to the Australian Parliament than has ever come from any reference of power or referendum which has been put forward- certainly if not now then in the future. [More…]
One hopes that notwithstanding those political difficulties the States will be able to say: ‘We do not really want this power of defamation’ to take an example in the case of the States- ‘and you perhaps do not really want that exclusive power over Commonwealth places’. [More…]
In other words, State A could transfer a power on subject X to the Australian Parliament in return for some power. [More…]
Now, of course, the honourable member will note, if he reads sub-section (1) of proposed new section 108a that the power relates to all States. [More…]
The States do not have to exercise the power but they do have that requirement. [More…]
When one looks at sub-section (2) of proposed new section 108a I suppose the principal point I can put to him is, as he appreciates, that it provides that the power of the Australian Parliament to designate a matter is not limited by the general provisions of the Constitution. [More…]
This will make it clear, for example, that the Australian Parliament could designate the matter of a State tax even though its own power with respect to taxation relates to Commonwealth taxation only. [More…]
The Bill should also make it clear that the power to designate matters is not restricted by the requirement, for example, that Commonwealth laws with respect to taxation and bounties must not discriminate between States but must be uniform throughout the Commonwealth. [More…]
On the other hand, we of the Australian Parliament have no constitutional power to make a law on the subject. [More…]
One might find support for the proposition from some other part of the Constitution but that might be a matter where a reference of power might help overcome the problem in the way in which sub-section (2) of proposed new section 108a contemplates. [More…]
Subsection (2) is concerned principally with the designation by the Australian Parliament and not with exercises of power under the designation. [More…]
The Attorney-General knows that the Commonwealth Government has no express power to make laws with respect to legal aid and advice. [More…]
Certainly the incidental power under the Constitution would be some help in providing a constitutional basis base for the provisions of clause 6 of the Bill. [More…]
It spells out a number of circumstances and concludes with the words ‘where it is within the power of the Parliament to provide for the giving of the legal assistance’. [More…]
I have already referred in this House to the power that the Attorney-General has under the Trade Practices Act to override decisions of the Trade Practices Commission when it pleases him and I refer honourable members again to that type of provision which is to be found in this Bill. [More…]
It establishes the Commission under clause 17 but then it confers upon that Commission only advisory power. [More…]
If one looks at the various sub-clauses of clause 1 7 one will find again and again references to the Legal Aid Commission giving advice to the Attorney-General, but of course the real power will still rest with the Government. [More…]
The independent commission having executive control over provision of legal aid services in Australia, recommended by Professor Sackville and supported by the Law Council of Australia in its comments on this Bill, is certainly not to be the policy of the Government because the Government having established an apparatus to dispense legal aid, having established the bureaucracy, having said that the Legal Aid Office shall be controlled by the Board of Management then is not prepared to give to the people who are to run legal aid services in Australia the final power to determine matters of policy. [More…]
We are certainly very concerned, as others are, at the lack of independence of the ALAO from the Government and also the lack of real power and teeth which has been given to the Legal Aid Commission. [More…]
First of all the question of the extent of the power of this Parliament to provide funds for legal aid is presently before the High Court. [More…]
Those who have dared to challenge the power have been berated by the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) and the AttorneyGeneral. [More…]
These days if people attack legislation the Government attempts to shame them because they have dared to exercise their undoubted power to challenge unconstitutional legislation. [More…]
Obviously there is no power in the Constitution to legislate with respect to legal aid as a subject matter. [More…]
On the other hand it is very likely that this Parliament has power to legislate so as to provide legal aid to citizens who are exercising their Federal rights before Federal courts. [More…]
Clause 8 (2) is designed to promote the power for reform which the Office will have. [More…]
We contend that the Commonwealth has no express power to legislate to provide legal aid or advice. [More…]
There is no head of power under the Constitution entitling the Commonwealth Parliament to make laws generally with respect to legal aid, but it may be supposed that it can legislate to provide legal aid as an incident to the enforcement of rights under legislation of the Commonwealth Parliament- for example, under the Bankruptcy Act or under the Conciliation and Arbitration Act. [More…]
Generally the power to make laws and provision for legal aid and advice rests with the States. [More…]
The Commonwealth power is, therefore, a limited power. [More…]
We have found that this BUI will lead to the domination of legal services throughout Australia by the Attorney-General, who will become all powerful as a result of having power over the Australian Legal Aid Office. [More…]
We see no reason why the States should not retain their autonomy, which they can do by adopting Commonwealth powers, while the Commonwealth cannot adopt State powers which are in operation. [More…]
We have had the statement of the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Malcolm Fraser)- quite a categorical statement- that he will abolish the Australian legal aid offices if he gets into power. [More…]
He says that this is clearly within constitutional power. [More…]
The first of October 1975 will mark the tenth anniversary of the dramatic events which brought the present Government of Indonesia to power and triggered off one of the most terrible massacres of this century. [More…]
In those circumstances we need disciplined manpower and we need it in big numbers. [More…]
It is quite reasonable for our forces to concentrate on fire power and the things which it hopes will prevent a disaster in Australia. [More…]
I put it that if we have changed our fundamental concepts of defence- and we have changed themthen we should also be changing our fundamental concepts of manpower. [More…]
In Victoria legal aid was granted in respect of the Newport power station matter. [More…]
When this Government came to power, as I said in response to a question on hospitals earlier this week, there was no concerted effort at the national level to integrate hospital facilities. [More…]
They concerned suggestions that Jervis Bay might become, firstly, the site of a major steel works and associated development, and secondly, the site for Australia’s first nuclear power station. [More…]
The motive behind all the attempted changes to the boundaries and the electoral laws to which I have referred is the Government’s attempt to keep itself in power. [More…]
I accuse the Government of humbug because since this Government came to power it has successfully eliminated no fewer than 900 polling places around Australia thus making it more difficult for thousands of people to cast their votes. [More…]
The Interim Commission’s report which was tabled in this House in July 1974 strongly urged the establishment of a permanent statutory authority with wide powers to undertake all those activities necessary to develop soundly based consumer standards. [More…]
I am firmly of the view that this very necessary need can only be achieved effectively if all its aspects are brought together under one authority which has the constitutional power to set and enforce these national standards. [More…]
I forsee such reports as being most useful documents and powerful forces for good through the exposure of malpractice and the lauding of good practice. [More…]
We do not wish to see a situation in which the Minister can have power to suppress a report if he does not like it. [More…]
The Minister will have absolutely no power to prohibit the Authority from doing something. [More…]
He would have the power to request the Authority to do something. [More…]
He would not have any power and neither should he have the power to veto the decision to test something that the Authority thought it necessary to test for consumer protection. [More…]
Wage indexation guarantees a maintenance of purchasing power of all wages for wage and salary earners generally; that is, those covered by awards of the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission and the arbitration tribunals of the various States. [More…]
The increase will consequently maintain for pensioners the real gains in spending power that have been achieved by them since the Government came to office and, on the basis of the June 1975 figures, will marginally improve their position. [More…]
It is suggested that the Minister has too much power under this proposal but the fact is that somebody has to determine how many people can be employed. [More…]
We should not close our eyes to the costs which are incurred both nationally and at a State level when urban and regional development is allowed to go by default as was the case in the 23 years between the return of the Liberal Party to power at the end of 1949 and its fall from power at the end of 1972. [More…]
From the Government’s point of view it may be an advance, because it is a socialistic Bill which takes away the independent powers of the Cities Commission and concentrates them in the hands of a Minister here in Canberra. [More…]
This is not such a dangerous thing when we have in power, as we will shortly have in power, a Minister whose objectives are not socialistic. [More…]
Under that kind of socialist government this could be quite a dangerous little Bill because it takes away powers from an independent commission and puts them back in the department and the hands of a Minister. [More…]
But in the hands of a socialist Minister- that is what it is designed for- it could be a very dangerous Bill indeed because it attempts to concentrate the power in the hands of the Minister by taking it away from the independent commission and putting it into the Minister’s Department. [More…]
It could be a very great power if allied, as it is allied, with the power of appropriation in the Budget. [More…]
It is using, or misusing, the major powers of the Budget for this purpose. [More…]
What I am pointing out, and I think it is relevant to the Bill, are the proposals made in this Bill to transfer powers. [More…]
The Bill is to abolish the Cities Commission and to transfer the powers elsewhere. [More…]
I am saying that the transfer of powers would not be a bad thing if we did not have a Minister in command who is dedicated to socialism and if we did not have a government in command which was able to use the appropriation power in order to exacerbate these bad consequences. [More…]
I say nothing personal against the Minister, as I said before, who I am sure within his own lights is well intentioned but I do say all I can about the philosophy of the Government which has brought in this Bill for the purpose of centralising power. [More…]
Under the Cities Commission the States did have a power of at least consultation in a proper form and a power to alter and guide the decisions of the Cities Commission. [More…]
The States will not have that same kind of power when talking to a bureau in the Minister’s Department. [More…]
Secondly, it is a Bill posited on the socialist theory of the centralisation of power and the use of power in a way which takes away from the States of Australia their proper functions. [More…]
Tasmania pioneered the system of hydroelectric power in Australia also. [More…]
Sovereignty will mean that there should be a clear power to control shipping and navigation in these navigable waters. [More…]
I know that previously there has been a gap in the constitutional power relating to authority; in these off-shore waters. [More…]
One of the reasons for the unfortunate legal state of affairs in which the Australian shipper finds himself is lack of clear-cut Constitutional division of power as regards shipping. [More…]
The States possess power over shipping within their own coastline, while the Commonwealth has power over interstate and overseas shipping. [More…]
Furthermore the State powers over shipping and navigation are the powers which the British Parliament possessed in 1901. [More…]
The Navigation Act was enacted at the height of Britain’s mercantile power. [More…]
The Australian Act, although based in many respects on the British Merchant Shipping Act 1894 did not discourage or make incursions into the powers of the British Shipping Acts. [More…]
It is intended by this Bill to give to the Commonwealth Government power to make regulations with respect to certain vessels and other structures used in connection with off-shore operations. [More…]
For the first time that power will come to the Commonwealth Government under the Navigation Act. [More…]
Certainly it is indicated by the regulations that certain requirements will be introduced in regard to the construction of off-shore vessels and units, the equipment that must be carried, machinery and safety devices- obviously there must be safety requirements for off-shore vessels and structures as there are for ships- and the other matters which are referred to as being within the power to make regulations affecting these offshore structures and vessels. [More…]
We would like to have some clarification from the Minister with regard to these matters because it is important for operators who are already there and who, we hope, will be moving into the off-shore areas in greater numbers than we have seen in recent times, to know the implications of the exercise of the power to make regulations with respect to their operations. [More…]
What are the States to do about their power and authority under the Petroleum (Submerged Lands) Act? [More…]
There are compelling reasons why the Opposition cannot be allowed, in an unscrupulous grab for political power, to shatter the principles that have stood for 75 years. [More…]
The convention has been clearly established that the Senate, which has no power to originate or amend money Bills, shall not block or reject them either. [More…]
This eminent legal authority was asserting the power and the right of the Senate. [More…]
The grotesque situation of possible social and economic chaos we are now facing is the product of his overwhelming lust for power. [More…]
But will the Leader of the Opposition also ensure that funds will be available for the purchase of cheque leafs, the purchase of equipment such as typewriter ribbons- these are very simple little things- the provision of power, the purchase of stamps which are necessary to post out the cheques, and funds to meet the costs of telephone calls to follow up inquiries from pensioners and beneficiaries of social security payments? [More…]
It is further evidence of the absence of detailed consideration of the son of commitment that the Opposition is prepared to make in its desperate and unprincipled grasp for power. [More…]
-What I am endeavouring to do is to point out to the whole Australian public and especially the Labor members in this House that they had better not just go along with the desperate actions of this Prime Minister because he is prepared to pull everything down with the one ruthless ambition of staying in power. [More…]
The same thing was said by the then Leader of the Government in the Senate, Senator Murphy, who said that the Senate had absolute power and that the Labor Party would use that power in blocking any financial measure to pursue its own policies and its own beliefs. [More…]
It is hypocrisy now to say that the Senate has not got the power. [More…]
It has the power. [More…]
Honourable members should turn back to the debates of 1898 about whether there should be equal power between the Houses. [More…]
In case it is thought that we could put anything in those Bills in addition, the Senate could say: ‘You are trying to by-pass us because we really do not have the power to reject your Supply’. [More…]
They use the power of the Press to misprint news on the basis that right is never published. [More…]
So there was no need to have the power of rejection in the Senate because at that stage it was clearly stated in the Constitution that the fiscal resources of the nation would be divided on the basis that only one quarter at most would be retained by the Australian Government. [More…]
The power has always been with the elected House. [More…]
It is a crisis that has been engineered by a man bent on getting power at any cost. [More…]
Is this not also the same man who, in order to satisfy his lust for power, twice betrayed and finally destroyed another leader of his party? [More…]
He has shown that nothing that stands in his way in his drive for power is sacred. [More…]
In his thrust for power the Leader of the Opposition is willing to violate every principle, every convention and every tradition that form an integral part of our parliamentary system of government. [More…]
Why does this man of privilege and inherited wealth want power so desperately? [More…]
He simply wants power for power’s sake. [More…]
The man who twice disposed of his own elected leaders in his grab for power is now prepared to destroy the whole parliamentary system to satisfy his mad obsession to rule those whom he so deeply despises. [More…]
Compare that man with the man he seeks to displace, the man who came to power in 1972- the present Prime Minister. [More…]
He came to power inheriting 1 500 000 people who had no health coverage, 400 000 kids at school who were suffering serious disadvantages, people in 70 per cent of cases in the magistrates courts in New South Wales having no legal representation, and pensions at only 18 per cent of average weekly earnings- they are now at nearly 25 per cent. [More…]
Parliament does not derive its strength, its authority, its respect and power from the shell of masonry that carries the name of Parliament House. [More…]
Nor does it derive its power and respect from the people who sit in its chambers; it derives its power, respect and authority from the fact that people identify Parliament with a whole wide range of ancient traditions, conventions and principles without which it can no longer act as the barrier between our present way of life and the mob which would seek to change it. [More…]
1 point out that in the 10 years before this Government came to power the previous Government was unable to reach agreement with the New South Wales Government, but this Government has been able to reach an agreement. [More…]
The power to decide what happens to the land thus rests with the traditional owners whose representatives, the members of the land councils, will have available all necessary specialist advice and assistance. [More…]
Prime Ministers are extremely busy people and there has always been a tendency, regrettably, to hand over to civil servants the powers which in this case should if held be the absolute preserve of the Prime Minister or of whichever Minister is given the responsibility. [More…]
The Watergate incidents could well happen here if a Prime Minister is given absolute power to supervise in any way a freedom of others. [More…]
When the present Opposition came into power it put the security organisation under the control of a military person- I think it was Colonel Spry- who was not trained to the same degree as a member of the judiciary in the freedoms and rights of the British people, which applied also to the Australian people. [More…]
If changes had not taken place and the present Opposition had remained in power one could well say the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation was going to follow the same pattern as the American CIA which has brought disgrace to that country all over the world. [More…]
They have been criticising the transfer of the power from the Attorney-General to the Prime Minister. [More…]
I am afraid that the speech of the honourable member for Hunter (Mr James) did nothing to clear up the query about the transfer of power for telephone tapping- I will have something to say about this as a later stage- from the AttorneyGeneral (Mr Enderby) to the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam). [More…]
With control goes the power to have oversight of, to check on and even to make inroads into, the lives of private individuals. [More…]
The point we have been trying to emphasise is that whilst under these proposals the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) will take on this power over ASIO there will be no one else in this country who will be able to question his decisions or prerogatives. [More…]
The Attorney-General knows well that this Parliament has no specific power to make provision for legal aid. [More…]
He knows well that unless the legislative powers of the Australian Parliament and the various State Parliaments are pooled we are not going to have a comprehensive legal aid scheme in Australia. [More…]
The sort of power to provide the legal aid that is spelt out in clause 6 is a very limited power. [More…]
Although it may stretch the power of this Parliament to its fullest extent it is nonetheless a very limited power. [More…]
It is within the constitutional power of this Parliament to make laws with respect to banking. [More…]
If a customer of a bank is sued by a bank for a debt, the debt being an overdraft which has not been paid, and the customer believes he has a claim against the bank for common law negligence quite unrelated to any banking power exercised by the Commonwealth, will that person have to go into the Australian Legal Aid Office and have his application approved by it and then have to go to a State scheme and obtain legal aid for his counter claim against the bank? [More…]
He equates this power with the overall fiscal responsibility of any government to see what is done with the money that it allocates for a particular government service. [More…]
What is to be the function and the power of the Board with respect to policy? [More…]
But no, the Attorney-General, in his wisdom, believes that he ought to have the overriding power with respect to the policy of the Board. [More…]
Then within that purpose and within the powers that are granted to the Board by the legislation the Board can operate to give the kind of legal aid which the Government considers appropriate. [More…]
It could come up with a firm recommendation to the Parliament that the Board should be independent or that in some respects the Government should have power to override the Board in the policy that it wants to pursue. [More…]
The Opposition would have been very interested in an Australian Legal Aid Commission that had a bit of executive power but when one reads, particularly later on in Part IV, the provisions relating to the functions of the Commission one finds that it does not. [More…]
I also point out to the Committee that there is within the provisions of clause 17 the seeds of difficulty, if not confrontation, between the Commission and the Board particularly having regard to the matter we have already discussed, that is, the power of the Attorney-General through his Government and the GovernorGeneral to override the views of the Board on matters of policy. [More…]
The proposed new sub-clauses give the Commission more power. [More…]
The National Director may, either generally or as otherwise provided by the instrument of delegation, by writing signed by him, delegate to another member of the Office any of his powers under this Act other than this power of delegation. [More…]
A power so delegated, when exercised by the delegate, shall, for the purposes of this Act, be deemed to have been exercised by the National Director. [More…]
A delegation under this section does not prevent the exercise of a power by the National Director. [More…]
I do so because legislative power with respect to persons who may practise in courts in a State and those who have the right of audience in a court of a State is exclusively the jurisdiction of a State parliament. [More…]
Clause 26 would seek to assert that the Commonwealth by virtue of exercising a legislative power with respect to legal aid can thereby go on to provide that officers of the Commonwealth Legal Aid Office by virtue of that fact may practise as a solicitor and have a right of audience. [More…]
Nevertheless the presumption under clause 26 is that the Commonwealth can assert the power to declare a person who is not otherwise eligible to practise as a solicitor in a State or to have the right of audience before the court of a State notwithstanding the law of that State. [More…]
It seems to me, Mr Chairman, that it comes back to this assertion of a constitutional power in the Commonwealth to be able to declare, notwithstanding the law of a State, that a person employed under Commonwealth law can practise as a solicitor. [More…]
I ask the Attorney-General (Mr Enderby): Why is it that the Commonwealth even wishes to assert that power? [More…]
Let us not underestimate the power of the Press and todays television coverage. [More…]
So desperate for power is the Opposition that it is prepared to plunge Australia into a constitutional crisis of frightening proportions. [More…]
Further, they said that the use of such power by the Senate would be deplorable and would debase the constitutional system. [More…]
It is regrettable that members of the Government have suggested that that action simply is a selfish endeavour on the part of honourable members on this side of the Parliament to get back into power. [More…]
To concede that right now, to surrender that principle now, would be to establish a spurious right, a non-existent power to the Senate for all time. [More…]
Why should the people of Australia think that this is none other than another attempt by the Opposition to take power. [More…]
From the first weeks of our coming in, the Opposition- the self-anointed, self-appointed men born to rule- showed the lengths to which they would go to disrupt the normal operations of the Government in their quest for power. [More…]
The Leader of the National Country Party comes up with this hackneyed old phrase ‘lust for power’. [More…]
Can there be any doubt who it is that is really lusting after power? [More…]
The Senate has co-ordinate power with the House of Representatives to pass all Bills or to reject all Bills. [More…]
The Senate is entitled and expected to exercise resolutely but with discretion its power to refuse its concurrence to any financial measure, including a tax Bill. [More…]
There are no limitations on the Senate on the use of its constitutional powers. [More…]
The fact that he had not the power to carry those words into effect does not detract from their meaning for one moment. [More…]
The Legislative Council in rejecting 3 Supply Bills had used the power conferred upon it to be exercised in extraordinary circumstances. [More…]
It may suggest amendments but it has no power to make them. [More…]
Surely it is a curious argument to say that a power deliberately specifically conferred on the Upper House is, in no circumstances, to be exercised. [More…]
I agree that such a power should be used only in extraordinary circumstances. [More…]
What kind of man, what kind of Prime Minister is this who persists in holding on to power against the will of the Parliament? [More…]
He is trying to back him up on what is now a completely illegal stand by saying that the Senate has not got the power to force the Government to go to the Australian people. [More…]
This Prime Minister wants to take away the supreme power of the Senate. [More…]
When debate was taking place between 1887 and 1897 among the wise founding fathers of this country one of the outstanding features of all the discussion was the question of how much power the Senate should have. [More…]
the Senate through our Constitution the ultimate power to block money Bills and therefore to make the continuation of government impossible and force the Lower House to go to the people. [More…]
This power was not put in the Constitution just to create some inconvenience for the Australian people. [More…]
If the Government diminishes the powers of the Senate by its action it will crumble its real authority as a States House. [More…]
This man says that the power of the Senate should be taken from it and it should be smashed. [More…]
But in ultimate terms, the Senate’s power to reject does exist. [More…]
I trust there is no ambiguity about the Senate’s power in ultimate terms. [More…]
Its power to reject does exist. [More…]
If, in their anxiety for power, men lose sight of great principles they can put at risk the safety of their institutions. [More…]
The Senate has the power to force the House of Representatives to the people, but the House of Representatives cannot force the Senate to the people. [More…]
It is to proclaim its basic philosophic conviction that the importance of the individual is not diminished by the power of the State, to assert the essentials of its association - [More…]
But had they known that that type of individual would ever gain power in a government I am certain they would have rewritten the Constitution. [More…]
The National Country Party will stop at nothing to gain power. [More…]
The tame, docile members of the Liberal Party- I congratulate them- every time the National Country Party speaks, run like rabbits to their burrows because for some reason or other they are scared stiff of a selection of people who get 10 per cent of the votes and have 20 per cent of the power in this Parliament. [More…]
But when the result of the election finished up in mid-air and Labor was returned to power, he said: ‘Do not blame me’. [More…]
Honourable members opposite sell their principles, like the honourable member for Moreton in order to seek power by any means no matter what that does to the Australian people. [More…]
The Governor-General clearly has a power to dismiss his Ministers. [More…]
They all say that the Governor-General has a reserve power in these circumstances. [More…]
All that honourable members opposite are concerned about is a cynical and ruthless snatch at power. [More…]
They will find that they cannot snatch power in Australia and that the only way to gain election to the Government benches is to wait their turn and to submit themselves at the proper time for election by the Australian people. [More…]
I use for the basis of that view the fact that the original Constitutional Convention had before it a specific proposal that the Senate should have power to reject a Budget. [More…]
It was deliberately and calculatingly left out of the Australian Constitution because the founders recognised that to include such a provision would be to give a powerful and improper weapon to the House which was not the popular House. [More…]
Like the Australian Senate it has no power to alter but, unlike the Australian Senate, it has the specific power to reject. [More…]
That power was specifically not included in the Australian Constitution for the Senate. [More…]
-The constant regurgitation by the Government that this is a Bill solely for defence purposes and that it is akin to legislation introduced when the Opposition parties were in power simply is not true. [More…]
We know that since Labor came into power officers are voting with their feet in the greatest numbers ever in the history of this Federation. [More…]
A few weeks ago I gave details of the lead-up to the undertakings offered to the United Nations for peace-keeping forces and the retreat which was made, which is consistent with the retreats that have been made in every area of defence expenditure since this Government came to power. [More…]
Nobody has any doubts about this legal position, about the reality that the conferring of a power on the Senate does not connote some reservation that it ought never be exercised, that it ought never be utilised. [More…]
The question of the power of the Senate is not under debate. [More…]
What the Senate has is power but no responsibility; power but not the right to do what it is doing at this time. [More…]
As Baldwin once observed, power without responsibility is the right of the harlot through the ages. [More…]
Over the weekend the Leader of the National Country Party (Mr Anthony)- the NCP- said that the Prime Minister’s lust for power was getting the better of him. [More…]
If you have power you do not lust for it. [More…]
Surely the Leader of the National Country Party is the one who is lusting for power. [More…]
The parliamentary system is being undermined, yet the present Leader of the Opposition, when he came into power earlier this year, made some fine speeches on the rights of the Senate. [More…]
The Leader of the Opposition in the Senate, Senator Withers, constantly bleats that the Senate is a democratically elected House and that it has certain powers. [More…]
Senate with power but without responsibility. [More…]
As I said earlier, power without responsibility, as Baldwin once observed, has been the prerogative of the harlot throughout the ages. [More…]
The Senate only has the power to remove a government, the power to bring the government of the nation to a halt. [More…]
It has neither the power nor the responsibility to provide Australia with a government. [More…]
It is abhorrent that a House with no such power, authority or responsibility should have the power to throw governments out. [More…]
It accuses the Opposition of a grab for power. [More…]
Only the people at the ballot box confer power, and this Government knows full well that they also take it away, and that is what they are now about to do. [More…]
-I assure every honourable member in the House that I approve, even welcome, the fact that the LiberalNational Country Party Opposition has decided to do all in its power to reject this Loan Bill, together with Appropriation Bills (No. [More…]
It has been described as a Senate making a sleazy grab for power. [More…]
Let them judge the Senate for its extraordinary and reprehensible lunge for power; taken regardless of national security as exemplified by its rejection of this defence Loan Bill; taken without regard to national political stability, without regard to the national economy and without regard to individual welfare either; as exemplified by the salaries which will not be paid to the armed forces, nor to the Public Service; as exemplified by pensions which will not reach pensioners and social welfare payments which will not reach social welfare beneficiaries. [More…]
If so, did this report state that the Australian Constitution (sub-section 51 (xxxi)) refers to the powers of the Australian Parliament to make laws with respect to ‘the acquisition of property on just terms from any State or person for any purpose in respect of which the Parliament has power to make laws’ and the compensation paid for land acquired in any area ceded by New South Wales would be based on this premise. [More…]
I might make the point that in 23 years of Liberal-Country Party government no tangible steps were taken towards responsible government or the giving of powers to the elected Assembly in the Northern Territory. [More…]
The people of the Northern Territory have obtained an elected Assembly since this Government came to power. [More…]
Unlike this Government, the Opposition and its colleagues in power in Victoria rely mainly on private initiative even in the provision of essential public health services. [More…]
If it had not been for the power of the Senate, the House of Review, we would not be in this position today. [More…]
We now have a reasonable Bill that the people of Australia can see and understand, not the horrendous grab for power contained in the original Bill. [More…]
Not only that but the InterState Commission would have had powers beyond the control of this Parliament. [More…]
It would have had powers that exceeded the powers of any other body set up by this Parliament. [More…]
It will not have the power to go out and hold an investigation and then to come back and lay down an order as to what will be done and control the States, private enterprise and the whole nation. [More…]
We have taken that frightening power away. [More…]
But if we look overall at the age, invalid and widows’ pensions, we will find that in the last financial year that the previous Government was in power, the amount allocated for pensions was of the order of $900m-plus and in this current financial year, under this Government it will be of the order of $2,800m. [More…]
Even with respect to that figure, let us look at what has happened in the period of more than 216 years that this Government has been in power. [More…]
One of the points that is worth re-emphasising is that the proposed increase of $2.75 a week for single rate pensions to apply in 10 days’ time will maintain for pensioners the improvements in spending power that have been achieved by them since the Labor Government came to office. [More…]
Even if the Opposition were to be ultimately successful in its present short-term exercise of a grab for power, it would then live to rue the day that it succeeded. [More…]
What an entertaining spectacle it would be for us all, if by some strange twist of fate, the Leader of the Opposition were to succeed in his present careless gamble and become Prime Minister, only to find that the right honourable member for Higgins had been transformed into Senator Gorton and held the balance of power in the Senate! [More…]
Let the Opposition understand this well: Unless it relents from its present course, before the next few weeks are out, the people of Australia will see as they have never seen before the ugly lengths to which the Opposition is prepared to go in order to gain power. [More…]
The present crisis has been brought about by a blind lack of reason, a headlong rush in pursuit of power, the singleminded abandonment of principle by one man in too great a hurry to grasp a destiny which many would agree does not belong to him. [More…]
There are forces within our community, some of great power, that do not believe in parliamentary government. [More…]
If we add to that list the problems created by the behaviour of Parliament itself, the destruction of convention, the defiance of reason, the pursuit of power without concern for the rights or privileges of minorities, then Australians will have little faith in the future of Australian democracy. [More…]
The Opposition is acting in accordance with section 53 of the Constitution which clearly gives the Senate power to reject Supply Bills in exactly the same way as it can reject any other Bill. [More…]
The Senate has co-ordinate power with the House of Representatives to pass all Bills or to reject all Bills. [More…]
The Prime Minister himself acknowledged this power in Parliament on 12 June 1970 in the following words: [More…]
The Prime Minister has also acknowledged that it is proper to use this power by stating in the House on 25 August 1970: [More…]
We will use the power vested in us by the Constitution and delay the passage of the Government’s money Bills through the Senate until the Parliament goes to the people. [More…]
All we have to do is look very quickly at the record of this Government since it came to power in 1 972; note that we have at this stage record unemployment- an unemployment level higher than at any stage since the great depression; and realise that hundreds of thousands of school leavers face a situation in which they will have no opportunities to obtain jobs in the foreseeable future and no program designed by this Government which would offer them any hope of jobs becoming available. [More…]
I have at other times when I was in Opposition said, when money Bills were sent down to the Senate, that it was time that this House asserted its fundamental rights, its priority over the power of the purse. [More…]
The power which has led to this deadlock was put there not with a mental reservation, as Sir Robert Menzies said yesterday, that it would never be used but in the belief that circumstances might transpire which would justify its use- not normal circumstances, not usual circumstances, not just circumstances of political disputation but circumstances of quite an extraordinary and abnormal nature. [More…]
It is the basis of the Opposition’s case- a case which we put to this House and to the Australian people- that the behaviour of this Government and particularly the behaviour of its Prime Minister and 2 former senior Ministers was so abnormal as to justify the Senate using the power which has been given to it. [More…]
The third departure from reason and truth in this debate is the proposition that in the past the Australian Labor Party has had within its power to do in the Senate what the Opposition has now done. [More…]
The Labor Party, although it had that power, has scrupulously refrained from using it. [More…]
We all know the circumstances of the quotations which have been used- I think, quite rightly- during the past few days to describe the attitude of the Prime Minister in 1970 to the use of the Senate’s power. [More…]
Honourable members on the Government side know quite well that the Prime Minister was in no doubt that the Senate had the power and that if he could have mustered the numbers in the Senate he would have destroyed the Budget of 1970 and the Government of 1970- a Government that had been elected in October 1 969 and was then 10 months old. [More…]
He said that the power lawfully vested in the Senate to do what it has done during the past week had become atrophied and, in his own words, a complete dead letter. [More…]
I think it is a matter of regret that the Government’s principal legal adviser, the Attorney-General, was prepared to lend the weight of his office to the proposition that a power which is very clearly spelt out in the Australian Constitution, because the extraordinary circumstances to justify its use had never arisen before, had in some way become a dead letter or had become atrophied. [More…]
The fact of the matter is that the original posturing of the Government that the Senate did not have the legal power to do what it has done is now acknowledged by Government spokesmen, by the Prime Minister and by his senior Ministers to have been incorrect. [More…]
Because of these perhaps unique and certainly very abnormal circumstances the situation is too serious for the Senate to do other than to respond responsibly and to use the power given to it by the Constitution. [More…]
The responsibilities of an Opposition are not in normal circumstances ones that require it to use the extraordinary power that is given to it in special circumstances but on occasions the Opposition is required to act, to take a very difficult step, and to do it responsibly. [More…]
The Opposition has used the power given to it by the Constitution to delay the Appropriation Bills and the Bill we are now debating until such time as the Prime Minister sets an election date for the House of Representatives. [More…]
The precedent established by the Opposition for the sole purpose of grabbing for power is a very dangerous one for the future of Australia. [More…]
Except as provided in this section, the Senate shall have equal power with the House of Representatives in respect of all proposed laws. [More…]
There is a very definite inference that the Senate has not power over money Bills. [More…]
As an aside I would like to draw attention to the power of the new Commission in respect of offcampus courses. [More…]
In these circumstances there are some practices which are beyond the legislative power of any one State. [More…]
I put to the House, and in particular to the Minister, that this Bill should not be allowed to slide through the Parliament on the basis that all it does is give to a new authority power to administer what is already existing law, namely, Part V of the Trade Practices Act. [More…]
That sounds very natural and very understandable at first glance, but in Part VI of the Bill a wide power of public inquiry is conferred upon the Authority. [More…]
When one looks at a combination of clauses 7 and 8 of the Bill and Part VI of the Bill it is not difficult to reach the conclusion that the Authority would have the power to conduct public inquiries into complaints made against retailers and manufacturers by individual consumers. [More…]
We have witnessed the consumerneedsprotection ideal grow into the current proposal to split the Trade Practices Commission and transfer certain of its power to the Authority set up under this Bill. [More…]
This Bill achieves very little which is new and there is absolutely nothing within its provisions which necessitates the establishment of a special authority or the removal of the consumer protection powers from the Trade Practices Commission. [More…]
One cannot help but feel that it may well be a device designed by a formerly senior Minister to regain some of his own personal power and prestige by spearheading such an authority. [More…]
This coming Christmas, the city, and indeed the whole of the Northern Territory are faced with another major disaster as a result of the grab for power by the Liberal and National Country Parties. [More…]
It is one measure which is needed because of the unprincipled, unprecedented and unwarranted action by the leadership of the Opposition, who have made a grab for power, and of course by the change of events in Australian constitutional history. [More…]
Those who have retired on a pension fixed in terms of money suffer the full loss of purchasing power as consumer prices rise and they get no compensation. [More…]
It has been said time and again that regrettably since the Government came to power it has simply sought to hide behind a world situation. [More…]
I do not think that anybody needs to be toldand even Government supporters will acknowledge this privately- that those persons who have ceased to work and who have lived in such a way that they were frugal and put money away for their retirement years, are simply seeing the purchasing power of their money disappear. [More…]
The current rate of inflation in this country has the effect of reducing $ 100 placed in a bank to a purchasing power of $83 or $84 in 12 months. [More…]
It does not matter what Government speakers may say in defending the Government against these charges and accusations: there is no getting away from the fact that persons who are in receipt of pensions suffer greatly as a result of the rate of inflation which has gripped this country since the present Government came to power. [More…]
Before 1 refer further to that aspect, let me say here and now that I believe that if a Liberal-Country Party Government had been in power between 1972 and 1975, Australia would have had a higher rate of inflation than it suffered in the previous ten or twenty years when the Liberal-Country Party was in office. [More…]
-That is another factor which will help to sweep the Labor Party from power. [More…]
That is the money they used- money that had real purchasing power. [More…]
It is the purchasing power of the money that these people receive that really counts. [More…]
During this period of very rapidly rising inflation has the Government even considered trying to restore the purchasing power of the pension by adjusting pensions and welfare payments more regularly? [More…]
The fact of the matter is that inflation was at 4.5 per cent a year in 1972 when this Government came to power and unemployment was somewhere in the vicinity of 80 000 to 100 000. [More…]
That the legislative power of the Commonwealth is vested in the Parliament of the Commonwealth which consists of the Queen, the Senate and House of Representatives. [More…]
d ) That the Senate has the right and duty to exercise its legislative power and to concur or not to concur as the Senate sees fit, bearing in mind the seriousness and responsibility of its actions, in all proposed laws passed by the House of Representatives. [More…]
The borrowing power sought in this legislation provides the Government with the opportunity to increase funds for Corporation programs by recourse to the loan market. [More…]
1 would stress that the amendment has the effect of giving the Corporation borrowing power similar to that available to other Australian Government statutory authorities such as the Australian Telecommunications Commission. [More…]
The Minister will be aware that clause 8 of the Bill confers powers on the Authority to erect, maintain and operate laboratories and other facilities for the testing of consumer products for the purposes of the Act. [More…]
I recognise that the Authority should have that power but I put it to the Committee that at a time when a premium ought to be placed on responsibility in government expenditure and at a time when there already exists in the consumer standards field a number of bodies including the Standards Association and the Food Standards SubCommittee of the National Health and Medical Research Council- bodies which enjoy a very high reputation throughout Australia- I would hope and the Opposition would hope that any Federal Government activity in the area of consumer standards, whether it be through this proposed Authority or through any other mechanism, would draw as far as possible upon the expertise and the experience already offered by bodies such as the Standards Association and the Food Standards Sub-Committee of the National Health and Medical Research Council. [More…]
The final question I raise with the Minister is this: Is the intention of the Government to give to the Authority, if established, the power of deciding the manner in which money set aside by the Government for consumer protection shall be allocated to the various consumer bodies and other bodies associated with consumer affairs throughout Australia? [More…]
The Authority of course will not have power to determine Government policy other than that which is written into the Bill. [More…]
Unfortunately, last night, the Minister for Science and Consumer Affairs (Mr Clyde Cameron) did not reply to that part of my second reading speech which dealt with the question which is quite fundamental to this Bill, that is, justifying the transfer from the Trade Practices Commission of the power over consumer protection. [More…]
He expressed the opinion- and it would have been seen by many honourable members- that, no matter what words one uses, to refuse Supply in the Senate would be illegal as section 53 of the Constitution does not give that power. [More…]
Pursuant to section 32 of the Snowy Mountains Hydro-electric Power Act 1949-1975 I present the annual report of the Snowy Mountains Hydro-electric Authority for the year ended 30 June 1975, together with financial statements and the report of the AuditorGeneral on those statements. [More…]
The Opposition is not without honourable men in the Senate; but the hypocrisy of the Opposition ‘s grab for power is exposed for all to see. [More…]
The Senate first asserts that its message is a lawful and proper exercise within the terms of the Constitution of the powers of the Senate. [More…]
Under the Constitution, the Senate has neither the power to initiate nor to amend the Appropriation Bills for the annual services of the Government. [More…]
It is part of a deliberate pattern on the part of the Opposition of challenging the role of conventions in the operation of our Constitution in its lust for power. [More…]
To concede that right now, to surrender that principle now, would be to establish a spurious right, a non-existent power to the Senate for all time. [More…]
The question of principle is whether the electorate of Australia is to be given an opportunity to decide whether this Government should continue in office, not whether the House of Representatives or the Senate has a particular power. [More…]
On each occasion that the Prime Minister makes the assertion that the Senate lacks the power to defer a money Bill he demonstrates completely his failure to understand the rights and privileges of people in a democratic society. [More…]
The Prime Minister has said, as he has repeated in this House today in other words: ‘I will smash Senate power’. [More…]
He was speaking of the power to reject money Bills. [More…]
The Senate is entitled and expected to exercise resolutely but with discretion its power to refuse its concurrence to any financial measure, including a Tax Bill. [More…]
There are no limitations on the Senate in the use of its constitutional powers, except the limitations imposed by discretion and reason. [More…]
Mr Whitlam had spoken in this vein and in support of the constitutional power of the Senate at other times and in other places. [More…]
While the measures are deferred it is within our power to resurrect those measures once it is known there is to be a House of Representatives election. [More…]
If a Minister is given that power to remove somebody for misbehaviour it becomes a case of what he regards as misbehaviour. [More…]
I take it that the Minister for Tourism and Recreation would confirm that the reason he has formulated clause 11 in this way is that if the Deputy Chairman is to be a public servant under the Public Service Act the Minister has no power of dismissal. [More…]
I would only add that the legal advice to which the honourable member’s present question refers, concerned a question of constitutional power. [More…]
Rainforests are being extensively cleared for agricultural, pastoral, forestry and mining purposes, for urban development and for the construction of roads, power lines and other public facilities. [More…]
Under their respective conservation legislation all States and the Australian Government have the power to set aside areas of rainforest in national parks or other reserves and to protect individual plant species including some rainforest species. [More…]
Medibank alone represents an improvement of between $2 and $3 a week in the pay packets of wage earners- a tax free improvement in their spending power. [More…]
But let the Opposition produce one tittle of evidence to support these wild, extravagant, irresponsible allegations which its members are so prone to make in the course of their desperate grasp for power and their desperate efforts to justify the unprecedented action which they have taken and which is bringing this country to a halt. [More…]
If the Leader of the Opposition and the Deputy Leader of the Opposition in their desperate bid for power are prepared to produce falsified evidence in this Parliament, are prepared to use doctored statements, are prepared to use stolen documents, are prepared to be blatantly dishonest, how can they be taken seriously as leaders of the country’s affairs? [More…]
The Leader of the Opposition has shown himself to be without conscience or honour in his ambitious drive for power. [More…]
The Leader of the Opposition stands condemned for the dishonest way in which he has performed in his overweening drive to grab power at any price. [More…]
Yet this Treasurer was prepared to bow to one of the political powers that is his master and that is the President of the Australian Council of Trade Unions. [More…]
He was endeavouring to curry favour where the power of the Australian Labor Party lies. [More…]
It is not the first time that we have seen this rather young, ambitious man hitch himself to power irrespective of what the consequences are for some of his colleagues round him. [More…]
It was a phoney presentation because what he said was that the Senate was using its power to change the government. [More…]
They have a Prime Minister who is desperately clinging to power as he sees it slowly sliding away from him. [More…]
The real danger to Australian democracy does not come from the way the opposition in the Senate has decided to use its dusty constitutional powers. [More…]
It comes from those who want to take politics out of parliament and decide who rules, not through elections or a referendum, but through the brute power of a general strike. [More…]
The power struggle in Canberra is not just about the survival of the Whitlam Government. [More…]
The power struggle is about the nature of Australian democracy. [More…]
The power struggle is about whether the people of Australia - [More…]
It is important, in examining the tyrannical exercise of the power of this present Government with its temporary majority to consider the sacking of the honourable member for Cunningham (Mr Connor), the sacking of the honourable member for Lalor (Dr J. F. Cairns), all the circumstances of their dismissal, the involvement of the Government in the ACTU-Solo Enterprises Pty Ltd oil deal and the circumstances of the premature disclosure of details of the Budget. [More…]
He did not honestly explain, of course, that in respect of the passage of those 139 Bills the ALP Opposition was the minority Party with the Democratic Labor Party holding the balance of power. [More…]
That is the most extraordinary of the power changes that have taken place. [More…]
I submit that a logical explanation for this trend is that we have a bureaucratic, dictatorial government which wants to concentrate and centralise all power here in Canberra. [More…]
Its roots go very deep and go back into the years when the Liberal-Country Party Government was in power, uninterrupted, for 23 years. [More…]
Part of the propaganda with respect to it said: ‘Give us the power over all financial institutions, give us power over banks, give us power over financial corporations, give us power over building societies in the States, give us power over all the non-bank financial institutions and we will bring interest rates down’. [More…]
They said: ‘Give us this power and we will bring the cost of money down. [More…]
Time and time again the Victorian Liberal Government has rejected suggestions to freeze land prices, which it has the power to do. [More…]
When this Government came to power hospital facilities were badly located. [More…]
The Australian Government has a responsibility to help provide fairly distributed and accessible health facilities for all Australians, not just those fortunate enough to live in affluent, established suburbs where most outer city hospitals were built before this Government came to power and launched a national hospitals and health services commission. [More…]
Australian Wool Corporation has achieved this position of power in the trading market. [More…]
The Corporation is now a trading power in the market and it can compete very effectively against private sellers. [More…]
The Bill before the House amends that provision of the original Bill relating to the power of the Authority to acquire interests in mining undertakings, and deletes, inter alia, those provisions relating to the declaration of an area to be a petroleum exploration area or a mineral exploration area, the provision for losses suffered by the Authority in providing overseas aid to be reimbursed by the Australian Government, and the power to enter land under warrant of a justice of the peace and other provisions related thereto. [More…]
It ensures that the centralist ambition of denying individual freedom by containing power in Canberra shall not become a reality. [More…]
Because the federalism policy threatens to destroy its whole centralist power base the Labor Government has made feverish attempts to denigrate it. [More…]
When the Whitlam Government took power in December 1972, 50 per cent of homes in Perth were unsewered In Sydney and Melbourne one in every seven families was in an unsewered area. [More…]
Looking at the major capital cities we find not only that economic and administrative power is concentrated in the central part of each city but also that the railways and roads all radiate from the centre of each capital city. [More…]
It seems to me that this is the rational way to give power back to the people at the economic level. [More…]
Compare that sum of $472 m with the $56m allocated in the last full year of the previous government’s period in power. [More…]
In his obsession to cling to power at all costs, the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) is willing to defy all constitutional processes, to wreck democratic institutions and deliberately to inflict unnecessary hardship on the community. [More…]
He has a blind, irrational hatred for the Senate which he sees as the one obstacle against his wielding of total power. [More…]
His avowed aim now is to strip the Senate of the vital protective powers which were the keystone of the Commonwealth Constitution and which remain the one fundamental safeguard of the States and of the people against the total entrenched power of the juggernaut government that he is creating. [More…]
I am speaking of the Senate’s power in relation to financial measures. [More…]
Therefore, the Senate’s power in relation to it is of great pertinence and great moment. [More…]
If he succeeds in that blackmail and succeeds in weakening or capturing the Senate, there will be no limits to his power. [More…]
-The power of the Senate to reject these Bills or to reject any other Bills is something that must be debated and must be allowed to be debated in this chamber. [More…]
Our Senate was deliberately modelled on the American Senate and was given virtually the same money powers as that body. [More…]
The money power in the Senate is vital for 2 main reasons in relation to these Bills or in relation to any other money Bills. [More…]
It is the one latent power which enables the removal of a disastrous government. [More…]
The essential principle of the money power is this: It should be wholly within the fully elected Parliament controlled by the people’s vote free from the influence of the Crown. [More…]
To argue that the use of this constitutional power to bring a government to the people will create unstable government for the long term future is deliberately to distort the issue. [More…]
In order to support his bid to destroy the Senate and its power to reject these Bills, if that be its will, the Prime Minister has invented another socalled principle that governments are made or unmade in the House of Representatives. [More…]
Our Constitution clearly contemplates that except for the introduction and amendment of money Bills the Senate has equal power with the House of Representatives. [More…]
The Senate not only has the constitutional power to refuse or to fail to pass a money Bill; it is, when circumstances justify it, the voice and instrument of the Australian people. [More…]
We have just heard a pathetic cry for mercy from the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Malcolm Fraser) in his attempt to gain power by the sleazy road. [More…]
The Leader of the Opposition in his attempt to gain power, as Steele Hall has said, by the sleazy road, today has tried to discredit this Government. [More…]
If they have the power to reject it, why do they not do so? [More…]
They are doing it because the National Country Party in the main will do anything on its sleazy road to power, and a docile, contemptible Liberal Party and a Liberal Leader bend the knee to it. [More…]
Senator Steele Hall, who by no means is a member of the Labor Party, said that members of the Opposition are on the sleazy road to power. [More…]
If they have the power to stop Supply, why are they not prepared to do it? [More…]
All they are doing is causing harm, dissatisfaction and suffering in the community, simply by following their sleazy road to power. [More…]
What a perfect arrangement for people who believe in the sleazy road to power. [More…]
The Minister for Agriculture, under section 10 of the relevant Act, has the power to do this. [More…]
Previous to 195 1, any member of the Conciliation and Arbitration Court, as it then was, had the power to order a secret ballot; but that was limited in 195 1 by a Liberal-Country Party government. [More…]
This Government that is now in power had to commit itself to $80m on 1972 values to try to bring about purification of that water system. [More…]
There can be absolutely no question that in the LiberalCountry Party regime the Public Service ran the Government through the parties in power because the parties had no policy and no initiatives. [More…]
Of course it is not primary economic impact alone that we are obliged to take into account; it is the impact on all the suppliers who work in conjunction with the construction industry, and it is the diminished purchasing power of the labour force of that industry. [More…]
A question arises as to the use of the power of resumption to obtain lands for Aboriginal people off reserves. [More…]
As I will demonstrate later, those land councils will exercise tremendous power. [More…]
True it is, he has the power to require people to come before him if he is a judge and to answer questions and produce documents. [More…]
He has the power to swear people, to take evidence on oath and the like. [More…]
Request immediate advice on position relation to Bagot Also Bagot people not in agreement with granting of power to issue or cancel permit to land councils. [More…]
On visiting the home at Trinity Lane one sees a black power flag flying from a recently erected mast. [More…]
-Does the Prime Minister recall saying on 9 October that he was determined to end for all time the Senate’s power over money Bills? [More…]
Is the power to which the Prime Minister referred the power which is conferred on the Senate by section 53 of the Australian Constitution? [More…]
Is this the power the Prime Minister was referring to in 1970 when he spoke several times of his intention to force the government then in office to resign and face the people? [More…]
Did he accept and in fact assert in 1970 that the proper consequence of the use of such power was the resignation of the government and a general election? [More…]
If the Prime Minister now no longer believes that the Senate should have this power, is it not for the Australian people themselves to decide whether the power is to be taken away from the Senate? [More…]
The Victorian Legislative Council operates under a statute which gives it the express power to reject money Bills. [More…]
The Senate operates under a Constitution, a British Act of Parliament, which does not give the Senate the express power to reject money Bills. [More…]
I want to advert to the power of the Registrar. [More…]
It appears that the Registrar is to be a very powerful and very important person. [More…]
He will be able to exercise a great deal of power. [More…]
One was about the power of the Registrar. [More…]
I think the first thing the honourable gentleman should have regard for is that the Registrar shall be appointed by the Minister and shall have such duties, functions and powers as are provided by this Bill and by the regulations, and that is the limit of his power. [More…]
I have had contact with a number of Aboriginal communities in which, technically speaking, the spokesmen were one group of men but the actual power lay with others, as it does in so many communities. [More…]
It has a power, I think, to act on its own motion and to examine matters and report without having to direct references made to it. [More…]
Aboriginal custom gives to the person in authority- call him the owner if you like- power to exclude people from the area. [More…]
One of the things that the Aborigines will want- it is not provided for in clause 30 as it should be- is power for local groups to issue and withdraw permits to enter their areas. [More…]
They do not want to give that power to a northern land council in Darwin or to a central land council in Alice Springs. [More…]
They want the local group to be a local power and they are entitled to have the local power. [More…]
The basic object of my Government ‘s policy is to restore to the Aboriginal people of Australia their lost power of selfdetermination in economic, social and political affairs. [More…]
When I look at clause 5, 1 am struck by the tremendous powers inherent in the Commissioner. [More…]
But in practice the Commissioner will have an immense power because the Minister, whoever the Minister is, will be inclined to follow his advices. [More…]
But what we are doing now is giving to the Minister and his adviser in perpetuity the power to destroy the whole of the economic structure of the Northern Territory without coming back either to this House or to the council in Darwin. [More…]
I know that in one of the clauses the Minister has the power to establish smaller land councils. [More…]
Power will not be taken away from the community; rather, the land council shall have a general overseeing function dealing mainly with the ownership and acquisition of land. [More…]
Not the Senate, not the Oppositionthe formal power is vested in the Governor-General. [More…]
Similarly the power to call general elections for the members of this House is not vested in the Senate nor the Opposition. [More…]
If the Senate once successfully acts to throw out a government supported by this House that power will be exercised again and again. [More…]
for the grave threat to the Australian Constitution resulting from the attempt by the Prime Minister to reduce the power of the Australian Senate; and [More…]
Is this not a further indication of the erosion of support from the Opposition side of politics for the blatant grab for power by the Leader of the Opposition? [More…]
The Bill provides in clause 8 penalties for non-payment of levy by the due date with a power to remit such penalties in appropriate circumstances; and also provides in clause 9 for recovery of amounts of levy or penalty due. [More…]
During the mining boom and during the share boom there was gross abuse of the power of the Press whereby some journalists, according to evidence before the Committee, drummed up the prices of shares and gained substantial financial benefits from their action- a completely unethical practice. [More…]
Yet it places in the hands of the government a power to create by regulation a unitary system of education. [More…]
The only ones that the Australian Government has created and which are not subject to all these mystic controls that the Opposition is always imagining are the Australian National University- which is as free and independent as any other university, except that it has considerably more money- and the Canberra College of Advanced Education, where we have direct constitutional power, none of which has been assumed to do any controlling. [More…]
The honourable member for Sturt also claimed that the Bill gives the Government power to establish by regulation a unitary system of tertiary education. [More…]
There is only one direct Commonwealth power in education and that is the power to grant benefits to students. [More…]
But those payments are our direct power. [More…]
Nothing else is our direct power and there is nothing in this Bill that can impose anything. [More…]
But, after all, that Committee has the power to examine matters on its own motion. [More…]
If we have just this one power to administer land that goes a very great way. [More…]
Then there is the power to issue and revoke. [More…]
The general situation is that the selection and membership of land councils and the process associated with that are intended to ensure that the councils reflect rather than supplant existing traditional power structures. [More…]
for the grave threat to the Australian Constitution resulting from the attempt by the Prime Minister to reduce the power of the Australian Senate; and [More…]
The evasion and contempt of Parliament and of the Constitution have become a critical issue in the attempt of the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) to hang onto power. [More…]
All have a proper part and proper powers under the Constitution. [More…]
The Prime Minister cannot pre-empt their powers and their prerogatives. [More…]
If he cannot abolish he seeks to dictate to them through the financial power. [More…]
The Senate except as to money Bills possesses legislative power in no way inferior to the House. [More…]
It has full power . [More…]
In the exercise of its powers under section S3 the Senate deliberates upon proposed laws initiated by the House. [More…]
Its power to pass or reject them is unconfined by section 53 or any other provision of the Constitution and its power to otherwise deal with them is also unconfined save in so far as contrary provision is made by the exceptions which, as I have said, have no application in this case. [More…]
Under the Constitution the Senate does not occupy a subordinate place in the exercise of legislative power. [More…]
It is an essential pan of the Parliament in which the legislative power of the Commonwealth is vested. [More…]
Those judgments are all affirming the power of the Senate; all denying the stand taken by this Prime Minister who seeks to destroy the Senate. [More…]
It is worth noting that even if there were no States in Australia, even if the Prime Minister had his wish in relation to that, we would still need a Senate elected as the Senate is elected with the powers that the Senate has, to protect those areas and those regions which have fewer people in them than Melbourne and Sydney. [More…]
He sees only the need for a gathering in of power into his own hands. [More…]
He is painfully learning the fact that Australia is a federation with a distribution of powers appropriate to a federation. [More…]
This is the depth to which this person has sunk in his attempt to stay in power. [More…]
An attempt to centralise all power in the Australian Labor Party in Canberra has led to a colossal explosion in government spending. [More…]
This House has no power to dissolve the Senate. [More…]
Yet the Senate now purports to have such power over this House. [More…]
The Senate is saying that every 6 months it has the power to require an election for this House, while its own term must remain inviolate under the Constitution. [More…]
The Leader of the Opposition is seeking to reduce the powers of the House of Representatives in a way never attempted in Australia. [More…]
I am not trying to reduce any legitimate legislative power of the Senate. [More…]
We shall do all in our constitutional and legal power to do that- to prevent hardship, to protect the economy. [More…]
On the other hand, for as long as the Senate continues its strike, the Government will do all in its power- its legal and constitutional power- to ease the impact of the Opposition’s unprincipled, unprecedented and unconstitutional action. [More…]
Loans for private housing, reconstruction and the rehabilitation of small businesses will cease, as will funds for the whole range of public community services, including health, roads, power, water and sewerage. [More…]
He has set out to smash the power and authority of the Senate. [More…]
The Prime Minister is saying that he is going to smash the Senate; that the Senate is no longer going to have this ultimate right and this ultimate power; and that he alone wants to be able to dominate the Senate, almost as though he has aspirations to be a dictator. [More…]
But today the Prime Minister does not seem to accept that he was once a person who espoused that the Senate had this right; it had this power. [More…]
Not content with all that destruction, the Prime Minister now says that he is going to destroy the power of the Senate. [More…]
He has said: ‘I will break the power of the Senate’. [More…]
It will destroy the people’s protection against corrupt government if this power of the Senate is taken away. [More…]
The Senate is a threat to the Prime Minister’s lust for power. [More…]
Democracy will be hurt if an arrogant, irrational Prime Minister destroys the Senate’s power to force a failed, incompetent, corrupt and disreputable government to face its masters- the Australian people. [More…]
This man of principle who sees our great democratic processes as a threat to his power, in an effort to save himself financially will drag this nation to the brink of chaos. [More…]
Section 53 then provides that in all other law making provisions the Senate has equal power with the House of Representatives. [More…]
But I think it must be affirmed that the Senate does not have equal power with the House of Representatives as far as money matters are concerned. [More…]
Yet what the Senate is purporting to do now would give the Senate in respect of money Bills not a less than equal power with the House of Representatives but a greater power which was never intended to be the situation. [More…]
The issue is the power of this House and its ability to govern in a democratic system. [More…]
The Queen-in-Council has certain powers, but they are not autocratic. [More…]
Those powers should be exercised upon the advice of the Governor-General of the day. [More…]
There have been occasions, unfortunately, in British constitutional history when Governors-General have sought to act beyong their power. [More…]
Because of the federal nature of our Constitution and because of its provisions the Senate undoubtedly has constitutional power to refuse or defer Supply to the Government. [More…]
The people who work within this Parliament are the people most neglected by this Commonwealth of ours and least thought about by those who exercise power. [More…]
Historic reforms will be made to reverse the concentration of power in the Federal Government and increase the autonomy and responsibilities of Local and State Governments. [More…]
To re-establish a pattern of cooperation in national affairs and reverse the excessive centralising of power in Australia, the Government proposes to make the most important reform of the Federal system since Federation. [More…]
Legislative Assembly has responsibility for the financial management and decision-making related to Canberra’s local affairs, although the Parliament will retain a reserve power of disallowance. [More…]
The Government will do everything in its power to ensure that these measures are applied with a sensitivity and understanding that respects the dignity of the unemployed, and that there is a simple, understandable and effective appeals system to protect applicants for benefits against arbitrary action by officials. [More…]
Whereas section 5 1 paragraph 26 of the Constitution confers on the Parliament of Australia the power to make laws with respect to ‘The people of any race for whom it is deemed necessary to make special laws’; and [More…]
In our opinion they provide the opportunity for a balance of super power force in the Indian Ocean. [More…]
For one power to opt out unilaterally would be only to play into the hands of another substantial power. [More…]
The Commission has never had the power to alter the CPI or the index but, on the other hand, it has never sought to discount the amount that would normally come from translating the index into wage increases. [More…]
Does it think that the seamen would have accepted the Government’s 3.2 per cent increase, or that the coal miners or the power workers or the construction workers or the metal workers would have accepted it? [More…]
Apart from the Treasury- inspired gobbledegook that was used in this House by the previous 2 speakers from the Government side- I am sure that neither of them understood one word they said; they were reading from script which apparently had been prepared for them by the Treasury- what is understood by the community and by the trade union movement is that wage indexation is an increase in purchasing power for that lost through rises in prices. [More…]
Obviously the Government was out to prevent any increase in wages to recompense working people for loss of purchasing power caused by increased prices. [More…]
To suggest otherwise, to suggest that by reducing the purchasing power of workers- that is all that one does by reducing any increase in their wages- is to create more employment is an argument that I find very hard to follow. [More…]
It seems to me that so long as there is purchasing power in the community, so long as people are purchasing goods, there will be people who will be prepared to make them because manufacturers do not make things and suppliers of services do not provide services unless they can find somebody who can afford to buy them. [More…]
It would prefer to see a regular examination of the purchasing power of the dollar and when it is found to be wanting for there to be a reimbursement for it. [More…]
These sorts of events, fortunately, are not likely to happen again while the political constitution of the 2 Houses is the same, but at least we on the Labor Party side have an interest in the future conduct of events because when we are returned to power in this House the likelihood is that there could be almost equality politically in the other place. [More…]
As to all this nonsense about the powers of the Senate being the same as the powers of the House of Representatives, the powers of the Senate are the same in that no Bill can become law unless it is passed by both Houses. [More…]
It did not tell them it would slash expenditure on the Australian Broadcasting Commission in a bid to silence the only independent organ of the media remaining in Australia- the only section of the media not on Mr Fraser ‘s regular ringaround list during the days when he was clawing his way into power. [More…]
The Australian people should never be allowed to forget the shabby intrigues, the misuse of power and the blatant denigration of honesty, integrity and morality which were used by power hungry men to achieve their tawdry ends. [More…]
This, coupled with a mad desire to reduce wages and thus reduce purchasing power, can only lead to greater unemployment. [More…]
After all, our capacity to be a power on the world stage is limited. [More…]
He will cure your dandruff, your lumbago, your sciatica, your headaches and your haemorrhoids if you give him a chance to get into power. [More…]
‘There is not yet a recognition that Governments require only the will- they already have the power- to control investment so that the abuses of other countries and of other times are not repeated. [More…]
That impression is shared as much by ordinary Australians as by many people in positions of electoral or administrative power. [More…]
That is what happened to the voters, and they voted the Liberal-Country Party into power. [More…]
I think that if Labor had been returned to power and if its supporters were honest, in this discussion today they would say that a review would be necessary. [More…]
Clause (6) of the Bill sets out the powers of the Foundation. [More…]
These include the power to perform its functions in Japan as well as in Australia. [More…]
-Somewhat in anger and shame today I speak in the Address-in-Reply debate- anger because of the way this former Opposition came to power and shame because of a number of the policies it has already carried out. [More…]
The entire constitutional upheaval that this country witnessed, the personal bickering between families and friends, was simply the result of a greed for power that could not wait 1 8 months for a legitimate election. [More…]
The present Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) and the GovernorGeneral, for one reason or another, have done more to diminish the power, the standing and the prestige of the House of Representatives than anyone else in our nation before them. [More…]
Their actions increased the powers of the Senate when upper Houses and second chambers are becoming an anachronism around the world. [More…]
Since the decision was taken to put the first Fraser Government into power, and now that it has been confirmed in power, the sad fact is that this has for all time confirmed the power of the Senate to obstruct the lower House, the House of Representatives, in the government of Australia and the administration of the government of Australia, because the Senate can now refuse a money Bill, something which it had never done, even taking into consideration the 1974 situation. [More…]
We have a politically meddling vice-regal functionary assuming the reserve powers of a monarch, and a monarch, on her own admission, suggesting that she had no power to countermand the assumption of powers that he had taken upon himself. [More…]
The disgraceful situation we have now in respect of the Governor-General of Australia is that every Government in the future will live in fear and trembling about the powers that the Governor-General has at his disposal, knowing that we have a monarch who has said that she is powerless to intervene and do anything about it. [More…]
It is a sad thing that this Government has come to power the way it has and is pursuing the policies it is because I believe they are not in the national interest. [More…]
Let me make it clean He was never asked for any legal opinion on reserve power on supply. [More…]
Why could not such a situation arise again in the case of a supply Bill, whoever has this so-called reserve power? [More…]
The reserve power was with us. [More…]
If we accept the interpretation of the Constitution by the Governor-General that the Constitution grants him absolute power we will have a situation in which he can, if he wishes, dismiss any government at any time that he likes. [More…]
The Constitution grants equal power to the Senate. [More…]
No government without permanent power in all 6 States can guarantee control of the Senate. [More…]
I suggest that the centres of power from which the people of this nation must be protected are two- the major one big government, the second one big monopolistic unions. [More…]
In today’s adverse world economic conditions, with the enormous problems of inflation and unemployment faced by all countries comparable with our own, any government which is merely in office and not in power, any government which can have its supply of money terminated by a hostile Senate majority, in the face of all conventions previously applying, at any time suitable to that hostile Senate majority any such government will be defeated, as was the case with the Australian Labor Party Government. [More…]
That is the dangerous instability which has been caused by this outrageous but successful grab for power which we have just witnessed in this country. [More…]
I learn that surveys show that the Fraser Government coming to power was associated with an upswing in consumer sentiment and expectation, and the introduction of the Labor Budget tax scales and the 6.4 per cent increase in the national wage, which I mentioned earlier, should support consumer incomes. [More…]
When we lost power in 1972 there were 19 oil drilling rigs off our coast. [More…]
Saturday, 13 December, was indeed a most fortunate day for Australia and the people had their say and they put a sane government into power in Canberra. [More…]
We know that the tendency is always to the centre, that the central authority constitutes a vortex which draws power to itself. [More…]
Therefore all the buttresses and all the ties should be the other way, to enable the States to withstand the destruction of their powers by such absorption . [More…]
I could give examples from around the whole of Tasmania and tell the House time and time again of thousands of dollars wasted by the most negligent and economically incompetent government that this country has ever seen and which the people of Australia swept from power with great decision and force on 1 3 December last year. [More…]
Listen to what the Labor Government did: It came to power in 1972. [More…]
If the GovernorGeneral has the power- according to the interpretation brought forward here tonight and which it is said has been confirmed by the people of Australia- to dismiss his Ministers at will we have in this country a head of state answerable to no one, not to Her Majesty the Queen, because she wrote to Mr Speaker Scholes and said that it was not appropriate for her to intervene; not answerable to the Ministers, because he can dismiss them at will, and he did; and not answerable to this Parliament because he can dissolve the Parliament, and he did. [More…]
As Her Majesty has seen fit to say in her letter to Mr Speaker Scholes, that she has no responsibility for your actions, and as you have asserted your power to remove and appoint Ministers at will, there has been created in Australia a position where an appointed person governs, answerable to no-one, not to the Ministers whom he appoints and removes at will, not to the Parliament which he dissolves at will, nor to the Queen who asserts ‘that it would not be proper for her to intervene ‘, to comply with your summons to attend in the Senate on Tuesday, ratifies your actions and places Australian democracy in further peril by inviting future incumbents of your Office to invoke the precedent you have established. [More…]
Historic reforms will be made to reverse the concentration of power in the Federal Government and increase the autonomy and responsibilities of Local and State Governments. [More…]
It derives its power from its exclusive right to approve the appropriation of expenditure, a right which was won from the Crown by the blood of members of the British Parliament, by a near revolution, and by the actual execution of one monarch. [More…]
Without that right the House of Representatives and the House of Commons have little real authority over the executive of the day and its members do not have the power to implement those things which they are sent here to implement by the people whom they represent. [More…]
Whether or not the actions which took place were proper, the facts as they were revealed then and subsequently indicate quite clearly that the powers of this House and this House’s ability to protect itself against the other arms of government are almost non-existent and certainly are unenforceable. [More…]
Irrespective of whether a Governor-General acts properly or improperly the power resides in him to dissolve this House without his being required to take note of the wishes of the House and no provision is made for this House, even if it is illegally dissolved, to protect itself. [More…]
The Governor-General is the possessor of absolute power in certain respects with regard to the Constitution. [More…]
Once a power becomes available there will always be someone who will seek to use that power. [More…]
I make this point finally on this subject: It is not my intention to suggest, and I do not suggest, that what I have said applies to any person occupying any office at the present time, but the power now exists quite clearly and at some time it will be used. [More…]
Who can blame them for thinking that if the Prime Minister went to such lengths to gain power then the sky must be the limit when it comes to retaining the treasury benches? [More…]
The people of Victoria are supplied by power generated by the State Electricity Commission, Australia’s largest authority supplying electricity. [More…]
Approximately 85 per cent of the power generated for the State system in Victoria is supplied by brown-coal-fired power stations in the Latrobe Valley, from the stations at Yallourn, Morwell, Hazelwood and Yallourn W, which are all within the electorate of McMillan. [More…]
Investigation and experimentation have been going on for many years under the encouragement of the Victorian Minister for Fuel and Power, the Hon. [More…]
And this from a Government which did all in its power, at whatever cost to parliamentary conventions, traditions and ordinary decencies, to force an election. [More…]
Nothing can be forgiven a government which has forced an election by breaking all the rules and has come to power on a tide of nauseating moral fervour and self-righteousness. [More…]
The decision to break it did not represent an adjustment to circumstances or even a change of heart, but a revelation of the Prime Minister’s ignorance of industrial relations, a cynical attempt to intimidate the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission, and a revelation of what was always the Government’s intention- to grab power by any deception, and once in power to break any promise with impunity. [More…]
The one specific undertaking in the ‘new federalism’though it is not mentioned in the GovernorGeneral’s Address- is to deprive the Grants Commission of its power to recommend direct Federal assistance to local government bodies on the basis of need. [More…]
The Government is not concerned with power for itself. [More…]
This Government owes its existence to naked pursuit of power- power for its own sake, power for itself. [More…]
It means that the Governor-General, as the representative of the Queen of Australia, holds powers that the Queen herself does not hold. [More…]
I ignore that for the time being but let me deal with the specific charge made this evening, namely, that the Governor-General has no power. [More…]
Would there be a lawyer in this Parliament who would not have read at one time or another the most celebrated study of the reserve powers of the Crown, the work The King and His Dominion Governors’ by the late Dr H. V. Evatt? [More…]
He concluded, with respect to the Governor-General’s powers, that surely it is wrong to assume that the GovernorGeneral is a mere tool in the hands of a dominant political party. [More…]
Does he say of Evatt ‘s writings, where he examines the whole gamut of authorities with respect to the reserve powers of the Crown: ‘No, Herbert Vere Evatt, you were in error. [More…]
Not one constitutional authority who has ever written on the subject would not conclude that in ultimate terms there is a reserve power of the Crown available and, I say to my honourable friend, available in the United Kingdom as it is here in Australia. [More…]
Surely, as Laski went on to write, the mere fact that we do not know the limits of the royal power, that it remains to be invoked on one side or the other in the twilight zone of crisis, is sufficient evidence to indicate the difficulties of the position. [More…]
In ultimate terms- not one of us is at liberty to try to get away from this concept- the true test of any political party is the manner with which it wields power and the way in which the Labor Party wielded power gives a clear emphatic explanation of why it is now in Opposition. [More…]
Power was abused in a monstrous, in a constant and in a mischievous fashion. [More…]
Whilst I am privileged to remain a member of this House and a servant of the electorate of Evans I shall do all within my power to maintain and preserve our system from change, no matter from what quarter, and no matter whether through overt or covert means. [More…]
I shall do all within my power to warn against those who would tamper with our system for some cheap political advantage. [More…]
The people of this nation know that our system of government with a monarch as head of state, divorced from the intrigues of party politics, with a federal parliament consisting of 2 Houses each of equal importance and with States each possessing a parliament sovereign in its powers and responsibilities, truly represents and protects their aspirations and hopes. [More…]
Centralisation of power is the pathway to demagoguery and totalitarianism and the people of this nation will have no part of it. [More…]
They want, and we want, a moratorium on Big Brother’s power and a reversal of that power. [More…]
We are embarking on a program based on the principles I have just enunciated- a program that respects freedom of the individual, freedom of religion and expression, freedom to work and to enjoy the fruits of that work, freedom from the totalitarian control of all-pervading power of the allpowerful state. [More…]
So that by tying the level of the pension to increases in the consumer price index the Government will reduce the real value of the pension for the pensioners; in other words, revert to the situation when we got into power. [More…]
When we got into power in 1972 the pensioners were receiving less than 20 per cent of average weekly earnings. [More…]
There is only controlled power. [More…]
That is why when we came into power we found the inadequacy of pensions, the total inadequacy of the education system and so on ad infinitum. [More…]
The trouble is that there has never been a communist government in power. [More…]
Most of the time honourable members opposite have been in power. [More…]
There is an extremely unpleasant regime in power in Iraq at the present time and it deals very harshly with these people. [More…]
While unions have an important and a proper place in the partnership I believe, and unionists should realise, they must be careful not to abuse the responsibility and the power that they undoubtedly have. [More…]
I use this analogy simply to demonstrate that the unionists in Cootamundra should not accept a situation in which they become pawns in the power game of a Sydney based executive. [More…]
We know of the great contribution of illicit money that has occurred and that members of the Government will resort to bribery to try to get their particular Party into power. [More…]
They are prepared even to run the risk of gaol in trying to get their Party into power. [More…]
So perhaps the honourable member who asked the question ought to have a discussion with a Treasurer in the previous Government, bear in mind the performance of his own Party in power and take note of our aim to work towards 0.7 per cent and to ensure that we hold to the principle of meeting needs. [More…]
It has strong bargaining power because there is a great attraction for the pharmaceutical manufacturer to get his product on this list because the doctor has this book in front of him and he is much more likely to prescribe something that is in this book than something that is not in the book. [More…]
I have, somewhat to my surprise, had expressed to me qualms that this might enable a judge who was appointed as head of ASIO to exercise more extensive powers than those which could be exercised by a head of ASIO who was not a judge. [More…]
It has been mentioned to me that a judge, for example, has the power to issue search warrants. [More…]
ASIO is an intelligence organisation without executive power. [More…]
The Australian Security Intelligence Organization Act gives no such power to the Attorney-General. [More…]
If we are going to give an individual such power, some principles must be followed in the selection of an individual for this role. [More…]
There is no power in the Attorney-General to direct the organisation. [More…]
Nowhere in the Act is the AttorneyGeneralindeed, he is not mentioned in the Act- expressly given power to direct the organisation. [More…]
No power of direction is given at all. [More…]
It was defeated at that election because the principal weapon which governments have in this country was lost- the power of timing. [More…]
It was the power of timing which saved Liberal-Country Party governments over the previous 23 years when they were in power. [More…]
It is the power of the purse as well as the economic power which can prevent Australian households making those decisions. [More…]
If we look at households and the way by which governments have impressed in a quite remarkable way their own impression upon the activity of households, we see that the power of the purse has been used to deprive those basic units of our society of their own freedom. [More…]
Not only do we have those enormous national and multi-national corporations that dominate the economy but also we have extremely powerful unions which have grown to allow the worker to obtain his share of income that that system generates. [More…]
So we have powerful business corporations and powerful unions. [More…]
In addition we have a powerful Public Service. [More…]
So we have three enormous power blocs in the modern society. [More…]
Whatever way we look at progress in this respect, it means we must think of a system that has three great power blocs- the private corporations, national and international, the powerful unions and the powerful Public Service. [More…]
What we can see, in any case, is that neocapitalism, with its pretensions to have found the answer to Marx, was the expression of a temporary situation, borne along not by its own dynamic but by the upwards wave of the economic cycle; but the vision of a society dedicated to welfare, not to power and profit- the only vision that makes sense in today ‘s circumstances- still eludes us, and will do so until another crisis, even more crippling than the crisis that is brewing today, brings home to the whole world the perils it faces. [More…]
The Attorney-General (Mr Ellicott) talked about centralism as though there was some special danger in power to Canberra against the federal system, as though that were the threat to freedom. [More…]
I am no advocate of power to Canberra. [More…]
I do not think power to Bourke Street or to Macquarie Street or any other place is much better. [More…]
But I do not think power here to Canberra is any good. [More…]
The threat to freedom lies in the 3 powerful complexes that are developing, the complexes of the multi-national and national corporations, of the powerful trade unions and the powerful State bureaucracy whether it be in Canberra, Melbourne, Sydney or anywhere else. [More…]
Honourable members opposite should not think there has been any change in the power situation just because there has been a change of government. [More…]
All around the world there is unemployment and inflation, the same sort of power structure everywhere producing the same kind of results. [More…]
The only means open to the then Opposition to allow the people to express an opinion was for the Senate to deny Supply, which is legally within its powers as laid down in the Australian Constitution. [More…]
As honourable members well know, section 1 of the Constitution provides that the legislative power of the Commonwealth shall be vested in the Federal Parliament which shall consist of the Queen, a Senate and a House of Representatives, to be called the Parliament or the Parliament of the Commonwealth. [More…]
Papua New Guinea has the best government it can possibly have at the present, and I am afraid to say that if that government were not in power Papua New Guinea could only have a government infinitely worse, with no prospect for a long time of getting a better one. [More…]
It is imperative that the Australian people, regardless of which government is in power, acknowledge the need for the government to give urgent and generous assistance in many forms to Papua New Guinea, and to give that assistance now, otherwise we might find ourselves expending all sorts of large sums of money in regrettable episodes in an effort to retrieve a situation which could develop from our failure to support the present Papua New Guinea Government. [More…]
In the grab for power, day one, the present Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser), then Leader of the Opposition, announced that the Senate would defer the passage of Appropriation Bill (No. [More…]
In fact, what has happened since this grab for power is that the steady recovery which was emanating from Budget measures has been, I repeat, put in jeopardy. [More…]
I am pointing out that 3 months ago this Liberal-Country Party coalition came to power on promises which were very different from the actual policies which it has carried out. [More…]
The indexation rise in national wages expected in February- foreseen not only by those of us on this side of the House but also foreseen by those now in Government- was another way of ensuring that there was sufficient liquidity, sufficient spending power in the pockets of the citizens of this country to assist in the recovery of our economy. [More…]
In fact, if the present Government had not got into power it would have finished up being something like $4.8 billion, or $2 billion higher. [More…]
If you try to claim power for ourselves everybody will pull you down. [More…]
I think that the previous Government tried to claim power for itself. [More…]
The Government will find that State governments, with their power and influence and particularly with their allies which are normally the morning newspapers in the respective capital cities, will, because of the role that the Liberal and National Country Parties played between 1972 and 1975, be just as active in their agitation against the present Government as they were against the Labor Government. [More…]
So rather than have State governments become a cipher, an administrative body or an expenditure agency, we see the importance of returning the power of priority to the State governments, and indeed to local government, as a matter of the highest importance at this point in the history of this nation. [More…]
People throughout the world, not only in Australia have proved conclusively that they do not want all power centred in the ivory towers of the capital. [More…]
There is a move- using the word ‘democracy’ in its broadest sense- amongst any democracy for people no matter where they be situated, to feel that they have the power to enter into the decision making process of that country. [More…]
When it is all boiled down- really this warrants a speech in itself- we must give more power back to the State governments. [More…]
It is understandable, of course, that they should seek a diversion when the problems of unemployment, cuts in government spending, increases in sales tax and reduction in the purchasing power of people’s incomes are building up to such vast proportions in the electorate. [More…]
It is not surprising either, of course, to see Mr Murdoch looking for some diversion because it must be very embarrassing for him to have to attempt to cover up for the conditions which this Government is creating, a Government which he played such a predominant part in bringing to power. [More…]
The Government’s measures affect demand not only by increasing unemployment but also by increasing indirect taxes and reducing overtime, thus reducing the spending power of those still in employment. [More…]
The Government should be warned that a growing feeling of loathing is developing within the Aus.tralian community, a loathing of the falsity of what Government supporters profess to stand for; a loathing for this Government’s methods of assuming power as well as a growing awareness of the gross injustices done to the Labor Party in government. [More…]
He was a Minister of the Government which was in power for 3 years- which, of course, was 3 years too long- and he then had plenty of opportunities to change the Constitution. [More…]
I want to say to the honourable member in reply to his remarks, and I am not being vindictive because I have a personal regard for him: Thank heavens we have a written Constitution and thank heavens we have men like Sir Garfield Barwick who can interpret that Constitution according to law and what is said, and not what a power-hungry band of men who want to cling desperately to power hope it might say if words can be bent to suit their insatiable demands. [More…]
That matter becomes more important for those honourable members who believe that the Senate and the House of Representatives should have equal powers. [More…]
It would seem that for a brief period in Australia His Excellency the GovernorGeneral has more power than the Queen whom he represents. [More…]
If there is a safeguard in our parliamentary system of government- and there is- it is the reserve power that exists in the GovernorGeneral to dismiss a government when it persists in attempting to govern without appropriations from the Parliament. [More…]
A society in which the government of the day can do almost anything it likes with the support of a transient majority in a single assembly is more vulnerable to the abuse of power than one in which government is circumscribed by countervailing institutions such as a strong upper House. [More…]
That Government certainly was vulnerable to the abuse of power. [More…]
It would have become more vulnerable to the abuse of power if the Governor-General had not exercised the reserve power in him to insist that a government cannot continue to govern unless it passes appropriation legislation through the Parliament. [More…]
It is well that we should bear in mind the concern of people these days that they should have some involvement in the power structure that surrounds them. [More…]
We want secret ballots conducted by the Commonwealth Electoral Office to ensure that the individual member of a trade union has a free and unqualified opportunity to express his view on who should govern him in that power structure known as his trade union. [More…]
I say that because it is important, particularly in this day and age, that individuals should have an opportunity to have some participation in the power structure which surrounds them, whether it is the Government, their trade union or their place of employment. [More…]
It is characterised by a ruthless exercise of power on the part of the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser). [More…]
This Parliament has complete power over insurance companies. [More…]
When we came into power the deficit was running towards $5, 000m so fast, and was there one word of that from the honourable gentleman when he was Treasurer. [More…]
The former Labor Government, despite its protestations, in effect sacrified its claims of concern for the disadvantaged to its dream of centralisation of power and more power to its leader. [More…]
The reality is of an elitist political party which had severed its bases of support in the interest of expanding the power virtually of one man. [More…]
The power of the trade union movement must involve, must demand as it does, a broader responsibility. [More…]
It is a philosophy that does not value the average person at all, but one that takes so much power and assumes so much to itself. [More…]
I think that a definition of the power and the influence of the Press was very cogently put by Lord Beaverbrook back in the 1930s. [More…]
At a Press club he was asked for his assessment of the power and influence of the Press. [More…]
Give me a sack of potatoes, the power of the Press and I will make it a Prime Minister in a month’. [More…]
Also we have a new super-power house which, when completed, will supply power for all of central Queensland and connect into the grid system running from northern New South Wales to the Townsville-Cairns region. [More…]
With Gladstone’s harbour and power facilities, I would imagine that it would be the ideal site. [More…]
The net result of this maniacal Press exercise of power was the dismissal of the democratically elected Labor Government by the Governor-General. [More…]
The question I pose is this: Is it really a true exercise of the democratic process when the Press and the media of this country can exercise so much power over the thoughts and actions of people, that the people become as mere putty in the hands of three or four Press barons? [More…]
I am pleased to see that this right is now being continued but let us make one point clear: Prior to December 1 972 they did not have that power. [More…]
They give the Australian Government greater power and control over the discounting that takes place in the international airline industry where there is not only an over-capacity on the American services but also an over-capacity in many other fields. [More…]
It does not matter which Party is in power, we will not be deterred from our objective of bringing peace and quiet to the city of Brisbane. [More…]
Powers that the monarch herself does not possess have been abused. [More…]
The power of the purse, the fundamental and traditional power and the privilege of the Commons no longer resides in the House of Representatives, in the people’s House. [More…]
Further reserve powers in the Constitution have been abused. [More…]
I refer to the powers to reserve the royal assent, the power of the Governor-General as contained in the Constitution to refer legislation back to this House with a request for alterations, or for legislation to be deferred for as long as 2 years. [More…]
This is the position today because of the abuse of the power of the Senate. [More…]
The terms ‘agra-power’ and ‘petro-power’ are being bandied around. [More…]
Its strategic importance to every major power and to ourselves would be obvious even if the world’s major oil routes did not cross it. [More…]
The defence and estimates debates of this chamber show the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Whitlam) stating that Australia must be not only a Pacific power but also an Indian Ocean power. [More…]
The analysis concluded by pointing out that Moscow was committed to becoming the world ‘s predominant power and intended to conduct negotiations from a position of strength. [More…]
In point of fact the Constitution ought to give the Federal Parliament the same power over industrial relations as has every other Parliament in Australia; that is to say, the right, by legislation if need be, to move in and to make industrial law. [More…]
I am quite confident that the Governor-General’s interpretation of his executive authority extended through the Constitution, as revealed in the power he used on 1 1 November, would offend, affront and horrify the citizens the honourable member represents. [More…]
I challenge the Treasurer to place before this House projections of unemployment over the next 18 months prepared by the Treasury on 2 assumptions- firstly, excluding the effects of measures taken by the Government since it came to power and, secondly, allowing for those effects. [More…]
The castor oil theory is: ‘Let us have some strong medicine; let us go around smashing all the light globes we can find, in spite of deceitfully coming to power on the promise of turning on the lights again’. [More…]
So, of course we questioned and held up so far as that was in our power the Loan Bill 1975 because of the totally irresponsible economic management of the Australian economy by the then Government. [More…]
When it came to power at the time the levy we are discussing tonight was introduced the market was still buoyant, still good. [More…]
When the Labor Party came to power one of its first actions was to inititate a Green Paper on the rural industries. [More…]
In conclusion, I feel that with the long term policy of the Labor Government and the assistance that we were getting from IAC reports, we had a firm basis for planning in our rural industries and we would have got away from the ad hoc decisions that were made in the past by those who are presently in power. [More…]
I believe that it is a sad reflection on many of our governments that it is many decades ago now that we saw the expansion to most of our rural areas of all our important public facilities such as railways and water and power supplies; yet today, at a time when we have all the mental power and scientific knowledge available to us, we are seeing so many of these basic and essential services either removed or gradually reduced in their effect upon our communities. [More…]
The Attorney has revealed on this occasion the abuses of power and common decency of which his office is capable and to which, I regret to say, its occupant is vulnerable. [More…]
The institutions are generally controlled by the most powerful economic interests and their servants. [More…]
These institutions are used to direct and advance objectives which tend to oppress those less powerful in society and those who seek fundamental change. [More…]
But now we can see that it has been necessary to use the overt oppressive power of the police to advance these interests- an action which will affect the integrity of all policemen. [More…]
These pressures will arise out of the problems already mentioned and the measures that will be taken by the ruling economic interests to maintain their relative position and power. [More…]
As always the pressures will be felt most heavily by the people not represented in the ruling power group. [More…]
Power is a dangerous thing. [More…]
With inflation and unemployment running at their recent heights, households have reacted by seeking higher liquid balances to protect future spending power and to provide a hedge against the threat of future unemployment which past policies made every day more likely. [More…]
Traditionally the basic and sole power of the people’s House,- be it the House of Representatives or the House of Commons, has derived from its total control over the appropriation of money from the Consolidated Revenue Fund or the Treasury. [More…]
The fact that the Senate, on the precedents now established, is able to refuse to consider the appropriation of funds by this House is a serious departure from the historic precedents on which the power of this chamber and this Parliament has rested. [More…]
I point out to members of this House quite seriously that if we continue with a situation in which the authority of this House on financial matters is non-existent, or is so flimsy that it can be overcome not by the defeat of requests for funds but by the refusal to consideror, to put it in terms which members on the other side of the House would use in respect of employers or employees, if the Senate goes on strike and refuses to carry out its constitutional functions- and the person who for the time being happens to be the Governor-General of Australia is brought on to the Senate ‘s side of the argument, the power of this House disappears. [More…]
The ASEAN proposal for a zone of peace, freedom and neutrality admits the legitimate interests of the major powers. [More…]
This Government believes that major power presence in the region is likely to be a fact of life for some time yet. [More…]
Secondly, this episode is significant because it casts doubt on the implementation and nature of detente, a word which I note President Ford has said he will no longer use in speaking of relations between the super powers. [More…]
It is difficult also to see how the image of the Soviet Union as a conservative, status quo, defensively-minded state- an image which has often been projected lately, not least when the Soviet presence in the Indian Ocean is under discussion- can be reconciled with this deliberate projection of its power. [More…]
If those who are newly come to power follow the path of negotiation and political settlement, if they reject outside intervention and provocation, if they refrain from interference across their borders and from actions affecting the security of their neighbours, there is a hope of orderly change and transition. [More…]
But the possibility of peaceful transition in southern Africa depends at least as much on a willingness to change and to compromise on the part of the minority groups who exercise power in a large part of that region. [More…]
Turning from the ignoble genesis of the elections that confirmed this imposed Administration in power and which gave it a majority in this House, I should like to look at the vision which inspires its Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) and his Ministers. [More…]
Similarly, corporations must not abuse power. [More…]
All abuses of monopoly power must be curbed, whether they are abuses by companies or abuses of monopoly power by unions. [More…]
We, the public, must be protected on the one hand from the potential abuses of monopoly power in the private sector, and on the other hand from the potential abuses of monopoly power by organised labour. [More…]
It is particularly disturbing that the abuse of monopoly power by unions does not seem to be subject to the provisions of this Act but that the activities of corporations and companies are. [More…]
I draw attention to the report by the Trade Practices Commission that it is powerless to deal with unions which engage in illegal trading activities. [More…]
Consumers ought to be protected against the abuse of union power. [More…]
This is a valuable and understandable objective, for we must recognise and understand that not all countries wish to be involved in super power arguments. [More…]
I believe that, by our concern for events in the Indian Ocean, by our support of the United States development of Diego Garcia and by our support of United States efforts to balance the Soviet presence in the Indian Ocean, we can give reassurance and encouragement to the United States in its efforts to curb Soviet power and contribute to the defence of the free world. [More…]
In view of the previous debate that took place I must say that I so not believe any tribunal ought to be given power that should rest with the Parliament, whether it be the Remuneration Tribunal or the Industries Assistance Commission about which I shall be speaking. [More…]
I think that Parliament must always retain the ultimate power. [More…]
Otherwise we will give power away bit by bit and there will be no need for us to meet at all. [More…]
They want to be respectable and to be seen as a Government that achieved power in the normal course of events. [More…]
I say to them that if they wish to have a parliamentary democracy in this country then the means of achieving power is important. [More…]
If they play a ruthless game of achieving and keeping power at any price, there is no doubt that democracy will not survive in this country. [More…]
Of course, it may be that some honourable members opposite do not particularly mind if that is the end result, so long as it succeeds in keeping the left wing elements in the political spectrum from gaining power. [More…]
But the alternative is likely to be the eventual destruction of any semblance of democracy and to risk losing in one severe and sudden transfer of power everything that they tried so desperately to retain. [More…]
The mere contemplation of using the Crimes Act to silence the Opposition is colossal hypocrisy from a government that gained power by making outlandish accusations of dictatorship against the Labor Government in general, and Prime Minister Whitlam in particular and is even now pontificating about how it stands basically for the freedom of the individual. [More…]
Secondly, fears were held last year that the Palestine Liberation Organisation would not only be allowed into Australia but that the Labor Party’s love affair with a foreign power would blossom and that PLO offices would open here under the auspices of a Labor Government. [More…]
I stress that it is vitally important to put this question in the overall context of global naval strategy between the super powers. [More…]
There is a valid argument for the belief that the Soviets are intent upon developing a power monopoly across the oceans of the world. [More…]
I should think that it would be somewhat doubtful whether the Commonwealth Government could claim crown privilege about matters of which it did not have a detailed and intimate knowledge because they occurred on 13 December 1974, a year before the present Government came to power. [More…]
That the committee have power to appoint subcommittees consisting of three or more of its members and to refer to any such sub-committee any of the matters which the committee is empowered to examine. [More…]
That the committee have power to send for persons, papers and records, to move from place to place and to sit during any recess or adjournment of the Parliament. [More…]
That the committee or a sub-committee have power to authorise publication of any evidence given before it and any document presented to it [More…]
That the committee or any sub-committee have power to consider and make use of the evidence and records of the Joint Committee on the Parliamentary Committee System appointed during the Twenty-ninth Parliament. [More…]
That the committee have leave to report from time to time but so that its final recommendations be presented on or before 26 May 1976 and that any member of the committee have power to add a protest or dissent to any report. [More…]
In the first place, the growing centralisation of power in the Federal Government has reduced the effectiveness of participation at State and local levels. [More…]
The reforms of the Federal system we propose will start effective power flowing back to local and State governments. [More…]
This Government recognises that the ultimate power of Parliament over the Executive is its control over and scrutiny of the Government’s expenditure of money. [More…]
The motion reconstitutes the Committee with powers and functions similar to those possessed by the Committee in the 29th Parliament. [More…]
It gives the new Committee power to consider and to make use of the minutes of evidence and records of the previous Committee. [More…]
That the committee have power to appoint subcommittees consisting of four or more of its members and to refer to any such sub-committee any of the matters which the committee is empowered to consider. [More…]
That the committee or any sub-committee have power to send for and examine persons, papers and records, to move from place to place and to meet and transact business in public or private session and notwithstanding any prorogation of the Parliament [More…]
That the committee have leave to report from time to time and that any member of the committee have power to add a protest or dissent to any report. [More…]
That the committee have power to consider and make use of the minutes of evidence and records of Joint Committees on Foreign Affairs and Defence, appointed in previous Parliaments, relating to any matter on which those committees had not completed consideration. [More…]
That the committee have power to appoint committees consisting of three or more of its members, and to appoint the Chairman of each sub-committee who shall have a casting vote only, and refer to any such sub-committee any matter which the committee is empowered to examine. [More…]
That the committee or any sub-committee have power to send for persons, papers and records. [More…]
12) That the committee have power to move from place to place and to sit during any recess. [More…]
That any sub-committee have power to move from place to place, adjourn from time to time and to sit during any recess, sittings or adjournment. [More…]
That the committee or any sub-committee have power to authorise publication of any evidence given before it and any document presented to it. [More…]
1 7 ) That the committee have leave to report from time to time and that any members of the committee have power to add a protest or dissent to any report. [More…]
That the committee or any sub-committee have power to consider and make use of the evidence and records of the Standing Committee on Road Safety appointed during the Twenty-eighth and Twenty-ninth Parliaments. [More…]
That the committee have power to appoint subcommittees consisting of three or more of its members, and to appoint the Chairman of each sub-committee who shall have a casting vote only, and refer to any such subcommittee any matter which the committee is empowered to examine. [More…]
That the committee or any sub-committee have power to send for persons, papers and records. [More…]
That the committee have power to move from place to place and to sit during any recess. [More…]
13) That any sub-committee have power to move from place to place, adjourn from time to time and to sit during any recess, sittings or adjournment. [More…]
That the committee or any sub-committee have power to authorise publication of any evidence given before it and any document presented to it. [More…]
That the committee have leave to report from time to time and that any member of the committee have power to add a protest or dissent to any report. [More…]
That the committee or any sub-committee have power to consider and make use of the evidence and records of the Standing Committee on Environment and Conservation appointed during the Twenty-eighth and Twentyninth Parliaments. [More…]
That the committee have power to appoint subcommittees consisting of three or more of its members, and to appoint the Chairman of each sub-committee who shall have a casting vote only, and refer to any such subcommittee any matter which the committee is empowered to examine. [More…]
That the committee or any sub-committee have power to send for persons, papers and records. [More…]
That the committee have power to move from place to place and to sit during any recess. [More…]
That any sub-committee have power to move from place to place, adjourn from time to time and to sit during any recess, sittings or adjournment. [More…]
(13) That the committee or any sub-committee have power to authorise publication of any evidence given before it and any document presented to it. [More…]
That the committee report by 25 August 1976 and that any member of the committee have power to add a protest or dissent to the committee ‘s Report. [More…]
That the committee or any sub-committee have power to consider and make use of the evidence and records of the Select Committee on Specific Learning Difficulties appointed during the Twenty-ninth Parliament. [More…]
That the committee have power to appoint subcommittees consisting of three or more of its members, and to appoint the Chairman of each sub-committee who shall have a casting vote only, and refer to any such subcommittee any matter which the committee is empowered to examine. [More…]
That the committee or any sub-committee have power to send for persons, papers and records. [More…]
That the committee have power to move from place to place and to sit during any recess. [More…]
That any sub-committee have power to move from place to place, adjourn from time to time and to sit during any recess, sittings or adjournment. [More…]
That the committee or any sub-committee have power to authorise publication of any evidence given before it and any document presented to it. [More…]
17) That the committee have leave to report from time to time and that any member of the committee have power to add a protest or dissent to any report. [More…]
That the committee or any sub-committee have power to consider and make use of the evidence and records of the Standing Committee on Aboriginal Affairs appointed during the Twenty-eighth and Twenty-ninth Parliaments. [More…]
That the committee have power to appoint subcommittees consisting of three or more of its members, and to appoint the Chairman of each subcommittee who shall have a casting vote only, and refer to any such sub-committee any matter which the committee is empowered to examine. [More…]
That the committee or any sub-committee have power to send for persons, papers and records. [More…]
That the committee have power to move from place to place and to sit during any recess. [More…]
That any sub-committee have power to move from place to place, adjourn from time to time and to sit during any recess or adjournment. [More…]
That the committee or any sub-committee have power to authorise publication of any evidence given before it and any document presented to it. [More…]
That the committee have leave to report from time to time and that any member of the committee have power to add a protest or dissent to any report. [More…]
That the committee or any sub-committee have power to consider and make use of the evidence and records of the Joint Committee on the Australian Capital Territory appointed during previous Parliaments. [More…]
That the committee have power to appoint subcommittees consisting of three or more of its members and to refer to such a sub-committee any matter that the committee is empowered to inquire into. [More…]
That the committee or a sub-committee so appointed have power to send for persons, papers and records, to move from place to place and to sit during any adjournment or recess of the Parliament. [More…]
10) That the committee have leave to report from time to time and that any member of the committee have power to add a protest or dissent to any report. [More…]
That the committee or any sub-committee have power to consider and make use of the evidence and records of the Joint Standing Committee on the New and Permanent Parliament House appointed during the Twenty-ninth Parliament. [More…]
16) That the committee or a sub-committee have power to authorise publication of any evidence given before it or any information obtained in the course of its inquiries or any document presented to it. [More…]
Their existing power generating plants were designed for the burning of fuel oil. [More…]
During the Labor Government time in power, or in office- we were never in power because we never had a majority in the Senate- we were portrayed by the States, especially those which were governed by our political opponents, as being anti-State. [More…]
To quote Senator Steele Hall, a Liberal Movement senator from my own State, with the ..’…/-/ grab for power’ of this Liberal-National Country Party Coalition, a number of false doctrines have been given birth. [More…]
Labor believes that all government power should be placed in the hands of a few men. [More…]
At the present time, power is in the hands of a few men. [More…]
Indeed, with no majority in the Senate, as I said earlier, it probably is arguable whether Labor has been in power for a number of years; it has merely been in office. [More…]
The Premier of my State of South Australia, Don Dunstan, has freely stated on many occasions that the South Australian State Government’s resources were never so plentiful to fulfil people’s needs as they were when the Australian Labor Government was in power. [More…]
The GovernorGeneral’s Speech gives an outline of a program which, it is hoped, will be implemented by a government that has come into power in this country- in this, the thirtieth Parliament- after a time of disturbance both in the political and the economic fields. [More…]
The Government is not concerned with power for itself. [More…]
Let me make this point: The Attorney-General then has power under the Judiciary Act- the relevant section is 71 A- to file a prosecution whether or not there has been a preliminary inquiry for an indictable offence. [More…]
The actual development of the program followed the establishment of the National Urban and Regional Development Advisory Committee by the previous Liberal-Country Party Government before the Labor Party came to power in 1972. [More…]
This Government claims to believe in the delegation of power but its actions belie its words in this instance. [More…]
I think that is a very important power which all parliamentary committees should have. [More…]
The honourable member can rest assured that those of us on this side of the House who are concerned with this field will do everything in our power to try to find answers to this question. [More…]
I have been told that since the Labor Government came to power 3 years ago the dingo population in the Australian Capital Territory has increased dramatically. [More…]
This Parliament will have the power of veto, as it should have. [More…]
As the Minister for Health I have no power whatsoever to replace or to put on the pharmaceutical benefits list any item whatsoever. [More…]
I have power, if it is recommended to me by the Pharmaceutical Benefits Advisory Committee, to delete an item , but I have no power whatsoever to restore an item after the recommendation has been approved by me. [More…]
The Labor Government came to power on a contract to give decent, honest government. [More…]
In October 1971, when a Liberal-Country Party Government was in power, the Treasury established a departmental committee to undertake a full investigation of the [More…]
The Australian people were misled into voting this coalition into power. [More…]
They are being misled by the Liberal Party-National Country Party coalition now that it is in power. [More…]
On whatever shaky ground the Treasurer’s conclusions are based- I have illustrated in detail how shaky is the ground- they have resulted in the misguided package of fiscal and monetary policies implemented by this Government since coming to power. [More…]
Further to this point, it appears difficult to follow the Government’s rationale in advocating power transfer from the Australian Government to the State governments as a means of reducing the level of bureaucratic control over the lives of individuals. [More…]
As has been pointed out by my colleague, the honourable member for Lalor (Dr J. F. Cairns), this power juggle does nothing to reduce overall restraints on personal liberty. [More…]
It had power through the Reserve Bank advances to stop that price war but it did not do so. [More…]
This Bill transfers that power to the Wheat Export Charge Act. [More…]
The Government has repeatedly stated that the Australian Broadcasting Commission is an independent statutory corporation vested with the power of making its own managerial decisions. [More…]
It did not make the decision when in power and when it had the opportunity to do so. [More…]
They did not do it in all the years when the Liberal and National Country Parties were in power before we thought of the experiment after becoming the Government and established station 2JJ. [More…]
Fraser the politician with a taste for power and the touch Of privilege we have come to know full well, but Fraser in the guise of ‘a true idealist’ is rather hard to take. [More…]
If we add to that list the problems created by the behaviour of Parliament itself- the destruction of convention, the defiance of reason, the pursuit of power without concern for the rights and privileges of minorities- Australians will have little faith in the future of Australian democracy. [More…]
I hope that the honourable member will do all in his power to see that that funeral benefit is not removed. [More…]
The basic power and the singular power of this House, and similarly of the House of Commons, as we know, is that it has always had total control over the appropriation of money from the Treasury or the Consolidated Revenue Fund. [More…]
Now it appears that that singular power held by this House can be sidetracked and subverted by a hostile Senate which has no power to initiate money bills or to amend them. [More…]
So now we must reluctantly admit that the people’s House, or the House of Representatives, only has these powers relating to money Bills on the basis of good faith between the Governor-General and the Parliament. [More…]
Let me now refer to the balance of power in the Senate. [More…]
So now the Governor-General has more power than the people’s parliament. [More…]
They pointed out that the pensioners were determined to use all in their power to resist the removal of the funeral benefit. [More…]
Historic reforms will be made to reverse the concentration of power in the Federal Government and increase the autonomy and responsibilities of Local and State Governments. [More…]
When I refer to the Australian worker’s effort, I mean his physical or mental exertion; I do not mean his strike power. [More…]
Finally, and necessarily briefly, I refer to a matter of great concern to my electorate and to all Australians, that is the abuse of power wielded by some unions. [More…]
They are defenceless against the abuse of union power. [More…]
I think it is appropriate at this stage to refer to Alan Reid’s book The Power Struggle and extracts from it in reviewing the performance of another LiberalCountry Party coalition Government, that of Sir Robert Menzies. [More…]
He came to power on a platform of restoring private enterprise to its one-time eminence, of freeing the banking system from Government authority, of giving back to the States the right that they had been gradually losing under frankly and openly unificationist Labor federal administrations to control their own financial affairs, and of reducing the power of the bureaucracy which had expanded under Labor’s rule. [More…]
He maintained the Government enterprises established by the Chifley Labor Government, if anything tightened Government control over the banking system, kept the States in a state of financial dependence upon the Commonwealth, and enlarged the power of the bureaucracy. [More…]
I think, in some years to come, similar words will be written about the performance of the present Prime Minister and his Government and the platform on which it came to power and the content of this Governor-General’s Speech which we are now debating. [More…]
It is now clear that they are interested solely in power- power by any means and power at any cost. [More…]
This Government, which began its path to power on an act of political blackmail, apparently has no intention of making even a token effort to put to right the damage that it has done to the Australian parliamentary system. [More…]
Government supporters are interested only in power for the present time. [More…]
The Government has won the present battle and it has the power for the present, but only for the present. [More…]
If the power of Opposition members in the Senate to destroy the elected government at will is not eliminated then the long term consequences of such a capricious and politically motivated power to destroy will itself destroy all vestiges of stability and certainty in Australian government and administration. [More…]
The Commission, to be a 5-man body with unlimited powers, was not to be subject to Parliament. [More…]
The Commission was to have the status of an alternative government, having the same kind of power as a People’s Revolutionary Council. [More…]
Always preach true democracy, but seize power as fast and ruthlessly as possible. [More…]
The aim of the policy relating to the Commission, and apparently the Labor Party finds it obnoxious, is to give greater decision making power to local communities and to the States. [More…]
The aim of the Government is to achieve a reasonable balance and division of powers. [More…]
The Government must aim to get a reasonable balance of powers and responsibilities. [More…]
This stalking horse is from the same stable as the Vietnam moratorium which turned our streets into centres of violence and potential violence, where political power was exerted through sheer weight of an ostensible non-violence that was both aggressive and essentially corrupt. [More…]
Therefore the new Timor moratorium will be denied the diet of fear, hatred and defeatism on which the Vietnam campaign flourished and it is unlikely to have the stamina or staying power of its Vietnam sire. [More…]
This is Geoffrey Fairbairn talking about the people opposite when they were in power. [More…]
But when the Portuguese organised a conference in Macao in June 1975 for the 3 major political groups in East Timor Fretilin refused to attend and attempted to seize unilateral power through a coup in late August 1975. [More…]
The Liberal and Country Parties tried to convince the people of Australia that there would be a continuous threat to us from the north and that we had to do all in our power to kill as many people to the north of Australia as possible to prove a political point; that if we did not kill them up there they would come down here and kill us. [More…]
The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Senator Greenwood) has power in name only. [More…]
He has no power in the Cabinet because he is not even on the Government’s economic committee. [More…]
The background reason is the level of the economy and the economic activity that was heritaged- to coin a word- to this Government when it came to power on 13 December. [More…]
If there is one lesson which should be learnt from this, it is the electoral imprudence of ever letting the Labor Party remain in power. [More…]
Let me lead on from this to say unequivocally that if Labor were in power and the same economic conditions prevailed as they do today, a third instalment of funds for the welfare housing field would be in the pipeline right now. [More…]
I believe that if Labor were in power today, the number of building operatives unemployed and the availability of building materials would be less. [More…]
So the valid point is this: If Labor were in power there would have been a third instalment of funds for welfare housing, but that instalment would have been less than is necessary under this Liberal-National Country Party Government right now. [More…]
It is a tragedy that this innovation has been postponed until Labor’s return to power. [More…]
The only technique that has changed is the use of power tools rather than hand tools. [More…]
For these matters, the Industrial Court is to be given the power to make declaratory judgments and to issue prerogative writs in the nature of prohibition, certiorari or mandamus. [More…]
The difficulties caused by the omission of these powers became apparent early in the operation of the Trade Practices Act. [More…]
The power of the Industrial Court to make these declaratory orders will not extend to the provisions of Divison 2 of Part V of the Act, which imply certain conditions and warranties into consumer transactions. [More…]
The power to make declaratory orders will complement the existing procedures of the Act providing for clearance of certain restrictive trade practices. [More…]
However, the exercise of the power will always be in the discretion of the court and will, of course, be subject to the restraints imposed by the constitutional requirements of the judicial power of the Commonwealth. [More…]
Honourable members will be aware that the pre-election policy statement of the coalition parties foreshadowed the elimination of the discretionary power now available to the Minister under section 90(9) of the Act to compel the Trade Practices Commission to authorise mergers. [More…]
That will be the appropriate time to give attention to the implementation of our undertaking regarding the discretionary power under section 90. [More…]
The estimate so obtained does not give a direct indication of comparative purchasing power of average wages in the two countries. [More…]
It is a move violently opposed by our opponents, who make no secret whatever of their scheme to abolish State governments and make Canberra the great centralised source of all power. [More…]
The Commonwealth will have acquired a general control over the States, where every extension of political power will be made by its means and go to increase its relative superiority. [More…]
The essential point is that the stock of liquid assets constitutes latent purchasing power, which can be quickly turned into actual purchases at any time and for any purpose, speculative or non-speculative. [More…]
The strategic influence in this area by a Western power has now gone, but in its place there are the two super communist powers vying for complete control. [More…]
The two super communist powers involved do not, in the words of some, make the mistake of inviting the media. [More…]
I would imagine that the facts that I am presenting from the Government ‘s own statistical material, created, I might say, when those gentlemen were in power, would not interest honourable members opposite very much. [More…]
We have sought to do everything in our power to give priority to spouses, dependent parents and of course children of Australian residents of Lebanese extraction. [More…]
Are supplies of uranium in this country required for power generating and industry purposes? [More…]
We know that by the year 2000 more than 50 per cent of the world’s power generation will come from uranium fuel unless other sources of energy are found. [More…]
Let me make it clear at the outset that the Opposition does not support or encourage the process of people ripping off the Government by way of making false claims for unemployment benefit or claiming it whilst they are working or doing all in their power to avoid work of any kind while living off unemployment benefit. [More…]
It therefore says much for the power of the Press that its build-up had been such that at the 1975 election one of the important issues of the campaign was the supposed existence of droves of so-called dole bludgers, despite the fact that there were at that time, 185 000 people on unemployment benefit but only 28 000 registered job vacancies. [More…]
It is a blatant attempt to cow those who are in employment and to discourage the taking of any action which may be regarded as being an assault on the established way of doing things or more likely a threat to the holy cow of profit The new ‘guidelines’, as I think they are referred to, place an enormous and terrible power in the hands of employers and can place an intolerable burden upon those who are employed or who seek employment. [More…]
Nothing could give a greater power to one person over another. [More…]
Was it the early April 1973 guidelines, the April 1974 guidelines, the May 1975 guidelines, or the guidelines that obviously would have been accepted if Labor had still been in power in January 1976 and March 1976. [More…]
I believe that if the Labor Party were honest it would say that it would be doing the same thing if it were still in power. [More…]
The Queen, of course, has made sure that she could never assume the powers- she would never do so- which the Governor-General has assumed here in Australia. [More…]
She would not, under any circumstance, assume such powers. [More…]
Yet the GovernorGeneral of Australia has assumed the power to make sure that he could dismiss a constitutionally elected government. [More…]
For this reason I believe that in this sensitive situation where the Governor-General is endeavouring to build the powers of his office, to increase the powers of his office as compared with his powers purely as the Queen’s representative in Australia, we need to look very carefully at other powers which the Governor-General has, including that of Commander-in-Chief of the armed forces. [More…]
It is well and truly time to make sure that the Senate shall not have power over money Bills. [More…]
It is time that the power of the Senate, which is elected every 6 years- with the exception of the case of a double dissolution, each senator is elected for a period of 6 years- was curtailed. [More…]
It is surely time that it was laid down very clearly that the House of Representatives shall be the only House which has power over money Bills. [More…]
Ministers of the Labor Government then in power in Canberra went to Brisbane and made a series of promises relating to flood mitigation and assistance to people who were left homeless, and gave assurances that work would be undertaken to prevent a recurrence of this disaster in the future. [More…]
The flood victims of Brisbane realised after many months of waiting that not much help would be forthcoming from Canberra while the Labor Government was in power. [More…]
In the short time that our new Government has been in power at least a start has been made. [More…]
But the greatest jury in Australia, the majority of Australian electors, supported what he did by defeating the Whitlam Government and putting a Liberal coalition Government in power. [More…]
Even today the overwhelming majority of Australians who supported or even opposed the Whitlam-led Labor Government are stunned and dumbfounded at the role the people’s House plays in financial matters and at that power being usurped by the undemocratically elected members of the other chamber. [More…]
Some might say that the members of the other chamber who took on themselves this power to block the supply of finance which is necessary to run the various government departments of this great country were democratically elected but when one remembers the appointments of Senator Field of Queensland and Senator Bunton of New South Wales it is hard to understand how anyone could come to that conclusion. [More…]
The democratic system of this country has reached a very low level if people can be appointed to the Senate by State governments and then have the power to block the supply of finance approved by this House of Representatives a House in which each member is elected by the wishes and the votes of the people of Australia. [More…]
The votes of the people of Australia give this House of Representatives the basic power, one might say the singular power, of total control over the appropriation of money from the Treasury and from the Consolidated Revenue Fund. [More…]
The Governor-General failed to inform the nation why that singular power held by the House of Representatives was allowed to be sidetracked and subverted by an undemocratically elected Senate, a hostile Senate that constitutionally has no power to initiate money Bills or even to amend money Bills. [More…]
In the absence of advice on this matter by the GovernorGeneral the electors, in my opinion, are forced to assume that the people’s House- the House of Representatives- has power relating to money Bills only on the basis of good faith by a Senate composed of senators not elected but nominated by State political leaders. [More…]
The High Court ruled that the Government could occupy the whole field of taxation and from that date the Australian Government has excercised that power clearly establishing its pre-eminence from the point of view of the nation’s financial resources. [More…]
The House of Representatives should have the courage and the power to make decisions on these matters which are so vital to the welfare of the people we represent. [More…]
The Labor Government had the power to deal with situations such as that which exists in the Cobar copper mines at the present time. [More…]
I believe we should be able to make these decisions because section 53 of the Constitution gives the House of Representatives this power. [More…]
No matter how good a government’s policy or legislation is it can be thrown out of power at the whim of the Senate or the Governor-General because he believed, as he stated, that the previous Government had an inability to obtain Supply. [More…]
I remind all political parties that if they wish to have a democratic system in this country the means of achieving power is important. [More…]
If political parties play a ruthless game to obtain and to keep power at any price democracy cannot be expected to survive. [More…]
The powers of the people’s House in relation to money matters have been usurped. [More…]
The powers of the House of Representatives are now so flimsy that the Senate can refuse to consider Appropriation Bills and force the Government to the people. [More…]
Is that what the Governor-General stands for, or does he himself believe that he should have more power than the people’s Parliament? [More…]
I ruminated on these words at a time when the dark shadow of arrogant Labor socialism was looming over us all, when increasingly we were being told what was good for us rather than being asked, when social causes were being confused with mindless vendettas and power-drunk men were thrusting the course of Australian life in a direction that their own prejudice dictated rather than in the direction that the Australian people wanted. [More…]
The election on 13 December demonstrated beyond question the contempt and revulsion that middle Australia felt for the abuse of power which was convulsing this lucky country. [More…]
We must harness this power house for the whole of Australia. [More…]
Like the honourable member for Mackellar (Mr Wentworth), I have some fears of the power of the accountants and economists in the Treasury; but the people of my electorate and those millions of Australians who share my pride in the national capital may rest assured that I will keep a close watch on the ‘Wheeler* dealers and leave no ‘Stone’ unturned in ensuring that the National Capital Development Commission has the right ‘Powell’ to see that this city is ‘Engledowed’ with proper community facilities and that there are no ‘Blunnders’ in our management. [More…]
The export controls give the Government all the power required to administer a sensible resources policy. [More…]
It is estimated that by the year 2000- in about 25 years’ time- half the world’s power will be generated by nuclear stations. [More…]
If that does not happen, we need to ask ourselves where that power will come from- or if, indeed, the world will be able to generate the power it needs. [More…]
I don’t think it is stretching things too far to say that our uranium reserves will give us a position of tremendous influence, even power, in the world economy. [More…]
Do they dispute the information given to me that by the end of this century half the world’s power generation will come from nuclear stations? [More…]
The assessment is that Japan has no intention of increasing her military power. [More…]
Japan’s economy now requires so large and diverse an input of raw material imports that, according to the best advice, access to and control by military power of all the resources Japan requires is not possible. [More…]
The world reliance on uranium as a power source in the year 2000 will be of the order of between 20 per cent and 25 per cent, and not 50 per cent as they have stated. [More…]
At least the Labor Government set a target for the level of social service payments, a reference point which had some relation to purchasing power and comfort. [More…]
In circumstances in which there is a rapid rate of inflation people constantly fall below their present level as a consequence of the declining value and purchasing power of money. [More…]
So whereas today we are putting up the pensions to adjust to the consumer price index, we cannot directly arrest the decline in the puchasing power of pensions resulting from the inflation caused by the defeated Labor Government. [More…]
In the cycle of naval power the West had scrapped many old vessels in post-war years, just as the Soviet navy was being built up with modern ships. [More…]
The Bill was to allow the acquisition of land for purposes associated with dwellings, the development of facilities and services such as headworks, power supplies, transport, etc. [More…]
to any person for use- anything incidental to the Government’s powers and the pursuit of the Government’s overall objectives m regard to urban and social economic development. [More…]
I believe that we should be using everything in our power to influence the Minister for Post and Telecommunications (Mr Eric Robinson) to get on to the Postal Commission to see what can be done. [More…]
I repeat that this is another illustration of how much better off we would be if the Liberal and Country Parties had not been so hungry for power, had not forced the coup d’etat on 11 November, had not thought that they were born to rule and had not quickly grabbed for power. [More…]
Lest I appear to be something of an apologist for the Public Service let me say that since leaving the Service last year to enter the Parliament I have become increasingly aware of the power of the Public Service in determining the course of government. [More…]
It would not be in power if it had told them this was its intention. [More…]
I believe that if the Labor Party was fair dinkum about its concern over funeral benefits, in the 3 years that it was in power it would have increased the $40 benefit to a more realistic figure because of the inflation which took place during those 3 years. [More…]
But below this, as a floor, there should be the holding of the pension at its purchasing power so that pensioners are not disadvantaged by rises in prices, and for that the six-monthly adjustment to the consumer price index is the right thing; and I believe it should be the automatic thing. [More…]
I hope that this statement will clarify both the present position regarding eligibility for migration and indicate the firm intention of the Government to do all within its power to ease hardship. [More…]
Mr ELLICOTT ( WentworthAttorneyGeneral) On I April in this House, the Leader of the Opposition (Mr E. G. Whitlam) asked me, by way of a question without notice, whether the Commonwealth Government told the New South Wales Attorney-General’s Department that it did not have the power to withhold information about divorce decisions. [More…]
Since the Labor Government came to power in that State the cost of production there has increased enormously. [More…]
The Chair has no power to ask the Minister to withdraw; but I suggest that in the circumstances the Minister might rephrase the comments he made about the speech of the honourable member for Prospect. [More…]
I agree with the honourable member for Wakefield (Mr Kelly) that the crunch decision must be taken in due course and that whichever party is then in power must face up to that decision. [More…]
During that time, of course, it was found when finally the new Premier came to power that the Minister had to be demoted and sent back to his original bailiwick. [More…]
In the negotiations will the Prime Minister guarantee to do all in his power to ensure that Australian and Queensland State sovereignty are retained over the Torres Strait Islands, their people and the seas from which they draw their total livelihood? [More…]
Do not these leaders exercise immense political power over the community? [More…]
Yes, I agree that union leaders do exercise considerable power in the community. [More…]
I think the House would agree that considerable power should carry with it an equal sense of responsibility which sometimes, I regret to say, is lacking. [More…]
If we had continued in power after 1972 $32m would have been spent already. [More…]
But, over and above this, in the main centres of power as well as in the fringe states there is the process of the subversion of the will to resist. [More…]
South Australia has lost its earlier advantages in relation to the cost of power and water. [More…]
As we are all aware, the use, usually surreptitiously and indirectly, by the Party in power of such readily available weaponry can provide a significant and unfair advantage during an election campaign. [More…]
Today, this staff support amounts to 3500 SKr annually for each seat held by the party or parties in power, and 5250 SKr for the opposition party or parties. [More…]
The reason for the difference is that those in the opposition parties work under conditions different from those prevailing in the party or parties in power. [More…]
Political parties which win power at general elections or in elections for county or district councils tend to take office with ill-thought out programs because their research capacity has not been sufficient to enable them to be properly prepared. [More…]
In Sweden there is no preference for any political party, although the Social Democrats have been in power for more than 35 years. [More…]
That the committee have power to appoint subcommittees consisting of five or more of its members, and Shall appoint the Chairman of each sub-committee who shall have a casting vote only, and refer to any such subcommittee any matter which the committee is empowered to examine. [More…]
That the committee or any sub-committee have power to send for persons, papers and records. [More…]
That the committee have power to move from place to place and to sit during any recess. [More…]
That any sub-committee have power to move from place to place, adjourn from time to time and to sit during any recess, sitting or adjournment. [More…]
That the committee or any sub-committee have power to authorise publication of any evidence given before it and any document presented to it. [More…]
17) That the committee have leave to report from time to time and that any member of the committee have power to add a protest or dissent to any report. [More…]
Our historic plan to reform the federal system by increasing the financial independence of State and local government arises out of our deep concern at the growing centralisation of power in the Federal Government. [More…]
will examine in depth and the nature of its reports to the House, subject to the power of the House to direct its attention to particular matters. [More…]
In drafting the Bill the Government gave careful consideration to the question whether the Commonwealth should have the power to impose a legislative requirement that part of the general recurrent grants for government or non-government systemic schools should be made available to school community bodies. [More…]
I can predict the Treasury line, irrespective of which party is in power. [More…]
If it is moved we will give it the treatment it deserves because we are not in the business of government to centralise all power in Canberra. [More…]
It is important that the State and other educational systems should be given as wide a power as possible to determine their own priorities whilst we at the national level should look at national priorities and fund them accordingly. [More…]
One might well ask: Why bother to have a roads policy and require road programs if the Minister has supreme power to juggle road grants without examination by the Parliament? [More…]
The previous Labor Government, particularly in the area of road administration and in the whole of the transport area, used this activity of government as part of the fulfilment of all its centralist ambitions of gradually concentrating all power in the Federal capital of Canberra. [More…]
The Parliament shall have power to make laws . [More…]
The Minister made much of the change in the Roads Grants Act, which he claimed gave greater power over the programs to the States and local government. [More…]
As the honourable gentleman will be well aware, on coming to power I asked all of the Ministers for a statement of their interests. [More…]
If a State sought to raise no tax and just lived on what came from the Commonwealth I suppose it would be seen to be irresponsible, especially when the power to raise or lower a tax was there and it was not using that power … [More…]
I would have thought that if the power were there the Premiers would use it. [More…]
There has been something of a public panic over the issue, but the Commonwealth Serum Laboratories are doing everything in their power to ensure that there are adequate supplies of vaccine to meet this A Victoria strain of influenza. [More…]
I can only think that the honourable gentleman has been referring back to occasions when his own Party was in power in the Commonwealth when he would have wished to tender certain advice of a different quality, and when Mr Dunstan was certainly tendered certain advice to have an election before time. [More…]
-The Minister for National Resources will remember that in April 1970, when the then Minister for National Development introduced the Territorial Sea and Continental Shelf Bill, he declared that the Bill would be followed later in the session by an offshore mining Bill to provide the detailed rules under which mining titles might be issued and exploration and exploitation carried on, and to give the Commonwealth Minister the power of direction over such matters as the selection among applicants and the settlement of areas to be granted and of work obligations. [More…]
The power struggles between the Gallaghers, the Mundeys and the Clancys of this world are where a lot of the unemployment has been created. [More…]
This Government, when previously in power, had hardly demonstrated a concern for a maximisation of Australian participation in new development projects. [More…]
The power to legislate is a sovereign one, conferred by the Constitution, and is based on the external powers given in the relevant placitum of section 5 1 of the Constitution. [More…]
I remind the House that the then Opposition, which is now the Government, held up legislation which the former Labor Government introduced which would have been effectuated by referendum and which would have given the Commonwealth power to delegate some of its powers to the respective States. [More…]
The most they could do- and this can be done only by ad hoc committees without any constitutional basis- would be to delegate the day to day powers of operation in respect of off-shore exploration and production. [More…]
There is no inherent power remaining in the respective States in respect of the right to decide the areas, the terms under which those areas are to be held and the period for which they are to be held. [More…]
The Government has the power to decide which areas may be developed and the priorities. [More…]
It has the power to decide what it will take in royalties and taxes. [More…]
Surely we must do all in our power to encourage such investment when it is we, as Australians, who will reap the ultimate benefits. [More…]
Accordingly, we need some concentration of economic power in certain sections of the economy. [More…]
In other words, the administration of this Act will no longer be clothed with the power and authority of the first law officer of Australia but will be handed over to an inexperienced Minister whose very portfolio is a contradiction in terms. [More…]
The business bashing of which honourable members opposite were guilty while they were in power still continues, it seems, and they still have not come to any realisation of the effect that that had on the employment situation in Australia, on our national income, on workers and on the consumers for whom the Opposition expresses such sympathy. [More…]
Thirdly, the Bill gives power to the Industrial Court to make declaratory judgments and to issue prerogative writs. [More…]
What was reprehensible about that deal as shown by the description of it by the honourable member for Werriwa was not just that he was negotiating to take money from Arab terrorist sources; what was much more reprehensible was the implication that the price of that money was to be the selling out of Australia to Arab terrorists if by any chance the Leader of the Opposition had obtained power at the last federal elections. [More…]
Nothing could be more important to the wage and salary earner of New South Wales than his purchasing power. [More…]
Secondly, the events did not take place in Australia; they took place on foreign soil, and the Government has no power physically to extend its inquiry to another territory- in this case a territory which is still in dispute- without the consent and co-operation of the authorities concerned. [More…]
Can he explain to the House how he reconciles his policy of” increasing the rate of consumption with his Government’s action in seeking to reduce the purchasing power of wages by halving wage indexation? [More…]
It returns to the States a power to impose income tax which the States have not possessed since 1942. [More…]
If there is no intention of using the power why was it formulated? [More…]
His second reaction was to admit that the State would have a reserve power to top up revenues from the Commonwealth. [More…]
Today’s debate also reflects, once again, the Federal Labor Party’s complete commitment to the centralisation of financial and economic power in Canberra. [More…]
It is the most significant development in government relations that has occurred since Federation and will end for all time the inevitable drift, the inevitable concentration of power in Canberra. [More…]
He believed that if all power was concentrated in Washington and everything was handed out from Washington, bypassing all of the States and local agencies, the problem was solved. [More…]
Neither he nor the honourable member for Grayndler (Mr Antony Whitlam) told us of the abuses of the use of monopoly power that exist in this area. [More…]
We believe that the consumer- the man in the streetmust be protected on the one hand from abuses in the private sector and on the other hand from abuses by the use of monopoly power by organised labour to which I have already referred and about which my friends opposite have been remarkably silent. [More…]
It is also essential for the survival of our free enterprise system that the union movement recognises that abuse of power will no longer be accepted by the Australian community. [More…]
I agree with the honourable member for Grayndler that it is not an enormously farreaching provision because of the nature of the interpretation that the courts have placed on it which is in part due to the constitutional limitations on the judicial power. [More…]
Section 28 ( 1 ) (b) of the Trade Practices Act states that the Trade Practices Commission can examine critically and report to the Attorney-General on the laws in force in Australia relating to the protection of consumers and in respect of matters referred to the Commission by the Attorney-General being matters with respect to which the Parliament has power to make laws. [More…]
It gives power to the industrial Court. [More…]
They would like to return to the days when they were in power and trying to frighten business houses and the business community with the power that they were contemplating and that they were going to introduce into this commission. [More…]
When he spoke of monopoly control I immediately thought back to what his party was trying to introduce when it was in power. [More…]
I can assure the House and the honourable member for Kingsford-Smith that in respect of no matter at any time since becoming the Minister for Business and Consumer Affairs have I transgressed, exceeded or abused any of the powers that have been given to me under the Act. [More…]
Those proceedings are of such a character that I have no power to intervene in any way. [More…]
We gave an undertaking prior to the election that that discretionary power would be removed. [More…]
That discretionary power has not been removed by this legislation, but it is patently obvious, as the review committee is dealing with the question of mergers generally, that the appropriate time to give attention to the implementation of that undertaking is, of course, when any amendments flowing from the review are considered by this Parliament. [More…]
I am sorry that the Opposition is not supporting the motion for a proposed standing committee on expenditure, which I regard as a most welcome and important step in the development of a proper balance of power between this House and the Government. [More…]
That is a real power, as the present Opposition found out in rather salutory form a few months ago. [More…]
We must see whether this power is there. [More…]
There must be a proper structure in which the power can be exercised. [More…]
its terms of reference should be those of the present Public Accounts Committee with the addition of the power to consider the policy aspects of the expenditure of government departments and statutory authorities and any forward programming of expenditure that Treasury, Departments or statutory authorities are able to specify. [More…]
The conservative forces want to be able to manipulate power and privilege, but power and privilege do not lie in this Parliament. [More…]
Power and privilege lie in the monopoly control of this country. [More…]
The real power in this country is controlled by the multinational companies, the wealthy companies and the major bureaucracies. [More…]
These men are doing everything they can to destroy the progress and development of this country, but at the moment they are not saying or doing as much as they have said or done in the past because they know that the people of New South Wales are going to put back into power in New South Wales a Liberal-Country Party government and keep out of power these socialistic people who are working only for the destruction of this country. [More…]
The real power lies outside of Parliament. [More…]
I gave details of the power structure. [More…]
The real power in this country lies in the multinational corporations and the Federal bureaucracy. [More…]
No moralistic hand-wringing now can explain away the lack of activity of his Party when in power. [More…]
Is the Minister aware of recent reports from Cambodia which allege that between 500 000 and 600 000 people, or 8 per cent of the total population, have died in mass executions since the present regime came to power? [More…]
I have seen articles and other reports in international magazines and the Australian Press claiming that a great number of Cambodians have been killed or assassinated in a variety of ways, some of which were described by the honourable member in his question, since the present Government in Cambodia came to power a year ago. [More…]
I wish that the Leader of the Opposition would be frank about the attitude of his own Government when in power on the question of Timor. [More…]
If there had been persistent pressure by the Aus.tralian Labor Party when in power it may never have happened. [More…]
There is a rather comforting democratic theory that Parliament has the power to control the public purse. [More…]
Mr CONNOLLY In particular, the words “or any circumstances connected with them” included in section 8 (b) have enabled the Committee to conduct much wider inquiries than would otherwise have been the case without risk of legal challenge to its power to do so. [More…]
It has, for example, over the years conducted inquiries into the administrative efficiency of departments and statutory authorities using its powers in the expenditure field and matters raised by the Auditor-General as starting points. [More…]
Paragraph (c) of recommendation 5 refers to the widening of the terms of reference of the Public Accounts Committee and the addition of the power to consider the implementation of policy aspects of the expenditure of government departments, statutory authorities and so on. [More…]
That power has always existed in section 8 (d) of the Public Accounts Committee Act, which reads as follows: [More…]
It is a blanket power which was never utilised by those who now propose this motion. [More…]
The Public Accounts Committee has no power to bring about any changes in the matters in relation to which it has statutory duties. [More…]
Due to the importance of maintaining an essentially political role it has been criticised for exercising its powers with caution. [More…]
There is no doubt that there are few institutions within the framework of Parliament which should have more potential power than the Public Accounts Committee. [More…]
For this purpose I believe the Public Accounts Committee Act will require amendment to ensure that wherever public funds are spent the committees of the Parliament shall have the power of review. [More…]
When Labor came into power in 1972 the pension went to 25 per cent of average weekly earnings. [More…]
When Labor came to power they explained away their past protection at any cost attitude by blaming it on Ministers. [More…]
It would seem that in some high corridors of power in the Foreign Affairs Department it has decided for these two-thirds of a million people that they should be incorporated into the vast nation of Indonesia, a nation of more than 3000 islands and 130 million people. [More…]
His Government was in power when the Indonesians invaded East Timor on 7 December, not the Labor Government, so the present Government must take some responsibility. [More…]
We must continue, with all the means in our power short of a break of diplomatic relations, to press for a withdrawal. [More…]
After all a Labor government has actually been in office for a total of less than 3 of the last 26 years and the Labor Government in power in those years was scarcely in power in the sense of having the numbers in both Houses. [More…]
I am sure that the honourable member for Blaxland will realise that the Whitlam Government was not in power in 1 967; so I am not going to criticise it. [More…]
1974- 1975- $66,000 grant for national administration; $144,000 grant on a $ for $ subsidy basis for the purchase of essential rescue equipment; $60,000 direct grant to purchase twenty-six power rescue craft for ranches of the Surf Life Saving Association which did not have them; $10,000 direct grant to assist needy clubs purchase essential rescue equipment. [More…]
I think that the Deputy Leader of the Opposition revealed very clearly the attitude which he and the Government of which he was a member put into effect during their period of power. [More…]
When we came to power a few months ago we were confronted with some tough economic realities. [More…]
An 1 100 megawatt power station is under construction. [More…]
Leading up to 1 1 November, to the unnatural termination of the Whitlam Labor Government, important conventions were broken in a ‘sleazy grab for power’ by the conservatives of this country. [More…]
The Australian Labor Government suffered the misfortune of being in power for the first time in 23 years, with so much to do, at a time of world economic upheaval. [More…]
Apart from the March retail sales figures, which could be a temporary aberration, the Australian indicators show a turn for the worse since the Liberal Party and the National Country Party came to power. [More…]
This is how the business digest Rydge’s in its April issues describes the action of the Government which came to power on the promise that it was the administration which could get business moving. [More…]
He spoke about whether there was power under the Constitution to take such action. [More…]
If he reads the words of that section surely he will have to concede that there is such a power. [More…]
Therefore he has the specific power. [More…]
Then, he referred to the powers of the Senate. [More…]
There is no doubt that the Senate has the power to refuse passage to a Bill. [More…]
That power has been there for donkeys years. [More…]
People accept that power. [More…]
Mr E. G. Whitlam and the former Leader of the Opposition in the Senate, Senator Murphy, both stated that they would use that power if they had the opportunity. [More…]
The sovereign power in this country, the people of this country, took the present Opposition to task and chucked them out. [More…]
It reversed all those trends and established the conditions that prevailed when the Fraser Government came into power in 1975. [More…]
In fact so far as manufactured goods are concerned they have been reduced to minimal quantities during the time when Labor was in power. [More…]
When my Party was in power at the end of 1 972 the amount of our gross national product that went to profits was 17 per cent. [More…]
Of course we want wages to have a better purchasing power and to ensure better standards and more options for all. [More…]
They knew that if they could defeat the then Government they would have the power to get their own way and to prevent the rank and file of their unions from having a direct say in the election of office holders. [More…]
Will he indicate to the House the present condition of Australia’s revived raining industry and provide a comparison with the dismal, disastrous, abortive , and stagnant 3 years of decline in the industry when Labor was in power? [More…]
My own estimates would be that, had the Labor Party remained in power, the Budget deficit would have been between $5 billion and $6 billion. [More…]
The Commission uses its power to control the locations and standards of buildings. [More…]
This examination by officers of the departments proceeded when Labor was in power but, as we know, the contribution of the insurance industry was not acknowledged and understood. [More…]
As well, the Government considers that there should be supervision of any unreasonable market power in all industries and thus the stevedoring industry is no exception. [More…]
I hope that the people in power at the moment do not reverse that trend. [More…]
The supplies for the power base for a lot of industry- electricity, gas and coalthroughout a good deal of Australia are in government hands. [More…]
The vast majority of constitutional lawyers of any standing whatsoever in this country now recognise- not all of them recognised it beforethat the Senate has the power under section 52 of the Constitution to defer or reject Supply. [More…]
After all, what better proof is there than that the power has now been exercised and exercised successfully. [More…]
I remind the House and honourable members opposite that the Senate, and the power given to it under section 52, was fought for by Tasmania and the other smaller States and their representatives prior to Federation. [More…]
The legislative power of the Commonwealth shall be vested in a Federal Parliament, which shall consist of the Queen, a Senate, and a House of Representatives, and which is herein-after called ‘The Parliament,’ or ‘The Parliament of the Commonwealth.’ [More…]
-This is just more evidence of how the coalition connived, deceived and cheated its way into power. [More…]
No matter where one looks into the behaviour of the members of the then Opposition last year, one finds that they used every conceivable instrument at their disposal to cheat their way into power. [More…]
This is the behaviour of this despicable party opposite which cheated its way into power. [More…]
It just means that the Government will do anything for political power. [More…]
Mr Deputy Speaker, may I say quite clearly against the former Opposition, the caretaker Government, that in the corporate sense it cheated and lied and deceived its way into power. [More…]
That just illustrates the lengths to which the then Opposition, the present Government, the establishment of Australia, would go to get into power, to rob the legitimate government of power. [More…]
They know that they have done the wrong thing, that they have cheated their way into power. [More…]
It is because they cheated themselves into power, and now the Australian people are waking up to them. [More…]
All they are interested in is power- nothing but pure political power. [More…]
They are not the jeering brigade they were last September and October on the scent of power. [More…]
History has a way of repeating itself and they will be found out for the way in which they came to power. [More…]
Our philosophy is the reverse of that of the Australian Labor Party which would seek to take unto itself not only all political power but also all financial power leaving this whole community utterly dependent upon what it decides. [More…]
Last September the present Prime Minister went so far as to discipline his official spokesman on social security, the honourable member for Hotham (Mr Chipp), for daring to suggest publicly that Medibank would be scrapped if the Liberals came to power. [More…]
In fact when that French emperor of whom the Leader of the Opposition is so keen to speak found himself in a situation where he was to be elevated from the position of consul-general or something of that nature and to be crowned an emperor, he was rather like the Leader of the Opposition, so fascinated with power that, to the amazement of all present, from the hands of the Pope he grabbed the crown and put it on his own head. [More…]
Is its ambition to concentrate all power in the House of Representatives, to destroy the Constitution? [More…]
I will not be party to any debate in this chamber nor will I back my cart to change in any way the legislation if it will lead to either centralisation of power in the trade union movement or a communist takeover. [More…]
I think that is very refreshing after 3 years of one-man government in this country when, with all due respect, the previous Prime Minister dominated the scene and, because of his strength and because of his power, was able to make decisions which perhaps were not in accordance with the overall wishes of his Party. [More…]
Again I remind honourable members opposite and the people of Australia that when Labor came to power on 2 December 1972, according to Professor Henderson the former Liberal Government left behind a legacy of 12 per cent of the people of Australia living in poverty. [More…]
Under the Government in power before the honourable member for Grayndler (Mr Antony Whitlam) came to this place private enterprise was completely disregarded. [More…]
When in power the Labor [More…]
This is what the Labor Party was endeavouring to legislate upon to have corrected, but the legislation was held up in the Senate when we were in power. [More…]
I regret that the honourable member for Maranoa (Mr Corbett) in his speech a little while ago implied that the Whitlam administration was trying to centralise everything and to run the whole of the country from Canberra, denying to the States any power at all. [More…]
Government and which have come about since the Labor Government came into power. [More…]
The Labor Government was in power for 3 years. [More…]
I would like to quote from a very excellent book by Wilfred Beckerman, an economist appointed by the British Labor Government to many comittees during the years it was in power. [More…]
They are powerful words because they in fact indicate the abysm into which this Labor Party has plunged the Australian people. [More…]
basis, is this being put in one Act when the power to define the f.o.b. [More…]
The power to control imports into Australia which is conferred by the power to make laws with respect to trade and commerce with other countries and the power with respect to taxation do not enable the Commonwealth Parliament to make laws with respect to the use or consumption of goods simply because they are imported goods or because they have been subject to customs taxation. [More…]
Where it is otherwise, every person subject to the tax is put more or less in the power of the tax gatherer. [More…]
Like my colleague, the honourable member for Port Adelaide, I am looking to the Minister to give far more information to this House on the issues we have raised and to make suitable amendments which will take the power away from the tax gatherer and restore it to this House. [More…]
Under section 29 of the Foreign Takeovers Act the Treasurer has the power to issue a certificate allowing a transaction involving foreign interests to go ahead if he is satisfied that the transaction is not contrary to the national interest. [More…]
I mention this on the basis that Australia as a nation has a constitutional power to enter into international conventions and by so doing obtain a legal power by which it might be able- I say this with respect- to use the power more intelligently than perhaps to have this disparity of use between various States. [More…]
This, it would seem, would justify action under the external affairs power. [More…]
Under the external affairs power most if not all the stipulations of the convention could be given effect to. [More…]
I do not think he would mind my saying that this Government takes a slightly different approach to the external affairs power under the Commonwealth Constitution from that adopted by our predecessors. [More…]
I regard its members as enemies of Australia and I would not want to put them in power. [More…]
Sure, members of the Labor Party have some responsibility on minor matters and on particular provisions within Bills but when it comes to putting this disastrous pro-communist party in power that is a different matter. [More…]
(a) The Grain Elevators Board in the two States and the Australian Wheat Board have been advised that the major problems arise from a shortage of rolling stock in New South Wales and engine power in Victoria. [More…]
1 ) It has been the general practice in recent years where it has been decided to allow importation of goods at concessional rates to rely upon the power conferred by section 273 of the Customs Act. [More…]
Nevertheless, the power conferred by section 272 of that Act is sometimes used. [More…]
The only power to make a determination specifying the goods to which an item or proposed item of a Customs Tariff is to apply is that contained in section 273 of the Customs Act. [More…]
He knew who the sole beneficiaries of the inquiry would be- his own Party, the Federal Opposition, newly installed in power and about to fight an election. [More…]
He gave a solemn promise to the man who had installed him in power. [More…]
The loans affair is revealed for what it is- part of the discreditable, deceitful process which brought this Government to power. [More…]
Does the Premier think he is restoring the power and privileges of absolute monarchy? [More…]
I repeat that the speaker was a man who is one heartbeat away from the Prime Ministership of this country in the unlikely event that the Australian Labor Party is ever returned to power in the foreseeable future. [More…]
The real power lies outside of Parliament. [More…]
I dealt with where the real power of this nation lies. [More…]
I set out in a letter to the Australian newspaper where the real power lies. [More…]
I said, ‘The real power lies outside the Parliament’. [More…]
I gave details of the power structure, for example, in the income year of 1972-73, the Taxation Commissioners Report revealed that 200 000 companies made a taxation return, but less than 400 companies- less than 2 per cent of all companies shared nearly 50 per cent profit of all companies and of those 2 per cent of companies most are multi-nationals. [More…]
The real power in this country lies in the multi-national corporations, the media and the Federal bureaucracy. [More…]
They are the powerful sections of the system. [More…]
I fought power and privilege for 61/2 years in the courts of this country, the State Supreme Court of New South Wales, the High Court of Australia, and the Privy Council in London. [More…]
I asked the students: Where does real power lie in this nation? [More…]
I said that it does not really lie in the Australian Parliament; it really lies in the powerful companies, the monopoly sections, the media and the federal bureaucracy. [More…]
They are one of the great dominating powers of Australia. [More…]
I have been prepared to stand against power and privilege, even in the courts of this land. [More…]
I have faced power and privilege. [More…]
When honourable members want to talk about power and privilege, I know something about what happens where real power lies. [More…]
I have not been cowed by people who have real power so I will not be cowed by a lightweight such as the honourable member for Denison. [More…]
When that sort of view is expressed by a man who is the Deputy Leader of the Australian Labor Party- a Party that has had a great history in this country despite the fact that some of its members have those sorts of views- and when that view is expressed by the Deputy Leader of the alternative government of this country it means that this country is on the road to violence if the Labor Party ever gets back into power. [More…]
The facts are that many of those men really see life as nothing more than a straight out power struggle amongst groups. [More…]
They do not care anything about the particular status of any institution or group other than its assistance to them to exercise what power they can within the community at large. [More…]
That is the power of the Parliament. [More…]
We should increase the power of the Parliament. [More…]
That is the power of the Parliament. [More…]
It may be sensible even to increase the power of that, perhaps by permitting supplementary questions to be asked. [More…]
We know that in totalitarian countries the restraints upon the use of military power by the leaders of those countries are far less than they are in a democracy because those leaders are not subject to the constraints of public opinion or to having someone come down the road, knock on the door and say to their local member: ‘We do not like what you are doing about sending our kids to Vietnam’. [More…]
They want to leave the power where it is. [More…]
The Deputy Leader of the Opposition has made it very clear where power is in this nation. [More…]
He said power does not lie in this Parliament. [More…]
In 21 years I have found out that power does not lie in this Parliament. [More…]
Power lies elsewhere. [More…]
Wealth is power. [More…]
It is the rubbish which is at the core of power in any country of this kind and unless the people are prepared to do something for themselves, unless they can derive confidence to do something for themselves, they will be ruled by those places where power is. [More…]
How can anyone compare the power of a man who owns 6 television stations and 3 national newspapers and countless small newspapers all over the country with the power of a person sitting in the gallery of this Parliament? [More…]
Of course the owner of a newspaper chain or the owner of a television station network is a thousand times more powerful than an ordinary citizen of this country. [More…]
That is where power lies, as the Deputy Leader of the Opposition pointed out. [More…]
Unless the people of this nation realise that power lies in those places- in the factories, in the huge banks, in the stores, in the media- then they will never be able to govern themselves. [More…]
It is because you want the people with power- the people for whom you are an agent- to hold that power and to exercise it. [More…]
He has had to win power from the barons and from the lords in other countries from which we have come. [More…]
He has had to win power from the squatters, and the squatters are back in office again and they have provided us with a Prime Minister. [More…]
We know that power lies where there is wealth and we know that if you have not got wealth you have not got much power. [More…]
The only way in which the ordinary citizen can offset the power of wealth is by some kind of participatory action. [More…]
This immediately makes one quite pale with anxiety because those of us who have studied the industry know the fundamental problem that has dogged the industry is that the agreements, the sweetheart agreements as they are called by honourable members opposite- I used to call them that- that have been forced on the shipowners through the monopoly power of the Waterside Workers Federation have encouraged the cost escalation, the cost plus sytem, on the waterfront. [More…]
I do not know what the new Government will do when it comes into power but I will tell you one thing: Things will be different. [More…]
We have to get rid of this power to pick off certain ships and certain lines, which exists at the moment. [More…]
The third and perhaps most vital thing that wc have to change is the power of the WWF to impose these fixed agreements. [More…]
I must admit that the WWF is given in to far too freely by the shipowners- although I can understand their problem- because of the monopoly power that the WWF possesses. [More…]
We roundly condemn these coalition parties for misleading the wine industry, as indeed they have done, in their grab for power. [More…]
In short, on this section of the investment allowance and double depreciation, the Labor Opposition deplores the promises that were made during the election campaign, during their grab for power. [More…]
I do not believe that there will be a major recovery while this Government is in power. [More…]
Those people with the real power- the people in the capitalist system outside the Parliament- realise the social consequences of this doctrine but they are not concerned about the social effects. [More…]
All they want is to increase their own wealth and power. [More…]
We have said time and again in the past that the real power lies outside the Parliament. [More…]
They intend to increase their wealth and power at the expense of the real wage earners. [More…]
It is a strategy designed to increase the wealth and the power of the establishment and those powerful companies that I have mentioned at the expense of the worker and the people ‘s quality of life. [More…]
I ask the Government now in power whether it will reduce interest rates. [More…]
I remind the honourable member and those opposite of the decisions taken by their Government, such as its tariff decisions, irresponsibly taken and quite indifferent to the consequences in individual industries; the wholesale attack on business and commerce that took place during its time in power; the attempt to finance its grandiose schemes through outrageous and uncontrolled rates of taxation which crucified people who showed any incentive whatsoever; and its wholesale attack on the rural industries. [More…]
We are told by them that nuclear power is utterly abominable yet the communists, who are running them, sponsor nuclear power in Russia without any compunction whatsoever. [More…]
The truth of the matter is that nuclear power is the cheapest, safest and cleanest power available to mankind at the present moment. [More…]
The pollution from a nuclear powered station is infinitely less than the pollution from a coal fired station. [More…]
The caption reads: Cotton Loses Cabinet power battle. [More…]
The first boots and all power struggle within the Fraser Cabinet took place recently with the decisive winner, the Treasurer. [More…]
-The greatest force for an egalitarian influence in a nation and the force which gives the people of a nation the opportunity to uplift themselves is not so much the distribution of power but the availability of information. [More…]
I believe that is far more important than even propositions concerning the distribution of power and money. [More…]
When the Whitlam Government was in power we brought into operation a plan for the motor industry. [More…]
I am sure honourable members will agree the Government would be negligent in its duty if it did not take action to ban the advertising of such products in areas where it has constitutional power. [More…]
In this connection the Government has agreed that the Minister for Health should pursue with State Health Ministers their proposals to work towards uniform legislation to control cigarette advertising in areas where the Commonwealth has no constitutional power. [More…]
In that case the Treasurer would not put the notice in the Gazette, but it is essential that the Treasurer should have the power, I think, to put this notice in the Gazette in the appropriate cases. [More…]
If this is to be the situation, all right; there is only one way to describe it- it is a naked and blatant exercise in Liberal discrimination for those people who put the Government in power and to whose tune the Government dances. [More…]
While the decision was substantially favourable to the Act, and was welcomed by the Government, the limited extent to which the Court held it to be beyond power does give rise to problems. [More…]
Being fairly clearly beyond the power of the Commonwealth, they should desirably be the subject of a uniform approach by the States. [More…]
It is considered important that the Minister should have this power of direction to ensure that individuals are not disadvantaged in any circumstances. [More…]
The Bill provides power for the Minister to give directions relating to a number of matters including the rates of contributions, the scope and level of benefits, the provision of services and the admission of contributors and the provision of necessary information. [More…]
It is not intended that these powers should be used extensively, or that they should be used in relation to contribution rates in such a way as to discourage competition between organisations. [More…]
I have mentioned that the legislation confers power on the Minister to give direction in certain matters. [More…]
In other areas, the Minister has power to decide whether the registration of the organisation, or changes submitted by, it in relation to matters contained in section 78 of the Act, should be refused. [More…]
These are significant powers and the Bill therefore provides, in new Part VII A, for a decision taken by the Minister in relation to the matters I have just outlined to be subject to review by the Administrative Appeals Tribunal, which will be operating at the time these provisions commence. [More…]
However, the Board has no power to prevent television advertisements being processed’ in such a manner as to make them sound loud. [More…]
What does he say about this sort of comment: ‘The contingency of military threat by a major power has been found to be remote and improbable”? [More…]
-I quote from page 5 of the defence report which states: … the prospect of direct strategic pressure against Australian interests by a major power remains remote. [More…]
No regional power has or is likely to acquire for a number of years, the capability that might require a substantial Australian defence response. [More…]
Labor has been in power for too short a period since Federation for this distrust to be broken. [More…]
He plans to return economic power to individuals. [More…]
Further, the attitudes and policies of the LiberalNational Country Party Government as continued in the announcements in this statement have created a set-back to the steady economic recovery which was under way before this Government came to power. [More…]
No one can doubt that there will be a diversion of funds or spending power from various groups in the middle income and the upper income brackets into the pockets of the less well off groups, particularly the mothers. [More…]
I believe that the Prime Minister and the Cabinet were right in agreeing to take action to make reforms to the secret ballot legislation because this provides the opportunity and the bargaining power to handle the most serious problem that faces this country today. [More…]
Unemployment was falling when this Government came to power. [More…]
So on these 2 key indicators we can see there has been no remarkable effort by this Government- a government which came to power on the basis that the Labor Party could not manage this country and that it would be able to get the economy back on its feet, turn on the lights and all that sort of thing. [More…]
Among the 800 million population even the blind and deaf mutes take pan in work that is within their power under the care of the Party and the State. [More…]
The reason why the Labor Government in office pressed to establish regions, which in fact were not used by the Grants Commission other than as an easy way in which to receive evidence from the 900 local government bodies throughout Australia, was that it ultimately wished to change the structure of government in Australia in order that legislative power could be centralised in Australia. [More…]
We in the Government today do not believe that legislative power should be centralised. [More…]
We believe that it is in the best interests of the Australian nation that legislative power should be distributed among 3 spheres of government.’ [More…]
We believe that wherever possible the power to legislate should be as close as possible to the people affected by the decisions involved in that legislation. [More…]
It is our view that in the interests of a democratic nation, it is important that power be distributed, that there be checks and balances. [More…]
Had it not been for the checks and balances contained in our Constitution, with the States being vested with certain powers that enabled them to prevent the rush to centralism by the previous Labor Government, we could well find ourselves today in the position of being a centralist nation with a government that was, in the words of the Leader of the Opposition ( Mr E. G. Whitlam), ‘ a unitary system of government, a unicameral system of government’, in other words, one Parliament only with no Senate representing .the diverse interests of the 6 States of the Commonwealth, with no States with legislative power and with a capacity to check the excessive abuse of power by a power hungry centralist government. [More…]
Amongst other things, it will not only take decision-making power closer to the people, but more importantly it will entrench guarantees that protect the Australian democracy, the right of the Australian citizen to have a say in the way in which his country is governed. [More…]
He did not want States in the sense that we understand them today- States of sovereign governments with a legislative power and capacity- but administrative regions. [More…]
As I mentioned earlier, this comment about the importance of looking at the structure of government, determining whether or not one believes in a distribution of power in order to prevent its abuse, is not an argument which denies the importance of adjoining local government bodies concerning themselves about the effect of their own decisions upon their neighbours. [More…]
The need for each level of government to have matching political and fiscal powers is quite apparent. [More…]
The problem in Australia has been that the political power of the States has not matched their fiscal power. [More…]
As a result of this disequilibrium, the fact that they have not had matching fiscal powers to what has been their constitutional political responsibility has resulted in a centralisation of decision making in the hands of the government that has had the fiscal power. [More…]
A measure of political power and authority is the ability to make spending decisions. [More…]
We want to guarantee the continued existence of the federal system where the power is distributed through the 3 spheres of government. [More…]
We want to ensure that wherever possible legislative power is matched by a responsibility to raise funds to fulfil the decisions of that level of government and that the decision making should be as close to the people as possible. [More…]
One will not find any devolution of power from the State capitals of Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne and around the coast, to their hinterlands. [More…]
In fact it has not been 2 per cent, it has been Vi per cent, and that will be significantly less than local government was receiving from Federal Government revenue sources during the past couple of years when the Labor Government was in power. [More…]
A most regrettable aberration took place in New South Wales quite recently where as a result of some promises, some deceit, and some misstatements the people of New South Wales were convinced that a gentleman known loosely as Nifty Neville but otherwise I believe described as the now Premier of New South Wales advised the constituency that in fact he would not impose double taxation unless it happened to be by indirect taxes, and he also brought into power a collection of people who have a degree of responsibility which is evidenced in the Sydney Morning Herald of yesterday. [More…]
But I suggest that the mass violence, the power outside the Parliament, which the Deputy Leader of the Opposition (Mr Uren) urged on the students at the University of Western Australia, reared its head yesterday with an abuse of power by the trade union movement which, in my opinion, shows that we have an irresponsible left wing element in this country which must be curbed and put down firmly by this Government. [More…]
I suggest that yesterday’s performance was an abuse of power by an irresponsible minority which is determined, as is the Deputy Leader of the Opposition, to destroy the parliamentary system which operates in this country. [More…]
Wales and Victoria retain primary responsibility and on which the Commonwealth Government would have no power in terms of the Australian Constitution to take direct, unilateral action. [More…]
Has the Minister seen the very authoritative reports establishing clearly that carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuels pose a far greater threat to the atmosphere and the environment in general than does nuclear power? [More…]
Not only is he again pandering to his own views on small government but also he is pandering to the private health funds, which helped to put him in power, and giving them the pay-off. [More…]
Under the new system of increased weekly payments the money can be spent immediately at current prices, thereby increasing the real purchasing power of money disbursed by this means. [More…]
It gives assistance to the mother in that it gives her the power and the choice of deciding how to spend the money received. [More…]
The policies of honourable gentlemen directly opposite which aimed at destroying the wealth- it is not a dirty word- of the nation would have continually reduced the power of this nation to feed, to pay for, to clothe, and to look after, in the medical and every other sense, the oppressed people of this nation. [More…]
I think it is the same pro-communist crowd who in Victoria have used the Australian Conservation Foundation’s former respectability to cover its sabotage of the Newport power station. [More…]
The Australian Conservation Foundation is in everything, whether it is uranium mining, Newport power house, Concorde, green bans, Fraser Island, bauxite mining. [More…]
Whereas Section 5 1 paragraph 26 of the Constitution confers on the Parliament of Australia the power to make laws with respect to ‘The people of any race for whom it is deemed necessary to make special laws’; and [More…]
But George Ill’s legatees have had more fire power. [More…]
The late Harold Holt had a Parliament unanimous in his support for a referendum to confer power to legislate for Aborigines. [More…]
This is a call to the Government and the Parliament to exercise the power conferred upon them by the referendum in 1967 with unrelenting vigour and persistence. [More…]
This is no time for federalism; it is time for the exercise of the constitutional power that devolves upon us. [More…]
But there is a depressing sameness about what is going to happen here because the intervention of State rights and all the rest of it prevents us from acting so effectively in northern Queensland unless we choose to take the necessary action to use the power conferred upon us at the referendum. [More…]
Honourable members who participated in the discussion on this matter previously will probably be aware that under the current legislation which is about to be amended the only power that the Minister has to deal with a fund is to deregister it completely. [More…]
I have some reservations, for example, about the Minister for Local Government in New South Wales having such power over municipal councils because those councils are elected by the residents of the area. [More…]
The way in which the Bill was worded, I felt, gave the Minister too much authoritarian power. [More…]
Where the Minister is not satisfied that the organisation will be able to meet the requirements, he is empowered to cancel the registration of that organisation. [More…]
The purpose of the amendment is to provide a power of sanction in these situations to ensure that organisations which are currently registered comply with the provisions of clause 42. [More…]
I will do everything in my power to ensure the continuation of small funds. [More…]
There will be massive increases in all sorts of licence charges, car registrations, fares, water services, power costs and stamp duties. [More…]
Any honourable member, in all decency, would well know that land prices were soaring under the previous Tory Government prior to the Whitlam Government coming to power. [More…]
In the last week 3 carpenters have approached me and asked me when the new power station is going to be built in the Hunter electorate at Eraring. [More…]
It urgently needs finance and it has little hope of getting it now that the Fraser Administration is in power. [More…]
During the election campaign the Government, no doubt for the purpose of a financial handout, promised the private insurance institutions that once it got into power it would look after their interests. [More…]
At the next election they will be tipped out of power, disgraced and dishonoured as people who supported wealth and privilege and not the true aspect of Australian thinking and idealism. [More…]
Until Labor came to power ours had been a mixed economy relying on the private sector for the productivity that brought improved standards of living, healthy expansion and a continuous growth of employment opportunities. [More…]
If this illustration were ever to prove to be correct, it is not the Public Service that should be condemned, it is the people in power who exploit such a service. [More…]
In practice the power and responsibilities of that guardianship have been delegated to the Director-General, the Department of Community Welfare in South Australia, and to the principal officers of the relevant child welfare authorities in other States and Territories. [More…]
The Minister, in association with child welfare authorities, is concerned to do whatever is possible within her powers to facilitate the adoption of the many children such as these and in fact already has signed some 90 orders which have the effect, by exempting the children from the provisions of the Immigration (Guardianship of Children) Act, and hence the guardianship of the Minister, of permitting the due legal processes in the States or Territories to determine whether adoption applications may be approved. [More…]
As the guardian of immigrant children, the Federal Minister for Social Security has the same rights, powers, duties, obligations and liabilities as a natural guardian. [More…]
Since 1952, by agreement with the State and Territory authorities, those powers and functions of guardianship of the Federal Minister for Social Security under the Immigration (Guardianship of Children) Act, have been delegated to the principal officers of the relevant State and Territory child welfare authorities excepting the power of delegation. [More…]
Subject to the agreement of State authorities which has now been obtained, new procedures will be introduced which give State and Territory authorities, power as delegates of the Federal Minister for Social Security to exempt a child from the provisions of the Act without reference to the Federal Minister. [More…]
It offers a real hope for containing costs in Australia while maintaining the purchasing power of the less well paid members of our community. [More…]
That is a revolution in Australia’s living standards and values that I propose to do everything in my power to protect. [More…]
Contrary to what the honourable member for Hume (Mr Lusher) said, the wool industry went through an extremely difficult period in the late 1960s and early 1970s when the present Government was in power. [More…]
My colleagues and I have taken steps to ensure that the Convention will deal with the Senate’s powers on money Bills, the question of simultaneous elections for the House of Representatives and the Senate, and the issuing of writs by governors for Senate elections. [More…]
We shall be seeking a firm commitment by the Convention on the filling of Senate vacancies and a guarantee that the Senate shall have no greater power over money Bills than that which all other upper houses possess. [More…]
The survival of parliamentary democracy depends on an urgent reaffirmation of the great conventions which provided the framework of constitutional government in this country, conventions struck down by the conservative forces in their pursuit of power. [More…]
They believed that the GovernorGeneral did not enjoy the power to retain a Prime Minister in defiance of the will of the House. [More…]
The suggestion that the Federal Government should be able to designate powers which hitherto have been exclusive to itself but which after the designation could be exercised by State governmentsthat is, that there should be a mutuality of reference of powers by one parliament to the other to complement the existing power that the State parliaments have always had under the Constitution to refer powers to the Federal Parliament- originally came 3 years ago from the governments of Victoria and New South Wales. [More…]
At the first meeting of the Convention in Sydney in September 1973 it was agreed by the States and the Australian Government delegation, largely on my initiative, that the Commonwealth and States should be able to interchange their powers, to make the Constitution less rigid. [More…]
It was agreed that the Federal Parliament should be able to devolve upon the States some of its powers and functions which the States could exercise more appropriately. [More…]
For instance, I have suggested that such a devolution could occur in relation to sales tax and criminal law in Commonwealth places, and that the States should be able, with better assurance, to refer some of their powers to the Commonwealthfor instance, those in relation to defamation and the remaining aspects of family law. [More…]
The referendum proposal was to give the Australian Government power to make grants direct to local government. [More…]
They raised the cetralism bogy, the fear of all power being in Canberra. [More…]
The truth of the matter is that the States did not want to lose their power over local government. [More…]
For instance, the Bill gives the Minister the power to apply, where a matter is before a single member of the Commission, for a reference to a Full Bench of the Commission. [More…]
As the Act stands at present the Minister has the power to intervene in a reference matter once it reaches the Full Bench, but he cannot seek the reference. [More…]
Despite the fact that the final decision as to whether a reference should be granted remains with the President of the Commission, this is a substantial expansion of the Commonwealth Government’s power to play a bigger role in the day to day operations of the Commission. [More…]
So it is also with the provision in the Bill to give the Minister the power to appeal a decision of a single member of the Commission whether it be an arbitrated decision or a consent award, and also to appeal a decision by a single member of the Commission to certify an agreement. [More…]
The Act currently gives the Minister power to intervene in appeal proceedings before a Full Bench but no right to seek that appeal, or review as it is termed in the Bill. [More…]
It is remarkable, indeed it is not a little arrogant of the Minister, that he did not bother to explain in his second reading speech why the Government was seeking these increased powers in regard to references and appeals other than to say that the present position was anomalous and to state obliquely that the measures would be adequate to ensure that decisions of a single member of the Commission were in accord with principles laid down by a Full Bench. [More…]
Surely a change in the Act of this magnitude, which greatly increases the power of the Commonwealth Government to intervene in the disputesettling process, should be put before the Parliament with substantial supporting argument as to why the change should be made. [More…]
While an arbitral tribunal deriving its authority under an exercise of the legislative power given by section SI (xxxv) must confine itself to conciliation and arbitration for the settlement of industrial disputes including Wilt is incidental thereto and cannot have in its hands the general control or direction of industrial, social or economic policies, it would be absurd to suppose that it was to proceed blindly in its work of industrial arbitration and ignore the industrial, social and economic consequences of what it was invited to do or what, subject to the power of variation, it had actually done. [More…]
There is no doubt that Portugal with respect to its record as a colonial power in this part of the world particularly, if not elsewhere, has much to answer for. [More…]
The power under clause 13(3) to exempt will undoubtedly apply to such unions as the Waterside Workers Federation. [More…]
One other matter that ought to be dealt with in the Green Paper is the power of the Australian Conciliation and Arbitration Commission to deregister. [More…]
That power should reside in a full bench of at least 3 Presidential members of the Commission and not left, as is now the case, to the Australian Industrial Court. [More…]
But it is a power which should be exercised only by a full bench of 3 Presidential members of the Commission. [More…]
I think the position is this: Unless the Government allows at least the possibility of the collegiate system, it may be removing from the rank and file the real power to express themselves. [More…]
The Government has tried to overcome the decision in the Whybrow case by giving the Commission power to grant leave to a person who is not a party in a dispute to be heard in proceedings relating to that dispute. [More…]
Remembering that the Conciliation and Arbitration Act is an Act designed to carry out that placitum of the Constitution that gives Parliament the power to make laws in respect of the prevention and settlement of industrial disputes extending beyond the borders of one State- that the prime objective of the Act is the prevention and settlement of industrial disputes- the Government is now writing into the Act a provision that is actually going to cause industrial disputation. [More…]
Indeed, it has made its position perfectly clear- that it would do everything within its power to prevent double counting in respect of that portion of the wage that is affected by wage indexation. [More…]
How could we expect the Arbitration Commission, with no power to control profits, no power to control interest rates, no power over fiscal policy, no power over monetary policy, to be able to act as the manager of the economy? [More…]
The Government has not got the power to enforce that part of the amending Bill which seeks to require the Commission to have regard not only to the general economic consequences of its decisions, but also to the effect of its decisions on employment and inflation. [More…]
It cannot get an order for mandamus against the Commission from the High Court to do so that section of the Act, because to carry it out the court would need to be able to exercise arbitral powers. [More…]
The Boilermakers case has made it clear that any body exercising purely judicial powers has no authority to exercise arbitral powers as well. [More…]
Therefore the answer to this problem is not in placing these obligations upon the Commission but in strengthening the power of the Prices Justification Tribunal so that it can say to employers who flout the guidelines: ‘Look, you have flouted the guidelines. [More…]
Abroad, unrealistic notions that an age of peace and stability had arrived encouraged a neglect of power realities- a neglect that did not serve our interests. [More…]
It is a tragedy, nevertheless, that great powers have sought to use problems arising from such situations not to achieve actively a just solution but to achieve the dominance of one ideology over another. [More…]
A second aspect of the world situation giving rise to concern is the state of relations between the superpowers. [More…]
Despite the hopes placed in detente, it has not stabalised relations between the great powers. [More…]
Disagreement between Congress and Executive has impaired the capacity of America- the only power that can provide a balance to the Soviet Union- to act with full effect abroad. [More…]
This is no plea for any power to be a policeman for the world, nor to do what small powers should do for themselves. [More…]
But having said that I want to draw attention to the undoubted fact that there are many things that only the world’s greatest free power can do. [More…]
We must recognise that Australia, a middle power, lives in a world where power in a broad sense remains the major factor in international politics. [More…]
In international politics power includes not only military strengths. [More…]
Economic resources, industrial capacity, population, domestic stability and diplomacy all contribute to a nation’s power and influence in the world. [More…]
Australia lives in a world where predominant power is controlled by the United States and the Soviet Union. [More…]
It is a world whose relations also depend, however, on the actions of other major powers- China, Japan and the European powers- and within particular regions also on the distribution of power between middle and small states. [More…]
The international diplomacy of the major powers- with which Australia has to deal- has to be understood principally as an effort by these powers to create a balance in the world favourable to their interests. [More…]
It is in the pursuit of a more favourable balance that their policies impinge on middle powers, such as Australia, and on areas of immediate importance to Australia, such as South East Asia, the South Pacific area, and the Indian Ocean. [More…]
We have, for example, a common interest with the Association of South East Asian Nations countries that no one power should dominate the region. [More…]
In current international circumstances it is in the interests of many countries that South East Asia not become a region of increasing great power competition. [More…]
Just as the Prime Minister yearns for domestic policies based on outdated dogmas of federalism and laissez-faire economics, so he hankers for a foreign policy based on outdated dogmas of military power and ideological posturing. [More…]
Geography alone ensures that the Soviet Navy will remain in the Indian Ocean as long as the Soviet Union remains a maritime power. [More…]
In August 1969 the then Liberal Minister for External Affairs Mr Freeth, candidly acknowledged the realities of Soviet naval power and was vilified by his colleagues and the Australian Democratic Labor Party for his pains. [More…]
Yet the so-called build-up of Soviet forces is being used to spread needless alarm and justify a general escalation of military power in the region. [More…]
Then some situation could arise and some city would be under blackmail from Chinese nuclear power. [More…]
Detente assumes a balance of power that is unquestionable. [More…]
It seems that if one mentions communism one cannot equate it with Soviet power. [More…]
It also dealt with central issues of power, national interest and security. [More…]
Unless the central role of power is acknowledged and its implications accepted, no sense can be made of the complexity of world affairs, and it is here more than anywhere else that the Leader of the Opposition fails as he did in his own conduct of foreign policy. [More…]
In his speech here tonight and in the one other speech released on foreign policy this year in Townsville a month or so ago the treatment of the 2 super powers is completely inadequate. [More…]
Japan’s key role in Asian and Pacific affairs is a reminder, if one is needed, that when we speak of power we are speaking not only of military strength but also of industrial vitality, social energy and commercial enterprise. [More…]
Again, it comes back to a recognition of the centrality of power. [More…]
While they were keeping their eyes steadily fixed on the power realities of the region, concerned about the imperative need to maintain a balance, he was concerned with other things- with ushering the Americans out, with denying the relevance of military and political factors, with posture and reputation. [More…]
-You ought to say ‘good’ because each time I mention what has transpired in Timor it is a constant reminder of the hypocrisy, the deceit and the avowed evasion of truth of your Government in power. [More…]
Thirdly, we are concerned that the process by which a settlement is advanced should not involve the installation of a major power as a dominating influence in the region. [More…]
It further emphasised the pitiable performance of his party in power. [More…]
We now see that the foreign policy of the Fraser Government is characterised by a return to the kind of client relationship which existed with the United States of America before Prime Minister Gorton came to power; that is, at the height of the Vietnam war. [More…]
The Government has irresponsibly stimulated public anxiety at the possibility that Australia is about to be threatened by some outside power- in this case the Soviet Union. [More…]
We would find that beneath the surface the American leaders are convinced that there is no alternative to detente, which simply means efforts towards the relaxation of tensions between the super powers. [More…]
While there is an obvious need for continuing surveillance to be carried out over Australian waters and the adjacent region, to create public concern that Australia is suddenly confronted with a threat from the Soviet Union or any other power serves only as a contribution to the undermining of efforts of reasonable men in all great powers to bring about a genuine relaxation of tensions and progress towards a better relationship between those powers in a position to threaten the security of our globe. [More…]
He asked: ‘While the NATO powers’ capabilities remain comparatively static, why is the Soviet arms build-up proceeding apace? [More…]
It is reasonable to ask: Why does the Soviet Union desire a military power far greater titan any needed to secure her own frontiers, or the expanded frontiers embraced by the Warsaw powers?’ [More…]
It was only when the Labor Party came to power that this action was taken in co-operation with the States. [More…]
Another example is the yet to be resolved problem of the storage of radioactive material and other waste products, some of which remain toxic for thousands of years, generated by use of uranium and nuclear power as an energy source. [More…]
We have dealt with the essential issues in clauses 4 and S. For the Parliament having given the Minister the power to intervene, which he is now given in clauses 4 and 5, to turn around and say ‘I am sorry, in this instance, Mr Minister, you are on your own; we will not let you have a barrister’ is the most arrant nonsense I have ever heard from the honourable member for Gellibrand for whom I have a high regard. [More…]
The clique monopolised union power and was thrown out only by a court controlled ballot. [More…]
In the case of elections which are conducted by the union itself, the law as it stands at the moment provides for the appointment of scrutineers, and where there are competing groups trying to wrest power in the union both sides would appoint scrutineers. [More…]
The power to require food to be labelled rests with the States and Territories under their own individual legislation. [More…]
We need a body with the power, influence, expertise and stature to be able to gather in all the reins and make all the agencies progress in a proper direction, free of political patronage. [More…]
One of the greatest advantages of having an autonomous statutory body in the field of transport safety would be its power to publicly report its findings and thus to give the people essential information it would not get otherwise. [More…]
On the face of it it might appear to be a negative stand, but it will appear to be a negative stand only to those who know very little about the operation of that Authority, only if they forget the express assurances which have been given by the Minister for Transport (Mr Nixon), and only if they ignore the significant initiatives which have been taken by the Liberal and National Country Party coalition when last in power prior to December 1972. [More…]
But let us recognise, and let honourable members opposite recognise, that the original initiative was taken in 1 970, and there was not a Labor government in power then. [More…]
This Parliament has not the constitutional power to enforce a hot line, but when we set up this body none of the motor car manufacturers were game to buck it. [More…]
Even though we did not have the constitutional power to do it, we got away with it. [More…]
I suspect the easy catch-cry dole bludger which we heard last year from the former Opposition, now the Government, will become just a memory of their squalid road to power. [More…]
Following that decision it became apparent that, whilst the Family Law Act as we know it is a valid exercise of constitutional power in the majority of its clauses, there are various aspects which are deemed to be ultra vires the Constitution. [More…]
In the decision of the Chief Justice he said that there was constitutional power under Chapter III, there was constitutional power under section 5 1 placitum (xxi) and under section 5 1 placitum (xxii). [More…]
He said that they were pretty wide powers. [More…]
Accordingly, as explained by the Attorney-General (Mr Ellicott), the amending legislation is aimed at writing down the Act to be more in accord with the legal powers of the Australian Constitution. [More…]
There again we see a whittling down of power in relation to what was deemed to be a reasonable approach to custody. [More…]
Any parliament might have thought that in the normal sense, as happened before, it had the power to deal with matters of custody. [More…]
It was decided that we could not direct State courts to have closed courts because they are autonomous and that would be outside our constitutional power. [More…]
I believe that the public and indeed the legal profession have a duty, which has not often been exercised in the past, of reporting these excesses of judicial power so that disciplinary steps can be invoked. [More…]
One lesson that we learn from the High Court decision- indeed we suspected when we were debating the Family Law Bill last year that we might learn it- is that in Australia under our Constitution the Federal Parliament does not have power to legislate with respect to matters relating to the family and that therefore under our constitutional set-up the only type of court that can deal with all matters relating to the family is a family court set up under State law which is invested with the necessary State and Federal jurisdiction. [More…]
What is so tragic is that we have the power to provide for such an eventuality and we are not prepared to use it, simply for the sake of convenience and simplicity. [More…]
They plainly show an abusage of the power of the media, a disregard for the intelligence of students in particular, and society at large, as well as blatant racist attitudes. [More…]
Work conducted by CSIRO concerns the following applications: domestic water heating industrial water heating space heating space cooling power production distillation controlled environment horticulture heat storage production of energy from crops, forests and other organic material swimming pool heating. [More…]
What can be done to protect union members from the abuse of power by union officials? [More…]
What I can say is that the union concerned- the Plumbers and Gasfitters Employees Union of Australia- is registered under the Conciliation and Arbitration Act and that Act does provide adequate protection for union members from abuse of power by union officials. [More…]
One is directly from section 75 of the Constitution; the other from the power given to the Parliament by section 76 of the Constitution to confer original jurisdiction on the High Court. [More…]
The High Court is empowered to order the removal into the High Court from a State court of any proceedings involving constitutional issues. [More…]
An inter se question is one involving the mutual limits of the constitutional power of the Commonwealth and the States. [More…]
Provision is made for the court to award costs against the Commonwealth or a State intervening in proceedings under this power. [More…]
The High Court is to be given power to remit a matter of its own motion. [More…]
Last year I had the pleasure of serving the people of the Northern Territory as Minister for Northern Australia and would probably have been introducing this legislation myself had the term of the Parliament not been cut short by the grab for power of the present Government- the former Opposition. [More…]
It was the clear intention of the former Labor Cabinet to agree to the submissions which would have commenced the steady devolution of executive power to the Legislative Assembly and its executive. [More…]
This Bill amends the Northern Territory (Administration) Act of 1910-74 so that the first historic step can be taken and the Legislative Assembly can place its foot on the first rung of the ladder of constitutionally responsible legislative power. [More…]
Those Acts vest in the Queensland Director of Aboriginal and Island Affairs the powers of a dictator. [More…]
He has the power to enter private homes. [More…]
When our Government went out of power in 1972 fewer than 100 000 people were unemployed. [More…]
When we regained power there were some 300 000 people unemployed. [More…]
When the Labor Government was in power we purchased another cattle station in that area, Everard Park, which is in close proximity to Kenmore Park. [More…]
That was a big increase on what had been allocated in the past and we of the Opposition are not condemning that When the Labor Government came to power we did not condemn his program; we made sure that it was expanded. [More…]
If we are to give them an education but then close the doors of employment to them- we talk about black power- we will have problems in the future. [More…]
It is up to us as a Parliament and it is up to the Government and to the Australian Labor Party when it gets back into power to continue the programs that the Labor Government started. [More…]
The only 2 recent problems concerned the change of power in both Chile and Cambodia. [More…]
They are normally irrevocable and may be arranged through banks or insurance companies, and on occasions the bonds are open-ended to the extent that the buyer has considerable bargaining power. [More…]
In 1972 when the spendthrift came to power these hard-won earnings, which placed this country in one of the strongest positions it has ever had in the trading sense, were quickly squandered. [More…]
We should consider the cost of land between 1950 and 1970 when conservative governments, such as this present Government, were in power. [More…]
It does not matter what government is in power. [More…]
Through the Australian Conservation Foundation they have power without responsibility which, as Baldwin once said, has been the prerogative of the harlot throughout the ages. [More…]
Angola is in the position it is in because the Portuguese occupation was countenanced for far too long by the whole of the Western world, particularly by its North Atlantic Treaty Organisation allies who never applied any pressure to get it out of Angola and to see that there was some proper independent movement to take power in that country. [More…]
I am not here to prejudge the MPLA but it came to power in those circumstances because a government that could have been a viable government was not sup- ported by the rest of the world when it could ave been. [More…]
I am delighted to see that the grandoise pretensions of the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) to become an Indian Ocean power now extend to the Atlantic Ocean as well. [More…]
Further, that this House urges the Government to exercise its undoubted power to see that finance is made available for the expanded works program without either reducing the resources available to private enterprise or increasing interest rates. [More…]
The House surely must have the power to consider the petition and consider what portion of what is sought it is open to the House to grant. [More…]
In criminal cases there is no power in this House to refuse to produce documents wanted in a criminal court. [More…]
It would be a waste if the magistrate did not have power finally to dispose of the matter. [More…]
Because of the scale of its operations, capital costs of increased supply are lower to the individual user than would be the case for any power plant construction in the A.C.T. [More…]
Although Western Australia already has a Fuel and Power Commission, the introduction of a progressive fuel authority in the Australian Capital Territory, which demonstrated that co-ordinated and planned energy consumption was practical, could act as a model for other parts of Australia, particularly eastern Australia. [More…]
This will have the effect of removing an anomaly that arose when the Act was passed last year whereby the Chairman of the Commission who is, of course, a part-time office holder, was vested with the powers of a permanent head under the Public Service Act. [More…]
He did not expect to have the powers of a permanent head. [More…]
The power of the Chairman in relation to the staff of the Commission will be provided for by amendment of the Act and by administrative arrangements. [More…]
The Chairman will have appropriate powers in relation to staff made under this arrangement. [More…]
There is provision in the Bill for persons to be put on oath and to give evidence, but it is unlikely that the Ombudsman would need to make frequent use of that power. [More…]
A deputy ombudsman is given the powers of the Ombudsman in relation to action taken in the Territory for which he is designated, except the power to make reports to the Parliament. [More…]
The only sanction that the Ombudsman has, but it is a very powerful one, is in his power to report to this Parliament where a grievance is not put right to his satisfaction. [More…]
At that time the thought of the Australian Labor Party being in power was only a horrible, nightmarish possibility. [More…]
Yet with all of this, Japan has remained relatively uncommitted in the matter of balanced power on our side of the globe. [More…]
It is a sad fact that in the last 5 years, since previous governments were in power, having, on the advice of the Department of Defence, changed the emphasis from forward defence to that of the defence of Australia and her interests, we still are not in a position to say precisely what are the ramifications of the defence of Australia. [More…]
Some other power at some stage in the future will simply take from us that which we believe is legally and justifiably ours. [More…]
Certain members of the Opposition in this place and elsewhere who admire Mao Tse-Tung made it quite clear that power does grow from the end of a gun. [More…]
Quite clearly, therefore, if we are to defend ourselves we must have the power to gain international respect. [More…]
You do not do it gently; you do it with as much power as you can to make sure they go to the bottom and no one on that damn ship can do anything about it. [More…]
Fortunately the Olympus gas turbines were being uprated in power and the ship’s speed was kept fairly well up. [More…]
1 ) The Public Service Board has the power, to be used as necessary, to place surplus officers in such positions elsewhere in the Service as the officer is competent to fill. [More…]
1 ) The Department of Administrative Services purchases real property under the provisions of the Lands Acquisition Act 1955-1973 for any purpose for which the Parliament has power to make laws. [More…]
Now we see that a Government which has been in power for only 6 months has implemented the scheme. [More…]
-Before going to the main body of the honourable member’s question I think it is worth reviewing the employment situation both when the Labor Government came to power and when it went out of office. [More…]
When it came to power in December 1972 the number of unemployed in Australia in actual terms was about 136 000. [More…]
Before I do so, I suggest that in any future debates on Medibank the Leader of the Opposition (Mr E. G. Whitlam) and the honourable member for Oxley (Mr Hayden) get together beforehand and sort out the level of levy they want and how they would finance Medibank if they were in power. [More…]
Under this amending Bill we are planning to give the Board power to licence these translator stations to provide an added service to people who already have a service. [More…]
It amazes me to think that they are not prepared even to have the power to consider applications where the circumstances warrant. [More…]
If one is to develop local drama, or something of the kind, on a regional station and it is suddenly invaded by Power Without Glory- to use the great classic of the moment- is that detrimental? [More…]
I am, of course, disappointed that the amendments we are now looking at specifically limit the power in granting licences for community television aerial systems to programs that may be received from nearby television stations. [More…]
The fact is that because of the fear of the economic power of your Department, because they were an alternative economic body in your Department, Treasury has made your Department null and void. [More…]
Does he think that the Government of the day or the bureaucracy of the day, prior to the Labor Party taking office and making the decisions that it did, would have protected the Palace Hotel from destruction by the Commonwealth Bank even though they had the power to do so? [More…]
When this legislation is read with the Nothern Territory land rights legislation that has been introduced into this Parliament, with the new proposal to hand back to the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly the power to regulate sacred sites, and when the record of that Assembly is viewed by the Parliament, we will see why the Hope Committee of inquiry was so definite in recommending that this area be placed under Federal control. [More…]
In addition to the transfer back to the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly of power over Aboriginal sacred sites the Institute of Aboriginal Studies budget for 1976-77 has been severely reduced. [More…]
The honourable member for Mackellar (Mr Wentworth) was one who joined me in rejecting the concept that no references derogatory to another power with which we had friendly or certainly not hostile relations should be made. [More…]
In January 197 1 while Dr Obote was absent in Singapore at a Commonwealth Prime Ministers Conference -I suggest that it was an act of rare courage for him to leave his country at that time- the armed forces under Major-General Idi Amin Dada seized power. [More…]
Decrees have been promulgated which effectively placed the armed forces above the law, with full powers of search and seizure of property. [More…]
They are granted wide powers of detention without trial and power to- and I quote- ‘shoot at sight’. [More…]
It was created by President Amin in 1971 soon after he came to power, reportedly to stamp out ‘Kondoism’, the Ugandan name for armed robbery. [More…]
So what we have is a classic case of a person who has obtained power and is prepared to go to any extent to maintain it. [More…]
He is relentlessly pursuing power against the people and to an extent against the world. [More…]
He said recently: ‘I consider myself the most powerful figure in the world’. [More…]
The internal situation is a little more complicated than we sometimes think, because the President has maintained himself in power by a very talented ability to survive. [More…]
Under placitum xx of section 51 we do have power to deal with financial and trading corporations. [More…]
Our founding fathers thought it very important, that we have power to deal with bankrupts and insolvents, so they inserted placitum xvii of the same section. [More…]
The Bill gives the Commission power of surveillance and the power to demand alteration of stock exchange rules. [More…]
The States’ legislation does not have that power. [More…]
Our Bill gives power to the Commission to make rules with which stock exchanges and people registered thereto would have to conform. [More…]
I want to make the clear point as was made by the Rae report that there is constitutional power, confirmed by the High Court in the concrete pipes case which was the subject of a decision reported in volume 124 Commonwealth Law Reports at page 468. [More…]
The Commonwealth has the power; it has the responsibility to use it therefore in the public interest. [More…]
We need an expert supervisory agency able to wield considerable power, not limited at the State boundaries, not prevented from investigation across State boundaries, not relying on some registrar in another State to suggest he can do the work. [More…]
-The Opposition opposes clause 4 of the Bill which amends section 7 of the Heritage Commission Act by removing the specific right of the Commission to advise the Minister on expenditure proposals for the preservation of the National Estate in areas controlled by the Australian Government, as well as removing the specific power given to the Commission, on recommendations of the Hope Committee and the Interim Committee on the National Estate, to recommend grants of financial or other assistance by the Australian Government to the States and other bodies for the purpose of preserving and enhancing our national heritage. [More…]
That Committee and the Interim Committee were quite definite about that power being with the Commission. [More…]
We also believe that this power should be clearly set out in the legislation. [More…]
I believe that this Government is callously and quite deliberately, removing from the Commission the power to make recommendations of amounts that should be spent on the Heritage Commission so that there is no real embarrassment. [More…]
I am saying quite clearly that the Treasury, which in fact is the bureaucracy running the Government, has been able to influence the Government to take away from the Commission the power to make recommendations on expenditure. [More…]
As to the allegation about what this amendment does to the Act and the allegation that the Government is trying to undermine the functions of the Heritage Commission by removing its powers to recommend expenditure on programs of preservation and conservation, I suppose it is true to say that the explicit power for the Commission to advise on expenditure and grants of financial assistance for the conservation, improvement or presentation of the National Estate is to be removed. [More…]
Nevertheless, the Commission has a general power to advise on all measures to protect the National Estate, including the use of grants. [More…]
Therefore, in essence, the removal of the function to advise explicitly on financial assistance for the National Estate is not regarded by the Government as having any real adverse effect at all on the power of the Commission to act vigorously and efficiently in interests concerning the National Estate. [More…]
Last night I talked more generally about this matter and referred to the fact that other legislation that is before the House, the Northern Territory land rights legislation, will certainly weaken the power of the Commonwealth over sacred sites because it is intended to hand back to the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly a prerogative over this matter. [More…]
We have no doubt that this power would allow more comprehensive and effective legislation for the preservation and protection of Aboriginal sacred or other sites, whether of current significance or of archaeological importance. [More…]
Power and hand hacksaw blades are now imported from Brazil. [More…]
Briefly, for the information of the House, I add that power from thermal stations that cannot be otherwise used in the off-peak periods is used to pump water from the dam proper to a higher storage area. [More…]
This does not save any coal, but of course these thermal stations cannot be closed down and there is a period when a deal of power that is generated cannot be used for other purposes, and that is usually in the off-peak or nighttime period. [More…]
This is an effective way in which we are able to generate more power cheaply for use when the need is greatest. [More…]
It is interesting to note that the provision relating to the right to sue for the recovery of gifts may attract a view that it is not a constitutional power. [More…]
This raises the interesting question of whether we have the power so to legislate under placitum (xxi) of section 5 1 of the Constitution because the power seems to be more related to the property factor. [More…]
Clause 10 of the Bill seeks to extend to judges the statutory power of magistrates so consenting to marriages. [More…]
If subclause 3(c) is enacted certain judges of the Family Court of Australia will be able to exercise this new power as well as existing judges- judges of the supreme court of a Territory and certain judges of State courts. [More…]
Presumably this is to meet any challenge to the exercise of jurisdiction by judges of Territory supreme courts on the basis that they are not appointed for life and therefore, arguably, may not exercise the judicial power of the Commonwealth. [More…]
The honourable member for Kingsford-Smith also mentioned that he doubted whether the Parliament had the constitutional power to legislate in relation to clause 21 (2) of the Bill. [More…]
As we know, the Parliament has constitutional power to legislate in respect of marriage. [More…]
It is to do the things that when Labor was in power were being done as a matter of policy. [More…]
In 1960 and in 1961 when this legislation came before the House, after the disgracefully long period of 60 years, legislators in Canberra grasped the nettle of dealing with this power given them by our founding fathers and a lot of time was spent talking about how the age of consent would affect the prospects of the stability of a marriage. [More…]
The question which must arise is whether or not the Attorney-General can be satisfied that it is an incidental provision because unless it is an incidental provision to the constitutional power I would have some doubts whether State law will be affected. [More…]
I would like the Attorney-General to provide in this legislation for young couples to have the power to decide whether they want their case heard in closed court or in open court, because if that case had been heard in open court I do not think the decision which was reached would have been reached. [More…]
I was concerned that the South Australian Agreement gives the South Australian Minister for Railways power of veto after the transfer, when the Commonwealth gets control, of any action that the Commonwealth Minister might take. [More…]
However, I am pleased to note that the Premier of South Australia has denied that there is any clause which gives the South Australian Minister power of veto. [More…]
When the ballot box has proved to be a futility, as it did late in 1975, and when a political party seizes power by violating conventions and by lies and misrepresentation, and when it arrogantly and blatantly breaks its elections promises, which is what the Liberal and Country parties did in respect of Medibank, the majority of the Australian people, particularly the working class people in Australia, have every right to use the methods of passive resistance to manifest their anger and indignation at what has been done. [More…]
In the event of a military coup in this country our only salvation would lie in the boundless power of labour unity. [More…]
If the unlawful seizure of power is to be prevented, we must look to the trade union movement. [More…]
Given that there is a devolution of the unity displayed by our union leaders in the Medibank strike, the power of organised labour indeed will be boundless. [More…]
In the event of an armed uprising or in the event of a group unlawfully seizing power or seeking to retain power, the trade union movement must be prepared to act instantly to stop the rebels in their tracks. [More…]
The first step would be to restrict the generation of power to essential services and to cut it off altogether if the mutineers sought to use that power for purposes to assist the revolution. [More…]
The ACTU will generate the power to speak with one voice and to speak for all the unions that are affiliated with it. [More…]
I am not proposing that the ACTU be given power to interfere with an affiliate’s domestic affairs; but on national issues it should have the same power as union federations in some other democracies have. [More…]
You will notice, Mr Deputy Speaker, that the Parliament certainly has power, pursuant to clause 28, to express a view as to the removal or otherwise of the Ombudsman. [More…]
Therefore, whether a complaint is made or not, the ombudsman has power to investigate these matters. [More…]
What is deemed to be the real power of the nation is vested in the Executive which is pledged to certain responsibilities and is subject to an oath of allegiance and an oath of secrecy. [More…]
Clause 14 gives the Ombudsman power to go to departmental premises if he informs the principal officer before he does so. [More…]
This is in addition to his power to compel the production of documents. [More…]
The Ombudsman will have power to obtain information from such persons and to make such inquiry as he thinks fit. [More…]
The Ombudsman must have a degree of power to translate his investigations into actions if he discovers conduct that deserves some sort of censure or admonishment. [More…]
The Ombudsman may take similar action if a discretionary power has been exercised for an improper purpose or on irrelevant grounds. [More…]
It may be argued that the Ombudsman will not have sufficient sanctions or power to rectify the injustices or administrative transgressions that he discovers and that this reporting process is a poor substitute for giving the Ombudsman executive power to rectify those injustices or transgressions. [More…]
However, there are Several considerations which suggest that the powers given to the Ombudsman by the Bill are substantial. [More…]
If some proper rectification is not made by then the department or authority fully deserves the exposure to the public eye which it will receive when the Ombudsman exercises his ultimate power to report on the issue to the Parliament. [More…]
He will have that power and no doubt he will use it in appropriate cases. [More…]
The ultimate spotlight of exposure in the Parliament, and hence to the world at large, is a very powerful sanction which the Ombudsman will have. [More…]
No doubt it is a power that he will use only as a last resort, but it is a very real power which bureaucrats know can be exercised, and it will act as a very powerful inducement to them to comply with the reasonable recommendations of the Ombudsman. [More…]
This will give him even further power to place the operations of government before the public scrutiny and report to the Parliament on how the system is working. [More…]
This has been the experience in Sweden where ombudsmen have the ultimate power to engage in litigation to rectify wrongs which they discover. [More…]
In fact that ultimate power is exercised very rarely. [More…]
The third part of the review structure is carried out in the courts of law by means of the prerogative writs, the ancient writs of prohibition, certiorari, mandamus and quo warranto which draw on the inherent reserve power of justice which resides in the Crown. [More…]
There is no doubt that the exclusion from the powers of the Ombudsman of actions taken by a Minister may give rise to some difficulties. [More…]
All I can say is that I think that is a problem about the precise limitations of the power of the Ombudsman. [More…]
We do not believe that policy decisions should be, whether they are in the positive and personal exercise of a discretionary power conferred by legislation or are by way of directions to officials (whatever the authority for giving these directions) as to how they should exercise their powers and functions (whether under delegations from the Minister or not). [More…]
We were giving the Executive the power to chose with a right of veto in the Houses. [More…]
To accomplish this task, however, the ombudsman must have the plenary power to have access to all matters, files and other evidence in relation to the complaint which he is supposed to investigate. [More…]
As the earnings of most beef producers have worsened since this Government came to power its new allocation is miserly. [More…]
Labor would do exactly the same again if elected to power. [More…]
With 2 arbitration decisions denying proper wage adjustments and the added cost of health care the consumer’s purchasing power has taken a battering. [More…]
If there was one thing that the Labor Party did while it was in power it was effectively to wind down mining exploration and all of the fortunes of those people who were concerned with the industry. [More…]
However, provided the answer is relevant r have no power, nor has the House power, to force the Minister to answer in any particular way. [More…]
But no, the Labor Government, completely preoccupied with grandiose schemes designed only to transfer power to Canberra, ignored the plight of families. [More…]
In their maniacal desire to obtain power they were prepared to sink to any depth. [More…]
But when the Australian Labor Party came into power there was a substantial increase in the amount of money available. [More…]
The difference is that the former Conservative Government charged interest rates of 7 per cent on welfare housing whereas when Labor came to power that interest rate was reduced to 4 per cent. [More…]
Another reason why the Government should be making more money available is that the waiting list numbers have increased from 100 000 when Labor was in power and there are now 108 000 applicants waiting for housing commission homes. [More…]
The Whitlam Government, which was elected to power in December 1972, had a commitment to overcome the plight facing urban development. [More…]
The powers of the Reserve Bank are considerable. [More…]
First it has the power to regulate trading bank liquidity by means of the statutory reserve deposit and the liquids and government security reserves convention; secondly, the supervision and limitation of savings bank assets portfolios; thirdly, controls over bank lending as to both volume and general direction; fourthly, bank interest rate policy; fifthly, the capacity to engage in open market transactions in financial assets and thereby to influence not only bank liquidity but money market conditions generally. [More…]
Those powers are wide ranging and have the effect of controlling the entire monetary scene within Australia. [More…]
Thousands of Aborigines who had been employed on special working projects, many of which had already been suspended when this Liberal-Country Party Government came to power, were waiting for some indication that this Government cared for them. [More…]
It is seen by the worker and by the craftsman or professional man as a blueprint for industrial unrest, causing a reduction in real wages, giving less spending power and causing greater unemployment. [More…]
Money incomes rise to preserve purchasing power and the Government can adjust social welfare payments to protect lower income earners, pensioners and so on. [More…]
Inflation at 13 per cent per annum would cut the purchasing power of the dollar to 69c in three years time and more than halve it by 1 980. [More…]
It seems to me that world nuclear experience, from mining to power generation, has not changed so much in the last 10 years that the experience and the knowledge gained should not be available to mine uranium safely. [More…]
At the same time the High Court has said that the States have power to pass laws for the peace, order and good government of the States which operate beyond low water mark and therefore in the territorial sea and perhaps beyond, depending on whether they are for the peace, order and good government of the State. [More…]
I adopt with respect the statement that federalism makes possible the most effective devolution of power and the most effective responses by governments to peoples’ needs. [More…]
Secondly, the opportunity has been taken to omit section 32 of the Science and Industry Research Act which would have merely required the Minister for Science to give his approval to the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation exercising any power or function exclusively affecting Norfolk Island but after consultation with the Minister administering that Territory. [More…]
He is still alive so that proves either the power of prayer or the fact that the snake was not a venomous type. [More…]
It is for the return to the old days of the concentration of economic power and spending power in the hands of the rich, the big and those born to rule. [More…]
In 1972, when the previous Liberal-Country Party Government was in power, 94 per cent of pensioners in Australia held pensioner medical cards. [More…]
They supply, control and develop transport systems; they lay down airfields; they rehabilitate railway systems; they build power lines and supply the water, gas and all communications on which everybody depends. [More…]
There is no possibility of private industry supplying all those things which are fundamental to the development of Australian industry, such as communications, water, power and transport. [More…]
As my colleague the honourable member for Wills (Mr Bryant) pointed out, the purchasing power of the average wage was increased in that time, despite all the doom that is cried by honourable members opposite. [More…]
Since this Government came to power all the programs initiated by the Australian Labor Party Government have gone down the drain one by one. [More…]
Beyond these measures we have acted to end once and for all the drift of all power to the Federal government by our historic federalism reforms. [More…]
I repeat that improvements in infrastructure such as roads, transport facilities, water and power supplies, not only improve services available to the community but also increase the efficiency of the private sector- a result at present forgotten by the Government. [More…]
That is why a Labor Government was elected to power in New South Wales. [More…]
No, we tried to curb the power of the multi-nationals. [More…]
It is a commitment that will ensure that their pension has real spending power. [More…]
In fact the present Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) is reported in the Age of 1 3 September last year as saying what should happen if supply was cut off by a house of parliament with constitutional power to do so. [More…]
The test is power; that is all. [More…]
The test is not whether it is right, but whether they have the power to do something wrong; and, if they have the power to do something wrong, then why not do it if it helps them in their immediate aims? [More…]
The powers of this section are indeed very wide. [More…]
Is it not an extraordinary coincidence that, while Sir Garfield Barwick was walking around the High Court wishing that he had the power to sack the then Prime Minister in September last, the present Prime Minister had already worked out the precise legal formula which the Governor-General and the Chief Justice were to endorse exactly 8 weeks later? [More…]
It will be noted that the present Prime Minister’s simple justification for what was done was that the Governor-General had the power to dismiss the Prime Minister. [More…]
He was not concerned with whether the exercise of the power was proper. [More…]
In substance, the Chief Justice had told the Governor-General that he had the power to trample on yet another convention and, having that power, he should use it. [More…]
The Australian Prime Minister has no special powers under the Constitution. [More…]
It is the Executive Council, not the Prime Minister, that in Australia has the power to advise the Governor-General. [More…]
But in any event the question of whether or not the Governor-General should disregard the Prime Minister’s advice was determined not solely by propriety but by the Chief Justice asking whether the Governor-General had the power, firstly, to reject the advice of his chief Minister; secondly, to remove him from office; thirdly, to commission the minority leader in the Parliament to form a new government; fourthly, to dissolve the House of Representatives because of the Senate ‘s failure to grant Supply; and fifthly, then to dissolve the Senate itself for twice rejecting 2 1 Bills passed by the House of Representatives. [More…]
So I agree with what has been said about the need to circumscribe the powers of the Governor-General. [More…]
Dunstan and Wran have never found it necessary to abuse their power by manipulation of their prime ministerial prerogatives or by their manipulation of Cabinet agendas. [More…]
It was an important undertaking and one which should have been made mandatory upon all Prime Ministersremembering that the Prime Minister has no constitutional power himself to recommend anything- by the Governor-General’s insisting that recommendations by the federal Executive Council relating to such matters should be adopted at a meeting of the Council fully summoned for that purpose. [More…]
A. Santamaria, probably came even closer to the truth when he predicted to a closed meeting of the Booksellers’ Club in Melbourne a few months ago that the present Prime Minister’s Achilles heel would be his failure to understand the intricacies of trade union power. [More…]
‘They- the rulers and the interests behind them- have regained power not only by capitalising on the mistakes of the Labour Government, but by systematically twisting the democratic processes to their own ends. [More…]
To be allowed to cast a vote whenever those who manipulate the levers of power find it convenient to spring an election seems little more than a sop. [More…]
Our reforms will maintain the purchasing power of wages and ease the pressure for excessive wage demands. [More…]
I draw attention to the use of the words ‘maintain the purchasing power of wages’. [More…]
Its wages policy now is to reduce the purchasing power of wages- that is what it is about. [More…]
The Parliament shall, subject to this Constitution, have power to make laws for the peace, order, and good Government of the Commonwealth with respect to: [More…]
It came at the time the ALP was in power. [More…]
Our reforms will maintain the purchasing power of wages and ease the pressure for excessive wage demands. [More…]
When the Labor Government came to power there were 80 000 young people unemployed and when it left office there were 152 000 unemployed. [More…]
Hysterical or historic commentary does not alter the fact that the present Government came into power on a policy of restoring employment opportunities. [More…]
They know that unemployment reached 3 per cent of the work force during only one month during the 23 years of government by the Liberal and Country Parties when previously in power and that was almost 15 years ago. [More…]
Yet he proceeds to ensure that consumers’ spending power, their capacity to demand more goods and services, is curtailed by his 2 -way assault on pay packets. [More…]
But consumption will not grow if consumer spending power is cut back or if economic conditions become more insecure and uncertain for income earners. [More…]
Income earners’ disposable income is being squeezed and as income earners are also the consumers whose behaviour is so important to recovery, this means their consumer spending power is being squeezed. [More…]
Now if the Government persists with the objective of achieving that rapidly, with as much clumsiness as it has displayed so far on income matters and at the same time as it seeks to reduce spending power in pay packets by increasing taxes and charges, it will create an intolerable set of industrial conditions. [More…]
This it has done with courage and Australians of goodwill should gladly do all in their power to support the strategy. [More…]
What I did say was that in years gone past this country was accompanied by a large provincial power. [More…]
In years gone by- and I ask my honourable friend to agree with me on this- we had not fought on our own, we had a large provincial power with us. [More…]
For a communist to boast that he can use such power as virtually to make it impossible for our allies to feel welcome in this country is, I believe, disgraceful. [More…]
If his sort of thinking gathers momentum, I suggest that the people in this country will come to realise that a small minority of communists has far more power in Australia than probably a similar group would have in countries which are known to have socialist or totalitarian regimes. [More…]
Australia needs every export dollar it can earn, yet this Minister will not exercise the export control power as he should. [More…]
When it came to power it decided that it was going to negotiate new contracts in Japan, but because there was a political crisis in Australia and it had to be resolved in 24 hours it did not matter what happened to the coal industry. [More…]
This is what happened when the Labor Party came to power and started to interfere with pricing arrangements. [More…]
As a result of the Government’s decision that the Health Insurance Commission should operate registered hospital and medical benefits funds, it is not considered necessary for the Minister to have the power in all situations to direct an organisation to accept a person as a contributor. [More…]
However, it is considered that the Minister should have the power to direct an organisation to accept a person as a contributor, where he is satisfied that there are reasonable grounds to believe that the person was not accepted as a contributor to a standard benefits table on health grounds. [More…]
Clause 14 of the Bill provides for this change in the Minister’s power of direction. [More…]
This power is already contained in existing sub-section (2) of section 73BA. [More…]
However the amendment limits the scope of the prescribing power to the standard tables. [More…]
Section 32 of the Science and Industry Research Act 1 949 requires the approval of the Minister for the exercise of any power or function by the organisation which exclusively affects Papua New Guinea or Norfolk Island and requires the Minister to consult the Minister for External Territories before giving such approval. [More…]
So the Australian Government, instead of spending money as it has the power to do, is suggesting that State governments ought to do so. [More…]
During the period in which the present Opposition was in power we saw that the fiscal policy was raining on a different track all the time from the monetary policy. [More…]
I believe that the real hope of this Parliament, this Government and democracy as a whole lies in the decentralisation of power and in getting power back to the grass roots level of the people who have a real understanding of the situation. [More…]
They just cannot stand by and allow a ruthless government to use its power in the violent way in which this one has used its power in the past and will use it in the future. [More…]
He said that this legislation was brought in because of the power that had been accruing to the central government. [More…]
Under the conservative governments- the Menzies Government, the Holt Government, the Gorton Government and the McMahon Government- there was a move towards greater centralisation of power. [More…]
In fact, we saw a situation developing in which the Australian Government in Canberra did all in its power to remove many of the sovereign and constitutional powers of the States as part of an insidious campaign, a declared campaign, to destroy the functions and powers of the States. [More…]
The centralisation of government power in Canberra can be gauged by examining the following 4 matters: the Labor Government’s control over revenue raising resources, especially income tax; its control and tying up of Federal grants for a variety of purposes; its takeover of traditional areas of State responsibility; and its moves under the guise of regionalism to discount the power and rightful responsibilities of the States. [More…]
Our reforms will maintain the purchasing power of wages. [More…]
The Government has never had the slightest intention of maintaining the purchasing power of wages. [More…]
When in May this year I announced the Government’s decision to restore Service cadets throughout Australia I indicated, contemporaneously with that announcement, that the Government would be examining the Air Force Act to ensure that what was a suspected blemish regarding the regulation power in that Act was removed. [More…]
An examination of the Act has confirmed that the power to make regulations pursuant to the Act was very, very dubious indeed. [More…]
Registrars of courts will also have power to exempt payment where they are satisfied that it would impose hardship on an applicant. [More…]
At the request of Western Australia, the Bill will enable the Commonwealth AttorneyGeneral to delegate his power of intervention in proceedings to the Attorney-General of a State ha ling r. State Family Court. [More…]
There is no way in the world by which a modern technical student can get by without a high level of literacy, numeracy and power of expression- the things that are called academic. [More…]
A thoroughly efficient academic education which confers on the student literacy, numeracy and the power of expression is absolutely essential. [More…]
When we came to power, $A100 was equal to US$119. [More…]
Let me go back a little in history to see what the performance was in terms of employment growth over the period before the present Government came to power- not unemployment, the growth in the labour force. [More…]
The lack of confidence and uncertainty in the community flow directly from the actions of those who sit opposite, those who last year tore up the rules and destroyed parliamentary conventions in their indecent haste to grab power. [More…]
Finally in 1974 my friend the honourable member for Melbourne Ports, whose program of economic development in Australia and whose political programs were having such an appalling effect, was robbed of his power and his position as Treasurer of Australia. [More…]
When we came to power, we increased the subsidy for aged persons’ homes. [More…]
When Labor came to power the inflation rate was of the order of 4Vi per cent a year, when it went out it was of the order of 14 per cent a year. [More…]
This Government seized power last November substantially on the basis that it could manage the Australian economy more effectively than the Australian Labor Party could. [More…]
The true value of the endowment has been eroded by the reduced purchasing power of the dollar. [More…]
How could we possibly hold the economic line when you people sitting opposite manipulated the opinion of people in Australia and said there was no need to give the power to the national government to control prices and incomes. [More…]
If there was a wages explosion in 1974, as there was, it was due to the fact that we had no power to control it. [More…]
How marvellous it is that this newspaper changed its views after the power and wealth of this country had unloaded a government that was in the process of bringing greater equality and fairness to the people of this country. [More…]
Fourthly, the Opposition ignores the fact that taxpayers are being saved $ 1,050m by the introduction of full personal income tax indexation which we all would have paid from our own pockets if Labor was still in power. [More…]
That is a lot better than the inflation level when we came to power. [More…]
I might also add that the average rate of overtime at the height of the boom period when the Liberal-Country Party was in power in 1972 was 4 man hours per employee per week. [More…]
The Whitlam Labor Government gained power in December 1972. [More…]
There is no escaping the fact that when the Liberal-National Country Party Government came to power half-way through December it took over a depressed nation- a nation that was suffering from its highest inflation and unemployment rate since the Great Depression of over 40 years ago. [More…]
By the introduction of that indexation the Government is losing $ 1,200m in income, or- put in another way, a more pleasing waythe Australian taxpayers are gaining $ 1,200m because they are not being taxed as highly as they would have been if the Labor Government had still been in power. [More…]
After losing their jobs and having watched the purchasing power disappear from their pay packets under the previous government, the workers are ready to put in the boot. [More…]
On the other hand, the workers are beginning to see the benefits of the coalition Governments’ policies of taking the Government’s hand out of the workers’ pockets and putting purchasing power into their pay packets. [More…]
The union officials have made no bones of the fact that if the staff of John and L. Lewis do not submit to these tactics of blackmail and intimidation, they will do all in their power to close the firm down completely. [More…]
In recent years under his leadership China began to adjust her ideological objectives to the realities of world power. [More…]
Three men in this last half century have attained supreme power- Hitler, Stalin and Mao- and it is no accident that they had so much in common. [More…]
Mao has indeed given them material power, but with that power he has left them a dreadful legacy. [More…]
I now ask the Prime Minister: Will he explain to the House how retailers and consumers can have greater confidence in the future, as called for by his Minister for Industry and Commerce, when the $800m that will be taken out of consumers’ pockets in a full year for health insurance will remove a massive purchasing power which could buy any of the following: 160 000 $5,000 cars, 800 000 colour television sets, 1 600 000 $500 refrigerators or washing machines - [More…]
Will the Minister deny that the Government has ignored assurances it gave to the State Health Ministers on 1 1 June that unilateral decisions on hospital funding would not be made by the Commonwealth, nor would the Commonwealth exercise any power of veto in relation to funding? [More…]
The present Liberal-National Country Party Government found when it came to power that it was unable, even with a brutal and unnecessary slashing of Government spending, to reduce the deficit to a level compatible with its cries while it was in Opposition. [More…]
Even when this Government came into power the preoccupation with a deficit overrode all else. [More…]
Incidentally, if there had not been cuts in government spending there may have been a return of consumer confidence, and with that a growth in economic health, and with that increased receipts by way of taxation into Government coffers, and with that a still possibly lower deficit -if indeed this Government had not mutilated the public sector by that slashing when it came to power. [More…]
I do not wish to bash employees’ awards because I agree that the pay packet of the worker should have as much purchasing power as possible. [More…]
When the Labor Party came to power it had plans for the next 10 years. [More…]
This man was contemptuous of the Leader of the Opposition, showing that he was determined to ensure that the leader would never again be restored to a position of power in any government. [More…]
We cannot afford to have the Labor Party back in power again. [More…]
Money spent in reducing sales tax items in the consumer price index to obtain a 2 per cent benefit would be money well spent and would keep this Government, probably as great a government as we can expect to have, in power for at least another 1 5 to 20 years. [More…]
So what the Government is saying is that while the Prime Minister said during the general election campaign that he agreed with wage indexation, he broke his promise after he came into power. [More…]
Our reforms will maintain the purchasing power of wages. [More…]
The reduction in spending power for most persons achieved in this Budget must inevitably affect companies providing goods and services for people whose capacity to consume them is reduced. [More…]
Far from these being a promise of the recovery to come, this Budget indicates a total confusion in the minds of the men who believed they were born to rule and who used every under-cover device at their disposal to achieve power. [More…]
In only a few societies do the ruling class have to rule by naked or direct power. [More…]
No ruling class really wants to rule by naked or direct power. [More…]
Their problem is that they feel there is nothing they can do about it, and this feeling of powerlessness is a result of the power of the hegemony. [More…]
A serious breakdown in the operation of the system of productionnowadays, when it ceases to maintain jobs or turn out money- would also mean a breakdown, for a time, in the power of the hegemony, but this is more likely to be turned against the government, whatever kind of government it is, and not against those who control the system of production. [More…]
Unions may organise effectively and push up wages and salaries and thereby exercise some power, but if those wages and salaries rise too much or too fast the result will be a recession and unemployment, and workers will become unwilling to support the unions for increases in wages as they did before. [More…]
In addition, capitalists have one other aim- this is basic for them- and that is to retain at all costs the control they have of the system of production so that they can exercise basic power, as well as make money, out of the exercise of that power. [More…]
Unless they develop aims that extend to individual unity of character, to co-operative relations with other workers and with nature, as well as to control and responsibility in the operation of the system of production, or to that aim that is usually called socialism, workers remain firmly within the capitalist hegemony and within power of the capitalist ruling class. [More…]
If workers remain subject to the power of the capitalist ruling class they have to remain limited to some temporary change in the distribution of income and to mild reforms of other kinds. [More…]
Much of the apathy and lack of responsibility on the one hand, or the violence and often senseless revolt on the other hand, that exists and grows and which is so much complained about by conservatives and power holders is a result, and an inevitable result, of alienation. [More…]
The combined effect of excessive labour costs and the disappearance of the post-war era of full employment brought about in the term of the Labor Government during the period 1972 to 1975 has entirely altered the relative balance of power within the labour market. [More…]
Terrence Collins joined the armed Services believing that people like the ex-member- he is almost the ex-member for Riverina- or rather the ex-lieutenant-colonel would do everything in their power to make sure that he was made well aware of his rights. [More…]
We cannot achieve that in the Federal area because of the lack of constitutional power. [More…]
But even more important than that is the ever present threat of industrial turmoil and the fear of another socialist government coming to power with its attitude towards killing profits as a matter of political dogma. [More…]
To prove my point, no sooner did the Liberal and National Country Parties come to power than they recognised that in their eyes that was not fair. [More…]
Then the power brokers moved in. [More…]
This Government came into power in order to control the quantity of the money supply. [More…]
Is it a fact that the Bill which they introduced into the Parliament some time ago in fact had regulations and gave them a power to make regulations to confer exemptions? [More…]
They are holding up the Newport power house and now, it is announced, they will see what they can do to stop the old Newport power house. [More…]
I wonder how honourable members in Victoria and the people of Victoria are going to get any power while this sort of action is tolerated. [More…]
Unfortunately they are people of the ‘do good ‘ variety who do not know a great deal about what is necessary for the development of this economy, particularly in terms of power needs. [More…]
On 29 November last year, 2 weeks after this Government was installed in power, it correctly instructed the Australian delegation to support United Nations General Assembly resolution 341 1 condemning all forms of apartheid in sport. [More…]
Either we do all in our power to stop them or we do not. [More…]
Whilst the Australian Labor Party was in power there were no contacts between New Zealand and South Africa in sport just as there were no contacts between Australia and South Africa in sport. [More…]
The Commonwealth does not really have the constitutional power to deal with ex-nuptual children and others, and that is certainly going to affect the efficacy of the family law jurisdication. [More…]
Under placitum 37 of the Constitution, there is power for this to be done. [More…]
We strongly urge the AttorneyGeneral to suggest to the various State AttornesGeneral that the State power be referred to the Commonwealth. [More…]
For that reason, I urge the Attorney to adopt a new approach and ask the State Attorneys-General to confer that power on the Australian Parliament. [More…]
There is power under regulation 13S (5) to appoint someone other than a Court Official to seize personal property, and as far as is known no such application has yet been made in Victoria and the attitude of the Judges to such an application is unknown. [More…]
In essence, the legislation creates power to prescribe fees, payable on the filing of documents in the divorce jurisdiction, as well as creating a power to exempt persons from the payment of such fees. [More…]
The Act merely creates the power to set a fee. [More…]
At that stage, I may be forced to the desperate act of having to ask the States to refer power to the Commonwealth. [More…]
I should like to point out that there are 3 ways in which the ‘ present looming and serious problem can be overcome: Firstly, the establishment of family courts; secondly, a reference of power from the States; and, thirdly, a referendum. [More…]
It flowed from a High Court decision as to our constitutional powers. [More…]
My very explicit submission was that he ask the State AttorneysGeneral, particularly those of New South Wales and South Australia, to refer the necessary power to the Australian Parliament. [More…]
It will be seen as an historical devolution of power and not simply a funding mechanism for local government. [More…]
How well equipped is local government to handle the added responsibility that will flow as a result of the devolution of power to which I have referred? [More…]
As the devolution of power from the Commonwealth to State and local government evolves we may well see the necessity to establish a separate Commonwealth department of local government. [More…]
The Government, which was keen to get power last year in such a discreditable way, would now do well to tell us what it proposes to do about unemployment. [More…]
The Government owes the people of Australia that, after having tried their patience and torn apart the fabric of this country last year in their desperate pursuit of power. [More…]
There will be no revival of consumer confidence in this country while this Government remains in power. [More…]
Hardship for industry and workers was being caused by a few union leaders who were hungry for power. [More…]
If the Labor Party- the Opposition in this chamber- has the close affiliation with the union movement and the ability to get on with the union movement that it has tried to suggest in the past, although its record stands to damn that suggestion, it is in its interests to do all within its power to overcome the problem of the selfish union executives. [More…]
Withdrawal of labour from any enterprise, private or state, should be a weapon of last resort, not a flippant exercise of power, sometimes amounting to terrorism as blatant as that wielded by Hitler. [More…]
Nothing very much is done to keep them in check, but the people of Australia have indicated very clearly they do not want anarchists in power in Australia. [More…]
There must be thousands of unionists who will no longer tolerate the domination of so-called labor men, men who are there to feather their own nests, men who thrive on the power that goes with their positions- power which would be dissipated if they were not able from time to time to call on their men to lay down their tools, to go home and face all the difficulties which come with an unwarranted strike. [More…]
When the Liberal Party came to power and the Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations (Mr Street) took over the responsibility, he was faced with one tremendous mess that the Labor Government had got the RED scheme into in its period of office. [More…]
We do not find mentioned in these Estimates the amount of money that the taxpayer has had to provide for the waging of 2 double dissolutions within 2 years caused by the intrusion of power by the Senate. [More…]
As I have indicated already, there have been injections of power from the Senate which have seriously affected the economy of this country, the future of this country, and the opportunity for any government reasonably to expect that it would remain in office for any period of time when it did not have a Senate majority. [More…]
Let me remind the House that in the 1 89 1 draft of the Constitution the word ‘reject’ was proposed to be inserted in section 53; that is, the Senate may have the power of rejection. [More…]
We should still abide by that wisdom, because as we all know both Houses of Parliament cannot have equal powers in relation to financial matters. [More…]
It is quite a travesty of justice for everybody to assume now that there must be a power of rejection by implication. [More…]
What I am putting to you, Mr Chairman, is this: Section 53 of the Constitution states that except in the case of Appropriation Bills the powers of both Houses are equal; but the Senate cannot even amend Appropriation Bills. [More…]
-I thank the honourable member for the interjection, because it highlights the point that if the Government does not get on to the issue of the power of the Senate we are wasting our time talking about matters here. [More…]
On the basis of the Constitution we are able to say that we in the House of Representatives certainly have the power to submit annual Appropriation Bills but you, the Senate, irrespective of your party political complexion, have no power to reject those Bills, because once you do that you have failed in your task. [More…]
That means, of course, that the Senate has excessive power, that it is a superior House, which is quite contrary to the actual situation. [More…]
It is the question of the power of the purse residing in the House of Commons or in the House of Representatives. [More…]
The instrument for the destruction of the power of the House of Commons- the power over the purse- is the very instrument, the Constitution compromise, by which the disparate States of Australia reluctantly, grudgingly and with the greatest possible caution finally agreed to federation. [More…]
I ask honourable members to imagine the situation which can arise where assent is withheld or, even worse, where the Governor-General has the power to return to this House or to another place a proposed law which has been presented to him with suggested amendments. [More…]
But today we have a viceroy, not a Governor-General, exercising supervisory powers which might have been appropriate to an immature, emerging nation but not to a mature, independent nation which chooses to share a monarch with the United Kingdom. [More…]
The issue is still- no member of the Opposition can burke or deny it- the right of the House of Commons or of the House of Representatives to have the power of the purse, to vote money, to spend money, to impose and to collect taxes. [More…]
I want to do this because I think it might be known by a lot of honourable members that, as a member of the House of Representatives, I have been concerned about the developing balance of power between the 2 Houses. [More…]
That is the real danger of having this balance of power between the 2 Houses. [More…]
If I had my way the ideal Senate would have powers something like the House of Lords was given by the Parliament Act of 191 1- that is, no power over money Bills and limited power of delay over other Bills. [More…]
The Senate was deliberately given wide and sweeping powers by the authors of the Constitution. [More…]
There is no doubt whatever that the Senate’s use of those powers would be upheld by the High Court. [More…]
That section, giving the Senate explicit power to reject Bills, was in the Constitution of 1891 and was in the Constitution most of the time in 1898. [More…]
I was attracted by the arguments of the honourable member for Mackellar (Mr Wentworth) about constitutional amendments, because it is a fact that as the Constitution was written the Senate effectively has more power than the House of Representatives. [More…]
As our Constitution is written, the Governor-General is an essential umpire, an essential defender of the powers of this chamber and this Parliament against the Executive. [More…]
Removal of the powers of the Governor-General would remove the vital balancing factor between the Parliament and the Executive, and that is a thing we should all remember. [More…]
Those who would like to destroy the power of the GovernorGeneral should realise that in destroying that power they are destroying themselves. [More…]
If we are thinking of constitutional amendments we should look very carefully at the provision that gives the Prime Minister power to dismiss the Governor-General. [More…]
This is outrageous power. [More…]
If the umpire makes a decision the Prime Minister does not like, the Prime Minister effectively has power to remove the umpire. [More…]
I invite honourable members to consider what a cricket match would be like if the batsmen had that power. [More…]
The Queensland Government asked the Labor Party to nominate 3 people acceptable to that Party from whom the Queensland Government, using its undoubted constitutional power, would make a selection. [More…]
By asking the Labor Party to nominate 3 people from whom the Queensland Government would exercise its undoubted constitutional power to make the selection, the Government of Queensland was following that convention exactly and the Labor Party, refusing to co-operate, brought the thing down on its own head. [More…]
Regrettably, the well intentioned desires of the founding fathers were frustrated considerably by governments, both Liberal and Labor, over the last 30-odd years by an increasing grabbing of power, if I may use that expression, to Canberra at the expense of the States. [More…]
I come more directly to the point of what, in fact, is involved, what are the concepts and what has been the application of those concepts since we came to power. [More…]
He said that insufficient attention was being given to the division of powers and responsibilities as between the States. [More…]
It is very pleasing to see that some members of the Tasmanian Parliament- and I imagine of the South Australian Parliament which has a Labor government and, I am certain, some members of the New South Wales Parliament-are starting to realise how generous this federalism policy is and how it is giving back to the States the real power to govern properly the people who have the honour to live therein. [More…]
I trust that at the end of our term of office, when we come to the next general election, the people of Australia will say: ‘At least we have had a government in power which was prepared to give practical effect to the Constitution of this country and to give back to the States and local government the right and the power to make decisions which strictly should be made in their own areas ‘. [More…]
I wish to draw the attention of honourable members to the fact that Bally Australia Pty Ltd, a manufacturer of poker machines, recently brought an action in the Australian Capital Territory Supreme Court which resulted in a judgment to the effect that the Poker Machine Licensing Board of the Australian Capital Territory has no power to control the makes of poker machines bought for Australian Capital Territory clubs. [More…]
I ask the present Minister- I have asked him also outside the House- to amend the Poker Machine Control Ordinance so that the Poker Machine Licensing Board has unquestioned power to determine the make and conditions of the purchase of poker machines to be used in clubs in the A.C.T. [More…]
It does so in a proper manner, certainly while this Government is in power, and it will conduct its business accordingly. [More…]
Since its establishment the Bank has lent about US$3 billion for projects covering all the major sectors of economic development with emphasis on the development of infrastructure facilities in the transport and communications industry and electric power sectors as well as projects for agriculture, education, water supply and urban development. [More…]
I take it that we regard it as a desirable objective because it is the only means by which the Australian people can increase their purchasing power, their standard of living. [More…]
In fact, the Government has little power in this area, nor does anyone else. [More…]
-There is nothing more craven or cowardly than for a member of the Opposition who finds that things are not going satisfactorily to stand in this House and blame the Treasury, especially when the Party of which that honourable member is a member accepted the advice of the Treasury when that Party was in power and had the authority to govern. [More…]
During the last 18 months, a period during which the Australian Labor Party was in power, the decline in the manufacturing work force was nearly 3 times that which occurred during the transition at the end of World War II. [More…]
During the 18 months before the present Government came to power, of all the sections of private enterprise only one expanded its capacity to create employment. [More…]
It was, in a way, taking power away from the central government. [More…]
Despite all the accusations levelled at Labor that it was an over-centralist government while it was in power, the truth is that we attempted to get away from that. [More…]
We were seeking to decentralise power. [More…]
In relation to the coordination and evaluation functions of the Commission, it was not kept informed of policy program initiatives with social welfare implications prior to government decisions; it was never given the power to enforce co-ordination nor was it given an automatic right of access to Cabinet submissions on policy proposals affecting social policy, thus placing the Commission’s independent review role at serious risk. [More…]
So I do not believe we are living in a power world. [More…]
Whether it is powerful in the sense in which my friends opposite think of power in the world at large is open to question. [More…]
There was the appeasement of big power in 1937 because people were afraid of it. [More…]
This Government has followed the disastrous government that we saw in power for 3 years. [More…]
The great distinction of the author, indeed his great gift, was that he combined within himself the mind of the scientist, the soul of the poet, and the gift of prophecy- by which I mean that power to see into the heart of what is wrong in any generation, and denounce that great evil with true moral passion. [More…]
Donald Home does not doubt for one moment that the Australian Constitution confers on the Governor-General the power to dismiss a Ministry or a Minister. [More…]
The Constitution does not mention the circumstances under which the Governor-General should exercise that power; that is to say the Constitution lays down no guide lines. [More…]
That was what Whitlam was arguing all through those agonising days in October and November after the ‘men in black’, and their much-bedizened women, went into their huddle at the Lakeside Hotel and answered, for themselves, Lenin’s great question for any seekers of power. [More…]
I remember sitting on a sofa in the lobby at the Lakeside Hotel that Sunday afternoon, and sensing, my God, they are going to do it, they are going to use the powers (ill-defined as Donald Home so rightly insists) to get rid of Gough Whitlam. [More…]
Since this Government came to power approximately 1000 have been admitted for permanent residence. [More…]
If the period of the Labor Government’s term of office had not been interfered with in the way it was by the intervention of the Governor-General, I believe that the referendum put to the people in 1974 to give the Federal Government of Australia power over prices and wages would now be carried overwhelmingly. [More…]
The people have changed their minds on the powers that the Government ought to have but they have not changed their minds on the deceitful way in which this Government is trying to impose its policies. [More…]
It will cut back in consumer spending power too quickly and probably encourage an increase in the household savings ratio at a time when increased consumer spending and looser purse strings are wanted. [More…]
I noticed from the last annual report of the PJT tabled just a few minutes ago that the Tribunal has concern about continual controversy about its existence, what its role is to be, what companies are to be exempted from examination and who is to have power to exempt. [More…]
Will added powers be granted? [More…]
Quite clearly the Tribunal sees a role for an expansion, not a contraction, of its powers. [More…]
The report to the Australian Government upon certain matters relating to power over prices and incomes by T. C. Winter noted: [More…]
All this is aimed at reducing the real purchasing power of Australian wage and salary earners. [More…]
Therefore the Committee can realise that the purchasing power, the spending power, of the Aboriginal Legal Service has declined. [More…]
It is little wonder that when we came to power we said that one of the first things we were going to do was to look at the way in which money was being expended in the cause of the advancement of the Aboriginals. [More…]
I think that one other reason why the Australian people gave this Federal Parliament power to deal with Aborigines was that they believed that at the national level there could really be a scientific attack on Aboriginal needs. [More…]
As a result the urban problems created in those areas were of such a proportion that for that reason alone the Australian Labor Party was swept into power in 1 972. [More…]
1 predict that in 1978, because of the worsening conditions of urban services within Sydney and Melbourne, a Labor government will be returned to power again by those communities. [More…]
Finally- this is not a terribly big issue at the present time but it was when the previous Government was in power and conditions were booming- it struck me always as ridiculous that migrants must at least pretend that they intended to stay for ever. [More…]
All the actions of the Fraser Government since it came to power have been designed to intimidate the ABC, its staff and those who contribute to its programs. [More…]
The Port Adelaide Methodist Mission has already directed correspondence to the Minister pointing out that it was the intention of the previous Government and of this Government when it came to power to proceed with the construction of aged persons homes in the Port Adelaide electorate. [More…]
As a result, the specific vote buying gimmicks introduced by honourable members opposite to try to con their way into power have been done away with. [More…]
The honourable gentleman knows very well that the time for action in relation to Portuguese Timor was when the previous Administration was in power in Australia. [More…]
After discussions with the representatives of the Australian Federation of Air Pilots, he described the pilots’ claim as mischievous, illegitimate and a monstrous exercise in industrial power. [More…]
Osborne v. Commonwealth, reported in 12 Commonwealth Law Reports at page 321 indicated that section 53 was not justiciable and, if it was justiciable, of course there would be no reason for a Governor-General to intervene because the High Court had the power. [More…]
I say first of all that the powers of the Legislative Assembly are whatever it chooses to exercise from day to day. [More…]
It has to negotiate, perhaps, with the Minister about the way in which this power will be exercised. [More…]
I think that its powers are best undefined. [More…]
Sufficient supplies of power and water can be made available. [More…]
The site leaves open the option of further developments, such as nuclear power generation (should this become an acceptable and necessary energy alternative in the future) and associated spin offs, such as sea-water desalination. [More…]
Both nuclear power and desalination may be necessary to supply these vital requirements to its industries and people in the future. [More…]
Australia does not need nuclear power. [More…]
It led to the setting up in 1953 of the Atomic Energy Commission, after the South Australian Government and the Commonwealth had agreed to export uranium so that Australia would have the best technical expertise available to co-operate with the States and allow Australia to move, if needed,- into nuclear power generation. [More…]
Nuclear power is here to stay, and sane thinking people should realise this fact. [More…]
In various parts of the world nuclear power is already being used to provide power generation. [More…]
It is being used in Great Britain, where 15 per cent of the power generation comes from this source, the United States of America, Canada, West Germany and Japan. [More…]
It is a particularly safe method of producing power. [More…]
Research has shown that 160 nuclear power stations are already operating, and there has not been a single death or injury to the public at large as a result of the operation of those stations. [More…]
The United Kingdom, the United States, Russia, France, Canada, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, West Germany, India, Italy, Japan, Holland, Pakistan, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and many other countries are investing massively in nuclear power because they realise that this is the power of the future, particularly because of the drain on petroleum resources throughout the world. [More…]
That is why nuclear power is so important Currently 1 80 new nuclear power stations are being built and 160 stations are on order. [More…]
It is estimated that by the year 2000, 50 per cent of all electricity generated in the world will come from nuclear power stations. [More…]
Here again it is reasonable to ask: Can all these governments and their advisers be wrong about the safety of nuclear power? [More…]
It is not essential to have nuclear power stations to produce a nuclear weapons capability. [More…]
People of the world, both poor and wealthy, require more and more power to improve their standards of living. [More…]
I have a case in mind where, even now, there is deemed to be insufficient power in the Act to control the lack of effective competition. [More…]
The power of the commodity panels could be increased to include this function. [More…]
On the other hand, an interdepartmental committee with similar power could be set up to which an industry could complain. [More…]
Will the Minister assure the House that the Government will do everything within its power to ensure essential airline operations are maintained in the Territory? [More…]
Told pilots mischievous, illegitimate and monstrous exercise in industrial power, should lift ban preserve image. [More…]
The historical development of large countervailing concentrations of power, of both labour and capital, the way these powers were being used and the developing political and social bitterness which seems to be hardening between different groups of Australians, is in my opinion the very basis of our present problems. [More…]
We have had, of course, to consider the source of constitutional power to enable the Parliament to enact the legislation and to confer the jurisdiction on the High Court. [More…]
The High Court has held that it may have conferred on it appellate jurisdiction other than from the State courts, so long as there is a proper source of power for the Parliament to enact the legislation conferring the jurisdiction. [More…]
The source of power to provide for appeals from Territory courts is to be found in Section 122 of the Constitution. [More…]
73 and 76 of the Constitution by reason of the exercise of legislative power outside Ch. [More…]
In the present case, I believe that the external affairs power provides a sufficient constitutional basis for the Bill. [More…]
Reference might also be made to the power of the Parliament to make laws with respect to the relations of the Commonwealth with the islands of the Pacific. [More…]
The virtues of true federalism- true regionalism- have to do with the dispersal of power and the involvement of local and regional communities in the process of decision-making. [More…]
While in office he did everything in his power to destroy the federal system, and now he resents actions being taken by this Government to improve the operation of the federal system. [More…]
If we want a federal system, do we want a system where a power is gradually concentrated on the centre, or do we want a system where power is being moved back closer to the people who are affected by the decisions of government? [More…]
Clearly at the time of Federation there was a distribution of power, but as time has advanced that distribution or allocation of responsibility is not now as appropriate as it was. [More…]
The degeneration in the workings of the federal system was such that when Labor came to power it moved swiftly to destroy the federal system. [More…]
The Leader of the Opposition was seeking to establish a unitary, unicameral system of government with one Australian Parliament vested with plenary powers consisting only of a House of Representatives. [More…]
His aim wasand from what he said today I believe still is- to centralise all legislative power in Canberra. [More…]
Today the Leader of the Opposition made clear the fact that he still adheres to the view that local participation is participation with administrators; and that legislative power should be centralised here in Canberra. [More…]
However, we on this side of the House believe that power should be distributed. [More…]
We think that in order to safeguard a free, democratic country it is essential that the legislative responsibilitythe power to make law- should be divided among a number of authorities. [More…]
Although a significant element of the debate on federalism is about money, the real essence of the debate is about power and initiative. [More…]
Free people can lose their freedom if power is placed in too few hands. [More…]
We saw in the last 3 years of the Labor Government how that power could be abused. [More…]
Let us think about how it would have been abused still further if there had been plenary power in the House of Representatives with a government led by the present Leader of the Opposition. [More…]
Having made that determination, it is necessary that the adequacy of the resources available to governments be examined for it is no good giving a government a power and an authority if, in making the decisions in relation to that power and authority, it does not have the resources to put its decisions into operation. [More…]
The previous Government- the Whitlam Government- used local government as a pawn in its design to take over its power. [More…]
Clearly, there is no argument that he tried to extend the national government’s power on many issues in regard to the matter of urban and regional development, which deals with the real issues of local government- the grass roots of politics- there is no greater regionalist or no parliamentarian who has made a greater contribution towards assisting local government or who has worked towards achieving that end than the honourable member for Werriwa. [More…]
Contrary to the accusation of the honourable member for Sturt in regard to the power of local government, the honourable member for Werriwa probably worked harder over the years than any other member of this Parliament to try to give greater powers to local government- at the grass roots level. [More…]
If he ever got back into a position of power he would pick up the threads of 1972-75 and set about destroying federalism in Australia. [More…]
He is still the same man who wants to see the State governments destroyed and with them the power of the States. [More…]
He is still the same man who wants to see all power vested in Canberra and the 900 local government organisations throughout the country reduced to 50 puppet regions to be dictated to in their goings on by bureaucrats in Canberra. [More…]
The Leader of the Opposition stands convicted out of his own mouth as an unrepentant centralist and socialist swimming against the world tide which is as my colleague the honourable member for Sturt (Mr Wilson) so ably pointed out, towards devolution of power and greater federalism. [More…]
We know that the tendency is always to the centre, that the central authority constitutes a vortex which draws power to itself. [More…]
Therefore all the buttresses and all the ties should be the other way, to enable the States to withstand the destruction of their powers by such absorption. [More…]
When they put the Liberal and National Country Parties back into power they gave us a mandate- indeed I believe they made it a commitment- to restore federalism in this country. [More…]
Accordingly the Liberal and National Country Parties support the concept of federalism in which there are 3 areas of government, namely, Federal, State and local, and in which the powers and functions are distributed to achieve a continuous response to and provide an effective barrier against centralised authoritarian control. [More…]
It aims to prevent a dangerous concentration of power in a few hands and in so doing it provides a guarantee of political and individual freedom. [More…]
I add a final word of caution to the people who live in the States governed by Labor Administrations: Watch what the governments are doing; they might very well be preparing the way to sell out your State in the event of a Labor government coming back to power at the federal level although I do not believe that will happen for many years. [More…]
It has limited the power and involvement of the Austraiian Grants Commission in relation to local government. [More…]
It sought to reduce the power of the States. [More…]
It sought to augment the power which it exercised through its centralist philosophy. [More…]
It sought to reduce the powers of the States by increasing the number of these fairly loose regional groups. [More…]
It applied to an amalgam of local organisations powers which were regressively intended to reduce the efficacy of State government legislation and operation. [More…]
So long as the Liberals are in power the arts will have a secondary rather than a central place in Australian society and Australian Government priorities. [More…]
As the financial position of most beef producers has worsened, because of continuing depressed markets and drought, since the new Government came to power, this allocation is miserly in the extreme. [More…]
The attitude being conveyed by honourable members opposite, particularly the honourable member for Blaxland, is that anyone who is engaged in agriculture must necessarily be born and bred of the landed gentry; he must drive a Mercedes or a Volvo and do all in his power to grow rich at the expense of the average worker. [More…]
Contrary to Mr Hullick ‘s statement this clearly shows the Commonwealth Government’s commitment to local government and devolution of power as part of its overall federalism policy. [More…]
The Leader of the Opposition (Mr E. G. Whitlam) has spoken for half an hour in what was designed to be a destructive criticism of the Government’s foreign policy, but he offered no foreign policy of his own except the foreign policy that he pursued when he was in power, which was to embrace countries whose philosophies are far to the left of ours and to offend further countries whose friends are ours. [More…]
Accordingly Ministers felt that they must once again voice their concern at the sustained growth in the Warsaw Pact countries’ military power on land, at sea and in the air beyond levels apparently justified for defensive purposes. [More…]
There are common interests- a common interest in maintaining the independence and territorial integrity of both our countries, in advancing the prosperity and the further development of conditions in which our peoples can build a decent life for themselves and in keeping great power competition out of the region. [More…]
Also in paragraphs 9 and 10 of the communique there were elements concerning the Indian Ocean and the general strategic situation which no doubt the Opposition Party would want to ignore because they indicate a sense of common purpose which had not been there on previous occasions when the Australian Labor Party was in power. [More…]
The two leaders agreed that the fact there was a possibility of a renewed arms race between the super powers gave cause for concern, and any shift in the global balance between the super powers could have far-reaching implications for the long-term security of the region. [More…]
They also noted that great power rivalry was still a fact in world politics and that Governments needed to be alert to its manifestations. [More…]
In particular, the absence of great power rivalry in South East Asia is a specially desirable objective for the maintenance of peace and stability in the area. [More…]
The two leaders agreed that it is not in the interests of the region that any great power should dominate the Indian Ocean. [More…]
In this connection the President expressed his belief that such a situation could be avoided if the great powers and other major maritime countries observe the United Nations General Assembly resolutions declaring the Indian Ocean as a zone of peace, which had been reconfirmed by the Non-Aligned Summit Meeting in Columbo recently. [More…]
China agreed with the view that no great power should dominate the region of which the ASEAN nations form a most significant part. [More…]
They also noted that great power rivalry was still a fact in world politics and that governments needed to be alert to its manifestations. [More…]
In particular the absence of great power rivalry in South-East Asia is a specially desirable objective for the maintenance of peace and stability in the area. [More…]
As a result of the Prime Minister’s visit to Indonesia there was a personal and national understanding and a recognition of the changing power balance in this region. [More…]
There was an acceptance that it is quite essential that there be a recognition of the problems of the changing power structure within the Indian Ocean at a time when there has been a promulgation of a non-alignment position by ASEAN- a position which has been supported by some members of the Australian Labor Party. [More…]
It is very interesting to note that, of the 1464 causal factors in the last 5 years to 1975, 250 relate to airframe factors, power plant factors or other airworthiness factors. [More…]
However, when accidents involve the loss of life the Minister may appoint a board of inquiry with powers similar to those of a royal commission. [More…]
However, there are provisions in the Constitution which would authorise legislation to confer on an authority power to investigate a wide range of road transport accidents which could be held to come within the jurisdiction of the Australian Government. [More…]
The amount for postage, telegrams and telephone services is $4,400,000; for fuel, light and power it is $5,600,000; and for meteorological services it is $9,582,000. [More…]
When the Australian Labor Party came to power it had the rather ambitious aim of spreading in 6 years preschool education on the Canberra level throughout Australia. [More…]
They received no tertiary allowance when we came to power. [More…]
The triennium that we inherited when we came into power was one in which we determined expenditure- I will talk of universities only- over 3 years. [More…]
The exercise of the power to dissent should never be allowed where it operates to deny the equal rights of others. [More…]
I believe that this Government has demonstrated very clearly ever since it came to power a ready response to questions such as the one raised by the Leader of the Opposition. [More…]
President Suharto at the conclusion of his visit to Indonesia state that the absence of great power rivalry in South East Asia is a specially desirable objective for the maintenance of peace and stability in the area? [More…]
We certainly did agree to the proposition that South East Asia ought to be free of great power rivalry. [More…]
They were prepared within the financial limits and this deprived the commissions of the power to recommend what really needed to be done. [More…]
I and others who are connected with the Lebanon realise that the Minister and the Government are doing everything in their power to assist those people. [More…]
Obviously that lengthy delay will seriously and deleteriously affect the purchasing power of pensioners. [More…]
The inescapable fact is that when Labor came to power pension payments represented less than 19 per cent of average weekly earnings. [More…]
We recognise the compelling power behind the findings of so many poverty inquiries in this country and especially the findings of Professor Henderson. [More…]
Support of federalism means support of a proper distribution of powers and functions of government between these 3 spheres so that government may be responsive to the needs and preferences of the community and of individuals. [More…]
Such a system of government can benefit from the input of local knowledge and talent and provides protection against excessive concentration of power. [More…]
That is a problem beyond the power of the Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations. [More…]
I remind him again that the Labor Party abolished the scheme and that the unemployment level during the time his party was in power increased from 136 000 to 328 000 people. [More…]
Unemployment among young people was 80 000 when Labor came to power and 152 000 when it went out of power. [More…]
I should like to join with the honourable member for Chifley (Mr Armitage) in condemnation of the honourable member for Phillip (Mr Birney) in his remarks and criticism of a friendly and world power in the forum of this House last night. [More…]
The remarks of the honourable member for Phillip were completely unjustified against a friendly and world power whose balance of trade with Australia has been about six to one in our favour over a period of 10 years. [More…]
In respect to the increases that the doctors have decided to charge as from 1 January next year, honourable members will understand that the Commonwealth Government has no power over the determination of the fees that doctors will charge. [More…]
At least we, as a national Parliament, should accept our responsibilities in areas over which we have the power to legislate. [More…]
In seasonally adjusted terms they dropped from October of last year, a year ago this month, when Labor’s policies were applying, to March of this year when the policies of those who were born to rule, in their estimation, those who grabbed power on the excuse that they could manage the economy better, took over. [More…]
If we use gas in the home we will get a greater energy benefit from it than if the same amount of gas is burnt in a power plant. [More…]
Gas produces only one-third as much electrical energy when burnt in a power plant as it would if it was used naturally in the home. [More…]
I am firmly convinced that when the 170 nuclear stations which are being built around the world today are functioning properly they will provide more and more power for people all over the world. [More…]
From that power, that energy, will come the resources that will uplift the large sections of humanity which today are depressed. [More…]
They will take the coal to Japan, gasify it there and feed that gas under their power boilers- boilers that were designed for use with fuel oil. [More…]
Generating power by coal-fired power stations, which is about next on the list in terms of thermal efficiency amongst the more popular energy forms, has an efficiency down to about 32 per cent or 35 per cent- at the outside no more than 38 per cent. [More…]
In most cases it is looked at by people who have the power to switch it off or to switch to something else. [More…]
I regard the program Power Without Glory as a first-class production. [More…]
However, it is to the Government’s complete discredit that it allowed the important issue of ethnic radio to become the football in a power play between that Minister and the Minister for Post and Telecommunications. [More…]
In the postal area we have seen, notwithstanding the change and the establishment of a statutory corporation, the continued blackmail by monopoly power in the work force of the statutory corporations of government. [More…]
We see today the blackmail that is being exerted by means of the monopoly power of the trade unions over the Postal Commission through the unions being able to hold up the mails of the country. [More…]
We saw the continual tie-up of mail and the attempt to use monopoly power by those who work in a particular situation where they have their own capacity to hold up an essential national service. [More…]
In some cases it will be argued that we do not have the power to control them, and I think that might be right. [More…]
The judgment clearly said that the Commonwealth would have the power to look at any matter which was the subject of electronic transmission of the voice. [More…]
Before the Labor Government came to power and established the Australian Legal Aid Office in 1973, legal aid hardly existed in this country. [More…]
All commentators agree that the GovernorGeneral had power to do what he did. [More…]
What happens when a slim majority is held in the lower House by the party in power but a larger majority is held by the other party in the Senate? [More…]
There are many occasions when somebody with overwhelming economic power can push his position over that of another person. [More…]
It would be most improper on my pan to use any language which suggested that I have the power to make such a decision. [More…]
This is a very real power. [More…]
It would abolish the Senate and it would put all power in one unitary parliament in Australia. [More…]
Of course, it is quite clear that at least four of the seven of the High Court Justices have said that the Senate has power to reject Supply. [More…]
That was in force at the time we came to power. [More…]
These are fundamental to our views and policies, past, present and future, and the policy once we came to power gained international reflection in the resolutions of the United Nations that I have referred to- the resolutions in the General Assembly and in the Security Council. [More…]
I understand that when Mr Cox came to power as Minister for Transport he sought to have the various projects that were under way reconsidered and that he in fact put up several other propositions which finally excluded the electrification of this railway line. [More…]
Many powerful speeches are made around Australia by State Ministers in which they say that if only the Commonwealth would agree to such and such a proposition they would be able to do certain things. [More…]
Labor was in power in New South Wales for 20 years. [More…]
Whatever criticism the Government and its supporters had of the previous Labor Government, power has been in their hands since November last year. [More…]
The Government has had the power to introduce a new policy if the Labor Government’s policy was wrong, but it is not prepared to do so. [More…]
The contingency of military threat by a major power has been found to be remote and improbable. [More…]
Can it be that our deeper problems are not of resources but of will, not of power but of conception? [More…]
A Liberal-Country Party Government, or should I say a United Australia Party-Country Party Government, was in power from 1939 to 1941 and for many years prior to that date. [More…]
Into power came a Labor Government. [More…]
After 23 years of Liberal Government when we again came into power we found that our defence forces and equipment had again fallen away quite drastically. [More…]
The morale of the Australian forces when the Labor Government came to power was the highest that it had been in peace time. [More…]
Unfortunately it was again sabotaged on the basis that it was going to detract from somebody’s power to procure defence equipment. [More…]
I believe all Australians should be made aware of the present overtures being made by Russian authorities to the King of Tonga for the acquisition of an island in the Tongan group for obvious use as a power base. [More…]
Let there be no doubt that the Soviets are intent on creating power bases across the oceans of the world. [More…]
A Budget deficit would have funded more employment opportunities, increased spending power, and so helped cut down unemployment. [More…]
Well, this is the same Vapold Pty Ltd, a Liberal Party trustee company, that owns buildings by abusing privilege and power. [More…]
My own personal view has been that the Government should have relevant economic power, but at this stage the Labor movement does not necessarily agree with the proposal. [More…]
As soon as we got into power we took action in the United Nations. [More…]
The power costs of people on the South Coast are artificially high because of the very high demand factor in peak periods. [More…]
One of the most unfortunate aspects of this matter in recent years was that when the Liberals went out of power in 1972 so did the fulfilment of our promise to the people that we would get on withthe establishment of the new airport. [More…]
Clause 3 1 of the Bill gives to the Court a power to punish contempt of court. [More…]
The Bankruptcy Court has power to sit with a jury, although this seems not to be done in practice. [More…]
-I would advise the honourable member to return to the subject matter of the Bill rather than talk about a power house. [More…]
The plain fact is that the State housing authorities have less purchasing power this financial year in the face of rising building costs, in the face of increased demand - [More…]
I repeat what I said: The plain fact is that the State housing authorities have less purchasing power this financial year in the face of rising building costs, increased demand and a serious downturn in the home building industry. [More…]
Approximately three-tenths of Australia’s total energy budget goes to power various forms of transport. [More…]
In any case, the Government has the power under section 96 to relieve any excessive hardship being imposed on or felt by any company. [More…]
The difficulties of administering a dual system of taxation with each State having the power to make its own rules has been highlighted by the committee and by many others. [More…]
It is a commemoration of an infamy, for on that day 20 years ago the Hungarian people reached out for their freedom and found themselves crushed by brutal and ruthless Soviet power. [More…]
For example, if, as in the honourable gentleman’s time, there were a minibudget on some occasion in November following the Budget and there were tax concessions made, that would in fact reduce the share going to the States unless there were in the legislation a power designed to exempt that particular matter from the provisions of this legislation. [More…]
I would also say that the Treasurer will not use that power in any instance unless there has been full discussion with the States concerned in relation to it. [More…]
In the same piece of legislation there was an allegation in relation to clause 6(1) (b) the Commonwealth Minister would have the power to veto or vet- change- the recommendations of States grants commissions. [More…]
Does the Minister regard industrial stoppages, bans and the like on political or non-industrial issues as a legitimate use of union power? [More…]
It is a common international practice that on accession to power in various countries messages of congratulation be sent to the leaders of those countries. [More…]
Our desire to give power and responsibility back to individuals and groups in order to effectively meet the requirements of social welfare, distinguishes our policy from alternative approaches. [More…]
The point I wish to make is that Labor supporters should not suddenly say that this is a new problem that has been caused by this Government, because the problem was there equally when they were in power. [More…]
As well, I would like to see the Government extend the powers of the board established under section 265 of the Income Tax Assessment Act so as to cover hardship cases relating to the imposition of death duties. [More…]
At present the board has power to grant relief to taxpayers only in respect of serious hardship arising from income tax liability. [More…]
The power mania that I submit is centred in the few tattered remnants of the Party opposite manifests itself once again in their determination to maintain control over the financing of exports in this way so that they will have power of direction over a large section of the private enterprise sector. [More…]
If this tree-pull scheme is a bankrupt scheme why did the Labor Party not change it during the 3 years in which it was in power? [More…]
Finally, I suggest there should be reconstruction of the Australian Canned Fruits Board to give it greater power to change its representation so that it can have greater power over marketing. [More…]
At the time the Government came to power it announced large reductions in government spending. [More…]
Another 29 per cent of lending in 1975 was for public utilities involving mainly the exploitation of indigenous power resources in Asian countries. [More…]
Developing countries have improved their basic infrastructure; railways, roads, bridges and power systems have been built. [More…]
There is, of course, a very real tendency for the ruling classes in many of these countries, regardless of whether they be there by the democratic process or by force of arms, to take the view that having achieved power, the object of the exercise is to maintain it regardless of how the people under them are expected to live. [More…]
The Opposition is of the opinion that it should not be thought that we are retaining some vestige of neo-colonial power by saying that the High Court of Australia should be the court of appeal for the Nauruans. [More…]
In the course of looking at the legalities of the situation it is interesting to look at how our own High Court, in dealing with cases which I think related more to Papua New Guinea, has been in a bit of a dilemma in the past as to whether its powers were virtually under section 122 of the Constitution or what is known as the external affairs power, which is placitum (xxix) of section 51. [More…]
While there have been decisions either way, one is prone to think about the decisions of Mr Justice Evatt in Jolley v Mainka and later in Ffrost v Stevenson, where he emphasised the fact that in his opinion the power was in the external affairs power. [More…]
We agree with the AttorneyGeneral (Mr Ellicott) that the external affairs power provides a sufficient constitutional base for this Bill. [More…]
The external affairs power is a most important power. [More…]
The High Court has held that it may have conferred upon it appellate jurisdiction other than from State courts so long as there is a proper source of power for legislation conferring other jurisdiction. [More…]
The power in the Constitution to legislate with respect to external affairs and also with respect to relations of the Commonwealth with the islands of the Pacific would enable the Parliament to enact the Bill so there is no doubt about the constitutional validity of this Bill. [More…]
I have indicated to the honourable gentleman previously the number of projects that have been authorised for commencement since the Government came to power. [More…]
These Bills relate to the Federal Court of Australia Bill already before the House and deal with the exercise of federal judicial power and the structure of the Supreme Courts of the Australian Capital Territory and Northern Territory. [More…]
Clause 3 of the Bill replaces section 4 of the principal Act that empowers action to be taken in the period between the passing of an Act and its commencement so that the Act can have effective operations on the date it comes into force. [More…]
Moreover, section 4 as it stands contains a proviso that instruments made under the power thus conferred do not become effective until the Act comes into operation, but there is no similar provision as to the effective date of other things that may be done under the power. [More…]
It is proposed that promotion and appeal rights of existing officers will be continued in substantively the same manner as was provided for staff transferred to the Postal and Telecommunications Commissions and a regulation making power for this purpose is included in the Bill. [More…]
Fourthly, where the collegiate system enables a minority group to control the union they can then use their power to weaken the majority and so further cement their control. [More…]
If all these officers were defeated by the opposing faction, the effect would be a transfer of power not only in relation to the union officials as such but also in relation to the federal council of the union. [More…]
All he talked about was how power could be manipulated by a few top officials within trade unions, how the balance of power could be swung from Left or Right. [More…]
We have had a period in Australia for some years where interest groups from one side or other of the political spectrum have used the trade union movement as nothing more than a power base from which they could peddle their political interests. [More…]
I do not believe that in this consideration any thought should be given at all to the power base of those people who have no better ambition in mind than to use trade unions for political purposes or simply to manipulate for power. [More…]
In my opinion one of the most unfortunate things that has happened within the trade union movement and within the political structures of Australia is that extremist groups of both the Left and the Right have used whatever facilities have been available to them for nothing better than exerting power. [More…]
They want moderate trade union leaders who have at heart the genuine interests of the worker and not the wielding of political power. [More…]
In framing legislation of this type the Minister and the Government need to give consideration not to the political power mongering of trade union leaders but to the needs of the rank and file worker. [More…]
Those who then come to power in the unions are second hand and come not through the honest straightforward ballot as we know union ballots are now but through a system which can be manipulated. [More…]
In spite of all the rhetoric from the Government and all the nonsense that we have heard, the Government will find that what it proposes to do now will turn the clock back so that a trade union, no matter who is in charge of it, will be able to devise a system by which those in control will never be out of power. [More…]
The Government now has provided to those controlling trade unions a system under which they cannot be put out of power. [More…]
Fourthly, these Bills perpetuate a sham to the effect that there is a transfer of power from the Federal to the State sphere when no such transfer takes place, as we have seen from the alterations that have been hurriedly and unsatisfactorily made at the last moment by a Government which has been forced into these actions. [More…]
I have not yet outlined in detail the effects of the implementation of Fraser federalism on economic management, apart from mentioning the disabilities caused by States having income tax powers. [More…]
In practice we find that there has been no shift of power from Canberra to the States at all. [More…]
No real change of power will occur and all the Government will succeed in doing will be to subject the electorate to a fascinating charade which I believe will take a lot of time and energy and will come to nothing. [More…]
Representatives and the Senate- has the power to prevent certain things happening in the United States, particularly regarding foreign policy and finance. [More…]
We are faced with the enormously costly implications of providing adequate defence arrangements for a small medium-sized power like Australia. [More…]
I would hasten to add that ‘small medium-sized power’ is not my description but it seems to be the accepted one and there seems to be some sort of imbalance there. [More…]
The USSR has achieved essential nuclear strategic equivalence with the US and competes with the US as a global power. [More…]
What is objectionable is the arbitrary nature of the power which is available to proprietors- whether it is used or not- to fix the priorities on public issues. [More…]
The only hedge available against proprietorial power is the libel laws and even here the proprietors constantly prevail upon governments to amend these, of course with the intention of easing the burden upon the media companies. [More…]
Journalists themselves have not been able in an organised way to make any inroads into powers of proprietors. [More…]
In such a situation, the power of the Federal Government to legislate on matters regarding newspapers, where radio or television station proprietors with newspaper holdings were concerned, would be the subject of much debate. [More…]
The power to legislate regarding newspapers is, after all, a State power and not a federal one. [More…]
In its 3 years in power the Australian Labor Party sought very much to increase the opportunities for communication in radio and television. [More…]
The trade unionists knows that they hold over him the power of intimidation, the power of victimisation. [More…]
John Smith in the unions very often knows that if he will not obey his union boss when he is directed to do something illegal which he himself does not want to do that union boss has the power to victimise him, and to victimise him abominably. [More…]
Disputes will go on year after year whichever government is in power. [More…]
I want to begin my remarks this afternoon by drawing to the attention of the House the fact that the whole question of federalism is as much about the distribution of power and initiative as it is about money. [More…]
The distribution of power in any society is an important element of preserving freedom within that society. [More…]
If all power is located in one place, in one government or in a small group of people, there is a danger that the freedoms that a country enjoys can be taken away by abuse of that power. [More…]
The power to legislate is divided between State, federal and local government bodies. [More…]
This is all part of the process of centralising power. [More…]
This has been described by Professor Mathews as ‘a federal system marked by centralisation of power, unequal bargaining strength and the distortion of the priorities of the Tower levels of government’. [More…]
I assure the honourable member for Adelaide, who doubted this, that transfers of power will take place, but before this can be done the fiscal arrangements between the spheres of government will have to be tidied up. [More…]
-Central power, using the States merely as administrative agents for the Commonwealth Government. [More…]
We are in some respects limiting the powers of the national Parliament. [More…]
The contribution of the Labor Party speakers in this House has again shown their bitter and unrelenting antagonism to any reform which limits the concentration of effective power in the hands of one central parliament, one cabinet and one caucus. [More…]
I believe that the sensible path to socialism is to say honestly that at the moment federally we have not got the constitutional power to bring about socialism. [More…]
Their prelude to attaining the socialist state is the creation of a unitary state with all effective power- political, economical and financial- at one centre. [More…]
Later, the Party adopted the fighting platform that called for (a) unification and (b) reconstruction of Austraiian government with centralisation of legislative power in the Commonwealth Parliament. [More…]
I now come back to the present claim by the Leader of the Opposition that the Australian Labor Party has removed his Party’s reference to clothing the Commonwealth Parliament with unlimited powers’. [More…]
It was the whole unification policy- the centralist, insular power grab, the instrument of Labor’s unbending socialist goal- crudely disguised by a bunch of Labor Party amateurs in 1969. [More…]
The proposed power of the Treasurer (Mr Lynch) to levy further income tax disguised as a surcharge- and, therefore, not part of the base figure for calculation of entitlements- is a further threat to local government revenues. [More…]
These Bills provide the means by which this Government will be able to support a proper distribution of the powers and functions of government between those 3 spheres so that government may be responsive to the needs and preferences of the community and of individuals. [More…]
Such a system of government can benefit from the input of local knowledge and talent and provide protection against the excessive concentration of power. [More…]
The States and the State grants commissions are being given the power to be flexible. [More…]
Having had those responses we bring forward these amendments which seek to make it clear that the Commonwealth has no wish to exercise a power of veto over the distribution of local government assistance recommended by the States ‘ local government grants commissions. [More…]
The only time it has looked as though the bounty is to be reduced since it was introduced is now when the Liberal-National Country Parties are in power. [More…]
b) the powers of the Commonwealth in export licensing should not be invoked when the Commonwealth is in conflict with a State Government on environmental or other issues not directly related to that power. [More…]
After all the Australian Labor Party in power in 1974 unleashed a credit squeeze that pushed the economy to the depths of recession and put some thousands of Australian workers on the dole. [More…]
I think we are all well aware that some of the original advantages of Tasmanian industry, such as cheap power, tend to have been dissipated over the years as later development of hydro-electric power has been in more difficult areas and so at greater cost. [More…]
The Government has no intention of qualifying the essential thrust of the economic policies which it has pursued since coming to power and which we clearly foreshadowed during the course of the election campaign. [More…]
Seasonally adjusted factory production excluding power was at the same level in August as in February- that is, there has been no growth in private secondary industry production during 1976. [More…]
If a Labor government had been in power it would have taken the initiative and put minimum import-export prices on beef to protect abuses. [More…]
The honourable member went to great pains to explain how the Labor Party, had it still been in power, would have had a minimum price scheme. [More…]
The worst price that the beef industry has had for many years that I can recall occurred while the Labor Party was in power. [More…]
Why should the honourable member be hypocritical and stand up and condemn our Government for not introducing a minimum price scheme when his Party had the power to do so? [More…]
He once again showed the complete lack of understanding that the Opposition has for Australia’s rural industries, a fact that will remain in the memory of all people in Australia’s rural areas who suffered in desperation during Labor’s 3 years in power. [More…]
Actually one can describe that power as havoc, I think. [More…]
Having in mind the continual refusal of the Minister to supply information I have repeatedly sought in the Parliament when discussing the estimates for the Department of Transport, the succession of secret inquiries and reports which this Government has commissioned, and a Cabinet decision of 9 October 1976 that legislation should not be introduced to the Parliament when the same objectives can be achieved by regulation, it is worth recalling that the purpose of the principle Act, the Airports (Surface Traffic) Act 1960, was to give legislative form to powers over parking at airports previously exercised under regulation 3 15 (c) of the Air Navigation Regulations, made under the Air Navigation Act 1920-1950. [More…]
He pointed out that the Commonwealth had power under section 52 of the Constitution to make laws with respect to places acquired by the Commonwealth for public purposes such as the estab,lishment and operation of airports. [More…]
That the national government controls mineral export licensing through trade powers under the Constitution gives recognition of this pre-eminent national interest. [More…]
Are we going to give this power to the States? [More…]
These are enormous powers. [More…]
This Bill gives the Government the power in co-operation with the Victorian Government to take positive steps to protect this habitat. [More…]
This Government, by the amendment proposed in this Bill, now has the power to set up co-operative management proposals for State national parks. [More…]
There is to be a repeal of provisions for automatic removal to and exclusive jurisdiction of the High Court in matters involving the limits inter se of the constitutional powers of the Commonwealth and the States. [More…]
There is to be complete revision of the subject of removal to the High Court by order of the High Court of cases commenced and pending in other courts, extending the power of the High Court to order such removal beyond the existing category of constitutional cases to cases in Federal or Territory courts and cases where a State court is exercising Federal jurisdiction, and giving the High Court increased power over the removed causes, increased powers or remittal of the whole or part back to the original court, and entirely new powers to direct the further conduct of the cause in the original court. [More…]
There is to be new power in the High Court of its own motion to remit other court cases commenced as of right in the High Court by virtue of the Constitution. [More…]
I am advised that this could be of some doubtful constitutional validity but since it is well known that the High Court has sought this power for some years it is thought that the High Court is unlikely to hold the new section invalid should there be any test of that position. [More…]
Generally the two new matters of importance are the conferring upon Commonwealth and State Attorneys-General of a new power in constitutional cases in any court of intervention in the suits of private parties, and provisions conferring new rights on legal practitioners of one State to appear m courts of other States. [More…]
We are advised generally that at the present time section 38a of the Judiciary Act has the effect that only the High Court may decide questions as to the limits inter se of the constitutional powers of the Commonwealth and those of the States, and that present section 40a provides for automatic removal to the High Court of cases commenced in other courts which raise such a question. [More…]
The result will be that inter se questions may now be decided by other courts and although there will still be power in the High Court to order removal to the High Court of the whole of such a case or the inter se question, there will be no automatic removal. [More…]
This power has been little used because it could not be exercised on the court’s own motion. [More…]
It is chiefly relevant to the class of case set out in section 75 of the Constitution, which confers absolutely on the High Court jurisdiction in this class of case, which jurisdiction the Parliament has no power to take away. [More…]
There is a new power of intervention by the Attorneys-General. [More…]
Clause 10 of the Bill proposes to create a new power to a Commonwealth or State Attorney-General to intervene in any case between private parties pending in any Federal court or any Territory or any State court excerising Federal jurisdiction if the case involved a matter arising under or the interpretation of the Constitution. [More…]
They want moderate trade union leaders who have at heart the genuine interests of the worker and not the wielding of political power. [More…]
In no case is he to be endowed with the personal power to act over the heads of Parliament and the ministry. [More…]
In no case is he to be endowed with the personal power to go over the heads of the Parliament and the Ministry. [More…]
It is quite improper for people to use their power to single out one particular enterprise in Australia simply because they want to help another union that is in dispute with that enterprise. [More…]
Is he aware that the Australian Broadcasting Control Board under existing legislation has no power to regulate the conduct of radiothons telethons or any appeals of that nature conducted by the electronic media? [More…]
It proposes that the Tribunal have power to hold hearings and set standards and directly grant licences rather than merely recommend their granting and leave decisions to government. [More…]
So the upshot of Cabinet’s decisions is more power over broadcasting planning for the department of Post and Telecommunications, a toothless Broadcasting Council and a Broadcasting Tribunal with marginally more powers and personnel than its predecessor . [More…]
What the Government appears to be doing, what it gives itself the power to do, is scarcely less important than what it does. [More…]
No longer will a Minister of the Crown have the final power over licences. [More…]
The Government has retained powers only in the areas where it is necessary to do so. [More…]
It has not increased its powers. [More…]
It has the power to achieve this result now. [More…]
Another matter which we were discussing is the new power of intervention by the AttorneysGeneral. [More…]
Clause 10 of the Judiciary Amendment Bill proposes to create a new power for the Commonwealth or a State Attorney-General to intervene in any case between private parties pending in any Federal court, any Territory court and any State court exercising Federal jurisdiction if the case involves a matter arising under or the interpretation of the Constitution. [More…]
If that is so, there is to be a substantial new power for government to interfere with private litigation. [More…]
He concedes that he was grasping at straws in respect of the measures we are now discussing, measures such as the power of the High Court to remit matters to other State courts and to Territory courts, and that such objections were not legitimate. [More…]
It cannot deal with total equalisation among the States insofar as it does not deal with tariffs and those distributions of resources in Australia that derive from the external affairs power. [More…]
Insofar as it is able to widen its purview and consider equalisation not only in terms of fiscal matters but also in terms of those transfers of resources that go with the possession of the trade power and in terms of the transfer of monetary responsibilities so as to equalise those between one part of Australia and another it could have a welcome widening of its own present activities, which are extremely valuable to Australia and of which I would suggest in the immediate years to come more States than one will be very anxious and very ready to take advantage. [More…]
Honourable members on the Government side support such bodies as the Queensland Government, various legislative councils and the chicanery and manipulation by the National Country Party wherever it has the power. [More…]
When they were in government they were prepared to use whatever means and whatever tactics were available to them to stay in power, including putting pressure on the private banks to provide funds, which was suggested at one stage. [More…]
We look with interest at the record and the record shows that honourable members opposite have supported the principle that the Senate has the power to refuse Supply and that if it does that an election should follow. [More…]
-It is always a matter of levity to those people who would seek power quite unscrupulously, without conscience and without honour. [More…]
One of the things which I think this House ought to understand is that the events of last November have destroyed and will continue to destroy until such time as they are resolved by proper process the hope of any confidence existing in any government other than that which controls the sources of power in the media in this country being allowed to govern. [More…]
Regrettably, when the new State Labor Government came to power it took that priority away and did not in fact place any emphasis on other roads in the area for quick development. [More…]
One does not need to believe in conspiracy theories or to indulge in emotive recriminations to imagine the feelings of Australians who had twice voted Labor into power. [More…]
Everyone accepts that this House alone can form a government; that is its primary and exclusive power. [More…]
It follows that this House alone can remove a government, for the power to form a government must carry with it the power to preserve and sustain that government in office. [More…]
No one asserts that the Senate can form a government; its powers in that regard are inferior to those of the lower House. [More…]
The power of the lower House to form a government is now, we are told, conditional on the concurrence of another chamber which has no such power. [More…]
It seems to me that, notwithstanding legal arguments and constitutional precedents, the attempt to claim superior powers for the Senate over this House involves us in a logical contradiction. [More…]
The Senate’s assertion of power was not only undemocratic but manifestly absurd. [More…]
This is a Government that overturned all accepted rules, traditions and decencies in a rush for power. [More…]
It has attacked the Australian Broadcasting Commission; it has stunted the growth centres; it has damaged our relations with foreign powers. [More…]
The result of all their dishonesty, their ruthless greed for power, their contempt for rules and propriety, is not just to destroy for ever the credibility of the Liberal Party. [More…]
A lot of false argument has been used to suggest that it was tyranny, that in some way the power to govern had been assumed by the then Opposition. [More…]
The events returned the power to the people. [More…]
At no stage was there any usurpation of power by anyone but the people; the people were given the opportunity to exercise their authority. [More…]
Exercise of the reserve powers of the Governor-General was a demonstration that it is necessary at some stage to return a corrupt and incompetent government to its masters. [More…]
It would be more sensible to worry lest the Senate, when a Party has a majority in both Houses, might not exercise the power that properly belongs to it. [More…]
So there is a political sanction against the over-use of this power. [More…]
It is a power that should be properly used. [More…]
The powers that were used to bring about that change of government were carefully written into the Constitution and any reader of constitutional debates will find countless references to the power to reject. [More…]
There would have been no Federation if that power had not been reserved to the Senate. [More…]
Deakin very carefully spelt out to the Constitutional Convention how that power would be used. [More…]
Is Australia a colonial power, so subservient that it has no status at all? [More…]
When the Australian Labor Party came into power the reports on the state of technical education in Australia indicated that 70 per cent of the male work force and 80 per cent of the female work force had no skills. [More…]
However, I believe that the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) has done all within his power to accommodate this important sector in 1977. [More…]
From the very day the report was released I made it quite clear publicly that I did not wish to see, and that I would do everything in my power to prevent, the transfer to northern Tasmania of the School of Art which was attached to the TCAE at Mount Nelson and which in fact has existed in Hobart since 1891. [More…]
If knowledge is power, and we must be able to communicate in order to acquire knowledge, it is abundantly clear that the best way to communicate with people is in their own language. [More…]
The Government is satisfied that appropriate controls would apply to the shipments under existing contracts, which will be used for electric power generation in Japan, the United States and the Federal Republic of Germany, all of which are parties to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. [More…]
The handling and disposal of radioactive waste resulting from nuclear power generation lies with the countries concerned and, we are advised, are subject to the strictest regulation and control in these countries within existing technology. [More…]
In drafting the Bill the Government gave careful consideration to the question of whether the Commonwealth should have the power to impose a legislative requirement that part of the general recurrent grants for government or non-government systemic schools should be made available to school community bodies. [More…]
Government supporters talk about new federalism, evolving power, decentralisation and all the rest of it, but when the initiative lies directly with them, when the responsibility is here with them and the chance to do something is here with them they back off. [More…]
We have called for an inquiry because of this and because we are worried by the power that the forestry lobby has in the governments of this country. [More…]
That is the very thing which he and the government of which he was a member were doing to this nation when it was in power for 3 years. [More…]
The issue of this challenge was surely an acknowledgement by Prime Minister Whitlam of the Governor-General’s powers under sections 62 and 64 of the Constitution to dismiss Ministers, including Prime Ministers, whose appointment to office is during the Governor-General’s pleasure. [More…]
Despite this acknowledgement, attempts are still being made to suggest that the Governor-General had no power to determine the Prime Minister’s commission, either on the ground that his power is not greater than that of the Queen or that it is limited to acting in all matters on the advice of the Prime Minister. [More…]
There are, in my view, no grounds for arguing that the powers exercised by the Governor-General could not be exercised by the Queen in her capacity as Queen of Australia, even if their exercise by her in the United Kingdom is, according to Colin Howard, unthinkable. [More…]
Therefore it is not possible to sustain the view that the GovernorGeneral acted contrary to the intention that his powers should not exceed those of the Queen herself. [More…]
But it must be noted that whereas the Constitution confers some powers on the Governor-General in Council it clearly gives others to the Governor-General alone. [More…]
Under section 5 he has the power from time to time as he thinks fit to dissolve the House of Representatives. [More…]
One would have thought that it was beyond dispute that though he will in the exercise of these powers generally act on the advice of Ministers he need not necessarily do so. [More…]
I have suggested that the States, I believe, would want to support the declaration and its objectives and to do all they can in their power to support and to assist the disabled. [More…]
Does the Prime Minister view the situation in Victoria concerning the Newport power station as a clear challenge to the right of an elected government to make decisions affecting the whole community? [More…]
-As honourable gentlemen would know, some several weeks ago I indicated publicly what I had previously indicated privately to the Premier of Victoria- that the Commonwealth would support the Victorian Government in action taken to achieve the construction of the Newport power station. [More…]
The Victorian Government, as a result of its constitutional position, probably has somewhat wider constitutional powers in relation to industrial disputes than does the Commonwealth. [More…]
Victorian Government at this stage is something which I believe a great many people want to support because this power station must be built. [More…]
If it is not built the fact is that Victoria will go short of power and more people will be out of work. [More…]
If that is the objective of those who oppose the construction of the power station, let them get up and say so quite plainly. [More…]
If black bans are to be imposed on various Commonwealth public works we should look at the powers available to us in appropriate circumstances to see what course of action we might think it necessary to take. [More…]
It was perhaps a smaller matter than Newport power station, but the decision announced late last week in relation to the postal strike concerning John Fairfax and Sons has not been entirely without its own success. [More…]
The commission will be dominated by committees which will have the real power to dispense legal aid in the Australian Capital Territory. [More…]
The legal aid committee will have the real power to dispense commission funds. [More…]
In that last year, 5 months represented the time when a Labor Government was in power. [More…]
Blowering is in a peculiar situation because on it are power generation plants which are the responsibility of the Snowy Mountains Council. [More…]
Since coming to power, this Liberal-National Country Party Government has made a virtue out of cutting public spending. [More…]
A large rear door will give access to the main deck, which will be specially stressed and fitted with a power driven roller system to enable containers up to a maximum of 20 feet in length to be loaded. [More…]
In fact, the Liberal and National Country parties before they lost power in 1972 had belatedly- due, I believe, to the persistence of questioning by my colleague from South Australia, the honourable member for Hawker (Mr Jacobi)- recognised the need for reform in this area. [More…]
As I understand it, the Australian constitutional power extends not only to supervision, which is the purpose of the 1973 Act, but could also extend to regulatory powers and to control. [More…]
-I ask the Prime Minister a question about the Newport power station. [More…]
He would be aware that the place where this power station is proposed to be built is one of the most industrially polluted areas in Victoria, if not in Australia. [More…]
I am quite certain that the Premier of Victoria would not pursue an activity or a State enterprise such as the construction of a power station if it were contrary to the broader interests of the natural environment. [More…]
Of course, the honourable member for Lalor would be well aware that the deadlock over this power station is not just a matter of the environment. [More…]
It is a question of power and political power. [More…]
The unions that control the production of coal and the coal fired power stations at Yallourn will have less political power in Victoria once a natural gas station is built. [More…]
That is why those unions, amongst others, have sought to prevent the station being built- so that the base of their political power in controlling Victoria’s power supplies can be maintained. [More…]
Today at question time the Prime Minister answered a question about the Newport power station. [More…]
He justified not placing that power station in the Latrobe Valley of Victoria, where there are adequate supplies of brown coal- a natural fuel. [More…]
If placed in that area, the power station would provide employment in a declining employment opportunity area. [More…]
However, the Prime Minister’s justification for not doing so was that this would break the grip of certain trade unions in the area on the power supplies of the State. [More…]
It must be assumed that the Prime Minister does not know that the people who will work in the power station at Newport will be members of the Electrical Trades Union, just as the people who work at other power stations are members of that Union. [More…]
The Prime Minister’s justification for siting the power station at Newport is to achieve a political objective and not an industrial or environmental objective. [More…]
Since the environmental impact study was conducted it has been disclosed that the power station will be changed over to other forms of fuel if natural gas becomes in short supply, and that it will be a continuing rather than a peak load station. [More…]
The Prime Munster is arguing that the power station should not be placed in an area where employment opportunities are needed and where many of the problems in recent years- I say this for theenefit of those people who care to understandhave been caused by declining employment opportunities and threats to people’s homes and way of life. [More…]
Amendments will be proposed in relation to land trusts to ensure that the concept of them as title-holding bodies having no independent power of initiative is consistently maintained and clearly expressed. [More…]
To help ensure that the land councils administer land in conformity with the wishes of Aborigines with traditional interests in land, the power of a land council to delegate its powers to its members or its staff will be limited. [More…]
Either House will have the power to disallow the Government’s decision to override Aboriginal refusal to consent. [More…]
From this central point Mr Justice Blackburn held that the Aboriginal parliament, through the Imperial Parliament of Great Britain, could exercise power over the whole of the Commonwealth and in particular that land claimed before the court. [More…]
The most wide ranging and far reaching alterations to Labor’s Bill relate to the transfer of legislative power from this Parliament to the [More…]
These powers include the control and declaration of protection of sacred sites, the control of entry to pastoral properties, the control of entry to Aboriginal lands and access to the sea adjoining Aboriginal lands. [More…]
The Opposition opposes this transfer of power and, in particular, opposes the deletion of that clause of the 1975 Land Rights Bill which provided that this Parliament, through regulation, could override any Northern Territory legislation. [More…]
The new Bill gives wide discretionary powers to the Minister to set the boundaries and to limit the operation of land councils. [More…]
Mr Justice Woodward, in paragraph 359 of his second report, recommended that land councils have power to: [More…]
The important power to make representations about priorities and expenditure is deleted from the functions of the councils. [More…]
The new clause, recognising the overwhelming vote of the 1967 referendum to give the Parliament legislative power in Aboriginal affairs, wil reinstate that provision in the 1975 Bill which makes any such declaration subject to disallowance by either House of this Parliament. [More…]
Firstly, in relation to power over roads, the 1975 Act gave the Aboriginal councils power to control the use of roads running through their land. [More…]
I do not believe that it makes for a sense of sensitivity or understanding when words such as those contained in the Press statement are issued by the solicitor for the Central Land Council, remembering that the land councils are the centres of authority and power in this legislation. [More…]
In every Bill there is a dynamic and in every piece of legislation there is a part of that legislation which enshrines the allocation of power and authority. [More…]
They are also a source of enormous power. [More…]
So one has to be careful to ensure that that power is carefully, fruitfully and correctly exercised. [More…]
I refer to clauses 24 and 26 of the Bill in order to make clear what that power happens to be. [More…]
Clause 24 sub-clause (2) makes it clear that the Aboriginal councils will hold very great power in respect of conciliation procedures. [More…]
I believe this is a very great power- [More…]
The restoration of the Aboriginal Land Commissioner’s power to hear claims . [More…]
All these bodies are concerned about this power which was in the Labor Party Bill being given back to the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly. [More…]
The most wide-ranging alterations to the Labor Government’s Bui relate to the transfer of legislative power from the Commonwealth Parliament to the control of the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly. [More…]
However, owing to the constraints of time under which we work, I have decided to concentrate my discussion on the other 3 important areas of transference of power to the Legislative Assembly 3 areas which will almost certainly be the subject of complementary legislation at some time in the future. [More…]
They said genuinely and authentically what they believed, and the authentic voice of the Aborigine as I have heard it through interpreters- many Aborigines are magnificent orators in their own languages- never, but never, utters the slogans of New York Black Power, nor the opinions of mining companies, or of any of the other voices that are presented to us here. [More…]
The intregrity of which the honourable member speaks in relation to rnining will, of course, be provided through the veto power which came under such attack from certain quarters within the community but which was maintained by the Government intact for the very good reason that we sought to maintain the integrity of Aboriginal ownership in the Aboriginal sense of what is their land. [More…]
am quite sure in my own mind that the integrity of which the honourable member for Mackellar speaks will be maintained through this veto power and the other protections which are provided for in the legislation. [More…]
He was not prepared to accept that, but did see it as absolutely necessary that there be adequate protection for Aborigines through the veto power and the other protections which he indicated and which are written into this legislation to see that Aboriginal interests are provided. [More…]
But even before that point might come, of course, the Commonwealth has statutory power to withhold consent to the ordinances. [More…]
I would not like that power to lie in the hands of the local council for the area in which I live. [More…]
That if, in Government, the Labor Party is satisfied that the hazards associated with nuclear power have been eliminated and satisfactory methods of waste disposal developed the question of uranium mining be re-considered in the context of full public debate; and [More…]
Another question arises out of the fact that the Australian Government does have considerable power to fix, under the Customs (Prohibited Exports) Regulations, the terms and conditions upon which uranium, if it were exported from this country, would be so exported. [More…]
The general point to be made at the outset in dealing with the corporation power must now be seen in the light of the concrete pipes instruction by the court to read its terms ‘broadly and not narrowly’- as Mr Justice Menzies said at page 5 1 1 of the Commonwealth Law Reports of 1971- and not ‘in any narrow or pedantic manner’- as the Chief Justice, Sir Garfield Barwick, said at page 490. [More…]
have power to make laws for the peace, order, and good government of the Commonwealth with respect to: (xx.) [More…]
Some might argue that the words ‘formed within the limits of the Commonwealth’ denote an anterior existence precluding the Commonwealth from making laws with respect to the incorporation of companies unless the incorporation is incidental to some other power. [More…]
That is, they would say that corporations must be formed under State or Territory laws and not under the Commonwealth corporations power. [More…]
Honourable members will note also from clause 22 that in drafting this Bill reference has not been placed solely on the corporation’s power. [More…]
Full utilisation has also been made of the trade and commerce power, the banking power, the insurance power and the territories power. [More…]
There is no basis for denying the Commonwealth Parliament the power to provide for the incorporation of companies under these powers. [More…]
The High Court case of O’sullivan v. Noarlunga Meat Ltd, the second New South Wales airlines case and Redfern v. Dunlop Rubber gave the Commonwealth wide powers over trade and commerce. [More…]
That power extends to matters preparatory to such trade as is specified in section SI, placitum (i.) [More…]
It can thus be seen that the Commonwealth has wide powers to enact a comprehensive National Companies Act, including provisions for incorporation. [More…]
This Parliament has the power to enact a National Companies Act. [More…]
It has the duty to use those powers in the interests of the people of Australia to ensure that we have the best possible companies legislation. [More…]
The Rae Committee said that there was an essential need to have an ability to investigate across State boundaries, to have uniformity of experience and facilities and that there should be a national investigatory power. [More…]
Another change relates to the powers of a company. [More…]
At present the powers are limited to those set out in detail in a schedule subject to any modifications in the memorandum of articles. [More…]
This causes inconvenience when a company finds that it needs a power that is not listed and, to avoid difficulties, companies tend to spell out long lists of powers in memoranda and articles. [More…]
The Bill removes the need for this by providing that a new company will have in the furtherance of its objects all the powers of a natural person. [More…]
We can foreshadow many constitutional difficulties as to whether such an alteration would be deemed to apply when there has been no reference of powers. [More…]
Why should we get into those difficulties when people could take the point that what the Minister is talking about is still subject to a State power in respect of which he has no right to legislate and there has been no reference of power? [More…]
I know that Queensland again would say that one must never refer any powers because one may never be able to take them back. [More…]
Queensland seems to think that the Federal Government has all the money and all the power and that it is not going to give anything to Queensland. [More…]
If it is fair enough for banking it ought to be fair enough for insurance which is developing in that way and certainly ought to be under this corporate structure power. [More…]
The founding fathers felt the need to refer to this power. [More…]
So often in this Parliament we have members of the conservative Parties denying that they have any opportunity to influence events because there is no constitutional power in this Parliament. [More…]
This Government now has been in power for over a year. [More…]
When it came to power the question of uniform companies legislation or national companies legislation had been subject to debate for at least two or three years before that by all interested persons. [More…]
If one listens to the honourable member for Kingsford-Smith and the honourable member for Grayndler one is led to believe that the commercial community in Australia is crying out for total and absolute Commonwealth control over the minutiae of this whole area without any qualification and without any safeguards, checks or balances about the possible abuse of that power. [More…]
In effect, the Opposition is saying to this Parliament that there are no constitutional problems involved in this area, that the Commonwealth has such a totality of power that even if there are a few areas not covered by the Commonwealth that does not matter and they will be picked up by the State legislation. [More…]
So far as the advice given to the present Commonwealth Government is concerned, there is no doubt that the Commonwealth’s power in this area is quite extensive. [More…]
Our proposals do involve a situation where all the necessary power needed to enable that body to act irrespective of State boundaries will be given to that body. [More…]
My advice is that the Commonwealth’s proposals are within constitutional power and can be given effect to if they are accepted by the States. [More…]
I emphasise that the Council is not an executive body with power to take decisions on planning. [More…]
Some critics apparently see it as having authority to take decisions affecting the ABC and lessening the present powers and independence of the Commission. [More…]
Let me emphasise again that the Council will have no such power to make decisions in respect of the ABC’s role and policies. [More…]
The Bill ensures fair treatment for persons appointed for a fixed term when their appointments come to an end, whether through exercise of the termination power, expiration of the period of appointment, or on abolition of the particular office of permanent head. [More…]
If the appointment has ended through exercise of the termination power or abolition of the office, he is also entitled to any compensation previously determined by the Governor-General at the time of his appointment. [More…]
The Chairman will be empowered to make his determinations after the Committee has had an opportunity to consider the matter. [More…]
The power to determine the conditions subject to which the payments will be made by the Commonwealth will remain vested in the Minister. [More…]
The Minister will, however, be empowered to request a report on the matter from the Chairman of the Committee if he so wishes. [More…]
I want to bring to his attention what to reasonable men is a proper and correct definition of ‘coercive federalism’ and for that purpose I draw on a quotation from Professor Mathews in which he pointed out that ‘coercive federalism’ was a style of government marked by centralisation of power, unequal bargaining strength and the distortion of the priorities of lower levels of government. [More…]
That report was presented in 1975, when a different government was in power here. [More…]
The fact is, of course, that we do not have the power to direct, nor should we have the power to direct, the State Government how to distribute this money. [More…]
I agree with the honourable member for Sturt (Mr Wilson) that federalism should in fact mean a withdrawal of even some of our existing powers of direction and that we should leave it to the good sense- in this case the absence of good sense- of New South Wales to direct where the money should go. [More…]
The first measure that it introduced in this respect on coming to power was to provide an additional $64m for the 1975-76 program. [More…]
The Customs Amendment Bill is one of the matters which concern the rules of origin in the one-half area content whereby certain powers are being vested in the Minister for Business and Consumer Affairs (Mr Howard) to be operated by his Department, which can be earned out, perhaps, without the information being passed on to the Parliament. [More…]
I would have thought that whilst we agree, particularly in the case of Papua New Guinea, with giving the Minister discretion to waive the one-half rule, it is perhaps appropriate on occasions when that power is used for the Parliament to be notified. [More…]
Perhaps the Minister can take them into account when the discretionary power is used. [More…]
I would hope that the Minister and his splendid and superb Bureau of Narcotics- I have seen its officers in action- now that the responsibilities for controlling licit drugs have been taken away from the Department, will to an even greater extent do everything in their power to apprehend these vicious criminals who are responsible for the wrecking of lives and the creation of half people. [More…]
We hope that with this new arrangement there will be greater power and muscle in the hands of the Minister and his Department. [More…]
We are putting into the hands of people who last year broke every tradition in the book, who stole power in this country against all the traditions of parliamentary government, the right to refuse in courts to produce documents and all the rest. [More…]
I recognise, and I take it that this is recognised in this legislation, that there are forces at work in this world that transcend the power of governments; that the International Telegraph and Telephone Company, General Motors, and other large corporations based in Europe, Japan and America are able to manipulate world affairs and defeat governments. [More…]
As I understand it from what my colleague the honourable member for Kingsford-Smith (Mr Lionel Bowen) said a while ago this Bill relates to power to prevent the courts doing something that would be possible under State Acts. [More…]
The validity of any exercise, or refusal of the exercise, of any power of the Attorney-General under this Act is not affected by, and shall not be subject to challenge in any court by reason of, any failure to comply with the provisions of this section. [More…]
Then we are told that his action cannot be challenged because it is beyond the power of that clause. [More…]
I would like to get some explanations which have not come out about the Attorney-General being able to exercise this power without having any restriction imposed on him by any court of this country. [More…]
Clause 5 of the Foreign Proceedings (Prohibition of Certain Evidence) Bill is sustained by the external affairs power. [More…]
The first matter is that the foreign tribunal is exercising or proposing or likely to exercise powers etc. [More…]
not consistent with international law or comity in proceedings relevant to matters to which the laws of the executive powers of the Commonwealth relate. [More…]
Needless to say, clause 5 could operate and be valid without clause 4 being in the Bill because clause 5 is sustained, as I have already said, by the external affairs power. [More…]
That is fair enough- or the refusal of the exercise, of any power of the AttorneyGeneral under this Act is not affected by, and shall not be subject to challenge in any court . [More…]
-This evening I would like to say a couple of a words about the safety of nuclear power and also the results of recent public opinion polls in Australia and the United States of America. [More…]
Anyway, 70 per cent are in favour of Northern Territory uranium mining; 50 per cent are in favour of encouraging the sale of Australian uranium overseas; and 71 per cent are in favour of Australia developing nuclear power for peaceful purposes. [More…]
I think they have made up their minds pretty conclusively to back what I think will be the Government’s decision- I am’ not supposed to be speaking about uranium mines- to go ahead and develop nuclear power plants. [More…]
The facts of the safety of nuclear power are quite plain. [More…]
Radio active waste has been handled completely safely over the 20 year history of nuclear power production and plans now in hand for handling the waste material are technically sound and feasible and will lead to a continuation of this excellent record as the industry grows. [More…]
Ever since the Teller report 27 years ago in the United States there has been an unparalleled safety record for nuclear power. [More…]
Therefore to get rid of the Senate would immediately place Victoria and New South Wales, because of their political numbers, in political power. [More…]
What are the reserve powers? [More…]
-Does the Treasurer recall that, in his Press statement issued following the announcement of devaluation on Sunday last, he said that the Government would, therefore, be doing everything in its power to ensure that any identifiable effects of the devaluation decision upon the consumer price index did not flow on into wages, either through national wage case hearings or more generally. [More…]
The justification for their grab for power was that Australia must be saved from economic disaster. [More…]
The Government’s actions in cutting public spending and reducing purchasing power have retarded recovery and increased unemployment. [More…]
It blamed consumers; yet the Government has done its best to attack their wages and reduce their purchasing power. [More…]
The Government has no intention of qualifying the essential thrust of the economic policies which it has pursued since coming to power and which we clearly preshadowed during the election campaign. [More…]
The Conservatives have followed their performances of a year ago of disregarding conventions, of grabbing power by any means, with a disregard and a downgrading of Parliament. [More…]
Just 12 months after it usurped power on the pretext that it could handle the economy better than the Labor Government could, its economic policy has fallen into complete disarray. [More…]
These are the people who grabbed power on to the excuse that they could manage the economy better. [More…]
The Prime Minister and the Treasurer apparently felt that simply the existence of a LiberalNational Country Party Government in power would be sufficient to increase business confidence and so facilitate growing investment. [More…]
I quoted him today at question time as saying that ‘the Government would be doing everything in its power to ensure that any identifiable effects of the devaluation decision upon the consumer price index did not flow on into wages either through national wage hearings or more generally. ‘ [More…]
Then he mentioned the second finding, again misleadingly characterised as a ‘recommendation’, that the hazards involved in the operation of nuclear power reactors, if properly regulated and controlled, are: Not such as to justify a decision not to mine and sell Australian uranium ‘. [More…]
There was no mention by the Minister of the crucial third finding, that ‘the nuclear power industry is unintentionally contributing to an increased risk of nuclear war’. [More…]
As far as the commissioners are concerned the third finding- that the nuclear power industry is unintentionally contributing to an increased risk of nuclear warcontains their major recommendation: that the questions involved are of such importance that they should be resolved by Parliament. [More…]
I note that the Fox report comments that a number of wildly exaggerated claims about the risk of nuclear power were made by witnesses. [More…]
However, this would be physically impossible, and coalfired power stations are a major source of atmospheric pollution already. [More…]
For example, the Brookhaven National Laboratory in the United States of America has estimated that at least 50 per cent of pollutants in the air capable of causing biological damage result from the burning of fossil fuels for electric power generation. [More…]
In informed debates there is agreement, on both sides of the nuclear power issue, that uranium mining carried out under today’s tight regulations is neither an environmental problem nor a health hazard. [More…]
The second recommendation of the report gives a similar green light to the operation of nuclear power reactors. [More…]
The peoples of the world, poor and wealthy, want more and more power to improve standards of living and Australia has a moral obligation to contribute to that improvement by the supply of uranium. [More…]
Clearly, the development of nuclear power in the rest of the world can continue whether or not Australian uranium is made available. [More…]
It is not essential to have nuclear power stations to produce a nuclear weapons capability. [More…]
The nuclear power industry is unintentionally contributing to an increased risk of nuclear war. [More…]
Nineteen countries now have nuclear power stations. [More…]
Another 7 countries have power reactors under construction and another 6 countries have them on order. [More…]
The magnitude of the problem that this Parliament is now discussing cannot be compared to the possible pollution that can be produced by a Newport power station or the possible environmental destruction of a Fraser Island. [More…]
The cost of producing electricity from nuclear power is now only marginally cheaper, if at all cheaper, than the production of electricity from fossil fuels. [More…]
If Australia withheld, even temporarily, its reserves, world prices of uranium would escalate and influence nations to opt for cheaper sources of power. [More…]
As the Fox report mentions, a more intensive search would be undertaken to harness the safest and cleanest source of energysolar power. [More…]
The numerous accidents involving faulty function that have occurred in nuclear power stations, together with serious accidents known to have occurred in military installations, give no grounds for complacency. [More…]
Another threat was sabotage of nuclear plants causing destruction, a radiation hazard to surrounding populations and costly disruption of power systems … an event which has already occurred in Argentina. [More…]
The Fox report at page 56 clearly illustrates that nuclear energy will not help developing nations to any significant degree because it needs large power stations and large investments which developing nations do not have. [More…]
The nuclear power industry is unintentionally contributing to an increased risk of nuclear war. [More…]
At this point in time the Government has made no acknowledgment of the dangers and hazards associated with nuclear power mentioned by the Commission throughout the body of its report. [More…]
In electricity generation terms we are abundantly rich in energy resources, particularly brown and black coal; so rich that it is difficult to envisage in the medium term the need to develop nuclear power as a source of electricity generation in this country. [More…]
In conclusion, I urge the Government to take heed of the Fox Commission’s call for a full public debate before a decision is taken in respect of the establishment of new uranium mines and not to commit Australia to a role in the expansion of nuclear power which its citizens and their children may regret. [More…]
We have been inundated with alarmist calls about the dangers of using uranium for the generation of power. [More…]
The use of uranium in nuclear reactors is the safest method of generating power at a reasonable cost. [More…]
It is far safer than the generation of power from coal. [More…]
Almost daily people are dying from the effects of coal-fired power stations, but no one is getting emotional over coal. [More…]
That is to say nothing of the dangers and deaths that are occurring in the actual mining of coal as well as its processing to the point where it can be used for power generation. [More…]
The long term dangers from coal-fired power stations continually spewing out large amounts of CO are diluting the earth’s atmosphere to the extent that radiation from the sun ‘s rays is a real threat to life on earth. [More…]
He quotes figures that show that after 20 years’ generation of nuclear power there have been no deaths from any accidents in nuclear power plants, including nuclear powered ships. [More…]
Professional critics of nuclear power imply that a core meltdown would release fission products and produce a catastrophic accident. [More…]
If we do not mine and sell our uranium do honourable members think that this decision will have any effect on the world ‘s generation of nuclear power? [More…]
We mentioned earlier an argument that Australia should permanently refuse to supply uranium, or should at least postpone supply, with a view to persuading other countries, by our example, from entering upon or further developing nuclear power production. [More…]
A total renunciation of intention to supply designed to bring an end to all nuclear power industries or all further development of them would in our view be likely to fail totally in its purpose. [More…]
It is nonsense to think that any action which we in Australia might take in the mining and export of uranium will have any significant effect on the world’s nuclear power generating stations. [More…]
Fortunately, most of the people advocating this action will not be in power in Australia in the foreseeable future. [More…]
I ask honourable members to think about a situation when the Australian Labor Party comes to power. [More…]
World energy consumption over the next 26 years and the sources of energy available to meet this need are critical questions in deciding the future of nuclear power. [More…]
The changeover to uranium power will make it possible to extend the lifetime of fossil fuels and reserve these for uses for which they are unique. [More…]
I ask: What has led to an escalation in nuclear power? [More…]
In fact, it is being forced to develop nuclear power. [More…]
Its current share of nuclear power, compared with total electricity power, is 7 per cent. [More…]
At the moment Italy is committed to 3 per cent nuclear power. [More…]
It will develop nuclear power and coal and hydropower. [More…]
In Russia at the moment current nuclear power supplies 1 per cent of the total electric power. [More…]
It appears that the Fox Committee report envisages competition between coal and nuclear power in meeting world energy needs as though one type of power or the other could meet world demands. [More…]
exports of steaming coal by Australia could minimise any fuel shortage which would otherwise arise if other countries decide to reduce their reliance on nuclear power below present expectations. [More…]
At one extreme is the Australian situation, where power stations’ internal cost of Victorian brown coal is between $1 and $2 per tonne. [More…]
of New South Wales coal for Japanese power stations rises to $25 to $35. [More…]
I do not think that fission power is anything more than an interim source of energy. [More…]
One thing that uranium can give us is a source of income so that we can put money into those areas if we want to replace fission power by the end of this century. [More…]
We have a group of people resisting with every bit of the organisational power they have- and strangely they have sufficient funds to permit them to do this- the mining of an ore which can provide jobs. [More…]
If nuclear weapons were not associated inextricably with the production of nuclear power I would have no worry, but nuclear weapons are inextricably associated with the production of nuclear power and I find myself quite uneasy about proposals to mine and export uranium and about the use of uranium energy in the world. [More…]
I also believe that if in government the Labor Party is satisfied that the hazards associated with nuclear power can be eliminated and satisfactory methods of waste disposal developed the question of uranium mining could be reconsidered in the context of full public debate. [More…]
That is the non-proliferation treaty- the inability of safeguards to prevent the transfer of nuclear technology from nuclear power production to the acquisition of nuclear weapons competence; the fact that many nuclear facilities are covered by no safeguards; the existence of a number of loopholes in safeguards agreements regarding their application to peaceful nuclear explosions, to materials intended for non-explosive military uses, and to the retransfer of materials to a third state; the absence, in practice, of safeguards for source materials; the practical problems of maintaining effective checks on nuclear inventories; the ease with which states can withdraw from the NPT and from most non-NPT safeguards agreements; deficiencies in accounting and warning procedures; and the absence of reliable sanctions to deter diversion of safeguarded material. [More…]
Japan currently provides 4 per cent of her fuel production from nuclear power. [More…]
That the Committee have power to appoint subcommittees consisting of three or more of its members, to appoint the Chairman of each sub-committee, and refer to any such sub-committee any matter which the Committee is empowered to examine. [More…]
That the Committee or any sub-committee have power to send for persons, papers and records. [More…]
That the Committee have power to move from place to place. [More…]
That any sub-committee have power to move from place to place, adjourn from time to time and to sit during any sittings or adjournment. [More…]
That the Committee or any sub-committee have power to authorise publication of any evidence given before it and any document presented to it. [More…]
That the Committee report as soon as possible and that any member of the Committee have power to add a protest or dissent to the Committee ‘s report. [More…]
There are 3 main thrusts to this argument Firstly, at a time when consumer demand ought to be stimulated and not cut back, least of all cut back severely, the proposals for the imposition of compulsory charges for all wage-earners- with few relatively minor exceptionsresult in a reduction in spending power in the community and, accordingly, a reduction in consumer demand. [More…]
That the committee have power to appoint subcommittees consisting of three or more of its members, and to appoint the Chairman of each sub-committee who shall have a casting vote only, and refer to any such subcommittee any matter which the committee is empowered to examine. [More…]
That the committee or any sub-committee have power to send for persons, papers and records. [More…]
That the committee have power to move from place to place. [More…]
That any sub-committee have power to move from place to place, adjourn from time to time and to sit during any sittings or adjournment [More…]
That the committee or any sub-committee have power to authorise publication of any evidence given before it and any document presented to it [More…]
That the committee report as soon as possible and that any member of the committee have power to add a protest or dissent to the committee ‘s report. [More…]
In terms of the referendum decision that was taken and which clothed this Parliament with power on this subject it is not good enough to bail out on a matter so important for Aboriginal people. [More…]
The particular definition is adopted on the advice of the Parliamentary Counsel as being the definition which conforms with the constitutional power of the Commonwealth to make special laws with respect to people of any race. [More…]
One of the sad things about the Aboriginal situation is that when they have to have advocates for their own cause, in the face of the needs of the rest of the community, the advocates are normally the people who also act for the sovereign power. [More…]
His Honour rejected that and in its place granted to Aboriginals the veto power, as it is called- that is, the right to withhold consent to the grant of a mining interest over Aboriginal land, qualified however by the power in the Government to override that in the national interest, and qualified again by the power of Parliament to disallow the Government’s action in invoking the national interest. [More…]
When it comes to wildlife and certain other aspects I believe the Commonwealth should soil hold that power. [More…]
If so, does this training include the processing of nuclear power and the manufacture of plutomom which can be usedin atomic bombs. [More…]
If inequities occur in the award of quotas for 1976-77 compared with 1975-76, has the Board the power to recommend alterations. [More…]
For example, the building will house the Australian Embassy to France, which is a permanent member of the Security Council and a major world power. [More…]
We cannot always in the future depend upon the protection of a great power. [More…]
Our second priority is for a defence readiness in situations where we would have the support of a great power. [More…]
The Government believes however that it has a responsibility to assist the adjustment process by providing the financial means to ensure that resources continue to be used in those industries, where their earning power is greatest and, at the same time, provide welfare assistance to those farmers so seriously affected by circumstances that they are unable to remain in the industry. [More…]
Another matter that relates to the rearrangement of procedures in this industry and which should be mentioned in this debate concerns the Government’s anxiety, as expressed by the Minister last May, to ensure that in vacating its regulatory role in the industry, the Government would still have the power to maintain and influence costs and efficiency in the industry through the application of the Prices Justification Tribunal and Trade Practices Commission. [More…]
However, since then the Government has decided to modify the Prices Justification Act in such a way that the Tribunal will lose most of its effective power to have any control over the level of prices generally or in particular industries. [More…]
This Committee has recommended various changes that would weaken the powers ofthe Trade Practices Commission. [More…]
Honourable members ought to be in no doubt about the central importance of the exemption powers in the workings of the Tribunal. [More…]
The exemption power is absolutely vital to the administration of that provision. [More…]
I read very briefly what the Tribunal had to say about this power in its annual report for the year ending 30 June this year. [More…]
It stated: the exemption power contained in the Prices Justification Act complements the notification power in 2 very important ways; first by providing an optional power and second, by providing the Tribunal with the means of exercising a discretion based on the circumstances and nature of individual cases. [More…]
The Tribunal has used that power to develop 12 categories of cases in which it grants exemption. [More…]
If one looks at the new provisions which the Government has inserted in relation to the exemption power one will see that in the proposed new subsection 8a which the Minister talks about as producing the integration of the provisions of the Prices Justification Act with those of the Trade Practices Act. [More…]
The exemption power contained in the provisions dealing with the notification of proposed price increases is absolutely central. [More…]
The Government has been in power for about a year and yet we have seen no use of section 16 and I do not expect that we ever shall. [More…]
It so happens that a proposed exercise of the section 16 power ofthe initiative of the Government occurred contemporaneously with a decision of the Tribunal at its own initiative to carry out an inquiry under section 16. [More…]
Part of the reason for the failure of that package was, of course, the fact that this Government had deliberately set out to reduce spending power for wage and salary earners. [More…]
the premise behind PJT operations is that market power and cost increases are used in a fairly simple fashion to enforce higher prices . [More…]
the TPC acts to investigate various arrangements or practices that may be seen as preludes to the exercise of market power. [More…]
Admittedly, until this Bill is passed, he does not have power to transfer officers to the new service but in practice that does not stop him issuing notices pending the passing of this Bill by the Parliament. [More…]
I should also mention that this Bill, by giving the Minister power to transfer Commonwealth public servants to the Northern Territory Public Service, appears to over-ride the provision in the Public Service Act which enables officers to decline transfer. [More…]
Transport, communications, power, gas and a great deal of banking, insurance and so on are in public hands in this country. [More…]
It has the power to recommend to the Minister the terms and conditions of export, the persons who may engage in export, packaging and labelling for export and quality standards and grading for export. [More…]
It also has the power to determine quantities for export by State and country of destination and to negotiate shipping arrangements. [More…]
One thing and one thing only would be able to destroy the thrust of the federalism proposals and policies; one thing and one thing only would prevent a proper diversification of influence, responsibility and power coming from these particular matters. [More…]
If the Premiers take that course and refuse to accept responsibility in matters which are particularly in their own provinces, quite inevitably they tend to thrust more and more power onto the Commonwealth. [More…]
This Government, having failed to honour the grandiose promises with which it conned its way to power, seeks a scapegoat to divert attention from its manifest inadequacies in the economic field. [More…]
The other is the Newport power station in Victoria which I will deal with at some length. [More…]
Certainly they have maintained bans on the building of this power station, but they have done so for good and cogent reasons which have been supported by men of science and others in the community who have been led to say: ‘Thank God for the unions because they are the only thing standing between the community and potential disaster’. [More…]
The unions have asked for a wide-ranging inquiry into Victoria’s power requirements and an examination of alternative sites for the power station. [More…]
It will inquire into the necessity for an intermediate load power station, including an assessment of the present capacity to ascertain whether it can provide for present and future variations in demand. [More…]
It will examine alternative sources of power and the ability to deliver that power in Victoria, particularly through a stabilisation technology for the system. [More…]
It will assess alternative sites existing in Victoria for new power stations. [More…]
What we get is an exercise in the politics of confrontation, an almost lunatic determination to build the Newport power station at all costs, to the extent that the issue has become the focus of crisis in Victoria. [More…]
The hysterical reaction of the Hamer Government to the continuation of the unions’ ban on the building of the Newport power station demonstrates that its professed concern for the people of that State is hypocritical. [More…]
The unions are saying in the first instance that the power station is not required at the proposed Newport site; that it should be built elsewhere. [More…]
They are saying further that a power station of the type proposed for the Newport site may not be needed at all, and there is abundant evidence to support this second contention. [More…]
It has been put to the people of Melbourne that the opposition to Newport is being mounted by a coalition of the power-hungry Left and unrealistic eco-freaks. [More…]
Let us deal with the environmental issue first before getting down to the issue of whether the Newport power station or something like it is needed in Victoria. [More…]
The Newport station was intended to provide electric power for weekday industrial and domestic load plateau of many hundreds of megawatts. [More…]
The SEC drones on-like the honourable member’s bees, and we have learned to live with that- about the absolute need for the Newport power station to cater for assumed levels of demand for electric power in the future. [More…]
Ms Deborah White, a lecturer in building science at the University of Melbourne, in a penetrating study of whether we can afford the Newport power station, had this to say: [More…]
The SEC, however, continues to threaten the community with industrial power shortages, stand-downs and unemployment if Newport is not built immediately. [More…]
The Newport power station represents a wantonly wasteful use of the ndeniably scarce resource of natural gas. [More…]
In fact, it must come as a surprise to many people that you need to use natural gas to run an intermediate electric power generating plant such as that proposed for Newport. [More…]
It is not for unions or any other group to use their industrial or other power to prohibit the implementation of decisions which the Government has undertaken. [More…]
Every poll that is taken confirms that people believe that this minority of union leaders is abusing the considerable power that they have. [More…]
Perhaps the most glaring example is the one to which the honourable member for Melbourne devoted the greater part of his speech- that is the ban on the building of the Newport power station in Victoria. [More…]
The ban itself is costing hundreds of jobs which otherwise would be available to people who would be building the power station. [More…]
If the power needs of Victoria are to be met in the most economical way, it is essential that this project proceed. [More…]
I am informed that the extra cost of building somewhere else the power station proposed for Newport would be approximately $100m. [More…]
That unquestionably would raise substantially the cost of power in Victoria and that, in turn, would add higher costs to an already inflated cost structure. [More…]
It is probable that, in addition, there will be a shortage of power in Victoria as a result of the delay in getting the power station built. [More…]
Firstly, let me say that even before this Government came to power its members ran a campaign of vilification against trade union officials. [More…]
Denigrating union motives in other disputes such as the Newport power station dispute has also been popular with this Government. [More…]
If we look at the history of the granting of the licence for the power station in Newport we can see that in fact the Government pressured the Environmental Protection Authority and the Appeals Board in a way which enabled the Newport power station to be given the okay. [More…]
When the matter went to the Environmental Protection Authority Appeal Board the Board increased the allowable limits for ozone in the atmosphere so that the power station could get a licence. [More…]
So there is no doubt that the Appeal Board lifted the standard to provide a licence for the power station because it was pressured very hard by the Victorian Government. [More…]
The fact is that the Newport power station dispute is only representative of what is a developing trend in this country and the rest of the western capitalist world- that unions are increasingly concerned not only with straight industrial issues such as wages and conditions of employment but workers, through their unions, are becoming increasingly concerned about what they do with their labour. [More…]
What I fail to see is how a small group, and it is such a small group, can be encouraged by the Australian Labor Party to believe that it can use its power to destroy, to denigrate and to disrupt the daily activities of the majority of Australian people and of its own trade union rank and file members. [More…]
We put you in power to control these situations’. [More…]
A government cannot effectively carry out what is required of it by the law and by the traditions of the parliamentary system if a small group of people are encouraged to believe that they can usurp power outside the democratic process. [More…]
Yet certain people in the trade union movement are encouraged to believe that power once gained by various means is held at all costs. [More…]
We cannot sacrifice the Australian people because a small group are prepared to use their power in an irresponsible manner. [More…]
When a small group of people has the power to decide whether 7000 other men and women have the right to work where is democracy? [More…]
From about the early 1960s when the Liberal and Country Parties were in power chemists had agitated for a continual review of the remuneration they received for dispensing prescriptions under the pharmaceutical benefits scheme. [More…]
But of course, as has been the case with many of the promises of this Government, once having gained power it sought to buy its way out of this matter by the cheapest way possible. [More…]
I have simply sought to mention some of the facts behind this matter and to make the point that, as is common with many of the promises made by the Liberal and National Country Parties, now those parties have gained power their promises in this area are not worth anything. [More…]
If there is dissension the chairman has the power to arbitrate and hand down his personal decision. [More…]
The core of the dispute over the years has been that the veto power of the Minister for Health has prevented independent arbitration. [More…]
Then the dissolution of the Parliament occurred, we had an election and this Government was returned to power. [More…]
I simply want to point out that clause 6 of the Bill, which seeks to introduce new sub-section 98C, gives the Minister power to determine: [More…]
I just wanted to highlight the fact that the potential power to abuse the advice still remains. [More…]
Referring now to the problem of welfare housing, when we came to power this question was tied up with the moneys made available under the CommonwealthState Housing Agreement. [More…]
This Government came to power, roughly at this time last year, stating that it would introduce a home savings grant scheme. [More…]
This subsection empowers the Australian Broadcasting Tribunal ‘to determine the hours during which programs are to be or may be broadcast or televised by licensees’. [More…]
This provision differs from the original wording which gave similar power to the Australian Broadcasting Control Board in the principal Act, by the addition of the words ‘are to be or’. [More…]
The honourable gentleman will acknowledge the fact that the defence power of the Commonwealth in time of peace is a very restricted power. [More…]
It is a very emancipated power in time of war. [More…]
The honourable gentleman may not understand the problem of a Budget deficit because he and his colleagues, when in power, refused to recognise the economic reality of a Budget deficit and proceeded simply to print money through the Reserve Bank. [More…]
But should such a person have power to take action other than administrative action? [More…]
It does not realise that when it wrenched control from the Labor Government it damaged the rudder, so now we are adrift, even the private sector is afraid to deliver power because it knows we are rudderless and in the worst economic seas this century. [More…]
If this power were in the wrong hands perhaps it could involve some political interference within the media that should not occur. [More…]
Why does the Minister want this power? [More…]
Finally, the Bill gives the Minister power to make regulations for the establishment of an Australian Broadcasting Council. [More…]
Again, this is significantly different from the Green report which advocated a statutory authority for the Broadcasting Council with administrative powers. [More…]
These divergences amount to a significant shift away from the structure envisaged by the Green report and in each case the shift is to place increasingly more power in the hands of the Minister. [More…]
The Bill gives the Australian Broadcasting Tribunal power to determine minimum standards for commercial and public stations. [More…]
Yet commercial broadcasters have argued that the ABC should no longer have the power independently to determine its own standards. [More…]
It is a matter of wide public knowledge that the commercial sector of the media industry launched a vigorous lobbying campaign to get Liberal members of Parliament either to get all the powers transferred to the broadcasting tribunal rather than to have any power in the Postal and Telecommunications Department or to get the legislation delayed for another year. [More…]
The commercial media are unwilling to have any powers vested in the Minister for Post and Telecommunications, for they recognise that there will be a Minister of quite different ilk holding that position some time after 1978. [More…]
After adjustment for higher child endowment, health taxes and inflation we find that in 1976-77 the family that had earned $10,000 for 1975-76 has had its spending power reduced by $5.15 a week. [More…]
Adjustments to the personal income tan system which ostensibly gives individuals greater ‘ independence ‘ in spending power to meet their own needs do nothing to assist those who are not wage earners and those whose income (be it wages or a pension) is inadequate to enable them to live decently and disguises the fact that important welfare and human services are either not available or become effectively inaccessible to the public who need them. [More…]
The trio came together 9 years ago to give effect to the decision of the Australian people made by referendum to grant power and responsibility for Aboriginal affairs to the Australian Parliament. [More…]
The difficulties that the Council encountered in its efforts to transfer power and responsibility from the States to the Commonwealth are worth mentioning. [More…]
I think it has to be recognised that in circumstances such as this it is totally impossible and beyond the power of governments to prevent completely this type of thing from happening. [More…]
In the statement I made I also reminded companies that the Tribunal’s power is not limited to a scrutiny of notifications but that also section 16 of the Prices Justification Act gives it the power to investigate a price increase made by a company, whether or not that company is required to notify price increases. [More…]
When it came to power it smashed the Labor Government’s Budget. [More…]
This clause already gives the Tribunal the power to determine standards and the conditions under which advertisements may be broadcast or televised and to determine hours. [More…]
With the power such as the commercial media has, there must also be a great deal of responsibility. [More…]
I do not suggest that power be given to the Tribunal to use the big axe m the commercial area but that it should have a general responsibility to see that there is adequate and comprehensive programming by the commercial stations in the best interests of the general public and not just programming which is necessarily financially rewarding. [More…]
Therefore, I shall speak to this clause which, in dealing with the powers of the Tribunal, mentions standards, conditions and hours. [More…]
The power which the Control Board never had is the power to have public hearings for renewals of licences. [More…]
It is a fact that a tot aged three, four or five does not have too much purchasing power. [More…]
I reflect on no Minister when I say it does not matter whether the Liberal Party or the Labor Party is in power that many backbenchers are closer to the people and more in touch with public opinion than are many Ministers. [More…]
Why try to take power unto itself, without any indication of support or advice or anything from the Tribunal, to just arbitrarily set conditions and arbitrarily issue licences? [More…]
It is designed to be quite specific because, with the planning coming back to the Department, there is concern that power could be used by a secretary and, indirectly, by a Minister. [More…]
The quasi-judicial powers for licensing have gone to the new Tribunal. [More…]
Nothing in it empowers a secretary to make orders or to give directions relating to matters of program content. [More…]
The Liberal Government made its grab for power on the basis that it could provide the economic management which Australia needed to meet the problems of inflation and unemployment. [More…]
-The Minister said: ‘Yes, that is right’, but the Government is not giving the Council that power. [More…]
The Government is simply saying that the Council will have the power to record its views on planning issues involved which are put to it by the Department. [More…]
I repeat that whilst this is not a statutory body and it does not have executive power, the Government sees it as carrying out a vital role in the consultative and advisory process. [More…]
Mr Avon Hudson who worked at Maralinga during the 1960s has claimed that, in the early 1 960s, the British Government was secretly using the Maralinga atomic test site as a burial ground for waste from nuclear power stations. [More…]
Calder Hall was one of the first commercial nuclear power reactors to come on tap in Britain. [More…]
This is further evidence that nuclear power station waste was involved. [More…]
I did not rise tonight to talk about that matter, but I think what he has said brings to the attention of the House the very sane policy of the Government, of which I am a member, of ensuring that the whole matter of nuclear power and uranium is looked at very carefully and also in ensuring that the problem of the disposal of waste is carefully considered before the Government makes its final decision. [More…]
Historical settlements, monuments and other items of national heritage, including religious heritage, should be safeguarded against any acts of aggression or abuse by the occupying Power. [More…]
Timely government intervention can provide welfare assistance to seriously affected farmers as well as providing the financial means to ensure that resources continue to be used in those industries where their earning power is greatest. [More…]
When the Labor Party was in power 12 months ago we were waiting for a television station at Menindee. [More…]
I believe that we should give as much power as possible to the State administering authorities because they have the framework closer to the farming people than has Canberra. [More…]
The validity of any exercise, or refusal of the exercise, of any power of the Attorney-General under this Act is not affected by, and shall not be subject to challenge in any court . [More…]
At the time we said that that was outside the constitutional power of the Government. [More…]
I again refer to this case of the Communist Party Dissolution Bill in which it is eloquently expressed that the validity of a law or of an administrative act done under a law cannot be made to depend on the opinion of the law maker or the person who is to do the act that the law or the consequence of the act is within the constitutional power upon which the law itself depends for its validity. [More…]
Basically we are relying upon executive power. [More…]
We have no specific power to control State courts, nor do we want it. [More…]
He did not stress the fact that it was also a repugnant section which gave the AttorneyGeneral (Mr Ellicott) an extraordinary power that could have almost no limits within this general field. [More…]
The validity of any exercise, or refusal of the exercise, of any power of the Attorney-General under this Act is not affected by, and shall not be subject to challenge in any court by reason of, any failure to comply with the provisions of this section. [More…]
It is extremely depressing also to realise that the honourable member for St George (Mr Neil), for example, who practises law, was prepared to pass that sort of legislation, giving that sort of power to any Attorney-General. [More…]
As I said on the previous occasion- I repeat it now- if section 4 (2) is left out it will improve it as a piece of legislation insofar as it confers on an Attorney-General- not just this one but also future AttorneysGeneral a power which might be regarded as being excessive. [More…]
Some concern will exist in certain sections with regard to penalties, the nature of notice and particularly the nature of the exercise of the power in respect of these proceedings in an orderly marketing situation. [More…]
I might just take the opportunity to mention that on 27 May 1967 the referendum seeking to give power to the Commonwealth in respect of Aboriginal matters was carried overwhelmingly by the people. [More…]
Only this week when we were talking about winding up the Council for Aboriginal Affairs I drew attention to the fact that the Council had been involved for a long time in co-operating with the States and in arranging for a transfer of power from the State governments to the Australian Government in respect of Aboriginal matters. [More…]
That the committee report by 31 May 1977 and that any member of the committee have power to add a protest or dissent to any report. [More…]
It is an anomaly of policy in this country that although the Australian Government possesses a substantial reserve of power in the housing field, that power has never been fully gathered together, concentrated and mobilised for the benefit of the people. [More…]
The purpose of the Corporation was to strengthen AustralianGovernment machinery to perform those housing functions for which it has constitutional power. [More…]
Many of the countries to our north are making provisions and doing everything in their power to attract industries. [More…]
In addition the Bill implements the preelection undertaking of the coalition parties to remove the discretionary power of the Minister under the Act to compel the grant of the authorisation of a merger by the Commission. [More…]
In the case of professional activities there is an obvious question of constitutional power. [More…]
We cannot always in the future depend on the protection of a great power. [More…]
The second priority is for our defence readiness in situations where we would have the support of a great power. [More…]
As a middle rank economic power we need to develop a military capability with a limited range of selected characteristics sufficient to persuade even a vastly superior military power that compromise is more realistic and desirable than conflict. [More…]
Their potential aggressors have the power and the initiative. [More…]
We can dictate, by the size and shape of our deterrent, the force needed by a regional power to attack or invade us. [More…]
One could not fire a revolver down one of the corridors of power at Russell Hill these days without knocking off about 50 stars. [More…]
The members of the Chilean regime will go down in the annals of history as one of the most vicious cliques of people to ever hold power anywhere in the world at any time. [More…]
He also disagreed with the view of McTiernan J. that section 78 only provides a rule of practice and as such is subject to the power conferred on the Justices of the High Court by section 86 of the Judiciary Act to make rules of court regulating the practice and procedure of the Court. [More…]
Recommendations involving human rights especially the rights to privacy and individual freedoms are within my responsibility and the Government is vigorously pursuing a policy of protection of individual rights and freedoms so far as it has power to do so. [More…]
He has seen the Parliament assemble in our tradition after each election without a Speaker in the Chair with the Clerk sitting at the table to conduct the election of Speaker with absolutely no power whatsoever to discipline unruly members. [More…]
That the committee have power to appoint subcommittees consisting of three or more of its members, to appoint a Chairman of each sub-committee, and refer to any such sub-committee any matter which the committee is empowered to examine. [More…]
That the committee or any sub-committee have power to send for persons, papers and records. [More…]
10) That the committee have power to move from place to place. [More…]
That any sub-committee have power to move from place to place, adjourn from time to time and to sit during any sittings or adjournment. [More…]
12) That the committee or any sub-committee have power to authorise publication of any evidence given before it and any document presented to it. [More…]
That the committee report as soon as possible and that any member of the committee have power to add a protest or dissent to the committee ‘s report. [More…]
-The Prime Minister in his policy speech a year ago stated as a firm promise to the Australian people: ‘Our policies will maintain the purchasing power of wages’. [More…]
The Government has never had the slightest intention of maintaining the purchasing power of wages. [More…]
Nevertheless the Government will need to take all reasonable steps in its power to make sure that the potential benefits are not eroded by any resurgence of inflation. [More…]
The Opposition- a combination of yesterday’s men and tomorrow’s nobodies- has once again in this debate revealed to the House and to the people of Australia that it is a negative Opposition, an Opposition without one constructive idea in the field of economic management and an Opposition which, if it ever crept back into power, as surely as day follows night would plunge this country back into economic darknessa darkness from which in the past 12 months we have slowly but steadily emerged. [More…]
The Committee has carried out its responsibilities since its inception in an atmosphere of bipartisan cooperation which is an essential prerequisite to enable it to examine matters of relevance to the Parliament regardless of the Government in power at the time. [More…]
The Committee is concerned that it does not have specific power to examine the affairs of statutory authorities. [More…]
The actions of the Papa Doc Duvaliers and the Idi Amins feed those racists because they say contemptibly: ‘Look at the black man in Uganda, Haiti, Guinea and elswhere; when they get power the abuse it’. [More…]
We are confirming the rights of the possessors of power in the form of wealth and the mining companies over the rights of the Aboriginal people. [More…]
The Government, therefore, will be doing everything within its power to make sure that any identifiable effects of devaluation on the consumer price index do not flow through into wages and salaries. [More…]
Beyond that, the Government will be taking every step within its power to secure restraint. [More…]
These men grabbed power on the excuse that they knew how better to manage the economy. [More…]
The bar to effective legislation by the Australian Parliament has been the Australian Constitution which it was believed did not give the Commonwealth Government power to enact provisions comparable to those contained in Part 1 of the Merchant Shipping Act 1 894. [More…]
Briefly, this legislation gives the Minister the power to declare as historic shipwrecks or historic articles the remains of ships or articles taken from them that are of historic significance. [More…]
without reasonable excuse, fail to comply with a requirement made of him by an inspector in the exercise of a power under this section; or [More…]
without reasonable excuse, fail to comply with a requirement made of him by an inspector in the exercise of a power under this section . [More…]
The power includes the power to require a person to answer a question. [More…]
Let us face it: Expenditure on universities represents shifting purchasing power upwards in the community. [More…]
If so, does this refer to the patent rights jointly held by the Commonwealth and South Australian Governments for a butter/vegetable oil blend; if so, what are the intentions of the Government in this matter; if not, what other power or authority does the Commonwealth possess which is retarding the marketing of more spreadable butter. [More…]
Apart from the Tribunal’s power to examine prices proposed to be charged by those companies which are required under the legislation to notify their prices, the Tribunal also has a general power to inquire into prices charged by any company irrespective of its size. [More…]
Papua New Guinea has plans to establish two medium frequency (AM) broadcasting stations at Lae, each with a power of 100 000 watts, but no dates for the commissioning of these stations have yet been set, so far as Australia is aware. [More…]
It would not be appropriate to apply the term ‘ultra high powered ‘ to these stations, but rather ‘ high powered ‘. [More…]
In 1958 he became Finance and Law Minister in Assam where he remained until 1965 when he was made Irrigation and Power Minister in the Indian Government. [More…]
Granted the Government’s decisions on Medibank and devaluation, its antagonistic attitudes towards the unions and, indeed, the way it usurped power itself 14 months ago, have made economic management in 1977 a very difficult proposition, but there is a way out. [More…]
Yet this is the Government which grabbed power in the most brutal way because it claimed: ‘We are better economic managers’. [More…]
The Executive Government has no right and certainly should not have any power to tell the Par.liament, the supreme body in any democracy, how much money it can have and how much it cannot have. [More…]
It had no power and no refrigeration. [More…]
Is it a fact that the power conferred on Parliament by the Constitution to allow representation of a Territory in either House of Parliament does not enable Parliament to make the representatives members of this House or the Senate? [More…]
Obviously, when this Government came to power it did so with the overwhelming support of industry. [More…]
But a lot of people are now doubting the words uttered by the Government when it came to power in 1975 in relation to what it would do. [More…]
It is more that the subjects on which senior public servants need to advise, or need to make administrative decisions, concern the distribution of wealth and power. [More…]
The present characteristics of the career service enable the administration to function to some degree as a self-contained elite group exercising significant power generally in the interests of the status quo, but without effectively being accountable for its exercise. [More…]
It will do so by placing enormous new powers in the hands of the Chairman of the Public Service Board. [More…]
The great weight of power and influence in deciding future appointments to the First Division will rest with a committee consisting of the Chairman and at least 2 permanent heads appointed by the Chairman. [More…]
That is, the Chairman should have no power to recommend an appointment or preside over a recommending committee. [More…]
The Bill gives a degree of power to the Chairman which has never been envisaged by any elected government. [More…]
And the political influence will reside not with elected politicians but with permanent heads who already have power to appoint to all positions below the First Division. [More…]
With this Bill the Government is creating an unnecessary source of bureaucratic power and patronage and setting back the reform and modernisation of the Public Service for which the Coombs report showed us the way. [More…]
The Royal Commission recommended that a set procedure be adopted which would still have left the power of appointment finally to Cabinet as has been the practice. [More…]
Indeed, there can be no doubt that this Bill has been drawn by the First Division officers in such a way as to maximise their own security and preserve their power. [More…]
It gives the power of selection formally and definitely to those who usually exercise it already. [More…]
This vesting of power in the Chairman of the Board is of real importance for it means that he effectively controls who is or who is not an established permanent head. [More…]
We consider that the vesting of such powers in the Chairman of the Board to be excessive and it is an important ground on which we oppose this Bill. [More…]
Why should anyone who exercises the power that these people exercise be free from review? [More…]
Why are not all departmental heads who exercise power to a degree little below that of Minister -perhaps in some cases rather more than that of Ministers- subject to review? [More…]
In a democratic society no one should, in our view, be able to hold power indefinitely without being subject to automatic re-appraisal. [More…]
Finally, I wish to draw attention to the erosion of power of Ministers, particularly Cabinet Ministers, under the Bill. [More…]
Under the provisions of the Bill now before the House the specific power is given to the Prime Minister to make the appointment. [More…]
All final power resides in the Prime Minister. [More…]
So Ministers individually and collectively, in the case of those who are Cabinet Ministers, lose the considerable powers they have in this area under current procedures. [More…]
This Bill can be satisfactory only to a small group of Public Service mandarins who obtain great power to maintain their exclusive preserve for those of their own ilk. [More…]
It is perhaps satisfactory also to a Prime Minister who wishes to see his Cabinet and ministerial colleagues stripped of power to determine their own chief executives. [More…]
When the Labor Government came into power after 23 years in the political wilderness it believed quite definitely that the Public Service was against it; it had to be reformed at all costs. [More…]
The ultimate possibility arising from such appointments is that the public servant’s promotional opportunities or even his security of office in the future may depend on his political affiliations and whichever party is in power. [More…]
People who were not responsible, were not elected and were not subject to recall by the people were given power and they abused that power tremendously. [More…]
So I do not think that anybody should seriously consider the proposition that people who are not elected and who are not subject to recall should be given great powers in government. [More…]
It is that this Bill strikes at a basic democratic aspect of our government and our Parliament in the handing over of power from the Parliament to public servants- at the handing over of power from elected people, people who are subject to recall, to people who are appointed. [More…]
It seriously erodes the power and responsiblity of the Parliament, the Executive and the Government to appoint permanent heads by putting tremendous power in the hands of the Chairman of the Public Service Board. [More…]
But, while protecting their own interests, I do not think that there was any need for public servants to be given the power virtually to control the appointment of permanent heads. [More…]
Their security of tenure can be protected- I think it is reasonably well protected- without giving them that extra power. [More…]
This power would really add to their control of the system and would allow them to manipulate it. [More…]
They could do that in the following ways: Firstly, as I said, they could do it by means of the tremendous powers that would be vested in the Chairman of the Public Service Board. [More…]
The Chairman of the Public Service Board would have great power over the established permanent heads and, as I said, he would virtually have power to veto the Prime Minister’s proposals. [More…]
In fact the power still lies with the Chairman of the Public Service Board and the control he has over that committee. [More…]
Not only does he have a substantive vote on the committee but also he has a casting vote which really strengthens his power. [More…]
They tended to keep the power in the hands of the Parliament- in the hands of the Government and in the hands of the elected people. [More…]
The power was divided between the Prime Minister, the Cabinet and the Minister concerned. [More…]
This Bill tends to take the power out of the hands of the elected Parliament and put it in the hands of public servants. [More…]
The way the committee is constructed puts power in the hands of virtually a one-man band. [More…]
I think it is very important that these sorts of powers should remain very much in the hands of a government. [More…]
I repeat that I think all members of this House should be very much aware that this Bill in fact represents an erosion of the power of the elected people, hands much more power than is necessary over to appointed permanent heads and gives them the opportunity of reinforcing their entrenched position within the bureaucracy. [More…]
When one looks at the Bill carefully one sees that it merely strengthens their position and erodes the power of this Parliament. [More…]
The introduction of the Bill is an admission by the Government that no longer will Australia see long term governments such as it saw with the Menzies Government and other Liberal-Country Party governments, which were in power for 23 years. [More…]
Why does not the Bill propose that if, for example, the Labor Party appoints people the Liberal Party on coming to power will have the option of getting rid of them? [More…]
The appointment procedures give much too much power to the political mandarins. [More…]
The Bill seeks for this Parliament the power to ratify a Convention which has been in existence for some time. [More…]
The position is this: We are signing a convention which binds us effectively but it does not bind the communist powers effectively. [More…]
They have a shocking record of pact violation, of treachery and of lying and there is no reason to think that they will go back on that record in dealing with us or with any other power when it comes to this convention if only they think it pays them in advancing their cause. [More…]
As long ago as 1918, the High Court held in Alexander’s case that section 72 requires that every justice of the High Court and every justice of any other court created by the Commonwealth Parliament, and indeed every magistrate so appointed, shall, subject to the power of removal contained in that section, be appointed for life. [More…]
The Committee considered that the Constitution itself should provide that High Court justices be required to retire on reaching the age of 70 years and that Parliament should be empowered to fix the maximum retirement ages of other Federal judges subject to a constitutional limit of 70 years. [More…]
In observing this distinction the amendment contained in this BUI recognises the special position of the High Court as the Federal Supreme Court created by the Constitution and vested with the power to interpret the Constitution and, one hopes, soon with ultimate appellate power in this country. [More…]
This investigation has turned up no evidence whatsoever supporting the allegations that radioactive waste was brought from nuclear power stations in Britain for burial at Maralinga. [More…]
-Last night the Attorney-General stated that the Constitution Alteration (Retirement of Judges) Bill recognises the special position of the High Court of Australia as the federal supreme court created by the Constitution and vested with the power to interpret the Constitution and, one hopes, soon with ultimate appellate power in this country. [More…]
If so, did this bring a sharp response from Dr Kissinger, the message being that the United States did not want to be lectured to by Australia on how to conduct big power relations. [More…]
We have heard the right honourable member for Lowe (Mr William McMahon) talking about overseas reserves being at the comfortable level of $3,000m and not mentioning that the effect of devaluation is that they have been cut by 12 te per cent in purchasing power. [More…]
Yesterday I exacted from the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen) the first admission that the defence budget has in fact been cut in purchasing power for equipment produced overseas by devaluation because the sum of money appropriated has not been changed. [More…]
Comparing overseas reserves after devaluation with reserves before devaluation and saying that they have improved when in fact their purchasing power has been cut is disturbing. [More…]
The Federal Council of the Liberal Party, however, passed a resolution on 13 October 1975 calling on the Federal and State parliamentary parties and Liberals everywhere to do all in their power to prevent the Whitlam Government gaining control of the Senate. [More…]
If in their anxiety for power men lose sight of great principles they put at risk the safety of their institutions. [More…]
It has altered its interpretation of matters which have been undisturbed for longer than the period between 1918 and now- for instance the corporations power, the most fertile of all the powers, in the light of Attorney-General Hughes’s admirable and successful advocacy 5 years ago. [More…]
On 17 October 1975, in the case of WA v. the Commonwealth, the High Court by a majority rejected suits against the Commonwealth brought by Western Australia and New South Wales challenging the validity of the Federal electoral legislation, and by Queensland seeking a declaration that the Senate (Representation of Territories) Act was beyond power. [More…]
In other words, the simultaneous elections question which is now going to the people will ensure not that the powers of the Senate will be reduced in any way, but that they will be enhanced. [More…]
So if the circumstances arise where the members of the other chamber, exercising what I believe to be their correct and proper power, decide that a particular financial measure should be rejected and wish to pursue that resolution they will not be in a position where the Government, in the majority in the lower House, will go to the people on its own but where the members of both Houses must submit themselves to the will of the Australian electorate. [More…]
In that climate I believe that there will be no reduction in the power of the Senate but rather an enhancement of it. [More…]
They might well have decided that the Parliament had the power to fix a retiring age for all judges. [More…]
Conscious of unrestricted power granted by section 15 the then New South Wales Premier Lewis announced he would choose a senator who was not a member of the Australian Labor Party. [More…]
Any action that is likely to destroy public respect for the existing distribution of power could not be described as conforming to the political rules or conventions. [More…]
For an individual or a small group of people to use as they did, the powers conferred by section 15 of the Constitution as a means of distorting the balance of political power in the Senate is to debase our political system and to bring that system into utter contempt. [More…]
The real vice in an unfettered and partisan exercise of the power conferred by section 15 is that it places the stab.ility of our political system at substantial risk. [More…]
The power remains unfettered, so far as the formal, justiciable rules of law are concerned but conventions develop to regulate the use of discretionary powers. [More…]
Indeed, the hostility of public reaction seems to strengthen the argument that experience of the previous 20-odd years had led to a consensus that the power conferred by section 15 should be exercised as it is expressed in this piece of legislation. [More…]
That effectively provides the political Party concerned with the power of veto of a particular appointment if that political Party feels that the State Government has not done the right thing and has chosen someone other than a person who would be approved by the formal endorsing authority of that Party. [More…]
The Bill leaves the power of appointment in the hands of State parliaments. [More…]
It would, I think, be inappropriate to have a constitutional measure which leaves the power of appointment formally in the hands of some executive authority of a political Party. [More…]
I believe that much more important than simultaneous elections is the power of the Senate to refuse Supply or to reject money Bills. [More…]
If that power were taken away there would not be the same need or urgency as there now is for simultaneous elections. [More…]
I am disappointed that the Government did not include a fifth proposal to define clearly the powers of the Senate to reject Supply and to reject money Bills. [More…]
I do not believe that the basis for the legislation is the diminished power, knowledge or capacity of present or even past High Court judges. [More…]
Although I understand the concern of persons who consider that it may be a derogation in some way of the power of the Senate the fact is that it was only a political accident in the early 1960s that removed the synchronisation and prevented simultaneous elections from proceeding as they had for quite some years before the early 1960s. [More…]
Otherwise there could be circumstances in which the Senate could reject Supply- it certainly has the power at present to do that, because the precedent has been set- and the House of Representatives could be dissolved, but not the Senate. [More…]
It is my view that where the Senate exercises that power it ought to be subject to the judgment of the people following the exercise of that power and therefore at least half the members of the Upper House and the Lower House ought in those circumstances face the people. [More…]
I am of the view that where possible elections should not be held until the full term of the Parliament has expired unless a workable government cannot be formed or unless the Senate exercises its power to refuse Supply. [More…]
I think that the argumentit is put usually by a minority, but a vocal minoritythat simultaneous elections diminish the power of the Senate, on the one hand is based on opportunism and, on the other, shows an inferiority complex. [More…]
It has assumed powers which properly I do not believe exist. [More…]
Nevertheless, those powers have been assumed. [More…]
One of those powers is the power to determine whether governments will stay in office. [More…]
Having assumed that power the Senate is entitled to expect that it will be elected at the same time as the chamber in which governments are formed, and therefore reflect the will and the wish of the elector on the occasion when a government is chosen. [More…]
If both houses have the power to form governments, when the electorate expresses its opinion both Houses should be elected at the same time. [More…]
I have heard it suggested that people in the more geographically remote or isolated States in Australia, such as Western Australia or Queensland, may be tempted to vote against this proposal simply as a means of registering some sort of political protest against the centralisation of power in Canberra. [More…]
I can assure them that it is not, especially since this Government has been in power. [More…]
It might have been when the Labor Government was in power but it is certainly not that way now. [More…]
Wherever we can detect a Federal interest or power we should provide for it in advance without waiting for public clamour or the long agitation leading up to an amendment of the situation. [More…]
We should provide in advance for all conceivable Federal contingencies, strengthen the Federal Government and trust the Federal Parliament to use its powers wisely. [More…]
Because I come from the State of Queensland I am not necessarily expressing concern about this matter, but in view of the fact that we have a lot of doubt over the future of the territorial senators and in view of the fact that there is some question as to their area of responsibility or power, I wish to propose a scheme which will ensure that the people of the Australian Capital Territory who presently feel like second class citizens, and the people of the Northern Territory who presently feel like second class citizens, do not feel that way any longer. [More…]
I will do everything in my power to see that there is a Yes vote on the 4 questions in my electorate. [More…]
We should embark upon a campaign to reduce the power of the Senate. [More…]
If the Senate is prepared to exercise its power to force the House of Representatives to the people, I believe that at least half of the senators ought also to face the people at that time. [More…]
Some people will argue that such a proposal would detract from the Senate’s power. [More…]
When the power failed we were at the point where the Bill had passed the third reading but for the purposes of recording an absolute majority it was necessary to ring the bells for 2 minutes. [More…]
In response to the final question asked by the honourable member for Hotham, the Government will make known direct to the Ugandan Government the depth of concern being expressed in Australia about this incident and about persistent reports of the killing of Ugandan citizens since the present Government there came to power. [More…]
Should we not use hand looms instead of power looms, for the same reason, or wheelbarrows instead of trucks? [More…]
They have been involved in many aspects of infrastructure development in Papua New Guinea including the provision of transport facilities, water supplies, communication networks and power stations. [More…]
Supply was lost when a 66 000-volt surge diverter at the Authority’s Kingston zone substation exploded due to an internal fault and in shattering caused heavy fragments to damage the porcelain bushings of the power transformer which serves the parliamentary triangle. [More…]
As for the future, there was no emergency lighting simply because there are three entries of power into Parliament House and it was not thought likely that there could be such a shut-down of power. [More…]
When the power failed we were at the point where the Bill had passed the third reading but for the purposes of recording an absolute majority it was necessary to ring the bells for 2 minutes. [More…]
In anyone’s terms, Australia is demonstrably in worse shape now than when this Government came to power. [More…]
The fateful 11 November 1975 was the date it came to power, and it is now 22 February 1977. [More…]
The basic characteristic of effective competition in the economic sense is that no one seller, and no group of sellers acting in concert, has the power to choose its level of profits by giving less and charging more. [More…]
The provision aims to prevent unscrupulous suppliers from attempting to gain an unfair advantage over their competitors by discriminating among buyers and to prevent unscruplous buyers from using their economic power to exact discriminatory prices from suppliers to the disadvantage of less powerful buyers. [More…]
The abuses can be on the one hand the abuses of management, of corporations and of industry, but society has to be protected against the abuses, on the other hand, of monopoly power as carried on by trade unions. [More…]
I have no doubt that excesses of union power have caused much of the current inflation. [More…]
This measure is a step towards bringing the excesses of the monopoly of union power under control. [More…]
Today the people on the shop floor know that the trade union movement wields too much economic power. [More…]
-Before the suspension of the sitting for dinner I had shown how excessive monopoly behaviour of trade unions, like the excesses of monopoly power of the private sector of capital and business, must be subject to the trade practices legislation. [More…]
If they do not fall within that definition of corporations which are the only corporations over which the Commonwealth has power to make laws, how will the Government embrace them? [More…]
Trade practices law concerns a set of market practices, market behaviour, market power and the structure that endangers the competitive processes. [More…]
That right would be limited to this extent: The action would have to be preventing or hindering the supply of goods or services to a corporation because the whole new section is based on the corporation power. [More…]
Telecommunications, banking, employees in fuel and power industries such as gas, coal, electricity and petroleum would be affected. [More…]
If an injunction is sought and granted and the employee does not abide by it, the court has the power to impose fines or gaol sentences, as it sees fit. [More…]
I would think that the Minister might give some thought to whether other sections of the Act or other aspects of the corporations power could be used in this area. [More…]
Whilst that possibility exists, the door should not be closed absolutely to the use of the Act or of the corporations power in some proper way to ensure that we are not acting contrary to the interests of small business. [More…]
The average trade unionist in this country is still a hard working person, still patriotic and still interested in his country, but he is in the grip of many trade union leadership groups which are interested only in their own power and march only to the drums of their own egos. [More…]
So this internecine strife that we have seen has characterised the last several years, and the industrial record during the 3 years that the Labor Government was in power was worse than it had been for a very long time. [More…]
There is concern that the executives of the unions have too much power. [More…]
President Amin, since he came into power in 1971, has been responsible for the widespread slaughter of his own people. [More…]
This is the important thing: I checked this morning on the increase in the area administered by these 2 offices since this Government came to power. [More…]
Is it any wonder that this situation has arisen when we consider the policies which have been carried out by this Government- devaluation, the skimming off of spending power by the new Medibank arrangements and expenditure cuts in employment-giving areas? [More…]
One thing that we have done since we came to power has been to stabilise the situation to a very large extent. [More…]
The industry will be reviewed again within a period of 8 years except in respect of tractors with a power rating in excess of 105 kilowatts at the PTO, which is the horse power at the belt pulley as opposed to draw-bar horse power which is the main one in which farmers are interested. [More…]
So it is good to know that large horsepower tractors will be manufactured in Australia because with the huge production of grain in this country large horsepower tractors will be required by the farming community to cut their costs, to cover the ground quickly, to conserve moisture when it rains and to give increased production. [More…]
We give lip service at any rate to the principle of decentralisation here when we say that all power should not be in Canberra and that we should decentralise power to the various States. [More…]
When one of the cogs in the wheel is stripped by people abusing power, the whole system slows down. [More…]
There is no future for this country if there are a few revolutionary people who want to grab large numbers of people- as they have the power to do these days- pull them out of the work place, hold the rest of the country to ransom, run down production in the country and run down the livelihood of those people who are being pulled out of the work place. [More…]
Under the Act the Minister has a discretionary power to compel the grant of authorisation of a merger by the Commission. [More…]
That power is to be removed under this legislation and that is in accordance with the undertaking we gave in the pre-election situation. [More…]
Another aim of the legislation as I see it is to protect the public interest to prevent monopoly power from being exercised by either capital or labour or government for that matter except in those circumstances where the national interest is concerned. [More…]
It is the only real weapon that workers have against the combined forces that make up the entrenched power and dominance of the capitalist form of production. [More…]
I think there is a very good case for the Commission, under well defined guidelines, to exercise discretionary power in relation to thresholds. [More…]
Trade unions, after all, are organisations of people within particular industries to protect themselves from the organisation of capital, if you like, and economic power and so on. [More…]
Honourable members may accept the Galbraith thesis about countervailing power- that the 2 great powers in the community are capitalism on the one side and the trade unions on the other- but that is not what trade practices regulations are about. [More…]
Trade unions have power, and thank God they do. [More…]
The Government might not like the way they exercise that power. [More…]
It is a collective power, but it is not the same as what is called ‘trade practices’. [More…]
I hope there is an acknowledgment that trade unions are a necessary part of the division of economic power in the community. [More…]
This would mean, in real terms, a reduction of the purchasing power of the great majority of people in the community. [More…]
After all, in my view regulation of restrictive trade practices means the regulation of big business because big business can become so powerful in relation to the total economy that it has to be regulated. [More…]
Restrictive practice is about the power of big business in relation to the totality of the economy and somehow we have to intrude government power to do justice between the producer and the consumer. [More…]
The legislation acknowledges that in the community certain organisations by reason of their existence can be more powerful against the community than others. [More…]
There are magnitudes of power and minitudes of power and some difficulties in a democratic system. [More…]
It was not until the Heath Government came into power that the Rookes v. Barnard rejection was resuscitated to some slight extent. [More…]
But the pilots had the power to tie up hundreds of millions of dollars of capital owned by people who were paying tens of millions of dollars a year in interest and who on top of that were compelled to deliver millions of dollars in dividends. [More…]
Honourable members opposite will be forced to the ballot box because just as Kerr was able to force us to the ballot box by the use of the Constitution, or the misuse of the Constitution, there is a power that is greater than Kerr- the power of organised labour. [More…]
There is no greater power than organised labour. [More…]
But the great power of the people is against them. [More…]
It has among its members the electricians, the engine drivers and the firemen who can cut off the power. [More…]
When they turn on their printing presses to print their rubbish in their newspapers against the workers nothing will come out the other end because there will be no power. [More…]
It can happen here and it will happen here if honourable members opposite go on to bring into the trade practices legislation penalties of $50,000 and the like for unionists who after all are trying to use the only thing they know- organised labour power- against the tremendous, almost unlimited power of the organised transnationals in this country. [More…]
He may talk about the enormous power of the unions, and certainly we respect him but does he imagine that so many people on the Government benches were returned to power without the support of vast numbers of people in the trade unions? [More…]
It may not be good for the Opposition’s policies to get back into power, but these people have wages to collect and commitments to meet. [More…]
Presumably if the New South Wales Parliament decides to set up an investigating committee the committee ought to have power to investigate both sides of the matter because very serious issues are raised such as the question of religious freedom to which I have referred previously. [More…]
So one would hope that if a committee is set up in a State parliament, as it was in the State of New York in the United States of America, to investigate this sort of matter it will have broad powers. [More…]
What has happened to New South Wales in the employment area since Mr Wran came to power cannot be very comforting to the people in that State. [More…]
Is the Minister for Construction aware of the hardship and suffering caused to the elderly and sick, the inconvenience to housewives and losses to the business community as a result of the continual breakdowns, stoppages and power shedding at the Stokes Hill power station in Darwin since 1974, especially during the last 6 months? [More…]
We have taken out figures on the power failure situation in Darwin for the period mentioned by the honourable gentleman- in fact, during the last 13 months. [More…]
Power failures have affected the average consumer on 30 occasions, totalling SO hours. [More…]
Half of that SO-hour failure has been caused by the withdrawal of labour from the power house at Stokes Hill. [More…]
When they ban the working of overtime there is no power in Darwin that day. [More…]
I am hoping that common sense will prevail and that reasonable power facilities will be restored to the people of Darwin. [More…]
It has the constitutional power. [More…]
The major legislative power with regard to occupational safety in Australia lies with the States, so the Federal Government is limited in what it can do in that regard. [More…]
Whenever legislation of this nature comes before us one could be forgiven for believing that the 3 groups of seats in this chamber taken up by the Liberal Party really come under the power of the National Country Party in the coalition. [More…]
That Party is quite expert at rigging boundaries to get itself into power. [More…]
A system of government in which political power is exercised by the people. [More…]
Eventually in this country I want to see the power to change the electoral laws and the power to undertake redistributions taken out of the hands of politicians. [More…]
Let us assume that we had narrowly missed out on achieving office and that the present Government was in power and it decided that if an election at large were held it could be assured, under proportional representationthis is what I assume an election at large would be because I cannot see any other way of doing it- of about 42 per cent to 45 per cent of the vote. [More…]
My view about that is to this effect: In a democratic state the reservation of this power to a GovernorGeneral who has shown that he does not operate on the advice of his Ministers is a reservation of power which this Parliament should not allow. [More…]
The power to order a redistribution is one which, unless placed firmly in the hands of the Parliament, can quite openly and flagrantly be abused. [More…]
Members of the National Country Party would be failing in their duty if they did not fight with all their power to protect the limited rights of country people and to secure for country people something approaching the equality of representation to which they are entitled as Australian citizens. [More…]
My own view is that electorates ought to be as close as practicable in voting power because that is what representative government is about. [More…]
Therefore we have to accept the point that redistributions of electorates should be based upon the voting power of people and the voting power of their representatives in this House. [More…]
The Labor Party did it in that way to instal itself, it thought, in power. [More…]
Even when one takes the figures in relation to the totality of numbers and votes they tend to reflect that the party that has the greatest number of votes usually is in power. [More…]
I would rather see the National Country Party have this unequal power in the Parliament’. [More…]
1 ) Is it a fact that under the present rules for unemployment benefit when a person leaves a job of his own accord, and without a good reason, the Department of Social Security has the power to suspend the benefit for a period of up to 6 weeks. [More…]
The testings of liquor for adulteration would be undertaken by my Department upon referral of samples by the Licensing Authorities who, under the Licensing Ordinance, have the power to search, seize and have tested any liquor suspected of being adulterated. [More…]
Does the exercise of legislative power in the area of education in 1937 preclude from application in the Territory of amendments to N.S. [More…]
Is the Government proposing to amend the Conciliation and Arbitration Act so as to remove from the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission power to deal with industrial disputes relating to wages. [More…]
Does the Government propose to legislate to regulate collective bargaining pursuant to the trade and commerce power, the corporations power and the territories power; if so, what is to be the form of the proposed legislation. [More…]
That the committee have power to send for persons, papers and records; [More…]
That the committee have power to move from place to place; [More…]
That the committee have power to authorise the publication of any evidence given before it and any document presented to it; and [More…]
The honourable member will recall that on coming to power the Government allocated a further $60,000 to the Council to enable it to honour its commitments. [More…]
For these reasons, the Government will be doing all in its power to ensure that wage increases are kept within reasonable bounds in 1977. [More…]
I draw the attention of the House to the fact that in 1974, when Labor was in power and tried that method, it failed, as it must fail. [More…]
I refer to its automotive industries, its steel industries, its ship building industries, its nuclear power generation, and its consumer goods industries. [More…]
There has been no unleashing of the latent power of the work force to increase productivity. [More…]
Yet in our own country we have a Constitution over which we as a national Parliament have very little power. [More…]
It is apparent to those who attend Constitutional Convention debates that those who represent State governments feel that we should not have even the power we have. [More…]
Assume that after an election the Government retains power in the House of Representatives but still faces a hostile Senate. [More…]
A new Constitution should clearly state that the powers of the people are vested in the House of Representatives, that this House is responsible to the people and that all legislation passed by both Houses can be accepted as being passed in an intelligent way. [More…]
Then we would not have this confrontation, this nonsense, this charade as to the power of the Senate and how it will dictate what is in the best interests of the economy. [More…]
The Government is very much wedded to the establishment of this country- the limited few who feel that they should be able to wield power and dictate what should be a reasonable profit for themselves. [More…]
When we said in December 1973 that we wanted the power to fix prices and incomes, the then Opposition opposed the idea, as did the trade union movement, for wrong reasons. [More…]
The opposition was on the basis that the States could do the job, that they had the power and that there was not need for this sort of exercise. [More…]
We were relying on the external affairs powers in respect of our legislation so that this Parliament would be able to say right throughout Australia that rights could be guaranteed. [More…]
The proposed commission will be relying merely on federal law or federal power which is somewhat weaker than our proposal. [More…]
This Parliament has the power to legislate in this field. [More…]
I wanted to talk tonight about the struggles of this Parliament to assert its own rights and its own power against forces that flow down through history which have betrayed the reasons for its very existence. [More…]
The long history of Parliament, of course, has been a continuing struggle of the institution to survive against those who would subvert it and against those people who controlled the power structure of countries. [More…]
Just imagine what would happen if, say, the honourable member for Moreton (Mr Killen) had that power to exercise over his electoral committee. [More…]
Unless we change the power base in the Constitution there is no point in calling it anything at all. [More…]
Until we resolve the question of the supremacy and the power of this Parliament there can be no continuing stability in our democratic institutions. [More…]
The story of Labor’s 3-year rule makes a sobering case study of what can happen to even such an economically advantaged country as Australia when high spending proponents of big government are voted into power. [More…]
A landslide anti-Labor vote returned the conservative coalition to power. [More…]
I refer to the power of the Senate, which the honourable member for Kingsford-Smith referred to as a mere charade. [More…]
In fact, when they had their opportunity to express their judgment about the Australian Labor Party, they cast it from power in a manner which, as I have said, is unprecedented in our political history. [More…]
Recently the Premier of South Australia made an announcement to provide Electricity Trust of South Australia power to this part of South Australia, and I understand that an 1 1 000 KVA powerline is likely to be laid in the vicinity, so the necessary power should be available to establish such a facility. [More…]
The ABC is fortunate in that those who have the power to approve the finance that allows the Commission to function have little time to watch over its activities. [More…]
The Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs (Mr MacKellar), in an expression worthy of his Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) ‘the full global situation’ of persons of quasi refugee status- that is about as dehumanising a phrase as I can think of- talked about the selectivity of the Australian Labor Party when it was in power. [More…]
I would almost suggest the Speaker should have the power to grant the honourable member concerned an additional period if his speaking time has been taken up with these actions. [More…]
There has been an increase in concern among private members in the Parliament about the increased power of the Executive. [More…]
There has been an increasing tendency in recent years for the power of the Executive to increase without the corresponding examination by the Parliament. [More…]
This allows quite a deal of the increase of Executive power and lack of consideration of legislation. [More…]
Whereas when I refered to my concern about the power of the Executive and so on I was not speaking on a partisan basis because I think the situation applied to both sides of the fence, on this occasion I state that there has been a marked decrease in this Parliament in the courtesy of Ministers of this Government in answering questions raised in this manner. [More…]
That the committee have power to appoint subcommittees consisting of 3 or more of its members, and to appoint the Chairman of each sub-committee who shall have a casting vote only, and refer to any such sub-committee any matter which the committee is empowered to examine. [More…]
That the committee or any sub-committee have power to send for persons, papers and records. [More…]
That the committee have power to move from place to place. [More…]
That any sub-committee have power to move from place to place, adjourn from time to time and to sit during any sittings or adjournment. [More…]
That the committee or any sub-committee have power to authorise publication of any evidence given before it and any document presented to it. [More…]
16) That the committee have leave to report from time to time and that any member of the committee have power to add a protest or dissent to the committee’s report [More…]
That the committee or any sub-committee have power to consider and make use of the minutes of evidence and records of the House of Representatives Select Committee on Tourism appointed in the First Session of the Thirtieth Parliament [More…]
That the committee have power to appoint subcommittees consisting of 3 or more of its members and to refer to any sub-committee any of the matters which the committee is empowered to examine. [More…]
That the committee or any sub-committee have power to send for persons, papers and records, to move from place to place and to sit during any adjournment of the Parliament. [More…]
That the committee or a sub-committee have power to authorise publication of any evidence given before it and any document presented to it. [More…]
That the committee have leave to report from time to time, that its final report be presented by 18 August 1977 and that any member of the committee have power to add a protest or dissent to any report. [More…]
That the committee or any sub-committee have power to consider and make use of the minutes of evidence and records of the Joint Select Committee on Aboriginal Land Rights in the Northern Territory appointed during the First Session of the Thirtieth Parliament. [More…]
Let us take the opportunity of looking at the promises that won the Fraser Government power in 1975. [More…]
Yet the Prime Minister wants to reduce spending power by reducing wages and at the same time is telling people to have confidence and to spend their money. [More…]
With the growth over the years of the power of public and private bureaucracies, particular care needs to be taken to protect individual liberties and human rights against unwarranted intrusions. [More…]
Their inherent power is another. [More…]
That assumes that the private individual, the person in society is irrelevant and is nothing more than a small cog in a very big wheel who can be used to suit the ambitions and the purposes of whichever power body has the upper hand at a particular point. [More…]
That will not happen while the bureaucracies of government, business or unions constantly try to use people to do nothing more than extend their power game. [More…]
Steps have been taken to reverse the trend towards the concentration of power in the hands of the Commonwealth Government. [More…]
This Government is conscious of the encroaching bureaucracy and of the power that the bureaucracy has to impinge on personal rights and freedom. [More…]
It attempted to concentrate all powers in the Government which sits on the shores of Lake Burley Griffin. [More…]
People in our small State of Tasmania are all too conscious of how power was concentrated under that Government. [More…]
The Queen mentioned in her opening address that the Government has certain legislation in hand to correct the monopolising power of big unions and the way they are able to extend and impinge upon the rights and freedoms of their members. [More…]
Is it that they do not want their members to know how to go about correcting the monopolising power of their union leaders? [More…]
Is it because the union leaders themselves want to maintain a situation where they can manipulate their members for their own political ambitions and they see in the industrial relations bureau some challenge to that monopolising power? [More…]
What we have to do, contrary perhaps to what the honourable member for Corio might believe, is to break down the monopolising power of big government, big business and big unions. [More…]
They are concerned only with their own power. [More…]
Like the communists, their organising ability gives them a power out of all proportion to their numbers. [More…]
The extent of their power was demonstrated at a meeting of the Liberal Party State Council in Sydney last month, where, according to the Australian, the group effectively controlled the meeting and ‘delivered a stinging vote of no confidence in the State executive and the most senior officials of the Party’. [More…]
Who is behind this group which has achieved such power in the ruling councils of the Liberal Government? [More…]
At the beginning of the thirtieth Parliament I spoke during the Address-in-Reply debate about the divisiveness that has been built up in this country following the Labor Party’s time in power. [More…]
According to the Speech, steps have been taken to reverse the trends towards the concentration of power in the hands of the Commonwealth Government. [More…]
Already the power of the Commonwealth has been weakened by the scrapping of a number of programs and the overall contraction of public spending, particularly in the public sector. [More…]
There are very grave dangers for the Australian people in the approach the Fraser Government has adopted in devolving its economic powers. [More…]
We live in an era when big business- particularly the multinational companies- exercises enormous economic powers. [More…]
These companies can use their collective power and work through agencies of their governments in order to pick off Australian resources. [More…]
Only a Federal government could have the power and the resources to counter these tactics. [More…]
It is wrong, in the international context we now face, to give power back to the States which compete with each other in giving the biggest concessions to big companies. [More…]
By weakening the Federal Government and directing powers back to the States, this Government is moving into a situation in which no Australian government will be sufficiently strong to resist big business. [More…]
This Government is eroding the central economic powers which have been built up with much difficulty over the past 75 years. [More…]
Economic power is even more important in the present context. [More…]
It is an ideology based on a naked transfer of power from the Government to the private sector. [More…]
While they were in power they increased taxes at a far greater rate than had ever happened in Australia before. [More…]
The fact that small private companies are now allowed to retain more of their profits for capital expansion has certainly alleviated some of the problems that built up during the previous 3 years before this Government came to power. [More…]
Before the suspension of the sitting I was about to make my point in regard to the movement of interest rates since this Government has been in power. [More…]
When Labor came to power in 1972 we left an economy with interest rates running at about 7 1/2 per cent per annum, a rate that seems pie in the sky today. [More…]
Historic reforms are being made to the nation’s federal financial relations which will return power and responsibility to the State and local levels of government. [More…]
The nightmare began with an immediate and indecent grasp of power. [More…]
The then Prime Minister virtually ran the country for some days with single dictatorial power, with arrogance and contempt for the most elementary form of democracy. [More…]
After only 6 months in power the Fraser Government destroyed Medibank and dismantled most of the Labor Government’s preventive health programs. [More…]
The wages policy of this Government is restricted very considerably because in our Constitution there is a provision for dispersal of power. [More…]
Nor is there anything to suggest that China will become a superpower in 10, 20, or even 30 years. [More…]
Hence the right-wing Sinophilia of those who abhor the Chinese system but who see virtue in Chinese power as a counterweight to the Russian, is as flawed as the left-wing Sinophilia of those who see virtue in a society which combines a maximum of unfreedom with a minimum of efficiency. [More…]
We must do all in our power to maintain and expand good relations with Indonesia. [More…]
I believe that as the former colonial power we have a great responsibility to help the splendid efforts of the Papua New Guinea Government in developing the country and improving the sometimes very low standard of living of the people. [More…]
He does not recollect -or more likely prefers to forget- the spectacular thud of the sortie of his Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) into Sino-Australian relations in China a little over 8 months ago when the Prime Minister proposed a 4-power alliance, including clumsily aligning himself with the Chinese on a fairly sensitive issue which the Japanese were trying to handle delicately; questioned the future security of Malaysia and Singapore; raised doubts about the stability of the Indonesian Government; and challenged India’s sincerity in its concern for world peace. [More…]
Can Australia ever again criticise United Nations agencies, such as the Security Council, for their ineffectiveness when, in an international dispute which did not involve a super power confrontation and in which an Australian response could have influenced the course of events, we failed to take up the challenge? [More…]
The member countries of the Warsaw Pact have very little in the way of maritime power. [More…]
There is no point in ignoring the realities of growing Soviet strategic power and internal repression, but nothing is to be gained by exaggerating the Soviet presence in the Indian Ocean, particularly in the scare-mongering terms sometimes used by Government Ministers. [More…]
President Carter’s recent call for super-power disengagement from the Indian Ocean while the Prime Minister and the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen) have been arguing for an expanded American presence is outstanding only for the stark way in which it contrasts differences. [More…]
The decline in American power in the Pacific must be expected to continue. [More…]
The safety of the United States rests upon the maintenance of superiority in nuclear striking power and upon that alone. [More…]
That is, the Soviet Union’s- naval power … is far weaker than combined Allied naval strength in terms of tonnage, firepower, range, access to the sea, experience and seamanship. [More…]
Its naval power, while a growing and serious problem, is far weaker than combined Allied naval strength in terms of tonnage, fire power, range, access to the sea, experience and seamanship. [More…]
So the Leader of the Opposition omitted a reference in Dr Kissinger’s speech to the view that Dr Kissinger presumably held that Soviet naval power was increasing- not only that it was increasing but that it was posing a serious problem. [More…]
The steady growth of Soviet conventional military and naval power and its expanding global reach cannot be ignored. [More…]
He and we both draw attention to the fact that not only is that power increasing but that it poses problems so far as the strategic balance of the region is concerned. [More…]
We have also said that we want that guaranteed by the big powers. [More…]
We want to see a situation in which, if there is a limitation on military presence in the region, it is guaranteed by the big powers. [More…]
In other words, the Minister has matured in the short period since his Government came to power and his policies are very much different to those which have been espoused by his Leader, the Prime Minister of Australia, who, in many respects, is still living in the past. [More…]
When we are talking about zones of peace and a sphere in which there is no major build-up of power, we have to look at the past performance of the communists in those ASEAN countries. [More…]
We are recognised in Western Europe as a power of some considerable significance in this area and it is appropriate that we have a proper basis of dialogue with Western Europe. [More…]
The United States government and people began to gain more respect for Australia when the Whitlam Administration came to power and expressed a more independent line in foreign policy, particularly in respect of the Vietnam war. [More…]
He knew for years that if the Labor Party got into power it would immediately recognise the People ‘s Republic of China. [More…]
There was a change overnight after the Whitlam Government came into power and recognised People ‘s China. [More…]
My conscience dictates that I remind the Australian people that it was the tory Government which was in power recently that earmarked $80m of Australian taxpayers’ money to build the Cockburn Sound naval base. [More…]
I admit that that is one of greatest problems, but it will not be solved by handing over authority to some people in that country who have no sense of responsibility themselves and who have only a desire to have the power and authority themselves. [More…]
These sorts of people take the power and authority and that is all they are interested in. [More…]
The practice of foreign relations in the world, whether by great powers like the United States or by middle powers like Australia, is a mixture of the two and it always will be so. [More…]
What Australia must remember is that as a middle power we can never pretend that the clout we will have in terms of realpolitik can be as great as our moral influence. [More…]
So long as we remain committed to the mainstream of western democratic ideals we can never underestimate our power to have influence and effect in that alliance. [More…]
When allowance is made for the effects of inflation on the purchasing power of the dollar, farm income in 1 975- 76 was 56 per cent less than in 1 973-74 and a further fall of 36 per cent is expected for 1976- 77. [More…]
We have heard from honourable members opposite before they came to power and since they have come to power how they are going to improve the economy and all the great things they are going to do. [More…]
I must admit that I had a vague feeling during the last year that we were in power, 1 975, that maybe what honourable members opposite said was correct- that there was a lack of confidence in the community and that the people with whom the present Government superficially at least had more empathy, the people who control our business enterprises, felt that a change of government would improve the position and that they would have more confidence in the Lynchs and the Frasers than they did in the Haydens and the Whitlams. [More…]
The Government has taken certain steps, and the result is that the position is even worse than it was before the Government got into power. [More…]
This power to dismiss a bad government and to call for elections is a major guarantee against dictatorship or one party government. [More…]
The Act setting up the statutory commissions gives the Minister power to direct the commissions to act in the national interest. [More…]
If the communications and postal services do not improve I will urge the Minister to invoke that power and direct the commissions to act to provide better services to the people in isolated areas of Australia. [More…]
The Government claimed when it came to power that it principal objectives were to overcome inflation and unemployment. [More…]
The Prime Minister was the man who went into power to cure unemployment and inflation. [More…]
When Labor was last in power, in October 1975, there were only 87 762 young people unemployed. [More…]
The Labor Party when in power under the leadership of Mr Whitlam was frequently accused of creating unlimited bankruptcies throughout Australia. [More…]
If the Government is sincere enough to admit that there will be over 400 000 people unemployed in the immediate future, what an admission of the Budget’s failure by the ones who are responsible and who claimed prior to coming to power, that they would overcome these sorts of problems. [More…]
The tolerance becomes 10 per cent, 20 per cent or 50 per cent, or the size of the electorate becomes 5000 square kilometres, or there is a western zone, a northern zone or a metropolitan zone, or any sort of system at all which ensures that the Party in power stays in power. [More…]
Obviously they must look to some other system by which they can attain power. [More…]
There have been several examples over the last 60 or 70 years of State Labor governments keeping themselves in power for inordinate periods as a result of the device of gerrymander. [More…]
The adoption of a proposal for legislative uniformity which recognises that the States are not required to surrender or refer any constitutional power. [More…]
The Labor Party takes the point of view- we have always been consistent in it- that as the Commonwealth Parliament has the power, it has the responsibility and it should legislate effectively in this field. [More…]
We say that such a law should be .introduced instead of the situation being left in a state of limbo by saying: ‘Well, we have the power but we do not want to tread on the niceties of State legislation because it will cause political repercussions’. [More…]
The corporations power is to be found in section 5 1 of the Constitution, and also we have power by virtue of the section relating to interstate trade. [More…]
It is not worthy of anyone to say that we do not have the power in this area. [More…]
Not to use the power available to us is running away from the problem. [More…]
The basis of the scheme is: No reference of power, no overriding consistent State law; just agreement. [More…]
States can pull out of the scheme at any time, and no doubt Queensland and Western Australia, and possibly Victoria, will pull out when the Labor Party next comes to power in Canberra, because it has been their past track record not to co-operate with a Labor government. [More…]
That was the track record when you were in power. [More…]
That power should be available now, rather than having the present situation of a meeting of creditors being deluded as to what is going to happen by some good orator, when there are no facts to substantiate what he is saying. [More…]
These proposals implement the Government’s decisions on recommendations made by the Industries Assistance Commission in its reports on: Bench or pedestal drilling machines not power fed; clothing; and certain man-made fibres, yarns and fabrics. [More…]
To the end of December 1976, the Bank had lent about SUS3.4 billion to its developing member countries for projects covering all the major sectors of economic development with emphasis on the development of infrastructure facilities in the transport and communications industry and electric power sectors as well as projects for agriculture, education, water supply and urban development. [More…]
The facts of the matter are that this Government has done a very great deal to help the apple industry over many years and since it has been in power since 1975. [More…]
If its performance in 1972-75 indicates the sort of policy it has in mind for the fruit industry, then woe betide the fruit industry if the Labor Party ever gets back into power in the immediate future. [More…]
He appoints the Prime Minister, presides over the Cabinet, promulgates laws, and signs the Orders and Decrees, I wonder if those who are so convinced the Governor-General should not have the power to do as was done in 1975, are aware that the French President can also dismiss the Prime Minister, and even dissolve the Parliament. [More…]
Alternatively do Australians want a republican system like the United States, where even with congressional constraints, enormous power is in the hands of one man? [More…]
expelled from his position of power. [More…]
That simple Bill called Supply is the basis of our Parliament’s power. [More…]
There is not dual responsibility of powers in the Westminster system. [More…]
In Britain the House of Lords does not have the power that our Senate has. [More…]
The dilemma Australia faces, irrespective of whether it has a monarch or a republican president, is that we have a bicameral structure in our Parliament with both chambers having equal power. [More…]
It is difficult to visualise our millions of cars and trucks readily converting to coal power or our aeroplanes using anything other than aviation fuel. [More…]
There is every indication that oil is just as vital and declining a power source on the world scene as it is in Australia. [More…]
We know that coal can be liquefied to be used as petroleum; we know that one day solar energy will be developed into a viable source of energy; we also know that major power utilities in the world are developing nuclear power stations which will supply up to one-third of the required electrical power by the late 1980s. [More…]
If we started this very day on a massive program to develop nuclear power, to liquefy coal, to discover more oil, to electrify the railways and to build nuclear powered ships, it would be well into the late 1980s before any real impression was being made on the problem. [More…]
Energy has always been the basis of power. [More…]
To answer the honourable member’s question, unemployment in those 2 unemployment offices has risen by 30 per cent since this Government took power and nearly 1 7 per cent since February last year. [More…]
If they do not, the Government will bring them within the umbrella of a financial corporation by issuing regulations which it has the power to issue under the Financial Corporations Act. [More…]
When the Labor Government came to power we increased expenditure on technical education by 350 per cent. [More…]
Everything that it said presupposed that it would give the Technical and Further Education Commission a chance to get on with its work if the Liberal Party came into power. [More…]
The judicial courts protect the citizen from abuse of the power of government. [More…]
In addition to the $8,000 the company was also asked to provide $ 1 1 ,800 to be used for the provision of underground power. [More…]
This is interesting because on my investigations, and indeed on the investigations of this company concerned, the Brisbane City Council had no plans whatsoever for the provision of underground power in this area. [More…]
The technical officers to whom I spoke told me that it was physically impossible to provide underground power to that area. [More…]
But the provision of underground power is Council policy. [More…]
The other frightening part of this aspect of the City Council ‘s operation is the fact that all these messages about the provision of finance for underground power and site approvals are given orally. [More…]
We need to face the facts that the slow but steady recovery from the world economic crisis, which was under way when the Liberal and National Country Parties usurped power, was halted by consecutive policies. [More…]
That is a move which is well known through the migrant communities and which the present Government corrected immediately it came to power. [More…]
I likened them to courts that considered not the abuse of the power of government but rather considered unwise government or inappropriate or inefficient government. [More…]
The IAC and other advisory bodies, such as the Schools Commission, are the servants of the Parliament and not of the government and the political party in power. [More…]
The Government will do everything in its power to ensure that these measures are applied with a sensitivity and understanding that respects the dignity of the unemployed. [More…]
At the same time, I believe we should continue to monitor the nuclear industry as nuclear power will ultimately be needed in Australia. [More…]
This abuse of executive power is very hard to stop. [More…]
His determined decision to made certain I was not in the House in order to get his scurrilous attack on the record is, I believe, another example of the desperate things a desperate man will do to stay in power even though the power base that he enjoys is one that I certainly do not look forward to occupying from this side of the House for many, many years, if at all. [More…]
The first report of the Environmental Inquiry, which dealt with the more general issues involved in uranium export and nuclear power, stressed the need to ensure that effective restraints exist against nuclear weapons proliferation and it stressed also the need for the fullest and most effective safeguards on uranium exported by Australia. [More…]
The average income earner’s income packet increased by only 1 1.6 per cent which means that in real terms he is some 3 per cent worse off at the end of the period or $5 a week behind in his real purchasing power over the beginning of the year. [More…]
It claims that it is looking for an investment led recovery but it consistently fails to answer the question: Why would any company seek to add to capacity when there exists substantial unused capacity due to the levelling off or even decline in consumer demand through progressive reductions in the purchasing power of real wages as a result of plateau indexation, the Medibank levy and the still high incidence of tax increases through steeply progressive taxation? [More…]
In 1976 consumers lost at least 5 per cent of their real purchasing power as a result of the Government’s policies. [More…]
It has taken a little time for this to filter through to the community as people offset their loss of purchasing power by cutting back on non-essentials and using available lines of credit. [More…]
In fairness to Mr Reid I must point out that during his time in this Parliament as the Liberal Member for Holt when his own party was in power he made the same pleas in this Parliament as I am making tonight. [More…]
If it feels that what went on under the Australian Labor Party Government was incorrect the present Government has the power to correct it. [More…]
It is often said that the worst inflation in Australia’s history was while the Labor Government was in power. [More…]
Personally I think the worst inflation in Australia’s recent history will be in this year when the Labor Government is not in power. [More…]
Prior to the election in 1975 the present Attorney-General (Mr Ellicott) who was then the shadow Minister for Aboriginal Affairs sent telegrams to the various Aboriginal communities throughout Australia saying that they had nothing to worry about if a Liberal Government were elected to power. [More…]
When the Labor Government came to power it was faced with the Liberal Party’s neglect of the industry over those years. [More…]
The Australian National Railways Commission carries that coal to some of the main power stations in South Australia. [More…]
The present Government is committed to the idea and the concept of federalism; that is, the distribution of legislative power between the Commonwealth Parliament, the parliaments of the States and, through the States, to local government. [More…]
Historic reforms are being made to the nation’s federal financial relations which will return power and responsibility to the State and local levels of government. [More…]
Members of this Government and of its administrations must take this report seriously and accept a proposal that provides a mechanism whereby there can be a continuing process of devolution to State and local governments so that power is diffused and so that decision making is more sensitive to the needs of the people while the Commonwealth Government, its departments and its Ministers can take on the more exciting challenge of providing national leadership in the definition of goals, in the evaluation of programs and in the introduction of innovatory measures. [More…]
I emphasise 18 months because this Government has been in power as long as the Tories who come to this Parliament would permit a Labor government to govern without going to the people again. [More…]
Let us start with the leader of the Governmentthe Prime Minister- who stole his way into power in December 1975 by clamming up and saying nothing, who hoped that by not committing himself on the specifics he would not simply get in with a blank cheque, with a mandate to do whatever came into his head, but in fact to cut and to decimate so many of the programs that the Labor Government during the preceding 3 difficult years had just got started. [More…]
But here we get none of that kind of talk from the Press, which connived in the coming to power of these men. [More…]
He never misses an opportunity in this place to stand up and play ethnic politics at the basest level for the cheapest purposes by decrying the emergence as an economic power in the world of the Arab nations. [More…]
Can a nation like this, long endure when men like this for their own narrow purposes make these divisions in the community and when they get into power dash the hopes which they raised so falsely as they certainly knew they would be dashed? [More…]
I would hope that even if a State were philosophically opposed to having this right, this power, it would participate in legislation that would enable a State that wanted to exert this power to implement it effectively and smoothly. [More…]
It was apparent to the Committee from the evidence given that both Mr Bryant and Mr Dexter had similar views on their powers and responsibilities under section 64 of the Constitution and section 25 (2) of the Public Service Act respectively. [More…]
But in the exercising of those powers and responsibilities there were significant differences. [More…]
It is axiomatic that a Minister is answerable to the Parliament for the administration of his department under the doctrine of ministerial responsibility and has the power to intervene in the day-to-day affairs of his department. [More…]
Ninthly, it is the Committee’s view that the establishment of any Trust Account under the Audit Act derogates from the power of the Parliament to control expenditure and that the continued use of such accounts must be fully justified. [More…]
The police will be given the power to require persons to identify themselves where they may be able to assist police in inquiries in relation to an offence and a reciprocal power is also to be given to citizens in those circumstances to require the policy to identify themselves. [More…]
As the Commonwealth owned land is obviously still required by the Commonwealth for immediate use, it is my view that in the present circumstances, the Minister has no power under that sub-section to authorise the transfer of the Commonwealth owned land to the company. [More…]
It does not exhort restraint on the part of those who have power over prices. [More…]
These are 4 ways in which the Fraser Government has caused an increase in inflation since it came to power 1 6 months ago. [More…]
That which results from Aborigines not know their own rights or having the power to apply them, so that in the courts of the North many more Aborigines are arrested and charged with drunkenness and appear before the courts without adequate legal representatives, say, than is the case with the white community. [More…]
A programme has to be developed to allow or to give the school more holding power on its Aboriginal pupils. [More…]
It is a reform that we have taken the responsibility of implementing in an effort to preserve individual spending power, in spite of the side effects of inflation. [More…]
The pattern of power in this region has shifted in the past few years from what could be described as the power of colonialism and imperialism. [More…]
There is still a sense of that sort of power in some areas, such as the communist areas in South-East Asia. [More…]
To the end of December 1976, the Bank had lent about SUS3.4 billion to its developing member countries for projects covering all the major sectors of economic development with emphasis on the development of infrastructure facilities in the transport and communications industry and electric power sectors as well as projects for agriculture, education, water supply and urban development. [More…]
It certainly would preserve the powers of the Senate. [More…]
It would preserve the powers and the status of this House and simplify matters very greatly. [More…]
On previous occasions people were often asked for additional power for the Commonwealth Parliament, and the natural reaction of Australian voters to politicians who ask for more power for themselves is to say no. [More…]
Mitre Corporation following an exhaustive and expert study of ‘nuclear power issues and choices’ calls upon the United States Government to pursue policies such as those I have just outlined and to seek the co-operation of other nuclear supplier governments to ensure that such policies become universal and effective. [More…]
He also said that Sir Brian Flowers, the former Chairman of the United Kingdom Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution which published in September 1976 its report on nuclear power and the environment, has publicly lamented the lack of rational debate on nuclear power in Britain. [More…]
Both Sir Brian Flowers and Mr Justice Fox have lamented the lack of rational debate on nuclear power in Australia. [More…]
Recommendation 6 gives the Government power to interrupt or halt supplies. [More…]
Is there going to be a nuclear power industry around the world regardless of whether Australian exports uranium? [More…]
Is there going to be a nuclear power industry around the world regardless of whether Australia exports uranium? [More…]
The consequence of that is that until there is satisfaction by the international banking community that cash flows will not be interrupted by the use of the Commonwealth’s export power to interrupt payments to companies to service debts, money will not be advanced to small Australian uranium miners to establish plants of the order of $200m to $225m. [More…]
So the subject we are debating today does not concern simply the importance of a Newport power station or the pollution of a Fraser Island. [More…]
For example, the report refers to the work done in the hydrological area in the upper Nile basin, the feasibility study of the power station in Ghana and the great projects in Indonesia which I have had the privilege of visiting- water studies and road projects, some of which we have directed in a very effective way. [More…]
This, of course, is mainly for power projects in these countries about which we have seen much publicity lately. [More…]
They do not need a power house. [More…]
I recall one case where the power line went past the village only a mile or two away and some power was being connected. [More…]
It is too great a power to reside in one man, even a man of the integrity of Attorney-General Ellicott. [More…]
Naturally one would question the power which he is taking unto himself under this Bill. [More…]
The House should not increase the power of the executive but should try to diminish it. [More…]
The Bill puts the Attorney-General in a very powerful position indeed. [More…]
It is hereby declared and enacted that the Parliament of a dominion has full power to make laws having extra territorial operation. [More…]
The Parliament shall, subject to this Constitution, have power to make laws for the peace, order and good government of the Commonwealth with respect to: [More…]
I do not know whether the Attorney-General will be able to enlighten the House whether the power to legislate in this way exists. [More…]
Some say that as a result of that action the little entente which acted as a brake upon the developing power of Germany during the 1930s was dissolved. [More…]
It has to allow to the Attorney-General of this country the power to make exceptions and to make judgments according to the foreign policy or the defence requirements of Australia. [More…]
Another example concerns events that occurred with respect to World War II when countries made treaties with an occupying power as a last resort. [More…]
During World War I Archbishop Mannix, the Archbishop of Melbourne, because of the troubles in Ireland found himself on the way to that country which was occupied by another power. [More…]
I suggest that the power given to the Minister in terms of clause 9 (2) is quite important. [More…]
It virtually provides in sub-clause (2) the power to the Attorney-General to publish a notice in the Gazette offering the Government ‘s support for a particular war. [More…]
The Idi Amin situation is repeated in a number of places around the world where most likely it would be government policy not to support the government of the day because of its attitude or the manner in which it came to power. [More…]
But it would be quite illegal for persons to go to that country ana fight for what was the properly elected government before a seizure of power took place. [More…]
I do not think that any politician should exercise that power. [More…]
Although one can possibly see some arguments directed towards clause 6 and to the clause dealing with the Attorney-General’s power and more particularly his delegation of power, the amendment simply is unintelligible in the context of the whole Bill. [More…]
The Government has given preliminary consideration to the safeguards to apply to exports of nuclear materials from Australia: that is, the arrangements which need to be made by the Australian Government to ensure that, if Australia supplies nuclear material to other countries for nuclear power generation or other peaceful purposes it is not diverted to non-peaceful or explosive purposes. [More…]
There is now a group of people whom I can only describe as political troglodytes or power hungry legal eagles who seek to turn the clock back and play petty politics with people’s basic rights, people who for the sake of some cheap political advantage, for the sake of influencing a referendum result are prepared to deny basic rights to or disenfranchise 300 000 Australian citizens. [More…]
Wherever we can detect a Federal interest or power we should provide for it in advance, without waiting for public clamour or the long agitation leading up to an amendment of the situation. [More…]
We should provide in advance for all conceivable Federal contingencies, strengthen the Federal Government and trust the Federal Parliament to use its powers wisely. [More…]
We have to face up to the fact that we have no State government representation in Canberra; we have only an emerging local government which does not have any real powers at this stage. [More…]
So the only real power that the people of the Australian Capital Territory have is through their elected representatives in this Parliament. [More…]
It seems to me that it is taking the provision to its absolute limit, if a person enters another country with an innocent intention but then in that country causes by force or by violence the public to be in fear of suffering death or personal injury, to say that comes within the external affairs power. [More…]
I hope that the Attorney-General satisfied himself that the power runs so far. [More…]
But it appears to me that what the Attorney-General and the Government have sought to do is to tie clause 6 to hostile acts against a foreign country’s government in order to keep us within the true principles of extraterritoriality in relation to the external affairs power and to be consistent with the Privy Councillors’ recommendation. [More…]
That is a very wide power given to the Minister. [More…]
It is an extraordinarily wide power. [More…]
Firstly, I think it is unsound in principle to have delegation of this power allowed at large. [More…]
The Attorney-General, if he is to be given this power- I have some degree of concern about it- ought not to be allowed to delegate that power to any person whatsoever. [More…]
I think that, at the outside, the Attorney-General should be allowed to delegate power to the Acting AttorneyGeneral for the time being or perhaps to the Solicitor-General- but I would not go even that far. [More…]
I hold an equally strong view against the power of delegation. [More…]
There is no doubt about the power of our Parliament to pass extraterritorial laws. [More…]
I come to sub-clause 9(2), which gives the Attorney-General power not to extend the operation of the legislation but to reduce its operation. [More…]
There has been an attack on clause 10, which gives power to the Attorney-General to consent to the sorts of prosecutions provided for. [More…]
If he wants to restrict the delegation power to the Attorney-General I am happy to do that. [More…]
They could be indicted for war crimes because they were captured and in this situation they could be tried by somebody who might take power there and they may be executed. [More…]
We have to protect people against getting involved in actions in which foreign governments are likely to lose power, in which case they may be prosecuted by the government that takes over. [More…]
The Portuguese gave power to the three of them. [More…]
I believe this is quite extraordinary and well beyond the ambit of any discretionary power that should be given to a Minister. [More…]
The discretionary power is too great. [More…]
It is an unusual amendment when compared with the normal situation, when the donee of the Attorney-General’s power would be the Solicitor-General. [More…]
The power will now be given to ‘any Minister acting as Attorney-General’. [More…]
We ought not to be too blase about finding some solutions to this problem because a lot of these courts are the physical arenas in which citizens come up against the power and the authority of the law, particularly laws passed by this Parliament, especially in family law jurisdiction. [More…]
-Under stage 2 of the federalism proposals, States will have the power to increase or reduce taxation collected from their own citizens. [More…]
Lower bounty for tractors at the low end of the power scale ( 1 5 kW to 34 kW); [More…]
The phased-in reduction of bounty at the low power end of the scale is substantial. [More…]
Section 3 1 of the Act gave the Minister power to engage experts to work on the aid program. [More…]
That power was exercised responsibly and with unqualified benefit to recipient countries. [More…]
Let it be noted that the Australian Government under the present Administration will do all in its power to make sure that Australia continues to pull its full weight in helping to overcome the major development problems of our fellow human beings. [More…]
The cold hard fact remains -and every nation in the South Pacific area knows it, remembers it and is aware of it- that the Labor Government, while it was in power, did not increase its aid to the Pacific region by a solitary cent. [More…]
Aid is an ideological beast and bureaucracies in general have tended to try to locate the control of aid within the context of existing bureaucratic arrangements and the considerations of power on which those rest. [More…]
I thank honourable members, to some extent on both sides of the House, though I would have to say that the sheer hypocrisy, cant and indeed illiteracy that have been evident in the remarks of the Opposition lead me to conclude that it has no conception of what has been transpiring in the administration of aid programs over the greater period that we have been in power. [More…]
The momentum, the downward turn of the economy had become even worse by the time we came into power. [More…]
So it seems to me that those who would hector and lecture ought to reflect on not merely their own inadequacies but the nature and the delinquency in the administration and nature of aid programs when they were in power. [More…]
If it is the case that it is sponsoring such visits, would it also sponsor visits by critics of nuclear power and by those who advocate the use of other forms of energy, such as solar, wind and thermal? [More…]
I would like to emphasise that this debate is not about nuclear power stations in Australia. [More…]
This levy would use the present source of power generation to provide the research for the future and it is a course of action that we should consider. [More…]
I have here a satire written by a nuclear scientist headed ‘On the Feasibility of Coal-Driven Power Stations’. [More…]
He is purporting to be looking back from a few thousand years hence at the feasibility of coal stations and he draws the same sort of difficulties and objections to coal power stations that are now being drawn in the community to nuclear power stations. [More…]
ON THE FEASIBILITY OF COAL-DRIVEN POWER STATIONS [More…]
The recent discovery of coal (black, fossilized plant remains) in a number of places offers an interesting alternative to the production of power from fission. [More…]
The power potentialities depend on the fact that coal can be readily oxidized with the production of a high temperature and an energy of about 0.0000001 megawatt day per gram. [More…]
Fission plants become, as is well known, uneconomical below 30 megawatts, and a coal-driven plant may be competitive for isolated communities (such as small islands) with small power requirements. [More…]
We are not proposing to have nuclear power generation in Australia now. [More…]
The handling and disposal of radioactive waste resulting from nuclear power generation lies with the countries which receive uranium from us. [More…]
The figures in the well known Rasmussen report suggest that of 15 million people living within 24 miles of planned and present United States nuclear power stations, the loss through accidents in motor cars would be 4200 killed; from falls 1500 killed; from fire 560 killed; from electrocution 90 killed; from lightning 28 killed and from nuclear power stations a possible 2 killed. [More…]
No death, in fact, has ever occurred as a result of accidents in nuclear power stations. [More…]
It can be seen that the person living alongside a nuclear station is more likely to be killed by a lightning strike than by a power station. [More…]
We hope, profoundly, that they will respond to the approach of a new American President for a genuine arms control agreement which will lead to a substantial reduction in the accumulation of military power. [More…]
When we can have a situation in which one super power can simply turn its back on reason and discussion designed to halt the nuclear arms race; when we have a situation in which one super power can thumb its nose at the world, I believe every Australian who is concerned about the future of this country, and the world, has a duty to speak out as I have done tonight, no matter what the honourable member for Melbourne and his pro-communist allies like to say on the subject. [More…]
If the answer to the last question is in the affirmative will the Minister do all in his power to bring the present dispute to arbitration? [More…]
We are not going to involve the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission before we have done all in our power to carry out detailed negotiations with both employers and employees. [More…]
It is depressing to think that those members of the Opposition who believe they stand for compassion and concern are prepared to go against the clearly enunciated belief of the vast majority of the Australian people that inflation is our major enemy and that they are prepared to do all in their power, as individuals and as members of the community, to break the nexus which I mentioned earlier between constant increases in prices and wages and, therefore, further increases in inflation. [More…]
Most of the States at the time were prepared to consider the proposal seriously, but regrettably the then Government, taking the view, as it always did, that all power has to reside in Canberra, decided to seek a change to the Constitution and bring to the Commonwealth Parliament power over wages and prices. [More…]
The not inconsiderable persuasion power at our disposal will be totally committed to ensuring that this exercise is successful. [More…]
Is it wage and salary earners who are expected to freeze their incomes or is it those who have power over prices who will bear the loss? [More…]
Why should not there be more general support for this proposition, bearing in mind the lack of total power and the many groups that there are? [More…]
The nature and extent of future manpower demands are difficult to predict. [More…]
But unfortunately regardless of which government is in power there is a big wastage of trained apprentices. [More…]
-Mr Grassby is currently using his position of great, and almost unlimited, power to pursue an issue under the guise of seeking racial harmony when his motives are blatantly political. [More…]
Some would argue that social facilities are more important for the development of the community than the supply of the physical infrastructure, such as sewerage, roads, power and public transport. [More…]
It is in our power to arrive at urban transport solutions by changing the nature of the problem. [More…]
Firstly, is the proposed amalgamation a bureaucratic grab for power justified on the grounds of short term economies in administrative costs rather than on the grounds of national interest? [More…]
What power does the Commission have to control outbreaks within a State and across State borders. [More…]
What power does the Commission have to obtain the use of Defence Service personnel and equipment during a plague. [More…]
If so, and if the orderly marketing of wheat is being threatened, has he considered the possibility of using the levy power to overcome section 92 trading. [More…]
) Does the levy power offer an alternative and more satisfactory form of wheat stabilisation than the present complementary Federal and State legislation. [More…]
Four seminars were held under the Agreement as follows: on ‘Fruit Flies’ in Honolulu from 28 November to 2 December 1976; on ‘Plant Response to Salinity ‘ at Riverside, California, from 26 to 28 April 1 976; on ‘Determination of Momentum Wave Function in Atomic Molecular and Nuclear Systems’ at Bloomington, Indiana, from 31 May to 4 June 1976; on ‘Electric Arc Interruption and Power Testing’ held in Sydney from 17 to 21 May 1976. [More…]
Of course under the federalism proposals they would have the power to implement that for themselves-a power which they ran away from so fast, some of them behaving like frightened fawns. [More…]
I want Premiers to have the power to raise or lower income taxes in their own States if they so wish. [More…]
The matter of public importance before the House today demonstrates once again the Australian Labor Party’s complete commitment to the centralisation of financial power in Canberra. [More…]
Now the Fraser Government is convinced that it has the legal power to introduce legislation without State agreement. [More…]
The Fraser Government, whilst believing rightly that to hand back totally to the States the power to raise income taxes would not be consistent with the Federal Government’s clear responsibility for national economic policy, has a great deal of sympathy with the States’ point of view on this fundamental issue. [More…]
It aims to prevent dangerous concentration of power in a few hands. [More…]
Canberra should not meddle with power- hungry hands at levels where local knowledge and talents can perform so much better. [More…]
I am only sorry that it is not being broadcast because once again what has been shown is that the Opposition is dedicated to increasing the power of the central government at the expense of the States and local government and of the freedom of the individual. [More…]
The history of liberty is a history of the limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it. [More…]
When we resist concentration of power, we are resisting the powers of death, because concentration of power is what always precedes the destruction of human liberties. [More…]
One would be led to believe from listening to some of the Opposition speakers that if a Labor government were returned to power it would do so without having learned the lesson that the expenditure of unlimited amounts causes more problems than it rectifies. [More…]
Therefore the heavy vehicles that were required to carry in the large volumes of food to replace the food that had been spoilt in the refrigerators when the power failed, and to replace the food that was spoilt when the roofs came off the supermarkets and other places where food is stored, were unable to reach Darwin. [More…]
It has been found that both the political and economic power lies inside one square mile of the cities of Sydney and Melbourne. [More…]
The power radiates from within these central business districts. [More…]
The city of Sydney stretches for some 35 miles west, 35 miles south-west, 20 miles north and 20 miles south, and the administrative power radiates from within the central business district. [More…]
However, it does not have the power to determine on which roads work is undertaken. [More…]
I simply ask the Premier: Under what power would he suggest that the Commonwealth Government had been acting if it had insisted that the State Government put up vehicle registration charges? [More…]
It ties in neatly with the Government’s plans to coerce the trade union movement through the Industrial Relations Bureau, through the restricted trade practices legislation and through the use of the corporations power in the Constitution. [More…]
It is also the rationale behind the confident view of the AttorneyGeneral (Mr Ellicott) that the corporations power can be used to restrain wage rises. [More…]
I do not intend to comment on whether the group of parties that won the election is any better than the Congress Party that was in power before the election. [More…]
Honourable gentlemen ought to be aware that under the Prices Justification Tribunal Act as it presently exists there is a power under section 17 for the Minister to direct the Tribunal to conduct an inquiry into the prices charged by particular companies for the whole or part of their product range. [More…]
This power, if exercised, means that for the duration of the inquiry the company is not permitted to make any price increases at all. [More…]
This power has been used by the Government on several occasions. [More…]
It is the power that was used in respect of the inquiries I ordered into the pricing of farm machinery and motor vehicle spare parts. [More…]
I think it is important that that power be borne in mind by all parties in present circumstances. [More…]
I think that it ought to be understood that there are considerable powers in the Prices Justification Tribunal Act. [More…]
My colleague the Minister for Business and Consumer Affairs has just pointed out to this House, and to a wider audience outside I would hope, the powers that are available to the Government and to the Tribunal. [More…]
Obviously, with the power that the Minister has just outlined to the House, this committee would have a significant role in suggesting that inquiries should be held in one area or another if it wanted to exercise its position in that way. [More…]
The first observation I would make is that the orthodox protection of individuals, Prime Ministers, or ordinary citizens against attacks such as he adverts to is primarily a responsibility of the civil power. [More…]
I find it absolutely curious that the honourable member should be interested in the impact on the deficit when in fact he will remember that under his own hapless administration the deficit was looming at $5 billion when we came into power. [More…]
Youth unemployment has increased by 51 per cent since the Fraser Government came to power. [More…]
The Whitlam Administration came to power with a 4.6 per cent inflation rate and left office with a 14.1 per cent inflation rate. [More…]
While a substantial growth in demand for computer equipment, software and other services can be expected as the decreasing costs of computer power make these facilities more accessible, anticipating growth patterns and the precise nature of future requirements must be regarded as highly speculative. [More…]
It has the power as a consumer and an innovator to see that we keep up with world standards. [More…]
For example, a large tractor of say 1 10 kilowatt output power theoretically could do the work of 2 tractors with half that power. [More…]
All in all, there seems to be a need to reexamine the market to see how many tractors and of what power farmers will be wanting to buy and when, over the next 5 to 10 years. [More…]
That if, in Government, the Labor Party is satisfied that the hazards associated with nuclear power have been eliminated and satisfactory methods of waste disposal developed the question of uranium mining, be re-considered in the context of full public debate. [More…]
A total renunciation of intention to supply designed to bring an end to all nuclear power industries or all further development of them would in our view be likely to fail totally in its purpose. [More…]
Put another way, Australia, whilst without a nuclear power generation program itself can have an impact upon the development of the international nuclear community. [More…]
It is not in Australia’s interest or the global environmental interest to promote actively the unlimited expansion of nuclear power in the climate of the present uncertainties. [More…]
It is within the power of these 3 nations to reshape the course of nuclear power development. [More…]
This course is designed to defer indefinitely the commercial reprocessing and recycling of plutomium produced in the United States power reactor program in the belief that if plutomium extraction is curtailed, the propensity for terrorism activity and weapons proliferation will be reduced. [More…]
This is so because of the massive size of the United States domestic nuclear power program and also the United States nuclear hardware industry as well as the pervasive influence of United States nuclear technology within the West. [More…]
No group of nuclear power utilities or mining companies in the United States or Western Germany or Japan will be able to effect such changes in technology. [More…]
The House will recall that recently a group of United States nuclear power utility representatives visited Australia to study the uranium position. [More…]
Many U.S. power reactors have only two to five years of fuel supply. [More…]
I feel that this House needs to adopt an individual approach to the matter of nuclear power and the development of nuclear resources within Australia. [More…]
In that regard it would seem that the members of the Labor Party from November last year have committed themselves step after step irrefutably to a course which would deny the capacity of Australia rationally to debate the problems of nuclear power and the development of nuclear energy, and mining within Australia. [More…]
Australia’s energy needs and the total energy situation within Australia cannot be neglected when one comes to consider the importance of nuclear power and the demands that may be made on it. [More…]
If one looks at Australia’s local primary energy consumption by end use one is brought short to the fact that power generation and transport together with industry take up the general total consumption within Australia. [More…]
The Ranger inquiry sets out the world ‘s power demands. [More…]
Nuclear power concerns many people. [More…]
In this regard, the present Government, indeed the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser)- wrote to President Carter recently and requested President Carter’s active consideration of the matter of nuclear power and the disposal of nuclear waste. [More…]
There seems to be some basic agreement on and some expression of concern for the future use of nuclear power between the 3 nations producing uranium- Australia, Canada and the United States of America. [More…]
The nuclear power industry is unintentionally contributing to an increased risk of nuclear war. [More…]
Future sources such as solar and tidal power are perpetual. [More…]
Just as it leads uniquely from current power generation to the source material for future power generation, the production of plutonium from uranium brings into existence nuclear weapons grade material and one of the most toxic substances known to humankind. [More…]
Normally in the case of uranium this question arises because of the dangers of radiation when uranium is used, the dangers of nuclear explosions and breakdowns caused deliberately or by accident when nuclear power is being produced, the dangers of radiation from nuclear waste, especially plutonium, which so far as present knowledge goes cannot ever be eliminated, and the fact that peaceful uses of uranium cannot be separated from the production of nuclear bombs. [More…]
It is highly probably that the present rate of development of nuclear power will proliferate the possession of nuclear bombs, resulting in an unstable relationship between nations. [More…]
The essence of the case for the development of nuclear power industry lies in the argument that human happiness depends on a constantly or rapidly rising consumption of material goods. [More…]
Historical evidence shows that rising consumption of material goods beyond a point increases alienation, anxiety, violence and, above all, powerlessness for the majority of the people. [More…]
Yet another essential feature of the case for the development of a nuclear power industry is that shortage of oil, coal and other energy sources demands that nuclear energy must be used. [More…]
The argument that rising consumption standards and nuclear power are all necessary for the poor, especially for the poor in the developing countries, is not a valid one. [More…]
Rapidly rising use of energy, especially nuclear energy, will be concentrated in the hands of those who are rich and powerful already. [More…]
They are powerful enough to pass on the costs. [More…]
Inflation hits those who are not powerful enough to pass on its costs. [More…]
It will increase inequalities of power, wealth and income. [More…]
Clearly, the development of nuclear power in the rest of the world can continue whether or not Australian uranium is made available. [More…]
The evidence indicates that, if nuclear power programs proceed at the rate projected in 1976, additional uranium production capacity will have to be established in other countries to meet projected demands in the 1980s. [More…]
It would seem that the availability of Australian uranium will have little or no effect on the ultimate development of power generation by nuclear means. [More…]
A total renunciation of intention to supply designed to bring an end to all nuclear power industries or all further developments of them would in our view be likely to fail totally in its purpose. [More…]
Furthermore, many countries throughout the world, including Asia, have firm commitments to develop nuclear power generation. [More…]
I quote from the publication Nuclear Power Developments in Asia and the Pacific: [More…]
According to statistics compiled by the Australian Atomic Energy Commission (AAEC) there were 150 nuclear power plants operating in 19 countries at 30 June and a further 337 units were under construction or on order. [More…]
Thirty countries, including for the first time a number of developing countries, had a firm commitment to nuclear power for energy generation. [More…]
Almost daily people are dying from the pollution effects of coal fired power stations. [More…]
Nonetheless the hazards of coal fired power stations have not diminished. [More…]
I quote again from Nuclear Power Developments in Asia and the Pacific: [More…]
Installed capacity of nuclear power stations has grown rapidly since 1970. [More…]
Firstly, there are no plans to introduce nuclear power stations into Australia. [More…]
The responsibility for the disposal of nuclear wastes resulting from nuclear power generation lies with the countries which might purchase our uranium. [More…]
Conceding that there are proven reasons which would preclude our mining and exporting of uranium, I ask: Will there be a nuclear power industry around the world, including in Russia and China, regardless of whether Australia mines and exports uranium? [More…]
Over 30 countries are already committed to nuclear power generation programs irrespective of Australian uranium. [More…]
I believe that we have a moral requirement to substitute our wasteful use of fossil fuels with nuclear power in the major developed nations which are the main users of nuclear power. [More…]
A massive increase in the substitution of fossil fuel power by nuclear power would have an immediate market impact on the price of fossil fuel. [More…]
We can exercise our power as a policeman in this area only if we are in the market place and if we are conditional suppliers. [More…]
welcomes the open and honest discussion of the serious risks and disadvantages associated with the various operations of the nuclear power industry in the Ranger Uranium Environmental Inquiry first report. [More…]
This point brings me to the question raised by the Australian Council of Churches Executive Committee in its resolution, that is, the question of research and development into alternative power sources. [More…]
Firstly, nuclear power is not a substitute for oil. [More…]
Secondly, known uranium reserves economically suitable at current planned development rate of nuclear power would last about 30 years. [More…]
These researchers believe that there is every possibility that within a period of IS years to 20 years- and beyond doubt within 30 years to 50 years- electrical power will be able to be generated from the sun for the same cost as generation of electricity from coal or from nuclear power. [More…]
I am told by scientists that solar power today is in the same position that nuclear power was 20 years ago. [More…]
It is almost certain that with the development of economies of sale and with a fraction of the research and development program undertaken for nuclear power, solar power will cost less than half of this amount long before coal supplies run out. [More…]
Solar power will be cheaper than either coal or nuclear power. [More…]
None of the scientists to whom I have talked pretends that they can develop economical power from solar energy in one year, two years or even five years, but beyond that most are confident that somewhere in the world this work is being done. [More…]
The report also found that current operations of nuclear power stations, properly controlled, are safe by any reasonable standards. [More…]
Even in the great nuclear power stations throughout the world where enriched uranium is used the safety record is unsurpassed. [More…]
The chart shows that in the 100 nuclear power stations in the United States there has not been one fatality. [More…]
Research has shown that 160 nuclear power stations are already operating and there has not been a single death or injury to the public at large as a result of the operations of these stations. [More…]
Nuclear power is the power of the future. [More…]
People of the world, both poor and wealthy, require more and more power to improve their standards of living. [More…]
The Government has no plans to introduce nuclear power stations into this country. [More…]
I may have time later to quote from a letter by Senator Mulvihill which was published in the Australian Financial Review which implied that wastes from uranium mining and wastes from nuclear power stations are the same. [More…]
The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman), who is at the table, when speaking on 1 1 November last in respect of approved sales of uranium said that the handling and disposal of radioactive waste resulting from nuclear power generation lies with the countries concerned, that is, the countries to which Australia exports uranium for electric power generation. [More…]
I am rather amazed to hear repeatedly the assertion that scientists and technologists apparently have the competence to overcome the technical difficulties of conversion for either solar or fusion energy purposes, yet oddly enough the same scientists apparently do not have the competence to solve the issues involved in fission power. [More…]
I should like to refer tonight to a speech made by Sir Brian Flowers late last year in the United Kingdom, when he explained his methodology and approach to his report on nuclear power and the environment. [More…]
We recall ‘The development of reactors to harness nuclear energy for the generation of electrical power stemmed directly from the weapons programs’. [More…]
Against this background the emergence of nuclear power as an alternative energy source for mankind appears providential. [More…]
On the other hand, nuclear power introduces environmental risks and problems, and some of these appear unique in their implications for society . [More…]
Also concluded that no case has been made for the potential cancer producing substances of ‘hot’ particles of plutonium absorbed by the lung, a story causing great alarm a couple of years ago because it would probably have meant, if true, the abandonment of nuclear power. [More…]
We also did our best to compare the hazards of nuclear power with other hazards of ordinary and industrial life, and to keep them in perspective. [More…]
As the campaign started to mount, Californians began to come to the realisation that more was at stake than just the 3 existing nuclear power plants in California or even the 3 1 that were planned for the next 20 years. [More…]
For what it is worth, I found when I got there that over 5200 scientists, 9 of whom were Nobel Prize winers, had signed a petition in California in support of nuclear power. [More…]
The other matter to note is the matter of the escalating debate in West Germany against nuclear power, but if one reads the small print carefully one comes to a couple of pertinent observations. [More…]
The authors point out that despite all the proposals for alternative energy sources, including nuclear power, by 1985 more than 40 per cent of expected oil production outside the Middle East would have to come from reserves not yet discovered. [More…]
In the case of nuclear power, the authors expect that its contribution to the energy needs of the West will be about 15 per cent. [More…]
This would clearly involve the construction of a large number of nuclear power stations in the next few years, bearing in mind the lengthy period involved in the design and the commissioning of such plants. [More…]
As coal alone cannot fill this gap, there will be an enormous pressure to expand nuclear power production rapidly, particularly after 1980. [More…]
Even quite modest assumptions about the world’s economic growth point to a dependence on energy by the end of the century which can, in my opinion, be met sensibly in the interim, only by recourse to nuclear power. [More…]
From that examination it is not clear whether intrastate operations by the Australian National Line in Queensland would, in the absence of a reference of power from the State, be authorised by the Constitution. [More…]
For example, India has stated that it will pursue a policy of balanced relations with all the super powers. [More…]
The Foreign Minister in particular has stated that, without the elimination of great power rivalry and the existing foreign military bases, as in the case of Diego Garcia- though it is to be noted that there was no mention, as I recall, of the Soviet base in Berbera no meaningful advance in this direction would be possible. [More…]
For the last day or two I have been in close consultation with the Premier of Victoria about these matters, and quite clearly the primary powers in relation to a dispute of this kind lie with the Victorian Parliament and the State of Victoria. [More…]
The Commonwealth has assured the State of Victoria of whatever support it is within our power to provide, dependent upon Victoria’s own action, and I table the correspondence between myself and the Premier. [More…]
There are many occasions when the interests of the trade union movement do not coincide with the interests of the government which might happen to be in power at any particular time. [More…]
I referred to an amendment to the Conciliation and Arbitration Act which will among other things set up an industrial relations bureau, an amendment to the Trade Practices Act, and a reference by the Attorney-General (Mr Ellicott) to the Government’s use of the corporations power under the Constitution. [More…]
We have also had conjecture in the Press about the use of the corporations power in a way which would prohibit companies from giving increases in wages beyond those awarded by the Arbitration Commission. [More…]
So the Government clearly is doing all in its power to impose a compulsory wage freeze as part of its policy to slash real wage levels even further than they have been cut already. [More…]
After the Labor Party came to power in 1972 it established a comprehensive system of supervision of general insurance through the Insurance Act 1973. [More…]
Under clause 9, however, this will no longer apply and, instead, power to dismiss the Commissioner for misbehaviour or incapacity will lie with the Governor-General only. [More…]
It must be seen as a diminution in the direct parliamentary control along the lines of the use of regulation powers to change Schedule 4 of the Life Insurance Act to which I referred earlier. [More…]
Although I can understand the honourable member for Lilley wanting some indication of the direction which the amendments will take, I do support the principle of the regulation-making power being brought into this Act. [More…]
The Department has no power to order the removal of an unfit person but as it has power to stop his company taking on a new business if he does not go voluntarily this amounts almost to the same thing. [More…]
The honourable member for Adelaide also spoke of some concern about the granting of regulation-making power under this legislation. [More…]
It serves a very useful purpose in seeing that no government- neither this Government nor any other one- is granted too much regulationmaking power. [More…]
If the matter is looked at fairly by honourable gentlemen I think it will be seen that there is to be no excessive use of the regulation-making power. [More…]
As a matter of fact, more power and less assurances will exist now as a result of the amendment than existed previously. [More…]
The name of the engine is the Pritchard steam power unit. [More…]
This is not the original, so far as a steamed powered motor car is concerned. [More…]
In 1902 the Thompson steam powered car in Victoria travelled a distance of some 400 miles, which was a record for distance covered at that time. [More…]
With such varieties of fuel bases available, this power unit should excite the interest of our engineers and planners, particularly as it is a locally produced unit and also in view of our diminishing reserves of fuel. [More…]
We have in the Pritchard steam power unit an alternative source of power or fuel which will allow future generations to eke out our known limited reserves. [More…]
One of the sources of power is alcohol which is derived from the plant sugar cane. [More…]
Power alcohol certainly is cleaner, and in an environment now facing heavy pollution it could be the answer to the problems of the exhaust fumes which are spread high and wide by uses of conventional fuels. [More…]
In the event of the air traffic controllers federal executive deciding in principle to exempt Tasmania from the strike, can the Minister assure the House that he and his Department will do everything in their power to see that the exemption for Tasmania eventuates? [More…]
Is not this decline in the living standards of all Australians since this Government came to power not only the most damning and damaging indictment yet of his Government’s policies but also the reason for workers’ reactions rather than the reason he gave in answer to the honourable member for Hotham? [More…]
The Commission which will now be formed will obviously have the power to take control of those situations and will help to bring to the whole spectrum of education a greater degree of liaison and planning. [More…]
For too long those colleges, particularly the ones located in regional areas, as I mentioned, have seen their efforts being overridden by what could be described in all of our politics as the metropolitan base or the power base. [More…]
I hope that those honourable members who represent metropolitan areas agree with me when I say that because of the voting strength they hold the metropolitan areas in the various capital cities throughout the nation are the power bases for the Government, the Opposition and, indeed, just about every other organisation in this country. [More…]
I am convinced that under this Minister- in fairness, under the Minister of whichever government was in power- we will come up with an even better scheme for the financial year 1978-79 than the scheme that has operated to date. [More…]
Absolutely no limit by way of time was given for the reintroduction of the program and the program was not reintroduced until this Government came to power and instituted the present 3-year program of many hundreds of millions of dollars; yet we have the sheer hypocrisy that we have heard coming from the other side of the chamber. [More…]
The increase in the rate of pension since this Government came to power has been very significant. [More…]
All they are interested in is pursuing power for its own sake. [More…]
I believe that it ill becomes any member of this Parliament to tell lies about a friendly power such as the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, a nation with which Australia conducts trade. [More…]
If the Minister has the power to stand down air traffic controllers who stop work, will he do so, if necessary, to ensure that the Australian travelling public is not held to ransom by minority militant action such as this? [More…]
During discussion of an item dealing with ‘Methods Used in the States for consultation with the Ethnic Communities’, the New South Wales Minister, Mr Jackson, circulated to Ministers an extract from a High Court judgment that in regard to immigrants the Commonwealth had constitutional responsibility and power and that the States do not have it. [More…]
Nothing in this Act shall derogate from any power or privilege of either House of the Parliament, or of the Members or Committees of either House of Parliament, as existing at the commencement of this Act. [More…]
One cannot blame the more recent nonrecognition of Taiwan in favour of recognition of mainland China as the reason for these intrusions, although I am personally sorry to have seen Taiwan sacrificed in the power moves of years ago. [More…]
It is proposed to deal with retiring age under the Commission’s power to make determinations relating to terms and conditions of service, provided for under section 46 (2). [More…]
The Government relied on consumer spending for a short while and then it set about reducing that spending power by its actions in national wage cases. [More…]
Since coming to power this Government has tottered from one economic policy to another. [More…]
The Government came to power with its ideology of mutilating and reducing the public sector. [More…]
Any introduction of an instrument which would have the power of sale that this would have, would need to be introduced with care. [More…]
We have resources- energy and power resources- which will stand Australia in good stead in the future. [More…]
It would appear therefore that the Board has all the power to do just what I am concerned about. [More…]
The Administrative Appeals Tribunal is empowered to review on the merits any decision of a Minister or official acting under a statutory power if, but only if, the relevant legislation provides for an appeal to the Tribunal. [More…]
The Commonwealth Ombudsman is not restricted to the review of decisions taken in the exercise of statutory powers. [More…]
He is empowered to investigate complaints against decisions of Commonwealth officials and statutory bodies, whether taken under statutory power or in the ordinary course of administration. [More…]
He will not be concerned directly with reviewing the merits of the decisions or action of officials where no element of maladministration is present and, in particular, he will not be empowered to substitute his own decision for that under review. [More…]
The only question for the Court will be whether the action is lawful, in the sense that it is within the power conferred on the relevant Minister or official or body that prescribed procedures have been followed and that general rules of law, such as conformity to the principles of natural justice, have been observed. [More…]
It will be empowered to enjoin action or to quash a decision it finds unlawful and to direct action to be taken in accordance with the law. [More…]
The present law provides only a limited scope for review of the exercise of statutory powers by the Governor-General acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council. [More…]
Where the exercise of such a power is prima facie ultra vires, the courts can grant appropriate relief. [More…]
It will still be open, in any case where such a decision is made in excess of statutory authority, for the existing remedies to be applied, but it has not been considered appropriate that the court should be empowered to inquire into the proceedings of the Federal Executive Council in the manner provided for in the present Bill. [More…]
Clause 14 empowers the Attorney-General to give a certificate that the disclosure of information would be contrary to the public interest on a ground specified in that clause. [More…]
Subclause (4) of clause 14 specifically provides, however, that the clause is not to affect the power of the court to make an order for the disclosure of documents or to require the giving of evidence or the production of documents to the court. [More…]
It is clearly seeking to smash union power even though it is likely to provoke widespread industrial disruption by so doing. [More…]
In the event of the air traffic controllers federal executive deciding in principle to exempt Tasmania from the strike, can the Minister assure the House that he and his Department will do everything in their power to see that the exemption for Tasmania eventuates? [More…]
That is all very well when the natural party of government is in power. [More…]
It was never the time to do that when Labor was in power. [More…]
He knows that the power to control wages or prices is a one-sided matter. [More…]
In 1973 the Australian Labor Party Government sought the power for this Parliament to legislate on this matter, so in the national Parliament we did discuss wages and prices policies. [More…]
I shall proceed to what has been the final Government policy, which is being pursued assiduously by certain sectional interests of the Government since it achieved power and which the Prime Minister implemented at the end of last year, and that is devaluation. [More…]
If there is one thing that has characterised this Government during its 1 8 months in power it has been its reluctance to let information out into the public arena and to have its Ministers, especially its Prime Minister go out and confront the public. [More…]
The document shows that the Prices Justification Tribunal, about which the Minister for Business and Consumer Affairs (Mr Howard) has made the most fantastic claims in respect of its authority and power and the legitimacy of it passing on information to the Government, has had its appropriation cut. [More…]
When the LiberalCountry Party Government left power four or five years ago, manufacturing industry throughout Australia was operating at about 85 per cent of capacity. [More…]
Although provision is made in the Bill for regulations to provide other exemptions, the Government has no present plans to use that power. [More…]
The Bill now deals only with mergers which lead to a corporation achieving or being likely to achieve a position of control or domination of a market, or to acquisitions of competitors by such market dominating corporations which substantially strengthen the power of the corporation to control or dominate a market. [More…]
The previous Bill provided a new section 80a, to give a power to the court to order affirmative disclosure or corrective advertising, as a remedy for contraventions of the consumer protection provisions. [More…]
That power has been criticised as being particularly inequitable in its open endedness. [More…]
If they were put in a position of authority or power, they would be of no value to this country in any way. [More…]
At that time there was a danger that the political factions in France would undermine France as a power in Europe. [More…]
In the 12 months to December 1976. average weekly earnings increased by 1 1.8 percent compared with an annual rate of inflation of 14.4 per cent- a loss of real purchasing power of 2.6 per cent for the average wage earner in this country. [More…]
From 1972 to 1975, during Labor’s term in office but not during its term of power- honourable gentlemen opposite will know what I mean by that remark- we climbed to fourth position. [More…]
Does the Commonwealth have the power to prevent the establishment of abortion clinics in the Territories and the States. [More…]
The Commonwealth has no power to prevent the establishment of abortion clinics in the States. [More…]
Whilst, therefore, the Commonwealth has the powers referred to, it would not propose to use them unless requested to do so by the Legislative Assembly of the Northern Territory or the Legislative Assembly of the Australian Capital Territory. [More…]
I have a discretionary power under the Standing Orders and practices of the House to direct that a notice be not received in an inappropriate form or that its terms be corrected before it is placed on the notice paper. [More…]
Very often other referenda have been seeking more power for this Parliament, often at the expense of State parliaments. [More…]
They do not detract one whit from the power, authority and sovereignty of the States. [More…]
On practical grounds it does not make a great deal of sense and I think that this proposal will gain a great deal of support because it is simple, clear and, far from detracting from the powers and authorities of the States or, for that matter, of the Senate, it will enhance the position of the States by reinforcing the power and authority of a House of Parliament which, in fact, is designed to protect the States. [More…]
Other major powers have intelligence operations in this country. [More…]
If there is less written about the activities of the other super-power, it is not necessarily because the Russians are less active. [More…]
The money had Been used to help keep the coalition partners in power; the funding had started about 1967; CIA money had been used to undermine the ALP. [More…]
I know just how difficult it is to get a government, whichever government is in power, to insert in the Income Tax Assessment Act a specific provision to exempt any gifts. [More…]
I have tried in the past, even in the days when my own Government was in power and my colleague the honourable member for Melbourne Ports (Mr Crean) was Treasurer, and I did not succeed then. [More…]
The Government has been in power for just on 18 months and it is about time, to use a very common and very true old saying, that it put up or shut up. [More…]
I think it is worthy of note that, to my knowledge, this is the first time since this Government has been in power-it has been in power for 18 months now- that it has allowed the Taxation Office to introduce legislation for its consideration to close off another tax loophole. [More…]
The previous Labor Government, in its wisdom, wanted all power to be transferred to Canberra so it decided to endeavour to take control of the State railways systems. [More…]
But I can assure honourable members that South Australia will probably finish up behind because the Minister will get that money back by the back door by increasing freight rates for the carriage of coal from the Leigh Creek fields to Port Augusta power station by something in the vicinity of 180 per cent. [More…]
This is becoming a vital issue because no matter which party is in power, no matter which group has been elected via the political process, there are some groups in our society holding key positions who are determined to make political decisions on behalf of the whole community without reference to and often in defiance of the parliamentary process. [More…]
Over the past few years we have seen numerous politically motivated strikes and bans- the Medibank strike; bans on Indonesian shipping; bans on United States nuclearpowered warships entering our ports, in clear contravention of the ANZAAS Treaty; bans on building of roads and other structures and bans on demolition of various buildings. [More…]
I give but 2 examples: The bans on the construction of Melbourne’s Newport power station have delayed for years the building of this vital component of Melbourne’s future electricity supply. [More…]
The prospect of future power shortages in Melbourne is looming. [More…]
Moderates are aware that their unions can exercise political power, even if they believe it incorrect to use the power in this direction. [More…]
A clear decision by the people in a referendum on this issue would be a powerful propaganda weapon for the moderate to use against militants in defence of his position. [More…]
Thirdly, it would encourage the industrial courts to take appropriate action against unionists and union leaders who abuse their power to impose political disabilities on the community. [More…]
History is studded with instances of the exercise of power outside the established process of government leading to the development of authoritarian rule. [More…]
-by leave-By the authority vested in it by resolutions of both Houses of the Parliament, the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence is empowered to investigate and report on matters referred to it by either House, by the Minister for Foreign Affairs or the Minister for Defence, and it may initiate its own references. [More…]
It also has the power to appoint sub-committees to conduct investigations. [More…]
It has approved development credits totalling more than $US 1 1 billion for all the major sectors of economic development, with special emphasis on agriculture and transportation as well as projects for education, urbanization, industry, population and nutrition, tourism, telecommunications and electric power. [More…]
During the discussions on the level of the fifth replenishment it was agreed that essentially the same voting power arrangements which were made under the fourth replenishment should continue to apply. [More…]
This is designed to ensure that the relative voting power of each of the developed member countries of IDA can continue broadly to correspond to its relative share of total resources contributed by these countries. [More…]
any other decision given, or any order made, by an officer of the Commonwealth or any other conduct that has been, is being, or is proposed to be, engaged in by an officer of the Commonwealth, including a decision, order or conduct given, made or engaged in, as the case may be, in the exercise of judicial power. [More…]
If major electrification took place it would enable a better use of those solid fuels which are available in Australia to generate power and would provide a saving of scarce energy resources. [More…]
The whole thrust of the honourable member’s remarks was based on an assumption that the Labor Party Government when in power would achieve cheaper freight rates. [More…]
He ignored the fact that the urban transport program was a report that was lying on my desk ready for him to pick up and implement when his Party came into power. [More…]
The Australian National Railways Act, since its inception in 1917, has not given the Parliament the power to disallow bylaws. [More…]
In relation to the matter of the proposed companies and securities legislation, did he, prior to the recent accord reached with all State Ministers, request a reference of power from the States. [More…]
An important element of this approach is that it does not involve a formal reference of power by the States to the Commonwealth. [More…]
Has he any power to prevent the importation of these games. [More…]
It is whether the Australian Government, any Australian government, is ultimately responsible for this country’s internal affairs or whether it is prepared to tolerate interference in those affairs by the agents or representatives of any foreign power. [More…]
It is utterly beside the point to argue that Australia and the United States are friendly powers bound by treaties and military alliances. [More…]
The Prime Minister’s statement is based on a flagrant and deliberate confusion between Australia’s military and internal security and Australia’s interests as a sovereign power. [More…]
Surely the right honourable gentleman would not say that the CIA can act in an unconstitutional way, contrary to international relationship or in an improper way if a Labor Government is in power but that its actions are OK under a Liberal Government. [More…]
In the past few weeks, for example, there has been an important statement by President Carter on nuclear energy in which he emphasised the need to restrain the spread of nuclear weapons or exposive capabilities without forgoing the tangible benefits of nuclear power. [More…]
At the conclusion of the recent Salzburg Conference, the most important international conference held in recent years on all aspects of nuclear power, the Director-General of the International Atomic Energy Agency referred to the agreement of the meeting that nuclear power was a necessary and irreplaceable source of the future energy supply to mankind for both the short and the longer term. [More…]
That if, in Government, the Labor Party is satisfied that the hazards associated with nuclear power have been eliminated and satisfactory methods of waste disposal developed the question of uranium mining be reconsidered in the context of full public debate. [More…]
Clearly, there is a total disregard for the safety of people who are asked to return to a situation in which their freedom and even their lives would be in jeopardy at the hands of one of the most corrupt regimes ever to hold power anywhere in the world. [More…]
There can be no doubt that in the 2 weeks when the Parliament was not sitting prior to the referendums a certain amount of common sense prevailed between the trade union movement and the Government in reaching an agreement about the powers of the Industrial Relations Bureau. [More…]
To a large extent that responsibility belongs to those in power. [More…]
This introduces for the first time in trade practices legislation a provision relating to union abuse of power. [More…]
We are injecting the public interest into the legislation to counter abuses of power and position by the trade unions. [More…]
The people of Australia know that the abuses of union power have to be curtailed in the public interest. [More…]
The trade unions have abused their power. [More…]
But the unions, in regard to abuses of power, are subject to no law at all and the honourable member knows that as well as I do. [More…]
It is a good law and it will re-establish the supremacy of Parliament, the supremacy of the people and the supremacy of public interest over abuses of union power. [More…]
The unions, by exerting power, have injured trade unionists. [More…]
They have used mass economic power and have made it necessary by these abuses for the Government to inject this section into the legislation in the public interest. [More…]
Because of this, it is abusing the power that it has. [More…]
I believe that this provision will be particularly acceptable to the Australian public and may in the short term have an effect, for instance in Victoria in relation to the building of the Newport power station. [More…]
I also look at the effect of the Prices Justification Tribunal in relation to the abuse of monopoly power. [More…]
The fixed term would remove the power, effectively given to the Prime Minister, to dissolve the House before the expiration of its term. [More…]
I know of nothing in the theory of responsible government that necessitates giving a Prime Minister the power to dissolve the House to suit his own political advantage. [More…]
All Australians should be aware of this and whichever government is in power ought to take the initiative to see that we settle the matter properly and to our mutual benefit. [More…]
We must not let misguided groups put at risk the classic Australian doctrine which protects the right of the individual against the power of the State. [More…]
The hitherto politically fettered fist of legislative power must smash these criminal exploiters of our society, these uppity gangsters who make puppets of our judiciary and our parliaments and who are riding high on a national crime wave which may very soon engulf us so thoroughly that we will never again be able to argue effectively that great democratic philosophy that the greatest good for the greatest number must prevail in the end. [More…]
The seventh matter is an amendment to the provision covering product safety standardssection 62- to give the Minister power to prohibit for up to 18 months the supply of unsafe goods. [More…]
That facility was not employed when the Whitlam Government was in power. [More…]
The power of the Trade Practices Commission to order a public hearing is dealt with later in this Bill and we will talk then about the merits of having a commission which can, if it wishes, hold public hearings. [More…]
Sections 20 to 24, which this Bill proposes to repeal, deal with matters like the power to take evidence on oath and the procedure at public hearings, which is worth dealing with now. [More…]
It gives very broad powers of intervention to persons in those public hearings and that is a very important element of the way in which the Commission goes about its business. [More…]
However, let us get it perfectly straight in relation to clause 17 which seeks to repeal the consequential provisions upon the power of the Commission to hold public hearings that if any expense attending public hearings got out of hand it was never the fault of the Commission. [More…]
Section 29 of the present Act gives the Minister power to give directions to the Commission and charges the Commission with compliance with those directions. [More…]
give directions to the Commission in connexion with the performance of its functions or the exercise of its powers under this Act . [More…]
The Government proposes to amend this section and instead give the Minister a much more elaborate power. [More…]
That will be a power to give directions as to matters to be given special considerationand I stress those words ‘special consideration’ by the Commission in determining applications for authorisations or in making decisions for the purposes of paragraphs (a) and (b) of section 93 (3). [More…]
The Minister made no reference in his second reading speech or indeed in the explanatory memorandum to this draconian power he is now taking unto himself. [More…]
If I need to scare any of the honourable members opposite, let me just say that it is not likely that they will be in power forever and this power will survive in the Act for a dreadful socialist Minister one day. [More…]
I draw a very real distinction between the power that currently exists in the Act for the Minister to direct the granting of a merger and the general power to give directions as to matters that in general should be taken into account in determining authorisation matters. [More…]
I was drawing a distinction between giving a Minister a power to direct that a particular case- in other words, a merger between company A and company B- should proceed and a situation in which a Minister has a power to say to the Commission: ‘In determining all merger applications or all exclusive dealing matters you ought to take into account the following factors’. [More…]
I should have thought that it would be obvious to honourable members that a situation in which a Minister has the power in effect to determine the fate of a particular merger by a precise instruction to the Commissionwhich is the situation under the present law- is an entirely different proposition from a situation in which a Minister has a power to say to the Commission: ‘In determining your authorisations in respect of a particular category of conduct we want you to take these criteria into account’. [More…]
I remind the honourable gentleman that, in the context of the Industries Assistance Commission, there is all the world of difference between the Minister having the power to request the IAC in the future to take into account the employment consequences of its recommendations, which I think is a wholly proper power, and the type of power that would be involved if the Minister were to say to the Industries Assistance Commission: ‘We want you to recommend a particular level of assistance ‘. [More…]
I concede the honourable gentleman’s interjection that the IAC is an advisory body and we have total power. [More…]
I think that, whatever the integrity of the Minister and whatever the party in power, that does involve a situation in which suggestions can inevitably be made that particular companies are being favoured and that directions are being given because particular results are sought. [More…]
It could well be a power that might not be used for many yearsthe type of power that might only be used if a government believed that the cumulative effects of decisions taken by the Commission in this area created an economic trend or an economic situation that that government wished to alter or perhaps even reverse. [More…]
It is distinguishable, and I think quite clearly distinguishable, from a power that gives to the Minister a capacity to overrule the determination of the Commission on the merits of a particular case. [More…]
In other words, what we are talking about here is the capacity to give guidelines- to use the modern idiom- to the considerations of the Commission and not a situation in which the Minister should have the power to say to the Commission: ‘We want you to grant an authorisation in relation to the application of XYZ Pty Ltd’. [More…]
It is that type of power that I think is objectionable. [More…]
It is that type of power that we have attacked in the past. [More…]
I think it is the type of power that the honourable gentleman himself - [More…]
I think it is unfortunate in relation to legislation like this, having said as one’s kicking off point that one is going to let the Commission decide the merits of particular cases, that one should then have a reserve power for the Minister to overturn the decision of the Commission in that case. [More…]
I think that is the type of power that can bring government into disrepute. [More…]
If one is going to have that type of power one may well ask: [More…]
With respect, I think we ought to set the record straight on the existing powers of the Minister in relation to merger applications. [More…]
The Minister for Business and Consumer Affairs (Mr Howard) suggests that the power that the Minister possesses to direct that a merger application be approved or be authorised exists only after a determination by the Commission. [More…]
I was interested to Hear the Minister say that it was far more beneficial as far as the Parliament was concerned, irrespective of who was in power, to have a general guideline rather than a specific guideline. [More…]
I would be very amazed if that sounds a more attractive set of guidelines to the Commission than does the old system under which the Minister made a specific decision in relation to where he had the power. [More…]
As I said, that power was used 3 times. [More…]
If the Government, acting on the advice of Swanson, had merely repealed this power there would be less objection from this side of the House. [More…]
Nevertheless, the Government proposes to write into the Act the power to give general guidelines to the Trade Practices Commission. [More…]
I do not think that the Minister has presented an argument as to why he should write in the new powers of the Minister. [More…]
At the same time, he has based his argument on the need to take out the powers of the Minister under the old Act. [More…]
If we were to support the repeal of the power of the Minister under the old Act we certainly could not support the power given to the Minister in this Bill. [More…]
If this Bill is allowed to be passed without revision, then unions will be returned to the intolerable position they occupied in mid- 19th century England when they could in theory organise but were denied the power to use their organisation. [More…]
He seems totally unconcerned at the effects it would have on the jobs of the unionists employed and seems more concerned about his own power in increasing the membership of his own union. [More…]
But the trade union movement’s tolerance is now at its limit and these proposed legislative assaults by the Government on the sources of union power just cannot and will not be overlooked. [More…]
Like the honourable member for Grayndler (Mr Antony Whitlam), I think it is of great significance that this Government, which came to power on the wave of being generous to business, understanding business and representing business, has been forced to retain section 49, dealing with price discrimination, at the behest, perseverence and representation of the Australian Labor Party. [More…]
The basic characteristic of effective competition in the economic sense is that no one seller, and no group of sellers acting in concert, has the power to choose its level of profits by giving less and charging more. [More…]
Where there is workable competition, rival sellers, whether existing competitors or new potential entrants into the field, would keep this power in check by offering or threatening to offer effective inducements. [More…]
1 ) Does the Aboriginal Land Fund Commission possess the power to acquire compulsorily a property or to force a person wishing to sell to cancel a recent sale so that the Commission can purchase it. [More…]
1 ) What power does the Commonwealth Government have and /or exercise to control barley exports. [More…]
If Labor had not come to power in 1972, it is possible that the number of Aborigines registered as unemployed would still be under 4000 while untold thousands of Aborigines would have continued to be denied assistance in gaining employment and income security. [More…]
This pre-eminence will not lightly be thrown away by the people of Tasmania; nor, if justly understood, would centralised Federal Power destroy it. [More…]
The small business sector embodies the principles of freedom and enterprise and decentralisation of economic power. [More…]
There have been meetings this month, including one in Melbourne this week, aimed at leading to formation of the largest and most powerful business association in Australia. [More…]
This council ultimately will have a profound influence on Government economic considerations and its power to influence government for the greater good of Australia, and I hope it will be substantial. [More…]
These include the power to call for returns, access to premises for purposes relevant to the operation of the legislation, the appointment of authorised persons by the Minister to carry out specific provisions of the legislation and penalties for infringement of the legislation. [More…]
These include the power to call for returns, access to premises for purposes relevant to the operation of the legislation, the appointment of authorised persons by the Minister to carry out specific provisions of the legislation and penalties for infringement of the legislation. [More…]
; Bench or Pedestal Drilling Machines, Not Power Fed. [More…]
I strongly urge the Commonwealth Government and the Minister for Education to use their influence to bring about necessary changes in the structure of the Australian Union of Students and in the way that university union fees and student fees operate to ensure that a more responsible and moderate leadership comes to power in the AUS. [More…]
So these supplementations maintained the purchasing power of the commission recommendations in every sector. [More…]
It is an interesting concept that under trade practices legislation, founded on the issue that the Government now has some constitutional power to deal with corporations and therefore that unions become part and parcel of the corporation power, the Government has decided to bring in this confrontation legislation. [More…]
It is a complete negation of the conciliation and arbitration power. [More…]
The Minister admits that he is not real confident about his corporation power when it comes to dealing with companies under the national securities legislation. [More…]
But he does not seem to have much doubt now because he thinks he can deal with unions under the same power. [More…]
But when it comes to the unions which, in the main, are deemed not to be corporations and which have no interest except in their labour, they will be penalised under the same power. [More…]
It will be back immediately relying on that world ‘conciliation’ under the conciliation and arbitration power. [More…]
I am referring here particularly to the provisions involved in clause 47, which will now give courts power to order affirmative disclosure and corrective advertising. [More…]
Furthermore, if the dealer is not a corporation and the transaction was not an interstate one, and I should like the Minister’s response to this, the imposition of liability on the dealer would be completely negated and clearly ultra vires the power of this Parliament. [More…]
May I say in answer to mm that I welcome the provisions of proposed section 45D because they are restraining the inevitable growth of monopoly- of the abuse by irresponsible unionists of the union power which is also monopoly power. [More…]
In respect of the merger issue raised by the honourable member for Grayndler (Mr Antony Whitlam), it is true, as he says, that the Government has made a decision to limit the power to apply for an injunction to restrain a merger to the Minister or the Trade Practices Commission. [More…]
Essentially for that reason the Government has decided to confine the power to apply for an injunction to the Minister and the Trade Practices Commission. [More…]
Very briefly, and without canvassing the existence of the Minister’s power to consent to consumer protection prosecutions, I would not want to let the contribution of the honourable member for St George (Mr Neil) go unanswered. [More…]
That is why we introduced section 45D which protects the public from secondary boycotts and the abuse of union power by irresponsible trade unionists. [More…]
For the first time the legislation will deal with the abuse of monopoly power in a secondary boycott situation which affects business, wipes out business and adds cost to the Australian economy. [More…]
I was interested to hear the honourable member for Hawker (Mr Jacobi) speak about credit laws and the growth of monopoly power. [More…]
Monopoly power can exist on behalf of corporations as it exists on behalf of unions. [More…]
They all enjoy monopoly power and they all have to be subject to the public interest. [More…]
The legislation provides that in addition to the power of the Corporation to issue directions with respect to the carriage and handling of meat or livestock, the Corporation may determine conditions relating to contracts for shipment of meat or livestock. [More…]
Pending the outcome of a review of Australia’s overseas cargo shipping legislation which has been implemented by the Government, provision has been made for exercise of the shipping contract powers to be subject to the approval of the Minister. [More…]
However, in line with the Government’s commitment to the free enterprise system, the Corporation will be able to exercise these powers only if such trading is in accordance with commercial practice and consistent with a trading policy adopted by the Corporation and made known to the Minister. [More…]
For this reason the Corporation is required to seek the approval off the Minister before exercise of this power. [More…]
The Fraser Government has now been in power for 18 months. [More…]
The Australian Labor Party is convinced that the electorate has recognised that the present Government does not have the answer to our economic ills and that when Labor was in power forces beyond the control of domestic policy instruments were responsible for many of our economic problems. [More…]
When the present Government came to power it said that it would reduce the size of the public sector to make way for the private sector. [More…]
He brings to the attention of the House a very notable event, that is, the tenth anniversary of the 1967 referendum which gave to the Commonwealth, through an amendment to the Constitution, the power to make special laws with regard to Aboriginal citizens of Australia and also to treat Aborigines as full citizens by including them in the census. [More…]
It will also have power to determine applications for the provision of legal aid in specialised areas referred to it. [More…]
This gives me a chance to mention some of the aspects of the powers of the national Parliament in dealing with conciliation and arbitration matters. [More…]
It has been assumed in the whole preparation of this legislation that the national Parliament has virtually unlimited powers. [More…]
In the preparation of this legislation the Government has adopted a stance which on its own legal advice it would not have the power to implement. [More…]
Whilst the Government might have adopted that stance from the point of view of endeavouring to indicate to the trade union movement that it was going to do all sorts of dreadful and dire things, it ought to be looking at what is the present law as regards its powers. [More…]
The fact that the national Parliament has power to create trade unions does not mean that it may pass any law it likes in relation to them. [More…]
Any law passed by this Parliament must be a law within the ambit of the Commonwealth’s powers. [More…]
They were upheld on the basis that the ensuring of authentic representation of an organisation was incidental to the constitutional power. [More…]
Section 47 (3) of the existing Conciliation and Arbitration Act gives the Industrial Registrar power to give a certificate to conscientious objectors. [More…]
However, this is incidental to the making of a preference award; that is, it is clearly made incidental to the dispute settling power. [More…]
It is important to bear in mind that, under the Conciliation and Arbitration Act and almost certainly under the constitutional power, awards of compulsory unionism cannot be made; only awards of preference can be made. [More…]
In fact on almost any test these amendments would appear to go beyond the constitutional power. [More…]
Accordingly, because there are many cases clearly indicating that the Commonwealth power in the field of conciliation and arbitration is limited, I should have thought it would have been appropriate for the Government to get some pretty sound legal advice as to whether itcan implement this legislation. [More…]
But if there had been a fair test of the situation, which we may not get because of confrontation, the Government could well have found that the High Court itself said: ‘You cannot pass laws in this fashion, you have no power to do so’. [More…]
It is important- my comments also apply to clause 26- that the Government just cannot assume that it has unlimited powers to do what it likes with a trade union organisation simply because it has the power to settle industrial disputes. [More…]
He made it very clear that the trade union movement- that is the organisation- is opposed to this matter because it thinks that it will weaken the trade union movement financially; that it will affect its membership numerically; that it will destroy the bargaining power of the unions and that it will create dissention. [More…]
The people who would be called power brokers and capitalists in a company situation are different when they exercise that sort of power over individuals in a trade union situation. [More…]
It is suggested that these clauses will destroy the union’s ability to bargain, the ability to exercise power over other people in the community and other organisations, that it will create dissention, that people who are members of the organisation, who would have been entitled to a voice and to more realistic participation, will lose that opportunity. [More…]
He should forget about the time when there were no unions to which he would care to take us back, when the individual was at the mercy of those who had power. [More…]
He should recognise that people come together only to exercise power, or to accumulate funds or to accumulate members, and for no other reason. [More…]
As I understand the current legislation, the Inspectorate nominally does have the power to launch such a prosecution once a certificate has been issued but it does not have the power to seek a certificate. [More…]
This provision would have given the Bureau the power to seek a certificate and therefore join the parties to the award in being able to seek a certificate and initiate the penal procedures. [More…]
Is this within the ambit of what could be called the Commonwealth’s constitutional power. [More…]
In Kelley’s case, which came before the High Court of Australia in 1950, it was made clear that the power could be used only when [>eople were in dispute. [More…]
In my view, there is no power to do this. [More…]
I would like to see the matter looked at in future from the point of view of where the powers lie. [More…]
He should not just make a second reading speech which contains no detail as to how the power can be justified. [More…]
in the case of an officer- exercise, in relation to him and to his office, the power set out in paragraph (a). [More…]
or the powers set out in paragraphs (a) and (b), of sub-section (3). [More…]
a ) power to suspend, to the extent specified in the order, any of the rights, privileges or capacities of the organization or of all or any of its members, as such members, under this Act or any other Act or under awards or determinations under this Act or under any other Act; [More…]
power to give directions as to the exercise of any rights, privileges or capacities that have been so suspended; [More…]
power to make provision for restricting the use of the funds or property of the organization or a branch of the organization and for the control of those funds or that property for the purpose of ensuring observance of the restrictions. [More…]
An order made in pursuance of a power conferred by sub-section (3) shall, unless sooner revoked, cease to be in force at the expiration of 6 months from the day on which it came into force but may, at any time while it remains in force, be extended in duration by a further order made by the Court on the application of a party to the proceedings in which the original order was made or by the Bureau. [More…]
An order made in pursuance of a power conferred by sub-section (3) may be revoked at any time by a further order of the Court made on an application to the Court by a party to the proceedings in which the original order was made or by the Bureau. [More…]
a ) a provision of an order by the Court made in the exercise of a power conferred by sub-section (3): or [More…]
This would mean in effect that not only would there be a duty on a body such as the Bureau, which will take the place of the Inspectorate to be repealed by clause 1 8, but also that the Bureau would have the power, obligation and duty to launch prosecutions against unions for breaches of bans clauses. [More…]
Trade Unions, the Council of Australian Government Employee Organisations and the Government, and a breach of the statement made by the Minister on 17 May when he said that the Bureau would have the same powers as the Inspectorate- no more and no less- and that the processes would be the same. [More…]
The fact is that by the abolition of the Inspectorate and the abolition of ministerial control factor we are giving the Bureau far more power than the Inspectorate had thus creating a quite different situation and, as I said, breaching the agreement the Government reached with the unions. [More…]
Does the Government feel that it is losing power already? [More…]
If it is, it has no moral right to say that it will give the Bureau complete independence so that when the honourable member for Gellibrand becomes the Minister for Labor he will not have the power to direct the Bureau to implement government policy in respect of industrial relations. [More…]
The Bureau will also be provided with the power to institute proceedings before any court for an offence against the Act or the regulations. [More…]
Both ought to be free to exercise this power in the course of wage negotiations if they believe that it will help’. [More…]
This clause relies on the fact that it can always be implemented because of a trade and commerce power and it is identified as such. [More…]
But a whole series of legal decisions clearly shows that we just cannot legislate for a trade and commerce power in the Commonwealth. [More…]
If we want to say just that, there is no restriction on any Commonwealth power at all because all actions and matters can be related to trade and commerce. [More…]
It is a limited power which has to be directly related to the Constitution. [More…]
A whole series of cases has defined that power. [More…]
In my view this is a question of lack of power which is being misused. [More…]
Furthermore, the Government has threatened, through statements made by the Attorney-General (Mr Ellicott), to introduce a Bill based on the corportations power that would prevent companies from granting increases in wages outside those increases given through the wage indexation system. [More…]
In brief, the legislation would have had the effect upon unions of weakening them numerically and financially, of fostering dissension within their ranks, of destroying their bargaining power and of subjecting them to harassment and interference by an industrial police force. [More…]
First, it did it by providing the Bureau with the power to notify the registrar of the contravention of a bans clause in an award thereby initiating procedures by which unions may be fined for engaging in strikes or other industrial action. [More…]
These alternative penalties would have been to suspend the rights, privileges or capacities of the union, or all of a section of its members, the power to suspend a union officer or officers, power to give direction as to the exercise of any rights, privileges or capacities that had been suspended and power to restrict the use of union funds or property. [More…]
These powers would have been available to the court whenever a union was, say, in breach of a bans clause. [More…]
Furthermore, the Commission had the power to seek a secret ballot of union members to ascertain their views as to certain existing or threatened industrial action in which they were involved. [More…]
As I understand the situation this power of compulsion to appear before the Director gave the Bureau a greater power than civilian police currently have in this country, without laying a charge on a person. [More…]
So this is a very extensive power. [More…]
Also, that person would have had a wide range of powers under the Bill as it was put before the House in the first place. [More…]
In accepting that, the Government said that the Industrial Relations Bureau would have the same powers as the Arbitration Inspectorate, no more and no less, and that those powers would be exercised according to the same processes as they have been until now. [More…]
It will have the power to institute court proceedings for an offence but, unlike the Inspectorate, it will not be subject to ministerial control in respect of prosecutions. [More…]
The Bureau will be at large, so to speak, not subject to ministerial control, and that is a change in the powers. [More…]
That is not setting up a body which has exactly the same powers as the Arbitration Inspectorate. [More…]
That is just a nonsensical comment because the fact is that the Bureau as such will be independent and will not be subject to ministerial control, and therefore there is a change in the powers. [More…]
The Bureau, like the Inspectorate, will have the power to prosecute unions for breach of a bans clause and to prosecute employees for breaches of the Act such as incitement to strike. [More…]
Prosecution by the Inspectorate and by the Bureau for breach of a bans clause, of course, will be taken only after a certificate has been issued, but the Inspectorate has not used these powers. [More…]
So the Government is changing the powers in respect of the Bureau by freeing it from ministerial control and it is then obliging the Bureau, by statutory requirement that it secure compliance with the awards, to change the processes. [More…]
We object to the Bureau, whether the agreement is complied with entirely or not, but I hope that if the Government is not going to scrap the Bureau it will at least make sure that the Bureau is subject to the same powers and processes which it agreed with the unions in the first place would be the case. [More…]
The trade union movement developed out of a situation where capital was more powerful than labour. [More…]
But the present situation we face is that in many respects organised labour is more powerful than the vast majority of small and medium sized companies in Australia. [More…]
We have a situation in which, if a large union or group of unions is ranged against one of the smaller to medium sized businesses, the balance of economic and industrial power is very strongly on the side of the trade unions. [More…]
Therefore, trade unions have immense power which can be used for good or ill. [More…]
In industries such as the power generation industry we find that if a few dozen key maintenance workers go on strike not only can they bring the power station or that power industry to a halt but also their actions have ramifications throughout the community, causing lost production and lay-offs amongst people who have had no direct interest in that dispute. [More…]
What more power would the Government need than the existing pains, penalties and processes? [More…]
Australian Broadcasting Commission: Power Without Glory (Question No. [More…]
1 ) Is it a fact that the production and presentation of Power Without Glory cost the Australian Broadcasting Commission over $2m. [More…]
I say those 3 things in introducing my speech simply because I do not think it takes half an hour to summarise what the Government has done since it got back into power. [More…]
The Island has a council which has an advisory capacity but no real power. [More…]
The economic standstill and malaise brought about by the conservatives in their desperate grab for power in October-November 1975 have yet to be overcome. [More…]
After adjustment for seasonal influences, the index (all groups including Power) reached a record level of 171 in February, in the 1 973-74 boom. [More…]
Earlier in the year he made great play of the fact that he proposed to give the Australian Wool Corporation the power to operate a scheme for limited offer of direct purchase of wool and to improve more specifically the Corporation’s functions and powers on freight rates for Australian wool carried overseas. [More…]
Although the Australian Wool Corporation is a member of the Wool Committee group which recently has been to London in an attempt to negotiate the rates of freight with the Australia to Europe Shipping Conference, the Minister’s statement that the legislation giving the Corporation power will not be introduced until the Budget session must create doubts also about the Corporation’s legal ability to negotiate at present. [More…]
The proscrastination about introducing these 2 important amendments must give rise to the view that the Minister is pandering to the vested interests in the wool industry which are opposed to change and resent the Corporation having increased power. [More…]
The Opposition hopes that during the winter recess the Minister will find sufficient time to attend to the drafting of amendments to the Wool Industry Act to increase the Corporation’s powers. [More…]
I have a suspicion that if the present Government remains in power it will be May next year before the second and necessary series of amendments to the Wool Industry Act is introduced. [More…]
He chose deliberately to ignore the complete lack of concern for rural matters by his Government when it was in power from 1972 to 1974. [More…]
I give the Labor Party credit for the introduction of the scheme; but I can give it no credit for the way in which it mismanaged the scheme whilst in power. [More…]
The power to operate the limited offer to purchase scheme is already encompassed within the powers of the Australian Wool Corporation and ministerial consent has been given to the function of that scheme. [More…]
The Corporation already has powers under its present legislation. [More…]
However, there is talk of extending those powers but my colleague the Minister for Transport (Mr Nixon), in my view correctly, has said that he is determined not just to achieve lower freight rates for the wool industry but also to ensure that for every rural industry we maximise our negotiating advantage by ensuring that any one commodity is not disadvantaged as against any other in handling its particular crop, clip or product. [More…]
The purpose is not to narrow the power but to maximise the freight advantage. [More…]
Previously, that power was vested in the Minister in respect of the distribution of the local government share of personal income tax. [More…]
It was set up to protect the smaller States and a fortiori to protect all the States against the centralist powers in Canberra. [More…]
The honourable member for Oxley, who is an undisguised centralist, will, I believe, at least have sufficient credit to acknowledge the fact that I quoted in my maiden speech in this House the words of a great South Australian, Sir John Cockburn, who said that the tendency for power is always to draw to the centre- the vortex- and all the buttresses and ties in the Constitution must be against that tendency. [More…]
Its realisation will do absolutely nothing for economic recovery because it means less purchasing power in the hands of the millions of wage and salary earners who need to have that purchasing power and to use it if we are to effect economic recovery in this country and get the many thousands of unemployed back into jobs. [More…]
But I ask honourable members to think of the eventual loss if the Australian Labor Party had stayed in power. [More…]
She has the power under section 7 of the Act and she must use it. [More…]
The Dairy Produce Amendment Bill 1 977 which is also being considered in this cognate debate is to be welcomed because it sensibly sets up an advisory committee to phase out the equalisation committees without conflict and to centralise marketing and administrative power in the Australian Dairy Corporation. [More…]
In the Minister’s second reading speech on the Dairy Industry Assistance Bill reference was made to the blanket provisions on access to properties, power to call for books and returns and to set up virtually an inspectorate and a disbursement scheme on the lines of Commonwealth Egg Marketing Authority legislation in the poultry industry. [More…]
-Congratulations to the Minister for Primary Industry (Mr Sinclair) on the rapid progress he has made to stabilise the Australian dairy industry since the Liberal and National Country parties were returned to power 18 months ago. [More…]
Those who cry that a lack of justice has been shown to the Victorian dairy farmers- I am a Victorian dairy farmer- because of the market milk levy overlook the fact that the States jealously retain their power over intrastate milk, the Victorian Government no less than the others. [More…]
As with other major primary product marketing boards, the Opposition agrees that the Minister should have the power to issue mandatory directions. [More…]
It appears that the Government wishes the new Corporation to have a limited scope within which to exercise its powers and functions. [More…]
While the Opposition is not arguing that the new Corporation should go into the Australian market and compete on a daily basis with meat wholesalers and retailers, it is necessary for the Corporation to have the power at least, to trade within Australia. [More…]
It would have been helpful if the Australian Meat Board could have been more actively involved and the power to buy stocks of meat to sell as part of the promotion program would have been useful. [More…]
To grant the AMLC power to trade locally would be consistent with the powers which have been given to the Australian Wheat Board and the Australian Wool Corporation. [More…]
Some of the producers complained about the Minister having too much power over the Corporation. [More…]
However, the growing tendency to move away from the traditional trader to trader operations in my opinion makes it more important that the Minister has more power. [More…]
All persons who have been involved in the beef industry should never lose sight of the fact that we all- I emphasise the words ‘we all’- should do all in our power to obtain a better return for the producers and at the same time to ensure that our export markets remain open to us. [More…]
As I have mentioned before, the Minister has abdicated his power in many areas so as to ensure that the Corporation not only will appear to have more autonomy but also in actual fact will have a far wider and freer reign than ever before. [More…]
In this manner the producers would have in actual fact sacrificed nothing by way of loss of numbers but in reality have enormous powers vested in them. [More…]
That is one of the reasons why the Minister should and must retain the power of selection of members. [More…]
That is not the only reason why the Minister must retain the power of selection of members, even though it is a very important and valid reason. [More…]
If, for example, the Minister were to abdicate his power in this respect the situation may arise whereby the sheep producers in Australia could dominate the Corporation or, alternatively, the Victorian members could well be in the majority. [More…]
The Corporation shall also be empowered to investigate the best method to obtain shipping rates and so on. [More…]
The Minister for Transport (Mr Nixon), for example, has insisted that the Minister must retain power in this area. [More…]
The Opposition is claiming that the Corporation should have the power to trade within Australia. [More…]
The Opposition members know quite well that the Commonwealth has no power whatsoever to trade within Australia. [More…]
Nor has it the power to legislate for trade within Australia. [More…]
The Minister and the Government have said on numerous occasions that if the States legislate for power over and for control of the beef industry the Commonwealth will surely follow suit. [More…]
House, this power will be exercised strictly in accordance with the arrangements discussed in detail with State administrations. [More…]
There are difficulties in extending the powers of the Corporation in relation to the domestic market. [More…]
If there is a question relating to domestic marketing of an agricultural commodity of any sort, the power should be introduced only after discussions within Agricultural Council. [More…]
The Australian Wool Corporation has power to trade and process products in Australia without complementary legislation. [More…]
The Commonwealth Government does not have the power, of its own accord, to introduce a domestic marketing scheme in Australia. [More…]
I think that it is a fair and reasonable assumption that the Minister should have the power of approval or veto if non-commercial practices were to be undertaken by the Corporation. [More…]
Therefore, the ultimate power and the ultimate responsibility of the Minister should be appropriate. [More…]
-The Opposition has moved an amendment to this clause which has the effect of introducing ministerial control into this particular power. [More…]
There has been a lot of comment in the industry, particularly from the Australian Wool and Meat Producers Federation and the cattlemen’s union group, about the extent of ministerial power under this legislation. [More…]
I want to take the opportunity during discussion on this clause to draw attention to some of the powers available to the Minister in relation to other corporations which exist by virtue of statute of this Parliament. [More…]
Under the Wheat Industry Stabilization Act the Minister has powers under section 8 concerning the composition of the Australian Wheat Board and in relation to resignations and termination of appointment he has powers under sections 1 1 and 12. [More…]
He has powers concerning delegations by the Board under section 14; performance of its functions by the Board under sections 17 and 18; approval for the appointment of overseas agents under section 20; payments for wheat under section 24; declaration of final delivery day for a season under section 27; the average support price under section 29; refunds from the Fund under section 31; the home consumption price of wheat under section 32; the special account for freight to Tasmania under section 33; borrowing under section 36; licensed receivers under section 40; and the operation of State laws under section 4 1 . [More…]
I do not want to catalogue all the functions for the House but I think it is important that people are aware of the fact that this particular legislation does not represent the first occasion on which ministerial powers over a corporation have been put before the Parliament and instituted in the form of legislation. [More…]
I could refer also- I do not want to take the time of the House on this occasion- to the Apple and Pear Corporation Act where similar and wide ranging powers lie with the Minister under the provisions of that Act. [More…]
I think it is also pertinent to note that a comparison of the Ministerial involvement under the Meat Industry Act, which is the Act which this legislation is replacing, and the Bill which we are debating, the Australian Meat and Live-Stock Corporation Bill, reveals that the powers which the Minister has at his disposal are very similar between the 2 pieces of legislation. [More…]
In fact, if there is a difference it is in the area of appeals to decisions to withhold or cancel or suspend the licences which, under the Meat Board legislation, was a power available to the Minister. [More…]
It is a power available to the Administrative Appeals Tribunal. [More…]
The purpose of this clause is to protect the Government’s position by giving the Minister the power to issue a mandatory direction to the board of the Corporation. [More…]
They seek to have the Minister out of the kitchen cabinet of the operations of the Board and yet give the Minister a mandatory power to issue a direction to the Board to protect the position of the Government. [More…]
While this amendment is almost identical with the powers in the Australian Wheat Board legisl ation, it is quite apparent that the Labor Party is still seeking to put the heavy thumb of bureaucracy and government into every enterprise possible. [More…]
It ill becomes the honourable member for Blaxland (Mr Keating) to try to intrude into this legislation in a way that does not exist in the legislation at the moment, in a more onerous and heavy handed way than any direction that is in the legislation, in a way that is designed to give the Government the power to manipulate the decisions of the Corporation, in a totally unacceptable form and in a manner in which not one of the organisations, parties or bodies, which are divided on almost everything else, has suggested. [More…]
Yet here the Labor Party wants to give the Government the power to direct what the Corporation does. [More…]
As the Minister for Primary Industry (Mr Sinclair) has pointed out, the Opposition is totally confused as to whether it is suggesting that the Corporation should have more or less power. [More…]
It wants to give the Minister the power to give directions. [More…]
In just about every case where ministerial discretion is provided for in the Bill the Minister has the power to review, the power to veto and the power to consult. [More…]
We remember that before the last election the Australian Labor Party was inserting a similar blanket clause in so many Acts relating to so many fields of endeavour in Australia because of its aim to gain more power. [More…]
It wants power over the means of production, distribution and exchange. [More…]
-The Opposition has moved an amendment proposing a new clause 9A which purports to give more power to the Minister and the Government. [More…]
What is interesting about this amendment is that it proposes to give more power to the Minister over the whole range of functions of the Australian Meat and Live-stock Corporation. [More…]
The Bill as proposed by the Government gives powers to the Minister in specific areas where they are warranted, but the amendment proposes to give him power over the performance of the functions and the exercise of the powers of the whole of the Corporation. [More…]
As I said a moment ago- I now reinforce my earlier argument- the powers which the Minister has taken under this legislation are quite reasonable. [More…]
The Australian Labor Party has made it quite clear by the amendment that it wants the Minister to have overriding control over the total range of the powers and functions of the Corporation. [More…]
Although in the legislation it perhaps might be so specified, the power is not to be exercised by the Minister for Primary Industry; it is to be exercised by the Minister for Transport. [More…]
But he has inserted a direction-making power which, as a result of the report which is required under his proposed sub-clause 3, would ensure that, the action having been taken by the Corporation, the Minister or the Government would come in and tell the Corporation not to do it in that way but to do it in some other way. [More…]
As I said earlier, the Commonwealth Government does not have the constitutional power to establish a scheme to control the domestic marketing of meat and livestock. [More…]
One of the reasons why there is a reserve power for the Minister which enables him to appoint the members of the Corporation is to ensure that there is reasonable regional representation and, of course, at least one representative of the sheep trade and one representative of the beef trade. [More…]
The object of these provisions is to obtain better co-ordination among boards, to ensure the attainment of a high standard by boards in the discharge of their duties, as suggested by Mr Justice Toose, but without reducing the independence of each board in the exercise of its determining power under the Act in respect of individual cases. [More…]
The Exchange of Notes between Australia and Malaysia (see Question 1 and 2 above) which provides the formal basis for the RAAF presence at Butterworth, was made pursuant to, and explicitly related to the Five Power Communique issued at the conclusion of the Ministerial Meering in London on the 1 6 April 1 97 1 , to consider matters of common interest relating specifically to the external defence of Malaysia and Singapore. [More…]
1 ) Under the provisions of the Passports Act 1938-73 the Minister for Foreign Affairs has discretionary power to approve or reject any application for an Australian passport. [More…]
Is he aware that as part of this campaign the Electrical Trades Union is engaging in a secondary boycott through inducing its members employed by State electricity authorities not to connect power to newly constructed modular homes? [More…]
Under the Racial Discrimination Act as it is presently framed the Commissioner for Community Relations on receipt of a complaint which has, of course, to come from the person aggrieved or affected by the incident complained about, does have the power to refuse to entertain a complaint on certain grounds. [More…]
My inclination is to think that he has that power now but it would be better if it were stated expressly. [More…]
On each page there is printed a clenched fist in the well known activist power salute style. [More…]
Guerilla warfare, insurgency and individual acts of political violence have always been the weapons of those who cannot command armies or wield naked power in other ways. [More…]
Even with the benefit of the decision of the High Court on the scope of the external affairs power in the seas and submerged lands case it must remain open to real doubt whether the High Court would uphold its validity. [More…]
It would bring about a fundamental change in the distribution of power between the Commonwealth and the States, and in the jurisdiction of federal and State courts. [More…]
Under this proposal, the Commission would have had power, among other things, to examine and report on Commonwealth and State laws and practices that were inconsistent with the International Covenant and it was proposed that individuals would be able to bring complaints affecting them to the Commission for investigation. [More…]
Under clause 1 2, the Commission is to have power compulsorily to require the answering of questions or the production of documents. [More…]
The paragraph to which the Attorney-General gives most attention is paragraph (b) of proposed clause 6 which seeks merely to give the Commission power to make recommendations in relation to the matters there set out. [More…]
The AttorneyGeneral ought to acknowledge that the power of recommendations in relation to financial assistance and provision of legal assistance goes only to the way in which that assistance is given by State commissions. [More…]
Whoever is in power is subservient to Treasury. [More…]
The Australian Government should establish the Legal Aid Commission as a truly independent statutory body to plan and administer the expanded system of legal aid services, to the extent that the Commonwealth has constitutional power to do so. [More…]
It would not be going beyond any constitutional power so to do. [More…]
Yet he fails to recognise the fundamental point that, whilst the Commonwealth has some powers, there are large areas in which the Commonwealth has no power. [More…]
One ends up with a situation in which the Commonwealth with its limited powers is able to offer a scheme to some people and ignores others. [More…]
It has perpetuated the defect and has gone even further because of this mad obsession with Federal persons and with the so-called limitation of Federal power. [More…]
It cannot even make recommendations in relation to the provision of financial assistance to any other legal aid bodies, notwithstanding its power to make reports on such services. [More…]
Whilst I appreciate the courtesy extended to the Opposition by the Minister for Productivity in making available a draft copy of the Bill last Monday evening and the advice given to me by the Minister for Transport last Friday afternoon that the Bill would be introduced, the point is that the subject of how to fund the next road triennium was under consideration when this Government seized power 1 8 months ago. [More…]
The Opposition hopes that the Minister will not use his discretionary powers provided under the Bill to do other than would be clearly set out in the terms of the principal legislation when it is introduced. [More…]
This would be a most unfortunate action irrespective of which government was in power. [More…]
The most pompus action of which I can possibly think is that of a Minister who believes that he, by some divine right, has the power to control all federal funding programs, in fact funding programs that extend right through State programs into local government. [More…]
It is believed that this power even includes the location of streets in a municipality. [More…]
Honourable members opposite displayed this attitude when they were in power. [More…]
I am advised that the situation is this: If a member claims for a disability, the Commission will do all in its power to help the person making a claim, or the person helping to make a claim, by providing information and so on. [More…]
Eleven months have passed of the first full financial year since the Fraser Government came to power. [More…]
Increased indirect taxes and government charges will reduce consumer spending power and aggravate inflation. [More…]
The Committee has disciplined its investigation by examining the epicentre of Arab and Israeli tensions and their patron powers. [More…]
However, we feel it incumbent upon us to indicate that the Committee cast a collective eye upon the periphery of the epicentre, particularly to the peripheral economic and military powers. [More…]
We indicate the economic power of the oil producing states upon the periphery. [More…]
The report also examines Great Power rivalry in the Middle East, the Palestinian question, and the importance of Middle East oil to the world and Australia. [More…]
Australia should work in international forums as well as in private consultations with friendly powers to support the efforts of the United States-the most influential power in the region-to achieve a lasting Middle East peace settlement. [More…]
Until such time as Lebanon can build up strong enough security forces to curb Palestinian forces in southern Lebanon, Australia should support the establishment in Lebanon’s troubled southern border area of an effective international peace-keeping force to be drawn from disinterested powers. [More…]
Australia should support the implementation of limited forces zones and support the concept of great power guarantees, provided any state involved in the Arab-Israeli dispute is not forced to rely entirely on such measures for its continued existence. [More…]
A central emergency power house will be provided to conform to the standards and requirements for power supplies on RAAF bases in the event of power failure. [More…]
The nuclear power industry is unintentionally contributing to an increased risk of nuclear war. [More…]
As the Prime Minister pointed out in his statement to this Parliament on 24 May, clearly there has been an important statement by President Carter on nuclear energy in which he emphasised the need to restrain the spread of nuclear weapons or explosive capabilities without forgoing the tangible benefits of nuclear power. [More…]
This is an enormous investment when one recognises that the cost of each power station is approximately $ 1,000m. [More…]
For example, will there be a nuclear power industry around the world regardless of whether Australian exports uranium? [More…]
A total renunciation of intention to supply designed to bring an end to all nuclear power industries or all further development of them would in our view be likely to fail totally in its purpose. [More…]
We have said that this will take time, just as the strategic arms limitation talks have taken time between only 2 major super powers. [More…]
What we are dealing with here is a regime of safeguards governing a whole gaggle of nations who have moved and are moving into nuclear power. [More…]
It will be beyond the turn of the century before they proliferate to become a large component of nuclear power generation. [More…]
It has scaled back the proportion of electricity generation attributable to nuclear power from 60 million kilowatts to 36 million kilowatts. [More…]
There will not be a real market for uranium until the middle 1980s because the world did not move into nuclear power policy until the Arab oil boycott in 1 972 forced countries to rethink their energy policies. [More…]
Some moved towards nuclear power. [More…]
That move in some countries has been temporarily held up by environmental objections and the general view that nuclear power is undesirable. [More…]
Many countries in which power rationing is a political reality will move ahead with a proportion of their electricity generation coming from nuclear power. [More…]
It is committed to allocating a proportion of its electricity generation to nuclear power. [More…]
The world needs power; it needs energy. [More…]
For electrical energy which is a great part of the world’s need there is no quick source available except nuclear power. [More…]
It is the cheapest, cleanest and safest form of power available. [More…]
Nuclear power is the cleanest form of power. [More…]
Fossil fuels cause pollution and dangers in a way which nuclear power does not. [More…]
Nuclear power will help us to dissipate that haze. [More…]
But if one adds up the dangers and deaths that we know occur from fossil fuel- in the coal mines, in the transport of fuel and by respiratory disease- we know that they are orders of magnitude greater than even the worst conjectures of the dangers from nuclear power. [More…]
Nuclear power is the safest form of energy available to us. [More…]
Those who would deny that power to the rest of the world face a dreadful responsibility. [More…]
It is only by power, energy, with its effect on the availability of transport and fertiliser and things of this character that we can hope to reduce the danger of world starvation and deprivation. [More…]
Are we to deny those advantages to the rest of the world because we want to sit on those sources of power which are here by geological chance in the Australian soil? [More…]
If one thinks of the danger of war, and nuclear war, one of the things we can best do to add to that danger would be to deprive the rest of the world of power, of energy. [More…]
I am not going to go into the motives or the manipulations of those who have campaigned against nuclear power. [More…]
First there is the impact of the power crisis whose magnitude we have realised only in the last few months. [More…]
The first 2 recommendations of the first report are identical in wording after each defines the area of recommendation; in other words, for mining and milling of uranium and for the ordinary operation of nuclear power reactors. [More…]
3, the Commissioners said that ‘The most serious hazard associated with the industry’- that must mean mining as well as nuclear power reactors for, if not, what else?- ‘is that the nuclear power industry is unintentionally contributing to an increased risk of nuclear war’. [More…]
It was submitted that there were dangers associated with … the production of power in reactors, that there were serious and unresolved problems concerning the disposal of radio-active wastes, that there were risks of terrorist theft and use of plutonium, and that there were increased risks of nuclear war flowing from nuclear proliferation. [More…]
It was contended that the continuing development of the nuclear power industry would produce greater inequality - [More…]
It is possible that, in the future, the operations of a nuclear power industry in a particular country, or the operation of those industries generally, will be found to be more hazardous than now appears. [More…]
But surely this is inherent in the development of nuclear power. [More…]
Even if such action does not succeed in deterring other nations from embarking on a program of nuclear power development, at least some of the ‘existing problems may be more satisfactorily resolved’. [More…]
We see no escape from those disadvantages, serious though some of them may be, if Australia is to participate in the nuclear power industry with a due sense of responsibility to the people of the world and its own people. [More…]
The hazards involved, beyond the immediate technical hazards of mining and ordinary operation of nuclear power reactors, have not been resolved. [More…]
In no way can recommendation 3 or any of the following recommendations be seen as either unrelated to the first 2 recommendations, or supporting the contention that the first 2 recommendations mean mining and export of uranium by Australia should proceed without a full community debate on all the implications of nuclear power. [More…]
We have heard a lot about the needs of the world for energy and so on and how, by depriving the world of nuclear power, we will be depriving the underdeveloped countries of great advantages. [More…]
The sad fact, of course, is that the fruits of nuclear power development as it has been going on thus fargiven the escalating costs and so on, it is difficult to see how the picture will change- go to the developed countries and not to the underdeveloped countries. [More…]
I remember talking to a nuclear physicist about this subject and raising with him my anxieties about nuclear power stations and so on. [More…]
He said: ‘I would live next door to a nuclear power station’. [More…]
He said: ‘I think that it is technically possible to construct safe power stations and it is obviously technically safe to mine uranium if you engage in all the appropriate precautions’. [More…]
That does not mean that I would recommend the building of nuclear power stations’. [More…]
Nuclear power is a different order of danger. [More…]
Can we be sure that 200 years from now the government of the United States will be a safe government that is dedicated to using and caring for the nuclear power industry in the way in which the present Government is dedicated? [More…]
The nuclear power industry may forestall the crisis, if we are lucky, for 40 or 50 years, but what then? [More…]
To continue on this path using nuclear power to aid and abet our greed and our waste of energy resources is simply to put off the day when we will have to face the crunch. [More…]
If we decline to develop nuclear power now we will more readily recognise the limitations of energy facing mankind and face the problem sooner. [More…]
We are not debating whether we should have nuclear power stations in this country. [More…]
They are substantially safer than fossil fuel power stations. [More…]
It has been assessed by the Rasmussen Committee that people living beside a nuclear power station are 300 000 times as likely to be killed in a car accident or 8 times as likely to be killed by a thunderbolt as they are by an emission from a nuclear power station. [More…]
If the government of a country, knowing the risks, such as there are, of nuclear power stations, decides that it is in the economic and social interests of its people to import uranium for a nuclear power generation system, have we the right to deny that government the uranium? [More…]
The first moral question we have to ask is: Have we the right to decide for other countries whether they should use nuclear power generation, or is that a decision for the governments of the countries concerned? [More…]
The second question is: Have we the right to neglect to use our power to improve nuclear safeguards? [More…]
There is no point in being enthusiastic about the production of uranium for power and the resultant benefits to the world if we do not tie up the non-proliferation factor. [More…]
The first 3 honourable - members to whom I referred went to Japan and saw there the need of the Japanese people to acquire uranium in order to provide necessary power. [More…]
That is the basic argument for digging and selling uranium, I suppose, but part of today’s debate certainly involves arguments for and against nuclear power. [More…]
I want to say a few words about objections to nuclear power. [More…]
I recommend it to those Opposition members who are genuinely interested in some arguments for nuclear power, instead of promoting the sort of literature that they seem to be quoting constantly against nuclear power. [More…]
He says that uranium is much safer than hydro-electric power because the collapse of dams in various parts of the world has killed thousands. [More…]
Apart from the enormous industrial development and the enormous benefits that civilisation has gained from nuclear power, there is no question that the United States has done the job in preserving the balance of nuclear power in war-like terms. [More…]
Dr Teller at least is honest enough to admit that nobody can answer finally all of the conundrums on any new system of power. [More…]
In my view the issues have been largely oversimplified and polarised by the minority groups which are emotionally or financially involved so that the Australian public, in effect, has been asked to choose between 2 extremes- unlimited nuclear power for the world or bans on uranium mining. [More…]
In spite of this, there are still some who believe that uranium bans will help to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons and that the world must now give up the option of nuclear power. [More…]
It is seriously proposed in some quarters that future shortages of oil and gas in this century can be met entirely by the application of solar power and energy conservation alone. [More…]
It should be made clear to Australians that this policy in effect means firstly, nuclear power will not be abolished world-wide; secondly, the demand for yellowcake will increase because of restrictions on United States fast breeder reactors and reprocessing plants. [More…]
The essential point is that most countries look upon nuclear power as the only route to energy and independence. [More…]
Hence any suggestion that reprocessing and recycling are unacceptable strikes at the very root of this motivation for adopting nuclear power, and naturally is reviewed with alarm. [More…]
This country’s greatest influence as a major potential supplier of uranium is not with small nuclear powers such as Brazil, Argentina, Pakistan and Korea but with important customers such as West Germany, Italy and Great Britain. [More…]
The European countries I have mentioned as well as Japan must eventually look to the suppliers’ group to provide fuel for their large nuclear power programs. [More…]
We also know that the major nuclear nations generally need uranium for power production. [More…]
The honourable member for Swan (Mr Martyr) said that the United States has been using uranium for power purposes for many years. [More…]
The United States Navy has been nuclearpowered for 2 1 to 25 years. [More…]
Some of the States are 35 per cent nuclear-powered and some of them are 15 per cent nuclear-powered. [More…]
Nuclear power is clean. [More…]
Great Britain itself generates 15 per cent of its power by nuclear means. [More…]
Nuclear power is on the increase. [More…]
No doubt, great precautions have to be taken by those handling the nuclear product when it is providing power for the sources I have mentioned. [More…]
Great care has been exercised so far and there is no doubt that those countries which are handling this source of power take these precautions. [More…]
The power body in Japan- over the past 2 years and now claim the first successful experiments whereby uranium has been recovered. [More…]
The nuclear power industry is unintentionally contributing to an increased risk of nuclear war. [More…]
This applied when the report was written; there are more now- have nuclear power stations operating at 3 1 December 1 975. [More…]
Another seven had power reactors under construction. [More…]
The nuclear power industry is unintentionally contributing to an increase in the risk of nuclear war. [More…]
His Honour said that ‘the nuclear power industry is unintentionally contributing to an increased risk of nuclear war and that ‘this is the most serious hazard associated with the industry’. [More…]
I suggest to the House that if we take out the word ‘nuclear’ and read that statement again we will find that the same validity exists, lt would then read this way: ‘The power industry is unintentionally contributing to an increased risk of war’. [More…]
A total renunciation of intention to supply designed to bring an end to all nuclear power industries or all further development of them would in our view be likely to fail totally in its purpose. [More…]
The honourable member for Isaacs (Mr Hamer) commented earlier that the debate was about the mining of uranium and not energy production through power plants, weapons etc. [More…]
As a supplier of the raw material, we must give full consideration to what flows from it- from the raw material to the initial energy production, through the power plant; from the raw material to nuclear weapons; from the initial energy production procedure to the other forms of energy production available; or from the energy production to the use of the material left from that and once more to nuclear weapons. [More…]
The Government yesterday delighted environmentalists and exasperated supporters of nuclear power by announcing that Britain will not build a plutonium-burning fast breeder reactor until a full public inquiry on the project has been held. [More…]
If there are absolute and secure safeguards and they still have to have inquiries like that in a country where nuclear power has been used for some time, further doubts must surely arise in our minds. [More…]
Comment has been made of the likelihood of damage from nuclear power plants. [More…]
Some rather irresponsible assertions have been made also about nuclear power stations exploding or the possibility of their exploding. [More…]
One other respect in which I think the Fox report was most inadequate was Japan’s position in the nuclear power generating area. [More…]
Replacement of part of Japan’s proposed nuclear expansion program with an amplified coal-fired power station program, combined with greater emphasis on energy conservation, appears feasible. [More…]
In January I was in Japan with a number of honourable members and senators and while there we took the opportunity of visiting the Tokai 1 power station which is situated about 70 kilometres from Tokyo. [More…]
The Tokai 1 power station is the first commercial nuclear power generating station which Japan has established. [More…]
The Tokai 1 power station was established in 1966 and has been feeding electricity into the Tokyo power grid ever since. [More…]
It is a much larger and more modern power station. [More…]
Nuclear power is seen by the Japanese as an energy source which will lessen her reliance on bulky fossil fuel. [More…]
Another factor which the Japanese see as compelling them towards the development of nuclear power is the problem of atmospheric pollution in their overcrowded cities. [More…]
Hydro-electric power developments are seen to offer little scope for meeting Japan’s expanding energy requirements because Japan has used up most of the hydro-electric capacity in the country. [More…]
Japan already has 13 nuclear power generating units in operation with a total output of 7428 megawatts. [More…]
In that respect the debate on nuclear power in Japan is probably like the freeway debate in Australia. [More…]
Public opinion polls in Japan indicate that there is a similar attitude to the development of nuclear power stations. [More…]
So I believe that the situation facing Australia is this: Many countries have made the decision to go nuclear for their power generation requirements. [More…]
The people whom he is suggesting should not use their technology are the Europeans who are probably more dependent on nuclear power as an energy source at this stage than is the Unites States which has some basic petroleum supplies of its own. [More…]
It is all right to say that the Japanese have made a decision to move into the area of nuclear power generation. [More…]
We should be looking at the specific consequences of accelerating the expansion of nuclear power generation at this stage without taking the trouble and the time to examine whether or not better conditions and circumstances and much higher levels of safeguards can be made available. [More…]
Such agreements are broken as necessity requires, whether that necessity be political power or economic requirements. [More…]
I remember a prime minister not long ago saying as part of his policy speech that we would construct a nuclear power station in Australia during the next few years. [More…]
Certainly the nuclear power station has not been built. [More…]
That is what I mean when I say the power of money eventually survives in the Western world capitalist system. [More…]
As set out in the Government’s statement of 1 1 November following the First Report of the Ranger Uranium Environmental Inquiry, the Government is satisfied that appropriate controls would apply to the shipments under these contracts which will be used for electric power generation in Japan, the United States and the Federal Republic of Germany, all of which are parties to the Treaty on the NonProliferation of Nuclear Weapons. [More…]
For example, on the question of waste, a committee of my Party in this Parliament recently had before it Dr Hardy of the Atomic Energy Commission, who was said to be a pro-uranium man very strongly in favour of nuclear energy as a source of power, and I believe he is. [More…]
From that time on we will have to look to solar power. [More…]
I believe that the result of this debate will be to force countries to inject more capital investment into finding alternatives for petroleum and nuclear energy and to investigate sources of power such as solar energy. [More…]
In the halcyon days of their power all they were concerned about was getting the most money for uranium. [More…]
The other point I made at that time and I want to repeat it as quickly as possible, is that the failure to provide uranium to power users will force the earlier arrival of the plutonium economy, which is the dangerous economy. [More…]
It is fascinating that the people who are opposing the use of nuclear power and the mining of Australian uranium are by their very actions forcing the power hungry nations of this world into a technology which uses hardly any uranium at all but which is desperately dangerous. [More…]
I do not believe that this is a real case against nuclear power. [More…]
It is held out to us that if Australia does not develop its uranium resources, if we do not supply this fuel for nuclear power stations, it will dramatise the situation and encourage the rest of the world not to do likewise. [More…]
There would be only one effect of moral suasion, assuming that it were successful, and that would be to further diminish the relative strength of the Western democracies against the totalitarian nations which are proceeding apace with nuclear power. [More…]
Exactly the same situation exists in relation to nuclear power. [More…]
They have had problems with people using incredible amounts of power to get the signal from one side of Australia to the other. [More…]
In Brisbane one set which was seized was attached to a power plant which generated enough power to operate a small commercial radio station. [More…]
The works remaining to complete the project comprise sewerage installations, some landscaping, and power and telephone installations. [More…]
Which of these countries currently have (a) a President and/or Prime Minister and (b) governments that are in power having been freely elected in open, adult franchise elections where any of the country’s citizens were eligible to be candidates with the eligibility being similar to that in Australia, New Zealand, Canada and the United States. [More…]
What was the date on which each Government came to power. [More…]
The participants in the Five Power Arrangements in the Ministerial communique issued on 16 April 1971 “declared, in relation to the external defence of Malaysia and Singapore that in the event of any form of armed attack externally organised or supported or the threat of such attack against Malaysia or Singapore, their Governments would immediately consult together for the purpose of deciding what measures should be taken jointly or separately in relation to such attack or threat”. [More…]
Nevertheless, it is clear from a number of unconfirmed reports that have emerged that extensive repression, including executions, has taken place in Kampuchea since the Khmer Rouge came to power. [More…]
Mr Speaker, I seek leave of the House to move motions relating to Sessional Orders for the routine of business of the House, the power to add a protest or dissent to a select committee report, the counting of members in a quorum, the Speaker’s discretion relating to the adjournment of the House when a quorum is not present, and the ringing of division bells in successive divisions. [More…]
Those relating to the routine of business, the power to add a protest or dissent to a select committee report, the counting of members in a quorum and the Speaker’s discretion as to adjourning the House, and the time forringing division bells on successive divisions operated for the remainder of the autumn period of sittings and ceased to have effect when the House rose for the winter adjournment. [More…]
Furthermore, by calling for deportation or discriminatory treatment for British migrants because of their participation in trade union affairs, the Minister not only offends the British born but all the nonBritish migrants who are made to realise that they are still regarded as different from Australian-born citizens by some people in power and therefore liable to be denounced or discriminated against. [More…]
I should like to make one thing perfectly clear to the Opposition, to listeners to the broadcast of these proceedings, to migrants in this country and to the House: The Migration Act 1958 confers power for the deportation of persons who have not become Australian citizens in certain defined circumstances. [More…]
In summary, those powers can be invoked only when a person granted permanent entry, not having become a constituent member of the Australian community, has been convicted for crime, or subject to the right of appeal to a commissioner, on grounds of unsatisfactory conduct generally. [More…]
Higher priced oil will also assist in bringing about the economic introduction of alternative energy technologies such as coal conversion and solar power. [More…]
The power conferred upon the Industrial Registrar by subsection 133 (4D) is not available to him until the expiration of the period allowed by sub-section 133 (4C). [More…]
Did the DDL project office recommend a Rolls Royce power plant for the DDL. [More…]
Can the Minister say if Professor Kaneff has claimed that his research indicates that the project he is working on could generate enough heat energy to power a city the size of Adelaide. [More…]
The project has been concerned with studying processes for the mass utilisation of solar energy, using ammonia as a means of chemical storage, with a view to developing a 10 megawatt power generation station. [More…]
A power station of this size could supply enough electricity to serve a town of 10 000 people. [More…]
Exceptions are naval personnel on ships attached to the Five Power Force in Malaysia and Singapore who are eligible for concessional rates of postage. [More…]
In cases of gross and/or repeated instances of technical malpractice- particularly matters affecting other services such as the use of an incorrect operating frequency, excessive spurious radiations, excessive power and so on. [More…]
It is over 86 000- in fact close to 87 000- more than it was 2 years ago, at the end of July 1975, when the Labor Party was in power. [More…]
In the context of these largely energy-imposed difficulties, particularly for the nonoilproducing developing countries, I cannot forbear from making a reference to the importance to those countries of the development of nuclear power for electricity generation to meet their expanding energy needs. [More…]
They obtain that benefit whether or not they themselves enter into nuclear power for electricity generation. [More…]
Many have done so, and on an increasing scale- witness Iran, as I have said, and its obtaining of five nuclear power stations. [More…]
How interested are the world powers in the preservation of peace in the Middle East? [More…]
That possibility is well recognised by those who are involved in a constant study of the balance of power. [More…]
We have to do it in a manner that earns its confidence and respect and not by sending out smoke signals that we are interested in its petrodollars, that we are interested in our own survival and that we see its immense power beginning to develop. [More…]
It will also be unable to resist, and will probably seek, Soviet military and economic support, fuelling super power rivalry at a time when it ought to be reduced throughout that area. [More…]
Mr Speaker, Australia strongly supports ASEAN ‘s objective of preventing domination of the region by any major power and we have a significant interest in helping to ensure that ASEAN succeeds in its efforts to generate the economic growth and political stability for which it is striving. [More…]
Both stressed the importance of nuclear power to meet their future energy needs and expressed the hope that Australia would be a future supplier of uranium to them. [More…]
We must face the fact that not only is the Middle East vital to the economy of the world but also its growing military power presents enormous risks for international peace and stability. [More…]
I have no doubt that in the annals of human endeavour the achievements of Israel will be seen as a demonstration of the power of man to overcome insurmountable problems, to achieve the right to exist and to establish a state which, in the Middle Eastern context, remains to this day one of the most unified and one of the most prosperous, despite the fact that Isreal is facing a rate of inflation of some 30 per cent, that over 40 per cent of her gross national product is directed at defence and over recent years she has had to absorb nearly 2 000 000 immigrants. [More…]
The Labor Party, after 29 years, was defeated and the Begin Government, or the Likud Government under Mr Begin, came to power. [More…]
I merely say this: I am not making this statement as a denunciation of great power politics which are all in this game. [More…]
In the conspiracies of the Labor Government of that time, the Government did everything in its power, through the medium of that report, to wipe the people in the country out of existence altogether. [More…]
Under the Land Rights Act the Legislative Assembly of the Northern Territory is empowered to make ordinances in respect of these matters. [More…]
In accordance with this power the Aboriginal Lands and Sacred Sites Bill was introduced into the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly on 3 March 1 977. [More…]
The Committee believes that the Northern Territory legislation should contain the following provisions: Power to delegate by the Land Councils,* permits to include conditions approved by traditional owners; conditions to include that a person should leave the land if requested by the traditional owners; power to revoke a permit with penalty for non-compliance; the right for a community occupying land not occupied by the traditional owners to issue permits to allow visits to that community; the traditional owner to have power to delegate; the traditional owner to give permission to enter his land in circumstances where it is not practicable to obtain permits from a Land Council; and that officials, politicians- I would prefer to use the word parliamentarians’- and police should notify in advance their intention to enter Aboriginal land. [More…]
The 1967 referendum altered that part of the Constitution to provide that the Commonwealth had the power to makelaws in respect of people of any race for whom it is deemed necessary to make special laws. [More…]
That alteration did not give the Commonwealth exclusive power to do such things, and the many people who say that it did are quite wrong. [More…]
The Minister has the power to assume the powers given to the employing authority. [More…]
That is the power this Minister is acquiring from this legislation. [More…]
I would like to quote to the House an extract from the decision of Mr Justice Sharp in the distilleries case in 1976 in which he was faced with an argument for the application of a stand-down clause in respect of employees when the employer felt that there was not enough work for the employees because of power stoppages or whatever it was. [More…]
The honourable member for Hindmarsh also tried to make it appear that under the proposed legislation the Minister would have power to sack any employee for almost any reason whatsoever. [More…]
The Minister is to have that power under clause 8 of this Bill. [More…]
It could give unilateral powers to a Minister or Ministers, the like of which as far as I know do not exist in any other piece of legislation. [More…]
It gives politicians the power to stand down public servants for no fault of their own. [More…]
Are members of the Liberal Party going to vote for legislation which gives a Minister or an authority on the instruction of a Minister, power to stand down a trade unionist when his inactivity has absolutely nothing to do with himself? [More…]
Industrial action in the port of New York, or London, or wherever, which causes trade unionists or public servants in Australia to be idle, means that they can be stood down or even dismissed because this power is given to the Minister. [More…]
A quick reading of the clause indicates to me that it gives the power to somebody to sack or stand-down a public servant after years of faithful service. [More…]
Do they say that a Minister now has the power to arbitrarily sack any individual trade union member? [More…]
This clause specifically gives the Minister power to instruct an authority. [More…]
Air traffic controllers, by the nature of their work, are in a powerful position. [More…]
But today they are wielding that power without any sense of responsibility towards their fellow Australians. [More…]
This Government will continue to bring in Bills like this giving total discretion to anyone and if Government supporters doubt how far the enormous powers contained within this legislation go they should look at clause 13 of the Bill. [More…]
This power can be delegated down to the foreman on the shop floor who would have total unfettered discretion to suspend and dismiss regardless of any conciliation or arbitration practice. [More…]
This power can be placed in the hands of anyone. [More…]
Safety is now at the mercy of any delegate of this power. [More…]
It will now have the power to dismiss anyone at all. [More…]
These arrogant trade union bosses think only of power. [More…]
We will use the power the Government has given in relation to compulsory secret ballots. [More…]
This Bill seeks to give no more power to the employer- in this case the Minister- than to any other employer in industry. [More…]
This Bill does no more than provide the Minister with the power to say to a particular unionist who is not in the Public Service providing a fair day’s work for a fair day’s pay: ‘I am prepared to stand you down because of the action you have taken. ‘ [More…]
The Minister does, however, have the power to detain any ship that is considered to be unseaworthy through a deficiency in the numbers or qualifications of the crew. [More…]
He believed passionately in a free and independent place for Australia in the world community; he believed in Australia as a great and growing power, a land of unlimited promise whose riches would serve mankind. [More…]
In doing this he challenged the power of the mining corporations and the wealthy financial institutions within this country and overseas. [More…]
This Government has now exercised 2 1 months of untrammelled power in both Houses. [More…]
The failure to index the family allowances this year means that their purchasing power has fallen by 1 3 per cent. [More…]
The Treasurer claims that the Government’s aim is to increase the power of individuals to decide how they shall spend their surplus incomes. [More…]
Using the CPI as the measure of changes in the purchasing power of money, on the most recent statistics published by the Statistician the following figures show that there has been some decline in real wages since May and June of last year. [More…]
-Few governments in Australia’s relatively short federal history have come into power with such a thoroughly unsatisfactory economic situation before them. [More…]
The strategy enunciated by the Government since it came into power is to establish sustained economic growth and the conditions which are required for that strategy are lowering inflation, reducing the Budget deficit, and keeping Budget outlays within zero real growth. [More…]
-The honourable member for Port Adelaide points out that this Government will not be in power. [More…]
Power Without Glory Certain Women [More…]
First, using the CPI as the measure of changes in the purchasing power of money, on the most recent statistics published by the Statistician the following figures show that there has been some decline in real wages since May and June of last year. [More…]
Third, we believe there is a tendency to overstate the power of the Commission to control actual wage movements. [More…]
Under this legislation power is given to the Australian Wool Corporation to negotiate freight rates. [More…]
Nevertheless, the Commission would judge, on the basis of the evidence submitted by the IWS and on its own analysis, that it seems probable that the optimal level of wool promotion is greater than the current level of expenditure and that it probably would be as large as or larger than the IWS budget of 1973-74, expressed in terms of real purchasing power. [More…]
These measures will give strength and power to the Corporation in negotiating for the industry which has suffered many setbacks in the past. [More…]
The Five Power Arrangements have succumbed as a post-colonial anachronism. [More…]
Japan has been mentioned by a number of previous speakers and, whilst it is not a member of ASEAN it is obviously the biggest noncommunist power and participated in the postASEAN summit meeting at which our Prime Minister represented Australia. [More…]
I am talking here in terms of real purchasing power as distinct from some rather obscure statistics that the captain of the Australian Labor Party keeps producing on television. [More…]
They may well look stunned because an increase of 25 per cent in power charges is absolutely unprecedented in the Commonwealth of Australia. [More…]
We had the very first generation of electric power in Australia. [More…]
The serious implications of this power increase come to the matter of unemployment. [More…]
I want to draw attention to the fact that when the Whitlam Government was in power Tasmania had the worst unemployment of any State in Australia. [More…]
Since the Fraser Government came to power Tasmania has now dropped to the third worst. [More…]
I just want to ask: Are the householders and pensioners of Tasmania to switch off their hydro power- their radiators- for 25 per cent of next year? [More…]
It is time the Government realised that it has been in power for 20 months- more than long enough to implement some of its own policies. [More…]
He was reported in the Press as having revealed that he had distributed to his colleagues a list of rural seats which had to be won by the Labor Party if it were to regain power. [More…]
It looked at both the world-wide and the local regional environmental issues associated with the mining and export of uranium: the issues of nuclear weapons proliferation and nuclear safeguards; the contribution of nuclear power to world energy requirements; the economic implications of uranium export for Australia. [More…]
On nuclear power reactors, the Inquiry concluded: [More…]
The hazards involved in the ordinary operations of nuclear power reactors, if those operations are properly regulated and controlled, are not such as to justify a decision not to mine and sell Australian uranium. [More…]
On waste disposal from nuclear power stations, the Inquiry concluded: [More…]
The proliferation of nuclear weapons was, in the Inquiry’s view, the most serious hazard associated with the nuclear power industry. [More…]
As a biologist I should have preferred that there had never been developed the military and industrial exploitation of nuclear power. [More…]
Things being as they are, nuclear power generators will be needed for the next twenty, or perhaps fifty, years in most of the developed countries, with Japan and Sweden in particular need. [More…]
One hundred and eighty-four nuclear power units are in operation in 20 countries, with a capacity of 88,000 megawatts of electricity- four times Australia’s total electrical capacity. [More…]
Many more nuclear power units are under construction or on order. [More…]
Production at these sites was exported to the United States and the United Kingdom both for defence purposes and for electric power generation. [More…]
Production and export of uranium is continuing at Mary Kathleen and to date 690 short tons of uranium oxide have been exported for electric power generation in Japan, the United States and West Germany. [More…]
At the present time 184 nuclear power units are in operation in 20 countries with a capacity of 88,000 megawatts of electricityfour times Australia’s total electricity generating capacity. [More…]
There are 2 14 nuclear power units now under construction in 27 countries. [More…]
This means 500 nuclear power units, with a total generating capacity of 381,000 megawatts, are either in operation, under construction or on firm order in 34 countries around the world. [More…]
The commitment to nuclear power is not confined to developed countries. [More…]
There are five nuclear power units in operation in developing countries, 20 under construction, six on order and 60 planned. [More…]
Annual uranium requirements necessary to satisfy the projected growth in nuclear power are about 90,000 short tons of uranium oxide in 1985, 140,000 short tons in 1990 and 200,000 short tons in the year 2000. [More…]
The fact that nuclear energy usage for electric power generation has proceeded in other countries without access to Australian uranium, and will continue, in no way relieves Australia of its responsibilities as an energy rich nation. [More…]
In a joint statement issued at the conclusion of the Australian Minerals and Energy Council meeting in Adelaide on Friday 19 August 1977, the Victorian Minister for Mines, Fuel and Power, the New South Wales Minister for Mines and Energy and I announced that, assuming that a number of outstanding questions which remain to be clarified can be resolved satisfactorily, the Commonwealth and the governments of New South Wales and Victoria would be prepared to finance the other half of the cost of a feasibility study on an equitable basis, with an upper limit of $1.5m. [More…]
The second finding of the Ranger Inquiry was that the hazards involved in the ordinary operations of nuclear power reactors, if properly controlled and regulated, are not such as to justify a decision not to mine and sell Australian uranium. [More…]
The responsibility for disposing, in an environmentally responsible manner, of waste arising from nuclear power generation in countries abroad, is a matter for those countries which generate electricity by nuclear means. [More…]
I mention in passing that I noted with very much pleasure that the Prices Justification Tribunal has told the Minister responsible- not the Minister for Post and Telecommunications at the table- that the Government did not have the power to intervene in the hearing and that the PJT was on the right track in carrying out the sort of inquiry that it was undertaking. [More…]
The decision commits Australia to the renewed export of uranium regardless of the contribution of the nuclear power industry to the proliferation of nuclear weapons and the risk of nuclear war. [More…]
The nuclear power industry is unintentionally contributing to an increased risk of nuclear war. [More…]
The responsibility for disposing, in an environmentally responsible manner, of wastes arising from nuclear power generation in countries abroad is a matter For those countries which generate electricity by nuclear means. [More…]
Further, our policy refers to the unresolved problems associated with the mining of uranium and the development of nuclear power. [More…]
The nuclear power industry is unintentionally contributing to an increased risk of nuclear war. [More…]
Every fast breeder needs at least five tonnes of plutonium for its core in order to begin power generation. [More…]
I want to raise one other important matter- to me it is the most important matter- about the debate over nuclear power and over the choice of resources that might be developed to give us power. [More…]
We know that power is essential. [More…]
We saw in the United States recently when blackouts occurred and power was not available what harm can be wreaked upon our society. [More…]
We know that power is essential and has to be provided if we are to be able to maintain law and order and the sort of society that we and other nations now enjoy. [More…]
It attempts to evaluate the nuclear power cycle as against, say, coal. [More…]
But in fact the decision to export has been a foregone conclusion ever since the Fraser Government came to power. [More…]
The consequences of nuclear power are global. [More…]
The Labor Party national platform makes it clear that there should be no commitment of Australia’s uranium deposits to the world’s nuclear fuel cycle until the problems of the proliferation of nuclear weapons and the disposal of highly radioactive wastes from nuclear power plants have been solved. [More…]
The Labor Party policy in government was developed before Australians had the benefit of information contained in those reports which outlined the hazards of nuclear power and the need for proper and adequate methods of control of these hazards. [More…]
It is pertinent that the nuclear power industry has been ongoing as a commercial industry for over 25 years and yet there are no adequate safeguards to prevent the proliferation of weapons nor are there adequate waste disposal techniques. [More…]
The responsibility Tor disposing, in an environmentally responsible manner of waste arising from nuclear power generation in countries abroad, is a matter for those countries which generate electricity by nuclear means. [More…]
Further evidence of the Fraser’s Government’s failure to come to grips with the immense problems associated with nuclear power development is contained in the policy with regard to the development of uranium mines. [More…]
As uranium will be only a bridge between fossil fuels and new technologies, such as fusion power and solar power, it will be necessary for substantial funding in the coming years for research into new energy areas. [More…]
Funds must be made available now, and they can be made available by a properly imposed resource tax on the excess profit situation arising from the crude oil policy or the export of coking coal, for research and development into alternative energy sources, in particular solar power. [More…]
Australia’s decision on uranium, announced today will help to secure the benefits of nuclear power for the nations of the world. [More…]
We have reached a point of no return along the course of nuclear evolution, bearing in mind the benefits of nuclear power and the risk that expanded use may cause increased proliferation. [More…]
The peoples of the world, poor and wealthy, want more and more power to increase their standards of living. [More…]
Uranium mining and nuclear power generation are demonstrably safe by any reasonable standards. [More…]
Already 160 nuclear power stations are operating and after 2,000 power station years of operation there has not been a single death or injury to the public at large. [More…]
Indeed, 180 new nuclear power stations are being built currently and another 160 are on order. [More…]
By the year 2000 nearly 50 per cent of all electricity generated in the world will be from nuclear power stations. [More…]
There has been some debate on the safety of nuclear power stations. [More…]
The world’s first nuclear power station was opened by Her Majesty the Queen at Calder Hall in the United Kingdom in 1956. [More…]
One hundred and sixty power stations fueled by uranium are now operating in 24 countries. [More…]
These have acquired a total of 2,000 years of nuclear power station operation without there being a single death or injury to the public at large. [More…]
Similarly although no one can say that there will never be a serious accident at some time in the future in a nuclear power station, the probability is very small in as much as a person has 20 times as big a chance of being killed by lightening. [More…]
In fact nuclear power stations have proved so safe that certain insurance companies in the United States lowered their rates by 20 per cent from 1 January 1975 because on their account there had been no claims for injury or damage to the public or to property. [More…]
In weighing the overall health hazard presented by nuclear reactors it is appropriate to compare nuclear plants with coal burning power plants. [More…]
Adverse health effects from coal power are greater than those from nuclear power. [More…]
Fossil fuel power stations pollute the atmosphere far more than do nuclear reactors. [More…]
Having said that, I believe that a much more substantial influence when considering this issue is the defectiveness of safeguards in relation to re-processing, storage and disposal of waste from nuclear power generation units and the very clear possibility that waste products from nuclear power generation units can be misappropriated and used in the proliferation of nuclear weaponry. [More…]
For instance, at the present time Switzerland generates about 17 per cent of its electricity requirements from nuclear power generation, Belgium 15 per cent, the United Kingdom 10 per cent, the United States 8 per cent, and so on. [More…]
The fact is that at the present time nuclear power generation does make a significant contribution to total power generation requirements. [More…]
Accordingly we will be making a contribution through that commitment to the maintenance of the level of power generation by some of the countries which I have mentioned. [More…]
Wind power and tidal power have quite daunting problems associated with them. [More…]
One of course is the mining of uranium in Australia; one is the possible use of nuclear power in Australia; and the other is what happens if Australia is used for the storage of nuclear waste. [More…]
Australia has little need for the use of nuclear power plants simply because we are blessed with an abundance of coal. [More…]
When we talk about the abundance of coal in Australia it is rather interesting to note the fact that because of this abundance of coal throughout the eastern States it would be uneconomical for nuclear power stations ever to be used. [More…]
At the present time 184 nuclear power plants are in operation in 20 countries- [More…]
The Deputy Prime Minister goes on to say, when dealing with this program of nuclear power stations: [More…]
There are 214 nuclear power units now under construction. [More…]
This will expand the number of countries with nuclear power stations to twenty-seven. [More…]
There is a vast number of nuclear power stations operating and under construction. [More…]
I guess that, in terms of the world’s reserves of uranium, although Australia is an important supplier of uranium, had we made a decision not to mine uranium, it would have had no effect whatsoever on the world’s use of and projection into nuclear power stations. [More…]
An egg cup full of uranium has about the same energy power as 10 semi-trailer loads of coal. [More…]
We are exposed daily to hundreds of activities with many times greater risks and danger than nuclear power. [More…]
We are talking about the nuclear power industry. [More…]
The nuclear power industry is about nuclear power stations for the generation of electric energy, to light and power homes and to provide power for industry. [More…]
Nuclear power stations differ from conventional power stations only in this respect: The uranium reaction generates the heat which boils the water which provides the steam which drives the turbines which create the electricity. [More…]
In so-called conventional power stations the burning of fossil fuels such as coal or oil provide this heat, otherwise things are the same. [More…]
The nuclear power industry is part of the stuff of everyday life in the United States, the United Kingdom and Europe. [More…]
As other speakers have pointed out, about 10 per cent of America’s electric power is produced this way from 59 commercial nuclear power stations scattered around the country. [More…]
It is anticipated that the amount of electric power produced by nuclear power stations in the United States will increase to about 20 per cent in 1985 and will reach as high as 50 per cent by the year 2000. [More…]
The proportion of Switzerland ‘s electric power which is generated by nuclear power stations is about 1 8 per cent. [More…]
In the United Kingdom, it is 10 per cent, from 11 power stations and in Japan, it is 8 per cent from 12 power stations. [More…]
In the developing world, it is 5 per cent in Pakistan and in India it is 3 per cent from three power stations. [More…]
What I am underlining- I hope it will not be thought that 1 am labouring the obvious- is that this debate is not about a new thing that may or may not come to be but is about an already important, growing and, indeed, essential source for meeting the world’s ever-increasing requirements of energy; in the industrial West, in Japan where nuclear power is especially important because of the minimal power resources of that country and, as I stress again, to meet the energy requirements of the developing countries and especially the non-oil producing developing countries. [More…]
The world development of nuclear power as an alternative energy source acts as a restraint on the further increase of oil prices. [More…]
In this way the developing countries benefit whether or not they themselves enter into nuclear power for electricity generation. [More…]
Equally, in the long term, new energy sources, particularly fusion and solar power, will emerge. [More…]
However, these are still only ‘promised’ at this time, whereas nuclear power is a proven and viable energy source. [More…]
Of course, these essentially economic advantages for the world community of nations as well as Australia have to be balanced against the noneconomic problems and risks associated with the nuclear power industry. [More…]
Of the problems and risks associated with the nuclear power industry, the most serious, the dominant, is the problem of containing the proliferation of nuclear weapons and thus the horrific threat of nuclear war. [More…]
The essential point, as I have stressed previously, is that the nuclear power industry is already established throughout the world on a very large scale and is here to stay. [More…]
As previous speakers have pointed out, there are at this present time 184 nuclear power stations in operation in 20 countries. [More…]
There are 214 power units under construction and a further 102 on order. [More…]
That makes a total of 500 nuclear power units in operation, under construction or on order in 34 countries around the world, including, as I said previously, developing countries. [More…]
In the context of this established global nuclear power industry Australia, as the possessor of 20 per cent of the world’s low grade uranium, has a manifest responsibility to contribute to the very substantial quantities of uranium needed to fuel the industry. [More…]
If the containment of the proliferation of nuclear weapons is the overriding concern to be balanced against the advantages of the development of the nuclear power industry, perhaps the second major difficulty is the issue of the safe disposal of radioactive waste. [More…]
I repeat, I do not pre -judge any of these issues- I merely say that as a concerned Australian, I believe I have now a clear moral duty to do everything in my power to ascertain the true facts and to publicly reveal them. [More…]
The important point about white collar crime is that the police and the inspectorial authorities should have better facilities rather than more power. [More…]
If anything, we should apply to the Portuguese Embassy for a visa to enter East Timor because as far as this Government is concerned the Indonesian Government has no power to grant visas ‘o persons to visit East Timor. [More…]
The decision on costs is understood to have been made by Cabinet- a departure from the usual practice in such cases, where the Attorney-General makes his decision alone, in the exercise of his power as first law officer of the Crown rather than as a minister. [More…]
I am glad that the honourable member asked about the honourable member for Corio, because it was during the debate which he instigated the week before last that we were told that he had been reported in the Press as having distributed to his colleagues a list of rural seats which had to be won by the Australian Labor Party if it were to regain power. [More…]
It is an attempt to win power; let us not mistake it. [More…]
Not even in the 1930s did the conservative parties use all the weapons of fiscal policy to assert the interests of their class and the power elite which supports it. [More…]
More than 20,000 workers have been forced out of the industry during the 18 months that the coalition has been in power. [More…]
Family income would need to rise by $9 a week to restore the purchasing power of the 1 976-77 income to the level of 1975-76. [More…]
The Budget is the most transparent move in an otherwise largely unnoticed redistribution of wealth which has been going on since Mr Fraser came into power … [More…]
He has set himself a target of sharply changing the balance of power in our society by diminishing the power of the unions and setting out to redistribute the national wealth up the salary scale to those who he believes are the productive members of society. [More…]
Radio-active wastes derive from the fission process in nuclear power plants which produces split atoms and releases neutrons. [More…]
The core of the modern nuclear power plant contains several hundred tons of nuclear fuel, about one-third of which is replaced each year. [More…]
It has been estimated that by the year 2000 all civilian nuclear power wastes together from the United States would fit into a single solid cube of 60 feet on an edge. [More…]
Another point made by the opponents of nuclear power is that plutonium may be dispersed by terrorists. [More…]
‘Plutonium’ has become an emotionally charged word used by the opponents of nuclear power to trigger fear in the public mind. [More…]
I was taken to one of the nuclear power stations at a place called Latina, south of Rome. [More…]
We support the scientific conclusions that the problem of both short and long term safeguards in the use of uranium for power are being met with the development of science in relation to use and control of uranium. [More…]
We looked to the Fox report for advice on the issue of nuclear weapons proliferation, nuclear safeguards and waste disposal, and the role of nuclear power in meeting future world energy requirements. [More…]
On nuclear power reactors the inquiry concluded: [More…]
The hazards involved in the ordinary operations of nuclear power reactors, if those operations are properly regulated and controlled, are not such as to justify a decision not to mine and sell Australian uranium. [More…]
On waste disposal from nuclear power stations the inquiry concluded: [More…]
This proliferation of nuclear weapons was in the inquiry’s view the most serious hazard associated with the nuclear power industry. [More…]
Despite the fact that Japan will build another 29 nuclear power stations by 1985 and given the escalation in her energy requirements by that time it is projected that Japan will still be 65 per cent dependent on Middle East oil in 1985. [More…]
I can only envy Australia ‘s good fortune in having no need for nuclear power until the 1990s or later. [More…]
With application of the best current techniques to ensure safety for the workers, environment protection, regard for Aboriginal land rights, and an obligation to rehabilitate areas damaged by mining, one can accept the (Fox) report’s conclusion that there is no adequate reason why Australian uranium should not be mined and supplied at the world price to those countries that have elected to develop nuclear power and can be trusted. [More…]
At that stage, I suppose, most of us thought: Power, yes; nuclear weapons, no. [More…]
It could happen if we turned all the wit, wisdom and will power to the problem and we applied ourselves to it over some time, and we gave the Aboriginal people the real opportunity to take the advantages of modern society in such a way that their younger people were in employment, that enough of their own people could handle the social situations that develop. [More…]
For all practical purposes solar power is being ignored in this country. [More…]
Of course, all sorts of difficulties are involved, but if we spent as much money on the development of solar power as we do on research into nuclear energy I am sure we would produce a much more satisfactory result. [More…]
One source of power which the world has basically ignored, except in odd spots like Holland with its windmills and except for the windmills on Australian farms and the windlight system which people use to produce electricity on homesteads around the world, is the wind. [More…]
I am not suggesting that we should go back to the use of sailing ships, but I shall just give an illustration of the power of wind. [More…]
If one goes to the publication Janes Fighting Ships to see what kind of power is needed to send a ship through the water at that pace for that length of time one finds that, say, the destroyer Vendetta with 51,000 shaft horsepower takes about 100 tonnes of fuel a day. [More…]
Another development going on around the world is an attempt to find a more economic use of the power that we have. [More…]
These were replaced by 10 machines using the power that perhaps sixteen of the previous machines used. [More…]
So only about 10 per cent of the power that was required originally was required for the same output. [More…]
Over that lengthy period of time there has been a great and continuing debate throughout many countries about the issue of nuclear power. [More…]
Japan is interested in moving into nuclear power and enriched fuel. [More…]
As a result, 34 countries now either already have or are about to have 500 nuclear power units, with a total electricity production capacity 20 times that of Australia’s capacity. [More…]
Many of these countries already rely significantly on nuclear power for their electricity generation- for example, Switzerland, 1 8 to 20 per cent; West Germany, 1 5 per cent; Sweden, 13 per cent; Britain 10 per cent; the United States, 9 per cent; and Japan, 8 per cent. [More…]
Therefore, the nuclear powered electricity generation industry is already a well established industry in many countries. [More…]
At the moment we are not talking about acquiring our own nuclear reactors and using nuclear power to generate our own electricity, although I believe that in time we may well need to give and should give careful consideration to these aspects. [More…]
That alone would impose immense strain on our balance of payments if we did not do all in our power to increase our export income. [More…]
The risk of proliferation of nuclear weapons appears to be the major risk in the future development of nuclear power. [More…]
If that Government had remained in power after 1972 it would have entered into as many contracts as it could have. [More…]
If one looks at world power politics one will see clearly that most of the super powers are interested in nuclear energy, nuclear fission and nuclear bombs because that gives them added muscle. [More…]
All of them would be prepared to say that we would be better off without nuclear power but not one is prepared to say that it will be the first. [More…]
There should be no commitment to a large program of nuclear fission power until it has been demonstrated beyond reasonable doubt that a method exists to ensure the safe containment of long-lived highly radioactive waste for the indefinite future. [More…]
The abandonment of nuclear fission power would, however, be neither wise nor justified. [More…]
But a major commitment to fission power and a plutonium economy should be postponed for as long as possible. [More…]
The question of the safe disposal of the waste products of the generation of nuclear power for peaceful purposes does not now arise in Australia. [More…]
There is one other factor relating to plutonium and to world power. [More…]
In the main they are the ones who are very interested in nuclear power and our ability to supply uranium. [More…]
Let me go back to the Flowers report to the United Kingdom Parliament in September 1976 which said that this is the greatest danger which the world faces; yet if a country is short of power it should by all means maximise the production to 60 per cent instead of achieving the normal low usage from natural uranium. [More…]
I draw his attention to the fact that this Act is based on the defence power. [More…]
The Atomic Energy Act is related to defence and the defence power is where it can be based. [More…]
If honourable members look at the provisions of section 17(4), section 34, section 41 and section 44 they will find that all of them are based on the defence power and all of them say that the Act can be used only for the purposes of the defence of the Commonwealth and no other purpose. [More…]
Tonight we are here debating whether the Commonwealth has power to do this. [More…]
In my view it has no such power and this matter should be the subject of challenge in the High Court. [More…]
The reality of this power problem which the world is facing has made the modern world realise that we must be prepared to utilise whatever means are at our disposal to encourage the development of alternative sources of energy so that industry, and people may be better able to develop not only in Australia but throughout the world. [More…]
The reality of the situation is that uranium has been mined in Australia since 1958 and for at least the last two decades uranium power has been a viable source of energy, particularly in western Europe, the United States of America and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. [More…]
I seek leave to incorporate in Hansard a table showing a forecast of world nuclear power capacity. [More…]
-Much has been made by speakers on the Government side of the fact that the Labor Government, when it was in power, agreed to and sought to promote the export of uranium. [More…]
The facts of the early 1960s and the facts of the early 1970s about uranium and the nuclear power industry are no longer the facts in the late 1 970s. [More…]
One of the signatories to the letter noted from his attendance at the 1975 Review Conference of the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty that it was only the affluent developing countries which evinced any real interest m nuclear power. [More…]
To keep power stations operating both efficiently and safely requires considerable finance and technical ability. [More…]
Another harrowing possibility to consider is whether, if in Pakistan- I withdraw that reference to Pakistan because I do not want to pick on that country- or in the poor developing countries where there is social unrest, and we have seen so many examples of this that this is not a low possibility but a high probability, there was some guerrilla activity and insurgency, the rebels would respect the technicians running the power plant- they obviously would not respect the government- or would line them up against the wall and shoot them because they were seen as instruments of the government which the rebels were opposing. [More…]
In assessing the benefits and hazards of nuclear power, one of the more important things we had to determine for ourselves was the risk of diversion of plutonium from power reactors for use in nuclear bombs. [More…]
We had to obtain additional evidence on this subject and did so, finally concluding that ‘the evidence points strongly to the conclusion that very destructive nuclear explosive devices can be made from reactor grade plutonium produced in power reactors operated normally. [More…]
But that is true also concerning other sources of power such as fossil fuels or anything of that nature. [More…]
I would hope that the Leader of the Opposition rather than fight this case through national television would do everything in his power to ensure it is brought on. [More…]
Also he accuses this Government of being committed to the export of uranium regardless of the contribution the nuclear power industry can make to the proliferation of nuclear weapons and the risk of nuclear war. [More…]
The Opposition’s attitude is surprising in view of the fact that communist countries have a commitment to nuclear power, Russia and China are now in the nuclear energy business. [More…]
Uranium and the development of nuclear power stations was an issue at that election. [More…]
How do they explain away the development in West Germany, one of the most industrialised nations, of the campaign against continued use of nuclear power? [More…]
The Labor Party does not hold the power in that country. [More…]
The responsibility for disposing, in an environmentally responsible manner, of waste arising from nuclear power generation in countries abroad, is a matter for those countries which generate electricity by nuclear means. [More…]
There are 11 nuclear power stations in Japan, only three of which are operative. [More…]
The fact is that nuclear power is essential during the next few decades at least. [More…]
The Minister overlooked the fact that the very dangerous by-product of the use of uranium for power production is plutonium, which becomes the core for nuclear weapons. [More…]
It seems to me, from all I have read and from all I have heard, even with the unbiased mind that I have on the question, that the use of enriched uranium for the production of power or for any other purpose will create far greater environmental problems than the use of coal. [More…]
I think every person who drives a power turbine anywhere must have been included and regarded as being employed because somebody was mining uranium in Australia. [More…]
On the other hand, the wrongful use of nuclear power could in its own way also lead to war. [More…]
We are told that we will not have nuclear power in this country. [More…]
The reality is that throughout the industrialised countries nuclear power programs are being cut back. [More…]
This is happening for two reasons, the first being that a growing number of citizens are opposed to nuclear power in those countries. [More…]
The opposition in Germany has become so important that the Social Democratic Government will soon announce a moratorium on nuclear power station construction. [More…]
Secondly, there is the uneconomic nature of nuclear power. [More…]
The reduction in nuclear power programs can be seen in figures illustrating nuclear capacity in the member countries of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development in 1985. [More…]
Needless to say, Teller convinced me then, and he convinces me now, of the absolute necessity to develop nuclear power as a help to mankind in its ceaseless struggle against nature. [More…]
The last 20 years of safety in the nuclear industry show the enormous benefits that nuclear power has been able to bring, and they show also why it is that nuclear power needs our uranium. [More…]
On nuclear weapons proliferation, he said much the same thing: … a total renunciation of intention to supply designed to bring an end to all nuclear power industries or all further development of them would in our view be likely to fail totally in its purpose, if the purpose were simply to draw international attention to the dangers of and associated with the industry, that purpose might be achieved, but it is most unlikely that any worthwhile action would result. [More…]
A hundred years ago the major sources of energy were coal and wood with some hydro power. [More…]
Those optimists who talk about solar energy, tidal power and harnessing waves are kidding themselves. [More…]
There are enormous power stations in every country. [More…]
If the world is to depend on nuclear power stationsthere are enormous increases in these- we are in the market to supply them with the fuel. [More…]
This Government intends to supply half of these reserves, 250,000 tonnes, to world countries for power generation by the end of this century. [More…]
exports of steaming coal by Australia could minimise any fuel shortage which would otherwise arise if other countries decide to reduce their reliance on nuclear power below present expectations. [More…]
For these two fuels- coal and uranium- in a head to head competition for the electric utility market governmental power is critical. [More…]
Costs of nuclear and coal electric power generation are close enough and uncertain enough that they might be considered substantially the same. [More…]
A principal worry among mining companies is that the requirement to treat vast amounts of ash and noxious gases can add up to 25 per cent to capital costs of new power plants. [More…]
Some 500 nuclear electricity power stations are now operating. [More…]
It is estimated that by the year 2000 there could be 2,000 such power stations. [More…]
The truth is that nuclear energy is the safest and cleanest method of producing electric power yet devised by man. [More…]
The truth is that nuclear energy is the safest and cleanest form of power yet devised and those who are saying to the contrary are either ignorant or badly motivated. [More…]
What is not said is that the program for nuclear power adds nothing at all to that danger, which is a dreadful danger and already exists. [More…]
But are we to deny those countries the power to go ahead and the energy which alone can allow them to raise their living standards? [More…]
Let us try to develop these sources by every means in our power, whether the source be solar energy, geothermal energy or whatever it may be. [More…]
I would like to speak very briefly about the oil position because this is a crucial matter particularly since many of those countries which depend on oil are looking for nuclear power as the only possible substitute. [More…]
The first one is: Why has there been this world wide orchestration of opposition to nuclear power? [More…]
He said that this is a foul communist plot designed to immobilise the Western world so that the Soviet Union can forge ahead with ample power while we will have no power at all. [More…]
He told us eloquently how there had to be a shift from the present sources of energy and of power to the utilisation of nuclear energy and nuclear power. [More…]
In all the statements which were made in Perth and from the statements which have been made subsequent to the Perth meeting it is quite clear that the ban on uranium mining and upon the development of nuclear power was to be long term and was to be permanent. [More…]
Nothing new has been stated in opposition to uranium mining which was not also stated in opposition to the development of coal mining, that other source of energy and power. [More…]
This was so beautifully and clearly pointed out by the honourable member for Hawker when he said that uranium mining, the development of nuclear power and the use of uranium as a source of power in Nigeria just had to be, otherwise Nigeria would have gone back to a camel economy. [More…]
They have made charges that all the energy needed can be developed by means of solar power and that we do not need to mine uranium to develop power. [More…]
It is quite clear that all the high level waste in the world from the weapons program is greater than all the high level waste that could possibly be adduced from all the generation of power projected for the world between now and the end of the century. [More…]
The background paper titled ‘Health and Safety Aspects of Nuclear Power Generation’ which was published with the documents outlining the Government’s decisions quotes from the British Royal Commission on Environmental Pollutionthe Flowers Commission. [More…]
We believe that a quite inadequate effort has been devoted to the problems of longterm waste management, and that there should be no substantial expansion of nuclear power until the feasibility of a method of safe disposal of high level wastes for the indefinite future has been established beyond reasonable doubt. [More…]
The FDP main federal committee decided several weeks ago that building permission for atomic power stations should be refused until permission had been granted for the first stage of building for an atomic waste re-processing plant. [More…]
The argument then that nuclear power is necessary because the poor need energy for lighting, heating, industrial uses and transport looks like a balm to uneasy consciences when it is realised that nuclear power cannot serve vast and scattered rural populations because the prior demands of privileged elites and of urban skilled work forces in poor countries are locked into the existing political power systems. [More…]
Japan is interested in moving into nuclear power and enriched fuel. [More…]
It is interesting to note what Sir Brian Flowers, Chairman of the United Kingdom Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution, said in a report on the nuclear power industry published last September. [More…]
The development of reactors to harness nuclear energy for the generation of electrical power stemmed directly from the weapons programs. [More…]
Sir Brian went on to say that in many people’s minds these historical facts are sufficient to make the whole concept of nuclear power deeply distasteful. [More…]
He has stated clearly that attitudes related to nuclear power tend to be emotional rather than rational. [More…]
Why have 40 nations with nuclear power programs demanded uranium? [More…]
Forty nations with a total population of 2,000 million people have announced nuclear power programs. [More…]
China is reported to have announced its intention to develop nuclear power for peaceful use. [More…]
Why have 40 nations throughout the world decided upon nuclear power programs? [More…]
We in Australia owe our high standard of living largely to the fact that we have extensive resources of cheap fuel- coal, natural gas and limited quantities of petroleum- to produce our power and energy needs. [More…]
Prior to 1973 about 25 nations had embarked on nuclear power programs. [More…]
The United Kingdom has been using nuclear power since the early 1950s. [More…]
By 1975, 34 countries had announced nuclear power programs. [More…]
In 1976 Cuba, Peru and New Caledonia, to name a few, also announced plans for nuclear power. [More…]
By 1976 the 20-year old nuclear power industry throughout the world had installed a capacity of nuclear power stations four times the total of all power stations in Australia or 40 times the capacity of Western Australian power plants. [More…]
To sum up, currently more than 40 nations with 2,000 million people have decided that they need nuclear power and will need uranium to fuel their stations. [More…]
Egypt is already committed to nuclear power. [More…]
The facts are that the bulk of the terror countries that are being held over our heads as countries that present a threat to us either already produce immense amounts of uranium or are already well and truly committed to programs of nuclear power. [More…]
Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics already have major nuclear power plants in operation while Hungary, Poland, Rumania and Yugoslavia have a commitment to nuclear power and are proceeding with that commitment. [More…]
For heaven’s sake, are we to influence the Western World not to proceed with this major source of power while we have no impact whatsoever in moral or any other terms with the Eastern Bloc? [More…]
This kind of motion follows clearly the similar pattern of terror that we find throughout the cynical campaign against uranium power. [More…]
I found it fascinating that the honourable member for Grayndler (Mr Antony Whitlam) should have said that this Government’s policy of proceeding with the supply of uranium for nuclear power purposes will do nothing to benefit the underdeveloped nations of this world. [More…]
We have also had church groups writing and attacking our side for having raised the point that the Third World clearly will benefit, not directly but indirectly in terms of the price of their fuel, as a result of the Western world going nuclear and as a result of Australia providing a cheaper source of uranium for nuclear power stations than would otherwise be available. [More…]
There is no suggestion that we should set up nuclear power stations in this country. [More…]
A minor point which has been raised- I think by the honourable member for Grayndler (Mr Antony Whitlam) and others- is that uranium and nuclear power are not of great importance to Third World countries. [More…]
It is unlikely that many of the undeveloped countries will use nuclear power generation. [More…]
If the Western world shifts emphasis to nuclear power that will release other fossil fuel sources- oil and coal- for use by the undeveloped world. [More…]
If Japan forgoes its present nuclear power generation program the immediate effect will be a rapid rise in the price of coal. [More…]
But there are some problems associated with nuclear power generation as the honourable member for Hotham (Mr Chipp) and others have mentioned. [More…]
Three of the nuclear powers- China, France and India- are not members. [More…]
By the way, it is most unlikely that terrorists will be capable of raiding a nuclear power station, carrying away spent fuel rods which weigh about 20 tons, setting up their own processing plant at a cost of about $3 billion and making themselves a nuclear weapon. [More…]
Again, there are problems concerned with nuclear power stations. [More…]
What the average person receives from all existing nuclear power stations amounts to less than 0.06. [More…]
As the honourable member for Hotham says, one can say that 0.06 from all existing nuclear power stations when compared with 1,000 from normal background radiation is virtually nothing. [More…]
There is also a minor problem locally from the nuclear power stations. [More…]
These stations have been exhaustively examined and suffice it to say that a person living alongside a nuclear power station- which, by the way, is a local risk and there is no intention of setting them up herewould be 200 times as likely to be killed by a thunderbolt as he would by any radiation from that station. [More…]
All the waste from all American nuclear power stations could be stored in this chamber. [More…]
One thing we must bear in mind is that if we become an exporter of uranium we will have the power, in association with other exporters, to impose on the users of uranium proper standards for the disposal of their waste so that in the disposal of that waste they do not affect others. [More…]
I submit that the decision whether to use nuclear power is a local decision, to be made by the local community based on its assessment of the risk and the advantages to that community. [More…]
We have no moral, economic or social right to try to impose on other countries the system of power generation they should use, provided they do not affect other countries by their use of that power. [More…]
The three moral questions that we must ask are these: Firstly, have we the right to impose on other countries or attempt to impose on other countries the system of power generation which they should use, provided that the use of the power-generating material does not affect other countries? [More…]
Ultimately they will run out, and ultimately we will make a difference as to whether they will have nuclear power. [More…]
Many countries already have gone nuclear in their power generation programs. [More…]
As a biologist I should have preferred that there had never been developed the military and industrial exploitation of nuclear power. [More…]
Things being as they are, nuclear power generators will be needed for the next twenty, or perhaps fifty, years in most of the developed countries, with Japan and Sweden in particular need. [More…]
They are countries which have made a decision to develop a nuclear power generating program on grounds that are not necessarily relevant to Australian minds but are very relevant to the circumstances faced by those countries. [More…]
Let me outline two factors which were obviously very influential in the decisions which Japan has made over a number of years to develop a significant capacity to generate electricity from nuclear power generators. [More…]
Therefore it is Japan’s resolve to develop a significant proportion of her electricity power generating capacity from nuclear sources. [More…]
Japan believes that if she has some part of that capacity supplied from nuclear sources, some from furnaces fuelled by fossil fuels and some from hydro-electric power, and then tries to diversify the sources of supply of uranium and of the fossil fuels as far as possible she will have provided the greatest possible guarantee against disruption to the sources of supply of any one of those fuels from any one part of the world. [More…]
So clearly the generation of power from nuclear sources is an important part of Japan’s policy to remain self-reliant and to insulate herself from troubles in the rest of the world. [More…]
A second reason for Japan favouring a nuclear power generation program is an environmental one. [More…]
In the context of that problem it sees nuclear power generation as offering a great advantage because furnaces which are fuelled by fossil fuels- by oil and by coal- have the disadvantage of adding enormously to the air pollution problem, an enormous problem in a small country geographically, such as Japan is, with such a huge population. [More…]
So Japan is a very good example of a country which has made a decision to go nuclear in her power generation program for reasons which are very good to that country. [More…]
We believe that a quite inadequate effort has been devoted to the problems of long term waste management and that there should be no substantial expansion of nuclear power until the feasability of a method of safe disposal of high level wastes for the indefinite future has been established beyond reasonable doubt. [More…]
I call upon the Federal Government to correct forthwith this anomaly by amending section 2 1 giving the Minister discretionary power to preclude payment of benefits for services rendered by persons such as Mr Brych. [More…]
In fact, last year when the Ombudsman Bill first came on for debate in the Budget sittings the honourable member referred extensively to the power of deportation and to the rights of migrants under the proposed legislation. [More…]
In that case the Chief Justice said he expressed the view in the case of Mr Salemi that the power to order deportation under section 18 is not qualified by the necessity to afford a prohibited immigrant natural justice. [More…]
If a Minister has a power that does not have to be exercised subject to considerations of natural justice it is a particularly grave power. [More…]
I feel that it is within your power and scope to allow Mr Salemi to stay here for another twelve to fifteen months at least, and I can assure you that if we could find a replacement for him he would leave long before then. [More…]
Why is it that in an instance such as this the Minister must exercise power rather than common sense? [More…]
Provision of extensive aircraft pavements and taxiways, a fire detection and protection system, additional water reticulation service and a central emergency power house is also proposed. [More…]
The Commonwealth and the Reserve Bank already have the power to do this, and nothing more would be necessary than to overhaul the machinery and to see that it was in working order. [More…]
It also made recommendations in regard to assisting an aged persons program within the ethnic communities; long term accommodation facilities for single migrants with particular reference to single girls of all ages; power to local government authorities to control rent levels including amounts requested to be paid in advance as bond or rent; Federal and State housing departments ensuring an adequate supply of rental housing in cities like Melbourne and Sydney because of the desperate need of new migrants and others; and a review of regulations covering Commonwealth hostels and flats to enable them to be used for accommodating migrants encountering difficulties at any stage of their re-settlement. [More…]
In other words the economic price of power was constantly being increased. [More…]
It appears at page5 of the paper headed ‘Health and Safety Aspects of Nuclear Power Generation’ and at page 4 of the document ‘UraniumYour Questions Answered’. [More…]
The Commission goes on to recommend that there should be no commitment to fission power on a massive scale until at least one method for safe isolation has been demonstrated beyond reasonable doubt. [More…]
In other parts of the Flowers report, indicating a view very similar to that indicated in the Fox report, the Commission had indicated that the present state of knowledge certainly was not one which should cause people to put aside the further development of” nuclear power for peaceful purposes. [More…]
In the 1976-77 Budget Medibank was slashed by $450m; health services were doubled; programmed expenditure on four education commissions was reduced by $172m; tuition fees for second and higher degrees were reintroduced; taxing of social security pensions and benefits was introduced; grants for senior citizens centres were terminated; expenditure on sickness and unemployment benefits was cut by $33m; subsidies for aged persons homes were reduced by SO per cent; funding for the Australian Assistance Plan was completely withdrawn; funding for the Aboriginal people was cut by 30 per cent in real terms; the Labor Government’s programs for urban and regional development were virtually destroyed; funds for the school dental service were frozen; the legal aid service was strangled before it had a chance to function; child care services were savagely cut back, and despite all these cuts in government expenditure, taxes were also increased by 25 per cent and the Government did everything in its power to curb wage increases, with the result that over the year average wages fell by $ 1 1 .50 a week. [More…]
Despite the problems of the building industry there are irresponsible individuals whom we all deplore, who would hold the industry to ransom, who would prevent people from working, who would stop people with families from earning a weekly wage because they wish to establish their position of power. [More…]
The economic strategy in the propaganda of the then Opposition, now imposed on Fraser and Lynch in government, is now being seen for what it was- a divisory tactic designed not to revive the economy but merely to legitimatise their seizure of power. [More…]
Power without policy is what the Australian economy and the Australian people are suffering from. [More…]
Of course, the Opposition says that since we have been in power things have not improved. [More…]
He mentioned how disastrous it has been since we have been in power. [More…]
We have been in power almost two years and unfortunately unemployment has increased by one per cent. [More…]
Since this Government came to power there has been a 30 per cent rise in unemployment and there is no end to this rise in sight. [More…]
When this Government came into power the country had gone through what would be described as a new experience. [More…]
When Chifley went out of power every earned dollar that went into an Australian household had to surrender only 28c of that dollar to government. [More…]
When the Opposition was in power any worker on average earnings who was working and decided to take an extra day’s overtime was up for $35 to $40 a day in tax. [More…]
In this country government sources supply nearly all of the power. [More…]
Philip Lynch and Malcolm Fraser came to power on a promise of real tax reform. [More…]
Labor Party’s time in power that on the New York securities and capital markets Australia became for the first time a triple A rated borrower. [More…]
This Government has been on a consistent course since it came to power. [More…]
The pomp of power and the talk of princes cease, [More…]
It is very easy for people to make policy about these particular matters when they know that irrespective of whatever policy they make their homes will be heated, the lights in their homes will still be lit and that there will be power for the factories in which they work. [More…]
I am advised that it is necessary for there to be a referral of power in this matter for the Australian National Line to operate intrastate on a daytoday basis and to provide regular services, as is requested and required by those who live in northern Queensland. [More…]
Therefore it is necessary for the Premier of Queensland to agree to a reference of power specifically in this matter. [More…]
I make the point that if a reference of power should be granted it would be within the capacity of the Premier of Queensland to get agreement that the reference of power could be withdrawn if circumstances altered. [More…]
I remind the House and the people listening, particularly the migrants, that it was in the time of the Leader of the Opposition as Prime Minister that unemployment among migrants nearly doubled; in fact, it rose by 90 per cent while the Labor Party was in power. [More…]
There are moves already in the United States to curb the growing power of this corporation and this Government will have to face up to the issue very shortly. [More…]
Since coming to power the Liberal and National Country parties have made an absolute virtue out of cutting public spending. [More…]
Despite the fact that unemployment is at a record high level and is at least 30 per cent above the level of two years ago when the Labor Government left power, the Government has refused to take any initiatives which would stimulate employment in our community. [More…]
In a true federal system it is not only administrative responsibility which is shared between the three arms of government; it is legislative power- the power to legislate. [More…]
That power needs to be shared in a manner whereby it cannot be withdrawn. [More…]
The power that is now in the hands of the States cannot be withdrawn by the Commonwealth. [More…]
The power that the States conferred on the Commonwealth cannot be withdrawn by the States. [More…]
The power that is conferred on local government, in my view, should be conferred in a manner whereby it cannot be withdrawn. [More…]
The Opposition when it was in power recognised it as a temporary scheme. [More…]
In marked contrast, when Labor came to power we saw an increase in its first Budget in 1973-74 of 20 percent. [More…]
During the six years prior to the Labor Government gaining power the annual increase in taxation receipts ranged from 6.4 per cent to 14.9 per cent, averaging about 10 per cent. [More…]
For some time the Commonwealth Government and the Queensland Government have been in negotiation about further development of the Gladstone power station. [More…]
As those with an interest in Queensland will certainly be aware, for reasons which the Queensland Government judges to be good, the construction of that power station is now being processed over a longer period than originally envisaged in the agreement between the Commonwealth and Queensland. [More…]
The Premier put it to the Commonwealth that we should extend our financial assistance to Queensland for the construction of the Gladstone power station over a further three years. [More…]
The Minister for the Northern Territory is a member of the Party which is in power in Queensland. [More…]
One of the few long term projections that the Premier of South Australia grabbed hold of and shook around on several occasions was requests of this Government and I believe of the Whitlam Government to use some source of nuclear power so that desalination methods could be adopted to help the entire State of South Australia to get quality water, if a sufficient quantity could be obtained. [More…]
The Leader of the Opposition (Mr E. G. Whitlam) mentioned the work that he did in that regard, but it was only when the coalition Government come to power that the role of the River Murray Commission in relation to water quality was actually broadened. [More…]
No one is denying that inflation will have an adverse effect but one can just imagine what it would have been like had the Labor Government been in power, with inflation raging on towards 20 per cent. [More…]
Although nuclear facilities may not be immediately needed in the host countries, the exploring countries are likely to offer technology as they are in Brazil for power reactors, together with enrichment and reprocessing plants, in return for a generous slice of whatever uranium is found. [More…]
Whilst it is difficult to gauge the exact effectiveness of an Australian uranium moratorium on nuclear weapons proliferation and terrorism there could well be a beneficial indirect leverage possible on suppliers of sensitive nuclear technology who themselves need large supplies of cheap uranium for power reactors. [More…]
Things being as they are, nuclear power generators will be needed for the next 20, or perhaps 50, years in most of the developed countries, with Japan and Sweden in particular need. [More…]
Yet the Fraser Government has already committed Australia to supporting actively the spread of nuclear power throughout the world. [More…]
The Prime Minister might like to think he is a dictator and he might like to say and do whatever he likes but the Australian Labor Party and all thinking people throughout Australia will be doing everything in their power to make the Prime Minister think again. [More…]
My belief is that the Government’s account of uranium usage is a vast distortion of the true facts about nuclear power. [More…]
The nuclear industry claims that most of the opposition to the spread of nuclear power stems from an emotional, stupid reaction- some sort of mindless fear of growth and technology. [More…]
The industry, the Prime Minister, the Deputy Prime Minister (Mr Anthony) and Mr Bjelke-Petersen would have people believe that the anti-uranium lobby consists of nothing but young revolutionaries who are badly misinformed about the true facts of nuclear power. [More…]
The anti-nuclear movement has always been able to call upon some of the best nuclear brains around, partly because much of the opposition to nuclear power has arisen from within the industry, from scientists and engineers who knew exactly the implications of what they were doing and the weaknesses of the machines which they were designing and building. [More…]
Any person who doubts the quality of the opposition to nuclear power in Australia should read the transcript of the Ranger uranium inquiry. [More…]
In the remainder of the time allotted to me, I would like to give a brief account of the true state of affairs of nuclear power, not the coloured version that the Fraser Government has so far given the Australian people. [More…]
From all appearances, it is very unlikely that nuclear power will ever be of any real significance in the world energy picture. [More…]
-From all appearances, it is very unlikely that nuclear power will ever be of any real significance in the world energy picture. [More…]
At present nuclear power stations provide a little over one per cent of the world’s statistically recorded energy consumption. [More…]
In West Germany, France, Sweden, Switzerland, the United States of America and Japan, strong and increasing opposition to nuclear power has combined with economic difficulties to cause severe cutbacks in nuclear construction programs. [More…]
The nuclear power programs of France and West Germany have almost ground to a halt while in Holland anti-nuclear demonstrations have been growing rapidly. [More…]
Spain is now examining hydro-electric alternatives to nuclear power while Norway has cancelled its projected nuclear power program altogether. [More…]
In the United States of America orders for nuclear reactors have dropped from 30 reactors to two in the last few years, and in Japan the cutback is of the order of 50 per cent because of problems with the inefficiency of nuclear power generation. [More…]
In regard to dangers from the use of nuclear power, the work of the Fox Commission in Australia and the Flowers Commission in Britain has made it clear that the dangers of world trade in plutonium are so great that we should avoid it, if at all possible. [More…]
They confirm that the civilian nuclear power industry has contributed to the spread of weapons. [More…]
They confirm that there have been accidents in reactors and nuclear power plants and that these have been potentially very serious. [More…]
These are all things which those opposed to nuclear power see as reasons for discontinuing it. [More…]
In regard to the potential benefit of nuclear power to the poorer countries, it appears that because of the immensely capital intensive and centralised nature of nuclear energy this source of energy will be irrelevant to the real needs of poorer countries. [More…]
Nuclear energy is only a temporary source of power at best. [More…]
The honourable member for Sydney (Mr Les McMahon), who has just spoken, pointed out that not many nuclear power stations are operating in the world today. [More…]
That Congress supports the balanced development of the country’s energy resources including coal, gas and nuclear power. [More…]
But nuclear reactor power stations have been a fact of life in England since 19S4. [More…]
We visited the Hartlepool nuclear reactor power station in the north of England. [More…]
I would imagine that this power station would not be more than three-quarters of the size of this building we are in now. [More…]
It will produce about 1,200 megawatts of electrical power. [More…]
That is approximately 6 per cent of the total electrical power produced m this country. [More…]
Australia produces 20,000 megawatts of electricity through its various types of power stations. [More…]
This one nuclear power station, with 2 reactors, will produce 1 ,200 megawatts of electricity. [More…]
Honestly, I do not think that honourable members on the Opposition side have a real conviction that nuclear power stations are a risk or a danger. [More…]
They wanted to make sure that the operation of a nuclear power station would be safe. [More…]
England, a country with a population of about 54 million and an area of land less than the size of Victoria, has 21 nuclear power stations in operation at present and is planning to build many more. [More…]
They started building the power station at Hartlepool in 1968 and it is not yet finished. [More…]
This station will add to the existing system of nuclear power stations and I say for the benefit of the honourable member for Sydney- it will produce 3 per cent of the total power for England. [More…]
The English people know, the trade unionists know, the English Government knows that despite all the oil that may be found in the North Sea a serious energy shortage will be experienced in the next six or seven years if these nuclear power stations are not available. [More…]
We do not have nuclear power. [More…]
Throughout the world today there are more than a dozen countries which have nuclear power stations. [More…]
Collectively those stations are producing 86,650 megawatts of power at the present time. [More…]
That is four times more power than Australia is producing. [More…]
It is a funny thing that honourable members on the Opposition side have not often admitted that the communist countries have nuclear power. [More…]
They do have nuclear power. [More…]
Under construction throughout the world today there is a number of these power stations that will produce a further 160,193 megawatts. [More…]
When all these nuclear power stations are completed in the next few years they will be producing 400,000 megawatts of electricity. [More…]
I mentioned that Australia’s power plants were producing 20,000 megawatts of electricity. [More…]
This country, and every other country of a democratic nature, has political opponents causing opposition to the selling of uranium and the use or nuclear power stations. [More…]
The real problem facing democracy today is whether we can create a society that will live m a nuclear power world. [More…]
We are going to see a nuclear power world. [More…]
If Australia’s total power requirements from this day to the year 2000 was produced by nuclear reactors- that is 20,000 megawatts a year from now to the year 2000- the resultant high level solid waste, the stuff that everybody is so terribly frightened of, could be contained in a room measuring 50 feet square by 16 feet high. [More…]
The world is expected to be producing 400,000 megawatts of energy by means of nuclear power stations when they are operating at full bore and that will result in only 1,000 cubic feet of waste a year. [More…]
But for the next 20 to 50 years there will be a heavy requirement for energy and this requirement can only be met by nuclear power. [More…]
There can be not doubt that yesterday was only the formal agreement reached after all the negotiations that have taken place during the 18 months in which this Government has been in power. [More…]
There will be an expose of corruption such as this country has never seen because of deals which are being done by the Liberal and National Country Parties with the uranium forum, the oil companies and the mining companies to try to make sure that they hold their position of power, to make sure they are able to give greater exposure to their policies at the election campaigns, both State and Federal, throughout Australia. [More…]
The Acting Secretary of my Department has already seen the High Commissioner and, at my direction, on behalf of the Government has expressed deep regret at the incident and has conveyed the Government’s promise to do all in its power to apprehend the person responsible. [More…]
As Kenneth Davidson of the Age rightly pointed out this morning, governments and energy planners overseas are turning to more coal-fired power stations and downgrading the role of uranium. [More…]
Let us look at the acquisition of Australian reserves in recent times- in fact, since the return to power of the Liberal and National Country parties in Canberra. [More…]
What is proposed is a delegation of powers to an Assembly and not the creation of a State. [More…]
Under the proposals the Governor-General in Council would have a reserve power to refuse assent to Assembly ordinances and the Parliament would retain the power of disallowance of ordinances. [More…]
The Assembly appears never to have appreciated the power that lay before it. [More…]
One of my other disappointments during my time as Minister was that the Assembly did not take up the right it had as a result of the power given to it for its members to have an effective say in respect of authorities. [More…]
I was pleased to note as a further indication of this Government’s recognition of the problem, the assistance by the Government to the research and development of the Pritchard steam power unit: Early assistance in the assembly and construction of the engine in- the Commonwealth factory at Bendigo recently produced results in. [More…]
The Pritchard steam power unit is well recognised for its non-pollutant qualities. [More…]
Within the framework of the Budget some $100,000 have been set aside for further development of the Pritchard steam power unit. [More…]
The Granting of the $100,000 is proof that the Government is interested in researching power units such as this that can use alternative power to that produced from oil. [More…]
The Government came into power with the sole intention of curing the twin evils of inflation and unemployment. [More…]
The purchasing power of family allowances will be reduced. [More…]
The net effect of reduced real wages and family allowances and the tax changes will be to cut the purchasing power of our incomes by several dollars a week. [More…]
The Government has failed to overcome the two major problems which it went into power to overcome, namely, unemployment and inflation. [More…]
The credit goes firstly to the more established organisations, then to a sympathetic government which is doing all in its power to make sure that the problems are rectified. [More…]
A lot of people do not realise that the Government has given back millions of dollars that the Whitlam Government would have collected if it had stayed in power. [More…]
They give people the power to decide how to spend a greater proportion of their income. [More…]
A comparison of a wide range of indicators reveals that the economy in the last six months of 1976-77, when the Fraser Government’s policies began to apply, was performing much worse than it had during the corresponding period of the previous financial year when the Labor Party was in power. [More…]
If we follow that argument through I guess we are right back to the time when we did not have government and were in an anarchical situation in which only those who had strength had power. [More…]
Those who have money and strength have the power and those who have neither of these things are obliged to do the bidding of those who do. [More…]
Interest is charged on other Loan Council programs by virtue of the fact that money expended by State governments on such things as power houses and dams does attract a financial return. [More…]
Through the State Premiers there is a de facto taxing power given to the States. [More…]
If the IAEA said that there were adequate safeguards to monitor the storage and the disposal of the waste, the radioactive waste, from nuclear power generation. [More…]
The credit goes firstly to the more established organisations, then to a sympathetic government which is doing all in its power to make sure that the problems are rectified. [More…]
This Government came to power at a time when the whole Australian economy was in tatters. [More…]
I feel that by and large it is a much more efficient and much tighter operation than it was when this Government came to power. [More…]
Excessive charges are made for underground power even when no underground power is being planned either now or in the distant future. [More…]
I think every honourable member will admit quite freely- even the honourable member for Newcastle if he were to be honest for a moment- that there was a need in December 1975, when this Government came to power, to take severe corrective actions in relation to the economy. [More…]
I remind honourable members that in August 1975- the equivalent month, when a Labor government was in power- the unemployment rate was only 4.5 per cent. [More…]
Pensioners will not only get relief from the savage income tax scales imposed by the Labor Government, but they also are now secure in the knowledge that increases will be made twice yearly, at full indexation rates, to see their purchasing power is not eroded. [More…]
They were forced to live in tin sheds with no power or running water and were thrashed into submission usually by being hung by the heels and whipped with long solid pieces of wood. [More…]
The actions of the Premier in making that appointment reflect upon the standard of political ethics of the political party in power in that State. [More…]
But, before these people go off the rails completely, I point out that they should realise what the Australian Labor Party did to them in the short time that it was in power. [More…]
If the Opposition had the power it would move Australia into high spending and high inflation days again. [More…]
-The honourable gentleman should know that many European countries are short of power for peaceful purposes. [More…]
Many of them have power programs which are based on the development of nuclear energy for peaceful purposes. [More…]
Many of them hold the view that they will need such power if their factories are to operate and if their homes are to be heated and lit. [More…]
A delegation was in this Parliament yesterday from a country where the need for nuclear power for peaceful purposes would be very greatly and very seriously recognised. [More…]
In a report by Des Power from London in an AM broadcast this morning, the transcript of which is headed ‘International Atomic Energy authority spokesman says technology exists for safe nuclear waste disposal’, the following question was asked: [More…]
Quite clearly the International Atomic Energy Agency does not believe that the development of nuclear power for peaceful purposes should be held up while further work is done in relation to the matter of waste. [More…]
In the Security Council there is a further protection of the veto power which may be exercised by the United States of America, the Soviet Union, France, the United Kingdom and China. [More…]
The nuclear power industry is unintentionally contributing to an increased risk of nuclear war. [More…]
The nuclear power industry for peaceful purposes does exist. [More…]
There will be increasing moves towards the introduction of nuclear power for peaceful purposes. [More…]
He has ignored the difference between high level liquid waste from reprocessing plants and the solid spent nuclear fuel from nuclear power reactors and also the difference between commercial nuclear wastes and military wastes. [More…]
They are not related to the use of uranium to produce electricity in commercial nuclear power stations. [More…]
For ultimate waste disposal the process comprises two steps: Firstly the solidification and vitrification of the liquid wastes arising from reprocessing of spent nuclear power station fuel; and secondly disposal of the vitrified solids in deep geological formations. [More…]
That union provided $25,000 to the Labor Party on the basis that if the Labor Party gained power, which it did, no action would be taken against the unions under the existing arbitration rules and regulations. [More…]
The sound economy that it inherited when it came into power was wrecked. [More…]
Once again I regret that the Government has not done something positive about putting together a genuine, integrated transport system with oversight by an interstate commission which has the power to issue directions as to what should be done and to give very good, sound advice to the Australian Minister for Transport, whoever he may be. [More…]
That the committee have power to send for persons, papers and records, to move from place to place, adjourn from time to time and to sit during any sittings or adjournment of the House. [More…]
That the committee have power to authorise the publication of any evidence given before it and any document presented to it. [More…]
It is quite clear on the other hand that the Minister believes that word power alone will carry him through anything. [More…]
He is driven by genuine super power hyperbole. [More…]
The naval air power study for the five year defence program for 1974-79 indicated a direct and indirect costs of $230m which is probably closer to $300m by now. [More…]
Surely we could read into that that if the national Parliament had the power to create other courts it would have the power also to determine retiring ages and, if so, that would apply to justices of the High Court as well because they are referred to in the same section of the Constitution. [More…]
In my view it could well have been the intention in 1900 that the Parliament have the power to create courts by way of legislation and, ancillary to that, determine the question of a reasonable retiring age. [More…]
We could presume that there would be just as many inaccuracies, discriminations or political affiliations connected with those appointments as with parliamentary appointments, yet the specious reasoning was that we should not have the power to remove judges from the High Court because it might affect their impartiality or because they might become victims of some political vendetta. [More…]
Let us remember that it is said that while there are federal powers to talk about custody, maintenance and property rights, they are not as wide as one would think. [More…]
We do not have power to talk about property disputes if they are not ancillary to a matrimonial cause. [More…]
We do not have power to talk about custody of children if they are not children of the marriage; in other words, what are called exnuptial children. [More…]
We were anxious to get some reference of powers. [More…]
I notice there is a dispute about whether we can get a reference of powers. [More…]
It is clear that under the Constitution if we could get States to refer to the Federal Parliament powers in those areas of property, maintenance, custody and what have you, we would not have any difficulty in dealing with the problems of the family. [More…]
Surely it is a fiction to think that under the Constitution we have the power to deal with marriage- as we have- with divorce, matrimonial causes and parental rights and that those powers have to be interpreted, as the High Court has legally said, but those matters are limited to the aspects of the family which I have mentioned. [More…]
Quite clearly, if there were State family courts exercising Federal jurisdiction, those courts would have the power to determine matters arising under State jurisdiction. [More…]
In fairness, the court has the power to enforce that at present. [More…]
I do not know whether the Family Court has the power to request the surrender of foreign passports. [More…]
So we have another 40 years of production, another 40 years of power to be supplied by conventionally enriched reactors. [More…]
On the other hand, I would not suggest that those who already have nuclear power or the disposition to use it are the ones to be most trusted with it. [More…]
Hopefully nuclear power will be used for peaceful purposes but, deplorably, there is the possibility that it may be used for non-peaceful purposes. [More…]
Certain places like South Africa still use military power to sit on sensible politicachange. [More…]
I suppose that one of the great risks of nuclear power is that some small power, given the opportunity, can start something that will not stop where it starts. [More…]
He said that he deplored the fact that his country of birth, or that part of it to which he still subscribes- West Germany- had recently arranged to sell to Brazil the potentiality to develop nuclear power presumably for destructive as well as peaceful purposes. [More…]
Similarly, those countries, together with us, are endeavouring to develop new energy sources such as wind and solar power. [More…]
Therefore, what do the energy deficient countries use for power when the energy resources start running out and technological advances have not uncovered new sources? [More…]
Twenty countries already have nuclear power stations and are steadily increasing their investment in this vitally important power source. [More…]
As I understand the situation, at the present time there are some 184 nuclear power units in operation in 20 countries. [More…]
In all there are about 500 nuclear power units either in operation, under construction or on firm order in 34 countries. [More…]
People are already reliant on energy that is generated by these power plants. [More…]
The hazards involved in the ordinary operation of nuclear power reactors, if those operations are properly regulated and controlled, are not such as to justify a decision not to mine and sell Australian uranium. [More…]
Similarly in the United Kingdom it has been estimated that, in the year 2000 when threequarters of their electricity will bie generated by nuclear power, the total land area occupied by interim liquid storage tanks and ponds containing waste canisters will only be 1.7 hectares - [More…]
It was also stated in the Fox report that if Australia were not to export her uranium, this would have little if any impact on the projected expansion of the nuclear power industry. [More…]
Accusation after accusation has been made by Government supporters during this debate about the Labor Party’s inconsistency in relation to nuclear power and the mining and sale of uranium. [More…]
In 1947 the then Prime Minister, Mr Chifley, first guided the thinking of Australians towards nuclear power. [More…]
Will he make available the reports on the (a) (i) geological, (ii) hydrological, (iii) hydrographical, (iv) meteorological, (v) ecological and (vi) environmental investigations carried out at each of the sites considered for the building of a nuclear power station and (b) ability of each site to dispose of the radioactive and thermal waste from the proposed reactor. [More…]
Secrecy shrouded every move in the proposed development of a nuclear power station at Jervis Bay. [More…]
The same secrecy, the same evasiveness, the half truths are still around now when we talk about nuclear power and the rnining and export of uranium. [More…]
That the proposed expenditure be reduced by $10 as an instruction to the Government that a select committee of this House should be appointed to inquire into and report on the uses of nuclear power in relation to- [More…]
a ) the projected power needs of the Commonwealth; [More…]
the comparative advantage derived from generating power in this way as against all other sources now being employed; [More…]
the effects of the establishment of a nuclear power station upon the environment; [More…]
the desirability of establishing a nuclear power station at this time pending the outcome of further technological developments taking place elsewhere. [More…]
This was an important debate-at least according to people it is an important debate now- on nuclear power and nuclear technology. [More…]
Are we, as a nation, prepared to sit back, to turn to the world and to say to it that 3 per cent of the world’s population will deny to the rest of the world 25 per cent of the power that it requires to generate its electricity? [More…]
What infuriates me is his statement that if we decide to supply the underdeveloped nations of the world with the power that they so badly need he will bring the whole of the nation out on to the streets and there will be blood flowing. [More…]
If Opposition members come to power and then rat on every contract this nation has entered into with the rest of the world they will certainly betray every Australian worker in every field. [More…]
There is, in my view, an inevitability that nuclear power generators will be needed at least between now and the end of this century if the developed world is to maintain its standard of living and if the under developed world is also to be developed. [More…]
All these countries and more have a commitment to nuclear power. [More…]
Certainly the international economic crisis which has overtaken the world and the increased technical problems associated with nuclear reactors have reduced the present demand for nuclear generated electric power. [More…]
It is my honest conviction that without some almost miraculous technological breakthrough which we cannot envisage at present, the increasing commitment to nuclear power will continue, although it Will slow down. [More…]
If only some patently knowledgeable and impressive person would tell us that solar energy and/or wind power could take up the slack. [More…]
The Centre Party is now in power only because of the gains of the Swedish Liberal Party with which it is now in coalition and which did not oppose nuclear power. [More…]
Most of us think that there is a regrettable inevitability about the development of nuclear power and most of us recognise the valuable economic benefits which can in the long run accrue from the successful development of all our mineral exports, not only uranium. [More…]
I do so in the hope that the Government will, in a responsible and proper manner, develop throughout Australia during the next decade a strong nuclear power industry. [More…]
The honourable member talked about nuclear power in the hands of the wrong people. [More…]
I went over one of the Canadian nuclear power stations at Lake Erie in 1969 when I was a member of an Australian parliamentary delegation to that country. [More…]
Other nations that are operating nuclear power stations include Czechoslovakia, France, West Germany, East Germany, India, Italy, Japan, The Netherlands, Pakistan, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, the United States of America and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. [More…]
Are these nations to be considered sinister because they are prepared to use nuclear power? [More…]
If we are to say our best customers ‘go elsewhere to get your uranium oxide’, I imagine that a large powerful country Uke Japan will do exactly that, think there might be some people in Tokyo who would get out their little black book and put a couple of ticks against us and say: ‘Well, there will come an opportunity one of these days for us to remind them that you have given us unfriendly treatment on this matter’. [More…]
Countries like Austria, Brazil, Finland, Hungary, Mexico, the Republic of Korea and Taiwan have nuclear power reactors under construction. [More…]
No society which possesses basic values like those of the scientific, industrial, materialist society- this is the radical content of the difference between the Government and the Opposition, and I do not think the Opposition fully realises it- can be trusted with this power. [More…]
It is the science which in the decontamination chambers and steel claws of nuclear power plants has finally dehumanised industry. [More…]
The uranium economy if it continues with its present intensity will be the graveyard of democracy because the uranium economy is the ultimate centralisation of power in human society. [More…]
Centralisation of power and democracy are completely incompatible. [More…]
The uranium economy is the ultimate in human greed for power and money. [More…]
These trade union leaders want to hide behind mummy’s apron so that they can use their position of power to push their communist tactics. [More…]
The Government has the power to stop such enormous sums of money leaving the country and could have taken action, thus avoiding the need to borrow large amounts of money. [More…]
It represents the very powerful elements in our community. [More…]
Since it took power in a very dubious way, this Government has represented the powerful elite in this country.Not only has it transferred wealth from the workers’ wage packet to the private sector but also it has cut back on public works and transferred this activity to the private sector. [More…]
Within the Government ranks and within the circles of Australia’s financial institutions, people are saying quite clearly: ‘We do not want this man who is a power unto himself; we want a concensus leader. [More…]
Lord Acton once said that power tends to corrupt. [More…]
I do not know whether he was right but one thing I am sure of is that power tends to make people resist scrutiny of their actions. [More…]
That, of course, gives great discretionary power to the Speaker and requires a Speaker who has the confidence of both sides of the House to implement effectively. [More…]
I believe that our present Speaker has that confidence, and he should be allowed to exercise the power given by Standing Order 151 which states in relation to questions without notice: [More…]
I take this opportunity to suggest indirectly to Mr Speaker that he consider discussing with the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) and the Leader of the Opposition (Mr E. G. Whitlam) whether he should not exercise that power freely, suitable arrangements being made to control the number of questions asked and the method of asking them. [More…]
If that power were used, it would do a great deal to improve the quality of question time in this House and the efficient scrutiny by this House of the Executive. [More…]
Surely everyone of us here knows that we would be a pretty primitive community if we relied on man power instead of horse power? [More…]
We said when we came into power that there should be justice for all. [More…]
In view of the facts which came to light as a result of the inquiry made while the honourable gentleman’s party was in power and as a result of the recommendations made by Mr Norgard, the Government is considering how best to inform the public of the correct state of the labour market. [More…]
People might have their attention focused on Victoria and the State Electricity Commission power dispute at present but unfortunately that is only one of a number of serious disputes that are resulting in a denial of the right to work to tens of thousands, and in that case perhaps even hundreds of thousands, of Australian workers. [More…]
I have reached the point at which I am now preferring to quote what others say, because I fear I have so much power at my fingertips and so much thrust at the point of my tongue that I will wreck the economy, much as Samson was able to wreck the temple of the non-believers, with a simple word, a casual gesture. [More…]
When a Prime Minister comes to power declaring that he needs three years to get the economy into shape- and then calls an election after only two-thirds of that time- he cannot complain if voters interpret his move as an act of desperation or an admission of failure. [More…]
The Minister, in an incredible piece of double think- which never ceases to amaze me, although when I have been here long enough no doubt I will get used to it- talked about increases in postal and telephone charges when Labor was in power and said that that was a deplorable thing. [More…]
It seems to me that irrespective of which party has been in power, the non-government sector has been somewhat disadvantaged. [More…]
We want to reinvigorate the world we live in and to renew society and I believe that this means putting as much real power as we can into the hands of ordinary people, especially power over their own lives and over the things which concern them most deeply, like education and the family. [More…]
He said one thing- I think that we have gone a fair way towards achieving it- and that is that we should put power into the hands of ordinary people. [More…]
It is one of the weaknesses of the Australian government school system that not enough power, authority and initiative lie with the school councils, committees or advisory councils. [More…]
Where an Act confers power to make regulations, then, unless the contrary intention appears, all regulations made accordingly- [More…]
The person who quite obviously has had the power and the authority to determine those relations has been the Deputy Leader of the Opposition (Mr Uren). [More…]
If so, is it being considered for such a role, and what other alternative proposals are being considered by the Government to meet the monopoly power of the Japanese Livestock Industry Promotion Corporation. [More…]
-I am surprised that the honourable member has taken the attitude that he has taken in relation to the power workers dispute in Victoria in which about 2,000 men in the Latrobe Valley are holding an entire State to ransom. [More…]
Power to act is available to the Queensland Government in a diverse number of ways under its own Acts. [More…]
The Transport Act gives the Queensland Government very great powers indeed. [More…]
It may be that the Premier believes that the powers under that Act are too great to use in relation to the Utah dispute. [More…]
If the Queensland Government is unwilling to use the very great powers that are undoubtedly available to it, the Commonwealth will certainly examine its legislation to see what can and should be done in relation to a most serious and damaging dispute. [More…]
Unemployment had more than doubled as a result of the economic policies that that party adopted when it was in power. [More…]
What a change there has been since those halcyon days of 1975 when the Government was swept into power! [More…]
The proposal comprises: An operations building to accommodate area approach control, flight service centre, the necessary control equipment and training facilities; a services building containing a transformer for the provision of primary power, essential power generation and air conditioning plant; an air traffic control tower accommodating an elevated control cabin, support control equipment and essential power and air conditioning plant; and associated site works, car parks, roads and engineering services, sewerage and drainage and security fencing to the operations building and services building area. [More…]
The present characteristics of the ‘career service’ enable the administration to function to some degree as a selfcontained elite group exercising significant power generally in the interests of the status quo but without effectively being accountable for its exercise. [More…]
Unless we get an intelligent assessment of what is happening in the world we again will find ourselves being deemed to be a very inferior power. [More…]
The first is the gathering of information in a clandestine manner and the second is the gathering and assessment of information for the benefit of whichever government is in power. [More…]
In fact, this tendency of politicians to compete for power by trying to be nice to everybody is the cause of much of the economic problem that we have and much of the budgetary problem that we have. [More…]
To all intents and purposes, the takeover was completed when this Government came to power. [More…]
Further, the Committee feels that objections to appointing Australian Armed Services Attaches in the Middle East are outweighed by the fact that it would be unlikely that our allies would be assessing the military situation in Israel and the Arab countries in terms of the lessons that need to be drawn from an Australian perspective- the perspective of a comparatively small power with a potential military manpower shortage as is the case with Israel. [More…]
It will also examine how the nuclear power industry might best be structured to procure this result and to operate in the safest possible manner. [More…]
In place of the Department of Foreign Affairs the Fraser Government has sought increasingly to concentrate the power to advise on foreign policy and to influence decisions in the hands of the Prime Minister’s own Department. [More…]
A great deal of extra work has been placed on our embassies and high commissions in the last few years because of the dramatic increase in the number of Australians who are going overseas and realising what a truly wonderful country we have now that a Liberal-National Country Party Coalition Government is back in power. [More…]
It was a tactic of the Government to seek to inject into this country a degree of fear and even insecurity arising from a false image of international distribution of power between the two super powers. [More…]
We would be far better off it we recognised that Australia as a small power and a wealthy power will derive its influence within its own region and largely within its own region by exploiting its role as a trading partner, as a co-operative friend and an ally which is dedicated to serving the development of other countries. [More…]
This compares with an increase in the consumer price index in the September quarter last year of 2.2 per cent and an increase of only 0.8 per cent in the September quarter of 1975 when the Labor Government was in power. [More…]
The above amounts are based on 1976-77 costs and include salaries and purchases of books, periodicals, newspapers, etc but not overheads such as accommodation, light and power, etc. [More…]
-The Opposition stands condemned and the Australian Labor Party stands indicted for failing to tell the nation, and the House, its attitude towards the current wave of strikes and abuse of union power throughout Australia. [More…]
The Victorian power strike is crippling industry and hurting people. [More…]
We in this society are engaged in a battle for the supremacy of the rights of the people and for the supremacy of the rights of the Parliament over the abuses of power by a few officials in the union movement. [More…]
The battle which we are fighting is no less a battle than that fought to curb the power of the divine right of kings, to curb the power of the barons, to capture the spirit of the Magna Carta; the battle that was fought against the evils of fascism; and the battle against the industrial barons of the past century. [More…]
When the history of the times we are now in is written it will tell us whether the battle against the abuses of union power was won or lost. [More…]
A man who had been stood down because of the current power dispute in Victoria asked: ‘What am I going to do? [More…]
That man and 500,000 others in Victoria and perhaps 600,000 or 700,000 people throughout Australia are out of work because of the excesses of union power. [More…]
The honourable member for Diamond Valley told me that until the power dispute the figures for registered unemployed in that CES office showed a slowing down in unemployment, but because of this abuse of union power unemployment is rising again. [More…]
The harvest of wheat for the nation’s farmers is being threatened because 220-odd harvesters are on a production line and production cannot continue because of the power strike. [More…]
I point out to the Leader of the Opposition that the plain fact is that the arbitration system is breaking down because of the excesses of union power and because of the activities of left wing unionists. [More…]
For him to say that the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission is the proper place to settle the Victorian power dispute is to deny the facts. [More…]
-That was what the honourable member for Oxley said about the Victorian power dispute. [More…]
Not one of those headlines m that advertisement to the people of Australia today mentions strikes or the abuse of union power. [More…]
More people are out of work now because of the abuses of union power. [More…]
They have sought to do their very best to exacerbate industrial disputation in this country in an endeavour to find one platform by which they can retain power. [More…]
So we totally reject the subject of this matter of public importance- the abuse of union power throughout Australia. [More…]
I support strongly, as a matter of public importance, the issues raised by my colleague the honourable member for Higgins (Mr Shipton), namely, the current wave of strikes and abuse of union power. [More…]
The abysmal low of the speech of the honourable member for Gellibrand was his support of the Victorian power strike. [More…]
As at 3 o’clock this afternoon, some 350 people were registered for unemployment benefit as a result of the power dispute. [More…]
At Preston in Victoria some 1,000 people per day are registering for unemployment benefit as a result of the power strike. [More…]
The current power strike in Victoria is a prime example of this kind of industrial disruption. [More…]
By the end of this week 30,000 jobs in South Australia may be destroyed as a direct result of the Victorian power workers intransigence. [More…]
The current power strike in Victoria is highly detrimental to continued recovery in the motor vehicle industry. [More…]
As a direct result of the unjustified action by key workers in the Victoria power industry and for no other reason, Chrysler is currently unable to obtain supplies of 22 major components to build its motor cars. [More…]
The situation gets worse day by day as the abuse of union power in Victoria continues to deprive Chrysler of its components. [More…]
A return to work by the power strikers is urgent. [More…]
Even if the power workers return to work today, the detrimental effects on their fellow employees in South Australia will continue at least until Christmas. [More…]
South Australia’s regional economy is being greatly affected to its detriment by the power strike in Victoria. [More…]
The people of Australia are entitled to know the way in which the abuse of union power, condoned by honourable members opposite as we heard a few moments ago from the honourable member for Gellibrand, is sabotaging economic recovery and adding to unemployment in Australia, despite the sound economic management of the Fraser Government. [More…]
The Bill seeks to give the Commonwealth power by agreement or by compulsory means to acquire land for public purposes. [More…]
The clause seeks to extend the powers of the Act to every external territory. [More…]
At present the Commonwealth has power in regard to mainland territories only. [More…]
Nevertheless, I would like to see this Government not rush headlong into it in the way in which the Labor Government, and also the LiberalNational Country Party Government when it came to power, did with the Aboriginal land rights legislation without getting to the grass roots and taking notice of the opinions of those people whom that legislation is supposed to benefit, the Aborigines in the spinifex and in the bough shade miles away in the sticks. [More…]
Be that as it may, I adopt the view that it should not be the role of government to exert its power or influence through the Parliament in order to instruct the distribution commissioners on what they should recommend. [More…]
Three months after this Government came to power it froze half of the Commission’s allocation for 1975-76. [More…]
1 ) Following a proposal made by President Carter in his statement on nuclear power policy on 7 April 1977 the Heads of Government of the United States, the United Kingdom, the Federal Republic of Germany, France, Italy, Japan and Canada decided at their meeting in London on 7-8 May 1977 to launch an urgent study to determine how best to fulfil the purposes of using nuclear energy to help meet the world’s energy requirements while reducing the risks of nuclear proliferation. [More…]
-Is the Prime Minister aware that Mr Dixon, the Victorian Minister for Social Welfare, has called on the Federal Government to pay unemployment benefits to men and women who have been stood down because of the power dispute and stated that any decision to abolish these payments would cost the Victorian Government $7.6m a week. [More…]
It commenced operations with the tremendous legacy of $4 billion left to it by the McMahon Government when it went out of power. [More…]
I admit that there has been a minor increase in unemployment but I refer honourable members to the unemployment figures when the Leader of the Opposition came to power in 1972. [More…]
Let us look at the 12 months after the Labor Government came to power and its policies began to take effect. [More…]
But since this Government has been in power it has been slowing down the rate of unemployment Very shortly the people of Australia will see unemployment start to fall. [More…]
I know that it will never be able to get back into power. [More…]
We find that there are now 82,1 18 more people unemployed than there were at the end of September two years ago when Labor was in power. [More…]
There has been a significant increase in the number of people at work since this Government came to power. [More…]
Conzinc Riotinto knows that with the continuing world-wide cut-backs in the nuclear power industry, the real profits in the future will be from coal, not from uranium or nuclear power. [More…]
It leaves the Minister in a position of great dictatorial power. [More…]
They are involved in a power struggle within their party. [More…]
I would like to use this opportunity to draw attention to some of the initiatives which have been undertaken in the migrant area since this Government came into power in 1975 because there have been others apart from the honourable member, including particularly the Leader of the Opposition (Mr E. G. Whitlam), who have misrepresented the situation in relation to this Government’s support for migrant services. [More…]
Cuba traditionally has been, since Fidel Castro’s accession to power, a supplier of sugar to the USSR. [More…]
What we have seen in the United Kingdom since the end of the Second World War is an increasing concentration of power in the hands of larger economic enterprises, including nationalised enterprises. [More…]
The major element of the changes aimed at depoliticising the broadcasting system is the transfer of the licensing power from the Minister to the Australian Broadcasting Tribunal. [More…]
As I understand it, we do not have any great bargaining power with the West German Government because of our decision back in 1973, when the Whitlam Government was in power, to grant pensions to all those eligible for Australian pensions, wherever they live. [More…]
Nevertheless, migrants do contribute to the economy, increasing purchasing power and trade generally. [More…]
I point out in passing that unemployment amongst migrant communities in Australia rose by 90 per cent while the former Labor Government was in power. [More…]
In fact, in virtually all cases in practically all States the interval between the application and departmental approval has decreased since this Government came to power. [More…]
I believe that the government of the day did all in its power to rebuild Darwin. [More…]
It has been argued - I agree with this-that in a gas powered car about 10 per cent of power is lost in top gear but the car runs and idles more smoothly. [More…]
Although the Government has the power to check Utah it lacks the gumption to pull this company into line. [More…]
Further, the Minister, the Leader of the National Country Party, being forced by the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) to carve off part of his power base when the Prime Minister appointed the honourable member for Bennelong (Mr Howard) Minister for Special Trade Negotiations, is another indication of what we have said. [More…]
In fact one only has to look at the published platform of the Labor Party to see that the real power lies in endorsing a centrally planned economy with strong government intervention at all levels. [More…]
There is an abundance of relatively cheap hydro-electric power. [More…]
It is quick to tell everybody in Tasmania that it has been in power for 43 years, but for one brief period. [More…]
In the present Victorian power dispute the Federal Government has stood over the Victorian Government and precluded any proper solution. [More…]
mining, minerals, exports, power, fuels, energy, geography, cartography, economics, et cetera. [More…]
As the honourable gentleman has observed, the power strike in Victoria has, of course, had a devastating impact upon activity and also upon the question of employment in Victoria. [More…]
I can assure the honourable gentleman that I have discussed with the Commissioner of Taxation the problems posed for the small business community whose financial stability has been affected by the Victorian power strike. [More…]
The only way in which they think they can crawl back to power is by producing further division and disruption in the Australian community. [More…]
Heaven help this country if the economic vandals opposite, the provocateurs opposite, the inciters of” violence opposite, ever get back into power. [More…]
Which party is in power? [More…]
The Minister will have the power to bring additional matters to the attention of the Commission and to direct the Commission as to the priority it should observe in having regard to its policy guidelines in the performance of its functions. [More…]
Had members of the Opposition remained in power the fertiliser bounty today would have been $40 a tonne, not $60 a tonne. [More…]
The honourable member for Fraser made a remark today about rural reconstruction and the honourable member for Corio (Mr Scholes) did likewise, but when the Labor Party was in power it cut expenditure on rural reconstruction by some $20m. [More…]
By contrast, the union movement today is a powerful economic and social pressure group. [More…]
Unions have grown greatly in size and are in a position to influence powerfully, by concerted action, the economic wellbeing of the community. [More…]
No responsible Government can ignore this, or refuse to take steps to prevent such power being exercised contrary to the best interests of the community. [More…]
We have seen, and are witnessing, the frightening capacity of a relatively small group of unionists in the Victorian power industry to wreak havoc on an entire community. [More…]
The Arbitration Inspectorate has always had this function; the powers of the Bureau in relation to these matters will, however, be spelled out quite specifically. [More…]
If the Bureau cannot bring about voluntary compliance with the law, it will have the necessary power to initiate appropriate proceedings in the’ Commission and in the Industrial Division of the Federal Court. [More…]
These powers will include the power to notify the Commission of a breach or likely breach of a bans clause in an award and to make application for a certificate under section 33 of the Act to enable proceedings to be taken for breach of the award in the Court. [More…]
The new grounds will include power for the Court to deregister an organisation which prevents, hinders or interferes with interstate and overseas trade and commerce, or the provision of a public service of the Commonwealth or of a State. [More…]
Honourable members will be aware that, in the March Bill, this power of suspension was to be available in proceedings for offences under a number of sections of the Act. [More…]
The intention now is that this power will be restricted to deregistration proceedings. [More…]
Immediately this Government came to power it dismantled that policy. [More…]
That is a very important difference indeed because as the Inspectorate had operated in the past, its power to initiate prosecutions in various areas had not been used. [More…]
But once the Government abolished the power provided under section 125 sub-section (4) of the Conciliation and Arbitration Act, which provided for ministerial control, and gave the Bureau a statutory obligation to ensure adherence to the Act, regulations and awards it gave the Bureau a statutory duty to prosecute anyone who breached the Act, regulations or awards, regardless of the industrial relations consequences. [More…]
A power is given to the Industrial Court to order suspension of the rights and privileges of union officials, of the union itself or of its members. [More…]
The Court will have the power to give directions as to the exercise of any rights, privileges or capacities and to restrict the use of funds or property of the organisation or a branch of the organisation. [More…]
Use of that kind of power will not solve anything. [More…]
If the Government proposes to send troops into the Latrobe Valley, as is now being talked about, or to send in scabs, there will be an immediate stoppage of all power production because members of the Municipal Officers Association have announced already that they will not work side by side with scabs and members of the Federated Engine Drivers and Firemens Association most certainly would refuse to work side by side with scabs or troops. [More…]
Once that is done there will be no power produced in Victoria at all. [More…]
It is a cynical abuse of power for purely political motives so that the Government can divert public opinion from rising unemployment, galloping inflation and the pending collapse of the dollar. [More…]
This Government has the power now to do whatever it wants if it has a solution. [More…]
What new powers will another election give to the Government that it does not already have? [More…]
If the Government cannot point to some new power that an election will give to it, why does it not use the powers it already has to cure the problem we are talking about. [More…]
Governments of the Liberal and National Country parties have been in power for 25 years out of the last 28 years. [More…]
In that time they should have had every opportunity to examine the powers available to them and, if they have the powers to cure the confrontation that we are talking about, those parties stand indicted for having failed to carry them out over the last 28 years. [More…]
It has no power. [More…]
If we are to maintain co-operation in this community, if we are to save this community from being wrecked by the activities of just a few people- as all honourable members know, it takes only a few power workers, as we have seen in the Latrobe Valley, to tie up almost a whole State- this sort of legislation has to be introduced. [More…]
Genuine unionists feel powerless to resist the communist machine. [More…]
It is something of which I am proud, because I know that in those days a unity existed against that communist power. [More…]
Union bureaucrats have ample power to deal with people who do not pay their way or who make difficulties other than the ordinary difficulties for the union and whom, up until now, they had the right to expel. [More…]
The closed shop puts enormous power into the hands of the union officials both on the job and at headquarters. [More…]
It is specious to argue that these measures are prompted by or indeed aimed at the resolution of the dispute currently taking place amongst power workers in the Latrobe Valley in Victoria. [More…]
The conspiratorial reputation of the Prime Minister, his apparent desire to be constantly surrounded by controversy and turmoil, his philosophy of divide the people and retain power and his obvious need to provide a diversion from the poor economic position and extraordinarily high unemployment in this countrythe highest for 50 years- give all the reasons for this legislation being introduced, and introduced with such indecent haste. [More…]
To cap it all off, the honourable member for Swan who spoke previously, had the temerity to tell this chamber that the dispute with the power workers in the Latrobe Valley now is a political dispute. [More…]
Furthermore, because of the effect of union power on all aspects of life in this country, there is a need for greater accountability by the unions to the public at large. [More…]
Some States already have such a provision for unions within their power. [More…]
This legislation specifies the powers of that Bureau. [More…]
They are the same powers as those previously held by the arbitration inspectorate. [More…]
It will have powers to initiate investigations in relation to the Act and follow up complaints from individuals. [More…]
Under this Bill there is greater flexibility in the process of deregistration procedures and, for the first time, perhaps the power to adjudicate in demarcation disputes- the cause of many unnecessary industrial troubles in this country. [More…]
To my mind this reinforces certain comments made about the power of the shop stewards, the usurping of constituted trade union authority, the British disease in this country, and articles written by Paul Johnson, that leading Labor Party intellectual in the United Kingdom, who contributed to the New Statesman on the new tyranny of the trade unions. [More…]
A union card already confers a greater degree of real political power than a parliamentary vote. [More…]
I believe that power corrupts, and I think that every honourable member in this House, except members of the Opposition when their own interests or trade union interests are involved, agrees with that. [More…]
Power has corrupted too many of the trade unions. [More…]
I would like to analyse the powers of the Industrial Relations Bureau. [More…]
I have to say in front of the honourable member for Melbourne that it does not have powers relating to arbitration and conciliation. [More…]
It is true that if a bans clause has been broken the Bureau has the power to take that matter to the Commission for a certificate and then proceed to the courts. [More…]
It has four other powers. [More…]
It has the power of injunction.If an award is not being obeyed, why should not injunction proceedings to try and ensure compliance be taken? [More…]
Why should not that be the case if, day in and day out, little groups of unionists with a maximum of destructive power disobey an award and are callous about what effect their actions might have? [More…]
The Bureau also has the power to apply for deregistration of a union that is causing continuous trouble. [More…]
Those are the powers of the Bureau. [More…]
In the measure now before us, the Government has decided wisely, on three other powers which I wish to speak about before the debate on this Bill concludes. [More…]
Under that section the Arbitration Commission will have power to exclude certain parties or groups of people from the provisions of an award or to prevent them from entering certain areas of work or occupation. [More…]
There is also power, when the Arbitration Commission is determining claims before it, to take into consideration past practices and arrangements in the industry concerned. [More…]
One of the problems we faced with regard to deregistration was this: There was only one power of total suspension or deregistration. [More…]
In this case the law will now provide that it is within the power of the court to distinguish between the union itself and the various groups or branches that make up the union and are causing the industrial dispute. [More…]
I said that power corrupts. [More…]
I have no doubt that in the case of corruption by industrial power the Government has to do all it can to take corrective action. [More…]
For instance, the Committee will be given the power to borrow but only with the approval of the Treasurer. [More…]
They will have power to co-opt outside interests from time to time and as indicated earlier I expect they will pay particular attention to the need for consultation with and the involvement of the various port authorities around the Australian coast. [More…]
When the Liberal-National Country Party Government was returned to power in 1975 the delay commenced again. [More…]
This relieving power will ensure that ordinary trusts for children under 16 years of age will not be called on to pay tax where the income is under $1,041. [More…]
The Government said that the New South Wales Electricity Authority would be actively involved in a coal mine, but coal from that mine would not have any direct use in power generation in New South Wales; obviously it would be for export. [More…]
The power is now ours and therefore we will exercise it’. [More…]
In broad terms, all shore-based activities around the Australian coastline, such as ports, jetties and harbours, and matters such as dumping and pollution, surf life-saving and power boats, ought to be under the control of the States. [More…]
In the area in which one would have expected the greatest conflict, mining for petroleum and other minerals, it was agreed generally to seek the establishment of joint Commonwealth and State authorities- authorities for the Commonwealth and each State, or maybe an authority comprising the Commonwealth and all States, but I think that the Premiers prefer a separate authority for each State- where responsibility and power would be shared and where the broad administration would be undertaken by the States. [More…]
Agreement was also reached in relation to treaties and the seeking of federal clauses in treaties to prevent the circumstances in which a Commonwealth government could use its treatymaking power and its external affairs power to overturn what is normally the legislative authority of the States. [More…]
We have seen the abuse of union power abetted by the Labor Party, and we have seen the Government’s continuing success on the economic front which makes me well prepared for any election. [More…]
That came from a government which has set upon a course of deliberate confrontation and provocation throughout its term- a government which deliberately prolonged the air traffic controllers strike, which rushed through in a single day the Commonwealth Employees (Employment Provisions) Act, overturning arrangements which have existed for 70 years, and which moved to deregister unions involved in the Victorian power dispute in the middle of discussions between the Australian Council of Trade Unions and the unions. [More…]
Three months after this Government came into power, it froze half of the Aboriginal Land Fund Commission’s allocation. [More…]
It seeks power, not to give leadership to the Australian community, not to raise the level of the community or its aspirations and horizons in Uving standards but merely to put forward a series of promises in the hope that the majority of people will believe them. [More…]
We have seen progress and massive development since his Government came to power, with the investment of about $ 14,000m in new projects. [More…]
We have been, and are, witnessing the frightening capacity of a relatively small group of unionists in the Victorian power industry to wreak havoc on the entire community. [More…]
They have no power whatsoever to give a directive to an officer of another union that is a completely separate entity with its own separate legal personality. [More…]
In their greed and their lust for power in this place, they have sown a wind but, they will reap a social whirlwind. [More…]
There is no doubt that the National Civic Council over the last 20 years and more has been interested in gaining power and supremacy in decision-making and policy-making within the Australian Labor Party. [More…]
The whole strike was a sad and tragic affair and I am very glad indeed that those directly involved have now decided that power must be returned to Victorian homes and factories so that there can be a beginning of the repairing of the damage. [More…]
As I have said, the Government regards this legislation as conferring a power which is required by governments and necessary for them to have. [More…]
That part gives the Government, through the Reserve Bank, the power to make regulations over asset ratios, ending policies and interest rates of financial corporations, including building societies. [More…]
State authorities can exercise a similar power in the case of building societies. [More…]
Even if they were fully exercised, those powers in Part IV are not adequate or appropriate to ensure the financial stability of individual societies. [More…]
The Federal Government will continue to do what is within its power to ensure that confidence is retained by depositors in building societies. [More…]
Surely Australia’s role in the Antarctic is not going to be seen as that of another colonial power. [More…]
The United States of America, our great and powerful friend, as somebody was once wont to call it, does not maintain any territorial claims to the Antarctic continent, but it gathers scientific research material in that area. [More…]
Later, of course, there was the inquiry into whether radio station 2KA could move its aerial further down the mountain, increase its power and so fan out over the western suburbs. [More…]
What we did do while we were in power- I will now side with the Minister- was to stop the confusion which surrounded the Post Office and its various functions. [More…]
I spoke last night about the expulsion from the Tasmanian branch of the Australian Labor Party of Mr Watling and Mr Imlach and of the continuing power grab by the pro-communist Left in Tasmania which has already taken over the State Branch of the ALP and which is endeavouring to take over control of the Tasmanian Trades and Labour Council. [More…]
Is the Board an advisory body only and as such does not have the power to grant approvals to examinable foreign investment proposals. [More…]
They exercise a power greatly in excess of that which their numbers would justify, among other reasons because they often strongly support the interests of trade unionists and put their full force behind industrial issues. [More…]
Shall not dispose of any part of their shareholdings in RUM or exercise their voting power as shareholders in RUM in a manner inconsistent with the 1974 Agreement or with this Memorandum of Understanding. [More…]
We must draw on the same dedication to freedom today to resist the growth of oppression and abuse of power in our community. [More…]
From the time the Government came to power it is quite clear that very lengthy discussions took place with the States for the purpose of establishing a rationalised legal aid system in this country. [More…]
There must be power to invoke judicial remedies for breaches. [More…]
He is no longer at the mercy of an individual- the Minister- who has great power over a deportee in such circumstances. [More…]
During the drafting of the Darwin Community College Ordinance 1973, it became apparent that provisions for the payment of budget appropriations, which are normally included in Acts constituting Commonwealth authorities, were beyond the power of a Territory ordinance. [More…]
They are nothing more than a political device to try to concentrate political power and votes in the city areas, at the expense of country people. [More…]
All my adult life I have respected to some degree but hated the power of money. [More…]
Quite clearly in the forthcoming election campaign he cannot speak with any authority on economic matters, because his leader has publicly indicated that if Labor came to power the honourable member for Oxley would not be permitted to hold an economic post. [More…]
Britain today generates 1 1 per cent of its power from nuclear sources. [More…]
It was the first country in the world to embark on a nuclear power program. [More…]
It has developed to be the second largest proportional producer of electric power in the world- second only to Switzerland. [More…]
The honourable member will recall that several years ago the Government involved itself in providing the bulk of the funds for the big power station at Gladstone and it hoped that it could interest Comalco Ltd. [More…]
In fact, Comalco had the option of taking part of the power from that station at an attractive price so that it could compete with overseas smelters. [More…]
However, it clearly involved practical difficulties, including the vigorous opposition of the employers to nationalisation and the fact that although the external power would appear to provide constitutional power to nationalise the industry, the then Labor Government would have faced a very real difficulty in getting such legislation through the Senate. [More…]
It could get out of the industry altogether and try to restore a normal employer-employee relationship within the stevedoring industry or it could decide that the problems in the industry could be solved only by a government body having even greater disciplinary power and an even greater involvement than has the Australian Stevedoring Industry Authority at present and therefore perhaps going to the extent of nationalisation, as has been mentioned by the honourable member for Gellibrand. [More…]
Since 1968 the power of the Australian Stevedoring Industry Authority has waned. [More…]
For instance, in 1963, using its powers under the Waterfront Long Service Leave Act, the Authority fined waterside workers-its own workers- 1.2m by cancelling their already pitifully inadequate attendance money allowances. [More…]
Instead of being a force to reduce confrontation, it exacerbated confrontation by its over zealous use of its statutory disciplinary powers over individuals. [More…]
I have heard attacks made on the power workers in the Latrobe Valley because they wanted an increase in their miserable starting wage of $161 a week. [More…]
I am heartened by the assurance of the Minister that that matter will be kept under close scrutiny and that adequate power is contained in the legislation to allow traditional procedures and modes of operation to continue. [More…]
Under the Bill, the Minister will be given power to effect transfers of capital funds between sectors and between States after advice from the Commission. [More…]
It will also provide that the exemption under the new paragraph 23 (pa) does not apply where either the vendor or the purchaser of the mining right has the power to control the activities of the other party to the transaction or where any person has the power to control the entry into the transaction of both parties to the transaction. [More…]
In the two years since this Government has come to power, there has been a $234 increase per head of population in the tax collected. [More…]
I have no doubt that the overwhelming majority of Australians would sooner have a government that was actively involved in this arena, arguing not only for the safety of Australia but for the safety of the world, than a government that pretended that these activities did not exist- that nuclear power for peaceful purposes did not exist- and pretended that it could just live a life on an island continent and ignore the rest of the world. [More…]
So, the Deputy Leader of the Opposition attacked him, tried to denigrate the safeguards policy of the United Kingdom and tried to denigrate the safety of the long and proven nuclear power for peaceful purposes program in the United Kingdom. [More…]
He said he had enough problems without Whitlam getting back into power. [More…]
I have not the slightest doubt that it would fail here, for the simple reason that in setting up the Department of Economic Affairs the British Government created a body which had power over everything but responsibility for nothing. [More…]
Clause 4 gives the Governor-General power to grant a banking authority to a company with the name Australian Rural Bank Limited. [More…]
Under clause 5, however, the power to grant a banking authority shall only be exercised if the company’s Memorandum and Articles of Association conform to the provisions set out in the Schedule to the Act. [More…]
The Minister will have power to instruct the Commission as to the target dividend it should aim for in respect of its coastal operations, and the Commission will be required to report to the Minister during the trading year with proposals to correct the situation should it appear that the target will not be achieved. [More…]
If I remember correctly, inflation was running at 4.5 per cent when the Labor Government came to power in December 1972, and it was running at 17 per cent when it left government in November 1975. [More…]
They are worried about the disposal of the uranium waste after the uranium has been used in atomic power stations. [More…]
It is my hope and wish that not in my lifetime will Australia have to resort to the generation of power from atomic stations because we have the God-given assets of coal. [More…]
Fortunately the coal produced from Nymboida, which mine is being owned and run by the Miners Federation, is being consumed by a power station in the Grafton region. [More…]
That policy, which Mr Justice Fox said was now becoming ambiguous, had two main points: Firstly, the prohibition of the processing of the nuclear fuel from reactors and, secondly, the suspension of the program for what is known as fast breeders or power breeders which make more fuel than they consume. [More…]
Furthermore, no attempt to stop the development of nuclear power will be in the slightest way effective in stopping the proliferation of nuclear weapons. [More…]
It is so much greater than any other nuclear danger that in comparison the others are really not worth talking about I remind the House that countries such as France, Communist China, South Africa and Israel, which are now believed to have nuclear weapons capacity, did not get that capacity in any way through nuclear power. [More…]
If one wants to make plutonium, one would not use power reactors. [More…]
I can assure the House that anybody who thinks that by stopping the mining of Australian uranium or by stopping the development of nuclear power he is thereby impeding the processes of proliferation of nuclear weapons is very much astray. [More…]
If we deny to the world nuclear power, if we deny to it energy, we are going to have the tensions created by starvation and the elements that make for war. [More…]
To do so is to deny the reality that nuclear power is now adopted as a growing, major and significant force of energy in the world. [More…]
He referred to Egypt, Iran, Pakistan, India, Argentina and the Philippines, all of which in my view want to have their own nuclear power stations and do what they want with the by-products of those stations with no restrictions whatsoever including in some cases acquiring nuclear weapons. [More…]
The United Kingdom has no independent power to make contracts outside the EURATOM agreementand I stress that. [More…]
There is not a shortage of fuel for electric power generation. [More…]
There have been no new orders to power stations, nuclear or otherwise, in the United Kingdom for at least five years and there are unlikely to be any for several years in the future. [More…]
Let us look at the question of reduced nuclear power demand. [More…]
In other words, there has been a decline of 44 per cent in the projected 1985 levels of nuclear generated power in a period of less than one year. [More…]
Labor believes that, having regard to the present unresolved economic, social, biological, genetic, environmental and technical problems associated with the mining of uranium, the development of nuclear power should not continue at this stage. [More…]
That all words after ‘That’ be omitted with a view to substituting the following words: ‘the House is of the opinion that the Bill should be withdrawn and redrafted because (a) it greatly increases the power of the Minister in relation to licensing of broadcastmg and television services and is contrary to the stated intention of the Government to “take broadcasting out of politics”, (b) the functions of the proposed Special Broadcasting Service are vague and imprecise and do not provide adequate machinery for the provision of ethnic broadcasting services, and (c) there is inadequate provision for public participation and involvement in the process of broadcasting regulation ‘. [More…]
Senator Townley attacked the clause giving the tribunal power to suspend stations for up to seven days for breaches of the law because of the effect it could have on their turnover. [More…]
A traditional objectionable feature of the broadcasting policy over many years has been the power of the Minister to grant broadcasting licences. [More…]
But the power of renewing licences given to the Tribunal is a very empty power in view of the new powers which the Minister takes upon himself by virtue of this legislation. [More…]
Even during the currency of a licence, the Minister is empowered to alter its specifications and conditions. [More…]
Yet when London Weekend ran into difficulties, the authority seemed willing to jettison this principle and allow Mr Murdoch substantial power within the company. [More…]
For example, the media is critical of what is happening and clause 25 transfers the power from the Secretary of the Department of Post and Telecommunications to the Minister. [More…]
The Federation of Australian Radio Broadcasters was most critical of what was going on because it wants to have this power in the hands of the Minister so that the Ansetts, the Murdochs and those people can bring pressure to bear. [More…]
That service also empowers the Minister to authorise by regulation ethnic television and radio services and to provide broadcasting and television services for such special purposes as are prescribed. [More…]
This gives the Minister total power to prescribe broadcasting and television programs which are to be provided by the special service. [More…]
It is a wide and sweeping power given to the Minister which should not be included in legislation of this Parliament. [More…]
No Minister who seeks to take broadcasting out of politics should have the powers of prescription of this order. [More…]
As a result of the legislation the Tribunal will have the power to grant, to renew, to suspend and to revoke licences in conjunction with public hearings. [More…]
The achievement of the coalition parties since coming back into power, on top of thenprevious 23 years of non-activity, has to been to go backwards, with the closure of 3ZZ, the gutting, if I may use that term, of 2EA and 3EA and no further action on the tertiary education institution licences. [More…]
If I ever had that power, I would be perfectly happy to assume that I could do whatever I liked with the broadcasting system. [More…]
That is exactly what that power grants to the Minister. [More…]
By these sorts of powers that the Minister is taking unto himself, he can so specify the conditions of the licence that there would be no doubt that only one applicant would ever qualify. [More…]
I am making a plain, non-party political point I make the simple statement that those powers in the hands of the Minister are the antithesis of what he is claiming this legislation is supposed to achieve. [More…]
Those points cover our objection that the Bill puts too much power in the hands of the Minister. [More…]
We objected to the amendment made to the law recently because it gave the power of planning to the Department. [More…]
When it came to power it found that this was not so; in fact, it proceeded to issue the licences. [More…]
The Government suffered all those years before we came to power in 1972. [More…]
I am not suggesting that the present Minister for Post and Telecommunications would do so, but he has to admit that this legislation is giving that sort of power to a Minister. [More…]
It is a power that could be potentially disastrous. [More…]
I do not want to embrace that description of myself, but if it were true, under the power given to the Minister in this legislation, if I were of that mind, I would be able to do the very things the Minster would not want done, the very things he criticised me for trying to do and which of course I was not doing at all. [More…]
I am simply trying to point out to him, if it is possible in this mad place, in a non-party political way- theoretically this is meant to be a place where we can air issues in a non-partisan sense if we can and if we want to; and I am trying to do that- that this legislation does give an individual the powers I am sure the Minister would not want somebody, maybe such as myself, to have. [More…]
I can certainly think of a lot of people whom I would not want to have these particular powers. [More…]
What we discerned when we were in power was that there was an awakening in the community to the importance of communications. [More…]
It might surprise him to hear me say that I do not question his sincerity in espousing all of the potential evils that might spring from the power vested in the Minister for Post and Telecommunications to determine the nature and quality of the broadcasting and television systems we will have in this country. [More…]
It seems to me that this device is the only insurance we have against those evils coming about because the Minister has no autocratic power to determine policies on the nature of broadcasting systems. [More…]
All the things that the honourable member for Maribyrnong proposed as evil possibilities could be perpetrated by an instrumentality if the power were handed over to it. [More…]
It seems perfectly logical to me that the elected Government should determine the nature of our systems and, having done that, to hand over to the Australian Broadcasting Tribunal the power to apply the statutes- not to usurp from the elected representatives the responsibility for determining the nature of the system but to apply the criteria determined by this Government as to the system we should have. [More…]
It is the responsibility of the Government to ensure that within the Act it retains sufficient power to see that norms and standards of decency are maintained. [More…]
People who feel some apprehension about certain ingredients of the Bill express some reservations as to whether the Minister for Post and Telecommunications, or an alternative Minister or a replacement Minister, should have the power to exercise his own personal brand of mischief. [More…]
Although there is power, apparently in the regulations, to set up a broadcasting council there is no direction in the Bill as to what it will consist of. [More…]
This latter power is taken away by the proposed new section. [More…]
The Parliament should not give away to some tribunal the power to determine the morals of the community. [More…]
Clause 84 gives the Minister or any Minister extraordinary powers- powers far removed from those which should be properly held by a Minister of the Crown or by any person who is in a position to exercise political control over a broadcasting service, especially one whose aim is said to be a special one and concerned with ethnic matters. [More…]
Clause 84, in conjunction with clause 85, would, if interpreted literally, give the Minister power almost to establish the basic program, format and content of a radio station and also to remove a licence from a station which acted contrary to the Minister’s direction. [More…]
That is a power which I believe ought not to exist, irrespective of which political party is in office. [More…]
The clause gives the Minister powers which are too wide and which can be interpreted and which could be used in a manner which the Minister would possibly not wish or intend. [More…]
Our advice is that this clause could be interpreted in such a way as to give the Minister power to fix conditions under which a station operates. [More…]
Why should the people trust them by giving them that sort of power? [More…]
That is the sort of power that should never lie with them. [More…]
It is important to the integrity of the service and to the Minister’s own standing that that power should not exist. [More…]
Even if it is only a possible power, the Bill ought to be altered in order to prevent it from existing. [More…]
The fact is that since the Government came to power it has taken every possible step - [More…]
The assurance, while not having a great deal of power, did have a significant psychological effect. [More…]
The Tribunal viewed the program yesterday and decided that it did not have the power to act on Mr Combe ‘s demand for equal time for the Opposition as it is not yet the election period for the Federal election. [More…]
One is largely the disastrous power dispute in Victoria. [More…]
I regard the motion for the suspension of Standing Orders as a total misuse of parliamentary time and of the parliamentary power of the majority. [More…]
The people who exercise power in an arbitrary and a capricious fashion are due for the axe themselves before long. [More…]
We are having a debate on economic management and on the economic policies of the Labor Party when it was last in power. [More…]
In the case of the Northern Territory electricity supply undertaking the financial results since 1971-72 clearly indicate that increasing costs of operation have not been matched by corresponding increases in revenue to recover the full costs of providing power to residents. [More…]
I hope that whichever government is in power after 10 December will look at this for the purpose of possibly increasing the level of the means test for the unemployment benefit so that if a husband and wife really earn only a basic minimum income they still receive some subsidy when one or the other becomes unemployed. [More…]
When this Government came to power the pensions payable were $38.75 at the single standard rate and $64.50 at the married rate. [More…]
It is not within the power of the Government to direct State governments to collect patient contributions for pharmaceuticals dispensed at recognised hospital outpatient departments. [More…]
We have already been told that that Party of great economic irresponsibility has learned nothing and will once again be enormously irresponsible if returned to power. [More…]
Has the Government discussed with the Queensland Government the future role of hydropower generation in the Queensland electricity supply network to which the Federal-State Burdekin project committee directed attention in its report in May this year? [More…]
Has the Government pursued the proposal which I put to the Premier of Queensland in June 1974 that the Australian Government, in conjunction with the Queensland Government, should undertake an examination of the ways and means of increasing efficiency and reducing costs within the power system with a view to lowering the price of electrical energy in Queensland? [More…]
Of course, the big contribution that the Commonwealth Government has made has been financial assistance towards construction of the Gladstone power station. [More…]
It has paid the larger part of the cost of construction of that very large power station and has guaranteed the Queensland Government that further funds will be made available for continuing development of that station. [More…]
The matter of hydropower which the Leader of the Opposition mentioned incorporates not only power generation but also the question of water resources. [More…]
The number of unemployed, according to current CES statistics, has been grossly swollen as a result of the Victorian power dispute- a dispute which some honourable gentlemen on the Opposition benches supported. [More…]
Finally, assistance to research and development, particularly in coal liquefaction and solar power, should assist in developing new options which we may be able to capitalise on at some future stage. [More…]
The integration of pyrolysis with power generation would fit a similar time-scale. [More…]
In Australia there appears to be little possibility of generating electricity from nuclear power before 1990. [More…]
I understand that the present Government is obsessed with State rights and therefore is loth to interfere with the power of State governments in the field of education. [More…]
Under the Bill, the Minister will be given power to effect transfers of capital funds between sectors and between States after advice from the Commission. [More…]
I concede that one of the things that confronts this Government is to do everything in its power to assist in whatever way it can to enable those prices to rise. [More…]
This clause gives the Treasurer the power to make loans. [More…]
It gives to the Treasurer power to make advances, to pay out Commonwealth money and to add to the deficit without any constraint whatsoever. [More…]
The sole power of the Treasurer is to revoke a licence. [More…]
So the Treasurer will be given a power the exercise of which will cause consequences quite unforeseeable. [More…]
If he does not exercise that power, he has no control whatsoever over the policy of the Bank. [More…]
The Committee considered that one important function of the consumer protection provisions of the Act is to redress, between supplier and customer, inequalities in the technical expertise required to recognise, and the bargaining power to negotiate, a fair bargain. [More…]
This is in line with his power in respect of Trans-Australia Airlines. [More…]
It provides the Minister with a power to disapprove proposed rates within 60 days of notice. [More…]
Clause 14 deals with the power of the Minister to determine the dividend to be paid to the Commonwealth. [More…]
Clause 17 gives the Minister power to determine disposal of the balance of ANL profits for the financial year. [More…]
The States will have the power to allocate funds between the various individual projects. [More…]
Hence power and responsibility are being handed back to the level of government closest to the people. [More…]
I put this to the House because electrification is particularly desirable where a line has either heavy traffic or heavy grades, or both, because the electric locomotive running on an outside power source is the ideal animal to deal with the heavy grades. [More…]
I do not believe that any other Minister has taken unto himself the power that this Minister has in the management of his Department. [More…]
All I can say is: More power to the Minister, more opportunity for back room deals. [More…]
The Minister is left with more power and is in the position to negotiate, to give out largesse. [More…]
6 passenger bays and the aerobridges of TAA, in the Qantas power house, in a Qantas hanger and in a TAA hanger. [More…]
Australian courts already have the power to order a parent or guardian involved in a custody suit to surrender a travel document in which a child ‘s name appears. [More…]
European Communities Information Research and Development pamphlet 9/77 states that in 1976 there were the following numbers of nuclear installations in the civil nuclear industries of the nine member States of the European Atomic Energy Community (EURATOM): 35 preparation and frabrication plants 71 power reactors 117 research reactors 13 reprocessing plants 211 research centres, laboratories, stores, enrichment plants and others. [More…]
the radiated power and [More…]
This Parliament needs a more discretionary power in the hands of the Speaker. [More…]
Its fundamental belief is that a better society can only be realised by giving the men and women of Australia a greater measure of choice, power and freedom. [More…]
After Sir Robert Menzies’ return to power in 1949, Sir John served as Attorney-General for seven years. [More…]
But it is within the power and within the capacity of the Reserve Bank so to adjust its activities if it decides that it is necessary to do so. [More…]
There is a grave risk that we will be short of skilled manpower in many sectors of industry. [More…]
Since the coalition came to office, every Australian family has experienced a progressive reduction in spending power. [More…]
Of that figure 163,000 people have lost their jobs or failed to get jobs since this Government came to power two years ago. [More…]
There was no recognition from the Opposition in this debate of the problems facing a government which inherited the economic situation of two years ago compared with the relatively minor problems which the Labor Government inherited when it came to power. [More…]
Let us look at what the present Government took over when it came to power. [More…]
I refer to some of the more irresponsible elements in the trade union movement- the people who, for example, brought about the La Trobe Valley power strike last year. [More…]
The effects of that power strike are still being felt throughout the economy, not only in Victoria but interstate as well. [More…]
It relates to the hours of meeting, the Speaker’s discretion when a quorum is not present, the counting of members in a quorum, the adjournment of the House, including time limits for speeches, the routine of business, the ringing of division bells for successive divisions and the power to add a protest or dissent to a Committee report. [More…]
It is interesting to note that his maiden speech in 1949 gave some indication of his power of foresight. [More…]
His speech was devoted to the powers of the Senate and the possible difficulties constitutionally should that House exercise its undoubted capacity to block Supply. [More…]
Another is the further development of the concept of new federalism, giving the States and local government greater decision-making powers and responsibility- putting power where it belongs, closest to the people it most affects. [More…]
I am not too sure that the sovereignty of any nation is as strong as the power wielded by multinational corporations which stride across national boundaries and which owe allegiance to nobody but themselves. [More…]
It is so fragile that it will collapse unless the Executive starts to return to it the prestige, the power and the position which the people’s Parliament is entitled to hold. [More…]
It has just been the people’s inane respect for a parliament which most people, foolishly, still think is the supreme power in the land. [More…]
The Executive has permitted the erosion of its own power. [More…]
The Parliament has allowed the Executive to emasculate the Parliament’s power. [More…]
I object to the Executive using the power of party discipline to force Parliament to subjugate its own rights and to grovel in the dirt at the feet of an Executive that ought to be its servant. [More…]
If we are to succeed in restoring the Parliament to its proper position of power, we must begin by lifting the status of the person we elect to be our Speaker. [More…]
By a simple amendment to the Standing Orders we can at once give that power to the Speaker, and we ought to do it. [More…]
The more independent the Parliament, the more dependent the Executive arm will be upon the power of Parliament. [More…]
They cannot see that a restructured Canned Fruits Board, using a levy power to control price cutting and to improve the level and speed with which payments are made to growers, is essential and must go hand in hand with rationalisation. [More…]
Both the industry and the Minister believe that some restructuring of the Board is necessary and that it requires greater powers. [More…]
Whilst it is claimed that an energy conservation program will be carried out, nothing is said of encouragement of development of alternatives to fossil fuels or uranium for power generation. [More…]
This proposal envisages a pilot scheme for an isolated township where already power costs exceed the modest projected costs of this new solar alternative. [More…]
No other research project in the world competes with this one in its capacity to provide for small isolated communities, along with greatly increasing economic advantages for increasingly large centres later on, especially as the costs of power generation from coal and petroleum rise and as expertise in the new method accumulates. [More…]
No other scheme offers such promise of boosting the Australian steel and automobile industries which would be called upon to provide much of the hardware and which in 1 0 or 15 years might actually be producing units for export with this new method of power production, particularly to under-developed nations, in a volume that would exceed in value our present automobile industry. [More…]
Instead, the Government seems dazzled by the grand salesmanship of the multi-national giants who stand to lose thousands of millions of dollars if nuclear power development continues to be delayed, as it has been recently by President Carter who is awaiting further assurances of safety and economy. [More…]
These super salesmen have sold the Government the idea that it is its duty to developing nations to promote this highly monopolised, this administratively tyrannical alternative to nuclear power, but in fact it is the most developed, the most centralised and industrialised nations which are planning this technology and have started to use it for their own advanced economies. [More…]
We know that the possession by government of the power over the economic and the financial resources of a community ultimately reflects the extent to which governments will allow their people to be independent and the households of the nation to make their own decisions. [More…]
During the years after Hitler took power in Germany before the Second World War, I became acutely aware of the reluctance of too many so-called free nations to open their doors to refugees who, unable to escape, were thrown into concentration camps and were exterminated. [More…]
If this is so, why has the Government changed the whole administrative arrangements for migrants by once again concentrating all power in all areas of migrant welfare in the most centralised department of all, the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs? [More…]
One of the advantages of our moves to decentralise this power, to take it out of Canberra, to get it into the local areas where the migrants live, was that it allowed more direct community responsibility, particularly on the part of the migrants themselves. [More…]
For most of the years when most of the migrants came to this country a Liberal government was in power. [More…]
The ethnic communities had to wait until a Labor government came to power in 1972 before any thought was given to providing ethnic programs for those communities. [More…]
When I arrived in Paris I spoke to a French ambassador who said that any person who thinks that he speaks with authority on international affairs and discards China does not understand the balance of power in the world. [More…]
He suggested that the two great factors in the world economy will be the European Common Market and the balance of power between China and Japan. [More…]
In China we are regarded as imbeciles; we do not understand world power; we have not comprehended the power of the Soviet Union. [More…]
I suppose a few people might have noticed that a satellite driven by nuclear power came down in Canada. [More…]
How many people in Australia actually noted that a satellite driven by nuclear power came down in Canada? [More…]
Did any members of the Opposition rush to the Russian Embassy and say: ‘I say, trade unions and all the rest of it; you are actually putting into outer space nuclear-powered satellites without our knowing ‘. [More…]
Was any protest made throughout the nation at the Soviet Union actually having in outer space a satellite driven by nuclear power? [More…]
The more I analyse the facts, the more I wonder whether the Opposition party or the Government parties understand what in fact is happening in world power. [More…]
At every meeting that I had with Chinese Ministers concerned with foreign affairs they pointed out that Australia and Western Europe are completely unable to understand the power of the Soviet Union. [More…]
The balance of power between China and Japan is important to us. [More…]
As I understand it, the honourable senator, having used up all his own travel funds, immediately abolished the funds for other members as soon as he came into a position of power. [More…]
For instance, in 1972 the purchasing power of average weekly earnings could buy 372 loaves of bread; in 1975 it could buy 420 loaves of bread; and in 1977 the number of loaves of bread dropped to 374. [More…]
In the case of tea, the purchasing power of average weekly earnings in 1972, 1975 and 1977 could buy 140 lbs of tea, 190 lbs of tea and 95 lbs of tea respectively. [More…]
The Government has to take all legitimate measures within its power to ensure that it does not back down and that a satisfactory solution to this disgraceful episode is brought about as soon as possible. [More…]
Having thus materially contributed to the financial disaster into which the Society was plunged in 1 975 the AIDC has now washed its hands of the whole matter and by exercising its power under its mortgage is now going to recoup its money at the expense of completely destroying a producer’s co-operative. [More…]
I seek to impress upon this House the need for this Government to use any powers open to it to assist the AIDC in arranging the financial assistance necessary to save the CF&G co-operative from disintegration. [More…]
In 1973, it became apparent that provisions for the payment of Budget appropriations may be beyond the power of a Territory ordinance. [More…]
The authorities set out in the Schedule are limited to those established since 1973, when legal doubts about the powers of an ordinance arose. [More…]
Ordinances creating new Territory authorities since 1973 have been prepared on the basis that certain financial provisions were probably beyond their power and would be provided for in complementary legislation. [More…]
The Minister will have the power to bring additional matters to the attention of the Commission and to direct the Commission as to the priority it should observe in having regard to its policy guidelines in the performance of its functions. [More…]
They are competitors for power; for the people’s favours. [More…]
For instance, on this side of the chamber we do not quibble with the aim of giving the people of Australia a greater measure of choice, power and freedom. [More…]
The Government’s policies seem to us to give to people of material resources, of some substance- the richer people of the community- these choices, these powers and these freedoms. [More…]
But that fall was on the way when this Government came into power. [More…]
To top it all off, there has been a reduction in the powers of the Prices Justification Tribunal and the Trade Practices Commission. [More…]
We were in office- never in power, only in office- at a time when an international economic crisis overtook the world. [More…]
The Australian Government has constitutional power to enact a Bill of Rights to give the Australian citizens judicial protection. [More…]
Surely by now there can be no doubt that the Prime Minister is really concerned with power. [More…]
Let us hope that the Government can do so and that in the eyes of the people this Parliament can be returned to its previous position of prestige and power, a position which the people of this nation have a right to expect it to hold. [More…]
It is an essential principle that the persons declaring such a state of emergency should be different persons from those vested with the power which is established by that sort of authority. [More…]
I believe that one of the strengths in our society’s sustaining its democratic nature is by the way in which power and authority are dispersed in smaller areas within the overall structure of our system. [More…]
What happened last week tends to suggest that the Government can mobilise forces under section 6 1 of the Constitution, the general executive power of the Commonwealth. [More…]
It places enormous power in the hands of a government and in the hands of one man if he is a powerful, influential and domineering man in that government. [More…]
that the persons declaring the emergency are not those in whom the power vests; [More…]
that the decision of authorities vested with emergency power be subjected to independent review; [More…]
Indeed, the mechanism for the legal approach to the call-out was discussed with the Premier in two terms: In terms of a strict request from the State, and therefore in terms of aid to the civil power; or, secondly, in terms of the use of the Commonwealth’s own authority and responsibility to protect people against possible acts of terrorism. [More…]
I am concerned about the enormity of the power at the disposal of the Government, as displayed last week, and the fact that it is highly doubtful whether these matters can be brought to account in the courts. [More…]
An increasing complexity in decision making, involving a likely shift of power away from elected parliaments/governments towards groups commanding various locations’, or ‘situses’, in society- for example, technocrats, public servants, multinationals, banks, trades unions and universities. [More…]
Its proportion of the work force is now likely to contract and must do so while the Government persists in policies such as payroll tax and the generous depreciation allowance on equipment which encourage the replacement of manpower by machine power. [More…]
His career, which seems to many to be ultimately a failure, illustrates the difficulty in trying to reconcile the pursuit of love and the pursuit of power- a dilemma which faces or ought to face us all. [More…]
If we devote ourselves to the pursuit of power we ultimately destroy ourselves, as I believe the Prime Minister will find one day when it is too late. [More…]
On the other hand, if we pursue love we may opt out of the struggle for power. [More…]
Criticism has been coming from the community about the control and power that are being exercised jointly by the Executive and the Public Service and I believe that there is some justification for this criticism. [More…]
A power structure that could not be said to be in the best interests of the Australian community has been established in Canberra over an evolutionary period. [More…]
I refer in particular to such things as power microphones. [More…]
The position of Governor-General has been established in recent years- more specifically since 1975- as one of enormous power. [More…]
It includes the reserve and discretionary power of the Prime Minister which seems to be almost boundless; his power, which we saw quite recently, to authorise the declaration of a state of emergency which can be limitless; and, of course, his authority to allow an election to take place quite out of phase with the normal parliamentary period of office, which was used in 1977. [More…]
It is not a power exercised by the Governor-General in Council. [More…]
I put this very squarely because I repeat that the position of Governor-General is one with enormous power. [More…]
That has been established but we do not know the bounds of that power. [More…]
We cannot have confidence in the security and independence of democratic institutions of government if there is to be this unbounded power which presumably can be infected in its use by certain blandishments and approaches. [More…]
He noted the power of that office. [More…]
Hayden) knows and understands that there are certain circumstances in which GovernorsGeneral not only have an independent authority and power but must so exercise it to preserve the rights and liberties of the people of Australia. [More…]
The independent exercise of that power in 1975 was designed quite specifically to protect the Parliament, the authority of Parliament, and hence the authority of the people against an executive that was seeking to trample upon the rights of Parliament and the rights of the people throughout Australia. [More…]
We need to understand that in 1975 the Government in power was seeking to govern without the approval of Parliament. [More…]
The Commonwealth had no power to provide funds or to guarantee the repayment of funds unless an appropriation had been made through Parliament. [More…]
It ought to be noted, as I am advised, that it was the present Leader of the Opposition who dreamed up the plan to try to force trading banks to finance the operations of a government which had lost its power to get its Budget through the Parliament. [More…]
This man was prepared to tear the fabric of Australian politics to pieces to get into office by what Steele Hall described as the sleazy road to power. [More…]
There is no power in this Government other than his power. [More…]
There is no power in the front bench. [More…]
The Prime Minister has more power than we see in any United States President. [More…]
There is no person more arrogant or more conceited with his power than this Prime Minister. [More…]
These are the people in power and these also are the people who seem to be intent on repudiating the trust which the people of Australia have handed them. [More…]
The Government is committed to the devolution of power from this democratically constituted Parliament to gerrymandered and malapportioned parliaments around the country. [More…]
Many of those issues involve questions fundamental to the direction which Australia will follow in the last quarter of this century- questions concerning our rising affluence while we continue to be surrounded by countries which suffer from immense and deep seated poverty; questions of how to employ our people whose skills are being made daily more redundant by the relentless march of technology; questions of our extravagant use of energy in an energy starved world; questions of how in an increasingly materialistic society we can be encouraged to have some concern for our fellow man; questions of how we deal with powerful international economic forces in this country so that Australians do not sacrifice further the control of our country’s destiny; questions of how best to share power and responsibility between the various tiers of government; and questions of the alienation of minority and other groups which manifests itself eventually in a repudiation by them of law and order. [More…]
The Fraser Government forfeited its right to become a government of national consensus by the means it chose first to achieve power. [More…]
It is clear that this Government does not believe that political equality is one of those matters which unite all Australians or, more importantly, that political equality is basic to giving Australians a greater measure of choice, power and freedom. [More…]
but the crucial power over the allocation of resources either in Britain or abroad lies with a miniscule class of enormously powerful top managers. [More…]
Of course there is evidence to suggest that the concentration of power in the oligopolistic sector in Australia is as significant, if not as great, as in Britain. [More…]
If the Prime Minister is committed to the Governor-General’s word- I do not believe he is- about ‘giving the men and women of Australia a greater measure of choice, power and freedom’ it is to this corporate sector that he must turn. [More…]
He said that the people in power, meaning the politicians of all persuasions, were being influenced by the vocal change minority. [More…]
Surely the Government must be wondering whether the attack on the purchasing power of this community might be resulting in a fall in the production of motor cars. [More…]
In 1974 they threatened to breach constitutional convention in their grab for power. [More…]
To retain power in 1 977 the conservative coalition debauched the economicdebate by a combination of the politics of deceit and the crudest appeals to human greed. [More…]
I generally believe that if a government is elected to power in the lower House and has the numbers and can maintain the numbers in the lower House, it is entitled to expect that it will govern for the three year term unless quite extraordinary events intervene. [More…]
Perhaps a revision of the basic pension guidelines which have remained unchanged since the Labor Party was in power. [More…]
In most of Mediterranean Europe more radical versions of socialism are poised on the edge of power. [More…]
I can only hope that its going down will prove less destructive of the political order and less damaging to the social fabric of this country than was its coming to power. [More…]
when I believe the social process requires decentralisation and participation rather than more centralisation of power. [More…]
Child endowment was rarely adjusted to compensate for the declining purchasing power of the dollar. [More…]
However, the honourable member would know- indeed Mr Roper would know- that the Commonwealth Government has no constitutional power whatsoever to set doctors’ fees; the State governments do. [More…]
We have no power. [More…]
the development and management of water resources so that, where practicable and desirable, other purposes such as flood mitigation, power generation, recreation and wildlife conservation are achieved in parallel with the purposes referred to above; [More…]
undertake projection of regional water requirements in appropriate areas for approximately 10 to 30 years ahead, taking into account requirements for domestic and municipal purposes, primary and secondary industries, power generation, recreation and wildlife habitat, and with due regard to the sensitivity of demand to various factors such as technological and social change and price; [More…]
It has so many things in its favour in respect of flood mitigation, power supply and the provision of water for industry. [More…]
The beauty of hills, it seems to me, is so often upset by works to provide for the supply of power or water or roads by governments. [More…]
If we fail to restore the power of this institution, I feel that we might as well forget about all our grandiose plans for a new and permanent Parliament House. [More…]
If we as members are submerged by the effort of effectively looking after the needs of some 70,000 electors and perhaps an electorate of 100,000 people and and have only one secretary and one assistant to help us, how can we make an effective contribution to parliamentary matters, even if we had any power to monitor the Executive in this place? [More…]
Much is said about the corrupting influences of power. [More…]
We all know the quotation: ‘Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely’. [More…]
What is relevant is another quotation from Oscar Wilde, who said: ‘Power is wonderful, and absolute power is absolutely wonderful’. [More…]
He seems to think that power lies in the Executive. [More…]
If the honourable member ever became a member of the Executive he would be further disenchanted, because power does not lie even in the Executive. [More…]
Power really lies in the corporate sector of this country; power really lies in the media of this country; power really lies in the bureaucracy of this country; and of course to some extent power lies in the Executive, but it is a very limited power. [More…]
One of the reasons why the Executive, the Government, cannot solve the problem of unemployment is that it has neither the policies nor the real power to do it. [More…]
I want to deal with the transfer of power which I believe is necessary if we are to solve the crucial problem of unemployment. [More…]
In the past two years alone the purchasing power of the work force, particularly those people on average weekly earnings, has dropped by at least $ 1 6 a week. [More…]
While claiming to be interested in giving people a ‘greater measure of power’, this Government has taken up the task of making sure that the ordinary Australian people have less power-less economic power [More…]
and less political power- than they have ever had since the Great Depression. [More…]
While claiming to be ‘good economic managers’, this Government is reorganising the basic structure of the Australian economy to favour those powerful interests that have great influence on its policies and its parties’ finances. [More…]
What is required are far-reaching policies of changeto combat the real causes of unemployment; to shift power over decisions about production from the present centre to a new centre that will gear production to meet a more just and social objective. [More…]
As consciousness grows within the Labor movement and the Australian people about the consequences to them of decisions now been taken by the power elite, no amount of propaganda, manipulation or repression will be able to prevent this conservative coalition giving way to a more democratic, more just, more equitable and more independent and self-reliant society. [More…]
I said to this man: ‘I accept your argument, but do not forget that there is always one danger, and that is that with a oneparty system, with one man literally in authority, there is a danger that when you achieve that purpose, that fulfilment and that progress, the joys and privileges of power will become such that there will be a reluctance to hand that power over to someone else or to run the risk of that power being taken away from you ‘. [More…]
This Government has been in power for over two years. [More…]
Separately, the Prime Minister has written to Premiers and asked that within their province they ensure that action is taken to minimise the malfunctions of the auction system It is within the power of State governments to contain these functions rather than within the power of the Federal Government. [More…]
The peculiar power of this Committee lies in its terms of reference. [More…]
The Bill gives the Royal Australian Navy power- I think rightly so- to protect itself against the sorts of antics that we saw a year or so ago just after the fire at the Nowra naval base. [More…]
It is important to emphasise, as the honourable member for Adelaide (Mr Hurford) did, that the IAC has absolutely no executive power to enforce its decisions or recommendations upon the Government. [More…]
The Government has the power to reject, accept or amend the recommendations which the IAC has made and it is perfectly proper that the Government should have that power. [More…]
If the Government has the power to respond to draft reports in this way I think this practice will have very serious implications for the way in which the Commission operates. [More…]
When this Government came to power, it had the opportunity to rationalise one section of the industry- the four-cylinder engine section. [More…]
But when this Government came to power again it bowed to General Motors-Holden Pty Ltd, Ford Australia Ltd, Chrysler Australia Ltd and the new Japanese entrants and said: ‘We will have four-cylinder engine plants all over the place and if we cannot get enough of these engines we will have a quota for them to be imported’. [More…]
The Labor Party, in its struggle to make Canberra the centre of real power, trampled on all those firms which made up the free enterprise sector. [More…]
Its wish for a trade union dominated central power base has at this point of time been thwarted. [More…]
Like Hughes, the Prime Minister has an enormous, inordinate, unappeasable drive for power. [More…]
Like Richard Nixon, with whom he shares many characteristics, he is an ostensible conservative who does not hesitate to radicalise political institutions and conventions so long as his actions help to consolidate him in power. [More…]
The Government seeks to argue that its policies generally are designed to increase real spending power. [More…]
There has been, on the part of the Government, a conspiracy to depress real spending power for wage and salary earners in the community quite markedly. [More…]
We are talking about the effect of Government charges on people’s spending power. [More…]
What I am putting to the House and to the Government is that its policies, designed to reduce further real spending power, very simply will mean less consumer demand and accordingly a lower requirement for economic activity and people employed in the work force. [More…]
That immediately reduced the spending power of people by the amount of the charges for health insurance and subsequently, because of the claim before the Arbitration Commission, resulted in a further partial reduction in the real spending power of people on the basis of the Government’s assertion before the. [More…]
It argued quite forcibly that there should be a most substantial reduction in the real income of wage and salary earners in the community as part of this generally unwise, excessive tactic that it has been putting forward about the need to depress the spending power of the people; in other words, the need to depress the economy further as part of its tactic to bring the economy back into control. [More…]
Since this Government came to power it has cut the inflation rate in half. [More…]
The Leader of the Opposition wants increased spending power for people as a result of higher wages, which bring higher costs, which price people out of jobs, which make imports much more attractive than Australian goods and which rob us of our export markets. [More…]
It has demonstrated quite clearly ever since it has been in power that it is out to get Canberra. [More…]
While not singling out the unions, the power strike in Victoria’s Latrobe Valley at the end of last year must be counted as a prime example of forgetting that we are all part of Australia and must work in the best interests of all Australians. [More…]
Historic reforms will be made to reverse the concentration of power in the Federal Government and increase the autonomy and responsibilities of Local and State Governments. [More…]
Federalism is not just a structural concept with a philosophical justification aimed at preventing a dangerous concentration of power in a few hands. [More…]
For instance, I refer to the so-called power of the media at the moment that governs the issue of so-called public opinion polls. [More…]
Colonised for 400 years by Portugal, shamelessly abandoned by that power, she turned to the Western democracies for aid and comfort when outside military aggression occurred. [More…]
In spite of all the doubts, the Government is prepared to do all in its power to obtain details of Mr Brych ‘s methods in case they may be of benefit to cancer sufferers. [More…]
This Government, in complete contrast, has held a steady course since coming to power. [More…]
Products to be covered by the scheme will be motor spirit, power kerosene, automotive distillate and aviation fuels. [More…]
The proposal comprises: An operations building to accommodate area approach control, flight service centre, the necessary control equipment and training facilities; a services building containing a transformer for the provision of primary power, essential power generation and air conditioning plant; an air traffic control tower accommodating an elevated control cabin, support control equipment and essential power and air conditioning plant; and associated site works, car parks, roads and engineering services, sewerage and drainage and security fencing to the operations building and services building area. [More…]
In 1 975, when the Fraser Government came to power, the market share for the Australian garment and textile industry was only about 55 per cent and about 45 per cent was imported. [More…]
that a better society can only be realised by giving the men and women of Australia a greater measure of choice, power and freedom. [More…]
The National Party since coming to power in 1948 has continuously maintained the implementation of apartheid as an essential plank of its political platform. [More…]
The Minister of Justice and Police, Mr James Kruger, has the power to issue banning orders without preferring charges in court and without giving any reasons therefor. [More…]
If the inquiry’s recommendation is accepted by the British Government, it will undermine current attempts to assert multilateral control of the dangerous aspects of nuclear power. [More…]
Are we to guard all the electricity sub-stations around Canberra to prevent the lights from going out whenever a Liberal government is in power? [More…]
When the Whitlam Government was in power it created the highest unemployment in this country since 1930. [More…]
The purpose of these Bills is to give to the Executive Government the power to make regulations on the specification of those costs with respect to the proceedings of the court and to the service or execution of the process of the court by officers of the court. [More…]
Uranium sales will increase our export income and at the same time provide other countries with a power source. [More…]
It is now increasingly obvious that this Prime Minister rules only for the sake of power and for the privileged in our community. [More…]
They were reduced by one per cent when this Government first came to power in early 1976. [More…]
They now have the knowledge that their pensions will increase automatically and that they will not lose the buying power of the pensions that they receive. [More…]
That $ 1,000m will go back into the economy of Australia in the form of spending power. [More…]
There is an old saying that power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. [More…]
Before exposing the inadequacies of Mr Justice Hope’s recommendations, let me examine some of the abuses of power as outlined in his report regarding ASIO’s operations. [More…]
It is a pretty fair indication of the state of mind of people whom honourable members on the other side of the House would put in control of organisations such as the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation, which has direct power over the lives of people in this country. [More…]
Both Hitler and Mussolini came to power absolutely constitutionally, and there is little reason to doubt that they both represented what a majority of the Italian and German people wanted at that time. [More…]
It deals with a whole range of issues, among which is the question of civil liberties by legislative enactment within the power of the Australian Government. [More…]
Last year the New South Wales Government announced subsidies to farmers who switched to solar power. [More…]
Unless we hurry, our three years lead in solar power will disappear overnight … [More…]
Oil in the future will be expensive, available from a declining supply and controlled by a concentrated bloc, conscious of its power over the industrial economy increasingly dependent on liquid fuel for its survival. [More…]
It is also interesting to note that the honourable member for Robertson (Mr Cohen) appeared to be talking abject nonsense in relation to costs of power generation. [More…]
Yet, in the short period of two years, since coming to power, we have seen a complete revitalising of such exploration. [More…]
The power supplies, with electricity grids throughout eastern Australia reaching into almost every home, farm and factory; the gas supplies that exist in the major cities; an the transport systems are almost all government created. [More…]
All this is done while the Government espouses, as the Governor-General stated in his Speech, its fundamental belief that a better society can be realised only by giving the men and women of Australia a greater measure of ‘choice, power and freedom’. [More…]
This statement of empty rhetoric is accompanied by repressive action through the operation of an economic policy which diminishes, not increases, for most Australians their choice, their power and their freedom. [More…]
Under the banner of choice, power and freedom, the so-called fundamental belief of the Government, more Australians are denied economic freedom and the right to work and are rendered unproductive and powerless as unemployment is deliberately increased. [More…]
Yet a record vote- probably the highest percentage vote ever recorded in any kind of election or referendum in Australiagave to the Federal Government the power to control and to legislate on Aboriginal affairs and the power for that legislation to override all State legislation. [More…]
This Federal Government has the legislative power to take over all Aboriginal settlements, all Aboriginal reserves and administration of Aboriginal affairs in every State. [More…]
I hope that when he has those discussions he will show that the Federal Government intends to enforce the power given to it at the referendum on Aboriginal affairs and not cave in as it has so often caved in to State governments on these matters. [More…]
The communists will come in and use black power to take over Australia. [More…]
The Government cannot abdicate to the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission the power to determine where resources, both human and capital, should go. [More…]
Conciliation and Arbitration Commission has power to direct resources and the Government through no fault of its own is virtually powerless to stop it. [More…]
My electorate, like every other electorate, has benefited greatly by the progress the Government has made in overcoming the economic problems with which we were faced when we came into power in 1975. [More…]
It is a successful policy for the Government’s friends who are making increasing profits while the real purchasing power of wages and salaries is declining alarmingly. [More…]
At a time when energy policy above all demands change, the complexity of the infrastructure and above all the concentration of power in the hands of large scale capital makes the most effective and responsible change difficult to achieve. [More…]
This project is subject to no external study and the local communities have lost all power to influence transport planning decisions. [More…]
In his statement on signing the Bill into law, President Carter left absolutely no doubt as to the importance of nuclear power as a source of energy for the United States and for other countries. [More…]
It was binding on the State of Queensland but it has not been enforced, even though during the election campaign at the end of 1975 the parties now in power assured us that it would be enforced in Queensland. [More…]
The Minister for Aboriginal Affairs says that he has no legislative power with which to override Queensland in the matter of negotiating mineral rights or the takeover of the administration of the missions on these Aboriginal reserves. [More…]
The referendum in 1967, which gave this Parliament the power to pass laws regarding Aboriginal affairs, was passed by an unprecedented majority, a far bigger majority than that which passed the original Constitution on which Sir Edmund Barton relied in 1901 to overrule his conservative colleagues in Queensland. [More…]
If the Australian Government is going to take the word of an Aboriginal council set up by a State administration against the word of a council which has been set up in an enlightened way, as the Minister himself has told us councils on these settlements have been set up by the Uniting Church, the Aboriginal people will lose all trust in this Government and this Parliament and we will have black power in its worst form emerging from some of the young people who talk of irrational behaviour that will help neither them nor Australia, behaviour such as the derailing of trains or goodness knows what. [More…]
When will the Government exercise its constitutional power and legislate more effectively to protect Aboriginal rights? [More…]
It is quite clear that it has the power, and if it has the power it has the duty. [More…]
have power to make laws . [More…]
So, under the power that has been exercised already, rights are vested in the Aborigines. [More…]
The Federal Government has the power. [More…]
It has the power to take over the administration of these reserves. [More…]
For that reason these reserves virtually come under the control of the Minister who has the power under the Constitution and the Act to take control. [More…]
In the speech of the Deputy Leader of the Opposition (Mr Lionel Bowen), which also disappointed me, the honourable member worked on the presumption, as honourable members opposite do, that if the Government has the power to do something it has a duty to act. [More…]
There are many powers which the Government has under the Constitution but the Opposition often adopts a different attitude to the exercise of power by governments even in situations which demand it, such as in relation to security matters involving the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation. [More…]
Opposition members do not say ‘You have the power; you have a duty to act’. [More…]
The Parliament shall, subject to this Consitution, have power to make laws for the peace, order, and good government of the Commonwealth with respect to: [More…]
I am sure, Mr Deputy Speaker, that you will permit me to say on this occasion that I and other Liberal members in this House and our colleagues in the Tasmanian State Parliament will do everything in our power to see that the service is reinstated. [More…]
As a result of signing that Convention and that Convention coming into force this Government has the power to make regulations to give effect to the provisions of the Convention. [More…]
The Commonwealth unreservedly has the power to act on behalf of the people of Aurukun and the people of Mornington Island in the face of the mischief making and malevolence of the Queensland Government. [More…]
to section 5 1 of the Constitution of Australia which gives the Government the power to acquire the property of a State or of a person on just terms or anything for which the Commonwealth may make laws. [More…]
The things which the Opposition has been saying are being echoed in the community- and echoed powerfully. [More…]
The trouble is that the unprecedented behaviour of the Prime Minister and his personal style of government are disturbingly reminiscent of some mid- 18th century head of State exercising absolute power. [More…]
It resents it because it knows that when it was in power it was unable to do so. [More…]
Whether Australians are threatened or not we should all be concerned at the recent eruption that has occurred, and we should be doing everything in our power to see that peace is restored as quickly as possible. [More…]
The purpose of this Bill is to extend the borrowing power of the Australian Apple and Pear Corporation to enable it to borrow, with provision for the Commonwealth to guarantee repayment, moneys for the purpose of promoting the sale and consumption of apples and pears and apple and pear products. [More…]
Currently the Corporation has the power to borrow for the purpose of promotion of fruit traded by itself. [More…]
Extension of the Corporation’s power to borrow moneys for promotion purposes will obviate the problem of seasonality of money flow and enable the Corporation to plan more adequately its program of promotional activities in the knowledge that it can, if necessary, cover the cost with borrowed funds until such time as the proceeds of levies are available. [More…]
As in the past, the powers of the Corporation in respect of borrowing will be subject to ministerial approval. [More…]
This will be done by subsidising freight costs outside the metropolitan area on motor spirit, aviation fuel, automotive distillate and power kerosene. [More…]
I notice that in his second reading speech the Minister for Business and Consumer Affairs (Mr Fife) said that products to be covered by this scheme will include motor spirit, power kerosene, automotive distillate and aviation fuels. [More…]
It is the only committee that this Parliament can form which has the statutory power to obtain the commercial facts, statistics and data that are needed so that a balanced evaluation can be made. [More…]
The eligible products were motor spirit, power kerosene, automotive distillate and aviation fuels. [More…]
In the case of my electorate, in Kingscote on Kangaroo Island the subsidy will be about 0.7c per litre on motor spirit, 1.7c per litre on power kerosene, 1.1c per litre on distillate, 3.2c per litre on aviation gasoline and 3.6c per litre on aviation turbine fuel. [More…]
Products that will be covered by this scheme are motor spirit, power kerosene, automotive distillate and aviation fuels. [More…]
This will be done by subsiding freight costs outside the metropolitan area on motor spirit, aviation fuel, automotive distillate and power kerosene. [More…]
The last thing it is going to do is do anything that will threaten the power of the ‘Seven Sisters’ in Australia. [More…]
This will be done by subsidising freight costs outside the metropolitan area on motor spirit, aviation fuel, automotive distillate and power kerosene. [More…]
I refer the Minister to section 3 of the arrangement entered into by the Governor-General and the Governor of Western Australia in 1973 which requires the Western Australian Government to consult appropriately with the Australian Government prior to its exercise of certain powers under the Aboriginal Affairs Planning Authority Act of Western Australia. [More…]
In relation to the Western Australian Government’s intention to amend regulation 8 of the Act to override the power of the Oombulgurri people effectively to determine who is permitted to enter their land, has the Minister yet been consulted? [More…]
The Bill gives the Government power to provide by regulation that the Trust and the Fund may become liable to taxation. [More…]
The power of the doctors to act as entrepreneurs selling their services and as an agent for the selection of services has been used as a way for doctors in this country to increase their own wealth and power. [More…]
Through this whole process of spending public money, whether in the community or in the hospital situation, there appears to have developed little in the way of proper checks on the power of doctors to determine costs and prices. [More…]
The increasing volume of available information may lead to, firstly, an increasing tendency towards specialisation and the fragmentation of knowledge; secondly, a growing sense of alienation or anomie from many people who feel unable to understand what is going on around them; and thirdly, a risk that power will move towards the technocrats and away from generalists such as members of parliament and general institutions such as parliaments. [More…]
It is of no less concern that the unauthorised establishment of this socalled Embassy interferes with the exercise of the executive power of the Commonwealth to conduct Australia’s international relations. [More…]
Fourthly, it derives from national, indeed international, regulation of the physical bounds, the broadcasting airwaves and all electromagnetic communications channels- for example, their frequencies, power and points of origin and delivery. [More…]
If one compares the record of this Government in the trade area with what happened while the Opposition was in power between 1972 and 1975 one can see a very marked contrast. [More…]
It is carefully designed to achieve that result within the constitutional power of the [More…]
The Commonwealth is not enlarging its own powers; it is not in any sense taking over the reserves itself, but is only allowing the communities themselves to exercise local responsibility. [More…]
Only in Queensland is there legislation that gives government officials power to control, manage and direct communities on reserves. [More…]
The Queensland legislation- the Aborigines Act and the Torres Strait Islanders Act and the regulations and by-laws made under themprovide that officials, as well as Aboriginal and Island councils, manage the affairs of reserve communities and the officials have the overriding power and responsibility. [More…]
The means by which the legislation achieves its purpose of ensuring that if communities wish it, their councils control community affairs without being subject to the overriding power of Government officials is as follows: [More…]
The Minister for Aboriginal Affairs may declare that the legislation applies to a reserve or community on request by a council established under the Queensland law or if he is satisfied that a substantial majority of the adults resident on the reserve or community wish it; an existing council established under Queensland law or a body declared to be a council for the purposes of the Act, will have the function of managing community affairs and the necessary powers to carry out that function; any declared body established under the regulations will be an elected council or otherwise a properly incorporated body; councils will have power to make by-laws and to authorise entry to reserves; by express provision, councils and individual Aboriginals and Islanders will not be bound to obey directions given by officials under the Queensland legislation; councils will be responsible only to their communities; the Commonwealth may, if it becomes necessary in order to give effect to the purposes of the legislation, make available to councils land acquired by or otherwise vested in the Commonwealth; and in the case of acquisition, the provisions of the Lands Acquisition Act will apply. [More…]
We now hear that the Western Australian Government is moving to limit the powers of the Aboriginal communities in that State. [More…]
Instead of the Aborigines having the power that I referred to earlier to restrict entry to their land, the Western Australian Government is having second thoughts and is looking at the possibility of taking that right away from the Aboriginal communities so that various mining interests will be allowed onto Aboriginal land at the behest of the State Government. [More…]
It looks as though the Aboriginals will lose that power also. [More…]
It is a hollow power. [More…]
Although the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs (Mr Viner) says that he is giving them self-management powers- certainly the Bill provides the power for them to make bylawsthose by-laws will have no effect unless the Minister tables them in the Parliament. [More…]
It may be said that that Act provides some power for the council on the Aboriginal lands to deny entry to people who are not Aboriginals or Islanders; or some other powers that have not been spelt out in the BUI. [More…]
Those powers have not been enforced. [More…]
This Bill gives them the power to choose their futurethe future management of their communities. [More…]
I can find nowhere in this legislation power for the Australian Government to build on reserve lands. [More…]
The speeches have been about one government- the Canberra Government- obtaining by way of legislation power over another government. [More…]
Clause 1 S of the Bill makes it plain that the Commonwealth will be able to go in and use its general acquisition power to buy or acquire land and facilities they might be in the form of a building or a school or a hospitalavailable to the Aboriginal people involved. [More…]
For the last three or four days they have done everything in their power to make it look as if it was their initiative, as if they had set it up themselves. [More…]
First, it is clear that he had powers under the Constitution. [More…]
Section 51, placitum (xxxi) states that the Minister has the power for: [More…]
The acquisition of property on just terms from any State or person for any purpose in respect of which the Parliament has power to make laws. [More…]
The Constitution gives the Minister power to make laws for the Aboriginal people. [More…]
He also has powers under the Lands Acquisition Act. [More…]
Mr BRYANT The Minister should have used that power weeks ago. [More…]
The influence of the Christian Churches has in the past been an immense power for good within the Aboriginal community as a whole. [More…]
We want the power vested in the relevant Aboriginal and Island communities. [More…]
Torres Strait Islanders (Commonwealth Ministerial Control) Bill because, whenever the question of the distribution of power is mentioned, one finds that the strength of the Aboriginal reserve councils is very small and the power of the Minister is very strong. [More…]
The Government should recognise that this is not an evenly balanced Bill, that no effective power is given to the Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander councils but that a great deal of power is given to the Minister. [More…]
As a result of that arrangement, which was entered into in 1973 in very good faith by a Federal Labor government with a State Labor government, the absolute power for changing regulations under that Act resides with the State Government. [More…]
What sort of a situation are we in if, on the one hand, we give an Aboriginal community the power to provide services for that community and then, on the other hand, turn around and say that this will prevent the Queensland Government or a mining company coming into that reserve and providing those self-same services? [More…]
But, just to pick on the Government’s prejudices towards the Labor Party, what would be the position if it was in office and it was proposing the giving of this sort of power? [More…]
I am asking the Minister to consider the proposition that I put before, that if we were in office and we were putting forward this proposal I do not believe the honourable members opposite would agree to the proposition that the Minister should have the power on his own to refuse to accept a by-law. [More…]
Because of the way in which the clause is framed at the moment the only power the legislation gives to Aborigines is the power to allow onto reserves Aborigines who have been prohibited from entering reserves by the Queensland Government. [More…]
That acknowledges the power of the Queensland Government legislation. [More…]
Our amendment overcomes that situation and provides the Aboriginals with the same power the Commonwealth Government has provided in its legislation in fewer words. [More…]
It seeks to add a power which the legislation has not given to the Aborigines. [More…]
We suggest that that is unreasonable and that they should be given that power. [More…]
Our amendment gives the Minister the power to override those unreasonable objections. [More…]
I am suggesting that the power to make bylaws is reasonable and no Minister on his own should be able to declare them invalid. [More…]
Are charges for (a) cleaning, (b) electricity and power, (c) fuel, (d) rent or lease, (e) repairs and maintenance, (0 replacements of plant, furniture and fittings and (g) depreciation of plant, furniture and fittings included for determination of canteen prices; if not, what was the estimated cost of each of these items in each canteen during 1 976-77. [More…]
It does not matter whether we use the figures of the Commonwealth Employment Service or of the Australian Bureau of Statistics, it does not matter whether we do not count people who are selfemployed, the farmers and the families of farmers and it does not matter whether we ignore the young people who have to return to school- it matters little which way we approach the issue- the fact is that there are 160,000 more people registered as unemployed than there were when this Government came to power on a promise of restoring full employment. [More…]
In February 1976, when this Government first came to power, the average unemployed person was out of work for a period of 14.4 weeks. [More…]
In February 1978, this Government having been in power for two years, it was 19.7 weeks. [More…]
In the United States it is said that of all output 98 per cent is produced by machine power, one per cent by human power and one per cent by animal power. [More…]
The reason is that, under the program for the development of Northern Territory self-government as announced by the Minister for the Northern Territory (Mr Adermann) on 14 September 1977, it is planned that the power to levy pay-roll tax on wages related to that Territory will be transferred to the proposed government of the Northern Territory with effect from 1 July 1978. [More…]
There is a power to reject a statement or document, as the case may be, if the court is not satisfied that it has all the documents. [More…]
Having appeared in trials and having seen documentary evidence admitted and given weight which, with respect, is far beyond that which ought to have been given- in some cases perhaps a judgment or verdict has been affected thereby- I repeat that this power is granted specifically to draw to the attention of the court that if evidence is unfair the court should not hesitate to exclude it. [More…]
Last but not least, in proposed section 7N a very important power is given, that is, to withdraw that document or record from the jury when the court is of the view that if the jury were to actually have it during its deliberations, the jury might give the statement undue weight. [More…]
This Part does not affect the power of a court in a criminal proceeding to reject evidence which, if admitted, would operate unfairly against the defendant. [More…]
We give State courts power to exercise a Federal jurisdiction in addition to their jurisdiction. [More…]
We also asked for the removal of the provision which gave the Attorney-General power to delegate authority. [More…]
‘Government’ would mean the government that, was in fact in power in a particular place. [More…]
We may not agree with the new government that comes to power- or we may even agree with it- but we are left with a group in Australia that has been founded and prospers legally and legitimately into what may be a small or even a substantial military force. [More…]
If the Minister would not prosecute, why do we have to give him this power? [More…]
The purpose of the Bill is to extend the powers of the Australian Apple and Pear Corporation to borrow moneys for promotional purposes. [More…]
It is the purpose of the Bill to give the Corporation the power and the right to raise moneys other than those raised by way of the levy. [More…]
I urge the Corporation to do everything in its power to promote the consumption of apples and pears within Australia in addition to any promotion with respect to outside markets. [More…]
I have much pleasure in supporting this legislation because it gives to the Corporation a power which was much needed. [More…]
If the Leader of the House wants to table them and move that they be printed, that is within his power. [More…]
Anything he said must not be taken to inhibit proper debate in this place where this Parliament has proper constitutional power to debate a matter. [More…]
I do not think he is questioning the constitutional power of this House to deal with matters of this sort. [More…]
Nevertheless, this man’s comment left the indelible impression upon me that he was a power broker as far as the redistribution was concerned. [More…]
My submission against the Commissioners ‘ proposals, as contained in page 276 of the report, was in this time of stress handed to the secretary of the person who appeared to swing so much power. [More…]
A wide range of legislative power is available to the Australian Government. [More…]
1 ) and (2 ) Where aid to the civil power is sought which involves the likelihood of the Defence Force being involved in the use of force, it is necessary to call out the Defence Force before that aid is provided. [More…]
We have also determined to put in train an examination to see whether there ought to be some greater power than the trade and commerce powers and export powers, which would operate, either through the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission and its various agencies and related bodies or through some other device, to help in the proper resolution and management of disputes of this kind. [More…]
As this is not an industrial dispute in Australia’s traditional terms, which would normally come within the arbitration power, it is in a sense out in limbo without the proper processes of arbitration and conciliation being available, as would normally be the case. [More…]
Now that it is in power, with the Budget deficit blowing out- it will be several hundred million dollars higher than the $2.2 billion estimated; higher than in the previous year- the Government says that it does not matter; everything is OK; it has the funding in hand. [More…]
If Labor were in power now, what would it do? [More…]
The purpose of the Bill is to extend the borrowing power of the Australian Apple and Pear Corporation to enable it to borrow, with a provision for the Commonwealth to guarantee repayment, moneys for the purpose of promoting the sale and consumption of apples and pears and apple and pear products. [More…]
The simple purpose of this Bill is to extend the borrowing power of the Australian Apple and [More…]
The Corporation requires this power in the event that its funds, which are derived from a levy on exports of fresh apples and pears and a levy on apples and pears used for both processing and for sale on fresh fruit markets, are not sufficient to meet promotional expenditure costs of the seasonal nature of the receipts. [More…]
The Corporation as yet has not exercised its power of trade. [More…]
Even though there are limits to this power imposed by the Apple and Pear Corporation it is to be hoped that in the future the Corporation will bite the bullet and seek new markets where private enterprise has made little or no effort. [More…]
The then honourable member for Riverina, Mr Grassby, campaigned throughout my electorate and other fruit growing electorates throughout Australia saying what wonderful things Labor, when it came to power, would do for the fruit industry, such as significantly increasing the means test concessions so that it would be far easier for growers to obtain money under the tree pull scheme. [More…]
Presently, the Corporation has the power to borrow only ibr the promotion of fruit traded by itself, but the promotion activities of the Corporation are on behalf of others who actually market the fruit. [More…]
Giving the Corporation power to borrow money means that the Corporation has to pay interest on the money borrowed and ultimately this comes out of the pockets of the producers. [More…]
For this reason it gives the Supervising Scientist the powers of a permanent head in respect to staff. [More…]
Clauses 27 and 28 of the Bill give the Supervising Scientist the power to obtain information and to have access to buildings and places in the region to enable him to carry out his statutory functions including those of managing the Institute- [More…]
This Part of the Act gives the Minister power to control nuclear material and the Act provides for regulations to be made to that end. [More…]
The Government has taken the view that these provisions should be strengthened and clarified, to ensure that relevant powers of the Commonwealth, including the external affairs power, can be drawn upon in relation to safeguards matters. [More…]
We believe that it is most important that the fullest possible range of powers should be available for the implementation of our domestic safeguards obligations arising from international agreements. [More…]
Should an unforeseen situation arise as a result of a nuclear activity, which is not regulated or controlled by a Commonwealth, State or Territory law, and which is likely to affect health, safety or the environment, the GovernorGeneral will have power, under clause 13 of the Bill, to authorise the appropriate Federal Minister to act to control hazards associated with the situation. [More…]
The Government appreciates that the powers conferred on the Governor-General under this clause would need to be used with the utmost discretion. [More…]
Any order made under this power expires at the end of three months, but this may be extended by a further three months, by order of the Governor-General. [More…]
It should be noted that the Bill does not give the Court power to impose new environmental requirementsonly to make orders in relation to requirements which are imposed elsewhere. [More…]
The International Nuclear Fuel Cycle Evaluation is a major international initiative in regard to nuclear nonproliferation and the use of nuclear power for peaceful purposes. [More…]
In the wake of the world energy crisis many countries have no viable alternative energy source other than nuclear power. [More…]
There are now 194 nuclear power units operating in 2 1 countries with a capacity of over 95,000 megawatts of electricty. [More…]
There are 213 nuclear power units under construction in 27 countries. [More…]
This means that nuclear power units with a total generating capacity of 388,000 megawatts are either in operation, under construction or on firm order in 34 countries throughout the world. [More…]
This is a total of 814 nuclear power units in operation, under construction, on firm order or planned. [More…]
Since the announcement of Australia ‘s decision to proceed with further uranium development a number of countries, including the United Kingdom, the Philippines, the United States, West Germany, France, Finland and Japan, have registered their desire to secure uranium from Australia for their nuclear power programs. [More…]
Waste disposal is a major stumbling block to the development of nuclear power in the world. [More…]
It is one which gives members on this side of the House most concern about the course of nuclear power. [More…]
In the United States some States are considering the passage of legislation- some may already have passed it; my memory may not serve me correctly on this- to prohibit the further expansion of nuclear power in those States until the problem of waste disposal is solved. [More…]
The Minister’s assessment is unrealistic and, by his own admission, it includes 307 nuclear power stations which are presently at the planning stage. [More…]
Given the fall away of growth in the gross national product in the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development countries, as well as the problems of siting nuclear power stations and the environmental backlash against them, it is very likely that those projections will not be met. [More…]
The Australian Atomic Energy Commission has forecast a drop of 36 per cent in world demand for Australian uranium because of delays and revisions to nuclear power programs. [More…]
If a station goes outside its charter, obviously the Tribunal must have the power to re-hear that application. [More…]
One cannot assume that giving licences to the commercial stations, as was the case until the Labor Party came to power, was enough to guarantee that there would be the diversity or freedom of expression which is inherent in the whole concept of broadcasting and the needs of the community and the fact that broadcasting has to be controlled in some way, because otherwise we get mayhem on the air waves and no one hears anything. [More…]
CSIRO accepted the Department’s advice that savings could be made without detriment to their functional requirements including an estimated $650,000 savings on emergency power and vibration control requirements. [More…]
Is the Prime Minister aware that in the Queensland Parliament this morning, the Minister for Mines, Energy and Police answered a question from the Opposition Leader, Mr Burns, in relation to the cost difference in the establishment of a power house at Millmerran instead of at Tarong, reporting that the Millmerran power house would cost $2 5 9m less that the Tarong power house approved by the Queensland Government? [More…]
Will the Federal Government be responsible for any funding to the Tarong power house in Queensland, as the Minister for Mines, Energy and Police has indicated that the cumulative annual charges, including the effects of assumed future inflation, of the life of the Millmerran power house is $8,745m-a difference of $259m? [More…]
We are doing everything in our power to get it. [More…]
Basically at the root of our problem in Australia in relation to health costs is the fact that health care operates as a business in which people are involved in order to make money, to build wealth and power. [More…]
Honourable members will recall the substantial amendments that were made late last year to the Broadcasting and Television Act 1942, including the transfer of the power to license broadcasting and television stations from the Minister to the Australian Broadcasting Tribunal. [More…]
Under the principal Act, the Broadcasting and Television Act 1942, the Tribunal has the power to renew such licences for three years or such lesser period, being not less than 12 months, as the Tribunal thinks justifiable. [More…]
In any case, it seems that Mr Smart had no power to make any loans of the society’s funds, at least not without the approval of the board, and the board claims that it never knew of these payments. [More…]
Having thus materially contributed to the financial disaster into which the society was plunged in 1975, the AIDC washed its hands of the whole matter and by exercising its power under its mortgage it was going to recoup its money at the expense of completely destroying a producers’ co-operative. [More…]
That power that has existed in the past in relation to commercial radio- the social planning power in the Department; the technical power- may, if we are not very careful, cautious and alert, vitiate any real adjudicatory power for the Australian Broadcasting Tribunal. [More…]
I am sure that all people interested in public broadcasting want to see the Australian Broadcasting Tribunal have a real and effective power, with its decisions made in public. [More…]
I am worried that these departmental powers might politicise the handling of public broadcasting licences as departmental power has in the past politicised commercial licences. [More…]
If my observation is correct it was he almost alone who kept the Liberal Government in power for some 15 years in that Parliament in which he played such an auspicious role. [More…]
It is known, and the Minister has stated, that the Commonwealth has a power of acquisition. [More…]
It has also been stated that if it is necessary at any time to use that power to safeguard the position of Aboriginals the Commonwealth will not flinch from using it. [More…]
I will go no further than saying that since this Government came to power the movement in relations with the People’s Republic of China has been most significant in regard both to the cultural agreements that we have discussed and to family reunion, consular agreements and other matters. [More…]
Is it a fact that the Queensland Government will reserve the power to dismiss any Aurukun or Mornington Island local authority, a power it has recently exercised against the Gold Coast City Council? [More…]
Finally, in view of these matters, is it not a fact that the Minister’s agreement with the Queensland Government has secured the power the Queensland Government originally sought over Aurukun and Mornington Island and would the Minister also agree, therefore, that he and the Prime Minister have either capitulated to the Queensland Premier or have been fooled by him once again? [More…]
It will not be a creature of statute; it will not have any executive authority or power to control the elected Community Council. [More…]
He has chosen authority in favour of respect; he has chosen power instead of leadership; he has chosen vindictiveness instead of restraint and responsibility. [More…]
It is, however, the worst possible budgetary policy for an economy in which the average wage earner has already experienced a decline in his family spending power over the last 2’A years of $12 a week. [More…]
Because these costs cannot be avoided they will further reduce the real spending power of the average income earner. [More…]
Thirdly, the real purchasing power of most consumers is being substantially reduced through the continuation of only partial wage indexation, coupled with no indexation of important price increases because of the progressive devaluation of the Australian dollar and increases in fuel oil costs. [More…]
Highlypublicised confrontations with the union movement and the use of penal powers, fines and suspensions, will be the order of the day. [More…]
It was turned into a ruin without essential services such as power, sewerage and water. [More…]
They are possibilities within the power of the House. [More…]
Certainly I refute the suggestion that the Privileges Committee would make a recommendation to the House which is outside the power of the House to carry out. [More…]
The massive power failure brought chaos and boosted the cost of the storm by closing shops and factories. [More…]
The power failure, which blacked out the entire south-west of Western Australia, was caused by an uncontrollable build-up of salt and dust on insulators, which short circuited the power grid. [More…]
Some areas were without power for many days following the cyclone. [More…]
The vulnerability of power lines emerges as a cause for concern, though the scope for doing much about it is clearly limited. [More…]
One can certainly sympathise with the people of Victoria during their prolonged power strike last year. [More…]
But if sand and salt can knock out the entire power grid one could speculate how vulnerable we would be to any attack on these installations. [More…]
With every road closed by fallen trees, no power, no telephone, the initiatives which stemmed from control centres at Manjimup, Kirup, Harvey, Como and numerous bushfire brigades and volunteers in the south-west were, to say the least, exceptional, as was the courage and determination displayed. [More…]
The facts are that in the three years in which the Labor Government was in power programs were launched which had a dramatic effect upon the future of the Aboriginal people right across the board. [More…]
An additional power to amend estate duty assessments is to be provided so that, in circumstances where this might not otherwise be permissible, deductions allowed in respect of State probate or succession duties may be adjustedup or down to reflect any subsequent variations in liabilities for those duties. [More…]
The additional power will facilitate the abandonment of cumbersome administrative procedures that had to be instituted following a High Court decision which indicates that the Commissioner does not always have power to amend assessments for that purpose. [More…]
The additional power of amendment will not, of itself, authorise the amendment of an assessment made before this Bill receives the royal assent so as to increase a liability for duty and it will not, of itself, authorise the amendment of an assessment after the expiration of three years from the date on which the duty became due and payable under the assessment. [More…]
The current power is expressed in general terms and the amendment will make it clear that the conditions which may be imposed on licences include certain conditions which are essential to the efficient management of the zone. [More…]
An unenforceable power or an unenforceable right are no power or right at all. [More…]
‘We can compete against Connair but we cannot compete with the Commonwealth’, Mr Cavill said, ‘Particularly when faced with the use of arbitary power to our consistent disadvantage when we have absolutely no appeal from the decisions of or access to the responsible Minister. ‘ [More…]
We believe that the power placed in the hands of the Minister represents a pork-barrelling exercise, but because of the more attractive features of the Bill and because it will give at least some assistance to urban public transport- for that we must be grateful- the Opposition does not oppose the Bill. [More…]
Before the Australian Labor Party came to power in 1972 its members made a great deal of political capital out of the urban public transport needs of the major cities in Australia. [More…]
When the Labor Government was in power in entered into arrangements with the then conservative governments of New South Wales and Victoria. [More…]
It produces 80 per cent of Victoria’s power needs. [More…]
Australian cars are guggling down for all manner of purposes, some appropriate and some inappropriate, 947 litres per car per year- perhaps only half the American rate, but we do not have its power to lever events in the Middle East. [More…]
Also, we have a division of power between Federal and State governments which makes it extremely difficult to take a national approach to any problem. [More…]
I believe that we delayed for far too long when we were in power. [More…]
I do not wish to go through all the issues raised by the honourable member for Capricornia but I pose this question: I wonder whether he would be so vocal in seeking to have the Commonwealth exercise its constitutional power in relation to Aboriginals in all areas that is what he is looking at if, for instance, we had a Prime Minister of Australia called Mr John Bjelke-Petersen. [More…]
The honourable member for Capricornia has to look logically at the principle in these matters and not make up his mind about whether the Commonwealth should have power in a particular area because he likes the Premier of a particular State. [More…]
We cannot decide on the division of powers and responsibilities and the way in which good government should proceed if we make up our minds on the basis of whether we like a Premier of one State, his government or otherwise. [More…]
Are charges for (a) cleaning, (b) electricity and power (c) fuel (d) rent or lease, (e) repairs and maintenance, (f) replacements of plant, furniture and fittings and (g) depreciation of plant, furniture and fittings included for determination of canteen prices; if not, what was the estimated cost of each of these items in each canteen during 1976-77. [More…]
This is shown by direct reference to his performance when the Australian Labor Party Government was in power. [More…]
I was somewhat flattered to hear all of the credit extended to me by Government spokesmen as to how much power I have over the community when I make a comment on economic matters. [More…]
I quote these sources to indicate that it is not me alone who has all this power over the thinking of the community. [More…]
For ten years the monopolised media in this country utilised its enormous power, a power not allowed in any other country, to try to destroy one of the finest politicians in this country- Gough Whitlam. [More…]
You promised when I elected you to power that you would turn the lights on . [More…]
The Government will do everything in its power to ensure that the Ranger project is developed as quickly as possible subject to meeting the necessary constraints, social and environmental, and protecting Aboriginal interests in accordance with the Government’s statements in Parliament on 25 August last year. [More…]
On 1 December 1971 Exchanges of Notes between Australia and Malaysia and Australia and Singapore (constituting the Five Power Defence Arrangements) were signed which inter alia concerns the status of Australian forces in those countries. [More…]
Are charges for (a) cleaning, (b) electricity and power, (c) fuel, (d) rent or lease, (e) repairs and maintenance, (0 replacements of plant, furniture and fittings and (g) depreciation of plant, furniture and fittings included for determination of canteen prices; if not, what was the estimated cost of each of these items in each canteen during 1976-77. [More…]
In calling out the Defence Force the Commonwealth acted in pursuance of its responsibilities under the Constitution, in particular, the defence and external affairs powers (section 5 1 ( vi) and (xxix) ) and the executive power (section 61). [More…]
I suppose that means that, if he had the power, he would destroy immediately the policy we have introduced to preserve 80 per cent of the domestic market for Australian manufacturers. [More…]
They know that the errors and the sins committed in the name of the Australian Labor Party when it was in power cannot be put right overnight. [More…]
There are in the words of the Deputy Prime Minister (Mr Anthony) ‘194 nuclear power units operating in 21 countries’. [More…]
He proposed that there should be regulations prohibiting, except under licence, the mining of prescribed minerals in the Territories, the milling of prescribed minerals in the States under the defence power, and the production, possession, treatment and use of prescribed substances. [More…]
This is a power additional to the general power of the Minister to direct the Atomic Energy Commission to undertake and supervise operations involving uranium. [More…]
Section 43 is amended and places heavy penalties on the obstruction of persons exercising power under the Act. [More…]
If this is the Government’s intention, and the Bill is quite explicit in extending the Commonwealth’s power, it is a hypocritical move by the Government. [More…]
Clause 10 of the Bill would amend section 38 of the Atomic Energy Act to extend and strengthen the Minister’s power to regulate and control the rnining, processing, possession, transportation, use and disposal of uranium and related and associated minerals or other substances. [More…]
When this proposed amendment is taken in conjunction with the changes proposed for section 38 of the Act, dealing with the regulatory powers of the Minister, it is clear that the Government is seeking extensive, direct power over the mining, processing, transportation and use of uranium in the States. [More…]
The Opposition is quite frankly amazed that a government which so often declares itself decentralist and which so often talks about the new federalism, of returning powers to the States, can propose a Bill with provisions such as these. [More…]
If we were to look at the need for power, we could do no better than turn to the speech delivered by the Deputy Prime Minister (Mr Anthony) and look at some of the needs for safeguards and the provision of protection within Australia. [More…]
I wish to bring to the attention of the House the closing remarks made by Sigvard Eklund, the Director-General of the International Atomic Energy Agency, at the International Conference on Nuclear Power and its Dual Cycle. [More…]
The Comecon countries- the bloc of communist countries in Europe- intend to pursue nuclear power as an energy source. [More…]
A major conversion to atomic power has long been the principle of Comecon energy policy which will not be hampered by ecology minded minority pressure groups. [More…]
Just three weeks ago, the Environment, Energy and Natural Resources Sub-Committee of the United States Congress published its findings on the costs of nuclear power. [More…]
With childlike innocence it still offers nuclear power- fuelled by Australian uranium- as a universal panacea. [More…]
This is the reality of the nuclear power industry. [More…]
These are the statistics the Deputy Prime Minister (Mr Anthony) conveniently overlooks every time he pushes the barrow of his party’s campaign financiers in the powerful uranium lobby. [More…]
The OECD ‘s world energy outlook gives four reasons for the international community’s diminishing enthusiasm for nuclear power. [More…]
Put quite simply, nuclear power has failed to live up to the promises made on its behalf. [More…]
It was framed during the Cold War when it was more acceptable to promote the military use of nuclear power. [More…]
The promotion and regulation of nuclear power present a conflict of interest if undertaken by the same body. [More…]
Yet the changes proposed to section 34 would substantially widen the purposes for which the Commonwealth could exercise powers over uranium. [More…]
This regulatory power would extend, quite explicitly, to the States. [More…]
If it is not, the Government should now deny any interest in expanding its powers. [More…]
We know that there must be a change in our methods of power generation. [More…]
Let me put to rest the opposition arguments for solar and wind power. [More…]
This is the power used by just one radiator which is normally in use in the house. [More…]
For one million people we would require about a 1,000- megawatt power station, and to supply that we would need 130 square kilometres of collectors. [More…]
This shows just one reason why solar power is limited. [More…]
Do not get me wrong; we should develop these means of power generation, but we must keep in mind their limitations in the total energy situation. [More…]
There is now every reason to believe that we can produce power from the fast breeder reactors, but the production of that power increases the use of uranium by thirty to fifty times. [More…]
I explain by saying that when the heavy elements break down in fission they give out energy, as in a nuclear power station. [More…]
In the meantime there is no alternative- I repeat, absolutely no alternative- to using uranium for power generation. [More…]
The opposition to uranium did not tell us that coal-fired power stations give off radioactivity which has a longer life than the emission from nuclear power stations. [More…]
Nor did they tell us that there is more radioactivity in whisky, milk, salad oil and tap water than there is from nuclear power stations. [More…]
Let us compare it to the dangers of pollution by present day power generation systems. [More…]
Hydro power requires dams. [More…]
So we see that the dangers and pollution of uranium for power generation are minute in comparison to present systems. [More…]
Forget the cartoon posters of a shattered power station; they have no factual validity. [More…]
A nuclear explosion in a nuclear power station is absolutely impossible- I repeat, absolutely impossible. [More…]
In a power station U235 enrichment is to only 3.5 per cent. [More…]
No one would worry about separating U235 from the rods of a nuclear power plant and concentrating them. [More…]
India made a nuclear device but not from material obtained from its power station. [More…]
For some years there have been isolated calls for the elimination of nuclear power stations, just as there is still the odd call to replace motor cars with rickshaws or horse-drawn vehicles. [More…]
It does not take much brainpower to work out where the real opposition to uranium power stations comes from. [More…]
We will need uranium for power generation in the very near future. [More…]
It is safer and less polluting in all respects than all other known form of mainline power generation. [More…]
The nuclear power industry is unintentionally contributing to an increased risk of nuclear war. [More…]
This Government does not give a damn about the dangers associated with nuclear power. [More…]
The rank and file members of the Labor Party all over Australia have expressed their concern about the unresolved problems of uranium mining and nuclear power. [More…]
The message is clear to the uranium companies, the power companies and the finance companies which are considering investing in new uranium mines. [More…]
It is clear to President Marcos, to his Atomic Energy Commission and to the Westinghouse Corporation that they should not count on Australian uranium to fuel their reactors or to fuel their other ambitions over the 30-year life of a nuclear power facility. [More…]
We heard him claim that nuclear power is essential to meet the world energy needs and that no alternative sources of energy exist. [More…]
Opposition to nuclear power has grown enormously in Australia. [More…]
By conducting uranium mining under the provisions of the Atomic Energy Act the Government has the power to deny ordinary industrial rights to workers and unions associated with the mining, handling and transportation of uranium. [More…]
The Government now is proposing, as we are opposing, provisions that will consolidate the extent of the power of the Government under the provisions of the Atomic Energy Act. [More…]
It wants unlimited power to dictate the mining policies of the States, particularly Labor States such as South Australia, which have firm and sound antiuranium policies. [More…]
I am amazed at the violent opposition from the members of the Opposition in this House, particularly in view of the support given by the Labour Government in Great Britain to the extension of atomic energy for power purposes. [More…]
Power generation from uranium represents 1 5 to 20 per cent of the total power generation in that country. [More…]
They want to construct nuclear-fired power stations throughout their country in order to prevent this great problem. [More…]
For the last 2 1 years America has had nuclear powered submarines which have been successful in both peacetime and wartime. [More…]
It is one that has been proven; it is one that has been used for peaceful purposes, for power generation, and there is no doubt that it can be used for war purposes. [More…]
Uranium poses no danger to this country in this form but I agree with those who claim that necessary safeguards should be taken by overseas countries when they are using uranium in reactors to produce power in their power stations. [More…]
It is against this background of growing needs that the role of nuclear power must be assessed. [More…]
In the short term nuclear power offers no immediate substitute for oil, gas and electricity production and represents for many countries deficient not only in hydrocarbons but also in coal resources a substantial alleviation of their dependence on imports. [More…]
It is true that the present objectives of many nations in nuclear power development have become lower than they were a few years ago. [More…]
This is due to the economic recession, efforts at conservation and delays in licensing and constructing power plants, sometimes due to public opposition. [More…]
One member of the Opposition mentioned this evening that there has been a decrease in the number of power stations constructed. [More…]
In the United States of America some states are using nuclear power for generation of electricity and for power plants to the order of 35 per cent. [More…]
In the country as a whole the use of nuclear power for power-generating needs varies from 10 per cent to 35 per cent. [More…]
For the world as a whole the indicated ranges of nuclear power capacity are of the order of 200,000 megawatts for 1980, 900,000 megawatts for 1990 and 1,300,000 megawatts for the year 2000. [More…]
The share of nuclear power which is today less than 10 per cent of electricity and less than 3 per cent of primary energy will grow to some 35 per cent of electrical energy and 15 per cent of primary energy by the turn of the century, that is by the year 2000. [More…]
Some arguments have been advanced that since we are dealing with such relatively modest fractions of total energy needs, nuclear power might be indefinitely deferred and conventional fuels might take up the slack until all doubts and uncertainties are removed. [More…]
If nuclear power is to provide a general insurance against energy shortages beyond the end of the century, it must rest on a solid basis of experience. [More…]
Development of reactors for high temperatures would permit nuclear power to go beyond electricity graduation. [More…]
We know from experience how long it takes for a new power technology to make a significant contribution to the energy market and to build its fuel and, more importantly its human infrastructure. [More…]
This is because the Atomic Energy Act- the Act which this Bill seeks to amend- is based on the defence power. [More…]
The United States Atomic Energy Commission had the kind of variety of powers we find now so badly proposed by the Australian Government. [More…]
The nuclear power industry was characterised by the same ‘shell be all right’ approach to safety, security and spent fuel problems that we have become accustomed to hearing from the Government. [More…]
The advocate of nuclear power no longer polices itself. [More…]
No projection suggests any early need for Australia to have a nuclear power generation capacity, but our concerns and responsibilities will be at least as great as those of the USA if uranium should be exported. [More…]
It is totally undesirable for any amendment of the Atomic Energy Act to be brought in here with the defence power only remaining as its basis, just as it is inappropriate for the Australian Atomic Energy Commission to remain its own watchdog. [More…]
Its establishment under the defence power of the Constitution reflected the close relationship of the defence and civil nuclear programs. [More…]
Australia will make increasing use of atomic power in the years ahead and thetime for this nation to enter the atomic age has now arrived. [More…]
There was always a residue of thought in Government which said that if we could get to the stage of producing nuclear power . [More…]
The Government claims that it wants to give the States greater autonomy, but it is simply forcing financial burdens upon them while widening Commonwealth power elsewhere. [More…]
The legislation narrows the area of State responsibility, just as last year the amendments to the Trade Practices Act and the Industrial Relations Bureau legislation took very wide views of Commonwealth power. [More…]
One of the real fears that people have about nuclear power is that not only are there safety and safeguards considerations to worry about but that in both uranium exporting countries and countries that use nuclear power there are very real threats to civil liberties. [More…]
I point out that it is, after all, only a few years ago that the Labor Government was in power. [More…]
The Bill removes the power of the Aboriginals to decline to make an agreement with the director of the Australian National Parks and Wildlife Service. [More…]
It protects the power of corporate secrecy and makes Aborigines impotent to challenge a company if it considers that disclosing its technical information might tend to incriminate it in regard to the protection of the environment. [More…]
Previous Opposition speakers on this cluster of uranium Bills have made it clear that there are alternatives to nuclear power; that there are alternatives to a headlong and hellbent development at all costs. [More…]
On the matter of international conspiracy I could warn people just as strongly about international companies, combines or consortia which are committed at all costs to recouping what is in fact a multi-billion dollar investment in nuclear power. [More…]
Most of the contracting companies stand to sustain a loss in the order to billions of dollars if the winding down of nuclear power stations, which has started already in the United States- at least the stations are in a waiting position- continues. [More…]
Here in Australia- indeed, in this very city- we have a far more sensible proposition to beat the power crisis; a far more permanent and complete solution to our balance of payments problems; and a far better remedy for the parlous state of our motor industry in particular and, indeed, of the world’s power generation crisis. [More…]
Also, they can produce a prototype solar-powered energy transfer and storage system which can be made to work at costs comparable to those of existing electricity generation in outback towns in Australia. [More…]
In addition, it should be cheaper than nuclear power; it would be well within the production capabilities of Australia, which nuclear power generation certainly is not; it would be more amenable to flexibility of siting and power storage to compensate for weather and seasonal fluctuations; and it would be more economically adaptable to evolution from a small generation complex to a large scale one. [More…]
It would be far more adaptable than nuclear power generation, which has no adaptability of that kind at all. [More…]
Without a multi-million dollar unit there is no power generation. [More…]
In fact, in this regard the project of the Department of Engineering Physics of the Australian National University is far more promising than the competitive investigation being undertaken at a much greater cost in the United States, where they have large scale power units with reflectors which have to be on a large centralised scale. [More…]
If there is a power crisis we need to develop this alternative which is, I repeat, more promising than nuclear power because it is cleaner, cheaper and much better proved than the technology to cope with nuclear power waste disposal and security for which we are still waiting. [More…]
I believe that this legislation as drafted provides the court with the power to deal with people who take such vexatious proceedings. [More…]
ls the Committee considering the implications and relevance of the power in placitum 51 (xxxviii) of the Constitution; if so, what action has been taken. [More…]
Quite obviously, those tax cuts, as inflation comes further under control, are providing additional purchasing power throughout the Australian community. [More…]
It was proposed that the Bill would provide the Australian Government with the power to override any failure on the part of the State or Territory to comply with the codes of practice. [More…]
( 1 ) The Supervising Scientist has power to do all things that are necessary or convenient to be done for, or in connexion with, the performance of his functions. [More…]
Exactly; more power to your elbow. [More…]
Among other things, this means using much less oil for power generation than we have in the past. [More…]
The world needs uranium to generate electric power. [More…]
Electric power is essential for development. [More…]
As the Deputy Prime Minister said recently in this chamber, there are now 194 nuclear power units with a capacity of more than 95,000 megawatts operating in 21 countries. [More…]
There are 213 nuclear power units under construction in 27 countries. [More…]
This means that nuclear power units with a total generating capacity of 388,000 megawatts are either in operation, under construction or on firm order in 34 countries throughout the world. [More…]
Under the National Parks and Wildlife Conservation Amendment Bill the Director of National Parks and Wildlife is given enormous power, not only in relation to national park management and environmental considerations but also in relation to the development of uranium mining and milling. [More…]
The Bills before the House also provide for considerable power to be given to the Northern Land Council. [More…]
In fact, one knows that they are drawing back from involvement with nuclear power. [More…]
At a time when we are seeing the transfer of powers to the Northern Territory Executive, constitutional reform and self-government, we see the Commonwealth endeavouring to divide the Territory. [More…]
The national Director is to have the right of access to any area in the region and the right to require information, with power to apply to the Supreme Court to enforce his rights. [More…]
No such similar power is given to any Territory Authority. [More…]
If a land rights claim were upheld and the Director refused to surrender his interest in land within a park the Minister could use the power of direction which he has under the Act. [More…]
The Government believes the amendment would restrict unduly the powers given to the Minister. [More…]
The Minister’s power will not affect any legal remedies against the Director to ensure compliance with his statutory duty. [More…]
Proposed sub-section 21(2) merely ensures that both parties are required and have adequate power to enter into the proposed lease agreement. [More…]
While the Atomic Energy Act grabs overall power over this unfortunate area of uranium mining - [More…]
The Government, as I have said, wants the best of all worlds- ultimate power without responsibility for the administration. [More…]
But in my view the scheme will be invalid because, under the Bill, the code cannot be limited to matters within the legislative power of the Commonwealth. [More…]
On the contrary it is to deal generally with standards, practices and procedures with respect to nuclear activities which, as such, are outside Commonwealth legislative power. [More…]
The power to make regulations which is conferred on the Governor-General is as wide as the matters which may be contained in a code and, that being so, the power is too wide and not within constitutional limits. [More…]
The attempt in clause 12 to bring the matters dealt with by the Bill within the ambit of Commonwealth power would, in my view, be ineffective. [More…]
I am concerned at the possible future implications, which could be far-reaching in many other fields, if the attempt to extend Commonwealth jurisdiction by such indirect means into areas for which it has no specific head of power were to be seen as a precedent. [More…]
I believe this is a badly constructed Bill and that there are serious implications in it in that excessive power is proposed to be exercised on what is probably not a legitimate constitutional base. [More…]
I concede that ultimately the Government might have the power to do that, and I disagree with that view in Mr Hamer’s letter. [More…]
The definitions clause in this Bill gives the Government enormous power in terms of the regulation-making provisions. [More…]
If we look at what happened last evening to the Atomic Energy Commission Bill we see that no State rights are left under that legislation- the Commonwealth has the power to go in and mine. [More…]
has any additional effect mentioned in the order if the conferring of power to make an order having that effect is within the powers of the Parliament, but does not have any other effect. [More…]
The human element can be intruded into these orders and regulations and there has to be an objective test as to whether it was a valid exercise of power or not. [More…]
It is to have the power to apply to a Supreme Court to enforce these rights, the same way that the Director of the Australian National Parks and Wildlife Service can under a related Bill. [More…]
No similar power is given to any Northern Territory authority. [More…]
The Court is not given power to impose new environmental requirements. [More…]
Insensitive is right, in the terms put forward by the Labor Party, when one recalls that when Labor came into power in 1972 there were 126,000 people unemployed and when it went out of power in 1975 there were 328,000 people unemployed. [More…]
The CES will, at the direction of the Minister, have the power to establish and maintain offices for the performance of its functions. [More…]
There have been various examples of retrospective legislation in our past which put beyond doubt the power of the Parliament to pass such legislation but, more importantly, the courts have recognised that such legislation may sometimes be the most socially desirable solution. [More…]
I believe that that episode ended any prospect in the future of political interference in the administration of the law, at least while this Government is in power. [More…]
We had to wait until a Labor government came into power in 1972 for the necessary legislation to be introduced to close off a series of tax avoidance loopholes. [More…]
Would that not be a significant contribution to total Australian consumer power and of real benefit to economic recovery? [More…]
The range of issues which were discussed included: The complexity of the legislation; the terms of the lease in contrast with a freehold title; the control of the land which would be in the hands of the communities themselves; the role of the advisory committees to support the shire councils and the membership of those committees; the relationship between the Queensland Government and the councils under local government legislation; and the power of the councils, particularly with regard to the by-laws. [More…]
Before describing in greater detail some of the Government’s policies- these will be described by the honourable member for Kingston (Mr Chapman) as well- in the light of the comments made by the honourable member for Adelaide I have to say that these problems which we are now facing in the motor vehicle industry have not just begun and, more particularly, did not begin with the coming to power of the Fraser Government. [More…]
The real problem in this clause is the incredible power given to the Commissioner of Taxation. [More…]
Very wide powers are given to the Commissioner of Taxation. [More…]
It is my suggestion now that far from he alone being given the power the words should be ‘in such proportions as are appropriate in the circumstances’. [More…]
I confirm my convictions that the Liberal Party and the National Country Party from time immemorial have been against too great a power being held by anyone. [More…]
We believe that power can always be misused and mistakes can be made. [More…]
I am concerned to try to find an appropriate balance between the need- when people are resorting to complicated devices and schemes- to give the Commissioner of Taxation sufficient power to exercise in order to provide for all the combinations and permutations that can arise in legislation of this character and at the same time to provide some kind of restraint on the exercise of those discretionary powers. [More…]
I think the Committee will be aware that the exercise of those discretionary powers is always subject to an appeal to the independent board of review constituted under the Income Tax Assessment Act and ultimately to the courts. [More…]
The Government should have the power to change the tax laws in that financial year so long as it does not invalidate ordinary commercial transactions which may have been made partly because of a taxation benefit. [More…]
The power to tax involves the power to destroy. [More…]
Since the sixteenth century and except in time of war, never has a Government possessed more power than it has today: [More…]
It is a question of politics; it is a question of social acceptance; and it is a question of power. [More…]
That is what the Treasurer (Mr Howard) is exercising; he is exercising power. [More…]
But the fact that the company did not distribute that money meant that when the Labor Party came to power it retrospectively destroyed the tax free nature of those reserves amounting to something like $25m. [More…]
The Parliament has the power. [More…]
The question is whether or not it should use the power. [More…]
I remind those honourable members who have referred to the decisions of Halsbury and others that Dicey laid it down many years ago that it was fundamental that a government that had power- and he was talking about the British Government- could, if it wished, make laws which might sound quite wrong or ludicrous. [More…]
He said that Parliament had the power. [More…]
This Parliament has the power to make retrospective legislation. [More…]
The main argument they seemed to advance was that they were terrified that this power might fall into the hands of a Labor Government. [More…]
In those circumstances that power was treated with great respect. [More…]
I defy those honourable members to find one example where the power wielded by any former Labor Government with the numbers in both Houses has been misused in any flagrant fashion. [More…]
It worries me that a certain amount of moral rectitude is being shown by those honourable members opposite who are terrified about the use of this power. [More…]
-I am using the argument to show that the same people are now terrified about the use of some other power to make sure that a privileged section of the community pays its share of the tax bill. [More…]
It then, after examining certain cases where expenditure is to be disregarded in ascertaining taxable income, gives vast powers to the Commissioner of Taxation. [More…]
Under this clause as a whole the Commissioner is given power to decide what is reasonable and what is unreasonable. [More…]
1 have long believed- and have heard honourable members opposite argue just as strenuously- that the Commissioner of Taxation should not be given excessive powers. [More…]
I distinguish principle from what I regard as excessive use of power by an official, rather than the Parliament itself being in a position where it establishes the guidelines and the law. [More…]
Over and over again when that question has been raised we have come down on the side of denying further power to anyone. [More…]
No matter how good the Taxation Office is- and nobody knows that much better than I do; I still believe it is one of the great departments, and has very good officials- I would not give it very much power. [More…]
I believe not so much that power corrupts but that power is sometimes used in excess, and the ability to use excess power is something to which we should all object. [More…]
If it were re-written so that the Commissioner of Taxation would have the power to declare void any tax avoidance scheme we would not be faced with the continual need to legislate, or these continual worries on the part of some Government supporters about having to deal with retrospectivity when a particular scheme gets away and the Government becomes worried about loss of revenue. [More…]
Finally, countries which have invested heavily in nuclear power reactors and which are coming to rely on that power generating capacity will obviously attach the greatest importance to the security of supplies of fuel. [More…]
For example, after 1 985 France is expected to be dependent on nuclear power for 60 per cent of its electrical power generating capacity. [More…]
The maximum allowance should be raised to restore its purchasing power. [More…]
I am talking about a Labor Party that occasionally wins power. [More…]
The fuels concerned are motor spirit, power kerosene, aviation fuels and automotive distillate. [More…]
The result was always predictable and the tragedy of the situation is that it seems debates on issues of this nature are superfluous because the power blocs have their preconceived attitudes. [More…]
It is clear from the contents of that Bill- the power which it proposes to put in the hands of the Queensland Government- that the Queensland Government neither repents nor retreats from its position of dogged opposition to the proposition that the rights of the Aboriginal people of those two communities, in common with the rights of Aboriginal people generally in that State, should be respected and should be enshrined firmly in legislation. [More…]
I put that as an extreme example of the sort of power that is available. [More…]
Queensland also reserves to itself power over mineral search and rights in these areas. [More…]
The unions took the matter to the High Court which held that the Deputy Arbitrator in fact had power to grant a right of appeal and that, as the other orders were made on the erroneous assumption that he lacked jurisdiction to deal with the unions’ claim, they could not be allowed to stand. [More…]
Power to Authorise Stand Downs [More…]
The other matter with which this Bill deals is the power of the Public Service Arbitrator or the Deputy Arbitrator to issue orders authorising the standing down of officers and employees and the consequences that are to attend standing down. [More…]
Section 12D(1)(b) empowers the Public Service Arbitrator or a Deputy Arbitrator to make orders as he thinks necessary or desirable for putting an end to, or preventing the occurrence of, an industrial situation or preventing the occurrence of further industrial situations, or such other orders as he thinks necessary or desirable by reason of the existence or likely occurrence of the industrial situation. [More…]
It had been thought that this section empowered the Public Service Arbitrator or a Deputy Arbitrator to make orders authorising the standing down of officers and employees and it was on this view that the Deputy Arbitrator made orders standing down members of the Administrative and Clerical Officers Association and the Australian Public Service Association in the CES dispute. [More…]
As a corollary to the power to make such an order, the proposed amendments also set out the consequences that flow from the implementation of a power to stand down authorised by an order of the Public Service Arbitrator or a Deputy Arbitrator. [More…]
Unfortunately we have in power a government that is not interested in equity. [More…]
When the Labor Government came to power in Australia in 1972 the total taxes collected represented about 27 per cent of the gross national product, compared with an average of 3 1 per cent for all OECD countries. [More…]
If one listened to some of the debate this afternoon one would have thought that the instant the Labor Party came back into power it would not only re-introduce estate duty but also go ahead with a capital gains measure. [More…]
Yet at least some Opposition members have indicated a complete ignorance of the lessons learned by the Labor Party when it was in power. [More…]
One is the relocation of the transmitting station and the other is for an increase in its power output. [More…]
This caused some difficulties because an increase in power output would result in an overlap with other commercial stations in the area. [More…]
At this point in time there is still no approval for that station to operate from its new transmitter or under new power output provisions. [More…]
The power output of the station was reduced from 1.7 kilowatts to 1 kilowatt and it was indicated very strongly that the station would be licensed to operate only in the Bathurst area. [More…]
The Minister has a position of enormous power and influence. [More…]
The new arrangements, if anything, have tended to increase the Commonwealth Government’s power and to reduce the bargaining capacity of the States. [More…]
In summary, what I have been saying about the personal income tax sharing arrangements is that they offer the States no improvement in the distribution of responsibility for determining the allocation of personal tax revenue, for the Commonwealth retains the power to set the total amount of the States’ share. [More…]
So the States are worse off than they were before, with less power, less money and more responsibility. [More…]
The Government, in passing stage 2, clearly will be giving the States that power and saying to them when they come seeking further financial assistance: ‘You have got the power to levy an income tax surcharge; why don’t you go off and do it?’ [More…]
One is to centralise power in Canberra because it believes that Canberra is the font of all wisdom and that what is decided in Canberra is good for the whole of Australia. [More…]
The Labor Party can get away with that only if it creates a situation in which the States become so weak, so mendicant, so powerless and so subservient that they can do nothing about it. [More…]
From 1972 to 1975 we saw a major attempt by the Labor Party not only to impose its socialist policies in this country but also to centralise power in Canberra. [More…]
The Labor Party will not like my doing this, but I take it back to a document which was prepared and circulated throughout Australia in September 1975 and which had a very distinct effect on the vote in the States of Tasmania, Western Australia and Queensland because it said in clear and unequivocal terms what we believed about federalism and what we would do if elected to power. [More…]
It is important to remind ourselves of these statements and then to relate them to what we have done since we have come to power. [More…]
It aims to prevent dangerous concentration of power in a few hands. [More…]
It was one of the major issues that assisted the return to power of the Labor Government in New South Wales. [More…]
One of the essentials when it comes to planning the future of the economy is that the national government should have power over the raising of a levy. [More…]
Without that power the national government must lose control of the reins so far as the economic future of the country is concerned. [More…]
It is a tragedy that the Fraser Liberal-Country Party Government has decided to go backwards, to hand back those revenue raising powers to the States for the sole purpose of avoiding its own responsibility- in other words, for political gain so that it will not be seen to be increasing taxation or not reducing it adequately. [More…]
For that basic purpose it is handing back these powers to the States. [More…]
In their place he wished to see a structure of regional administrative organisations with the totality of legislative power centralised in Canberra. [More…]
We on this side of the House believe that a centralised government with all legislative power based in the hands of that one government centred here in Canberra is dangerous for Australia, dangerous for its people, dangerous to their freedom and dangerous for their democracy. [More…]
Therefore, having seen what the Labor Party attempted to do when it was in office, we have set about introducing a federalism policy that is designed to underpin the federal system to ensure that there is a distribution of power, to ensure that those legislative bodies- the State local governments- have adequate resources to enable them to fulfil their obligations in terms of their legislative responsibilities. [More…]
It aims to prevent dangerous concentration of power in a few hands. [More…]
The fact that the Opposition has chosen to criticise the legislation on the basis that it rejects the new federalism policy is clear proof that it still adheres to its centralist aspirations of bringing all legislative power to Canberra and putting at risk the freedoms of the Australian people and the very democracy which provides us with those freedoms. [More…]
They will do anything to cling to power. [More…]
-It is interesting to reflect upon the powers of the Minister under the Telecommunications Act, and the honourable member has caused me to do that. [More…]
The Minister has power to give directions to the Australian Telecommunications Commission with respect to the performance of its functions and the exercise of its powers as appears necessary to the Minister in the public interest. [More…]
That report said that the nuclear power industry is unintentionally contributing to an increased risk of nuclear war and that this is the most serious hazard associated with the industry. [More…]
Have members of the Press Gallery made any real analyses of the International Atomic Energy Agency, the Australian Atomic Energy Commission and the parts that they play in the whole matter of nuclear power? [More…]
The third recommendation of the first Fox report stated that the nuclear power industry is connected with the proliferation of nuclear weapons. [More…]
I call on the community at large to write letters and to contact their State representatives because it is the State Government that has power over this prison. [More…]
The Government has decided, however, that the implementation of research results should continue to be a function of CSIRO, subject to a general power of the Minister to provide the Executive with guidelines. [More…]
Three of them, Sir Garfield Barwick, Mr Justice Jacobs and Mr Justice Mason, clearly took the view that the territorial sea did not form part of the land territory of Australia but that we had the territorial jurisdiction to legislate in respect of the territorial sea, being within our external affairs power. [More…]
The executive power of the Commonwealth, as contained in section 6 1 of the Constitution, together with the external affairs power give the Government complete power to negotiate a treaty of the type outlined by the Foreign Minister. [More…]
although the Commonwealth Parliament has legal power under Section 122 of the Constitution to impose taxes or other imposts on the people of Norfolk Island for whatever purpose it thinks fit, to do so could well be in breach of a well-entrenched constitutional convention. [More…]
The amendment retains the power for the Treasurer to determine the terms and conditions of any financial assistance provided by the Commonwealth, but in addition requires the terms and conditions to be agreed with the bank. [More…]
Part III provides for the legislative power and has the effect of retaining the present broad-based legislative authority held by the Legislative Assembly. [More…]
A reserve power for the Governor-General to disallow any laws within six months of their receiving the Administrator’s assent is retained. [More…]
After consideration of the rules of the organisation and the relevant provision of the Act and regulations the Federal Court held that, quite clearly, the rules contained no provision for such office and the sub-branch had no power to create the office. [More…]
It may be used, I repeat, only infrequently, but the power is there when required. [More…]
They are usually part of a background struggle for power within an organisation. [More…]
In this area it is important that the Minister, to the extent to which he seeks this type of power, should not be seen to be in a position which is significantly different from that of the other parties to the proceedings. [More…]
I understand the general philosophy of the Government, which says: We are dealing with powerful social institutions and the Government of the day has to give itself a right to intervene to protect the public, if necessary’. [More…]
There may well be points of intervention for any Minister in these situations, but, as the Minister virtually conceded by implication, he sees this power of intervention almost as a power of last resort. [More…]
In his elaboration of this clause he has indicated that it is a power that would be not used frequently. [More…]
If one looks at the history of my own State, where from time to time this sort of power has been exercised by State Ministers in the industrial appeal court jurisdiction, one will find that on balance it has not really assisted in difficult industrial situations. [More…]
We receive very little comfort from the guarantee that the Minister does not envisage this power being used very often. [More…]
I stress again the point that if any of the parties or indeed the Minister- and I will come back to the referral power of the Minister in a minute- see some danger signals in relation to a section 140 or section 141 action, the matter can be referred to a full court without going through the full procedures of an appeal. [More…]
I have already explained in some detail in my second reading speech why I believe it is necessary for the Minister to have the power of referral. [More…]
I explained that the Minister would not use his power as a normal course of action, but the Government believes the power needs to be in the legislation. [More…]
I am aware of the trade union movement’s general opposition to this right of the Minister but I make no apology for this power. [More…]
It should have the power to intervene on behalf of the public when it considers it necessary to do so. [More…]
We have made provision for that power in the Conciliation and Arbitration Act and we make the same provision in this Bill. [More…]
In contrast to the examples given, the United States of America quite recently as a result of considerable lobbying from age groups such as ‘Grey Power’ extended the retirement age to 70 years. [More…]
This Government’s obsession with reducing inflation by cutting real wages and by cutting government expenditure has resulted in the consumer power of Australian wage and salary earners being savagely slashed. [More…]
However, the fact is that this Government’s policy, and, indeed, the economic policies of the capitalist world generally, have been unsuccessful in producing so-called manpower policies which would result in a real redistribution of work opportunities. [More…]
Without the sorts of advantages that apply when one is dealing with a genuine private enterprise system, one can see there is good reason not to give up the power of the Parliament over the Public Service. [More…]
It was elected to power in December 1 975 on the promise that within three years it would provide employment for aU those people in this country who wanted it. [More…]
I refer to the fact that when we were in power, there was a great deal of stability in the economy. [More…]
The Special Youth Employment Training scheme did not exist when the Australian Labor Party was in power. [More…]
The Privy Council solemnly decided that the best it could say was that the legislative power of the Commonwealth of Australia did not extend to criminal law. [More…]
It is not based on the external affairs power as was the Seas and Submerged Lands Act. [More…]
Section 5 1 (x) of the Constitution states in specific terms that the Commonwealth has power to legislate with respect to fisheries into Australian waters beyond territorial limits. [More…]
The legislation might not be able to be based soundly on the external affairs power as there is no international covenant applicable. [More…]
The reasoning of Mr Justice Jacobs and Mr Justice Mason was that the Commonwealth had power under the external affairs power over the territorial sea because it was external to Aus.tralia that is, it was not within the territorial limits. [More…]
Clause 8 gives the Government a wide, in fact unlimited, discretionary power the purpose of which is explained neither in the legislation nor in the Minister’s second reading speech. [More…]
Whether one regards this aspect as an opportunity for Australia to strengthen its trade bargaining power with other nations which rely heavily on their fishing industries and which will seek to fish in our waters or whether it is to be used as a source of revenue through the issuing of licences, the fact is that it creates a serious problem. [More…]
The Commonwealth has power to declare historic bays, I think under the Seas and Submerged Lands Act. [More…]
has full power to make laws having extra-territorial operation. [More…]
In sub-clause 2 there is clear provision for power to repeal in this case the Admiralty jurisdiction or amend any such Act of the United Kingdom Parliament. [More…]
So, what he said I believe is incorrect inasmuch as we clearly have the power; it is a matter of sitting down and working out that jurisdiction. [More…]
The same kind of search happened again recently so I decided to research the Customs Act and, in particular, the section that purportedly gave customs officers this power. [More…]
Despite holding an honest and reasonable belief in the lawfulness of their actions, if they perform actions for which they are not given power they are guilty of an offence. [More…]
And that the Governor of New South Wales had the power to dismiss Mr J. T. Lang, the Premier. [More…]
It is understood that the New South Wales and Victorian State Superannuation Boards have discretionary power to withhold superannuation increases or part thereof. [More…]
The International Nuclear Fuel Cycle Evaluation (INFCE) is studying how nuclear power could help to meet the world’s energy needs without compromising nonproliferation objectives. [More…]
-Can the Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations inform this House whether the Government proposes to take or has taken any action in respect of the decision of the South Australian Government to introduce a 37Vi hour working week into the power industry in that State? [More…]
South Australian power industry have been before the Full Bench of the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission for some time and the case has been delayed because of a pending High Court decision relating to whether the State Electricity Commission of Victoria could intervene in the proceedings. [More…]
The House is also no doubt well aware that had there not been such a disgraceful lack of adequate coal loading facilities the power of a small, selfish and reckless group of government employees to disrupt the economy of that region could not have been exercised. [More…]
The effect of the decision is that power operated metal working machine tools at present subject to a general tariff rate of 26 per cent and eligible for bounty will become free of duty over a three-year period. [More…]
Other power operated metal working machine tools and parts for use as original equipment in the assembly or manufacture of power operated metal working machine tools will be free of duty from tomorrow. [More…]
The Government has also decided that from tomorrow a bounty is to be paid on certain power operated metal working machine tools produced and used in Australia and that a bounty on local design content be introduced. [More…]
I shall read from a departmental letter which was written a few weeks ago, and which is over the signature of L. E. Power, for the First Assistant Secretary, Airways Operations. [More…]
It was at that time that real wages were given such an enormous boost, albeit with sincerity, by the socialist government that had come into power. [More…]
Although one can see some justice in the comment that the present Government has been in power since 1975 and that it is well into the third calendar year since then, the fact remains that the great harm done to the Australian economy was in fact done from the end of 1972 to the end of 1975. [More…]
In the beginning, all power lay with the Parliament. [More…]
Progressively and steadily over a period of seventy-seven years it has handed over more and more of its authority to that executive, to the bureaucracy, or to statutory authorities and corporations so that the Parliament has effectively divested itself of power. [More…]
Under the Party system it is virtually impossible for private members to prevail over the Party leadershipthe Executive- no matter which Party is in power. [More…]
So the process has been a gradual one resulting in the transfer of power away from the Parliament and into the hands of the Executive. [More…]
No executive would want the Parliament to be more powerful than necessary. [More…]
From that time, for the duration of the Parliament, the power is exercised by the Ministry. [More…]
The most important power which nominally belongs to the Parliament is the one which is perhaps the least exercisable. [More…]
I believe the Parliament needs to take a stand in an effort to regain some of the power that has been whittled away over the years. [More…]
It should be able to question the use of executive power and seek justification for decisions made by the Government, or the bureaucracy inside or outside the Parliament. [More…]
The increasing internationalisation of production stemming from the power of highly mobile multinational corporations has further added to the instability of the economy and poses special structural difficulties for Australia, allied as they are to the industrial revolution in South East and East Asia. [More…]
Since short-term considerations were always the most pressing, and as Treasury had greater power and prestige and better sources of information than the newly formed planning department, it continually won out and the planning concept was increasingly discredited. [More…]
The experience of three years of Labor Government suggests that they should not, not only because of the opportunities that such a body would provide for abusing the power which would flow to a centralised body and which apparently, would have a minimum of external control but also because it would exaggerate to a substantial degree the existing tendency to concentrate economic power in Canberra. [More…]
There is no doubt that in philosophic terms, as the honourable member for Gellibrand pointed out, the Government parties take the strong view that the concentration of power in Canberra, as happened during the Whitlam years, is not in the best interests of Australia. [More…]
The economic results that flowed from that concentration of power dramatised clearly that it is not in the best interests of Australia. [More…]
But listening to the honourable member for Gellibrand one wondered whether he was aware of the fact that last year the Department of the Treasury was split in two, that for many of the things he was talking about there has been the effective creation of a new governmental structure and not one, I submit, that is as amenable to the concentration of power as the honourable member for Gellibrand would wish. [More…]
In the time that the Fraser Government has been in power, probably honourable members opposite have educated themselves on the economy a little more. [More…]
I think that has been helped by the fact that the Opposition when in power was anxious to promote the independence of that country. [More…]
The exception is that this Bill provides for amending the Act so as to empower the Treasurer to issue securities in connection with payments required to be made by Australia to the Fund and Bank. [More…]
Under the present Act this power is conferred on the Governor-General and not on the Treasurer. [More…]
There is no question of constitutional or legal principle involved, since the change will make practice in this matter consistent with that in other situations where the Treasurer is empowered to authorise the issue of securities. [More…]
1- the first American laser power plant- was on stream, replacing the last great oil-fed electric power station. [More…]
As long as the Minister has the power to intervene when he thinks that people have gone overboard about something, that should be adequate. [More…]
For these reasons the Deputy Arbitrator had power to make an order granting to the officers concerned in or affected by or likely to be concerned in or affected by the industrial situation a right of appeal against the appointment of outsiders to positions in the service, provided that he thought such an order ‘necessary or desirable for putting an end to or preventing the occurrence of, the situation or preventing the occurrence of further industrial situations’ or necessary or desirable by reason of the existence … of the situation’. [More…]
However he misconstrued the provisions of the Act and misconceived the extent of his powers. [More…]
I refer to the Industrial Relations Bureau legislation, to amendments to the Trade Practices Act and to amendments to the Conciliation and Arbitration Act which equipped the Commonwealth with power to move in even more ruthlessly and unreasonably than it has been able to do in the past. [More…]
The power of the Public Service Arbitrator to order the standing down of officers or employees who are concerned in or affected by an industrial situation is made specific by the inclusion of a new paragraph. [More…]
In other words, the power of the legislature wins the day. [More…]
The Government claims that it must have the power to control promotions and appeals. [More…]
It has precisely those powers now in relation to other conditions of employment. [More…]
The Government has that power; it is the normal process which is taken in relation to promotions. [More…]
Why did the Government not accept that decision gracefully and carry on in the way it does with all other conditions of service where it has the power to set salaries or make promotions and where people have the right of appeal against such decisions. [More…]
I can understand too that, if he could possibly exercise the power to suppress records, his own records would be amongst the first to go. [More…]
Section 5 1 -The Parliament shall, subject to this Constitution, have power to make laws for the peace, order, and good government of the Commonwealth with respect to: [More…]
Even though the detailed guidelines have not yet been issued, the State committees have power to approve the continuation of projects for up to 12 months, provided of course that the requisite information is available and the committee is satisfied that the situation in the community concerned and the success of the scheme in helping unemployed young people warrant this extension. [More…]
I ask the honourable member why the Labor Government, when it was in power from 1972 to 1975, introduced Medibank when it had an abundance of statistics that clearly indicated that Medibank should not be introduced in this country. [More…]
If they do not want us to have money they have the power to stop us from having money. [More…]
When the Labor Party was in power, for the first time in the history of any Federal government it reduced the number of primary industry representatives on all the statutory marketing boards which it revised. [More…]
They are already finding it extremely difficult as the purchasing power of their incomes has been reduced by at least $14 a week during the last two years under the Fraser Government, due to decisions of the Australian Conciliation and Arbitration Commission. [More…]
Let us now examine the purchasing power of the moneys advanced by the Commonwealth to the States in 1977-78. [More…]
There is more power over one’s life and a pride in one ‘s family if home ownership can be brought about by any mechanism which is open to governments, whether it be by the instrument we have before us today or whether it be by instruments which are available to the Government through economic measures or any other measures. [More…]
In this Bill we are giving power to the States. [More…]
In 1975, after manipulating the big lie to gain power, the Prime Minister promised a government of responsibility and integrity. [More…]
Yet his record, this continuing self-righteousness and humbug, are totally consistent with the way this Government came to power. [More…]
While the Prime Minister intensifies his stranglehold at the centre of power he shows less and less interest in genuinely practising the principles he is so fond of preaching. [More…]
There seem to be no limits to the Prime Minister’s selfindulgence in the exercise of power and the acquisition of the trappings of power. [More…]
There has been a decrease in the purchasing power of the money that is being made available for welfare housing as can be seen by comparing the amounts made available for the year 1974-75 and the amount being made available under this legislation. [More…]
The Liberal-Country Party Government over the many years it has been in power has traditionally promoted home ownership in this country. [More…]
As we put in more power points, more refrigerators and more heating we reduced the size of the house. [More…]
We know that internationally the nuclear power industry is in grave difficulties because of the cancellation of proposals for new nuclear power stations. [More…]
If some countries do go ahead with the fast breeder, the amount of uranium now needed to drive conventional nuclear power stations may not be needed. [More…]
So on all fronts there are problems for this Government on such an important issue, and this amendment that the conservative forces of the Northern Territory are supporting in an effort to uphold their sovereign powers, is only another small concession to those conservative forces. [More…]
Even the cost of building a nuclear power station is becoming so expensive that it is becoming extremely difficult to meet. [More…]
The real costs in the nuclear power industry must be considered. [More…]
Instead of the cost of enrichment being paid for and subsidised as a part of the war machine, the real economic cost will have to be borne by the nuclear power stations and it will make nuclear power so much more uneconomic compared with other forms of power generation. [More…]
These are going to be tremendously costly economic problems for those people who want to continue with nuclear power stations, if they can. [More…]
All I am saying is that interrelated with the environment is the fact that the third recommendation of the Fox report was that the nuclear power industry and uranium mining was interrelated with the whole question of the proliferation of nuclear weapons, and that in itself is a threat. [More…]
It appears to me that the honourable member for the Northern Territory (Mr Calder) seems to think that the States have great sovereign power and that we should not have a great suspicion about the conservative National Country Party and Liberal Party forces in the Territory. [More…]
Under this amendment the Government has given away its sovereign power to these people. [More…]
It is the little men with power who have the control of the parties opposite. [More…]
A central depository be established in Australia for the storage of hazardous long-lived radioactive waste materials, other than those arising in the generation of nuclear power; [More…]
Both countries have a high stake in the security and prosperity of other economically advanced democratic powers in the world; in the continuation of the process of detente between the super-powers; in maintaining an open and nondiscriminatory regime in international trade; in encouraging a continuing United States presence in the Asia-Pacific region to the extent necessary to maintain a sound balance in that region; in opposing any attempt by the Soviet Union- or any other major power- to establish hegemony in the Asia-Pacific region; and in encouraging China to continue to play a constructive role in regional affairs. [More…]
The Committee has recognised that Japan is a major world power whose capacity to influence global and regional affairs is already substantial, and can be expected steadily to increase. [More…]
It would be of great importance to establish a Zone of Peace in the Indian Ocean that would be free from great power rivalry and of great power military presence . [More…]
It goes without saying that the success of arms control efforts in the nuclear sphere is closely linked to satisfactory international controls on the utilisation of nuclear power for peaceful purposes. [More…]
Over 30 countries have now embarked on nuclear power generation programs. [More…]
We have to do everything in our power to reduce the expenditure on arms, the impact of our arms expenditure in this region and use whatever influence we have with our neighbours to prevent them embarking on an arms race. [More…]
If we had the misfortune to have in power a government which was going around saying that it would rev things up, at the expense of the taxpayer, the people of the nation know it cannot be sustained. [More…]
However, it is rather bemusing when we think of what members of this Government used to say about the Labor Government when it was in power and was stepping around the Loan Council on one remarkable occasion. [More…]
Now, in order to get uranium mining started before the wet season, the Government has adopted a position which completely contradicts and subverts any concept that the Commonwealth will be not the exclusive power but the paramount power in determining nuclear codes. [More…]
This Government, because what it is really concerned about is the whole question of uranium mining, has said: ‘Righto, the Commonwealth chooses not to be the paramount authority and the real power for decision-making in respect of nuclear codes will rest with the States’. [More…]
That means just what the honourable member for Melbourne Ports said it means: That the real power of deciding the codes of practice for uranium mining outside the Northern Territory or any other Commonwealth Territory certainly is in the hands of the States. [More…]
That showed who really has the power. [More…]
Labor believes, that having regard to the present unresolved economic, social, biological, genetic, environmental and technical problems associated with the mining of uranium and the development of nuclear power and in particular- [More…]
to the proven contribution of the nuclear power industry to the proliferation of nuclear weapons and the increased risk of nuclear war; [More…]
In other words, the States then have a veto power. [More…]
So clause 12 seeks to give the Commonwealth Parliament the maximum amount of power and we agree that that power should be used to protect the people of Australia to the maximum extent in relation to uranium mining if uranium mining commences in August during the next couple of years. [More…]
If this amendment is agreed to it will mean that this Parliament will not be taking advantage of its powers, as was intended when this matter was debated on 4 May, to insist that the workers in Australia be protected as much as they can be protected. [More…]
What we say in the Bill is that we will go to the full limits of the powers given to this Parliament but the amendment enables us to crawl out of our responsibility to exercise that power. [More…]
We say that although we have the power we will not exercise it unless the State Governor asks us to exercise it. [More…]
What is the necessity then for all the references in clause 12 to the powers of the Commonwealth over the States? [More…]
It is complete nonsense to say that there has been an abdication of power or authority. [More…]
We retain the power and authority that we had under the Constitution. [More…]
Well, we have the power; that is the important thing. [More…]
To suggest that we have handed over that power - [More…]
He will see what powers we have. [More…]
To suggest that we have abdicated those powers is complete nonsense. [More…]
We retain those powers. [More…]
By virtue of this amendment we are not handing over those powers at all. [More…]
What they say indicates really an ignorance of the Constitution and the power that the Commonwealth has. [More…]
We sought to find not just a power on the part of the Commonwealth, but a recognition of the sovereignty that the States have in this matter. [More…]
By reason of its various constitutional powers, notably with respect to defence and overseas trade, the national Parliament is not without some effective legal powers at the present stage of nuclear development in Australia. [More…]
Expected developments in the use of nuclear energy for constructive and destructive purposes will, however, reveal serious deficiencies in Commonwealth legal power, particularly if it should be sought to promote a self-contained integrated nuclear power industry serving the needs of industry and national development as well as defence. [More…]
It seems that the Commonwealth Parliament has insufficient legislative power to make proper provision for the protection of the health and welfare of the community as a whole from dangers which can arise from the use of radioactive materials and isotopes. [More…]
So the Committee recommends that the Commonwealth Parliament should be empowered by Constitutional amendments to make laws with respect to the manufacture of nuclear fuels and the generation and use of nuclear energy and to iodising radiations. [More…]
What has happened here, as happened in the case of the previous clause discussed, is that now the Federal Government no longer has that power and it is up to the States to withdraw from the arrangement. [More…]
The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Groom) said, in answering a previous question- and I assume he will use exactly the same argument here- that under the Constitution extra powers are available. [More…]
If that is the case, and the Government has power to override the States, why is it now bringing in this amendment? [More…]
He therefore gives to the Minister a power to act in an executive capacity. [More…]
I say with the utmost respect to the honourable member for Robertson, for whom I do have a regard, that he did himself less than justice on this occasion because I would have thought it was fundamental, if a State government was not consulted on this matter, one could have executive power at Commonwealth level used without any restraint at all. [More…]
In any of these contingencies clause 13 provided for ultimate Federal power to be resumed. [More…]
They said at the time that their objections were based, firstly, upon the assault upon civil liberties inherent in clause 13, and secondly, because clause 13 might pave the way for an ultimate Federal direction that uranium mining may proceed in the States against the wishes of the State government that may be in power at that particular time. [More…]
I just want to make it perfectly clear that the legislation clearly provides that the States will have the power of veto in respect of nuclear codes. [More…]
I am aware of the reserve powers of the Commonwealth in regard to customs and exports but there are great implications involved. [More…]
In the third recommendation of the first Fox report it was stated that the nuclear power industry is unintentionally contributing to an increased risk of nuclear war. [More…]
Labor believes that having regard to the present unresolved economic, social, biological, genetic, environmental and technical problems associated with the mining of uranium and the development of nuclear power . [More…]
Yet, feeling uncertain, the Government is now taking away the power, or is it? [More…]
Is it suggesting some hidden power that it has not exposed to us at this stage? [More…]
The problem which the Government is creating for itself in its determination to go ahead and to get mining under way before the wet season sets in, irrespective of the hazards and irrespective of the problems which that can create for Australia, is such that it is now prepared to throw away any responsibility in terms of operating as a paramount power in the formulation of a nuclear code. [More…]
Australia had had no experience as an occupying power. [More…]
The Government believes that this approach offers the best protection against concentration of power in Canberra. [More…]
This Customs Tariff Validation Bill is concerned with the revenue which results from the Commonwealth Government’s power to impose tariffs. [More…]
Regardless of whatever government is in power, political appointments to TUTA are fraught with danger to the well-being of effective trade union training. [More…]
The willing participation of these and other unions will not be as much in evidence, I fear, in future years now that the Government is proceeding to attack the autonomy of the movement by deliberately weakening the power of the unions to control their own training programs through TUTA. [More…]
I do believe that members of the union, and building workers and workers generally have lost their purchasing power for indexation and as far as I am concerned is that we will be campaigning the purchasing power of our members. [More…]
The honourable member for Darling Downs (Mr McVeigh) drew attention to the drastic results of irresponsible union leadership in strike action and the effect that had on job opportunities and the purchasing power of rank and file members. [More…]
The third point I want to make, which takes me more closely into the Bill, is to draw attention to the way in which the power has been shifted within the nature of the Trade Union Training Authority so that we now have elevated in place of a broadly representative board- other honourable members have referred to this- a National Director appointed by the Minister operating in the context of an executive which clearly can be controlled by management when the Chairman appointed by the Minister is prepared to go in that direction. [More…]
If one looks at education in this country- it has to be said, as I think the honourable member for Cunningham (Mr West) was attempting to suggest earlier, education is in a real sense power- one realises that what we have is a disequilibrium of power. [More…]
There is a real sense in which the disequilibrium of power, which I am suggesting exists in this society, is reflected in educational institutions. [More…]
We have seen power shifted in that institution so that management controls that one area. [More…]
To me that simply means that the National Director has power to arrange for extra tutors on a part time basis. [More…]
Why should any national director appointed by the Minister have the powers I have just outlined? [More…]
I do not believe that such dictatorial powers should be given to anybody. [More…]
He is a very omnipotent person and it would seem very wrong that such power should reside in such a person. [More…]
Are charges for (a) cleaning, (b) electricity and power, (c) fuel, (d) rent or lease, (e) repairs and maintenance, (f) replacement of plant, fittings and (g) depreciation of plant, furniture and fittings included for determination of canteen prices; if not, what was the estimated cost of each of these items in each canteen during 1976-77. [More…]
Are charges for (a) cleaning, (b) electricity and power, (c) fuel, (d) rent or lease, (e) repairs and maintenance, (f) replacements of plant, furniture and fittings and (g) depreciation of plant, furniture and fittings included for determination of canteen prices; if not, what was the estimated cost of each of these items in each canteen during 1 976-77. [More…]
The Government is trying to give an assurance that it will use this power to influence the States to toe the line. [More…]
The nuclear power industry is unintentionally contributing to an increased risk of nuclear war. [More…]
In no way would uranium mining or a nuclear power industry assist in the liquid fuel crisis. [More…]
The December Order under section 19BA of the Acts Interpretation Act and the confirming changes now being made to section 62B of the Audit Act by the Administrative Changes (Consequential Provisions) Bill would, if no special provision were made, have the effect of transferring power of investment of moneys standing to the credit of the Reserve from the Treasurer to the Minister for Finance. [More…]
It proposes to ensure that the Treasurer will continue to have full responsibility for the Reserve, and to that end provides specific investment powers for the Treasurer and creates a separate corporationconsisting of the Treasurer and his successors. [More…]
The Bill includes some necessary saving and machinery provisions, including a power of delegation by the Treasurer in respect of his powers under section 6- investment of the Reserve- corresponding with the power to delegate already given to the Minister for Finance by section 70a of the Audit Act. [More…]
It is telling them that they ought to utilise that power - [More…]
It is telling them they ought to utilise that power to increase income taxes on the Australian people. [More…]
Sure, the legislation gives the States the power to impose a surcharge but, far more importantly than that, it also gives the States the power to give a rebate to the people, the people in their own States and the people of Australia. [More…]
When the States study this legislation and when the States really realise the powerful weapon it puts into their hands they will understand the importance of this legislation. [More…]
If I were a State Premier I would be making rebates as quickly as I could because the State which comes in first with a rebate systemand this legislation gives the States power to do this- is the State which will attract business opportunity, investment and movements in population from the other States in the same way as Queensland has been attracting people as a result of abolishing death duties. [More…]
I contend that this legislation gives a great opportunity to the States that wake up first, the States that wake up to the fact that we have put a powerful weapon in their hands, the States that wake up to the fact that they can give their people an income tax advantage. [More…]
The Acting Premier and Treasurer, Mr Batt, said yesterday he would write to all senators appealing to them to reject Fraser Government legislation which will give States the power to raise their own income tax. [More…]
It should be pointed out that the States, even prior to the new federalism, had the legal power to resume State income tax, but if they did so they would lose the very generous federal grants whose formulae more than compensates for their loss. [More…]
This idea of giving the States a share of income tax and the power to have surcharges or rebates was put by a joint submission, which I mentioned a little earlier, to that 1970 Premiers Conference. [More…]
They will have the power to do so. [More…]
The real administrative and economic power lies within that area. [More…]
It has been mentioned- I do not mind saying it again- that it is a means of removing centralist power from the Federal Government and putting it back in the areas where it belongs, in areas where the States and local people can make their own determinations, set their own priorities and then be held to account for the rectitude of their actions subsequently. [More…]
This legislation is a protection against centralism of power in Canberra. [More…]
We have to break down this power into the various areas. [More…]
Some 13 per cent of British power now is being produced from nuclear operations. [More…]
Although Britain has very significant gas and oil deposits its selection of nuclear power as part of its overall energy production is a recognition of the important part that nuclear energy can play. [More…]
It is unfortunate that members of the Australian Labor Party do not seem to be able to get in step with some of their colleagues in the United Kingdom who obviously recognise the important contribution nuclear power can make to Britain’s energy requirements. [More…]
Alas, Labor Party supporters apparently are going to remain influenced by some of the ossified views of their party, and I think that while they retain this attitude to nuclear energy they must slowly lose the respect not only of other countries but also they will continue to lose the respect of the Australian people who recognise the important contribution nuclear power can play in supplying energy to the rest of the world. [More…]
Did he hear a radio news report today in which Sir Charles Court was reported as saying that the Yeelirrie uranium deposit in Western Australia would be developed before Ranger because there will be no bureaucratic interference, and that Western Australia is planning for the installation of a nuclear power reactor? [More…]
Does he approve the development of the Yeelirrie deposit and has the Federal Government approved, or is it likely to approve, the construction of a nuclear power station in Western Australian. [More…]
The statement, as I heard it, was that Western Australia will have a nuclear reactor or nuclear power, and I suppose that is quite a possibility in the future. [More…]
We need more spending power in the pockets of those who spend- those who are less well off and who desperately need to spend in order to maintain their living standards. [More…]
Giving these people less spending power- and this would be possible under the options put forward by the suspended Minister for Finance- would only result in a worsening economy. [More…]
Well, the honourable gentleman who has now interjected belongs to a party which even today was making a great song about handing back to the States their taxing powers. [More…]
It was pointed out by honourable members on this side of the House that the Australian Labor Party when in power federally did more to decentralise decision-making to local government than any of the States. [More…]
This Bill is one that gives, we believe, undue constitutional power to the Administrator. [More…]
It places him virtually in the same position of power as the Governor-General of this nation or the Governor of a State. [More…]
If they are honest and candid with themselves and others I think they will see that Sir John Kerr’s powers, as he exercised them, are still the basis of considerable controversy in the Australian electorate. [More…]
When I was in London privately a couple of years ago it was brought home to me very forcibly that Britain in particular, and other countries in Europe at that stage still had considerable misgivings about what many of them saw as the misuse of constitutional power by the Governor-General. [More…]
Firstly, we separate legislative power from administrative power and confer legislative power on the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly. [More…]
Therefore, let us first consider the legislative power we are conferring upon the Assembly. [More…]
Subject to this Act, the Legislative Assembly has power, with the assent of the Administrative or the GovernorGeneral, as provided by this Act, to make laws for the peace, order and good government of the Territory. [More…]
That will confer on the Assembly complete, plenary powers. [More…]
I believe that that legislative power should at least be limited to the power which was conferred upon the States. [More…]
I cannot for the life of me understand why we should rely on the implicit significance of existing constitutional conventions and legislation to ensure that there is a limitation on the power of the Territory. [More…]
The legislative power of the Assembly will be so full that if the Assembly could pass legislation by obtaining assent- I am thinking of 20 or 30 years ahead- it could raise its own army, impose its own customs duty or make its own coinage. [More…]
It is true that under section 122 of the Constitution the Commonwealth can confer only the powers that it is authorised to delegate. [More…]
In a legal sense the powers which it delegates to the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly can be withdrawn. [More…]
But as I said earlier, in political terms a withdrawal of those powers as from the passage of this legislation may well become impossible. [More…]
The powers which this Parliament is able to confer on the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly are limited by the Constitution. [More…]
For example, it cannot confer a power that would enable a breach of the full faith and credit provision of the Constitution. [More…]
It cannot confer a power that would enable the Territory to legislate to discriminate on a religious basis. [More…]
But in relation to the powers to which I have referred section 1 15 of the Constitution states: [More…]
We will give it plenary power. [More…]
Because we will give it wide legislative power it will be able to coin its own currency and raise its own army if it can pass legislation. [More…]
The provisions which prevent the States from raising armies do not prevent a Territory with plenary powers from doing so. [More…]
This Parliament can confer that power. [More…]
It should also say that in accordance with section 5 1 of the Constitution, if it exercises authority and passes a family law Act or a bankruptcy Act such Acts will have priority over any exercise of legislative power by the Territory. [More…]
It has been argued that if a Territory under broad legislative powers attempted to pass legislation to enact its own bankruptcy law, for example, such a law would be repugnant to the Commonwealth legislation and therefore would yield. [More…]
True, there was the Colonial Laws Validity Act, and there are other diplomatic arrangements, but who is to say that along that path towards statehood we will not find the emergence of those types of relationships which cause people to say that the Territory is becoming so independent that, having given it those broad plenary powers, we cannot withdraw the authority. [More…]
If the Territory Legislature sought to pass an excise or customs duty, what would happen if a taxpayer challenged a particular class of tax, claiming that it was a customs duty, that the parliament of the Northern Territory had not the power, but the High Court said that it had, because we had given it plenary power. [More…]
I therefore urge upon the Minister as strongly as I can that he go back to his advisers and ask that they be explicit in this legislation and give the Territory plenary powers to the extent that the States have such powers, but make it subject in all other respects to the Constitution of the Commonwealth. [More…]
Irony of ironies: we give them plenary legislative power and then, when we come to the conferral of legislative authority, we say, ‘We will give it to you by regulation, piece by piece, article by article’. [More…]
Perhaps we need to say that they are not to have any authority with regard to Aborigines, although it must be remembered, as I would point out to the honourable member for Capricornia (Dr Everingham), that the Commonwealth now has power with regard to Aborigines. [More…]
The use of section 122 against a self-governing territory is in itself a denial of the conferral of that power. [More…]
I find it curious, in discussing the matter with people who have expertise in this area, that on the one hand they say to me, ‘Oh no, it does not matter; you need not limit the legislative power; we can withdraw it by the exercise of section 122; section 5 1 legislation of the Commonwealth prevails over the whole of the Territory, because the Territory has been held by the High Court to be part of the Commonwealth’- and rightly so- ‘and therefore its legislation, contradictory to our section 5 1 legislation, would be repugnant, and would fall to the ground on that argument’. [More…]
they say, ‘The list would have to be so long; it would have to exclude all those section 5 1 powers; it would take so much time to work out what powers we did not want them to have’. [More…]
I thought we wanted them, subject to some exceptions, to have State-like powers, and I again most seriously urge the Minister to look at that provision in section 35. [More…]
The Administrator is to be given, I believe rightly, certain reserve powers. [More…]
Even the Premier of South Australia acknowledges the importance and significance of the prerogative power of a Governor-General and, in the case of the newly self-governing Northern Territory, the significance of the prerogative power of the Administrator. [More…]
I do not know whether the Government intended that this Bill to be a mere token exhibition of what the Government proposed, but as can be seen from the provisions in relation to legal powers the Assembly virtually counts for nothing. [More…]
This is the whole point of the Commonwealth itself having constitutional power in respect of a Territory- which it has under section 122 of the Constitution- to legislate in a fashion to enable a Territory to be able to govern itself. [More…]
To vest all power in one man really denies power in every way to the Northern Territory itself. [More…]
The power that the Territory will have will only be given pursuant to section 122 of the Constitution, and the powers will be limited to what is contained in this legislation. [More…]
The Territory authorities were given power to legislate, but the Commonwealth Government could pass regulations to cancel out or nullify any laws passed by the Territory legislature; in fact, the Commonwealth Government could cancel out this Bill. [More…]
The Federal Government has indicated that it will hand over to the Territories the power to increase payroll tax under the Pay-roll Tax (Territories) Assessment Amendment Bill, one of the [More…]
Generally speaking the Labor Opposition is for devolution of power in the Northern Territory. [More…]
Until provision to the contrary is made by an Act, the powers of the Australian Conciliation and Arbitration Commission do not extend to employment in respect of which a tribunal established by an enactment before the commencement of this Act has power to hear and determine disputes, claims or matters relating to the terms and conditions of the employment [More…]
The power of the Legislative Assembly conferred by section 6 in relation to the making of laws does not extend to the making of a law conferring on any court, tribunal, board, body, person or other authority any power with reference to the hearing and determining of disputes, claims or matters relating to terms and conditions of employment. [More…]
The power to make regulations under sub-section ( 1 ) extends to the making of regulations expressed to take effect on and from a date earlier than the date of the making of the regulations, not being a date earlier than the date of commencement of this Act. [More…]
The import of these amendments, as I indicated in the second reading debate, is to take some of the extraordinary sovereign powers away from the Administrator and to spell out some of the requirements that have been established by long convention and custom as the duties that a Governor or a Governor-General should observe and, by implication therefore, that the Administrator should observe, vis-a-vis his advisers. [More…]
Our first amendment is to clause 7 and seeks to take away from the Administrator the power to withhold assent to a proposed law, except for a specified period, for the purpose of receiving advice from the Executive Council of the Legislative Assembly. [More…]
We think that that reservation of itself should be sufficient without having to hand over to an appointed officer, albeit a man with such an exalted post as Administrator, the sorts of powers that have traditionally resided with the Crown, with the Governor or the Queen’s representatives and which by custom and convention have not been exercised in such an absolute way as is spelled out. [More…]
We believe it is reasonable that before he exercises that sovereign power, the legislation should be laid before this Parliament, according to the normal practice for ordinances, regulations and so on, as a further check against the exercise of arbitrary power. [More…]
I believe that he is being given even more power than is given to the GovernorGeneral. [More…]
This amendment is a reasonable limit on that power. [More…]
Again, this is spelling out a power which traditionally resides in the Prime Minister. [More…]
The eighth amendment relates to clause 34 and, again, is designed to take away a power, which is spelt out, that the Administrator may, in effect, appoint and sack Ministers. [More…]
This would spell out powers whereby the Administrator could actually dictate the structure of the Ministry, and appoint and dismiss particular Ministers. [More…]
Mr Isaacs and his colleagues are doing a wonderful job of representing the people who put them into power, and trying to play their role in developing a sound basis of self-government for the people of the Northern Territory. [More…]
Under clause 32 the Executive Council of the Legislative Assembly is conferred with executive power. [More…]
That clause states that that executive power is to be limited by the Act. [More…]
Clause 35 limits the power, because the clause states that the regulations may specify the matters in respect of which Ministers of the Territory are to have executive authority. [More…]
As I mentioned earlier, I indicated that it was unusual in one instance to give to the Assembly plenary legislative power but then to give it limited executive authority. [More…]
I believe that the executive authority conferred upon the Assembly should match its legislative power, except in clearly denned areas. [More…]
a law conferring the power to make determinations by way of the ascertainment of rights or obligations conferred or imposed on persons by law; or [More…]
b ) a law conferring power on the Public Service Commissioner of the Territory, on a body established by enactment, or on the holder of an office established by enactment, to make determinations by way of the fixing of terms and conditions of employment of persons employed in the Public Service of the Territory or employed by that body or by the holder of that office, as the case may be. [More…]
I would like to have responded at greater length to the remarks made by the honourable member for Sturt (Mr Wilson); but I say briefly that the legislative power of the Northern Territory is plenary in character, subject to laws made not being inconsistent with particular Commonwealth Acts in force. [More…]
That power has been held by the Northern Territory legislature since 1948. [More…]
Given the establishment by the Bill of the Territory as a body politic under the Crown and the conferment on its Ministers of the appropriate prerogatives, the quality of the executive power to the extent that it is conferred will be as ample as it can be. [More…]
In my view, the honourable member for Sturt failed to spell out correctly the legislative powers provided for in the legislation. [More…]
Too much power is being given to the Administrator of the Northern Territory and to the Governor-General. [More…]
by adding at the end thereof the following subsection: “(2) Without derogating from the generality of subsection ( 1 ), nothing in this or any other Act shall be taken to limit the power of the Legislative Assembly of the Northern Territory in relation to the making of laws relating to the prosecution in the Supreme Court of indictable offences against laws in force in the Territory under or by virtue of the Northern Territory (Self-Government) Act 1978”. [More…]
3 December 1976- Agnew Nickel Mining Project, Western Australia (Agnew Mining Co.) 3 December 1976- Second Darwin Power Station, Northern Territory. [More…]
I quote also the Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Ltd index of factory production for March 1 978, which indicates that production was above the levels prevailing prior to the Victorian power strike. [More…]
The point, of course, is that the Australian economy now is further from the goals set for it by this Government two and a half years ago than it was at the time it came to power. [More…]
I do not want to go over again the very important points that the honourable member for Gellibrand (Mr Willis) made when he mentioned, for instance, that there are nearly 100,000 fewer jobs in the private sector than there were when this Government came to power. [More…]
We saw again the tired old argument of trying to blame the former Government for the problems which the economy still encounters, for the worse problems that it encounters than when the former Government was in power. [More…]
What the Treasurer has to acknowledge is that since this Government has been attacking wages the purchasing power of the average pay packet has declined by something like $12 a week and if the average worker has $12 a week less to spend it cannot be said that he is able to maintain the demand which will fully employ this economy. [More…]
The underwriting limitation will also be extended to the production of the by-products derived from the production of butter, namely, skim milk power and casein. [More…]
Clauses 25 to 27 replace the existing specific provisions in the Public Service Act enabling the Board to grant leave without pay with a general power vested in departments to grant leave for such purposes as are prescribed in the regulations and on such terms and conditions as are prescribed. [More…]
Of course, it is not intended that benefits be prohibited where the examination or test is reasonably required for the management of the medical condition of the patient, and the direction power of the Minister will be for this purpose. [More…]
I consider discretionary power to be necessary in these circumstances because of my concern that people may regard benefit payments as implied ‘recognition’ of what appears to be inexpert and possibly dangerous treatment. [More…]
Is it not true that the Queensland legislation still is the paramount force in these matters in Queensland, that we have not passed legislation which strengthens the Minister’s hand or gives him absolute authority to stop the Queensland Government taking away any of that land and that if it chooses to do something in relation to mining, forestry or anything else, he has no power at this stage to stop it? [More…]
I hope that the Government will take the step now of removing any power of discretion from the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly. [More…]
Again this will not take a single power away from the Minister. [More…]
Mr Justice Woodward recommended that Aborigines themselves should control entry to Aboriginal lands- a power traditionally exercised by the Northern Territory Administration. [More…]
The Labor Bill gave this power to the land councils and exempted any Aborigines from the need to have an entry permit. [More…]
Two years later, with a different parliament in Canberra, the Labor Government made the point that it would take action on Aboriginal land rights, despite the opposition of the conservative parties which had been in power in 1972 and which opposed land rights at that stage, as was mentioned in the debate on the previous Bill. [More…]
In the following year, 1 976, the principal Act which this Bill seeks to amend- the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act- was introduced by the administration of the parties which are now in power. [More…]
The gamut of powers which have been given to Aboriginal land councils, land trusts, land commissioners and others under this legislation has been debated at length. [More…]
If the Labor Party got back into power its first job would be to close down the Latvian consulate in Melbourne, the second job would be to close down the Rhodesia Information Centre, and the third- typical of its socialist upbringingwould be to close down any group of citizens in this country who wish to raise their protests against the government in their country of origin. [More…]
If it is agreed to by this House it will be fair warning to any group in the Australian community that does not happen to agree with the views of the Australian Labor Party that when it gets back into power it will close them down. [More…]
The consulate of Latvia and other Baltic Consulates in Melbourne were closed under the previous Government and were opened when this Government came to power. [More…]
In general terms I would have to say that the Government’s attitude towards refugees stands in marked contrast to the attitude of the previous Administration which was in power in this country between 1972 and 1975. [More…]
His colleague, the Premier of Queensland, declared only a fortnight ago that the AMLC should be instructed by the Government to use some of its powers to improve cattlemen’s trading position. [More…]
The fact is, however, that the Government has no power to instruct the AMLC. [More…]
The Labor Party tried to write that power into the Act and to give the Corporation a more active marketing role. [More…]
Dairy Corporation, which has Commonwealth statutory power for the export of manufactured dairy products, about the promotion and marketing of manufactured dairy products in Australia. [More…]
The Labor Party was in power for only 3 years out of 26 and in that time we had to fight 2 elections. [More…]
Of course, the Parliament has the power to disallow those principles if it so wishes. [More…]
Are charges for (a) cleaning, (b) electricity and power, (c) fuel, (d) rent or lease, (e) repairs and maintenance, (f) replacement of plant, furniture and fittings and (g) depreciation of plant, furniture and fittings included for determination of canteen prices; if not, what was the estimated cost of each of these items in each canteen during 1 976-77. [More…]
Has any housing, medical or other co-operative in Townsville power to provide hostels for short-stay itinerants, people with alcohol problems, children needing foster care or the aged; if so, what stage have their proposals reached and what Government support is available. [More…]
In answer to a question I previously asked in this House the Minister for Foreign Affairs stated that the projections for France relating to the use of nuclear sources for electrical energy were that by 1985 France would be 60 per cent dependent on nuclear energy for generating its electrical power. [More…]
There is no doubt that in a number of countries the use of nuclear power is becoming more and more significant. [More…]
There is no doubt that a country reliant upon nuclear power for its energy needs obviously would have the greatest reluctance to place its sources of supply and its nuclear industry in jeopardy. [More…]
Of course, outside those figures the Soviet Union and other eastern European countries also have large nuclear power programs. [More…]
So it can be seen that the extent to which Australia can get its uranium exported and contributing towards this generation of nuclear energy is significantly going to help the power needs of an energy-hungry world. [More…]
Has the Australian Government received legal advice that it is within its constitutional power to introduce such legislation? [More…]
He used such epithets about the principal accused as a leader obsessed with power, a leader who destroyed this country for the sake of power. [More…]
He also referred to the speech of the principal accused, made on 14.3.71, in which he had demanded separate transfer of power in West Pakistan after he had failed to secure an agreement from Sh. [More…]
Mujibur Rehman on his plan of sharing power. [More…]
Surely under these powers, he can ruin the country and can become virtually a ‘civilian dictator’. [More…]
At another place, he said that the principal accused had become the strongest Dictator in the world and would be so powerful that he would not go out of the House as a living person. [More…]
I have little doubt that Mr Bhutto did terrible things, as do all politicians with supreme power. [More…]
The power of the State is enormous. [More…]
Not only does it have the power of life and death but it also has the power to confine, to deprive of liberty and to send into exile. [More…]
It has the power to deprive of the right of fair trial, to suppress and silence fair reporting, to falsify truth by mutilating the historical record, to ridicule or isolate, to deprive of employment or the means of economic support and to deprive of the right of communication. [More…]
If there was one sector of the Australian community which was underpaid and overworked for more years and more scandalously than any other sector when Labor came to power it was that of the nurses and nurse trainees. [More…]
We also have a responsibility, as a member of the international community with a special opportunity to understand the interests of both industrialised and developing countries, to do all that is within our power to make the negotiations a success. [More…]
Either the Prime Minister, the Leader of the House, the Government Whip or the deputy Whip and either the Leader of the Opposition, the Deputy Leader of the Opposition, the Opposition Whip or the deputy Whip, shall have power to discharge from time to time any of those Members nominated by them and to nominate others in substitution for those discharged. [More…]
The Chairman of the Committee shall have power to group related amendments together for the purpose of facilitating their consideration by the committee. [More…]
If those who complain of the accommodation standards of new Australian ships took the trouble to have a look at the level of accommodation and realised that the main determinants in constructing a ship are the weight and the nature of cargo and the engine required to power that vessel they would find the accommodation to be placed on top of the superstructure, on top of the hull, is one of the minor factors to be taken into account. [More…]
Then one has to select an engine to power the vessel. [More…]
Amongst the views and interests we share are that there should be global and regional power balances, that no one country should dominate the South Pacific, South East Asia or the Indian Ocean, that ASEAN ‘s concept of a zone of peace, freedom and neutrality in South East Asia has this as its objective, and that ASEAN can make an important contribution to regional stability and warrants our continuing support. [More…]
This is an attack by unscrupulous union officials on small businesses- businesses which at the time of that show were just recovering from the crippling power strike and looking for new business. [More…]
This is the type of abuse of power by union officials that brings the union movement on the whole into disrepute. [More…]
1 ) Can he say whether recent Queensland legislation (a) excludes (i) from Aurukun Shire, traditional Aurukun tribal land to the south of the former reserve, and (ii) from Mornington Shire, Bentinck Islands and Sweers Island, thus reflecting the State Government’s concern with the phosphate and bauxite industries rather than with Aboriginal sacred land and traditional land ownership, (b) fails to enable Aborigines or the Church to own or set up buildings or business projects within the leased Shires or the Council to acquire property anywhere, (c) fails to define who is to fill vacancies on the Councils, (d) provides administration under a complicated Local Government Act thus ensuring that Aborigines cannot manage their affairs and enables the State Minister for Local Government to appoint an administrator in place of the Councils, (e) provides for an externally appointed committee to assist the State Government in control and management of the communities which are supposedly run by Aboriginal representatives according to published statements, (f) excludes Church representatives from providing services other than religious instruction by persons ordinarily employed by the Church for that purpose and (g) gives the State Minister veto power over Council decisions to advise or exclude persons from their Shires and to appoint the Shire Clerk, who need not be qualified and is to be assisted in financial matters by the appointed committee. [More…]
Are charges for (a) cleaning, (b) electricity and power, (c) fuel, (d) rent or lease, (e) repairs and maintenance, (f) replacements of plant, furniture and fittings and (g) depreciation of plant, furniture and fittings included for determination of canteen prices; if not, what was the estimated cost of each of these items in each canteen during 1976-77. [More…]
Are charges for (a) cleaning, (b) electricity and power, (c) fuel, (d) rent or lease, (e) repairs and maintenance, (0 replacements of plant, furniture and fittings and (g) depreciation of plant, furniture and fittings included for determination of canteen prices; if not, what was the estimated cost of each of these items in each canteen during 1976-77. [More…]
Are charges for (a) cleaning, (b) electricity and power, (c) fuel, (d) rent or lease, (e) repairs and maintenance, (f) replacements of plant, furniture and fittings and (g) depreciation of plant, furniture and fittings included for determination of canteen prices; if not, what was the estimated cost of each of these items in each canteen during 1 976-77. [More…]
As the Code of General Principles is a complete document in itself, progress continued to be made- prior to the Government’s decision- by drawing up a number of Codes of Practice covering particular subjects such as machine guarding, explosives, power tools, materials handling, welding, and cranes. [More…]
Are charges for (a) cleaning, (b) electricity and power, (c) fuel, (d) rent or lease, (e) repairs and maintenance, (f) replacements of plant, furniture and fittings and (g) depreciation of plant, furniture and fittings included for determination of canteen prices: if not, what was the estimated cost of each of these items in each canteen during 1976-77. [More…]
Are charges for (a) cleaning, (b) electricity and power, (c) fuel, (d) rent or lease, (e) repairs and maintenance, (f) replacement of plant, furniture, fittings and (g) depreciation of plant, furniture and fittings included for determination of canteen prices; if not, what was the estimated cost of each of these items in each canteen during 1 976-77. [More…]
Electricity and powerLighting and heating Power…… [More…]
Are charges for (a) cleaning, (b) electricity and power, (c) fuel, (d) rent or lease, (e) repairs and maintenance, (f) replacements of plant, furniture and fittings and (g) depreciation of plant, furniture and fittings included for determination of canteen prices; if not, what was the estimated cost of each of these items in each canteen during 1 976-77. [More…]
b ) Electricity and power: [More…]
Power [More…]
Are charges for (a) cleaning, (b) electricity and power, (c) fuel, (d) rent or lease, (e) repairs and maintenance, (f) replacements of plant, furniture and fittings and (g) depreciation of plant, furniture and fittings included for determination of canteen prices; if not, what was the estimated cost of each of these items in each canteen during 1 976-77. [More…]
Is the Corporation’s charter to do all within its power to stabilise the wool market. [More…]
I can only say that that is typical of the view that has been taken by the Leader of the Opposition and by his predecessors over a great many years- that an extension of power and influence by the Soviet Union does not create instability. [More…]
They do not want this matter to carry on because it threatens the Government more than has any other issue since the Government came to power at the end of 1 975. [More…]
Are charges for (a) cleaning, (b) electricity and power, (c) fuel, (d) rent or lease, (e) repairs and maintenance, (0 replacements of plant, furniture and fittings and (g) depreciation of plant, furniture and fittings included for determination of canteen prices; if not, what was the estimated cost of each of these items in each canteen during 1 976-77. [More…]
Are charges for (a) cleaning, (b) electricity and power, (c) fuel, (d) rent or lease, (e) repairs and maintenance, (f) replacements of plant, furniture and fittings and (g) depreciation of plant, furniture and fittings included for determination of canteen prices; if not, what was the estimated cost of each of these items in each canteen during 1976-77. [More…]
Are charges for (a) cleaning, (b) electricity and power, (c) fuel, (d) rent or lease, (e) repairs and maintenance, (0 replacements of plant, furniture and fittings and (g) depreciation of plant, furniture and fittings included for determination of canteen prices; if not, what was the estimated cost of each of these items in each canteen during 1 976-77. [More…]
Are charges for (a) cleaning, (b) electricity and power, (c) fuel, (d) rent or lease, (e) repairs and maintenance, (f) replacements of plant, furniture and fittings and (g) depreciation of plant, furniture and fittings included for determination of canteen prices; if not, what was the estimated cost of each of these items in each canteen during 1 976-77 [More…]
Are charges for (a) cleaning, (b) electricity and power, (c) fuel, (d) rent or lease, (e) repairs and maintenance, (f) replacements of plant, furniture and fittings and (g) depreciation of plant, furniture and fittings included for determination of canteen prices; if not what was the estimated cost of each of these items in each canteen during 1976-77. [More…]
Are charges for (a) cleaning, (b) electricity and power, (c) fuel, (d) rent or lease, (e) repairs and maintenance, (f) replacements of plant, furniture and fittings and (g) depreciation of plant, furniture and fittings included for determination of canteen prices: if not, what was the estimated cost of each of these items in each canteen during 1 976-77. [More…]
Are charges for (a) cleaning, (b) electricity and power, (c) fuel, (d) rent or lease, (e) repairs and maintenance, (f) replacements of plant, furniture and fittings and (g) depreciation of plant, furniture and fittings included for determination of canteen prices; if not, what was the estimated cost of each of these items in each canteen during 1 976-77. [More…]
Are charges for (a) cleaning, (b) electricity and power, (c) fuel, (d) rent or lease, (e) repairs and maintence, (f) placements of plant, furniture and fittings and (g) depreciation of plant, furniture and fittings included for determination of canteen prices; if not, what was the estimated cost of each of these items in each canteen during 1 976-77. [More…]
1 ) Has his attention been drawn to the United States report on Nuclear Power Costs prepared by the Environment, Energy and Natural Resources Sub-committee of the United States Congress House Government Operations Committee which stated that radioactive waste is a significant and growing problem, that at least 3,000 metric tonnes of spent nuclear fuel are now being stored at commercial reactor sites with an additional 1 7,000 metric tonnes expected to accumulate in the next decade and yet there is still no demonstrated technology for permanently and safely disposing of this waste. [More…]
Information collected by the Queensland Cane Growers’ Council indicates that in recent years expenditure on fuels (including lubricants and fuel in harvester operation) as a percentage of cash expenditure on crop production has been between 4 per cent and 8 per cent depending mainly on power source for irrigation, cane haulage distance and location of farm. [More…]
In the case of a product that must be assembled this should be made clear and where necessary, the source of power and method of operation should be indicated. [More…]
) Are charges for (a) cleaning, (b) electricity and power, (c) fuel, (d) rent or lease, (e) repairs and maintenance, (0 replacements of plant, furniture and fittings and (g) depreciation of plant, furniture and fittings included for determination of canteen prices; if not, what was the estimated cost of each of these items in each canteen during 1 976-77. [More…]
Are charges for (a) cleaning, (b) electricity and power, (c) fuel, (d) rent or lease, (e) repairs and maintenance, (f) replacements of plant, furniture and fittings and (g) depreciation of plant, furniture and fittings included for determination of canteen prices; if not, what was the estimated cost of each of these items in each canteen during 1976-77. [More…]
A civil marriage celebrant gains his power to marry people under section 39 of the Marriage Act. [More…]
What is required as a matter of urgency is an amendment to the Aged Persons Homes Act to give the Federal-State committee the power to direct Federal funds on a full basis and according to need. [More…]
It is only the weaknesses of the structure of the Labor movement and the Australian Labor Party that have enabled these people to gain any power and influence. [More…]
Because of the limits of time I cannot go into the whole history of this business but, as the Government pointed out in April and May, it has power under the Constitution to take over this land. [More…]
The Queensland Government’s powers will remain, no matter what sort of legislation is passed. [More…]
It has the power through its Parliament to change legislation in a moment at the Premier’s whim or anyone else ‘s whim. [More…]
How can the Government introduce legislation which will overcome the Queensland mining Acts and the other Acts which empower various authorities such as the forestry and fisheries authorities to do what they wish with the land. [More…]
Since its establishment the Bank has lent about $US4 billion for projects covering all the major sectors of economic development with emphasis on the development of infrastructure facilities in the transport and communications, industry and electric power sectors as well as projects for agriculture, education, water supply and urban development. [More…]
The decision is to afford assistance by providing for the payment of a bounty which takes into account both the degree of local content- the minimum amount of local content allowed in a tractor for it to attract this bounty being 55 per cent- and the degree of tractor power. [More…]
The Bill currently before the House provides for a substantial increase in money terms in bounties on upper heavyweight tractors above 105 kilowatt power, none of which are wholly manufactured in Australia as yet. [More…]
Hence, if we compare the new bounties with the bounties the Government originally provided in the March quarter of 1973, we see that the new levels are actually lower in real terms for tractors up to about 130 kilowatts in power, with a slight increase for those tractors above that power, after allowing for inflation between 1973 and 1977. [More…]
The bounties are higher for those above that power. [More…]
However, by the time the last stage is reached, 1982 to 1984, the bounties will have been phased down so that they are lower than the 1973 to 1976 levels for tractors up to 66 kilowatts but still higher for those above that power range. [More…]
The company then received great assistance from the American John Deere organisation which joined it to form a joint company in Australia called Chamberlain- John Deere Pty Ltd. More than 10 firms supply the market with tractors over 155 kilowatts, offering 40 models of widely different power and design. [More…]
For instance, the United States-made Steiger tractor is one of the biggest horsepower tractors operating in our grain belts. [More…]
This has stopped other machinery firms from manufacturing these bigger horsepower tractors in Australia. [More…]
Several small local firms have found it profitable to assemble tractors over 105 kilowatts in power in Australia and to undercut the import price by some $ 10,000 to $20,000. [More…]
Also the Snowy Mountains Engineering Corporation is empowered to contract in its own right in the engineering field. [More…]
The Australian Overseas Projects Corporation will not have the power or the resources to contract on its own behalf. [More…]
In fact it is not the Government’s belief that it should have the power to buy and sell and to trade. [More…]
When one reads the terms of the Bill in relation to this matter which was before the House a few years ago one will find that the powers of the corporation proposed in that Bill were so wide that it would have been permitted- and we were fearful that it would in fact- to engage in widespread trading practices. [More…]
I have dealt with the first amendment, which aims to give the Corporation more power. [More…]
Of course, the Snowy Mountains Engineering Corporation has the power to engage in the buying and selling of goods, as the Minister would well know. [More…]
Why is it so important for the Minister to reduce the power and prowess of this proposed public instrumentality to enter the field in a competitive way? [More…]
Yet apparently it is to be so constituted that the Government will be in a position, through its exercise of power on the Committee, to direct to a degree where that money is to be spent. [More…]
Once a farmer is discovered to have hydatids on his property the State Department of Agriculture does not have the legislative power to go into the piggery and close it down to isolate it. [More…]
The Department can tell the man that he has hydatids on his property but it does not have any power to do anything about it. [More…]
-Because the legislative power just is not there. [More…]
It would be a very simple matter to get rid of hydatids if we had the power to get the veterinarians in to do it. [More…]
One trick is to threaten to cut off power to those stands not built by union labour. [More…]
On one stand where a small amount of wallpaper was being put on a wall a man doing the job was told: ‘The power will be cut off if you do not employ a union paperhanger’. [More…]
The Government does not propose to invoke the provisions of section 5 of the income tax sharing arrangements with the States which gives to the Treasurer of the day the power to declare that a particular increment in personal income tax represents a special surcharge. [More…]
We built into the legislation a discretionary power to enable the Minister to exercise compassion in respect of such cases. [More…]
There is no doubt that during the period in which Labor was in power the costs of production in housing rose enormously. [More…]
The honourable member for Reid did not say that there is power under the legislation to refund the application fee if that is deemed appropriate. [More…]
It is also appropriate to remind members of the Opposition that when they came to power loans under this legislation were available immediately. [More…]
Ever since it came to power, this Government has been proclaiming economic recovery to be just around the corner. [More…]
One could say that the greatest single criticism of this Budget is not simply that it reflects no strategy to achieve economic recovery- that is certainly true- but that, even more seriously it reflects no sense of the need to ensure that the burden of economic recession is in any sense shared fairly or justly by people with different degrees of access to income, services, influence or power. [More…]
-In Australia wealth, brings power, influence and self-confidence. [More…]
Access to information is equivalent to access to power. [More…]
Control of information resources leads to excessive and disproportionate exercise of power by the rich over the poor. [More…]
I do not have the power under the Standing Orders to force the remark to be withdrawn. [More…]
I find that under Standing Order 75 I do have the power to require any member to withdraw. [More…]
I have wrongly stated that I had no power. [More…]
I am quite certain that all honourable members of the House can only judge in their minds, if they are being fair in relation to these matters, that the actions of the Government were those of a government determined that the facts should be revealed and that the judge should have power to make whatever findings were necessary in relation to those facts. [More…]
In Namibia, through an initiative inspired and carried through by the Western powers, and substantially assisted by the presidents of the socalled front line states- Angola, Zambia, Tanzania, Mozambique and Botswana- the situation has reached the stage where there is now a real opportunity to reach a satisfactory and internationally acceptable transition to independence and majority rule. [More…]
It could well be that as a result of elections under UN auspices SWAPO gains power in Namibia. [More…]
That legislation is aimed at those people to whom the Labor Government did not pay any attention when it was in power. [More…]
The blame lies fairly on the shoulders of the Government which was in power between 1972 and 1975. [More…]
Now, three years later in his latest Budget, he admits that unemployment will be worse, twice as bad- three years after he has come to power. [More…]
So there would be a far greater effect on stimulating the economy if the increased tax imposts were on more wealthy people and did not reduce the spending power of those on lower incomes. [More…]
The Committee have power to appoint subcommittees consisting of 3 or more of its members and to refer to any such sub-committee any of the matters which the Committee is empowered to examine. [More…]
The Committee or any sub-committee have power to send for persons, papers, and records, to move from place to place and to sit during any adjournment of the Parliament. [More…]
The Committee or a sub-committee have power to authorise publication of any evidence given before it and any document presented to it. [More…]
The Committee report by 31 December 1979 and any member of the Committee have power to add a protest or dissent to any report. [More…]
I believe it behoves this Parliament and this society to do all within their power to see that children throughout the nation are given every opportunity to make the success of life that we would all wish them to make. [More…]
It is a government which has claimed continuously since it came to power that it will reduce taxation, yet in the three Fraser Budgets taxation receipts have increased by 17 per cent, 9.8 per cent and 1 1 per cent respectively and there has been a total increase of 42.6 per cent. [More…]
Look past, if you can, the savagery of Canberra’s assault on your spending power- the higher taxes, the slugs on petrol,, cigarettes and liquor, the dubious conjuring tricks with Medibank- and what sort of a Budget do you find? [More…]
In 1972 when the Labor Party came to power unemployment in Australia was at the level of 135,700; when it left office in 1 975 it was at the level of 3 1 0,000. [More…]
When it came to power the inflation rate was of the order of 4.5 per cent; in 1975 it was 14 per cent, and last year it was 7.9 per cent, with confident predictions that it will be down to 5 per cent at the end of this financial year. [More…]
How wrong it is when a handful of men at a power station in Gladstone can virtually cause industry in a State to grind to a standstill because they need tarpaulins to cover their cars. [More…]
Let no one forget that the Labor Party is the party of incompetence and deceit; the party of the loans affair; the party dismissed from government for trying to rule without parliament; the party that tried by coercion in 1975 to take over the Australian people’s savings for its own use as a last desperate attempt to stay in power. [More…]
The man who perpetrated the refusal of Supply, the man who facilitated this appalling, this unprincipled climb to the Prime Ministership of Australia, the principal architect, the principal lieutenant of the Prime Minister in his rise to power in 1975, is knifed in the back so as to save the great man, to enable him to continue his destiny. [More…]
A political party was prepared to sell itself out to some overseas power, some foreign power. [More…]
The prospect of an interruption of supply is a very serious deterrent and sanction for a country dependent on outside supplies of fuel for its nuclear power industry and reliant on nuclear power for an important portion of its electric power. [More…]
I am told that the Finns buy a fair bit of their power from Leningrad. [More…]
Given that the IAEA special safeguards implementation report of 1977 describes the inadequacies as being in material control and accounting procedures and the concern of the United States National Radiation Advisory Committee that insufficient country by country information is available, this change is a significant relinquishing of vital knowledge and power by Australia. [More…]
This restriction was a legacy of British trade mark legislation and initially reflected the relative insignificance of business and industrial services at the date of the transfer to the Commonwealth of the power to legislate in this field. [More…]
Until recently, it has been generally accepted that the Commonwealth constitutional power to legislate in respect of trade marks did not extend to marks used in relation to services. [More…]
An early judgment of the High Court, in the Union Label case in 1908, concluded that the Commonwealth legislative powers in respect of trade marks did not extend to marks applied to goods to identify the source of labour employed by the manufacturers of those goods. [More…]
On the basis of that judgment, it has since been accepted that the Commonwealth was not empowered to legislate in respect of marks used in connection with the provision of services. [More…]
The Government, however, has recently been informed by its legal advisers that that conclusion is not consistent with interpretations of the Constitution by the High Court of Australia subsequent to the Union Label case and that the trade marks provision of section 51 (xviii) of the Constitution does, in fact, empower the Commonwealth to legislate in respect of marks used to identify and distinguish services. [More…]
This Bill therefore will implement that power by including trade marks used in relation to services as registrable trade marks under the Trade Marks Act. [More…]
One matter that interests the Government Parties Rural Committee is the use of ethanol- a source of power alcohol- as an additive to petrol. [More…]
As cyclical movements occur under the roughly free enterprise system which dictates the demand for rural products, it might well be that in time to come we will see the use of plants for the production of power alcohol. [More…]
I can think of one at Walleroo in my electorate that was built during the war to produce power alcohol if the need arose for its use. [More…]
For all we know at this stage that could lead eventually to refashioned engines and the complete use of power alcohol as a source of motivation. [More…]
The honourable member for Murray can hope as much as he likes, but we should remember the scornful terms in which this Government, when it came to power, described the relationship of the Labor Government with the States. [More…]
Machine and computer power is replacing man and woman power. [More…]
In addition to the problems with seasonal adjustment of unemployment statistics (which led the Statistician, from November 1977, to suspend publication of adjusted unemployment estimates based on the labour force survey), there were substantial changes in the design of the labour force survey, and in the December quarter the Victorian power dispute had marked effects on some series. [More…]
But it is not interested in that; it is interested in destroying the power of the organisation that stands in its way and refuses to do its bidding in the telecommunications industry. [More…]
More power to the arm of union members if they are going to defend their jobs. [More…]
Once a union is deregistered the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission has no power in respect of it. [More…]
If it does not do that and if the Government remains in power- I do not think it will do so for more than another 2V4 years- it will find enormous industrial relations problems occurring in the future because there is no way the Government can go on letting computerisation wipe out jobs and expect to have stability in industrial relations in this country. [More…]
Certainly those at the executive level of Telecom have been doing everything in their power to keep services going and to keep the services open. [More…]
There are 70,000 fewer people working in private industry today- it is the God of this Government- than there were when the Government came to power. [More…]
That is in direct contrast to what happened under the Labor Government when private capital investment fell to disastrous levels because, quite rightly, companies had no confidence in the Government which was then in power. [More…]
It conferred important powers and responsibilities on the Treasurer for financial management across the entire departmental spectrum- power which, following the transfer of the administration of the Act to my portfolio, became the responsibility- with one important exception, that is, section 70b -of the Minister for Finance. [More…]
The new section spells out more clearly the Minister’s power to approve act of grace payments and will authorise him to delegate this power. [More…]
Section 42 (2) of the principal Act contains what is known as the surcharge power. [More…]
Lest honourable members think that this would give the Minister power to publish the statement in a form which contained no useful information, I draw attention to the provision for disallowance of the Minister’s determination in the same way as for regulations. [More…]
Honourable members opposite may or may not like to remember that that is when the then Prime Minister, Mr Chifley, had to put the army into the New South Wales coal mines to keep power available to industry in New South Wales. [More…]
Even the Labor Government had become aware of the very serious problem of cost and abuse presented by Medibank in its original form and would certainly have introduced drastic changes had it stayed in power. [More…]
It is very doubtful that we will ever get down to a one per cent level of unemployment in the work force, as was the position when the McMahon Government went out of power in [More…]
For the sake of the record, I want to read into Hansard the treatment of Tasmania by the Fraser Government since it came to power. [More…]
The water that flows into Blowering Dam comes through the hydro-electric power generating plants. [More…]
The water that flows into the Blowering Dam belongs to the Commonwealth, if I can put it that way, until such time as it passes through the power station. [More…]
The power, the energy, of the future will come from sea water. [More…]
Very recent experiments in the United States of America have verified that the power of the hydrogen bomb can be harnassed in controlled fusion. [More…]
In the medium time scale we will be using the nuclear power of uranium and thorium and [More…]
I hope that there will be more appreciation that burning coal for power, or even converting it to oil, is removing forever the most valuable source of hydrocarbons, a source that is necessary for so many vital aspects of everyday living. [More…]
This Government appreciates that nuclear power is a necessity, especially for energy poor countries. [More…]
We also should have nuclear power stations covering all future increases in mainline power and replacing oil, gas and coal burning stations as soon as possible. [More…]
Newport power station in Melbourne should be a clean, non-polluting nuclear station. [More…]
I hope that this Government will encourage both private enterprise and the instrumentalities to look to having all future power stations nuclear. [More…]
Also in the medium term we will use solar power. [More…]
The initial objective is to save on the huge power bill, but it is also wonderful to see this great university as a community leader in what is a national campaign. [More…]
I repeat, I do not pre-judge any of these issues- I merely say that as a concerned Australian, I believe I have now a moral duty to do everything in my power to ascertain the true facts and to publicly reveal them. [More…]
Were there any discussions at the 1976 Hobart Constitutional Convention concerning the power of the Family LawCourt to assume responsibility for matters relating to illegitimate children. [More…]
That this Convention recommends that the following matters should be the subject of references of power by the States to the Commonwealth- [More…]
Whether Federal law can invest the Court with jurisdiction over ex-nuptial children in the States depends on whether the Commonwealth acquires the necessary legislative power by Constitutional amendment or reference of power, as to which see my answer in (3) above. [More…]
1 ) Has his attention been drawn to the report on Nuclear Power Costs prepared by the Environment, Energy and Natural Resources Sub-Committee of the United States House Government Operations Committee which stated that radio-active waste is a significant and growing problem with at least 3,000 metric tonnes of spent nuclear fuel now being stored at commercial reactor sites and an additional 17,000 metric tonnes expected to accumulate in the next decade, and that there is still no demonstrated technology for permanently and safely disposing of this waste. [More…]
1 ) Are there any proposals before the Government concerning the building of nuclear power stations in Australia. [More…]
If so, will he state (a) the number of proposals under consideration, (b) the locations of the proposed nuclear power stations, (c) the estimated costs involved for each station, and (d) details of any proposal which the Government has accepted in principle. [More…]
Does the Government have to give approval before any nuclear power station is built in Australia; if not, in which areas can these power stations be built. [More…]
Yes; to the extent that implementation of any proposal for the development of a nuclear power station would be subjectto approvals required under relevant Commonwealth legislation, including legislation relating to imports. [More…]
Since the new regime came to power a conscious effort has been made to seek technology and raw materials from other countries to help industrial development in China. [More…]
As the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Hayden) said, the real purchasing power is down drastically by more than half. [More…]
Each Budget introduced since the Fraser Government came to power has hidden its recessionary purpose behind false promises. [More…]
Criticising the power of the executive over the House of Representatives, he added: ‘There is increasing evidence that members and supporters of the Parliament in the community are beginning to question the executive’s increasing dominance over the legislature and that there is a groundswell of opinion favouring reform. ‘ [More…]
Sir Billy argued strongly for more power and stature for the House of Representatives. [More…]
But most of the rich countries have farmers who are desperately trying to survive, as in this country, and who, as in this country hold more political power than their simple numbers would suggest. [More…]
When Labor came to power in 1972 it had inherited a sound economy- inflation was running at only 4.5 per cent and unemployment was only 1 .4 per cent of the work force. [More…]
We must do everything in our power to help them. [More…]
That was the first thing it did when it came to power. [More…]
I think that this can be interpreted from any reasonable point of view only as an abuse of power by the Minister on behalf of the Government. [More…]
We have an elected body, the Legislative Assembly, in the Australian Capital Territory which has no power. [More…]
Although the Government has given many undertakings in the past to give that body some power, it has now repudiated the commitment. [More…]
That referendum is to be held on the same day as the Legislative Assembly election although the powers of the Assembly have not been designated. [More…]
The people of the Australian Capital Territory are being asked to elect representatives to that body whose powers are not clear. [More…]
In addition, candidates are being asked to stand for election to a Legislative Assembly which has no powers. [More…]
Its powers will be dependent on the results of a referendum which will not be known at the time the election is being held. [More…]
I believe, and I have never varied from this point of view, that when a person is elderly every effort should be made by the people in power to provide the care and attention needed to make the rest of that person’s life happy and, to a degree, contented. [More…]
But I do not think they can cover up much longer by telling half truths about what happened when the Labor Party was in power. [More…]
It is typical of the sort of advice that was flowing in to the Labor Government as it was tottering on the brink of defeat and to this Government when it came to power. [More…]
You might not have the power to borrow, but the Budget fiddle is involved in this philosophy. [More…]
When the mainstream of Australia was consulted in December 1975 and again in December 1977, the Government of which I am a member was put into power in a resounding way. [More…]
While the ACT Electricity Authority has an elected representative on it- a very capable representative in Mr Peter Vallee who is an elected Australian Labor Party member of the Legislative Assembly and who represents the elected representatives on the Authority- he still has no power. [More…]
It tends to cut huge swathes through the hinterland when somebody does not stop it, in order to leave a very clear area around its power supply lines. [More…]
The legislation will give the authority power to do something it could not do before. [More…]
1 ) Can he say whether a submission from the Department of Engineering Physics of the Australian National University to the Senate Standing Committee on National Resources in May 1976 expressed the view based on extensive theoretical investigation, analogous commercial experience and promising experimental confirmation that (a) a prototype solar powered energy transfer and storage system can be made to work at costs comparable to those of existing isolated towns’ electricity generation, (b) it should be cheaper than nuclear power, (c) it would be well within the production capabilities of Australia and (d) it would be more amenable to flexibility of siting, power storage to compensate for weather and seasonal fluctuations, and more economically adaptable to evolution towards large scale basic power production than the central tower solar power systems now being developed in the United States, so that by the time large scale units are developed it may already be cheaper than existing alternatives and save Australia ‘s fossil fuels for export and other valuable uses. [More…]
What funds from (a) the Australian Government or allied sources and (b) other sources have been allocated in Australia specifically to (i) this project and (ii) atomic (A) fission and (B) fusion research in case of development of nuclear power generation in Australia. [More…]
The submission made many broad speculative statements about the future comparative economics of solar power systems versus nuclear fission and fusion systems. [More…]
The Senate Standing Committee on National Resources, on page 76 of its 1977 ‘Report on Solar Energy’ recommended that ‘as large scale, central power generation using solar and wind energy will not be feasible before 2000, additional funding in this area is not needed in Australia. [More…]
Are charges for (a) cleaning, (b) electricity and power, (c) fuel, (d) rent or lease, (e) repairs and maintenance, (f) replacements of plant, furniture and fittings included for determination of canteen prices; if not, what was the estimated cost of each of these items in each canteen during 1 976-77. [More…]
Are charges for (a) cleaning, (b) electricity and power, (c) fuel, (d) rent or lease, (e) repairs and maintenance, (f) replacements of plant furniture and fittings and (g) depreciation of plant, furniture and fittings included for determination of canteen prices; if not, what was the estimated cost of each of these items in each canteen during 1976-77. [More…]
1 has now gone because the Prime Minister cannot claim now that a change of government is the answer when we consider what his Government has achieved after having been in power for three years. [More…]
I reiterate that, in view of the attitude of the Labor Party at that time, I would hate to think what would have been the situation with this scheme if that Party had remained in power. [More…]
I make these points: The industry generally supports what the Government has done; the outlook for both the fresh pear industry and the fresh apple industry is considerably brighter, at least in the short term, than it has been at times in the past; the industries have had to adjust most painfully to the new situation; the Labor Party when in power and until its newfound interest in this subject did not assist the industries at all; all of its decisions were in the other direction, to cause further harm; its amendment on this occasion shows its cynical approach to the industry and that it has not done its homework on the subject. [More…]
Honourable members opposite have expressed a willingness in the past to smash conventions and to seize power, but they are not prepared to take any action to bring our democratic institutions into the twentieth century. [More…]
The facts of life are that with the growth of political organisations in Australia and the greater power and strength of those organisations, we know that of their very nature they exert authority in this Parliament. [More…]
They do not surrender their consciences, of course, but the power of the organisations is there. [More…]
For example, it is a far greater power than existed in relation to voting when the Parliament commenced in 1901. [More…]
We know that there is great power in the Executive with respect to the Parliament. [More…]
In a Westminister-type government there will always be great power in the Executive. [More…]
I refer to the rights and the powers of the Parliament and exactly where this Parliament stands in relation to the Executive. [More…]
It is allowing its power to be taken away from it in one form or another. [More…]
If its powers are not being taken away by the Executive, they are being taken away by the bureaucracy. [More…]
As I see it, the system that is gradually coming to Australia- I think it is fairly world-wide- is one whereby the media itself is seeking to usurp the power of the Parliament; the media itself is seeking to be the influencer of public opinion and to be the decision maker. [More…]
Whichever party were in power, I would still say that it would be incorrect of a government to presume that there would be a willingness to remit a parliamentary increase by any office holder of the Parliament, whether he is the [More…]
I raise this matter as one of considerable principle because I think it is a matter of importance that if the Parliament stands by and permits the Executive, whatever Executive is in power, to interfere with the rights of the office holders of the Parliament, then we are in effect letting those office holders down, and as they go down the system goes down. [More…]
Why should we place the power of debate, our debate, in the hands of the media? [More…]
But it is no good for the Government simply to say that it supports arbitration when in fact it has the power to change the Conciliation and Arbitration Act to make sure that the sorts of things that happened with the Telecom dispute do not occur or when it has been party to a settlement that the arbitrator has been asked to confirm. [More…]
I understand at least one nuclear power station at Elk River in the United States has been totally decommissioned and dismantled. [More…]
These men of power with the stroke of a pen can speed up cultural genocide. [More…]
This removed the Land Council’s only bargaining power with the Government and the mining company. [More…]
Mr Bishaw told the Northern Land Council meeting that Government officials had told him that Federal Cabinet would legislate away the Northern Land Council’s power if the Ranger agreement were not signed. [More…]
I pay a tribute to the Labor Party for the three years in which it was in power. [More…]
We are equipping bureaucrats with the power not only to interrogate a suspect but also to bring some other passenger- an innocent bystander, as it were- into the fray and maybe to ask: ‘Did you see him buy a ticket? [More…]
They will have the power to apprehend people, the power to interrogate people and the ability to count the money that is collected, to issue the stamps and all the rest of it. [More…]
I think that the people who are urging and who have urged the citizens of this nation to maintain their rage, to maintain their anger or who have made other sorts of curious admonitions relating to violent action will inevitably encourage and have inevitably encouraged the exercise of brutal power and brutal force in our community. [More…]
It seems to me to be essential that in any fast growing bureaucratic system as ours is there must be access by the people to an ombudsman or similar person who has the power and the right to protect the individual against big government. [More…]
But when one starts to wander around these corridors of power or intrigue- whatever one likes to call them- every here and there one finds a couple of steps, a series of steps and all sorts of obstructions which make it pretty impossible for a disabled person to move around the House. [More…]
When the present Government came to power in 1975 the recipients of long-term compensation had to wait another 12 months before any move was made to adjust their weekly payments. [More…]
This restriction was firstly a legacy of British trade mark legislation we have inherited a lot from Great Britain at a cost as well as a benefit and secondly was a reflection of the relative insignificance of services hitherto at the date of transfer to the Commonwealth of power to legislate on trade marks. [More…]
Also, until recently it had generally been accepted that constitutional power to legislate in respect of trade marks did not extend to services. [More…]
The Government’s legal advisers recently have advised, however, that this conclusion is not consistent with subsequent High Court decisions in this area; that the provisions of section 5 1 (xviii) of the Constitution empower the Commonwealth to legislate in respect of trade marks concerning services. [More…]
Let me deal with the position in the years before this Government came into power. [More…]
A Government came to power that was concerned to see that the people of [More…]
Reductions in inflation will put more purchasing power in the hands of the fixed income earner, the home seeker and the home owner. [More…]
We do not always realise or understand the immense burden of statemanship and responsibility that rests on the President of the world’s largest free power. [More…]
Statehood has been force-fed to Territorians simply because conservatives in Canberra want to be rid of responsibility for the Territory’s problems and because their novice colleagues in Darwin are obsessed with power. [More…]
The Aboriginal people, to their great credit, I think for the first time in the history of this nation, have stood up to the power of the establishment, the mining companies, financial institutions and the bureaucracy and they have demanded that they be heard. [More…]
These contracts are to extend to 1986 and their purpose is to supply uranium for electric power generation in Japan, West Germany and the United States. [More…]
He expressed the view that he has no power to make a conditional recommendation. [More…]
Likewise, I am advised that the Land Rights Act requires me to accept wholly or wholly reject the Commissioner’s recommendations; I have no power to attach conditions to those recommendations. [More…]
It is important to realise- and I have discussed this at great length with Galarrwuy Yunupingu, who agrees with me- that if the Aborigines were to get all the money in the world from royalties, or all the power in the world through the land rights legislation, it still would not do them the slightest good if the rapport between blacks and whites were destroyed. [More…]
It is just a continuation of the Canberra bashing process that has gone on ever since this Government came to power. [More…]
The counter offensive against Foreign Affairs has shifted the balance of power between departments but has brought us in no way closer to strategies and solutions for the larger international problems confronting us. [More…]
I rise particularly because of the remarks made by the Deputy Leader of the Opposition (Mr Lionel Bowen), who sought to indicate that if the Australian Labor Party were still in power there would be substantial increases in aid programs. [More…]
In the final analysis, whether a nation determines to become a nuclear power in its own right is essentially a decision which it takes in terms of its view of its own self-interest. [More…]
The competitiveness of the nuclear power industry and the huge financial stakes involved mean that countries are tempted to compete with each other by relaxing safeguards for customers or offering highly sensitive technology such as re-processing or enrichment technology. [More…]
It means that the Government on the one hand is devolving so-called power to councils and on the other hand is reducing their capacity to provide services. [More…]
Under section 9 of the Ombudsman Act the Ombudsman has power to require relevant information to be supplied to him. [More…]
The power is subject to a qualification that the Ombudsman is not entitled to information in certain circumstances described in section 9, for example, where it would prejudice the security, defence or international relations of the Commonwealth, and the Attorney-General issues a certificate to this effect. [More…]
In that context I ask the Prime Minister why he agreed to a request from the Queensland Premier not to release a draft report of the Industries Assistance Commission inquiry into the sugar industry and why no previous mention was made of the Premier’s power of veto. [More…]
I do not mind repeating this again and again because that grab for power inflicted deep wounds upon our society. [More…]
In 1974-75, when the Austraiian Labor Party was in power, there was an economic downturn in Australia. [More…]
There is no more obvious condemnation of the regimes in power there than the refugees who are arriving in this country and the many more who are arriving in Thailand, Malaysia, et cetera. [More…]
The development of friendly and substantive relations with the countries of ASEAN both individually and collectively, has been a principal foreign policy aim of successive Australian governments which have endorsed ASEAN ‘s principal objectives of economic development, political stability and a region free of great power rivalry and domination. [More…]
These statements do not take into account the fact that school buildings outlays in New South Wales in 1976-77 were $80m less than they were in 1975-76 when the Liberal Party was last in power. [More…]
He would be content to leave questions of executive privilege vis-a-vis Congress to the ebb and flow of political power (page 1432). [More…]
He pointed out that Congress has powerful political weapons ( page 47). [More…]
For example, one can go back to the last Hayden Budgetbefore the Liberal Government came into power. [More…]
The point should be made- it ought to be made and it must be made- that this Government is not a Government that wants to centralise all power in Canberra. [More…]
We do not want to centralise power. [More…]
Furthermore, as the honourable member for Gellibrand (Mr Willis) pointed out, since the present Government came to power a substantial and even frightening, one would say, reduction has occurred in the amount of statistical tabulation and analysis done, for example, by the Bureau of Statistics. [More…]
The present Liberal-National Country Party Government which came to power in 1 976 was, I believe, the first Federal Government seriously to address itself to this problem. [More…]
As the economy revives the purchasing power of these family allowances should be examined so that they can be maintained. [More…]
Twice yearly indexation was introduced when inflation was at that level and it was felt necessary to maintain the purchasing power of pensioners by granting two increases per year. [More…]
The services include sewerage, power, water, drainage and so on. [More…]
Those people in Australia who say that we should not be developing uranium should get out of their Rip van Winkle state of mind and realise that we are living in a nuclear age, that any country which has uranium is developing it and that those countries which are looking for alternative sources of energy will have to rely heavily on nuclear power. [More…]
It occurred in the years of soaring taxation which was not subject to indexation when the Australian Labor Party was in power. [More…]
It was within the power of the then Labor Government to correct any anomalies that it thought were evident at that time. [More…]
In drawing attention to these tax avoidance schemes which are very rampant in the community at the present time, I think it would be true to say that there is something radically wrong with a society which seeks to avoid by any means within its power its taxation liability. [More…]
It is not good enough for the State Government with, I suspect, the collaboration of the Federal Government, to say that there is an Aboriginal Lands Trust which has some limited power in relation to the management of that land. [More…]
Unfortunately, while the Labor Party was in power it fostered this feeling among Aborigines and we can see its terrible effects, if only in the alcohol problem and in their health. [More…]
How will they feel when the boundaries are redrawn so that Labor stays in power through the greatest gerrymander that this country has seen. [More…]
What defence-related facilities (a) operated by a foreign power and (b) jointly operated by Australia and a foreign power existed in Australia as at (i) 1 July 1968, (ii) 1 July 1970, (iii) 1 July 1972, (iv) 1 July 1974, (v) 1 July 1976 and(vi)1 May 1978. [More…]
What is the foreign power and designated operating agency in each case. [More…]
What was the capital cost to (a) Australia and (b) the foreign power involved in siting and building each facility. [More…]
What has been the annual operating cost in constant dollars to (a) Australia and (b) the foreign power involved for each facility since its establishment. [More…]
The USEPA standards promulgated in 1977 refer to exposure of members of the public to radiation in the environment from the normal operation of the US nuclear power cycle. [More…]
However, I did receive an assurance from the representatives of the health insurance funds that they would do everything in their power to take staff that was surplus to the requirements of the Health Insurance Commission in cases where they had vacancies as a result of the changes that would occur to the health insurance system in Australia following the modifications to come into effect on 1 November. [More…]
It did not have it in 1974; it did not have it in 1975.I believe that it is due to the proper policies of our Government, to the integrity of our Treasurers since we came back to power in 1975 and to the rectitude of our economic planning that we have that AAA credit rating. [More…]
Investigation has turned up no evidence that nuclear waste from power stations in Britain- or from any other country- was buried at Maralinga or anywhere else in Australia. [More…]
This important matter, which is essentially one of longterm environmental management, has become confused and distorted by several unfounded allegations, in particular that an unexploded nuclear weapon is buried at Maralinga; that radioactive waste was brought from British nuclear power stations and buried at Maralinga; and that about 800 tonnes of nuclear waste material, including plutonium, is buried at Maralinga, which is what the South Australian Minister for Mines and Energy was reported on 20 December 1976 to have said. [More…]
1 ) What steps have been taken to verify the allegations by Dr John Coulter and Mr Avon Hudson on the radio program AM on 2 and 3 December 1976 that the British Government had flown radio-active waste including plutonium from nuclear power stations in Britain to Maralinga, where it was secretly buried at night. [More…]
This investigation has turned up no evidence whatsoever supporting the allegations that radio-active waste was brought from nuclear power stations in Britain for burial at Maralinga. [More…]
1) What steps have been taken to verify the allegations by Dr John Coulter and Mr Avon Hudson on the radio program AM on 2 and 3 December 1976 that the British Government had flown radioactive waste including plutonium from nuclear power stations in Britain to Maralinga, where it was secretly buried at night. [More…]
This investigation has turned up no evidence whatsoever supporting the allegations that radioactive waste was brought from nuclear power stations in Britain for burial at Maralinga. [More…]
The Opposition would reintroduce its entire socialist program, which could lead only to more inflation, more economic disruption and a squeezing of the purchasing power of every dollar that is given to every pensioner in this country. [More…]
This year it is estimated to be $10,341m, an increase of $3,322m, or nearly a 50 per cent increase in two years in which this Government has been in power. [More…]
As I indicated earlier, there has been an increase of nearly 50 per cent in individual payasyouearn taxation since this Government came to power. [More…]
We have a government in power which is on about providing an increasing income tax while transferring larger and larger subsidies to large scale and monopoly capital. [More…]
On the question of handling waste material, we accept that it is the responsibility of the power generating country to handle in an environmentally responsible manner the waste material that might be produced. [More…]
Does it still abide by its policy to abolish State governments to the limits that the constitutional power will permit, or indeed without limits if its platform plank of giving all power to the Commonwealth Parliament should ever obtain public approval? [More…]
It is a demonstration that the Labor Party believes that the interests of the people lie not in the welfare of the people but in their organisation of power for their own aggrandisement. [More…]
In a democracy the power belongs to the government that will trust the people and will return power to the people. [More…]
The most recent proposal for centralisation of political power in Australia has come from Dr Neil Blewett, formerly Professor of Political Theory at Flinders University and now Labor MHR for the South Australian seat of Bonython. [More…]
This year we are to spend more than $900m on benefits which are far too low because a government that came to power saying that it had the solution has not found that solution. [More…]
This fear tactic, this intimidation of the unemployed, will produce a bitter generation, and whichever government is in power in five years time will have to bear the consequences of the insensitivity and callousness of the present Government. [More…]
But if one were to look at the general benefits as a percentage of average weekly earnings at present and compare them with their level when Labor was in power, one would find that today they are the same or at least as good. [More…]
Many many amendments have been made to the health insurance scheme since this Government came to power. [More…]
It has been in power since 1975 and during the 1975 election campaign the Liberal and National Country parties made a clear commitment to maintain Medibank. [More…]
I also want to commend the Minister on the introduction of a longstanding Liberal and National Country party health policy, namely, giving dentists the ability or the power to prescribe a limited number of drugs. [More…]
But since this Government came to power, the debt per head has increased to $325. [More…]
I ask: Why is it that the delegates sent had no power to make decisions? [More…]
This Government has shown that it is prepared to do anything to reach office and it has continued to display an even greater immoral stance to hold on to that power. [More…]
These legal documents constituted an authority signed by the Acting Secretary of the Department which allowed officers to exercise power under subregulation 106a(15) of the Air Navigation Regulations; a certificate stating that certain officers were authorised to exercise that power; and a notice of requirement for the production by the person in charge within a reasonable period a statement containing certain particulars of books, accounting records and documents as referred to in sub-;regulation 106 ( 14). [More…]
This Government will not play favourites; it will not seek to exert influence on Ministers in the way in which the ACTU exerted influence on Mr Connor when the Labor Government was in power. [More…]
A new general power is to be vested in departments to grant such leave on particular terms and conditions and within guidelines. [More…]
That is the view I hold because if ever these land councils are to perform the duty that is cast upon them by the land rights legislation they must eschew political activity so that when the time comes in the ebb and flow of politics they will be in a position to serve the Aboriginal people, whatever political party is in power in Canberra or in Darwin. [More…]
The plan of action devised was that, even under present arrangements in which the River Murray Commission does not have the power to concern itself with many water quality problems, governments will be enabled to take steps in their own areas of responsibility. [More…]
The River Murray Commission does not have the power to investigate the planning or implementation of corrective measures. [More…]
We looked at the long term, when the power of the hydrogen bomb will be harnessed in controlled fusion. [More…]
In the medium time scale we will use the nuclear power of uranium and thorium and solar power, though it is limted in the overall situation. [More…]
This is almost $lm more than the figure appropriated last year and is to be expended upon research and development, upon keeping up with the rest of the world against the day when in Australia we have, as we must, atomic power stations. [More…]
The sooner we see nuclear power stations in Australia the better. [More…]
We cannot continue to se our small resources of oil and gas for main line power generation, wasting our valuable coal, which must be saved as a source of hydrocarbons. [More…]
What are the real costs of enrichment and waste disposal to the nuclear power industry? [More…]
As far as I am concerned, the whole of the nuclear power industry in the Western world, which we can do something about, should be stopped. [More…]
All citizens of the world should be able to protest against it, and I am sure that eventually world opinion will stop the nuclear power industries in even the communist world as well as in the noncommunist world. [More…]
I shall give figures on some of the estimates, or the guesstimates, of the need for nuclear power. [More…]
The nuclear power industry is unintentionally contributing to an increased risk of nuclear war. [More…]
Every time I quote this finding and try to tell the Government of the interrelationship of urnaium mining with the nuclear power industry and nuclear weapons it does not want to hear about it. [More…]
1 ) Did the Ambassador-at-Large for Nuclear Affairs submit a report to the Government concerning safety aspects of the nuclear power plant which is under construction in the Bataan province of the Philippines. [More…]
) Can he say if there has been opposition to construction of the nuclear power plant by citizens of the Bataan province; if so, has he taken any steps to investigate whether human rights violations have occurred during the planning or construction of the plant. [More…]
I am advised that a group called the Movement of Concerned Citizens of Bataan has expressed opposition to construction of the nuclear power plant. [More…]
Has his attention been drawn to reports of increased incidence of malignant disease in workers and residents in and near nuclear power stations, related statistically to the length of time in the area and proximity to the plants. [More…]
No independent tribunal will exist in the way it should in this community to look after his interests against the interests of those who have the power to put up prices. [More…]
What happened was that the funds allocated to tourism declined quite substantially when this Government came to power. [More…]
Not long after the Government was returned to power- last session- it decided that it had been a pretty rushed sort of legislation and began altering the whole set-up of the Bank. [More…]
It is also due to the very real need for this Government to restrict expenditure to try to overcome some of the enormous economic difficulties it inherited when it came into power in 1 975. [More…]
It is well accepted in countries overseas that nuclear energy is cheaper, cleaner and safer than oil-fired or coal-fired power stations. [More…]
It showed that the cost of producing nuclear power in the United Kingdom is half that of producing power from oil or coal and it is helping to give Britian a major advantage. [More…]
It is the best alternative to oil and coal for electric power generation. [More…]
If it means that- in fact- there will be no change, will he consider changing the name of the Legislative Assembly, which has no power to legislate, back to ‘Advisory Council*? [More…]
I believe that Mr Hayden is nothing more than a cream puff, light and fluffy with no weight, with no power and with a facade- a facade which must be broken down so that the Australian electorate can see how the union left wing bosses still call the tune to which Mr Hayden so merrily dances. [More…]
These demands are hardly startling or revolutionary but they have been resisted by the present power brokers in Queensland because, if met, the demands could mean an end to their incompetent administration. [More…]
He has attempted to play out the role of a progressive, a reformer and a strongman when, in fact, there has been no reform and he has done what he has been told to do by the faceless left wing power brokers who dominate the Labor Party in Queensland. [More…]
Of particular importance is the tremendous spending power of consumers that is developing in the five member nations of the Association of South East Asian Nations. [More…]
That is a sorry indictment of this Government which is now in power and which is alleged to be dedicated to free enterprise. [More…]
It is a matter of public record that the then Opposition ruthlessly used its power to block that Bill in the Senate and hence destroyed the trading opportunities that may have been available through an Overseas Trading Corporation. [More…]
When the Labor Government came to power, for the first time sport was treated as it ought to have been treated and funds started to increase. [More…]
In every major controversy in which it has engaged- the Newport power station, Fraser Island sand mining, wood chipping and bauxite mining- it has sought to stop development of industries that create large scale employment or to shut down major export earners. [More…]
It is improbable that a reversal of the power of decision making concentration will take place, nor will effective Parliamentary control develop without significant changes in approach, attitude and the relationship of the Executive to the Parliament. [More…]
Let me say firmly and categorically that this Government has no intention of taking the course that was pursued by the Australian Labor Party when it was in power in 1973 and 1974, when it allowed Australia finally to be excluded in a major part from markets in Europe and at the same time, without protest, accepted the cessation of markets in Japan. [More…]
As the Minister casts about, unable to identify any power capable of influencing the Lebanon situation, he might note the unhappy fact that steps taken to seek a solution in the country next door have further unhinged the situation in the Lebanon. [More…]
The growth of exports clearly shows their confidence in the administration by this Government of that power. [More…]
This occurs because a small group of people in influential positions in industry are able to use their power to stop the manufacturing sector. [More…]
Energy is essential; without power there can be no work. [More…]
As Marx pointed out a century ago, collapse of purchasing power will destroy capitalism. [More…]
The establishment of alternative energy sources must be considered in the light of the fact that the provision of energy in all its forms (electrical power, fuels for transport and industrial processes, etc.) [More…]
Whilst it is true that power blocs have developed in recent years with many Third World countries in a dominant position, the work of the United Nations in the political, economic and social spheres remains fundamental to peace and international co-operation. [More…]
There are also a number of world conferences which are significant, such as the United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea, the United Nations Water Conference, the International Conference on Developments in Nuclear Power and the Nuclear Fuel Cycle, the United Nations Conference on Desertification, the Review Conference on the Sea-bed Treaty, and the United Nations Conference on Technical Co-operation among Developing Countries. [More…]
In regard to mining, they have been placed in a worse position than previously with no provision for compensation, royalties or power to control mining on their traditional lands. [More…]
The Minister has no power to intervene in or to direct the Tribunal as to the conduct of a public hearing. [More…]
Responsibility for these matters is divided between a confrontationist Prime Minister, a Defence Minister with no need to know, a Foreign Minister with no power, a Trade Minister who has no ideas and a Special Trade Negotiator who has increasing difficulty negotiating his way aboard various aircraft. [More…]
The reason for this attention is the great potential these five countries possess, rather than their power. [More…]
That is, a number of other neighbours, and the major powers, are paying attention to the ASEAN countries because they have interests there. [More…]
Of all the external powers seeking to come to terms with ASEAN we seem the most inept and the least successful. [More…]
The same can be said of public concern in Australia about human rights in some Association of South East Asian Nations countries and about their use of military power. [More…]
I accept the Foreign Minister’s point that we in the Labor Party are not utterly free of blame for this situation, but if we look at what has been going on in the last few years we will find that nothing has been done in a serious way since this Government has been in power to rectify the trade problems. [More…]
Certainly there has been some friction over a period of time, both when the Labor Party was in power and when the Liberal-National Country Party coalition has been in power in Australia. [More…]
Australia’s average growth over the last decade has been much depressed by the fact that we ran into economic disaster through high inflation and the resultant unemployment during a period of complete and quite unnecessary economic mismanagement for ideological reasons when the Labor Government was in power. [More…]
Clause 6 redefines the powers and functions of the Organisation although they continue to be expressed in broad terms. [More…]
The Organisation will have the power to arrange for research to be undertaken on its behalf, where the Executive believes this to be appropriate. [More…]
In the statement yesterday I do not think that there was sufficient reference to naval air power. [More…]
But I think that the concept of naval air power must be stressed in this country. [More…]
But as we are all aware, the power of Parliament has receded considerably over the years with that of the Executive being correspondingly enhanced. [More…]
One other matter that I would like to raise at this stage concerns the amendments to the surcharge power. [More…]
While over the years there has been a case made- and with some justification- that parliaments in fact have abrogated much of their power and their capacity to overview the Executive, it is for that reason that I believe a significant set of amendments, as put forward in this legislation, requires very careful examination. [More…]
I would also like to refer to the Minister’s power to approve acts of grace payments. [More…]
The surcharge power is perhaps the most difficult element of this legislation which has yet to be dealt with. [More…]
Whereas in the past, with the singular exception of the Australian Industry Development Corporation, he has had the power to conduct regulatory audits only of statutory authorities and some goverment-owned companies, though certainly not all, under this legislation he in fact will have a much greater capacity to range over the entire area of government expenditure. [More…]
On 7 November 1 977, the then Minister Assisting the Prime Minister in Public Service matters, Mr Street, tabled a report of a working party of officials on efficiency audits and foreshadowed legislation to amend the Audit Act to give the Auditor-General the power to conduct efficiency audits. [More…]
When I read the explanatory memorandum in relation to acts of grace I found that the proposed new section spells out more clearly than the present section the Minister’s power to approve act of grace payments and is worded in such a way that the [More…]
Minister is permitted to delegate the power. [More…]
It concerns me that the Government has been prepared to put to this Parliament a proposition which effectively removes from the ambit of the Governor-General or the Auditor-General the power to prosecute people who have behaved in a way in which they should not have behaved and who have caused damage to the property which ultimately belongs to the Australian people, the taxpayers, and which is administered on their behalf by the government of the day. [More…]
We always have to be restless and throw off the burden of possessions and the great human inclination to want things and to build up the facade of power and strength which is typified by possessions. [More…]
It is not good for any governmental corporation to hide behind its legal position, its position of power as a governmental corporation, to avoid meeting the requirements that an ordinary corporation would have to meet. [More…]
It is taking a power to a limited group, in this case a trade union, and it certainly ought to be opposed. [More…]
We are concerned that the creation of an Aboriginal Development Agency should not be just a cosmetic operation to kid Aboriginal and Islander people into believing they will have real selfmanagement, if the Department of Aboriginal Affairs is to retain the power of veto in significant areas. [More…]
We would like to know that this is not just a cosmetic exercise, that the Agency will have real power and that in fact powers will be transferred from the Department. [More…]
If it is desirous of using a particular national advantage to expand a district then it should be the prerogative of the Government to exercise its power over Treasury to assist the industries, the groups and the committees in particular areas that they want to develop. [More…]
Here is a perfect example of where the Australian Government, and the Minister in particular, could have used the power of the environment protection legislation to force some changes to the project that would have made only marginal difference to the concept itself but would have minimised risk to the environment of the Corio Bay area. [More…]
The most incredible part about the Government’s refusal to use its power is that, from discussions I have had with the Iwasaki Sangyo company, including discussions with Mr Iwasaki himself, both in Australia and Japan, I have every reason to believe that if it had been asked to move the international village south a couple of kilometres and restrict development to 150 metres from the high water mark, it would have accepted the change. [More…]
The Commonwealth’s power to make funds available to the Bank from the IED Trust Account is provided by section 8 of the Primary Industry Bank Act 1 977. [More…]
The amendments in this Bill will enable that power to be used flexibly and in such a way that the interests of IED depositors are fully protected. [More…]
Once this matter had been brought to my attention, I became extremely concerned that the Bill would confer such inordinate power on a Minister. [More…]
The Parliament would have no right to debate the issue and would have no powers of rejection or acceptance. [More…]
I hope that the way in which this provision has been redrafted becomes a blueprint for all ministerial prerogatives and powers relating to statutory corporations and bodies in this country. [More…]
In respect of the particular examples that I have given, we certainly cannot assume with any confidence that the United States of America or any other major power would be prepared to intervene in any problems that arose in those areas. [More…]
The costs are huge and, on one view, are appropriate for a super power. [More…]
However, the New South Wales Electricity Commission decided to erect a 220 kv power line from Redcliff to Broken Hill, to be phased in in February 1979. [More…]
Everyone in that area was very surprised and hostile to hear a radio announcement in July 1977 that the existing single earth return telephone lines would be rendered useless by the energising of the New South Wales Electricity Commission power line. [More…]
Alarm expressed by these people to the Commission was passed on to Telecom which, unfortunately, had assured the Electricity Commission that it had no objection to the power line route selected. [More…]
However, the person who has the major power in these matters, who is the compere of the program and who had been involved in previous reports on it, said this: [More…]
It is quite clearly wrong and it is using a particular power of the compere of a program to mislead in a way which I believe is quite serious. [More…]
If they read the special local government Act for these two communities they will see that it contains a most important provision which gives to the community shire councils the power which was previously vested in the Queensland Director of Aboriginal and Islander Advancement, as trustee, to deal with mining within that community. [More…]
The present balance of power in the Gulf region could be affected and any disruption of Iran’s oil exports, if it were to affect the availability of sufficient quantities to meet Western needs, could have only a negative effect on Western interests in terms of the overall strategic balance. [More…]
So long as union bargaining power is inhibited by high unemployment that may not be a problem for the Government, but if the economy should eventually move into a substantial recovery phase, union frustration and resentment at the depression of real wages and complete lack of confidence in the wage indexation system may well boil over into another wage explosion. [More…]
I make it quite clear, as I made it clear in the Committee, that I do not believe for one moment that the Minister Assisting the Prime Minister (Mr Viner), who is at the table, would abuse that power; but I suggest that we are seeking to put on to the statute book a power which is to be given to a Minister, who is a political animal, to take action against a public servant without trial, and the effect of that will be that that man will be suspended without pay. [More…]
My complaint is that this legislation will give to an unnamed future Minister a power over a public servant which I do not believe is a reasonable power and which I do believe is capable of abuse. [More…]
I have no hesitation in saying that if this legislation had been brought in when the Australian Labor Party was in power our Party would have risen in horror and said: ‘This is outrageous’. [More…]
Any honourable member who genuinely believes that the power of the Executive should be restricted or who believes in the rights of individuals should stand firm and say that this proposed new section 57 ( 1) has within it an incentive for poison pen letters, tittle tattle, hearsay and backstabbing attacks on members of the Public Service. [More…]
The Bill vests the charging power with the responsible Minister whilst still recognising the right of anyone to bring a matter forward. [More…]
On the other hand nor do I bury my head like an ostrich and say that a party can move into power and that everybody at every level is totally acceptable to it. [More…]
However, the point that needs to be made is that these practices are simply a logical extension of the Government’s attitude to medical policies since it came to power. [More…]
When we look at these things and at what Labor was up to when it was in power we can say, on three grounds, that it has more cause to answer than we have. [More…]
As a result of the 1960 Act however the Commission was given power to recruit its own staff. [More…]
The proposed new Section 18af provides explicitly for the Commission to delegate certain of its powers to its senior permanent officers. [More…]
This power had been assumed to be implicit in the present Act but, in the light of queries by the Auditor-General, it was desirable to make it explicit. [More…]
Since the Commission meets only every few months it is necessary to delegate powers in regard to staff appointments, promotions, and resignations. [More…]
A workshop building of three storeys to house facilities to service the new guided missile frigates; an amenities and refit control building of two storeys to house office accommodation for approximately 30 staff, as well as showers, toilets, lunch and change rooms for approximately 240 dockyard personnel; provision of rotary convenor and reticulation to augment 60 hertz power supply to three wharves; provision of a5-tonne electrical-powered portal crane on the east dock wharf; extension of existing east dock wharf services to the southern end of the wharf with additional provision of general purpose electric light and power and ship-to-shore sewerage disposal services. [More…]
Yet any examination of Federal-State financial relations will show that the States have asked for income taxing power in the following instances: At the September 1950 Premiers’ Conference and the August 195 1 Premiers’ Conference. [More…]
In July 1952 the Commonwealth said that it was willing to discuss arrangements for returning income tax powers to the States. [More…]
And Mr Batt said that ultimately, employment would be stimulated as a result of the water and power projects for which Tasmania was given authority to borrow money. [More…]
An amount of $75m will be spent over the next five years- $ 15m of it will be spent this year- for the $404m Pieman power scheme. [More…]
For the first time since 1927, when the financial agreement came about, the States were given power to borrow either overseas or within Australia on their own account. [More…]
It does not admit that since its unholy grab for power it has failed to come to grips with the economy. [More…]
It aims to prevent dangerous concentration of power in a few hands. [More…]
Make no mistake, Mr Deputy Speaker, power is highly concentrated in the hands of the Prime Minister. [More…]
His treatment of the States, as indicated by this Bill and by other States grants Bills, shows how cynically he is using that power. [More…]
The redistribution of income and the concentration of power in the Prime Minister’s hands are happening at an alarming rate. [More…]
The Government is in power; it has to exercise that power. [More…]
The new program will be, firstly, the gazettal of a new poisonous and narcotic drugs ordinance which will give the Commission additional power to control the prescribing and consumption of drugs in the Australian Capital Territory. [More…]
1 ) All members of the Ministry have delegated to officers of their departments the power to approve expenditure. [More…]
It had been supported by postmastersgeneral from the Labor Party, the National Country Party of Australia and the Liberal Party over a period of eight years but nothing was done about it until this Government came to power. [More…]
Of course, the constitutional position of the Commonwealth here is that only in certain specified areas within the Constitution has the Commonwealth power to make laws which by virtue of section 109 of the Constitution prevail over any competing State laws. [More…]
Generally speaking, the Commonwealth does not have constitutional power in the area of freedom of speech or freedom of assembly over any such laws that are passed by the States. [More…]
The Commonwealth does not have any direct power to overrule laws of that kind. [More…]
But governments can and should do all in their power to overcome those financial circumstances which might cause undue stress to be placed on families and which prevent mothers having a free choice as to whether or not they can stay at home and care for their children. [More…]
The honourable member for Gellibrand both in his speech and by interjection has said that it is unfair of me to do that because I do not acknowledge that the Labor Government, if it had stayed in power, would have left those scales unadjusted. [More…]
The letter contained figures to suggest that although the Bureau at that time was suggesting that escalating expenditure on urban arterials ought to be available in fact in practice there have been reductions in real terms year in and year out since this Government has been in power. [More…]
For 11 of the past 13 years a Labor government has been in power in South Australia. [More…]
Banks contributed heavily to election-time funds that helped return the Fraser Government to power in 1975. [More…]
Therefore, the power created under this Bill was for long-term lending to primary producers, including fishermen and foresters, thus augmenting existing facilities of banks and other lending authorities I emphasise ‘thus augmenting existing facilities ‘. [More…]
Those in whom resides the power ultimately to decide whether or not to claim privilege will in fact be exercising a far more potent power: By a decision to claim privilege dismissal of the charge will be wellnigh ensured. [More…]
Has the Government adopted or does it intend to adopt the United States Environment Protection Agency Standards promulgated in 1977 relating to the exposure of members of the public to radiation in the environment from the normal operation of the nuclear power cycle; if not, why not. [More…]
These standards apply specifically to discharges from nuclear power stations of which there are none in Australia. [More…]
However, if at some future time a nuclear power station is established here, the relevance of the U.S. standards will be considered when establishing appropriate standards. [More…]
I understand that, following an order made by the Queensland Governor in Council on15 August 1 978 dissolving each Council and appointing Mr K. P. H. Brown Administrator of each Shire, an interim injunction was obtained on 16 August which restrained the defendants (the Queensland Attorney-General, the Minister for Local Government and Mr Brown) from exercising any power to dissolve the Councils except after consultation with me, until midnight on 1 8 [More…]
Will he guarantee that under no circumstances will development rights for the Mulloka project or any part of the project be sold or leased to a foreign power. [More…]
The rights for Mulloka have not been sold or leased to any foreign power. [More…]
There was a power strike in Victoria late last year. [More…]
Anyone who is in touch with industries in Victoria and in other parts of the country will know that many companies and firms are just recovering from the adverse effects of that power strike. [More…]
One might assume that it is an effort to achieve a greater concentration of union power in the hands of a certain group of militant trade union leaders. [More…]
I invite Opposition members to look at the results since this Government came into power. [More…]
The most challenging power conferred on CSIRO by this Bill is in proposed new section 9AA (b) which will enable the Organisation to join in the formation of a partnership or company for the purpose of the commercial development of a discovery, innovation or improvement which is the property of the Organisation. [More…]
I refer to the great power development projects in the eastern States; the pipeline project in Western Australia, together with other projects such as the Redcliff petrochemical project which hopefully should be able to proceed in South Australia as a result of the decisions taken; hydro-electric and other water supply projects in Tasmania, as well as power and world trade centre projects in Victoria. [More…]
Is it a fact that in a number of major disputes, including the air traffic controllers strike of May 1977, the Redfern Mail Exchange dispute of August 1977, the Victorian power dispute of September 1977, the Telecom dispute of August 1978, the Victorian tramways dispute of 1978 and now the oil industry dispute, his threats and the threat of his industrial legislation exacerbated rather than resolved those disputes? [More…]
In view of the deterioration of the Highway since his Government came to power, will he recommend to the Government the restructuring of the Federal Highway as a means of stimulating some activity in the private sector and matching the efforts of the State Government in this respect? [More…]
A $20 microprocessor today has much the same computing ability as a $lm computer in 1950, using one onehundredthousandth of the power, and taking up one onehundredandfiftythousandth of the space. [More…]
In all the eastern States there will be a great expansion of power generation, as well as in the Pilbara of Western Australia. [More…]
In South Australia, where there was some concern about the future of industrial development, we have taken decisions that will enable the State Government to construct power supplies and pipelines that will encourage a great petrochemical plant at Redcliff. [More…]
For example, the Export Development Grants Board will be given a discretionary power to decide on the eligibility of permanent overseas sales representation by company directors. [More…]
The Corporation will also have a power to engage in trade subject to ministerial approval, and subject to any conditions specified in that approval. [More…]
The Corporation is empowered to borrow, with the approval of the Treasurer, for promotion and for the exercising of its power to engage in trade. [More…]
The amendments effected those recommendations of the report of the inquiry into the Australian broadcasting system- the Green Reportdecided upon by the Government One of the principal changes was the transfer of the power to grant and renew licences for broadcasting and television stations from the Minister to the Australian Broadcasting Tribunal. [More…]
The Tribunal will also have the power to grant extensions, of time to applicants and other interested persons making applications or submissions concerning licence renewals. [More…]
A low income trap has operated over the past decade by which low purchasing power among the poor masses, aggravated by the growth of a poor rural proletariat, has reduced the incentive to increase agricultural production. [More…]
The Migration Act 1958 confers in Sections 12, 13 and 1 4 power to the Minister of State for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs to order the deportation of ‘aliens’ and ‘immigrants’ provided certain defined pre-conditions exist. [More…]
Section 12 confers upon the Minister the power to order the deportation of an alien who in Australia has been convicted of a crime of violence or of extortion, or of an attempt to commit such a crime, or of any other offence for which he has been sentenced to imprisonment for one year or longer. [More…]
That power may be exercised upon the expiration of, or during, the term of imprisonment served or being served by the alien in respect of the offence. [More…]
Section 13 of the Act confers upon the Minister the power to order the deportation of an immigrant who in Australia has been convicted of an offence punishable by death or by imprisonment for one year or longer and of an immigrant who in Australia has been convicted of an offence by reason of being a prostitute, having lived on or received earnings of prostitution or having procured persons for the purpose of prostitution provided that the offence was committed within five years after any entry into Australia by the immigrant. [More…]
Section 13 of the Act also confers upon the Minister the power to order the deportation of an immigrant who, within five years after any entry by him into Australia, is an inmate of a mental hospital or public charitable institution. [More…]
Section 14 of the Act confers upon the Minister the power to order the deportation of an alien if it appears to him that the conduct of the alien, whether in Australia or elsewhere, has been such that he should not be allowed to remain in Australia. [More…]
Section 14 of the Act also confers upon the Minister the power to order the deportation of an immigrant who entered Australia not more than five years previously if it appears to him either that the conduct of the immigrant, whether in Australia or elsewhere, has been such that he should not be allowed to remain in Australia or that the immigrant is a person who advocates the overthrow by force or violence of government or the unlawful destruction of property. [More…]
that public funds should be used for the benefit of the Australian people and not to promote the contest for power by political parties, and [More…]
that such funding is contrary to the interests of emerging parties and will prolong the power of contrasting political organisations, [More…]
The Commonwealth does not have constitutional power in the area of freedom of speech or freedom of assembly . [More…]
The Commonwealth does not have any direct power to overrule laws of that kind. [More…]
The Commonwealth does have such power under the external affairs power in the light of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. [More…]
I do not try to hide the fact that by reason of its terms the proposal involves removing one power only, namely, the power of the Senate to reject or to block Appropriation Bills. [More…]
However, I make the point that this motion offers a fair quid pro quo for the removal of the powers which the Senate claims. [More…]
The power to reject or block Supply is not consistent with the role of a genuine House of review, as well as with normal democratic principles. [More…]
It would be wrong of me not to refer to tax indexation, which in the three years in which this Government has been in power has saved the Australian public about $3,000m. [More…]
I shall refer briefly to some of the things that the Labor Government did not do when in power between 1972 and 1975. [More…]
While Labor was in power it increased the receipts from personal income tax by 89 per cent. [More…]
It has been put to me- I am inclined to accept this to be the fact- that if we had been prepared to grant a very wide discretionary power to the Commissioner of Taxation the provision in question could have been a lot shorter. [More…]
immediately after the relevant time, there was no natural person, and there were no natural persons, who beneficially owned shares in the company carrying between them the right to exercise more than onehalf of the voting power in the company who, immediately before the relevant time, held shares in the company carrying between them the right to exercise more than one-half of the voting power in the company; [More…]
at the relevant time, the voting power in the company was controlled, or became capable of being controlled, either directly or through one or more interposed companies, trustees or partnerships, by a natural person or natural persons who did not control the voting power in the company and was not or were not, as the case may be, capable of controlling the voting power in the company, either directly or through one or more interposed companies, trustees or partnerships, at any time before the relevant time, being a time during the year of income, and that natural person or those natural persons acquired the control of that voting power for the purpose, or for purposes that included the purpose, of receiving any benefit or obtaining any advantage in relation to the application of this Act or securing that another person or other persons would receive such a benefit or obtain such an advantage; [More…]
at the relevant time, the affairs or business operations of the company were managed or conducted without proper regard to the rights, powers or interests of a natural person who was, or natural persons who were, at the relevant time, capable of controlling the voting power in the company, either directly or through one or more interposed companies, trustees or partnerships. [More…]
( 1) (d), omit “natural person or those natural persons acquired the control of that voting power”, substitute “person or those persons acquired the control of that voting power or became capable of acquiring the control of that voting power, as the case may be,”. [More…]
In clause 9, in proposed section 50H(l)(h), omit “natural person who was or natural persons who were, at the relevant time, capable of controlling the voting power in the company”, substitute “natural person or natural persons who controlled the voting power in the company at the relevant time or who was or were, as the case may be, capable of controlling the voting power in the company at the relevant time”. [More…]
That table reveals that of the ordinary loan funds approved a mere 17.16 per cent had been applied to agriculture and agro-industry; 21.96 per cent had been applied to industry, including development banks; 20.99 per cent had been applied to transport and communications; 10.71 per cent had been applied to water supply and urban development; 26.58 per cent had been applied to power- and there must be a message in that percentage- and 2.6 per cent had been applied to education. [More…]
I refer, for example, to the development of electrical power systems. [More…]
In 1977 the Asian Development Bank approved almost $900m in loans, about one-quarter of which went to the power sector. [More…]
He knows that he has complete power at his disposal to negotiate a satisfactory agreement. [More…]
I think my colleague, the Minister for Business and Consumer Affairs, was involved in another capacity some years ago in the very early and formative stages of the power project in New South Wales which is to be the subject of special borrowing. [More…]
I know that the Loy Yang power project in Victoria is a very important and, indeed, essential part of the development of the State Electricity Commission’s use of brown coal reserves in Victoria. [More…]
The Council for Egg Marketing Authorities of Australia has the power of veto over what research projects will be approved. [More…]
While CEMAA is able to overrule this advice by its power of veto, for whatever reason, the industry is not getting the best value for its research dollar. [More…]
The power of the Minister to direct, as specified in clause 4, new paragraph 73BE (2) (d) of the Bill, will enable him to ensure that contributors to hospital benefits funds who are admitted to hospital are not denied hospital benefits at the basic level. [More…]
Firstly, it removes any doubt that the power of the Minister to consider changes made by organisations in relation to the matters specified in subsection 78 ( 1), also includes power to consider a change which makes provision for a new table of benefits to be offered by the organisation. [More…]
Why has this statement been made by this Minister when similar statements have not been made, for instance, by the Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations (Mr Street) when an enormous amount of work needs to be done in the field of man power planning and training which is very much related to this subject? [More…]
The Opposition would prefer to have a department of economic development based on the existing Treasury Department which is where the power lies. [More…]
It is unbelievable that this awesome power contained in section 45D could now be extended to be placed in the hands of so many more people and to be used in a way that could bring this nation to its knees. [More…]
It is a power of which he was not aware a few weeks ago. [More…]
Now we find the Government extending that power because the strict interpretation of section 45D before this amendment foreshadowed by the Minister for Business and Consumer Affairs may not have allowed it to rope in the Australasian Meat Industry Employees Union in the case of the export of live sheep. [More…]
As I said earlier, the Government is giving power almost to every employer in the country to take action against a trade union when, in the first instance, there is no mechanism for conciliation. [More…]
This is the sort of power that the Government is now writing into the Trade Practices Act. [More…]
It seems to me that the existing provision rests on the Commonwealth’s corporations power. [More…]
The new provision introduces the trade and commerce power into section 45D and to some extent therefore may offer some protection to individuals who have been wronged under the section, and not just to corporations. [More…]
Under the Constitution the Australian Government’s power in industrial matters lies in conciliation, not in thumping unions. [More…]
They will not have so much to lose, but they will have the power to cause the most massive disruption. [More…]
That is the exact reason why this Liberal Government has decided in its best wisdom to protect the rank and file members of the unions against the tyrannical power of a few- not all-union leaders who choose, not for the benefit of their workers but for the benefit of themselves, very often deliberately to throw this country into complete confusion. [More…]
A first class example was the Yallourn power strike. [More…]
There will be more power to the unions’ arm if and when it is required. [More…]
Until he is brought down and removed from power, that bitterness and division will remain in our society. [More…]
This proves what many of us have been saying that the terrorists and guerrillas are interested only in their particular grab for power. [More…]
They are interested only in their own grab for power. [More…]
1 ) What is the present situation with the proposals put to the four governments concerned to amend the River Murray Waters Agreement to extend the power of the River Murray Commission to include water quality. [More…]
And in the Victorian power dispute, it was our move to deregister the unions involved that led to the strikers returning to work. [More…]
The Government tried to get itself involved with the Victorian power dispute. [More…]
The Government talked about a trade and commerce power as a means of solving those disputes. [More…]
The only response that the Opposition has on industrial relations, and it ought to be remembered by everybody in this House and known throughout the Australian community, is that one of the first acts of the Labor Party if it were returned to power would be to repeal the industrial legislation introduced by this Government. [More…]
I concede that many people who adopt an anti-uranium stance do so ibr honourable reasons, just as many people who take an anti-uranium stance do so for quite mischievous reasons which bring benefits to the providers of other energy sources and which, of course, assist the Russian bloc, which is a great user of atomic power, to the disadvantage of the Western bloc countries- the free nations of the world- which seek to use our uranium. [More…]
We will continue to oppose uranium mining while the serious economic, social, biological, genetic, environmental and technical problems associated with the development of nuclear power remain unresolved. [More…]
The Labor Party will act in accordance with that recommendation when elected to power in 1980 and will repudiate any uranium contracts entered into by the Fraser Government, unless all the unsolved problems have been solved. [More…]
The nuclear power industry is unintentionally contributing to an increased risk of nuclear war. [More…]
They know that their dream of a uranium bonanza is rapidly fading as people all over the world are questioning the unsolved problems and saying no to nuclear power. [More…]
The trend in Japan is against nuclear power. [More…]
The trend throughout the world is away from nuclear power. [More…]
We have to keep in mind that when they voted against it they had an investment in a nuclear power station of over $500m. [More…]
Yet in a referendum the people of Austria rejected nuclear power because they did not know the unknown, the problem of how to store nuclear waste and other nuclear material in the world. [More…]
We are a fortunate country in that we have considerable reserves of fossil fuel to cater for our own power requirements. [More…]
Our Prime Minister has said that we can place safeguards on the export of our uranium to these countries so that it is used for power production purposes and not for nuclear warheads. [More…]
Every nation of any standing has access to nuclear power and nuclear warheads and missiles. [More…]
The honourable member for Reid talked about the generation of power overseas. [More…]
In Great Britain nuclear power provides 15 to 20 per cent of the power generated. [More…]
In the United States of America, 15 to 20 per cent of power in the various States is generated from nuclear power from uranium and there have been very few accidents. [More…]
America from nuclear power generation. [More…]
The United States Navy has operated vessels on nuclear power for 21 years without any damage or accident at all. [More…]
I rcommend that the Australian Government immediately and with all its power and resources gets stuck into marketing of this valuable commodity. [More…]
The most recent joint International Atomic Energy Agency-Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development working party Report entitled ‘Uranium Resources, Production and Demand’ revised downward its nuclear power growth forecasts by up to SO per cent for the year 2000. [More…]
Soaring costs of nuclear power projects far beyond the originally estimated limit have led to great difficulties, to disappoinment, controversies, and even to the cancellation of projects. [More…]
In the same month, the Environment, Energy and Natural Resources Sub-committee of the United States Congress published its findings on the costs of nuclear power. [More…]
After 30 years of nuclear power development, technology to dismantle a large commercial reactor has not yet been demonstrated, and the costs of dismantling such a reactor are still unknown. [More…]
It seems to us that s.41 is a special power which was enacted at a time when the need to secure Australian uranium for use by Great Britain and the United States of [More…]
The power, if it can be applied in the circumstances, should not be used simply because it exists and may appear convenient. [More…]
Of course not, and that is known by those who are involved in the science and technology of nuclear proliferation, in the problems that bedevil the Carter Administration as it endeavours desperately to fight off the demands of the nuclear power industry and contain the problems. [More…]
The nuclear power industry is unintentionally contributing to the increased risk of nuclear war. [More…]
For example, this Bill includes increases in the tariff on ball bearings, insulators, light commercial and four wheel drive vehicles, carpets and carbon coated film, whereas others involve tariff decreases, for example, power operated drilling machines, vices and certain products in the printing industry. [More…]
Knowing the power he possesses, I will not push my luck too far. [More…]
It is rather interesting to note that prior to the Whitlam Labor Government coming into power in 1972 increases in sales tax over previous years were of an orderly figure of about 10 per cent. [More…]
When we came to power sales tax collections in 1976-77 increased by 17.2 per cent. [More…]
We are well aware of the fact that the Board has the power to consider claims but it may not do so, and that seems to be a difficulty. [More…]
It seems to me that the Board should not be allowed to use its power to require extra information to deny a grant to an otherwise eligible applicant. [More…]
But don’t you see, this is just the point- what has for centuries raised man above the beast is not the cudgel but an inward music; the irresistible power of warmest truth, the powerful attraction of its example. [More…]
I point out that the Labor Government was in power for three years but did nothing whatsoever about it. [More…]
We recognise the fact that these negotiations have been directed towards the demarcation of boundaries between a former colonial power and a former colonial territory. [More…]
The Legislative Assembly will have power to make ordinances for the peace, order and good government of the Territory. [More…]
This power is not limited to those matters in respect of which executive members will have executive authority as specified in Schedules 2 and 3. [More…]
These powers do not extend to Schedule 2 or 3 matters. [More…]
The Governor-General will have power to make ordinances authorising the expenditure of the public moneys of the Territory in cases of urgency. [More…]
Where the Governor-General exercises his powers as I have just described, the ordinance shall be laid before each House of Parliament within 15 sitting days. [More…]
It will have the power to engage in trade, subject to ministerial approval. [More…]
We all welcome legislation, however limited, which gives the Minister power to direct the funds not to discriminate against a particular group of contributors. [More…]
In view of his laxity only a month ago, can we expect the Minister to employ the powers given to him under this new legislation? [More…]
One important point of the legislation is that the Minister will have the power to prevent discrimination against hospital benefits contributors where the discrimination, on or after 1 May, is related to the question of whether, having regard to a person’s medical condition, hospitalisation is necessary, desirable or appropriate. [More…]
Clearly the Minister’s powers of discretion will be wide. [More…]
I hope that the Minister will be willing to use this power. [More…]
He certainly was dismissive of his power not to approve fund tables prior to 1 November. [More…]
I will check this before I move my motion seeking to refer this Bill to a legislation committee, but of the order of a dozen amendments have been made to that section of the Act since this Government came into power. [More…]
The third area of commendation is the way in which the Minister has allowed, even though he could have retained power over interpretation and declaration in these amendments, for parliamentary scrutiny and parliamentary disallowance. [More…]
I would not envisage the power of direction being used to that end. [More…]
What has to be recognised in Australia is the power of simple snobbery and the extent to which education is regarded as a weapon to ensure the advantage of ‘our child over their child’. [More…]
Queensland now has the power to raise extra revenue through an income tax surcharge. [More…]
The Queensland Government has the power to raise this extra revenue through a surcharge if it believes it needs more revenue for local government or for the development of the State. [More…]
A principal change was to transfer the power to grant and renew licences for broadcasting and television from the Minister for Post and Telecommunications to the Australian Broadcasting Tribunal. [More…]
As I have said, the Opposition welcomes the amendments which give the Tribunal greater discretionary powers to extend any deadlines for submissions, applications, renewals, evidence or replies to submissions. [More…]
We welcome this kind of power in the hands of the Tribunal to see that in future we will have fair and relatively impartial hearings conducted with a degree of administrative flexibility which this Bill endeavours to provide. [More…]
The power of the Queensland Premier highlights the weakness of the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs. [More…]
that it was desirable to request the States to refer constitutional power to the Commonwealth to deal with those matters presently outside of the ambit of the Family Law Act; and [More…]
1 ) Is he able to say how many nuclear power reactors are in operation in South Korea and what is their total generating capacity. [More…]
Is he also able to say (a) how many nuclear power reactors are forecast to be in operation in South Korea, (b) what is the forecast total generating capacity of those reactors and (c) what is the forecast annual demand for uranium for South Korea during (i) 1980, (ii) 1985, (iii) 1990, (iv) 1995 and (v) 2000. [More…]
1 ) Is he able to say how many nuclear power reactors are in operation in West Germany and what is their total generating capacity. [More…]
Is he also able to say (a) how many nuclear power reactors are forecast to be in operation in West Germany, (b) what is the forecast total generating capacity of those reactors and (c) what is the forecast annual demand for uranium for West Germany during (i) 1980, (ii) 1985, (iii) 1990, (iv) 1995 and (v) 2000. [More…]
1 ) Is he able to say how many nuclear power reactors are in operation in Canada and what is their total generating capacity. [More…]
Is he also able to say (a) how many nuclear power reactors are forecast to be in operation in Canada, (b) what is the forecast total generating capacity of those reactors and (c) what is the forecast annual demand for uranium for Canada during (i) 1980, (ii) 1985, (iii) 1990, (iv) 1995 and (v)2000. [More…]
1 ) Is he able to say how many nuclear power reactors are in operation in Switzerland and what is their total generating capacity. [More…]
Is he also able to say (a) how many nuclear power reactors are forecast to be in operation in Switzerland, (b) what is the forecast total generating capacity of those reactors and (c) what is the forecast annual demand for uranium for Switzerland during (i) 1980, (ii) 1985, (iii) 1990, (iv) 1 995 and (v) 2000. [More…]
1 ) Is he able to say how many nuclear power reactors are in operation in Italy and what is their total generating capacity. [More…]
Is he also able to say (a) how many nuclear power reactors are forecast to be in operation in Italy (b) what is the forecast total generating capacity of those reactors and (c) what is the forecast annual demand for uranium for Italy during (i) 1980, (ii) 1985, (iii) 1990, (iv) 1995 and (v) 2000. [More…]
1 ) Is he able to say how many nuclear power reactors are in operation in the United States of America and what is their total generating capacity. [More…]
Is he also able to say (a) how many nuclear power reactors are forecast to be in operation in the USA, (b) what is the forecast total generating capacity of those reactors and (c) what is the forecast annual demand for uranium for the USA during (i) 1980, (ii) 1985, (ii) 1990, (iv) 1995 and (v) 2000. [More…]
1 ) Is he able to say how many nuclear power reactors are in operation in France and what is their total generating capacity. [More…]
Is he also able to say (a) how many nuclear power reactors are forecast to be in operation in France, (b) what is the forecast total generating capacity of those reactors and (c) what is the forecast annual demand for uranium for France during (i) 1980, (ii) 1985, (iii) 1990, (iv) 1995 and (v)2000. [More…]
1 ) Is he able to say how many nuclear power reactors are in operation in Finland and what is their total generating capacity. [More…]
Is he also able to say (a) how many nuclear power reactors are forecast to be in operation in Finland, (b) what is the forecast total generating capacity of those reactors and (c) what is the forecast annual demand for uranium for Finland during (i) 1980, (ii) 1985, (iii) 1990, (iv) 1995, and (v)2000. [More…]
Was the Government advised by Westinghouse Corporation that it had received construction permits for the Bataan Nuclear Power Plant Project from the Philippines Atomic Energy Commission when only conditional work authorisations had been granted. [More…]
1 ) Is he able to say how many nuclear power reactors are in operation in the Philippines and what is their total generating capacity. [More…]
Is he also able to say (a) how many nuclear power reactors are forecast to be in operation in the Philippines, (b) what is the forecast total generating capacity of those reactors and (c) what is the forecast annual demand for uranium for the Philippines during (i) 1980, (ii) 1985, (iii) 1990, (iv) 1995 and (v) 2000. [More…]
1 ) Is he able to say how many nuclear power reactors are in operation in the United Kingdom and what is their total generating capacity. [More…]
Is he also able to say (a) how many nuclear power reactors are forecast to be in operation in the UK, (b) what is the forecast total generating capacity of those reactors and (c) what is the forecast annual demand for uranium for the UK during (i) 1980, (ii) 1985, (iii) 1990, (iv) 1995 and (v) 2000. [More…]
1 ) Is he able to say how many nuclear power reactors are in operation in Iran and what is their total generating capacity. [More…]
Is he also able to say (a) how many nuclear power reactors are forecast to be in operation in Iran, (b) what is the forecast total generating capacity of those reactors and (c) what is the forecast annual demand for uranium for Iran during (i) 1980, (ii) 1985, (iii) 1990, (iv) 1995 and (v) 2000. [More…]
1 ) Is he able to say bow many nuclear power reactors are in operation in Austria and what is then- total generating capacity. [More…]
) Is he also able to say ( a) how many nuclear power reactors are forecast to be in operation in Austria, (b) what is the forecast total generating capacity of those reactors and (c) what is the forecast annual demand for uranium for Austria during (i) 1980, (ii) 1985, (iii) 1990, (iv) 1995 and (v) 2000. [More…]
1 ) Is he able to say how many nuclear power reactors are in operation in Japan and what is their total generating capacity. [More…]
Is he also able to say (a) how many nuclear power reactors are forecast to be in operation in Japan, (b) what is the forecast total generating capacity of those reactors and (c) what is the forecast annual demand for uranium for Japan (i) 1980, (ii) 1985, (iii) 1990, (iv) 1995 and (v) 2000. [More…]
1 ) Is he able to say how many nuclear power reactors are in operation in Sweden and what is their total generating capacity. [More…]
Is he also able to say (a) how many nuclear power reactors are forecast to be in operation in Sweden, (b) what is the forecast total generating capacity of those reactors and (c) what is the forecast annual demand for uranium for Sweden during (i) 1980, (ii) 1985, (iii) 1990, (iv) 1995 and (v)2000. [More…]
Has the Minister’s attention been drawn to an article in the Canberra Times of 17 April 1978 emphasing that Australia has been offered a working unit of the world ‘s most advanced experimental laser fusion facility, the mother unit of which will produce 1 ,000 times more electric power than it uses. [More…]
That decisions be expedited on future equipment procurement including Tactical Fighter Force, seaborne air power, air transport, precision guided weapons, artillery and communications. [More…]
For the information of honourable members I present reports of the Industries Assistance Commission on commercial ship repair; fisheries and the fish processing industry; jewellery and other precious metalware, et cetera; timber and timber products and plywood and veneer; umbrellas, sunshades, et cetera and parts therefor; certain paper and paper board; injection or puncture needles; inks and an interim report on certain engines not exceeding 7.46 kilowatts, rotary cultivators and tractors having a power of less than 15 kilowatts. [More…]
Before the Australian Labor Party came to power in 1972 it committed itself to the support of urban public transport projects that would have cost, in round terms, some $500m. [More…]
But returning to the funding provided under this amending legislation of the principal Act, it is evident that by the dme the States get thenfunding on a needs basis for 1979-80 to 1982-83, real purchasing power will be considerably less than it is today. [More…]
I do not have to remind honourable members about the occasion when an earlier State Liberal government converted a perfectly good coal burning power station south of Perth to an oil burning power station only to have to convert it back to coal only in the last couple of years at the cost of about $9m. [More…]
Inflation is eroding the purchasing power of 1978 dollars at around 8 per cent and indications are that inflation will continue at a rate of 7 per cent to 9 per cent for the remaining five years of the program. [More…]
It provided $500m at 1973 values over five years with compensatory escalation provisions to maintain the purchasing power of the grants. [More…]
Under the new scheme, New South Wales will get $78.75m and a proportion of the need allocations for the years 1980 to 1983, the purchasing power of which is reduced by inflation. [More…]
Using constant 1978-79 prices and an annual inflation rate of seven per cent for 1979-82, the value of the allocations to New South Wales under the current proposals is $68.5m which is only marginally more in purchasing power than was received under the 1973-78 program when, as indicated, the then New South Wales coalition Government failed to take advantage of the program that was offered to it. [More…]
In total terms, the purchasing power of the allocations under the 1978 Act have been reduced by $4.6m- using again an assumed annual rate of” inflation of seven per cent- by this amendment Bill. [More…]
Is he able to say what is (a) the number or nuclear power plants and (b) the nuclear electricity generating capacity of plants (i) in operation, (ii) under construction, (iii) planned or on order and (iv) planned or on order and subsequently cancelled or deferred during the last5 years in (A) the Soviet Union, (B) Eastern Europe, (C) Cuba and (D) the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
Is he able to say what is (a) the number of nuclear power plants and (b) the nuclear electricity generating capacity of plants (i) in operation, (ii) under construction, (iii) planned or on order and (iv) planned or on order and subsequently cancelled or deferred during the last 5 years in (A) Europe, (B) the United States of America and (C) other western countries. [More…]
Is he able to say what is (a) the number of nuclear power plants and (b) the nuclear electricity generating capacity in plants (i) in operation, (ii) under construction, (iii) planned or on order and (iv) planned or on order and subsequently cancelled or deferred during the last5 years in third world countries. [More…]
How many natural uranium gas graphite nuclear power stations are under construction, planned or on order in Europe, the United Kingdom, the United States of America and Japan. [More…]
Is the Australian Atomic Energy Commission acting on the assumption that nuclear power will be in use in one or more States by the mid-1990s. [More…]
If so, which States does the Commission assume will be using nuclear power by this date. [More…]
It is a matter for the relevant Governments to determine whether nuclear power is a viable option for electricity generation. [More…]
Is the Tender Board the only body with power to admit or reject late tenders. [More…]
In what circumstances can a public servant sign a contract with a tenderer without referring the matter to his Minister, and from what sections of what Act does he derive this power. [More…]
The Executive power of the Commonwealth under Section 61 of the Constitution and the Administrative Arrangements Orders made from time to time by the GovernorGeneralinCouncil enables Ministers to enter into contracts for items that are within the respective responsibilities of Ministers. [More…]
Minister may delegate his power in regard to contracts to a specific public servant by instrument in writing. [More…]
Some departments and authorities have power to enter into contracts under Regulations made pursuant to their enabling legislation. [More…]
Notwithstanding, the courts have accepted that a statutory power is not necessary for an appropriate officer to enter into a contract in the ordinary course of administering a recognised part of a government’s activities. [More…]
If any statute regulating a particular function of government expressly or impliedly governs an officer’s power of contracting, then all statutory conditions must be observed. [More…]
Energy saving aspects of this work are directed towards reducing power consumption during grinding, and fuel consumption (possible 20 per cent savings are indicated) during the induration stage of pelletising. [More…]
The Committee has the power to examine the Minister’s financial statement. [More…]
3 made by the legislation committee, will remove the power to exempt by regulation a Commonwealth organisation from efficiency audits. [More…]
I believe that when legislation committees meet the Minister himself should have far greater power to agree to amendments unless he believes that they ought to be referred to his colleagues. [More…]
We believe that it will prevent capricious actions by a permanent head, in whose realm the power now resides to impose a penalty. [More…]
It takes that power out of the hands of the Auditor-General and puts it in the hands of the permanent head of the department. [More…]
The net result of that, of course, is that the loss of comparative purchasing power to the pensioner is not the 2.3 per cent of the CPI increase, but 3.8 per cent, in a single quarter. [More…]
Pensioners in particular cannot sustain any further loss in purchasing power. [More…]
During the period 1975 to 1978, a period in which this Government has been in power, pensions have increased by 37 per cent. [More…]
When Labor came to power in 1972, pensions represented 18 per cent of average weekly earnings. [More…]
It took the Prime Minister to come to power to break that automatic adjustment, to bring pensions back into politics. [More…]
We believe that to maintain the purchasing power of pensions and benefits is important. [More…]
Expenditure burgeoned and the opportunity to raise revenue to meet that increased expenditure was lessened by the resistance from various power blocs in the caucus which sought, in the short term, to benefit their constituents by proposals which, in the medium and long term resulted in disastrous budgetary policies which had horrendous effects on this country’s economic development. [More…]
As the Minister will recall that the provisions in question were the subject of keen debate in this House and that one of the matters raised was the constitutional validity of these provisions because they seemed to be outside the terms of conciliation and arbitration, I ask what advice he has ever received from the Attorney-General, the Solicitor-General or the Attorney-General’s Department that the legislation is within Commonwealth power. [More…]
So it is in our interest to try to prevent this escalation- putting to one side the conflict- of major power presence. [More…]
The escalation of major power presence will, of course, lead to an escalation of super-power presence, the most undesirable trend that one could imagine. [More…]
Let us go back to what happened in the three years in which his government, led by Gough Whitlam, was in power. [More…]
We knew it would develop because of the ideologies, the tensions and the national claims of the disputants all striving for power in their own camps. [More…]
When Labor came to power in December 1972, it inherited a relatively sound economy. [More…]
All this has been necessary for a 3 per cent drop in the inflation rate since Mr Fraser came to power. [More…]
It continued that attack for the three years it was in power. [More…]
That will diminish their purchasing power, reduce demand and make it less possible for us to get economic growth and economic recovery. [More…]
In the context of southern Africa, I think it is very important that there is a peaceful transference of power and that the United Nations elections go ahead smoothly. [More…]
I am hopeful that if there is a peaceful transfer of power in Namibia it might change the attitude of white South Africans towards their present apartheid policy. [More…]
I will speak on that matter in greater detail at some later date when I hope to tell the House of some of the experiences and discussions I have had with leaders from all shades of politics, but at the moment I would just like to say that I think it is terribly important to have peace in that part of the world and for the new government, when it comes to power in Namibia, to be a moderate and democratic government which will allow various points of view and racial groups to integrate in a democratic society. [More…]
We are facing crises, both internally and internationally, and we have a Government that is so disunited that its members are fighting and squabbling for the reins of power. [More…]
In dealing with these matters, however, I have consistently and emphatically sounded one warning: That it is utterly and dangerously wrong to assume that the prominence these economic questions has acquired means that the traditional issues of power politics are no longer of fundamental importance. [More…]
So long as the world is organised in a system of sovereign states, power will continue to be the main arbiter in international affairs. [More…]
Together they form a significant segment of the southern rimland of Asia and adjoining parts of Africa and as such constitute the interface between land and sea power. [More…]
What happens in these regions is of great significance to the balance between those two forms of power. [More…]
Over the last three decades, the strategic, ideological and economic interests of the great powers have consistently interacted with the affairs of the Third World. [More…]
Over the last few years, and for a variety of reasons, one of the superpowers- the United States- has adopted a lower posture and a strategically less active policy towards the Third World. [More…]
I will simply observe, as a matter of fact, that this restraint has not resulted in a greater insulation of the Third World from international power politics. [More…]
It was therefore doubly objectionable from our point of view first, because it sought to settle a dispute within the region by military means of the most extreme kind, a general invasion across a border; second, because it created the conditions for an escalation of great power rivalry in the region. [More…]
In terms of the local balance of power within the Gulf region itself, one of the principal restraints on the ambitions of several countries concerned to challenge the status quo has been removed, at least for the time being, and the balance has been seriously disturbed. [More…]
This is true not only within particular regions but also at the global, great power level. [More…]
While the Soviet Union is increasing its already enormous military power faster than any other country, and while it is increasingly active in relation to the trouble spots of the world, politically it is the odd-man-out among the great powers. [More…]
No one bothers to talk about the power that was held by presidents of Vietnam. [More…]
They were very interested in their own prestige and position of power. [More…]
The central elements of his arguments in relation to these various international elements can be linked with a decline in the power of the United States and the increase in the power of the Soviet Union. [More…]
Whether we like it or not, power and the perception of power will always remain the final and ultimate arbiters of the affairs of men. [More…]
The states of Asia, whether they like it or not, are in a cauldron in which Soviet power and Chinese power are competing for influence. [More…]
We are only a medium ranking power. [More…]
As I said previously, and I want to repeat this point, power and the perception of power will remain the final and ultimate arbiters of the affairs of men. [More…]
One of the greatest sources of power today is energy and states which hold energy and the power which comes from it are in a very strong position to dictate the affairs of other states. [More…]
All the components of modern military power are now included in the Soviet armed forces, from intercontinental and strategic nuclear and thermo-nuclear forces to a wide range of non-nuclear capabilities-among them, chemical weapons. [More…]
This is especially important for Australia, a nation which this present Government likes to call a small-medium power. [More…]
Australia can be a powerful influence for good in world affairs. [More…]
It does not serve Australia’s interests to offer gratuitous insults to one of the world super-powers; neither does it help the other world super-power with which we claim a special relationship. [More…]
In the confident exercise of power, the American Administration is strikingly different from the Government of Australia. [More…]
It was the only democratic country which had the power to do anything about the situation. [More…]
Primarily, the world is locked in two main power struggles and numerous smaller struggles beneath them. [More…]
We must not become pawns of the giant communist power in our region. [More…]
This is a battle for humanity, not power. [More…]
You want power for your own trade union and yourself. [More…]
It is not good enough to have the super powers alone. [More…]
We must have Japan, a great power, and we must have other major nations such as West Germany, France and Britain. [More…]
Any Westernisation in the countries in the area has been imposed for various reasons- usually, the expansion of imperialistic power or religious influence. [More…]
It seems to me that the power of the proMoscow left wing in the unions of Australia to dictate communist policy to the parliamentary wing of the trade union movement, the Australian Labor Party, has been seen on the floor of this Parliament today. [More…]
So long as the world is organised in a system of sovereign states, power will continue to be the main arbiter in international affairs. [More…]
The manpower and the money must be found for that ship. [More…]
The Government needs to make decisions on naval air power, whether the aircraft carrier Melbourne is to be replaced. [More…]
The implications of that decision are to isolate totally the people of Vietnam and, therefore, condemn them to the fate of super power rivalry. [More…]
He observed at page 235 that it is inappropriate today that the power of a court in Australia to try extra-territorial offences should be derived from and be limited by Imperial legislation. [More…]
In the Seas and Submerged Lands Case, the complete sovereign power and rights of the Commonwealth Parliament over off-shore areas of Australia, that is from low water mark outwards, was affirmed. [More…]
The result of that was that the Commonwealth Parliament has the power to over-ride all State legislation in the area. [More…]
The object of the exercise which we have been engaged in since 1977 has been to endeavour, on the basis of federalism, to restore to the States powers, many of which were thrown in great doubt as a result of the High Court decision. [More…]
probably more importantly, that the Commonwealth will not come in above them and exercise its power to pass laws which would as a result of section 109 of the Constitution over-ride the exercise of State laws. [More…]
It is proposed therefore by sub-clause 1 8 (2) that the regulation-making power in the Bill should authorise regulations providing that provisions or classes of provissions of the criminal laws in force in a State or Territory are not to apply by virtue of the Bill. [More…]
A precedent for such an excepting power is contained in sub-section 4(6) of the Commonwealth Places (Application of Laws) Act 1970. [More…]
Clause 4, which follows in part section 6 of the Commonwealth Places (Application of Laws) Act 1970, authorises an arrangement with a State or the Northern Territory for the exercise or performance of a power, duty or function by an authority of the State under the provisions of the criminal laws in force in any State or Territory as applying by virtue of the Bill. [More…]
a more significant role for the State Supreme Courts in the administration of the federal judicial power; and [More…]
It may be recalled that the Judiciary Act was amended in 1976 to give the High Court a general power to remit proceedings brought in the original jurisdiction of the High Court to appropriate State or Territory courts. [More…]
These cases are the present jurisdiction of the High Court under the Banking Act, the jurisdiction to determine references of questions of law from the Courts-Martial Appeal Tribunal, the jurisdiction to declare unlawful associations under the Crimes Act, certain jurisdiction of the High Court under the Insurance (Deposits) Act, the power to try on a summary basis prosecutions for offences against the Royal Commissions Act and certain jurisdiction under the Treasury Bills Act. [More…]
It was, however, the newly invented power loom that deprived thousands of English weavers of their jobs about 160 years ago. [More…]
Today IBM has a backlog of more than four times the computing power it has ever shipped. [More…]
-Since the Fraser Government came to power in 1975 petrol prices have increased by 50c a gallon. [More…]
It is quite odd that the honourable member, who usually has impeccable debating power, should have come in here today with such a weak case. [More…]
-As other speakers in this debate have said already, this amending legislation will remove any doubt about the power of the Australian Dairy Corporation to promote milk and fresh milk products as well as the more traditional dairy products such as cheese on the domestic market. [More…]
I might say in passing that since this Government has come to power the index of our international competitiveness generally is up about 30 per cent on what it was when Labor left office. [More…]
We have to be cognisant of the power of these companies and, irrespective of what side of politics we stand on, we have to have some mode of dealing with them so that they respect what we say. [More…]
Its potential power to destabilise the national economy of countries such as Australia, Chile or Thailand is considerable. [More…]
That destabilisation power is apparent in the huge deficit in the current account of the balance of payments which in Australia in 1977-78 was in the red by $2,500m, of which $1,1 lim was made up of profits sent overseas by foreign parent companies. [More…]
It signals reduced national power to control production. [More…]
It signals a deterioration of the ability of workers to participate in their industries as the decision power gets transferred to Detroit. [More…]
The Carter Administration prefers to continue dialogue with the Communist backed, so-called Patriotic Front of Nkomo and Mugabe, who refuse to face the people at elections and who want to seize power by force and only by force. [More…]
In the United Nations Security Council the power of veto is in the hands of the British, the French, the United States, the USSR and China. [More…]
Australia is out of character with modern times if we believe that power will decide issues. [More…]
I- do not support the Metternichian view of the world, that there has to be an equilibrium of power enforced against people’s will. [More…]
Great co-operative systems have been developed in aviation and other fields but until we change the political structure of the United Nations, give it a great political input and power, and remove the obstruction that comes from the people who presently hold the power of veto, we will not make progress. [More…]
I believe that over history the movement of ideas has flowed not from the weight of battleships but from the integrity in power and thought that one can bring to debates when people meet around tables and in conference rooms. [More…]
Was the money loaned under the general financing power of the Commission or was it loaned under the rural adjustment provisions? [More…]
I cannot recall the precise words but they are similar to a number of speeches made on the subject recently which draw attention to the fact that one of the very successful areas of the economic policy of the present Government since it came to power three years ago has been that it has been able to get the rate of growth in the money supply in Australia under control. [More…]
Although the Federal Government does not have the constitutional power- I concede that it does not have it- and it cannot use the incidental powers as this would provide grounds for extensive litigation; this is not a viable option to a national solution to the problem, it does have the financial power to ensure that the problem can in fact be overcome. [More…]
However, there will be some slight compensation in that the increase in power of the Alexandra translator will improve the reception of the Shepparton station to which you make reference. [More…]
Most of the people who are now unemployed have become unemployed since this Government came to power at the end of December 1975. [More…]
The Tribunal will retain its power to require any company to furnish information about its prices should this be necessary and will, therefore, be well placed to examine price movements and to maintain close surveillance over prices of particular significance to the economy. [More…]
Since the Government has been in power it has been able to increase the minimum income level which is exempt from tax. [More…]
We have also been successful in simplifying the tax scale from seven steps which existed when we came to power to the three simpler steps that apply now. [More…]
They show that since this Government has been in power, the Australian people have been paying less tax than they previously paid. [More…]
In 1974-75- our Government was not in power then- the total tax collected was 29.5 per cent over and above that collected in the previous year. [More…]
The increase in total tax collections last year was only a quarter of the increase that occurred between 1972 and 1975 when the Labor Government was in power. [More…]
A former Liberal Prime Minister was a leading exponent of this argument, but it was always a question of the use of legislative power in the common interest- not law but power. [More…]
The people who use the retrospectivity argument to support the tax dodgers use legislative power unhesitatingly to attack people such as pensioners. [More…]
So why do they shrink from the use of power to prevent these raids on the national exchequer? [More…]
I am not suggesting for the moment that this legislation should not proceed because it gives a wide discretionary power to the Commissioner. [More…]
I am merely drawing attention to the fact that we continue to pass legislation which increases the discretionary power given to the Commissioner of Taxation and that that is something that we should be very wary of. [More…]
Thirdly, I emphasise that there is once again a danger in increasing the discretionary power which is given to the Commissioner of Taxation. [More…]
I have already referred to the amendment of section 3 1 of the principal Act to specify legislatively the limitations on the Repatriation Commission’s power to review decisions. [More…]
They may be inevitable; they may be problems that we would have had to face no matter which party was in power but for a good percentage of people in Canberra they are most serious problems. [More…]
Most transport, almost all the major communications systems, most of the power, gas, water, wharf services and all the rest that goes to make the background of a nation’s industry we rely upon the public sector in Australia to provide. [More…]
The Opposition, the Labor Party, has outlined before its program in these areas, a program of economic recovery including policy initiatives such as early retirement, voluntary retirement, job subsidy, economic planning, strengthening of the Prices Justification Tribunal, and cuts in direct and indirect taxes which could lead not only to reductions in the cost of living and increased spending power for people but also to effective and acceptable wages policy guidelines. [More…]
Every policy adopted by the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) since coming to power at the end of 1 975 has been designed to put on the shoulders of all the working people of this country the complete burden of the economic policies of this Government We have seen the rate of unemployment grow to last month’s figure of 493,000. [More…]
Why is this Government so afraid to legislate in an area in which it has the constitutional power and national responsibility? [More…]
One can look at the long list of casualties and see how the conservative governments- not only at a national level but also when a conservative government was in power in New South Wales- were anxious to hide the facts from the people. [More…]
They had the legal power to do that. [More…]
Rather than legislative confrontation whereby the Commonwealth, without seeking the approval and co-operation of the States, legislates and awaits the outcome of inevitable High Court challenges to settle the full extent of the Commonwealth^ constitutional power, this Government has followed a policy of co-operative federalism. [More…]
The adoption of a proposal for legislative uniformity which recognises that the States are not required to surrender or refer any constitutional power. [More…]
We have heard an expose of the Government’s belated thinking on this question of securities and exchange legislation but it needs to be pointed out, as it was so ably by the Deputy Leader of the Opposition (Mr Lionel Bowen), that the corporation power of the Constitution permits the Commonwealth to legislate for the establishment of a national securities and companies commission. [More…]
Although we have power over off-shore matters we are told that we have to work them out with the States. [More…]
These powers will become available to the court in any proceedings in which the welfare of children of a marriage is affected. [More…]
The courts already have the power to award custody to a non-parent in these circumstances- but only if the surviving parent makes a custody application. [More…]
The power of a court to reduce or discharge a maintenance order as from a date in the past has been changed to the extent that the date can be earlier than in the preceding 12 months, which is the limit now prescribed by the Act. [More…]
It also extends the power of a court of first instance to state a case to the Full Court of the Family Court to the Family Court of Western Australia and the Supreme Court of the Northern Territory, which still exercises jurisdiction under the Act in the Territory. [More…]
The change in the Commission’s estimates reflects both sales by other countries and, of considerable importance, the continual delay in nuclear power programs and the cancellation of a number of reactor contracts. [More…]
So far as I am concerned there can be no more demeaning an exercise of political power than to seek to abuse a man who is retired or people who have been affected by a natural disaster and who have been validly assisted under legislation that has been laid down not just by this Parliament but by the State Parliament as well. [More…]
I believe that what we have established in terms of the facts that have already been uncovered in this case study of power is that funds are not distributed equitably, that in fact the treatment that was given to a particular family in the Western District was certainly not given to the families in Gippsland. [More…]
There is an inter-relationship between these families which, in many respects, along with many other large landholders, form the basis of the power of the Liberal Party in the Western District. [More…]
Present legislation gives a general discretionary power to issue or refuse passports but provides no guidelines. [More…]
These restrictions, I should add, apply only to the issue of passports by authorised officers and do not, as mentioned above, affect the Minister’s general discretionary power to issue passports. [More…]
The proposal consists of five separate works each providing a functional facility for the dockyard as follows: A workshop building of 3 storeys to house facilities to service the new guided missile frigates; an amenities and refit control building of 2 storeys to house office accommodation for approximately 30 staff as well as showers, toilets, lunch and change rooms for 240 dockyard personnel; provision of rotary converter and reticulation to augment 60 hertz power supply to 3 wharves; provision of a 5 tonne electrical powered portal crane on the east dock wharf; extension of existing east dock wharf services to the southern end of the wharf with additional provision of general purpose electric light and power and ship-to-shore sewerage disposal services. [More…]
That all words after ‘That’ be omitted with a view to substituting the following words: ‘the Bill be withdrawn and redrafted to provide (a) that in assessment cases, the Repatriation Review Tribunal shall have power to receive, and to make determinations upon, any new evidence placed before it, and (b) for the re-introduction of the six-monthly indexation of pensions’. [More…]
That all the words after ‘That’ be omitted with a view to substituting the following words: the Bill be withdrawn and redrafted to provide (a) that in assessment cases, the Repatriation Review Tribunal shall have power to receive, and to make determinations upon, any new evidence placed before it, and (b) for the reintroduction of the six-monthly indexation of pensions ‘. [More…]
I should like to take up a point contained in the amendment moved by the honourable member for Prospect when he said: in assessment cases, the Repatriation Review Tribunal shall have power to receive, and to make determinations upon, any new evidence placed before it, . [More…]
He will have power to decide the procedures to be followed by the Tribunal. [More…]
The Liberal and National Country Party Government had been whittling their entitlements down prior to 1 972 but since returning to power in 1975 those parties have done so even more. [More…]
The Foreign Antitrust Judgments (Restriction of Enforcement) Bill is designed to give the Attorney-General power to make orders to prevent the recognition and enforcement of certain anti-trust judgments of foreign courts. [More…]
The outcome of this was swamping the market and a slump in prices at the very time that increased prospecting effort was necessary to cope with the increasing demand of the ambitious nuclear power plant programs foreseen for the 1970s and beginning of the 1980s. [More…]
Furthermore, the chief US manufacturer and exporter of power plants - [More…]
Westinghouse- offered along with the sale of power plants all the uranium needed to fuel them for their 30 years of operation without covering itself by buying the requisite stocks, and thereby artificially reduced demand. [More…]
Interest in nuclear power increased. [More…]
People in this country often talk about free trade and they are very evident today, but honourable members will note that when it comes to the power of the purse and the question of profit in the United States we cannot penetrate that market. [More…]
The Attorney-General will have the power to make orders which will prevent those judgments from being enforced in certain circumstances where he is satisfied that to allow enforcement of the judgment would be against the national interest or that the judgment had been obtained in circumstances inconsistent with international law or comity. [More…]
In those circumstances the American courts would have the power to execute on those assets of the Australian companies in the United States. [More…]
As I understand it, even that would not have been the end of the world for the Australian companies because they could have easily argued in the Australian courts that the American court had not the power to adjudicate on the issues that were before the American court. [More…]
There is power under the Banking Act and the Banking (Foreign Exchange) Regulations, as he points out, for the Government, in effect through the Reserve Bank, to prevent the proceeds of a judgment being remitted overseas. [More…]
I suppose, and I hope, that someone has turned his attention to whether this Bill legislates in areas which are within the power of the Commonwealth. [More…]
In fact, the Bill is so studded with references to the trade and commerce power and the power relating to trading or financial corporations that I presume that that is an attempt to found the jurisdiction or the power of the Commonwealth to pass this law. [More…]
I think that he explained well, on behalf of the Government, the reason why there is in the Bill power for the AttorneyGeneral to make an order to the effect not that the foreign judgment shall not be recognised or enforceable in Australia but that the amount of the judgment shall be varied. [More…]
Whilst treble damages provisions in legislation are well recognised as being penal in character, it can properly be said that the Attorney-General ought to have this power, if he is disposed to allow a foreign judgment to be recognised or enforced in Australia, nevertheless to reduce the amount of the judgment to what might be regarded as being an equitable amount of damages which the plaintiff ought to recover in Australia. [More…]
The balance of military power in our region is changing in an horrific manner and at a time when President Carter is negotiating with the Russians on a new strategic arms limitation talks agreement. [More…]
I can only hope that this most powerful, democratically-elected leader in the world has thought through his decision for America to be a major supplier of military equipment to China and what the results of this trading in arms might be for Australia’s part of the world during the next decade. [More…]
It was a comfort to note that the Foreign Minister in his speech to the House spoke on the reality of international power politics. [More…]
For too long in this House we have seen power politics pushed under the rug, albeit a Persian rug. [More…]
power will continue to be the main arbiter in international affairs. [More…]
There can be no doubting the involvement of international power politics on the African continent. [More…]
what happens in southern Africa is of great significance to the balance between the two major forms of international power; and [More…]
I believe that we have been badly mistaken in confusing our natural and proper abhorrence of the policy of racial apartheid as practised in so many countries under a great variety of names with official disinterest and forgetting to observe very objectively the issue of international power politics, to quote the Minister, which have become of fundamental importance, particularly in the areas of southern Africa and Indo-China. [More…]
I repeat, for too long we have ignored the power politics of the international scene as it has affected the whole African continent. [More…]
Thus it was a great comfort to hear the Minister for Foreign Affairs (Mr Peacock) refer in his statement to the fact that power would continue to be the main arbiter in international affairs. [More…]
These gentlemen, though properly concerned about racial laws in the southern African area, have closed their intelligent eyes to the realities of international power politics. [More…]
We must be aware that peace and independence will be achieved only when the international power blocs let the local people make their own decisions. [More…]
-The Minister for Trade and Resources will be aware of the current controversy concerning a nuclear incident at a power plant at Vasteras in Sweden, reported this week on the Australian Broadcasting Commission radio program AM. [More…]
We have the legal power to do so. [More…]
One State should not unilaterally adopt its own harsh standards of emission control even though it may have the constitutional power to do so. [More…]
I stress this- of heavy, power consuming options such as air conditioning, automatic transmission and power steering. [More…]
The Government believes that by careful use of a power to authorise listening devices, investigators will be able to break down the walls currently protecting this inner circle. [More…]
There is no doubt that under section 3 of the Statute of Westminster the Australian Parliament has full power to make laws having extra-territorial operation. [More…]
The question is whether the law falls within section 51 ( 1 ) of the constitution, taken with section 98, or, alternatively, the external affairs power under section 5 1 (xxix) The question comes down to whether the law is a law for the peace, order and good government of the Commonwealth. [More…]
The Privy Council showed appalling ignorance of Australian constitutional law by saying that ‘The legislative power of the Commonwealth of Australia does not extend to criminal law ‘. [More…]
When we first read the Foreign Minister’s statement, despite the somewhat grim nature of the events he is describing, it is impossible not to detect a note of relief because international politics have, according to him, turned from international economic matters- of which the Foreign Minister has never had the best comprehension- to the traditional issues of power politics which are now of fundamental importance. [More…]
Of course, the Foreign Minister sees himself very much as a master of these traditional issues of power politics. [More…]
If we give the central place to the traditional issues of power politics we may be led to forget that the threat to the peace of the world and to the security of this country derives much more fundamentally from the gap between the rich nations and the poor, between the developed and the developing nations than it does from the global ambitions of the Soviet Union or the paranoia of China. [More…]
Power conflicts certainly feed upon these economic contrasts and from the traumas of economic modernisation. [More…]
But traditional power rivalries are secondary, even parasitic on the destabilising effects of the contrast between rich and poor. [More…]
We have to avoid being blinded by these traditional power political issues and forgetting what is central to the destabilisation of the modern world. [More…]
He talks about ‘strategic choke points’, southern rim lands’, ‘interfaces between land and sea power’- all the jargon of the geopolitician. [More…]
He said that the Soviet Union ‘is the odd man out among the great powers’. [More…]
In the triangular balance of power between China, the United States and the Soviet Unionone could also include Western Europe- the odd man out at the moment is the Soviet Union. [More…]
He seemed to concede that, whilst the United States has lost significant military and economic power in the world, this loss, which is both relative and absolute, has been accompanied by an increase in diplomatic power and significance. [More…]
One only has to look at the workings of the trilateral commission of which Brzezinski, Carter, Vance and so many others were members to realise that they do not see today’s situation as one in which their power has increased. [More…]
They see it as one in which they have to create alliances because their power has decreased. [More…]
It was stated that by cutting off that aid we were reducing whatever leverage or bargaining power we might have in respect of Vietnam and her incursions in Indo-China- into what I call Cambodia but what these days all the clever people call Kampuchea. [More…]
What does not come from coal, nuclear power and natural gas or whatever exotic forms of energy that emerge must come from oil or it will not come at all. [More…]
There could be growth of Soviet presence in the region, some new twist to the Arab-Israeli conflict, a struggle for pre-eminence among Saudi Arabia, Iraq or Iran, a shift in the outlook of the elite that runs the Saudi kingdom or, and this is a very real danger to which Western officials prefer to close their eyes, a coup in Saudi Arabia and the accession to power of a radical like Libya’s Gaddafi. [More…]
The coming to power of such leadership in Saudi Arabia would create tremendous repercussions throughout the world. [More…]
Australia has to realise that both in Indo-China and in Africa those who are hungry for power will resort to any means to obtain it. [More…]
Its relations with other countries revolve entirely around its power play with Russia. [More…]
With their overwhelming military power, these two nations hold the key to the prevention of universal calamity. [More…]
Of all the super powers I believe that the Soviet Union is the only one which is building up an offensive capacity well beyond its needs for defence. [More…]
It is the only super power which is increasing rather that decreasing the infringements of human rights in its own territory and in its European satellites. [More…]
It is the only super power which is actively promoting strife in other continents. [More…]
I believe that there is an increasing concern about the balance of power as we move into the 1980s and about the activities of the Soviet Union. [More…]
Eden overrated the significance of Nasser in world politics and the capacity of Britain and France, both in physical power and political license. [More…]
He went on to make the distinction between economic and political issues as they relate to foreign affairs, assuring the House that power will continue to be the main arbiter in international affairs. [More…]
I assume that economic relations are but one dimension of power politics, and when the Minister speaks about economic interdependence he is simply using the modern jargons for describing imperialism. [More…]
Thus, if one considers which nations in the world are militarily the most powerful, clearly the distribution of economic wealth is one of the major determinations on the list. [More…]
The Minister preceded his reference to power as the main arbiter with the words: . [More…]
I should have thought that much of his subsequent argument was based on the premise of there being power blocs which override the interests of sovereign states. [More…]
It was therefore necessary for him to put forward a onesided view of the world that sees the Soviet bloc as being responsible for most of the evil in the world and ignore the points that might be made by power theorists enjoying the independence of university chairs who can talk about the various sides of the equation. [More…]
In neither situation does one see mentioned the mistakes of the other great power bloc in this simplistic world of geo-political theorists. [More…]
Those powers do seem to be the ones most directly involved in the conflict, but to explain the tragic situation which exists there in such simplistic terms clearly insults the intelligence of the Parliament and certainly the intelligence of the Opposition. [More…]
It involved its troops in a conflict in Vietnam which used more fire power in one of the smallest countries in the world than was used in the whole of the Second World War. [More…]
Then there was the rise of the industrial power of Japan, the friendship treaty signed last year between China and Japan, and, in addition, the discovery of the oil field in the Gulf of Po-Ai. [More…]
At one time one might have said that the Soviet Union possessed an overwhelming armed force in its conventional troops and the United States possessed an overwhelming capacity to move by sea, that one was a sea power and the other a land power. [More…]
Surely nobody suggests that we ought to be taught a lesson by some sort of black power movement coming down and invading the area? [More…]
One would think that nobody would make that suggestion, but the Minister for Aboriginal and Islander Advancement in Queensland, Mr Porter, has warned us that that is what is coming, that if we keep giving land to Aborigines the black power will come and get us. [More…]
Yet there are grass roots movements in communist countries- in Eastern Europe- in the West and in the Third World which say that this is what ought to happen, that there ought to be an elected world legislature with the power to pass laws on matters in dispute between nations. [More…]
But I have to laugh when I hear this nonsense about the greatest military power in the world, as it was then, going down to a bunch of amateurs in big warfare- perhaps they are masters of guerrilla warfare but amateurs in big warfare- who were ill-equipped and undermanned. [More…]
When I hear stories that this power was beaten in a straight fight by North Vietman it makes me laugh. [More…]
To recognise the power of nationalism and the local origins of turbulence in the hopelessly unstable third world does not mean American indifference to the vicissitudes of international life. [More…]
It means rather a discrimination in the definition of Amernan interests and in the employment of American power. [More…]
The fact that nobody sees Australia as a world power, that nobody believes that we have aggressive territorial designs on other nations, means that there are other situations in which, diplomatically, we are able to achieve much that large powers such as the United States cannot necessarily achieve with the same finesse, simply because they are world powers. [More…]
I have consistently and emphatically sounded one warning: that it is utterly and dangerously wrong to assume that the prominence these economic questions have acquired means that the traditional issues of power politics are no longer of fundamental importance. [More…]
Surely power politics is all about economic power? [More…]
Economic power is power politics. [More…]
They are the source of economic power. [More…]
Power politics is nothing but struggle for economic power. [More…]
It has tried to be a little more subtle but it has had the same end view in mind- to gain economic power. [More…]
I will simply observe, as a matter of fact, that this restraint has not resulted in a greater insulation of the Third World from international power politics. [More…]
The United States was prompted to use armed intervention initially but it is now seeking the same hold over those countries in power terms because of the resources. [More…]
Apart from one or two very minor interruptions to the ship’s system, the ship was able to get under full power. [More…]
If he has, I wish he would tell his leader because in a speech made in Canberra last week, on 15 March, the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Hayden) came up with proposals which were the rehashed proposals which the Australian Labor Party tried to implement when it was in power. [More…]
I ask the honourable member for Cunningham: How many exploration wells were drilled in 1975 when his Party was in power? [More…]
There were amendments to the Act in 1974 during the period of the Labor Government and these gave the PJT power to inquire into and report on the prices charged by any companies, irrespective of turnover, so enabling inquiry into both retail prices and the prices of imported goods. [More…]
The second heading for the rationale is that irrespective of the rate of inflation it was accepted that governments must pursue policies designed to safeguard against possible abuses of market power. [More…]
However, trade practices legislation cannot be used to eliminate market power entirely, especially in the relatively small, isolated and dispersed Australian market conditions where economies of scale are possible in many industries only if production is concentrated in the hands of a few firms possessing appreciable market power. [More…]
Whilst the existence of some degree of market power would be a fact of life, a PJT body is required to perform the role of an economic watchdog by exercising surveillance over prices and by preventing possible abuses by companies possessing market power. [More…]
The strength of these arguments for a prices justification body is as powerful if not more powerful today than in the early 1970s. [More…]
Thirdly, market power will increase in many segments of industry as mergers take place. [More…]
While there is this growing market power there is even more reason why we should have bodies like the PJT as watchdogs for the community over that market power in the private sector. [More…]
I sum it up as a cynical, calculated attempt to retain the shell of a body ‘serving a valuable industrial relations role’- those are the words of the Minister to a recent meeting with businessmen- while effectively destroying any positive contribution which such a body could play in the fight against inflation and in the fight against the abuse of market power. [More…]
4 ) by greatly increasing the power of the Minister to direct and restrict the Tribunal, it destroys its independence and renders the Tribunal subject to considerable political influence and control in its day to day operations’. [More…]
I wish to consider the following actions- I refer to them as a seedy list of reprehensible actionswhich this Government has undertaken in its three years in power. [More…]
Not only is the Minister given the right to make the final decision on whether to go ahead with an inquiry but also, firstly, he is not required to give his reasons for not giving approval to go ahead to the public inquiry stage and, secondly, he has the power to issue directives to the Tribunal about any matter to which he wishes the Tribunal to give special consideration. [More…]
The Minister’s power in this field is unlimited and it is sinister that this is so. [More…]
The Minister is likely to use those powers in a onesided manner, as happened in the ColgatePalmolive Pty Ltd case, in which the Minister said that advertising costs should not be looked at but that wage costs should be looked at. [More…]
It is unfair to suggest, as has been suggested, that that power and the other power of the Minister means that the Government would engage in carpetbagging or logrolling. [More…]
It was felt that a Prices Justification Tribunal, backed by power of public inquiry, could successfully reduce unwarranted price increases. [More…]
Let me relate the powers then given to the Tribunal. [More…]
Even then the confidentiality clauses may be invoked by the company and of course the Minister retains overall power. [More…]
It is there in name only; a powerless symbol of what might have been. [More…]
I said that the Minister will have power to instruct the Tribunal to investigate firms’ pricing structures at his own discretion. [More…]
It will depend upon national acceptance of a wages and prices policy which is acknowledged to be necessary to protect the living standards and consumer power. [More…]
Recovery will also certainly depend upon adequate price restraint to protect purchasing power from dissipating into the bottomless vortex of increasing prices. [More…]
The changes proposed include the following: Firstly, companies no longer will have to notify price increases; secondly, companies will be able to claim confidentiality in respect of documents and submissions containing secret formula or processes; thirdly, companies will be able to request that the Tribunal not disclose information if a company considers that the disclosure of that information would damage its competitive position unless the Tribunal, in the public interest, sees fit to release the information; fourthly, the Act’s price freeze provisions are being amended to give the PJT discretion to allow an interim price increase to a company under inquiry; fifthly, the Minister will have the power to set time limits by which the PJT must complete inquiries initiated by the Minister; and, sixthly, the Tribunal will have the power to undertake, as directed by the Minister, inquiries into matters other than whether the prices under inquiry are justified. [More…]
Those pensioners have indicated that they will become openly rebellious when renewed inflation further undermines their buying power. [More…]
Part (4) of the Opposition’s amendment makes plain our complete rejection of the greatly increased power of the Minister ‘to direct and restrict the Tribunal’ subjecting it to ‘considerable political influence and control in its day-to-day operations’. [More…]
He went so far as to say that we have been lax and that the Government had given directions in the matter of the soap and detergent industries when there was one terrible fiasco soon after this Government came to power. [More…]
Its demolition represents a great victory for powerful vested interests close to the Government, but well removed from the public interest. [More…]
In the absence of the PJT price increases would have been greater, inflation would have been worse, adherence to wages policy would frequently have been fickle, industrial harmony would have been less, community confidence in pricing and commercial practices would have been at a lower level and market power abuses would have been greater. [More…]
This is not a question of a centralist grab for power. [More…]
For example, in 1 976 the High Court decided in the case of Russell v. Russell that this Parliament, the national Parliament, does not have power to deal with all the matters involved with the custody of children and matrimonial property. [More…]
The obvious solution, of course, would be a reference of power from the States. [More…]
Queensland is vehemently opposed, as one would expect, to any referral of power. [More…]
The rationale for that decision remains and the States should accept it by making a reference of power. [More…]
a more significant role for the State Supreme Courts in the administration of the federal judicial power; and [More…]
If the High Court will not move from Canberra, if someone has some idea that the High Court will be permanently based in Canberra, the Commonwealth Government, whichever party is in power, will have to pick up the tab to enable litigants from Queensland, Western Australia, South Australia and Tasmania to get to the High Court. [More…]
By his very description the Commissioner of Taxation is a most remote person who is empowered with enormous power. [More…]
Because of all the power vested in the Commissioner we have to ensure at all times that there is a counter-balancing protection for John Citizen. [More…]
The particular recommendation was that all appeals to the Family Court from courts of summary jurisdiction should be dealt with as complete de novo hearings and that the Family Court should have unlimited power to hear further evidence in such appeals. [More…]
It would help if members let me know any views they have formed already as distinct from the power of persuasion their colleagues may possess. [More…]
The Attorney-General, with whom rests the responsibility to decide such matters, has informed me that, in his view, there was a serious legal doubt as to whether he had power to take over the committal proceedings. [More…]
As Australia has no nuclear power program and consequently does not generate significant quantities of high level radioactive waste, there is no need for Australia to invest large sums in studies on high level waste disposal. [More…]
Significant programs are being undertaken by countries with nuclear power programs, such as the United States, France, the United Kingdom and the Federal Republic of Germany. [More…]
-The present Government has set its face against using the external affairs power to expand the Commonwealth’s power and influence at the expense of the States. [More…]
The Government believes that this is a correct course to take because the founders of the Constitution certainly did not mean the external affairs power to be used in that way. [More…]
We know that during the previous Administration the external affairs power was used for a number of purposes designed to expand Commonwealth power. [More…]
The proposal of the Leader of the Opposition to use section 51 (xxix), the external affairs power, in relation to a Bill of rights not only raises some serious legal and constitutional problems but also is totally at odds with the philosphy and policy I have outlined, which is designed to work in harmony and co-operation with the States, and also in a way that protects the basic rights of the States to the extent that that is possible. [More…]
The Ombudsman, the Administrative Appeals Tribunal and other provisions are areas where the Commonwealth has shown concern for the rights of individual citizens against, for example, what can sometimes be regarded as a large, powerful and hard to understand bureaucracy. [More…]
That co-operation would fly out the window if there was any suggestion that we were suddenly going to use the external affairs power to expand the Commonwealth’s role at the expense of the States, and we have no intention of doing so. [More…]
One could well understand circumstances where that kind of payment might entrench existing parties in power, very much at the expense of the democratic position and those who might wish to establish new parties. [More…]
In view of those statements and the statement of the Prime Minister today that the Commonwealth would not use the external affairs power under the Constitution to enact a Bill of rights which guarantees the provision of human rights by all States throughout Australia by the end of this year, will the Prime Minister guarantee that such rights will be brought into operation shortly rather than wait a further two years? [More…]
This Parliament has no power over the legality of abortion. [More…]
I interpose to say that the Supreme Court of the United States of America determined in 1 977 that Congress has the power to decide not to fund abortions. [More…]
I contend- this has been the theme of my speech tonight- that this Parliament should do all in its power to discourage unwanted pregnancies. [More…]
On that day Victorians will be given the opportunity to thwart the Australian Labor Party’s attempt to grab power. [More…]
Idi Amin came to power in January 1971 when he dethroned Dr Obote while he was attending a Commonwealth conference in Singapore. [More…]
In this regard I make special reference to the post office at Yarraman in Queensland, which is presently a grade 2 post office and which is listed for downgrading by two grades to non-official status, despite the fact that business in that area is increasing and can be expected to increase because of the proximity of the proposed new power station at Tarong. [More…]
We must also remember that the Federal Parliament has no power or responsibility to legislate on, or otherwise determine, the legality or illegality of abortion, other than in the Australian Capital Territory. [More…]
In the first place, any expression of its views is not only irrelevant in that it does not have legislative power to take a moral legislative view on abortion, but also any attempts to do so would involve a subversion of the rights of sovereign States in this area. [More…]
For example it is as improper as using federal export powers to impose environmental restraints on States. [More…]
It intrigues me to see that so many members of this House who objected to the use of export power in that case are prepared to support a similar proportion in this case. [More…]
One of the main reasons I joined the Liberal Party was my very strong opposition to the concentration of power in Canberra as the Whitlam Government set out deliberately to subvert and destroy the independence of the States. [More…]
I regard that concentration of power as a threat to the maintenance of the democratic traditions of this nation. [More…]
What a shame the organisers of this enormous campaign have chosen to direct their power towards getting an expression of opinion and nothing more from a parliament with no rights in the matter, rather than to do something that would be practical and useful to its cause; that is, to influence the State parliaments to either introduce additional laws in respect of abortion, or to impose and make certain the existing laws work. [More…]
I regard it as an undemocratic procedure that this House of Parliament, with not one woman member, with no mandate, and with no direct power in relation to abortions, should be asked to subvert the rightful duties of State governments elected by the majority of voters in those States. [More…]
I believe that this House does not have the power or the right to impose a view, for better or for worse, upon the States, which have the duty to introduce and administer laws in respect of abortion. [More…]
We do not have power over the law. [More…]
We have certain limited powers in respect of medical benefit schedules. [More…]
If this matter came under the province of State governments which have legal power in respect of the criminal law, financial power in respect of their own public hospitals and administrative capability in respect of facilities in public hospitals, I believe that the issue could well be forced in each State. [More…]
We should bear in mind all the time that the function of this Parliament is to legislate and not to pass motions in relation to matters about which we may have little or no power. [More…]
Honourable members know that this legislature cannot face up to that issue because except for the Australian Capital Territory it does not have the power. [More…]
Under certain circumstances abortion- not abortion on demand- is now legal in all States and the Territories, even in the Australian Capital Territory, where the present Liberal Government has the power to determine the laws. [More…]
-At 5.35 this afternoon the Treasurer (Mr Howard), accompanied by a number of other Ministers and the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser), came into the House and read a statement to the House on behalf of this Government scarifying the New South Wales Government for wanting to introduce a 3714-hour week for certain electrical power workers in that State. [More…]
It is within its industrial powers so to do. [More…]
He made it clear what his beliefs were, and he did that before he got into power as well as after he was in power. [More…]
The only power that we have- and this is questionable- is in relation to the payment of medical benefits. [More…]
this Parliament has no power over the legality of abortion. [More…]
The fifth point I make briefly is that it would not be unfair to caricature the Lusher motion as an attempt to use the financial power of the Commonwealth to influence the criminal law of the States. [More…]
The unborn child is at a disadvantage in a world where adults have all the power. [More…]
I just want to say that this motion ought to be opposed because it attempts to use the financial power of the Commonwealth to affect the operation of State laws in a way which I believe is unsound constitutionally and which involves a principle which we will live to regret. [More…]
It has been repeated many times in this debate that the legal regulation of abortions is within the power of the State Parliaments and not this Parliament. [More…]
have power to make laws for the peace, order, and good government of the Commonwealth with respect to: . [More…]
There is no doubt that this Parliament has the power to set the terms and conditions that it may wish to attach to the disbursement of the public funds for which it has constitutional responsibility. [More…]
I ask the Parliament to do nothing more than exercise its undoubted power to restrict the application of funds for which the Parliament has responsibility in such a way that they will be available to pay for abortion only if there are good medical grounds for the abortion. [More…]
Honourable members are all by now well aware of the irresponsible action of the New South Wales Government in offering a reduced working week to power workers in that State. [More…]
It is against this background that the Government is disturbed- indeed disgusted- at the irresponsible, presumably politically expedient decision of the New South Wales Government to introduce shorter working hours in the New South Wales Power Industry. [More…]
The Government is opposed to productivity bargaining arrangements, such as that introduced in the New South Wales power industry by the Wran Government- for economic, equity and industrial reasons. [More…]
Thirdly, since all industries and enterprises do not have the same scope to improve their productivity performance, such bargains as this one in the New South Wales power industry will generate additional pressures for shorter hours in other areas which do not have the capacity to afford such concessions. [More…]
In other words, the Government would suggest that the increase in productivity that the New South Wales Government says will compensate for the increase in costs resulting from the shorter hours should have occurred in any case and the benefits distributed to the whole community through lower prices for power. [More…]
It is for all these reasons, as I said earlier, that the Government is most concerned at the effects of arrangements- such as that introduced in the New South Wales power industry- on the community. [More…]
In addition, this decision cannot be expected to be confined to the power workers in New South Wales; it will inevitably lead to pressures for flow-ons to other areas with obvious adverse economic and industrial consequences. [More…]
Authority, a Commonwealth authority, will also be placed under pressure to concede a reduction in hours as it has a number of employees working side by side with Electricity Commission of New South Wales employees at power stations in the Snowy Mountains. [More…]
Some major decisions have been made while this Government has been in power. [More…]
One would have thought that this was a major breakthrough and that the decision of the New South Wales Government to grant a 3VA hour working week to the power workers in New South Wales was some unique precedent that did not exist in the rest of Australia. [More…]
He can give his employees a shorter working week, employees of the Commonwealth can have a shorter working week, but when Neville Wran in New South Wales says that the 54 per cent of the power workers in New South Wales who are working a 40-hour week should join the other 46 per cent, mainly the white collar workers who are working 37V4 hours a week, this Government says that he cannot do it. [More…]
Implementation of the various shift arrangements will enable the output of high productivity power stations to be increased. [More…]
These increases will be matched by reductions in generation at older and less economic power stations. [More…]
The new arrangements will provide for maintenance work to be performed on a shift work basis for the first time in the Electricity Commission’s modern power stations. [More…]
He said that if New South Wales was to dare to go ahead and to give to some workers in power stations a 37Vi-hour week then retribution would be made by the Commonwealth. [More…]
The threat is that the money will not be refunded to New South Wales because the Government dared suggest it could get peace and harmony in a power generating position in New South Wales by granting a 37’/i-hour week. [More…]
In March 1 976, because an election had taken place and the Fraser Government was deemed to be safely ensconced in power, it decided then to oppose a similar application for Australian Postal Commission employees. [More…]
Why is it that New South Wales will be pilloried on this sort of ridiculous situation without this Government looking at the facts of what has happened right throughout the power generating position? [More…]
Prior to the suspension of the sitting for dinner we heard the honourable member for Cowper (Mr Ian Robinson) bleating about power costs in New South Wales and how he thought that they were wrong. [More…]
We have all had a lot of information about power costs generally. [More…]
I would say that power costs in New South Wales are amongst the cheapest in Australia. [More…]
One of the things that the honourable member for Cowper ought to remember from the point of view of power reticulation is that irrespective of where the pick-up point is throughout New South Wales it is a standard rate so that people in the country do not pay any penalty for the cost of transmission. [More…]
What are the power costs now? [More…]
Special arrangements have been in made in New South Wales with the result that for the first time the power workers doing the maintenance work who receive this benefit will now perform this work on a shift basis. [More…]
An arrangement is then made between the employer and the employee that there is going to be a new deal from the point of view of modern power stations. [More…]
This power industry meets that test. [More…]
One might have some sympathy if one were in a position in which the people involved were essentially lowly paid, but as I understand it- maybe I am citing those people who are at the top of the line- but a drag line operator in the New South Wales coal fields associated with the Liddell power station earns, I understand, $28,000. [More…]
The fact is we in South Australia were able to give our power workers the reduced working week at virtually no extra cost to the community while maintaining among the lowest electricity unit costs in Australia. [More…]
-The Treasurer (Mr Howard) burst into the chamber last Thursday to make a statement after being advised that the New South Wales Government had made a 37V4-hour working week available to the power workers in New South Wales. [More…]
With a most curious statement not only did he set about trying to justify that the Federal Government could not agree with the introduction of a 37yi-hour week for power workers; he also made explicit threats in the middle of his statement. [More…]
The enlightened Wran Government, a Labor government, in New South Wales has seen the wisdom of and finally agreed to the long standing claim by the power workers. [More…]
How can any reasonable person stand in this House and say that the working hours of people engaged in the power industry, in the generation of electricity, should not be reduced? [More…]
As the legal representative for the unions concerned he put the same arguments for a shorter working week but he failed to convince the Industrial Commission of New South Wales that the power industry should as a separate case be granted what was then sought- a 35 hour week. [More…]
He has now moved in as a politician and used political power to grant what he was unable to achieve fairly in the courts of his own State. [More…]
In 1970 the 35-hour week issue came into prominence with statements by the Australian Council of Trade Unions and in turn the New South Wales Trades and Labour Council that the union movement would seek a 3 5 -hour week in certain industries, including the power industry, as a spearhead for the introduction of a 35-hour week generally. [More…]
The inquiry was conducted by a full bench of the New South Wales Industrial Commission which carried out a comprehensive review of the industry, that is, the generation and transmission of power by the New South Wales Electricity Commission and its distribution by the county councils. [More…]
I was then the Minister for Mines and Power in New South Wales. [More…]
Almost immediately afterwards bans and restrictions were placed on essential repair and maintenance work at power stations, causing great inconvenience to the residents of New South Wales. [More…]
At a conference with the then Premier, Sir Robert Askin, the Trades and Labour Council put forward submissions to the effect that the first report of the Industrial Commission had covered the whole of the electricity supply industry, whereas it considered that the inquiry should have been limited to the power generation industry. [More…]
Following the Commission’s second report, there was an intensification of industrial action which spread to the Snowy Mountains area when the then Commonwealth Minister for Minerals and Energy, Mr Rex Connor, in this House and on behalf of the then Labor Commonwealth Government gave a directive to the Snowy Mountains Council that the Tumut power station, manned by New South Wales employees, should be operated in a manner which did not run counter to the intentions of the selfstyled, self-appointed, 35-hour week committee. [More…]
One can only hope that this Saturday in the local government election the Australian Labor Party Brisbane City Council will be thrown out of power, that the Liberals will be returned and that some decent management strategy will come back into the operation of the Brisbane City Council. [More…]
I think that the greatest contribution which members of the Australian Labor Party would be able to make in the economic debate in Australia would be to advocate wage restraint, which, as they know in their hearts and as Frank Crean quite plainly knew, would do more to help economic recovery and reinforce the gains that have so far been won than any other single act that is within thenpower or ever will be within their power. [More…]
That demonstrates once again the fiscal responsibility that this Government has applied in the last three Budgets, contrary to what we saw from the Opposition when it was in power. [More…]
The issue is that the design and construction of the city is not to be vested in the committee, which is to have no executive power, but in officers of the Works Department which in open court before a Royal Commission have been adjudged hostile to myself, my plan and my procedure. [More…]
We could have asked the Department of Housing and Construction or the National Capital Development Commission to undertake this job; but the Government decided that the job required a group of people who would dedicate themselves to the precise work and who would be given power to get on with the job. [More…]
The Victorian State Electricity Commission is producing far more power than ever but employment is down. [More…]
It has been estimated that since the Fraser Government came to power in 1975, revenue forgone as a result of increasing unemploymentunemployment rose from 266,000 in November 1975 to 494,000 in January 1979- amounts to more than $2 billion. [More…]
We on this side of the House believe that resources are not abstract; they represent the people of this country who are being sacrificed by this Government for the sake of its own interests and for the sake of its own power. [More…]
When he became the Leader of the Opposition he was asked what he would do about the economy when he came to power. [More…]
He refused to tell the Australian people what he was going to do because he wanted to achieve power and was prepared to do this in any way that he could. [More…]
One remembers so clearly that when the Government came into power in 1975 we had a situation where the deficit would have run into some $4,000m or $5,000m, not $2,000m or $3, 000m. [More…]
Secondly, in the Report we do not comment in any detail on the power groupings that were evident at the Conference. [More…]
Of course, the crunch point is the roll call vote, and it may be of interest to the House if I were to table conference documents giving details of the voting patterns on particular issues from which power groupings, in votes taken at the Conference, may be discerned. [More…]
Whether a Conservative government or a Labour government was in power, the members of the British delegations were appointed on the same basis as are delegations from this Parliament. [More…]
No party is in power forever. [More…]
We must sustain a defence force which supports our diplomacy so that both in combination effectively deter interference with Australia’s sovereignty by the military forces of a foreign power. [More…]
I take it, therefore, that it was meant seriously and was intended literally to connote the onslaught of tens of thousands of foreign troops on this country for the purpose of taking it from us or of forcing an Australian Government to bend to the will of a foreign power. [More…]
It means, firstly, the possession by a foreign power or alliance, hostile towards us, of maritime strength sufficient to overcome our own and gain substantial mastery of the seas around us, and the air space over them. [More…]
There are very few nations which possess today the capacity to project maritime power across thousands of miles and produce, at the other end of a very long line of communications, the kind of force on the sea, in the sea and over the sea that could overwhelm our own maritime capabilities in our own home waters and the air space above them. [More…]
The two superpowers could do it if they had motive and unrestrained mind and opportunity; and there are two or three European navies which still have a fairly substantial trans-oceanic capability. [More…]
If one were allowed flights into fancy sufficient to conjure up a world in which no-one else existed but the Soviet Union and one other country, it would require no brilliant insight to demonstrate that the Soviet Union possesses overwhelming conventional military power visavis any one of a hundred or more potential victims. [More…]
HMAS Melbourne is, by super-power standards, small and aging. [More…]
Each ship’s firepower is far greater than a World War II cruiser’s. [More…]
The question- and I refer now to some current Press stories- is not whether our ships should sink a small barge when they are using a variety of munitions, mostly anti-aircraft, to test the fire power that they could bring to bear if used in that role at a long range, on a ship’s superstructure. [More…]
Today, it is there in a way which, by any but super-power standards, and certainly by regional standards, is highly significant. [More…]
I have spoken about manpower and 54 per cent of defence expenditure. [More…]
It pays the rent, power, freight, fuel and other bills. [More…]
To give some point to those figures I point out that they exclude manpower costs. [More…]
Some of the planning that was in train when we came to power, some of the decisions that had been taken, were completely justifiable. [More…]
In other words, the Opposition asserts that this Bill greatly increases the power of the Minister. [More…]
He made reference to the need for the Prices Justification Tribunal to have power to examine existing prices as well as proposed increased prices. [More…]
I just remind the honourable member for Adelaide that the PJT has always had power to examine existing prices as well as proposed increases in prices. [More…]
The bench by virtue of the Act will have in its power the opportunity to exercise its own judgment on the extent of the term of imprisonment or fine which should be imposed. [More…]
Present legislation gives a general discretionary power to issue or refuse passports, but provides no guidelines. [More…]
On a simple cost benefit analysis, the nil costs associated with the Minister’s power to withdraw or withhold a passport of a suspected corporate criminal as opposed to the expensive costs of extradition and the loss of investors’ money associated with corporate criminals who flee, it would seem that as a result of the proposed new practice in this Bill the Government and the Australian people are paying and will continue to pay a substantial price in the cause of human rights and civil liberties. [More…]
The Passports Act gives a general discretionary power to issue and to refuse passports, but it provides no guidelines for doing so. [More…]
Where there is an application for a custodial order the Family Court judges have the power to call for passports and impound them until such time as the court determines which parent will have the custody of the child. [More…]
No, I wouldn’t say so on the evidence presently available and so far in 23 years of nuclear power nobody has been killed by nuclear power. [More…]
There are a hell of a lot of nuclear power stations in the world and not many accidents of any note. [More…]
What does happen is that every time anything goes wrong at all, trivial or otherwise, it becomes headline news because nuclear power stations are very sensitive objects. [More…]
Firstly, it means they want to redress the current unfair balance of economic power between the Third World countries and developed countries and they see such measures as the Common Fund and commodity agreements as being basic in this regard. [More…]
The conventional wisdom refers to the Parliament exercising the ‘power of the purse’ over governments. [More…]
The ever-increasing extent, power and complexity of government requires that that scrutiny be more and better informed. [More…]
Influence, not direct power, advice, not command; criticism, not obstruction . [More…]
The first of those events was the arrangements made between Queensland Mines Ltd, the proprietary company which holds the leases for the Nabarlek uranium area, and the Shikoko Electric Power Co. [More…]
Incorporated of Japan for the supply of 6,000 tonnes of yellow cake to that utility and for the balance of 10,000 tonnes to another Japanese power utility in the future, namely, the Kyusu Electric Power Co. [More…]
Nevertheless, we must make the point that the Government, through its policy, is buttressing the course of nuclear power and the development of nuclear power by the supply of quite massive amounts of uranium potentially on to a very thin world market, thereby depressing the price of uranium and making it more available. [More…]
This must have the effect of depressing prices and making nuclear power a more commercial option. [More…]
I stress that the recommendation was that policy should seek to limit the expansion of production of nuclear power. [More…]
The hazards involved in the ordinary operations of nuclear power reactors, if those operations are properly regulated and controlled, are not such as to justify a decision not to mine and sell Australian uranium. [More…]
The dubious argument then tendered is that, if there are not supply assurances, the Western world’s nuclear power utilities will move into using fast breeders and out of using thermal reactors. [More…]
Fast breeders will not be a part of the power programs of the Western world- certainly, I think, not within the lifetime of most members of this Parliament, if at all. [More…]
The NRC, as it is called, is really only just getting its act together now in terms of management of the nuclear power program of the United States and reactor safety. [More…]
We cannot do that if we just allow the wholesale export of Australian uranium onto the world market at low prices to buttress the growth of nuclear power. [More…]
Admittedly, the French, the Japanese and probably to a lesser extent the Germans, will probably go their wilful way with nuclear power for all other kinds of considerations which are prominent in their countries. [More…]
Fortunately, we do not have a nuclear power station to worry about. [More…]
We heard at Question Time today that Australia, apparently with the agreement of the Prime Minister, would have a nuclear power reactor in Western Australia in the very near future. [More…]
That State wants to feed an extra 1,000 megawatts from one power reactor into the electricity grid thereby doubling the size of the grid. [More…]
It is even more economic nonsense when we consider the amount of steaming coal the steaming coal industry is exporting to Europe to run the fossil fuel power stations of Europe. [More…]
Is it suggested that we should bypass the option of sending steaming coal around the Australian coast to Perth, if in fact the Collie coal reserves in Western Australia are inadequate for power generation purposes? [More…]
What a nonsense proposal a nuclear power plant in Western Australia would be. [More…]
The only thing I have to say about such a proposition is this: Let it be said and understood widely that if my party comes to power in Australia it will never permit Sir Charles Court to build a nuclear power station in Western Australia. [More…]
There is a heavy requirement upon Australia to do something about making the present nuclear power industry safer in respect of waste disposal, in respect of non-proliferation and, as far as we can, in respect of reactor safety. [More…]
As a biologist I should have preferred that there had never been developed the military and industrial exploitation of nuclear power. [More…]
Things being as they are, nuclear power generators will be needed for the next twenty, or perhaps fifty, years in most of the developed countries, with Japan and Sweden in particular need. [More…]
Without nuclear power there will be a shortage of energy to work factories, to light buildings, to provide jobs, to heat homes, to cook food and all the rest of it. [More…]
Twenty-one countries in the world have installed nuclear power stations. [More…]
There are now 208 operational nuclear power reactors totalling 107,000 megawatts. [More…]
The United States has 70 power reactors. [More…]
Western Europe has 76 power reactors. [More…]
Japan has 18 power reactors. [More…]
Within Western Europe, the Federal Republic of Germany has 10 power reactors and the United Kingdom has 33. [More…]
To fuel these power stations, 15,000 tonnes of uranium are required annually and 6,500 tonnes of separative work units of enrichment are required. [More…]
The commitment to nuclear power is not confined just to developed countries. [More…]
Five nuclear power units are in operation in developing countries; 20 are under construction; six are on order, and 60 are planned. [More…]
The fact that nuclear energy usage for electric power generation has proceeded in other countries without access to Australian uranium and will continue in no way relieves Australia of its responsibilities as an energy rich nation. [More…]
But it has to be said that the responsibility for the siting, the design, the construction, the safe operation and the waste management of nuclear power plants rests with individual sovereign states. [More…]
Thirdly, nuclear power is just too dangerous to support at present. [More…]
Reports have changed from day to day about what went wrong at the reactor; what was the result and especially, how extensive was the fall-out problem; how serious was the fallout problem for power plant workers and for the public in local communities; who was responsible for the failure of the reactor; how will the problem be overcome. [More…]
The ‘facts’ in these reports depended on who was making them; State officials, the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission, President Carter’s office, the power plant operator, or the nuclear reactor builders. [More…]
Less than an hour later, power company officials reported that a small amount of radiation had been released into the atmosphere, but no significant radiation was expected outside the plant area itself. [More…]
One cannot help but note that most of the opposition to nuclear power comes from the Friends of the Earth organisation, financed by Russia, and from militant union leaders who regularly visit Russia and are at the opposite end of the political spectrum from us. [More…]
Hydropower costs lives in the building of dams and the occasional breaking of a dam has caused huge loss of life. [More…]
Oil burning power stations require hundreds of tanker ships, many of which have blown up, killing hundreds and polluting wide areas. [More…]
Then there are coal-burning power stations. [More…]
Although there have been 88,000 deaths from underground coal mining in the United States of America alone since 1907, and hundreds are killed there each year in levelcrossing smashes with coal trains, one never hears that power generation by coal-burning is dangerous. [More…]
To put the matter into perspective, let us look at nuclear power generation. [More…]
However, there has been no loss of life in any of the nuclear power stations and I pray that there will be none in Harrisburg. [More…]
Those opposed to uranium do not tell us that coal-fired power stations give off radioactivity which has a longer life than the emission from nuclear power stations; nor do they tell us that there is more radioactivity in whisky, milk, salad oil and tap water than there is from nuclear power stations. [More…]
The opposition to nuclear power stations has endeavoured to make the word ‘nuclear’ synonymous with ‘bomb’. [More…]
A nuclear explosion in a nuclear power station is absolutely impossible and the newspapers which talk of the possibility of a nuclear explosion at Harrisburg are completely irresponsible. [More…]
Now that I have shown that nuclear power is the safest of all generating systems, and the least polluting, let us look at the ramifications of shutting down all nuclear power stations, as some unthinking people have been stupid enough to suggest. [More…]
To carry on from what the Minister for National Development (Mr Newman) was saying, at present 70 nuclear power reactors provide 13 per cent of the electrical power in the United States of America. [More…]
England, nuclear power is half the total power generated. [More…]
To close down all its 70 nuclear power stations could be, according to a Senate expert, as devastating as the complete loss of Saudi Arabian oil. [More…]
Loss of coolant and the subsquent core melt-down is the major accident nuclear power plants should be specifically designed to prevent. [More…]
Nuclear power has become a technological monster and it is not clear who, if anyone, is in control. [More…]
I am no longer convinced of the technical safety of nuclear power, and I fear the high risk of political and human factors that will ultimately lead to the misuse of its by-products. [More…]
The facts are that the Harrisburg accident is not the only accident that has occurred at a nuclear power plant. [More…]
I seek leave of the House to incorporate in Hansard a list of major accidents that have occurred in the nuclear power industry over the last 1 4 to 1 5 years. [More…]
According to the Fox report, nuclear weapons and the generation of electricity by nuclear power stations cannot be separated. [More…]
The nuclear power industry is unintentionally contributing to an increased risk of nuclear war. [More…]
In California in the United States a nuclear power station now may not be built. [More…]
After the Harrisburg incident we may be sure that State after State in the United States will refuse permission for the construction of nuclear power stations. [More…]
In Austria the people decided not to use a nuclear power station on which $500m had been spent. [More…]
Even at the time of that enormous crisis, the people of Switzerland agreed by a narrow majority of 40,000 votes in a referendum to continue with a nuclear power program. [More…]
We know that because we are aware of the commitment of the people’s struggle against nuclear power generation. [More…]
We have said quite clearly to the mining companies and the financial institutions: ‘If you enter into contracts to mine and export uranium, when the Labor Party comes to power in 1 980 it will repudiate those contracts’. [More…]
We can sell it to those countries on terms that the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) has mentioned, that it is used for power purposes. [More…]
The United States of America has 70 nuclear power stations in operation, 70 under construction at present and another 69 have been contracted for. [More…]
That shows what the United States thinks of uranium power and its safety. [More…]
The United States Navy has been nuclear powered for over 23 years. [More…]
Its warships and many of its passenger steamers are nuclear powered. [More…]
It has been my pleasure and privilege to visit Calder Hall in London, the nuclear power station which was built in 1956. [More…]
There has been no problem at all with that power station or indeed in the whole of Great Britain where over 15 per cent of the nation’s power requirements are generated by nuclear means. [More…]
The other day in Japan a parliamentary delegation from Australia visited the big atomic power station in Yokohama Bay. [More…]
The members of the delegation went into the power station. [More…]
Over 15 per cent of Japan’s total power requirements is met from nuclear power stations. [More…]
Some of them use up to 12 per cent nuclear power and others use as much as 38 per cent nuclear power. [More…]
Thirty four nations of the world already have nuclear power systems and six have nuclear weapon production facilities. [More…]
His apparent desire is to try to frustrate the power base of the Western world. [More…]
There is a need for maximum safety measures but it must be related to alternative power sources. [More…]
It is very instructive to consider the personalities comprising the opponents and proponents of nuclear power. [More…]
These people contrast notably with the proponents of nuclear power who can count on their side most of the pre-eminent nuclear scientists and engineers in the world, together with the majority of others in allied fields. [More…]
The group also contains the large majority of political leaders of all kinds, as is indicated by the fact that 44 nations, including all the leading nations of the Wests many from behind the Iron Curtain and some within the Third World have opted for the new power source. [More…]
It has been disheartening indeed to hear the honourable member for Reid say that the Australian Labor Party will dismantle our policy if it is elected to power. [More…]
Since it came into power, this Government has indeed stepped up the prospects for finding more petroleum in Bass Strait and in other parts of Australia. [More…]
I thought that all the States intended to raise this matter of New South Wales granting a 37’A-hour week to power workers. [More…]
This Parliament less than a fortnight ago was interrupted by the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) who chose to come in here and act like the mad sheriff from out of the West who could not wait to have his high noon with the Premier of New South Wales because on that occasion, due to the industrial philosophy of this Government, the New South Wales Government had decided that it would very properly grant a 3716 hour week to workers in the power industry. [More…]
If the honourable gentleman kept his mouth shut instead of asking such stupid questions he would realise that the industrial power of the Commonwealth is founded upon an industrial dispute taking place on an interstate basis. [More…]
I think it would be fair to say that last century as industrial development was getting under way there was a balance of industrial power in favour of capital against what was then very unorganised labour. [More…]
We have that sort of situation developing in the power industry. [More…]
He wanted to talk about the Premier of New South Wales introducing a 37!6 hour working week for some power workers. [More…]
The Government wants to use what it thinks are its powers. [More…]
It has no power at all. [More…]
Where are the people with this great power who can march in and tell the trade union members to stay out of work? [More…]
Firstly, in relation to areas of employment where the Commonwealth has appropriate legal power relating to terms and conditions of employment, within the full limit of these powers a firm stand has been adopted. [More…]
The Opposition has said tonight that the Government’s approach interferes with proper progressive industrial power. [More…]
They fear the collective power of the unions. [More…]
Unless we have that situation- unless we are able to guarantee that some other union will come in and pick up the registration which is forfeited by the deregistered union and, moreover, that that union has the power and the capability to enroll the members who were doing the work as members of the deregistered union- we will solve nothing at all. [More…]
They have been gathering dust, therefore, for almost as long as the present coalition Government has been in power. [More…]
We lack extensive oil reserves but are richly endowed with black and brown coal and, for longer term development, the ‘raw materials’ for solar and tidal power. [More…]
-In this Bill the Government honours yet another 1977 election policy commitment, an election policy commitment which, along with many others, swept the Fraser Government, back into power with the largest majority in the history of this country since Federation. [More…]
each of those companies will do everything within its power to ensure that the officers so authorised have similar access to the financial accounts of any company or firm in which that company at any time has, whether directly or indirectly, a controlling interest’. [More…]
This is why today I want to raise the question of the failure of the Fraser Government to use the power it has to fully protect the Great Barrier Reef from the predators who seek to exploit the Reef for their own selfish gains. [More…]
This phrase grants the Commonwealth Government more latent power than perhaps any other section in the whole body of the Constitution. [More…]
He was referring, of course, to the power inherent in section 96, which enables the Government to assist the States on its own terms and conditions. [More…]
Such a commission would have the power to inquire into all forms of transport. [More…]
In this regard, we would have to get the cooperation of the States; but, if they did not cooperate, the Constitution gives us the power and the facilities to get on with the job of carrying out such a proposal. [More…]
transferring to the President of the Legislative Assembly the power to fix the dates of elections; [More…]
transferring to the Legislative Assembly and the President of the Legislative Assembly the power to convene meetings of the Assembly; [More…]
transferring to the Legislative Assembly the power to accept resignations of Presidents and Deputy Presidents of the Assembly; [More…]
removing the power to disallow, or recommend amendments to, Ordinances made by the Legislative Assembly as proposed in sub-paragraph (l)(b) above or assented to by the Administrator; [More…]
that the powers of the Legislative Assembly as proposed in the Bill be expanded by vesting in the Legislative Assembly the sole power of appointing members of the Executive Council and terminating their appointment, in the event of there being an Executive Council; [More…]
It gives the Governor-General, which in reality means the Australian Government, power to disallow any ordinance which the Administrator may have assented to in the previous six months. [More…]
There are other matters in which the Australian Government has clear interests in the matters and should therefore have power of veto. [More…]
However, Labor considers that a single power of veto is quite sufficient. [More…]
The GovernorGeneral also has power under this Bill, in certain circumstances, to make an ordinance concerning the raising and expenditure of taxes on the island. [More…]
This may be done without even presenting the proposed ordinance to the Legislative Assembly, much less obtaining its consent, despite the fact that under schedule 2 to the Bill - those supposedly devolved powers- the Assembly has control over the public moneys of the Territory. [More…]
This Bill gives the Governor-General legal power to do on Norfolk Island what a Governor-General did illegally in Australia on 1 1 November. [More…]
The Labor Party believes that this power should be deleted from the Bill. [More…]
He or she retains many small but important machinery powers which ought to be in the hands of the representatives of the people of Norfolk Island. [More…]
This power should rest with the President of the Assembly, as with the Prime Minister in Australia. [More…]
Although it is within the Administrator’s power to decide what in his opinion is within or outside schedules 2 and 3, as well as a number of other important matters, there is no provision in the Bill for an appeal by the Legislative Assembly over a decision of the Administrator. [More…]
transferring to the President of the Legislative Assembly the power to fix the dates of elections; [More…]
transferring to the Legislative Assembly and the President of the Legislative Assembly the power to convene meetings of the Assembly; [More…]
transferring to the Legislative Assembly the power to accept resignations of Presidents and Deputy Presidents of the Assembly; [More…]
removing the power to disallow, or recommend amendments to, Ordinances made by the Legislative Assembly as proposed in sub-paragraph (l)(b) above or assented to by the Administrator; [More…]
that the powers of the Legislative Assembly as proposed in the Bill be expanded by vesting in the Legislative Assembly the sole power of appointing members of the Executive Council and terminating their appointment, in the event of there being an Executive Council; [More…]
Although this is a document from which could be selected those things which suited the people in power at any time, I do not support the attacks which have been upon the report. [More…]
This can be achieved, we maintain, by giving real power to a democratically elected local assembly. [More…]
We believe that the Government is, to some extent, on the right track in proposing a legislative assembly, but then it goes on to circumvent the powers of that legislative assembly to the extent that it does not really exercise self-government in any real sense. [More…]
But the administering authority has the ultimate power to repeal those ordinances or to refuse to accept recommendations about their introduction or their change. [More…]
There are territories of the Commonwealth that have not wanted the power to legislate and I refer in particular to the people of Canberra. [More…]
Technically it is possible for the Parliament that confers that legislative capacity at any time in the future to withdraw that power, as it has been possible for the Parliament of Westminster to withdraw the legislative power conferred upon the provinces that became the States of the Commonwealth and as it has been possible for the Parliament of Westminster to withdraw the power conferred upon this Parliament by the Act that established the Australian Constitution. [More…]
But once a legislating body sets course down a road to confer a degree of selfgovernment upon a people or a territory there is a milestone along that road where the conferring parliament in practical and realistic terms loses the capacity to withdraw the power conferred. [More…]
I feel sure that as time passes and as the people of Norfolk Island demonstrate their undoubted capacity to manage their affairs, they will have no concern or fear that the powers being conferred by this Bill, and those contemplated to be conferred in the future as this legislation is seen to operate effectively, will ever be withdrawn. [More…]
They will not have as wide an authority in other areas and the Commonwealth will retain power in yet a third area. [More…]
When the Australian Labor Party came to power in December 1972, it further funded Aboriginal legal services throughout Australia on an expanded basis such that the Aboriginal legal services could provide legal assistance to all Aborigines in all matters where assistance was required. [More…]
Reconstruction and Information, 1960-62, also of Fuel, Power and Nat. [More…]
Reconstruction and Information Jan. 60-62, of Fuel, Power and Natural Resources, and Kashmir Affairs April 60-62, of Industries and Natural Resources 62-65, of Foreign Affairs 63-66; formed Pakistan People’s Party Dec. 67, elected leader 70; led popular movement against Pres. [More…]
The second was in December 1978, when a power failure at the Mail Centre coincided with high mail volumes and mail was returned to the CME in an endeavour to meet service standards. [More…]
The Liberal Government in Victoria places great importance on the provision of power for industry and the growth of the community. [More…]
That was said by the same Mr Roulston who last weekend at the State ALP Conference seconded a motion moved by Mr Wilkes to the effect that a Labor government would permit the Newport power station to operate within environmental guidelines. [More…]
He is a very powerful man in the trade union movement and in the ALP. [More…]
Indeed, contrary to the Press headlines, if anything those results probably confirmed, not diminished, the power of the extreme Left. [More…]
Even on the Newport power station resolution, the powerful union leader, Mr Ken Carr, stated emphatically that a number of unions will continue to maintain bans despite the passing of the resolution. [More…]
So we have the power, and we have been able to exercise it intelligently and fairly in every State in Australia except Queensland. [More…]
The reason why we must discuss this subject as a matter of public importance is that we have not only the power to legislate in respect of Aborigines but also an international obligation to protect their rights. [More…]
Why is it that when the national Parliament has the power, the obligation and the money to assist in this area, it abdicates the field in one segment of the nation only? [More…]
As soon as it did, the Queensland Government changed the status of the reserves, and we now have no legal power at all over Aurukun and Mornington Island. [More…]
Only in Queensland is there legislation that gives government officials power to control, manage and direct communities on reserves. [More…]
If we follow through the logic of the Minister’s statement and of the Government’s decisionthat improved emission standards should be deferred because they involve, it is claimed, a three to five per cent difference in fuel consumptionthe Government can be expected to move soon in the following directions: First, to ban power steering on motor cars, because it incurs a fuel consumption penalty of 14 per cent- four times the loss occasioned by imposing emission standards; secondly, to ban air conditioning, which incurs a penalty of 17 per cent, which is more than four times that which results from emission controls; and, thirdly, to ban automatic transmission, which incur a fuel penalty, in operation, of 20 to 30 per cent. [More…]
The article then refers to power steering in the following way: [More…]
The inclusion of power steering on a motor vehicle can produce a fuel penalty of 14 per cent. [More…]
1 in its report, the Council stated that vehicle fuel consumption in the period over which emission controls have been implemented is linked with vehicle weight arising from model changes and the inclusion of options such as air conditioning, automatic transmission and power steering. [More…]
Firstly, it encourages conservation of scarce resources and helps correct unsatisfactory usage patterns which result from the maintenance of artificially low prices for petroleum products; secondly, it promotes the usage of competitive energy sources, mainly natural gas and coalbased electricity; thirdly, the relative economics of alternative energy projects such as coal liquefaction, shale oil, and solar power can be seen in an accurate perspective which allows more realistic decisions to be made about financing their development; and fourthly, and perhaps most importantly, realistic pricing acts as a major incentive to increase oil exploration activity and to maximise the exploitation of existing fields. [More…]
In the Labor Party policy delivered by Prime Minister Whitiam in September 1975 the description of new oil is oil coming from fields found after September 1975- not when the honourable member for Bass was the Minister or when the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) came to power. [More…]
When the Labor Party comes to power- let me make this quite plain- it will repeal the Petroleum (Submerged Lands) Act and dismantle the designated authority. [More…]
In addition, the tribunal will be empowered to report on the appropriateness of the procedures determined by the Board. [More…]
Under this Bill the tribunal will have a power to review management decisions and either confirm them or have them reconsidered by management. [More…]
Unlike the 1976 Bill the tribunal will only have power to vary original decisions in cases where it has been requested to join together staff in a particular category who are excess to requirements. [More…]
It is a power house- a place where electricity is generated. [More…]
-There is a need for alternative power sources in Australia, and the honourable member for Hughes has suggested an alternative source. [More…]
He thinks that the outlay of $150m for a gasworks is better than the expenditure of $ 160m for a power station. [More…]
However, minority power groupings have received a considerable number of votes but no representation, despite this very fair method. [More…]
The majority power groups, usually conservatives and business people, may form a ticket for the eight vacancies and swamp the Council. [More…]
The Oppostion has objected previously to the powers given to the Administrator under this Bill and has argued for a curtailment of those powers. [More…]
One of the most blatant examples of such excessive administrative power was the provision in clause 1 1 that meetings of the Executive Council could be called only by the Administrator. [More…]
The Administrator, an Australian Government official, would have far more arbitrary and unnecessary power under a Liberal Government than he would have under a Labor administration. [More…]
Norfolk Island to have unfettered power in that regard. [More…]
Listening to honourable members opposite, one would have thought that they had suddenly seen the light and had come to believe that places such as the Northern Territory should be given complete self-government; that all power should be given to the Northern Territory and that no power should be exercised from Canberra. [More…]
I imagine that they will start on the old process of centralisation and all power being held in Canberra. [More…]
Consistent with the Commonwealth’s obligations to the Aboriginal people and consistent with the powers which they wish to exercise with respect to uranium, the Northern Territory has complete self-government. [More…]
Any comparison between the States and Norfolk Island in relation to taxation is quite wrong because the States have the power to impose taxes and not be part of the uniform taxation system. [More…]
But the States have self-government within their area of power under the Constitution and they can impose taxes. [More…]
Quite a large number of the amendments arise from the simple fact that we have given the Legislative Assembly the power to call its laws Acts. [More…]
It invades and negates any supposed power devolution contained in the Bill. [More…]
The Government proposes that the Assembly have complete legislative power and executive control over (the matters listed in the schedules), subject to a right of veto by the Administrator in respect of education, immigration, customs services and fishing. [More…]
These are specifically the ordinances over which the Minister assured the islanders of ‘complete legislative power and executive control’. [More…]
In other words, it emphasises the fact that this Parliament has always reserved the power of the government of the day in the interests of the people. [More…]
It is very much a reserve power. [More…]
At the moment the Government has power to, and does, levy charges on the people of Norfolk Island; and it will continue to have that power. [More…]
That power is already there. [More…]
The result of the Bill, of course, will diminish the power somewhat because the Government can raise levies only for those areas of responsiblity which will fall outside Schedules 2 and 3. [More…]
They follow again from the fact that the Legislative Assembly has been given power to call its laws Acts. [More…]
As I said earlier, most of these amendments relate to the fact that we have agreed that the Legislative Assembly should have the power to call its laws Acts. [More…]
The power to make regulations by virtue of subsection ( 1 ) extends to the making of regulations expressed to take effect on and from a date earlier than the date of the making of the regulations, not being a date earlier than the commencing date. [More…]
Norfolk Island should be thereby separated from the said Colony of Van Diemen ‘s Land (now called Tasmania) and that from that date all power, authority, and jurisdiction of the Governor, Legislature, Courts of Justice, and Magistrates of Tasmania over Norfolk Island should cease and determine, and that from the said date Norfolk Island should be a distinct and separate Settlement, the affairs of which should until further Order in that behalf by Her Majesty be administered by a Governor to be for that purpose appointed by Her Majesty with the advice and consent of Her Privy Council: and it was thereby further ordered that the Governor and Commander-in-Chief for the time being of the Colony of New South Wales should be, and he thereby was, constituted Governor of Norfolk Island, with the powers and authorities in the said Order mentioned: [More…]
And whereas by an Order in Council dated the 30th day of March, 1914, His Majesty King George V, by virtue and in exercise of the power in that behalf by the said lastmentioned Act or otherwise in His Majesty vested, after reciting that the Parliament had passed an Act No. [More…]
It is normal practice that the head of government has the power to allow pardons and remissions and, in this case, the head of Norfolk’s government is the Australian GovernorGeneral. [More…]
Two nuclear power reactors under construction at Koeberg. [More…]
International safeguards are applied to the Safari I research reactor and to the two power reactors under construction at Koeberg. [More…]
1 ) Will his attempts to control hospital costs by restrictions on the number and classification of hospital beds be nullified if similar limits are not placed on private hospital beds; if so, what power does he have to prevent the unnecessary intrusion of the Hospital Corporation of America into the private hospital industry. [More…]
The State Governments have the power to control public hospital bed expansion as they have a responsibility in financing individual recognised (public) hospitals. [More…]
Will this result in a drop in the real spending power available to the States under this item for 1 978-79. [More…]
Will the Agency have the power to raise funds other than from annual appropriations; if so, how. [More…]
If so, what Act or regulation gives it that power? [More…]
Has the Minister for Primary Industry, in accordance with his power under section 18 ( 1) of the Wheat Industry Stabilization Act, instructed the Wheat Board to sell commercial bills in order to reduce its Reserve Bank overdrafts? [More…]
Korea has a nuclear program which it hopes to continue to develop as an alternative form of energy to oil for power generation. [More…]
It anticipates the building of two nuclear power stations per annum and expects to have about 40 nuclear power stations by the year 2000. [More…]
If Australia were to supply the uranium for that nuclear power program it would mean that 80,000 tonnes of uranium would be supplied between now and the year 2000. [More…]
The Korean Government also expects to be importing approximately 4.8 million tonnes of steaming coal for coal-fired power stations by 1986. [More…]
I emphasise, to take up the other point the honourable gentleman raised, that the Government will not hesitate to take any action in its power against employers who concede to industrial pressure, including asking the Prices Justification Tribunal to take into consideration any payments made by contractors or developers which are designed to circumvent the guidelines, in examining the pricing structure in the area involved. [More…]
Apparently Sir Charles Court believes that foreign companies operating in Australia and companies owned by foreign governments operating in the resource area of Australia should have power over prices that is denied to the Australian national Government, and that the Australian national Government should be denied powers which are given to the corporate creatures of foreign governments. [More…]
I am pleased to see that the amount of the extra expenditure- some $290m is provided for in these two Bills- is in the order of the amount of extra expenditure that we have seen provided in the past few years and certainly since this Government came to power when responsibility was reintroduced into the expenditure side of government. [More…]
In Keynesian perspective, such transfers may be all to the good since they put a floor under purchasing power as well as caring for human needs. [More…]
Sir Ieuan Maddock, in his essay entitled ‘The Future of Work’ wrote: lt has become conventional to regard ‘work’ as not only the means of producing the goods and the services we need but particularly as the means by which individuals acquire the purchasing power necessary to obtain some proportion of these goods and services. [More…]
However real this relationship might be there can be little doubt that in the 19th and 20th century work has been linked with purchasing power and affluence, and unemployment equated to misery and deprivation. [More…]
So strong has become these links in people’s minds, the provision of employment has become a greater priority than increasing the total availability of goods and services, lt is regarded better to continue inefficient and uncompetitive enterprises in being, because they provide purchasing power, albeit a small one rather than to improve efficiency, and the ability to compete in home and foreign markets. [More…]
But when cataloguing the technological discontinuities which would justify such a title, their first choice will not be the internal combustion engine, jet aircraft, nuclear power or plastics- it will be semiconductors. [More…]
Whereas all the other technologies have advanced dramatically they have only given more impetus to things that man was already able to do with the use of machines- travel, shape materials, provide horse-power, construct buildings, etc. [More…]
The conventional wisdom asserts that work equals income equals the power to make choices and that free time equals impotence. [More…]
Often the reverse may be true and it may be that free time equals power to make choices whereas work equals response to economic necessity equals performing tasks set by somebody else. [More…]
During that time two things developed: Firstly, a very strong trade union bargaining power that lives with us to this day and, secondly, the growth of a badly structured industry behind high tariff and quota walls. [More…]
In 1972 the Whitlam Government came into power. [More…]
We also have to bite the bullet in the area of trade union monopoly power. [More…]
I believe that it is the responsibility of government to recognise the role performed by families, to recognise that over the life cycle of a family its income will rise and its income will fall in its purchasing power per head. [More…]
Will he consider introducing an amendment to the relevant Act to give the Commissioner power to close the loophole? [More…]
Nor should I have to spell out again that a referendum in 1967 overwhelmingly gave the Commonwealth the responsibility of ensuring the welfare and rights of Aboriginal Australians by giving it power to make laws concerning those rights- a responsibility which this Governnent continues to evade, with the excuse that the States also retain such legislative powers. [More…]
We would have to test in the High Court of this land the extent to which we have constitutional power over many incidental areas. [More…]
We would have to test our constitutional power to make laws in relation to hospitals, schools and education and in relation to whether we could take over the land and deal with it in a particular way. [More…]
The provisions of the Bill are designed to provide power for the Commission to issue public securities and to provide guarantee powers thereto. [More…]
Clause 6 of the Bill amends a number of financial provisions of the existing Act In relation Lo borrowings by the Commission the amendments, which are in line with borrowing powers of other Commonwealth authorities, provide that the Commission may borrow moneys from the Commonwealth or elsewhere and may give security and issue securities in respect of borrowings. [More…]
With the passage of the Bill, the Authority will no longer have unlimited power to buy and sell petroleum nor will it be required to ensure: Continuity of supplies of natural gas that is free from impurities; uniform gate-valve delivery prices throughout Australia; the retention and processing in Australia of condensate, petroleum gas and other substances derived from natural gas; and the control of petroleum reserves. [More…]
It is not simply an abuse of power by individuals that causes corruption. [More…]
Firstly, it seeks powers- and I quote the Minister- ‘not commonly accorded to law enforcement’, to permit bugging, which is the use of listening devices to overhear personal conversations. [More…]
There is a related Bill which would also provide Customs officers with the power to wire tap, that is to intercept telephone communications. [More…]
This is the first time in the Parliament of the Commonwealth that it has been proposed to give any officers, outside of Australian Security Intelligence Organisation officers, the power to use electronic surveillance, both bugging and wire tapping. [More…]
This unique power is now to be bestowed on Customs officials. [More…]
First of all, the power to bug citizens, the power to wire tap citizens, is a power abhorrent to anyone who believes in the ordinary man’s basic rights, his right to privacy and his liberty to say what he wishes in the privacy of his own home. [More…]
I think we need to come to some sort of conclusion by way of analysis as to whether centralised marketing increases the producer’s bargaining power in the market. [More…]
I understand that the United States Securities and Exchange Commission charged HCA last year that: ‘Certain persons of power and influence in Saudi Arabia, including persons involved in supervising the hospital project,- the King Faisal Specialist Hospital, had to be paid off in the amount of 15 per cent on the contract charges to the Saudi Arabian Government as work on the project progressed.’ [More…]
On 6 October 1978 the Minister for Business and Consumer Affairs asked the Industries Assistance Commission to inquire into and advise upon whether assistance should be accorded to the production in Australia of rotary cultivators having a power of less than 15 kilowatts. [More…]
In particular, the Commission recommended, first, that a bounty at the rate of $20 per kilowatt of engine power of the prime mover, be paid on the production and sale in Australia of pedestrian-operated rotary cultivators. [More…]
Additionally, the Government announced that it would pay a bounty on the production and sale in Australia of pedestrian-operated rotary cultivators at the rate of $40 per kilowatt of engine power, and not $20 per kilowatt as recommended by the IAC. [More…]
Or is this a recognition by governments of all political persuasions of the power of the electronic media? [More…]
Is he able to state how many nuclear power stations were (a) ordered, (b) cancelled and (c) deferred during 1978 in (i) Japan, (ii) the United States of America, (iii) the United Kingdom, (iv) France, (v) West Germany, (vi) Canada, (vii) Italy and (viii) OECD countries, and in each case what was the generating capacity. [More…]
) Is he able to state how many nuclear power stations were (a) ordered, (b) cancelled and (c) deferred in third world countries during each year since1970 and in each case what was the generating capacity. [More…]
Is he also able to state in each case what was the type of nuclear power station ordered and with which company was the order placed. [More…]
1 ) and (2) Details of the number and generating capacity of nuclear power stations (a) ordered, (b) cancelled and (c) deferred in third world countries during each year since 1 970 and the type and supplier of ordered power stations are given below: [More…]
(a) The decision as to whether an inquest is to be held is not a matter for my Depanment but solely the concern of the State Minister for Justice who, after he has received representations by the claimant’s solicitors or other advice, has the power to make an application to the Supreme Court for an order that an inquest be held pursuant to section 37 of the Coroners Act (NSW) 1960 (as amended). [More…]
that Standing Order 93 relating to the closure of the question and Standing Order 94 relating to the closure of a member should receive the immediate consideration of the Committee with a view to granting a discretionary power to the Chair as to whether or not those questions should be put. [More…]
Amplitude modulation public broadcasting stations are operating on less than 10 per cent of the power on which commercial radio stations and ABC radio stations are operating. [More…]
Category C low powered community station licences continue in a state of suspense- presumably permanent suspense. [More…]
The Labor Party did not do that because it could not afford to remove that power from its Minister. [More…]
If I did unto the honourable member for Darling Downs what the honourable member for Darling Downs did unto the honourable member for Adelaide last night, I would now have to proceed in debate to accuse the honourable member of being an advocate of flower power, of being a greenie. [More…]
Each body was asked to produce a report on certain engines not exceeding 7.46 kilowatts, rotary cultivators, and tractors having a power of less than 15 kilowatts. [More…]
In the interim IAC report the Commission recommended that the bounty on each machine should be at the rate of $20 per kilowatt of engine power. [More…]
The level recommended by the IAC was $20 per kilowatt of engine power of the prime mover. [More…]
In the light of all these factors the Government decided that the bounty should be set at a level of $40 per kilowatt of engine power, which is equivalent to about $90 per cultivator. [More…]
I cannot understand how a government which believes that nuclear power is the saviour in regard to power generation for the Western world can still believe that there is a market for uranium when it has to do this to its own authority- as it has done. [More…]
Some of those roles are conflicting in nature, particularly the regulatory role and that of sponsoring and developing, indeed, the concept of nuclearrelated energy and power. [More…]
In the late 1960s there was abandonment of the illconceived Jervis Bay project, which was to build Australia’s first nuclear power generator. [More…]
That is, that this country does not need nuclear power. [More…]
Australia is a country with abundant reserves of coal and other fossil fuels and we are not in the position in which, unfortunately, some countries are of having a lack of reserves and resources and of having to take a decision to go to nuclear power. [More…]
There is coal in Western Australia, albeit from a poor deposit but nevertheless sufficient to maintain that State’s power grid into the intermediate future. [More…]
Perhaps the States which have some problems with power generation are South Australia and, to a lesser extent, Tasmania. [More…]
We could have a debate about whether we should burn natural gas in a power station but that is another issue. [More…]
So we do not really need electrical generation from nuclear power. [More…]
When one looks at the research and development expenditure on energy in Australia one finds a complete distortion in favour of nuclear power. [More…]
In fact, about 55 per cent of all Commonwealth expenditure on energy research and development goes into nuclear power through the Atomic Energy Commission. [More…]
Last year research into nuclear power was allocated somewhere between $12m and $15m. [More…]
In a country with a very high level of insulation and with the prospect of technology being available, we could produce a system of solar power which is competitive with the ruling international prices for energy. [More…]
At the Australian National University in this very city a program under Professor Kaneff is looking at a solar farm with parabolic reflectors which, when in production, will be competitive with oil for medium or modest power applications. [More…]
What is the funding for nuclear power? [More…]
We do not need nuclear power; nevertheless the Government is going down the nuclear course. [More…]
We on this side of the House say that it is a waste of money and is irresponsible but we are not so silly as to say or to believe that 25 years of experience in nuclear power can be just thrown out. [More…]
There are nuclear applications other than power generation, such as nuclear medicine, and the people who have committed themselves, their livelihood and their careers to this branch of research should not be thrown into the dustbin. [More…]
Since this Government came to power the cost for the average motorist of filling the tank has risen by $5. [More…]
I have referred to the conflict of the various roles that the Australian Atomic Energy Commission has- its nuclear regulatory role, as a promoter of nuclear power, as a promoter of nuclear research, and now as a commercial activist in the uranium mining area. [More…]
Even though we do not have nuclear power programs in this country there are many related matters which require a competent, independent, nuclear regulatory body, and not one modelled on the Australian Safeguards Office, which is still part of the Commission, which has Commission staff, and which reports to the chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission. [More…]
This cannot be met without nuclear power and breeder reactors. [More…]
In the absence of a vast program of nuclear power development some more highly developed countries which are rich in other fuel resources may be able to maintain their economies at an acceptable level. [More…]
This may mean economically strong countries with oil and gas resources will have to use more nuclear power to release oil and gas for simple low investment systems in developing countries. [More…]
Finally, the Conference concluded that enough information is available to make everyone aware of the energy crisis, and aware that definite action is required now, especially in the area of nuclear power. [More…]
In conclusion I point out that it can be seen that there is a massive and irrevocable commitment to nuclear power generation. [More…]
nuclear power is unlikely to contribute on a large scale to the energy needs of the less affluent countries. [More…]
Nor does it appear that the further development of nuclear power in economically advanced countries will make any significant difference to the ability or the willingness of those countries to assist less affluent countries. [More…]
Deputy Speaker, and to the House that one cannot separate any aspect of the nuclear industry, whether it be uranium mining, the nuclear power industry or the nuclear weapons industry, or some other aspect of the industry. [More…]
The nuclear power industry is unintentionally contributing to an increased risk of nuclear war. [More…]
I am saying quite clearly that the people of Australia have to understand that one cannot divorce uranium mining from the nuclear power industry or from the nuclear weapons industry. [More…]
It is being used to give the Commission power to issue security to raise $24m as a first instalment of the Government’s commitment to the Ranger project. [More…]
The amendment will give the Commission power to mediate private investment in the uranium industry. [More…]
(3) increased costs of nuclear power. [More…]
In 1978 in the United States of America only two nuclear power reactors were ordered- five orders were cancelled and one was deferred. [More…]
The Bill is designed to provide power for the Commission to issue public securities and to guarantee those securities. [More…]
It is true that Australia does not need nuclear power. [More…]
It is true that there is sufficient coal in the Bowen Basin in Queensland, the Hunter Valley in New South Wales and the brown coal deposits in Victoria to supply the power needs of this country. [More…]
The crisis at Harrisburg was of concern not only to the residents of the area around the power station but also to the whole nuclear industry throughout the world. [More…]
The successful operation indicated to the world, and in particular the countries which are relying on nuclear power for the energy needs of their people, that this is a quite safe means of generating energy. [More…]
But Mr Barre said that soaring oil prices left no alternative to nuclear power if France wished to remain an independent atomic power and an industrial exporting nation. [More…]
The United States of America has 70 nuclear power stations in operation, 70 under construction at present and another 69 contracted for. [More…]
That shows what the United States thinks of nuclear power and its safety. [More…]
The honourable member for Reid said also that when yellowcake is exported there is no way we can be certain that it will be used for peaceful purposes; that is, for the provision of power for lighting and so on. [More…]
For his information, I point out that all the major countries of the world have nuclear warheads and nuclear power. [More…]
Under the extremely repressive provisions of the Atomic Energy Act and the associated Approved Defence Projects Protection Act, the Government has the power to deny ordinary industrial rights to the workers and unions involved in the mining, handling and transportation of uranium. [More…]
They run the power generators, using the coal. [More…]
The Navajos get about one-quarter of what the State gets from their mine and their power generation. [More…]
I wish also to give the House an assurance that the Commonwealth is determined to do everything within its power to have this matter resolved as soon as possible. [More…]
The balance of power shifted dramatically towards the Soviet Union, and we now have the Chinese stating openly that Vietnam is the Cuba of Asia. [More…]
That report was brought down by a Senate committee of both Labor and government members shortly after the present Government came into power. [More…]
People who have access to the public air waves should be responsible because of the unfettered power which they have. [More…]
We have only to look back to the thirties to realise the power of propaganda. [More…]
The principles embodied in this Bill are designed to specify the existing general powers of the Board to borrow commercially to take advantage of types of money market facilities presently available to a body such as the Wheat Board for the raising of moneys. [More…]
The power of the Board to borrow commercially, for example by bank overdraft, with the approval of the Minister is of course also retained. [More…]
This Bill specifically extends the power to provide for Commonwealth guarantees to apply to securities of the Board as approved by the Minister. [More…]
Honourable members will know that the exercise of the power to borrow commercially in this way rested on a resolution of the full Board and not just on a decision by its Chairman, Sir Leslie Price. [More…]
Honourable members opposite should examine their consciences closely and ask themselves whether what we are doing here tonight is not unjust, inequitable, and unfair, and whether it is a total and improper use of the power of this Parliament to take away from the most dispossessed and disadvantaged people of Australia something they are at last stalling to get. [More…]
On the other hand the honourable member for Capricornia was suggesting that the people of the Northern Territory were going to benefit tremendously from the amount of spending power to be put in the hands of Aboriginals and that they ought to be happy for the Aboriginals to have this income in their hands because there would be a multiplier effect which would substantially benefit everybody else. [More…]
Under that power, for instance, the Authority could buy a tanker load of refined petroleum products. [More…]
I agree that there is not much use in the Authority in doing that, it is not an appropriate power; nevertheless it never had to be used and could have remained dormant. [More…]
Again it is a power that does not necessarily have to be summoned up. [More…]
I think that the Government is very unwise to take that power from the Authority, because the Authority with that power could then sit upon reserves which it may have contracted or which it may use in the future to supply a particular part of Australia. [More…]
Again, I do not cavil at that power. [More…]
But they are powers which the Authority had originally. [More…]
For instance, before 1972 when Labor came to power, the coalition extended the two airline agreement because it thought Reg Ansett would not get his way if a Labor government were in power. [More…]
The Authority set up under the Act was given a vast range of functions and powers that were inherent in the socialist left aims of the Government in power at that time. [More…]
But the unlimited power to buy and sell petroleum, the control of petroleum reserves, and the construction of more pipelines without authorisation of the Parliament are not proper functions of a statutory authority such as this. [More…]
The Pipeline Authority Act 1973 is being amended to vary the functions of the Pipeline Authority and to take away the unlimited power that it was given originally. [More…]
The Rockefeller Institute argues that in 30 or 40 years only the most powerful economies will afford what is left of world supplies. [More…]
It is incredible that people such as Sir Charles Court, who talk about unlimited energy exports and the need for a Western Australian nuclear power industry, will not consider a huge methanol plant in the north-west or even in the east if eventually a pipeline is constructed. [More…]
It has been a long downhill run since this Government grabbed power. [More…]
When we left power we left this Government with one of the best authorities in Australia in the Pipeline Authority- an authority which was to give Australia a real chance to do something big. [More…]
I refer to the fact that this Bill seeks to strip the Pipeline Authority of the power to secure, control and retain reserves of petroleum. [More…]
The Authority’s powers in that area should be left intact. [More…]
It is playing games with the power vested in it by the electorate. [More…]
The Republic of Korea’s nuclear program is a large one, and envisages over 40 reactors by the year 2000, at which time nuclear power would account for 60 per cent of electricity generation and 20 per cent of the Republic of Korea ‘s total energy requirements. [More…]
In many of the democracies, nuclear power programs will be set back. [More…]
We note that Sweden will now hold a referendum on nuclear power. [More…]
If, on the other hand, nuclear power is supposedly only a stop-gap to be replaced by more benevolent, renewable alternatives several decades from now, we must doubt very much whether nuclear power now has the viability to be a gap-filler. [More…]
There are reactions against nuclear power, but other countries with major nuclear programs will continue with these and are likely also to press for exports. [More…]
Promises from the Fraser Government specifically in relation to taxation matters, have the staying power of snowballs lobbed in hell. [More…]
The average income earner would need to have his income before tax increased by $8.50 a week if in real terms he were to have as much spending power now as he had in 1975. [More…]
They also need to remember, despite the fact that so many pensioners came to Canberra a couple of weeks ago to complain about some of the things that had been done by this Government, that it was the government which removed taxation on low income earners that was imposed by the Opposition when it was in power. [More…]
It should be noted that, in accordance with the recommendations of the royal commission, the definition of ‘security’ in the present Act has been expanded to include not only espionage, sabotage and subversion but also active measures of foreign intervention (meaning clandestine or deceptive action taken by a foreign power to promote the interests of that power) and terrorism. [More…]
It should be noted that, while ASIO will be empowered to collect intelligence concerning these matters, criminal offences are not thereby created. [More…]
This was recognised by the Royal Commission which concluded that the Organization required certain specified powers of intelligence collection and that the laws should be changed to this end. [More…]
From the States’ point of view the benefit of the arrangement is that their legislative powers are not eroded by an unrestricted exercise of the Commonwealth’s external affairs power. [More…]
A new section 15 is substituted which provides broad enabling powers under which standards of competence to be attained and other conditions to be satisfied in order to be ‘qualified’ for the purposes of the Act will be specified by regulation or by order under the regulations. [More…]
The power conferred by section 25 of the Administrative Appeals Tribunal Act will be used to make regulations prescribing the jurisdiction of the Tribunal in these matters. [More…]
The Opposition does not for one moment concede that provision should be made to allow a government maintaining attitudes such as those held by this Government to have the power to dismiss, to sack, to retrench employees of the Commonwealth Public Service at its whim. [More…]
In the 3V4 years that this Government has been in power, we have seen thousands of jobs closed off in the Commonwealth Public Service. [More…]
At least the Commonwealth public servants have had the common sense to say: ‘We are not accepting one decent provision of this Bill because we realise that at the same time an axe is hanging over the head of everybody who works in the Commonwealth Public Service through the various clauses of this Bill which give the Government the power to ascribe any reason at all to a dismissal.’ [More…]
It is a matter of great regret that in many of the major countries inflation is rising rather than still falling and the power of their economies is so great that we are all affected by what they do and by the decisions they make. [More…]
We will also be diminishing the possibility of an outbreak of super power tension in our region. [More…]
Honourable members should remember that the only military super power bases that are established in our region at the present time apart from communication bases in Australia are American bases in the Philippines. [More…]
As I said, one can take a line through the Government’s policies on staff ceilings to see what it would do with the new power which is made available under the Commonwealth Employees (Redeployment and Retirement) Bill. [More…]
But giving it wide powers for the dismissal of people for any reason which is provided for under clause 7 of this Bill is something to which we on the Opposition side of the House and to which people who will be subject to the provisions of this Bill are opposed. [More…]
But that is exactly what the Government argued when it put forward the view that the Public Service should be smaller numerically than it was when the Government came to power. [More…]
In relation to permanent staff, those provisions give the Public Service Board power to retrench staff excess to requirements, to retire persons who have reached minimum retiring age and to retire persons who are inefficient for reasons within or beyond their own control. [More…]
There has been a suggestion also that the Bill gives excessive power to the Public Service Board to interfere in departments through the redeployment powers. [More…]
Ultimately, the Board will have the power to redeploy staff in departments. [More…]
But this general power is already given to the Board in the Public Service Act which is on the statutes at the moment. [More…]
There we saw the same circumstances and the same processes, and the same sugar-coated operation was laid down in regulations that were provided for the purpose of retrenching people when the power houses in Victoria began to shut down to give way to changes in technology. [More…]
The power to declare that employees are in excess of requirements is frightening, both from the viewpoint of the employees who become its direct victims and for those who remain. [More…]
Clause 7 also gives frightening powers to the Government and its permanent heads. [More…]
Fancy putting that power in the hands of individuals like the honourable member for La Trobe (Mr Baillieu), the Minister for Employment and Youth Affairs or the honourable member for Casey. [More…]
That power, along with the basic motivation of this Bill, means the end of permanency and the end of the capacity of public servants to see themselves as rendering a service without the fear of people applying undue pressure on them throughout their careers. [More…]
In fact I have no doubt that the previous Labor Government, had it remained in power just a few months longer, would have arrived at precisely the same conclusion as has this Government. [More…]
The American approach towards defence is not like that of the small-minded people who unfortunately have been in power for too many years since 1970. [More…]
If this amendment were agreed to by the Government, section 67 would be repealed, but there would be no power under the Bill to prescribe, as a reason for action under clause 7, the inefficiency or incompetence or unfitness to discharge or incapacity of discharging the duties of the office of a particular officer. [More…]
There will be the power to dismiss them. [More…]
I have already referred to the protection given through the power of Parliament to scrutinise the regulation and, if it is a bad regulation, to disallow it. [More…]
The Opposition is concerned about the relationship between the powers of the Public Service Board and the powers of the permanent head as contained in clause 9 which is titled ‘Efficient and economical use of staff’. [More…]
We believe that the amendments we have moved to clause 9 will reassert the power of the permanent head vis-a-vis the Public Service Board. [More…]
Clause 8 gives the Public Service Board a powerful regulatory and coordinating role which we believe the Board sought to divest itself of some years ago. [More…]
In those circumstances the tribunal has the power to substitute for the appellant’s declaration a declaration in respect of one of the other parties to the appeal. [More…]
The increased consumer power created would probably wipe out most of the unemployment prevalent in today’s society. [More…]
We recommend that the power to diagnose any excess of staff and to identify and take action regarding particular redundant officers under section 20- [More…]
However departments should only have power to retire such staff provisionally. [More…]
You will recall that the Opposition argued as if the provision in the Bill dealing with excessive staff was some kind of tyrannical exercise of power by the Government. [More…]
Government instrumentality, will pay for this decision in the future because in a few months’ time a new power house will be commenced and probably in 18 months’ time there will be a call for metal tradesmen. [More…]
I remind honourable members that when the power house at Port Augusta was being built many ANR employees left the railways and took up better paid jobs at the power house. [More…]
We have 1,707 unemployed juniors in Ballarat who are receiving $36 a week, a rate that has not been changed since this Government came to power. [More…]
If the Labor Party were in power - [More…]
As a result of that paper there has been a commitment made by IEA members that they will endeavour to convert oil-burning electric power stations to coal-fired power stations and that any new stations to be erected are to be coalfired ones. [More…]
I think that the honourable gentleman forgets that as Treasurer he deliberately sought to compel the trading banks of this nation to finance the affairs of his Government illegally, without power, against the Constitution and in a way which assuredly would have destroyed democracy in Australia. [More…]
What worries me is not just the tragic legacy that they have left in terms of distorted urban areas and inflated land prices; it is that the few big financial institutions in this country with immense economic power, amassed from the working people, are restructuring their operations in a way that profits the few and further exploits the many across the board. [More…]
The Government of the land is supposed to have the power to determine issues. [More…]
It is in that context that we have to examine the power of the finance companies, the largest five of which account for 46 per cent of total finance company capital. [More…]
When people reflect on what Labor attempted to do when in power, I sometimes wonder what they might think if we went back and talked about the 23 years that preceded those three years of a Labor Government and the enormous backlog in problems, particularly problems affecting Australian cities that were attempted to be tackled, I believe, in a serious manner, particularly in the urban area through the then Minister and his Department. [More…]
Soon after the Fraser Government came to power and in the nearly four years that it has been in office not one inch of the park has been declared. [More…]
We will do all in our power to ensure that it is protected and preserved. [More…]
It is this immense economic and political power of the large corporation which challenges any. [More…]
In an energy hungry world, we are selling those resources not to the developing countries, not to the countries that have not yet established industrial bases, but we are exporting those resources more and more rapidly simply to reinforce the power of the United States, Japan and the western European countries, and a few islands of very antidemocratic regimes. [More…]
This great concentration of power in fewer and fewer hands is subject to less and less democratic control. [More…]
It is creating circumstances in which decent young people who want to make a contribution to this community are not being allowed to make that contribution because there is a government in power with Fascist tendencies that supports industry with thousands of millions of dollars, but will not support the needs of those kids of this nation. [More…]
Yet when the Labor Party was in power it had the opportunity to index taxation but it did not opt for it. [More…]
The time has come when the Government ought to consider holding a referendum to gain constitutional power over resource-energy decisions. [More…]
In addition to parliamentary scrutiny there is also the need to set up a commission with the power to monitor world trends in both minerals and fuels and to collect commercial statistics and data at a national and international level to enable precise evaluation and forecasting. [More…]
Their spending power will go down. [More…]
The then Opposition spokesman on primary industry, the present Minister for Industrial Relations (Mr Street), described the instruction as an abuse of power, an example of the then Government’s authoritarian iron fist which opened the danger of governments appointing only ‘yes men’ to marketing boards. [More…]
But the Minister for Primary Industry, who alone had the power to instruct the Board, did nothing. [More…]
We are able to operate only through the power of persuasion. [More…]
The reason the Minister made that statement following some changes that had been made- they were the third lot of major changes made by the Government since it came to power- was that it was silly to keep on jumping from one point to another without knowing what the effect of those changes would be. [More…]
Let us remember that Pay-as-you-earn taxation was $7,000m in 1975-76 when we were last in power. [More…]
Those who have retired on a pension, fixed in terms of money, suffer the full loss of purchasing power as consumer prices rise, and they get no compensation. [More…]
Within a few months of coming to power this Prime Minister absolutely destroyed Medibank. [More…]
I remind the House and I remind the people of Australia of what happened in 1973 when a government came to power and made promises that involved the spending of large amounts of money. [More…]
When we came to power we lived up to that promise. [More…]
The Prime Minister told the Australian people in 1975 that all they needed to do was to put the Liberal-National Country Party coalition into power and all would be well. [More…]
Let it not be forgotten, as pointed out by the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Hayden), that we have a Prime Minister who has now been in power in both Houses of Parliament for four years. [More…]
Four years later, with power in both Houses, what was the input of the Minister’s statement last Thursday? [More…]
That this House denounces and condemns the Leader of the Opposition for his gross deception and fraudulence in endeavouring to pass himself off as a supporter of lower taxation, notwithstanding his atrocious record as Treasurer and his recent public threats exposed at the National Press Club on15 March this year that if elected to power, he would impose additional and iniquitous taxes on the people of Australia, including, a capital gains tax, resource rental tax, and a restructuring of personal income tax involving marginal rates, conservatively assessed as being as high as eighty cents in the dollar. [More…]
Another example is the power dispute in Victoria. [More…]
It has no power or mandate to pass legislation that will injure people, impose fines or deregister unions. [More…]
They rely on a promise that the Prime Minister made in 1975 when he said: ‘The Government will support wage indexation and we will maintain the purchasing power of wages’. [More…]
This obnoxious legislation gives power to the Industrial Relations Bureau to summon trade unions and individual union members before the industrial division of the Federal Court of Australia. [More…]
It gives that court power to penalise unions, employees and employers for a number of reasons. [More…]
It provides, in section 15, power to suspend members of trade unions, officials of trade unions, to deregister trade unions and to freeze the funds of trade unions. [More…]
The power of the Board to borrow commercially- for example, by bank overdraft, with the approval of the Minister- is retained. [More…]
In 1973, when Senator Wriedt, who was then the Minister for Agriculture, issued instructions to the Board, the Country Party accused the Labor Government of using an ‘iron fist’ and called it ‘an abuse of power’. [More…]
Bill giving the Minister the power to determine that stamp duty or similar tax will not be payable on certain classes of securities that may be dealt with by the Board. [More…]
If the Labor Party had been in power the inflation rate would have reached unprecedented heights, given the present economic climate throughout the world. [More…]
3 proposes a new section 1 1 to give formal power for the Governor-General to enter into appropriate arrangements with the government of a State or the Administrator of the Northern Territory. [More…]
Honourable members will be aware that at present, without the amendments to the Customs Act, the Minister and, in some circumstances, the Comptroller-General, has the power under certain State legislation to authorise the use of listening devices. [More…]
All this occurred while a conservative coalition government was in power. [More…]
Moreover, by 1977-78 when the present Government was in power- these are the latest, official statistics available- the proportion of our exports going to the Common Market countries was less than 14 per cent. [More…]
All that has happened in the last few years since the Fraser Government came to power. [More…]
The Fraser Government seized power in 1975 in circumstances which can be charitably described only as being very sinister. [More…]
It has been in power now for almost four years. [More…]
Every government in the course of its stay in power will make statements which it sometimes has to repudiate but I am sure that the Australian people think that election promises require reverence. [More…]
One quarter of a million people have fallen into the unemployment category since this Government seized power. [More…]
Our reforms will maintain the purchasing power of wages and ease the pressure for excessive wage demands. [More…]
It is a massive economic cost in terms of taxation revenue forgone, unemployment benefit outlays and reduced spending powers. [More…]
Imagine the spending power and the stimulus that would be given to the economy if we had those 800,000 people in employment. [More…]
The story of Labor’s three-year rule makes a sobering case study of what can happen to such an economically advantaged country as Australia when high spending proponents of big government are voted into power. [More…]
The report of the Hope Commission into the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation uses condemnatory words about an excess of power and bureaucratic designs by ASIO to show that its officers were capable of detecting crimes that had never been committed and having people wrongly blamed. [More…]
I am sure that he did so unintentionally but he said that the power to use listening devices can be delegated to us by the State authorities and that we can exercise that power. [More…]
It is peculiar that we can make a concession of that kind when section 219 indicates that the Commonwealth Parliament ought to exercise that particular power. [More…]
When the Government realised it did not have the right to exercise the power it went to a State parliament which is subordinate to the Commonwealth Parliament and said: ‘Delegate this power to us and we will do something that is not possible to do under the Commonwealth law’. [More…]
I do not believe that it is the wish of ordinary men and women that special power given in relation to narcotics should be broadened to deal with matters involving SP bookmaking, drunken driving - [More…]
I believe that there are ample grounds for the amendment moved by the honourable member for Sturt to be considered very carefully before the legislation goes further and for the Government to consider a limitation on a power which, in essence, should be restricted totally to narcotics and drug traffickers. [More…]
I would have said- again the honourable member for Hunter (Mr James) will know the provisions to which I refer because they appear in practically every State criminal code or crimes Act- that there is usually a power now for a judge, following conviction, to make an order either for payment of damages or for confiscation of property. [More…]
If the drugs have not been imported the Government does not have any power. [More…]
Faults have occurred in two main areas, the power divider and the brakes. [More…]
1 ) (a) LP 32 16-Receiving tube, power output pentode, typeEL85. [More…]
It means more power and independence for the States but it also means more responsibility for the States. [More…]
Training policy is too important to be left in the hands of the illiterate and power hungry. [More…]
Therefore manpower adjustment must ensure that there is available to each worker the opportunities and services he or she needs in order to lead a satisfying life. [More…]
There has been no comprehensive statement of government manpower policy and objectives since the 1945 White Paper- Full Employment in Australia. [More…]
While many inquiries have been conducted in recent years, they have not been drawn together into an overall policy framework, nor have all aspects of man-power policy been reviewed. [More…]
This blatant indecision is not the action of a government which is sure of its policies and consistent in their implementation; rather it is the product of a government which is searching desperately for the way out, for the magic formula which will bring about fulfilment of the wild and extravagant promises of economic recovery upon which this Government rode to power. [More…]
One would think that nothing had happened since this Government came to power at the end of 1975. [More…]
If one is going to talk about accuracy in terms of numeracy and literacy then one ought to applaud those teachers who have been able, under the most difficult circumstances and with virtually no support whatsoever until Labor came to power, to introduce hundreds of thousands of children from foreign backgrounds into this community with the absolute minimum of social disruption. [More…]
They are being kept out of the work force because it suits the Government that is in power in Canberra at the present time to exploit these 200,000 young people in that if they were in the work force it might put some pressure on inflation or some other indicator. [More…]
When the Fraser Government came to power it changed all that. [More…]
1 ) Charging of batteries to power an unattended navigational aid light. [More…]
The main benefit of this alternative power source will be a reduction in equipment operating costs. [More…]
4 ) , ( 5 ) and ( 6 ) Use of solar cells for power generation has been limited due to high power requirements of the majority of navigational aids and the uncertain reliability of solar power sources for operational aids. [More…]
However solar cell application has and is being actively investigated, with one system already installed at Ayers Rock, Northern Territory, providing power to a recording anemomenter, and an experimental Distance Measuring Equipment power support system at Essenden Airport. [More…]
As mentioned in the Annual Report of the Department of Transport for 1977-78 (page 139) tabled in Parliament on 20 February 1979, design work is progressing for a solarpowered lead light system to operate in the Torres Strait. [More…]
In many cases there are frustrating conflicts with other departments, jealousies, power plays and unfortunately sometimes inefficiencies. [More…]
The Commonwealth has no power to ration this fuel. [More…]
That newspaper report simply serves to highlight that it is primarily a State responsibility to make a decision about and to go ahead with the construction of the Burdekin dam, just as it is necessarily a State responsibility to be concerned about a whole range of infrastructure developments, whether they be roads, dams, electricity generating power plants or any other such project. [More…]
Yet in this particular case, it would seem to me that the system has done all in its power to prevent a very small sum of money from being allocated to that project, whilst at the same time actively condoning what would appear to be wastage within the system. [More…]
Mr Justice Barwick helped this Government get into power. [More…]
A lot has changed since this Government came into power. [More…]
This has happened since this Government has been in power. [More…]
Since the Fraser Government came to power the average duration of unemployment has more than doubled- it has gone from 13 weeks to 27 weeks. [More…]
One could talk about the levels of benefits and what has not happened to those benefits since this Government has been in power. [More…]
When the Opposition was in power Australia led all the measured countries of the world except Turkey. [More…]
I conclude my remarks in very much the same fashion as I frequently do when speaking in States other than my own by saying this: As long as this Government remains in power and as long as I have a committee under me which is as competent as it is and which can help to bolster up its chairman, then there is no question whatsoever that in times of stress or trouble the rural industries of this nation can depend on the Government and on my committee to protect them from adversity. [More…]
The honourable member should remember that when the Australian Labor Party was in power in 1974 and the cattle industry was practically on its knees, it made no effort at all to decrease the levy. [More…]
When the present Government came into power in December 1975 it lifted the levy in February 1976. [More…]
What other aid did the Government give to the beef industry when it came into power? [More…]
The fact of the matter is that after coming into power the only positive step which the Government took to aid the beef industry was to remove the levy in February 1976. [More…]
The Government which came into power in 1975 really failed to do anything for two years except, as I have said, take off the levy of 1.6c per lb. [More…]
Given the financial constraints of the Liberal-National Country Party Government, particularly since it came to power in 1975, 1 cannot see the Government putting forward that sort of money. [More…]
At the time, the Australian Wool Industry Council recommended that the new body, the Australian Wool Corporation, should be equipped with powers, including the power to acquire compulsorily the total Australian wool clip. [More…]
Keeping in mind the instant diplomatic recognition of the governments of Afghanistan, Iran and Uganda which have taken power recently without the advantage of democratic elections, I believe Zimbabwe-Rhodesia has a strong case for international recognition, bearing in mind the 64 per cent poll. [More…]
Such recognition must depend, of course, on a genuine transfer of power in the public service and other government instrumentalities reflecting the will of the new black majority Muzorewa government. [More…]
This amendment is designed to take away that power and to assist employers in withstanding industrial pressures. [More…]
It led to a disputation about power, about administration off-shore in relation to fishing and the mining of petroleum right around the Australian coast. [More…]
Clearly, the residual and reserve power, as a result of the High Court decisions, rests with the Commonwealth. [More…]
It said: ‘We have the power. [More…]
In particular, the motion stated that the power of the Assembly to disburse poker machine funds had been in existence for more than three years and therefore formed part of the ‘present arrangements’ for which 63 per cent of electors voted in November 1978 and formed an essential part of the arrangements on the basis of which the Assembly agreed to the ordinance. [More…]
The Minister’s action was undemocratic because it vested more power in the centralised decision-making structure and removed it from a body more representative of the people. [More…]
He said that the 63 per cent of the electors who voted for ‘no change’ to the Legislative Assembly really were saying that the Assembly should have no power of any kind. [More…]
Under the Seas and Submerged Lands Act it has constitutional power beyond the low water mark and, accordingly, I cannot understand why there has been so much temporising and so much delay on this matter. [More…]
The amendment moved by the honourable member for Prospect (Dr Klugman) is most interesting because he is saying that if Labor were returned to power it would not reintroduce Medibank. [More…]
The Australian Labor Party, if in power, would certainly face up to the problems of cost containment. [More…]
It is equally absurd to suggest that because certain cost problems arose with Medibank I, once it was operative and the Labor Government was out of power, we would not have faced up to such problems had we still been in power. [More…]
Over the 3 1/2 years that this Government has been in power, we have seen three major changes and many minor changes to the health scheme which was introduced by the Labor Government in 1974; a scheme which in 1975, this Government, when in Opposition and when moving towards power, said that it would implement and continue. [More…]
The Labor Party is very strongly committed when it returns to power to moving back to a system of universal health insurance, a system in which people, irrespective of their income level and their health situation, can depend on receiving care at no direct cost to themselves. [More…]
Mr Wran happens to be the leader of the Labor Party in New South Wales, and I suggest that he has the power to control private hospitals in his State. [More…]
If Mr Wran exercises that power and encourages the Hospitals Corporation of Australia to embark on building new hospitals in the electorate of the honourable member for Cunningham, the honourable member should riot blame the Commonwealth Government for it. [More…]
Yet we never hear a word about the Soviet Union or the East European countries which are pushing ahead with nuclear power generation as fast as they can. [More…]
It is all right for a few people who want to get round in a loin cloth or to live up a tree to live without nuclear power, but the great bulk of the people look to the future so that their children can have a standard of living comparable to ours. [More…]
As a result of the decision of the High Court of Australia which, as my statement acknowledges, gives the Commonwealth undoubted power from the low water mark out- there is no question of that- a number of practical matters had to be resolved between the Commonwealth and the States. [More…]
Another set of problems is posed by the High Court of Australia decision on the Seas and Submerged Lands Act, which clearly, as I indicated yesterday, gave the Commonwealth constitutional power. [More…]
Very real, practical problems have been flowing out of that High Court decision which gave the Commonwealth constitutional power. [More…]
Not only was the purchase of the aircraft a waste and an extravagance, but also I believe the manner in which Qantas was paid was an abuse of ministerial power. [More…]
After all, it was the Australian Labor Party when in government which appointed Justice Fox to head the inquiry into uranium mining and export- generally the nuclear power industryand I believe his report was one of the more significant contributions towards the information of the public mind on this subject. [More…]
Clause 7 of the Bill extends the powers of quarantine officers to include the power to inspect baggage which has come from an overseas vessel or aircraft. [More…]
These powers are presently vested in Customs officers, and in practice Customs and quarantine officers work closely together in the clearance of overseas baggage. [More…]
It is reasonable and proper that our quarantine officers should have the power to inspect baggage in their own right to carry out their duties effectively under the Quarantine Act. [More…]
The Bill also extends the power of quarantine officers to search premises to detect animals, plants or goods that may be a source of introduction or spread of a quarantinable disease. [More…]
However, this Government considers that as these actions affect property and the rights of individuals it is most desirable that where practicable the appropriate powers should be set out in specific legislation. [More…]
Construction in the Northern Territory is largely limited to the dry season- that is April to the end of Novemberand during this dry season the Jabiru Town Development Authority proposes a program to build the construction camp and access roads, and to provide temporary water-supply, sewerage, power and telecommunication services for the camp. [More…]
In one sense the provision suggested by the Opposition could lead to the Australian Federal Police becoming a political police force because it proposes that the Minister be given power to give any directions he likes. [More…]
The Opposition is suggesting that there should be the power to direct and that that direction be made public. [More…]
The Minister, in being given the power to direct in regard to general policy should, I believe, be prohibited in these words: [More…]
The answer does not lie in making these services subordinate to leaky committees of self-serving politicians, but in appointing men of integrity to run them, men who can be relied upon not to abuse their power. [More…]
We have to provide the bulwark that secures a commissioner of police in circumstances where the power and the authority vested in him cannot be abused by him or, indeed, by Ministers who seek to take advantage of the circumstances of the information that is available to those forces. [More…]
But of course we do not accept what exists in the States because we say that if this power is given, as we believe it should be given, to Executive Government, then we have to protect the people against any arbitrary misuse of this power by [More…]
In clause 39 of the Bill, the Commissioner is given power to transfer to a lower rank or retire members of the Australian Federal Police on the grounds of overstaffing. [More…]
Whilst the Commissioner is given power to vary this period, it is a ridiculously long period in the first place. [More…]
Whilst the vast majority of policemen and policewomen are totally dedicated, hard working and underpaid, there are and perhaps always will be a minority unwilling to use properly the power given to them by society. [More…]
Our amendments will ensure that the power of governments to make decisions is not limited. [More…]
the power of appointment and dismissal of the Commissioner to be vested specifically in the Governor-General in Council; [More…]
The power of the Minister to give a direction is restricted. [More…]
It deals with the regulation making power with respect to the promotion of members, including the right of members to appeal against promotion of other members and the establishment of a promotion appeals board to hear and determine such appeals. [More…]
How is it that we are being asked tonight to vote on a piece of legislation that gives to the Executive a power to govern this country in terms of the running of its police force? [More…]
It has not put within the legislation in which it authorises the setting up of institutions sufficient restrictions to prevent the abuse of power. [More…]
It is that capacity to retrieve information, information that is irrelevant but possibly compromising of an innocent citizen, that leaves this Parliament in a position where it does not adequately discharge its responsibilities if it confers upon law enforcing authorities and other instrumentalities the power to gather information but in no way restricts the capacity of those who gather it to abuse the trust that is placed in them by this Parliament. [More…]
I believe that he had the sole power of dismissal of members of the Commonwealth Police Force. [More…]
Has the Government any view on these types of suggestions for trying to break down what is a rigid division of jurisdiction power which had led to feuding, in this case, not between State and Federal authorities but between two forms of Federal authorities. [More…]
The first relates to appointment, the second to removal and the third to the power to give political directions. [More…]
Secondly, I want to take up the issue of the Government’s power to give political directions. [More…]
In the present Bill the power of the Minister to give directions is considerably limited. [More…]
In New South Wales, Queensland and Tasmania, the Minister has the power to direct the police specifically, without limitation. [More…]
It is true that no such power exists in Western Australia. [More…]
However, we do not want to suggest that a Minister or a Ministry should have this power without limitation. [More…]
We are trying here to balance the power of the Executive to give instructions, but, at the same time, to be accountable to this Parliament by immediately laying on the table of the House instructions that were given and putting them into the Commonwealth Gazette. [More…]
The Northern Territory Ombudsman Ordinance provides for a widening of the Ombudsman’s power to investigate complaints against individual policemen generally along the lines of the Commission ‘s proposals. [More…]
In four special cases, the Ombudsman should have a reserve power, at his discretion, to undertake an independent investigation of his own. [More…]
Where a difference arises in respect of external complaints, the Ombudsman should have power, by making a formal recommendation, to ensure that a charge is brought by police and determined before the tribunal (para. [More…]
In later times the mode of appointment came to be regulated for the most part by Statute, and the power of appointment was vested in specified authorities, such as municipal authorities or justices. [More…]
Again, at common law constables had large powers necessarily incident to the discharge of their functions as peace officers or conservators of the peace, amongst which perhaps the most important was the authority to arrest on suspicion of felony. [More…]
To these powers others of a like nature have from time to time been added by statutory provisions, of which the 1 79th section of the Police Act is an instance. [More…]
But there is no reason for thinking that the mere statutory addition to the list of their powers altered the essential nature of those powers. [More…]
The power to arrest for breach of the peace or other offences is given by the common law, not to the local bodies responsible for keeping the peace, but to their officer the constable . [More…]
The power to arrest is given not to the local body nor the municipality, nor, in cases where a Government Police Force exists, to the Government- but to a constable, that is to a person who for the time being holds the office of constable. [More…]
that to make a police authority vicariously liable for a constable’s actions would not derogate from this status: nor would it confer any power upon a police authority to control his duties. [More…]
“Sub-Division 4- Constitution and Powers of Tribunal “ 122. [More…]
“(2) The President may, either generally or as otherwise provided by the instrument of delegation, by writing signed by him, delegate all or any of his powers under sub-section ( 1 ) to a Deputy President. [More…]
“(3) A delegation under sub-section (2) is revocable at will and does not prevent the exercise of a power by the President. [More…]
( 1 ) The Tribunal shall, for the purpose of the exercise of its powers in relation to a matter, be constituted by one member. [More…]
“(2 ) The Tribunal constituted by one member may sit and exercise the powers of the Tribunal notwithstanding that the Tribunal constituted by another member is at the same time sitting and exercising the powers of the Tribunal. [More…]
“(5) Paragraph 3(c) does not affect the power of the Commissioner to determine the place at which a police officer is to perform his duties. [More…]
He found that a situation needed redress and he has taken every action within his power to do just that. [More…]
Again, I think that if one looks at the record of the Minister for Primary Industry since he became executor of his father’s estate, it will be perfectly plain that he has taken every action within his power to right whatever irregularities existed. [More…]
As I said earlier today in the debate on the United Nations General Assembly report, as a Second World power, Australia has a part to play in international problems of this nature. [More…]
It has general power over appropriation of revenues to both the police forces and armed forces and the government has power to issue general policy directions to both the police and the Army. [More…]
The Labor Party’s policy is that, having regard to the present unresolved economic, social, biological, genetic, environmental and technical problems associated with the mining of uranium and the development of nuclear power in particular, until Australian sovereignty, the needs of our environment, the economic welfare of our people and the rights and wellbeing of the Aboriginal people are understood we will not assist in any way the Government’s actions to carry out uranium mining in the Northern Territory. [More…]
Labor believes, that having regard to the present unresolved economic, social, biological, genetic, environmental and technical problems associated with the mining of uranium and the development of nuclear power and’ in particular: [More…]
to the proven contribution of the nuclear power industry to the proliferation of nuclear weapons and the increased risk of nuclear war; [More…]
The nuclear power industry is unintentionally contributing to an increased risk of nuclear war. [More…]
The nuclear power industry is a very dangerous industry. [More…]
Uranium mining cannot be divorced from the nuclear power industry because nuclear energy provides the material for the development of nuclear weapons and this increases the risk of nuclear war. [More…]
The nuclear power industry is interrelated with the uranium mining industry. [More…]
What about the cost of decommissioning nuclear power stations after their 30 years life has ended? [More…]
We know that economics are drying up the nuclear power industry. [More…]
I would remind Territorians, when they hear or read this speech that the honourable member for Reid, one time Deputy Leader of the Labor Party, has stated that if the Labor Party is ever returned to power it will shut down uranium mining. [More…]
It believes in the market forces- the free enterprise system and the power of the corporate sector- determining growth. [More…]
The Labor Government came to power in December 1972. [More…]
The Power Reactor and Nuclear Fuel Development Corporation plans to construct a plant for reprocessing lowenriched oxide fuel from Light Water Reactors with capacity of five tonnes a day to commence operation in 1990. [More…]
The Social Services Act was amended on 10 November 1 977 to give the Director-General power to grant a handicapped child’s allowance in respect of a substantially handicapped child as distinct from a severely handicapped child. [More…]
(There was a general election earlier in 1962 prior to independence which saw Dr Milton Obote ‘s Uganda People’s Congress/Kabaka Yekka alliance elected to power. [More…]
What are the legal aspects of concern to Australia regarding nuclear power sources in space, as raised by Mr F. P. Nolan, the Australian representative on the Legal Sub Committee of the United Nations Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space, at its meeting in April 1 979. [More…]
At the 18th Session of the Legal Sub-Committee of the United Nations Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space, the Australian Delegation supported a Canadian proposal that an item entitled ‘Legal Aspects of the Uses of Nuclear Power Sources in Outer Space’ should be included in the agenda of the Sub-Committee’s next session. [More…]
) further development of the existing outer space legal regime to require the launching State to provide notification prior to the launching of a satellite carrying a nuclear power source; [More…]
b) elaboration of an obligation to provide early warning of a possible re-entry or malfunctioning of a satellite containing a nuclear power source; [More…]
Officials will be further considering legal aspects of the use of nuclear power sources in outer space in an effort to identify those points of concern to Australia. [More…]
Will the Minister, therefore, take all necessary steps to see that Radio Australia is given a higher signal and more power so that our views can be well heard in world affairs? [More…]
It is the Opposition’s considered view that, this matter having been submitted to a tribunal, there should be no power of disallowance. [More…]
Many large cities would have power rationing. [More…]
I feel that in those circumstances the House ought to be reminded that with a little study it can be shown that there has been not a great deal of variation over quite a long period, irrespective of the government in power. [More…]
I would like to point out that Public Service legislation has given management that power for a great many years now. [More…]
I think it is an important point to emphasise continually that this Government, certainly in 1975, and I think to a large extent in 1977, came into power on the basis that it would reduce taxation. [More…]
the Commonwealth’s power to legislate to control the advertising of alcohol and tobacco is restricted to television and radio. [More…]
5 ) The Commonwealth has no power to take such action. [More…]
Are Australian tobacco companies involved in the practice of dumping high tar content cigarettes in underdeveloped countries; if so, (a) is Queensland tobacco being used for this purpose and (b) does the Federal Government have the power to prevent this activity. [More…]
If no power exists, what other preventative measures can be taken. [More…]
1 ) When and by which Department or statutory authority were estimates of nuclear power capacity in Australia of O.5 GW in 1988 and 1.0 GW in 1990 which are contained in an OECD Nuclear Energy Agency report entitled Nuclear Fuel Cycle Requirements (February 1978) provided to that Agency. [More…]
Is he able to state the Government’s intention regarding the development of nuclear power in Australia. [More…]
What are the most recent estimates of future nuclear power capacity in Australia. [More…]
1 ) Estimates of nuclear power capacity in Australia of 0.5 GW in 1988 and 1.0 GW in 1990 were provided by the Australian Atomic Energy Commission (AAEC) to the OECD Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) in 1975, in response to a questionnaire seeking information for the 1975 joint IAEA/NEA report Uranium Resources. [More…]
Estimates of nuclear power in Australia provided by the AAEC for the 1975 report on Uranium Resources, Production and Demand took into account the intentions of State electricity generating authorities as they were understood at that time. [More…]
3 ) The Commonwealth Government has no plans to construct a nuclear power reactor for electricity generation in Australia. [More…]
In their planning for future power needs nuclear power is clearly an option which will be considered. [More…]
The experiences of other countries are being closely monitored so that the appropriate power supplying authorities will be in a position to reach considered decisions on the nuclear option if and when the need arises. [More…]
Since 7 March 1979 the Directors of Queensland Mines have reported that it is the intention of the Shikoku Electric Power Co., Inc. and Kyushu Electric Power Co., Inc. to sign a Letter of Intent with Queensland Mines to negotiate the purchase of a further substantial quantity of uranium. [More…]
Is this research being carried out to determine the fate of nuclear wastes produced by a nuclear power plant of the type proposed by Sir Charles Court in Western Australia and is it proposed that this waste would be disposed of by dumping into the ocean. [More…]
-I ask the Prime Minister: Is it a fact that since his Government came to power in December 1975 the wage of the average worker with dependent spouse and two children has increased by $50 a week, but to buy the same amount of goods and services as before now costs $50.8 1 more a week? [More…]
That represents a 54 per cent increase in revenue since this Government came to power. [More…]
I remind the honourable member who interjected that the Labor Government did not do anything about the doctors when it was in power. [More…]
Under the Northern Territory (SelfGovernment) Act 1978, the Legislative Assembly of the Northern Territory exercises legislative power in respect of the peace, order and good government of the Territory. [More…]
Accordingly, with the traditional view of the division of governmental powers into legislative, executive and judicial arms in mind, it only remains for the Northern Territory Government to assume responsibility for the judicial arm of government. [More…]
I think they provide for better methods of giving power to quarantine officers both at the point of entry into Australia and when dealing with suspected breaches of the Act. [More…]
There was great pressure from the members of the Legislative Assembly, as we christened it in, I think, 1974, to have their powers defined. [More…]
They used to complain: ‘We have no powers’. [More…]
My own view, expressed quite often, was that they had the power to make whatever legislation they felt was proper for them. [More…]
The Australian Capital Territory Electricity Authority would do well to see what it can do to promote the use of electricity, solar power and alternative methods of heating in this capital city. [More…]
However, the Commonwealth would have had the power to set the interest rates within that band, based on standard periods of maturity. [More…]
But we do emphasise that we will keep a watchful eye on how the scheme operates, as I am sure the Premiers will be required to do because they have given the Government quite considerable power. [More…]
In place of the fixed manning scales specified in the 1912 Navigation Act, the Minister will henceforth be empowered to determine appropriate levels. [More…]
As in all cases where ministerial discretion replaces fixed statutes, vigilance by the Parliament, the industry and the trade unions will be necessary to safeguard against the potential existing for abuse of ministerial power. [More…]
The Bill also extends the Minister’s power to make orders, granting greater flexibility in the specification of technical rules. [More…]
That is not so surprising except that in June 1978 the State Government went to considerable trouble to lay concrete slabs and erect power poles at each of those eight schools. [More…]
A number of my constituents approached me about what these concrete slabs and power poles were for and they were told that they were for the mobile dental units. [More…]
It has cut back on the level of funding which was provided during the time the Whitlam Government was in power. [More…]
They have had some chance to see a stable horizon since this Government came to power. [More…]
1 litre), (c) 1979 Chrysler Valiant (4.3 litre), (d) 1979 Toyota Corolla, (e) 1979 Datsun Skyline, (f) Mazda 323, (g) 1979 Honda Civic, (h) 1979 Mercedes Benz 450 SL, (j) 1979 Volkswagen Golf, (k) 1979 Toyota Crown and (I) 1979 Ford Cortina (2 litre) when (i) fitted and (ii) not fitted with (A) power steering, (B) automatic transmission, (C) air conditioning, (D) radial tyres, (E) power windows, (F) power seats, (G) limited slip differential and (H) AM-FM radio/ stereo cassette player. [More…]
What safeguards are in existence to prevent the Pritchard car project from failing to reach the market as a result of purchase of the patents to the vehicle or the Pritchard Steam Power Company by major motor manufacturers. [More…]
1 ) Under a 1 975 agreement with Pritchard Steam Power Pty Ltd, the Commonwealth, at no cost to the Company, manufactured at Bendigo Ordnance Factory 3 steam power units; during the latter half of 1977 they were delivered to the Company. [More…]
I understand that in drawing up the agreement both sides felt the importance of obtaining verifiable results from a power unit which would be built to approved engineering standards. [More…]
They also envisaged that further development of the unit would take place, and in particular that the Company would road test an especially designed car powered by such a unit. [More…]
The Company has now spent this grant without having completed the agreed testing program on the power units. [More…]
Nor has the Government told us, for example, that the Philippines has now decided not to proceed with the nuclear power reactor which it wanted to build and for which it wanted Australian uranium. [More…]
I recently had a chance to visit Korea, Japan, Great Britain, the United States and other countries where there have been nuclear power facilities. [More…]
It was put to me very clearly in the United States that if the US Presidential Commission of Inquiry into the Three Mile Island incident found that fundamental problems exist in operating all nuclear reactors then that will end the commissioning of new power reactors in the United States, at least for the time being. [More…]
Both countries are having elections and in both cases nuclear power generation is going to be the subject of a democratic process- the people agree with it or otherwise. [More…]
The power production of the nuclear reactor is pretty substantial and Western Australia has a very small power demand at the present time. [More…]
More power to them. [More…]
He said to me: ‘Do you think that we have a stable democracy in this country when we cannot have full, free and one-man-one-vote elections; when we see the trade union movement hindered; when we see those who have power getting into the issue of preventing me from having my normal rights? [More…]
The other agreement is with the United States, with which we have friendly relations and to which we have no objection, because it is a reputable power - [More…]
The point I am trying to make is that this Government has given itself a high power of credibility because of what the United States said in regard to the safeguards agreement. [More…]
Apparently no decision has been made regarding the future of naval air power, maritime air power, or maritime capacity. [More…]
Whether a vessel with similar capacity will be provided for the Navy or whether another form of maritime air power will be evolved is a decision which has enormous consequences for the future shape of our maritime forces. [More…]
Ordinary people are reacting strongly to this inhumane Government that, without any sign of caring, has presided over the loss of 195 jobs a day since it took power on that tragic day, 1 1 November 1975, and the addition of 75 people a day to the ranks of the unemployed since that time. [More…]
With increasing unemployment and reduced real spending power the ratio of bad debts of insured loans has increased from one in 1,000 in 1972-73 to one in 78 in 1 978-79. [More…]
To meet the urgent national problem of narcotic offences, the Government has decided that the power of interception of all forms of telecommunications should be available to assist in the detection of Customs narcotic offences subject to the same safeguards as apply to interception by ASIO. [More…]
I believe it is now clear that it is those who hold this view who are the real romantics- pessimistic romantics who refuse to come to terms with a changing world and the changing forms of influence and power. [More…]
Much more importantly, in her speech of 3 August, she recognised the validity of the criticisms made of the present constitution, of the blocking powers enjoyed by the white minority, and of the power vested in the various service commissions, which together make it impossible for the Government of Bishop Muzorewa to have adequate control over the country’s affairs. [More…]
Such powers, which have not been included in any constitution resulting from a legal transference of power by Britain, deny government powers which are fundamental to a democracy or, indeed, to any responsible government. [More…]
While rejecting the validity of existing constitutional arrangements which allow a white minority to control the levers of power, he accepted that a democratic constitution was not incompatible with special provisions for the white minority in the form of reserves seats ‘even out of proportion to the numbers involved’, as he himself said. [More…]
If achieved, it will be acceptable to leading African states, it will remove a festering sore which has threatened to infect Southern Africa with both the poison of racial war and great power conflict. [More…]
I believe this for two, as I understand it, powerful reasons, firstly because the terms of settlement it envisages are essentially right in themselves in that they are based on the principles that the people of Zimbabwe- all the people- have the right to choose who shall govern them, and that the government so elected should have real control over the affairs of the country. [More…]
The international community at large can only benefit from removing a potential source of conflagration and great power rivalry. [More…]
Increasingly, unrealistic demands were made on world economies, particularly by trade union movements which came to exercise unprecedented power, and it became fashionable to decry growth and to place impediments in its path. [More…]
Instability anywhere, inflamed by super power interference, is of enormous concern to us. [More…]
If there is not soon a just and lasting settlement in southern Africa- and the justice and durability must be acknowledged by all parties- then it will become far more difficult to avoid super power involvement. [More…]
The front line states and others will find it far more difficult to maintain their valuable and valued independence of super power politics. [More…]
It just seems to me that that is a great power for any Minister to have. [More…]
In relation to the first four of the conventions to which I have referred, the States have been given specific power, by virtue of saving clauses, to opt out or to legislate differently if their State circumstances so require. [More…]
What did the Labor Party do when it was in power? [More…]
Australia has no power to take unilateral compulsory action against foreign ships on high seas. [More…]
Labor does not have the power to fulfil this promise. [More…]
Labor has no power to make that promise. [More…]
In addition, it is no less a tribute to Lord Mountbatten that he moved from a pinnacle of power in India to resume his naval career. [More…]
I don’t give a damn if those butchers from Belgrade are inconvenienced in the whole thing, they came to power by sheer terror, by blood. [More…]
He is going all the way because he wants power and he is not interested in the tragedy of unemployment as it affects people right across Australia. [More…]
This Government has given private industry hundreds of millions of dollars in investment allowance since it has been in power. [More…]
The first is that wages should be allowed to rise, thus generating more spending power and thus creating more jobs. [More…]
It is for this Parliament to make the laws and supervise them, not to leave unfettered and dangerous power to officials. [More…]
Increasingly, unrealistic demands were made on world economies, particularly by trade union movements which came to exercise unprecedented power, and it became fashionable to decry growth and to place impediments in its path. [More…]
The State Electricity Commission of Victoria is steadily producing far more power while its employment is steadily falling. [More…]
It was, however, the newly invented power loom that deprived thousands of English weavers of their jobs about 160 years ago. [More…]
In 1900 Henry Adams discussed the use of atomic power. [More…]
The supplementary statement under the heading Rural’, relating to petrol prices and the subsidising of freight costs outside the metropolitan area on motor spirit, aviation fuel, distillate and power kerosene, is as follows: [More…]
His position is remarkable when we consider that his rapid rise to power has taken place so recently. [More…]
They intend, as they say, to reform the Senate by taking steps to ensure that the Senate has no power to reject, defer or otherwise block money Bills. [More…]
In this House a week ago he was able to say quite boastfully that this year the purchasing power of the average Australian family will, in fact, decline. [More…]
Even in relation to the cost to government we find that after this Government has been in power for four years, health represents 10 per cent of the expenditures of the Government. [More…]
The Leader of the Opposition (Mr Hayden) earlier this afternoon placed tremendous emphasis on the way in which we have seen a real decline in the standard of living since the Fraser Government first came to power. [More…]
For all the Government’s much heralded tax reforms, it is accurate and objective to say that the average family man and middle income earners are marginally worse off than they were when this Government first, unscrupulously, came to power. [More…]
If the economic vandals who were on the treasury bench from 1972 to 1975 were still in power today, and if the Hayden tax scales had continued, every average worker in Australia today would be paying $16 a week more in tax than he is paying under our tax scales. [More…]
If we had not got back into power and rescued Australia, that budget deficit would have been $6 billion, $7 billion or $8 billion. [More…]
Why are industries throughout Australia looking for more power? [More…]
-The 1979-80 Budget continues the trend which the Fraser Government has set; that is, the redistribution of wealth and power in the Australian economy. [More…]
Education showed a continual shift to the non-government schools, and in welfare there was a freezing of many of the extra benefits; for example, supplementary benefits which have been unchanged since this Government has been in power. [More…]
From there he began his meteoric rise to power which very nearly led to his takeover of the New South Wales Liberal Party machine. [More…]
He pointed out to me, however, that he had no power to direct Australia Post in this matter but would do all he could to see that Studfield shopping centre was not denied its present postal facilities. [More…]
-I know the Labor Party would mess the country up if it got back into power and probably people would stay away. [More…]
Members of that Party can relax because they will not get back into power. [More…]
If power is available for it- unfortunately power is not available in New South Wales apparently in the immediate term- Nabalco will have another major development. [More…]
they have all ultimately had to admit that it is basically the policies of the Government of South Australia which are stifling investment and development, and it is beyond the power of the Commonwealth to alter that circumstance until the policies of the South Australian Government are altered. [More…]
It concluded that special action was unnecessary as the Minister for Transport has sufficient power under Air Navigation Regulation 106, the Airlines Equipment Act 1958, the Airlines Agreements Act and the various Airlines Equipment (Loan Guarantee) Acts to enable him to satisfy himself that airline industry considerations only are taken into account into making such decisions. [More…]
The Labor Party was in power for three years and did nothing. [More…]
Clause 3 of the Bill addresses the first of these matters and confines the Commonwealth’s power in relation to the authorisation of mining for prescribed substances. [More…]
The provision amends section 41 of the Act so that, other than with the consent of a State, the power conferred by that section to authorise mining in a State can only be exercised for defence purposes. [More…]
I remind him that 1,000 unemployed people have been added to the list for every month that his Government has been in power. [More…]
Unemployment in Canberra has been increasing since the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) came to power and its increase shows no signs of abating. [More…]
Real spending power has been reduced for the majority of the Australian people. [More…]
This allows local government to consolidate revenue and allocate its spending in a more autonomous way than in the years prior to 1 973, when a Labor Government came to power. [More…]
The Labor Party would do this by emasculating the Senate of all its powers, thus trying to ensure that a corrupt Labor government would stay in power forever. [More…]
Our reforms will maintain the purchasing power of wages and ease the pressure for excessive wage demands. [More…]
I do not think they have been given an increase since this Government came to power. [More…]
This is in contrast to what was promised during the period of the Whitlam Government and what was in train when that Government went out of power. [More…]
The Age again says: ‘Buying Power [More…]
After direct taxation and cash benefits to persons are taken into account- that is, enter the Federal Government- the share of wages as a proportion of gross domestic product at factor cost is now 58.9 per cent, having fallen 3.4 per cent since the Government came to power and 2. [More…]
One of the greatest sources of power available to the Government to decentralise and bring to Australia federalism in its purest form is the combined dedication, influence and ability of the 900-odd local authorities spread throughout this country. [More…]
This Government that promised to support wage indexation when it came to power has done nothing to fulfil that promise, but in fact since it first came to power in 1975 it has consistently opposed every action brought in the Commonwealth Conciliation and Arbitration Commission by the Australian Council of Trade Unions to get full indexation for workers, to enable them to keep up with the increase in the cost of living. [More…]
Since this Government came to power the amount of money that has gone back to the States to provide reasonable public transport to get people out of their motor cars has gone down. [More…]
He said there was one problem- which was being overcome- building ports, power stations, railways to keep pace with investment. [More…]
He has the power to do it. [More…]
The present Government is the Government which was in power for 23 years from 1949. [More…]
Unfortunately, for a period of three years this Government was not in power. [More…]
If those members who are in the armed services what to know what sort of government we would have if the Labor Party ever got into power again, I suggest that they recall what sort of equipment they were dealing with in those horrific years from 1972 to 1975. [More…]
Since this Government came to power we have established on a statutory basis, the National Labour Consultative Council. [More…]
By an interesting contrast, the Labor Party when in power never even called together what was then the National Labour Advisory Council. [More…]
12) That the Committee report by 31 May 1980 and any member of the Committee have power to add a protestor dissent to any report. [More…]
The relative economies of coal liquefaction, oil from oil-shale, power alcohols- ethanol and methanol- and solar power can be seen in an accurate perspective, which allows more realistic decisions to be made about financing their development. [More…]
One single department should administer such areas as pricing policies on oil, coal and gas, research and production of alternative liquid fuels, gas pipelines, the rationalisation of coal production, an oil and gas corporation, the buying of oil on a government to government basis and liaising with the States on their power generation needs. [More…]
Uranium is not required for power generating plants, but it is required to enable Australia to obtain overseas currency with which we can then, when the need arises, purchase other energy sources. [More…]
Working class people of Australia are not going to stand by and see their purchasing power eroded by the action of this Government. [More…]
The people of South Australia are not in accord with the views being expressed by Sir Charles Court in his talks with the Prime Minister, or with Joh BjelkePetersen in his talks with the Prime Minister about the establishment of enrichment plants and as a probable follow-up the establishment of nuclear power stations in Australia. [More…]
This is occurring at “a time when no meaningful policy of manpower training, or even significant worker education, is emerging from within the ranks of this Government. [More…]
Equally it is occurring at a time when Australia’s economic development is increasingly being dominated by the operation of transnational companies whose size, economic strength, ownership of technology and resources give them more naked economic power than that of many nation states, with a capacity not merely to dominate the market place but also to destroy the myth of the freedom of the market place- a myth much beloved by this Prime Minister and this Treasurer. [More…]
Efforts to sell directly to consumers such as North American power companies will be intensified, possibly involving taking equity stakes in such companies in exchange for oil. [More…]
The downward slide happened so quickly that, when we came back into power, not a drill was left searching for oil, from one side of Australia to the other. [More…]
Is he also aware that to return the purchasing power of this representative family to its 1975 level would require an after tax increase in income of $ 1 1 .40 a week or a pay increase of $17 a week? [More…]
Batman (Mr Howe) in relation to real wages and the punitive effect of government policies which have reduced enormously the real spending power of gross incomes and, in fact, disposable incomes in the period that the Fraser Government has been in office. [More…]
We want a Labor Government in South Australia, particularly while the Fraser Government is in power in Canberra, to counter to the greatest extent possible the hardships to people which have been caused by the Liberals. [More…]
I suggest that the statement by the Prime Minister was largely correct until the Labor Party came to power in 1 972. [More…]
When the Labor Party was in power from 1972 to 1975, there was a burst of activity in all areas relating to immigrants and the services that hey required. [More…]
They were based upon needs that had arisen by virtue of the fact that for the first time in over 20 years when the Labor Party came to power immigrants recognised or began to recognise that they had rights, and they began to ask for those rights. [More…]
I like to think that if we had been in power we would have asked members of the ethnic community what they thought they wanted. [More…]
Bureaucracies, with their tendencies to increase their own size and power, are essentially parasites on society. [More…]
Families have seen their living standards and purchasing power progressively decline under successive Fraser administrations. [More…]
In the period that Labor was in power, by twice-yearly adjustments pensions rose to 25 per cent of average weekly earnings. [More…]
I refer to the conference which was held just a few months ago in Adelaide, where it was proposed that if Labor came back into power it would increase the Public Service and, through the Public Service, provide more competition for private enterprise. [More…]
This Government has doubled the price of petrol since it came to power in 1975. [More…]
The generation of electrical power in the Soviet Union doubles each decade. [More…]
For that purpose it has built a large number of atomic power reactors. [More…]
They are now a major source of electrical power in the Soviet Union. [More…]
They have never caught up with either economic events or world power of today. [More…]
For goodness sake, here is the most fantastic opportunity for this country to be engaged in the most major saving of power that is known in the world today: the production of uranium, the enrichment, and eventually the dealing with and recycling of the rods that are thrown out of uranium reactors throughout the world. [More…]
Despite that allocation system, regional problems occurred and have continued to occur, but the Government has done everything in its power, in consultation with the oil companies and people in the general aviation industry, to manage the situation. [More…]
If the money power of business is used in so blatant a way, and the Press manipulated in the interests of a single party, then such reactions are inevitable. [More…]
The real purchasing power of wages will be down. [More…]
Their real purchasing power has effectively been halved since 1976. [More…]
In 1972 when the Whitlam Labor Government came to power a good deal of that changed. [More…]
It is generally accepted that the trade union movement is now in a position to exercise more power than at any other point in its history. [More…]
Firstly, from this month onwards for the first time in the Vh years since this government came to power people will find that they are paying the highest fees they have ever paid in Australia for health insurance. [More…]
As soon as it got into power it did away with it. [More…]
In the indexation decisions which have been made since this Government has been in power the Commission has been persuaded for some reason or other about the Government’s proposition that there should not be a full flow on of the CPI increase. [More…]
But since this Government has been in power, in spite of the fact that in real purchasing power wage and salary earners are worse off today than they were before this Government came to power, it has added 1,000 people a week to the unemployment list. [More…]
Bear in mind that this Budget will make the average income earner some $7.90 a week worse off over the course of this year as against last year and that the ACTU had calculated that, since this Government came into office and up until last financial year, the average income earner was more than $17 a week worse off in real spending power. [More…]
The Australian Parliament shall have the power with respect to the terms and conditions of employment and the terms and conditions of contractual relationships with independent contractors. [More…]
We have a body called the Prices Justification Tribunal but essentially it has been deprived of any power to do anything effective about price justification or control. [More…]
Unless the working people, who are the bulk buyers in this country, receive equitable purchasing power, his farmers will never do very well. [More…]
If the Arbitration Commission, in the exercise of its responsibility and having examined all the circumstances in a dispute, decided that trade union leaders, a section of the trade union or the trade union in toto is exercising the right to strike in an improper way, in a way that is not helpful to the settlement of the industrial dispute, or in a way that damages individual members of the community and the community at large, the Commission would have no power to insert any bans on that sort of activity. [More…]
The balance of economic and industrial power in that instance is on the side of the union. [More…]
It is interested in industrial power groups and their influence in the Austraiian Labor Party. [More…]
Since this Government came to power that philosophy has been the order of the day. [More…]
No special formula is required for this to be done, nor is the power to set aside common law limited to the Australian Parliament. [More…]
Sometimes this power to override the common law by legislation has been beneficial. [More…]
The power of the union, the mystique, the almost religious adherence is, to me, frightening. [More…]
As long as the army remains loyal to the present Government and does not rebel, the present Government will stay in power. [More…]
They will not be in power after the next election and they know it. [More…]
The developing countries could increasingly be seen, and increasingly see themselves, as belonging to these different classes: The least developed, lacking basic resources, skills and infrastructure, for whom development might be totally illusory; the fast developers or ‘newly industrialising countries’, particularly in Asia, anxious to retain the political and trade advantages of developing country status, but moving fast in other respects to distance themselves from other developing countries; the countries of the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries, the first among poorer countries to realise their power over a cheap energy resource; or the vast majority of developing countries for whom the burden of popular aspirations and the difficulties of even development were proving increasingly difficult, leading to major problems of government and social order in some cases. [More…]
Somewhere in this has been the hope of using the power of the Third World as a lever to assist Australian agricultural trade. [More…]
The report sensibly proposes a long term objective that aid to Papua-New Guinea be scaled down, but the Opposition rejects the report’s projection of great power politics as a primary determinant of Australian policy in the Pacific. [More…]
Similarly with education it has sought to ensure, by transferring funds from public schools to private schools, the reintroduction of the educational inequality which was marked in so many conservative Budgets before the Australian Labor Party came to power in 1972. [More…]
It is certainly in far worse shape than it was in at any time that the Labor Party was in power. [More…]
Four years after this Government came to power we find that the average cost of housing has risen to almost $50,000 in Victoria or $60,000-odd in New South Wales. [More…]
This provides an additional safeguard against abuse of power and does not in any way involve the Leader of the Opposition in the executive processes of government. [More…]
These sweeping new powers should be used only when the Attorney-General is satisfied that all other methods of investigation would be impracticable. [More…]
In 1971-72 Senator Murphy made no threat that when he got into power he would lead a raid on ASIO. [More…]
But when he got the power such a raid occurred. [More…]
When in 1979 the Opposition says that if it gets into power in 1980 it will not lead a raid on ASIO, what guarantee is there that there will not be a repeat of the former circumstance? [More…]
The Opposition hopes to gain power at the end of 1 980. [More…]
It is a regrettable necessity that any country will need intelligence agencies of some kind to protect it against forms of external espionage, subversion, sabotage and terrorism by foreign powers. [More…]
The greater the power, the authority and the activity of secret intelligence agencies with respect to its own citizens, the weaker that democracy is. [More…]
They exercise a power greatly in excess of that which their numbers would justify, among other reasons because they often strongly support the interests of trade unionists and put their full force behind industrial issues. [More…]
That the only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilised community against his will, is to prevent harm to others. [More…]
(1) Where an assessment has been reviewed by the Tribunal, every Commonwealth agency concerned with prescribed administrative action to which the assessment is relevant, and any tribunal, person or authority having power to hear appeals from, or to review, a decision with respect to any prescribed administrative action to which the assessment is relevant, shall treat the findings of the Tribunal, to the extent that they do not confirm the assessment, as superseding that assessment. [More…]
I exclude the people associated with the Builders Labourers Federation and similar organisations that cannot be tolerated in any society which regards itself as a democracy and which places power in the hands of the Government to take action against conduct contrary to the best interests of the country. [More…]
I am concerned that this is a piece of legislation which gives enormous authority and power to an organisation. [More…]
In the past that organisation has not used that authority and power in the interests of Australia. [More…]
He wants to get involved in the whole question of the nuclear power industry. [More…]
My aim is therefore directly political in the sense that in order to achieve democracy we have to change the relationship of power among the people. [More…]
We have to change the present system that reinforces the power of the minority to impose its decision on the majority. [More…]
We have to give some considerations to the fact that in this country we do have a system whereby the real power lies outside this Parliament. [More…]
The real power lies with the corporate sector. [More…]
The real power really lies with the bureaucracy. [More…]
We have to make sure that we transfer that power away from the few back to the many who are the people we should be representing. [More…]
In order to carry out these functions, ASIO will be empowered to obtain warrants to allow agents with reasonable grounds for believing that premises require investigation for suspected material: First, to search the premises for the purposes of finding records relevant to that matter and, for that purpose, to open any safe, box, drawer, parcel, envelope or other container in which there is reasonable cause to believe any such records may be found; secondly, to inspect or otherwise examine any records found in the premises and to make copies of transcripts or any record so found that appears to be relevant. [More…]
Thirdly, it has the power to remove any record so found. [More…]
Those definitions and powers are very broad and capable of a wide range of interpretations. [More…]
This power is one of the regrettable aspects of this Bill. [More…]
One should have no doubt that they will be used in the interest of broadening the whole power of the bureaucracy because of their vagueness and broadness. [More…]
The discretion to use those powers and to make those interpretations is under the control of the Director-General of ASIO. [More…]
The Minister is not empowered to override the opinion of the Director-General. [More…]
I emphasise that the Minister is not empowered to override the opinion of the Director-General. [More…]
Under this legislation we would give him power and greater authority outside of this Parliament. [More…]
We have here a very dangerous situation where an agency with powers that go beyond any existing protections of civil liberties may on suspicion of a possible and ultimate threat to security broadly defined, make forced entry to premises, search and remove documents, bug conversations and intercept mail. [More…]
They will give that power to these bureaucrats. [More…]
Enough evidence has been put on the record to date of the corruptness of the power used by ASIO in the past. [More…]
These powers are the very forces that in themselves will threaten our security and the collective will of the people to defend their interests. [More…]
ASIO will have more power than it has even now to become involved in domestic politics and to take sides in political differences in this country. [More…]
This legislation will in fact give it greater power to take that further. [More…]
He made quite fallaciously the accusation that the power of a minority is exercised in this country over the majority. [More…]
It is a fact of life that although the Federal Government has an overriding power in respect of what in the old days was called civil aviation, no facilities can be provided under any of the options that might be considered- I will not go into their merits- other than with the agreement of the New South Wales Government. [More…]
How could any power, any roadwork or any of the thousand and one other facilities that are needed be provided? [More…]
This seems to me to take the principle of extra-territorial power to a hitherto undisclosed end. [More…]
This program suggested the heavy influence of right wing extremists who wield power and exert great influence in the New South Wales branch of the Liberal Party. [More…]
I do not really think it matters whether the initiative comes from this side of the House or from the other side of the House as long as it comes from private members of this Parliament who wish to see the Parliament operating in a more constructive manner and having slightly more power than it seems to have at the present time. [More…]
Really, if anybody wanted ASIO to be used as a political organisation by the party which happens to be in office at a particular time he would seek to give it that power. [More…]
It wants the Leader of the Opposition to be fully briefed on all aspects of the Organisation, including all the exercises of its special power. [More…]
In our view, the Hope report gives far too much residual power to the Director-General of ASIO. [More…]
The Opposition strongly opposes clause 8 (2) (c) for its restrictions on the power of the Attorney-General to give specific directions ‘concerning the nature of the advice that should be given by ASIO to a Minister, Department or authority of the Commonwealth’. [More…]
This, in our view, is an unwise, if not dangerous, limitation on the general power of ministerial direction. [More…]
The legislation is clear in its intent and it has built into it many checks and balances which arc designed to prevent abuse of any power under the legislation. [More…]
The use of the special powers under Division 2 of the legislation referring to and defining the examination, listening device, premises and record, requires references to the Minister. [More…]
However, I come back to the final power of the government at any time to amend, add to, delete from or suspend the Act to correct any actions inconsistent with the spirit of the legislation now before us. [More…]
However, I would like the Minister’s comments and assurances on these points as well as confirmation of the final power of the Parliament to be accounted to through changes in the legislation at any time if necessary. [More…]
The central issue is the relative priority to be given to the power of two institutions: First, the democratic Parliament, the method of operation of which is open and subject to intensive scrutiny by the Press and by the public; and secondly, a bureaucratic secret organisation the method of operation of which is unknown and is not subject to any scrutiny at all. [More…]
I believe this issue is so important because it involves raising the question of how far this Parliament is prepared to pass a self-denying ordinance against itself; to limit its own power and to say: ‘Here is an area that we will not move into. [More…]
Neither the late Mr Chifley nor the late Dr Evatt relied on anything more than one scrap of paper that gave total power to the senior officer of ASIO. [More…]
When I look at the proposed amendments I am alarmed because I believe that if we were to adopt even a quarter of them we would destroy the secrecy of ASIO and its power to operate successfully. [More…]
I would give that opportunity but that power is not available to me. [More…]
As we have indicated, the Opposition believes it to be discreet and wise to limit the Attorney-General’s power of access to files so that he or she knows of them, not about them. [More…]
As the honourable member for Lilley said today, the recommendations of the security service are not executive instruments, but many of its recommendations to departments and Ministers have the force of administrative power. [More…]
The Commonwealth has offered the State a loan of $200,000 to cover approximately half of the estimated costs of roadworks, water supply, stormwater drainage, sewerage, electrical power distribution, landscaping and survey costs associated with the estate. [More…]
If so, would the provisions of the still to be proclaimed section 10 of the Life Insurance Amendment Act 1977 afford the Commissioner the necessary power to regulate and therefore limit such investments. [More…]
But at present, with coming recessions, the energy crisis and rapidly increasing unemployment throughout the world it is important that we look at the purchasing power of other nations. [More…]
Purchasing power in the Third World is not readily identifiable but it can be expected to survive in the countries which have a stranglehold on us if we are put in the position of having to subscribe to these codes of conduct. [More…]
I suggest, therefore, that to take out the word ‘ultimately’ would destroy that capacity to make different judgments about those two events because different judgments were made by those in constitutional power and those events were blessed with authority at each time. [More…]
What honourable members opposite are suggesting is that, because we use the word ‘ultimately’ in relation to our definition of acts that might lead to the overthrowing of our constitutional government, that is an extension of a power which gives an organisation a significant control over the events of men and their lives. [More…]
The question of ultimately’ is that it can be argued that it gives ASIO a dragnet power. [More…]
I say: Yes, but we have the power to deal with what we believe is ultimately going to happen ‘. [More…]
That is the sort of power that will be given by this Bill. [More…]
-Mr Deputy Chairman, the word ‘ultimately’ gives almost unlimited power as to whether to start a security file on a person without any specific reason or need for any specific reason where security is involved or seen to be involved. [More…]
Either the Prime Minister, the Leader of the House, the Government Whip or the deputy Whip and either the Leader of the Opposition, the Deputy Leader of the Opposition, the Opposition Whip or the deputy Whip, shall have power to discharge from time to time any of those Members nominated by them and to nominate others in substitution for those discharged. [More…]
Their responsibility is to scrutinise the legislation of the Government to the extent that it is possible and within their power to bring about changes, without unduly taxing the time of the House and without in fact making it impossible for the actual performance of honourable members’ duties other than those that they have in this Parliament. [More…]
What this debate is all about is that there are honourable members in this chamber who say of themselves: ‘We cannot be trusted with power; they can. [More…]
We do not mind limiting our power, but we will give all the more power to them because their judgment is better than our judgment’. [More…]
We are sometimes involved in a situation in which the Defence Act might be called into operation and the Services called upon to aid the civil power. [More…]
In those cases, if somebody obstructs the forces called to aid the civil power, surely a report can be made upon the person who is doing the obstructing. [More…]
The paragraph goes on to say that these key points include defence installations and essential features or services, such as water and power services. [More…]
The fact of the matter is, as the honourable member for Dundas well knows, that the attitude of the courts to the defence powers has always been one of wide interpretation. [More…]
Whenever there has been a tendency to extend the power of the Commonwealth over the States or anyone else there has always been the tendency to look at the defence powers and at the traditional breadth of decision that the courts have always taken. [More…]
I do not think that the Director-General of Security ought to have imposed on him the power to act in all those situations which arise in the community and which can have incidental effects on the defence forces. [More…]
Are they too to be persecuted under clause 5 (c) if they attempt to organise, say, a great national body whose aim is to remove this Government from power? [More…]
I think in at least one State supplies of LPG to country utilities are subsidised either by the State government or the State power authorities. [More…]
It wants to unionise the housing industry, to extend its power and influence over this industry and of course, its income from the subscriptions that employees would be required to pay. [More…]
That provision has been in the Act for very many years, while Liberal-National Country Party governments and Australian Labor Party governments have been in power. [More…]
That accusation has been made by those who, during their three years in power, led the world in the rate of increase of tax which they collected from the Australian people. [More…]
Does anybody believe that it would not consume the taxpayer the next time it was in power as it did during the three years it enjoyed power from 1972 to 1975? [More…]
I presume that that section of the Act is being administered in the same way as it was during the time that the Opposition was in power. [More…]
I suggest also that the benefits, directly and indirectly, to the Opposition from the administration of the Act when it was in power were greater than they are in respect of this Foundation in Queensland. [More…]
The reality is that when the Labor Party came into power in 1973, its first Budget was accompanied by this kind of expression: Now is the time for us to transfer assets from the private sector to the public sector. [More…]
Private sector interests rates are lower than when the ALP was in power. [More…]
For example, conversions from direct current to alternating current, from imperial measurement to metric or from diesel to liquefied petroleum gas could probably be regarded as technical; technological is far broader, involving the sum of knowledge of the means and methods of producing goods and services; for example, conversion from fossil fuels to atomic power. [More…]
The family allowance scheme is now very much like the scheme which was introduced in 1950 when another conservative government came to power on a promise to pay child endowment for the first child- an appeal to greed rather than need. [More…]
One has to see what kind of economic policy can be grafted on to this drawing power in terms of public expenditure. [More…]
If there were to be resistance to an increase in public expenditure in Australia, a government that would go into that field with its ears back, having the drawing power to which I have referred, could commit a grave error. [More…]
Knowing that there is that justified drawing power in relation to welfare, we have heard a confession of the general taxation policy of the Opposition. [More…]
If a government wants to embark upon all kinds of experiments in addition to the drawing power to which I have referred, the taxation grab will be up in the future as it was in the past. [More…]
This fact should be remembered about the Opposition’s term in office: During the three years it was in power the rate of increase of taxation was the highest of any industrialised country in the world. [More…]
If people learn nothing from the past that is up to them, but it is appropriate to realise what would happen if the same people with the same philosophy, ignoring the experiences of the past, were returned to power. [More…]
How can a party come into this Parliament and say that the taxation rate should be reduced and at the same time say: ‘If we get into power we will pay political candidates money; we will pay political parties money. [More…]
How are we to believe, under those circumstances, that there could possibly be a stabilisation of taxation rates with the Opposition in power? [More…]
During a study tour of the United States of America which I made during the winter recess, I visited the Commonwealth Edison nuclear power station and a nuclear storage depot not far from Chicago. [More…]
In that statement he pointed out that in the future the United States would need to turn more and more to nuclear power. [More…]
With the United States, the Soviet Union and other nations relying increasingly on nuclear power, we in Australia, who have something like only 20 per cent of the world’s uranium supplies, can have little influence indeed on the world trend towards the use of nuclear energy. [More…]
At its most recent conference in Adelaide, the Australian Labor Party showed a most unrealistic approach to nuclear power and the mining of Australia’s supply of uranium. [More…]
Bob Hawke was right to stress the stupidity of bans which do not and cannot ban anythingjust as the original ban on the Newport power station in Victoria showed. [More…]
Mr Hayden said that a Labor Government would support tax indexation, yet when tax indexation had been proposed by the Liberal and National parties when the Whitlam Government was in power, he had rejected it. [More…]
But since the present regime has been in power we have seen a reversion to 20 or 30 years back in the world experience. [More…]
I think that that has been reflected in the miserable policies that his Government has introduced in its four years of power. [More…]
The simple truth is that these strikes were merely an example of the working people of Australia trying to catch up with the cost of living and make up for the fact that this Government, since it has been in power, has opposed the wage indexation that it claims to support. [More…]
Mr Justice Alley of the Australian Conciliation and Arbitration Commission has already said that the unions have sought to get the Commission to do indirectly what it has no power to do directly, namely, prescribe conditions on matters which do not pertain to the relationship between employers and employees. [More…]
The sworn evidence to the inquiry of some contract workers has revealed that their average income is $280 for an average of 48 hours per week, out of which they have to pay $50 a week for expenses such as supplying material, petrol, power tools, equipment et cetera. [More…]
During the almost four years that the coalition government has been in power, private employment has decreased by 44,000. [More…]
Taxation has increased by a very large amount since this Government came to power. [More…]
When trying to gain power, Mr Fraser attacked increases in tax which were made by stealth. [More…]
No matter which party is in power, we shall continue to look objectively at tax measures and comment fearlessly. [More…]
In other words, prices will rise more than wages and the real purchasing power of ordinary people will obviously fall. [More…]
It is quite clear that in the period when the Labor Party was in power a mixture of people were appointed. [More…]
Again, I think that if one looks at the record of the Minister for Primary Industry since he became executor of his father’s estate, it will be perfectly plain that he has taken every action within his power to right whatever irregularities existed. [More…]
The power of the squattocracy prevailed over ministerial propriety. [More…]
Ultimately, it involves the world structure of power. [More…]
Does this mean that if the Australian Labor Party were back in power it would start the printing presses again? [More…]
The Australian Bureau of Statistics figures indicate that in November 1972- and I am not going to itemise who was in power from 1972 to 1975-106,300 people were unemployed in Australia. [More…]
They have the power to do this under various pieces of legislation. [More…]
We are not often reminded by the Prime Minister of what he said when he was making his claim for power. [More…]
A majority of the Committee shall have power to make and enforce by-laws for the control and management of the Association. [More…]
The Committee shall have power from time to time to fill a temporary vacancy occurring in the Committee. [More…]
The secretary at the written request of ten or more members shall call a special meeting of the members which shall have full power to overrule or amend any decision of the Committee or to remove from office and/or replace any member or members of the Committee. [More…]
The balance of world power of course has altered and it must be accepted. [More…]
Maybe the Soviet Union just wishes to demonstrate that she is a world power in practice as well as in theory. [More…]
The effects of the Galbally program go well beyond those of purchasing power. [More…]
But, of course, again given that we have had this problem- that is how we have looked at it- of immigrants to this country for many more years than the last two or three and even longer than the three years that the Labor Government was in power, far too little has been done and far too little is being done at this stage. [More…]
To pay credit where it is due, I note that it began just before the Labor Government came to power and was given a hefty push when it was in power. [More…]
The past is a very useful indicator of what people would do if they had power. [More…]
They have demanded that they have absolute power. [More…]
I understand that finance can be arranged by the organisation and that it is quite common practice for people to put themselves into great debt, such is the power of Focal. [More…]
The Opposition also proposes to implement selectively and prudently- I stress the word ‘prudently’, because prudence is the way in which this program will be introduced- direct and indirect tax cuts to stimulate people’s spending power. [More…]
The Commonwealth Parliament has power to legislate with respect to conciliation and arbitration for the prevention and settlement of interstate industrial disputes. [More…]
The Government is taking away from the Commission its traditional role and giving itself the power, behind the cloak of the Governor-General in Executive Council, to determine the question of deregistration of unions. [More…]
As I have said, under the new provisions the Minister alone has the power to seek a declaration which means that for the six months after that declaration the Government can lay down the standards for the operation and behaviour of a trade union. [More…]
The Government now will take that power into its own hands. [More…]
It was certainly not because of any failure on the part of the Minister; he did everything in his power to ensure that the trade unions would be represented. [More…]
The honourable member for Port Adelaide may be interested to read the Constitution because in that section the Government is given power to make laws for the peace, order and good government of the Commonwealth - [More…]
Therefore, if the Constitution gives the Parliament power to make orders for the peace, order and good government of the Commonwealth, surely the statement that has been made by Sir Richard Kirby should be treated with a great deal of suspect. [More…]
More power to their arm, because any compulsory arbitration system is doomed to failure. [More…]
It is worth looking back over history for a moment to recall that in the years before the 1972 election when the Labor Party came to power, there was the National Labour Advisory Council. [More…]
The new section 25a provides that the Commission is not empowered to deal with claims for payment by employees for time lost in industrial action. [More…]
If the honourable gentlemen opposite knew anything about industrial law or industrial relations they would know that that is the power that has been exercised very rarely within our industrial tribunals. [More…]
The other matter that I am concerned about is the proposal in clause 8 to empower the President of the Australian Conciliation and Arbitration Commission to take a matter which is actively before a member of the Commission out of that member’s hands if he is of the opinion that there are special reasons for doing so. [More…]
Why is it that that power ought to be attached to our industrial tribunals when if it were sought to be exercised in any other court in any other jurisdiction we would be appalled by it? [More…]
The minute the Government gives the President of the Commission the power to intervene without a publicly stated reason it creates an infrastructure which could undermine the whole operation of the Arbitration Commission. [More…]
It empowers a full bench to make a relevant declaration where it is satisfied that two persons have in the past been engaged in industrial action- for example, a ban- which has had a substantial effect on the welfare part of the community. [More…]
How would honourable members opposite feel if in the area of corporate law a prominent company director was charged with breaches of the Companies Act and the Attorney-General of New South Wales said that he would give the court the power to determine whether that man was guilty but said that the sentence would be fixed by him? [More…]
Under this legislation the Minister has power to act and that is what the people at the shop floor level in Australia have been wanting. [More…]
The Parliament’s power to pass laws in relation to industrial matters derives from placitum (xxxv) of section 51 of the Australian Constitution. [More…]
This placitum provides for the Parliament to be entrusted with the power to make laws with respect to: [More…]
In essence the Court has consistently and drastically read down the power of the Parliament to deal directly with laws relating to labour relations. [More…]
It has never read the power up. [More…]
It has always read down those powers and the placitum to which I referred. [More…]
It has specifically ruledthis is the point we are now discussing- against the Parliament’s exercising arbitral powers over labour relations. [More…]
It has specifically ruled against the Parliament’s exercising judicial powers. [More…]
It is axiomatic that the Executive arm of government, that is the Executive Council or the GovernorGeneralinCouncil, cannot exercise powers that are denied to the Parliament itself. [More…]
Therefore, any powers that we purport to give to the Executive Council or the Governor-General-in-Council are powers that can survive a challenge in the High Court only if they are within the competence of the Parliament to exercise directly and should it choose to do so. [More…]
The Bill seeks to inject into the Act a provision that purports to give the Parliament power to order that claims for lost wages due to industrial action shall not in any circumstances be awarded by the Commission. [More…]
Secondly, it transfers the judicial powers of the Federal Court in respect of deregistration processes to those members of the Parliament who happen to be serving members of the Executive Council assembled with the Governor-General presiding. [More…]
On the first matter it can be said with certainty that the High Court will have to stand all its earlier decisions on their heads to be able to uphold the power of the Parliament to direct the Commission on how it shall exercise its constitutional powers to prevent and settle industrial disputes. [More…]
I turn now to the second point, which relates to the power of certain members of the Parliament to exercise the judicial powers which now reside in the Federal Court. [More…]
It is clear that that boast was made in the context of the hope that this Bill will cause a breakdown in industrial relations and that the Government will ride into power again on the misery brought about by the confrontation that it has directed against organised labour. [More…]
It is the right to withhold one’s labour and brain power that distinguishes the free man from the slave, and that is something that cannot be gainsaid. [More…]
If it is the right of an employer to fix the prices of the goods and services which he has to sell it surely follows that an employee must be given the right to fix the price of the only thing that he or she has to sell - his or her labour power. [More…]
It even points with pride to its own success in reducing the level of real wages so that there should be no profit at all in the sale of what a human being might have to sell in terms of brawn or brain power. [More…]
But the amount spent on facilities by the New South Wales Government has fallen by I3i per cent since the Wran Government came to power. [More…]
In view of the consistent spurning of the letter and spirit of Federal law and policy by the Queensland Government and the remarks of Mr Porter about the impermanence of the Federal Government, will the request of Yarrabah Council be met before Parliament rises in 1979 or ever while the present State and Federal Governments remain in power. [More…]
Will the Minister now disclose to Yarrabah Council the legal advice given to him on his power to remedy breaches of Federal law by the Queensland Government and provide adequate funds to the Council and the Aboriginal Legal Service in Queensland to expedite as far as possible the presentation of their case to Governments and Courts; if not, why not. [More…]
I am not aware of any such request having been put to me by the Yarrabah Council, I have sought no legal advice on ‘power to remedy breaches of Federal Law by the Queensland Government ‘ and I am not aware of any request by the Council or the Queensland Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Legal Service for additional funds for ‘the presentation of their case to Governments and courts ‘. [More…]
With its complement of permanent and non-permanent members, it has the power to pass mandatory resolutions. [More…]
I also understand the problems of member countries of the Association of South East Asian Nations, which are, in fact, terrified of the Vietnamese actions; but I point out that this has come about because of the fundamental shift in the balance of power when Vietnam succeeded against America a few years ago. [More…]
At present only the permanent provision contains an express power to make regulations converting the gold francs mentioned in the Convention into Australian currency. [More…]
A similar power is required in the transitional provision. [More…]
The Opposition argues that the Leader of the Opposition needs further power to be involved in ASIO to give the Opposition some insight into ASIO’s operation. [More…]
Such people can seek wages, using their bargaining power, out of line with any reasonable wage that can be paid to other people who work in areas in which there is genuine competition, where if they price themselves out of business they lose their jobs. [More…]
On the question of relativities, some people in this community are able to use their bargaining power to get inordinately large wages. [More…]
The Opposition submits that the Government does not have the constitutional power to legislate as it has. [More…]
The legislation now before us is rife with provisions which suggest that the Government will be given power in respect of many things which affect industrial awards and working conditions. [More…]
The Constitution clearly gives the Government certain powers in respect of conciliation and arbitration, but the Government cannot conciliate and it cannot arbitrate. [More…]
To put it succinctly, this Government has no power, no right or legal capacity to introduce a piece of legislation that dictates the way a commissioner may make an award. [More…]
I remind the Committee, as did the Deputy Leader of the Opposition, that the constitutional power given by section 51 placitum (xxxv.) [More…]
is a power to make laws for the peace, order and good government of the Commonwealth with respect to conciliation and arbitration for the prevention and settlement of industrial disputes extending beyond the limits of any one State. [More…]
Judicial decisions in relation to the constitutional power are to the effect that the Commonwealth may not direct the Commission as to how it is to settle industrial disputes. [More…]
Although the propositions enunciated in that case have not subsequently been tested, it is significant that the High Court took the view that the legislature has power to make laws directing the Commission with respect to procedural matters- in that case, the constitution of the Commission in particular ways. [More…]
If all the views that were given to Ministers of the Crown by prominent lawyers in terms of the power of the Commonwealth had been correct, then many of the decisions made by the High Courts would have been more favourable to the Commonwealth. [More…]
-The Opposition is opposed to this clause which, in effect, seeks to take away from the power of the Commission. [More…]
Sir Richard Kirby says that it is ridiculous, if not unconstitutional, for the Government to take upon its shoulders the withdrawal of a power that the Commission has to settle industrial disputes. [More…]
What the Government is saying, irrespective of the evidence that comes before the Commission, is that the Commission has no power to give back pay. [More…]
The clause that the Government writes into the Conciliation and Arbitration Act to take away this power from the Commission is a very serious one. [More…]
In the industrial relations scene in recent times we have seen a significant shift in power towards the unions, especially union leadership, and away from employers and government. [More…]
I believe that clause 4 of this legislation to a large extent will assist in restoring the balance of power. [More…]
The reports indicate that that survey showed that the abuse of trade union power and industrial disruption were major issues in the minds of people resident in the Kingston electorate. [More…]
The first question to be asked is: Should the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission have power to deal with industrial stoppages and claims for arrears of wages in respect of those stoppages? [More…]
I argue that that is not only a desirable power for the Commission to have but also a necessary power. [More…]
Accepting the Minister’s explanation to the Committee of the constitutional prerogatives of the Commonwealth in terms of industrial power, and if there is any section likely to be subjected to substantial challenge, it is important for us to ask whether it is consistent with constitutional principles for the Parliament to fetter the Commission ‘s power to deal with a dispute or a settlement function by preventing the Commission from considering or adjudicating on a particular type of industrial dispute. [More…]
The honourable member for Kingston is saying that in this situation the Commission should have no power at all to resolve the disputes and then to say to the employer: ‘You have acted so unconscionably, so badly and so neglectfully that you have possibly breached State laws or industrial regulations such as safety regulations’- that situation occurs time and time again- ‘and we will make a determination which entitles these men to recover their lost wages’. [More…]
That is the issue and I believe that the Commission ought to have this power. [More…]
I challenge the Minister and his colleagues to show where the Commission, in the exercise of that power, has grievously erred. [More…]
What it does is to limit the power of the Commission. [More…]
This is a very extreme limitation on the powers of the Commission. [More…]
I again make the point that I think this clause goes beyond the constitutional power of this Government. [More…]
It only has a power to make laws in respect of conciliation and arbitration and the settlement of disputes. [More…]
It has to give that power to another body. [More…]
The Government at the moment would dearly like to put a ceiling on wages, but it has got no legal power to do so. [More…]
The power to conciliate and arbitrate is not vested in the Commonwealth. [More…]
The Government has some power to appoint a group, a commission or a tribunal to deal with conciliation and arbitration. [More…]
But you will not make any payment to those employees in respect of the period of the industrial action’ is a direct interference with the powers of the Commission. [More…]
I say that it is ultra vires of the constitutional power of the Parliament. [More…]
In other words, the Parliament has no power to direct the Commission as to what it should do or should not do. [More…]
This amounts to direct industrial legislation and not legislation within the meaning of the powers of the Parliament to make laws in respect of conciliation and arbitration in accordance with section 5 1 placitum (xxxv) of the Constitution. [More…]
To intrude by legislation to give a direction to the Commission and to admit in the marginal note on this clause that it is a limitation on the powers of the Commission makes it clear that this power is beyond the constitutional power of the Parliament. [More…]
The Parliament has power to make laws only with respect to conciliation and arbitration for the prevention and settlement of disputes. [More…]
Fortunately, the Government has power in respect of its own employees. [More…]
If that is the way the Commission interprets its powers, so be it; it has that power. [More…]
In clauses 15 and 16 we are dealing with power which the Parliament is handing over to the Executive arm of government in this country and which is probably unconstitutional. [More…]
1 ) Where, on application by the Minister,- so the Minister has the power in his own handsa Full Bench is satisfied that: [More…]
The clause continues: the power to suspend, to the extent specified in the order, any of the rights, privileges or capacities of the organization or of all or any of its members, as such members, under this Act or any other Act or under awards or determinations under this Act or under any other Act; the power to give directions as to the exercise of any rights, privileges or capacities that have been so suspended; [More…]
A person may be democratically elected by any trade union, right wing, left wing, centre or whatever it may be, but the Government is giving itself the power over the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission, over the judicial review of the deregistration processes which are now in order, to bring about total confrontation with the trade union movement in this country. [More…]
The clause continues: the power to make provision for restricting the use of the funds or property of the organization or a branch of the organization and for the control of those funds or that property for the purpose of ensuring observance of the restrictions. [More…]
Because of that action of a very small group out of a total membership of 100,000 or 150,000 members we find the Government giving itself the power to suspend a union offical, to freeze the union’s funds, to suspend any of its activities, virtually to tell that union under a bonding system that for six months there will be no industrial confrontation and virtually to tell the employers involved in that industry: ‘Take whatever action you like against these employees in this industry because if they take any action under the bond which we have set for their behaviour we are going to deregister them’. [More…]
Sir Robert Menzies tried to discover a way of altering the Conciliation and Arbitration Act to give him the power to prevent communist union officials from holding office, and to prevent people who were declared by the Minister to be supporters of Marx and Lenin from holding office. [More…]
If we are given the power to do these things the Parliament can fix the minimum wage, the number of weeks leave that employees will be entitled to have on full pay each year, and the period of long service leave we give to our employees. [More…]
Once we start fighting elections on the basis of people voting for the party that is prepared to use the powers of Parliament to increase wages and to reduce the hours of work, I know which party I would like to have my money on. [More…]
That is the reason why the founding fathers did not want the national Parliament to have the power to legislate directly over wages and working conditions. [More…]
That is what all this will lead to and I hope that the High Court does hold that this Parliament has those powers. [More…]
The honourable member for Port Adelaide (Mr Young) accused the Government of taking away from the Australian Conciliation and Arbitration Commission its traditional role and of giving itself the power, behind the cloak of the Governor-General and the Executive Council, to determine the question of deregistration of unions. [More…]
Of course, the answer lies in the increasing power of the militant extremists of the Left in the trade union movement. [More…]
We should remember the voting power that the trade unions have directly in the Labor Party machine, their direct control over party office bearers and over party parliamentary pre-selections. [More…]
it is as though the Federation converts the expression ‘ Have gun will travel ‘ to ‘ Have power will ban ‘. [More…]
Thus no single nation has sought to bring any significant pressure to bear on Indonesia, the power largely responsible for what must be one of the most flagrant denials of human rights in the history of modern decolonization. [More…]
If the country had shared a common border with a third power Australia would have been drawn into a massive refugee problem on its own doorstep. [More…]
Appreciating this problem the South Australian Government decided a number of years ago that, because of the increased funds it anticipated it would receive from the Whitlam Government when it was in power, it would bring forward plans for a filtration plant to clear the water in the northern part of the State. [More…]
The Leader of the Opposition of course is well aware of the constitutional limitations on the powers of the Commonwealth Government in controlling fees, salaries and wages. [More…]
In fact there have been a number of referendums at which the people have been invited to give additional powers to the Commonwealth to enable it to control wages, salaries, prices, et cetera. [More…]
On each occasion the people have overwhelmingly rejected the transfer of that power to the Commonwealth Government. [More…]
The next matter referred to by the Minister was that there is not power to fix medical fees. [More…]
Firstly, this Government opposed a referendum which, among other things, if it had been carried would have provided power to fix those fees. [More…]
This is the sort of confrontation which arises when there are hoodlums in power who have no idea of their responsibilities. [More…]
It is reported that the Minister said as recently as this week that the Federal Government has no power to achieve changes in the Western Australian laws on public assembly. [More…]
For some time it has been said on judicial authority that the national Parliament has the power to legislate in this area, and it has done so. [More…]
It has not done so in this case, and that is because the Prime Minister has walked away from the situation and because the Minister for Industrial Relations says he does not think he has any power. [More…]
It would seem clear, therefore, that the legislative power of the Commonwealth over ‘external affairs’ certainly includes the power to execute within the Commonwealth treaties and conventions entered into with foreign powers. [More…]
He claimed that in that review, which was set up following consultation with the Prime Minister so that the Commonwealth and State Attorney-General could consult together, there was no mention of Commonwealth law or power. [More…]
What the Deputy Leader of the Opposition failed to mention further is that the Commonwealth has no power to legislate in respect the rights of public assembly in a State. [More…]
No power exists for the Federal Government to seek to impose upon the States uniform Commonwealth legislation relating to the ordinary criminal laws of that State. [More…]
My reference was to the fact that they failed to refer to the Commonwealth powers in international law, not under section 109 of the Constitution, but under the external affairs power in accordance with the case of Burgess or the two-airlines case or the seas and submerged lands case. [More…]
demonstrates that the Commonwealth’s share of expenditure on road construction and maintenance, expressed in real terms, has seriously declined since the Fraser Government came to power and will further decline, whereas Federal revenue from fuel taxes and levies has more than doubled in the same period and will further increase; [More…]
That is, the purchasing power of funds made available to local government by the Commonwealth will be one-fifth lower this year than four years ago. [More…]
That is, the purchasing power of Commonwealth Government payments to or for local government authorities, excluding payments for roads, will be 33 per cent lower this year than it was in 1 975-76. [More…]
Labor, when in government, took a number of important initiatives to lift the powers and financial resources of local government. [More…]
For example our platform emphasises that the next Labor Government ‘will seek the support of local government for the inclusion of a local government representative on the Loan Council and for power of the Australian Government to borrow on its behalf. [More…]
We do not wish to control local councils; in fact, we have no power to control them. [More…]
Since 1973, when Labor was in power, there has been a gradual shift towards an expansion of general purpose assistance to the States and local government. [More…]
Amendments proposed in the Bill will ensure that the Department of Social Security has power to effect recovery of sickness benefit payments once compensation has been received for the same incapacity in respect of which sickness benefits have been paid. [More…]
Firstly, the value of my allowance has been static for two years, over those two years inflation has taken a severe toll of its purchasing power. [More…]
A power has been given to the President of the Commission to take over any case- that means that he can take a case out of the hands of a deputy president- if he believes such action to be in the national interest. [More…]
Why should the President of the Commission not have that power? [More…]
We believe that that particular amendment clearly strengthens the power of the President of the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission in ways that are thoroughly constructive. [More…]
If that power had been present some time ago it might well have avoided the long and prolonged Telecom dispute. [More…]
Did the Government say to the person giving the opinion that ‘consult’ means that we merely tell the deputy president that we have made a decision, or did it say that ‘consult’ means that we will be at the behest of the deputy president, that the deputy president has power to change the decision without hearing the case? [More…]
We have seen a government of this country defeated because it tried to dismantle the powers of the Commission and refer them back to the States. [More…]
We have given the President more power. [More…]
There is no derogation from or diminution of power whatever in the legislation that is the subject of discussion today. [More…]
The Commission has the power to deregister when it believes that there will be an adverse effect on the safety, health or welfare of a community. [More…]
I am sure that the people of Australia support that power. [More…]
The legislation is designed to promote and protect the individual against abuse of trade union power. [More…]
Clause 5 amends section 26 of the Crimes (Aircraft) Act 1963 to extend the existing power of search provided in that section with respect to aircraft to cover persons, luggage, freight or vehicles found within the limits of the subject aerodromes or facilities where a person authorised to make searches for the purposes of the section reasonably suspects that an offence against Part IIIa has been or may be committed. [More…]
So whilst the Commonwealth had no direct power, as in the role of an employer, to take a role in the setting of academic salaries, it was the Commonwealth which substantially provided the funds for the payment of the salaries. [More…]
The position has become desperate in the last couple of years because of the declining purchasing power of Commonwealth post-graduate awards. [More…]
The first, of course, is the toll that inflation has taken on the purchasing power of the awards. [More…]
So, a substantial increase should have been made to these awards in order for them to retain their purchasing power. [More…]
This also has resulted in a substantial decline in the purchasing power of those awards. [More…]
If the awards were to have the same purchasing power which they had in January 1977 they would have to be at a level of $6,410. [More…]
One aspect of the Remuneration Tribunals Act which needed attention related to the confusion whether there was power in the Act to recommend salary levels for institutions other than colleges of advanced education and universities, that is, those created by the Tertiary Education Commission which encompasses all three levels of post-secondary education. [More…]
It is in somebody else’s power. [More…]
They said: ‘Between your interests and our interests there is no difference at all because we both want nuclear power. [More…]
We do not want any information that will strengthen the argument against the use of nuclear power to get out. [More…]
But I do not think any honourable member would regard as a valid proposition that by our own creation in our own legislation we should give a director-general power to use his discretion on whether he should give any advice to the Minister. [More…]
-With regard to clause 8 of the Bill and the amendment proposed by the Opposition, how is the Parliament to be responsible for its own creation when the Director-General virtually will have absolute control and total power with no public accountability to the Federal Parliament? [More…]
In summary, clause 8 provides that the Minister is not empowered to override the opinion of the Director-General on whether the collection of intelligence by the Organisation concerning a particular individual would or would not be justified by reason of its relevance to security, on the question of whether the communication of intelligence concerning a particular individual would be for a purpose relevant to security or concerning the nature of the advice that should be given by the organisation to a Minister, department or authority of the Commonwealth. [More…]
If we look at clauses 25, 26 and 27- they are relevant to clause 8(2) (b)- we will see that they provide for the power to enter into and search premises, examine records, make copies of transcripts, use listening devices or bugs to record words spoken by another person and to open mail and inspect telegrams. [More…]
I say that honourable members should beware of the all-powerful spy bosses because they may be paternalistic now but there is no guarantee that they will not become authoritarian at a later date. [More…]
There is an old saying that power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. [More…]
Paragraphs (a) and (b) of clause 8 (2) are in fact aiming to limit the specific power of the Minister to give directions in questions which relate to the collection and dissemination of information on particular individuals. [More…]
I always find it extraordinary at the opening of Parliament and when from time to time the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) talks about terrorism and about our system of government that we always pose the threats to our system of government as coming from some external force, some bomb thrower, some foreign power or some group of subversives. [More…]
So if the DirectorGeneral says ‘I am not going to tell the Minister that’, the Attorney-General has no power to compel him to give that information. [More…]
I believe that is a very serious inroad into the whole concept of ministerial responsibility and therefore is a very serious derogation of the rights and powers of this Parliament. [More…]
Hoover’s, whose views may be totally unacceptable generally in terms of the Australian community and who may, simply by the use of this clause and the freedom that it gives to a Director-General, be able, in a sense, to use his power against the best interests of the Australian people. [More…]
We saw Mr Justice Hope’s recommendations as allowing too much room for limitation of the scope of ministerial power and responsibility, allowing too much residual authority to the Director-General. [More…]
Of course it is not part of the dialectical process of argument, debate, voting, open power struggles more or less openly resolved, that are characteristic of a democratic system. [More…]
It seems to me that one could not want for anything milder than that, because it really gives the Director-General power to rule on virtually any file the contents of which it is in the interests of security should not be revealed. [More…]
What I find objectionable is the increasing power that one man is gaining over this country, the Prime Minister. [More…]
In between elections he exercises just as much personal power, dictatorial power over everybody in the Cabinet as did any dictator. [More…]
This legislation is going to make his power even more absolute. [More…]
If we do not, let us turn it over to some dictatorial power or authoritarian state. [More…]
what right have you, the Australian trade union movement to tell us, the Japanese people, about the dangers of nuclear power. [More…]
Can you figure any greater gall and greater hypocrisy than we comfortably sitting here in Australia should make a decision on the basis of what is good or not good for Japanese workers in respect of nuclear power. [More…]
Can you figure any greater gall and greater hypocrisy than we comfortably sitting here in Australia should make a decision on the basis of what is good or not good for Japanese workers in respect of nuclear power. [More…]
They have been through it and they have made an economic decision endorsed by the trade union movement that in terms of the economic needs of Japan, it is essential that they have nuclear generated power. [More…]
However, should there be any evidence of deterioration in the stocks of marlin or tuna fish during the 12 months of the agreement with the Japanese it will be within the power of the Commonwealth to modify any future agreements in order to protect Australian fishing interests. [More…]
The Government believes that the general power of direction given to the Attorney-General in clause 8 of the Bill, meeting as it does the longstanding philosophy, does provide the Parliament through the ministerial responsibility of the Attorney-General with a safeguard to watch over the affairs of ASIO together with the other safeguards that are built into the exercise of special powers, the requirement of an annual report and the requirement of regular consultation and briefings with the Leader of the Opposition. [More…]
There were conversations with this man and, worst of all, this man was an embassy employee of a foreign power- to wit, Russia. [More…]
Officers of this Organisation become the privileged group, can regard themselves as being a power unto themselves and are able to have that information. [More…]
I stress that these amendments have the intention of attempting to strengthen the power of the Parliament vis-a-vis the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation, whereas the purpose of this legislation is to strengthen ASIO’s powers visavis the Parliament. [More…]
The late Prime Minister, Norman Kirk, a romantic, wanted to disband or greatly restrain the power of the SIS. [More…]
Accordingly our amendment to this clause proposes to remove the power of the DirectorGeneral to issue warrants without any consultation. [More…]
Our amendment proposes that the power of the Director-General of Security to take these actions on his own initiative be deleted. [More…]
What we are giving to a Customs officer is a power to put a telephone tap on a citizen’s phone on the basis that he just simply suspects that there is likely to be a breach of security. [More…]
If this Parliament is to give a Customs officer a power to place a tap on a citizen’s telephone and to intercept messages, this Parliament must be satisfied that in granting that power we do so under circumstances and conditions which protect the innocent and which will, we hope, lead to the apprehension of the guilty. [More…]
But those resources, when we are dealing with a power like telephone tapping, have always to be used within the framework of the law. [More…]
I believe that the power to tap telephones is an extremely dangerous power because of the consequences of the information that might be secured. [More…]
Do not tell me that the judges of Australia need to be told in an Act of Parliament that they have power to say to a witness: ‘Your evidence is not sufficient. [More…]
Is the honourable member really suggesting that a judge needs to have it stated in an Act of Parliament that he has power to say to a witness: ‘Go away and come back with more evidence’? [More…]
I asked that the procedure be maintained for Ministers exclusively to have the power to withhold a passport where it was considered that a person had committed corporate defalcation. [More…]
The honourable member for Lalor (Mr Barry Jones) will agree that that is the maximum that the Parliament could demand, and it is a maximum power which would be used only in the most exceptional cases. [More…]
By what corridor of power may complainants hope to reach the ear of the President and to induce him to defrock a colleague? [More…]
The power to remove a matter before a member of the Commission from his hands falls somewhere near a power already in the Act (s. 23 (3) ), under which Presidential members may allocate work to members of the panel who are bound to comply with the directions of the Presidential member. [More…]
There is no basis for concluding that the power of a Presidential member to organise and allocate the work of a member of his panel permits what is here proposed. [More…]
Under this amendment, if the Government can empower the Commission to make a declaration it can, as well, amend the law so that it may proceed without the need for our declaration. [More…]
We shall be left with the power only so long as we exercise it to the pleasure of the Government. [More…]
This proposal seeks power to put a man outside the law and to do it withal by executive act. [More…]
I thought that in pre-war Germany the nazi government was in full power. [More…]
and (3) It is assumed that the question is directed only to power driven aeroplanes. [More…]
Air Navigation Regulations define an aeroplane as ‘a power-driven heavier-than-air aircraft deriving its lift in flight chiefly from aerodynamic reactions on surfaces remaining fixed under given conditions of flight.’ [More…]
I believe that overwhelmingly the people of Australia, who are utterly fed up with industrial disputes, would want that power to be in the hands of the Commission. [More…]
Finally, the Government is unable to accept the Committee’s proposals for a Board of Review with supervisory responsibilities over Commonwealth printing and publishing, including power to direct departments and statutory authorities on matters associated with their publishing programs. [More…]
Briefly, it was argued at that Conference, that the previously existing rules of the international economic game tended to be devised by those with economic power and to benefit those with economic power. [More…]
We have to educate these farmers now to use electric power. [More…]
When we look at costs we find that today electric power compares more than favourably with petroleum products for irrigation purposes. [More…]
about the abuse of privilege, and the power to sway people by tugging at nothing more than their emotions and their inconveniences. [More…]
I am told that the Canadian Government is a world leader in the development of domestic satellite systems using relatively low power output from the satellite transponders- devices which amplify signals sent up to the satellite for re-transmission back to earth receiving stations- in conjunction with relatively small and inexpensive earth stations. [More…]
I should perhaps point out here that the size, weight and cost of a satellite, and the range of services which it might provide, are heavily influenced by the power output of the transponders in the satellite. [More…]
To put this in non-technical terms, the higher the transponder power output is, the greater is the weight of the satellite and its costs, both to manufacture and to launch into orbit. [More…]
On the other hand, the higher the transponder power output is, the smaller and less costly the earth stations are although of course in this area technology is constantly changing, as I noticed when I had a look around the world recently. [More…]
It delighted in debate about antenna size and transponder power. [More…]
How can these small regional television stations compete with the buying power of the major networks? [More…]
Not only will the satellite transponder need to be of much greater power than is currently commercially available but also the design and development of a ground station to suit these particular needs has yet to be commenced, let alone costed on an installed and working basis in remote Australia. [More…]
There is not one sentence, not one phrase, on the pattern of media ownership in this country, which has the greatest concentration of media power of any in the Western world. [More…]
Similar action was proposed at the time of the Victorian power dispute in 1977 and at that time it was condemned by conservative politicians and newspaper editors. [More…]
We believe that to maintain the purchasing power of pensions and benefits is important. [More…]
There was an enormous jump in this figure when the Fraser-Anthony Government came to power in 1 976. [More…]
The working people and pensioners of this country recognise that Labor achieved a very great deal in terms of the redistribution of income in the time when it was in power. [More…]
Particularly at a time of economic recession, that temptation will be open to any government that is in power. [More…]
When we talk about the increased amounts that have necessarily been spent on welfare in the time when this Government has been in power, we have only to look at the unemployment statistics to understand why. [More…]
The number of people out of work has increased dramatically while this Government has been in power, particularly young people and older workers. [More…]
We can look at all of the additional restrictions that have been placed on unemployment beneficiaries since this Government came to power. [More…]
We could have the ridiculous situation where under the provisions of this Act, if the electricians or the power workers and the members of the Electrical Trades Union of Australia in some State decided to put on bans and limitations any electrician or member of the Amalgamated Metal Workers and Shipwrights Union covered by the electricians award could find that he could be stood down in some industry although he has had absolutely nothing to do with the decision taken by the group of workers in some other part of the State or country. [More…]
Was such a State power relinquished to the Federal Government in 1 973; if so, will the Federal Government implement the principles of this recommendation. [More…]
However, I would have thought that, in the Westminster tradition, the power of Parliament to require the production of documents and the giving of evidence is, for all practical purposes, unlimited. [More…]
Does he subscribe to the practice of placing major dependence for the detection of drug runners and smugglers operating to Australia on the services of wholly foreign-owned and controlled companies, particularly where such companies have a veto power over decisions by an Australian subsidiary as prescribed in their articles and memorandum of association? [More…]
In the present distribution of wealth and power in Australia, the new technology is often used as an instrument for the strong against the weak and the rich against the poor. [More…]
Yet under this legislation if members of that union, for instance, were involved in the power dispute in Queensland, because of some narrow association of their membership they would be deemed ineligible for unemployment benefit. [More…]
In a dispute in Victoria a few years ago, because one member of a union involved in a power dispute- the Vehicle Builders Employees Federation of Australia which the honourable member for Port Adelaide mentioned- the persons employed by the companies involved, namely the Ford Motor Company of Australia Ltd and General Motors-Holden’s Ltd, and other vehicle builders union employing organisations in Melbourne which were neither in the dispute nor stood to benefit from the dispute, were all deemed to be ineligible for unemployment benefit. [More…]
At the moment, section 120 provides the Director-General with two discretionary powers. [More…]
One is the discretionary power to judge whether a person has left work voluntarily without good or sufficient reason; whether a person has left work due to his own misconduct or has lost his job due to his own misconduct; or whether a person, without good or sufficient reason, has failed to accept an offer of employment. [More…]
In those three cases, the Director-General has discretionary power to judge a person in relation to the payment of unemployment benefit. [More…]
So that discretionary power is already a dangerous one. [More…]
The other discretion, and a more generous one in some ways, leaves the Director-General with the power to determine for what period the unemployment benefit will be denied. [More…]
One does not need to emphasise or to restate within this House the shifts that have occurred in the scales of unemployment since this Government has been in power; the length of time that people are unemployed; and the fact that particular sections of the community are bearing the weight of unemployment. [More…]
I remind the House that similar proposals were put up in the Victorian power dispute some two years ago, in 1977. [More…]
In the four years since this Government came to power, unemployment has increased by huge numbers, and inflation is now increasing. [More…]
-The provisions in respect of special investigations state that the power to order special investigations shall be exercisable exclusively by the members of the Ministerial Council either collectively as the Ministerial Council or individually and that the Minister responsible for the administration in one of the States shall be empowered to order a special investigation where it appears in the public interest to do so. [More…]
I say to the Committee that before the substantive legislation comes into operation and as soon as possible after this worthy legislation comes into operation, this Government, a judicial inquiry or the National Companies and Securities Commission, if it is within its power to do so, should undertake a comprehensive and complete inquiry into the activities of the New South Wales Corporate Affairs Commission and the New South Wales Attorney-General in respect of special investigations. [More…]
When we were talking about national companies and securities legislation, it should be remembered that the Australian Labor Party has always approached the subject on the basis that the Commonwealth should occupy the field of power which is given to it under the Constitution. [More…]
In our view and in the view of particularly recent decisions of the High Court of Australia, it is clear that we have power in this field. [More…]
It is very clear also the Government has abdicated that power. [More…]
At the time, the New South Wales Government, along with the South Australian Government, offered the Commonwealth a reference of power so that there would be no doubt that a national scheme enacted by this Parliament could be all-embracing. [More…]
This reference of power was refused and the charade of longwinded dialogue to frame co-operative legislation has proceeded for the past three years. [More…]
Unilateral action by the Commonwealth was recommended in the areas in which it had constitutional power. [More…]
It has such constitutional power in this area. [More…]
That co-operation would be desirable in the areas where the States would retain residual powers. [More…]
But where there is constitutional power there is the obligation so to legislate. [More…]
However, in our view of the constitutional power, the area of any residual power is small and not of major importance. [More…]
National power carries with it national responsibilities. [More…]
If the Commonwealth has the constitutional power to legislate in any field, it should do so because that will give a national standard. [More…]
We cannot have six little armies simply because we decided by agreement under the defence power that each State would raise its own army or air force. [More…]
In this case the Commonwealth, under the Constitution, has a power to talk about the regulation and control of a securities industry and we have abdicated that power. [More…]
The Government’s excuse for this abdication of national power is to say that there is doubt about how far the power extends. [More…]
The main power which is relevant is the corporation’s power- section 51, placitum (xx) of the Constitution- which gives this Parliament power to legislate with respect to foreign corporations and trading or financial corporations formed within the limits of the Commonwealth. [More…]
The three main areas of doubt about the scope of this power are: Firstly, what is a trading corporation? [More…]
Firstly, the Government has never sought a reference of power from all the States. [More…]
Secondly, doubt about the extent of the constitutional power does not justify inaction or weak, or half-baked action. [More…]
It is amazing that the Government is prepared to take the broadest and most centralist possible view of its power when it comes to trade unions. [More…]
Yet when it comes to the regulation of companies, the Government says that it cannot do anything directly because it may lack the power, despite the specific power in relation to corporations. [More…]
On the point of constitutional power the present Minister for Home Affairs (Mr Ellicott) said in 1974: . [More…]
uncertainty as to the extent of constitutional power should never of itself be a reason for opposing an otherwise worthwhile legislative exercise of power, nor should it prevent a government, properly advised, treading where angels of constitutional probity have formerly feared to tread. [More…]
The view that it would be beyond constitutional power to enact comprehensive companies and securities legislation is so restricted and conservative that it defies logic. [More…]
Securities and Exchange Commission since 1934, set up wholly in reliance of the interstate trade and commerce power. [More…]
The United States, in fact, does not have the constitutional equivalent of the corporations power that we have. [More…]
One of the arguments, based on the Constitution, used against a national companies law is that the words ‘formed within the limits of the Commonwealth ‘ mean that trading and financial corporations must be already formed under State law before the Australian Parliament has the power to make laws. [More…]
The argument goes that this Parliament has no power to pass laws for the incorporation of companies. [More…]
The constitutional base on which this legislation depends is not, therefore, section 51 (xx) of the Constitution, but rather section 122, which relates to the Territories power. [More…]
One needs only to look at the recent manoeuvrings of Ansett, Holmes a’Court and Ampol to realise the sorts of power struggles and manipulation that occur in everyday life in the corporate sector. [More…]
Under this scheme the Parliament is to lose its power to scrutinise and to amend legislation. [More…]
Should this scheme founder, as it probably will, then a Labor government would have an obligation under its constitutional power to pass legislation on a national basis. [More…]
This legislation sets up a commission which will have no power to administer. [More…]
It has taken some time from this Government’s coming to power to the signing of the agreement last year but I suggest that the Opposition’s approach is not consistent with our federalism policy or philosophy. [More…]
Clearly, the Federal Government does have some constitutional power in this area. [More…]
The question is the extent of such power. [More…]
It has the supreme power to propose amendments. [More…]
Section 51, placitum (xx), of the Constitution extends that power to the Australian Government. [More…]
There is to be no transfer of power by the States to the Commonwealth; rather there is agreement by the parties to submit complementary legislation once agreed upon by the Ministerial Council. [More…]
The Bill is extremely vague as to the powers and functions of the Commission, although it is clear, firstly, that the Commission will be totally subservient to the Ministerial Council. [More…]
Secondly, it will have no rule or regulation making power of its own. [More…]
If on the other hand the Commonwealth legislation were to be based on the Commonwealth’s corporations power under the Constitution and, as with the Labor Government’s Bill, made to apply to the whole Commonwealth, then it would not be so simple for a State to pass legislation different from that of the Commonwealth. [More…]
The United States Government made full use of its constitutional powers to set up its own administrative agency- the Securities and Exchange Commission. [More…]
That agency was vested with wide enforcement and law making powers. [More…]
The lack of independence and power of the proposed Commission contrasts with the position of the SEC in regard to the rules and regulation making powers. [More…]
The Commission appears to have sufficient power to act in the area. [More…]
Although the Attorney-General has not said publicly very much more than that about his proposal … it might provide that the Board would have power: to invite or receive draft standards from the accounting bodies to negotiate with those bodies as the priorities to be followed in the development of specific standards and as to the timetable to be followed (subject to the provision for relief) to require the general adoption of a standard endorsed by the Board to reject a proposed standard and refer it to the originating body for modification. [More…]
To say that someone is in any way responsible for industrial action taken at another plant over which he has absolutely no power of decision making, of course, is to deny justice to the person who is stood down. [More…]
Does the statement make no declaration regarding other power sources and so conflict with previous assurances by Ministers that (a) safety of the nuclear power industry was higher than that of alternative power producing systems and (b) remaining technical arrangements to achieve commercial exploitation of solar power production are more complex. [More…]
Does he support the New South Wales Government’s decision to build a pilot solar power plant in western New South Wales. [More…]
However, they also recognised that oil or other alternative energy sources would not be sufficient to meet growing energy demand in the short and mediumterm and that undesirable economic and social consequences would therefore result if more nuclear power is not available. [More…]
They therefore agreed on the need for projected additions to nuclear power supply to be realised in timely fashion and exceeded wherever possible, having due regard to legal and constitutional provisions. [More…]
Eighteen members of a Japanese anti-nuclear group known as ‘Japanese Against Atomic and Nuclear Bombs and Power’ arrived in Australia on 19 May 1979. [More…]
-Is the Minister for Industrial Relations aware of the 48-hour strike by workers in the Queensland power industry which severely disrupted power supplies in that State on Monday and Tuesday? [More…]
It is about time that the power workers involved had a bit more regard for their fellow Queenslanders. [More…]
The second unfortunate aspect of the strike is that the causes of the dispute can be traced back directly to a decision by the New South Wales Government in awarding its power workers a 37%-hour week in March this year. [More…]
In 1973-74 the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries increased prices but the Labor Government which was in power then did not automatically jump onto the bandwagon of the OPEC price rises. [More…]
This Government has done all in its power to alleviate unemployment and the obdurate attitude of the Commonwealth was a bitter blow. [More…]
I discussed at some length the effect upon Tasmania of the deliberate Commonwealth policy to curtail the financial influence of the public sector in the economy and to restrict the purchasing power of moneys available to the States. [More…]
The States would have had to receive an additional $443m this financial year to restore the purchasing power of their allocations from the Commonwealth to the levels that they were at in 1 975-76. [More…]
It is quite clear, as the honourable member for Gellibrand (Mr Willis) pointed out, that the figures do show a very substantial cutback in funding from the Commonwealth to the States for capital works since this Government has been in power. [More…]
The bulk of the loan funds in the general capital area are essentially related to infrastructurethings such as increased power and transport capacity. [More…]
He referred to the eight-year program which relates to such facilities as coal loaders at Balmain and Port Kembla, the Loy Yang power project in Victoria, the world trade centre, which one would not have thought was much of a priority, a coal loader at Hay Point in Queensland, the petrochemical project at Redcliff in South Australia, $568m for Western Australia for a natural gas pipeline between Dampier and Perth, the integration of power supplies in the Pilbara region, the Worsley alumina project and $100m for Tasmania for hydro-electric power development. [More…]
In Victoria, $2,000m is being allocated for the Loy Yang power station. [More…]
A great deal of the available capital in this country is to go into a single major power project within one State, and that is to take place within the context of a country which has developed no capacity for overall management and planning of its resources. [More…]
That is true, whether there is a Liberal government in power or a Labor government in power. [More…]
I asked a very prominent member of the Australian Labor Party the other day why it was that the Left wing did not want Labor to get into power. [More…]
It was an experiment and the power of this House rests in the hands of the back benchers. [More…]
The power of the Executive is increasing. [More…]
It was the head of the Executive himself who thought that the power of the Executive should be put under scrutiny by the back benchers of this House. [More…]
If this House had any respect for itself and if the back bench members had any respect for their function they would realise that although these committees are not perfect in any way they are a genuine effort by the back benchers to control the power of the Executive. [More…]
In that case all that I can do is to pay my respects to the Clerk of the House and to those who came to the committees and supplied us with information and who did everything in their power to assist us. [More…]
That it had become well known that the Commission was following an economic policy of its own, irrespective of what government was in power. [More…]
It has power to do so under its external affairs power. [More…]
The Minister knows very well that on a major multilateral issue the Committee waits upon the timing of the superpowers. [More…]
A particularly disturbing point was disclosed in newspaper articles on 22 October, that is, the fact that some departments are actively seeking to emasculate the Act so that they can be exempt from its power. [More…]
The Commonwealth must retain power to deal with issues of national significance. [More…]
The trouble is that when his party was in power it achieved nothing in the area of environmental protection. [More…]
Only a socialist would regard himself as having that power. [More…]
This Bill amends the Defence Act 1903 to give the power to make standing appointments of officers to act as Chief of Defence Force Staff or a Service Chief of Staff during any absence of the holder of the relevant office. [More…]
Chapter III of the Constitution, which deals with the judicature, commences with section 71, which vests the judicial power of the Commonwealth in: a Federal Supreme Court, to be called the High Court of Australia, and in such other federal courts as Parliament creates, and in such other courts as it invests with federal jurisdiction. [More…]
Affairs of its view that the present wording of section 7S of the Evidence Act- which was inserted by the Amending Act of 1978- leaves it open to doubt whether Parliament has the power to disallow Rules of Court so made. [More…]
Restoration of access jetty and new wharf head; repair and structural upgrading of buildings including services; provision of new staff accommodation; repair and replacement of submarine power cables; miscellaneous repairs to roads, fencing and engineering services; and replacement of transmitting aerials, associated transmission lines and switching facilities. [More…]
If we look at his personal power base, we see that he has a super department which now intrudes, as a matter of course, into almost every area of government. [More…]
When the Whitlam Labor Government came to power in 1 972 and the present Deputy Leader of the Opposition (Mr Lionel Bowen) was the Minister in charge of children’s services, we saw quite a change in all States except New South Wales. [More…]
If this argument really means that a higher deficit would raise economic activity and thereby facilitate higher wages because of greater bargaining power for the unions, such an argument applies whether the stimulus comes from the public or the private sector. [More…]
The Parliament does not have the power to initiate the voting of money. [More…]
Information has nowadays become power and in the highly bureaucratic societies in which we exist the legislature must seek to challenge the bureaucratic monopoly of information. [More…]
It is tending to put the power into the hands of the consolidators and major travel agencies to the detriment of more than 900 smaller travel agents who are employing big staff around Australia. [More…]
Consequently, they will wield the accompanying economic power. [More…]
What we cannot and must not do is abrogate power over Australian petrol and fuel prices to OPEC. [More…]
Since you say you would give certain advice, does your Government now support the concept of atomic power stations in this country? [More…]
It does not consider the problem of finally dismantling nuclear power stations. [More…]
It is inadequate; it is undemocratic and it is giving greater power to the Executive. [More…]
During the years that I have been here the rights and privileges of the rank and file members of this Parliament have been eroded bit by bit, and greater power has gone to the Executive. [More…]
It underlines the disastrous policies that once again would be adopted if the Labor Party came to power. [More…]
Sub-section 25 (3) of the Snowy Mountains Hydro-Electric Power Act empowers the Authority, with the consent of the Treasurer, to borrow money, but does not enable the Treasurer to guarantee such borrowings. [More…]
Therefore, in accordance with the Government’s view that guarantees of such borrowings ought to be given only upon the authority of Parliament, the principal provision of this Bill is to amend the Snowy Mountains Hydro-Electric Power Act to enable the Treasurer to guarantee borrowings by the Authority and to delineate the forms of such borrowings. [More…]
While the Government’s view is that the responsibility for disposing, in an environmentally responsible manner of waste arising from nuclear power generation in countries abroad, is a matter for those countries which generate electricity by nuclear means, it is important that Australia remain fully informed of developments in this area. [More…]
Since the Fraser Government has been in power the number of services has stabilised. [More…]
Careful consideration was also given to objections by Pedal Power to modifications of the cycle path system. [More…]
Then he went on to say “There is no good relying on the Commonwealth Government because they won’t be in power after the next election and they know it, there is no negotiations going on between the Queensland State Government and the Commonwealth Government about Yarrabah’. [More…]
This Council has become an incorporated body and therefore has the power of right to manage our own finances. [More…]
We have achieved this objective in the Northern Territory simply by not giving the Northern Territory Government the sorts of powers that the Queensland Government has arrogated to itself in defiance of the 1967 referendum which decided that the Federal Government ought to have the power to pass laws in these matters. [More…]
One or two other companies are hopping on the band wagon to smelt their aluminium in central Queensland, which has the cheapest power in Australia. [More…]
It is cheaper than the power from the Snowy Mountains hydro-electric scheme. [More…]
I wrote that I was not terribly concerned about what power he has. [More…]
I take it from what the Labor representative said that if Labor got into power in Queensland it would reimpose death duties. [More…]
The Minister, of course, has specific power in this area but he seems relucant to use it. [More…]
Apart from the period 1972-75, that power has not been exercised to reduce the incidence of parallel scheduling. [More…]
Finally, a proposal was developed which was basically along the lines of the dairy industry scheme; that is, using the Commonwealth’s power to levy production and use that as a stabilising mechanism. [More…]
To what purpose will the power generated by the unit be put. [More…]
By what means is power presently secured at this location. [More…]
What is the likely magnitude of energy savings and cost savings if the use of wind power is extended. [More…]
5 ) Consideration is being given to operating two other remote lighthouses on power provided by wind generators. [More…]
Cost savings from more extensive use of wind power are still being studied. [More…]
I re-emphasise that the world is looking a second time at steaming coal as being a major source of energy for power generation and for many other industrial purposes. [More…]
We would all accept that this House has the power of sanction for ministerial failure in those responsibilities; that is, it has the power of censure and the power of compelling his resignation. [More…]
He said that the Narcotics Bureau claimed that the simple remedy for any deficiencies it may have is to increase its staff, power and resources. [More…]
Is the honourable member for Adelaide seriously suggesting that every time an allegation of criminal conduct is made against a section of the bureaucracy any Bill at all conferring additional power on or giving additional discretions to that section of the bureauracy ought to be immediately pulled out of the Parliament? [More…]
The enrichment plant has a power requirement of 3,100 megawatts. [More…]
As I indicated, there is a need for a power source of 3,100 megawatts. [More…]
If what we are saying is not agreed to, if the matters we have set down are not met and the review of the patent system produces insufficient reform, the Opposition will be forced to the view that it would be better for Australia to stay well out of international patent agreements like the PCT until such time as a more enlightened and realistic government comes to power in Canberra, a government prepared to adopt the necessary policies. [More…]
The Minister should not be seen as having the power to disallow merely by withholding his signature. [More…]
The power to disallow exists in the Parliament. [More…]
This excludes the advanced systems now available which use solar power for hot and cold airconditioning. [More…]
Did he state in Parliament on 21 April 1975 that the Opposition believes that the need exists for a body which will have power to regulate transport in Australia within the limitations provided for in the Constitution. [More…]
I know there can be arguments both for and against on the question of how much economic power and economic decision-making ought to be concentrated in particular parts of Australia. [More…]
In the United States of America, the home of the free enterprise system, the powerful Finance Committee of the United States Senate in 1973 completed a most exhaustive inquiry into the operation of multinationals in the United States. [More…]
The answer to that question is very simply multinational or transnational companies in many cases have more direct economic power than many nation states. [More…]
This monopoly of power has been enshrined in the 1977 Constitution and the Communist Party’s influence is strongly felt at all levels of Soviet society. [More…]
The Party’s monopoly of political power derives considerable support from Soviet security agencies and from control of the Soviet media. [More…]
He referred in particular to the Soviet Union being a super power which, because of the enunciation of the rights of Soviet citizens in the Constitution, wants the world to believe that those rights are enjoyed by every citizen in that country. [More…]
The Chairman would also say that the Soviet Union is an ‘evangelising super power’ seeking to persuade people outside the Soviet Union that the USSR model is one which should be followed in other nations. [More…]
Instead of mass horror that had been accepted with fatalistic submission back in the days of Stalin, the masses now feel it is possible to avoid repression if only one adapts to the demands of the totalitarian power, if one does not do anything that the power does not like or if one avoids people it does not like. [More…]
We would be doing a great duty for humanity if we used the power, persuasion and influence of this country to try to examine these matters and broadcast them abroad. [More…]
It realised only too well that the Commonwealth does not have the power to control fees. [More…]
It happened during the three years or so of Medibank while the Opposition was in power. [More…]
Yet the Labor Party states that if it comes back to power it will reintroduce a Medibank-type scheme. [More…]
This is to be brought about by giving the Committee the power to examine, on its own initiative, the financial affairs of all statutory and other government bodies. [More…]
Currently, the Committee is not empowered to examine reports to Parliament by the AuditorGeneral outside his annual report or supplements to it. [More…]
For some time the legal position with respect to the Committee’s power to meet anywhere in Australia and to sit during a parliamentary recess has not been clear. [More…]
It is perhaps noteworthy that the Public Works Committee has both of these powers, and the Government believes that the same powers should be conferred on the Public Accounts Committee. [More…]
What will be their duties and powers as members of the Institute? [More…]
As I have pointed out, they have no power whatsoever as the Bill is presently drafted. [More…]
As I see it that is also unnecessary because, after all, the Institute is a body corporate, it is a legal entity, it can sue and be sued, and it does have the power to enter into contractual arrangements with other legal entities. [More…]
To ensure that such joint enterprise transfers do not become an avenue for the undermining of the wheat orderly marketing arrangements the Wheat Board will be provided with the power to control and monitor the movements of such wheat. [More…]
Other main features which remain unchanged are the seven year period for all except the pricing provisions of the Bill which continue to have a five season life, the constitution and general powers of the Wheat Board and the power of direction by the Minister. [More…]
That is remarkable seeing that the scheme was said not to have started until we came into power. [More…]
That the committee have power to appoint subcommittees consisting of 3 or more of its members, and to appoint the Chairman of each sub-committee who shall have a casting vote only, and refer to any such sub-committee any matter which the committee is empowered to examine. [More…]
That the committee or any sub-committee have power to send for persons, papers and records. [More…]
That the committee have power to move from place to place. [More…]
That any sub-committee have power to move from place to place, adjourn from time to time and to sit during any sittings or adjournment. [More…]
That the committee or any sub-committee have power to authorise publication of any evidence given before it and any document presented to it. [More…]
That the committee report by 28 August 1980 and that any member of the committee have power to add a protest or dissent to any report. [More…]
Under that Act the New South Wales Government has complete power to make any orders requiring the free flow of petrol. [More…]
Is the Minister aware that family allowance rates have been frozen since 1976 while prices have risen by 48 per cent; that a family with four children is now $7 a week worse off than before the family allowance was introduced; that the maternity allowance has been abolished; that family allowance has been discontinued for students receiving the Tertiary Education Assistance Scheme allowance; that the TEAS allowance would have to be increased by something like $10 a week to provide the same spending power as it did in 1975; and that an extra $ 1 7 a week would be required to restore a family on average weekly earnings to the living standard it enjoyed at the end of 1975? [More…]
In the light of this interim report, the Government has concluded that the Australian Federal Police should be given all necessary powers for narcotics inquiries. [More…]
Parliament recently conferred the power on officers of Customs to use listening devices under warrant of a judge. [More…]
This power now needs to be transferred to members of the Australian Federal Police subject to the same safeguards and limits as now apply in relation to officers of Customs. [More…]
This Bill therefore provides for amendments to the Customs Act to empower members of the Australian Federal Police, instead of officers of Customs, to use, under the warrant of a judge, listening devices in respect of narcotics offences. [More…]
In the light of this interim report, the Government has concluded that the Australian Federal Police should be given all necessary powers for narcotics inquiries. [More…]
Parliament recently conferred the power on officers of Customs to intercept telecommunications and inspect telegrams under warrant of a judge. [More…]
This power now needs to be transferred to members of the Australian Federal Police subject to the same safeguards and limits- as now apply in relation to officers of Customs. [More…]
This Bill therefore provides for amendments to the Telecommunications (Interception) Act to empower members of the Australian Federal Police, instead of officers of Customs, to intercept telecommunications and inspect telegrams, under the warrant of a judge, for the purposes of investigations in respect of narcotics offences. [More…]
Clause 5 of the Bill further provides, in relation to major extensions, a power for the Minister for Trade and Resources to revoke an earlier declaration if he is satisfied that the conditions upon which the declaration was issued, no longer apply. [More…]
They relate to a trial without jury and the power of the High Court of Australia to direct a trial with a jury. [More…]
Under clause 17, the High Court has power to do all things necessary in respect of its administration. [More…]
That immediately raises the point: Where does Parliament stand and what are its powers in relation to administration? [More…]
It has been a principle of our system of government that there are three sorts of power- the legislature, the Executive to administer the law of the nation and the judicial power. [More…]
These Bills that I am about to address myself to are about our system of government and the separation of power. [More…]
The legislative scheme is to effect the transfer of the seat of the High Court, the judicial arm of power under our Constitution, to Canberra and to perfect its independence from departmenttal control. [More…]
In other words, this legislation is about an effective separation of power of the Court from the legislature and, more particularly, the Executive. [More…]
What I do intend to discuss is the standard of conduct required of members of the judiciary, if they are to avoid the appearance of bias towards one or other party and the legislature is to have confidence in the doctrine of separate power for the judiciary, which this legislation is about. [More…]
There are various meanings of the term ‘separation’ which stress either functions performed by each branch or the overall allocation of power between each branch. [More…]
For the purpose of discussing the role of judges as independent and impartial in carrying out their duties, it is necessary to concentrate on the functions basically performed by the three branches and the extent to which there is interference with those functions in a practical sense rather than to stress the overall allocation of power and influence in decision-making. [More…]
These words and the action of this judge of the High Court of Australia clearly endanger the system of separation of power, threaten our system of liberty and destroy confidence of the public in judicial impartiality. [More…]
It is true that in every libel action I have taken against the Press barons of this country, who are part of the establishment, a part of the power-elite, I have defeated them on every front. [More…]
In Part III of the Bill, clause 17 sub-clause (2) provides that the High Court has power: [More…]
The Government has introduced today amendments to a number of Acts in which it proposes to give to the Commonwealth Police the power to use telephone interception devices. [More…]
The whole thrust of what we will say is that these powers should not be given to the police. [More…]
You cannot deny the fact, Mr Speaker, that if we are to discuss this legislation next week we are entitled to advert to an improper use of powers. [More…]
Within constitutional power- [More…]
I believe, with the Deputy Leader of the Opposition and the honourable member for Melbourne Ports (Mr Holding), that in drawing the sub judice rule so wide you have effectively diminished the power of this Parliament to carry out its responsibilities. [More…]
It is quite clear that the Labor Party is hell bent on having centralised power, and abolishing the State parliaments. [More…]
It adopts the subterfuge of saying that it will give additional powers to local government or regional bodies. [More…]
In fact the position is that no special power of pardon is vested in the Attorney-General in relation to offences under the Telephonic Communications (Interception) Act. [More…]
The Governor-General, on the recommendation of a Minister- and that Minister is usually the Attorney-General- has the power to pardon any non-capital offence against a law of the Commonwealth. [More…]
It was in respect of the exercise of that power by the Attorney-General that the Governor-General issued a pardon. [More…]
These smelters will consume vast quantities of steaming coal for power generation. [More…]
I believe that its policies on the development of the coal industry are no different at all from the ALP policies on the development of the oil industry when the ALP was in power. [More…]
Accordingly, the Commissioner of Taxation is to be given discretionary power to reduce, and in appropriate cases to eliminate, the additional tax payable under the new system to the extent that he considers it would be unreasonable for the tax to be paid. [More…]
This power will be exercisable where the income arises under arrangements made on or before 26 July 1 979. [More…]
The relieving power will ordinarily not be available unless the persons concerned establish that the tax payable on the non-employment’ income of a child under the new system is greater than the tax that would have been payable on that income if it had been added to the income of the child ‘s parent. [More…]
Against the possibility that, notwithstanding the relief available under this discretionary power and the specific exceptions and exclusions, cases arise where it is shown to the satisfaction of the Commissioner that the exaction of the full amount of the tax payable under the new system would entail serious hardship, the Commissioner is also to have a residual discretion not to impose part or any of the additional tax. [More…]
And of course the New South Wales Government agrees to all this because is has to, due to the institutional rigidity of the Queensland arrangements and the market power that that State has. [More…]
As the Minister for National Development (Mr Newman) pointed out in his second reading speech, the main purpose of this Bill is to amend the finance provisions of the Snowy Mountains Hydroelectric Power Act 1949. [More…]
The power stations provide valuable peak load electricity to New South Wales and Victoria. [More…]
The charge for this power is low compared with similar schemes overseas. [More…]
As was mentioned earlier, the purpose of this Bill is to amend the Snowy Mountains Hydroelectric Power Act 1949 and to broaden the borrowing powers of the Authority. [More…]
Clauses 4 and 5 remove some of the powers of the Governor-General and transfer them to the Minister- in particular, the remuneration of the Commissioner and each Associate Commissioner and the appointing of a person to act in the office of Commissioner or Associate Commissioner if required. [More…]
It should be noted that the cost of electricity produced by the Snowy Mountains scheme is extremely low by any standards and is much lower than the cost of power produced elsewhere in the world from natural gas and coal. [More…]
Its cost is lower than the cost of power produced by nuclear power stations which is now the world preferred system because of its cheapness and safety. [More…]
Unfortunately, there are few further sites for the harnessing of hydro power in Australia and none with the extra advantage of re-using the water for irrigation in areas that need it so badly. [More…]
The Snowy Mountains Hydro-electric Power Amendment Bill 1979 seeks to change the funding arrangements for the Snowy Mountains scheme now that it has been completed. [More…]
Through this Bill, the Government therefore proposes to amend the Snowy Mountains Hydro-electric Power Act to enable the Treasurer to guarantee moneys borrowed by the Snowy Mountains Authority in accordance with the conditions relating to rates which have been prescribed by the Australian Loan Council for semi-governmental authorities. [More…]
It is currently in the process of negotiating a contract to help the Chinese- a subject dear to the Deputy Speaker’s heart- to develop their hydro electric power potential. [More…]
In Australia, the Snowy Mountains Engineering Corporation has worked on such projects as the Thomson” Dam in Victoria and the Wivenhoe Power Scheme in Queensland. [More…]
For instance, the Australian Wheat Board still has the monopoly power which makes it the sole authority for the export marketing of wheat and wheaten products and the marketing of wheat domestically. [More…]
It also gives the Board power to borow money commercially if it is requested to do so by the Government. [More…]
In addition to this the Board will have the power once again to borrow commercially to pay for any overlap in borrowings. [More…]
Under the new legislation, the Wheat Board will have two sources of funds, the Reserve Bank and, for the first time in legislation, the power to borrow commercially. [More…]
The prices for coarse grains are set very much by export parity prices as we have no market power internationally in these commodities. [More…]
1 understand the three seamen who were living aboard the vessel Ramu complained about the fact that they were not being paid, had no food and the vessel was without power for lighting and cooking purposes. [More…]
But I stress the principle of the primacy of the civil power. [More…]
-Since coming to power four years ago the Fraser Government has presided over growing unemployment and falling job opportunities and now it is presiding over increasing inflation. [More…]
New South Wales is doubling its power generation over the next five years. [More…]
In five years time in New South Wales there will be twice the power capacity which exists right now. [More…]
We want more jobs to be built on that lower cost power. [More…]
When we came to power inlate 1975 the negotiations regarding the proposed Chryslerbased engine consortium were at a virtual standstill. [More…]
But in 1 975-76, the first year that it came into power, 134,000 new dwellings were approved. [More…]
In real terms the purchasing power lost is far greater, as this figure does not take into account the effects of inflation. [More…]
But the important thing is that we had the crucible of enormous power. [More…]
We have seen some bad examples in the recent past when the Parliament has divested itself of power and said: We are prepared to give power to other peoplethem’. [More…]
The Parliament will have less and less power in particular areas’. [More…]
It is saying: ‘We want to strengthen the power of the Public Accounts Committee to report back to the Parliament’. [More…]
We also need to remember that the Public Accounts Committee which has the power of scrutiny, is only one of 17 committees on which members of the House of Representatives take part. [More…]
The purpose of the legislation is to broaden the power of the Joint Committee of Public Accounts. [More…]
They remove any doubt as to the powers of the vice-chairman of the Committee in the absence of the chairman, and that is a very important part of the Bill. [More…]
I do not believe that it is acceptable that this power should be left exclusively to the presiding officers or to the presiding officer. [More…]
The extension of the Committee’s power to cover statutory bodies and other financial institutions has been the concern of many individuals. [More…]
That may be a measure of the prosperity of rural industries or it may demonstrate that the Government has a definite double standard in that what it said other people should do when it was in Opposition, it does not believe that it should accept as its responsibilities now that it is in power. [More…]
Is it also a fact that the Canadian system of low power and lower cost direct broadcasting provides low quality television images and is, therefore, technically unsuited to Australian conditions. [More…]
This Government came to power and inherited that recognition. [More…]
In so doing small businesses therefore play a very important role by competing with larger firms and reducing the concentration of economic power in the Australian community. [More…]
The abject abandonment of its principle means a surrender by the Government to the power of the bureaucracy. [More…]
It said: ‘We will give that power to what is known as the Narcotics Bureau.’ [More…]
We have had extensive debate in this House on the transfer of powers of the Narcotics Bureau to the Australian Federal Police. [More…]
We will be having further debate on Bills already introduced into the House to transfer to the Australian Federal Police the power to intercept telephone communications under warrant which was previously held by the Narcotics Bureau. [More…]
It was only after some years- 1968, 1969, 1970, when the Gorton Government came into power- that an agreement was made to establish a committee. [More…]
Therefore, Australia’s own strategic environment is influenced to Australia’s disadvantage by any deterioriation in the Middle East, with its uncertain effects on super-power relationships in many areas of the world. [More…]
The other new reference that the Committee is taking is one that looks at Australia and Asia and is entitled ‘The Changing Power Structure in Indo-China since 1975, and its Effects on Australia and the Region’. [More…]
The changing power structure in IndoChina, the wars there and, more recently, the serious conflict in Kampuchea have been accompanied by the generation of an appalling refugee situation- a human tragedy. [More…]
Members of this House are conscious of the constant threat of major power intervention in the affairs of Africa. [More…]
With the end of the colonial era there have been innumerable conflicts, perhaps inevitable in the circumstances of the development of new power elites, often in a situation where democracy, as we understand it, does not exist but where pressures between traditional tribal groups formed by lines drawn on the map during the scramble for Africa conducted by European powers in the late 1 9th century are still only too real. [More…]
Since June this year, the continent’s three most notorious dictators have all lost power because of the grossness of their actions. [More…]
The virtual monopoly of this vital commodity gave a small number of producer countries power that they had not formerly sought to exert. [More…]
One area where this power may be useful will be in relation to the regulation of private placements. [More…]
Mr Justice Toohey, the present Commissioner, has expressed the view that the Minister has the power to accept all or part of a Land Commissioner’s recommendation. [More…]
However, a legal opinion obtained by the Commonwealth has cast some doubt on whether he does have this power under the Act as it now stands. [More…]
This Bill will make it clear that the Minister does have the power to accept all or part of a recommendation. [More…]
This amending legislation gives the Minister power to use other available funds in the Aboriginals Benefit Trust Account to meet additional administrative expenses until such time as adequate royalty payments begin to flow from mining operations on Aboriginal land. [More…]
However, experience has shown that the powers available to the Tribunal under section 41 are not sufficiently flexible. [More…]
Thus, in the case of a deportation order, the Tribunal’s power is limited to ordering suspension or stay of the whole of that order. [More…]
The Tribunal will have power to suspend or stay part of a decision, not just the whole of the decision, to make an order subject to conditions, and to limit the duration of the order so that it does not have an unnecessarily long duration. [More…]
The Tribunal will also have power to revoke or vary a suspension or stay order, so that changing circumstances can be met. [More…]
These are all powers which the Tribunal does not at present have. [More…]
This means that the Minister will continue to have the power of direction with regard to determination of which amenities or services are eligible to be supported from compulsory fees. [More…]
The Narcotics Bureau with its publicity-seeking endeavours was not an organisation capable of responsibly exercising powers to tap telephones and use listening devices. [More…]
When the legislation giving it those powers was passed by the Parliament, the Government had already received the Royal Commissioner’s report which detailed what an incompetent and poorly trained organisation the Bureau was. [More…]
Yet we were obliged to debate legislation in October which transferred to the Bureau the power to use listening devices and telephone taps and to intercept mail. [More…]
If the Government believes that the Australian Federal Police should have the power to use listening devices, then it ought to legislate at a Federal level. [More…]
In the light of this interim report, the Government has concluded that the Australian Federal Police should be given all necessary powers for narcotics inquiries … the power of officers of Customs to use listening devices under warrant of a judge. [More…]
This power now needs to be transferred to members of the Australian Federal Police subject to the same safeguards and limits as now apply in relation to officers of Customs. [More…]
This Bill therefore provides for amendments to the Customs Act to empower members of the Australian Federal Police, instead of officers of Customs, to use, under the warrant of a judge, listening devices in respect of narcotics offences. [More…]
The reason we did so is that we were never able to find out why that special power should be given; there was no proof that it was needed. [More…]
We know of the growing power of the bureaucracy and its attempt to subordinate the interests of some people to that power. [More…]
Therefore, we want to avoid this centralisation of power in a particular area. [More…]
We want to make certain that the guiding principle in the life of a liberal groups in parliament- those who say that they believe in democracy- is to protect the individual against arbitrary abuse of power. [More…]
There should be no need to suggest in this House that the power to place listening devices in the homes of Australian citizens, the power to wire-tap, to telephone tap the conversations of Australian citizens, are very great powers indeed. [More…]
They should be powers that all members of this Parliament should be concerned with. [More…]
In May we accepted that there would be certain conditions under which this power would be justified. [More…]
But we did stress very strongly- indeed some of our amendments were accepted- that we clearly need to protect the rights of citizens if this power should ever need to be used. [More…]
But let us be under no illusion that the kinds of powers are a threat to the whole democratic way of life which we encourage in this society. [More…]
The very use of these powers opens up to unnamed bureaucrats, not just information relating to drugs which is the Government’s particular purport. [More…]
Another fact of life is that there are thousands and thousands of policemen throughout Australia, and if only ten per cent of the case is rotten it means that a lot of policemen in Australia can hardly be trusted with excessive powers. [More…]
What I have just said means tha’t 90 per cent of members of the police force can be trusted to exercise their powers properly. [More…]
But when we hand over so much power to 100 per cent of the police force, we have to bear in mind at all times that a percentage of that group cannot be trusted with that power. [More…]
This power was extended in May this year to the Narcotics Bureau to assist it in dealing with drug offenders. [More…]
We are now transferring that special power to the Australian Federal Police. [More…]
I am equally concerned that the dealer is apprehended, but I add as a proviso that these powers should be closely examined before they are handed over, to ensure that we are not eroding one area in an attempt to bring about arrests in another area. [More…]
1 ) and (2) The extension of electric rail networks is considered to be a more practical way of using coal to power trains than the introduction of steam locomotives. [More…]
The constitutional power over education lies with the State. [More…]
I ask: Does this publication show that for the Colonial Sugar Refining Company Ltd’s Hail Creek coal project an investment of $740,000 is required for each extra job; for the Thiess-Dampier Mitsui Nebo coal project $930,000 of investment is required for each extra job; for the Loy Yang Power Station more than Sim is needed for each extra job; and for the North West Shelf a massive $4.5 m of capital spending is needed for each additional job? [More…]
-From the tone of the question of the Deputy Leader of the Opposition I take it that he is not in favour of the Government’s proposition that we are putting to the States for them to bring forward proposals whereby the Commonwealth might assist in underwriting loan moneys for the development of further electric power generation based on coal. [More…]
I cannot think of any greater national project that would be of more benefit during this energy crisis period than the development of electricity, both as an alternative to oil power and also to give greater opportunity to Austraiian industry to capitalise on this cheaper form of energy. [More…]
Already the States have very ambitious electricity programs and much of this additional power will be taken up by decisions that have already been made to develop aluminium smelters. [More…]
Realising that the decisions that have been taken will capture and utilise most of the power generation already programmed, we believe that there is virtue in giving encouragement to State electricity authorities to look even further ahead. [More…]
If we compare the Minister’s statement on McDonnell Douglas and the F/A- 18 with statements published in the last few days, we find that some of the offsets currently being offered in the area, which are for such things as the development of solar power units, may be necessary because of the company’s internal legal problems in the United States of America. [More…]
But it may well have been of value if the hard decision could have been taken on an alternative aircraft which would have given us added bargaining power and made for a very high degree of competition for Australian inputs into aircraft manufacture and production. [More…]
The Australian people need to understand this in order to realise that, as in the period from 1973 to 1975, all of this would be at risk if the Labor Party were ever to get back into power and to implement the economic policy which it agreed upon a few months ago in Adelaide. [More…]
If Labor gets back to power its development policies will not be thwarted by the idiot behaviour of the present Government. [More…]
Western Australia is deficient in coal resources and is highly dependent upon imported fuel oil for power generation. [More…]
It is argued that natural gas is a prime energy resource and ought not to be used for power generation. [More…]
It is for power generation in Japan. [More…]
In my opinion, iron ore producers in the Pilbara, alumina producers in the south-west, and the West Australian Electricity Commission, are as entitled to use Western Australian gas for power generation as are the Japanese. [More…]
It is a far better option than Sir Charles Court’s proposal for a nuclear power station. [More…]
In the circumstances it is totally irresponsible of the Premier of Western Australia to be even talking about a nuclear power station, when it has been proven that there is no way that a nuclear power station can be decommissioned in future, after 30 or 40 years of active life. [More…]
Given the severe energy crisis which is facing the world, Australia has an obligation not only to itself but to the world to do everything in its power to promote energy exploration and conservation. [More…]
We see huge commitments to power generation for aluminium smelting. [More…]
It seems to me that if there is no proper taxation at the coal input end of power generation there will be a case in future to impose a resources tax on the exports of aluminium. [More…]
All of this inevitably points to the Opposition’s coal policy of establishing a national coal authority with powers similar to those of the New South Wales Joint Coal Board. [More…]
The relevant clause in its charter simply states that the Board has the power: [More…]
Of course, the Joint Coal Board of New South Wales has the complete power either to reject or to approve permits for the opening of new mines. [More…]
In other words, these people who Opposition members think will put them into power are not interested in what Mick Young wrote in his book. [More…]
Labor policy which seeks to strip the Senate of its general power to reject proposed laws; [More…]
We therefore find it curious that the Government has chosen to proffer the comment that it sees no need for a power to move from place to place. [More…]
It has created dangerous opportunities for outside powers to expand their power and influence, and has jeopardised the peace and stability of the entire African continent. [More…]
However, to make doubly sure, the Commissioner will be given a discretionary power to allow a rebate of part or all of the extra tax payable as a result of the application of the new system if cases should arise where it is shown to his satisfaction that exaction of the full amount would entail serious hardship. [More…]
Under this miserable Act, the councils of the ANU and the CCAE would have no power to do that, even though there might be a very strong consensus of support. [More…]
In presenting this report, I inform the House that a separate report is in preparation on that pan of the terms of reference related to assistance to the civil power. [More…]
A majority of the V8 vehicles operated by Telecom and Australia Post are trucks and this level of power is consistent with the required carrying capacity of the vehicles. [More…]
What was the customer country, company or power utility in each case? [More…]
Customer countries have been Japan, the United States and the Federal Republic of Germany where, in each case, the uranium has been used for electricity power generation. [More…]
1) (a) and (b) Interstate travel: My Department has no power to control concessional travel on interstate services provided by domestic airlines. [More…]
Does the Government’s policy imply that it has not ruled out the possibility of a return to power in Kampuchea of the Pol Pot regime. [More…]
A pre-requisite for the establishment of an independent, neutral and popular government in Kampuchea, free of Great Power rivalries, is the withdrawal of Vietnamese armed forces. [More…]
My Department is undertaking investigations into the application and economics of solar power building cooling systems and is also assisting the Standards Association of Australia (SAA) with evaluation and test methods for solar hot water heaters. [More…]
Did the body provided for by the Interstate Commission Act 1975 fail to conform to his perception of a Commission which would have power to regulate transport in Australia within the limitations of the Constitution; if so, why has he not amended the Act to provide a body compatible with that which he believed to be necessary in 1975; if not, why has he not proclaimed the Interstate Commission Act 1975 and established the Interstate Commission. [More…]
Will the proposed examination of Aboriginal land rights legislation referred to by the Minister on 1 3 November 1 979 be without detriment to the basic principles of the Act; if so, will the power of veto possessed by the Aboriginal community over developments at Jabiluka not be abrogated as a result of this examination. [More…]
Are there any proposals to dispose of waste salt from current or proposed power stations in the Newcastle area, New South Wales (which use Lake Macquarie as a source of cooling water) in disused mine shafts in the Hunter Valley; if so, can the Minister state whether any Federal or New South Wales environmental impact assessment of these proposals has been carried out or is planned. [More…]
1 ) The construction and operation of power stations, including the disposal of associated wastes, are matters which are the responsibility of the respective State Governments. [More…]
My Department has not had referred to it the question of the disposal of waste salt from a proposed power station in the Newcastle area and no environmental assessment has been undertaken or proposed. [More…]
roads, footpaths and landscaping), installation of heat, light and power, and the connection of water and sewerage. [More…]
My question is based on the book ‘Labor to Power’ which reveals that the somewhat narrow Australian Labor Party electoral victory of 2 December last was due largely to a lavishly financed, skilfully contrived and quite unscrupulous public relations campaign directed by an agency, Hansen Rubensohn-McCann Erickson Pty Ltd, which is a multi-national corporation 100 per cent owned from New York and which, incidentally, still acts for the Australian Labor Party and is privy to its plans. [More…]
It is my view that the initiative for the action came from Rawlings and was an arrogant misuse of power … [More…]
I ask him to give the earliest possible publicity that he can to any advisings he may have received upon the operation of that judgment, based as it is upon the exclusive- I stress the word ‘exclusive’- off-shore sovereignty of the Commonwealth of Australia from the low water mark under the external affairs power. [More…]
Today there are something like ISO established nuclear power stations. [More…]
It appears that nuclear power generation is one of the few alternatives left to these countries. [More…]