power - senate - 1970

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

Will the Minister consult the Government and inform the Senate whether the Government will agree to set up an inquiry by an independent authority with power to make recommendations and to publish a report? [More…]
As we know, the grant of citizenship has been regarded as a privilege and not as a right and it has been properly a matter within the discretionary power of the Executive, answerable to Parliament. [More…]
I did not hear the Minister say in his summing up whether the powers entrusted to the Minister include power to stipulate the type of detergent to be used in the dispersal of oil spillages? [More…]
There has been concern about the consumables in the spacecraft - water, oxygen, power and so on - but the steps which have been taken to counter any problems have been successful. [More…]
It is certainly not usual, but it is within the power of the Senate to determine whether such a document shall be incorporated. [More…]
Regardless of what other responsibilities honourable senators have, they come here to make the laws and they all should do everything in their power to see that those laws are obeyed. [More…]
All power to him if he raises the issue in the Parliament which is the place to express his concern on behalf of the people. [More…]
The work includes construction of freight aprons and associated taxiways; taxiway development; fillet widening for Boeing 747 operations; extension of the north-south runway to 12,000 feet; additional roads and car parks; and extensions to the electrical power supply. [More…]
The establishment of this power station does not come within the responsibility of the Minister for Education and Science. [More…]
Has the Government decided to buy for the Jervis Bay power station the type of atomic plant that produces the most nuclear explosive material? [More…]
Has the Government already decided that nuclear power is economic for Australia when there is a large body of opinion to the contrary, especially among senior engineers in power authorities in the States? [More…]
However, I would like to ask a question of the Minister concerning the power of this Bill to prevent the manoeuvre by an overseas company to evade taxation, ls there any power within the Bill to prevent a company from becoming, as I think has been indicated previously, a service industry which will sell to an overseas arm of the company at a price below cost and so evade the payment of tax. [More…]
The powers as they appear in clause 7 (1.) [More…]
In fact, they are very much proscribed by the powers following in clause 7 (2. [More…]
), that is to say, the powers to borrow moneys and to lend moneys. [More…]
In any event, the Corporation has only powers to do things in the performance of its functions. [More…]
Honourable senators will see that it contains a number of restrictions on the Corporation and the Bill taken as a whole puts a limit on the generality of the power as it is expressed in clause 7(1.). [More…]
As I say all statutory corporations have power in this sense. [More…]
Subject to this section, the Corporation has power to do, in Australia or elsewhere, all things necessary or convenient to be done for or in connection with the performance of its functions. [More…]
Without limiting the generality of the last preceding sub-section but subject to the succeeding provisions of this section, the powers of the Corporation referred to in that sub-section include power . [More…]
The powers of the Corporation are then set out in paragraphs (a) to (k) in which specific matters are mentioned. [More…]
of clause 7, has an enormously wide power. [More…]
If, as the speeches during the debate on the second reading have indicated, this Corporation is to have a broad function but nevertheless a function which is circumscribed by refer- ence to desirable objective, why is lt found necessary lo have a clause phrased in such a tremendously wide way which gives unlimited power to the Corporation in effect, as I would see it, to do whatever that Corporation wants to do. [More…]
Who prepared the specifications for Australia’s proposed nuclear power station. [More…]
Has the Minister power to authorise out of court settlements in a case where a Royal Australian Air Force bus injures a civilian. [More…]
Aircraftsman Piper has stated openly to the Military Police thai he will do everything in his power to get a discharge from the Royal Australian Air Force. [More…]
Is it a fact that the station is underpowered and has such limited range that many people in the area who should be able to receive this regional station are unable to obtain satisfactory reception? [More…]
Will the Minister have the matter investigated with a view to increasing the power and the range of station 5MV? [More…]
that the select committee have power to sit during any adjournment or recess of the Parliament and notwithstanding any prorogation; [More…]
that the select committee have power to send for persons, papers and records, to move from place to place, to sit in open court or in private, and to have leave to report from time to time its proceedings and the evidence taken and such interim recommendations as it may deem fit; [More…]
We intend to oppose clause 6 because it provides for a new section 33a which in fact allows the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission the power to apply a bans clause. [More…]
It empowers the court (a) to order compliance with an award, (b) to enjoin a breach of an award, (c) to enjoin a breach of the Act, and (d) to determine the question of the eligibility of a person to become or remain a member of the organisation. [More…]
The Bill proposes to delete the court’s power to order compliance with an award and to enjoin a breach of an award, and to retain the court’s power to enjoin an organisation or a person from committing a contravention of the Act, and to determine the question of the eligibility of a person to become or remain a member of the organisation. [More…]
Senator Bishop has offered an amendment to section 111, which is the section of the Act which empowers the court to punish for contempt. [More…]
If it is removed, the Court will have power to punish for contempt to an unlimited extent. [More…]
Does the Government consider that uniformity in the type of reactor to be used for power generation in Australia is desirable. [More…]
In the Government’s view this applies where the intentions are related to a onesided distorted anti-war Moratorium Campaign inimical to the objectives for which our troops are fighting in Vietnam, lt authority were given to persons to come to Australia for this purpose it would have the effect of betraying Australian servicemen in Vietnam, damaging the morale of our troops and giving encouragement to those who seek not peace but peaceful submission to those who seek to promote the power of the mob and the rule of the streets with the consequent threat that that involves to the maintenance of law and order in this country. [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 and during the 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…]
I ask: As the donor of university scholarships, has the Commonwealth Government the power to withdraw them in the event of recipients being found guilty of breaking laws or acting in ways not conducive to the order! [More…]
In view of the machinery which exists in New South Wales through the Rural Reconstruction Board, and the machinery which probably will be established in other States directed towards the economic restructuring of properties engaged in primary industry, will the Minister press with maximum power to have considerable moneys directed to this specific purpose from this day on? [More…]
Does the Minister have any power of direction in this matter especially when Australian ship repair trades are desperately seeking work? [More…]
In view of the devastation and bloodshed in Jordan, will the Government take the initiative and indicate to the Jordanian Government its preparedness to send whatever assistance might be of value to alleviate the sufferings of innocent victims of the Middle East power game? [More…]
Likewise we had to acquire licences to manufacture in this country equipment connected with the fire power of the Mirage which previously we had to import. [More…]
By way of preface I refer to the excellent Australian Broadcasting Commission television programme Profiles of Power’ - a weekly presentation of personalities from different sections of public life in Australia - and the fact that comments made during this programme are given considerable publicity in the daily Press. [More…]
Has the Government received any report and/or results of feasibility tests with respect to the economic potential of the proposed Jervis Bay nuclear power plant; if so, has this information been compared with the known cost of production of electrical energy produced by conventional means, and what does a comparison disclose. [More…]
Those points concern the power of radio receivers, especially round the Tasmanian coast where I understand they are inferior to mainland receivers, and the conditions of lighthouse staff. [More…]
Has the Minister read the Melbourne ‘Age’ of today in which the Leader of the Australian Country Party, which forms part of the present coalition Administration, is reported to have said that he believed bis Ministers had an undue amount of power in the coalition? [More…]
Is the Minister representing the Minister for Defence aware of the recent newspaper reports indicating that the British Conservative Government’s first defence White Paper proposing a new 5 power defence arrangement for South East Asia is designed to replace the existing Anglo-Malaysia defence agreement? [More…]
The query I raise now is this: As the objects of the Bill are limited to the Constitution, and as the Commonwealth Government has no power with respect to manufacturing, does this require an arrangement with the States? [More…]
Perhaps this is the correct explanation: Clause 18 (t.) (g) provides that this Commission will have power: to make arrangements for the sale, . [More…]
In answer to Senator Cant, I point out that the Australian Wool Commission, having brought the wool in, will then have the power to dispose of it.If the honourable senator turns to page 7 of the Bill and looks at part III, particularly clause 18(1.) [More…]
(g) he will see that one of the functions and powers of the Commission is as follows: to make arrangements for the sale, otherwise than at auction, of wool received by a broker for sale at auction that the Commission considers cannot advantageously be offered for sale at auction and for the processing of any such wool before sale; [More…]
The Commission shall not perform its functions or exercise its powers except for the purpose of achieving the object specified in the last preceding sub-section or for another purpose in respect of which the Parliament has power to make laws. [More…]
), and it may not enter into any other matter for which the Parliament has power to make laws. [More…]
Is it a fact that Tasmania is the only State to be excluded from the Royal Australian Air Force air power demonstrations in March and April? [More…]
I wonder whether in similar instances some consideration should be given to the proper use of the words ‘may’ and ‘shall’; whether they are an interference with the judicial discretion and the judicial power and whether it is appropriate for the Parliament to prescribe in that way what action shall be taken by a court. [More…]
I am not aware of the facts he mentioned; nor have I the power to institute the investigations for which he asked. [More…]
1 think the honourable senator will also recall that when the National Health Act was amended last year a power was given to the Minister for Health to exercise greater control than previously over the operations of the hospital and medical benefits funds. [More…]
lt this is so, will the Minister do all in his power to bring more export killing works, including the Adelaide Metropolitan Abattoirs, which is the major killing works in South Australia, up to standard so that this important market can be supplied? [More…]
I am unable to give an assurance that there will be no increases in doctors’ fees over the next 2 years because it is not within my power to say what doctors will charge. [More…]
The first Bill we dealt with is based on the commerce power; this second Bill is based on the taxation power of the Commonwealth. [More…]
Do 1 understand that the Minister is now suggesting that the constitutional basis is the taxation power rather than the interstate trade and commerce power? [More…]
I am advised that the matter of pigs that are slaughtered for consumption intrastate does not arise in this case because the levy is imposed under the taxation power of the Commonwealth. [More…]
I have no power to prevent you and Senator Georges standing on the steps of Parliament House. [More…]
When I look at this Bill and its proposal to appoint Assistant Ministers whose responsibilities seem to be not clear, it appears to me that the power of the Executive is being strengthened. [More…]
That the Privileges Committee have power to sit during the sitting of the Senate this day. [More…]
Its author was the first to inform the West of the extent and power of China- [More…]
In view of the many church appeals by all denominations for winter relief for the poor, stressing particularly the needs of deserted wives and children, will the Minister appoint within his Department in each State a representative in the form of an ombudsman with the finance and power to act immediately with church or relief organisations to give assistance to any persons, particularly women and children, found to be suffering from hunger, cold or poverty during this coming winter? [More…]
1 ask the AttorneyGeneral whether, in view of the decision of the High Court in the concrete pipes case last Friday which held that Commonwealth power to control restrictive trade practices extends to intra-state agreements between companies but not to such restrictive trade agreements between individuals, will he consider the need for an amendment to the Australian Constitution to rectify such an anomalous situation and enable legislation against restrictive trade practices to have full impact over the whole of the economy? [More…]
I ask the AttorneyGeneral whether he can indicate what action is proposed to be taken by the Government in the light of the statements by the High Court on the scope of the Commonwealth’s power in relation to corporations which were made in the Court’s judgment invalidating part of the Trade Practices Act. [More…]
Has the attention of the Attorney-General been drawn to the publication recently of a book called ‘The Outcasts of Foolgarah’, written by Frank Hardy, the author of ‘Power Without Glory’? [More…]
I assure the honourable senator that the Commonwealth will consult the States with regard to any future legislation resulting from an exercise of the powers which the High Court has declared the Commonwealth has and may exercise. [More…]
The Government is committed in this Federation not to a policy of asserting Commonwealth power in concurrent areas to the complete exclusion of the States but to a policy of consulting the States. [More…]
that the Government’s fiscal and monetary policies will not prevent a further erosion of domestic purchasing power whilst maintaining full employment; [More…]
Is the Attorney-General aware of a judgment given yesterday in the Northern Territory by Mr Justice Forster relating to the constitutional powers of parliamentary committees? [More…]
Does he agree that this in no way relates to the constitutional power of Commonwealth parliamentary committees, as suggested in Press reports published today? [More…]
It is a fact that the Commonwealth Government has no head of constitutional power in regard to which it may legislate on matters of air pollution or water pollution. [More…]
Indeed, the whole subject of conservation of the environment is not a matter upon which the Commonwealth Government has any head of power. [More…]
Of course it can rely on the appropriation power to which the Prime Minister referred. [More…]
By bringing together various heads of power it may extract from them a justification for a course on which a government could proceed. [More…]
I have noted, as the honourable senator has asked, that the Senate Select Committee on Water Pollution expressed a view that by a coalescence of various heads of power the Commonwealth Government might be able to do something 10 tormulate policy with regard to water pollution. [More…]
My question which is directed to the Attorney-General refers to reported statements yesterday oy the Prime Minister that the Commonwealth probably has no constitutional power to legislate on pollution, although he doubted whether anyone would challenge the appropriation of funds for antipollution measures. [More…]
1 ask whether the Attorney-General has noted in a report of the Senate Select Committee on Water Pollution that the evidence presented to that Committee tended to establish firmly that the Commonwealth has, through a coalescence of Commonwealth power in a number of fields, sufficient legislative competence to enforce a national approach to water pollution? [More…]
Is the idea that this is a power of dispensation yours alone or do you base that upon any text to which you can refer? [More…]
The Opposition believes that the public interest demands that there be some strong law against the improper use of monopoly power in this community. [More…]
We expect that the Government will abandon its attitude of endeavouring to provide a scheme which is completely ineffective against monopoly power. [More…]
It is intolerable that the Australian community should be left without any protec tion against the use of monopoly power which is demonstrably against the public interest. [More…]
We would expect the Attorney-General (Senator Greenwood) to pay attention to the manifest view of the majority in this chamber that any new law must deal in a practical and effective way with the abuse of monopoly power. [More…]
We will do all in our power to give it speedy passage. [More…]
If the Government is relying on the customs power the offence created is that of importing these objectionable substances. [More…]
If they are not imported the customs power is of no avail. [More…]
If they are imported power exists under the customs power; if they are not imported this power does not exist and it is necessary to look to some other power. [More…]
Will the Minister representing the Minister for National Development inform the Senate of the present stage in the planning of the proposed nuclear power station at Jervis Bay? [More…]
Will the Minister consider this article which suggests future investigation into nuclear power for water desalination rather than for electricity generation? [More…]
But it would be perfectly within the power and competence of the Commission, if it wanted to do so, to have an independent check made upon its structure with a view to seeing how it might be improved. [More…]
This Bill will lift this purchasing power to a level greater than ever before achieved, because the present rise in pension rate is greater than the corresponding rise which has occurred in prices. [More…]
That gives him a fairly wide and sweeping power to do what he is designed to do and what he should do - that is, to bring the dispute to a happy conclusion as quickly as possible. [More…]
In our view the United States has 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…]
Again as stated recently by the Prime Minister in another place, the Commonwealth has neither the power effectively to intervene nor could it take any other action which would compel the Tasmanian Government to change its mind. [More…]
Will the Attorney-General investigate the possibility of the Commonwealth legislating to the full extent of its power, preferably in co-operation with the States, for strict control over firearms to prevent similar gun attacks in Australia? [More…]
Under the Constitution, the Commonwealth has power to legislate for the prevention and settlement of industrial disputes. [More…]
What has been the total expenditure to date on the now deferred Jervis Bay Nuclear Power Station Project, and will the Minister provide a breakdown of this expenditure. [More…]
A total of $3,164,052 was expended to 31st March 1972, on the Jervis Bay Nuclear Power Station Project Details are: [More…]
that an overseas company, or a New Zealand company in which 25 percent or more of the voting power is controlled by overseas persons, must obtain Ministerial permission before it can acquire 25 per cent or more of the voting power of any New Zealand company; ‘ [More…]
Ministerial approval under the’ overseas takeovers regulations is only required when a foreign company plans to takeover 25 per cent or more of the voting power. [More…]
Certainly the Commonwealth has no power to control prices charged for wine. [More…]
But I assure him that, if one of the Committees finds that it needs to sit longer, I will do all in my power to give it time to conclude its deliberations. [More…]
Secondly, would not such action seriously disturb the present balance of power between the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation and Warsaw Pact nations? [More…]
Has the attention of the Minister representing the Minister for Education and .Science been drawn to Press reports of a so-called demonstration of pupil power by small groups of high school students in Australian cities? [More…]
and (2) The power to proclaim a religious body lo be a recognised denomination for the purposes of the Marriage Act 1961-1966 is vested in the Governor-General by section 26 of that Act. [More…]
I understand that the establishment of the war service land settlement scheme was authorised under the Commonwealth’s defence power. [More…]
The report pointed out that the production of machine tools, including power fed drilling machines, grinding machines, lathes and other special purpose machine tools formed the nucleus of a machine tool industry in this country and that the assistance by way of bounty and tariff protection will assure the retention of the experts and the expertise necessary for this highly technical industry to remain viable. [More…]
ls air power considered an essential part of this defence role? [More…]
ls it a fact that in order to achieve full effectiveness the Air Force must have an effective strike power? [More…]
The answer to the first part of the question is yes, the Government agrees that Australia has to have effective air power. [More…]
Another example is that since the Labor Government has come to power we have ensured that the question of Australian capacity should be carefully considered. [More…]
Since this Government came to power - as I think has been well publicised - the Minister for Supply early in January took action to bring the 2 main Australian manufacturers, Hawker Siddeley Australia Pty Ltd and the Commonwealth Aircraft Corporation Pty Ltd, into consultation with him. [More…]
Even had I the power implied by the question, such an interference by a Minister in the procedure for compiling any news reports could set an unwise precedent. [More…]
That, notwithstanding anything contained in the Standing Orders, the Select Committee on Shipping Services between King Island, Stanley and Melbourne, appointed by resolution of the Senate on 3rd May 1973, have power to proceed to the dispatch of business: notwithstanding that all members have not been duly nominated and appointed and notwithstanding any vacancy. [More…]
My question concerns the Minister’s stated intention to introduce a points system of penalties for commercial television stations in order to enforce program content in line with Australian Labor Party policies It is not a fact that the Broadcasting and Television Act 1942-1972 provides that the Minister shall be empowered to give directions to the Australian Broadcasting Control Board on 2 matters only, namely, the situation and operating power of a broadcasting or television station and the frequency or frequencies to be used within the bands of frequencies prescribed by the Postmaster-General? [More…]
Is it further a fact that section 16 (c) of the Act gives to the Board the absolutely unfettered power ‘to ensure that adequate and comprehensive programs are provided by commercial broadcasting stations and commercial television stations to serve the best interests of the general public* and that this responsibility of the Board is specifically free from any right of direction of the Minister? [More…]
If the result is that under the Migration Act there is no power to take action to arrest a deportee who may be on a ship, in a house or who is otherwise evading arrest and it is necessary for someone to apprehend him, then it does become a serious matter. [More…]
I asked myself under what particular constitutional head of power this was being done. [More…]
I imagined that it might be being done under the foreign affairs power. [More…]
I thought that the Minister for Primary Industry (Senator Wriedt) in his reply would answer Senator Wright’s query and say that it was being done under the foreign affairs power. [More…]
The words in question are: The Authority has power to buy or sell petroleum’, and under the definition, whether it be real or artificial, coal is petroleum. [More…]
Another honourable senator said that the Authority would also have power to buy and sell petroleum, which would include coal. [More…]
This is seen as an undesirable power for the National Authority to have. [More…]
I said that the proposed amendment would exempt the company or companies concerned only from the requirement to notify new prices and not implement them for 21 days and that it would not exempt such companies from the Bill as a whole, but that the Tribunal would still have the power to inquire into their prices if it so wished. [More…]
The altered power is not in the Bill, as I stated, but in the fact that the Department has been established by this Government. [More…]
We of the smaller States who depend upon that one plank of power against the larger States of the Commonwealth for exertion of our rights of justice would be recreant to our faith to pass over the balance of power in this place to what is a segment of New South Wales, now greatly inflated and enriched by its unique proximity to the Federal Government and with all the advantages of enrichment that we have seen over recent years. [More…]
The most untoward balance of power that there could be in this place would be brought about by bringing here representatives of the Territories. [More…]
It is on that short ground that I am utterly opposed to this indirect method of undermining the real power of the 6 original States in the Senate. [More…]
No matter what happens in the next Parliament the DLP will have the balance of power in the Senate. [More…]
If it is his intention that the power and authority should stem solely from this there are ways in which it can be done legally and constitutionally and in that regard the Constitution, if the honourable senator feels so disposed, should be amended. [More…]
The second, of course, is the more recent judgment of the High Court of Australia in the Concrete pipes case in which the corporation power of the Commonwealth first came under some element of scrutiny and in which there were some intimations from the Court that there may be an extensive power that can be utilised by the Commonwealth. [More…]
Senator Hannan has discovered so belated in his term in this House, let him get up at some stage and go through the whole ambit of what is happening in the world in relation to the great powers- and not isolated to one great power only. [More…]
I ask the Leader of the Government in the Senate whether the Government, by seeking the constitutional power to deal with prices, thereby intends by the use of the single word ‘prices’ also to secure a power over interest, rents and wages? [More…]
It appears to us that the Opposition is deliberately delaying the passage of this legislation by seeking the nonacceptance of it by the Parliament, which will mean that the people will be denied the right to determine by way of referendum whether the Australian Parliament should have the power to control prices. [More…]
Is the Minister representing the Minister for Minerals and Energy aware of the concern expressed by the Electricity Trust of South Australia about the future supply of natural gas from Gidgealpa for use at the Torrens Island power station in that State? [More…]
Does the Minister realise that at present the Electricity Trust of South Australia is assured of a supply for existing plant at Torrens Island but that until the Minister for Minerals and Energy approves further supplies that organisation is unable to plan for the installation of additional generating plant to provide for the power demand in South Australia after 1975? [More…]
Under the terms of the scheme, do administering authorities have the power to request repayments before the due date? [More…]
If so, do they have the sole power? [More…]
If so, is this long coastline now totally unprotected against whatever activity a foreign power might choose to undertake, including illegal fishing and drugrunning? [More…]
Earlier today I made 2 statements relating to the need to provide in Parliament House emergency power facilities to enable the Parliament to continue to operate. [More…]
He and I are in total accord that in no circumstances should the Parliament of Australia be put at prejudice as a result of power shortages, and steps have been taken to see that such an eventuality will be immediately overcome. [More…]
In relation to the reference to ‘Five Power Agreement’ in the question, I should mention that there is no Five Power Agreement and the question of withdrawing forces from it does not arise. [More…]
The Australian Government’s policy in respect of the Five Power Arrangements has been made clear on a number of occasions. [More…]
I refer the honourable senator particularly to my statement of 24 May 1973 (Hansard, House of Representatives, page 2646) in which I said ‘We believe that our pledge to uphold the Five Power Arrangements does not require the stationing of forces abroad on permanent garrison duty for its redemption.’ [More…]
Following your statement yesterday relating to the introduction of an emergency power generating system in Parliament House, are you able to give an assurance that sufficient heating will be available in the Senate to counteract the rather frosty atmosphere which is developing on the benches opposite and which can almost be described as a hoar frost? [More…]
I refer him to the question which I asked yesterday and the answer which he gave concerning repayment by the Commonwealth Police of fines imposed upon persons convicted of offences in political demonstrations before this Government came to power. [More…]
Are Australia’s strategic interests so different from New Zealand ‘s as to justify the total withdrawal of all Australian forces from the Five Power Agreement. [More…]
I am asking: Are we giving a blanket power and receiving in return an assurance that the Minister will look at the matter before he enforces the new charges, or is the Minister saying that he will not enforce them until he gives the Senate an opportunity to look at the matter? [More…]
I suppose the Leader of the Government in the Senate (Senator Murphy) has the power to move for the adjournment of the Senate. [More…]
Power to the Industrial Commission to declare void in whole or in part, or to vary, any contract, etc., whereby a person performs work in any industry on grounds that the contract, etc., is unfair, or harsh or unconscionable or provides for a total remuneration less than a person performing the work would have received as an employee performing that work (Industrial Arbitration Act, 1940-1968, S.88F). [More…]
Matters such as those mentioned in paragraph (a) could be dealt with under an incomes power, wholly, as to items (i) to (vi), and, at least to the extent to which it concerns rates of pay and related matters, as to item (vii). [More…]
I should think the Commission would have the power to look at the forms of assistance flowing from the matters which Senator Wright has raised. [More…]
Of course, there are some people in this place who pride themselves rather jealously upon the interest that they take in primary industry and the resentment they have of the damage that has been done since this Government came into power. [More…]
It is one of the 6 new avenues of power the Labor Government seeks from the electors by means of referendum. [More…]
My only concern about these Bills is that once again- I think that I have to express this view in this chamber because it is a States House- we see the desire of the Government to take power from the States. [More…]
-I ask the Leader of the Government in the Senate: Now that the people of Australia have shown their overwhelming distrust of this Federal Government’s search for power and, in effect, have told the Government to use the powers it already has, will the Leader of the Government tell the Senate when the Government will decide on and announce a plan to stem and reduce the alarming rate of inflation which it, and it alone, has created in this country? [More…]
The amendment gives a power of initiation to the Law Reform Commission. [More…]
It reserves to the Attorney-General the power to decide what the Commission shall do. [More…]
The power of the Attorney-General to require the Commission to comply with any directions will be removed by this amendment. [More…]
urge the Australian Government to make use of its office in Santiago to bring pressure to bear on the junta in power there for the immediate release of all political prisoners, and [More…]
And whereas our existing Australian Flag and our national anthem, ‘God Save The Queen’, are perpetual reminders of these hard-won freedoms and of the wise British principle of the division of power, so well reflected in our own Australian Constitution with its careful separation of powers as between the Crown and Commonwealth Parliament, the Senate, the State Parliaments, the GovernorGeneral and State Governors, and the Independent Courts of Justice, [More…]
1 ) to (4) The Government believes, as the Foreign Minister stated on 8 February 1 974, that the building up of facilities by any great power in the Indian Ocean, or the introduction of additional naval forces, does not contribute to the achievement of Australia’s long-term objective that the Indian Ocean should be an area free from great power rivalry. [More…]
It goes without saying that the Australian Government would in no way favour or encourage the further growth of Soviet military and naval power in the Indian Ocean. [More…]
Is the Australian protest symbolic of the Government’s policy of switching sides to the Communist bloc in the new realignment ofworld power now taking place in Southern Asia. [More…]
Does the Minister claim that Australia’s new policy of neutralising’ the Indian Ocean means opposing any attempt, by previously trusted Allies, to curtail the growth of Soviet military and naval power. [More…]
Did the Prime Minister during his visit to the People’s Republic of China ask Chairman Mao whether the former President and heir apparent, Lin Piao, had been given a just trial before being killed; if not, has the Australian Government adopted double standards in world affairs by not expressing concern for the victims of Communist power, while non-Communist regimes are expected to treat their political opponents according to all the rules of British Parliamentary tradition. [More…]
Will the Minister confirm that this is the view of Treasury offered to Government since it has been in power but not been accepted by it? [More…]
If it is, will the Government give consideration to lifting its ban or is a ban to apply while current conditions prevail in South Africa so long as a Labor government is in power? [More…]
by leave- The Leader of the Government in the Senate (Senator Murphy) talked about the arrogance of power. [More…]
We on this side of the Senate have seen the arrogance of power for the last 18 months. [More…]
The grants to the States are free of restrictions in detail that infringe upon the power of the States to determine the policy in their own area of responsibility. [More…]
I am against gradual changes that keep a socialist government in power. [More…]
I will not vote to help keep the Government in power at a time when it is not necessary to have a redistribution. [More…]
Senator Wright comes back to this theme that some power which has some bad motive will be exercised and should not be allowed to be in the Bill. [More…]
The humble petition of the citizens of Australia respectfully sheweth that: the decision to recognize the incorporation of the Baltic countries- Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania- into the Soviet Union is an alarming and dangerous reversal of foreign policy by the Australian Government, this decision legitimizes the occupation of formerly free and independent nations by an imperialist power, the Soviet Union has suppressed civil liberties in the Baltic states and has tried to ruthlessly eliminate movements for national identity and self-determination among the Baltic people, the desires of the Baltic people have always been and will continue to be for an end to occupation by a foreign power and a return to self-determination of government, there are neither moral nor legal grounds for legitimizing the present regime in the Baltic countries, all other democratic nations have refused to recognize the illegal incorporation of these countries. [More…]
I know of no outside aid being given to a black power movement in Australia. [More…]
In fact, I do not know of a black power movement in Australia. [More…]
If there is any black power movement in Australia or if any aid is being given to a black power movement within Australia it is without my knowledge or consent. [More…]
Did the Joint Committee have the power to ensure that consumers got the full benefit of the reductions; if not why was it asked. [More…]
If the Committee had the power, why have not consumers got the full benefits of the reduction. [More…]
This clause permits the Minister to delegate and, for the reasons I have given before, that is too wide a power. [More…]
-Is the AttorneyGeneral familiar with the provisions of the Western Australian Government’s proposed Fuel Energy and Power Resources Amendment Bill? [More…]
Turning to that part of the question which referred to the 35-hour week, it is a studied program of the Australian Labor Party that in respect of the power industry a proposal to introduce a 35-hour week would be supported where it can be demonstrated by the unions that no excessive overtime would arise from the adoption of such a reduction in working hours. [More…]
Is it a fact that currently before the Australian Conciliation and Arbitration Commission there is a union claim for the institution of a 35-hour week in the power industry? [More…]
Nevertheless, as the honourable senator knows, in some areas of Australia it has been possible to provide television services by the use of low power transmitters which relay videotape program to a limited area. [More…]
Pursuant to section 32 of the Snowy Mountains Hydro-electric Power Act 1949-1973 I present for the information of honourable senators the 25th annual report of the Snowy Mountains Hydro-electric Authority 1973-1974. [More…]
Has inflation made the allowances worth less in terms of purchasing power. [More…]
We know that under the Australian Film Development Corporation Act the Minister has the power of approval in the way in which it has been set out in this clause. [More…]
Over the- years he has made an incessant cry about the power of the Arbitration Commission and about elements in the community that he feels put their own rights above the public good. [More…]
If clause 8 is linked with clause 5 and one sees the consequences of the directions and the approval which may be exerted by the Minister, we feel that clause 8, which gives power to the Minister to give directions to the Commission with regard to the exercise of its powers, should not have the support of the Opposition. [More…]
It lacks the Constitutional power to raise loans on behalf of local government and, earlier this year, a referendum to establish that power was unsuccessful. [More…]
But I have consulted with the Minister for Repatriation and Compensation (Senator Wheeldon) about this matter and I am informed on his initiative and assured that the complete power to accomplish what the amendment proposes will rest in the Environment Protection (Impact of Proposals) Bill and therefore this amendment would result in the duplication of the power to be held in another Act. [More…]
As I am informed, the acceptance of this amendment would result in the legislation being cluttered with a dual power. [More…]
It is limiting, I suppose, on the power and discretion of the Minister, but only insofar as that he must obtain the Cabinet decision to support his view. [More…]
In view of the heavy dependence of South Australia on the motor vehicle building industry in providing employment in that State and in the interests of maintaining reasonable decentralisation of industry as between the States, will the Minister do all within his power to facilitate the use of this Adelaide plant by Nissan in conjunction with Chrysler as was originally announced would be done? [More…]
The Government believes that when that Bill is passed it will have the power to enforce the provisions of the treaty on migratory birds. [More…]
During the Australian Exhibition in Peking representatives of the Leyland Motor Corporation associated with the Leyland exhibit informed the then Minister for Overseas Trade, Dr Cairns, that they had full power to negotiate with Chinese officials in the sale of cither vehicles or plant. [More…]
To me it is incredible that the Labor Party and its Prime Minister who, in the past, have sought to emphasise Australia’s independence should be seeking the exercise of a colonial power to effect in Australia what could be achieved by Australians themselves in Australia. [More…]
It is not surprising that the Labor Party and its Prime Minister should be ignoring the States because we have seen many instances of the assertion of the central power overriding the provincial or the local power. [More…]
Subject to the provisions of awards and agreements, the Commission has power to determine the terms and conditions of employment of its staff. [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…]
The Marxist Palestinian Leader George Habash said today that his Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine would do all in its power to provoke a new Middle East war. [More…]
The Opposition accepts that further amendment but in so doing I refer the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs (Senator Cavanagh) to my speech at the second reading stage where I pointed out that the power existed under the Defence Service Homes Act and also mentioned that as far as I knew it was never used. [More…]
So it seemed to me that it was quite unnecessary for the power to lie. [More…]
It was a power which, as far as I know, was never used. [More…]
It was never the intention to over-ride the laws of the States and Territories but in the Defence Service Homes Act the Commonwealth has a power which we think it is important to retain and which has operated successfully. [More…]
The Commonwealth has had this power all along. [More…]
Again the Government seeks to preserve the rights that it has under the Defence Service Homes Act 1918-1975, under which the Australian Government has this power. [More…]
I am advised by my officers that the only time under the Defence Service Homes Act that this power has ever been used to take Crown land was in the case of acquisition at the request of the State for some technical conveyancing purpose involving some question of title. [More…]
The Commonwealth used the power it had to get over difficulties in relation to transferring land. [More…]
But as t he power is now in the Defence Service Homes Act it should be retained. [More…]
The Corporation should not limit the power we have under the Defence Service Homes Act. [More…]
This section shall not affect the power of the Corporation to acquire land for the purposes of the Defence Service Homes Act 1 9 1 8- 1 975. [More…]
That the committee report within the shortest reasonable period, not later than 30 September 197S, and that any member of the committee have power to add a protest or dissent to any report. [More…]
It is a power to be exercised as the Tasman Bridge Restoration Commission sees fit. [More…]
The power given to the Commission to require State railways to carry mail is stated in such broad terms that it would seem to me that the [More…]
To make it quite clear, the Commission will not have the power to actually insist on a special train being provided by a State railway. [More…]
That proposed new clause gives the Minister wider powers of direction to the Commission and I am rather surprised that the Government should propose an amendment in such wide terms, in view of its stated claims that it is seeking to set up this independent Commission. [More…]
We do consider that it would be preferable to limit the Minister’s directions to those of a general kind, as we have indicated, but, if the Government wants to have a wider power of direction, we will not oppose that. [More…]
This clause provides power to construct telecommunications installations. [More…]
I ask specifically whether the Commonwealth Parliament has the power to establish such a commission with the functions and powers set out in this Bill. [More…]
It would be helpful if legislation of this nature were perhaps to begin with the words ‘pursuant to the powers conferred by section’- then would appear the relevant section ‘of the Constitution’. [More…]
Under what head of power is this Commission, in its present form, being established? [More…]
My advice is that it is being established under the same powers as applied to the Child Care Act which was passed by the Liberal-Country Party Government in 1972. [More…]
There is no reference in that Bill, a copy of which I have before me, to heads of power. [More…]
I still would like some specific guidance as to the head of power under which this Commission, in its present form, will operate. [More…]
I simply ask under which head of constitutional power does the Government decide that this Commission, in its present form, will take effect? [More…]
-Seriously, if we were to talk about benefits to children that head of power may be appropriate but we are talking about the functions of the Commission and the way it will work under the present Bill. [More…]
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) except in accordance with recommendations of the Committee. [More…]
The Government is in power and the Liberal Party, the National Country Party, Senator Steele Hall ‘s Party and I, as an Independent, are on the Opposition benches. [More…]
With all deference to Senator Bunton ‘s removal, perhaps, from the power base of the Liberal Movement, a splinter party is what we are not. [More…]
We believe that if indexation is to have any future, if there is to be any possibility of a wages policy which will give some prospect of pegging back inflation, such a power is needed in the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission. [More…]
That present and proposed development of limestone mining at Precipitous Bluff, tin mining at Coxs Bight, woodchipping in the remaining native forests and damming of South West rivers to produce power, will significantly affect the wilderness quality of South West Tasmania necessitating extensive road systems and damaging irreparably one of the last great wilderness areas of the world. [More…]
That present and proposed development of limestone mining at Precipitous Bluff, tin mining at Coxs Bight, woodchipping in the remaining native forests and damming of South West rivers to produce power, will significantly affect the wilderness quality of South West Tasmania necessitating extensive road systems and damaging irreparably one of the last great wilderness areas of the world. [More…]
(a) No evidence exists of a direct relationship between increase in size of power of the catcher and its efficiency in catching sperm whales. [More…]
Does the Government have any power or opportunity to take action on such complaints? [More…]
That the Committee have power to send for persons, papers and records, to sit during any adjournment of the Assembly and to adjourn from place to place. [More…]
The power used by a former Minister who was responsible for police and customs was invested in him under Acts passed by the former LiberalCountry Party Government. [More…]
Is Mr Carmichael ‘s membership of the Communist Party of Australia a relevant factor in the endeavours to use industrial power to break down the authority of the Australian Conciliation and Arbitration Commission? [More…]
Does the Minister, by his statement, acknowledge that the real power and influence which active communists who are union secretaries are able to exercise is being directed against Australia’s economic recovery? [More…]
Australian Government has ever taken power to intervene in the affairs of the University or student organization. [More…]
In view of the fact that recording devices are attached to telephones in the Western Australia Police Department, and I daresay other departments, what protection has an individual caller, or for that matter an officer, when such officers have no power to control devices installed by their superiors? [More…]
Last week Senator Carrick telephoned the Melbourne Age and told the editor of that newspaper that the Budget documents were shonky and that they had been concocted by public servants who loved the Labor Government so much that they were prepared to falsify the Budget documents to assist the Government to retain power. [More…]
Further, does the Government see these developments as representing a threat to our democratic institutions by a faceless group of persons who are acting in a totalitarian way to rape the Constitution in a grab for power so as to serve their own vested interests? [More…]
Includes rental, cleaning, light and power. [More…]
Did the Labor Government’s authority on ‘Open Government’ (the publication Secrecy- Political Censorship in Australia by J. J. Spigelman) say: ‘There should be a parliamentary committee with the power to call for the production of any document, to assess independently whether a government classification of that document is justified, and if necessary to order its classification ‘. [More…]
Does the Minister note the use of the word ‘ right’ as distinct from the word ‘power’? [More…]
What tangible results have Australian consumers experienced by way of new appliances or uses of solar power over the last 1 5 years. [More…]
What number of (a) homes, (b) factories and (c) other recipients have utilised solar power for each of the last 1 5 years. [More…]
Where it is measurable, what is the cost differential between the use of solar power and other forms of energy. [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 Auditor-General on those statements. [More…]
a parliamentary committee with power to call for the production of any document, to assess independently whether a government classification of that document is justified, and if necessary to order its classification,’ with ‘The Opposition’ appointing the majority of members on such a Committee’; if so, has the Prime Minister taken any positive steps to see that such a Committee is established. [More…]
The Government is not hanging on to power. [More…]
I ask the Leader of the Government in the Senate: Does the Prime Minister propose to hang on to power and to govern without the Appropriation Bills being passed by the Parliament and in defiance of that provision of the Constitution, section 83, which states that no money shall be drawn from the Treasury of the Commonwealth except under appropriation made by law? [More…]
It illustrates the barefaced, cynical attitude, and the grab for power surrounding thai: attitude, in the Opposition’s refusal to support the Appropriation Bills. [More…]
What power does the Commonwealth possess to demand the estimations of blood alcohol and the reporting of these levels in all cases of injury associated with motor vehicle crashes. [More…]
What power does the Commonwealth possess to demand the estimations of blood alcohol and the reporting of these levels in all cases of injury associated with motor vehicle crashes. [More…]
That the existence of a system of double taxation of personal incomes whereby both the Australian Government and State Governments had the power to vary personal income taxes would mean that taxpayers who worked in more than one State in any one year would- [More…]
The Committee have power to consider the minutes of evidence and records of the former Legislative and General Purpose Standing Committee on Social Environment relating to the matter referred to in paragraph ( 1 ). [More…]
The 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. [More…]
That existence of a system of double taxation of personal incomes whereby both the Australian Government and State Governments had the power to vary personal income taxes would mean that taxpayers who worked in more than one State in any one year would: [More…]
There is the Australian Institute of Marine and Power Engineers, Professional Radio Employees Institute of Australasia, Merchant Service Guild of Australia, Seamen’s Guild of Australia, and if we are talking of fishing vessels there is the Australian Workers’ Union, Federated Shipwrights and Ship Constructors Association of Australia, and the Australian Shipping Officers Association. [More…]
Has the Board any power of direction to departments in such matters. [More…]
The Senate goes on air one day out of three, and when there is a failure, whether it is a power failure or otherwise, emergency facilities should be available. [More…]
The work conducted by the CSIRO concerns the following applications: Domestic water heating, industrial water heating, space heating, space cooling, power production and heat storage, distillation, controlled environment horticulture, heat storage, production of energy from crops, forests and other organic material and swimming pool heating. [More…]
1 ) In the Australian Capital Territory under the terms of section 32 of the Adoption of Children Ordinance 1965-74 this is the responsibility of the Director of Child Welfare (Secretary of the Department of Capital Territory) who delegates this power to the Assistant Secretary, Welfare Branch. [More…]
In fact, I think every honourable senator would probably find agreement with Senator Cavanagh ‘s sentiments in relation to delegation of powers. [More…]
I take the opportunity, in speaking to this Bill, to state that within the functioning of my Department it is usual to have a delegation of power to the State director in the Department. [More…]
No doubt the Minister for Health will have some power to make regulations as to the behaviour of funds and as to what he has done. [More…]
Is the Commonwealth Government providing financial assistance to the Queensland Government by way of loan to help finance the construction of a thermal power station at Gladstone in central Queensland. [More…]
If so, (a) what is the ratio of Commonwealth funds to State funds which are being used to finance the project; (b) what was the original agreed price for the supply of electricity for the Comalco smelter at Gladstone: (c) what is the new formula and unit rate that the Queensland Government has now agreed to supply electricity for the Comalco smelter at Gladstone; and (d ) what is the anticipated cost of supplying power from Gladstone power station to other bulk supply consumers. [More…]
What is the voting power of each of the member countries to this Agreement. [More…]
Is there a similar agreement covering nuclear power. [More…]
This would have precluded the 4 officers mentioned from being in the college, and the balance of power in the FCU would have swung against the NCC. [More…]
It is intended that the State Grants Commission shall have that reserve power in other than ordinary circumstances itself to make a decision that evidence shall not be heard in public. [More…]
Further, can she give an assurance that the Land Funding Commission will maintain its power to purchase land in all States of Australia for Aborigines and that it will be adequately funded by the Government in order to carry out this function effectively? [More…]
Within that, the Government contends, is a power for the Commission to do those things that the Prime Minister has indicated. [More…]
I said that I felt that this Bill gave an opportunity to pass the power over to the Legislative Assembly, and I think I passed some remark at the time to the effect that I would not trust the Assembly on the way to the toilet, or something like that. [More…]
We, a group of Thai students in Australia, would like to express our deep concern about the imminent threat of intimidation by the repressive military regime which recently grabbed power in Thailand. [More…]
The objective of establishing a development corporation at Albury-Wodonga with power to acquire, develop and market land, along with the responsibility for promoting growth in the area, was to enable the recovery of at least the Government moneys directed to the corporation. [More…]
I want to know what is the power of the Minister? [More…]
-My advice, understanding and reading is that the Tribunal has the power under the Bill before the Committee to grant licences for public broadcasting. [More…]
To what extent have Commonwealth funds been allocated directly to Aborigines or Aboriginal societies and associations, and to which persons since the Liberal-Country Party Government came to power in 1 975. [More…]
Pursuant to section 32 of the Snowy Mountains HydroElectric Power Act 1949 I present the annual report of the Snowy Mountains Hydro-Electric Authority for the year ended 30 June 1 976. [More…]
All I am going to say is that if it had not been for the power failure and the lights going out for some 25 minutes tonight we would not be here at this hour. [More…]
For the information of honourable senators, I present the report of the Temporary Assistance Authority on bench or pedestal drilling machines not power fed. [More…]
The distillate was required urgently to replenish stocks for the generator supplying power to the island’s civil community. [More…]
Did the former Prime Minister write to the Premier of Queensland on 5 June 1974 proposing that the Commonwealth Government, in conjunction with the Queensland Government, 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…]
It is now some 18 months since this Government illegally came to power in this country and it is fitting that we should look at the deplorable record of the Government in operation. [More…]
Is the Minister convinced that the Chairman of Woodside-Burmah Oil NL has the power to carry out his threat to deny the energy benefits of the north west shelf to the people of Australia if his demands are not met? [More…]
They seem to me to vest in the head of an authority or in a Minister an arbitrary power which is not consistent with the designs of the Parliament and of the Constitution. [More…]
His life and record of endeavour and achievement emphasises that we live in a land and under a system whereby the highest positions of power and authority are within the reach of any Australian child no matter how humble his origin. [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…]
-In reply to Senator Douglas McClelland I must say that I have no power of direction over the Press to be present in the Press Gallery in this chamber. [More…]
Has the Commonwealth any power to refuse registration if it so happens that a person who is conducting a nursing home in any State does not comply with the standards laid down by the various States? [More…]
1 ) How many trips outside the Northern Territory has the Majority Leader of the Legislative Assembly of the Northern Territory made since gaining power in 1 974. [More…]
The enriched uranium is then sent from the United States to Japan for manufacture into fuel elements which will finally be placed into the reactors of the Japanese electric power utilities. [More…]
Do these downward revisions of world nuclear capacity now mean that Australia can afford to take more time to publicly debate the pros and cons of nuclear power without having to hurry debate in order to supply an energy hungry world. [More…]
How much has the Postmaster-General’s Department and Telecom Australia paid out since to upgrade and maintain the facilities including access roads and mains power feeds. [More…]
Have the Government and its inter-departmental committees finished their study of the Ranger Uranium Environmental Inquiry Second Report (Fox Report); if so, when is the Government likely to implement the following recommendation made in the Fox Report: ‘The existence of government power to terminate or suspend mining operations (perhaps at very short notice) to be recognised from the outset’ [More…]
1 ) Yes; a recent US report indicated that construction of a 10 megawatt solar powered electric generating pilot plant, a ‘power tower’, is due to begin in 1 978. [More…]
I have the view that in no way does this Bill give anybody power to act clandestinely anywhere and I would ask the Minister to confirm that. [More…]
I point out what the previous Administration did not do for the sugar industry when it was in power. [More…]
) Does the Minister recall his Government’s 1975 election policy statement on national resources that ‘We will investigate further possibilities for generating hydro-electric power, including tidal power’. [More…]
What research has been done on the potential of tidal power since the Government came to office in 1975, and where and by whom was this research carried out. [More…]
If the Federal Government has not funded or encouraged research and development of tidal power, when is it likely to, and at what financial level. [More…]
It is proposed to introduce a Bill as soon as possible to amend the Australian Shipping Commission Act to provide, among other things, power for ANL to engage in Queensland intrastate trading. [More…]
Pursuant to section 32 of the Snowy Mountains Hydro-electric Power Act 1949 I present the annual report of the [More…]
Not only is the purchasing power of the individual wage earner increased as a result of tax cuts but also as inflation falls the savings and the property of the taxpayer are preserved. [More…]
As interest rates fall there is a real increase in purchasing power because for example, it is less costly to pay off homes. [More…]
Taken as a whole, the slowing down of the upsurge in costs will do two things: It will increase the purchasing power of the community by delimiting inflation and reducing interest rates and, as a spinoff, will preserve savings whereas they were deteriorating rapidly in years past; and, of course, it will help to reduce the cost of a home. [More…]
Of course, that would be as good as providing an increase in purchasing power in another way. [More…]
He confuses the difference between nominal purchasing power and real purchasing power. [More…]
As the Australian Conciliation and Arbitration Commission has effectively reduced the purchasing power of wages and salaries which offsets to a large degree the Government’s tax cuts, are we to understand that the Commission’s national wage decision is actually working against Government policy? [More…]
If not, will the ombudsman, who is shortly to be appointed by the Tasmanian Government, have the power to deal with Commonwealth complaints? [More…]
I preface my question, which is directed to the Minister for Education, by saying that whilst I appreciate that the Commonwealth has no constitutional power or formal responsibility regarding educational standards in the state school systems, does the Minister consider that he has any duty, as the Minister responsible for education in the whole country, to see that modern courses such as Man- A course of Study- MACOS- and the Social Education Materials Projects- SEMP- which are professionally designed for and relevant to all Australian schools are used in those schools? [More…]
But if a body created by the Minister himself which is called a council only for the purpose of coming within the language of the Bill is to be given the power to request the Minister and then to compel him to act, the ludicrousness of the situation makes the thing so invidious as not to be entertained. [More…]
If it is necessary for the Minister to establish a new body under regulation, if another body has ceased to exist, he has power to do just that under this clause. [More…]
Yes, this clause is related to the 1922 Act, to give the power to review those pensions, to restore them and put them into the same category of benefit as those in the Act of 1976. [More…]
I do not have the principal Act before me, but who has the power to restore a widow or widowers’ pension previously cancelled on remarriage? [More…]
Honourable senators will recall the substantial amendments that were made to the Broadcasting and Television Act 1942 late last year, 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…]
The Committee considered that the discretionary power conferred upon the Minister by the regulations was excessive. [More…]
The original project for housing at Beagle Bay included basic facilities such as power and water supply. [More…]
Is he forecasting further legislation being introduced by the Commonwealth Government under the commerce power, the defence power, or one of the other heads of power to which he has referred? [More…]
I respond to Senator Walsh’s remarks by simply drawing his attention to the various pieces of legislation that have gone out of their way to indicate some five or six heads of power upon which the Commonwealth has relied for its uranium legislation. [More…]
Is the Minister aware that, on Wednesday, ten Japanese nuclear power companies entered into a contract with British Nuclear Fuel Limited worth nearly $1.5 billion to reprocess 16,000 tonnes of nuclear spent fuel? [More…]
Is he aware that, under existing United StatesJapanese nuclear power agreements, Washington ‘s approval is necessary for transport overseas of spent fuel from American uranium? [More…]
Is the Minister aware that the Japanese power companies conceded that they had not received the Carter Administration’s sanction for the reprocessing? [More…]
-Has the attention of the Minister representing the Minister for National Development been drawn to an announcement that Japan ‘s Electric Power Development Co. has reached agreement in principle with four New South Wales coal companies to supply up to 40 per cent of its steaming coal requirements after 1982? [More…]
In actual fact the Commonwealth does not have the power to propose and go ahead with any particular project. [More…]
In view of the findings in the United States of America of the Ford Foundation’s energy policy project that in many cases it is cheaper to save a watt of energy than to find an extra watt of supply, what efforts are being made by the Federal Government and the various relevant State bodies to (a) investigate the potential for energy conversion and conservation in Australia; and (b) encourage industrial, commercial and domestic power consumers to conserve energy. [More…]
Will the Federal Government use its power under the 1967 constitutional amendment to take over the administration and funding of the Aurukun and Mornington Island Aboriginal Communities, in view of: (a) the government’s previous undertaking that the two communities should become self-managing, and that no solution to the management dispute would be imposed if unacceptable to the communities; and (b) the communities’ clearly expressed rejection of the present arrangements, and the Queensland government’s failure to provide genuine self-management. [More…]
I make the observation that this matter of local content has far more relevance now that the bounty has been extended to units of above 105 kilowatts because in this power range the total Australian market is very small; consequently, given the very small domestic market, the chances of producing in Australia engines and other major components or the chances of achieving economies of scale for the production of engines and other major components are remote, to say the least. [More…]
That Ministers and senior Public Servants will have absolute power to grant exemption certificates denying access to documents. [More…]
1 ) Has the Minister’s attention been drawn to recent allegations of a design flaw in about half of the United States of America ‘s operating nuclear power plants. [More…]
Is it true that this particular design risk could result in the failure of the nuclear power plants’ safety system. [More…]
I do not know the power of technology. [More…]
The Australian Atomic Energy Commission has been involved in the past in some energy accounting work in relation to various types of power stations. [More…]
Does the Minister recall recent statements made by Professor Stuart Butler of the University of Sydney where he stated that recent breakthroughs in solar energy research in Australia could mean the end of nuclear power needs in 25 years. [More…]
If Professor Butler’s statements are correct, what economic benefit is Australia then likely to receive by mining and developing uranium if other countries are likely to see the end of nuclear power within 25 years. [More…]
to (4) On all the advice I have received, it does not appear that there will be any diminution in the development of nuclear power over the next 25 years or longer. [More…]
As I understood what you said, you referred to proposed new section 9AA and the power of the CSIRO to do all things necessary in connection with the performance of its functions. [More…]
The Organisation will be given a corresponding power under proposed new section 9AA, paragraphs (b) and (c). [More…]
It follows, therefore, that the purposes for which the CSIRO might exercise its commercial powers must be bona fide and relate to encouraging the adoption of the research and results. [More…]
Under the new legislation the CSIRO will not be empowered to go into business for the purpose of making a profit. [More…]
As long as the primary purpose is technology transfer it would not be beyond the powers of the Organisation to enter into a relationship with a commercial partner. [More…]
We here are seeking similar power. [More…]
What amount was approved for expenditure by: (a) geriatric organisations; (b) disabled adults’ organisations; and (c) disabled children’s organisations, in each State on: (i) staff payments; (ii) food supplies; (iii) medical supplies; (iv) domestic payments; (v) motor vehicle operating costs; (vi) fuel and power; (vii) maintenance repairs; (viii) administrative payments; and (ix) assets under $400, in each State. [More…]
I am quite sure that the intention of the Bill was that a power of review be given to the Senate over any discretion of the Minister. [More…]
I do not know why we continue to have legislation that maintains the power of the Federal Minister and which would be used at some time to the detriment of or against the wishes of a particular State Minister. [More…]
I do not know why we reserve this power to the Minister although it does not seem to be acted upon. [More…]
In reaching the conclusion of my remarks in relation to the motion that the Senate take note of the statement on foreign affairs I reiterate the importance in dealing with matters of this kind of taking into account the defence issues, the power issues and the international political structures and I reiterate that throughout history the movements of people have caused the greatest effect and influence on international affairs and have been the greatest cause of international tensions. [More…]
In Argentina the program is applicable to those who are being held without charge by the Executive Power under state-of-siege laws and who have the right of option to leave Argentina. [More…]
As Senator Mulvihill will be aware from my letter of 30 November 1978, Ana Maria Mohaded was removed on 3 October 1978 from the jurisdiction of the Executive Power and transferred to that of the Permanent Special War Council of Cordoba Number One. [More…]
Is any of the amount of $ 1 10m which Tasmania is to be allowed to raise as loans from overseas to be used on a power scheme on the Lower Gordon River; if so: (a) how much is to be spent on that scheme; and (b) has a proposal for the Lower Gordon scheme been presented to the Tasmanian Parliament. [More…]
Of that amount, $75m is for assistance in the funding of peak capital expenditure in the further development of Tasmania’s hydro-electric power system. [More…]
Two specific projects will be involved, namely the Pieman River Power Development and a new power development, the nature of which is yet to be determined. [More…]
The Tasmanian Government has indicated that a coal-fired thermal power development and other forms of energy generation are under consideration as possible alternatives to further hydro-electric developments, such as the Lower Gordon Power Development. [More…]
On behalf of the Minister representing the Minister for National Development and 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…]
Did the Tribunal delay announcing its decision until proclamation of the amended Act gave licensing power to the Tribunal. [More…]
I have done so, to some extent, but the suggestion made to me was that I consider an amendment to substitute the words ‘President of the Tribunal ‘ for the words ‘Attorney-General ‘ in relation to the exercise of the power under this clause. [More…]
27 (3) says that power to make an ordinance in respect to the authorisation of expenditure may be made by the Governor-General on account of urgencythat is true- or ‘ for any other special reason ‘. [More…]
It does not limit the application of these powers to urgency situations, as the Minister just intimated, but rather leaves it entirely open for such powers to be exercised for other reasons which remain obscure. [More…]
I refer to recent reports of developments in shipping research relating to the use of wind power. [More…]
As the 35 th congress in Adelaide of an international shipping and sailing group known as the Cape Homers has focused attention on this research, can the Minister indicate the state of any research program in Australia relating to a return to wind power, especially in view of the fuel crisis situation [More…]
There can be no question that that body was set up simply to use terror to keep President Amin in power. [More…]
Is the Minister for Science and the Environment aware that a solar energy power station is to be set up under an agreement between the Australian National University and the New South Wales Government? [More…]
In reply to the comments which have been made by Senator Jessop, I assure the honourable senator that, as the Minister responsible for the subject matter dealt with in the report, I will do all in my power to ensure that the Government takes up the suggestion and makes available time for debate at the earliest opportunity in the Budget session. [More…]
Of course, it is within the power of the judge concerned to require that the information shall be provided on affidavit. [More…]
As Senator Evans has said, the issue raised here has already been the subject of discussion in the debate on the Australian Security Intelligence Organization Bill in regard to the implementation of those powers in relation to listening devices. [More…]
In fact, this power has existed in the Telephonic Communications (Interception) Act for many years and, as I understand it, has not been used very much at all. [More…]
It is only in most exceptional cases that the Director-General would be likely to exercise these powers. [More…]
I do not think that there is any real threat to civil liberties in the DirectorGeneral having that power in an emergency. [More…]
That is the ultimate power that we have. [More…]
Does the Federal Government have the power to refuse to accredit new private hospital beds for the $16 per day bed subsidy. [More…]
Will the Minister assure the Senate that the Government will do all in its power to ensure that the present antiinflationary, job creating policies are adhered to and that such totally unredeeming economic nonsense stemming from the Opposition will not influence the Government’s thinking? [More…]
and (2) I wrote to 3CR on 12 January 1979 in response to the station’s application for increased power. [More…]
3 ) At this present time, consideration is not being given to a general policy review in order to authorise an increase in power for public and special broadcasting stations. [More…]
I am prepared, however, to consider any power increase deemed necessary to upgrade reception within a nominated service area, if it should bc established that coverage of the service area is of an inferior standard. [More…]
1 ) Has the Minister for Post and Telecommunications given any further consideration to an application by 3CR, Community Radio, Melbourne, for increased transmission power. [More…]
Is any general policy review contemplated which could result in public and special broadcasting stations being allocated transmission power in the AM and FM bands more in line with power permitted to commercial broadcasters and the Australian Broadcasting Commission. [More…]
It provides unfettered power to Ministers to suspend, stand-down and dismiss Commonwealth Government employees and places them in a markedly disadvantageous position as compared with all other Australian workers. [More…]
We have the power to refer the matter to it. [More…]
The Bill is advocating industrial action outside the control, power and influence of the arbitration system. [More…]
It is a scandalous exercise of power. [More…]
president of Kansai Electric Power Co. . [More…]
Officials of the Ministry of International Trade and Industry have promised Shoichiro Kobayashi, president of Kansai Electric Power Co., government support for Kansai and other partners’ participation in a joint Japanese-Australian uranium development project’. [More…]
Shoichiro Kobayashi, president of Kansai Electric Power Co., government (i.e. [More…]
The fact that proposals have come from organisations in Japan would indicate that Japan is fully committed to the further development of the nuclear power industry. [More…]
None of the principal parties involved- the DK and the PRK, Vietnam, China and the USSR- is understood to favour a negotiated settlement at present Nevertheless, the Government will continue to encourage international support for the principles that might form a basis for such a settlement: the two most important being the withdrawal of all foreign forces and the self-determination of the people of Kampuchea free of great power rivalry. [More…]
What I am suggesting is that he was referring to Government activity, either through the use of money power or legislative means, to control the way in which student organisations worked and how they might be dissuaded from supporting lunatic or extremist causes. [More…]
Paragraph (c) gives the proposed Commission a very wide charter to operate of its own volition, but it does not give the Minister the power to ask the Commission to report specially to him. [More…]
In view of the fact that the Committee has now agreed to give the Minister power to commission reports from the Commission under paragraph [More…]
It gives the Commission the power to examine any relevant international instrument that the Minister requests- and as I understand the situation the Attorney might accept the amendment I am proposing or the Government may move the amendment on its own initiative- the Commission to examine for the purpose of ascertaining whether there are any inconsistencies between the instrument and the Covenant. [More…]
-Yes, that is what I fear, that it may well be thought that this is the only power that relates to the investigation by the Commission into international instruments and which relates to that very specific provision to look for inconsistencies which surely must be only a small pan of the interest which the Commission ought to have in international instruments. [More…]
Can the Minister indicate whether the Government will ensure that it extends its co-operation to the new government of the New Hebrides and does everything in its power to assist it as it establishes the new independent government of the New Hebrides? [More…]
The Opposition believes that it is inappropriate that powers as significant as powers involved in the use of listening devices should be exercised by Commonwealth officers pursuant to State laws. [More…]
If the Commonwealth proposes by future legislation to vest in Australian Federal Police officers a power to use listening devices in relation to non-narcotics offences, that is something which we can debate in that context at another time. [More…]
But for the moment the Opposition takes the view that this opportunity should be grasped to limit the power of Australian Federal Police officers to install and utilise listening devices to narcotics offences and to remove the power to use listening devices in non-narcotics areas. [More…]
Does the Board have the power to cancel a flour export licence held by a flour miller and/pr merchant who has purchased wheat outside the Australian Wheat Board? [More…]
In the Estimates debate, the Senate attempts to involve itself in the consideration of 90% of the estimates which deal with the ordinary annual services of the Government which the Senate has no power to amend. [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…]
The projection of the Leader of the Opposition as a man to govern implied that the Australian Labor Party was prepared to leave its policy to those members of the Party who formed the Government and to give its leader more power and had its effect at the ballot box. [More…]
But the power of the Leader of the Opposition was short lived because a few days before the Parliament met we discovered that three of his supporters had been dropped from the Opposition Executive to be replaced by three left wingers. [More…]
We appreciate very much the Federal Government’s offer of a powerhouse in central Queensland. [More…]
The key to populating the north lies in the production of cheap power for the excavation and treatment of our minerals close to the source of origin. [More…]
The loan from the Commonwealth towards the building of the large powerhouse at Gladstone is most welcome,, but a great deal more must be considered in the near future as new mineral fields are developed. [More…]
Nickel production from the deposits at Greenvale, north west of Townsville, will require vast quantities of cheap power if the north is to gain the benefit of its own resources. [More…]
In dealing with the central Queensland powerhouse at Gladstone, I ask the Federal Government to give serious consideration to extending its present loan agreement to include a high voltage transmission line between Blackwater and Longreach. [More…]
At present power is being generated in western Queensland by the Central Western Regional Electricity Board and generating plants are situated at Longreach and Barcaldine, from which the power is transmitted to other small centres and to the regional community. [More…]
Although the use of electricity is increasing as the rural electricity schemes are developed, the cost of producing power is far too great. [More…]
The cost of producing power at Longreach and Barcaldine powerhouses is estimated at 2.42c per unit compared with .63c at Callide, which is far lower than is envisaged at the new power house at Gladstone. [More…]
The Central Western Regional Electricity Board estimates thar it could purchase bulk power delivered to the central west for 1.3c per unit or nearly half the present cost of generating power in that area. [More…]
I ask the Commonwealth Government to consider this aspect so that people in the remoter areas may get power at a reasonable price. [More…]
If and when equal pay is introduced there will be considerably greater spending power in the hands of the single man, and honourable senators know as well as I that the consequences to the married man will be serious. [More…]
I am a little bit perturbed at the increasing tendency to use Executive power - to disregard die will of Parliament on the site of Parliament House; to disregard the will of the Senate, which is part of the legislative process, in the case of the lifting of the ban on the export of merino rams and to disregard the will of the Parliament in the case of the Canberra abattoirs. [More…]
I hope that we will never have to carry a motion here to the effect that the power of the Executive has increased, is increasing and ought to be diminished. [More…]
The Communists concentrated on people with authority or the power to exercise authority. [More…]
the possibilities of legislating, pursuant to agreements between this country and others, under the external affairs power to enable the professional qualifications of migrants - in that I include trade qualifications - to be more readily utilised in this country. [More…]
The Commonwealth has its external affairs power and there are other powers that could bc utilised. [More…]
Nevertheless, they must continue to play a large and essential part in export performance, and for that reason they have to be judged on the basis of their economies of production and their power to compete in world markets. [More…]
In my view, six Premiers attending a Premiers Conference should have a great deal of power in persuading a Commonwealth Government to agree to their wishes. [More…]
It was not that I had any clairvoyant power; it was just that we knew the political situation, and the events did occur as stated. [More…]
So that it would be clear that I was not putting words in anyone’s mouth, I issued an invitation that someone from the Department without the power of discipline over residents of Yuendumu should accompany me to find out whether there was any truth in the allegations. [More…]
I now seek to interview the people whose names I have, or any person who has appointment at Yuendumu and the power of discipline, for the purpose of finding any proof of the allegations made, and I have agreed to have someone from your Department accompanying me on this visit to know that my actions are reasonable and above board. [More…]
With all the power the Commonwealth has, how can the Government talk of its desire to assist Aboriginal people if it is not going to take any action in regard to this incident? [More…]
Having regard to the growing need for eternal vigilance in upholding and maintaining basic civil and human rights in Australia, I ask: Why does the police force in Canberra have discretionary power to intimidate people by insisting on the right to fingerprint and photograph people under arrest? [More…]
1 make a plea on behalf of these people to the Government, which now has power to deal with these matters, to go ahead with the job. [More…]
We have found more uses for atomic power. [More…]
We have seen programmes for the use of atomic power for peaceful purposes. [More…]
The preoccupation of the Australian Government of that day was that the armed excursions of a Communist power had involved us in a violent war in Korea. [More…]
If one reads the Governor-General’s Speech one will notice it makes reference to a further excursion of Communist power with which Australia is involved in South Vietnam 20 years afterwards. [More…]
Embedded in the Governor-General’s Speech is this preoccupation with the expansion of Communist military power 20 years later. [More…]
We were involved, even in the Speech of the then Governor-General with the problem of the rise of China and the power that China represented. [More…]
We were involved even at that stage with the problem of nuclear power and the disposal of nuclear power, lt will be recalled by elder senators that at that stage we were involved with the Baruch and Acheson proposals on the limitation of nuclear armanents. [More…]
The problems which faced the Government which came into power in 1949 and which was re-affirmed in a most substantial way in 1951 still exist. [More…]
All of the Opposition’s comments in relation to Papua and New Guinea are directed to the belief that all the money that can be screwed out of the Australian taxpayers should be placed in Papua and New Guinea so that it will reinforce an elite community inside Papua and New Guinea which will then begin to ride the already bridled and saddled rest of the community which, if I can vary the simile, will become the dumb driven oxen to satisfy the elitists’ capacity for power. [More…]
I think the United States of America with all its power - if I am correct it is somewhere in the vicinity of half a million men - has learned that it cannot subdue this country. [More…]
If the Government has not the power to do that now in the present case, it should alter the law to give it the power to do so. [More…]
We have grown to nationhood under the protection of the British Navy in the period of its greatest power and strength. [More…]
In my view April 1965 - the time when the Commonwealth Government made its decision - is the point at which the LiberalCountry Party coalition Government forfeited our dignity and independent status as a nation to become a camp follower of a world power on the pretext of defending the free world against Communism in Indo-China, namely, in .South Vietnam. [More…]
The second belief held by the Government to justify its decision was the hope that at some time in the future in the event of Australia being attacked by some unknown enemy we could rely on the support of that great world power to protect us. [More…]
refer those honourable senators who have not yet read the pronouncements that have been made by the White House - this preceded what is now referred to as the Nixon doctrine - to an article which appeared on page 6 of the Melbourne Sun’ on Monday, 24th February 1969 under the heading ‘Alliance to fill Asian Power Gap?’ [More…]
Let the Government take care that it looks in the right direction because there is only one power in South East Asia which can affect the security of this nation, and that is Japan. [More…]
One should realise that Japan has greater motive than any other power in this area, because the source of her raw materials is Australia. [More…]
The Commonwealth proposes by legislation to take from the States those responsibilities which previously the States thought belonged to them and to continue to accept those responsibilities until the courts decide that the Commonwealth has not the power to implement such legislation. [More…]
I suggest to them as a practical proposition that the military power which subdued the military power of Japan could have subdued the military power of North Vietnam in a very short time if it had been out to subdue it. [More…]
I recall that only a year or two ago, under the auspices of a Communist power, the Arab states ringed little Israel with the avowed intention of wiping it off the face of the earth. [More…]
Here we are in 1970, in civilisation, with others in combination with the greatest military power on earth, which is dropping bombs on people, causing the slaughter of hundreds of thousands of people, fighting one of the most primitive little nations on earth. [More…]
I have seen this Government under attack from all sides and at all times - it is right and fair for a government to be attacked and I have no quarrel with that - and I have seen this Government come through the attack, face the electors and be returned to power. [More…]
The struggle in Czechoslovakia today against the Russian occupation is a struggle against a great power. [More…]
The DLP was responsible for the appointment of 3 new select committees and did all in its power to present proposals for 6 others. [More…]
He espouses so many of these views about Vietnam because he believes that this is the way to power. [More…]
I think he feels that when he attains power he will be able to achieve things which will make him independent of his rulers at the present time. [More…]
The greatest power in the world is engaged in Vietnam. [More…]
I refer to Japan which is now the world’s third industrial power. [More…]
Although the build up in Japan’s armed forces will appear constitutionally only as a build up in its defence forces, it nevertheless will have a very big impact on the balance of power not only in the Pacific and Asian area but also throughout the world. [More…]
Australia’s experiences with Japan were such that we should insist that any development in armaments, such as has been referred to in this article and which are big enough to make Japan an influence on the world balance of power, should be known in Australia and discussed openly in this Parliament. [More…]
We claim to have vast untapped riches, reserves undreamt of and contracts running into hundreds of millions of dollars for the sale of our raw materials; but too much of our wealth is being directed into the effort to make Australia a military power as well as a strong economic power. [More…]
For the purposes of this Convention, an aircraft is considered to be in flight from the moment when power is applied for the purpose of take-off until the moment when the landing run ends. [More…]
If it is from the time of application of power, I would have thought that at the other end it should be the time of de-application of power. [More…]
It is for that reason that the power of determination in these instances is given to a board, lt 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…]
In view of the fact that 40 years ago we sowed 18 million acres of wheat with horse power and it took us nearly 40 years before we caught up again to that acreage, the argument that the Australian wheat industry has increased disproportionately either to the population or the general economy is complete and utter utter nonsense. [More…]
This is in the year 1970 and the value of the money is in terms of 1970 purchasing power. [More…]
If we look at this in relation to the 1930s when the wheat industry was in a desperate condition, that 90c needs to be divided by a factor of 6 to get somewhere near its relative purchasing power. [More…]
He went on to say that in real terms of purchasing power this 90c meant about 15c. [More…]
Let me say this: Woe betide the industry if ever we get centralised power for any industry, be it the wheat industry or anything else. [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…]
I was informed on numerous occasions by the Minister representing the Minister for Primary Industry that the Government had no power to obtain that information from the Australian Wheat Board. [More…]
The Hansard record will confirm that I was informed that the Government had no power to compel the Board to reveal matters which were vitally necessary for any decisions that would be made in regard to wheat. [More…]
A couple of years ago I was informed by a well-known economist that I had been deceived and that actually the Government did possess that power. [More…]
I want to point out that on 15th May 1969 when I asked the Minister representing the Minister for Primary Industry whether it was not a fact that we had been misled and that in fact the Government did have power over the Wheat Board I received this answer: [More…]
The Commonwealth gained certain powers as a result of the carry in <> of the referendum proposal. [More…]
Either it does not have a great deal of power or, if it has powers, its powers are apparently not being exercised by the Minister-in-Charge of Aboriginal Affairs (Mr Wentworth). [More…]
The Parliament shall, subject to this Constitution, have power to make laws for ihe peace, order, and good government of the Commonwealth with respect to- [More…]
The Council shall have the power to make by-laws, resolutions and orders for the well-being and progressive development of assisted Aboriginal residents but- [More…]
It is of no use to say that the Commonwealth does not have the power. [More…]
The Commonwealth has the power to allocate finance for particular purposes wherever and whenever it wants to do so. [More…]
Honourable senators should remember that the powers obtained constitutionally by the Commonwealth Government as a result of the 1967 referendum are additional to the powers inherent in a State. [More…]
In other words, the responsibility for Aboriginals in Australia, except in the Territories of the Commonwealth, is a concurrent power divided between the States and the Commonwealth. [More…]
The honourable senator in making apologies for what had not been done said that the power granted in 1967 was a concurrent power with the power of the States. [More…]
Therefore the Commonwealth can pass laws for the benefit of Aboriginal people irrespective of the fact that this is a concurrent power, and the Commonwealth laws will be supreme. [More…]
The Minister-in-Charge of Aboriginal Affairs (Mr Wentworth) in another place the other day made the amazing statement that he would do everything he could within the limited constitutional power that he had to see that the interests of Aboriginals were properly preserved. [More…]
This urgent Bill is for the purpose of providing 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 coastal waters 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 senators have before them provides the Minister for Shipping and Transport with the necessary legislative power to do these things. [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…]
Of course, he means that the Government of the Commonwealth lacks the power because the legislation has been defective and that is really the fault of no-one but the Commonwealth. [More…]
The Government was aware that incidents such as the ‘Oceanic Grandeur’ spillage might occur from the experiences of other countries and it ought to have taken steps long before this to anticipate such an incident and provide itself with the necessary powers to cope with the situation. [More…]
The Bill gives the Minister for Shipping and Transport the discretionary power to take suitable action in the event of further spillages and early action to have the remainder of the oil cargo transferred to another tanker or removed in some other fashion. [More…]
Without this legislation power would not be available to deal with any emergency oil spillage. [More…]
This urgent Bill is for the purpose of providing the legislative power necessary to deal wilh vessels and their cargoes in cases where there is pollution or threat of pollution to the Australian coast or coastal waters 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…]
As the Minister has said, the Bill provides the Minister with the necessary legislative power to do these things. [More…]
The Bill allows the Minister quite a wide power. [More…]
Therefore the Government needs to take this sort of measure in order that the Minister for Shipping and Transport may have the power to deal with what is becoming an all too frequent occurrence not only in our coastal waters but in coastal waters everywhere. [More…]
Government supporters know in their hearts that the Government has no power to direct an oil company as to the particular detergent it should use. [More…]
We are prepared to give to the Government for 6 months the powers set out in this legislation. [More…]
The situation in which the Government is placed is that it has a wrecked tanker in which there is still some oil, that it is in a cyclonic area where there may be a disturbance which would bring more oil on to the reef, and the Government is without adequate power to compel the owners or the master of the ‘Oceanic Grandeur’ to take some appropriate action. [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…]
A second reason which 1 think would explain why no action has been taken is the notorious difficulty which has been experienced in determining what are the limits of the Commonwealth’s power with regard to navigation and how far the Commonwealth can go in passing legislation in the expectation that it will stand up. [More…]
There has been constantly, I am sure, a recognition on the part of the Government that there are areas in the field of navigation in which it is uncertain whether Commonwealth power applies or State power applies. [More…]
The Opposition in the past has never, with regard to any matter of legislative power, been tender about the States’ rights because we know that the Opposition believes that so far as possible all power should reside in the Commonwealth Government. [More…]
If the oil is either escaping or if he considers there is any risk of it escaping, the Minister has power to act. [More…]
If one goes on further one sees the further powers the Minister has. [More…]
Under this provision the Minister has power to call in some other tanker to the damaged tanker and to discharge oil from it. [More…]
If the captain does not agree to this action the Minister has power to charge the master of that damaged tanker with all the costs. [More…]
As far as I am concerned, if one reads this one will see that the Minister has full power. [More…]
This Bill gives him complete and utter power. [More…]
Senator Byrne questioned the matter of penalties, but he did not question the power of the Minister. [More…]
It would take a long time for competent legal men to argue whether the Commonwealth Government had any constitutional power over Australian coastal waters. [More…]
This is a question of Commonwealth and State powers, and you can imagine the argument that could take place on a question such as that. [More…]
If the order of the Minister is not enforced the oil will continue to flow into the sea while legal argument goes on to determine the limits of power under this legislation. [More…]
I think that pollution and the Minister’s power in relation to it are pretty well defined. [More…]
I do not know whether the Minister, following an accident at sea, has power to proclaim any goods as dangerous goods. [More…]
We could have special regulations which would give us power over such a vessel long before it reached our coastal waters and long before it created a nuisance by the possibility of polluting the Australian coast. [More…]
This measure is designed to make sure that the Commonwealth has adequate legal power to act. [More…]
This makes certain that we will have that capacity and that power. [More…]
If the Minister serves a notice requiring the owner, agent or master of a ship to take action to prevent the discharge of oil, is there open to the owner, agent or master a qualitative argument which would limit the power to apply a continuing penalty? [More…]
In that event, although the tide or waves might carry the oil and cause pollution of a reef or the coastline, there is no power in the Bill for the Minister to do anything and therefore proposed section 329c would have no application. [More…]
The Senate and the other place have power to disallow regulations. [More…]
It is the duty of the Parliament to keep a check on the subordinate legislation which is made pursuant to powers granted to outside bodies by Acts of Parliament. [More…]
It is true that the Parliament may delegate its legislative powers to other persons - official or even private - and it frequently does so. [More…]
But it is important that this chamber as well as the other chamber should keep a check on the exercise of these powers. [More…]
But here is a group of people who, because they have the power and the purpose of blackmail, can force the Government to keep on producing subsidies for their supporters, as a result of which we have before us this Bill to provide $300m. [More…]
I inform the’ honourable senator that the Minister has a power of direction1. [More…]
That, power has never been used. [More…]
The power of direction is a necessary requirement of the Government in order that, should it ever be necessary, it can protect the Treasury under the obligation of its loan guarantees. [More…]
That a Select Committee be appointed to inquire into and report upon the desirability and feasibility of establishing a securities and exchange commission by the Commonwealth either alone or in co-operation with the States and the powers and functions necessary for such a commission to enable it to act speedily and efficiently against manipulation of prices, insider trading and such other improper or injurious practices as the Committee finds have occurred or may occur in relation to shares and other securities of public companies, and to recommend generally in regard to the foregoing such legislative and administrative measures by the Commonwealth as will, having regard to the constitutional division of legislative power in Australia, enable the utmost protection of members of the public and the national interest. [More…]
That the Committee have power to send for persons, papers and records, to move from place to place and to meet and transact business notwithstanding any prorogation of the Parliament. [More…]
As 1 have said, the Commission had wide powers of investigation for the purpose of determining whether any breach of the Securities Act had been or was about to be committed. [More…]
It had power to refer, in appropriate cases, transactions for examination by the Department of Justice. [More…]
The Commission had power to alter or supplement the rules of registered stock exchanges. [More…]
The Commission was empowered to issue orders expelling or suspending persons from membership of the exchanges, and to cancel registrations. [More…]
But the commission was also designed to issue general orders giving companies of a defined class the power to omit specified information. [More…]
The commission was further designed to have power to alter or add to the requirements as to accounts and directors’ reports in the companies legislation, to perform duties at present carried out by the Companies Auditors Board and to take over some of the functions being carried out by the States through their Registrars. [More…]
Those will be very material matters for any committee to consider as to the appropriateness now of establishing a federal securities and exchange commission, firstly having regard to the constitutional power that derives from our Constitution; secondly, having regard to the opportunities of State authorities who have hitherto administered the company law and under whose general jurisdiction slock exchanges have operated; and thirdly, whether their displacement by a federal commission would have advantages. [More…]
We are really proceeding through a period which was peculiar to the United States prior to the commencement of the 20th century, when it had a series of bank crashes, with disastrous results, and it found it necessary to take on substantial power to control their banking institutions. [More…]
It is one instance of the States co-operating, one with the other, within the power constitutionally available to them, to control this area which is subject to commercial maladministration and to types of commercial deceit. [More…]
The Commonwealth has to be careful - whether one is a centralist or not - when the States have manifested this interest and this enthusiasm and have moved quickly, not to attempt to intrude, as it were, to take power and override that enthusiasm and to dampen it down and make total substitution for what the States have endeavoured to do and have already embarked upon doing. [More…]
The Senate has heard the question raised of a constitutional division of power. [More…]
Under the Commonwealth Constitution the Commonwealth has no direct power to set up a securities and exchange Commission. [More…]
It has no express power to make laws with respect to companies. [More…]
Paragraph 1 gives to the Commonwealth the power to make laws with respect to trade and commerce with other countries and among the States. [More…]
Paragraph 20 gives to the Commonwealth the power to make laws with respect to foreign corporations and trading or financial corporations formed within the limits of the Commonwealth. [More…]
It may be thought, if one states those heads of power as simply as I have stated them, that there ought to be no concern. [More…]
But as far as the lawyers are concerned it has always been regarded as a matter of uncertainty as to how far those powers extend. [More…]
If it did concern itself to take evidence, it might be met with the objection that a Senate committee had no power to ask questions in regard to these matters. [More…]
Many years ago a royal commission which was appointed by the Commonwealth Parliament was held to have no power to require questions to be answered because the questions were directed to matters which were outside the province of the Commonwealth Parliament. [More…]
One can only hope that the committee, enthusiastic as its members might be to extend the range of Commonwealth power, nevertheless will recognise the need for prudence in what it does so that the ultimate objective of enabling the facts to be ascertained in many of these matters will not be frustrated. [More…]
There is also the question of whether the Commonwealth does have any power to appoint a securities and exchange commission. [More…]
If a securities and exchange commission is to be appointed it must depend upon either of those two powers, or maybe a combination of both of them, to which I have referred. [More…]
The High Court suggested some 62 years ago that there was no power in the Commonwealth to legislate with respect to corporations of a trading and financial character. [More…]
For my part I would have thought that an examination of the judgment of the High Court might suggest that the Commonwealth has a far greater power than has been hitherto supposed. [More…]
I do not doubt that the Attorney-General of the Commonwealth and the Attorneys-General of the States will take heed of a considered report of this committee on what might be the legal powers of the Commonwealth. [More…]
If there is an opinion that the Commonwealth has power in an area in which previously it had been supposed not to have power, I believe that the Attorneys-General of the Commonwealth and the States will guide their future actions in the light of that viewpoint. [More…]
1 certainly am not a person who would seek to take away from the States powers which legitimately and properly are theirs, but I do feel that if there is a problem which is Australia-wide in its complexities and which has no significant differences which might arise from State to State, that constitutes a situation in which the Commonwealth should be prepared to exercise on a Commonwealth basis such powers as it has. [More…]
If there is a case for a uniform Companies Act throughout the whole of Australia and the Commonwealth has the power to pass a uniform Companies Act throughout the whole of Australia, I would feel that at some stage common sense would predominate over local State autonomy or ideas and that there would be one uniform Companies Act. [More…]
The motion also provides that the committee should recommend generally in regard to these matters such legislative and administrative measures by the Commonwealth as will, having regard to the constitutional division of legislative power in Australia, enable the utmost protection of members of the public and the national interest. [More…]
If the Army or the other armed services cannot give such assistance without the co-operation of the local authorities, and without action being initiated by the local authorities, then the armed services should be given the power to act until the state of emergency has passed. [More…]
With the nuclear power station and the proposed steel works- [More…]
Does the Government believe that under the domino theory military governments could come to power through the whole of the South East Asian area? [More…]
Does the Australian Wheat Board have the power to cancel flour export licences - with particular reference to a flour miller and/or merchant, who has purchased wheat outside the Australian Wheat Board. [More…]
In an effort to clarify the matter Senator Greenwood raised the question of the power to hold in custody a person without bringing him to trial. [More…]
In these circumstances it is eminently reasonable that the magistrate should have power, if he is satisfied that it is proper to do so, to hear evidence in the absence of that person and that such evidence should be admissible in proceedings of the kind mentioned in clause 15. [More…]
It authorises accession by Australia to the Tokyo Convention and confers powers for giving effect to the provisions of the Bill in Australia - for example, for restoration of a hijacked aircraft to its commander, for the holding of a preliminary inquiry for the purposes of the Convention and for taking into custody persons who are delivered by the aircraft commander. [More…]
Under clause 13 of the Bill a magistrate is given power to make orders to facilitate the execution of a warrant of arrest in extradition proceedings. [More…]
While we have no power to alter the agreement, we do have power to alter the legislation we introduce for the purpose of adopting the agreement. [More…]
The relevant power stems from the Crimes (Aircraft) Act of 1963. [More…]
In the Northern Territory, the question of deferment of municipal rates is a matter for the Darwin City Council which has power to introduce a scheme under its authority to make by-laws. [More…]
In other words, it is doubtful whether the Governor-General or whoever made the regulations had the power under the enabling legislation to make them. [More…]
The other reason why the Committee decided to recommend disallowance of these regulations was that, apart from any previous regulations that may have been issued under the regulation-making power of the statute, the provision of this annual allowance - and these were regulations to make provision for an annual allowance - is not an administrative detail but is an important innovation more appropriate to substantive legislation. [More…]
Firstly, the Regulations and Ordinances Committee was asked to deal with a regulation based upon the provisions in section 124 of the Defence Act which give to the Government power to make regulations concerning rates of pay, but which do not give to the Government power to make regulations concerning the payment of allowances to members of the defence Services. [More…]
I suggest that had there been included in the provisions of section 124 of the Defence Act a power to make regulations concerning allowances, there would have been no problem at all. [More…]
It was the considered opinion of the Committee that there was in fact no power to make such regulations under the provisions of section 124 of the Defence Act. [More…]
Clearly, I must support the view that has been put forward by Senator Cavanagh, that if there is no power in law to authorise the making of a regulation of that kind, anything that tends to proceed from the assumption that there is power under ;hat regulation is out of order, is quite incorrect, is quite improper and is in fact unsupportable. [More…]
I return to the point that I made earlier, that if the provisions in section 124 of the Defence Act do not include the power to authorise the payment of allowances to these people, then clearly the payments are not legal and they cannot be supported. [More…]
I am arguing from my own point of view because I am not persuaded that the Act gives power to award allowances. [More…]
For example, the Senate in Washington moves into the area of presidential powers by the constitutional propriety which it has to observe with its power over the appointments of ambassadors. [More…]
Also it has powers over the appointment of commanders. [More…]
However, I do not want to embark on an enlargement of the United States congressional powers in this context. [More…]
It is undeniable that the conduct of foreign affairs and defence under a Westminster system of Government such as we follow in Australia, with power over foreign affairs and defence, is totally and exclusively an executive power. [More…]
The executive power over foreign affairs and defence under our system of government, or the House of Commons procedure, is curbed by the fact that the Commons may discbarge a Ministry, or the House of Representatives in Australia can discharge a Ministry, if it does not agree with the conduct of foreign affairs and defence. [More…]
Successive governments of that time refused to enlarge the powers of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Commonwealth Parliament, as a result of which Australia suffered because for many years there was no Opposition representation on the Committee. [More…]
In a period of perhaps substantial danger to the nation the Executive should be able to exert power over the Foreign Affairs Committee so that it cannot, by an adventitious majority inside the Committee, proceed to hold hearings in public which could restrict the capacity of the Executive to carry out its proper functions or, because again of the operations of an adventitious majority in the Committee, inflame the public mind. [More…]
The members of Parliament who are involved in this self education process would, I suggest, be very unwise to seek fuller parliamentary power over the area of conduct of foreign affairs matters. [More…]
I point out to him that, whatever party is in power, it will have a majority on the Committee. [More…]
Our proposal would merely mean that the Parliament would have the power to refer to the Committee certain matters in which it was interested. [More…]
The Australian Labor Party will do so as soon as it is able to get the present Government out of power. [More…]
The permanent head still has the power of veto and it is exercised savagely, ruthlessly and frequently. [More…]
calls upon the administering power to take all necessary steps to transfer full powers in the executive and legislative branches of government to elected representatives of the people, in accordance with the freely expressed wishes of the peoples. [More…]
The Minister for Fuel and Power in Victoria,, after discussions with B.H.P. [More…]
Will the Minister consult with the Government and inform the Senate whether the Government will agree to set up an inquiry by an independent authority, with power to make recommendations and to publish a report. [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 of water for 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…]
This procedure gives a State like South Australia a lot of protection because it has a power of veto. [More…]
He had the power to do it if he so wished but I repeat that he agreed to further investigations including that of Chowilla and alternatives to Chowilla such as Dartmouth. [More…]
I say that the Vietnam Moratorium Campaign savours more of the mob rule stormtrooper tactics of the Nazis prior to the Nazis coming to power than does .anything else we have seen in our democratic community since then. [More…]
It is the type of action which, as I said previously, brought down the German Federal Republic, because it was mob rule in the streets by opposing political parties which led Hitler into power. [More…]
Has the Opposition come out and said: ‘We will do everything within our power to ensure that there is no violence.’? [More…]
Have we heard from one single senator opposite that they will do everything in their power to see that there is no violence? [More…]
They know that this would lead to the murder of innocent citizens but they are not concerned about that, provided they can achieve their objective of an immediate withdrawal and a cessation of the fighting power of the South Vietnamese to support a system of control which will bring back stability to that poor benighted area. [More…]
We had the power of the law and those people were threatened. [More…]
The massive American buildup in men and fire power has put an entirely different complexion on this conflict’, he says. [More…]
What makes demonstration by, say, farmers a proper exercise of free speech and free assembly while those by opponents of the Vietnam war are an ‘Illicit and dangerous, abuse’, ‘the naked, physical power of the mob’, Mr Hughes did not attempt to explain. [More…]
I have no hesitation in saying that as long as I have breath in my body and I am associated with people who are prepared to stand up and be counted against the decision that was made in 1965 to commit Australian troops to Vietnam, I will encourage, I will assist and I will do everything in my power to rally public opinion to defeat this Government. [More…]
In the Committee’s view these regulations grant to the Naval Board a wide power of discretion in determining the rights of naval personnel and do not set down any criteria to guide the Naval Board in its determination. [More…]
The Committee is opposed to the regulations because, firstly, it is doubtful whether they are properly authorised under the regulation making power of the statute and, therefore, whether they are in accordance with the relevant statutes; and secondly, apart from any previous regulation which may have been issued under the regulation making power of the statute the provision of this annual allowance is not an administrative detail. [More…]
Under the Constitution, the legislative power of the Commonwealth is vested in Parliament. [More…]
We exercise that power by the passage of Bills. [More…]
Under the Constitution it is permissible to delegate that legislative power to other bodies or persons. [More…]
The practice of providing in legislation for delegation of that legislative power to Ministers or to the Governor-General has grown. [More…]
At the same time laws have been enacted to ensure that the delegated power is kept under strict supervision. [More…]
The Senate has adopted standards as to what should be observed in exercising the delegated power of legislation. [More…]
The Parliament always jealously regards and protects its sole right to the supervision of thai power. [More…]
I refer to the question of the power and rights of the Parliament itself and the abdication of those rights into subordinate hands. [More…]
They are witnessing a situation in which the power of Parliament is being exerted and Parliament is being lifted to its correct position in relation to the Executive. [More…]
There is involved the question of the power of the Governor-General to make the regulation. [More…]
1 am saying that whilst the Committee has the power and one of its charters is to see that the regulations are within the power of the regulating legislation, I do not think the Committee is the body to decide on the legality of regulations. [More…]
On legal advice the Committee has some doubts as to whether it was within the power of the Governor-General to make such a regulation. [More…]
I understand that the Minister has been advised and is confident that the Act contains the power to make the regulation. [More…]
If the Senate is persuaded that a regulation is beyond power or is not a good one for some other reason, then I do not think it is right to allow it to remain in operation merely in the expectation that a legislative measure designed to overcome the objections of the Committee may or may not be passed in the future. [More…]
In the case which we have before us of the Chiefs of Staff regulations the Committee was of the view that although legal opinions will vary, these regulations were not within power. [More…]
We find, on the other hand, that the Minister introducing the projected legislation in the other place has said that the Government’s legal advisers are quite satisfied that the regulations are within power. [More…]
Immediate demands on the Commonwealth and State Governments to implement a short term plan to effect instant relief in fields most affected by the cost price squeeze, including land tax, receipts tax, shire rates, consolidation of rural debt, interest rates, freight and transport costs, wool compensation, education, improved port facilities and power for industry. [More…]
Apart from the fact that the Commonwealth has no power to control production, imagine the industry reaction if delivery quotas had been arbitrarily imposed by the Government - in this case it would have been imposed by the State Governments. [More…]
The attitude of the Labor Party in this chamber, in seeking by a constant barrage of interjections to deny me the right to speak, ought to make the Australian people alert and alive to the risks they would run if they should ever give power to members of the Labor Party. [More…]
Senator Greenwood is a gentleman who attempted to usurp the power of his own Postmaster-General, the Australian Council of Trade Unions and Mr Slater. [More…]
The Government has become complacent about their difficulties and arrogant with the power that it wields in Australia. [More…]
It has been the very proud claim of the rump Party, which has kept the Government in power over so many years, that it represents the primary producers of this country. [More…]
Instead, having evaded the issue before the election, the Government took action before Parliament met and indicated that in this particular case the Executive proposed to arrogate to itself a power which 1 believe it has no right to possess. [More…]
Government again arrogated lo itself executive power to override a parliamentary decision. [More…]
The Government has indicated that it will noi take any notice of parliamentary control; it has said simply that Parliament is out and that this is a matter which will be determined by executive power. [More…]
My view has always been opposed to the excessive use of executive power. [More…]
Years ago in England a motion was successfully moved in the House of Commons to Ihe effect that the power of the Crown had increased, was increasing and ought to be diminished. [More…]
If action by the Executive is to continue in this way in Australia as it has in the case of the merino rams, the Canberra Abattoir, the new and permanent parliament house and other matters, the day will surely come when we will be debating the question that the power of Cabinet or of the Executive has increased, is increasing and ought to be diminished. [More…]
The price is lower today in terms of purchasing power than it was then. [More…]
Do members of the Australian Labor Party believe that if they were in power they should take notice of the arguments of these fragmented organisations or individuals or do they believe that they would look to the industry organisations for advice on questions such as this? [More…]
The Federal Government has the power to initiate action for an arrangement to ensure that Chowilla will be built. [More…]
The first amendment was designed to take away all the control and power of the River Murray Commission because it was proposed, basically, to vest all the powers in a national water conservation and constructing authority. [More…]
I remind members of the Opposition that that amendment would have taken away much of the power of South Australia. [More…]
Yet another advantage from the construction of the Dartmouth Dam is the power generation facilities which will be operated and paid for by the State Electricity Commission of Victoria, lt is important to realise that the Snowy Mountains Authority will be retained as consultant for this dam. [More…]
I am referring to the fact that the Commission is acting from within an ambit of power which gives it no real control over the quality or quantity of water used from the River Murray or its tributaries. [More…]
I think the Commonwealth Government and the conjoined State governments, both today and in the past, in harnessing the waters of the Murray and associated streams and in the process of generating a greater volume of power have acted in the interests of the Australian people in a highly commendable way. [More…]
It pointed out that the existing Printing Committees of both Houses could not undertake the task as they were severely restricted in their powers, ft 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…]
A great deal of gaol punishment is awaiting some honourable senators if the Attorney-General finds that he has the power to take such action. [More…]
We were told about some of the blue prints which, amongst other things, were drawn up for the creation of a virile economy, a sort of virile way of life in many of these Asian countries in which there has been an ideological struggle as to who was going to maintain the balance of power. [More…]
In the final analysis it will be air power, sea power and probably ballistic missiles which will determine the various engagements that may occur; it will not be this garrison complex upon which the Government places so much reliance. [More…]
1 always think when I look at close-up photographs of the victims of most of these Asian conflicts, that one of the reasons there is not enough of this Vietnamisation about which the Government is talking is because such a big segment of the community is more interested in bread and peace than in what government happens to be in power. [More…]
Here I refer to what the Prime Minister described at the 5 power conference which was held in Canberra in 1969 as western Malaysia. [More…]
The third axiom is that whether we like it or not - I consider this to be highly important - Australia has no real grand strategical capacity except in an alliance with a friendly power which can provide Australia with a strategical capacity to allow Australia to manoeuvre. [More…]
It is important that this should be so because in global terms in the area in which we live the United States, the great strategical power with a global capacity, is the only nation which basically has the same interests as we have in terms of how society conducts itself and lives. [More…]
It is this: If there is within the area a strategical capacity for Australia, it is a strategical capacity which must be based upon an island power. [More…]
It is also true that Australia as an island power must be able to move around its island shores. [More…]
1 do not think that even ths bitterest invective which could be extracted from honourable senators opposite would deny that over the past few years the Government has pursued at least the attempt to build up a shipbuilding industry and create a maritime commercial fleet in Australia which is necessary for a navy operating on one wing of the maritime power. [More…]
The Air Force would argue that the sinking of money into a capital ship for the maintenance of naval power was unwarranted in the concept that the pure air arm could provide it. [More…]
So I have fashioned for myself a new phrase, ‘maritime power’, and I have defined ‘maritime power’ as ‘pure naval power and air power operating in conjunction’. [More…]
Although the United States is a global power there are circumstances under terms of nuclear blackmail, for example, in which the United States could conceivably say to Australia: “There are circumstances in which we must ask you to release us, temporarily at any rate, from an undertaking that we have given to you’. [More…]
She voluntarily dissolved it and has been reduced to the status of a European power without very great natural resources. [More…]
They must look with much foreboding for the future integrity of this country because what is taking place is sponsored by a power which is dedicated to world revolution and of taking over as many countries as possible by force of arms. [More…]
Divers went down and put plates on the damaged part of the hull and secured them with rivets, and the vessel went back under its own power to Singapore, to be repaired in the docks there. [More…]
1 think it is time that we put on record that the Parliamentary Draftsman occupies always a position of very great power. [More…]
But for the oversight of the Senate they would pass into operation undesirably and possibly almost beyond power. [More…]
I conclude on the note that the Parliamentary Draftsman and his staff have tremendous power. [More…]
I think this power should be recognised because, as I have pointed out, circumscription of the time and opportunity to draft legislation and the entrusting of drafting to men who do not have great technical ability or a keen sense of the duties, responsibilities and limitations of their office could in later years embroil a nation in situations which it wanted to avoid. [More…]
The Commonwealth Government has no power to ban the production in Australia of synthetic meat. [More…]
If we are to have an efficient and regular shipping service across Bass Strait to Tasmania, which we must have, then surely to goodness some power or authority must repose somewhere which would cut out the frivolity that is holding to ransom the shipping services to Tasmania and nullifying the vast amounts of money that have been spent to bring these services up to what they could be - one of the best shipping services in the world. [More…]
Honourable senators will bear in mind that over the last few years Tasmania has developed a quite magnificent power generating system through the installation of its Hydro-Electric Commission works. [More…]
We are concerned that the cheaper power in Tasmania which s not available in other States may no longer be a sufficient inducement to warrant industry establishing there. [More…]
Indeed, we are concerned that the time might come not far in the future when the advantages of the cheap power available in Tasmania are so outweighed by the disadvantages of the shipping problems that industries may very well consider leaving the State. [More…]
Senator Devitt also mentioned the development of hydro-electric power in Tasmania, the dairy industry’s dependence upon its ability to sell its products outside Tasmania to the extent of 93% and the need for Tasmania to increase its exports overseas. [More…]
I often wonder why, with its immense water resources, cheap power and very large areas of forest, Tasmania has not done more to develop an export pulp market. [More…]
With its cheap water power and electricity it has something, I believe, to offer as a fairly largely organised pulp producing island - more so than in the production of timber. [More…]
There is this over-simplification that we must always be attached to a major power. [More…]
We must always realise that whatever the benefits of being attached to a great power there are also a lot of detriments. [More…]
The Government should not be encouraged by the knowledge that it owes its position to, and is in power today only by virtue of, the fact that in sufficient marginal seats to give it a majority at the last election it was fortunate in having candidates whose names appeared higher on the alphabetical list than did those of Labor Party candidates. [More…]
Australia must answer the call of the United States because, as Senator Wright said, we allied ourselves with that great and mighty power. [More…]
If that great and mighty power finds that it is not in its national interests to come to our assistance if ever we call for it - and we are placing so much reliance on this association - I do not know what will happen. [More…]
We supported the previous Government in South Vietnam which took power by force of arms. [More…]
As 1 was saying when I was rudely interrupted, as a matter of selfinterest, as well as to preserve the principle of maintaining the rights of small nations, Australia must do everything in its power to contain this aggression. [More…]
In view of these circumstances it has not helped the people who have saved over a period of time because they are no better off in terms of the purchasing power of the money they have saved. [More…]
If we have not the power under the existing legislation in Australia to meet this very urgent need, then I seriously suggest that it is the Government’s responsibility to make sure that funds are made available. [More…]
- Driving and operating power operated graders below 50 B.H.P. [More…]
- Driving and operating power operated Grader from 50 B.H.P. [More…]
Senator Devitt suggested that I should have a discretionary power to make a grant in respect of a dwelling which exceeds by only a few hundred dollars the ceiling value approved by the Parliament. [More…]
In relation to Senator Devitt’s suggestion that the number of dwellings which are being commenced in Australia at present should be increased, I ask: From where are the manpower resources to come? [More…]
I think that would be an undesirable principle to attach to the regulation-making power. [More…]
We have left the regulationmaking power to the judgment and discretion of those who make the regulations and have relied on our right to intervene under the Acts Interpretation Act if we think the regulation should be disallowed. [More…]
There must be a division of financial power and responsibility. [More…]
It was not really a loophole, but the Commonwealth Government found that it had power and it was obliged to exercise that power to attempt to bolster up the situation in this piecemeal way. [More…]
The Commonwealth and the States should jointly plan the development of water, power and mineral resources and of industry to ensure proper priorities and an improved growth rate. [More…]
Australia’s national development requires, among other things, a vast programme of public works to provide the facilities, such as power, water and communications, without which the industry cannot continue to expand. [More…]
The States are reimbursed to increase the consuming power in the States. [More…]
The major requirements are $2m for a repayable advance to the Papua and New Guinea Administration for construction of the township at Arawa in connection with the Bougainville copper project, $3m advance to the Papua and New Guinea Administration for Budget equalisation purposes, $1.6m for acquisition of sites and buildings, $1.4m for loans to co-operative building societies in the Australian Capital Territory, $3.9m advance to the Northern Territory Housing Commission which will be offset to the extent of about $3.4m because of savings in a similar appropriation,$1.1m for the Snowy Mountains hydro-electric power project, $4m for payment to the Post Office Trust Account and $5m for buildings and works. [More…]
I blame every honourable senator in this chamber for allowing bureaucracy to rise to such power that we cannot get drugs without having to fill out a form which consists of 4 pages and which requires all details concerning the patient. [More…]
I appeal to the Government, if it is still in power when the [More…]
Although such action is, perhaps, considered comical when it is taken in the grounds of a university, it certainly is a most serious matter if we, as a government, allow such subversive action as the raising of the standard of an enemy power and the carrying of it down the main streets of Australia when we arc directing lads to war under the National Service Act and when we are spending so much of this country’s resources$1,100m in the last Budget in an attempt to preserve the defence of this country. [More…]
If it were subversion and a crime it would be within the power of one of his own Ministers to take action. [More…]
It has no power under which it can take action. [More…]
Wherever it exists the power of the United States can be directed towards it. [More…]
There is not one honourable senator opposite who would not believe and would not understand what I am saying when I speak of the power of the CIA throughout the world. [More…]
It has used every ploy or trick to retain power. [More…]
I am not going to stand in my place and use the excuse that we have little power at a Commonwealth level to handle this situation. [More…]
In fact, we have the power at a Commonwealth level to do what I suggest should be done. [More…]
We have power under our customs and tariffs legislation to ensure that the meat of kangaroos which are killed for commercial purposes is not exported from Australia in either a tinned or raw form. [More…]
One could perhaps say: Not until such time as there is a change of government, because in the period in which this Liberal-Country Party coalition has held power in this country federally and in the States the problems of the nation have increased and the neglect of those matters which are of national concern has increased. [More…]
Private ownership of any of our native animals is not allowed in Queensland.I should like to point out also that the Commonwealth Government has no power over our native animals. [More…]
The only power that the Commonwealth Government has is in relation to trade over the border between the States in kangaroo meal and skins and in the export of those commodities. [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 with the minimum of difficulty and inconvenience. [More…]
Mr President, on 26th September last year, the Prime Minister (Mr Gorton) announced that the Commonwealth Government was prepared to provide a loan of up to $80m 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$1 55m. [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 whichwill 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 [More…]
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 the Prime Minister 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…]
The Government is 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 high hopes are held 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…]
(1962); ‘The Purpose of American Politics’ (1960); ‘In Defence of the National Interest’ (1951); ‘Scientific Man vs. Power Politics’ (1946); etc. [More…]
I would say without hesitation that it has always been loyal to the arbitration system, but the way in which things are going now is convincing its members that that loyalty is getting them nowhere and that their only hope is to do the kind of thing that has been done by the pilots and other people, that is, to use the undoubted industrial power that they have through strikes. [More…]
One could have a defeating of the powers of the chambers given under the Acts Interpretation Act if this method were adopted that when some objection was taken to a regulation or ordinance instead of the Senate being able to proceed on its notice a simple amendment were made to an ordinance or regulation. [More…]
One could conceive that by a series of such amendments we would never be able to exercise the power. [More…]
Indeed, I think it was expressed on an earlier occasion that on the face of it this could be regarded as tending to undermine the powers of the Senate. [More…]
Only recently I read a report of a hearing of the Special Sub-Committee on Sea Power of the Committee on Armed Services of the United States House of Representatives, in which reference was made to the tendency, even in the United States, continually to recondition old vessels. [More…]
We have to realise the enormous destructive power of naval weaponry which has been developed overseas, particularly in the Russian Navy. [More…]
It has been realised, however, that proper utilisation of new technologies can provide Sweden with a small but highly effective naval fleet capable of competing with the larger units of other more powerful nations. [More…]
the primary concept is the distribution of surface force striking power amongst a greater number of smaller ships; the reasoning being that the chances of survival of the smaller units are greater, since il is more difficult to knock out all ships comprising the unit. [More…]
I do not believe that a small power like Australia, with restricted financial abilities to finance the construction of these ships, is in a position to invest what amounts to 100% of its entire annual expenditure in one unit. [More…]
Today not one ship of the fleet is equipped with this surfacetosurface capability which gives a tremendous amount of fire power to small ships. [More…]
It seems most unfortunate that this is another illustration of a duplication of power under which duties or imposts are presented by the Commonwealth and State governments in the same field. [More…]
apply so as to confer judicial power on a court, tribunal, authority or officer of a Stale; or [More…]
apply so as to confer on a court of a Stale any power that is not judicial power. [More…]
was proceeding back to Singapore under its own power. [More…]
I ask the Leader of the Government in the Senate whether the Government has decided to install a natural uranium fuelled Canadian reactor system in Australia’s first nuclear power station. [More…]
I hope that the Department of Health will not hesitate to use its powers to control the expenditure of funds, including, as the last resort, its ultimate power of suspension. [More…]
A good deal has been said about the power of referral; that it will still be the general practitioner’s prerogative to refer cases lo specialists. [More…]
Every time the medical profession raises the question of the ludicrous actions of members of this Committee the Government says: ‘We have no power over them’. [More…]
The Government has power. [More…]
Remembering that this Government came into power in 1949, this is at least the third legislative review of the national health scheme introduced by this Government. [More…]
Ever since I came to the Senate 12 years ago I have been suggesting that the voluntary health insurance scheme was in need of inquiry, that there were many anomalies in it which required rectification, but I was not instrumental in persuading the Government to do anything until the present Prime Minister ascended to power. [More…]
The only power that the patient has to find out the common fee that is to be charged is the 4.5 million pamphlets that the Government will publish, using public funds and distribute throughout Australia in an effort to bolster its own scheme which has no foundation. [More…]
A Standing Committee shall have power to appoint sub-committees 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 consider. [More…]
A Standing Committee or any sub-committee shall have the 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…]
Can the Minister say whether it now appears that the pilots fight major industrial disputes by going on strike or threatening to go on strike because they realise the industrial power that they possess by virtue of the immense cost to the airlines of a lay-off? [More…]
Where an Act confers power to make regulations, then, unless the contrary intention appears, all regulations made accordingly - [More…]
I would urge upon the Senate’s judgment that great discretion which should pervade anybody possessed of power. [More…]
Power sometimes is used more nobly in the restraint of its exercise than in its exercise. [More…]
I feel, a very strong argument to be raised that a regulation which purports to grant remuneration to a person for services which he has rendered before those regulations came into force has no power whatsoever. [More…]
If the Senate were to allow this motion to pass without exercising such power as it has to disallow the regulation, this would only encourage further action of this kind. [More…]
The power which the Minister has under section 9 is provided as follows: [More…]
1 imagine that that is a very useful power, albeit a very wide power, which the Minister should have. [More…]
The information which he disseminates must be ‘relating’ to health, but relating’ to health could give him wide power although I would think that there was some restriction upon his power under the aspect of either health or the prevention of disease. [More…]
While there may have been some doubts originally and while I claim that the publication which was distributed was an unauthorised publication, it is obvious from the discussion we have had today - I include in that the submissions of Senator McClelland which have been supported by honourable senators on the Government side and by members of the Australian Democratic Labor Party - that there is need for such an amendment because although there may not be power in the Act to spread political propaganda, that has been done possibly without authority. [More…]
The result was that anyone who wanted to criticise the existing fund structure found he was dealing with the power not only of the Government but also of these funds with their vast resources. [More…]
The DLP wants power of expression on the ABC. [More…]
I believe that this is a type of situation in which the Committee would be very unwise to confer the power of approval and also the power of exclusion of persons who are qualified in their profession to undertake services in respect of which patients would legitimately expect to receive benefits. [More…]
I do not think there should be a power of this nature which, without applying any criterion, is, on the face of it, offending against the rule of law in that discrimination is made between one dental practitioner and another - I repeat, without any standard being applied except the unqualified discretion of the DirectorGeneral. [More…]
I saw a difference between the argument he was putting and the argument Senator Willesee was putting that the Government should not put this power into the hands of the Director-General of Health. [More…]
While this Government remains in power, it appears that this will be the national health service. [More…]
I make this appeal tonight because I believe that, having regard to a letter I received from the Minister in Charge of Aboriginal Affairs only today, the Commonwealth has power to carry out a supervisory operation. [More…]
As a result of the 1967 referendum the Commonwealth has concurrent legislative power with the States regarding Aborigines. [More…]
I contend that if the Commonwealth has those powers it has power to ensure that the people on Moa or Banks Island receive the justice to which they are rightly entitled. [More…]
I repeat that the Minister says that the Commonwealth has the power to bring down legislation to invalidate State laws. [More…]
The indication in this letter from the Minister, Mr Wentworth, to Senator Keeffe is that the Federal Government has the power to do so. [More…]
The Commission has power to control the operations of any storage on the River Murray. [More…]
We suggest that this is an arbitrary power that at present is vested in the Minister and that there should be provision in the Act, when the Minister determines such a condition, giving the right of appeal to the worker against the Minister’s arbitrary determination. [More…]
), to which the proposed amendment 8 (b) relates, gives the Director-General the power to make a provisional payment of Commonwealth benefit in those cases where it is possible that there will be, although the contributor has not established his entitlement to, payment of compensation in third party insurance or workers compensation cases. [More…]
Paragraph (c) refers to the power of the Minister for Health to determine how much of a payment made in settlement of a cl’aim under workers’ compensation or third party insurance is attributable to medical expenses. [More…]
If it is a lump sum payment under the sections which we are considering the Minister has the power to say that a certain proportion of that shall be applicable to medical expenses. [More…]
The section of the Constitution that permits the provision of health benefits of this kind says that the Parliament shall have power to make laws for: [More…]
The second point on which I seek advice - and this concerns the proposed new sections 29e and 29d - is whether it is the effect of the legislation, as she and her advisers understand it, and whether it is the intention of the Government, that the Director-General when advice is received from a Committee shall act in accordance with that advice,’ or whether there is still some residual power whereby the DirectorGeneral might ignore or not accept the advice of a Committee offered in determining whether a person is a specialist or consultant physician in a particular specialty. [More…]
They have been given very great power to determine matters which affect the rights of other people, which affect the benefits which other people might get, which affect the professional standing even of those in the medical field. [More…]
It seems to me in my rather lay agricultural mind that if the power exists at the present moment for determinations to be made at the instigation of either party there is no need to impose a statutory obligation on either party to come to determination except by mutual interest. [More…]
It will have no power to participate in a development except where its assistance is sought. [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…]
I only raise the query because it does not appear to me that in the part of the Act in respect of which this amendment is being put forward there is any power specifically to prescribe what these rates or allowances are. [More…]
Senator Dame ANNABELLE RANKIN (Queensland - Minister for Housing) [5.17] - Section 69 of the principal Act provides the power for the making of regulations for the registration of organisations. [More…]
The use of this power is at present discretionary and to substitute the word ‘shall’ for the word ‘may’ as proposed in the amendment would make it obligatory for the regulations to be made. [More…]
That empowers the Minister to be the determining authority in regard to terms and conditions. [More…]
Why should the Minister have the power to determine the terms and conditions when we do not establish the criteria as to the terms and conditions? [More…]
In situations in which the Minister is given power to act under the existing legislation, his action will be subject to public scrutiny; the Parliament will have the right of scrutiny of it. [More…]
Senator McClelland’s amendments seek to rectify the situation by taking the power out of the hands of the Committee and placing the matter under public scrutiny. [More…]
I believe that the power that is contained specifically in sub-section (6.) [More…]
Of course, it is a power that depends upon a recommendation coming from the Registration Committee. [More…]
I dislike the whole scope of the power which is contained in section 73 of the principal Act. [More…]
would be ineffective to confer the power which is is obviously the intention of the proposers of the amendment to confer. [More…]
1 should be grateful if the Minister would indicate whether the view she expressed is that the amendment would nullify the power which is sought to be conferred. [More…]
1 was merely pointing out that if this principle, which is implicit in the amendment, were written into this statute, it would have the effect of unjustifiably frustrating the legitimate use of ministerial power in the administration of departments and statutes. [More…]
1 would not like anyone to think that 1 am not as jealous of the exercise of discretionary powers in statutes as any other honourable senator, or that 1 am less solicitous of individual or group rights. [More…]
1 would not like to see this Bill, when it becomes law in whatever form it ultimately takes, inhibited too much by the application of the regulatory power. [More…]
Later on, if we want to tighten the field or narrow the scope of the legislation, we can introduce a regulation, but in the early stages 1 think there is a good case for not being too severe in imposing regulatory power which, after all, has to be descriptive. [More…]
Even in my experience I could think of hundreds of areas in which there would be great difficulty in the early stages in doing it by regulatory power. [More…]
It refers only to the question of the registration of an organisation, and to the power of a Minister to grant or to refuse a registration without any criteria being laid down at all. [More…]
If the organisation to which I may belong applies for registration under the Act, it is in the Minister’s power to say whether he will grant that registration. [More…]
What the amendment seeks to do is to write into the legislation the terms on which the Minister has he power to refuse a registration. [More…]
“The whole question in dealing with this resolution lo impose restrictions, to revoke a licence, to grant a licence or to withhold a licence is whether Parliament should have that power - whether it should be done by regulation which Parliament has a right to disallow - or whether the Minister should have exclusive right lo permit an organisation lo operate or to deny it that right. [More…]
First I remind him that it is not the Minister unguided who has the power. [More…]
Bui if we want regulations and we say that the terms and conditions that the Minister may impose shall be as prescribed - and we prescribe them - unless we have the power of discrimination expressed in the statute the terms and conditions would have to be applicable to all organisations. [More…]
The committee then reports to the Minister and the Minister, under what the Government proposes, is then given a power to grant, subject to such terms and conditions, if any. [More…]
On the other hand the Minister is given the power to refuse the application. [More…]
The Committee considers that this policy has not been sufficient, and believes that it would be desirable, whenever necessary, to exercise the power of suspension and to withdraw from any suspended organisation the. [More…]
By the exercise of such a power, strong pressure would be applied to all organisations to conform to terms and conditions of registration, as dissatisfied contributors would be able to transfer to funds of their choice without any restriction as to receipt of benefits. [More…]
The Department was reluctant to use the ultimate power of suspension or cancellation. [More…]
From the outside we can be critical, perhaps, and say that the threat of the use of this power may have discouraged some of these funds from developing large reserves. [More…]
I suggest that the people who should exercise their power properly are the Department and the Minister, and not necessarily the Parliament. [More…]
We suggest that where the word ‘may’ appears in paragraphs (a) and (b) of proposed section 80a, there should he a mandatory power or a mandatory prescription. [More…]
[9.45] - These amendments are directed to the regulation making power in regard to the level of management expenses and would require regulations to be made prescribing the limits of management expenses and require the Minister to deduct from Commonwealth benefit reimbursements management expenses in excess of the prescribed level. [More…]
However, if these measures are not effective in reducing management expenses and do not achieve the desired result, the time will then be appropriate to employ the regulation making power of clause 30. [More…]
They realise that every day the aeroplanes are not operating could cost the operators millions of dollars and they realise that they possess industrial power. [More…]
The airline pilots are determined to use their industrial power. [More…]
This Committee, whatever it may be called, under the Act has not normally the power to say what drugs should be taken off the list. [More…]
Thai is the power to say what drugs shall be made available - and shall advise the Minister upon any other matter concerning the operation of this Part referred to it by the Minister. [More…]
This clause also provides that the Director-General has power to make his determinations irrespective of what the Committees recommend, as I think the Minister told me. [More…]
Unless there is some reason why the Director-General should have the power to overrule a recommendation of either a Specialist Recognition Advisory Committee or the Specialist Recognition Appeal Committee, the appropriate course should be to allow the decision of that Committee to stand. [More…]
I inform the honourable senator that il is usual for the power and responsibility of an executive act to rest with a Minister of the Crown or the permanent head of a department subject, of course, to the usual power of delegation. [More…]
Therefore, the bodies, especially the appeal body, which have power to determine whether the specialist qualifications of a member will be recognised - and I have no doubt that this recognition is as important in the medical sphere as recognition as a Queen’s Counsel is important in the legal sphere and recognition of some superior qualification is important in other spheres of life - have deliberately not been made independent. [More…]
The way in which the Bill before the Committee endeavours to cope with the problem is to provide for the setting up of a specialist recognition advisory committee and subsequently a specialist recognition appeal committee to be manned by members of the profession who will have power to make this determination. [More…]
Perhaps a Minister could, in a fit of irresponsibility, exercise such power of dismissal, which is unquestionably there. [More…]
We feel it would be a very poor sort of a person who had reason to suggest that a Minister would exercise this power of dismissal capriciously. [More…]
Of course, I admit that in the case of incompatibility of an officer with a particular Minister - where there is a clash of personalities - it probably would never get down to the stage where the Minister had to exercise his power of dismissal. [More…]
If people on this level find that they cannot work together, usually some compromise is reached without the Minister’s power being exercised. [More…]
It seems to me to be reasonable that the Minister should have some power. [More…]
The expression that a person is removable by the Minister for misconduct or incapacity is not an unusual phrase, lt is the safeguard which a Minister has in order to give to him the power to remove a person who for some medical reason becomes incapable of conducting the affairs of the Committee and is unable to resign or for some reason does not want to resign, lt is the means whereby the Minister can take action. [More…]
But it is a safeguard insofar as the power of a Minister to remove a person who is appointed for a particular term is limited to cases which are quite clear and acceptable as situations in which a person is removable. [More…]
They maintain that in order to prescribe glasses or other corrective visual appliances it is an inescapable and fundamental necessity to measure the power of vision. [More…]
They point out that all optometrical registration Acts in the various States recognise that the measuring power of vision is clearly defined at law as an act of optometry. [More…]
Has the Government given any consideration to the provision of satisfactory disposal arrangements for radioactive atomic waste from the power plant to be built at Jervis Bay? [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…]
1 notice in clause 26 of the Bill that the Board of the Corporation will have power to invest as it thinks fit. [More…]
This seems to be a fairly wide power. [More…]
There is, we believe, an amendment passed in the House of Representatives which requires the IDC to have regard to the authorities’ monetary policy, however, in section 9 of the Bill, it is stated that the Government will have no power of direcion over the Corporation. [More…]
Am I to understandthat this clause does not give the Corporation any power whatsoever over the policy of the company or the enterprise to which it subscribes? [More…]
Does this clause indicate that the Corporation will have no power to control the method by which the company operates or the price at which it sells and, therefore, the Corporation will not be able to control a situation where the company to which it subscribes sells at a price below the market price so that it can establish its profit overseas? [More…]
As I. understood the Minister, the answer he gave was that this provision is desirable because if the Corporationborrows money overseas it is necessary that the lender be assured in some way that the borrowing by the Corporation is within its charter or powers, andthat insome way this is required in order to give a business efficacy to the transaction. [More…]
As I understood the Minister, it is as if the Corporation could not borrow unless this provision were in the Bill.I know that that, on the face of it, sounds like an argumentof tremendous weight, but I suggest to him that it is possibly not as weighty as it would appear to be, because the Corporation is a corporation which is set up by statute and which in clause 7 is given the widest possible powers to do anything that it considers necessary or convenient to be done for the performance of its functions. [More…]
In other words, it is said that in some way the Corporation is being asked to do things which constitutionally it cannot do because constitutionally the Commonwealth cannot grant the power to such a corporation. [More…]
If that be a real or relevant consideration, it appears to me that neither the Bill nor any clause of it will make constitutional that which, as a matter of power, is unconstitutional. [More…]
If there should be overseas a lender who is sufficiently alive to what he may regard as problems of power, he will not be persuaded simply because, when he looks at the legislation, he sees a provision which says that a contract will not be invalidated. [More…]
He will be concerned as to whether the Corporation is acting within constitutional power, and on that question he will rely upon his lawyers and not upon what appears in the legislation. [More…]
I say that this is the relevant area because, if we consider it purely from the viewpoint of the legislation and assume that the legislation is completely valid, clause 7 gives the widest possible power which would justify what the Corporation is proposing to do. [More…]
Accepting the Minister’s explanation of it, if it is designed to validate a contract that may be entered inco outside power, that to me fortifies or emphasises the point I made originally. [More…]
If its purpose is to validate something that may be outside the powers granted to the Corporation by this clause, it obviously means that those powers are being overridden, and that is the validating effect that sub-clause (7.) [More…]
am not one of those who believe that this Corporation might serve the purposes of the Labor Party when it comes to power. [More…]
I am of the opinion that such a wide power as that given in this clause will permit the Corporation, without any reference whatsoever to the Parliament, to use moneys provided by the Parliament at its own discretion. [More…]
I consider the giving lo a corporation of such power as is given in this clause to be very reprehensible. [More…]
One of the things for which honourable senators have fought for some time and have brought to the attention of the Parliament is the necessity to get as much power as possible over expenditure in the hands of the Parliament. [More…]
It depends upon the type of reactor which is installed at the proposed nuclear power station in New South Wales whether some of the Australian production of raw uranium or the derivatives of raw uranium can be used. [More…]
If ever the Opposition were to get into power with its planks and platforms it would be endeavouring to nationalise. [More…]
A Standing 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 ofthe matters which the Committee is empowered to consider. [More…]
A Standing Committee or any subcommittee shall 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…]
A Standing 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 of the matters which the Committee is empoweredto consider. [More…]
A Standing Committee or any subcommittee shall have power to send for and examine persons, papers and records,to move from place lo place, and to meet and transact business in public or private session and notwithstanding any prorogation of the Parliament. [More…]
There is not a grant of any more power to the standing committees. [More…]
Every power that a standing committee would have, that is, the power to call’ witnesses, the power to call for documents and the power to do any of these things, all of these powers reside in the Senate and in the Committees of the Senate but because of our numbers it would be cumbrous to do that. [More…]
The legislative power is vested in us. [More…]
It is incumbent upon the Senate to do everything in its power to see that committees which are set up have the backing of competent and sufficient staff. [More…]
This committee system has wide powers. [More…]
Their chairmen in particular have great degrees of autonomy, power and importance. [More…]
The committees are sometimes described as - and 1 think this is fairly accurate - ‘little legislatures with powerful chairmen? [More…]
Our system is a parliamentary system which is essentially a Cabinet system with Ministers and leaders selected from the elected representatives of the people, in the United States the committee system has been going for a long lime and over a period of years the committees multiplied to such an extent that a few years ago a legislature reorganisation Act which reduced the number of Senate committees from 33 to 15 and the number of House committees from 48 to 19 was introduced because the system had reached the stage at which the com.mittees were usurping the power and the right of Congress and of the Senate, which comprised elected people who were entrusted to carry out particular duties within the framework of the established congressional system. [More…]
Has the Leader of the Government in the Senate seen reports of statements made by a nuclear expert, Mr H. J. de Bruin, a former principal research scientist with the Australian Atomic Energy Commission, to the effect that the Jervis Bay nuclear power station could not be justified on economic grounds? [More…]
Has consideration been given to finding ways of solving the problems which occurred at the Turkey Point power plant off Miami, Florida? [More…]
Then clause 21 of the Bill deals with the power of the Corporation concerning the making of loans, on such terms and conditions as the Corporation thinks fit, to producers of Australian films, to the guaranteeing of repayments of loans and matters of that nature. [More…]
That power is enormously wide in its import. [More…]
It is as wide ranging as any power given to a Minister today. [More…]
I draw the attention of the Senate to the fact that it is not those things ‘as are conducive’ but it is those things ‘as the Minister thinks conducive’ which make the power even wider. [More…]
There is a power of delegation by the Minister to the Board, which is exercised simply by an instrument in writing. [More…]
This may amount to the conferring upon the Board of the wide powers which the Minister has. [More…]
to exercise any power that it is authorised tinder section 7 of this Act to exercise; and [More…]
When one considers clause 6 of the Bill, the power given to the Minister is tremendously wide. [More…]
In effect, it gives to the Minister a power almost as great, if not as great, as the whole of the Commonwealth’s power with respect to weights and measures contained in section 51 (15.) [More…]
If it does, what power does it give to the Minister in those circumstances to direct courses of teaching in State schools? [More…]
What power does it give in the general field of education to determine how this object shall be attained? [More…]
It appears to me that there is no limit to the steps which may be taken, the arrangements which may be made and the agreements which may bc entered into, lt also imposes powers which very directly enter into the field of State laws. [More…]
I mention this because it is a further example of the width of power given, and apparently this is a power given under no parliamentary restraint whatever. [More…]
Having regard to the power which has been given, I believe that the whole of the changeover to the metric system throughout this country could be based on one clause only in this Bill, and that is clause 6. [More…]
lt could all be done by virtue of the power conferred by clause 6. [More…]
It is that width of power which I feel ought to command attention and some consideration by the Senate. [More…]
I earlier said that the power which is given is even wider, lt is a power to enable the Minister to enter into all the arrangements and agreements and to do such things as he thinks are conducive. [More…]
Possibly it is an effective way for the Minister to exercise this power, but I draw attention to the fact that it does have this extra width. [More…]
A lawyer might doubt how a challenge to an Act would fare in the High Court, but on a matter of legislation it is a discretionary power of enormous potential. [More…]
Professor Sawer wrote, under the heading Getting Around The Constitution’, that so often conditions will be found - and he instances the conditions applicable in regard to the holding of shares in commercial television licences - which have no direct relationship to the power under which they are exercised. [More…]
Take for example the weights and measures power. [More…]
1 doubt whether the power would extend to a Commonwealth law which prohibited the sale of an article unless stamped with its true weight. [More…]
Accordingly, this legislation not only confers a wide power in terms of what is involved in weights and measures legislation, but also confers it upon the Minister. [More…]
It may be that these matters have been adverted to by the Government and that there are sound and prudent reasons why all this should be done, that acknowledgement is made of the width of the power but still it is thought to be justified. [More…]
In doing so, I should refer also to clause 7, which entitles the Minister to authorise the Board to carry out any of the powers granted to him under clause 6. [More…]
Clause 22 provides that the functions of the Board are, in addition to the making of recommendations to the Minister with regard to the exercise of his powers, to exercise any power delegated to it and to carry out such other functions related to the attainment of the object of this legislation as the Minister determines. [More…]
The Board has power to do ail things necessary or convenient lo be done in connection with, or as incidental lo, the performance of ils functions and, in particular, and without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the Board may engage persons lo advise the Board upon any mailer related lo the functions of the Board. [More…]
There can be no questioning the desirability of building a power house in the central Queensland region. [More…]
In the pas; 2 decades the Commonwealth has granted over S800m to the States for water conservation, irrigation and power. [More…]
Nothing has been given for power, despite the promise in 1949 by the then Leader of the Australian Country Party. [More…]
The Commonwealth is to lend $80m for the Gladstone power station. [More…]
Incidentally, the rate of interest is about the only fact that we have been given about the Gladstone power station. [More…]
I said how unwise it would be to allow these 2 gentlemen to have sole control over the negotiations for the construction of this power station and for the supply of power, lt is with considerable astonishment that I read in this morning’s Agc’, under the heading ‘Cabinet men get Comalco shares’, the following statement: h igh-rank ing politicians in 3 States - including nearly half the Queensland Cabinet - arc being allotted thousands of shares in the controversial Comalco Lui share issue. [More…]
I am questioning this matter only because we are to supply S80m for the construction of this power station, but we do not seem to be accepting any responsibility for the cost of the building, and we arc noi accepting any responsibility for thc price, at which power is lo be supplied. [More…]
I am afraid that Queensland consumers will subsidise the price of power, coming from this power station. [More…]
Government arranges a rate below cost by negotiation with the companies, and if this power house is tied in with the other power stations in Queensland, it is quite possible that the ordinary private consumers in Queensland will have to subsidise the operation of the Gladstone power station. [More…]
Now we see that half the Ministers of the Queensland Government, who are responsible for carrying out negotiations regarding the supply of power and the cost of power at the Gladstone power station, have accepted large parcels of shares. [More…]
I should be glad if you would confine your remarks now directly to the matter before the Senate, which is in direct reference to the Gladstone power station, without any irrelevant matter whatsoever. [More…]
The chief negotiator in the establishment of the power station was the Deputy Premier, Mr Chalk. [More…]
He was the chief negotiator not only with the Commonwealth for the loan of $80m but also with the companies which were about to use the power. [More…]
lt just so happens that we are talking about the negotiations in relation to the Gladstone power station and the companies which are likely to be using the power from it. [More…]
In view of the pathetic negotiating skill of the Queensland Government and its Ministers and because they have compromised themselves as I indicated earlier by accepting preferential treatment from Comalco, a firm with which they had lo negotiate for the supply of power from the Gladstone power station- [More…]
I believe the Commonwealth Government should demand a guarantee that the price these firms pay for the power covers the cost. [More…]
A similar situation exists with this power station. [More…]
I question the right pf 5 Ministers of the Queensland Government to accept preferential treatment from Comalco, one of the companies wilh which they have to deal in negotiating a price for the power supplied from this Gladstone power station. [More…]
The Commonwealth Government is supplying S80m towards the cost of the power station. [More…]
Comalco, one of the parties interested in obtaining power for an aluminium smelter- at Gladstone, managed to secure at Weipa from the Queensland Government the biggest and best bauxite lease in the world. [More…]
I say to the Commonwealth, which is making this loan of $SOm to the Queensland Government for the building of this power station, that it is’ suspected that power will be provided at below cost to the refinery and to Dow Chemicals. [More…]
While I welcome the expenditure of $80m on this power station and while I welcome the industrial development at Gladstone, I hope that that development not only will lead to further employment but that it will improve the facilities around Gladstone. [More…]
I welcome this power station and what it will mean to the people of Gladstone. [More…]
I conclude by saying that what I have said should made it clear that foreign investors and the Commonwealth Government will be the major beneficiaries from this power plant. [More…]
My aim has been to see that they do not have to pay subsidies to these foreign investors, that they have the chance to own at least some part of the industries which will be set up as a result of the establishment of the power house, that the pollution problems in the area are not worsened - which is another aspect - and to persuade the Commonwealth to be more generous in the assistance it gives to this project by having another look at the interest rates now and when future loans of this type are made to Queensland. [More…]
In future I think the Commonwealth Government ought to make money available to Queensland by way of grant - as it does to the other States, particularly in relation to the building of the nuclear power station at Jervis Bay. [More…]
There $135m is to be provided by grant to build the nuclear power station which will serve no useful purpose in the production of power. [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. [More…]
Mr Chalk has said already - and he must have some inside knowledge of the negotiations with the expert companies - that the power house is likely to be too small even before it is completed. [More…]
The power house must be designed in such a fashion that it can be added to and expanded easily. [More…]
With the construction of this power house we hope to catch up with that lag. [More…]
It has been made quite clear that the Federal help for the power house is not for ordinary expansion to supply domestic and industrial power that ordinarily applies to the normal expansion of power development in the various States. [More…]
The power must be produced at a low cost per unit - I do not suggest it will be produced at. [More…]
That will mean that the proposed power house will be interconnected with the Wide Bay, Callide and Ipswich power stations. [More…]
The State Electricity Commission of Queensland will fake over the generation of power in Queensland, leaving the regional Boards to handle the distribution. [More…]
The power house will put to use that coal which is not sold. [More…]
The power house will be able to purchase at a very low price the steaming coal which is on top of the coking coal for use in the power house and so keep down the cost of generation. [More…]
This will be affected bv the development of the power house. [More…]
These will lead to the development of electricity and cheap power. [More…]
There is a dam on the Callide Creek where the Callide power hour. [More…]
senator, because I was linking ii with the power-house and industrial development. [More…]
It will have a lot to do with the powerhouse because it will use electric power in a big way in farm development there. [More…]
I refer to low cost power, water and transport. [More…]
The response of me Commonwealth Government to the appeal by the Queensland Government for financial aid to enable it to carry out this project was nol received and granted without complete and thorough investigation as to the prospects of the establishment of further industries in the part of Queensland to bc served by the planned powerhouse. [More…]
That is logical and common sense because the expenditure of SI 55m on a power station that would serve only one industry could not be justified. [More…]
I believe that it is a little premature for Mr Chalk, the Deputy Premier, to be talking about the power station proving to be loo small, lt will be time enough for him to express that view when we have something more concrete with regard to the new industries, lt is stated that more details of these new industries cannot be disclosed at the present time and must be treated as confidential. [More…]
Queensland but lo Australia to have export ing industries established in Queensland and operating successfully with the aid of the cheap power that will be available to them. [More…]
The Commonwealth Government is assisting the State to build this power station which is primarily for that company’s benefit. [More…]
I hope that the power station will succeed in serving many new industries in that State, all of which, as exporting industries, will prove to be of great economic value not only to Queensland but also to Australia as a whole. [More…]
This legislation is a milestone in the development of industrial power in Queensland, particularly in that area of central Queensland in which this power station is to be situated. [More…]
One should take into consideration the fact that, it is believed that 60% of the power generated will bc used by the Comalco organisation and chemical industries in the area. [More…]
I do not think that any honourable senator would like to see the taxpayers of Australia providing a gift to this area of Queensland so that these industries can obtain power at a cheaper rate than anyone else can. [More…]
I was very pleased to note that the Prime Minister (Mr Gorton) has said that when the time comes and further money is required for the development of other power stations in Queensland or the extension of this power station a sympathetic hearing will be given. [More…]
They are, as Senator Gair has mentioned, water and power. [More…]
quantities of water and it has the fuel in the form of unlimited quantities of steaming coal to generate the power. [More…]
I anticipate that in the not too distant future the Queensland Government will again be approaching the Commonwealth Government for assistance to extend the power station at Collinsville so that the Greenvale nickel deposits can be processed at Townsville. [More…]
Cheap steaming coal could become available for Queensland power stations. [More…]
One provision in the agreement is that the Minister may require the companies to supply to the Government any steaming coal mined wilh the coking coal, for use in Stale power stations. [More…]
In addition, the Government may require the companies lo stockpile washery rejects and then supply them for use in power stations. [More…]
This means that we will be able 10 generate very cheap power in other paris of Queensland. [More…]
the moment of generating power in these areas. [More…]
I think 1 mentioned in this chamber a few months ago that the cost of generating power in western Queensland is something like 2.6c a unit. [More…]
The cost of generating electricity from the present power station in the Callide Valley is something over lc per unit, but it is envisaged that from the new power station at Gladstone we will be able to generate power at less than .5c per unit. [More…]
This power can be transmitted to our central western areas of Queensland which are now producing power at 2.6c per unit and it can be sold to them for about 1.3c per unit. [More…]
As a result the people of the area will benefit just as much as the big complexes will benefit by having cheaper industrial power. [More…]
We have to compete with other power stations and with other production units about the world if we want to be able to produce aluminium and sell it at a competitive price. [More…]
This is why power stations are so important, not only for the development of big industries and industrial complexes which are coming into the area but also for the benefit of people in the surrounding areas. [More…]
I cannot see that this should have a detrimental effect on the running of the power station or that organisations like Comalco should receive special treatment as a result. [More…]
However, at this stage I defy anybody to say which people in Queensland will derive benefit from this power station. [More…]
We have heard a lot of airy-fairy talk about who will use power from the station. [More…]
We have heard it suggested that the power house will have insufficient output to meet the requirements of that area in 10 years time. [More…]
But at this stage I am unaware of anything positive which has been put before the people of Australia to say who will be the users of this power. [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 Slate 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…]
Like other honourable senators I am not suggesting anything sinister in that allocation of those shares but 1 say, with respect, that it is a most indiscreet action for Cabinet Ministers who have the inside running with these measures - they know the prospects of this power house - to be dabbling in shares associated with this company. [More…]
As far as I know, no, but if members of the Labor Party did then I am most certain that they would not be privy to what has gone on in the negotiations between the Deputy Premier of Queensland and the overseas people who will use this power station. [More…]
Most certainly they would not be privy to the negotiations that have gone on between the Queensland Cabinet and Comalco, one of the principals in this power station scheme. [More…]
Let me conclude on the note that I hope that with all this talk of big business from the United Stales of America and other parts of the world establishing industries surrounding this power station those responsible for the power station will not forget the little people of Queensland. [More…]
Might I say that the $80m allocated for the Gladstone Power Station, as has been pointed out earlier by Senator Milliner, is the result of an election gimmick, a promise made during the last federal election campaign. [More…]
1 hope that that does not happen with the Gladstone power station. [More…]
They are worth quoting because they have a bearing, firstly, on the way in which the money was obtained and, secondly, on the companies which will benefit from the construction of the power station and what appear to be some other sinister happenings in the handing out of shares in the company. [More…]
the Commonwealth Government was prepared to provide a loan of up to S80m 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 . [More…]
I should like to remind .members of the Australian Country Party who were so eloquent in their praise of this Bill earlier tonight that the only people who will benefit from the supply of cheap power will be the industrial complexes based on Gladstone. [More…]
Nobody else will get cheap power as a result of the construction of this power station, and the Country Party Government in Queensland will ensure that other people will not receive cheap electricity because it is not interested in the little people who require domestic electricity. [More…]
1 am not prepared to quarrel with the fact that we a’e to obtain a power station by a political gimmick, but I exercise my right 10 criticise the circumstances in which the power station is being constructed. [More…]
The result of these negotiations is that the Queensland Government has satisfied the Commonwealth thai major export oriented industries are likely to be attracted to central Queensland through the provision of the low-cost power. [More…]
I shall now refer lo what I suppose will become known in the annals of history, in the pages of Hansard, and in the corridors of power in i h is country as the Comalco scandal. [More…]
The project before us is an electric power station. [More…]
That Minister will be helping to make decisions on the power station. [More…]
Whilst I said at the outset that I am not opposed to the building of the power station, I am opposed to some of the unhappy things which are moving in the shadows of this great construction job. [More…]
I hope that when development takes place the Commonwealth Government will be prepared to recognise Queensland as a State and will say: ‘Here is a development grant with which you can construct the power plants that you need, with which you can develop your State and with which you can keep your people living in Queensland’: If this amuses the Government’s advisers 1 am sorry about it. [More…]
Surely this investment in the Gladstone power station is an investment by Australia in the State of Queensland and therefore in the Commonwealth. [More…]
Another thought which occurs to me is that this is a thermal power station. [More…]
At a period of history when less fortunate nations are required to embark at great cost upon the generation of power from nuclear resources, from thermo-nuclear fusion, Australia and particularly Queensland does not find itself in that situation. [More…]
It has high concentrations of suitable coal in the Gladstone area, lt is an economic proposition to exploit this natural resource for the generation of power at a thermal generating station in Gladstone. [More…]
Those resources are vast and the economics of the extraction of coal and its treatment and application to power generation is at such a sound level that the possibilities of the extension, the duplication, the triplication and the quadruplication of this complex in the future is something which, quite logically and reasonably, can be foreseen. [More…]
This Bill concerns the provision of $80m for the establishment of a powerhouse estimated to cost about $150m. [More…]
The money to be provided under this legislation is for a major powerhouse but we do not know whether the Queensland Government has one customer to take the great quantity of power that will be available. [More…]
For years I have been told in Queensland that power could not be produced there at a rate cheap enough to attract the establishment of a smelter at Gladstone to produce the end product. [More…]
Yet it has been said that power could not be produced at a cost which would attract the establishment of a smelter for an aluminium industry. [More…]
Sir Henry Bolte, the Premier of Victoria, has available only brown coal deposits which are usually not as suitable as black coal for low cost production of power. [More…]
The Commonwealth Government could have made submissions to senators and members of the other place advising just how the power to be produced in enormous quantities by the projected powerhouse is to be utilised and who the customers are likely to bc. [More…]
This seems to bc a ridiculous situation and is condemnatory of the Queensland Government in that it has not been able to devise and establish a powerhouse to provide power under conditions which would attract a refinery for bauxite operations. [More…]
But we have not yet heard of 1 major customer which, with certainty, will utilise the power that is to be produced. [More…]
I suppose that this is the way to start: If we have the power the industry will come. [More…]
We are dealing with the Gladstone Power Station Agreement Bill, the purpose of which is to ratify the Commonwealth and State Agreement concerned. [More…]
If I may say so, it does them a great deal of credit because it seems to me, looking at these notes, that in this gigantic power station project there is the beginning of what one day may well be an immense surge of development. [More…]
What is needed in most of these cases of development is a solid base of power. [More…]
It had the solid base of power provided in the years of Yallourn, when those power supplies were available to attract industry. [More…]
If we are looking at Queensland’s potential for development we should look at the importance of a great and solid availability of reasonably priced power based upon a local fuel resource. [More…]
The export market developed on those fields, principally for coking coal, called for the removal of the overburden of steaming coal which, had we not had a fairly large power project for its utilisation, could well have been nol mu,h more valuable than ordinary country earth. [More…]
I note that throughout the exercise the Queensland Government - later wilh the help of the Commonwealth - has taken the advice of (he Snowy Mountains Authority people, lt is one of the most expert bodies in Australia on the handling of large power supplies. [More…]
About 54% of that is reserved for the development of industry on a reasonably priced power supply base, lt is reserved for use in central Queensland. [More…]
Out of the raw material - bauxite - the availability of steaming coal that otherwise might be surplus and a huge amount of power, can be produced no! [More…]
The one great power supply and the one great fundamental raw material concentrated in a big enough operation will produce all the second and third stages of activity in the general industrial development of the region. [More…]
So the annual sales value of one product alone will be more than the total cost of the power station. [More…]
The power station will be able to supply back-up power and to draw upon the other parts of the system. [More…]
For instance, i’ was asked who would build and operate [isis power station. [More…]
It was asked what the price of the power would be. [More…]
Senator Georges, who devoted quite a lot of time to this subject, wanted information about the charges which will be imposed on large scale industries for power. [More…]
Clause 3 of the agreement between the Commonwealth and Queensland provides that 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 have in the aggregate a total requirement of installed generating capacity of approximately 600 megawatts, which is about 57% of the proposed capacity of the said thermal station. [More…]
lt has been alleged that the charge to the major companies for power will be below cost and will involve a subsidy by Queensland consumers. [More…]
My understanding is that the analyses of the Stale Government and the Department of National Development show that a large scale power station will be a viable proposition and the tariff structure will be equitable, as it is in all of these large stations, to those who draw upon ils supply. [More…]
In order to do that it is necessary, as I said earlier, to have low cost power and low cost transport. [More…]
The Senate is debating the Gladstone Power Station Agreement Bill, lt seems to me that the Senate is in total agreement with the merit of this Bill, lt will be of great benefit to the people of Queensland and, with their skills, energies and resources, it will do a lot of good for the people of Australia and Australia’s export earning capacity. [More…]
I ask the Leader of the Government in the Senate: Is Australia a signatory to a United Nations Article which states, among other things, that the signatory nations shall do all in their power to promote energetic action which, by combining with legal and other practical measures, will make possible the abolition of all forms of racial discrimination? [More…]
Is the Government in receipt of any reports and/ or feasibility tests in respect of the economic potential of the proposed Jervis Bay power plant? [More…]
It contains the need for an examination of the various economic criteria for various forms of power production. [More…]
The power to regulate prices rests with the various State governments, although I understand that with the exception of South Australia, the States have chosen not to directly exercise that power. [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 regulationmaking 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 were made within the regulation-making power of the Statutes and that the payments made in accordance with the regulations before they were disallowed were validly made. [More…]
Accordingly, that is all we have power to amend at this time. [More…]
of section 23 by the amendment will be the power to determine terms and conditions as to leave and similar matters. [More…]
Humanity cannot find the power needed for progress while the disunity of racialism remains’. [More…]
It is entirely proper that one should notice that during the debate there has not been the slightest question as to the power and competence of this Parliament to establish an Australian Institute of Marine Science. [More…]
When the Wilson Government came io power in Great Britain the coffers were almost empty and very severe economic restrictions had to be imposed to try to get the country into a favourable balance of trade position. [More…]
The Senate, under the Constitution, has a clear power with regard to money Bills which come up from the House of Representatives, 1 would have thought that the time might well come when the Senate would wish to exercise that power; but I would have thought that if it ever were to exercise it it would only be under circumstances of the utmost urgency and importance. [More…]
I am not desirious of taking any power from the States. [More…]
I hope Government spokesmen will not try to claim that the Commonwealth has not the power to do as the motion requests. [More…]
Great power of approval is being put into the hands of the Director-General. [More…]
America’s economic power in the airline industry may have enabled it to negotiate a separate agreement without destroying its airlines. [More…]
I think ever since Magna Carta one of the great challenges has been the power of Parliament over the Executive, and this has been a constant battle. [More…]
It was a constant battle in the early days of the United Kingdom, when it was the power of the king and the power of Parliament. [More…]
1 always remember that in 1908, which is in reasonably modern times, Sir Winston Churchill referred - when he was out of office, I might add - to the challenge of the power of the Executive over the power of Parliament. [More…]
1 think we are all conscious of the need at all times to ensure that the power of Parliament is the supreme power. [More…]
I have the power of assessment. [More…]
I investigated these claims and assured the honourable member that the Commanding Officer had acted within his powers. [More…]
Quite obviously the resident RAAF officer had no power to anticipate a decision which could have been made either by a court martial or the airman’s Commanding Officer. [More…]
The Minister suggests in this regard: 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…]
Then the Government suggests that the nature of the power given to the Minister is such that the expense and delay of an appeal is not warranted. [More…]
In this instance we believe that, despite the claim of the Minister that the expense and delay of an appeal is not warranted, a matter of principle and elementary justice is involved here and that any person is entitled to appeal against an arbitrary decision of a Minister when that Minister has a discretionary power vested in him. [More…]
Then the Minister is given power to say that so much of this citizen’s money that he has received toy way of this settlement will be taken away from him. [More…]
It is a very serious power to impose in a Minister of the Commonwealth, for him to decide that whatever moneys have been paid to a person are in respect of medical expenses that are covered by this claim and attributable to that injury. [More…]
Then the Minister is given this great power to say whether the whole or a specified part of those moneys is recoverable by the Commonwealth. [More…]
of section 21 give a very serious power to the Minister to determine whether the whole or a part df the moneys are recoverable by the Commonwealth. [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 are not warranted. [More…]
It is clear that this is a power in respect of a settlement which was carried into effect by a formal determination made by the court. [More…]
How can it be said then in any case that the nature of the Minister’s power is such that the expense and delay of an appeal are not warranted? [More…]
of section 21 of the principal Act, which relates to the discretionary power of the DirectorGeneral to authorise the provisional payment of an amount of the Commonwealth benefit pending the determination of the action for compensation or damage or pending the settlement of the claim. [More…]
The Committee asked that the discretionary power be taken away from the Director-General and that he be made to authorise provisional payment of an amount of Commonwealth benefit. [More…]
In this situation the Minister will have discretionary power to determine whether the whole or a specified part of the payment in settlement of a claim for compensation or damage shall be regarded as being in respect of medical expenses. [More…]
The Minister under this provision then has discretionary power to determine the amount involved in the settlement relating to medical and hospital expenses. [More…]
I cannot see how any honourable senator opposite can contend that it is consistent with the rule of law in our community to do other than give a right of appeal to a citizen when the power is given to a Minister to make such a determination. [More…]
We press this amendment because section 35, as distinct from section 34, relates to the discretionary power of the Minister to terminate an agreement between the Department of Health and the medical practitioner as a result of a report by a medical committee of inquiry. [More…]
After investigation of the report the Minister has a discretionary power to reprimand the medical practitioner or immediately to terminate the agreement entered into between the medical practitioner and the Department. [More…]
But in section 35 where the Minister has such a discretionary power there is provision for an appeal after a report by a medical committee of inquiry. [More…]
We say simply that if there is provision for an appeal under section 35, which provides the Minister with a discretionary power to reprimand a medical practitioner ‘ or immediately to terminate any agreement that has been entered into with him, there should be a right of appeal under section 34 also as that section provides that the Minister may disallow in whole or in part a claim by a medical practitioner in respect of services performed under -the pensioner medical service. [More…]
But it is a very serious position if millions of dollars held by funds in reserves could be channelled into a particular company and a person who is a shareholder in that company - perhaps in a minor way - could see to it that the financial power of the fund is brought into that same company in such a way that it might be used to see that he is permitted to be a director in the fund, or something of that nature. [More…]
The general view which has been held and which is commonly stated in financial publications as being commonplace is that directors will use, rightly or wrongly - sometimes it may be rightly and perhaps sometimes wrongly - their power to direct funds in order to benefit themselves. [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 S700m on the scheme and some Si 00m 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. [More…]
The power stations have supplied valuable peak load power to the New South 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…]
The Minister for National Development shall have power to determine the total number of staff. [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 integrated wool selling complexes, any borrowings under this power will require the approval of the Minister for Primary Industry with the concurrent 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…]
The only comment I do make is that fisheries outside the territorial limits - I think that is the expression used - are expressly referred lo as being within the Commonwealth’s power under the Constitution. [More…]
Is there grave disquiet among senior officers of the Australian Atomic Energy Commission because of the implied curtailment of their entitlement to take part in public discussion on the critical question of the implications of nuclear power generation for Australia. [More…]
Is Australia a signatory to a United Nations Treaty which, in one Article, states that signatory nations ‘shall do all in our power to promote energetic action which, by combining legal and other practical measures, will make possible the abolition of all forms of racial discrimination’; if so, how does the Government reconcile agreement with this article with the growing trade wilh South Africa, which in 1969 reached a total of $65. [More…]
The reticulation of water and power are indispensable for any Slate or. [More…]
I said: “Outside of what I am required to do in relation to the provision of schools, hospitals and other community essentials, I spend the money on these items in this order - water, power and transport, including road transport. [More…]
Power is indispensable for the successful and efficient conduct of industry, whether it be primary or secondary. [More…]
This was demonstrated without doubt during the depression years when in response to a falling price for wheat the Australian wheat grower in 1931 planted, mostly with horse power, some 18 million acres of wheat - a figure that was equalled only in 1965, and then wilh tractor power. [More…]
This is a very serious indictment of any political party which exercises the balance of power in a Government as the Country Party does. [More…]
They have involved the Commonwealth Industrial Court’s injunction-making power and its power to punish for contempt. [More…]
The Da:rying Industry Levy Collection Bill gives the power for the collection of this levy, lt is necessary to set up a trust account to receive the moneys and also to disburse the moneys. [More…]
The power to hold this referendum, as and when determined by the Minister, is contained in the Dairying Industry Equalisation Legislation Referendum Bill. [More…]
I submit that the Senate has the power to make that decision unless it is decided in a higher court. [More…]
I claim that the Senate made its decision on the Committee’s report, which cast doubt upon the legality .of the regulation and offered the view that the matter went beyond the power of the Governor-General. [More…]
The Committee was concerned about the regulation making power in the statute. [More…]
In accordance with that regulation making power the Governor-General has always fixed by regulation the rates of pay of members of the Defence forces, but for the first time he has fixed, in these regulations, an allowance of $1,000 a year. [More…]
In the opinion of the Regulations and Ordinances Committee - this was the opinion of the Committee’s legal adviser and of legal members of the Committee who adopted their legal adviser’s opinion - it was very doubtful whether the Governor-General had power under the regulation to fix an allowance. [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 issued1 under the regulationmaking 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 Regulations and Ordinances Committee sought disallowance of the regulations for 2 reasons; firstly, that it was doubtful whether the Governor-General had power to make the regulations and, secondly, if the Governor-General did have that power the payment of the annual allowance in question was an innovation more appropriate to be dealt with by Parliament than by regulation. [More…]
Whether it can be said that the Senate upheld the Committee’s decision because it believed that this was not a legal exercise of power, or because it believed that this was a matter more appropriate to be dealt with by the Parliament, one does not know. [More…]
One can only interpret the Senate’s majority vote on the motion as an indication that it upheld the Committee’s point of view, namely, that it was very doubtful whether there was power for the Governor-General to make the alteration in question and, if there was such power, the alteration should have been made by the Parliament and not by regulation. [More…]
In his second reading speech the Minister said that the Government’s legal advisers were firmly of the opinion that power did exist for the Governor-General to mate such a regulation. [More…]
1 hold the opinion that the Senate in adopting the motion proposed on behalf of the Regulations and Ordinances Committee said in effect:’We believe that there must be some doubt about the power of the Governor-General to make the regulation’. [More…]
If the Senate’s interpretation is correct - that is, that it was not within the power of the Governor-General to make the regulation - all payments made to 16th April were illegal payments or payments made without justification; they were never authorised payments. [More…]
It is usurping the power of the Senate. [More…]
The other point was that it was doubtful whether the regulation was in accordance with the regulation making power conferred by the statute. [More…]
But nevertheless the view has been expressed by the Government’s legal advisers, and I certainly see real scope for argument on this issue, that the regulations are within power. [More…]
But if questions of whether regulations are or are not within power are to be the standards of judgment in the passing of legislation, it is imposing on the Senate standards which at subsequent times would become impossible of management. [More…]
A legislative power is needed to go on the market, but the conditions cannot be written into legislation in advance. [More…]
We urge that the ACTU Executive set up a composite committee based on the ACTU Congress decisions to review the whole of the compensation area and the social aspects affecting me loss of workers earning power. [More…]
They said that generally Australian costs of labour, installations, power and services are higher than those of overseas competitors. [More…]
The technological advice and know-how in providing water, irrigation, the reticulation of electric power and other engineering projects would be of immense value and assistance to the less developed countries of South Bast Asia. [More…]
The Snowy Mountains Authority was set up originally under Australian defence powers for one purpose. [More…]
That was to supply electric power. [More…]
Everyone who comes here wants, if at all possible, to sec the great scheme, a scheme where mighty rivers have been diverted to flow in the opposite direction, where tunnels have been cut through impassable mountains and where water has been harnessed both for power and for irrigation. [More…]
Rock bolting techniques were developed by the laboratory staff, and the extensive use of rock bolts in tunnels and underground power stations reduced costs by hundreds of thousands of dollars without diminishing the safety factor. [More…]
The mayor and the officers of the Cooma Municipal Council have pointed out that the loss of such a large number of residents will have a multiplier effect on the nonAuthority section of the community because purchasing power will fall and employment opportunities will be reduced in proportion to the fall in expenditure in the district. [More…]
It has supplied very cheap peak load power to New South Wales and Victoria, in many cases avoiding the capital investment of standby plants. [More…]
in any other case - in relation to any matter with respect to which the Parliament has power to make laws. [More…]
There is no power- [More…]
It is not easy to see how in such a case he could perform this duty without dismissing his Ministers and finding others, and that power is manifestly one the exercise of which could not be reviewed by any authority but the sovereign. [More…]
I sense that unless the State of New South Wales is prepared to exercise a power which it could exercise in 1 of 2 ways it should be a matter for consideration by this Senate as to what course it ought to take to ensure that these constitutional provisions are observed. [More…]
Clause 21 gives the Corporation power to engage staff on any base determined by the Corporation but subject to the general oversight and approval of the Public Service Board. [More…]
This provision is already in the Snowy Mountains Hydroelectric Power Act. [More…]
The Minister has said that a provision of this nature is already in the Snowy Mountains Hydroelectric Power Act. [More…]
If one looks at the relevant provisions in the Snowy Mountains Hydroelectric Power Act and in the Bill before us one sees that that in the Bill before us is more restrictive than is that in the Act. [More…]
The Snowy Mountains Hydro-electric Power Act provides: [More…]
We have no option but to accept that the Board is the proper authority to have that borrowing power to carry out the tasks set out in the Bill. [More…]
The Government, in its wisdom, should do all in its power in framing the Budget to see that these youngsters get some justice. [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…]
I suppose that the most famous example of this doctrine concerns the treaty making power in the United States of America. [More…]
I call to mind that it was always held up as an indication of bad faith that no sooner had the conference adjourned than Dr Evatt said: ‘We have the power now. [More…]
When the Commonwealth took over the taxing powers from the States - that is, the whole of the income taxation power - and uniform taxation was introduced, I do not suppose there was any consideration whatever of whether there was uniformity in income taxation amongst the States. [More…]
The third fact was that under the High Court’s judgment it was quite clear that the Commonwealth had the constitutional power to impose this taxation whereas the States had not. [More…]
As the High Court said, the Commonwealth has the power to impose an excise, but the States are deliberately prevented from doing so. [More…]
The reason is that it was recognised right at the very beginning that if the Commonwealth had this power there should not be a duality of taxes on the same thing; that both the States and the Commonwealth should not be imposing excise duty. [More…]
As a retailer is expected to pay this tax on whatever he has collected, including the 25% sales tax that he has collected for the Commonwealth, and excise is charged on the amount relating to sales tax, would not that be a logical reason why, in the very beginning when the power to levy excise was given to the Commonwealth by the States, it was made mandatory that the States should not also collect excise? [More…]
For many years the Government has had the power to impose income tax, and the Labor Party is in agreement with this. [More…]
Section 51 (ii) of the Australian Constitution provides that the Parliament shall have power to make laws with respect to: [More…]
We need not try to picture ourselves as a great world power. [More…]
I often wonder how it has come about that we regard ourselves as a world power. [More…]
This is the section which will give the Commission power to do what 1 am talking about. [More…]
The Government is the power which sets the economic climate and if the Government, for example, decides to have stop and go economic policies or if it decides to bring about an escalation or a de-escalation of costs the people who get the worst end of the stick are the workers. [More…]
Proposed new section 32a seeks to give the Commission power in relation to the settlement of matters giving rise to conduct hindering the observance of an award. [More…]
The arbitration system has conferred a benefit also in that it has protected the small unions, which, in a system of collective bargaining, will always lack industrial power and are therefore at a serious disadvantage. [More…]
When in 1929 the Bruce-Page Government determined that it would do away wilh the system the Government at the time was very soundly defeated and the Australian Labor Party, which campaigned on the basis thai it would preserve the arbitration system, was returned to power. [More…]
Then in the 1930s we saw the rise in the trade union movement for the first lime of the power of the Australian Communist Party. [More…]
The Government accepts the idea of a free market in terms of commerce and industry, but when it comes to the most precious commodity of all - the sale of labour power - the Government entangles the Labor movement in a massive Act of Parliament. [More…]
With its knowledge that the power of collection still exists - there cannot be a nationwide stoppage even for 24 hours without some organisation being involved - there will be a continuous campaign of non-payment of fines from now on. [More…]
There were legitimate industrial grievances and the merits were on the side of the unions, but because of the existence of the bans clause together with the contempt power there was the opportunity for some employer organisations to go straight into court and obtain injunctions and then have fines imposed on the unions. [More…]
Some of the cases were quite disgraceful because of the abuse of these powers, and even the Government has come to realise that the law cannot stand as it is at present. [More…]
under what power could we collect these fines? [More…]
Apart from proceedings in the Industrial Court we also have proceedings before the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission and the Registrar: but peculiarly, even in those areas there is a power to order costs before the administrative bodies, the Commission and the Registrar. [More…]
The Industrial Court itself, under an interpretative power that is given to the Court in a certain situation, has adopted the practice of not making orders for costs at all, whatever the fate of the application. [More…]
Although the Commission has a power to award costs the fact is that it has fallen into disuse because by common consent, I think, the orders which used to be made were so trivial that no-one ever bothered about imposing them. [More…]
Section 126 provides the power to collect a penalty but the Registrar or inspector so empowered cannot collect the penalty if it is imposed under the provisions of the new section 32a of the Act. [More…]
They have only one commodity to offer, their labour power, and they are just as entitled to sell that commodity for the maximum amount that they can receive as the dairy farmer is to sell his pound of butter or the grocer his goods. [More…]
The trade unions could not exert their power as a movement without taking action. [More…]
While the Act slates that fines are still payable, everyone knows that payment will not be insisted upon, lt is realised that the solidarity of the trade union movement and its power are such that the unions are finished with the penal provisions of the Act. [More…]
The Department immediately telephoned the Australian Embassy in Athens and instructed officials there to interview Mr Vrettos at his hotel and to do all in their power to ensure that his civil rights were protected. [More…]
to bury A-Waste in salt mine’, which states that the American atomic Energy Commission has decided to bury its most radio-active atomic waste in a depository that will cost some $US45m and take as long as 5 years to build, has any consideration been given to the provision of satisfactory disposal arrangements at the power plant to be built at Jervis Bay; if so, will the Minister provide the Senate with detailed plans and a description of the disposal arrangements. [More…]
No decision can be made regarding the chemical processing of fuel from the Jervis Bay power station until after tenders have been assessed and a decision has been taken on the type of nuclear power reactor to be built at Jervis Bay. [More…]
The helicopters on order to which the honourable senator refers are required to improve the Services’ tactical mobility and fire power and battlefield surveillance capabilities. [More…]
What investigations have been made of the suitability of Australian uranium ores as sources for fuel elements in nuclear power station reactors. [More…]
Has the Australian Atomic Energy Commission foreshadowed the building of five further power stations after that proposed to be built at Jervis Bay: if so, will these be of the same designas that chosen for Jervis Bay. [More…]
Will the establishment of such reactors depend solely on their economic viability as power stations; if not, what other factors will be considered. [More…]
The Australian Atomic Energy Commission believes that afterthe Jervis Bay power station has been completed there will be a steady and increasing demand for nuclear stations. [More…]
The installation of later nuclear power stations will be a matter for the State electricity authorities, who will have their own criteria for selection, though they will no doubt be influenced by the experience gained from the Jervis Bay station. [More…]
What countries have constructed power stations fuelled by natural uranium. [More…]
The following countries have constructed power stations fuelled by natural uranium: Canada, West Germany, France, India, Pakistan, Sweden, the United Kingdom, Switzerland and Italy. [More…]
A power station of this type is being constructed in Argentina. [More…]
Sweden and the United Kingdom have stated that no further natural uranium fuelled power stations are planned for construction at present as part of their national nuclear programme. [More…]
and (2) The specifications for the proposed nuclear power station at Jervis Bay were prepared by officers of the Australian Atomic Energy Commission assisted by the Electricity Commission of New South Wales and in association with the Commission’s consultants, the Bechtel Pacific Corporation Ltd. [More…]
The depression we are experiencing at the moment is caused mainly by the inflation that has been allowed to continue over the period that this Government has been in power. [More…]
If an alternative government had been in power arrangements would have been made for longterm credits for these countries. [More…]
We hope that the full power of Government policy will be aimed in their direction. [More…]
The basis of the ALP policy is the retention of the Snowy Mountains Authority for investigation, design and construction of power and water projects. [More…]
This is, of course, a policy by a party not in power, and must be reviewed in that light, lt is nevertheless thoroughly welcome, since it is the most solid support northern development has yet been given by any parly, in power or out of it. [More…]
This Government was in power at the time. [More…]
I recall to mind that in the time of Chifly or Curtin - I forget which - a question concerning power to implement price control was placed before the Australian people and they very substantially rejected the proposition to vest the necessary power in the Commonwealth Government. [More…]
I regret that because of the changes in the voting power tonight, and presumably for a few days, the Government has decided to do this. [More…]
In view of the remarks made last night by the Chairman of the Australian Atomic Energy Commission, Sir Philip Baxter, to the Shoalhaven Progress Association on the possible nuclear power station at Jervis Bay, in which he used the works ‘if built’, can the Minister give an undertaking that this issue will be referred to Estimates Committee (D), having in mind the role of the Department of the Interior as custodian of the people’s land, to enable senators to obtain counter arguments to those of the Atomic Energy Commission from conservationists and scientists, since the proposal already has the tacit support of Mr Bissett, a former senior officer of the Atomic Energy Commission? [More…]
Preparations for the construction of the Commonwealth nuclear power station to be constructed at Jervis Bay are proceeding on schedule. [More…]
Will the Minister representing the Prime Minister consult with the Prime Minister with a view to negotiating with the Australian Broadcasting Commission and commercial television stations for the purpose of allowing spokesmen for the H million pensioners of various types to speak to the nation about the ridiculously cynical attitude of the Government in making a miserly adjustment of 50c a week or about 7c a day to pensions when at least $1.50 is required to hold the purchasing power of pensions at their existing inadequate level? [More…]
More recently, increasing attention has been given to the ceramic fuel, uranium dioxide, which has become the proven fuel for use in many present day nuclear power stations. [More…]
The result is to leave to the Board, without there being stated any objective standard, the power to select the requirements for transfer, select the subjects that satisfy those requirements, select the public examination and to set what conditions it thinks are necessary in order that a pass in those subjects will be treated by it as a pass. [More…]
The Committee’s concern is that the new regulation 112 gives the Public Service Board a complete discretionary power to determine requirements for transfer or promotion to the Third Division, to select the subjects and examinations that satisfy those requirements, and to determine what shall be treated asa pass in those examinations. [More…]
I refer to a recent occasion when the provisions of section 127 of the Defence Act was invoked, If that is the correct term to use, to give substance to an argument that the power under that Act to make regulations included the power to make regulations not only for salaries but also for allowances. [More…]
The Leader of the Government in the Senate (Senator Sir Kenneth Anderson) then indicated that he had advice to the effect that the power to make regulations as to salary also included the power to make regulations as to allowances payable to senior officers of the defence Services. [More…]
The Board’s documents made it clear that the head of power for regulation 112 is section 97(l)(e). [More…]
1 believe that the whole pattern with this regulation has been to take it out of politics and out of the statute and to give authority and a wide discretionary power to the Public Service Board. [More…]
All that has been done in this instance has been to transfer the discretionary power which appears in the Act in relation to appointments from outside the Service as distinct from appointments from within the Service. [More…]
That is the reason why there is a need for discretionary powers in relation to descriptions of qualifications. [More…]
Senator Devitt, who is the Acting Chairman of this Committee, has pointed out - and I do not challenge this fact - that the Regulations and Ordinances Committee has a long history in cases where it is not happy with something of saying that it believes there is too much discretion in a regulation or that in its judgment a certain power should be found in a statute. [More…]
A hiatus will arise if this regulation is disallowed because that ultimately must, as a matter of practical public administration, affect the determination of this body, whereas perhaps it is not right that k should be permitted to so affect the determination of this body, because after all the Senate has a power and a responsibility to disallow a regulation if it offends certain principles. [More…]
That discretion and that power should be able to be exercised in a condition of complete impartiality and quite divorced from the practical consequences which may arise if the regulation is, in a particular situation, disallowed. [More…]
The Committee has always held that where regulations confer- upon an authority a discretionary power affecting the rights of individuals, that authority should be bound by some criteria set out in the regulations in exercising its discretion. [More…]
The Committee accepted that where an authority is given a discretionary power affecting the rights of the individual, that authority should be bound by some criteria set out in the regulations in exercising its discretion. [More…]
Today we must determine whether the regulation in question confers upon an authority a discretionary power which affects the individual. [More…]
We must remember one thing: This proposed regulation 112 does not give power to transfer or promote. [More…]
It is said: ‘Although you have the power and you have the duty to act in accordance with your lights under the Acts Interpretation Act and in accordance with the principles that the Senate has established, you should not exercise the powers that have been conferred upon this chamber and you should not perform your duty because by doing so you will cause some confusion’. [More…]
In a case such as this, in which no difficulties can occur and it is simply a matter of carrying on under a revival of the old regulation, the Senate’s power ought to be exercised. [More…]
It means an erosion of a power which ought to be exercised in the interests of the public. [More…]
No excuse has been given for the enactment of this kind of objectionable regulation, and I think we ought not to hesitate to exercise the power and carry out the duty. [More…]
The Board has the power to select the requirements for transfer. [More…]
Tt has the power to select the subjects to satisfy the requirements; it has the power to select the public examination; and it has the power to set out what other conditions it thinks are necessary. [More…]
The Committee has always held that where regulations confer upon an authority a discretionary power affecting the rights of individuals, that authority should be bound by some criteria, set out in the regulations, in exercising its discretion. [More…]
According to Professor Titterton, the proposed nuclear power station to be erected at Jervis Bay is expected to be less dangerous than the usual turbo-operated generating station. [More…]
Does the Leader of the Government in the Senate acknowledge that any political decision by the Government which reduces the purchasing power of wages and salaries received by employees and consequently reduces their standards of living is a matter of concern to the trade union movement and is a matter upon which the unions are entitled to take action to protect their interests? [More…]
No decision has been made on the type of reactor to be purchased for the Jervis Bay Power Station. [More…]
The Government believes that the introduction of nuclear power into Australia is important and will be economic when they come into common use in Australia. [More…]
Did the Chairman of the Australian Atomic Energy Commission, in addressing a Liberal Speakers’ Conference in June 1969 state that Australia would spend$5,000m on nuclear power stations by the year 2000; if so, on what basis was the estimate of power needs made, and how was it costed. [More…]
He suggested that by the end of the century almost $5,000m might have been committed to the building of nuclear power stations and the associated industry in Australia. [More…]
This figure was estimated from the predicted growth of power requirements in Australia and the capital investment in nuclear power facilities overseas, and is in line with other estimates. [More…]
For economic reasons some uniformity in the types of reactors constructed for power generation in Australia is desirable, over moderate periods of time, but this does not necessarily mean adopting of the same identical type permanently. [More…]
Six people were seconded to the Atomic Energy of Canada Limited and the Ontario Hydro Electric Company of Canada to participate in the Canadian nuclear power programme to gain experience generally. [More…]
Have any studies been made of the likely extent of thermal and radioactive pollution in relation to different types of reactor which might be used in the Jervis Bay power station; if so, have any conclusions been reached, and would the Minister have them conveyed to the Senate. [More…]
As regards thermal effects, heat rejected from the turbine condensers of any power station, whether nuclear or conventional, has an effect which must be considered in the location of the plant. [More…]
Nevertheless as an added precaution detailed studies are being made of the ecology of the area so that a close watch can be maintained on any thermal and radioactive effects of theJervis Bay Nuclear Power Station on the environment. [More…]
Did the Government consider the possibility of building Australia’s first nuclear power station as a combined power/ desalination plant, located on the coast of a dry area, where both power and fresh water are in demand: if so, why was such a possibility rejected. [More…]
At this stage of development of the nuclear industry it is more economic to provide in dry coastal areas both power and water (including desalinated water) by conventional means. [More…]
It is theoretically possible to obtain both power and desalinated water from nuclear plants at prices competitive with conventional means but only when extraordinarily large plants are constructed. [More…]
Is the Government aware that the citizens of Melbourne are to be denied again electric power for healing, lighting and television and also to be denied again public transport facilities by reason of a strike called for tomorrow by a small group of selfish industrial dissidents? [More…]
Although Lieng stoutly insists that he apposes a coalition government (politicians are in gaol for just that transgression), it is clear that he believes the path to eventual settlement is through a government in which power is shared by both sides to the conflict. [More…]
The most repressive periods in history have occurred when public debate has been silenced by those who abused positions of political power. [More…]
They are more concerned with their own search for internal stability through changed tribal groupings and power balances within their own countries. [More…]
If one could rationalise Indian policy, it is opposed to any major power attempting to dominate the Indian Ocean area and is opposed to the provision of bases to any foreign power. [More…]
she is a global power and desires to act as a global power. [More…]
This is a fear shared with Russia by the Western powers. [More…]
He stated that a fear about security does exist and that it concerns an awakened and determined China, aspiring to achieve a super-power status. [More…]
The first is that history teaches us that a good proportion of British defence and diplomatic effort in India during the 19th century and the early part of the 20th century was devoted to containing Russian pressure southward when she, as a land power, was anxious to extend her influences by pressure from the land. [More…]
This move of naval forces is a new development in the extension of Russian power. [More…]
It does not matter who is in power; they will demand a little more economic justice. [More…]
I make no apology for my belief that the Arab powers would do a lot better if they tried to lift the standard of living of their people. [More…]
I acknowledge, as I think our present Minister does, that the United States and the Soviet Union realise that in this atomic age a big power battle is not worthwhile unless the 2 countries can be contained. [More…]
The emergence of Japan as a dominant power in the Pacific, with a rising standard of living and an extremely high military potential, is closely connected with its extremely low expenditure on war and military hardware. [More…]
In other words, about $1 a week was the level of erosion in the value of pensioners’ purchasing power. [More…]
That the Committee have power to send for persons, papers and records, to move from place to place, and to sit in open court or in private. [More…]
That the Committee have power to meet and transact business notwithstanding any prorogation of the Parliament. [More…]
I refer to the ministerial statement which he made on Tuesday this week and which he said might answer my question on the proposed nuclear power station at Jervis Bay. [More…]
Otherwise, by taking this course the Senate is depriving itself of the power to disallow a regulation if it is so minded. [More…]
1 strongly recommend to those who may have the power in this House that the whole question be taken up with the Standing Orders Committee. [More…]
If we recognise all this and if we recognise the increase of 5 per cent that has occurred over the 12 months in the consumer price index; the result of increasing pensions by some 3 per cent is that the pension has less purchasing power today than it had at the time of the Budget of 12 months ago. [More…]
The statement was made to us that when Sihanouk was in power more than 1,000 students and teachers were physically removed. [More…]
Whatever party may be in power or whatever issue may be in dispute, Parliament is here for the people and it is elected by the people. [More…]
I would point out that although there is great political instability in Latin America no matter who is in power there, whether it be a military junta or what honourable senators opposite would call a Left wing government, British and American investors are still investing their capital. [More…]
This Government and previous governments have known for years that the United Kingdom would join the EEC when a Conservative government was returned to power in that country. [More…]
Since this Government has been in power a lot of people have been used to increases in pensions and all sorts of handouts which the Government has been able to give because of the political climate it has created. [More…]
They have no bargaining power to use to induce the Government or the community to assist them in their cause. [More…]
Without in any way criticising either of the two great power blocs of the world let me say that I believe that any member of the Senate who saw, as I did, the way in which the United Nations operated would be unhappy with what was happening and would hope that those who represent the great nations of the world would come much closer together than they are at present. [More…]
As honourable senators will recall, a Labor government was in power at that time. [More…]
Indirect taxation also reduces the pensioners’ spending power. [More…]
Fifty cents will certainly have that effect on pensioners’ spending power - they have again been sacrificed by the Government. [More…]
I do not suggest that the Senate does not have the power to reject the Budget, but firm ALP tradition over the years, particularly in my home State of Victoria, has been that action to defeat the Budget in the upper House is uncalled for. [More…]
I remember occasions when the Australian Labor Party in my home State has taken the firmest of stands on the constitutional issue of whether the lower House has not the power to control money matters. [More…]
I emphasise that the Senate has the power. [More…]
When suggestions that that power should be interfered with have been made, the Senate has reacted very firmly. [More…]
But I and a lot of other people would want to know, where there is a proposition to put the ALP into power: Who is going to run Victoria and who is going to run New South Wales? [More…]
So I say to myself: ‘If there is a proposition, if there is a suggestion that the ALP should be put in power, where does it stand on defence and security? [More…]
Some time ago the States of Victoria and Western Australia essayed to secure additional revenue by the imposition of a tax which was subsequently held by the High Court to be beyond their constitutional power. [More…]
But the Department had the power to insist on this. [More…]
If the socialist government which is in power at the present moment wants to continue its socialism it should do this thing. [More…]
I imagine the Minister is referring to those people who are organising the Moratorium Campaign in protest against Australia’s involvement in Vietnam - 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 subsequent threat that that involves to the maintenance of law and order in this country. [More…]
I would hope that irrespective of whether the present Opposition or this Government is in power, the Federal Government always will decide, from the knowledge which it is able to obtain from various sources, who will be allowed into our household. [More…]
Senator Cavanagh says that if the Opposition were in power it would make certain that only visitors whose politics were right would be allowed into Australia. [More…]
He has an inherent discretionary power to grant visas and the exercise of that power is dependent upon what the Minister of the day, as a member of the Government of the day, regards as the national interest. [More…]
The power which the Minister for Immigration possesses is a power which is exercised - and I suspect it is exercised far more frequently - in the United Stales of Australia. [More…]
I say that if we accept as a necessary function or power of the government of the day that it should be able to say in particular cases ‘this person shall not enter this country’ then it appears to me that there must be occasions when there can be valid application of that power. [More…]
If we are to look at this matter objectively I cannot understand why the Labor Party tries to sustain the position that under no circumstances should that power be exercised. [More…]
I know that I referred a moment ago to the fact that that appeared to be the way the Labor Party was putting its case and it may be that some members of the Opposition would hold that view, but 1 think that, responsibly, they would have to accept that there is a need for some power to prevent entry capable of being exercised in particular cases. [More…]
What are the circumstances in which that power should be utilised? [More…]
I must say that after making some investigations, prompted by this case, I think it is unfortunate that the power of the Minister to determine whether or not a person is to come into Australia rests upon an inherently discretionary basis. [More…]
On that issue I agree with you but to my mind that does not alter the fact that a discretion is there and 1 would have thought that there must be a discretion in any statutory power which is granted, and there will be occasions on which that power should or should not be exercised. [More…]
I also think the record shows that outside of the marching and propagandising of their views and protests, Gregory and his group while marching did all in their power to maintain order. [More…]
The commission, therefore, has been given a very considerable degree of autonomy and the powers of the Minister are, generally speaking, limited to a power of approval on a relatively few matters of policy. [More…]
The Minister also has power to approve of freight rates charged by the commission; but it should be noted that the power is one of approval or disapproval only, and he has no power to initiate changes in the freights charged by the commission. [More…]
The Minister has one direct power, to which 1 should like to refer. [More…]
This power will enable the Minister to ensure that where they are necessary, developmental trades will be undertaken by the commission to areas where the commission would not normally provide services because they would nol be payable from a commercial point of view. [More…]
The net result has been to make production costs much more sensitive to variations in the price of power, raw materials and wages. [More…]
I believe that because of questions and answers on notice we tend to take away a little bit of the character, the force, ‘.he power and the quality of our question time. [More…]
Leader of the Government in the Senate: Is it not generally accepted that the Jervis Bay nuclear power station is intended to provide an opportunity to develop the skills necessary for the design of a nuclear deterrent? [More…]
If so, will the Government consider providing the cost from the defence funds and so free $130m for allocation to the States for legitimate power requirements? [More…]
He said in effect that the nuclear power station proposed for Jervis Bay is designed to provide an outlet for the skills of the people involved so that they will be able to ensure production of a nuclear deterrent. [More…]
To that extent we are operating against the brain drain from Australia, but the Jervis Bay proposal has the purpose of providing nuclear power. [More…]
Why was Australia’s first nuclear power station not located in South Australia feeding into the Victorian and South Australian grids. [More…]
In view of the statements made by Mr H. J. de Bruin, a nuclear expert and former Principal Research Scientist with the Australian Atomic Energy Commission to the effect that the establishment of the Jervis Bay nuclear power station could not be justified on economic grounds, and that as a pilot plant for the future nuclear development in Australia the $130m installation at Jervis Bay would be utterly extravagant, and in view of similar expressions of opinion which have been voiced against the economics of the power station and expounding the dangers of water and thermal pollution, will the Government delay acceptance of a tender until further expert investigation of all the possible contingencies has been undertaken. [More…]
Its reasons for the project are to gain experience in all phases of tendering, construction and commissioning of a nuclear power station; to encourage the commencement of a nuclear industry in Australia; and as a result to be in a better position to be able to adopt fast breeder reactors when they become available. [More…]
If this Government after 20 years in power can allow this right to overseas shipping lines which have a far greater influence on the welfare of primary industry than the sort of thing Senator Lillico was concerned about, then quite obviously I cannot see why he should be emphasising so much the activities of certain trade unions. [More…]
Almost without exception social service benefits expressed as a percentage of average earnings are lower now than when the present coalition parties came to power in 1949. [More…]
Honourable senators opposite like being in Opposition because they have the power to fiddle around with what we do in the Senate without accepting any outside responsibilities. [More…]
There are other factors such as inventiveness, overall resources, a past that created a balance of ability and resources, ingenuity and human skills, natural resources freely available, cheap power and fortunate geography. [More…]
They have not said what they would do in the present situation if the Australian Labor Party were in power. [More…]
It is clear that great difficulties confront primary industries irrespective of the political party in power. [More…]
Will the Government do all in its power to support the fruit canning interests in their efforts for removal of European Common Market tariffs against third countries as a reasonable compensation for the loss of present British preferences? [More…]
My question, which is addressed to the Minister representing the Minister for National Development, refers to a reported statement by the South Australian Leader of the Opposition, Mr Hall, that South Australia should be connected to the eastern States power grid rather than obtain an atomic reactor. [More…]
If not, what are the prospects of the Commonwealth initiating plans for the extension of the power grid system to South Australia? [More…]
I note the honourable senator’s reference to a statement by Mr Steele Hall, the Leader of the Opposition in South Australia, to the effect that that State would do better to connect its system to the eastern States grid system than to have its own atomic power station. [More…]
I cannot answer in detail, except to say that I think it is the practice throughout Australia now as far as possible to interconnect the whole system, no matter where the prime motive power comes from or how it is generated. [More…]
I think that, with increasing numbers of power generating plants and the increasingly high voltage lines that are coming up, in general terms there is something to be said, in the light of the overall wise use of resources, for the greatest interconnection that can be achieved, consistent with the most economic power stations which ipso facto tend to be the largest capacity stations. [More…]
Has the attention of the Leader of the Government in the Senate been drawn to a report in the London ‘Times’ of 15th September, which was republished in a Melbourne newspaper, that Russia will be the main naval power in the Indian Ocean within a few years? [More…]
Will) the proposed Nuclear Power Station at Murray’s Beach, in the Jervis Bay region of New South Wales, require a causeway to he built across to Bowen Island; if so, what action will the Australian Atomic Energy Commission take to stop the influx of rats tothe island which has a thriving penguin rookery where the penguins’ eggs would be a prime target for rate. [More…]
This activity must be seen against the general background of the USSR’s policies in the Middle East and Asia and its evident desire to extend its influence as a world power. [More…]
If that is their policy it’ is certainly not the Gov.ernment’s policy and it is not the policy which the people of Australia expect and recognise while this Government remains in power. [More…]
But the fact remains that the pensioners have always been the forgotten section of the people, irrespective of what political party has been in power. [More…]
Why is it that the pensioners are always the ones who are forgotten, irrespective of who is in power? [More…]
T appreciate that the States do have a limited residual revenue raising power but it is not capable of extension or flexibility as the requirements of a State government may demand. [More…]
I appreciate also that within the local government area there is a certain power of revenue raising but it is not of the character which is necessary to sustain the kinds of expenditure which local governments these days are contemplating. [More…]
In these circumstances, as I see the position, there is a need for the powers which are exercised by the Commonwealth Government and the powers which are exercised by the State governments to be considered wilh a view to determining whether they are the appropriate heads of power in 1970. [More…]
I would have thought that without anything else there could be at least an inquiry, an investigation in some depth, with a view to determining whether some of the powers of the States should not be properly transferred to the Commonwealth and. [More…]
indeed, whether some of the powers of the Commonwealth could not be properly exercised by the States. [More…]
Such activity as the Commonwealth has developed in this area, and such further activities as some want the Commonwealth to develop in this area, derive from the fact that there is a power to make financial grants to the States and, as a condition of those grants, there can be imposed a requirement as to bow the money is to be expended. [More…]
It is my view that the recognition of this country and the influence that it has been allowed to wield in the United Nations has been one of the main causes of the weakening of that organisation as a power for peace throughout the world and as a power for international co-operation. [More…]
In every institution and in every age when those with more power have met those with less power there has occurred a crisis of law and order. [More…]
At the present time I think the Minister for Primary Industry” is trying to do all in his power by way of debt restructuring. [More…]
Existing section 7 confers on the Minister power to erect lighthouses and other marine marks and allows him 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 must 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 deficiency of power that might otherwise have existed. [More…]
Despite all the talk in the world and no matter which party is in power, it will have to face up, in some degree or another, to the necessity for major defence votes for Australia in the context in which Australia finds herself. [More…]
The presence of Australian and British troops in that part of the world and the presence of Australian and British naval, forces in the Indian Ocean are both considered there as being a tremendous demonstration that a vacuum of power will not be permitted to . [More…]
powers, as is said in physics of ^ nature, abhor a vacuum. [More…]
We say to other powers who believe that nobody is interested to go in there that we are interested because we regard ourselves as part of this area and the security of this part of the world is part of our national concern. [More…]
The State power authority in Sweden proposed to erect 4 storage dams and 13 power plants along a river in northern Sweden. [More…]
1 suppose that Austrafia has to he with it scientifically and has to enter the nuclear power station club. [More…]
That recommendations should bc made for desirable Commonwealth action within the areas that are fully and indisputably within Commonwealth power and responsibility. [More…]
through a coalescence of Commonwealth power in the fields of taxation, defence, external affairs, meteorology, fisheries, quarantine, and other fields, sufficient legislative competence to lay down and enforce a national approach through Commonwealth legislation alone. [More…]
I believe that if the Commonwealth is placed in this position it has to grasp the nettle and in a referendum ask the people to give it the power to exercise complete control over air and water pollution in the Commonwealth. [More…]
If one State decides that it will not co-operate to the full, we have to take national action to ensure that we have the power to legislate to prevent pollution. [More…]
We must have an overriding power in this very important national field. [More…]
Therefore we closely examined what legislative and administrative steps the States were taking in order to handle, within the limits of their constitutional power and financial ability, the problem within the perimeter of the States concerned. [More…]
It can provide within constitutional power many services which will be available to the States not involving the exactions of legal discipline. [More…]
Those things may be done within constitutional power to provide services made available to the States. [More…]
I preface my question, which I. direct to the Leader of the Government in the Senate, by referring to the Press release last weekend under the authority of the Minister for National Development and the New South Wales Minister for Labour and Industry which announced agreement on the construction and operation of the proposed nuclear power station at Jervis Bay. [More…]
The amendment I am proposing will provide the necessary power to appoint additional boards if and where required. [More…]
In 1901 Sir John See led the Government of New South Wales, while Labor held the balance of power. [More…]
In 1909 the Deakin Government introduced the age pension in the Federal sphere because of the support of Labor, which held the balance of power. [More…]
On previous occasions 1 have said in this Parliament that as a former Secretary of the Federal Parliamentary Labor Party I have read the letters forwarded in 1909 by Alfred Deakin, then Prime Minister of the Commonwealth, to Mr J. C. Watson, Federal Leader of the Labor Party, pledging the introduction of the age pension for the support of the Labor Party which at that time had the balance of power. [More…]
In 1901 and 1909, in the New South Wales and Common wealth governments Labor held the balance of power and used it to ensure the introduction of the age pension. [More…]
As J have pointed out it was the Chifley Government which in 1946 held a referendum to determine whether the Commonwealth Parliament should have power to enter the field of social services. [More…]
The people of Australia should never forget that when John Curtin defeated the Fadden Government in 1941 and came into power he was concerned not only with the war effort but also with the unequal distribution of the national wealth, which caused him on 1st October 1941, in protest against the methods provided in the Budget for the raising of revenue, to move that the first item in the Estimates be reduced by 1. [More…]
If we take the present pension of $15.50 a week as being the real value today in purchasing power and look back only until 1966 we see that in January 1966 the pension was $12, and that in terms of today’s real purchasing power would equal $13.67, a good deal lower than the pensioner .has today. [More…]
In October 1966 the pension was $13, and that represents $14.50 in terms of today’s purchasing power. [More…]
In January 1968 when the present Prime Minister (Mr Gorton) came into office the pension was $13, and the purchasing power of that amount at that time was a little lower; it - was equivalent to $13.98 in terms of today’s purchasing power. [More…]
In October 1969 the pension rose to $15, which is equivalent to a purchasing power of $15.34 today. [More…]
Now the purchasing power has gone up to $15.50. [More…]
We hope they will get more, but their purchasing power has been restored. [More…]
Another government will be in power in the near future and a different approach must be made to social service entitlements. [More…]
I agree that it should have been done years ago, but do not forget that this Government has been in power for the last 20 years and it has not seen fit to do anything of that nature. [More…]
I should have thought that the distribution of the wealth of Australia in the fields in which the Commonwealth has power would be a proper function of the Commonwealth Government. [More…]
I should have thought that if the Commonwealth Government had power to regulate wages it would take the responsibility of deciding wage issues, but it has no power over wages. [More…]
The Commonwealth Government has power only to set up machinery for the settlement of interstate disputes. [More…]
What I am saying is that if the Commonwealth Government has the power to distribute the wealth of Australia I think it should exercise that power and accept the praise or wrath of the electors. [More…]
The Commonwealth Government does not have the power under the Constitution to control wages. [More…]
I have been concerned for a long time with the discretionary power of heads of departments when a social service gift is to be given or some payment is to be made. [More…]
This power is the concern of the Regulations and Ordinance Committee. [More…]
With the Regulations and Ordinance Committee moving to disallow the many discretionary powers which are given to the Executive, we have nearly eliminated this discretion from regulations and ordinances. [More…]
It may be that we should not complain about this if the operation of the Act has been in accordance with what Parliament decided or in accordance with what would be an entitlement if discretionary powers were not given to individuals. [More…]
However, if the recipient of a social services pension wishes to challenge the exercise of a discretion, although the court has power to act the opportunity is not present for the pensioner to take the matter before the court. [More…]
We must ensure that we do not give power to some individual to refuse to give them their entitlement. [More…]
The power is there for him to do that. [More…]
Pursuant to section 32b of the Snowy Mountains HydroElectric 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…]
Of course, the Act itself provides that the Director-General has power to go back to the date that the person concerned qualified for the benefit. [More…]
Parliament intended that he should exercise that power differently from the way in which he would exercise a power under section 68, which relates to the granting of a pension. [More…]
The Director-General has the power and there is no right of appeal. [More…]
He did not authorise payment from an earlier date, although he has power to do so. [More…]
I am against discretionary powers. [More…]
Powers should be spelt out in the legislation. [More…]
If we look first at sub-section 3 of proposed section 112B, we see that it gives the Director-General power to determine the date of commencement of supplementary allowances. [More…]
J was trying to point out that it was the intention of the learned Draftsman, and it becomes the intention of the Parliament when we adopt the Draftsman’s proposal, firstly, that this be a payment, without a claim, to those who qualify for it and, secondly, that power be given to the Director-General to make the payment retrospective to the time when the person first became entitled to the allowance. [More…]
The Act purposely gives the DirectorGeneral the power to pay the allowance retrospectively from the time when the pensioner qualified for it, but in certain cases the Director-General will not pay the allowance from a date before the time the claim was lodged. [More…]
Despite the fact that the former Minister had assured me that there was power to do this, another Minister subsequently replied - I think rightly - that there was no power in the legislation. [More…]
Sub-section (3) gives the Director-General power lo determine the date of commencement of supplementary assistance. [More…]
The Minister apparently is saying that after the first payment sub-section (3) gives the Director-General power to determine the date of the commencement of supplementary assistance. [More…]
This is the reason why great care must be taken when discretionary powers are given to the heads of departments. [More…]
I consider that in this case that power has been abused. [More…]
I do not like to be sarcastic, but it is 21 years since the present Opposition was in power. [More…]
Apart from my colleague, Senator O’Byrne, so few of its members were actually members of Parliament when the Opposition was in power that they have forgotten what is required to govern. [More…]
If Legacy can do it, if the Returned Services League Welfare Fund can do it, so can our Commonwealth public servants if they are given the power. [More…]
We say that the Government has power to act but is not doing so. [More…]
Any government vested with this power has a tremendous political advantage, and governments are most reluctant to surrender such an advantage but there is no reason why the recipients of social service benefits should be required to surrender their rights so that a government can maintain its position of advantage. [More…]
Senator Cavanagh also asked about the power to determine from a date prior to the determination. [More…]
There is no doubt that, no matter what political party is in power, repatriation is a matter of government policy I put a similar view this afternoon in relation to the other social services legislation. [More…]
Although he had recent figures available to show the percentage of increase that had or had not been made - and the general inference was that the increases were not great enough - Senator Bishop did not tell us the policy of the Labor Party in respect of repatriation when it was last in power, before it went out of office on 10th December 1949. [More…]
In view of a report in the London ‘Times’ of 15th September 1970, that the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics will soon be the main naval power in the Indian Ocean, will the Minister make a statement to Parliament on the degree of truth in the report, especially that section which alleges that there has been agreement with and support given to the USSR by the United States of America. [More…]
Its passage through the Senate was characterised by concern as to whether the Commonwealth was conceding a power which it was not warranted in conceding and as to whether the legislative and administrative scheme was designed lo secure the most effective utilisation of the off-shore petroleum resources. [More…]
This cannot be regarded as strictly inconsistent with the proper constitutional responsibilities’ of the Commonwealth and the Slates as the power always lies with the Parliaments of the Commonwealth and the Slates to reject or amend the legislation. [More…]
Would that doctrine govern the use of the armed forces under a Labor government if such a government ever came to power? [More…]
This is a clear and salutary power to be used summarily to prevent these offensive expressions being used. [More…]
Its switching problems had not even been solved, lt was known that low power could be carried successfully over long lines and that high power could be carried over short lines. [More…]
I consider that the Post Office has the means to protect the publishing industry because it has the power to refuse to handle postings made by local firms who take advantage of cheap overseas rates. [More…]
As a result, it has taken away from the administrators of the Post Office whatever power they would want to exercise in order to establish complete industrial harmony and to get some extra effort from the workers in the industry. [More…]
Consideration has been givento a proposal for a nuclear power station in South Eastern South Australia which would supply power to both the Victorian and South Australian Electricity systems. [More…]
Does the Minister have any power of direction in this matter, especially when Australian ship repair trades are desperately seeking work? [More…]
Studies made in 1969 suggested that nuclear power could be an important and economical supplement to our other sources of power in the late 1970s and thereafter, lt is known that the cost of energy from the Jervis Bay Plant in the initial stages of its production will be above the costs of the new large conventional stations operating in New South Wales. [More…]
The Government wishes Australia to obtain experience in ordering, commissioning and operating nuclear power stations and also wishes to assist in establishing a nuclear industry so that Australia will be in a favourable position to adopt fast breeder reactors when they become commercially available. [More…]
Overseas studies indicate that nuclear power stations with capacities of many thousands of megawatts would be necessary to obtain both cheap water and power. [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…]
This was where it was established that there was a case for tidal electric power generation. [More…]
The capacity of the tidal movement in that bay was sufficient to generate enough power to supply 4 States. [More…]
Fortunately the oil was safely transferred to another ship and the ‘Oceanic Grandeur’ was able to return to Singapore under its own power for repair. [More…]
It will be apparent to honourable senators from my second reading speech that the Government is drawing to its side additional constitutional powers. [More…]
The original Lighthouses Act was based upon the lighthouses, lightships, beacons and buoys power of the Commonwealth under the Constitution. [More…]
Because of its obligations under the International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea the Government is drawing to its side the external affairs power. [More…]
I do not know whether the lawyers will agree with me, but I imagine that this is a stronger power. [More…]
Quite a long explanation has been provided in relation to clause 6, which relates to the Government’s power to establish or alter lighthouses. [More…]
Great industrial development is taking place and, if honourable senators will recall, some time ago wa passed legislation to assist in the establishment of a major power station at Gladstone. [More…]
I suggest, Mr Acting Deputy President, that your attention be directed to this standing order which gives you power to stop continued irrelevance or tedious repetition, lt has been futile- to have to sit here and listen to the things which members of the Australian Labor Party have been saying, things which are’ not germane to the matter before the Senate but which are designed simply to give them time. [More…]
The Commonwealth has the power to make regulations to restrict the height of buildings or other structures on land adjacent to aerodromes not owned by the Commonwealth. [More…]
Powder compacts, powder puffs, power sprays, powder bowls, lipstick containers and perfume sprays are subject to the increased tax. [More…]
My doubts have been reinforced by replies to questions we of the Opposition have asked about the establishment of the Jervis Bay nuclear power station. [More…]
He said: ‘We believe that Australia will make increasing use of atomic power in the years ahead, and that the time for this nation to enter the atomic age has now arrived.’ [More…]
Why does it have no knowledge of what will happen about the establishment of the nuclear power station at Jervis Bay? [More…]
Such direct reception would require the use of satellites of very much higher transmitting power than has yet been developed and the use of augmented receivers. [More…]
Because of Australia’s geographical isolation 1 should think that one of the Government’s roles would be to do whatever is in ils power to reduce the difficulties involved in Australia communicating with other countries. [More…]
The fundamental fact is that purchasing power under the governments that have existed in the last 20 years in Australia has passed from a small area of taxpayers into- an area in which the mass of Australian citizens are now the owners of purchasing power. [More…]
Purchasing power is now in the hands of the mass of people. [More…]
My question is directed to the Leader of the Government in the Senate or, if it is more appropriate, the Minister representing the Minister for National Development, ls either Minister aware that an official statement has been made that waste from the Jervis Bay nuclear power station will be buried in a remote area of the Northern Territory? [More…]
Can the Minister indicate whether any progress is being made in getting governments other than the Tasmanian and South Australian Governments to refer power to enable the Commonwealth legislation to be more effective? [More…]
Electricity Supply Power Station at Alice Springs, Northern Territory. [More…]
But there is a doubt whether, as a matter of statutory construction, the Ordinance-making 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…]
The Government and its supporters have revealed that they are entirely absorbed in remaining on the benches of power. [More…]
We did this because we believed here was the power of decision making. [More…]
What a big laugh - we would indeed appreciate your assistance, because, in your position holding the balance of power in the senate, you have the power to force the government to increase pensions to a fair and livable level, or resign. [More…]
If the letter to which Senator Keeffe referred and to which I shall make reference later had any content of accuracy in it, it was when it stated that in this chamber the Democratic Labor Party was in a position of power. [More…]
The Commisioner of Taxation has therefore said that it was not within his power to give this information. [More…]
Senator Georges is in effect relying on an answer by the Treasurer (Mr Bury) to the effect that the Commissioner of Taxation does not have power to supply such information. [More…]
Immediate demands on the Commonwealth and State Governments to implement a short term plan to effect instant relief in fields most affected by the cost price squeeze, including Land Tax, Receipts Tax, Shire Rates, Consolidation of Rural Debt, Interest Rates, Freight and Transport Costs, Wool Compensation, Education, Improved Port Facilities and Power for Industry. [More…]
This kind of thing results in an invisible erosion of purchasing power. [More…]
Senator Sir KENNETH ANDERSONThe Government is constantly reviewing, within its power, marketing and promotional activities. [More…]
I have not been the power within his Party or my own Party as he has been in his Party, both from within and outside the Party. [More…]
I know the power that the Australian Democratic Labor Party has with this Government and I hope that on this occasion the Leader of the Government will not so neglect principles that he will submit to the pressure that the Democratic Labor Party might put on him to curtail debate on the Estimates. [More…]
which relates to the ordinance-making power. [More…]
However, there is a doubt whether - this is the origin of the amendment - as a matter of statutory construction, the ordinance making power conferred by section 12 of the Seat of Government . [More…]
The power at present given by section 12 is to make Ordinances ‘having the force of law in the Territory’. [More…]
This Bill provides for a power to make Ordinances ‘for the peace, order and good government of the Territory’. [More…]
Insofar as a law that is essential for the peace, order and good government of the Territory should apply to anyone in Australia over which the Government has control, whether at the time he is resident in the Australian Capital Territory or his office of administration is outside the Territory, and as it is an extension of the Government’s power over companies the Opposition could not oppose the legislation. [More…]
1 shall explain them to the Parliament because I think there is the possibility of abuse of such wide powers as we are giving to the Governor-General. [More…]
Normally I do not think Parliament would give to the Governor-General the power to make laws for the Territory without some enactment by the Parliament. [More…]
Without any debate or consideration in Parliament some activity of a citizen in a State could well be found to be outside the laws of the Commonwealth because this power has been given to the GovernorGeneral. [More…]
I am inclined to think that this power is far in excess of what the Parliament should give. [More…]
Therefore I suggest this power is too wide. [More…]
The GovernorGeneral already has that power within the Australian Capital Territory. [More…]
He has only to exercise that power and he can make an ordinance applicable to people living outside the Territory. [More…]
This wide power was handed over to the Executive Council. [More…]
Section 51 of the Constitution gives us ample power to introduce legislation without giving the Governor-General these extensive powers. [More…]
Under Section 51 (20) of the Constitution we have power over foreign, trading or financial corporations formed within the limits of the Commonwealth. [More…]
It is a well established proposition that a power to make laws having force within a geographical area will be limited to that geographical area. [More…]
Yet a power to make laws with respect to a wider area, even though the laws may be related to the geographical area, may apply to persons who have some nexus or connection with that geographical area. [More…]
It is well established that the States, under the Imperial Acts which established them, have power to make laws for the peace, order and good government of the States. [More…]
That power has been recognised on numerous occasions to enable laws to be made which operate in respect of actions, events and persons who may be outside the State. [More…]
For example it is appropriate that there should be power to pass criminal laws in relation to offences. [More…]
Senator Murphy indicated by way of interjection, nevertheless it is a real power which is not to be despised or ignored because of the time which may elapse before its full utility may be demonstrated. [More…]
Senator Greenwood observed that the States have the capacity to pass laws having extra-territorial effect, but that there are certain sensible limitations, i would rather think that the authority for that and for whatever the States do comes not from the Imperial law but from sections 106 and 107 of our Constitution, which preserve the State constitutions and the powers of the State parliaments. [More…]
It would be preferable for us to think in terms of the power deriving from our Constitution rather than elsewhere, but it amounts to the same thing. [More…]
Provisions similar to that about which misgivings and the abuses of much wider powers were expressed exist in the Northern Territory (Administration) Act, the Cocos (Keeling) Islands Act, Christmas Island Act and Norfolk Island Act. [More…]
The Senate has power to disallow any ordinance under section 12 and the Parliament has power to prevent any abuse. [More…]
Further, Parliament can oversee through its disallowance powers. [More…]
If I may say so, I thought he was very interesting, particularly on the proposition that we should make certain that in the Senate we have adequate power and that it is in no way weaker than State powers. [More…]
I believe that the Commonwealth would not have power to license builders on a national settle, but it could act in this way within its own territories and could seek to extend the licensing by agreement with the States. [More…]
Will she do everything in her power to broaden the pensioner health services to overcome such extenuating circumstances? [More…]
Can the Minister indicate whether any progress is being made in getting governments other than the Tasmanian and South Australian Governments to refer power to enable the Commonwealth legislation to be more effective? [More…]
The Federal Government has no constitutional power to impose price control. [More…]
Experts throughout the world do not seem to know why at this stage when we have tremendous surpluses of primary products we are unable to find markets for those products among the people who obviously need them but have not the international purchasing power to be able to buy them. [More…]
He is a most likeable man possessing a pleasant personality, intelligence and good power of expression. [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…]
I have raised with them some matters which may ultimately require supportng State legislation, such as giving 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…]
If, in the ordinary trend of history, we should find that the separate Bar should start to shrink away and that the amalgam should start to extend and to embrace all practitioners, then inevitably with that there will be an erosion of the significance and the power and, ultimately, the very existence of voluntary organisations that will represent any separate branch of the profession. [More…]
While the person who claims to have conscientious beliefs under the Act can make an application to the court regulation 32a seeks to extend that power to the Minister. [More…]
It was thought that it could not be claimed that by not applying this discretion it would unduly affect the rights and liberties of anyone in respect of whom the power to refer to court was not used. [More…]
at any rate, to give to the Minister a rather undesirable discretionary power but 1 do noi intend to labour that point, f do see that there are arguments which can be produced as to why the word may should be placed in a regulation which deals with such a complex set of circumstances, rather than the word shall. [More…]
This regulation gives to the Minister a power to refer to the Registrar cases of people who have not made an application claiming the exemption, and the Registrar then places the matter before the court There are 2 conditions upon which the [More…]
I claim it would be proper to deal with this matter by legislation if it were desirable that the Minister should have this power. [More…]
I have stated that it has not been disproved that the power could conflict with a person’s religious conscientious belief. [More…]
Therefore why does the Minister want this power? [More…]
Perhaps he did not want to send someone to gaol because of the power behind that person. [More…]
The purpose is so that he may operate his power to defer. [More…]
He would then under the exercise of a power of deferring be granting exemptions according to his determination. [More…]
That provision was prescribed so that their liability to serve would operate at any time before they were 30 years of age, to enable the Minister ‘ to exercise his power of deferment so as not to interrupt a post-graduate course regarded as of special value. [More…]
In respect of them, the Minister is enabled to exercise his power of deferment so that it will cease at about the age of 27 years or 28i years. [More…]
The whole purpose of that provision and the proceeding regulations is that the Minister will in respect of these classes have a more ample power of deferment. [More…]
I do not know whether the Commonwealth has the power to interfere. [More…]
The design of the aerial system requires several modifications before it is capable of carrying full power in the difficult climatic conditions of high humidity and high rainfall which are characteristic of the Darwin area. [More…]
Honourable senators 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…]
It will not be a single statutory authority and it will not have the power to acquire the wool, to appraise it and to market it. [More…]
Another factor is the power given to the Commission to dispose of its wool as it sees fit. [More…]
The Bill also provides that the Commission has power to manufacture wool up to a certain point, if it so desires. [More…]
In other words if a lot of I type of wool for which there is no demand at that time is coming on to the market the Commission has the power to withhold that wool until another sale and at the same time compensate the grower. [More…]
They come into competition with all the people in the cities for all the community services such as roads, power, water supplies, hospitals and schools that already exist in the centres they have left. [More…]
We hold the balance of power and proposals which come to this place from the Government can be carried only with our support. [More…]
The I million people who are now engaged directly or indirectly in rural pursuits will transfer to the metropolises which already are splitting at the seams because of their overpopulation and the inability of the municipal authorities to provide them with power, transport and all the other things that are necessary for the settlement of people in a metropolitan area or elsewhere. [More…]
Thirdly, the Commission will have the power to regulate the flow of wool on to the market in a sensible way. [More…]
This is an important and very specific power. [More…]
I refer next to the Commission’s power of purchase and disposal. [More…]
Equally important as the power to purchase is the power of disposal. [More…]
The Commission will have unrestricted power to dispose in every field - through the auction room or by direct negotiation or, should it deem it necessary, by processing and even manufacturing woollen cloth, either in our own country or perhaps in the factories of our neighbours to the north. [More…]
I suggest that the Commission’s broad sweep of power must involve it in a capacity and, 1 should imagine, a will to revitalise and change the nature and direction of wool promotion. [More…]
I believe that this broad sweep of power will involve the Commission in just this sort of activity in the field of promotion. [More…]
I believe that the Commission’s power over the direction of flow of the wool is among its most important features. [More…]
I refer again to the significance of the power of the Commission in relation to the purchase and disposal of wool. [More…]
Surely its power to purchase provides the teeth which enables it to put a floor in the auction price system. [More…]
Surely, the power of disposal will enable it to use a vast range of possibilities in its attempts to ever improve the methods of marketing this raw material. [More…]
The Commission also has power to sell woo) outside the auction system. [More…]
To my knowledge there is no other body in this Commonwealth that has been given that power and charged with that responsibility. [More…]
The Commission has power to sell wool other than by auction. [More…]
The Commission is empowered to purchase wool in 2 ways. [More…]
lt will be seen in the provisions of the Bill that the Government has bent over backwards to leave as much power and right with the grower as it possibly can in order to give the most effective protection and assistance to the grower. [More…]
Mr McEwen said that Country Party Ministers have more power in the Cabinet than they are entitled to have. [More…]
If I had that power I would ensure that the people whom I represented would not be wanting. [More…]
I very much regret that the Australian Wool Commission will not have power to negotiate directly in the matter of shipping rates. [More…]
This organisation either will have to obtain power to implement them or a complete rearrangement of the provisions of this legislation will be necessary. [More…]
Clause 21 sets out the Commission’s powers. [More…]
It states that the Commission has power to do a number of things - to inspect and appraise wool, to buy wool, to sell wool, to appoint agents, to make arrangements and agreements with persons, to obtain market intelligence, to operate a wool statistical service and to acquire and dispose of property or rights in respect of land or buildings. [More…]
The purpose of the clause is to put right at the forefront of the statute a statement of the objects of this Parliament so as to make the general Act and its objectives conform to the constitutional powers of this Parliament. [More…]
We have no power over the general manufacture of any product, and certainly no power over the general manufacture of wool within Australia. [More…]
But the Parliament has power in relation to trade and commerce between the States and overseas. [More…]
The purpose of clause 4 is to confine the objects of the Act to our constitutional power. [More…]
This arbitrary power may react against our being able to recruit to serve on the Commission the best types of men or those with the qualifications required by the legislation. [More…]
1 refer to the great scandal over the collapse of accident insurance companies in Australia, which commenced some few months ago and is continuing, and to the proposal that the Commonwealth should use its undoubted power over insurance to bring the accident insurance companies under the kind of strict supervision that the Commonwelath now exercises over life assurance companies. [More…]
The Commonwealth has no power to enact nation-wide legislation to deal with activity of this kind. [More…]
There has in fact been a continuing and substantial increase in the purchasing power of the average wage over recent years. [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 appropriate 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 power will extend no further than necessary for purposes of this kind: if the Commonwealth wishes to make other changes - for example, if it wishes to increase the penalties for assault or other crimes committed in Commonwealth places - it will have to do so by separate legislation. [More…]
Where a State makes an arrangement, its authorities will be given 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 will have power to administer the provisions if they so wish. [More…]
In effect, this is putting into the hands of the Minister the widest possible power without giving any redress to the person who is carrying on the business. [More…]
The Commission should be given all the power that is necessary to meet the difficulties that may arise in one case or another so that it can vary the price as frequently as necessary. [More…]
If the Government puts this power into the hands of one or two men it can forget all about the Commission. [More…]
He has the power to make special recommendations in special circumstances. [More…]
I ask the Minister representing the Minister for Shipping and Transport: Has the Government any power to consider or to control the anticipated increased costs of containerised shipping? [More…]
Has the Minister noted the discrepancy between firstly what appears in the Australian Labor Party’s platform, wherein it is stated that the Labor Party seeks a 35-hour week with progressive reductions to 30 hours, and also the power of the Parliament to fix industrial conditions; secondly, statements by the Leader of the Opposition, Mr Whitlam, and the new Vice-President of the Australian Labor Party, Mr Hawke, seeking a reduction in working hours; and thirdly, the statements by the Labor Party’s shadow Minister for Primary Industry, Dr Patterson, saying in effect that rural industry could not afford a reduction in hours? [More…]
Honourable senators will remember that, when we were considering this matter earlier, the Minister admitted that the Minister for Labour and National Service did have discretionary power. [More…]
I would like to know how the Minister uses his discretionary power. [More…]
This article states: lj) the general introductory note, the Mover of the Bill gives it die appearance of being a mere General revision’ of police powers, to ‘keep pace with developments’ and to ‘keep pace with change in the law’ in other countries. [More…]
No reference is made to the fact that the changes proposed in the law are great and fundamental, that they are not to be found in such severity In any country other than an overtly police state, that they are capable of the greatest possible abuse and of being used as arbitrary repression by means of the police power, and that the fundamental principle of ‘innocent until proven guilty’ is flagrantly abused. [More…]
The Public Order Bill seems to me to have been introduced in New Guinea because it was more easily introduced there than in Australia, although there have been signs that it was the desire not only of the Prime Minister (Mr Gorton) but also of the Attorney-General to establish law and order as a means of achieving a political end - that is, the maintenance of the power of the present Government. [More…]
I cannot see the justice in Administration officers in New Guinea having power to disband political meetings and declare them illegal without reference to the normal procedures of law as they exist on the mainland. [More…]
This new law will give the Administration the power to control or forbid meetings of the people. [More…]
This law gives the administration more power over every man and woman. [More…]
It gives them more power over the way we talk and think and over the clubs, parties and societies we belong lo. [More…]
The law gives the police power to control meetings and processions. [More…]
By the belief that this Government in some way can alter what is happening in the Territory, the Opposition is assuming a power which this Government yielded or conceded to the people of the Territory some time ago. [More…]
There is also an Administrator’s ‘ Executive Council which, under the Papua and New Guinea Act, has the power to take executive decisions which previously were taken by the Minister for External Territories. [More…]
There are some few exceptions in which power is reserved. [More…]
We are proceeding under tremendous difficulties and are endeavouring to bring a people to a stage where they can make their own decisions in as short a time as has ever been given to an administering power in the history of the Trusteeship. [More…]
The Ordinance places much power in the hands of law enforcement officers. [More…]
Honourable senators know that in any democratic society the power of law enforcement officers should be limited. [More…]
Their powers should not be based on expediency to make their work much easier. [More…]
This brings to my mind a situation in Port Moresby when police officers co-operated with customs officers and used the powers of the Department of Customs to raid houses in Port Moresby in areas to which the Customs Act did not apply in order to gain evidence which would lead to a conviction. [More…]
It is meant to limit the power of minorities to operate. [More…]
It is meant to limit the power of minorities which do not agree with government or administrative policy. [More…]
There is no control or conditions on this power, although again it is stated that he may act ‘if he is satisfied that it is undesirable in the interest of public order’. [More…]
It wants to force the Government to reconsider the Ordinance, lt is of no use the Minister saying that we have no power or that we should exercise no power over the House of Assembly. [More…]
The Government has power, through the Administrator, to disallow. [More…]
I would have thought thai because of the sharp criticism which arose from many directions the Government would have exercised its power at least to postpone the Ordinance until November as was one suggestion. [More…]
It is within our power and it is our right and our duty not to allow to pass into the legislation of this young emerging country laws which are contrary to basic human rights. [More…]
That a select committee of the Senate 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…]
When that project was abandoned the Australian Atomic Energy Commission and the Government moved quickly into the setting up of a nuclear power station at Jervis Bay in the Australian Capital Territory. [More…]
Since then a tremendous number of queries have been raised by a very large and powerful body of skilled people outside of the Australian Atomic Energy Commission. [More…]
Honourable senators will note that the motion which I have moved on behalf of the Opposition seeks an inquiry into and a report on the use of nuclear power. [More…]
The Opposition does not oppose the use of nuclear power. [More…]
Power from the Jervis Bay project will merely be fed into the New South Wales grid which is the biggest in Australia. [More…]
The Opposition seeks in the first place a determination of the projected power needs of the Commonwealth. [More…]
Professor Baxter, who is in charge of the Australian Atomic Energy Commission has said that probably in the next 30 years - before the turn of the century - $5,000m will be spent on the development of nuclear power in Australia, In fairness to him I should make it clear that this amount will be spent not only by the Commonwealth but also by industry in Australia on the development of nuclear power. [More…]
The first thing which the Opposition seeks is an inquiry which will determine the projected power needs of the Commonwealth. [More…]
The next thing it wants to know is the comparative advantage which will be derived from generating power in this way as against the other sources which are now being employed. [More…]
The Opposition also seeks an inquiry into the effects of the establishment of a nuclear power station upon the environment. [More…]
but we know very little about nuclear power. [More…]
The request lor amendment asks that a committee be appointed to inquire into the uses of nuclear power in relation to: administrative procedures and regulations adopted elsewhere to lessen any undesirable effects of the operation of such a station lo ensure the utmost protection of members of the public and the national interest; [More…]
The final matter into which the committee should inquire is: the desirability of establishing a nuclear power station at this time pending the outcome of further technological developments taking place elsewhere. [More…]
Firstly, the Government sees no need to have a select committee to inquire into the uses of nuclear power, as proposed by the honourable senator. [More…]
In most parts of Australia power generation is a function exercised by State governments through the various electricity generating authorities. [More…]
The State generating authorities are continually studying the projected power needs of each State. [More…]
Over the past few weeks information on Australia’s power needs has been given to the Parliament - specifically to Estimates Committee D. Detailed forecasts were given for Australia’s power needs for the next 30 years - to the year 2000. [More…]
This information included projected figures for installed nuclear power generating capacity. [More…]
In looking at the introduction of nuclear power into Australia we must take into account not only the relative economics of nuclear and other forms of energy, but also the impact that this new technology will have on our industrial development. [More…]
There is also to be considered the contribution that nuclear power can make to a reduction in pollution of the environment, particularly in pollution of the atmosphere by harmful smoke and dust and various gases, sulphur and nitrogen oxides. [More…]
The Government has taken all these factors into account in deciding in principle to establish Australia’s first nuclear power station. [More…]
The Government of New South Wales is ready and willing to co-operate with the Commonwealth in establishing the first nuclear power station on Commonwealth territory at Jervis Bay, and the Electricity Commission of New South Wales is to operate the station. [More…]
The introduction of nuclear power will bring abou! [More…]
The economics of a nuclear power station depend upon many factors, including the capital cost of the nuclear plant itself and the cost of the fuel used to operate the plant. [More…]
Australia is amongst the last 2 or 3 of the industrialised countries to introduce nuclear power. [More…]
The economic thermal power reactors can be made available practically immediately. [More…]
In this respect 1 mentioned earlier that nuclear power stations could be much more effective in restraining pollution of the atmosphere than some of the coal stations to which we have become accustomed. [More…]
The Minister for Civil Aviation (Senator Cotton) will no doubt recall that 1 have raised some questions with regard to safety measures to be adopted in the nuclear power station proposed to be erected at Jervis Bay. [More…]
in the replies I received it was fairly obvious that the Government thought I was concerned about the safety of personnel and the operating procedure followed at a nuclear power station of the very modern type proposed to be installed. [More…]
That is a power which is exercised in many areas of Queensland. [More…]
Thus while it may be true that the Queensland Full Court will take action against abuses of power by the administrators of the act it is highly unlikely that any Aborigine will bring before them a complaint. [More…]
With this went the power to declare under the act any of the children of assisted Aborigines if they hadnot attained or not apparently attained 17 years of age (S.19). [More…]
The wide scope of these powers is easily susceptible to misuse and gives to the manager almost absolute power over the actions of all on the reserve. [More…]
Section 34 gives the Director power to forcibly move an assisted Aborigine not living on a reserve onto any reserve in Queensland. [More…]
The Manager has the power to release the detained person at any time (R.70). [More…]
Furthermore, the Council is given the power and authority to make By-laws, such as ‘regulating and controlling peace (R.22), including setting maximum penalties which can be used in the Aboriginal Court (maximum of $40 and/or 14 days imprisonment). [More…]
Its power is defined as (a) bearing and determining complaints for offences against any By-Law or regulation and imposing penalties and (b) hearing and determining any action set out in “The Magistrates Court Act of 1921” in which the amount involved does not exceed two hundred dollars. [More…]
The power of the police is to ‘arrest and bring before an Aboriginal Court any assisted Aborigine who breaches the act or the regulations, or a ‘lawful command’ of the Manager. [More…]
The police also have the power to arrest any assisted person who is to be removed (S.34) by the order of the Director. [More…]
Abuses of this power are common. [More…]
The power to take control of the finances of an assisted Aborigine can be a powerful method of punishment. [More…]
In regardto Commonwealth jurisdiction to extend laws at least beyond territorial waters, either by the provisions of the Convention to which the Commonwealth is a party or by the use of the external affairs power, many learned people in Australia are. [More…]
But we do not have the general power and knowledge to manufacture the device. [More…]
So far as the Bill is concerned the Minister would have power to direct by notice that a particular detergent be used, if he thinks it necessary, but this power does not extend beyond action to be taken in relation to the ship or oil that is escaping from a ship. [More…]
For instance, in respect to power generation we have in the past had only one source although now we have two. [More…]
Basically that power source is derived from the Leigh Creek coal fields. [More…]
By very excellent application to mining and transport to the power houses at Port Augusta, this coal provides South Australia with power at rates which are indeed most comparable in cost with any power generated from beat sources in Australia. [More…]
But coal is a wasting asset and looking into the future it leads us in South Australia to feel that there is a very strong case - bearing in mind that we have no power source other than natural gas and the coal deposits to which 1 have referred - for South Australia to be given due consideration for the provision of a nuclear reactor to feed power into the State grids. [More…]
– I would like to see that power station erected in South Australia to ensure to us a source of energy for industry and domestic requirements and also for the desalination of water. [More…]
Power could be fed not only into our grids but also to users of power beyond our State. [More…]
In view of an official statement that waste front the proposed Jervis Bay Nuclear Power Station will be buried in a remote area of the Northern Territory and an unofficial rumour that it is to be buried in a remote area of North Queensland, will the Minister inform. [More…]
All of that has had and will have the effect of eroding the purchasing power of the pittance paid to pensioners. [More…]
The purchasing power of their savings has been eroded, yet the means test is still applied. [More…]
With the share market in a bad way and with the rural community’s purchasing power gravely diminished, is there not need for great care lest austerity get out of hand and lead to a lack of confidence, unemployment and depression? [More…]
What one will find in the platform is an indication that there will be a gradual abolition of the power of the Australian Government to veto the decisions of the House of Assembly and, set out in some detail, a tremendous number of provisions which an Australian Labor Party government would seek to enforce throughout the Territory. [More…]
This House directs the Select Committee On Constitutional Development to tour the entire Territory again seeking the true consensus of opinion of people of the Territory on vital issues, especially that of self government, before it tables any further reports of constitutional development in this House, and further that this tour should be undertaken early in 1971, and further (hat any future transfers of power or constitutional changes, whether requiring amendments to the Papua and New Guinea Act or not, will be unacceptable to the House unless such changes have been agreed to by a majority of members of this House. [More…]
Having heard the statement of the representative of the administering Power- [More…]
4 Invites the administering Power to co-operate fully with the visiting mission and to provide it with all the necessary facilities and assistance in the performance of its tasks. [More…]
I would ask the honourable senator to listen carefully to the next provision, which reads: 5 Calls upon the administering Power- [More…]
It further requested 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, and requested the Trusteeship Council and the Special Committee to continue to examine this question and to report thereon to the General Assembly at its Twenty-sixth Session. [More…]
I invite honourable senators to study the type of government in power there. [More…]
In obedience to the charter of the United Nations the Commonwealth Government is determined to pursue the path that it is pursuing at present and is determined that the 2i million to 2$ million people in Papua and New Guinea will -not become a quivering mass under the control of men who will seize power- and -they will seize power as men have seized power in Africa - and who will use the sanctions of armed police, security services and perhaps the soldiery to impose their will on the people. [More…]
So he is not prepared to hand over all power at the time of self government. [More…]
calls upon the administering power to take all necessary steps to ‘ transfer full powers in the executive’ and legislative branches of government to elected representatives of the people, in accordance with the freely expressed wishes of the peoples. [More…]
calls upon the administering Power to prescribe, in consultation with freely elected representatives of the people, a specific timetable for the free exercise by the people of Papua and the Trust Territory of New Guinea of their right to self determination and independence . [More…]
Every day that we stand astride Papua and New Guinea as a colonial power adds to the bank of ill will that is building up against us. [More…]
I believe that the report of the United Nations Mission will again stress the world view that Australia is acting as a colonial power in Papua and New Guinea. [More…]
Because of the present section 40 of the Act, which provides that the Commission may delegate its powers, except that of delegation itself, only to a Commissioner or the General Manager, administrative difficulties have arisen. [More…]
The Bill amends section 40 so that the Commission’s powers may be delegated to any person in the employ of the Commission. [More…]
This, however, does not affect the power to appoint permanent officers of the Commission, which still remains limited to a Commissioner or the General Manager. [More…]
I do not believe that all the power should reside’ in ‘the ‘Minister. [More…]
We can see from those documents the vast interlocking association between many sections of the muss media of Australia which are grappling for more power and for greater profits, lt is true that the one station for this area would become probably the third largest provincial station in the Commonwealth and it might well be true that this would attract greater revenue from national advertisers. [More…]
If this type of thing is allowed to develop the Broadcasting Control Board will, I suggest, become a mere paper tiger, powerless to do anything in the interests of television viewers. [More…]
Uranium is not only a valuable mineral, and the probable future source of much of the world’s future industrial power, it is also a material of strategic importance. [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…]
Power, and Geographic Branch arranges primarily through State, authorities for the recording of statistics on surface and underground water and produces maps showing the geographical location of this data, lt also produces an Atlas of Australian Resources and is active in the production of geographic maps showing the resources of particular regions. [More…]
The amendment dealing with the administration of the Australian Broadcasting Commission relate to the delegation powers of the Commission, and new financial and banking provisions, and repeal a section which limited compensation to a member of the Commission or to an officer or employee of the Commission to a mere $500 unless ministerial approval for a higher amount was authorised. [More…]
I think that the delegation powers regarding appointment of permanent officers could well be further extended than they have been by this legislation. [More…]
Section 41 of the Act authorises the Commission to delegate to a commissioner or to an officer of the Commission all or any powers of the Commission except the power to appoint officers of the Commission and, of course, to delegate the power of delegation itself. [More…]
I strongly suggest to the Government that in framing future amendments to this legislation it should have a closer look at this matter to see whether the power of delegation can be extended further. [More…]
That sort of thinking, if it is projected even 12 months ahead, will obviously bring about social difficulties which in turn will create more difficulties for whoever is in power at that time. [More…]
But for the Commonwealth Government., standing as it does on the edge of inflation, it is complete foolishness not to arm itself with the power lo impose price control to the extent considered necessary from time to time. [More…]
Even the fact that the Government had armed itself, wilh this power would aci as a deterrent to the business community. [More…]
The control of all of these things is within the Government’s power. [More…]
Surely the whole question of advertising could be looked at under the powers of the Commissioner of Taxation. [More…]
If the Government took the power to control credit and sent those people, who at present are lining up at hire purchase offices for loans on which they pay exorbitant rates of interest and hidden charges, and suffer the heartbreak of losing the goods if they get into trouble, back to the legitimate banking system it would be attacking high costs in Australia with no detriment to the legitimate business community. [More…]
The Government should arm itself with the necessary power to use as a threat - to have the power within its control. [More…]
If the Government does not believe in price control but believes in laissez faire and believes that there should not be any restrictions, it does not have to use the power but the fact is that it would be a tremendous deterrent to those people who are doing the things which are pushing up prices in Australia. [More…]
In an extreme inflationary period workers have jobs for which they are paid wages which have little or no purchasing power; so they are not that much better off. [More…]
The Wilberforce report gave increases of from 10 to 12 per cent to workers in the power industry in Britain. [More…]
Among other things, it was pointed out that the wages of electricians in the power industry were anything from 2 to 4 a week inferior to those paid hi manufacturing industries. [More…]
I know of no power in Australia to stop that flow-on. [More…]
At the moment there are some constitutional problems,, but the Prime Minister has stated clearly that if the Commonwealth is found not to have the constitutional power he is prepared to seek that power. [More…]
Before question time one day a rumour was running around Parliament House that the Government - a Labour government was in power at that time - was likely to impose an embargo on the shipment of rams from Australia. [More…]
.. We must recognise that it is within the power’ of the Government to do this thine by executive ‘ action. [More…]
a::government, 1 think Government has an .obligation to use its power. [More…]
The Government has not shown a contemptuous’ disregard for Parliament because it has acted as it is entitled to act under an Act of Parliament, passed by both Houses of the Parliament, in which it was given power to -make decisions. [More…]
In the newspaper report to which the Minister referred was Mr Dunstan reported as having stressed that the South Australian Government would not approve words in the amending agreement providing for the ending of the Chowilla proposal but, in relation to Chowilla, it would seek power to carry out the necessary works in terms of amendments which it had previously put to the other governments and parliaments involved, the amendments to be approved at some future time? [More…]
This is unlikely to be the case while this Government is in power. [More…]
As the Minister for Works (Senator Wright) would be well aware, the decision in the boilermakers’ case in 1953 makes it impossible at the moment for an administrative body to have any judicial power. [More…]
Hence the Board’s powers over licensees are either too great, that is, it can cancel a licence, or too little, that is, it can deliver a reprimand. [More…]
If the legal geniuses - or genii - were able to work out some system by which the Board, in the enforcement of its standards, had a moderate power to fine, with provision for appeal to the courts, I think its machinery provisions would be improved greatly. [More…]
Provision is made also for a change relating to the delegation of duty by the Commission, lt appears to me that there are some wide powers of delegation. [More…]
One which I question particularly is the delegation of power to any employee of the Commission. [More…]
I would imagine that the delegation of power could go from the Commission to perhaps an officer or some person in authority; but the wording here suggests (hat this delegation of power can now be made by instrument in writing under the common seal of the Commission to any person employed by the Commission. [More…]
If I were one of the great vested interests in this country which was determined not to see the Australian Labor Party in power and I were faced with the decision of where to make a donation to a political party prior to the Senate election I would not make it to the Australian Country Party because it was so discredited. [More…]
He implied that Greek seamen had been deserting only since the present regime came to power in Greece, or rather he felt that that was so in large measure. [More…]
First of all, let me tell the honourable senator that Greek seamen have been deserting in large numbers for many years - well before the present regime came to power in Greece in 1967. [More…]
The figures I have show that in 1963 there were 540 desertions, in 1964 there were 891, in 1965 there were 582, in 1966 there were 325, in 1967 there were 349 - I think that was the year in which the new regime came to power in Greece - in 1968 there were 323, in 1969 there were 464 and to 30th September 1970 there were 345. [More…]
Will it consider abandoning the Jervis Bay nuclear power station project at a saving of over $100m? [More…]
The financial regulations of all the Services empower the Minister of 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.- it is therefore necessary to validate those payments authorised between 1st April 1961 and 23rd September 1963. which involved any kind of retrospective payments. [More…]
the power to appoint officers of the Commission; and [More…]
this power of delegation. [More…]
During my speech on the second reading I mentioned that this power of delegation as now set out seems to indicate that the General Manager of the Australian Broadcasting Commission or the Commission itself must approve the permanent appointment of every person appointed to the Commission, be he a junior clerk or be she a junior stenographer. [More…]
I am saying that the proposed section gives power of delegation to officers of the Commission or to the Commission except in relation to the appointment of officers of the Commission and in relation to the power of delegation itself, lt would appear that under this provision the Commission, as a commission, or the General Manager of the Commission must approve every appointment to the Commission - be the appointment that of a junior clerk who has just left school and who has joined the Commission for the first time., a stenographer or any appointment of that nature. [More…]
Frankly, it would seem to me that this power of delegation could be extended further. [More…]
From a practical point of view, 1 cannot see any objection to that power of delegation relating to appointments being extended further. [More…]
the power to appoint officers of the Commisson; . [More…]
I mention that matter to suggest to the Government that that power of delegation perhaps could be extended further. [More…]
1 would suggest that the Commission, by virtue of its power of delegation, should indicate specifically to whoever is responsible for the 13 episodes, which I understand are to bc produced, that at least 6 should be written by Australian writers. [More…]
The Commission may, by writing under its seal, but subject to the approval of the Minister, delegate lo a Commissioner or to the general manager of the Commission all or any of the powers of the Commission under this Act. [More…]
lt appears to ‘me that the difficulty with the original section was that to obtain this delegation of power one had to obtain the approval of the Minister and that that delegation could take place only to a Commissioner or to the General Manager of the Commission. [More…]
(5.34) - Clause 7 of the Bill seeks to amend section 40 of the Act to provide, inter alia, that the Australian Broadcasting Commission may delegate any of its powers, except the power of delegation and the power to appoint permanent staff, to any person employed by the Commission. [More…]
The existing legislation limits the delegation of powers of the Commission to a Commissioner or the General Manager but this limitation has been found to be virtually unworkable in an organisation such as the Commission which is represented in all States of the Commonwealth. [More…]
The delegation of the power to appoint permanent staff is in the main limited to a Commissioner or the General Manager. [More…]
The Commission needs to be able to delegate certain powers quite freely. [More…]
Limiting powers to a Commissioner or the General Manager created an untenable position and in fact the Commission has had to resort to the device of issuing authorisations’ to enable persons down the line lo exercise the powers they needed to exercise. [More…]
By its enactment it has power to make various statutes. [More…]
I will have to find out where the power for decision lies in respect of the National Library and then obtain a reply for the honourable senator. [More…]
Minister representing the Minister for Shipping and Transport whether in view of the tremendous number of deaths and serious accidents occurring weekly on the Australian roads and the ever increasing advertisement by car manufacturers of the increased power and speed of their cars, the Government has ever considered the need for placing governors to limit speeds on each car, perhaps to 65 miles an hour? [More…]
We should not be exercising our power in this place to try to punish these kids, nor should it be happening in any other parliament. [More…]
The Australian National University has been given power to make statutes in the nature of regulations or ordinances as we are used to them for the conduct of the University. [More…]
It is also empowered to make rules and by-laws on the same subject matters. [More…]
It ought to have power to make rules on this subject, to make its statutes so that they become law, subject to the superintendence of the Houses of Parliament, as is done with other ordinances and regulations. [More…]
I think it would be better if the Council were given full power. [More…]
The distinction between the supervision of our statute making power and the supervision of the University statute making power by the Executive as at present, or by Parliament as proposed, is a difficult one to draw. [More…]
In 4 of the States - ‘Victoria, Queensland, New South Wales and Tasmania - that is all that is necessary apart from tabling and gazettal procedures which do not involve any power on the part of State parliaments to allow or disallow statutes. [More…]
How then does a document come to our notice when it is contained in rules or by-laws made pursuant to a statute which gives the Council power to make its own rules on the subject? [More…]
But even if the assumptions I make there are not correct I do not think that Senator Murphy’s amendment improves the University’s autonomy because it merely subjects the University’s statute-making power to the control of the Parliament. [More…]
I sense that the universities might find the Government an easier task master than the Parliament because if the power to disallow a statute or rule or by-law resides in either House of the Parliament then - and I say this with no disrespect to this institution or to the other House - the vagaries of parliamentary expressions from time to time may cause greater problems than what the Government itself might do. [More…]
The imposition of those standards in the much broader field of university statutemaking power could make for greater difficulties for the universities than I think has been recognised in what has been said. [More…]
We find in the work of that Committee that it is difficult to apply those criteria with any sense of certainty that we are right in doing so to ordinances for the Australian Capital Territory, because those ordinances are made as part of the broad governing power for a territory. [More…]
I sense that there ought to be some investigation with a view to having some changes made in the procedures of the rule-making and by-law-making powers of the University under the statutes. [More…]
I think it would be highly inappropriate for the Parliament to assume the power to sit in judgment not only on university statutes but on any by-law, rule or order made under those statutes. [More…]
Once there was a statute under which the rule making power was given to the Council; the procedures applicable to university statutes were avoided. [More…]
Indeed all parliamentary systems have tride lo institute a system of checks and balances lo control the power and influence of one against the other so that no section of government, whether it be the executive. [More…]
In particular he deals with the relationship between the United States Senate and the House of Representatives and, incidentally, the growing loss of power of the House of Representatives in America to the Senate. [More…]
therefore, the great need for the Senate, in this constant battle of balances and checks, to assume more power lo ensure that legislation is passed in the interests of the people and that it is sound legislation. [More…]
I believe it is a valuable check to the power of the Executive and the power of the bureaucracy. [More…]
During the greater part of that time a Liberal-Country Party Government has been in power in the federal sphere. [More…]
I ask the Minister representing the Minister for External Territories: What power does the Minister possess to direct Dillingham Construction Corporation to pay a Filipino work force operating in the New Guinea highlands the same rates of pay as would apply to Australians? [More…]
I understand that I am asked what power the Minister for External Territories possesses to direct that Filipino workmen be paid by Dillingham Construction Corporation the same rates as an Australian citizen would receive. [More…]
A standing committee, by virtue of the intensity of its deliberations, the domination of the work which it undertakes and the degree of authority or power which it has is able to act in a specialist capacity, indeed, it may be described as a specialist organ of Parliament or of government. [More…]
That is why there arose in the United States of America the concept of the clear or supposedly clear division of power between the executive and Congress. [More…]
We know that basically the system is a good one that provides some checks on the untrammelled power of the Executive in the complexities of a modern society, with vast areas of technological and scientific opinions and conclusions that lie behind so much of the policy with which modern governments find themselves invested. [More…]
On both occasions, the officer responsible was exercising his power under the Fisheries Act to require a person in charge of a fishing boat to remain at a specified place while investigations concerning suspected offences against the Act were made. [More…]
If the Territory decided that some kind of taxation should be imposed on the Commission, under the Bill the GovernorGeneral would have power to waive the provision that the Commission does not have to pay taxation. [More…]
I think that it is desirable that that power be included, but undesirable that it be exercised by an ‘instrument in writing’. [More…]
If it is intended that this power be given, it should be under the scrutiny of parliament. [More…]
This would be by way of regulation which would give the power of scrutiny to parliament. [More…]
I wonder why that is not being done to a greater degree at this time if the power is there to do it in future. [More…]
under the system that obtains when a coalition government is in power it is the. [More…]
Secondly, has the Senate Select Committee on Securities and Exchange any power to compel the Sydney Stock Exchange to alter its habits? [More…]
Does the Senate Select Committee have- the power to correct any such situation? [More…]
As the honourable senator is aware, the National Health Act gives power to the Minister for Health to approve, and thereby to determine, the rates of benefits and contributions. [More…]
It appears that the commercial stations are using the weight of their power with this Government and using their wealth and influence to superimpose their own authority and standards on anything which the Control Board might determined [More…]
I have been told that several people engaged on the executive side of this industry are considering testing the legality of the power of the Board to lay down quotas under the regulations governing programme standards. [More…]
It must be appreciated that the administration of this provision is dependent upon what interpretation is given to the language of the statute and, as far as it is within my power, 1 hope to have a charitable and humane administration of these provisions so that, where there is a genuine case which requires assistance, that assistance can be given. [More…]
The rates proposed will not only be the highest on record in money terms, but they will also give to pensions 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 stressing that this increase 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 reaching an ultimate goal. [More…]
At this time in our history the friends of the Australian Labor Party and those people whom they appoint to the Australian Council of Trade Unions are wielding mighty power over this land: I would point out to them that their influence could be and should be for the good of the country. [More…]
As we come towards the end of our twentysecond year in power we know that we are in office because the people are aware that from us they get responsible government in all spheres of our activity. [More…]
Even against this background the Minister said in his second reading speech that the Bill provides for the lifting of the pension to a record level, and when he refers to a record level he means a record level not only in money terms but also in terms of real purchasing power. [More…]
In spite of the fact that the rates proposed in this Bill will be not only the highest on record in money terms but also will give pensions a greater purchasing power than at any time in Australia’s history, and in spite of the fact that the pension rate has been raised to this high degree of usefulness and ‘ effectiveness, if problems exist in the area of people who receive pensions - I believe that problems do exist because there’ arc areas of need, there are pockets of poverty and there are people with special problems and difficulties - then perhaps the Government should adopt a new- formula. [More…]
They have been increased time and again since this Government has been in power. [More…]
The Conservative Government of Great Britain could not allow collective bargaining in the power industry to get out of hand and there had to be a certain amount of give and take. [More…]
At the time when Prime Minister Gorton was in power and Mr Wentworth was the Minister for Social Services, it was claimed that no immediate increase could be given to pensioners, but now for reasons stated by Government senators tonight reviews of the situation are being made by the Government. [More…]
When Prime Minister Gorton came to power he said that it was the intention of the Liberal Government to abolish poverty and to take the strain off people who were on the bread line and who were not able to live at a reasonable standard. [More…]
I can assure you, Mr President, that if I held the balance of power the Government would do what I wanted it to do. [More…]
I ask the Minister representing the Minister for Foreign Affairs whether the Government is aware that one condition of Communist China’s entry to the United Nations on which Peking has indicated it would insist is that it receive the same right of veto as certain major powers. [More…]
What would be the attitude of the Australian Government to investing Communist China with this power completely and at will to nullify operations of the United Nations? [More…]
This would ensure that the purchasing power, that is, the real value of benefits, did not decline over time, or (2), benefits can be tied to the average weekly earnings. [More…]
It would ensure that the purchasing power of benefits did not fall relative to incomes currently earned. [More…]
But the last adjustment was made in 1967 and this 4-year delay has resulted in a drastic erosion in the purchasing power of these pensions. [More…]
Of course, there are others - people who lack the powerful industrial strength of members of the mighty unions. [More…]
They do not have the power which the larger unions have exercised to secure benefits for their members. [More…]
Tying the proportion to the rise or fall in average weekly earnings could involve - one must go further and say would involve - the Government in expenditure commitments over which it would have no effective power. [More…]
It is necessary that there be some power of enforcement so that some growers do not escape their obligations towards their fellow growers. [More…]
Actually, therefore, this Bill, in a sense, is a new circumscription or limitation of a power which formerly was taken in all legislation of this type. [More…]
by leave -I wish to inform the Senate that the Minister for Defence (Mr Gorton) left on 12th April to represent Australia at the Five Power Ministerial Conference in London on 15th and 16th April and to hold talks with Ministers and defence officials in the United Kingdom. [More…]
The Minister for Foreign Affairs (Mr Bury) left Australia for London on 11th April to attend the Five Power Ministerial Conference on 15th and 16th April and a South East Asia Treaty Organisation council meeting on 27th and 28th April. [More…]
that would be of most terrible significance to the United States of America, our security our power and ability to get certain things we need from the riches of Indo-China and from South East Asia. [More…]
Child endowment rales have not been changed since the Menzies Government came to power, although the first child has been endowed since 1950. [More…]
We are voting for the cheapest way that we can prevent the occurrence of something that would be of most terrible significance to the United States of America, our security our power and ability to get certain things we need from the riches of Indo-China and from South East Asia’. [More…]
In doing so the United States inherited all the greatness and power of the British Empire. [More…]
With the equipment that he had at his disposal and the great power that had been inherited, General Eisenhower went into Europe and mopped up after the main fighting had been done on the ground in eastern Europe and the Fascist Nazi army had been defeated. [More…]
If ever an arrogant colonial power bestrode Indonesia it was the Dutch. [More…]
We are human beings and the brotherhood of man will exercise its power. [More…]
It is going to exercise its power in Australia. [More…]
We are voting for the cheapest way that we can prevent the occurence of something that would be of a most terrible significance to the United States of America - our security, our power and ability to get certain things we need from the riches of the Indonesian territory and from South East Asia. [More…]
We are voting for the cheapest way that we can prevent the occurrence of something that would be of most terrible significance to the United States of America, our security, our power and ability to get certain things we need from the riches of Indo-China and from South East Asia [More…]
We are voting for the cheapest way hat we can prevent the occurrence of something that would be of a most terrible significance to the United States of America, our security, our power and ability to get certain things we need from th riches of the Indonesian territory and from Sou Iti East Asia. [More…]
Because of my indestructible conviction that unless we preserve in this country (he place of the state government, its traditional place, with the power, the authority, the responsibilities and the revenues necessary to discharge those responsibilities, then we are not going to have America as we have known it; we will have some other form of government. [More…]
If we go into the field of agriculture, if we go into the field of Federal power and the conservation of all the resources of this United States, we find this same community of purpose with the necessity of division of responsibility obtains. [More…]
We are voting for the cheapest way that we can prevent the occurrence of something that would be of a most terrible significance to the United States of America, our security, our power and ability to get certain things we need from the riches of the Indonesian territory and from Southeast Asia. [More…]
If she does come here it will be because she is a world power, as Japan was, and wants to expand. [More…]
He was able to go there because when the war ended and Japan was defeated Formosa was handed over to the Nationalist Government that was in power in China at that time. [More…]
The sovereignty of it was not transferred to any power, So, we have here not a situation that Taiwan is a sovereign state at all but a situation that it is a Chinese province which the Japanese took over by war and which was left in a state of flux until Chiang Kai-shek arrived. [More…]
Chinese experience has, it seems, led them to conclude that this is the only road by which Communists can obtain power and yet remain genuine Communists. [More…]
Other means of gaining power - for example, through democratic elections and parliamentary means - are regarded as revisionist and futile. [More…]
Another, as was reported some time ago, is that China wants the power of veto. [More…]
It is for this distinct reason that we have some initiative and some position of power and of influence. [More…]
But I have lived: long enough to witness a so-called thaw in the attitude of the Union of Soviet: Socialist Republics in 1953 and the subsequent freezing that took place after Mr Brezhnev became the First Secretary of the Communist Party and to wonder what the attitude of the People’s Republic of China will be in another 5 or 6 years when Chairman Mao, the present great Khan of China, goes to the heavenly kingdom, and Mr Lin Piao and another group of men who are mostly Army men who have themselves embedded in the matrix of power in the People’s Republic of China take his place. [More…]
Certainly people could come as representatives of a great world power. [More…]
Probably that is right but they would come as representatives of a Communist power and we do not want that. [More…]
For many years the western powers had recognised China’s claim that Tibet is a province of China, Whatever the present government in Peking has done in Tibet is no different to what preceding Chinese governments have done and what the government of Chiang Kai-shek himself would do if he were in power. [More…]
It is a mighty power which is growing increasingly stronger. [More…]
First, there are the mainland Territories of the Commonwealth, in respect of which this Parliament has plenary legislative power. [More…]
Is the Australian Government greatly concerned at this development of Russian power in an ocean which touches Australian shores? [More…]
That dragging them out of the Department was strictly illegal, because until (he Bill which is now before mis House is passed there is no power to do that. [More…]
Surely nobody in this chamber sincerely doubts that the police use this power selectively. [More…]
The State police have more power than they need to cope with any disturbance of the peace on or in the vicinity of Commonwealth premises outside Commonwealth territory. [More…]
Without going into any detail I would merely draw the attention of honourable’ senators to sections 29, 30K and 89 of the Crimes Act; As far as the Australian Capital Territory is concerned, there is, of course, ample, power to deal with- sit-ins in section 24B- of the Police Offences Ordinance. [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…]
By applying a little bit of the power that it had the ACTU cut out this practice of resale price maintenance. [More…]
Little implied that the Australian Labor Party was more or less the power behind many of. [More…]
Every honourable senator who has had a friendship or association with any Minister in State or Federal politics knows that, whatever government is in power, [More…]
I say that more power should be given to them to demonstrate because, whether the Government likes it or not, they appear to get justice that they would not otherwise have obtained. [More…]
I remind honourable senators that it would be necessary to amend the Constitution to take power away from the States in order to enable this Parliament to enact legislation such as that envisaged by a number of speakers on the Opposition side of the chamber. [More…]
As 1 see it, the political system in our country and in the other countries I have mentioned is such that the true expression of the hopes and ambitions of the young people is frustrated by the power that exists in the various sections of the Establishment. [More…]
They feel every justification to use their power to preserve their own privileged position in society. [More…]
By continuing to be negative they retain the power that attaches to holding the balance in the Senate, but their type of propaganda causes harm to the youth of this country. [More…]
There could be a power within the Treasurer to suggest that a vote be frozen. [More…]
I thing it is recognised that the medical profession has the power to fix its own fees. [More…]
It is not an inalienable right because there is a power which the people of Australia possess in this area. [More…]
As the last review of superannuation paid to retired Commonwealth officers was in 1967, when will the next adjustments be made to combat the substantial loss of purchasing power which has occurred over the last 4 years. [More…]
I feel that the officers did all that was within their power by presenting themselves immediately to seek permanent appointment with the Commonwealth Public Service; the fact that they were not granted permanency that day was not possible because of the exigencies of the Public Service and not by any action of the applicants. [More…]
So I suggest that either this section be deleted altogether and power be given to the Public Service Board - I do not agree that that course should be followed - or the whole matter be amended and brought up to date. [More…]
It involves the construction of an underground power station on the Ramu River with an initial installed capacity of 45 megawatts; 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 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…]
Senator Murphy referred in somewhat disparaging terms to clause 8 of the Bill, which gives a power to disperse. [More…]
Were the authority of government so trifling as to permit anyone with a complaint to have the vast power to do anything he pleased, wherever, he pleased, and whenever he pleased, our customs and our habits of conduct, social, political, economic, ethical, and religious, would all be wiped out, and become no more than relics of a gone but not forgotten past. [More…]
As far as the Australian Capital Territory is concerned, there is, of course, ample power to deal with sit-ins in section 24b of the Police Offences Ordinance. [More…]
That such committee have power to send for persons, papers and records, to move from place to place and to meet and transact business in public or private session, notwithstanding any prorogation of the Parliament. [More…]
The honourable senator can be quite sure that the Minister, being a Queenslander with a lot of experience on the land, would have been most impressed with the seriousness of their problem and will do all he possibly can to hear their case, help them and take whatever action lies within his power. [More…]
The honourable senator will appreciate that amendments to the National Health Act last year gave to the Minister for Health a general power of approval and a power to vary the decisions of these organisations. [More…]
What is the maximum power output of an engine the works is capable of producing. [More…]
That the Publications Committee, or any sub-committee thereof, when conferring with a similar committee or sub-committee of the House of Representatives, have power to move from place to place. [More…]
28 gave the Publications Committee broad 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…]
In the light of that, [ ask: Do we find it necessary, despite the fact that an assembly has been described as an assembly of not fewer than 3 people, under the conditions that we find in Australia today, to permit the power that the Bill gives - and the Bill gives power to police and other persons - to be held when there Ls an assembly of 3 people only? [More…]
I do not think that policemen or the persons mentioned in the other clauses of the Bill should have the right to exercise the power that the Bill provides. [More…]
If a policeman sees an assembly of 3 people standing outside his gate, whatever their purpose, he has the right to exercise that power, when there is no need to invoke the law. [More…]
So he had the power to call to his aid, in effect to ride posse with him, any citizens to whom he could give the direction that they should do so. [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…]
All I do is translate the remarks of Dr Cairns from that situation to the clause before us and say that unless this type of legislation is put into force the Commonwealth is not adequately empowered to protect its citizens and its members of parliament, as in the case of Senator McManus. [More…]
The Parliament has not given its own instrumentalities the power to deal with these most objectionable occurrences. [More…]
Do they believe that the police should be devoid of power if a person is about to commit murder? [More…]
Should the police be devoid of power so that they cannot take action to prevent a robbery or larceny or should they be able to step in? [More…]
The Bill gives to the Attorney-General power to institute proceedings for offences under the Act. [More…]
Clause 23 gives that power. [More…]
The only clause which gives the law enforcing authorities power to proceed without referring to a political authority to say whether politics should be played or whether proceedings should be instituted for a breach of the law is clause 16 which relates to a person causing actual bodily harm to another person or causing damage to property to an extent exceeding $200. [More…]
As this type of costly and unnecessary strike has been encouraged by the militant attitudes of some union leaders, will the Government do all in its power to discourage and check this type of industrial action which is so costly? [More…]
Will the Government do all within its power to expedite this vital work? [More…]
Senator Murphy can interject as vigorously as he pleases, but he knows as well as I do that this clause gives power to a police sergeant or any person in the police force of higher rank to order a group in excess of 12 people who are doing that to disperse, and yet he is opposing that very provision. [More…]
It also gives power to a police sergeant. [More…]
However, if one examines the clause in full it gives a power to a person to take such force as is reasonably necessary to prevent a riot from damaging property. [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…]
We know that the squatters in Australia had so much power that they had laws introduced covering trespass. [More…]
The purpose of this was to stop people stealing sheep and, as I say, the passing of this Act was a tribute to the power of the squatters which has not altogether disappeared. [More…]
in the light of the existence of this quite wide power - as far as the Australian Capital Territory is concerned - which is contained in section 24b of the Police Offences Ordinance. [More…]
It gives a constable power to arrest a person without warrant where he believes that the person has committed an offence against the Act and, of course, it is in wider terms than the provision in the Crimes Act. [More…]
If he had no power to arrest him he would have no power to prevent him from going back. [More…]
Whether or not he has given consideration to this aspect which I have raised I am not sure but it seems to me to be a very reasonable power for the policeman to have, if the power which it is said he is being given is to be effective. [More…]
In response to what has been said by the Minister I would say that it is extremely disturbing to me to think that in this chamber, on behalf of the Government, we would bear advanced the proposition that the power of arrest is to be used, in effect, to penalise persons or to provide for some preventive detention. [More…]
I ask the Minister whether it is correct, as Senator Rae has pointed out, that in the situation he referred to a constable would have the power to arrest - in effect, to exercise the power of the court, to penalise or to have injunctive powers, if I might call them that - to prevent a breach of the peace. [More…]
The power of civil arrest, which, in the Crimes Act, is linked with the power of police arrest, is limited in the expression in the Crimes Act to offences against the Crimes Act. [More…]
We may have the situation where prosecutions which are authorised and directed by him may be regarded - and, of course, they would be wrongly so regarded - by some of those who are being prosecuted as being politically motivated prosecutions, particularly in circumstances, which one could imagine would be a common circumstance whoever was in power and whatever the circumstances in which these sorts of provisions were being used, where the offender is violently politically opposed to the Attorney-General whose direction is to be sought by the provisions which exist at the moment. [More…]
As I understood Senator Murphy, he felt that there should not be a power of dispensation which could be exercised in political hands. [More…]
But we find in this sub-clause a proposition for that power to be taken away from the court Instead the Bill provides that if the situation occurs where, at the hearing of a charge evidence is given for the prosecution of conduct that would constitute such an offence but that conduct is different from the conduct of which particulars have been given to the person charged upon a. request the court may, on the application of the person charged and if it is of opinion that that person was misled by those particulars, adjourn the hearing upon such terms as it thinks fit, Why should not the court be able to dismiss the case, as I think it would be under the common law? [More…]
As the last review of superannuation paid to retired Commonwealth officers was in 1967, when will the next adjustments be made to combat the substantial loss of purchasing power which has occurred over the last 4 years. [More…]
I understand that the power comes from the interstate trade and commerce provision of the Constitution. [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…]
I remind the Senate thai in 1949, following investigations ordered by the then Minister for Transport, the late Eddie Ward, who invested Sir Harold Clapp with a lot of power to consider a standardised railway system, the Commonwealth Government made agreements with the States. [More…]
Because of the very great advancement in atomic power generation, which advancement is continuing and accelerating, to a stage at which it is predicted that in most advanced countries future power installations will be solely atomic, would not the authorities in Tasmania be advised to pause before committal to further large scale hydro-electric generation projects, which some people claim are destructive of tourist assets in Tasmania, an aspect in which the Minister is particularly interested? [More…]
I am acutely aware, of course, that coming into controversy in Tasmania is the argument whether development of hydro-electric power is destroying tourist attractions that should be conserved. [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…]
Provision is also made for lump sum compensation for the loss of the power of speech, for the loss of the sense of taste or of smell, for the loss of the genitals or the permanent loss of capacity to engage in sexual intercourse and for severe and permanent facial disfigurement. [More…]
Did I understand the Minister to say that the first Bill was based simply on the interstate trade and commerce power? [More…]
He said that the Pig Slaughter Levy Bill is simply based on the taxation power of the Commonwealth to impose taxes on anyone. [More…]
The power under this provision is not used very frequently, but it is probably the only means by which the authorities on whom this Parliament lays the responsibility for collecting levies are able to collect this revenue from deliberate evaders. [More…]
The power of averment or statement is used to initiate court action. [More…]
It is an unlimited power given to the Commonwealth to aver anything it likes. [More…]
The simple position is that we are not objecting to clause 15 and the Commonwealth will have all the power on earth to go into those premises and inspect the books. [More…]
It has the power to inspect his books before commencing the proceedings. [More…]
It involves the construction of an underground power station on the Ramu River with an initial installed capacity of 45 megawatts; approximately 320 miles of transmission lines; 4 transformer substations at Lae, Madang, Goroka and Mount Hagen, and the enlargement of transformer capacity substations at 2 other centres. [More…]
I worry whether the high cost of power may be a penalty that the people in this developing country will have to pay in the long term, because the Government has obtained this loan from the World Bank at such a high interest rate. [More…]
I hope that the interest rate to be charged will not have the long term effect of causing high charges for power in the Territory. [More…]
One would have imagined that in bringing down a proposal to increase the number of Ministers the Government would have outlined clearly the powers of the Office of the Environment. [More…]
The idea of having a Minister to listen to questions of environmental control without power to act means nothing. [More…]
I believe that 27 Ministers provide, a very strong power base against the position of private senators and members. [More…]
But I have my opinions based on my power of assessment of work associated with departments. [More…]
Honourable Senators may make their judgments on its administration, but the Repatriation Act shows very clearly that the Minister for Repatriation has little or no power of intervention. [More…]
Regardless of whether the present Government or the present Opposition is in power there is a strong current of loyalty to the country in which we live. [More…]
What power does the Minister have to enforce further financial aid to the victims concerned. [More…]
I have no legislative power which would enable me to take action in this area. [More…]
When the Senate adjourned I was making the point that this decision to appoint 6 or 7 Assistant Ministers would appear to strengthen the power of the Executive over Parliament. [More…]
I conclude by saying - this is the great problem which Parliament faces and to which Parliament must always be alert - that in the final analysis the will of Parliament must prevail and that if more thought was given to means and methods of ensuring that Parliament functioned more effectively in these modern and complex days and less thought was given to strengthening the power of the Executive, I believe the government of this country would run more smoothly and effectively. [More…]
When power was represented by the Crown, as it was in the formative years of parliamentary growth, Parliament struggled to resist the dominance of the Crown over Parliament. [More…]
When Parliament becomes dominant and attempts to usurp executive power then the process of government fails. [More…]
That was the Constitution of the United States of America, whereby an attempt was made to separate the power of the executive and the power of the Congress. [More…]
Every Minister, whether he be a Minister of the British Labour Party or a Minister of the Conservative Party, which is the present ruling Party in the United Kingdom, observes the dominance and pre-eminence of the Crown as the area of neutrality holding the balance of power in the Parliament in London. [More…]
But this does not exist in Australia, because there is a new component in the system of government in Australia which, over the last 20 years, is an area of power that is not the power of the Crown as it has been historically understood. [More…]
The next part of this power structure comprises the Ministers who are taken from the Parliament and embedded for the purpose of Government inside the permanent structure of the bureaucracy. [More…]
It is not the circumstance in which there is a division of power between the executive and the Government clearly demarked by the Constitution of the United States of America. [More…]
But by the marriage of the components of ministerial responsibility in the House of Government and the bureaucracy there exists a new power altogether. [More…]
It is not the conceptual power of the Crown holding the balance which emerged in the 19th century in the United Kingdom. [More…]
We have an untramelled uncontrolled power in the House of Representatives which is not subject to any control except by electoral devices and, with some constitutional powers, it is able to control the electoral devices. [More…]
I have no objection to supporting this Bill because it is a Bill that originates in the House of Government and if this is the path upon which the House of Government, the House of Representatives, embarks and wishes to proceed, it is all the more important that the Senate which is, I believe, the repository of constitutional power in Australia, should make its views known. [More…]
There has been interposed between the Crown, as we have historically understood it, and the Parliament as we have historically understood it, a new power altogether. [More…]
That power is the power of the bureaucracy or the power emerging from the needs of individuals composing the Ministry. [More…]
A temporary marriage of convenience between the infallibility of the bureaucracy and the temporary needs of the people who can be drawn from Parliament is a new and damaging power in the concept of whether Parliament should rule. [More…]
That is the power of the Executive. [More…]
Having given indications that 1 would not pursue that any further I do not wish any honourable senator who sits on your left, Mr Acting Deputy President, to be encouraged by any words that I have said, because there exists another power again, namely, the power of a party caucus that can come to decisions and, as a party caucus, enforce its unilateral decisions on a portion of the Parliament composed of the party’s temporary representatives in the Parliament and thereby attempt to enforce its views on the bureaucracy. [More…]
Now I can see with great sorrow and an enormous amount of apprehension that we are moving into an area where there is a new component of power, namely, the convenient marriage of Ministers and the bureaucracy, by which Parliament will be overruled. [More…]
We have said already that this is a cynical use of power. [More…]
As expressed in the Constitution it has a legislative power. [More…]
The Parliament shall, subject to this Constitution, have power to make laws for the peace, 12 May 1971 order and good government of the Commonwealth [More…]
It is not a power to rule but a power to make laws. [More…]
One could continue these arguments at great length about the Executive taking over the country, and rule by juntas and power groups. [More…]
DLP senators say that they are the upholders of all things connected with social services and uphold the Opposition yet, constantly down through the years their whole political existence has depended upon their playing cunning stunts and, sitting in the corner for some little time now, having the balance of power. [More…]
They get up here on every occasion they can, not to do their supposed job which is to oppose the Government, but on every occasion when the pressure is on to run over to the Government side to give support to those who have supported them and put them into power. [More…]
He kept reverting to the fact that we were trying to ride into power on. [More…]
lt is interesting to see the considerable power that could be exercised by the European Economic Community, the United States and Canada in the operation of the Agreement. [More…]
The honourable senator will be aware that when the amendments to the National Health Act v/ere passed last year very comprehensive power was given to the Minister for Health to supervise the operations of these funds and to approve the rates of contribution. [More…]
I want to make clear that the Democratic Labor Party does not support the centralisation of power in the Commonwealth. [More…]
He declared that only the Crown had the power to make treaties or contracts for the possession of land. [More…]
Significantly, however, the Crown did not use that power. [More…]
It is within the Board’s power to have a first hand evaluation of an industry, but there does not seem to be any method of carrying on from that point to determine the impact on the economy further down the line. [More…]
This indicates that although the Board already has the power to delegate its authority to a single member inquiry which may accelerate the examination of references, nevertheless this important part of the machinery of our economy has been underestimated. [More…]
If the Government is wise it will do everything in its power to foster industries which are subsidiary to primary industry because they could be the salvation of our gradually deteriorating country towns. ‘ [More…]
That is so if one looks at the price without taking into account the purchasing power of money, but if one takes into account the purchasing power of money at present the price being received for wool is the lowest ever. [More…]
The power of the States with regard to transactions within the States is well known. [More…]
The Commonwealth has no power to interfere in that area. [More…]
The honourable senator asked what power the Minister had to direct rates of pay. [More…]
My appeal to the Mataungans is to cooperate because the present Administration will not be in power much longer in the Territory, certainly not later than about November 1972, at which stage electoral and social justice will come the way of these people. [More…]
I do not think that any protecting power would be justified in handing over independence to a country which did not have a certain component of educated people to take over the administration. [More…]
As we know, there must be a danger to a person who knows the key of a code belonging to some foreign power. [More…]
Some people had not paid under the Act when the High Court decided that the Commonwealth had the power. [More…]
There was never any argument until very recently that the Commonwealth had the power. [More…]
), I think it is, I am not sure, provides that the Parliament has power to make laws in respect of: [More…]
The High Court decided that the Commonwealth had the power to obtain from the States payroll tax. [More…]
An article entitled ‘The High Cost of Wage Inflation’ tells of the abuse of union monopoly power as being at the heart of the new inflation that threatens to sink us all. [More…]
I refer here to the force of union power that perhaps prompts the community to think that the type of thing that the Government is engaging in at present is a particularly good thing and it will do something to dampen inflation. [More…]
This article appeared in ‘Fortune’ magazine of February 1971 which discusses union power and the new inflation. [More…]
The previous article which I mentioned referred clearly to union power and to the fact that productivity of British industries rises at less than 2 per cent per annum while wages are rising at approximately 13 per cent per annum. [More…]
When will the successful tenderer for the construction of the Jervis Bay Nuclear Power Station and the date of commencement of construction be announced. [More…]
The debtor’s house has been sold - not by the trustee but by the mortgagee exercising power of sale under his mortgage. [More…]
Ltd - decided that it would abolish the practice of resale price maintenance, not for all persons who deal with the firm but only for Bourkes because it was only Bourkes which has the industrial power. [More…]
I think it is interesting to see this development in the high priest of trade unionism in Australia because, if the industrial power was to be utilised in the way it was threatened to be utilised, it would have had the effect of depriving those who were employed by the companies in the Dunlop group of the work and wages on which they were dependent. [More…]
Perhaps I should state that the Tribunal has the power to exempt certain goods from this provision. [More…]
I am trying to envisage the possibility of increased prices unless we have a fixed resale price with no power to reduce the price. [More…]
It offers means and techniques of putting more and more power into the hands of all those who would reach out for it. [More…]
These include the lump sums for facial disfigurement, compensation for loss “of the power of speech, and assessment of compensation for loss of sight. [More…]
Now that Australia is becoming a larger power, Australian contractors are working on industrial projects in South East Asia. [More…]
He seems to be an all powerful commissioner. [More…]
Power is taken out of the hands of Treasury and we appoint a commissioner. [More…]
Here we have an appeal against a decision of the Commissioner, who is under the influence of the Minister, to another tribunal which has power under the same conditions. [More…]
The Commissioner has the added power of being able to vary a determination, to make another determination, whether or not there is an appeal against the first determination or whether or not the appeal has been decided or is in the course of being heard. [More…]
For the purposes of this inquiry, the Privileges Committee shall have power to send for persons, papers and records, to move from place to place and to meet and transact business notwithstanding any prorogation of the Parliament. [More…]
Senator Cavanagh is concerned also about the power of the Commissioner to make new determinations. [More…]
If the Commissioner is to carry out his role properly, it is essential that he have this power. [More…]
I believe that if the ACTU wishes to become a profit-making enterprise in the business world and if it wishes to use its industrial power to further its own commercial interests, those facts should be made known to the people of Australia. [More…]
The States have the power to pass laws and do pass laws with regard to standards and purity of foodstuffs. [More…]
There was also a reference by Senator Bishop to clause 45 which concerned the power of the Commissioner to reduce, in the case of the unfortunate person who is confined to hospital and is often described as a human vegetable, the payments which are to be made to him. [More…]
It is a reasonable provision to have in the Bill and I do not understand Senator Bishop as saying it has any unreasonable features but he was drawing attention to the way in which the power could be exercised and the hardship which might be caused. [More…]
When we have that situation I think it is not unreasonable to say that if a person is a human vegetable and he is just kept alive by remaining in hospital there ought to be power on the part of the Commissioner to reduce the weekly payments because they have no meaning for that person; and the power is there. [More…]
It is certainly not an extensive power which the Commissioner has because he cannot reduce the weekly payment by more than 50 per cent. [More…]
I agree with him that it is the workers of Australia who keep this Government in power. [More…]
They have kept this Government in power for over 20 years and I think they will continue to keep it in power because, as is illustrated by this employees’ compensation legislation, consideration in depth has been given to measures. [More…]
The Australian Government should give a lead to ensure that these people do not starve because some international power wants to exercise its rights to carry out nuclear tests which are designed to destroy and not to enable human beings to survive. [More…]
The power to control airport car parking is exercised through the Airports (Surface Traffic) Act. [More…]
When will the successful tenderer for the construction of the Jervis Bay nuclear power station and the date of commencement of construction be announced? [More…]
an act done or omitted, in the discharge of a function, the exercise of a power or the performance of a duty, by a person, authority, body or organisation, where the function, power or duty had been given under an Ordinance of the Northern Territory; but only if the Commissioner was satisfied that the decision, ruling, order, recommendation, act or omission referred to: [More…]
Has the Board in recent years exercised its power to provide financial assistance and other assistance to commercial broadcasting stations for the purpose of ensuring that programmes of adequate extent, standard and variety are provided in the areas served by those stations; it so, what financial and other assistance has been provided. [More…]
The developing practice of using industrial Trade Union organisations to effect purposes of a political character, not designed to or having the effect of improvingthe industrial conditions of the members of these organisations and not directly and immediately related to industrial issues but for the purpose of affecting political decisions, properly resting within the Constitutional power of the Commonwealth through its elected Parliament and its instrumentalities and thus usurping the functions of Government. [More…]
Unions today are highly industrialised in a country such as Australia and they have enormous power for influence on the national economy and the lives and living standards of all our citizens. [More…]
All too frequently the union bureaucracy calls a strike and relies on the union’s solidarity and coercive power to give it effect. [More…]
They were simply and purely political strikes aimed at the very power and authority of government. [More…]
They go further still; they amount, in fact, to a usurpation of powers specifically entrusted by the Commonwealth Constitution to the Commonwealth Parliament, and to it alone. [More…]
Section 51 (i) of the Constitution reserves to this Parliament the power to make laws for the peace, order and good government of the Commonwealth with respect to trade and commerce’. [More…]
Section 51 (xxix) of the Constitution deals with the external affairs power in a similar way. [More…]
Clearly, then, political stoppages and bans of the kind I mentioned amount to trade unions and their officials attempting to ursurp or impede the constitutional powers of this Parliament. [More…]
The Act did not restrict in any way the freedom to criticise the adoption by the Government of any project, but it did prescribe unlawful acts against the power of the Commonwealth. [More…]
I would suggest that all the Government needs to do is to take Dr Evatt’s Bill of 1947 and change the words as I have outlined, and in that it will have the very Act necessary to prohibit the misuse of union power. [More…]
Political disputes, disputes against the civil law, or disputes against international law are quite beyond the range of the constitutional power of this Parliament or the arbitration court and quite beyond the range of any purpose for which industrial organisations were set up. [More…]
Because the Constitution has limited the power of this Parliament to legislating for conciliation and arbitration in industrial disputes extending beyond the borders of any one State, it is quite obvious that the court is limited to industrial disputes. [More…]
We deny to them the right, by the use of industrial power, to cause the disruption of the economy of the country and the invasion and breach of people’s individual rights and to deny our civil liberties. [More…]
Lel me cite just a few of the instances in which I believe the trade union movement has been exercising this power to the abuse of its real purposes. [More…]
One has only to state those causes and those results to see the damage that the exertion of this industrial organisation power does to the men who are working bona fide in their industry and wish to use their organisation for the betterment of their industry. [More…]
The developing practice of using industrial Trade Union organisations to effect purposes of a political character, not designed to or having the effect of improving the industrial conditions of the members of these organisations and not directly and immediately related to industrial issues but for the purpose of effecting political decisions, properly resting within the Constitutional power of the Commonwealth through its elected Parliament and its instrumentalities and thus usurping the functions of Government. [More…]
I think the revelation that has been made tonight is that in this chamber - and speaking to the people of Australia - the Labor Party senators will confess to the use of industrial power to achieve decisions. [More…]
We will forget the political strikes of the Chifley era, when the Chifley Labor Government was prepared to introduce legislation to deal with the unions which intended to use their industrial power politically. [More…]
We have not heard from the Australian Labor Party over the last 5 or 6 years any condemnation of the use of industrial power for political purposes and I challenge any one. [More…]
of the Labor senators here tonight to give me one example of the Labor Party having said that it disapproves of the use of industrial power for political purposes. [More…]
Honourable senators opposite cannot do so because they are wedded to a system which will permit the use of industrial power to thwart the wishes of the Government elected by the people of Australia and claiming the electoral authority which comes from having a mandate given at ah election. [More…]
The lifting of the so-called ban on the export of merino rams was a decision made in accordance with the law of this land by the Executive under a power which was granted by an Act to which the Australian Labor Party was not objecting at the time it was introduced in 1929. [More…]
It was an arbitrary, naked exercise of political power by an industrial organisation. [More…]
The Parliament decided back in 1929, and honourable senators opposite know which government was in power then, that this particular decision was to be exercised by proclamation, and the Parliament has never denied that or contravened it or made any decision to the contrary. [More…]
This is part of the Labor Party’s tactic at the moment to exercise power in all the places where it can exercise industrial power. [More…]
I refer to the power of one man, not necessarily with the support of the individual members of a union, who say: ‘We will force this business enterprise of that commercial undertaking to take steps to force employees to join a union*. [More…]
1 believe the actions of Mr Hawke in many instances and the power that an individual in his position can take over the whole community, or sections of the community, can wreak havoc within this society. [More…]
If, indeed, in another country ‘ an individual had power to demand that employees of a business join an industrial organisation and pay dues to it so that he could act in a political way, many of us would regard it as one of the worst things that could happen in that community. [More…]
But I cannot understand why members of the Australian Labor Party do not exhibit exactly the same disappointment when they realise that a great many of the most powerful unions which were once led by Labor men are now led by members of the Communist Party. [More…]
lt is a very clear cut proposition, namely, the misuse of the tremendous economic power that has developed in the great trade union movement of this country for purposes that are not industrial. [More…]
If a person uses the argument here to justify the strike of industrial power for some cause in which somebody believes then he must of course, if he is a democrat, support the right of others to do exactly the same thing for a cause which is near and dear to his heart. [More…]
He has to be as sure as Hitler was that only he has the right to misuse the power that is tied up in the organised strength of the trade union movement and in the organised strength of other sections of the community - religious if you like, friendly society if you like, employer organisations if you like. [More…]
Although it is being used for a political purpose, that is not using the power that we are talking about here tonight, namely, the power to order the workers out on strike over the issue of the Springbok rugby tour. [More…]
It was not suggested by the mover of the proposition that the rights of the trade union movement be interfered with, except in the misuse of power. [More…]
The legislation to which my colleague Senator Kane referred was brought down by the Chifley Labor Government not to stop trade unions from taking an interest in political activities or expressing opinions but to stop the use of industrial power to interfere with the rights of the Government to govern. [More…]
There can be no question that the Commonwealth Government has power under the Constitution to legislate by way of ordinance insofar as a law of evidence for the Australian Capital Territory is concerned. [More…]
Many ordinances have been passed in this Territory, but this is the very first occasion upon which the Committee has exercised a power which it has held for 40 years to recommend to the Senate the disallowance of an ordinance made under an Act which has been the sole source of legislation in the Territory for 60 years. [More…]
When one considers the position of the law and the powers to make laws in the Australian Capital Territory one notes that section 122 of the Constitution gives comprehensive law-making power to the Commonwealth to make laws for the Australian Capital Territory. [More…]
The Seat of Government (Administration) Act is the legislation under which there is power to make ordinances. [More…]
There is no question that under the Seat of Government (Administration) Act the Government has power to make an ordinance. [More…]
The National Liberation Front, whose armed forces were known as the Vietminh, whose leader was the late Ho Chi Minh, and whose seat of government was in Hanoi, were to be given jurisdiction over the northern sector of Vietnam, and the French, who then were the colonial power in Vietnam, were to be given jurisdiction over the southern part of Vietnam. [More…]
They were not held because the Americans, who by that time had de facto succeeded the French as the colonial power in South Vietnam, had introduced into that country certain Vietnamese who for the most part had been absent from the land of their birth for very many years and who established a bogus government which they had the audacity to call the Republic of Vietnam. [More…]
The United States would come to the support of Australia if it became involved in conflict with another power, if it thought it were in the interests of the United States to do so. [More…]
It is only since we have had a fragmentation of this position in the Senate that the situation has arisen where the people who hold the balance of power, namely the Democratic Labor Party, have been able to say whether or not they want the gag to be applied. [More…]
The wage increase indicated first of all, a drastic erosion of the value of money and that that would have a disastrous effect on the recipients of social welfare and, secondly, that once the effect of that wage increase started to operate there would be a further grave deterioration in the income and purchasing power of the pension. [More…]
1 am very happy to answer the question, because in considering a reference on Japan one had to take into consideration the world wide economic power and influence, both existing and potential, of a country such as Japan, and I believe that one could not adequately consider the subject if one circumscribed it to one particular area such as South East Asia, because Japan has a great interest in what happens in the Middle East, of course. [More…]
Will the Government now recognise the immense power of advertising in promoting the use of a proven health hazard and take steps to impose a similar ban in Australia or will the great economic forces aligned against such a ban once again prove how much influence they exert on the Government? [More…]
I am informed that the Board docs not have any proposals at present under consideration to amend its requirements and that it will take all steps within its power to see that the requirements are complied with. [More…]
In our submission, this system of parole boards is a vastly superior system to vesting the power to carry out the decisions of the judges of the Supreme Court of the Australian Capital Territory in the AttorneyGeneral. [More…]
It may be said, and it has been said in the debate in the other place, that the Attorney-General, in exercising this power, is in one sense under a greater sanction than ever a parole board is. [More…]
This is a very dangerous power to repose in some anonymous public servant. [More…]
We see the vesting of this power in 1 man - that is what it amounts to - as largely vitiating the progressive feature of this legislation. [More…]
There is vested in the Governor-General power to vary or to revoke the conditions upon which parole was granted. [More…]
The objection taken by the Australian Labor Party to the Parole of Prisoners Ordinance is that the Governor-General, acting on the advice of the AttorneyGeneral, has the power to determine whether a prisoner should be released on parole. [More…]
But if this ordinance is to grant a minimum term of imprisonment and thereafter to allow the GovernorGeneral, acting on the advice of the Attorney- General, to determine when that minimum term of imprisonment has been served, whether a person should be released upon parole, the removal from the ordinance of that power means that there is nothing in the ordinance to enable a person to be released on parole. [More…]
In short, we would have a power vested in the judge, and a provision for a prisoner to apply to a judge if the judge omitted to act initially, to fix a minimum term of imprisonment. [More…]
When that minimum term of imprisonment was served there would be no function, no power, no authority, nobody at all to decide what was to be done. [More…]
We will see more of them because if one can command the allegiance of the Assistant Ministers in this manner, one is increasing the centralised power of the Prime Minister. [More…]
I believe it would be mischievous to embark upon an inquiry on the assumption that this Parliament or this chamber does have that power. [More…]
But not only is it important to put that democratic conception into the unions; it is also important to ensure that unions use their power for industrial purposes and do not presume to use their power for political and other purposes. [More…]
In responding to the question asked by Senator Carrick, I am reminded of the famous back bencher of the Labor Party who, when the Chifley Government was in power, thought he was helping the situation by making the statement, which put him into the history books, that as far as the government of that day was concerned 5 per cent unemployment was to all intents and purposes, full employment. [More…]
As long as this Government remains in power, it will see that that continues. [More…]
Has the Minister’s attention been drawn to a statement by the Treasurer of Queensland, the Honourable Sir Gordon Chalk, M.L.A., that the Queensland Government might find it difficult to provide power at ‘a really competitive rate’ because of shortage of State funds and the high interest rates to be paid to the Commonwealth? [More…]
I am not clear from the question whether the answer the honourable senator seeks is linked with the matter of power. [More…]
I am rather inclined to pause and wonder whether the part of his question regarding interest rates is related to interest rates associated with the financing of some power schemes. [More…]
Ordinances have been made under that power over the period that the Australian Capital Territory has been in existence. [More…]
He is puffed up with power. [More…]
He says: ‘Let us do it the other way; lel us show that we have the power. [More…]
They should not be obscured, however purposeful people are to achieve political power by misrepresenting the facts. [More…]
Apparently at Launceston, by a unanimous vote of the Labor Party Conference, it abandoned its proposal to take for Canberra complete and unqualified power over everything and to unify the country. [More…]
Tonight when dealing with the Budget Senator Murphy was parading the fact that the Party has a proposal for an appropriate division of political power and a corresponding carving up of finances between the States and the Commonwealth. [More…]
Have we consolidated our alliances with our more powerful friends? [More…]
The twilight of British power has deepened in our immediate north. [More…]
The message is: ‘In future danger we will help you but not by military power. [More…]
That the Government’s Fiscal and Monetary policies will not prevent a further erosion of domestic purchasing power whilst maintaining full employment; [More…]
In addition, I hope that all honourable senators will do all in their power to convince all members of the House of Representatives of the necessity for their co-operation on this matter. [More…]
One of the functions of the Regulations and Ordinances Committee is to retain the power and the rights of Parliament in the hands of the parliamentarians. [More…]
There is a vast difference between regulations which are made pursuant to a regulation making power in a statute under which departmental procedures are given effect to by regulation and a system under which the laws of the Australian Capital Territory are made by ordinance, lt is not to be supposed that ordinances of this character are made in the confines and behind the closed doors of some petty bureaucrat’s office. [More…]
The point I make is that it is wrong to regard ordinances made under the Seat of Government (Administration) Act as typical of regulations made under a regulation making power which, it is supposed, are made by bureaucrats - departmental officers - without the attention being given to them which they require. [More…]
I wish to maintain the principle that the Senate should recognise that the making of ordinances for the Australian Capital Territory by the Governor-General pursuant to a power given by the Parliament is the effective way for the immediate future to enact the laws for this Territory. [More…]
That comprises the national Parliament, the State governments, which have sovereign power, and local government. [More…]
For that reason it would be very dangerous if an attempt were made to by-pass the source of local government power - that is, the State legislatures. [More…]
Under this Act the Director-General of Health has power only in relation to advertisements for talks on matters of health. [More…]
It is only natural, in view of what has been happening in the Liberal Party, that accusations would be made to the effect that the Prime Minister (Mr McMahon) was seeking a wider power base within his Party by appointing Assistant Ministers at this stage. [More…]
Another is Mr Street, who is a comparatively new arrival in the corridors of power in Canberra. [More…]
There is no doubt about it that the increase in the number of Ministers and Assistant Ministers has meant that the Prime Minister has a much greater power base in the Liberal Party than would be the case with the Party which sits in Opposition. [More…]
To my way of thinking the present policy gives the Prime Minister of the day, whoever he may be - I am not casting aspersions on the present Prime Minister - too great a power base because behind him will sit a much larger proportion of Ministers and Assistant Ministers than is desirable from the point of view of getting a free and true expression of the opinion of the Party. [More…]
In saying this I am reminded of past power struggles that have been resolved in favour of the bestower of portfolios, whoever he may have been. [More…]
I suppose that, in relative terms, it is a light punishment because the Senate had power to impose very much more severe and heavy penalties. [More…]
If, for example, the gentlemen concerned, having been called to the Bar of the Senate, had been sent to prison if that power rested in the Senate, or had been heavily fined, then I feel that if I put up a proposition here that they had not been given the right to be heard as they should have been heard, honourable senators would feel that a very strong case would have to be made out why the matter should not be reviewed. [More…]
The Committee also considers that the Senate has the power, by order, to find a person guilty of a breach of privilege. [More…]
That the Senate has the power, in the enforcement of its privileges, to commit to prison, to fine, to reprimand or admonish, or otherwise to withdraw facilities held, by courtesy of the Senate, in and around its precincts. [More…]
First, there arc the cases in which a duty to act judicially in accordance with the rules of natural justice has been held to arise by implication from the nature of a power and its impact upon the rights of individuals, despite the absence of any express duty to follow a procedure analogous to the judicial. [More…]
It had no executive power whatsoever. [More…]
The only disciplinary power rested with the Senate. [More…]
The judicial power of the Commonwealth shall be vested in a Federal Supreme Court, to be called the High Court of Australia, and in such other federal courts as the Parliament creates, and in such other courts as it invests with federal jurisdiction. [More…]
Certainly there was in the imposition of a term of imprisonment, which was inconsistent with the Constitution of Australia which embodied the judicial power in the High Court and the courts which the Parliament created. [More…]
It is not a judicial body exercising judicial power. [More…]
I think it is clear, if one considers the matter, that the judicial power and the obligation to act judicially are vested essentially in the courts of this land and not in the legislature. [More…]
As investigators they were not exercising a judicial power. [More…]
When one examines tribunals which are not exercising judicial powers one should postulate that above all they should have regard to their responsibilities, to the rights of individuals and act fairly by everybody. [More…]
I do not think it is sustained, if one examines the pattern and record of the House of Commons, whose privileges as they were in 1900 are the privileges of this Senate, that we have contravened what should be the standards of propriety which a Senate, exercising its power to assert its privileges, should observe. [More…]
It was indicated that the Senate had the power, in the enforcement of its privileges, to commit to prison, to fine, to reprimand or otherwise to withdraw facilities held by courtesy of the Senate in and. [More…]
But the fact that we have these rights, does not give us the power to ignore the ordinary concepts of natural justice and the forms of natural justice which have been found by the courts of England and Australia over the ages to be necessary to carry out natural justice. [More…]
Whatever suggestions have been put by Senator Byrne as to the consequences of our omitting to adopt those forms, at least all honourable senators should be congratulating him for giving us an opportunity to review the circumstances, whatever our decision now may be; and not only to review the circumstances, but to realise the potency of the power that we have. [More…]
In at least the immediate short term the balance of less than 1 per cent of the agreements which might be caught up if the Government were to exercise legislation based upon its trade and commerce power need not be considered. [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…]
Operation and the case against the companies relied entirely on the corporations power in section 51 (xx) of the Constitution. [More…]
The High Court did overrule that decision and made it clear that the corporations power can be used to support legislation dealing with restrictive trade practices of corporations. [More…]
However, the Court held that, due to the way in which the Trade Practices Act sought to utilise all the powers believed to be available to sustain the legislation, it was open to legal objection. [More…]
A considerable amount of work and attention has been given to this objective, lt is apparent that as a result of the decision of the High Court, the scope of the Commonwealth power to strengthen the legislation has been widened. [More…]
This holding legislation will be substantially the same as the existing Trade Practices Act save for the amendments required by a consideration of the constitutional defects attributed to it by the High Court’s judgment and the availability of the corporations power contained in section 51 (xx) of the Constitution. [More…]
In 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 remedial legislation should be founded on that corporations power alone. [More…]
That is to say, the legislation will not, at this stage, draw upon the overseas and interstate trade and commerce power or the power to legislate with respect to the Commonwealth’s Territories. [More…]
By relying on the corporations power alone the legislation will be able to avoid problems of the kind disclosed by the High Court’s judgment, and the drafting of a Bill will accordingly be facilitated. [More…]
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…]
It does appear that the High Court is prepared to give the corporations power a reasonably wide meaning and that the power may support legislation that has hitherto been thought to be beyond Commonwealth power. [More…]
by leave - The Opposition welcomes the statement of principle by the High Court, which has indicated that not only in the field of trade practices but also in many other fields the Commonwealth has the power to legislate directly to achieve changes in the operation of the economy. [More…]
Although since the inception of the Constitution power has been granted to the Commonwealth Parliament to legislate with respect to trading and financial corporations formed within the limits of the Commonwealth, the decision of the High Court in 1909 had the practical effect of deterring the Commonwealth Parliament from legislating in that respect because of the belief that the legislative power was virtually useless. [More…]
That decision came under increasing criticism in recent years and we are glad to learn now that that criticism has been justified and that the scope of the Commonwealth power now appears to be very great. [More…]
I think it is healthy for the community that the High Court has not only indicated the legislative power to deal with trade practices but also has incidentally said that the particular enactment is invalid for a drafting reason. [More…]
He said also: lt does appear that the High Court is prepared to give the corporations power a reasonably wide meaning and that the power may support legislation that has hitherto been thought to be beyond Commonwealth power. [More…]
lt was generally anticipated, and has proved to be the case, that the judgment would be of very great significance on the question of the Commonwealth power in respect of corporations and the prospective establishment of a securities and exchange commission. [More…]
It is important that, as quickly as possible, the morass which exists be cleaned up so that the errors of the past cannot be repeated for want of proper legisolation, which is now clearly within the power of this Parliament. [More…]
The limits’ of the power can only be ascertained authoritatively by a course of decision in which the application of general statements is illustrated by example’ . [More…]
But that is a very different thing from setting out to decide at one blow the full ambit of a constitutional power. [More…]
Indeed, to my mind one of the fundamental errors into which the Court was led by the reserved powers doctrine when deciding Huddart Parker v. Moorehead (supra) was the endeavour to do that very thing rather than merely to decide whether the law which it had before it was a law with respect to the topic of granted power. [More…]
In other words, although this judgment goes specifically to the determination of the issue before the Court, nevertheless the Court did advert to the latent authority and power that lie within the corporation head of power in the Constitution. [More…]
But as we move further from the time of the actual setting down of the Constitution, and as there is a consistent and persistent refusal to re-look at the Constitution by way of referenda or constitutional amendment of some kind or another, more and more the area of power is moving from this Parliament into judicial tribunals, and it was left to the High Court to make this very big advance for Australia. [More…]
This advance in the interpretation of power probably more properly should have been left to lie within the province of the legislature if the legislature, under the Constitution, had had the opportunity of so acting. [More…]
I do not think it is a good thing that such powers should be left to reside in the High Court due to the failure of the other constitutional processes to operate and give viability to the Constitution. [More…]
The corporation power in modern life, with the proliferation of corporations and the increasing sophistication of the corporate concept, creates situations which at the moment we cannot altogether conceive, much less imagine, and how this increasing sophistication, married to this re-interpretation of power to deal with the corporation, will emerge in the coming life of Australia is very difficult even to conjecture. [More…]
I can imagine that not only restrictive trade practices or control of consumer selling and things of that nature but also, for example, consumer credit, that is, hire purchase operated through corporations may well be an area in which the Commonwealth finds itself equipped with power and into which it may elect at some time to move, operating under this interpretation and re-interpretation of its power, to bring such operations within the ambit of the banking control of the Commonwealth. [More…]
We have enjoyed the protection of United Kingdom sea and land power in the period of her greatest glory. [More…]
In the previous Budget the Government put money in the hands of the people with the spending power, which was inflationary, and took money away from those who needed it most by increasing indirect taxation. [More…]
But the Government gave this power to the States knowing that it would not meet their need for a growth tax that would keep money flowing into their hands. [More…]
The Government gave this power to the States knowing perfectly well that they would have to increase the rate. [More…]
Today it has been estimated that this Budget means another $1.50 a week decrease in the purchasing power of the ordinary working people of Australia. [More…]
There is a decrease in purchasing power; that is deflationary. [More…]
We will, much more importantly, increase their true value by increasing their purchasing power. [More…]
For example, a week or so ago, I think, 2 aircraft left’ Sydney for Canberra at about 8.30 a.m. and the next aircraft departed at about 11.30 a.m. Can the Minister tell me whether it is in his power to do something about remedying this practice? [More…]
If it is within, his power, is he prepared to do something about it? [More…]
I have great reservations about the power of myself and the Department to enforce any change, but the honourable senator has my assurance that we are doing our best to find whether we can effectively make any changes. [More…]
They were simply and purely political strikes aimed at the very power and authority of government 1 will now cite some recent examples. [More…]
The Concrete Pipes case is a landmark in legal and constitutional history, and I know that the lawyers will be fascinated to see how much more power the Commonwealth has. [More…]
I should like to see a situation in this Parliament similar to that which exists in the House of Commons where the question is not how much power we have and, therefore, to what level we can use it but rather that we see, within the power that we have, how little power we need to use to do our job. [More…]
We should not be seeking to see where we can get more power. [More…]
We should be seeing how we can decentralise functions and power in the best interests of the people of Australia, and that ls not an exercise in the seeking of power. [More…]
In many cases those in authority govern either by arrogance of power or by default. [More…]
He is too interested in the power game. [More…]
1 would like to take this opportunity of heartily congratulating the President (Sir Mangus Cormack) on his elevation to the highest office this chamber has in its power to bestow. [More…]
I want to see the highest wage levels the economy can provide, but the wage has to be effective in purchasing power. [More…]
It will be far better to pursue policies which retain the purchasing power within our personal and national earnings and give the competitive ability to increase our exports of both primary and secondary origin. [More…]
Our cities are becoming so big and so clogged up by the problems of transport and the provision of services, such as water supply, power reticulation and sewerage, that in the process of attempting to cope with those problems they are getting right away from attending to the quality of life, the betterment of the environment and so on. [More…]
I want to say that I donot go along with the criticism that if war broke out and we had a nuclear power station, an Omega station or Pine Gap we would immediately become the target of nuclear weapons. [More…]
But I want to point cut that if there were a nuclear war and we were involved in it, the presence of the Pine Gap or North West Cape establishments, an Omega station or a nuclear power station would not make us the target of nuclear weapons any more than would Sydney, Newcastle, Whyalla and all the other places of industrial richness and wealth in this country. [More…]
I believe that in its wisdom the Government in power will retain it. [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 has ever been in the whole history of Australian pensions. [More…]
Obviously, therefore, the pensions provided in this Budget will have an increased purchasing power. [More…]
Everyone is aware of the numerical arrangement of the new Senate and I suppose everyone is aware of the new arrangement of power within this new Senate. [More…]
So far as lies in our power as a government we arc determined to combat this pernicious trend, slow it down and hobble it. [More…]
We then had the repercussions: The Prime Minister (Mr McMahon) eventually tabled in the other place a confidential document from a foreign power. [More…]
In the light of purchasing power the present prices for wool are lower than at any time in the history of the industry. [More…]
They are not merely, as has been suggested, the lowest since 1947, but in terms of purchasing power they are the lowest prices in the history of the industry. [More…]
Can the Minister for Civil Aviation inform the Parliament whether it is a fact that the 2 major Australian airlines persist with parallel timetables because neither the Department of Civil Aviation nor the Government has constitutional or legal power to compel the airlines to alter their timetables? [More…]
We do not have the constitutional power for price fixing. [More…]
Mining operations within the various States are carried out under the legislation of the State concerned and State mining authorities have the power and are free to impose title conditions requiring that the land be rehabilitated when mining operations cease. [More…]
How much has been spent on the construction of a heavy duty access road to the now postponed nuclear power station site at Jervis Bay? [More…]
From the Minister’s statement it does not appear that the Government is prepared to exercise any of its power and influence to rezone the land. [More…]
Well, we haven’t any power to do so- [More…]
Since we as a Federal Government are providing the finance for the power station which will produce the electricity which Dow Chemicals will use to produce the caustic that is required for the alumina industry at least we can see that some restriction is imposed. [More…]
They also recommended a national approach; that some steps should be taken not necessarily exactly along the lines taken by the Senate Committee but necessarily involving consideration of the question of the extent to which action could be taken under the Commonwealth Constitution either by the Commonwealth or by the Commonwealth and the States acting together to create a national water commission or a national environment body of some sort with sufficient power, sufficient teeth and sufficient incentive to take some action to overcome the problems which have been referred to and which are set out, in startling form, in the reports of the. [More…]
If Mr Howson says that the Commonwealth has no power, I would like to raise again the question whether that is a considered opinion. [More…]
If one takes into account the proposed increases in indirect taxation which will flow back into the cost structure, and add to them the reduction in what may be described as personal disposable income, one must come to the conclusion that there will be a discrepancy between the cost of goods and services, on the one hand, and the availability of purchasing power to consumers on the other hand. [More…]
The survey showed that Australian mining companies spent $1.81 on such undertakings as port development, railways, airstrips, off-mine roads, power and water services for every $1 they expended on actual mine development and product handling facilities in the mining areas. [More…]
No sooner have they proved the justification of their claim for an increase based on past living costs and industry’s ability to pay than we find every manufacturer increasing the price of his commodity and using the false claim of increased wages being the cause, when in fact the actual increase in wages was given to restore the purchasing power of the wage earner, which is being constantly eroded by the policies of this Government. [More…]
Mr Hawke’s only crime is that hs has the ability to more than match the wiles and the schemes of the power hungry upper crust who look upon the workers as a convenience to be used to further their own selfish interests. [More…]
At first the additions to the note issue were moderate; but as prices rose, as the purchasing power of the mark sank both at home and abroad, and as revenue became increasingly inadequate, the outpouring of paper swelled into a flood. [More…]
We would bc in difficulties, I think, if we were to try to save a nation from collapsing as a result of inflation when the pressure is on us to try to preserve the purchasing power of our own economy. [More…]
That the Government’s fiscal and monetary policies will not prevent a further erosion of domestic purchasing power whilst maintaining full employment; [More…]
The second aspect of the Labor Party’s policy which one extracts from other clauses from its platform is that it would clothe the Commonwealth Parliament with plenary powers to achieve national planning objectives and the Party’s economic and social objectives. [More…]
One senses, therefore, that the role which would be ascribed to the States is a role of agents or a role in which there is no effective power and in which the States are wholly subordinate to what the national Parliament decides. [More…]
I think it is regrettable that in the generalised way in which Senator Murphy has moved his amendment he has chosen to give no credence whatever to the very substantial steps which have been taken, the moreso, may I say, when his own Party’s approach is an approach which is cloaked with uncertainty and general words and must be looked at in the light of an overall policy which would repose or concentrate all power in the Commonwealth Government. [More…]
My very elementary knowledge of economics has shown that an inflationary situation is created when there is greater purchasing power than there are goods to purchase. [More…]
Yet the DLP has put this Government in power in the past and, without any doubt, it will support the Government at the next election in an endeavour, this time we believe unsuccessfully, to help it to keep on carrying out policies such as those which are condemned in its amendment. [More…]
That the Government’s fiscal and monetary policies will not prevent a further erosion of domestic purchasing 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…]
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 has ever been in the whole history of Australian pensions. [More…]
In terms of buying power, the basic pension is now considerably higher than it was at the time of the last Budget . [More…]
1 do not know that if the present Opposition happened to be in power it would be able to make a very much different allocation from one of a total of about $2,000m for social services in a Budget of about $8,000m. [More…]
I hope that the Party he represents, when it is in power in any of the States, will take effective action in the local community. [More…]
It has been indicated that expenditure on social services is 15 per cent higher than ft was last year, but I point out that there has been an increase in the purchasing power of the pension. [More…]
Respect has been replaced not by requests but by demands; demands for this and demands for that; demands for power and demands for rights to which children are not entitled. [More…]
Some of them would, of course, but they are pledged to destroy this Senate as an influence and power in the Commonwealth Parliament. [More…]
I think that was an abuse of the power conferred by an urgency motion. [More…]
1 am aware that a decision was given in the Northern Territory Supreme Court yesterday by Mr Justice Forster in regard to an action which was brought by the Attorney-General against certain members of the Legislative Council of the Northern Territory who had purported by resolution to appoint persons with what might be described as ombudsman-like powers. [More…]
The issue which was litigated before the Supreme Court did not relate to Commonwealth constitutional power but to the powers of the Northern Territory Legislative Council. [More…]
In my understanding of the matter, based upon a rough outline of the case and the Press reports, no question arose in that case which affects the powers of Senate committees, insofar as those committees are aids to the exercise of a legislative function. [More…]
If the answer is in the negative, is it a fact that a citizen who has in his possession evidence of sabotage in Australia initiated by a foreign power and who does not give that evidence to the Attorney-General can be charged as an accessory to treason? [More…]
The second misapprehension is that I, as AttorneyGeneral, have a power to release a person who is serving a gaol sentence imposed upon him in accordance with the law. [More…]
I have not that power; nor has any other person, except the Governor-General, that power. [More…]
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that the Queensland Government might find it difficult to provide power at a really competitive rate because of the shortage of State funds and the high interest rates to be paid to the Commonwealth. [More…]
Rates of interest paid on loan assistance provided by the Commonwealth to the States for special projects, such as the Gladstone power station (which projectwas mentioned specifically in the press report), are as set out in agreements between the Commonwealth and the State concerned. [More…]
The Government would have no effective power over expenditure. [More…]
Appreciating the general approach which Senator Gair has consistently followed, I point out that a government in power must have regard to what moneys and resources are available and how much may be allocated to the social services field. [More…]
Irrespective of what government has been in power, pensioners have had a very raw deal. [More…]
I repeat that there has been no evidence over the years, regardless of whether a Labor government or an anti-Labor government has been in power, of a government ever being guilty of over-generosity in this connection. [More…]
I am here because I refused to accept direction from power drunk union bosses who knew less than I do about the economy of the State or the country. [More…]
In fact, I believe that we should do all in our power to encourage within Australia a virile and growing population, generated from our numbers, the better to develop our resources. [More…]
Is the AttorneyGeneral in a position to inform the Seante whether the legislation which has been passed by the New South Wales Parliament in connection with the famous Clutha Development project purports to deal with off-shore territory which is within the legislative power of the Commonwealth or with territory as to which there is a dispute about whether it is within the legislative power of the Commonwealth? [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…]
I have in front of me figures which indicate that the cost to the areas where these divisional offices have been functioning, from the point of view of the spending power of the families in those areas is going to be tremendous. [More…]
Without going into its technicalities, the Broadcasting and Television Act gives certain powers to the Postmaster-General which, of course, are subject to the control of the Parliament. [More…]
There is a power in relation to individuals. [More…]
The power available here is a power strictly confined under section 1 19 of the Act. [More…]
The current seventh stage of television expansion involves the establishment of 38 low power stations. [More…]
The Opposition is not opposed to conscription in principle but it could only use the power in a predetermined and circumscribed situation. [More…]
The necessity of breaking into premises where persons for whom warrants of arrest have been issued are being harboured is, I think, part of the ordinary power which devolves upon a policeman who holds a warrant to arrest. [More…]
States have their priorities with regard to their health services, their education programme, their welfare, and all of those other matters which are State responsibilities and which the direct taxing power will enable them to de:ermine in their own way. [More…]
Under the guise of stabilising State finances, the Bill seeks to hand over to the States the power to collect tax on payroll which, as may be known, was instituted in the national Parliament in 1941. [More…]
A minimum penalty provided by this Act is not liable to reduction under any power of mitigation that would, but for this section, be possessed by the court. [More…]
He said that this might excuse some disorientation and confusion in Australia as to her position in the world and it might encourage some to retreat into a splendid isolation or encourage others to believe that we should build ourselves up into what he describes as a mini-super-power’ with a formidable fleet and with the option of making her own nuclear weapons. [More…]
He says that for some it is the Indonesians, who are certainly very numerous and comparatively close, but how many decades must pass before that inchoate society can develop a political, administrative and social system to enable it to quality as a serious power? [More…]
His conclusion is that a serious threat from any major power would bring other major powers to Australia’s support, and he added: [More…]
We await with interest his suggestion that we should become a mini-super-power. [More…]
Will the Minister take note of the claim by Mr Lang Hancock, a West Australian, that Japan is playing grand scale power politics to get greater control of Australian raw materials? [More…]
In view of the inordinate delays being experienced in respect of the construction of Dartmouth Dam and the precarious position South Australia continually experiences in regard to water supply in time of drought, will the Minister make representations to the Minister for National Development for an early investigation into the possibility of providing a nuclear power station in South Australia so located as to enable that State to have a major water desalination plant and a further power base generally? [More…]
No minority has a right to assume more power for itself than others in the community have. [More…]
We have entered Vietnam and sacrified the loves of young Australian men for the sake of discredited military governments which have taken power as coup has followed coup. [More…]
have sufficient range and striking power to deter any would-be aggressors; and [More…]
At the moment it is not the Labour Party that is in power in Britain, although it will not be long before it is. [More…]
As the United States withdraws militarily from Asia and Britain pulls out its forces, this area will lack a balance of power to offset China. [More…]
We no longer have the assurance that powerful allies will come to our aid in an emergency. [More…]
All this provides a balance of power situation. [More…]
Concern has been expressed about the growing power of other nations and the effect that this may have in time on the stability of the region. [More…]
The Labor Party said that it would abolish national service immediately and would reduce our forces to 28,000 if it came to power. [More…]
But wherever that power threat may be coming from it is still evident in those countries in our near north. [More…]
Undoubtedly there is a role which the Commonwealth can play in endeavouring to coordinate the activities of the States but there certainly is no power, as I sense Senator Mulvihill suggested at one stage, to direct the relevant State Ministers to adopt a particular course. [More…]
On the other hand I he Government has a power that goes beyond the power that any democratic government should hold. [More…]
Whether John Curtin or anyone else had this power, it is wrong for any government to have the power, upon declaration of the GovernorGeneral and without discussion in the Commonwealth Parliament, to declare a state of emergency or a war. [More…]
These powers are too great to give anybody at any time. [More…]
I understood Senator Poyser to say that no government should ever have the power to call up persons for national service or to the defence of their country in a time of emergency. [More…]
Senator Poyser said that unless the Parliament was sitting so that by a process of debate it could determine the merits of the situation no government should have any power to call up persons in the defence of their country. [More…]
I think Senator Murphy would agree that many members of his Party who may at some stage constitute a major part of the party in power will say that an individual has a perfect right to object. [More…]
A person may say: ‘1 will not render national service whilst the McMahon Government is in power’. [More…]
We believe that this power should reside in the State authorities - that is, parole boards and organisations of that character - as in the case of other offenders. [More…]
The effect of the amendment would be to attempt to give the State parole boards the power to release a national service defaulter serving a nonparole period in New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia and Western Australia. [More…]
We submit that it would be unsatisfactory for the administration of the Commonwealth criminal law to have a situation in which 4 States had the power to release a Commonwealth prisoner before the expiration of the full term of imprisonment, that power being vested in a State board. [More…]
I believe that a good deal of the neglect of this problem is because there have been doubts about the constitutional power of the State Government. [More…]
A single national marketing authority would have those powers. [More…]
At present single authorities in other industries have that power. [More…]
The Board has the power to make recommendations regarding the regulations that apply to the export of apples and pears. [More…]
If it is a matter of interest to those in the Senate I would say that the additional power is that it has power to advise and make representations to the Minister on matters affecting the welfare of the apple and pear industry, lt also has power to arrange for or to take any action which, in the opinion of the Board, is likely to lead to an improvement of the quality or prevention of the deterioration of apples during transport; or any action to expand existing or new markets, or to increase and extend the consumption of fruit throughout Australia; or to improve the production of apples and pears in Australia. [More…]
The Board does not have the right to take part in the trade of buying and selling but it has had, through all these years, the power to fix a quota for Australian export gauged upon the basis of the Board’s assessment of the capacity of the European markets to accept our fruit, not merely on an Australian basis but also on a State basis. [More…]
Therefore the Board has been equipped with the power of prohibiting the export of apples that do not come up to the standard and apples that are in excess of what the Board judges to be its export quota. [More…]
The United States of America, like any other power, great or small, will act in a way which it believes is conducive to its own best interests and the interests of its own ruling class, and not for any other reasons. [More…]
In my statement of 7 th September I pointed out that the High Court had held that, due to the way in which the Trade Practices Act sought to use all the constitutional powers believed to be available to sustain the legislation, it was open to legal objection. [More…]
I also pointed out that the High Court had made it 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 re-enactment of provisions that are similar except that, apart from the shipping provisions, they are founded on the corporations powers alone. [More…]
The shipping provisions remain founded on the overseas and interstate trade and commerce power but the other provisions of the Bill do not draw upon that power or 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 I indicated in my 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 redefined 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…]
In Europe today, irrespective of the type of government in power, on balance, the national health systems are much more comprehensive than our own. [More…]
People talk about the power of the Australian Council of Trade Unions. [More…]
It is said - and I think well said - that one of the besetting sins of politicians in power is the sin of pride. [More…]
It is rare that we find people in power who have the humility to admit that first decisions are not always right ones and who are prepared to make necessary changes. [More…]
AH they were taught was the result of using a particular drug and the reaction that a drug would have on a patient when it was prescribed for the relief of pain, or its power to cure certain diseases. [More…]
Therefore, contrary to what the Minister for Air (Senator Drake-Brockman), who represents the Minister for Primary Industry, slated, passage of this clause would mean that we are giving complete power to the Minister to prescribe the support price under such conditions. [More…]
By the operation of the Acts Interpretation Act we are giving the Minister complete power. [More…]
That is all the power the Parliament has been given. [More…]
I think the indications are that the Government has the numbers to defeat the Opposition’s motion, but I seriously suggest to Senator Drake-Brockman that he seek the adjournment of the debate on this clause in order to see whether a wording can be drafted which will give, as the Minister desires lo give, the Parliament the power to fix the support price during the operation of the legislation. [More…]
Mr Chairman, an important matter has arisen in relation to the regulation making powers to be conferred by this legislation. [More…]
Under the regulation making power of what one might call the principal apple and pear industry legislation, that is, the Apple and Pear Organisation Act, certain regulations have been made which deal with the election of the Australian Apple and Pear Board. [More…]
That was an extraordinary use of the regulation making power. [More…]
This illustrates the extent to which the regulation making power has been used. [More…]
That the regulation making power did not extend to conferring such a jurisdiction on the High Court. [More…]
In fact, it is alarming to contemplate that it would be thought that this Parliament, by a regulation making power of that general character, would intend, or be thought to intend, to confer power on the Executive lo confer such a jurisdiction on the High Court of Australia to act as a court of disputed returns in relation to a body such as this. [More…]
I ask the Minister: How much longer will it be before legislation will be introduced under the insurance power of the Commonwealth to regulate and to supervise fire, accident and other insurance companies including particularly those dealing with motor vehicle insurance, in the same way as is done with life assurance companies by Commonwealth law? [More…]
It would not be appropriate for me to express a view on the constitutional power of the Commonwealth Parliament. [More…]
As far as statutory powers are concerned, there is no general provision for the control of mergers. [More…]
In regard to the amount of money cited by the honourable senator as the sum that will be made available in this respect, the Secretary of the Department of Primary Industry has, with the approval of the Minister for Primary Industry, the power to make payments on behalf of the Commonwealth to registered persons for the performance of certain functions. [More…]
Is the Attorney-General in a position to inform the Senate whether the legislation which has been passed by the New South Wales Parliament in connection with the famous Clutha Development project purports to deal with off-shore territory which is within the legislative power of the Commonwealth or with territory as to which there is a dispute about whether it is within the legislative power of the Commonwealth? [More…]
On 30th September Senator Murphy asked me whether 1 could inform the Senate whether the legislation passed by the New South Wales Parliament in connection with the Clutha Development Company’s proposed mining operations south of Si’dney purported to deal with off-shore territory within the legislative power of the Commonwealth or wilh territory as to which there is a dispute about whether it is within the legislative power of the Commonwealth. [More…]
Apart from the well-known proposition that there is a plenary power in the States to make laws for the peace, order and good government of their territory and that in certain circumstances such laws may operate extra-territorially, I think it would be impossible for me to reply without expressing a legal opinion. [More…]
The Commonwealth has clear legislative power in this field and has the assent of the State governments to introduce legislation. [More…]
I ask the Minister: How much longer will it be before legislation will be introduced under the insurance power of the Commonwealth to regulate and to supervise fire, accident and other insurance companies including particularly those dealing with motor vehicle insurance, in the same way as is done with life assurance companies by Commonwealth law? [More…]
We are not asking for perfection, but something ought to have been done to vest the Insurance Commissioner or some body with the power to move in and examine these organisations, to demand answers and, if necessary, to take proceedings in a competent jurisdiction to stop their operating. [More…]
The point I make is that under the Commonwealth Constitution the Commonwealth’s power to make Jaws with respect to insurance is not as comprehensive as is commonly supposed. [More…]
It is not as wide as the power to make laws with respect to banking, to the incorporation of banks and to the issue of money - an area of legislative power which was canvassed in the High Court and in the Privy Council about 25 years ago. [More…]
The power to make laws wilh respect to insurance is a power to make laws with respect to insurance other than State insurance; so there is an immediate problem as to the role of the State government insurance offices and how they fit into any comprehensive scheme which the Commonwealth may undertake. [More…]
All I shall say is that it was in July this year that the Australian Labor Party sought to have, as one of its platform items, a proposal for accident and other insurance to be brought under Commonwealth control and the power and authority of the Commonwealth Insurance Commissioner extended. [More…]
The basic essential is that the Government has indicated that the Commonwealth has the power to pass legislation relating to general insurance. [More…]
I would remind Senator Wheeldon that I am a member of a government which has been in power since 1949. [More…]
It will be some years before the building of the gallery is complete and its work in full 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 business, the Govern ment 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: This is not the intention of the Bill. [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 m 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 definition 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 shareholders. [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…]
Will the AttorneyGeneral give urgent consideration to taking appropriate steps to review, either alone or with his appropriate ministerial colleagues, the protection of Australian ownership and control of the valuable deposits of that vital power resource, uranium, located and to be located in Australia? [More…]
Will he review the Companies (Uranium Mining Companies) Ordinance and either amend that Ordinance or introduce legislation under the corporations power to bring within provisions similar to those in the present Ordinance relating to the Nabarlek uranium deposit all uranium deposits in the Northern Territory and elsewhere in Australia? [More…]
These processes on the part of Britain and of the United States are highlighting one emerging fact in the disposition of world power, particularly as it affects Australia. [More…]
At this stage we must look at Australia’s new and emerging position and see exactly the consequences for this nation in the light of the new disposition of power because the great nations to which I have referred have withdrawn from this part of the world - the friendly nations with whom we have had alliances in war and peace and with whom we have had blood alliances for hundreds of years, since the existence of the Australian nation. [More…]
All that was required was that within a measurable target distance of the mainland of the United States there should be an accommodating power that could provide a launching base for missiles. [More…]
The same position could well develop in South East Asia if China, for example, having a minority ethnic group available to it in some of the countries to our north, as a protecting power tried to subvert any one of these countries by the stimulation of the minority movements in any of them and that country became an accommodating power to China, or to any other nation not friendly to Australia. [More…]
Perhaps the relevance of this is that there may be some stimulation of this type of activity not merely with the takeover by a power hostile to Australia but also with the admission of the People’s Republic of China to the United Nations which gives that nation an aura of international respectability to which smaller nations may, and probably will, respond. [More…]
They will give to Mainland China an accommodation which might provide all these opportunities which otherwise could be provided only by armed control or by national hegemony over the smaller power. [More…]
There are those who say that in no circumstances should Australia be armed with nuclear power. [More…]
I refer to the Five Power Defence Arrangements which came into effect on 1st November. [More…]
I repeat that the announcement regarding the Five Power Defence Arrangements was made after and not before Britain’s decision to enter the EEC. [More…]
Honourable senators will be aware that the governments which make up the Five Power Defence Arrangements - Australia, Britain, Malaysia, New Zealand and Singapore - have expressed their intention of continuing to co-operate closely in defence matters. [More…]
I suggest, bearing in mind what has been set out in the Five Power Defence Arrangements, that the closest British presence is not moving 12,000 miles away but is continuing to stay in our part of the world. [More…]
But the Five Power arrangements are the clearest possible evidence that Britain’s interest in and concern about the security and stability of this part of the world continue unaffected by its decision to join the EEC. [More…]
Britain’s participation in the Five Power arrangements and in SEATO is proof enough. [More…]
It is true that, in the Security Council, the People’s Republic of China will have the power of veto. [More…]
But that power is in the hands also of other permanent members including our close friends, Britain and the United States. [More…]
So, Mainland China’s seat on the Security Council is not something which gives it great power in isolation. [More…]
The General Assembly, in which the People’s Republic of China will have a place also, has the power of recommendation only. [More…]
I fail to see what difference this has made to Britain’s political and military position in South East Asia - a declining position resulting from the declining power of a former imperial colossus. [More…]
The tendency has been for Britain to settle down as a medium sized European power and to get out of its world entanglements. [More…]
It’s there in the new patterns of power. [More…]
The same is increasingly true of our power to influence international agreements covering world trade and payments . [More…]
The significance of the United Kingdom decision is that we now see being created in Europe a huge world ‘force, a new super power - indeed, it might be said, a power capable of exercising enormous economic, political and, if need be, military power in the world, lt will be a power equal to, if not greater than, that of the United States, of the Soviet Union, of the People’s Republic China, if it seeks to be a super power, and of Japan. [More…]
In a world of growing super powers, if we were to assume that these 4 countries are super powers, Europe will be a fifth super power. [More…]
This will be a power of great economic strength. [More…]
I believe that we and others will suffer short term disadvantages but that in the long run - this is what we must interest ourselves in - the development of the European Economic Community into a community of 10 nations will exercise a balance of power influence throughout the world. [More…]
The Press release continued: development of adequate naval power; encouragement of domestic manufacture of aircraft so that we are not dependent on overseas supplies or parts and components; development of an Australian nuclear capacity so that we can produce our own nuclear deterrent should future events demand it. [More…]
He wants to create a military power in our region, despite the fact that peace loving nations do not want Japan armed. [More…]
My leader, Senator Gair, went on a television programme the other night and pointed out the necessity for it, with 2 major powers armed to the teeth as Russia and China are in the Pacific area. [More…]
If we are sensible we are inevitably led to the fact, whatever the consequences are, that Japan, which is a free agent, which has a population of 100 million people and which is the greatest economic power in the area, has to take steps to arm itself - unless we go there and prevent the Japanese from rearming - to compete with those major powers that are not friendly towards it and which are so close to its shores [More…]
I cannot escape the feeling that has been expressed by economists in the United Kingdom and by some members of the Labor Party in that country that because the centralising power in a federation or a confederation of nations, whatever one may call it, is overwhelming, there is the desire and the force to concentrate industries in the nations in the centre. [More…]
Yet persistently, throughout the years that Prince Souvanna Phouma, a Social Democrat, has been in power in Laos, he has maintained that Communist China should be admitted to the United Nations. [More…]
The same situation applies to Russia in relation to these matters, because Australia is geographically situated under an arc of 4 great powers - America, Russia, Japan and China. [More…]
Japan is feared because of its growth in power inside Asia. [More…]
Let us make no mistake about it: At this time members of that Party represent the power in Australia. [More…]
They are the power behind the Government of this country. [More…]
We are not at all opposed in principle to the idea of a managed international reserve asset based on some concept such as SDR’s, 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…]
Coupled with the Country Party’s fading power as its rural chickens come home to roost, could this move be construed as a final desperate attempt to hold the Party together long enough to secure a few votes at the next Federal election, or is it perhaps an indication that Mr Anthony- [More…]
Can a citizen be charged as an accessory to treason if he has evidence of sabotage by a foreign power and fails to disclose it to the authorities. [More…]
Australia has a reputation abroad as 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…]
What does our intrepid Government pit against this massive framework of economic, social and political power? [More…]
In his book ‘Australian Monopoly Law’, Dr Geoffrey Walker refers to the 200 firms holding the bulk of economic power in the business sector of the economy, and tells how this aggregate of power has not gone unexercised. [More…]
During the drafting of the Trade Practices Act, this power was seemingly used to great effect. [More…]
We have been doing everything in our power to restrain the underlying forces which have caused these price movements. [More…]
In his last report, Mr Bannerman implicitly condemns the Act because it did not give him the power to act against BHP in this matter of great national interest. [More…]
How does the Prime Minister reconcile his statement which I quoted earlier with the Commissioner’s saying that the Act does not give him power to act against monopolies which take secret boardroom decisions to affect the whole economy, decisions which, as this one did, lifted inflation to a new plateau? [More…]
A larger staff would also greatly magnify the power of disclosure by the agency, an effective weapon against these practices. [More…]
The Tribunal has power to prohibit or to dissolve mergers, local or international; lt requires that interlocking directorships be registered, and has the power to prohibit them where the Tribunal is satisfied such an arrangement would have the effect of, or is likely to have the effect of. [More…]
1 agree that the Government must hold this power and for that reason I support the Bill. [More…]
It returns the power of the legislation virtually to where it was before but it establishes that the Tribunal can use its power. [More…]
It is significant thai this is perhaps the first statute which has been expressly related to corporation power, more particularly in the light of its new interpretation or re-interpretation by the High Court. [More…]
One does not know in the future how far the application of this re-interpretation, this relook or even this first time look at this power, might go or ultimately what the repercussions will be for Australia. [More…]
It has a limited basis and I understand that it covers no new ground, lt rests mainly on the finance and corporation power given to the Commonwealth in the Constitution. [More…]
I am informed also that the power over shipping and the power over retail price maintenance are not in question as a result of the High Court decision. [More…]
We do not accept that the Government should have been starting from scratch on 3rd September, which is the day on which the High Court of Australia said that the Government had power under the corporations power of the Constitution to do what it formerly believe it did not have the power to do. [More…]
The real and essential difference is that this legislation proceeds upon the power which the High Court declared the Commonwealth Government had as a basis to sustain trade practices legislation, namely, the power to make laws with respect to trading and financial corporations formed within the limits of the Commonwealth and with respect to foreign corporations. [More…]
Accordingly, legislation which is based upon the corporations power is effective to cover more than 99 per cent of the agreements which have been registered with the Commissioner. [More…]
What has been left out of this Bill and what was purported to be included in the earlier Act were the provisions which might be brought in where they are arrangements made between individuals engaged in interstate trade and commerce or activities in the State of Tasmania - which had of course referred this head of power to the Commonwealth - which when engaged in by individuals amounted to the practices or the agreements which were controlled by this legislation. [More…]
If what the Attorney-General says is so, my feeling is that we ought to delete the clause from the Bill because the High Court has said that the Australian Industries Preservation Act is a valid Act, that it is within the scope of the constitutional power and that it is an Act that contained wise provisons that, in later times, seemed to have given some promise of protection to the public against various restrictive practices. [More…]
Afer all this time we have this certainty which I understand was the guts of the High Court decision: Whatever else was justifiable, the Australian Industries Preservation Act was justifiable under the corporations power. [More…]
It is within the constitutional power of the Commonwealth and it is directed right on this subject. [More…]
In answer to Senator Murphy I can only say that I shall certainly give consideration as to whether this is the appropriate or best course to follow in relation to power to remove members of the Tribunal. [More…]
I think there should be such a power vested in someone when the strengthen legislation is brought in. [More…]
In the Tasmanian Breweries Pty Ltd case the High Court determined, putting it shortly, that the Trade Practices Tribunal is not a court or that the members of the Trade Practices Tribunal are not exercising judicial power. [More…]
Even though as a matter of strict law administrative tribunals may not determine rights, so that it becomes a question of whether they are exercising judicial power, they do nevertheless make decisions which lead ultimately to the determination of rights of individuals. [More…]
In this section - monopolization’ 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 or 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 businesses. [More…]
Monopolisation will be defined, broadly speaking, as acquiring or using monopoly power with the intention of preventing a person from entering or expanding a business, or in a manner that is unreasonable and detrimental to consumers of goods or services. [More…]
Monopoly power, for this purpore, will be defined as the power to fix, or influence substantially, the market price of any kind of goods or services, or to prevent persons entering or expanding businesses. [More…]
Mere possession of monopoly power would noi of course be unlawful. [More…]
- I have already said that in this scheme the Government has concentrated on harmful acts, rather than upon the mere possession of power to do them, and what i propose in relation to monopolies as such will be in conformity with this view. [More…]
So Sir Garfield Barwick was talking about the acts which a person who holds monopoly power engages in and not the mere possession of a monopoly. [More…]
I imagine that he would say that when he proposes that a person who engages in monopolisation shall be guilty of an offence, he is taking account of something more than a mere possession of monopoly power. [More…]
But on the other hand, his definition is simply: monopoly powers’ 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 businesses. [More…]
If ‘monopolisation’ means simply ‘acquiring or using monopoly power’, it is difficult to know what acts the honourable senator is particularly concerned with. [More…]
Is the possession of monopoly power and the selling of goods by a monopolist in itself an offence? [More…]
A second point I make - and I think this a fundamental point - is that under the definition of monopolisation which Senator Murphy has advanced and the offence which he has created, is it an offence for anybody who has monopoly power to sell goods? [More…]
Monopolisation means acquiring or using monopoly power with certain intentions. [More…]
If a person has a monopoly power, which is simply the power to fix or to influence substantially the market price of any kind of goods, then it appears to me that every time such a person sells goods he is engaging in the practice of monopolisation. [More…]
The question is the principle of whether there should be a law against monopolisation, that is, the conduct of 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. [More…]
They are the very words that were used by Sir Garfield Barwick in his proposals to the Parliament, as are the words ‘monopoly power means the power to fix or influence substantially the market price of any kind of goods and.’ [More…]
I do not know whether I correctly understood the Attorney-General, but I cannot believe that the mere fact that a person has monopoly power in itself in the reading of this section would preclude him from trading without offending the provision. [More…]
It would appear to me that the provision contemplates that there must be first of all the existence of monopoly power and the intention to exercise it contrary to the statute. [More…]
I am fully conscious of the arguments which may be raised but I suggest to the Senate that the language used by Senator Murphy makes the holding of monopoly power the real criterion of whether offences will flow, because sub-clause (2), which defines monopolisation as 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, is tremendously difficult of interpretation. [More…]
I raise the question of whether the mere selling of goods and engaging in business does not, ipso facto, flowing from the holding of monopoly power, amount to the practice of monopolisation. [More…]
I know that the Parliamentary Counsel and an officer of my Department spent 5 weeks doing that and nothing else with a view to tying this legislation to the corporation power. [More…]
This matter is a little like that provision in section 141 of the Conciliation and Arbitration Act in which the Commonwealth Industrial Court is given power to make an order. [More…]
The short answer to his question is that from the Government’s viewpoint there have been no alterations of material substance to the provisions of this legislation other than those alterations which it has been necessary to make to justify the legislation under the corporations power which the High Court found the Commonwealth had. [More…]
It was argued that there should not be a restriction to the inducement being by way of any express or implied threat or promise because it would not be necessary for a representative of one of the large chain stores or somebody who had a huge purchasing power to make a threat or promise. [More…]
These buyers are big; they have the power. [More…]
In this section - court’ includes any tribunal, authority or person having power to require the production of documents or the answering of questions; produce’ includes permit access to and ‘production’ has a corresponding meaning. [More…]
On 6th October I asked the Minister whether he would make representations to the Minister for National Development concerning the possibility of providing a nuclear power station in South Australia, so located as to enable that State to have a major sea water desalination plant and a further source of power. [More…]
With regard to the use of a nuclear power station in South Australia, the main problem is that at present nuclear power plants are economical only in quite large unit sizes. [More…]
Therefore there are some basic difficulties associated with the introduction of nuclear power generating in South Australia, at least in the near future. [More…]
It is possible that the development of this field could provide the necessary resources of power for the broad-based industrial development of the Pilbara region. [More…]
It is a power field that would support some immense technical recovery complex in that part of Western Australia with steel mills and activities of that kind. [More…]
This power field would also be contiguous to the great Pilbara iron ore region which is being developed by many people. [More…]
Yet, the control of the power resource in this area on this takeover would necessarily pass - and this is acknowledged - out of Australian hands. [More…]
Therefore, action being within Commonwealth power the action was able to be taken. [More…]
That process has not been available in other company cases because of the limitations of constitutional power. [More…]
With the re-interpretation of the corporation power, as given by the High Court in the concrete pipes case decision, there is now possibly a vast constitutional field available to the Commonwealth Government which has not been explored. [More…]
Woodside, at this stage, had as cash in hand, as calling power and as unpaid premium for Burmah’s shares, sufficient funds to carry through its share of the exploration programme for about two years. [More…]
It could be a cheap form of power for iron ore and bauxite plants and it could also be shipped to Japan or the West Coast of the United States’, he stated. [More…]
If you will listen, 1 am saying that to my mind this is equivalent to the dispensation which occurred in the 17th century when the British Government was claiming the power to be able to apply the law to some and to dispense with the law in respect of others. [More…]
There was put into this legislation nothing which was not in the earlier legislation, except the transitional provisions which were necessary and the provisions which brought it under the corporations power of the Commonwealth, a power which the High Court declared that we had. [More…]
At that time income tax commenced, having regard to purchasing power, at a higher level of income than at present. [More…]
That the committee have power to send for persons, papers and records, to move from place to place, and to meet and transact business notwithstanding any prorogation of the Parliament. [More…]
At the formation of the Commonwealth the Constitution gave power to the Commonwealth Parliament to legislate on marriage and divorce. [More…]
It is interesting that for 60 years the Commonwealth, whilst clothed with the power to act, left the matter of matrimonial causes to the States. [More…]
Whilst the Commonwealth had the power in that period, it acted first in 1959 in the field of divorce legislation and it was a long time before it took a grip of this very important matter. [More…]
This has been a sensitive field in the operation of Commonwealth constitutional law in the conferring of power on other judicial bodies and it is one which has come under constant judicial scrutiny. [More…]
There have been many distrubances where tribunals have purported to be vested with judicial power and it has been found to be extra legem the Constitution. [More…]
of the Constitution this Parliament has power to invest any court of a State with federal jurisdiction. [More…]
I think the basic point in reply to Senator Durack is that the parties to the litigation which occurs before the courts now know as a result of the decision of the High Court that if they seek to have ancillary relief recorded by a registrar or a master that relief will not be worth the expenditure of money which is required in obtaining it, because the High Court has indicated that there is no power in the registrars and the masters to accord that relief. [More…]
This formula for establishing the effect of purported decrees was adopted because it has been assumed that the Commonwealth Parliament does not have the power to validate purported decrees. [More…]
To try to do that would be in effect to leave the decision open to the challenge that it was an exercise of a judicial or a quasi judicial power by a parliament which did not possess the judicial power. [More…]
However, the Parliament can establish, by the marriage and divorce and matrimonial causes powers, by force of legislation, by a legislative declaration, the rights, liabilities, obligations and status that the parties would have had if the purported decrees had been valid. [More…]
Indeed, I might say that in our Party we have had the feeling that perhaps the Constitution should be amended to provide that the Parliament ought to be able to make a retiring age for judges who are in the category of exercising the judicial power of the Commonwealth. [More…]
It is provided that the disciplinary powers which the court traditionally exercises over members of the legal profession shall be standardised, so that a court of not less than 3 judges will henceforth deal with disciplinary matters. [More…]
The Bill takes account of the fact that there is now more than one judge in the Australian Capital Territory and, accordingly, the rule-making power which is traditionally vested in judges of the court will be vested in all the judges of the Supreme Court of the Australian Capital Territory. [More…]
It is within our power to pass a simple amendment. [More…]
This year we will spend$1, 252.4m among the Army, the Navy, the Air Force and the Department of Defence - all to create power to kill and all to create warlike activities. [More…]
Although we state that that power will never be used as an act of aggression, that is the power. [More…]
If we continue to equip ourselves with arms for the purpose of destruction the time must come when we will need those arms, and at that time we will have to hope to God that we are more powerful than our enemy. [More…]
If a situation should arise in which atomic power is used there would be no defence against it so our expenditure would have been wasted. [More…]
I ask the Minister representing the Postmaster-General: Is there any power in the Broadcasting Control Board to prevent the gross intrusion into the comfort of television viewers by screaming commercial advertisements many decibels of sound above the level prevailing in the programme being viewed? [More…]
If there is power, will the Board take steps to ensure that commercial advertisements are presented at a sound level which does not require the viewer to leap at the set in an attempt to reduce the volume? [More…]
The more the mass media discuss current events the more difficult will he their relation-hips wilh the possessors of power . [More…]
The honourable senator knows, because he is probably one of the best informed people in this chamber on what are the powers and the statutory duties of the Commission, that it is an independent Commission.I have a copy of the Broadcasting and Television Act with me. [More…]
He knows that section 59 gives a complete power to the Commission to determine its own programmes. [More…]
This step is justified on 2 grounds: Firstly, it would immediately inject more purchasing power into the hands of the unemployed and those on pensions at a time of prospective rapid growth in unemployment. [More…]
If members of the Labor Party are genuine and want to reduce unemployment, and want to increase the real purchasing power of the Australian people’s money, while they cannot put forward a blueprint of policies to be helpful perhaps they could listen while we do so. [More…]
I have not heard one member of the Labor Party speak of attempts to reduce the level of unrest, but by doing so the Labor Party could increase the purchasing power of the ordinary working person. [More…]
I am not referring to the purchasing power of the manager or the boss but of the ordinary working person. [More…]
If we are to produce a blueprint for success, if we want to help the wage and salary earners to get larger pay packets, greater purchasing power and to share in a genuine way in the profits, our task is to work together on a plan that will reduce industrial unrest to a minimum and expose class conflict as an ugly and fallacious thing. [More…]
If the means test were alleviated this would do more to assist in controlling inflation than a sudden infusion of increased purchasing power amongst other pensioners. [More…]
I am not suggesting that I am against giving pensioners more purchasing power at this time; I am merely drawing the comparison to show that one course can be far more inflationary than the other. [More…]
Of course, we see an Opposition which has had no power in this country for more than 20 years. [More…]
1 wonder what the Socialists did when they were in power in Britain not so long ago. [More…]
They maintained during the whole of their power in Britain an unemployment pool of something in the vicinity of that figure. [More…]
But I hope that whoever happens to be in power in this country will take the opportunity to see that he makes himself well known to other countries, particularly those which have an association with our economy. [More…]
It was natural that as the head of a recently formed government 1 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…]
But we should not forget that this great revolutionary power in Asia still holds fast publicly to its policies, including its support of national liberation movements. [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…]
1945 and the Snowy Mountains Hydroelectric Power Bill 1949, both introduced by the Chifley Government. [More…]
Stage 5 Extensions of the Stokes Hill Power Station, Darwin; [More…]
On 6th October 1971 legislation was assented to which transferred to the States from the Commonwealth the power to impose payroll tax. [More…]
What incentive does the Federal Government offer to car manufacturers to induce them to place emphasis on safety in cars rather than on speed, power and glamour? [More…]
Does the Government have power to lay down strict legislative controls over car designs so that a positive trend towards safe construction could evolve? [More…]
If not, will the proposed amendments to the Act provide for this power? [More…]
The Trade Practices Act 1965-1971 does not at present provide for a power of direction of the kind referred to in the question. [More…]
Whether it is desirable that it should provide such a power is a matter that will be considered in the comprehensive review of the legislation that is currently being undertaken by the Government. [More…]
This power has now been passed over lo State instrumentalities. [More…]
The Commonwealth has power to legislate for the assistance of Aborigines, lt was granted that power by a referendum of the people of the Commonwealth. [More…]
I think the Commonwealth should adequately take care of our indigenous people as an entirely separate entity under the special powers granted to it by referendum. [More…]
It is in the power of the States to decide who should gain these rental rebates. [More…]
So far as lies in our power as a government we are determined to coinb-.il this pernicious trend, slow it down and hobble it. [More…]
Clause 10 provides for the insertion of a new section in the Aci (section 48n), 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 properly 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 mortgage has created some very real administrative difficulties and sometimes’ results in a loss of moneys to the Commonwealth. [More…]
The approach of members of the Australian Labor Party is shown in the fact that, without any consultation or preceding conference, they advance that proposition, which involves such a transition of power from the States to the Commonwealth, as an amendment to a Bill that simply provides for a small feature, namely, increasing the provision for non-academic salaries by a mere $5m over the next triennium. [More…]
I referred to clause 8 to show that the Governor-General has power to make regulations under clause 5. [More…]
The meat of my argument was in respect of clause 5 which gives the Minister power to act. [More…]
1 am not opposed to power being granted to someone if circumstances alter between the time legislation is passed and the time of payment, but Parliament is not laying down any circumstances. [More…]
Whilst we decide tonight on the amount that should be paid to each individual State and how that amount should be allocated among Catholic schools, non-Catholic independent schools and government schools we give the Minister - and that means his Department - the overriding power to veto everything we do tonight as long as- [More…]
I am suggesting that although we are allocating the amount which we think should go to Catholic schools, which are nongovernment schools, and to non-Catholic nongovernment schools, the Minister would have power to veto the allocation upon which the Parliament had agreed. [More…]
The fallacy of that argument is that the Parliament does not lay down any rigid classifications, except as to the government sector and the non-government sector, lt lays down 2 things, lt gives the Minister power to allocate S30m over a period of 3 years, but it restricts that to an allocation of $1Om each year. [More…]
I thought Senator Murphy was very definite that if the Australian Labor Party came to power it would look after government schools first and then the non-government schools would get what was left over. [More…]
That is the classic boycott and it represents what I would categorise as being a blatant misuse of industrial power. [More…]
Section 61 lays down specific limitations on the Commission’s power to spend money without the approval of the Minister. [More…]
If people are given independence and postwar they will exercise independence and power. [More…]
And I can think of nothing worse than for this party to gain greater power and greater sway over the people of Australia who don’t think about its future relations with the rest of the world. [More…]
He said that he has no power. [More…]
The ABC says: “Mind your own business as you have no power, even with regard to financial issues’. [More…]
Indeed it is, because it involves an examination of the language of the Broadcasting and Television Act, the obligations of the Commission and, to some extent, the rights and powers of the Senate and the powers of -the Estimates committees which have been constituted. [More…]
Parliament indicated when it established the Australian Broadcasting Commission that it was giving to the Commission complete power to determine the programmes of the ABC. [More…]
That power is clearly set out in section 59 of the Act. [More…]
It gives to the Postmaster-General certain powers which he could exercise and for which he would undoubtedly be responsible to the Parliament. [More…]
Amendments passed by Parliament this year indicated that the power of supervision was given to the AuditorGeneral. [More…]
The Auditor-General had very wide and far-reaching powers as to how and where he could investigate. [More…]
I submit that Parliament is the only body that could be entrusted with this power. [More…]
I think Parliament should be entrusted with that power, otherwise we would have a public corporation that was subject to no censures, subject to no restrictions, subject to no circumscription. [More…]
I think that Parliament should be scrupulous in trying nol necessarily to divest itself of power, because it probably already has that power, but to bring that power into operation and to indicate to this proliferation of public corporations - quite a number have been created in this country in more recent years in addition to those that have been operating for some years - that Parliament will, have the on-going scrutiny of their operations, of their purpose and of their practice. [More…]
I sense that possibly his remarks were couched more widely than he would couch them upon reflection, because he indicated that the Parliament should not abandon its power of scrutiny. [More…]
The matter has to be treated with some care because if the Parliament, by an Act, has established a corporation and has delineated the powers and functions of that corporation, I would think the Parliament would respect the rights of persons to act under that charter given by the Parliament. [More…]
for example, the commissioners - or the General Manager - of the Australian Broadcasting Commission believe that they are acting in accordance with the law, in accordance with an Act of Parliament, they may question whether there are any express or implied powers for one House of the Parliament to interfere with that which the law has accorded them. [More…]
but if certainly has an area which should make one chamber of the Parliament cautious before it asserts too widely, using too broad a brush, the power to investigate and to scrutinise the operations or the finances of an independent corporation. [More…]
Much the same point might be made in respect of the analogy which Senator Murphy drew because the Senate in requiring the Parliament to fix the salaries ami other remunerations of officers expressly appointed by the Parliament did so by virtue of its power as one of the 2 Houses of Parliament. [More…]
It should be recognised that the way in which the ABC is constituted is such that the Commission itself has the complete plenary and managerial power in respect of the affairs of the Australian Broadcasting Commission. [More…]
The General Manager of the ABC has no powers except those delegated to him by the Commission. [More…]
While we can all have our opinions as to whether or not the ABC discharges its responsibilities in the way that we think best, we must recognise also that we all have the power to criticise and maybe that was the intention that Parliament had originally. [More…]
Part of that common law is that the Parliament or either House of the Parliament is vested with the power to investigate, to scrutinise and to require explanations and details of expenditure of any public moneys, including the public moneys which are expended by any statutory corporation. [More…]
I do not doubt that a committee of 6 or even 5 senators could operate just as effectively because it would have the power and authority to carry out an investigation and would provide a forum to which people could come to present their ideas and make submissions. [More…]
If under the Migration Act the Government, following a selective migration policy, can subsidise the fare of a British migrant to Australia, it has the power to subsidise the fare to Australia of an Indian, an Asian or someone else. [More…]
and (2) The Government has no power to control the terms of private mortgage contracts. [More…]
But obviously the States must be circumscribed by the constitutional limitations of their power. [More…]
It could have recommended the use of constitutional power to give ihe Commonwealth an overall disciplinary control of water pollution that would go, perhaps, to pollution of the environment generally. [More…]
It was thought that by co-ordination and by calling upon all the available powers or fragments of power under many of the place ta of the Constitution, this would be effected. [More…]
In starting may I say that, in terms of the environment as a subject matter of constitutional power, the Commonwealth has no direct legislative powers whatsoever. [More…]
If those incidental matters cannot be relied upon, there is very little the Commonwealth can do as there is no power available to it to legislate. [More…]
But the position is that, under our Constitution, the power to make laws with regard to air pollution, water pollution, and the environment generally is essentially disposed to the States. [More…]
I would say, taking what Senator Byrne has said as the very basis on which to make worthy comment, that if there is divided authority in the States as to the various bodies which have responsibility in this area it is much more difficult in the Commonwealth area where, lacking the constitutional power, it is necessary to look at the incidental work of other bodies. [More…]
It is suggested that there is no opportunity for Commonwealth action because the Constitution does not provide the power which would be necessary.In answer to that argument, I point out that one of the recommendations of the Senate Select Committee on Water Pollution was that there should be, firstly, a quantitative assessment of the past, present and future pollution situation in Australia and, secondly, a continuing assessment of water resources. [More…]
There is no reason at all for saying that the Commonwealth has not the power. [More…]
The second aspect in relation to which the Commonwealth could take action, notwithstanding any limitations that there may be in relation to its constitutional power, is the techniques for abatement and control. [More…]
The Committee has been presented with problems and possible solutions necessarily involving consideration of the distribution of constitutional power. [More…]
That recommendations should be made for desirable Commonwealth action within the areas that are fully, and indisputably within Commonwealth power and responsibility. [More…]
That evidence presented to the Committee tended to establish firmly that the Commonwealth has, through a coalescence of Commonwealth power in the fields of taxation, defence, external affairs, meteorology, fisheries, quarantine, and other fields, sufficient legislative competence to lay down and enforce a national approach through Commonwealth legislation alone. [More…]
Anyone who is aware of the set-up in Japan will know that that country is tremendously keen on this source of power. [More…]
The main sources of power in Australia for both now and the future are very well held in our own hands as raw material for power generation. [More…]
In effect, what we have in Australia under a federal system of government is joint responsibility and joint power, which in effect is the situation for which honourable senators have been asking. [More…]
They have been asking for a national fuel policy; but, in reality, if we were to accept the Labor Party’s proposition we would be required to take from the State governments all their power over fuel matters and to put them in the hands of the Commonwealth. [More…]
Thai the Committee is of the opinion that the Government should prepare urgently and implement a national fuel and power policy. [More…]
That the Committee is of the opinion that the Government should prepare urgently and implement a national fuel and power policy. [More…]
His speech was directed not towards the reduction of $1 but towards the need for a national fuel and power policy. [More…]
When they listened to the debate they properly observed that they did not come here equipped to take part in a general debate on a national fuel and power policy. [More…]
That the Committee is of the opinion that the Government should prepare urgently and implement a national fuel and power policy. [More…]
The Government is to prepare urgently and implement a national fuel and power policy. [More…]
There are significant and important difficulties in this matter which relate to uranium, coal, oil, gas and one might even say timber and various sorts of fuel and power. [More…]
Does it relate to Australia’s negotiating position and the policy it should adopt in relation to the export of our fuel and power resources or does it mean exploitation for domestic purposes? [More…]
I do so as an instruction to the Government to prepare urgently and implement a national fuel and power policy [More…]
Labor will stimulate the growth of nuclear technology, particularly by the earliest possible Com monwealth initiative to establish nuclear power stations using enriched uranium in reactors of basically similar design. [More…]
It certainly should have been no surprise to anyone that we would come here and move that this estimate be reduced by $1, exactly as the Australian Labor Party did in the other place on 4th November, as an instruction to the Government to prepare urgently and implement a national fuel and power policy. [More…]
That the Committee is of the opinion that the Government should prepare urgently and implement a national fuel and power policy. [More…]
I ask the Leader of the Government in the Senate: Will the Prime Minister indicate whether the Governement proposes to make an attempt to bring to an end the tragic war between the Asian” powers India and . [More…]
Will the Prime Minister consider taking the initiative with an approach to Australia’s partners in the Five Power Agreement, and perhaps Indonesia and the Philippines, to see whether a joint approach by the nations of this region can assist in bringing this tragic war to a speedy conclusion? [More…]
By way of preface I refer to a dispute existing in New South Wales between graziers and the National Parks and Wildlife Service, concerning the alleged proliferation of dingoes in the Barrington Tops National Park, In view of certain reservations on the part of the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation about aerial bait dropping, has the Minister any power, if he is of the same opinion as the conservationists, to . [More…]
The Commonwealth has very little direct power in that respect. [More…]
afraid that 1 cannot give Senator Mulvihill any help on the question he raised about nuclear power stations, the problems at Lucas Heights arid monitoring to establish the necessary levels of purity in the rivers. [More…]
It is all very well for the honourable senator who knows that if his Party were in office it would use every power to push this or that chap out of his business. [More…]
We are continually giving away the power of the Parliament in some of the Bills that are presented in this place. [More…]
We ak giving away our authority as a Parliament and handing it over to the civil servants, and they are get:ing a financial recognition of being the more powerful organisation. [More…]
However, we find evidence of such power in much of the legislation of this Parliament. [More…]
I only hope that I can contribute something to restore the power of Parliament during my period here. [More…]
We have to readjust our thinking and our actions on this question until by the exercise of our power and authority we reach a stage of respectability, and until we get justice. [More…]
The Parliament has the power to disallow regulations and this authority is part of our Parliamentary institution. [More…]
This Department seems to lack power to engage in any emergency operations. [More…]
The administration of the Department of Labour and National Service is concerned with matters of fair wages and conditions throughout the community and especially the execution of the laws made by the Parliament under the conciliation and arbitration power for the settling of those industrial disputes which extend interstate and generally concern wages and conditions. [More…]
Full employment can contribute to inflation by generating sectional labour shortages, by strengthening the bargaining power of organised labour and by creating market conditions which facilitate price increases. [More…]
The comment I make is that the Commonwealth has no power to control private employment agencies. [More…]
One of the features that struck me most, about the Government’s proposals in this field is that, while advocating an increase in and a greater emphasis on the conciliation aspect of conciliation and arbitration, the Government has also proposed that even though parties - unions and employers - should manage in the conciliation process to reach some agreement as to appropriate wage rates there should still be a power in the Commonwealth to intervene and appeal to the presidential members of the Commonwealth Conciliation and Arbitration Commission against such an negotiated agreement on the justification of the public interest being affected. [More…]
Why the constant appeals to the masses of people - included amongst them ourselves - to restrain their appetites and to withhold their demands into a distant future when a readily available taxation power which could be used against the exhorters of restraint is left on the shelf? [More…]
What we should do before we make any decision on any of these things, if the Commonwealth Parliament has not the power - I do not think it has under the Constitution - to impose, a moratorium on all high incomes, is to get together collectively in the interests of the Australian people and devise ways and means, by referendum if need be, to give the Commonwealth Parliament powers to impose restrictions on the earning of high incomes. [More…]
So that the goods will not eat their heads off in storage charges the Director has power to sell. [More…]
exercise certain powers. [More…]
The sort of powers that are referred to are to erect a dwelling house, to purchase land, to purchase a dwelling house, to complete a partially erected dwelling house, to enlarge a dwelling house and to discharge any mortgage. [More…]
In lieu of that power of the Director being subject to general directions on policy given in writing by the Minister from time to time, the Labor Party conjures up a most fantastic amendment, namely, that the Minister can operate in respect of those administrative or managerial matters only insofar as there are regulations. [More…]
At that stage, I pointed out the difficulties that the Opposition felt were involved in establishing a commission with a restricted power as was envisaged in the relevant legislation, the Australian Wool Commission Act. [More…]
This body must have adequate power, in the constitutional sense. [More…]
It must deal with the abuses which have been widespread in the industry and to this end have the power to investigate nationally and follow up effectively. [More…]
This has been the history of the price of wool over the years this Government has been in power. [More…]
At end of motion add: but the Senate is of the opinion (hat the national interest requires that an authority be invested with all necessary power to dispose of Australia’s accumulated wool rapidly and in such a way us to restore confidence in the future of the wool industry, and that such authority be a single statutory, marketing authority and that it be empowered to acquire and appraise the entire wool clip, and the Australian Wool Board and the Australian Wool Commission be dissolved and that their responsibilities be undertaken by such authority. [More…]
The Australian Wool Commission already has the power to dispose of accumulated stocks. [More…]
Not only does it contribute to employment but it means that workers and their families who have had a lifetime in isolated areas will be required to seek employment in the metropolitan area, thereby creating a demand on ail the community services provided in the metropolitan area - houseing, water supply, sewerage, power, roads and other services, in addition to schooling for their children. [More…]
Notwithstanding the interjection from Senator Marriott I repeat that this can be attributed to the maladministration of the Government in power today. [More…]
It is very much in our wishes that the salaries appropriate to these very distinguished public officials should have been proceeded with unimpeded according to justice and relative to other determinations which have been made by arbitral tribunals and bodies that have the power to fix wages. [More…]
The Committee shall have power to appoint sub-committees consisting of three or more of its members, and to refer to any such subcommittee any of the matters which the Committee is empowered to consider. [More…]
The Committee or any sub-committee shall have power to send for and examine persons, papers and records, to move from place to place, and to meet and transact business in private and public, notwithstanding any prorogation of the Parliament. [More…]
As Constitutional power to legislate for such an authority resides in the Stales, it is imperative that States be prepared to bring downthe appropriate legislation. [More…]
The present Federal Government has now been in power for so many years that apparently it no longer troubles to consider the effects of some of its actions. [More…]
The points I raised prior to the suspension of the sitting indicate quite clearly how this Parliament is giving away its power to an executive authority. [More…]
Again the Parliament is giving the power of force to an individual which is contained in very few Acts of the Parliament. [More…]
This is the power that we are asked to sanction. [More…]
It is with considerable pleasure that I note that the Bill as drafted provides for the obtaining of a warrant prior to entry by an authorised person, pursuant to that power. [More…]
It seeks to give power for one member of the Tariff Board to inquire into and report on references. [More…]
The Commonwealth has the power under its health legislation to deal with drugs in its Territories. [More…]
The Commonwealth has power over imported material under the Customs Act. [More…]
The Commonwealth has constitutional authority under its foreign affairs powers to control the movement of materials which are the basis of international agreements. [More…]
It is possible that today the Commonwealth has complete power over drug legislation. [More…]
The part of the Bill which disturbs me greatly is the part which confers the extra power which the Department is seeking in order to control the misuse of drugs. [More…]
The seeking of this power was first indicated to the Committee in a submission by the Department of Customs and Excise, which stated that the Department considered that an answer to this problem could be legally to deem all drugs of dependence to be imported drugs unless the defendant proved to the contrary. [More…]
Members of the Committee were strongly opposed to an expedient power being given to the Department to enable it to invade the province of the State enforcement authorities. [More…]
It seemed to us to he a power for the convenience of the Department, without consideration of the rights of the individual. [More…]
The Bill gives to the Department of Customs and Excise the power to take penal action against those found in possession of a hard drug, including marihuana. [More…]
The exceptional penal powers that the Department of Customs and Excise is seeking will inflict hardships upon people, young people in particular, and in turn upon the whole of society. [More…]
Can honourable senators imagine the power which a customs man will have on special warrant to enter a home - it could be a joint raid with the police - because of information received and, in many cases not revealed? [More…]
This provision which we seek to leave out would give the Commonwealth a power which constitutionally it is not capable of having. [More…]
It would have the power by declaration to say that practically anything was an import. [More…]
Every law enforcement officer who came before the Senate Select Committee said that such a power would strengthen their hands and enable them to take action. [More…]
So although a power for the officers to act may not come from the Customs Act, there is still power under other legislation to act on every occasion. [More…]
The Minister has no power to suspend or vary the financial formula for the provision of Commonwealth assistance, to the Stales for universities which is provided by the Slates Grants (Universities) Act 19ii9-71. [More…]
A Yugoslav enterprise, Progres, unsuccessfully tendered to the Hydro-Electric Commission of Tasmania for the supply of generators and turbines for the Middle Gordon Power Development Scheme. [More…]
But we do find one area in which Western powers do exercise strong influence, and (hat is in Africa. [More…]
As I have already said, I think it would be quite unfair and quite unjust to describe white South Africans, and in particular Afrikaners, as being some sort of representatives of a foreign colonial power. [More…]
Although it is nol possible to predict with certainty that all the great powers will maintain ‘ their interest in the area indefinitely, it does not seem likely that the countries in the region, whatever their views, will be able to prevent une Indian Ocean developing into an area of great power influence a:,.d involvement. [More…]
For example, the ANZUS treaty, the 5-power pack and SEATO are all part of the defence symphony aimed at creating peace and stability in the area. [More…]
We have virtually forced the Soviet Union to become a super-power by reason of our foreign policy, by reason of United States foreign policy and by reason of British foreign policy which believed that the Soviet Union must be matched. [More…]
The debate on this report presents an opportunity for the Senate to think very deeply about what we are doing when we imagine that we can match the Soviet Union and, if necessary, even go to war with the Soviet Union to determine which is the superior power in the Indian Ocean. [More…]
Other powers will want to patrol the oceans of the world and we will not be able to throw out a challenge to them. [More…]
The report refers to the five-power arrangements in the context of Australia’s growing responsibility, in conjunction with its neighbours and five-power allies, in maintaining - within the limitations imposed by our military strength and financial resources - peace and security in the region. [More…]
The negotiations with our regional allies - Malaysia, Singapore, Britain and New Zealand - leading to the establishment of the five-power defence arrangements, have been successfully concluded and the arrangements are now in effect. [More…]
The Committee has examined in some detail great power involvement and interests in the Indian Ocean region - specifically, the role and interests of Britain, the United States, Japan, China and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. [More…]
The Republic of South Africa, although it is not a colony of a great power and although I think it would be quite incorrect to describe the white South Africans as other than native born inhabitants of the country in which they live, still exists as a pseudocolonial power in which the whites who represent less than 20 per cent of the population exercise authority over the remainder of the inhabitants of that country - the Africans, the coloured people and the Asians who, according to the last South African census, constitute more than 80 per cent of the population of that country. [More…]
The existence of the present Nationalist regime in South Africa, the existence of the colonial power in the Portuguese provinces in south Africa and the minority regime in Rhodesia colour the behaviour and the thinking of African people in adjoining countries. [More…]
Perhaps the most impressive or most remarkable feature about the recent conflict in the Indian sub-continent was tha1 no major Western power exercised a decisive influence over what took place. [More…]
So whoever may have been victorious or may have gained anything out of the conflict between India and Pakistan and the establishment of Bangla Desh, from a great power point of view, it certainly was not the United Stales or Britain and it certainly was not Australia. [More…]
1 do Dot believe that we should look on the peoples of the Indian Ocean, as we have done so frequently in the past, as being minions or pawns to be pushed around by great powers. [More…]
What is becoming increasingly evident is that the people of the various countries in the whole Indian Ocean area are struggling for their independence and obtaining their independence, and they are exercising their own policies without direction from foreign powers. [More…]
Whether they exercised their judgment correctly or incorrectly is another matter, but they certainly were not acting as the puppets or the pawns of any major power. [More…]
:tce when Dr Sukarno was replaced as President by General Suharto and although it could noi be denied that there were major powers that were very concerned about what was happening and were doing their best to exercise influence in Indonesia, what happened in Indonesia was an internal Indonesian conflict which was resolved, correctly or incorrectly, by Indonesians. [More…]
The Soviet Union is exercising its right as a super-power, a status which it has achieved along with the United States of America, to accept what was given to us during our heyday as part of the colonial and imperialist power that was the British Empire and then the British Commonwealth. [More…]
If we examine the situation closely, we see that the frictions and wars which are taking place and which have taken place over the last 20 or 30 years have been justified by the American strategy or policy that if the Americans were able to create sufficient strength and power they could cause an undermining of the governments of the Soviet Union, China and various other countries scattered throughout the world. [More…]
The most important Soviet presence in the Indian Ocean region are the initiatives taken in the economic, political, diplomatic and military involvement and assistance which is applied to those major areas of the region in which the Soviet Union seeks to obtain greater influence, power and prestige. [More…]
It is my belief that they have come to the decision that no great empire - that is what the Soviet is; it is an empire; it is the greatest colonial power of the twentieth century - can exist and spread its influence throughout the world without adequate naval forces. [More…]
1 realise that nuclear power has changed many things. [More…]
The British blockade of 1914-18 was a most powerful and effective weapon in destroying the ability of the Central powers to fight, by destroying what. [More…]
Senator Murphy called their industrial power, lt is also true that the German counter blockade of 1917 very nearly brought Britain to her knees. [More…]
Knowing the Soviet’s history of aggression and subversion, no Australian can possibly welcome the arrival in our own waters of representatives of that power. [More…]
The first is a political reason, that they want to foster non-alignment of the countries in the area with any of the rivals that they see in this super power game. [More…]
I note that this Government has been in power for 20 of those years. [More…]
The Slates have the same power to ban television and radio advertising as well, if they chose to do so. [More…]
However, there is no executive power to help in the event of disaster hitting a State. [More…]
These two agencies are also involved in the development of new homes and the financing of commercial activities, community problems such as the redevelopment of power, water and sanitary systems. [More…]
In that way that State has access to the absolute source of power. [More…]
After all, the Commonwealth is the supreme governmental power in the nation, lt can pull the lever and call to meet its demand all the avenues of government and all of the avenues of departments. [More…]
So the Federal Government, through the exercise of its supreme power in relation to its own Services, can call in this kind of aid. [More…]
They do it with all of the power and the legislative resource which they have. [More…]
In the absence of such co-operation, it would be a matter beyond the constitutional power of any one authority to get co-ordination and co-operation. [More…]
By 8.30 a.m. - I think the clock at the Townsville aerodrome is still fixed at 8.26 a.m. - almost the whole of the town was without power, and a few minutes later the only power available in this town of 70,000 people was in the power house itself. [More…]
The Slates want the power to con’ rol their own affairs and to deal with local government problems. [More…]
Honourable senators opposite know that the Commonwealth has the necessary power. [More…]
People can say what they like, but it tends to build up; it tends te grow; and usually it tends to refuse to depute authority or power. [More…]
No outside organisation has the power to order any country’s armed Services about. [More…]
I think that in consultations with regard to the business that is to take place we of the Australian Democratic Labor Party who hold the balance of power in the Senate should be included. [More…]
The wording of the motion passed by the Senate is the reference to the committee and no power on earth, other than the Senate, can alter it. [More…]
They want to see the areas around this city rebuilt and they will do everything in their power to ensure that it is done. [More…]
I think that probably we are all saddened by the fact that the Prime Minister (Mr McMahon) came to Townsville, floated in on a VIP flight, spent his brief 4 hours, made his promise that there shall be unlimited Commonwealth finance, and there we were without power, with our lines broken, our communications broken and our telephone services destroyed. [More…]
All these actions, evidence of which is supported by the police report, show that the police were not on the premises by invitation but were there as an exercise of their judicial power given under a warrant to search. [More…]
That is all right if you are in power, apparently, but not if you are in Opposition. [More…]
Does the Australian Broadcasting Control Board have any power to prevent the screening of television commercials which are considerably louder in volume than that of the programme being viewed at the time that such commercials are shown. [More…]
Steam engines, boilers and power units; Mining, metallurgical, etc., machinery Yeast; [More…]
Honourable senators will be aware that the form of such legislation has been primarily by ordinance, the Governor-General in Council having been given power to make ordinances since the first days of the [More…]
All Japan’s statements about not wanting any military forces and about not wanting atomic power is sheer talk. [More…]
Japan will expand because it realises that its main competitor for power in the east is China and that if China becomes a nuclear nation Japan will also have to become a nuclear nation. [More…]
The Committee made the point that there is a fear in the region of a major power buildup. [More…]
The report states that there has been an extension of interest and participation by the major powers in the Indian Ocean, but interestingly enough the Committee said at page 15 of the report: [More…]
I think it will be found, as 1 shall show later, that the United States secs nothing unusual in the fact that another major power seeks to interest itself in the affairs of the Indian Ocean, because that is a prerogative that it exercises in its own right. [More…]
We find that the DLP has lost its international support in the sense that previously the United States was regarded as being a power which would protect us in all circumstances but we have found that America applies those principles which affect its own national interests. [More…]
Although from a commercial and trade point of view the Indian Ocean region has been important, particularly for Australia, as the report of the Committee so clearly points out, for 150 years this area has been remote from the tensions of great power conflicts. [More…]
1 refer to the all pervading presence of the British Navy directed through the whole of the Indian Ocean region and the position of Britain’s naval power, based as it was on its string of naval bases right around the major areas of the Indian Ocean. [More…]
It was nol until the Second World War that Australians were confronted with a threat to Australia and its coastline from an overseas power. [More…]
Australia’s growing responsibility, in conjunction wilh Ils near neighbour and Five Power allies, in maintaining (within the limitations imposed by our military strength and financial resources) peace and security in the region. [More…]
I have said already that we as a nation have virtually ignored for 180 years the problems of defence presented by our situation as an Indian Ocean power. [More…]
In fact, 180 years ago there was a real threat to this nation from the French in the Indian Ocean; but, blissfully for us, we were in a position - perhaps not for 180 years, but up until the Second World War - in which we could rely on the British presence and live blissfully under the umbrella of British naval power, lt was because of British naval power that we were able to do so. [More…]
Certainly the power has gone although, fortunately for us and importantly for us, there is still a British military and naval interest in the region. [More…]
The power which was there and which gave vis security has gone. [More…]
But we came to them only when it was brought home clearly to us that the Indian Ocean had become a completely different region from what it had been, that it had become a region of great power interest and that it would never be the same again. [More…]
Prior to that the Admiral had been to a sea power symposium in the United States. [More…]
No-one in his right mind has any desire to see in his immediate area the expansion of any great power, whether it be Russian, American or Chinese. [More…]
The proposed rates of unemployment and associated benefits will be higher than ever before, both in money terms and in terms of real purchasing power. [More…]
The Government wishes to ensure that people during such periods of unemployment shall remain a social asset by retaining some spending power. [More…]
As I mentioned earlier, the rates of unemployment and associated benefits are now higher than ever before, both in money amounts and in terms of real purchasing power. [More…]
As I have said, they are the highest rates ever paid in Australia, not only in money terms but also in terms of real purchasing power. [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…]
This table progresses right through the years to 1971 when it is shown that the value of the $1 in terms of purchasing power has fallen to no less an amount, than 42c. [More…]
All I say - I think ) use the expression Senator Gair used - is that this measure is timely and appropriate because it provides worthwhile benefits - the highest ever paid in the history of this country, not only in money terms but also in real purchasing power. [More…]
I mention the 14 days in Victoria when there was a diminishing power supply not only for people in their homes but also for persons who were carrying on industry. [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…]
It could well be that where there has been a vacuum of constitutional power in the past, such vacuum might now be filled by the decision in the concrete pipes case where the High Court suggested that perhaps the Commonwealth’s corporations power under the Constitution has never been fully explored, much less exploited. [More…]
It could be that in the operation of that power authority might be discovered through which a discipline could be exercised over this other financial empire which is operating now and which is aggregating such enormous amounts of committed moneys in our community. [More…]
[ am a member of that Committee and I do not want to anticipate its investigations, but as part of its deliberations there could well be an examination of the possibility of legislative power and the exercise of that power within the constitutional power given under the head of corporations. [More…]
If it is found by the Committee that this matter has reached dangerous proportions, or may reach proportions which will give us immediate or future cause for concern, this power may enable the Committee to suggest methods by which there could be some control in this area. [More…]
He said ‘perhaps this might’ be an occasion for seeing whether there was power in the Commonwealth’s hands to extend its authority. [More…]
Power is to be given, upon adoption of the amendment, to the GovernorGeneral to make a declaration in writing upon the written application of a person. [More…]
I realise that the Minister is given the power to create an instrument in writing for the purpose of taking speedy action to keep shareholdings down to a certain level. [More…]
I do not think this is an occasion on which there will be misuse of the power given to the Minister and which should cause any concern to the Regulations and Ordinances Committee. [More…]
As I understand the position, the Parliament is deciding on a restriction of 10 per cent of the voles necessary to control a bank, and that in exceptional circumstances that percentage could be increased by the power of the Minister. [More…]
For those reasons, and after 53 years I suggest that it is almost time that the Australian public was allowed to have the fresh breezes blow through the corridors of power in the Public Service of Australia. [More…]
It is the traditional duty of the AttorneyGeneral to protect public rights and to complain of excesses of power bestowed by law. [More…]
For the, Australian Labor Party, having some pretention to persuading the people to give it power after the next election, to use a man like Mr Johnston as a carcass around which to generate a public campaign is a despicable performance for any organisation. [More…]
But this is good law because it keeps the conservatives in power. [More…]
It is nonsense to say that where the Attorney-General has power to prosecute we should say: T saw Senator Bishop walk across the street against a red light’. [More…]
Let us think also about the Party which was prepared to put people in gaol without trial; the Party which was prepared to close down newspapers; the Party which sent truckies to gaol for not paying their fines; the Party which has taken all the autocratic and authoritarian action that it could take whenever it has had the chance to get into office and to exercise its power. [More…]
I say - and I say it advisedly - that there has been conduct on the part of Mr johnston and those who would back him which is a calculated political device to pursue the objectives of members of a segment of the Australian Labor Party who, unfortunately, have such positions of power in. [More…]
ALP leaders should understand that it is absurd for a party which is askingto be elected to constitutional power to involve itself in actions and statements which negate the whole basis of constitutional power itself. [More…]
He has attempted to influence the magistrate by saying: ‘Well, when the Labor Party gels to power it will repeal this law’, ls it, Mr President, a matter of ‘physician hca! [More…]
They believe that they can use the Australian Democratic Labor Party or any other means during an election campaign to gain power and that the power thus granted to them allows them to embark on anything to any limits. [More…]
This fanaticism of Senator Greenwood and his colleagues has been born of the political ideology which says that power comes out of the numbers. [More…]
He said that the power to compel answers (presumably even self incriminating ones) ought lo be fundamental at company and other public investigations. [More…]
He said that it is the traditional duty of the Attorney-General to protect public rights and to complain of excesses of power bestowed by law. [More…]
I conclude on that note and hope that the Minister will do all in his power to influence the Department to prosecute this employer under section 54b of the Act so that he can come out into the open and let the court determine the bona fides of the dismissal. [More…]
Senator WEBSTER (Victoria) f3.28) - The purpose of the Dairy Produce Export Control Bill is to clarify the general investment and promotion provisions of the existing Act *o provide the Australian Dairy Produce Board with specific power to participate in commercial ventures as a means of expanding its existing markets or of securing new markets. [More…]
lt has been decided to clarify the investment powers of the Board under the Dairy Produce Export Control Act to enable it to carry on its milk plan’ operations in the manner that it has been doing under the provisions relating to the Dairy Industry Stabilisation Fund. [More…]
To the extent that the ocean was not what is commonly called a power vacuum, the predominant and unchallenged influence on and around it was for our first 150 years, apart from time of war, British. [More…]
The global powers have begun to make their presence more clearly felt in the area. [More…]
Asia and Africa, and to the evident desire of the USSR as a global power to play a larger role there as elsewhere in the world. [More…]
Our attitude is that we would naturally subscribe to the ideal that the Indian Ocean region should be a zone of peace, in the same way as we could be expected to welcome an arrangement which made genuine provision for an agreed, balanced and effective limitation on great power naval presences in the Ocean. [More…]
In cases of hardship there is power under the amendments to refund all or part of bus fares paid for school children. [More…]
The Federal system by its dispersions of power among many authorities and other diverse and defined areas of responsibility gives more freedom to people. [More…]
To me, the principal value of the Federal system in its dispersion of power and responsibility, a Government in many areas closer to the daily needs of the people and a greater freedom from arbitrary decisions in a centralist position. [More…]
I believe that people are aided in this process, not harmed, lt generates competition among policies if different parties are in power in various Slates. [More…]
In this condition the Labor Party is in power in 2 States and the Government parties are in power in the other States. [More…]
That describes an approach to the use of Federal power. [More…]
It touches the fact that finance is political power, that he who raises and he who spends the finances of government calls the tune of government. [More…]
They had a profound mistrust in placing too much power in the centre. [More…]
In so doing they decided upon a federal system in which the centre or the Commonwealth should have limited powers, quite unlike the British Constitution, that the powers should be defined in writing and that we would be bound by those here in the centre of government whereas the Slates would then have residual powers. [More…]
powers that were not specified for the centre. [More…]
We had thought that the Commonwealth did not have power to destroy the States’ right to impose income tax. [More…]
Incredibly there emerged, not only out of the uniform taxing power of the defence power granted by the war but also a ruling of the High Court to the effect that the Commonwealth had parallel but not superior powers on taxes. [More…]
When I spell this out I am not condemning the power, I am merely stating the history. [More…]
The ruling that the Commonwealth has specific powers over corporations can cause, I have no doubt, a complete widening of the frontiers of power, for better or worse, of the Commonwealth. [More…]
There has been a discovery that the powers which lie within the Commonwealth Constitution are much larger than and quite different from what the founding fathers envisaged. [More…]
How do you believe that the power of government shall be wielded? [More…]
Do you believe, for example, the Lord Acton dictum that all power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely? [More…]
If you do, do you believe also, in parallel wilh that, that decentralised power is safe power, sane power; that decentralisation is not only safety and sanity but also efficiency and common sense; that decentralisation of power is not only those things but also experiment, innovation and the capacity of people to get new ideas and to use them instead of having the strangulation, the inertia, of a monolithic centralised government? [More…]
The power that we seek and the confusion of administration tends to make us do things which centralise and fundamentally standardise. [More…]
It is true that a little while back the Labor Party amended its platform on the question of total centralisation of power and the total sovereignty of this Parliament. [More…]
The fundamental thing that divides the Opposition side of the chamber from this side is the difference of belief as between federalism and unification - whether or not central power can do things better in relation to education, health or anything else. [More…]
Let us bear in mind that no matter how we decide that that power should be divided by the High Court of the day can change the whole meaning of that structure, as has been shown and as will be shown. [More…]
Whether or not power can be worked out and written down in words - we know the difficulty of lawyers in that regard - one thing we do know is that it is well nigh impossible in (his country to alter the Constitution by referendum unless we are removing powers from the centre or are giving social welfare powers to the centre. [More…]
Also, lest anyone feels that the Commonwealth Government is the total or even substantial taxing power, one should keep in mind that the State governments raise, at least half of their revenue by taxes and charges and that local government has a happy little habit, which I deplore at about this time of the year, of putting on its rates and charges. [More…]
In other words,, the only way in which a government can have sovereignty is by the spending power being the raising power - not partially the raising power and not even predominantly the. [More…]
raising power, but totally the raising power. [More…]
What I said was that the Commonwealth itself should understand when it is facing up to this whole question of sovereignty that although it makes grand plans the crunch, the difficulties of housing, of getting electrical power, water supply and schools - is this washing my hands, or is it not in fact accepting- [More…]
He referred to the centrifugal forces that drive power towards the centre. [More…]
I have talked about the centrifugal forces that I hope will disperse power to the side. [More…]
To have a discussion on the use of power is why we are here and why we are arguing with each other. [More…]
Indeed, it is why the Opposition, from time to time, asks us: ‘Why did you use that power?’ [More…]
So he says that he likes Australians and that, no matter what government was in power or what financial policy it had, America would always invest here because Australia is a stable country. [More…]
The Government might have asked why Australia should get involved with a super-power. [More…]
In its report on steam engines, boilers and power units, the Board recommended that certain flue-heated economisers be protected by a duty of 25 per cent. [More…]
The last Schedule of the Bill, the Seventh Schedule, operating from 14th February 1972, implements changes arising from the Government’s adoption of Tariff Board reports on: Tetraethyl-lead, tetramethyllead and anti-knock preparations based on tetraethyl-lead or tetramethyl-lead; steam engines, boilers and power units; mining, metallurgical, etc., machinery; and yeast. [More…]
In respect of steam engines, boilers and power units the Board has recommended a rate of 25 per cent but minimum duties on products for which there was no evidence of significant commercial production. [More…]
We believe that there are ample Constitutional powers which might be drawn upon and from which the Government under appropriate legislation could arm itself to deal with the adverse effects of inflation. [More…]
Those powers include obviously the corporations power under the new doctrine enunciated by the High Court in the ‘Concrete Pipes case’. [More…]
They include the trade and commerce powers. [More…]
Also there are taxation powers and other forms of revenue legislative powers such as subsidies, tariffs and so forth. [More…]
We also consider that the Labor government would certainly take the necessary measures to strengthen the restrictive trade practices legislation so that we might be able to deal with the problems that were adverted to by Sir Garfield Barwick in regard to the concentration of monopolistic power and to eliminate the trade practices which restrict competition and produce inefficiency and undue inflation. [More…]
It is envisaged that this body would look at this matter within the limits of the Commonwealth’s Constitutional power. [More…]
If they do not, it is outside our power’. [More…]
We should be looking to see whether the constitutional powers enable us to set up proper machinery in order to deal wilh a real social problem which affects every person as a consumer, which affects every person as a ratepayer or taxpayer and which affects every person who has an interest in the efficiency and the prosperity of all industry and commerce. [More…]
This is something which the Austraiian people have in their power to bestow. [More…]
The Opposition should describe what constitutional power it will draw to its side to do it. [More…]
I have heard Senator Murphy make reference to the concrete pipes case as giving all this power. [More…]
Institutions such as those I have mentioned are the ones with the power to start inflation and to carry it on. [More…]
They would be small companies without any real power. [More…]
The power to determine prices and, therefore, to start and carry on inflation lies with some of these giant companies among the 936 to which I have referred. [More…]
In no other way can we prevent the power of the giant companies from dominating the nation and its people. [More…]
I also understand that the next test of the millenium is when the community as such by way of real wages has increasing real wages - that is increasing real purchasing power, and increasing at a rate higher than other countries and where in fact the distribution of wealth is egalitarian across the board. [More…]
Let members of the Labor Party deny that, and that the Australian worker in terms of average real wages has had substantially a greater share of real purchasing power than people anywhere else. [More…]
Thus in terms of the purchasing power commanded by his earnings, the Australian consumer is within the top half of 31 cities included in the survey. [More…]
That report indicates as all statistics, including the Tariff Board report, do that the tests that Senator Murphy put have been in fact functioning in this country; that we have had the lowest price rises of the industrialised countries; and that we have passed on real wages and purchasing power. [More…]
Has the Commonwealth power to fix prices? [More…]
Does anyone say solemnly that the Commonwealth has the power? [More…]
Does Senator Murphy, Q.C., say that the Commonwealth has that power? [More…]
Shall we have centralised price control power? [More…]
Let us be candid on this point: In the final analysis, it would not matter whether those concerned in a dispute were power house workers in Victoria or power house workers in New South Wales; if they believed that they had a grievance, they could not be stopped from taking action. [More…]
It has been rightly pointed out in this chamber during the currency of this debate thai no-one knows whether the Commonwealth has the power to legislate in respect of price control. [More…]
It has been deduced because of a certain High Court decision regarding concrete pipes that it may well be that the Commonwealth would have some power in regard to price control. [More…]
Mr Gorton is reported to have called on the Federal Parliament to get the power by referendum if necessary to implement such a policy. [More…]
If the National Parliament doesn’t have the power to diminish wage and price increases, then it should get the power or try to get the power. [More…]
He said the State Permiers at their meeting wilh the Commonwealth on Monday should unanimously offer the Commonwealth the constitutional power to impose the freeze for this year and no longer’. [More…]
Armed wilh power over wages and prices lbc Federal Government would be able to take effective action to halt inflation. [More…]
Should not the appropriate committee with power to call witnesses and with power to consider overseas experience and overseas attempts to solve the problem undertake this inquiry? [More…]
I do not know whether Senator Lillico directed his remarks to the constitutional propriety of the reference of the matter to the committee, but, despite what may have been said about the power conferred on Parliament by the decision of the High Court in the concrete pipes case, I refer him to what was said by Mr Hughes, a distinguished lawyer and a man who was considered by the Government to be sufficiently equipped to hold the position of Attorney-General. [More…]
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 stilt 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 do not believe that the new interpretation of the High Court does confer this power on the Federal Parliament’? [More…]
If they believe so it is about time that we heard from them.I suggest that these men are sufficiently versed in the law to know that this alibi has disappeared for them, that they can no longer shelter behind the plea of constitutional inadequacy and that there is constitutional power to refer the matter to the committee and for it to recommend, if it thought fit, legislation which would be within the constitutional power of the Parliament. [More…]
Is not an adjudicator a person with no power or right to enforce his decision, whereas an arbitrator has these powers of enforcement by prior agreement? [More…]
There is a well known catetory of that kind, lt is said sometimes that the judicial power does not extend to those bodies. [More…]
In them the tribunal or person is said to be not really exercising judicial power. [More…]
The cases suggest that if a tribunal is not bound by any rules of evidence that is a characteristic of nonjudicial power. [More…]
So, if one wants to confer a power or a discretion one uses the word ‘may’, but if one wants to be a little more emphatic one uses the word ‘shall’. [More…]
I do not think there is any question that the Commonwealth has power to give the exoneration throughout Australia which the certificate contemplates should be given. [More…]
The purpose of the amendments is to make it clear that the Bill extends to any Imperial Acts that impose the death penalty insofar as it is within the power of the Commonwealth to effect those Acts under the Statute of Westminster. [More…]
I am not sure that the problem is not caused by the big development of the Liddel power station. [More…]
1 am just saying that all taxation takes its power from section 51 (ii.) [More…]
The Fourth Schedule applies to malleable cast iron pipe fittings and steam engines, boilers and power units. [More…]
The Seventh Schedule implements changes in relation to mining, metallurgical, etc., machinery and yeast, steam engines, boilers and power units and tetraethyl-lead, tetramethyl-lead and anti-knock preparations based on tetraethyl-lead or tetramethyl-lead [More…]
This is a very big and important industry associated with the manufacture of engine boilers and power units. [More…]
This is particularly important in this new era in which there is such demand for power because of the discovery of gas and crude oil off the Australian shore. [More…]
There is an interdependability in Australia between the manufacture of boilers and power units and the use of our own natural products, just as there is between our growing mining and metallurgical machinery production and our growing mining industry. [More…]
It is increasingly conscious of the power, authority and role it plays in the Australian economy. [More…]
These were people whose applications during the protracted industrial dispute in the power generating industry were stood over until such times as a ruling had been given through the appropriate channels for the officers in the district employment bureaus to process their applications for unemployment benefit and accordingly to make the payment. [More…]
I remind him that the first was on the day the power strike in Victoria ceased. [More…]
To determine your eligibility for Unemployment Benefit 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 Committee was in agreement that there should be power to publish this document. [More…]
It is only a question on the basis of law as to what are the powers involved. [More…]
Fairly strict limits should be placed upon the use of that power and, so far as possible, committees should act in such a way that there is no unnecessary invasion of privacy. [More…]
I am unable to see how the Senate, vested with this power, could possibly exercise it. [More…]
Not only would the evidence not be revealed in this chamber but also the Senate would take all those steps which were within its power to see that that secrecy was not broken elsewhere. [More…]
This argument on Aboriginal rights will go on in this Parliament whilever this Government is in power because it is only the Australian Labor Party which has a reasonable policy and which can implement it in a reasonable way to give to Aborigines the status of human beings. [More…]
Has the Treasurer considered the report of Mr Caffin, the Commonwealth Actuary, on his investigation of the Parliamentary Retiring Allowance Fund and his statement that to overcome a deficit in the Fund the relevant Act should be amended to permit a wider field of investment of the Fund and power of investment in securities of a longer period of maturity? [More…]
Is it a fact that the ‘Little Red School Book’ asa first step in preparing the child for enlistment in revolutionary activities sets out to undermine respect for every form of traditional and accepted authority - the authority of those who wield power in politics, industry and education; the authority of parents and teachers; the authority of the inherited Christian norms of western civilisation? [More…]
The fact that only 5 per cent preferred gaol was, I am sure, in the light of the other alternatives which were posed and the imposition of which in many respects is not within the constitutional power of the Commonwealth. [More…]
It is no good saying that we have the power in our locker to do these things because that only compounds the felony. [More…]
The device of approaching this matter on the basis of the needs and priorities of schools is an insidious device because, if a government has the power to discriminate between schools and to determine which ones shall be encouraged and which shall wither on the vine, that government has the power to wipe out the freedom of choice in education. [More…]
I was referring to a Labor government if it came into power. [More…]
If the policy of the Australian Labor Party is as was suggested in the minority report - its representatives on that committee not only opposed anything being given to the independent schools; they went further and advocated a constitutional challenge to the right of the Commonwealth to assist independent schools - I think one is justified in coming to the conclusion that its attitude on this matter is entirely opportunistic and is designed entirely for electoral purposes and that if it ever got power over the independent schools it would use that power to drain off their lifeblood and eventually eliminate them. [More…]
If we analyse this matter a little more we see that there is a more or less continual sop to the DLP from which pressure is being exerted on the Government all the time and which is virtually keeping the Government in power with its preferences. [More…]
How can it do that unless it has this power which it may exercise from time to time to call for the tapes in the case of broadcasting and to ensure that it has the information which it requires? [More…]
As I understand the prison regulations of Western Australia - and I have looked at them - there is no power under them whereby a person who is imprisoned may be given leave of absence from prison to study or to go to a university, though he may be given leave of absence for other purposes. [More…]
Five Power Defence Arrangements. [More…]
Destiny places us in part of the world where a very large proportion of mankind is subjected to deep-seated cause 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 area 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…]
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 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 12d, which is in clause 4 of the Bill, to call an immediate conference of the parties on being notified of an industrial situation. [More…]
The power of the Arbitrator or a Deputy Arbitrator to make orders is not expressed in specific terms, however. [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…]
They have power in their own hands to elect a packer, a packer producer or a person who is solely a producer, lt is up to these people to make their own decision as to the type of person to represent them in an adequate manner on the Honey Board. [More…]
The High Court, somewhat indignantly, pointed out that that regulation was beyond the regulation making power conferred by the enactment. [More…]
There are other ways in which it could be done, but I would think it preferable that these matters ought to be dealt with in Bills rather than be left to a regulation making power in view of the history of the matter. [More…]
That the Committee have power to meet while the Senate is actually sitting. [More…]
In view of the fact that as Minister representing the Minister for Repatriation you, Mr Minister, in correspondence with me on 1st March 1972, expressed the belief in the penultimate paragraph of the letter that the independent committee of inquiry into the Repatriation Act had power to consider the limb making activities of the Repatriation Department, and as this would appear to be denied in correspondence of 13th January 1971 from Mr Williams, the Secretary to the inquiry, to Mr Jones of Appliance and Limb Centre Pty Ltd of Sydney, I ask: Will the Minister for Repatriation examine the actual terms of reference to ascertain whether the belief held by you, Mr Minister, or the belief held by Mr Williams, is the correct one? [More…]
If it is found that the inquiry cannot inquire into the limb making activities of the Repatriation Department, will the Minister broaden the committee’s terms of reference to give it power to inquire into what the Minister believed he had given the power to inquire into, and being of that belief must have been of the opinion that the inquiry was needed? [More…]
I must confess that I thought the power was going into another circuit and I was rather surprised to find that the question was addressed to me. [More…]
Secondly, and as a broad social rather 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…]
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 for Customs and Excise 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…]
I think that even in the Australian Capital Territory where the power to disallow is a little wider than attaches in regard to regulations in general, it is still far too limited. [More…]
I think the power is to disallow parts of the ordinance and in the way that is dealt with some extra width is given. [More…]
We are not saying that a body such as this should have power to determine the policy of the service. [More…]
There is no doubt at all that under this Bill the Commissioner will have full power to do exactly those things. [More…]
The Commissioner has clear powers, by stimulus and by incentive, to encourage this. [More…]
Clause S3 (a) gives to the Commissioner complete power to set up advisory bodies or advisory councils to do exactly the things spelt out in paragraph (d) of the Opposition’s amendment, or more. [More…]
I would say it gives the Commissioner more power because throughout the Bill the powers of the Commissioner are extraordinarily wide. [More…]
The Commissioner has power to do all things necessary or convenient to be done for or in connection with the performance of his function under this section. [More…]
I doubt that I have seen in any legislation a wider power of initiative given to any Commissioner. [More…]
Consistent with that, the Commissioner will have enormous powers to upgrade the quality of his staff. [More…]
He will have power to send any officer to an institution to provide scholarships and other living allowances and to pay fees, in order to give him training in specialist courses. [More…]
The Commissioner has power to do all things necessary or convenient to be done for or in connection with the performance of his function under this section. [More…]
The Commonwealth, having authority by virtue of its power to deal with Territories, is not restricted to interstate industrial commission disputes in connection with this Teaching Service and therefore constitutionally is enabled to give it unqualified access to the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission. [More…]
There is a good deal of evidence from the Yugoslav Croatian community that Jurjevic has threatened some of his compatriots who disagree with him with deportation when the Labor Party comes to power, lt looks as though they will be staying here for a long time. [More…]
Secondly, will he discuss with the Postmaster-General the possibility of setting strict standards for car advertisements on television so that the advertisements do not aim to sell on speed and power? [More…]
Thai the Committee have power to meet while the Senate is sitting. [More…]
For so long as a loan or any interest on a loan the repayment of which has been guaranteed by the Commonwealth under clause 3 of the Civil Aviation Agreement 19S2 or clause 4 of this agreement remains unpaid, officers employed in the Commonwealth Service shall have full access at all reasonable times to the financial accounts of the Company when authorised in writing by the Minister for that purpose and the Company 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 the Company, whether directly or indirectly, now has or hereafter may have a controlling interest. [More…]
I think we should make it clear as to whether it is intended that this Committee ought to include those matters in its investigation because by leaving in the terms of reference such things as ‘matters incidental thereto’ it may well be that the Committee will have the power to examine them. [More…]
I indicate quite clearly that I shall oppose with every means in my power the takeover by Thomas Nationwide Transport Ltd of Ansett Transport Industries Ltd unless I am convinced that the public interest is best served by such a takeover. [More…]
The arbitrator has power under clause 12d which deals with orders in relation to industrial situations. [More…]
1 suggest that the 2 points that I have made are enough to make anybody concerned about the new power. [More…]
It is a great new power. [More…]
We will oppose, not only in the Parliament but wherever possible, the unfair and summary powers which are granted under the Bill. [More…]
The provision in the Bill gives a summary power to. [More…]
The Bill seeks to give the Public Service Arbitrator power to stand down without pay Commonwealth public servants in relation to disputes inside or outside the Public Service. [More…]
It is exactly the same use of the economic power that lies in the hands of a minority of people who can use it to pose the threat of loss to other people so as to obtain their specific demands or the particular objective that they want. [More…]
I have ascertained from the Minister for Immigration that the position is as follows: The power to authorise or to prevent entry into Australia is conferred by the Migration Act upon the Minister for Immigration or upon officers of his Department who are authorised by him. [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…]
I was drawing a comparison between these people and the economic power held by large numbers of people employed in the Public Service who are able to disrupt and deny facility of work to others in. [More…]
I adverted to the remarks made by Senator Murphy during the debate on the motion for the adjournment of the Senate in relation to what happened to those who did not have industrial power, although the honourable senator did not put his submission in quite that way. [More…]
I illustrated how this will be inevitable if one believes in the philosophy of paramount economic power and the right to use the strike weapon. [More…]
Those in industry who have the industrial power to disrupt others will be able to use that power for their own aggrandisement. [More…]
This has been done in the interests of the general community following the misuse by some people of a power that they suddenly realised they had against the community at large. [More…]
I am criticising the Government, which has the power to make the situation clear that it will not tolerate this sort of activity. [More…]
In the United States of America, where industrial power has so often been misused, invariably the stage has been reached where unless union officials are bribed certain people cannot get the things they require. [More…]
Under the Public Service Act, they had power to suspend and ultimately thereby to initiate proceedings to dismiss the employees concerned. [More…]
So it follows that, if the national economy is mismanaged and the purchasing power of the dollar paid in wages is eroded, organised labor - be it public servants or others - has no alternative but to press claims to do nothing more than merely retain or at least restore the purchasing value of the former wage paid. [More…]
It was shown that by 1971 the purchasing power of the dollar had fallen to 42c. [More…]
The Prime Minister, Mr McMahon, made the Government’s position clear at the Premiers Conference in February when he said it would do everything in its power to ‘quarantine’ the Victorian wage rise. [More…]
We read not long ago about the power strike in Victoria. [More…]
I say that, except in very exceptional circumstances, a strike merely to better terms and conditions of employment is morally unjustifiable in any way, shape or form, if for no other reason than it inflicts hardship and penalties not upon the powers that be but, in the main, upon people who have nothing at all to do with the dispute. [More…]
In modern times, we have seen some alteration in the power of bargaining. [More…]
In this measure we are not taking out of the Conciliation and Arbitration Act the power that the Minister has today to refer a dispute to the Commission. [More…]
The Minister today has power to refer to the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission any dispute within the Public Service, and there is power under the Conciliation and Arbitration Act for the Commission to adjudicate upon a dispute involving public servants and to effect a settlement just as it has power in respect of dispute involving any other section of workers. [More…]
Under this measure we are to give added power to the Public Service Arbitrator to hear a dispute but we are not taking the power to hear a dispute involving public servants away from the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission, as we did in relation to wages. [More…]
The elements of a dispute may be such that it is possible to go to both the Commission and the Arbitrator, as public servants are subject to the powers of both the Commission and the Arbitrator. [More…]
While the power to prosecute exists in both the Conciliation and Arbitration Act and the Public Service Arbitration Act, there is a distinct difference. [More…]
So the Commissioner calls together the officials of the organisation who will be most effective in the settlement of the dispute, possibly because of their knowledge of the industry, because of their capabilities, or because of their persuasive power with their members. [More…]
Not only the employers need to be strong: the Government also needs to be strong and to stand firm on the legislation which gives it power. [More…]
It pumped spending power into the tourist industry. [More…]
However, significantly there was an amendment to the regulations on 4th March 1970, when the former Liberal-Country Party Government was still in power. [More…]
The Attorney-General has no power to interfere with the processes of law and to release a person who has been given a gaol sentence, and to that extent I am sure that the record of what the Judge said is not wholly accurate - at least that would would be my belief, knowing the judge. [More…]
Under the present Government, the purchasing power of the pension - its real value in terms of prices - has constantly increased. [More…]
This Bill will lift this purchasing power to a level greater than ever before achieved, because the present rise in pension rate is greater than the corresponding rise which has occurred in prices. [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 Senate a summary of the Social Services advances which Australia has made since 1949, when Labor was last in power. [More…]
In these actions public servants have learnt one lesson, namely, that united they are a very powerful force and divided they fall. [More…]
Their industrial actions have demonstrated that if they are united they have 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…]
Despite the Parliament giving power to the Minister to see that such injustices do not occur, we find that such cases are occurring today. [More…]
I ask the Acting Postmaster-General this question: When does the Minister propose to introduce the legislation foreshadowed in his Press statement of 7th April relating to the power of the Australian Broadcasting Control Board to regulate television programmes on Sunday mornings? [More…]
I think the Press statement stated that the Government felt that the legal power to regulate television programmes on Sunday mornings was not as sound as it should be and that it needed adjustment. [More…]
What power has the Minister for Education and Science to require the university government to maintain a peaceful place suitable for study? [More…]
With regard to the power of the Minister for Education and Science, the Commonwealth Constitution does not give this Parliament direct power in relation to State universities. [More…]
Could the Minister advise whether the wool authority, when established, will be endowed with the power of acquisition or will be just another paper tiger? [More…]
If what I have said is true, is the Government to permit this section of the community, over which it has full power at the present time to make any order through the Commonwealth Conciliation and Arbitration Act, to become separate from the rest of the community? [More…]
Is the Government to take to itself such powers that although a judge may act impartially when some serious question arises in a dispute the Government can impose its will upon certain employees for the purpose of creating a dispute whenever it wants to do so? [More…]
Does this Bill give power to the Arbitrator to operate in a situation where an Industrial situation is defined or stipulated at the same time as the Minister controlling the Department in which a dispute occurs or is likely to occur has the right under the existing legislation to hand the dispute over to the Commonwealth Conciliation and Arbitration Commission? [More…]
That power which existed under the Conciliation and Arbitration Act has been taken away. [More…]
The Commonwealth Conciliation and Arbitration Commission has power under the Conciliation and Arbitration Act to handle disputes in the Public Service. [More…]
Why, by this legislation, should we give that power to another body, namely the Public Service Arbitrator, without removing the right to make the approach to the Commission under the Conciliation and Arbitration Act? [More…]
The Arbitrator is given power to (eli unions not to engage in industrial action. [More…]
He is given power to deal with the issues in dispute. [More…]
He is given power to deal with other applications that may be made to him. [More…]
However, there is nothing in the existing Public Service Arbitration Act which enables the Arbitrator to exercise the power of settlement of disputes which a conciliation commissioner has in relation to disputes outside the Public Service. [More…]
The purpose of this Bill is to give such power to the Arbitrator. [More…]
This power is conferred under the Conciliation and Arbitration Act. [More…]
In relation to salaries we took the power out of the commissioner’s hands. [More…]
But this time we are making no such provision so the Commission has power. [More…]
-The Minister has said that if a commissioner has the power referred to he has no power to make an order. [More…]
The Minister has just told us that a commissioner has no power. [More…]
He has the power to hear the dispute. [More…]
He has the power to make an award relating to salaries, wages and conditions of employment. [More…]
Today we are being told blatantly that the commissioner has no power under this Act. [More…]
But we have this provision in the Conciliation and Arbitration Act: While there will still remain power to enforce a decision to make an order under that Act, it is necessary to get a certificate from a presidential commissioner before a man can be penalised. [More…]
What the Minister just told us about the commissioner having no power is disproved by a reading of the Conciliation and Arbitration Act. [More…]
What does section 41 of thai Act mean when it mentions Public Service employees and settlement of a dispute, if there is no power to settle the dispute? [More…]
A power strike or other industrial action originating outside of Commonwealth employment that resulted in a closedown of plant and equipment or limited the flow of work could result in all officers and employees being stood down without pay. [More…]
The Opposition asked why the Bill gives power to the Arbitrator to deal with the matters that section 28 and section 29 of the Conciliation and Arbitration Act entrust to a conciliation commissioner. [More…]
Therefore, powers conferred by section 28 and section 29 of the Conciliation and Arbitration Act are not applicable in relation to the Public Service. [More…]
Moreover, even if this view is wrong and a conciliation commissioner purported to exercise powers under those sections to conciliate in relation to an industrial dispute in the Public Service, he could not make any follow-up orders. [More…]
For example, he could not vary a determination made under the Public Service Arbitration Act and would therefore be powerless to settle disputes by altering terms and conditions of employment. [More…]
The Opposition had asked where it is provided in the Bill that the Arbitrator’s powers in relation to industrial situations were restricted to dealing with industrial situations involving the Public Service. [More…]
The answer is to be found in proposed section 1 2 (b), the effect of which is that the powers conferred by sections 12(c) to 12(e) relate only to industrial situations to the extent that they involve the Public Service. [More…]
First, we were told that under section 28 of the Conciliation and Arbitration Act a commissioner had no power to deal with the question. [More…]
If there is power, we are told, there is no power to make an order. [More…]
The possibility that there is power suggests that there must be some belief that power exists. [More…]
This was only a question that if commissioners have power, they have power to make an order. [More…]
I replied by quoting section 41 (a) of the Act, which sets out the power of the Conciliation and Arbitration Act in respect of public servants - the power to make an order. [More…]
Therefore, under the Act conciliation commissioners have power to make an order. [More…]
Now the advisers come back with the statement that when one Act gives to another Act a specific power that is contained in the first Act, the other Act shall apply. [More…]
Although the Government first denied that the Conciliation and Arbitration Act has power in respect of public servants, it has now been demonstrated that a commissioner has a statutory duty to call the parties together and to try to settle a matter by conciliation. [More…]
He has special powers in relation to public servants to make an order for payments exceeding those provided for in awards. [More…]
He is given powers in respect of disputes. [More…]
As Senator Bishop has stated, they are not identical powers to those of the Public Service Arbitrator. [More…]
in 1920 the power to fix wage rates and conditions of employment was handed over under the Public Service Arbitration Act. [More…]
We have been told that the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission has no power. [More…]
Then we were told that it has power but that it has not power to make an order. [More…]
When it was shown that the Commission did have power to make an order we were told that because the provision is contained in one Act the power cannot be operated under the other Act. [More…]
He is given power to tell unions not to engage in industrial actions. [More…]
He is given power to deal with the issues in dispute. [More…]
He is given power to deal with other applications which may be made before him. [More…]
1 point out, first, that the statement that no power existed to do anything in respect of public servants engaged in a dispute was wrong. [More…]
The same power is available with respect to Commonwealth public servants as is available to any employer in the country. [More…]
That is the power to refer the dispute to the Commonwealth Conciliation and Arbitration Commission. [More…]
That power still exists. [More…]
But now more severe powers must be introduced in relation to the Commonwealth Public Service. [More…]
It has taken a long time but now I think that we have it clear that as a result of the powers proposed by this Bill this special section is to be treated more severely than other workers generally are. [More…]
The information I have on proposed new section 12c is as follows: Sub-section (l.) gives power to a Minister, the Public Service Board, a Commonwealth authority or an organisation to notify the Arbitrator in writing of an industrial situation that exists or is likely to occur and to make application to him to use the powers given to him under these new provisions. [More…]
I ask: Why is it that a Minister who may not necessarily be the Minister whose department is involved in the dispute should be given power to advise the Board of the dispute? [More…]
This situation has great significance because of the definition of industrial situation to which we have just agreed and because of the power of a department to stand down employees who are affected by a dispute which occurs outside the service. [More…]
However because of a dispute outside the Public Service during a small period of an 8-hour spread of work an operation may be affected and this gives the Public Service Arbitrator the power to look at this dispute. [More…]
Under the definition of industrial situation he is given power to stand down public servants. [More…]
Here we are taking power away and trying to create divisions within organisations by permitting an officer of an organisation to come along and report a dispute against the wishes of his organisation. [More…]
As I have stated, an officer knows that he has power to report a dispute under the Conciliation and Arbitration Act. [More…]
The information I have for Senator Bishop is that any Minister is given power to refer a situation to the Arbitrator in order to avoid legal disputation as to whether the Minister is affected by the situation. [More…]
Very wide power is given in proposed new section 12D(l.)(b) which states that the Arbitrator or Deputy Arbitrator: may, subject to the next succeeding sub-section after hearing such evidence (if any) as he thinks fit, make such orders as he thinks necessary or desirable for putting an end to, or preventing the occurrence of, the 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 situation. [More…]
The Council of Commonwealth Public Service Organisations and other bodies claim that this is a very wide power, that the ambit is too wide. [More…]
People concerned in the issues could be kept out of the talks because this proposed new section gives the Arbitrator extraordinary power. [More…]
A restriction on the powers of the Arbitrator should be spelt out. [More…]
If he can do this, it is a very wide power. [More…]
If the powers are as wide as the unions say, there ought to be some restrictions in the legislation. [More…]
We are concerned that paragraph (b) of subsection (1) of section I 2d gives much wider powers to the Arbitrator and Deputy Arbitrator and that the Bill fails to provide adequate safeguards. [More…]
The organisation, quite rightly in my view, has registered alarm at such an extensive power. [More…]
It is an extremely wide power. [More…]
It is a very wide power to give an Arbitrator in respect of an organisation which is not involved in Commonwealth employment and we would like to have the advice of the Minister on that question. [More…]
That is an extraordinary new power. [More…]
So there is a new and wide power which we think is related too much to the Government’s political and economic aims. [More…]
But when the Government allows the reference to be made by some other Minister, the power is too wide because the other Minister - it may be even the Prime Minister or the Treasurer - can decide to advise the Public Service Arbitrator that there is some industrial situation. [More…]
They extend the power to seek a reference to an organisation which is affected by a claim. [More…]
The simple fact is that the Commonwealth has no constitutional power at all in relation to advertising in the States, except in relation to television and radio. [More…]
Tt has power in relation to other matters within its own territories. [More…]
On the constitutional problem it is well to remember that in this field the Commonwealth has no power in areas other than the Australian Capital Territory and the Northern Territory. [More…]
The Commonwealth does have constitutional power in that regard. [More…]
I have indicated that we propose to intercede and use our power to insist upon a health warning. [More…]
For example, there are the notes of the meeting of 2nd and 3rd October 1971 which deal with such matters as President Nixon’s announcement of his projected visit to China, the world power situation, the basis of new policy orientations in China and the United States and various other strategic matters of foreign policy, including policy submissions, defence policy, foreign policy and the industrial situation, which covers such things as the Australian Council of Trade Unions Congress. [More…]
A printing dispute and the introduction of power restrictions delayed printing and delivery of the booklet until January 1972. [More…]
Firstly he asked whether I had any power to curb questioning. [More…]
So far as I am concerned, I consider that that power which is inherent in the House of Commons is transferred to the House of Parliament here in the Commonwealth of Australia. [More…]
This Bill, however, will take care of the tonnage measurement aspects by inserting 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 subsection (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 two which I should explain. [More…]
I do not know whether the Victorian Government has the power or whether it does not. [More…]
He has the power to say no. [More…]
I ask honourable senators to bear in mind that we have virtually the power of veto at any time in regard to second reading speeches. [More…]
I am mindful of the particular problems which exist in Tasmania where our problems in the field of intergovernmental relationships seem to be far greater and accentuated by a number of economic and physical factors which we have not the power to resolve at the moment. [More…]
The interests through which international business exercises its power are known as the multi-national enterprises or the MNE. [More…]
But let me say also that we have an even lesser brief for foreign companies which attempt to use their economic power to destroy governments. [More…]
If MNEs were to develop to the point where they become the major organisers of production in the world, they would undoubtedly be a major power. [More…]
But power responsible to whom? [More…]
At the moment this power is wielded largely by national governments responsible to their electorates. [More…]
In a world dominated by large and powerful MNEs to whom would non-elected boards and management of multi-national enterprises be responsible? [More…]
It also suggests as guidelines that could be useful to other national governments the introduction of a screening process via a government agency with the power to negotiate for better performance from foreign direct investors and with the power to block investment that does not make a net contribution to the nation’s economy or that does not accord with government objectives. [More…]
A former Labor Premier of Queensland, the late Mr Edward Michael Hanlon, clearly forecast what was to come when in the early 1950s he warned: ‘God forbid that the Liberals ever come to power in Queensland. [More…]
Once it is created, if it does not freeze the attempted takeover of all companies, at least it should give the power and authority to handle particular cases where malice is involved. [More…]
That the Annual Report of the Hydro-Electric Commission for 1970-71 pointed to the decline in industrialisation in Tasmania and suggested that future sales of electricity to new large users of industrial power were not presently forthcoming; that, during the term of office of the recent Liberal Government in Tasmania, no new industries which use large quantities ot electricity were established despite frequent announcements in local newspapers that new industries were negotiating to establish in Tasmania, while Comalco, late in 1971, announced a reduction in aluminium output of some 7 per cent; that Mr Reece, at the conclusion of the poll which returned Labor to the Government benches with a 21-14 majority, announced thai Tasmania had a surplus of power which it was the job of the new Government to try to sell. [More…]
That, at this moment, the destruction ot Lake Pedder, Australia’s most beautiful lake, is being hastened with unseemly and unwarranted dispatch for the purposes of completing a further hydro-electric scheme which will generate huge quantities of power for unknown and unimagined users at a time when the premier-elect has publicly announced an existing surplus of power in the State. [More…]
Is he aware, that one such Commonwealth policeman, when arresting Mr Regan in his bed at 8.30 a.m. on 2nd May 1972, is alleged to have accused Mr Regan of being a nigger-lover and a supporter of aliens - obviously referring to the fact that Mr Matteson, who escaped from custody at the University of Sydney, is an American citizen - and to have said that if his crowd got into power the yellow bastards from the north would take over Australia? [More…]
the Government in the Senate knowledge of the use of United States manufactured 15,000 lb bombs in Vietnam, each bomb reputed to be able to pulverise city areas of 1 square mile and to be equal in power to the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima? [More…]
Indeed, it is possible, by the infusion of finance into the various projects carried out in Australia through the State governments, to exert pressures on the economy by releasing extra spending power or, if the Commonwealth Government feels that the economy is getting out of hand, by decreasing spending power. [More…]
I ask that the Senate do all in its power to raise the level of exemption from federal death taxes. [More…]
I know that at times we get snowed under with work, but that is no reason why this Government or any government - there have been a number of governments in power since 1941 - should have allowed the non-taxable amount to remain al the same figure from 1941 to 1972 - 31 years without change. [More…]
Whether the Commonwealth has power to pass laws because it is a party . [More…]
to an international convention and the exercise of its external affairs power is something which the High Court has not yet decided. [More…]
Until the High Court gives a judgment there is no surety as to the extent of the external affairs power. [More…]
That does not end the consideration of whether the Commonwealth has jurisdiction in this area within its external affairs power because it can pick up the Western Australian criminal code and apply it in the area. [More…]
It depends upon whether the Designated Authority - that is the administrating officer - delegates that power to the inspector. [More…]
If he delegates that power to the inspector, the inspector can issue directions covering all of these things. [More…]
So the direction making power can override what the Parliament has done. [More…]
There are also other regulation making powers, and I want to refer particularly to subsections (4.) [More…]
Also, the householder being provided with natural gas is paying more for his fuel than would be payable if, as suggested to the Committee, a pricing formula for natural gas - irrespective of where it is produced - similar to that used by the United States of America Federal Power Commission were adopted in Australia. [More…]
The submission that a Designated Authority can exercise discretionary power in such a way as to ensure Australian equity is little more than wishful thinking. [More…]
We believe that without legislative backing the alleged discretionary power would not be exercised by any Designated Authority in favour of companies having substantial Australian financial backing. [More…]
The Act also gave the Commissioner of Taxation power to defer the demands for the payment of duty where it applied particularly to rural estates. [More…]
It is significant that all the old names of the international oil companies - companies which have been able to change the leadership of many nations, companies which have established small kingdoms, principalities and sheikdoms over the past 50-odd years in the Middle East and companies which have exercised great power in war and in peace - feature on the list of those who now own or have leases of huge tracts of off-shore Australia. [More…]
Can the Minister say whether he had the power to prevent the entry into Australia of the publication known as ‘The Little Red School book’? [More…]
Has he any power over the importation of such literature into South Australia which has much more relaxed laws than other States in relation to the publication and distribution of certain types of literature? [More…]
The Minister has no power, as far as I am able to detect from the information given to me, over the printing and publishing of books within Australia. [More…]
Was it solely because of the exercise of the veto power by Soviet Russia that South Vietnam was prevented from gaining membership of the world body today? [More…]
Does not the exercise of this veto power make it virtually impossible for the United Nations to function as a peacemaking body in the Vietnam conflict unless there is a massive change of attitude by Soviet Russia? [More…]
It has a greater research facility, lt has also greater economic power. [More…]
upon consideration and advice, the Committee has concluded that considerable doubt exists as to whether a Senate Estimates Committee has, under the present Standing Orders and Terms of Reference, the power, on its own initiative, to take evidence in private session. [More…]
As to whether there is any defiance of the law, the Postmaster-General indicated that there was uncertainty as to whether the Australian Broadcasting Control Board has power to impose the restrictions in this area which it has imposed over a period of time. [More…]
It is most interesting to note that the Australian Labor Party was in power in Queensland for a very long time but at no time did it, as a mendicant State or a claimant State, make a claim on the Commonwealth Government. [More…]
What happened in the days before our Parties came to power in Queensland? [More…]
It was not until our Government came to power- [More…]
It was not until the Liberal-Country Party Government came to power that bauxite mining began. [More…]
Freight rates have not been increased all that much since the LiberalCountry Party Government came to power; nor have they been changed very much. [More…]
A super power house is under construction at Gladstone and others are planned. [More…]
Senator Lawrie referred to the new power house at Gladstone but he did not remind the. [More…]
Yes, and there will be a power house at the top of it when the building of that heap has been finished and the raw products to operate the power house will be provided by ‘he mining company concerned; so honourable senators opposite should not talk about Queensland receiving a royalty of only 5c a ton when some other States receive a royalty of 15c a ton. [More…]
That requires vast quantities of power and water. [More…]
Because of its small population and the limited nature of its development Queensland has not reached the stage where it has the necessary power houses and water schemes to utilise its bauxite deposits to the full. [More…]
But it is getting that way and it is doing so quickly, thanks to the power houses which are being developed. [More…]
After the present Government came into power in 1957 high schools were built very smartly in areas that had never seen a high school before. [More…]
As one honourable senator said earlier, in a way it has had to concede to the Commonwealth its sovereignty and the power to operate and to develop the State economically. [More…]
Let me make this point: The Federal Government has made money available for the construction of a power station there. [More…]
It was supposed to be a 4- unit power station to supply the smelter. [More…]
In other words, it will be a ninor power station. [More…]
Is the power station to be built at Gladstone? [More…]
The Federation of Australian Commercial Television Stations questioned on 1st July 1970, the power of the Australian Broadcasting Control Board to determine as a standard, paragraph 35 of its Programme Standards regarding Sunday morning programmes. [More…]
The Board sought the advice of the Attorney-General’s Department and as a result of the Department’s advice and a decision by the Government, it was decided that a full examination of the Board’s powers should be undertaken. [More…]
Infant welfare sisters are doing all within their power to bring about this change in attitude of the mother to the health of her children. [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 only way in which it is able to stay in power is by approaching the Commonwealth on its political hands and knees. [More…]
It was started long before that Government came to power. [More…]
My view, and the Government’s view, is that all lawlessness in the streets, by whatever group, is to be deplored and as far as possible we should do all in our power to discourage il. [More…]
Does the reported presence of surveyors at the Jervis Bay atomic power station site mean that the Government is to recommence construction despite the serious doubts about the massive expenditure involved? [More…]
It is my understanding that no surveyors have been at the power station site for quite some time, but that recently some surveyors have been working at Green Patch Point - some 2 miles away - on an entirely different project. [More…]
The Regulations and Ordinances Committee continually disallows regulations because of an absence of an objective criteria so that power is left to the Minister. [More…]
Either a Minister or the President of the Senate has the power to call the Standing Orders Committee together at any time to consider a matter that was unresolved by the Senate and referred back to the Standing Orders Committee. [More…]
Some sections were fearful about how this power would be used or abused by the Democratic Labor Party. [More…]
Markets were the Government Railways, the power station at Tamworth and a number of local consumers. [More…]
This open cut mine is one of two which have been opened to supply the 2,000 MW Liddell Power Station. [More…]
The decision to build this power station was made because of the availability of extensive coal reserves of steaming quality coal in the Ravensworth-Liddell area capable of being mined at low cost. [More…]
P. D. Hills, the then Deputy Premier and Minister for Local Government, announced the decision to build this power station on 2Sth September 1964. [More…]
In making that recommendation, the Company Law Advisory Committee stated that it did not regard such disclosure as a major weapon for the protection of investors and indicated that it considered that any such requirement should be accompanied by a power of dispensation which would be exercised by the companies commission it proposed and to which I have already made reference. [More…]
A further important consideration was the availability of supporting services such as facilites for the repair of ships, a reliable power supply and other services which an Institute of this kind would require. [More…]
We have had raised the experience in regard to the powers of arrest, the averment provisions and now the limitation upon prosecution. [More…]
Originally, the power of entry without warrant was an alarming provision that would not be permitted in other areas. [More…]
The production of wealth which would result from the application of the extra man power would be quite immense. [More…]
This does not mean that we should not do everything in our power to prevent strikes but it should not be forgotten that Australia has not, generally speaking, had the long drawn out strikes which other countries have had in the last few years. [More…]
This agreement provided that the principle of conciliation by direct negotiation should be adopted for the purpose of the prevention and settlement of any industrial dispute that might arise between the parties; that the Federal and State officials of the unions would do all in their power to prevent precipitate action by employees and would lake early and active part in discussions and negotiations aimed at preventing or settling disputes in accordance with the agreed procedure set out in the next paragraphs; that any dispute or claim should be dealt with in the following manners - [More…]
Full employment can contribute to inflation by generating sectional labour shortages, by strengthening the bargaining power of organised labour and by creating market conditions which facilitate price increases. [More…]
The power of the Commission to make an award, or to certify, under section 28 of this Act, an agreement - [More…]
Even if we had the necessary consitutional power we in Australia have not attempted to bring in legislation such as that introduced in New Zealand under which wages must not increase by more than 7 per cent in any one year. [More…]
It has no power over the process and the Government is and should be responsible for the proper workings of the economy. [More…]
The Industrial Registrar decided under regulation 138 that he had no power, as he interpreted that regulation, to pay for the cost of this challenge which alleged that the rules of the unions had not been carried out. [More…]
Regulation 138 gives the Registrar power to pay for the services of one lawyer only before the court. [More…]
1 think that is the only section which deals with this general power that he exercises. [More…]
Conversely, where practices severely limiting competition prevail, the resulting market power is, in effect, a power to pass on to consumers, through increased prices, costs which would not in a more competitive situation have been incurred at all. [More…]
The 2 main conclusions that can be drawn at this stage are, firstly, that the Act does not go far enough in relation to the acquisition and use of dominant economic power, and, secondly, that the procedure for determining the public interest aspects of examinable agreements and practices needs to be reviewed to ensure that it is appropriate for all classes of such agreements and practices. [More…]
By that decision the High Court held substantial portions of the 1965 legislation to be invalid, but in so doing the High Court made it clear that the Commonwealth Parliament had adequate power under the so called corporations power of the Constitution to legislate with respect to restrictive trade practices and monopolies, in so far as corporations are involved. [More…]
And, it was in pursuance of the guidance thus given by the High Court with respect to the corporations power that the legislation presently operating, that is, the Restrictive Trade Practices Act 1971, was drafted. [More…]
The Government’s consideration of the provisions to be included in this strengthening legislation has, of course, taken account of the Commonwealth’s constitutional powers as disclosed in the concrete pipes decision. [More…]
If the parties to a dispute confer and cannot agree, there will be power, under proposed new section 30, for the unresolved claims to be referred to arbitration but the section provides that anything said during the course of the conference cannot be mentioned before the arbitrator. [More…]
the importance of clause 10 which vests in the Registrar of the Arbitration Court, or a person authorised by him, power to inspect any books, documents or other papers of an organisation or branch of an organisation for the purpose of ascertaining whether there has been a breach of any of the provisions of the legislation. [More…]
They never mention that in the 1930s the unions’ power of direct bargaining was practically non-existent because of the economic circumstances of the day. [More…]
Under modern circumstances, in an industry structured as the airline industry is, with enormous capital outlay, there is tremendous power in the hands of a few to obtain a lot by direct bargaining. [More…]
The other occasion was only the other night when Senator Murphy again expressed tremendous indignation that the medical profession of this country had had the effrontery to use its direct bargaining power to suggest that it was entitled to an increase in fees. [More…]
I was in Britain when the Wilberforce report which brought justice to the power station workers of Britain was presented. [More…]
It has been in power for 20-odd years but it still relies on repression to try to intimidate the workers of Australia. [More…]
It is derived from an industrial power that was written into the Constitution after the fights of 2 great men whose names were well known afterwards - the one Higgins, who became the judge of the court; the other Charles Kingston, well known in South Australia. [More…]
The notion this is somewhat of a pugilistic arena was drawn upon by Sir Robert Garran, the great authority on the Australian Constitution, who wrote in 1930 that in the first 25 years of federation the Commonwealth industrial power played a greater part in political history and legal controversy than did the rest of the Constitution put together. [More…]
By bestowing this power, governments of Liberal faith gave the trade unions their chance to establish themselves firmly. [More…]
The Labor Party concept of a trade union is an organisation that seeks power for the trade union boss and no freedom for those people at the grass roots. [More…]
I think it was Disraeli who said that the newspapers of his day were like the courtesans of old, seeking absolute power with no responsibility. [More…]
In every other sort of law, whether criminal or civil, the power of the arbitral authority or the court must be related to the calling of witnesses and of evidence and to compelling people to appear and give evidence. [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 not 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…]
There is a feeling in the community that no man ought to be given the power to make very great decisions concerning the rights of persons without some form of appeal being available. [More…]
Fourthly, monopoly power within the unions should be resisted, as it should be in every other aspect of national life, especially when it is sought and used for subversive purposes. [More…]
On 29th January 1969 when the current Communist Party Secretary, Mr L. Aarons, announced the confrontation policy he expressed the view that it was within his Party’s power to challenge the whole system of conciliation and arbitration in Australia. [More…]
He announced a strategy which culminated in the O’Shea incident over penal powers. [More…]
I think it is worth remembering, first of all, that the purpose of the amalgamation of these unions in the metal trades is not to further the interests of the workers in this field but, primarily, to extend the political power of those unions. [More…]
We have said before and I repeat now that once this power is allowed to be concentrated in the hands of those people they will seek to use it for the purpose of destroying the arbitration system. [More…]
What I am trying to say is that if Senator Bishop wants to see the concentration of this power in the hands of people who, from their own speeches and statements, show that they are aiming to destroy the arbitration system then he should be honest enough to say that he wants to see the destruction of the arbitration system. [More…]
It does not utilise the powers that lie within its functions as far as other corporations are concerned. [More…]
Rather does it concentrate its power upon the trade union movement. [More…]
There should have been ballots of the members of the three unions conducted by a public official such as the Commonwealth Electoral Officer; the amalgamation should have been approved by a majority of all the members of the unions - not by a simple majority of the members voting in the ballots: the amalgamation would bring about a large communist dominated union possessing excessive power; [More…]
It seems that the DLP has been able to blackmail the Government, stand over the Government to bring about a situation in which the trade unions are pawns in the power struggles taking place for the control of the political destinies of this country. [More…]
I am not prepared to say whether there have been direct political appointments, but one of the things which has flowed from this Government’s being in power for about the last 22 years is that the appointment of people to important positions in the community is influenced in some way by the political philosophy of the Party which has been in power too long. [More…]
He is overwhelmed by the money power of his associates and fellow shareholders in that company. [More…]
Have managers of the various branches of the Repatriation Artificial Limb and Appliance Service the power to offer employees of State hospital departments higher salaries if they will transfer to the Repatriation Department; if so, has this, in fact, been done, without consideration of the position in which such a transfer would place a State Hospital. [More…]
Managers of Repatriation Artificial Limb and Appliance Centres may advise inquirers of the existence of vacancies, but have no power to offer salaries otherthan those which have been fixed by the Public Service Board or the Public Service Arbitrator. [More…]
However, I mention this only because a question conceivably could arise as to whether any motion so amended passed by the Senate would in fact accord with the provisions of the Seat of Government (Administration) Act under which there is power in any House of Parliament to move motions for disallowance. [More…]
I suppose it is the Labor Party’s prerogative not to say what it would do when it seeks to take something out of the Ordinance or says that something is wrong because the Labor Party does not have the power to carry it out. [More…]
Thus a single Minister is given the power to appoint or reject any person who has no redress in the way of appeal, whether he is seeking appointment or promotion from the Public Service to this level. [More…]
If the Senate is to exercise its power we ought to know how the clause will operate. [More…]
any of the terms is a term that the Commission does not have power to include in an award; or [More…]
The power of the Commission to make an award, or to certify, under section twenty-eight of this Act, an agreement - [More…]
any of the terms is a term that the Commission docs not have power to include in an award; or [More…]
But would a conciliation commissioner lack the power to refuse if the terms were in settlement of an industrial dispute, if any of the terms was a term that the Commission did not have the power to include in an award or if his certification would not be in the public interest, whatever that may mean? [More…]
Then we get to the powers of a party and the right of appeal. [More…]
Hie power of the Commission to make an award, or to certify, under section 28 of this Act, an agreement - [More…]
1 do not know whether this provision is designed for the purpose of giving the Government the power to take its contemplated action to interfere with an award. [More…]
Never let it be forgotten that in times past people who have sought to engage in the conciliation process have utilised all the power which direct action avails them in order to stand over the opposite party to the process. [More…]
If conciliation is entered into on the basis that one party has all the power and conciliation is just one necessary step along the line I do not believe the parties will get anywhere. [More…]
If we have a situation where because of the tremendous power which a particular union exercises upon an employer, not in a very substantial way, and by sheer threat and the force of direct action gets what is called a conciliation agreement, I think it is a matter for a conciliation commissioner to consider: ‘Is this in the public interest?’ [More…]
Do honourable senators believe that the results which are secured by simply the naked use of power are things which should be perpetuated simply because the people who use that power happen to be union organisations? [More…]
I think that what we are achieving is a situation where a conciliation commissioner will have the power and the ability to be able to say whether or not an agreement, is or is not in the public interest. [More…]
), is weighted against the organisations, if anything, because the presidential member has increased power to refuse a certificate. [More…]
Proposed new section 32 gives the Commission power to include in awards provisions relating to hindering the observance of awards. [More…]
Proposed new section 32 says that the power of the Commission shall not extend to including in an award or varying an award so as to include a term, however expressed, by virtue of which engaging in conduct that would hinder, prevent or discourage the observance of an award and so on. [More…]
(a) is not permitted to do that but under (c), if an award includes such a term, the power to vary the award so as to exclude or alter the provisions of that term is exercisable by a presidential member and not otherwise. [More…]
He will have, in addition to the power of granting a certificate, a power of conciliation and a power of arbitration. [More…]
I do not know whether it is to be regarded as criticism that the presidential member has been given the powers. [More…]
Is the reported statement by the Commonwealth Police Commissioner, Mr Jack Davis, that a Stipendiary Magistrate refused to issue a warrant to police informing them that they possessed ample power to arrest an offender, true; if so, will the Attorney-General inform the Senate of (a) the name of the Magistrate and (b) the grounds upon which the issue of a warrant was refused. [More…]
All Commonwealth funds specifically intended for Tasmanian Hydro-Electric Commission projects have been made available under the Tasmania Agreement (Hydro-Electric Power Development) Act 1968. [More…]
Would an Australian Wool Authority such asthat proposed by leaders of the industry have the power to determine the price of wool and would this mean less cost to the Australian taxpayer than the present price support system. [More…]
The Commonwealth Industrial Court is exercising the judicial power of the Commonwealth. [More…]
Finally the Congress of the United States had to place curbs upon the various endeavours through the courts and by the use of equity procedures to prevent trade unions carrying out their legitimate functions of endeavouring by disputations, bans or limitations, or by any other weapon which they had at their disposal, to try to advance the interests of their members against the great power of those who were employing them and who were able to organise freely. [More…]
Not only is there a suggestion that in industrial disputes which lead to limitations of work or strikes should there be no penalties if the union is in breach of an award but if a union exercises its industrial power and, as a result, breaks contracts, engages in retortive conspiracy and if - I think this would be covered by the language of the amendment - an assault is occasioned to a person, that organisation and any person connected with it would not be liable to pay any damages for any loss which is caused. [More…]
The power of the union movement was such that supplies could be stopped from reaching Safeway’s. [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…]
Gallup Polls have shown that the community wants its standards upheld against the advocates of porn and moral subversion, whose propaganda undermines the roots of ordered freedom by the pollution of the people, and those in power would do well to give more heed to real public opinion than to mass media writers who do not reflect it. [More…]
That is not the only power involved. [More…]
There are other powers. [More…]
There is the interstate trade and commerce power, the power relating to trade and commerce with other countries and, in various special areas, the legislative powers which provide the basis for the operation of the industrial jurisdiction. [More…]
But the main basis on which the Commonwealth has proceeded hitherto has been the conciliation and arbitration power. [More…]
It can be done in the Territories of the Commonwealth because one can use the power to legislate with respect to the Territories. [More…]
That power is not subject to the limitations I have mentioned. [More…]
It is possible that other powers will be used in the future that will go beyond the limitations involved in the use of the conciliation and arbitration power. [More…]
For example, the external affairs power may well be a source of legislative power in carrying out decisions of international bodies to which Australia is a party. [More…]
This legislation is designed to overcome in areas where undoubtedly the Commonwealth has plenary power the particular problems which have been raised by 2 particular High Court decisions on the meaning of the word ‘industry’. [More…]
It is all very well for the honourable senator who knows that if his Party were in office it would use every power to push this or that chap out of his business. [More…]
When the Board has then set out the specific section, invariably there has been a threat of a challenge to the Board’s power. [More…]
The Federation of Australian Commercial Television Stations questioned on 1st July, 1970, the power of the Australian Broadcasting Control Board to determine as a standard, paragraph 35 of its Programme Standards regarding Sunday morning programmes. [More…]
The Board sought the advice of the Attorney-General’s Department and as a result of the Department’s advice and a decision by the Government, it was decided that a full examination of the Board’s powers should be undertaken. [More…]
the Government had considered the situation which had arisen as a result of the challenge to the powers of the Board by station GTV in Melbourne. [More…]
Senator Cotton said the Government had for some time been engaged in a fullscale review of theBoard’s power. [More…]
As to whether there is any defiance of the law, the Postmaster-General indicated that there was uncertainty as to whether the Australian Broadcasting Control Board has power to impose the restrictions in this area which it has imposed over a period of time. [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…]
Suddenly we are arbitrarily imposing in relation to one section only - I realise that there are limitations on our power to impose this on the other sections - what is in effect a ban. [More…]
I think there is a lot of merit in the argument that the warning should include advertising in the Press, the magazines and the glossy advertisements on paper, but I think all honourable senators appreciate that the Commonwealth has not the power to legislate in that area in the same way that it can legislate in relation to television and radio. [More…]
It was incumbent upon Mr Collard constantly to press the Government for assistance for this industry and constantly to press the Government to keep the industry in operation so that the 25,000 people in Kalgoorlie would not be dispersed throughout Western Australia and probably throughout Australia, applying pressure on all the social services such as power, roads, houses, water supply and sewerage. [More…]
The Commonwealth itself has no power to intervene in this matter other than in the ACT and the NT. [More…]
The major elements of the expenditure involve a new bloom mill and continuous mill complex, extension to the foundry, bulk power supply, extension to a merchant mill and a rotary lime kiln. [More…]
He was at no time a member of this Parliament, but he was a great Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia in which is reposed the judicial power which the Constitution establishes. [More…]
On the occasion when he was sworn in as Chief Justice he said that the function of the High Court in constitutional matters was to interpret a constitutional description of power or restraint upon power and to determine whether a given measure falls on one side of a line or on the other. [More…]
History, and not only ancient history, shows that in countries where democratic institutions have been unconstitutionally superseded, it has been done not seldom by those holding executive power. [More…]
The last of the four great pillars, as 1 think of his decisions was in the boilermakers’ case in which he insisted that no other arm of government should encumber the judiciary by adding to it non-judicial power, and no other arm of government should detract from the judiciary by weakening or undermining its proper constitutional jurisdiction. [More…]
And the People of Australia, having voted overwhelmingly in favour of the Commonwealth having power and responsibility for making laws for the good government of the Aboriginal and Island people of Australia in the Referendum of May 1967; [More…]
Will the Minister assure the Senate that he will do all in his power to prevent any run down in the ship building industry and protect the jobs of thousands of Australians? [More…]
The Democratic Labor Party feels that the Commonwealth should lay down as a matter of principle, so far as it lies within its constitutional power to do so, that the use of land for pine plantations should wherever possible be in areas of this kind rather than in areas which would involve the displacement of the natural flora. [More…]
The concept that was regenerated with the Tennesee Valley Authority, the concept of power, water and soil, the multiple use of the region and the multiple discipline, so impressed itself upon McKell that he came back and founded the first department of conservation in this country. [More…]
That Department of Soil Conservation, Forestry and Water Conservation and Use, with offshoot arrangements into the power generation field, was the forerunner. [More…]
It looks as thoughitems such as travel; hired staff; technical information and reference services; repairs and maintenance work on plant;printing, stationery and general supplies; rent andleasing charges for the use of building, including notional charges wherethebuildings are owner-occupied; insurance;light, power and water; and telephonerentals etc. [More…]
Sixty-four prime-movers were ordered through the Department of Supply in October 1968 from British Leyland Motor Corporation in Australia to meet the Army requirement for an all purpose motive power unit for heavy haulage. [More…]
However, when usedwith the 35 ton transporter under certain exceptional conditions, the commecial type rear mounting of the power take off equipment on the prime-mover presented an unanticipated problem. [More…]
In view of the need to provide a forward mounted power take off unit for use with the 35 ton transporter, the Departments of Supply and [More…]
Due to the terms of the contract, it was found to be more economical to accept delivery of the existing vehicles, and to fit alternative power take off units subsequently, than to vary the contract specifications to effect the modifications before delivery. [More…]
The Commonwealth has no power to intervene in such matters other than in Commonwealth territories. [More…]
In view of the fact that the Minister, in a letter to Senator Cavanagh of 1st March 1972, expressed the belief that the Independent Committee of Enquiry into the Repatriation Act had power to consider the limb-making activities of the Repatriation Department, and that a letter of 13th January 1972 from the Secretary of the Committee, Mr Williams, to Mr Jones of Appliance and Limb Centre Proprietary Limited, would appear to deny this power,’ will the Minister inform the Senate of the correct interpretation of the Committee’s terms of reference. [More…]
If the terms of reference do not give the Committee this power, will the Minister amend those terms to include such power. [More…]
Emergency power station, police services building, telephone exchange and fire station. [More…]
The Government has no excuse, because it has been m power all these years. [More…]
This is a risk one has to take because of the power of penicillin. [More…]
There are signs that the States and the Commonwealth want to alter the set-up and perhaps improve it and give the committee more power and bring in a wider coverage of people suitable for it. [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…]
It will give you the power to strengthen your sinews. [More…]
It is equally significant to realise that the loan approvals which have been granted have enabled projects to be financed both from ordinary and special funds for highway construction, agricultural products and processes, fishery fleet development, industrial plants, water and power supply and all that they mean to future technology, the creation of ports and airports, a great deal of irrigation and many of the essential projects which we envisage as being part of a developing economy. [More…]
Its purpose is to transfer power over lighthouses in Papua New Guinea to the Government of the Territory. [More…]
The actual date of the transfer of power has yet to be decided, but the transfer will be made at an appropriate time. [More…]
As Senator O’Byrne said, it provides for a simple transfer of part of the Commonwealth Government’s powers to the Administration of Papua New Guinea. [More…]
lt is important for the Senate to say, and for the people of Australia to be aware, that the transfer of a power, even if it appears to be a fairly small one such as we are dealing with now, should never indicate that we are surrendering our personal interest and concern. [More…]
Honourable senators will note that the Committee used the words ‘be empowered’. [More…]
Under its present charter the Line is not allowed to act as a freight forwarder, but there are some special circumstances which could make it advisable for the Line to have the power to become a freight forwarder if it so desired. [More…]
The manager and other representatives of the Line assured us that they would welcome this power. [More…]
I have always believed that a committee should do everything in its power to achieve a unanimous report. [More…]
If ever a. person has risen in stature in Tasmania because of his efforts to grapple with the transport problems in that State, it has been Mr Batt, lt is Mr Batt in conjunction with the unions, who has brought a degree of industrial peace to Tasmania, something which we did not know when the ‘Liberal Party was in power in that State. [More…]
The Ford service mechanic showed me that the fault was in the radio power input wire, which was hanging loose behind the panel. [More…]
The car felt unresponsive, it continued across the road, on applying the brakes (in desperation) which are power boosted disks, nothing happened. [More…]
I know that the Communist Party is using these vigilantes as shock troops just as Hitler used storm troopers to gain power. [More…]
The question of whether legal aid should be made available is essentially a matter for the State governments because there is no head of Commonwealth power which may be utilised in the broad sense to permit a system of legal aid. [More…]
Does he regard this irresponsible action by the union as a blatant misuse of power to achieve monetary gain and a complete disregard of the rights of the Australian people? [More…]
I would think that if the Australian people are denied the opportunity of seeing on television the Olympic Games, as threatened by one industrial organisation, it would be one of the most shameful misuses of power that this country has seen in a long while. [More…]
He went on to say that he knew that the Communist Party was using these vigilantes just as Hitler used storm troopers to gain power. [More…]
I ask further: Will he consider using section 96 of the Constitution, if his view is that there is no other head of Commonwealth power to enable such a contribution to be made? [More…]
I ask the AttorneyGeneral: Is there any truth in reports that legislation establishing the proposed new monopolies commission is now unlikely to be brought before Parliament this session because Cabinet is re-examining the whole concept of the commission with a view to giving it power to inquire into and report upon foreign takeovers of Australian companies? [More…]
land, I am informed that this comes under the power of a Victorian Act. [More…]
That is an important factor in a federal system such as ours where We want to see the dispersion of responsibility, the dispersion of power and a greater opportunity for all the people where we believe that expenditure is often more wisely promoted, encouraged and looked after, that is, closer to the grass roots level. [More…]
It became almost a ritual and those people who were in entrenched positions of power and influence could afford to be arrogant and complacent. [More…]
It sees all the privileges and the power to which its members have become so accustomed in danger of being lost. [More…]
That is the sort of justice which the Liberal Government has allowed to continue throughout the whole time it has been in power. [More…]
But that thought is of interest to the class of government that is in power at present. [More…]
We find increased employment in the mining and minerals field and possibly in the production of machinery which is used to reduce the manpower required for the production of food and power. [More…]
The number of factories engaged in manufacturing foodstuffs, clothing and power has decreased over those 4 years, although there was a slight increase of 7.8 per cent in the number of people employed in those factories. [More…]
Tasmania has spent a great deal of its financial resources on the development of hydro-electric schemes to attract industries that use hydro-electric power. [More…]
The Commonwealth Government has power to provide assistance to Tasmania. [More…]
Yet, the Minister for Shipping and Transport (Mr Nixon) has said that this power has never been invoked and that no reimbursement has ever been made by the Commonwealth under that section. [More…]
After all, the Government has been in power for 2 decades and it is only when it faces the crisis of a declining vote in a national election that it has suddenly been able to find money for a number of things. [More…]
This is where I noted with great satisfaction the reductions in income tax rates and the increases in social benefits - in pensions and so on - that are designed to put into the pocket of the individual more immediate spending capacity power. [More…]
We are making an Act of Parliament to hand back this power to choose the members of their own Parliament. [More…]
My hope is that there will not suddenly come into areas of power men of impatience with perhaps extreme ambition who could bring tragedy to the Territory. [More…]
I think that standard is the standard which the people of Australia would expect in making appointments to the body in which reposes the judicial power of the Commonwealth. [More…]
Now that the Australian people are able to receive direct coverage of the Olympic Games, will the Minister inform the Senate whether in fact it was Mr Hawke’s good offices which were responsible, as he has endeavoured to portray through the news media, or was it that the union, realising that it had abused its power by holding the nation to ransom, was concerned about the widespread public condemnation it would have received for its action? [More…]
I understand that the Overseas Telecommunications Commission had taken the view initially that, as the union had not lodged any claim for arbitration but had sought to exercise its power in a direct way in order to achieve by this threat of a ban the results which it wanted, it would not concede anything to that union. [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 hands of any one foreign owner, or if total overseas ownership and control exceeds certain limits. [More…]
When the Liberal-Country Party came to power in 1949 the Commonwealth debt was $3, 685m. [More…]
Thousands of building lots have been sold since this government came to power in 1965 solely for the purpose of augmenting State finances. [More…]
I wonder how the few dollars that the Government is giving to people in the lower income group will lead to a greater spending power. [More…]
I suppose that the great question posed by the Budget is whether people will accept the increased purchasing power and will spend to get the economy moving and not continue to save. [More…]
We do not want to see the increased purchasing power being eroded by ever increasing prices. [More…]
I say to the Senate that this Liberal-Country Party Government has been in power for 23 years. [More…]
The Government says: ‘We cannot do anything about this because the Commonwealth Government does not have the power. [More…]
I believe that in the history of this Parliament no Budget has contained more enduring or more imaginative social reforms, more practical help for the sick, the aged, the handicapped and the poor, a more comprehensive programme to give effective aid to the rural community, a more effective programme to help students at colleges and universities, to help the people in their own homes, to give a real stimulus to the community, to strengthen employment and at the same time to provide significant tax cuts to increase purchasing power. [More…]
I know that the Communist Party is using these vigilantes just as Hitler used stormtroopers to gain power. [More…]
The Australian Council of Trade Unions has the power, if it wants to use it, simply to say that any union in which these activities of violence occur shall forthwith cease to be a member of the Australian trade union movement. [More…]
The building will accommodate electronic telecommunications equipment requiring airconditioning and emergency power systems of high reliability. [More…]
It will accommodate electronic equipment requiring air-conditioning and emergency power systems of high reliability. [More…]
It gave the Committee considerable power - a power which had to be discharged very carefully. [More…]
That charter certainly gave the Committee considerable power. [More…]
In determining which aspects of pollution problems should receive attention, the matter of careful discharge of responsibility and of the careful use of the authority, power and influence that the Committee had was taken into account very seriously. [More…]
This Government has power under the Broadcasting and Television Act to dismiss members of the Commission and it has power to dismiss members of the staff. [More…]
Further, it has power of prosecution under the Crimes Act. [More…]
If Government Ministers knew the terms of the Broadcasting and Television Act, as the Attorney-General professes to know, they would know that the PostmasterGeneral has all the power in the world over the ABC, particularly for delegation of responsibilities under section 9 of that Act. [More…]
In the exercise of that statutory responsibility, section 40 of the Act shows that the Postmaster-General has an overriding power for delegation of responsibility. [More…]
I emphasise those words ‘but subject to the approval of the Minister’ - delegate to a Commissioner or to the general manager of the Commission all or any of the powers of the Commission under this Act (except this power of delegation) and a power so delegated may be exercised by the delegate accordingly. [More…]
If he did not know that he had this power, he has failed in his duty to this Parliament. [More…]
This Government has been in power for 23 years and has done nothing about national superannuation. [More…]
I also raised in the course of this dissent the suggestion that under section 116 of the Constitution it is highly questionable whether it is within the constitutional power of the Commonwealth Government to give financial assistance to the training of teachers who are specifically concerned not only with imparting neutral nonreligious knowledge to students but also with training them in being specifically Catholic, or Presbyterian, or Jewish teachers. [More…]
With respect, I think that the Commonwealth would probably be going beyond its constitutional power if it did attempt to allocate moneys to specifically religious training or to training which included the religious training of the teacher. [More…]
The sum of lt all would be a serious assault on our standard of living, lt would mean a cutback in real purchasing power; that is in oar capacity to buy material goods and services. [More…]
The latest census figures available show that more than onehalf of the men engaged on electric power works and transmission lines are migrants; that one-third of the men engaged on water supply and sewerage are migrants, and that from one-third to one-half of those engaged in building and building materials industries are migrants. [More…]
So far as lies in our power as a government wc are determined to combat this pernicious trend, slow it down and hobble it. [More…]
They do not want people to go to the country because, particularly in States like Queensland and New South Wales, if working people went out into the country members of the Country Party would lose their seats and their power. [More…]
Did he tell us that it is their policy to withdraw from the 5-power pact? [More…]
Mankind will have a new form of power and of social responsibility and will be involved in all the changes brought about by increasing technology. [More…]
No system of government that allows one party to stay in power for 23 years will survive. [More…]
A senator is given the power to bring forward in this place material which discloses certain information for debate. [More…]
The purpose of privilege is to allow members and senators to expose certain things without fear of retribution from powerful men. [More…]
There are in this country powerful men who misuse the forms of government and who through the use of close association and by taking advantage of patronage gain for themselves an advantage. [More…]
I am saying that this Government has been in power for so long that it serves its friends well. [More…]
Patronage is a failing of a government that has been in power for far too long. [More…]
I ask you where you obtain the power for carrying out sessional orders of the Senate. [More…]
A different government may be in power and it may say that it will make unlawful what was lawful when it was not in government. [More…]
This is the key factor behind the rapidly spreading youth power movements here and abroad. [More…]
I think it is high time that this power - this privilege - was taken away from the leader of a government. [More…]
I do not want to take away from Senator Gair any credit that he gives himself for the power that he holds. [More…]
I merely question his right to have that power. [More…]
No-one says that he is not a powerful man. [More…]
Of course, it provided power for an inspector oi a member of the police force to request persons who left their vehicles or erected structures without permission on unleased lands to remove themselves and their structures from the land. [More…]
If they did not do so the ordinance empowered the inspector or police officers to remove the vehicles or articles from the land. [More…]
It was generally anticipated, and has proved to be the case, that the judgment would be of very great significance on the question of the Commonwealth power in respect of corporations and the prospective establishment of a securities and exchange commission. [More…]
This is an example of the selective operation of law enforcement which the Labor Party has promised the Australian people it will give them if ever it should get into power. [More…]
I think there is a very substantial difference between a law which is invalid ab initio by subsequent declaration and one which is validly passed and goes through the proper processes and is within power, but which as a technical matter has not been properly proclaimed. [More…]
It is true that there is under the Australian Constitution no constitutional restriction on the power of the Federal Parliament to enact such a law. [More…]
A Board was created and the power was conferred on that Board to maintain and operate the canteens service and to do these things: [More…]
I refer to Mr Killen, the Minister for the Navy prior to the accession to power of the present Prime Minister (Mr McMahon). [More…]
was that the Commonwealth Government lacked 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 on 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…]
Now the Commonwealth has power to override the States. [More…]
He accused us of being liars in actual fact But the point I wanted to make is this: That the Commonwealth has got power to move in and override the State, and ‘I think this ought to be borne in mind when we are talking about land rights for Aborigines. [More…]
If a Labor government had been in power, the members of the Opposition - that is, the members of the present Government - probably would have built this accommodation with their own hands and with their own money. [More…]
Both under the Immigration Act and the Crimes Act there is power for persons to be deported from Australia. [More…]
There is a power in respect of certain offences under the Crimes Act whereby persons who may be Australian citizens although they were not born in Australia may be deported. [More…]
The Government has the power to deport. [More…]
It has exercised that power on other occasions. [More…]
Because an important issue of civil rights is now involved, is not the appropriate action for the honourable senator to take in such a case to place the evidence before the Public Service Board for investigation first rather than to blacken the character of these persons in the Senate where the senator concerned has the protection of privilege and the people concerned have no power to defend themselves? [More…]
Increases in staff wages and other costs since 1969 have lessened the purchasing power of the subsidy. [More…]
He said that in bringing about peace, peoples and provinces were not to be bartered away from sovereignty to sovereignty as if they were chattels and pawns in a game - even the great game of the balance of power. [More…]
If the report is unsatisfactory, if it indicates that the Government has not full power or if it indicates that further action should be taken we will be prepared to support a royal commission under a judge to advise us as to what should be done. [More…]
I know what the Americans would think about it and I know what the British and the rest of the NATO powers would think about it because they went into a flap over the situation in Malta. [More…]
I sometimes wonder whether it is realised that by placating some of these extremists and doing nothing about them there is a spread across to the other side of the world of the balance of power. [More…]
Whether we like it or not we are in the period of the super powers, the A-bomb, the H-bomb and many other ways of warfare. [More…]
It may well be that when Tito passes on there will be power struggles there just as in any other country. [More…]
Whether we like it or not, its particular federal system may well mean that greater autonomous power is given to the various republics of Yugoslavia. [More…]
I readily accept Senator Sim’s assurance that if this matter were referred to the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence, of which he is chairman, he would do all in his power to ensure that the matter was con sidered impartially and dispassionately. [More…]
I suggest that the AttorneyGeneral and, of course, Senator Jessop who is much more experienced in these matters, know that a Senate standing committee has the right and the power to take evidence in camera. [More…]
I have subsequently made Press statements in which I have made emphatically clear that the Government does not tolerate terrorism of any character in this country and that we shall do all in our power to stamp it out. [More…]
Secondly, would not the present power balance between NATO and Warsaw nations be dangerously disturbed? [More…]
Can he state what power the Commonwealth has in this regard and whether it is possible for a State government to agree to the publication of a book or general literature if the Commonwealth Government has banned its entry into Australia? [More…]
Pursuant to section 32b of the Snowy Mountains Hydro-electric Power Act 1949-1966. [More…]
Complete power is given to a Minister or the Executive; parliamentary control is bypassed: and therefore the method is not desirable. [More…]
But the Government found that it never had the power to prohibit the erection of tents on unleased land. [More…]
Of course, the power of the police to do this was contained in an Ordinance similar to that which we are seeking to disallow on this occasion. [More…]
The use of executive power for the purpose of control of this country is contrary to the principle of Parliament. [More…]
Concerned here is a precedent touching the power of Parliament to reject an ordinance which, in the case of so many ordinances, seeks to achieve something. [More…]
Legislation giving power to control camping on what might be described as municipal land is common throughout Australia, usually under local government legislation. [More…]
Legislation giving power to control camping on what might be described as municipal land is common throughout Australia. [More…]
Since that time I have had the opportunity to make certain investigations and I have learnt that the Commonwealth would have the power to move anyone off the lawns in front of Parliament House without this Ordinance, if it so desired. [More…]
If we were to disallow it, the Commonwealth would still have power to move my fellow Aborigines off the lawns in front of Parliament House if they came back there. [More…]
The Commonwealth still has power to remove Aborigines from the lawns in front of Parliament House if they were to set up their tents there again. [More…]
To my knowledge this Ordinance is the only power that prevents the tents from being re-erected, although Senator Bonner may have other knowledge. [More…]
If there is other power this Ordinance need not have been brought down. [More…]
Also the Ordinance contains provisions whereby an inspector appointed under the Ordinance or a member of the Australian Capital Territory Police Force will have power to remove a structure or a vehicle if he has requested the person who is in occupation or who has apparent control of the structure or vehicle to remove it, and if immediate steps are not taken to comply with the request or if the structure or vehicle is not removed within a reasonable time after the making of the request. [More…]
Let me briefly say that the Government’s record in regard to the development of Aboriginal welfare proposals is nothing short of remarkable in the 3 to 4 years in which the Commonwealth has had the plenary power to act in respect of Aboriginal matters. [More…]
But he recognised the point that if there were power on the part of the Government to remove them, if they had no lawful right to be there, what is the point of disallowing this Ordinance because it regulates the position in a satisfactory way. [More…]
It is a salutory reminder when members of the Opposition bring up this matter for debate today, when we had all thought it was a dead issue, and when they provide for us once again an example of what is a general attitude to the law which I think bodes ill for the Australian people if the Australian Labor Party were ever in a position to exercise power. [More…]
In Adelaide one has been erected on the lawns outside the Hotel Australia, which is one of the most prominent positions in Adelaide, with no interference from the State Government - I do not know whether it has power to interfere - and with the approval of the Adelaide City Council which is Liberal-controlled. [More…]
I have no power to order the Minister to table the papers under standing order 363. [More…]
For instance, in 1949, when the Chifley Labor Government was in power, taxpayers were paying tax of $129 per head of population. [More…]
I contrast this with the Labor Party’s policy on education and this talk of an Australian schools commission which will have power to control every individual school in Australia. [More…]
The Publications Classification Tribunal, as it will be known, will have power to classify any; published material as suitable for unrestricted distribution or for restricted distribution only. [More…]
The tribunal to have power in relation to any published material: [More…]
It’s quite obvious there is a game of power politics being waged within the Liberal and Country League which could well bring fundamental changes in the structure and attitudes of that organisation. [More…]
Because an important issue of civil rights is now involved, is not the appropriate action for the honourable senator to take in such a case to place the evidence before the Public Service Board for investigation first rather than to blacken the character of these persons in the Senate where the senator concerned has the protection of privilege and the people concerned have no power to defend themselves? [More…]
He claimed that Mr Kokic did not have that power at Geelong and other places. [More…]
In view of the wrangle that Senator Hannan engaged in, I said rightly: Is it not a logical conclusion - this has been the motivation of the Government’s original diplomatic ties with Yugoslavia - that if an infinitesimal minority of the Yugoslav community has its way and becomes linked with some subversion in Yugoslavia and a fragmentation develops then Rijeka and all these other Adriatic ocean ports could be made available to the Red fleet and it is quite possible that the power balance between NATO and the Warsaw Pact countries will be distorted. [More…]
But it is the Liberal Party’s stock in trade to talk about power balances. [More…]
On previous occasions when introducing measures to increase pension rates I have pointed out to the Senate the extent to which the inceases have represented gains to pensioners in real purchasing power. [More…]
1 do not think that the President, who is one of our equals, should have any discriminatory power to supervise or to have surveillance over the business of the Senate as to whether things are incorporated in Hansard. [More…]
J understand that the President has the power to excise from Hansard anything that he feels runs counter to the decencies in the publication of Hansard. [More…]
I feel that if the President has power to eliminate from Hansard things of an objectionable character it is quite in keeping that he should have some authority to view what is sought to be incorporated in Hansard without the material being viewed by anybody else. [More…]
The President has power in regard to publication involving technicalities and things of that nature and I think we must recognise that nobody will be unreasonable about matters such as this. [More…]
It should be borne in mind that all pension payments are free of income tax and, therefore, they have a greater purchasing power then equivalent amounts of earnings that are subject to tax. [More…]
Unquestionably what would be useful would be, for example, an indication by those who have power and influence within the Australian trade union movement that membership of the Australian Council of Trade Unions is dependent upon the executives of unions ensuring that conduct of this sort that can be shown to have a real union basis, as the article suggests, will not be tolerated and that if it does continue the organisation concerned will not continue to be a member of the Australian Council of Trade Unions. [More…]
Power station at Tennant Creek, Northern Territory. [More…]
This is demonstrated by the real gains of pensioners in the purchasing power of the pensions they are to receive. [More…]
It is not only the money sum which is available, nor is it the increase in the money sum which has been achieved over that period but also it is the qualitative purchasing power of that money sum. [More…]
I suggest that if one looks at the increase in the consumer price index over the last 12 months and at the increase in the pension rate over that period one can see that, in accordance with Government policy, followed over a period, there has been an increase in real purchasing power. [More…]
The Opposition has not made any mention of this, but I can recall barely 2 years ago, I think in the last Budget which the Government brought down during the Prime Ministership of Mr Gorton, it was suggested that the Government, by allowing only 50c a week increase in the pension, was not allowing the pension to keep pace with what was required in the way of purchasing power. [More…]
But with increasing inflation the erosion in the purchasing power of the $1 has become considerable over the years. [More…]
Can the Minister say whether the Government has any power to prevent the publication of such information which could result in dangerous experimentation by irresponsible people? [More…]
Can he advise the Senate whether that Department or any other interested department or government authority is carrying out investigation or research into the future use of solar energy, particularly for power? [More…]
With the continuing problems of using wasting raw materials as a source of power and the obvious situation eventually arising of raw materials becoming costly and in short supply, will the Minister give urgent consideration to the Commonwealth Government undertaking a feasibility study cf the use of solar energy for power? [More…]
My question is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for National Development and is supplementary to the question asked by Senator Webster on solar power. [More…]
I ask: What action has been taken by the Government and its various departments to investigate the use of seawater for domestic and commercial purposes, and has any research been conducted into the possibility of harnessing tidal waters for electric power production. [More…]
An investigation which was undertaken on the north-west coast of Western Australia indicated that there is a tremendous opportunity for tidal power generation in that area, which is not very far from the pearl culture operation at Kirrie Bay. [More…]
I think it was estimated that the tidal power capacity in that area was such that it would be able to supply one-third of Australia’s total power requirement. [More…]
The difficulty is that the source of power generation is a long, long way from a market for the power. [More…]
In relation to constitutional power it is clear that the Commonwealth has power over the interstate trade and commerce. [More…]
It is clear that the Commonwealth has power over the importation of commodities such as steel, and in co-operation with the States it certainly has power in regard to an institution such as the Australian Gas Light Co. which has special privileges and has virtually a monopoly in regard to the supply of gas for industrial and commercial purposes in New South Wales. [More…]
The Commonwealth has a corporation power and a whole host of other powers, leaving aside such powers as the defence power. [More…]
When one is dealing with the prospective energy requirements of a nation, of which natural gas will be a important part, I do not think it is useful to divert this argument into what the constitutional powers may be because this is a subject which is fundamental to this nation. [More…]
We are hopeful that this process of stagflation and of erosion of purchasing power and the other processes which are operating to the detriment of the community will at least in part be halted by this process and that they will make a due contribution and that the real value of income will again be sustained. [More…]
I am disappointed in relation to the report of the Select Committee on Water Pollution, which contemplated the creation, in cooperation with the States, of a national body projecting the concept of cooperative federalism and not using the overriding powers that the Commonwealth might be able to aggregate under the various heads of power in the Constitution. [More…]
That at present the Commonwealth has no power to enforce or to regulate the construction of pipelines within a State or to use the petroleum within a State, other than by indirect means. [More…]
The Commonwealth has no power to enforce the construction of interstate pipelines, but can only exert its powers to control such pipelines if and when they are built. [More…]
Gas and liquid petroleum are the fuels of the future; they are the power of the future. [More…]
Overall, it is a major business proposition generating employment and providing power facilities in a way which is typical of Australian development over recent years. [More…]
That pipeline is now functioning and giving South Australia an ability to maintain its power costs very competitively and comparatively at lower cost than in most other parts of Australia. [More…]
We are concerned about the first step in developing a new resource which Australia is blessed to have in large quantities and which will augment the power and fuel potential of this country. [More…]
It is this: Because of the tremendous powers under the Constitution of the Senate, and because it has the total power of veto of the lower House - it has been said that the Senate is the most powerful second chamber in the world - an increase in the membership of the House of Representatives without an increase in the membership of the Senate would result in an increasing concentration of power, particularly the power of veto, in a House whose numbers were diminishing relative to those of the people’s House. [More…]
The facts are today, as they have been ever since man started to make laws, that after about their 14th year youths throughout the western world at any rate seem to face some new relief or take unto themselves more power and responsibility. [More…]
Whether that is relief or power is a matter for each individual to decide. [More…]
That is an important power and responsibility to give to youth as it is an important power and responsibility to give to youth of today the vote in regard to their national and State elections. [More…]
In those days the loyalties within one’s army were kept basically as a result of the power of personality of the commanding general, plus the opportunity for loot, rape and a few other things. [More…]
So it was recognised long before the power of the legislature resided within the parliament that a person was able to come to power and exercise enormous responsibilities and duties at the age of 18. [More…]
The throne is but a symbol of ascension to power. [More…]
I do not know that it is necessarily vital to sit upon either a wooden chair at Westminster Abbey or a peacock throne in Persia to exercise despotic power. [More…]
I think it will be found that in most of those countries where the parties in the lower House are unstable the bureaucracy of necessity must assume more and more the responsibility of power. [More…]
He claims that we can experience the miraculous annointing of the holy spirit of resurrection power and see the most beautiful sight in any church, the regal splendour of the transubstantiation robes. [More…]
The learned gentleman claims that he is a prophet of God whose message on life and the science of the body is unquestionable, and that his power in God, even to the raising of the dead, is unquestionable. [More…]
I mentioned a moment ago that he claims to be a prophet of God, a faith healer, with power to raise the dead. [More…]
In this regard the Commonwealth has power to ensure that any proposal by a registered health insurance fund of the nature put forward by HBA would be kept entirely separate, and that is the point I was making. [More…]
The Convention conferred upon an aircraft commander power to impose restraint in cases where that 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 bad begun his journey. [More…]
In Commonwealth Territories we have complete constitutional power to see that in a wood chip industry reafforestation is carried out in accordance with all the good practices that this country wants to see. [More…]
One could well predict that no matter what the political complexion of the government in power was, this type of agreement was of national importance. [More…]
The Commonwealth’s constitutional power in that matter relates to price control. [More…]
For that reason I believe that an impasse has been reached between the Commonwealth and the States and local government in which the Commonwealth has obtained and maintained power over the purse, by its power over taxation, and the States are getting a very poor part of the deal. [More…]
the revenue power virtually is concentrated in the Commonwealth and the expenditure opportunities, apart from defence and things of that nature, virtually are confined to the States. [More…]
Nevertheless, I think we should know why our wording still harks back to the inauguration of the scheme which was established under the defence power and why the long title should describe the Bill as having a defence purpose. [More…]
I have been informed that the States Grants (War Service Land Settlement) Act 1952-53 gave the Minister for Primary Industry the power to make grants to the States in such amounts and subject to such conditions as he determines. [More…]
We know that whatever our views may be on the principle of estate duty, constitutionally the most that we can do in this place is to direct our minds to the elimination of that duty insofar as it is imposed under Federal constitutional power. [More…]
I believe that it is a misuse of public funds for any party in power to slate the Opposition by issuing statements on departmental letterheads. [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…]
Clause 23 provides a regulationmaking power which will enable agreements made in pursuance of or for the purposes of inter-governmental agreements to be exempted from the operation of the Act. [More…]
Finally, I point out that clause 4 provides for the Act to draw upon constitutional powers in addition to the corporations power which at present is the source of constitutional power for the existing legislation. [More…]
The clause is to ensure that the Act applies to as large a proportion of all restrictive agreements and practices operating in Australia as the Commonwealth’s constitutional power may permit. [More…]
We know that the Federal Government and the State governments are suffering from the monopoly power operating in the community so that the taxation which is imposed on our citizens is higher than it otherwise should be. [More…]
But do not let us scrap the present system for a system such as that which in theory - and we cannot disregard theory - could place in power a government which represents 25 per cent, 25.1 per cent or 26 per cent of the electors and which could be opposed by 74.9 per cent, 76 per cent or 60 per cent of the electors. [More…]
Of course it is because inevitably it disenfranchises a great number of people in the community and makes them the exclusive property of the electoral system of a country under the control of parties that happen to be big, in power and popular at a particular time. [More…]
In addition the Conference recommended that the new body should be equipped with wide powers including the power compulsorily to 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…]
Similarly the Queen’s power to dismiss a minister through her representative cannot be disputed (Section 64 of the Constitution says ministers hold office ‘during the pleasure of the Governor-General’). [More…]
His Excellency for many years had so expressed himself on moral Issues that there was no doubt how he would use bis discretionary powers, if allowed to do so. [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…]
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 duty should receive bounty assistance. [More…]
I know that this pipe is subject to customs duty unless the Government or the Department of Customs and Excise agrees that it will reduce or eliminate the duty in the interests of supplying cheaper power and energy to New South Wales industry and consumers. [More…]
It will only curtail, as I heard the Minister mention today in answer to a question, the flow of the S45m that can be poured into the Australian economy in the actual laying of the pipeline and the enormous savings to the whole of the economy from the reduction of costs that could result to industry in New South Wales, particularly in the Sydney area, by the introduction of a new and cheaper form of power. [More…]
Every country in the developed and industrialised world which possesses supplies of natural gas has a national policy to ensure the efficiency and economic utilisation of this invaluable power source - that is, every country except Australia. [More…]
The only excuse - this is the rub - is Government neglect and disregard in the face of powerful recommendations by experts. [More…]
To give honourable senators an idea of how big a problem this is in the minds of the wide spectrum of the Australian people, I point out that the efficiency of industrial development and cheaper power and the provision of job opportunities for hundreds of Australians could easily be hampered and jeopardised without a national approach to this problem. [More…]
A committee - even a subcommittee - of the Senate Standing Committee on Industry and Trade would be ideally situated to look at this problem and to advise quickly on the steps that should be taken by the Commonwealth so that the Commonwealth can use the powers that are available to it to face up to the obvious need and to look through the evidence that would be available from an investigation by the Senate Select Committee. [More…]
As far as I am aware no professor appointed by anyone has the power to elicidate the facts that have to be gained. [More…]
a committee which has power to question people under oath to find out what specifications were supplied to the people who were asked to submit tenders for this contract, to examine ali relevant details, and to come down with effective answers. [More…]
But I have seen a Bill passed through here in relation to Australian Capital Territory regulations.It did not take the Government long to introduce that Bill when, on the previous day, it found that it had lost certain power. [More…]
In view of the fact that the major source of power generation in South Australia is the brown coal deposits at Leigh Creek and in view of the fact that these deposits have a limited availability, is South Australia not the logical region in which to establish the first nuclear power station in Australia? [More…]
Further, is it not equally as logical to site the envisaged uranium enrichment plant in South Australia, based on such a nuclear power provision? [More…]
Is it not a fact that the South Australian power grid radiates out from Port Augusta - a location which gives ample access to the necessary huge volume of water required for nuclear power generation? [More…]
Will these factors be taken into account when the site for a nuclear power generation and uranium enrichment plant is considered by the Government? [More…]
I am unable to say whether the Australian Broadcasting Control Board has any power in this matter, but I shall direct the honourable senator’s question and my answer to the Postmaster-General. [More…]
As the Commonwealth Government, we will have the power of our funds and the power of section 96 of the Constitution to establish in Canberra a body - a bureaucratic institution, a monolithic public service - that will decide the needs of every State and independent school in Australia’. [More…]
By the power which Mr Whitlam foreshadowed in his Fabian lectures in July of this year and the, power of section 96 of the Constitution, a Labor government will take over the central functions now run by the States which include education, hospitals and other services. [More…]
Mr Whitlam in his Fabian lectures of July said this: ‘It is not true as some people say that if a Labor government came to power there would not be any rapid or serious changes - that there would be just Tweedledee and Tweedledum. [More…]
In exercising the power to decide that, it will decide which school shall flourish and which school shall die. [More…]
If the 2 reins of the dual system of education are held in the fingers the power to discriminate is grasped. [More…]
The power to destroy is held. [More…]
I believe that those who should decide what schools shall be built - those to whom the founding fathers of Australia gave the power to decide - are the sovereign States. [More…]
The federal body of the AMA has recently been given power to negotiate with the Government, but that does not bind the individual practitioner in any way. [More…]
Has the Minister’s attention been drawn to a statement made by the South Australian Minister for Works, Mr Corcoran, at the recent opening of the Tumut 3 power station, that a storage such as that proposed at the Chowilla site in South Australia is an essential requirement for ensuring full benefit to South Australia of the Dartmouth project? [More…]
Thirdly, will the Minister ask the Minister for Labour and National Service to do all in his power to assist the Queensland Government to maintain industrial sanity in that State and prevent a handful of communists and fellow travellers from sabotaging large new industrial developments particularly at Gladstone and Townsville? [More…]
As late as last Saturday I spoke to people in the 25 to 35 years age group at Talbingo at the opening of the new dam project and power station. [More…]
I have seen remarkable changes, particularly over the past 6 or 7 years, since the Commonwealth has had power to make special laws for Aborigines. [More…]
So the powers responsible in the Queensland Government decided that they would make this division greater by creating 2 Acts, the Torres Strait Islanders Act 1971 and the Aborigines Act 1971. [More…]
If these Acts are intended to give black people more power to run their own affairs, they ought to have been introduced as law a long time ago. [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…]
It is significant that in relation to the infamous Queensland Act the right honourable member for Higgins (Mr Gorton) who was then Prime Minister and the Minister for Social Services (Mr Wentworth) who was then in the Minister in charge of Aboriginal Affairs both said that if the Queensland Government did not toe the line the Commonwealth, with its constitutional power, would make it toe the line. [More…]
Immediately it had the right and the power, there was no use in rushing out and voting so many millions of dollars. [More…]
The Commonwealth now has the power to do so. [More…]
I appreciate that Senator Keeffe, who is a past Federal President of his Party, would like to see his own Party in power. [More…]
No-one can question that, since the Government received the power in 1967, a tremendous advance has been made in a great number of areas. [More…]
We must endeavour by all within our power to have an integrated community in which the Aboriginal people will feel that they are part of the Australian community and that the nonAborigines of this country will accept the Aborigines as part of their community. [More…]
I would have thought however, that the difficulty to which he has given expression arises from the fact that the Council, which was not the body which had the power of making the decision - because that was the Minister’s power - in some way must have given the information publicly that certain persons had been recommended for an award. [More…]
The present Bill, dealing as it does with monopolies, is concerned more with situations in which competition is ineffective because of concentrations of economic power. [More…]
Where economic power is concentrated in the hands of a few businesses in an industry those businesses may not be subject to normal competitive pressure, and in the absence of those pressures there is a possibility that the conduct of the businesses will be inimical to the public interest. [More…]
I hasten to add however that concentration of power may be desirable in certain industries in order that economies of scale and other benefits may be realised. [More…]
In the United States monopolisation has long been governed by section 2 of the Sherman Act, which is concerned not only with abuse of monopoly power but with the need to prevent trends towards monopolistic concentrations of economic power. [More…]
It is sufficient under the section to establish that there has been a deliberate acquisition or assertion of monopoly power. [More…]
At the other extreme the approach can be not to inhibit size but merely to deal with abuses of monopoly power when they occur. [More…]
The Government believes that the main objective of our legislation ought to continue to be to deal with abuses of monopoly power. [More…]
Therefore while the Government believes that the emphasis of our legislation should continue to be on dealing with abuses of monopoly power, it believes that the trend towards monopoly conditions is something which cannot be permitted to take place without surveillance in the public interest. [More…]
Apart from the broad philosophy to be adopted in dealing with monopolies there is a question whether abuses of monopoly power can be satisfactorily dealt with in the manner provided for in the Restrictive Trade Practices Act at present. [More…]
lt is simply not possible to define with precision all the forms in which abuses of monopoly power can and do occur. [More…]
Accordingly, the order-making power does not extend to the making of orders in relation to such agreements. [More…]
Like the Restrictive Trade Practices Act the Bill is drawn primarily around the corporation’s power. [More…]
However clause 4 provides for the Act to draw on other available constitutional powers as well. [More…]
It has said: ‘This is the Bill that we propose to introduce if we are returned to power.’ [More…]
Those in the community concerned with the economy will have an opportunity to examine this proposal and will be in a position to put to the government, whichever party is in power, its views on the proposals. [More…]
Yet apparently the Commissioner of Taxation has the discretion to reverse such an assessment and has the power to refuse to disclose the reason. [More…]
He said that it was not in the area of his power to seek out this information and report upon it. [More…]
In other words, it is within the constitutional ambit of power to which such offences may be attached. [More…]
To the extent of our constitutional power, we legislated to make it an offence to take certain action in aircraft which were flying in Australia, in respect of international aircraft which were on the last leg of their trip to Australia or the first leg of their trip out of Australia, and in respect of crimes committed on Commonwealth aircraft wherever those aircraft might be. [More…]
In addition the Conference recommended that the new body should be equipped with wide powers including the power compulsorily to acquire the total Australian wool clip. [More…]
It would ensure that the Corporation would have the necessary power, authority and direction to carry out this inquiry urgently and to make a report to the Minister for Primary Industry. [More…]
In March of this year the Australian Wool Industry Conference submitted to the Government proposals recommending this action, In addition the Conference recommended that the new body should be equipped with wide powers including the power compulsorily to acquire the total Australian wool clip. [More…]
One thing we do know is that the Corporation, as was the case with the Wool Commission, will have power to acquire wool if it is necessary, if the Corporation considers that it is in the interests of the industry to do so or if certain operations are taking place which are not in the interests of the wool industry. [More…]
Of course they will have power to police the clip, to check on samples and to do all things needful to maintain the high standard of Australian wool selling. [More…]
What Senator McLaren did not tell the Senate is that under its constitutional powers the Commonwealth cannot legislate alone to grant the power of compulsory acquisition to the Australian Wool Corporation. [More…]
To grant the Australian Wool Corporation the power to acquire the clip compulsorily not only must Commonwealth and industry consent be forthcoming but also complementary legislation must be introduced by the States. [More…]
The question arises as to whether the court would have power to make a corporation, which an Act of Parliament would seem to exempt from the powers of the arbitration tribunal, a named respondent. [More…]
If I am wrong, the court has power to include them. [More…]
There is also the possibility that the Corporation has the power to employ such persons as it so determines. [More…]
The Corporation is given the power to buy wool at auction ‘or otherwise’. [More…]
of section 20 of this Act, the powers of the Corporation include the power- [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…]
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…]
In one of its recent pamphlets the Country Party set out as one of its main objectives, that the Party is to be a power base in Parliament to fight for country interests. [More…]
To this clause I shall be moving the last amendment which has been circulated in my name and which deals with the powers of the Corporation. [More…]
Those powers are set out in paragraphs (a), (b), (c), (d), (e), (f) and (g) of the clause. [More…]
The powers are comprehensive, but they do not authorise the Corporation to operate, if required, as an authority handling the acquisition of the Australian wool clip. [More…]
Without going into lengthy argument about this proposition, which involves simply adding a further power to the power of the Corporation, I move: [More…]
That is the subclause with which we have just dealt, lt is suggested now that we place amongst the Corporation’s powers an added power that does not appear in thi Bill at the moment to make arrangements for the operation of an approved marketing scheme to acquire and/or market the Australian wool clip. [More…]
It means in actual, practical effect that the Corporation is given the power to start the scheme going, and put it into actual operation. [More…]
We feel that the power that the Corporation has as one of its functions under the clause that has been carried already - to inquire and to report back - gives it sufficient power at the moment to do the job of devising a logical, practical and acceptable scheme for the wool growers and for the States that must formulate a co-operative action towards any movement of this character. [More…]
But to give the Corporation tha power to make arrangements for tha operation of an approved scheme without stating even by whom it would be approved is to us rather to confuse than to clarify the provisions of the Bill. [More…]
We think that the powers that the Corporation is granted in clause 40 of this proposed Act of Parliament are very wide powers to do almost anything in the interests of the objectives that have already been granted to it. [More…]
They include the power to buy wool, to sell wool, to lease or purchase the property, to employ labour, to demolish or remove buildings and many other powers. [More…]
If we look at the powers we see, as I said in introducing my amendment, that there are these ones to inspect and appraise wool, to buy wool at auction or otherwise, to sell wool the property of the Corporation and other powers included in subclauses (a) to (g). [More…]
These are the powers that the Corporation is being given. [More…]
To these we have suggested that there should also be added the power to make arrangements for the operation of an approved marketing scheme to acquire wool. [More…]
To grant the Corporation the power compulsorily to acquire the wool clip we would need the consent and complementary legislation of the States. [More…]
But if the word ‘acquisition’ were written into this clause it would be ineffective because the Commonwealth just has not got the power to acquire. [More…]
It is that under the Constitution the Commonwealth does not have the power to acquire the clip compulsorily unless it has the consent and complementary legislation of the States. [More…]
I think that the Minister, on reflection or on reading Hansard, will see that right throughout the course of my remarks I was expressing the concern of the industry as well as of myself at the fact that the Minister had power to appoint the greatest number of members of the Corporation. [More…]
Under one clause the Corporation itself has power to appoint 3 members. [More…]
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 if, as a result of the take-over, 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 a particular proposal 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 . [More…]
In exercising these powers, however, the Court will be required to satisfy itself, as far as it reasonably can do so, that any order it proposes to make will not unfairly prejudice any person. [More…]
The Court’s powers are limited where the breach in question was due to inadvertence and excusable. [More…]
I take it that the complaint to which I have referred was not considered by the Commissioner as being a breach or an evasion and that therefore he would have no power to include it in the report. [More…]
Parliament is in serious danger of losing its power to the heads of departments and this is particularly noticeable in matters relating to the Social Services Act. [More…]
We believe that we have checks on these procedures by the Auditor-General, who may not authorise in his audit of authorised payments the expenditure of any sum of money which has not been sanctioned by Parliament, but I think the debate in the Jetair Australia Limited case and the case concerning Treasury officers which I read to the Committee yesterday show that the Auditor-General’s power is limited. [More…]
I have never raised this matter during debate because I think such persons are entitled to a pension but the Department has power under the Act to refuse a pension to someone who may be entitled to it. [More…]
I say that if my legal interpretation is not correct as I believe there are grounds for saying it is correct - as the Department has the power to defy the Parliament in another direction, it should have the power to give assistance where assistance is justified. [More…]
While there may not be a great deal of complaint on this occasion, if the power exists for the Department of Social Services to act in this manner, where do we stop? [More…]
The power of the Department should be used on this occasion as it has on one other occasion to pay benefits to such people as the one to whom 1 have just referred. [More…]
Therefore the Commonwealth Government has no power to direct the Council to provide confidential information which it says that it wants to preserve as confidential. [More…]
The Minister also has the power of appointment. [More…]
I was given an undertaking by the Minister for Works (Senator Wright) that he would do all in his power to have information made available. [More…]
It is not information which the Commonwealth has power over, lt is not information which the Commonwealth has. [More…]
Therefore, unless there is something in the next succeeding regulation, there is not power to purchase unless tenders are called. [More…]
But the question arises as to whether the chairman of the Contract Board had the power to issue such a certificate. [More…]
Before I came into this place 1 endeavoured, through people who are now my colleagues - when I entered the Parliament I continued the endeavour myself - to obtain a copy of the feasibility study on the generation of hydro-electric power from the Dartmouth Dam. [More…]
Is the Leader of the Government in the Senate aware that the flooding of Lake Pedder in southern Tasmania is unnecessary from an engineering point of view and that the lowering of the water level by a few feet would save the lake and not materially reduce the amount of power generated? [More…]
In view of the recent decision to use wood sleepers instead of concrete sleepers in the construction of thetransAustralia railway a decision which some people hold was made with employment in an area of Western Australia in mind will the Minister ask Cabinet to investigate granting a sum of approximately$9m to Tasmania for the explicit purpose of the building of a channel around Lake Pedder, which would enable the lake to be saved, would not interfere unduly with the production of power and, importantly, would create employment and goodwill in southern Tasmania? [More…]
Unless we have a national average price for various products so that a person buying a motor tyre al Winton, shall by some method of rationalisation, or some mode of equalisation, pay the same price for the product as would be paid in Sydney or Melbourne, inevitably there will be this diversion of purchasing power and the flight of commerce from rural areas to urban areas. [More…]
Port Augusta is a power generating centre. [More…]
This would give too much power, in my opinion, to too few people. [More…]
These are the sorts of powers that are necessary if the enormous commercial power of the conference system is to be combated. [More…]
After the elections - all the indications are that this Government will not be returned to power - it will become the responsibility of the new government to look closely at the whole of the conference system. [More…]
At present the clause gives to the Minister a discretionary power to establish a committee but I think the whole intention of the Bill is for the establishment of a committee. [More…]
out we will reach the stage where Ministers or the bureaucracy will have complete control of everything in Australia and the parliament will have no power at all. [More…]
I sense that the basis of this power is to be found in the social service power of the Commonwealth, though I appreciate that there may be questions raised as to what is the ambit of that power. [More…]
Likewise there may be some who might seek to justify it under the general power to appropriate moneys. [More…]
I appreciate the general point that he makes that discretionary legislation is legislation in which the Parliament yields to the executive a very wide power of decision making. [More…]
The theory behind the concern in this area is that the Parliament should not yield that power but should retain it as far as possible unto itself because there is a risk that if a discretion is granted to the executive the executive will in fact be legislating, not the Parliament which is the body that should legislate. [More…]
In the area in which Senator Cavanagh particularly concentrated upon, the Regulations and Ordinances Committee and the rules made by a subordinate authority, the risks that the Parliament In conferring upon a subordinate body the power to make legislation are rauch more evident than in situations such as this where the administrative decisions of choosing between particular applicants for a grant or of determining whether particular conditions have been complied with is more administrative than legislative. [More…]
But I feel that a judgment must be made in particular cases as to whether the discriminating use of discretions and conferring upon the Minister the power to make decisions in accordance with the general criteria are not the most effective ways of administering the new scheme. [More…]
I took the reply of the Attorney-General (Senator Greenwood) to mean that he did not know the position but that he thought we had the power under the social service powers in placitum 51 (XXi iA) of the Constitution. [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…]
In effect, the Minister says: ‘We are using this power in relation to aged persons homes.’ [More…]
The question could be raised of whether there is correctly a constitutional power, but the fact is that everyone is sympathetic to aged persons homes. [More…]
It would be thought that in introducing this legislation the Commonwealth would be more sure of its powers and the use of its moneys to implement this scheme. [More…]
I understand that there is doubt in the Department about whether constitutional power exists in relation to this question. [More…]
I think that the answer I received and the common wording of the social service powers outlined in the Constitution leave beyond doubt that there is no substance in that claim. [More…]
If I took it down correctly, it was as follows: ‘Do you decline to use a power if it is a desirable use of power?’ [More…]
Was it: ‘If it is a doubtful use of power*? [More…]
It is a very familiar experience for honourable senators on this side of the chamber to hear that all sorts of desirable pieces of legislation have been eschewed or rejected because there is some doubt as to whether power exists under the Constitution. [More…]
Perhaps the best illustration that can be given is the alibi that this Government has used over many years about the true meaning of the corporation powers. [More…]
I suggest that when it suits this Government to find that a head of power is doubtful it aggravates and exaggerates the doubt and claims that this sets up an absolute barrier to the introduction of the desirable legislation. [More…]
he receives the power to introduce this Bill. [More…]
I will read the sub-placitum for the benefit of honourable senators, it confers on the Parliament the power to make laws for the peace, order and good government of the Commonwealth with respect to: [More…]
For the enlightenment of honourable senators, will the Attorney-General tell us under which specific phrase he believes the Commonwealth has the power to introduce this Bill? [More…]
1 do not think Senator Gietzelt, who was the leading speaker for the Opposition during the second reading debate on this Bill, was suggesting that it should not be passed because of some lack of constitutional power. [More…]
I wanted to have it clear in my mind whether the Government had the constitutional power to legislate in this way or whether it should legislate as it does in relation to grants to schools under section 96 of the Constitution. [More…]
But do I take it from his reply that the advisers of his Department are of the opinion that constitutional power does exist for the introduction of this legislation which is before us at the present time? [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…]
I refer to such things as parallel scheduling in relation to which there has been no power until now for the Department or the Minister to make change other than by asking for co-operation. [More…]
Until such time as the Convention amendments themselves come into force, Australia is not able to exercise its external affairs power to bring into operation under our national legislation the relevant amendments. [More…]
I would point out that although the Act does not apply directly to foreign ships, section 7 provides power for marine surveyors and authorised persons to ‘board any ship for the purpose of ascertaining whether the provision of the Convention has been complied with. [More…]
Such power may be exercised if a foreign ship is suspected of having discharged oil anywhere in contravention of the Convention. [More…]
That available constitutional means under the trade and commerce power be called upon to effect this purpose. [More…]
Canada and Australia have much in common - modest populations and vast areas, much of them arid and unsettled, and are medium powers within the context of power blocs and multi-national associations. [More…]
He developed the military power of the West through the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation to meet the Soviet military threat. [More…]
He felt, just as Truman did in relation to South Korea, that America had an obligation and a duty to protect South Vietnam from the onslaughts of the power drunk communists from the North who were aided and abetted by outside communist countries. [More…]
I do not know that anything can be done to protect the citizens in that country while the present illegal, rebellious regime remains in power. [More…]
That was the Act of the House of Commons bringing into operation the Australian Constitution - the King in Council had been granted the power (with the consent of the Commonwealth Parliament) to alter the boundaries of the Commonwealth (and ipso facto those of Queensland) without reference to the electors. [More…]
The encroachment by the Commonwealth in any State sphere of activity or power, or the physical encroachment by the Commonwealth for reasons of geography, whether they relate to the continental shelf or anything else, has overtones for every State of the Federation. [More…]
The might and the power of the Commonwealth may well be mustered without any constitutional inhibitions to sever these islands from the State of Queensland, to completely truncate part of a nation, a total ethnic group, and put it in another nation embracing a multitude of races with which it would be totally alien. [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…]
Papua New Guinea has a right to expect that the country which has been a colonial power over these years - quite unwillingly on our part - should be looking towards it to help it to great nationhood. [More…]
There are similar situations in many parts of the world where one power has as part of its territory certain islands off the shore of another country and which has, as inhabitants of the islands which it possesses, people who belong to a similar ethnic group to those of the power which possesses the islands and nol of the same ethnic group as the country which they adjoin. [More…]
It is a problem which this Government has inherited from the demarcations by colonial powers of Asian, Pacific and the. [More…]
The tribes were divided purely to suit the convenience of the occupying power, and this is what happened with regard to the relationship between the Torres Strait islands and Papua New Guinea. [More…]
There has been too much of shooting from the hip ever since this Government came to power on 2nd December. [More…]
1 guess that next time it will be a oneman government and it will be for a longer period if we leave the present Government in power long enough. [More…]
I do not think the Commonwealth Government has the power to do it. [More…]
Decisions are made in the Health Department and the power is with the Under-Secretary. [More…]
Notwithstanding that it creates a burden on the economy, the power of the Government to give effect to that promise is unquestioned. [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…]
Following a request from the Western Australian executive that the Arbitration Act be amended to automatically provide a Preference to Unionists clause being inserted in all awards and determinations, an opinion on the constitutional power in this regard was sought from Dr Evatt. [More…]
It has power to tell those members in a democratic fashion what they should and should not do. [More…]
He suggests that a trade union official is an exception;!- person in the community who can be entrusted with particular power over the people with whom he associates. [More…]
No matter what may bc said about the representation of the Hurseys in the court, case, it was the power of the unions and the fear of the government of the clay to stand up to them al that lime which caused the Hurseys to be abandoned. [More…]
The fact is that in certain circumstances the Public Service Arbitrator is given the power to make a determination contrary to the law of the land but that determination, is subject to disallowance by either House of Parliament. [More…]
That a select committee be appointed to inquire into -.mil report upon the desirability and feasibility of establishing a Securities and Exchange Commission by the Commonwealth either alone or in co-operation with the States and the powers and functions necessary for such a commission to enable it to act speedily and efficiently, against manipulation of prices, insider trading and such other improper or injurious practices as the committee finds have occurred or may occur in relation to shares and other securities of public companies, and to recommend generally in regard to the foregoing such legislative and administrative measures by the Commonwealth as will, having regard to the constitutional division of legislative power in Australia, enable the utmost protection of members of the public and the national interest. [More…]
That the committee have power to send for persons, papers and records, to move from place to place and to meet and transact business notwithstanding any prorogation of the Parliament. [More…]
That the committee have power to consider the minutes of evidence and records of the select committee on securities and exchange appointed during the previous parliament. [More…]
In so far as the provisions of the Act affecting this matter are concerned, my understanding is that judges of the court act as judges exercising the judicial power of the Commonwealth. [More…]
If in a defended proceeding no evidence of adultery is put before the judge, I do not understand it to be the function of those exercising the judicial power to turn themselves into inquisitors and start to crossexamine a person on whether some act of adultery has been committed. [More…]
What steps does the Government propose to take to safeguard Australia’s important position as a trading nation and an economic power of consequence at the meeting to be held in Paris next Friday of a group of 14 nations which will attempt to resolve the world monetary crisis? [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 and, I hope, with :he advice of the Department. [More…]
That is because in that instance the Public Service Arbitrator had the power so to determine. [More…]
The Public Service Arbitrator does not have the power to determine whether unionists or non-unionists get additional leave and in all determinations except one before us he has not done so. [More…]
I come now to the point that the Commonwealth Public Service Arbitrator has supreme power. [More…]
I believe that power is subject to some appeal to the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission but it is not subject to appeal in this Parliament. [More…]
Normally we would not have power to do this. [More…]
We have no power to interfere with the decision of the Arbitrator unless that decision is contrary to an Act of Parliament. [More…]
There may come a time when, for better industrial relations, power can be given to one man to make a decision although it may be contrary to the law of the land. [More…]
That power is found in section 22 of the Act. [More…]
But the only reason he has this opportunity is because a section of the Act gives the representatives of the people the right to keep the power which, by statute, has been delegated to an Arbitrator. [More…]
In this respect we have to consider the question whether to uphold the law or, for industrial harmony, give the Arbitrator power to regulate conditions and industrial relationships. [More…]
Therefore, if there was no certificate from the Public Service Arbitrator, there would be no power for this chamber to discuss the question. [More…]
In case it should be thought that this is a power which is never availed of, let me recall a case in my own experience - 1 think it occurred in 1966 - when in fact the Public Service Arbitrator specifically limited the benefits of a determination to the members of the Administrative and Clerical Officers Association, and specifically excluded other people from the benefits of that determination. [More…]
Is Senator Wright suggesting that there is no power in the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission to give preference to unionists in these matters? [More…]
There is no power? [More…]
As to the inference that it would be handed over to some embassy or representative of a foreign power before being presented to the Senate, I can assure the honourable senator that there is no intention of that course occurring. [More…]
The honourable senator asked something about whether, if some agents of a foreign power were operating in Australia - and he has indicated that this would be in terms of operating unlawfully in Australia - the proper action would be deportation or the other procedure which is usual in these cases. [More…]
1 think it would be clear 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…]
I refer particularly to the reported statement of the Minister for the Environment and Conservation that he is powerless to act in any matters of conservation and that the Federal Government had no constitutional power. [More…]
The report to the Minister states that while there are limitations on Commonwealth power by the effect of section 51 of the Constitution, there has been a readiness by the States to co-operate on this question of environmental and impact studies. [More…]
We think that the difficulty caused by restrictions of Commonwealth power will not be as great as it at one time appeared. [More…]
It has been said that not only is it ultra vires the Act, but also that it is beyond the power of the rule-making authority to do this. [More…]
It has even been suggested that it is beyond constitutional power and that in no matter whatever might the Australian Parliament even intervene to prevent charging by practitioners in excess of what has been laid down in the rules. [More…]
The suggestion is made that this is beyond constitutional power and that those who were perpetrating these rackets could continue doing so and that it is beyond the power not only of the Australian Government but even of the Australian Parliament to deal with them. [More…]
But I do say that to the limits of the powers that are available to me and to the. [More…]
limits of the powers that I can induce the Australian Parliament to exercise, I will do whatever I can to see that these oppressive costs are removed and that divorce is made simpler and more dignified for the people of Australia. [More…]
I 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…]
There was a powerful move in the trade unions to introduce compulsory unionism in States where Labor was in power. [More…]
He believes that they should have the power to force a man to join a union by industrial action and yet he says that he is opposed to compulsory unionism. [More…]
But if they have the industrial power to order people into trade unions they are in favour of it. [More…]
Now that you have mentioned his name, I remind you that he gained his power as secretary of the Queensland branch because of Australian Labor Party legislation in Queensland relating to compulsory unionism. [More…]
Can be explain why this information was given by Mr Whitlam to a foreign power before giving it to this Parliament? [More…]
So, 3 of the 5 main power areas of the world lie in close proximity to each other. [More…]
Japan, the emerged industrial power, Russia, the emerged industrial and military power, and China, the emerging power, lie within a relatively short distance of each other. [More…]
To the west of them is the emerging power of the European Economic Community. [More…]
How will it look at the American-Chinese detente in the sense of the balance of power? [More…]
The record proves that in the 100 days that this Government has been in power it has achieved more than other governments achieved in the last 23 years. [More…]
I should at this stage make some mention of the powers and function of the Parliament. [More…]
I believe that the powers and function of the Parliament should transcend any Party political considerations. [More…]
All Australians pin their faith on their parliamentary system and on the power of their representatives, and they are very jealous of their heritage. [More…]
It is dangerous to tell the people that a parliament will exceed its constitutional powers. [More…]
These powers have been conferred upon the Parliament; they have not been conferred on any Party political organisation. [More…]
Does it mean that the ALP believes it is in power because of the program it put forward in its policy speech at the last election, or is its mandate based on the ALP Conference proposals? [More…]
The recognition of the People’s Republic of China is not something which was initiated when the Labor Government came to power; the previous Government was already taking steps in this direction. [More…]
We also believed in the long and previously well known Australian tradition that one does not just sacrifice old friends merely for the sake of making new, even if more powerful, friends. [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…]
I did not like Senator Withers’ implication that the Opposition is going to be in a position to use a lot of power. [More…]
Amongst the number of matters that he pointed out to the Australian electorate was that a very minor swing in voting brought the Labor Party to power. [More…]
The United States is a major power. [More…]
It is a nuclear power. [More…]
Australia is a middle ranking power in a multipolar world. [More…]
I have no doubt that those who sit on the Government back benches and who no doubt exercise what is the ultimate power within caucus might, before the night is out, enlighten us on which policy the Government presently espouses. [More…]
I shall develop this theme about presidential power. [More…]
Nobody in his right mind would say that the enormous power which the United States President exercises should be unfettered by any checks and balances. [More…]
I indict all the European powers for their failure in IndoChina; the French were equally at fault as the rest, no matter whether those in power were socialists, radicals or even conservatives. [More…]
Towards the end of his diatribe he said that the Labor Party was in power due to misrepresentation and lies. [More…]
He might recall that his Government, when it was in power, refused to allow parliamentarians to visit Pine Gap. [More…]
That the Select Committee have power to send for and examine persons, papers and records, to move from place to place, to sit in open court or in private, notwithstanding any prorogation of the Parliament, and have leave to report from time to time its proceedings and the evidence taken and such interim recommendations as it may deem fit. [More…]
Is it not a fact that the Commonwealth Government has power to proclaim certain areas of land as being required for Commonwealth purposes at some future time - for example, in respect of a proposed airport? [More…]
As the representative of the Minister for Civil Aviation I would say that, as the honourable senator knows, the Commonwealth has power to acquire land compulsorily. [More…]
The wonderful thing about it all is that the people of Australia can look forward confident in the knowledge that while a Labor Government is in power they will be treated with the respect and sympathy to which they are entitled as citizens of this country. [More…]
In spite of the many criticisms that can be made of a heterogeneous collection of basic data summarised down to one single figure for Australia as a whole, the usefulness of average weekly earnings as an economic indicator lies in its ability to show movement in average earnings from year to year (and to a lesser degree from quarter to quarter) and to point out trends in economic conditions and the potential purchasing power of consumers. [More…]
I was discussing the ability of the economy to pay for the social service benefits that will be provided by this legislation and the effect on their purchasing power of certain things. [More…]
It is a matter of whether people have used their power as councillors to further their own interests rather than the interests of the people they represent. [More…]
But we have no constitutional power to intervene in the States’ control of land. [More…]
It is very difficult to police and to identify precisely where these cases have occurred, if in fact they have occurred, and it is not within the power of the Commonwealth at this stage to police the retail pricing of wine. [More…]
Will the Minister, so far as it lies within his power - I realise that there are difficulties in doing so - prevent Bijedich from having any discussions with the Yugoslav secret police operating in this country? [More…]
We have those 2 great instruments of government, the legislative power exerted by one, and the judicial power exerted by another. [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…]
I think this will be a matter of conjecture forever because, after all, it is a secret vote and statements by people in the community, whether they be political scientists, pollsters, journalists or politicians, that 18-year-old voters always vote against the government in power or always vote this way or always vote that way is so much eyewash. [More…]
Could any power in the world finally contain 700 million people on one land mass? [More…]
None of them are great powers. [More…]
Most of them are very small powers. [More…]
Indonesia, because of its situation, its numbers, its tremendous wealth and the resilience of its people probably one day will become a great power. [More…]
The Five Power Arrangements do not require that we should have troops in these areas. [More…]
Tonight Senator Sim said: ‘I do not believe that the five power pact is going to be of any permanency’. [More…]
That the committee shall have power to send for and examine persons, papers and records, to move from place to place, and to meet and transact business in private and public, notwithstanding any prorogation of the Parliament. [More…]
As though the evidence I have already 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 dangerous, violent Croatian revolutionary terrorist organisation in Australia. [More…]
I will do anything in my power to assist them in achieving this aim.’ [More…]
The complaints that he has received apparently refer to a period when the Labor Party was not in power. [More…]
Every issue which has come before the Committee he has looked at as someone who has been appointed to uphold the authority of Parliament, to uphold the authority of the democratic system and to oppose the arbitrary exercise of Executive power. [More…]
The matters raised by the former AttorneyGeneral, Senator Greenwood, in relation to what has transpired in the past 12 days and particularly today are matters, I believe, of great importance not only to the Senate but also to the people of Australia as to whether they do not give rise to real concern for the actions of one man whose assumption of power has been extreme. [More…]
It has been an extreme assumption of power which he has not been prepared to explain either to honourable senators in answer to their questions or to the people of Australia. [More…]
No doubt, they will be able to see the significance of the sorts of points that I make - ‘that when power is used in a manner which is irresponsible and arrogant then it brings forth a resistance which is right and proper in circumstances in which people question and argue as to whether that power should be used in that way. [More…]
Leaving aside the hypothetical nature of what he said - if there is evidence of extreme violence and so forth - the real problem with extreme violence, no matter from what part of the political spectrum it comes, is that in most cases, even though it appears that it has some national characteristic or component in the sense that it might be directed against a foreign power, there are no Federal criminal laws in relation to this. [More…]
These reforms stand well within the scope and intendment of the Act and within constitutional power. [More…]
The giving of power to a standing committee to print from day to day such papers and evidence as may be ordered by it and the fact that a daily Hansard shall be published of such proceedings of the committee as take place in public, I think, may be deemed to imply authorisation of the Senate for the material that is published in Hansard to be referred to and used because it is a public document. [More…]
At least when the jurisdiction became Federal there was a power for the court not to be an inquisitor. [More…]
Indeed, since the decisions of the High Court and Privy Council in the Boilermakers’ case it is difficult to imagine how any court exercising the judical power of the Commonwealth under chapter III of the Constitution could have conferred upon it any jurisdiction to conduct an inquisition. [More…]
of the Acts Interpretation Act we have the responsibility and the power to disallow regulations. [More…]
page 410) the High Court said of the regulationmaking power conferred by a statute: [More…]
The ambit of the power must be ascertained by the character of a statute and the nature of the provisions it contains. [More…]
In an Act of Parliament which lays down only the main outlines of policy and indicates an intention of leaving it to the GovernorGeneral to work out that policy by specific regulation a power to make regulations may have a wider ambit. [More…]
I appeal for support to every member of this Parliament on both sides of the House who has risen in his place over the years and supported the principle of control of the Senate over the statutory rule making power of this Parliament. [More…]
In fact, it is a breach of the statutory rule making power and ought to be thrown out on that ground. [More…]
Does anybody seriously suggest that there is an abrogation of the sovereign power of Parliament if these rules are allowed to go through? [More…]
All the matters we are amending in the rules are matters which are dealt with by the Act itself when it refers to the rules and concerning which power is given to the Government to act because the original Act of 1959, which was introduced by a Liberal Attorney-General, made provision for certain matters to be the subject of rules. [More…]
But as the Government we do have power in this Parliament to make substantial improvements in the existing body of divorce law by amendments to the rules, by the proclamation of new rules. [More…]
That the committee have power to appoint sub-committees consisting of 3 or more of its members and to refer to any such subcommittee 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…]
The purpose of this amendment is simply to include under the regulation power the prescription of sitting fees. [More…]
It is 7 o’clock in normal times, but do not forget that there is an abnormal government in power in Queensland and we have to work to its times, not to normal times. [More…]
But if a tribunal is coming - I imagine a tribunal is to come - to have automatic reviews of this proposition the question of whether that tribunal, as finally set up by this place, has the right to set an automatic entitlement or whether it will have the power only to make a recommendation will have to be determined. [More…]
I will do everything in my power to get him the information he seeks. [More…]
It is stated in the Constitution that the powers of the Senate shall be the same as the powers of the House of Representatives but the limitations, in the nature of things, of a second House, are quite severe. [More…]
For instance, apart from the Senate’s limitations in respect of finance, it is the majority in the other House that determines which political party in the country has the opportunity of government, with all the power and influence that that confers upon that political party. [More…]
Because they have the numbers on the opposite side, honourable senators have become so arrogant with their power that they think that they can subvert the Government. [More…]
That is a power which could deny the right of any honourable senator, and particularly of honourable senators on the Opposite side, to ask questions if Ministers felt that the heat was getting too strong. [More…]
The power is an enormous power because it concedes to a Minister the opportunity to terminate questions whenever he pleases. [More…]
We shall utilise the powers that We have to ask questions with a view to getting information. [More…]
As I said earlier this week, in the three or four months in which the present Government has been in power we have seen more arrogance, more secretiveness and a greater refusal to give information than can be said of any particular incident in the last three or four years of the previous Government. [More…]
Can he say whether the United States controlled communication base operated in Australia could be used to relay this information to a foreign power, namely, the United States of America? [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 sub-committees consisting of 4 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…]
Acts covering the employment of staff of statutory authorities, etc., generally give power to the authority to determine terms and conditions of employment. [More…]
I have been informed - I take it that my information is correct - that the background of this legislation is that prior to the Minister for Immigration being given this power certain persons were enticing people of Aboriginal descent overseas and displaying them in circuses and sideshows and treating them in much the same way as wild animals. [More…]
These developments, depending as they do on road and rail transport, lie within the power of the State Government to correct. [More…]
Senator Cotton should remember that in the 23 years during which the Government of which he was a member for quite a considerable period of time had control of the Treasury benches nothing was done about the attempt by the former Labor government to obtain constitutional power to control prices. [More…]
The proposition that was put forward on Labor’s behalf at that time explained to the people of Australia exactly what would happen as a consequence of there not being sufficient constitutional power for the Commonwealth Government to control prices. [More…]
I appreciate that it will not be a simple proposition in a capitalist economy containing so many self seekers and people dominated by greed for high profits and the power that comes from being in the top echelon of business administration. [More…]
AH they can do at a time like this is criticise the Government that has been in power only for 3 months. [More…]
The Government has the power to decide selectively which industries the committee shall investigate. [More…]
That is an interesting political power to have - to be able to say: ‘We will pick on you but not on someone else’. [More…]
It has the power to blackmail, the power to corrupt and the power to pervert because it will allow politicians to decide selectively whom they will put through an inquisition and whom they will bypass. [More…]
Because it uses politicians in inquisitorial roles and because it gives the politicians the power to destroy people and industries, it is the very perversion of. [More…]
What has happened now is that in the last 2 years to 3 years, the political Party that is behind the present Government - that is, the Government that sits opposite us now - has created within the industrial movement an outbreak of political insurgency and of political strikes and unrest which, to serve the purposes of power bosses and of those who wish to get to the top, have robbed the decent Australian worker of his real wages. [More…]
The wave of strikes which has come has been engendered not for the worker but primarily to get power. [More…]
The struggles in the unions representing transport workers are power struggles and the struggles in the metal working unions have been struggles for massive amalgamation. [More…]
They are struggles to get power. [More…]
It will destroy - the value of skills by amalgamating all the healthy little skilled unions into great industrial unions, and will destroy the craft unions by amalgamating them into industrial unions all for the purposes of the power bosses. [More…]
We have heard speakers say tonight: ‘Would it not have been better in post war years if the Australian people had given the government of the day constitutional power over prices?’ [More…]
My Party said when in government that no government needed constitutional power over prices. [More…]
Our government provided an average rate of inflation at the lower level of 2i per cent a year for something like three-quarters of the time that it was in office without that constitutional power. [More…]
Then the Government will make a great appeal by way of referendum to the public and will say: ‘If you had only given us the powers we would have succeeded.’ [More…]
Ever since this Government got into power on 2nd December it has been giving the country people of Australia the greatest hiding they have ever had in their lives. [More…]
Is it not a fact that the Commonwealth Government has power to proclaim certain areas of land as being required for Commonwealth purposes at some future time - for example, in respect of a proposed airport? [More…]
As the representative of the Minister for Civil Aviation I would say that, as the honourable senator knows, the Commonwealth has power to acquire land compulsorily This is rarely done for airport purposes without consultation and planning with the States. [More…]
If a person has been found guilty of a crime in this country, has been successfully prosecuted and has served a sentence, it would be improper for him to be returned directly or indirectly to a country where he may be subjected to further punishment, perhaps even execution, for no other reason than the fact that he disagrees with the government which is in power. [More…]
In the case of Yugoslavia, Senator Wright, in reply to my question, said that it would be regarded as bad for the present relative peace and power balance between the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation and the Warsaw powers if Yugoslavia fragmented. [More…]
But here we have an Attorney-General denying from the people of Australia the fact that there is an abundance of allegations - it is true that there is no thorough proof, as with the opposite side of the case - that we have acting in this country secret agents of a foreign power. [More…]
The aim of revolutionaries must be to draw conclusions as to how to carry through the workers’ and students’ struggle to political revolution to the seizure of State power. [More…]
There is a great deal of difference between advocating arms for the people of Australia, so that they may conduct a revolution for the seizure of State power of this country, and for people whose activities, at worst, according to Senator Murphy, are to use this country for the purposes of political action related to another country. [More…]
He also said that it was the view of the Australian Government that all such activities should be stopped, that the Government would do all in its power to ensure that this was done and that all allegations that such groups existed would be investigated and where there was any basis in fact action would be taken. [More…]
Senator Greenwood admitted in his statement that he had the power to invoke the Immigration Act, which this Government cannot use because of its total opposition to the use of those powers. [More…]
The previous Government could have used its powers because it introduced certain clauses for the purpose of deporting Walsh and Johnston because of their activities concerned with the Seamens Union of Australia. [More…]
The previous Government could have used this power. [More…]
As though the evidence I have already supplied were noi 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 . [More…]
The previous Government had this power, but it was not prepared to use it against terrorists. [More…]
No specific invitation was extended to him, but when the present lot came to power they could not get around to dealing with communist countries quickly enough. [More…]
At least, it did so until this present lot came to power. [More…]
It has no power of arrest. [More…]
A law enforcement organisation such as the Commonwealth Police Force is not usually served with this type of information but it does have the power of arrest. [More…]
Yet I tell Opposition senators that that is what they are doing, and they could not care less because they have the power in their hands to do it here and because they love hatred. [More…]
I am just saying his Party will not have any power after the next Senate election. [More…]
After all, that is the only thing that kept the former Government in power for 23 years. [More…]
He has the power to appoint interpreters, arrange jobs for new immigrants and generally supervise the “settlement” of Yugoslav migrants who constitute the third largest non-English speaking group in Australia.’ [More…]
When I answered the question by Senator Rae - and I now find that possibly an incorrect statement was made about the purchase of the ‘Straitsman’ - it was not within my power to state that the Commonwealth Minister for Transport was consulting with the Premier of Tasmania and the Tasmanian Minister for Transport, Mr Batt, to find a solution to this problem. [More…]
Equality of voting power became a secondary consideration. [More…]
Mr President felt, I think quite rightly, that he did not have the power under the constitutional practice and that he certainly did not have power vested in him by the Senate. [More…]
As I have said, I think that an absolute majority should have the power to seek the recall of the Senate. [More…]
That a Select Committee be appointed to inquire into and report upon the desirability and feasibility of establishing a Securities and Exchange Commission by the Commonwealth either alone or in co-operation with the States and the powers and functions necessary -for such: a commission to enable it to act speedily and efficiently against manipulation of prices, insider trading and such other improper or injurious practices as the Committee finds have occurred or may occur in relation to shares and other securities of public companies, and to recommend generally in regard to the foregoing such legislative and administrative measures by the Commonwealth as will, having regard to the constitutional division of legislative power in Australia, enable the utmost protection of members of the public and the national interest [More…]
That the Committee have power to send for persons, papers and records, to move from place to place and to meet and transact business notwithstanding any prorogation of the Parliament. [More…]
That the Committee have power to consider the minutes of evidence and records of the Select Committee on Securities and Exchange- appointed during the previous Parliament. [More…]
Thai the Committee have power to consider the minutes of evidence and records of the Select Committee on Securities and Exchange appointed during the previous Parliament. [More…]
That the Committee have power to consider and use the motions, transcripts of evidence and all other records, including draft reports, advisory papers, correspondence and other documents of the Select Committee on Securities and Exchange appointed during the previous Parliament. [More…]
That the Committee have power to consider and use the motions, transcripts of evidence and all other records, including draft reports, advisory papers, correspondence and other documents of the Select Committee on Securities and Exchange appointed during the previous Parliament. [More…]
That the Committee have power to consider and use the motions, transcripts of evidence and all other records, including draft reports, advisory papers, correspondence and other documents of the Select Committee on Foreign Ownership and Control appointed during the previous Parliament. [More…]
The Committee has power to appoint subcommittees consisting of 3 or more of its members. [More…]
That the Committee shall have power to appoint sub-committees consisting of three or more of its members, and to refer to any such subcommittee any of the matters which the Committee is empowered to consider. [More…]
That the Committee or any sub-committee shall have power to send for and examine persons, papers and records, to move from place to place, and to meet and transact business in private and public, notwithstanding any prorogation of the Parliament. [More…]
That the Committee have power to consider and use the motions, transcripts of evidence and all other records, including draft reports, advisory papers, correspondence and other documents of the Select Committee on Foreign Ownership and control appointed during the previous Parliament. [More…]
Following the conclusion of the Second World War the Chifley Government asked the people of Australia by way of a referendum to entrust it with the power of price control. [More…]
In New South Wales, the adjoining State, a Labor government was in power. [More…]
First of all,the people of Australia denied the Commonwealth Government power to control prices. [More…]
Unless the Commonwealth assumed the power or was given the power to control prices, I do not think any joint committee that we set up would be in the race of doing so. [More…]
What power does the Commonwealth have to force these big retail companies to reduce their margins, if it is believed that their margins, which can vary so much, are too high? [More…]
But when the Government was destroyed by the Queensland Central Executive of the Australian Labor Party and price control was thrown overboard, the manufacturers used to say to me in the street: ‘I wish you were back in power and that you had some measure of price control. [More…]
I cannot believe that they expect me and other honourable senators to accept this proposition enthusiastically because, as thinking people, we know that without complete power as the centre of government we are not in the race in controlling prices. [More…]
In any case, if we did have the power, in the light of my experience, I would counsel the Government not to make the mistake that was made during the war years of endeavouring to control the price of luxury goods. [More…]
If this Government thinks it is going to confuse the people of Australia by this measure and convey to them that it is trying to correct inflation by setting up a joint parliamentary committee to deal with prices when it has no earthly power to do anything in connection with the control of prices, it is wrong. [More…]
It has no power to do it. [More…]
The States are powerless in this regard too. [More…]
If people want something and are prepared to pay for it, they will get it in spite of whatever legislation or power is introduced. [More…]
Mr Power was the Minister responsible for the matter in Queensland at that time. [More…]
Mr Power decided to introduce a docket system in the butcher shops. [More…]
In fact, the Government knows that the proposed committee can do nothing as such because it has no legal power to cause people to reduce their prices or margins. [More…]
It has no power to take any action to reduce the price to the consumer. [More…]
I note the point which Senator McManus has made because it seems to me - and I can speak only personally on this issue - that it is a hollow attitude for the Labor Party to say that it will take all measures within its power to stamp out what must be the most appalling crime which modern mankind has to experience - people placing bombs in crowded streets and in cars, causing havoc, murder, injury and terror - and that with regard to crimes of that character there shall not be the death penalty which ought to be the mark of condemnation of society of the horror and terror of such a crime. [More…]
What power has the International Court of Justice to restrain the French Government from conducting future tests. [More…]
How could the Court enforce its power. [More…]
whether terrorist organisations exist in Australia and, if so, their size, objectives and methods, and whether any of them have a connection with a foreign power or its Australian embassy or consulate; [More…]
Has any decision been made by the Government as to whether that legislation will be based solely on Federal power or conjointly on a basis of Federal and State power? [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 socialist Government which is in power now, I believe, is not competent to sum up the present grave situation that this nation faces in respect of inflation. [More…]
At the same time I do not want to suggest that the treaties which have been entered into and the provisions of the legislation work hardship against individuals because there must be an element of trust on the part of the person who has the power to give this consent from time to time. [More…]
I have said publicly to Croatians that they are entitled to their nostalgic feelings about a free state, but in this era of the A bomb and the H bomb we cannot have little powers upsetting the balance of power between the NATO powers and the Warsaw powers. [More…]
Over the years in the United States there has been a complication in relation to federal offences, presumably because of constitutional power. [More…]
It may well have been all right before we had trade unions with the power and influence that they have today. [More…]
We have in this country the growing power of trade unions; they are becoming more and more powerful. [More…]
In the circumstances, this question does not arise, but I draw attention to my answer to a question without notice by Senator Hannan on 7th March 1973 (Hansard, pages 203 and 204) in which I 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…]
The Australian Broadcasting Control Board should have power, if necessary, to order a station to provide this opportunity without unreasonable restrictions being imposed by the station concerned on the terms of the reply. [More…]
When one recalls the congratulations offered to the Government last evening for having introduced the Excise Tariff Bill 1973 which abolished the excise on wine, one can believe that this is typical and that all sections of the Aus tralian commuinity are appreciative of this Government’s actions as evidenced by its legislation since coming to power. [More…]
The Australian Democratic Labor Party is in the position that its manpower is limited. [More…]
(t may be remembered that Senator Gair pointed out that in his view the committee would not have any power to do anything constructive. [More…]
In this case the Commissioner has a discretionary power to decide, on examining the circumstances, what amount he should give to the legal wife and what amount he should give to the so-called de facto wife. [More…]
A very great power is being exercised. [More…]
As Senator Byrne said, the President does not have the power to reject a request if he has some doubt as to whether the leadership has the sanction of the members of the parties. [More…]
But no-one has sufficient confidence in his leader to give him this power in order to permit him to do that. [More…]
But when senators are out of eyesight and out of hearing, the leader uses the power and acts on their behalf. [More…]
This is simply an exercise of a power which honourable senators have just found they have. [More…]
Like all power it has to be exercised carefully. [More…]
We are trying to exercise a democratic power by the motion which was put down by Senator Murphy. [More…]
That the Committee shall have power to send for and examine persons, papers and records, to move from place to place, and to meet and transact business in private and public, notwithstanding any prorogation of the Parliament. [More…]
Thai, in the opinion of the Senate, a board of inquiry consisting of 3 High Court or Supreme Court Justices should be established by the Government to inquire into and report upon - (a) whether terrorist organisations exist in Australia and, if so, their size, objectives and methods, and whether any of them have a connection with a foreign power or its Australian Embassy or consulate; [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. [More…]
whether any of them have a connection with a foreign power or its Australian embassy or consulate. [More…]
It is a waste of time for 2 reasons, firstly, because honourable senators are fully aware that the Leader of the Opposition who moved this motton, and his supporters, know that the Senate itself has no power to establish a court of inquiry. [More…]
I came to Australia because I was a member of a family which has been persecuted by the Tito regime since it came to power. [More…]
Senator Wright said that we and the so-called free world had nothing to gain by the fragmentation of Yugoslavia because this would mean merely another power cockpit in the world, something like that which exists in the Middle East. [More…]
They would come under increasing pressure to be dominated by one of the power groups in the world; more probably than not by the Soviet Union. [More…]
I am astonished that a man like my friend Senator McManus, who is not interested in the expansion of Soviet power in the world, should be indifferent or somehow blind to the implications of a possible victory of the people to whom he feels– [More…]
By the way, the basis of the indignation of the Opposition over what Senator Murphy did, is that somehow or other ASIO is a sovereign power within a sovereign power. [More…]
You do not question ASIO; you do not have a good look at what it is doing; you do not exercise the authority of the Government over ASIO, ASIO is a power unto itself. [More…]
I understand from what Senator Greenwood and other speakers on the other side of the House have said, that even at this advanced stage of the debate they still believe this to be the case, that ASIO, somehow or other, is a power unto itself, not answerable to the Prime Minister, not answerable to the AttorneyGeneral. [More…]
Will the Minister accept the thanks of the vast majority of Australians who applaud the initiatives he and the Australian Government have taken to discourage the use of nuclear power for other than peaceful purposes? [More…]
In other words, all that was necessary to bring the United States to that parlous condition was that some power not friendly to her had managed to establish land accommodation in a strategic position which rendered the United States geographically vulnerable. [More…]
Before Sukarno moved off the world stage he was a sick man and power blocs were waiting to take over. [More…]
Over the years there has been a gradual handing over of power by the former Government. [More…]
We have seen the power of the Federal Government in relation to finance under housing agreements. [More…]
Can the Minister representing the Minister for the Environment and Conservation say whether it is still proposed to carry on with the abortive inquiry into the Gordon River power scheme in Tasmania, which is almost completed, when Mr Reece says that the inquiry is humiliating to him and in fact has demanded curbs on the inquiry, which has been refused by Dr Cass? [More…]
If it is decided to locate a high frequency station in the Cape York Peninsula area, then there could be advantage in installing a high power medium frequency station within the same complex to serve the Torres Strait area. [More…]
We know that that residual colonial kind of power still exists. [More…]
Certainly it is not independent as far as communist powers are concerned. [More…]
He has been oleaginously servile whenever a matter concerning a communist power has been at issue. [More…]
It increased the dedication and resolve of those people to continue the struggle when they saw what had been done to them by the greatest military power in the world. [More…]
Yet they were able to defeat the greatest military power that the world has ever seen. [More…]
It meant that the Conservatives recognised them as the leaders of another power. [More…]
When it is the Government the real power is disclosed. [More…]
Now, if Dr Cairns, Senator Wheeldon and the host of left wing members who control the Australian Labor Party want to invite the Vietcong and want to ally themselves with the communist nations, they have the power and the influence to overrule Mr Whitlam and ensure that that is what occurs. [More…]
When the Australian Labor Party came to power in December 1972 it was imagined by the people of Australia that there would be some change in foreign policy and in attitudes throughout the world because of the new Australian Government. [More…]
Indeed, there have been more strikes during the time that this Labor Government has been in power than at any other period under a previous government. [More…]
Then on behalf of the Government Mr Whitlam advanced in Indonesia the cause that the South East Asian Pacific grouping should ba dominated by the introduction of the Communist Chinese power. [More…]
Mr President, we take the view that your ruling is in conformity with what has been done, whichever government has been in power and whoever has been sitting in the chair, for a very long time. [More…]
I refer to a judgment which was given yesterday in Sydney and which gave a municipal council the power to erect or construct barriers across streets in residential areas. [More…]
Is the AttorneyGeneral aware that such power as is referred to in the Press report of this case seems to have in it elements which infringe the liberty of the individual? [More…]
The figures since the Government came to power have proved that unemployment has been reduced - we believe by the Government’s constructive actions. [More…]
We have hitched ourselves on to one of the big powers and then become a suppliant to that power. [More…]
1 say this without suggesting any power groupings of the world, just so long as Western Europe and America work together in keeping peace in the world and Japan looks towards a parallel philosophy developed by those two countries whilst recognising that she has as neighbours Russia and China. [More…]
It would not be the wish of any honourable senator at any time, if it were within his power, to oppose the granting of benefits to any individual in the community. [More…]
He had no power of recognition of his dear ones or his friends or relatives. [More…]
But there is the question of what power the Committee will have over Government departments. [More…]
The Bill includes also a provision which will empower the Director to call up a loan where after the Joan 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…]
I think it can be accepted that when a government accepts the legislation of a previous government and alters only the amount contained in the legislation, whether the amount is higher or lower, the government in power has accepted the legislation of the previous government. [More…]
I do not know what can be gained from that statement - 1 think it can be accepted that the Government in power is praising what the previous Government did on the question. [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…]
It is a matter for each university to determine who should receive assistance, but the Minister for Education has indicated that he 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…]
Obviously it has the capacity to do so because within the sovereign power of government is the capacity to bring in ultimate sanctions. [More…]
We will have no reserve power. [More…]
We will have no reserve power to mete out adequate justice for these crimes of horror which are committed by animals who are not fit to live but who will be kept by the state, under supervision, as long as they choose to go on living. [More…]
In recent years the Department has negotiated agreements for the sharing of power poles for both overhead electricity and telephone distribution, and replacement of the deteriorated underground telephone cables by aerial distribution in accordancewith these agreements obviates the need to excavatethe made up surfaces and gardens and is considerably less cosily than the underground alternative. [More…]
Whilst the Department is appreciative of the desirability, of preserving the living environments from unsightly aerial construction,the erection of comparatively light unobtrusive telephone leads on existing power routes does littleto add to the disfigurement of the environment. [More…]
Senator Wright, with the assistance of the minority parties, successfully moved a motion that the balance of power on the Senate Select Committee on Bass Strait Shipping Services should be held by the Opposition parties and not by the Government. [More…]
Also in the motion to be moved by Senator Gair and argued later tonight the balance of power on the proposed committee will not be with the Government but with the Opposition parties, the Opposition parties representing a minority of the Australian electorate. [More…]
What we have had today is a continuation of what was started when this Parliament first sat after the election - a combination of minority parties which do not have the support of the people of Australia wanting to decide what the Senate shall do and wanting to take out of the hands of the Government in the Senate its power to introduce the legislation which it has been authorised by mandate of the Australian people to introduce. [More…]
That the Committee have power to send for and examine persons, papers and records, to move from place to place, to sit in public or in private, notwithstanding any prorogation of the Parliament, and have leave to report from time to time its proceedings and the evidence taken and such interim recommendations it may deem fit. [More…]
After years of protection by the previous Government, with a new Government in power which is determined to stamp out the terrorism, the bomb throwings and the attempted assassinations that have been going on in Australia- [More…]
Hannan’s Government was in power when Phillip Lynch wrote that letter. [More…]
The Country Party with the splinter group has held the balance of power in the past and kept the former Government in power. [More…]
One month ago we asked the Government of the day - now that it has the power - to do what in fact it recommended in September last year, lt did nothing. [More…]
He said that although you talk about internal politics in the Balkans, the moment that Yugoslavia is fragmented you would have an expansion of territorial aspirations by the Soviet Union which, in turn, would destroy the power structure, the balance of power between the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation and Warsaw. [More…]
If the Labor Party feels that there were terrorists in Australia during the office of the former Government and that it was protecting them, as it is now the Government it has the power to charge those people. [More…]
I have no power to speak to the Leader of the Opposition about speaking in the adjournment debate. [More…]
I say also with the authority of Senator Withers that the Opposition will do all in its power to right what we believe was the wrong which occurred tonight. [More…]
Despite the pleas of Senator Murphy and honourable senators on this side of the chamber they decided to take the bit between their teeth and carried a proposal - they probably do not realise this - that gave 3 people the power to ring each other in their various States and decide whether to bring the Senate back to discuss anything they wanted it to discuss. [More…]
It seems that a power struggle is going on within the ranks of not only the Liberal Party but the Opposition parties generally. [More…]
Mr President, in this power struggle and this build-up of tension which has been clearly evident to the Government senators, you have been subjected by Senator Greenwood, Senator Wright and more latterly by Senator Young, to some part of a policy of intimidation. [More…]
We have seen an abuse of power. [More…]
I think that it is to the detriment of the reasonable men who sit opposite that they have not stood out and tried to curb the abuse of power from the Opposition benches. [More…]
The Government has not endeavoured to abuse its power. [More…]
Senator Murphy indicated to the Senate that it was not in his power to complete the Address-in-Reply debate because the business of the Senate had been taken out of the hands of the Government. [More…]
He has not yet tumbled to the fact that he no longer occupies one of the power bastions in Canberra and in this chamber, that there has been a change of Government and that the Australian people have voted out his Party and have given the Australian Labor Party a mandate to carry out the program that it announced in the course of the last election campaign. [More…]
I know that there are senators on the other side who believe that a number of Opposition senators have not as yet come to appreciate the fact that a change in the power structure of the Australian Parliament has occurred. [More…]
The reference of a Bill to a committee was sufficient reason for the Governor-General to find that he had power to grant a double dissolution of both Houses of the Parliament. [More…]
He is determined to destroy the forces which removed him from that great power of grandeur which he had when he could put 20-year-old kids behind prison bars. [More…]
My authority as Minister for Customs and Excise is limited to controls which might be applied in the imports and exports in accordance with the powers vested in me by various provisions of the Customs Act. [More…]
I have no power to implement any controls in relation to the harvesting of kangaroos. [More…]
Officers of my Department are doing everything in their power to minimise inconvenience and difficulties that may be faced by patients where medical practitioners refuse to follow the requirements of the National Health Act in regard to the admission of patients to nursing homes. [More…]
The Australian Government has no power to freeze the price of land outside the Federal territories. [More…]
The present Minister for Foreign Affairs has enlarged the powers of the new Committee substantially in comparison with those which were laid down by the previous Government. [More…]
Over the years the Australian Labor Party was able to have those powers enlarged, but not to its satisfaction. [More…]
Honourable senators will remember that at the beginning of this Parliament the Government enlarged the terms of reference of the Committee and gave it much more autonomy and power than it had ever had before. [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 pre sent 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 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 protection of organisations and their members from civil actions for tort in connection with industrial disputes; provision to overcome some of the problems created by the Moore v. Doyle case; the removal of the various defects which have been shown to exist in the 1972 legislation; and elimination of the power to award costs in proceedings before the courts, the Registrar or the Commission. [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…]
It follows, therefore, that the 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 a similar power. [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…]
Only once in the period that the Liberal-Country Party Government was in power did the ALP receive more than 50 per cent of the primary vote and not attain office. [More…]
I repeat what I said: Only once in the period that the LiberalCountry Party Government was in power did the Australian Labor Party receive more than 50 per cent of the primary vote and not attain office. [More…]
It 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…]
The Country Party believes that it is wrong that political power should be concentrated in a few great cities swamping rural expression. [More…]
The Country Party believes that it is wrong that political power should be concentrated in a few great cities, swamping rural expression. [More…]
The Labor Government, of course, is concerned not with balance of representation, although it claims to be, but with securing its recently won power. [More…]
He said that representation was based on population, not area, with the result that power in Parliament was confined to the heavily populated areas. [More…]
In regard to the complaint about the composition of power, one can only assume that Mr Anthony implied, in addressing his Country Party colleagues at Murwillumbah, that he was not happy, that there were too many Liberals in the Government and that there were too many Liberals in the Parliament because they represented the more heavily populated areas. [More…]
On behalf of the Party, Senator Gair made a statement that the object of the ALP would be to perpetuate itself in office and to transfer overwhelming power to the major cities at the expense of rural -and less populated areas, ls there any member of the Labor Party who will deny that that is the object of the Party? [More…]
I would say, having been 45 years in politics, that it is a remarkable coincidence how often the reports which are brought in by electoral commissions coincide with the views of the government in power. [More…]
That is the kind of situation Senator McManus wants to perpetuate in this country so that his Party can do what it has been able to do in this Senate, namely, change the balance of power completely and absolutely all the time to get its own deals up, and any interest in the national welfare is purely incidental to its own desire to have power. [More…]
The Country Party, which then held the balance of power in the Legislative Council, put pressure on the Liberal Party. [More…]
It was terribly shocked that this could happen under a system in which the electorates were gerrymandered to such an extent that the Government believed that it would hold power for 20 years. [More…]
This is the kind of democracy thai the parties in power in those 2 States like. [More…]
It would put the balance of power in the hands of the Territories. [More…]
I point out to those honourable senators who have paid lip service to this one vote, one value principle tonight that it would give the power and control of the Government to a handful of people. [More…]
Perhaps I had better not say what he might do if he had the power. [More…]
Under the existing Broadcasting and Television Act, which was amended from time to time by the previous Government, the only penal power is revocation of licence. [More…]
As we learn more of the Government’s intentions in this regard it emerges that its aim is to alter the electoral laws so as to entrench the Australian Labor Party in power. [More…]
This Bill represents a cynical misuse of power. [More…]
If the Government does not live up to its promises, and that is likely, then those who elected it are to be exterminated in case they use their power to defeat it. [More…]
The distribution commissioners, while having the power to use the 20 per cent tolerance, used it rarely. [More…]
This is the one time in 3 years that the elector can say: ‘ have the power to decide who shall and who shall not form the government. [More…]
I have the power to recall’. [More…]
It was recognised even in 1959 that there should be an all-Party approach to the question of equality of voting power. [More…]
I believe that the Bill is part of a master plan to enable the Government to centralise and socialise everything in Australia, to destroy our federal system of strong States united in a federation, and to centralise all power in Canberra. [More…]
The electoral system, as it exists at the moment, has enabled one party, with the support of a minority party, to stay in power for 23 years. [More…]
No democratic form of government can survive when one party stays in power for 23 years. [More…]
The tactic used on that occasion by the DLP was that if the people elected the Australian Labor Party to government it would change the electoral system and would stay in power indefinitely. [More…]
The example set by Senator Gair, who is now Leader of the Australian Democratic Labor Party, was promptly followed by the Country Party in Queensland led by Mr Bjelke-Petersen, whose efforts at gerrymandering have exceeded the efforts of Senator Gair, as was shown by the election results outlined by Senator Ron McAuliffe last night, that is, that the Party with the minority of support is in power because of the electoral system operating in Queensland. [More…]
Providing that the electorates are of equal value throughout Australia, the first past the post system is the most honest, the most sensible, the most effective, the most simple way of electing a government to power. [More…]
Lc.t us consider the preference system that has been foist upon us for so long and which gives so much power to a minority party such as the DLP. [More…]
Independent senators hold the balance of power in this place and they have no right to hold that balance of power. [More…]
They do not have the right to hold the balance of power as they do at the present time to frustrate the will of the people. [More…]
We ‘ heard Senator Carrick rise and state what we normally hear from members of the Australian Democratic Labor Party - that what we are out to do is to distort the electoral system and endeavour to place ourselves in power for a limitless number of years. [More…]
Honourable senators should remember the position in respect of delegated State powers. [More…]
The State parliaments will lose all their powers except those delegated to them. [More…]
I cannot think of anything worse than the abolition of the Senate which would mean that the holding of power and the concentration of power was in the hands of a coterie which was largely from the big cities of Melbourne and Sydney. [More…]
Since 1968 this power to vary electorate size from the quota has been applied principally by the commissioners to produce some rural electorates well below the quota and some urban electorates well above the quota. [More…]
This is relevant because this Government is endeavouring to gerrymander itself into power permanently, and I can think of nothing worse for democracy. [More…]
The previous Government when, unfortunately for Australia, it was in power, neglected to carry out its responsibilities. [More…]
But this was not done by the Government that was in power in 1972. [More…]
The Labor Party was in power in Queensland for 40 years and it had every opportunity to gerrymander, and, boy, did it do a job of gerrymandering! [More…]
I suppose that if we accepted the principle that some people have greater rights than have others we would wind up with the almost horrendous conclusion that politicians have a greater right to determine who should be in power than have people who are not politicians. [More…]
Certainly in a House where there are comparatively small numbers there is the problem of a deadlock developing, not specifically in the numbers of the major parties but in that an individual, such as we saw happen 2 or 3 years ago, can hold the balance of power. [More…]
Was the Minister for Overseas Trade, Dr Cairns, indicating Labor Government policy in his reported statement to the effect that China as a world power had justification for having a nuclear deterrent weapons system but that France was only pursuing Gaullist ambitions in seeking to do so? [More…]
1 have said previously - 1 know the reason for it in regard to another notice of motion - that the Opposition is abusing its power. [More…]
The proposition advanced by the Leader of the Opposition in the Senate (Senator Withers) in fact is a political ploy which arises from the antagonism which the Opposition has had towards the Government since it came to power. [More…]
Because it is an inquiry into an act of the Executive it is appropriate that the Senate should have the power to probe and not be stultified by the actions of members of the Government. [More…]
But they are so drunk with the power that they have today that they are prepared to risk the whole system of committees considering important matters by forcing the power of numbers onto the Parliament. [More…]
It favours the areas in which the power centres are located and despises the areas from which great trade benefits come. [More…]
was returned to power on the shoulders of the sole independent who became the natural choice for Speaker of the House. [More…]
i hat Labor was returned to power in 1970 by the effects of the redistribution, not by a major swing of electoral opinion, [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…]
However, authorities with comprehensive power would be, highly appropriate for the planning and integrated development of each individual site chosen for selective decentralisation. [More…]
We believe that this is an abuse of power. [More…]
The Opposition, for reasons best known to itself, believes that it should use that power to have a majority on the committee to inquire into a situation which we believe should not be the subject of inquiry by a committee. [More…]
Yesterday was the day opponents of the burgeoning Senate committee system had long feared and warned against, the day when a committee began to look as important as a Linked States Senate committee, and as powerful . [More…]
And it (the Senate Select Committee on Securities and Exchange) is doing a job which no one has ever tried before, which even a Royal Commission could not match in terms of speed, power, economy, and the use of expertise, yet which can only be regarded as highly desirable in the public interest. [More…]
That the Committee have power to send for and examine persons, papers and records, to move from place to place, to sit in public or in private, notwithstanding any prorogation of the Parliament, and have leave to report from time to time its proceedings and the evidence taken and such interim recommendations it may deem fit. [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, in examining possible methods of adjustment. [More…]
Professor Pollard suggests that 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…]
But once the Labor Party was voted into power it repudiated the promise. [More…]
If he had his way, he would do everything possible to deprive it of its power and even to get rid of it. [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 wc 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…]
So severe and so dramatic have those stresses been, and into so many areas do they intrude, that the States have called for a constitutional convention to take a completely new look at the Constitution to see whether some more equitable and more effective distribution of constitutional power cannot be achieved. [More…]
If this convention is to be held with the maximum goodwill and if it is to achieve a proper constitutional reconciliation and a proper constitutional division of powers, that can only be accomplished in an atmosphere of mutual goodwill. [More…]
This Bill appears to me to be a surreptitious mode of arrogating power to the Commonwealth over an area which traditionally, constitutionally and conventionally has been considered to be within the exclusive jurisdiction of the States - quite apart from Federal territories. [More…]
I believe that in the history of the world it will be noted as one of the most outstanding examples of the transference of power and the acceptance of responsibility, including financial responsibility, in what I call a very adult and very fair sense. [More…]
The Bill seeks to repeal provisions which give to the Attorney-General the power to deport persons who are not natural born Australians - notwithstanding the fact that they may be naturalised Australians - and who have committed certain offences under the Crimes Act. [More…]
I should also say that section 30l creates a power which the Attorney-General may exercise to deport any person who is declared to be a member of an unlawful organisation by the High Court of Australia or the Supreme Court of a State on an application by the Attorney-General - an application which he may make by use of the averment provisions. [More…]
Senator Georges asks why we did not do anything about this matter when we were in power. [More…]
I shall advert to what I said about our attitude when we were in power. [More…]
But, if there is a point in what Senator Georges has said, I ask him: Why did the Labor Government which was in power under the leadership of Mr Scullin not do something about it? [More…]
Why did the Labor Government which was in power under the leadership of Mr Curtin not do something about it? [More…]
Why did the Labor Government which was in power under the leadership of Mr Chifley not do something about it? [More…]
It is no wonder that the Government feels it is necessary to introduce a Bill such as this, in effect, to curb Senator Murphy’s powers. [More…]
I believe that given the power, given the opportunity and given the licence, there is no saying what he might have done. [More…]
Because this Bill removes the power of the AttorneyGeneral to deport those people we emphatically support it. [More…]
I believe that we should limit as closely as we can the power which we have to deport people from this country. [More…]
I know that deportation is a power which a nation possesses with regard to persons who are not its nationals, and it is a power which every country possesses. [More…]
There is a lot of talk about the power of governments. [More…]
It was produced in Melbourne and the Minister claimed that it was therefore not under the incidental power to suppress it - incidental to importation.- That is the first point to be made about that sort of literature being produced abroad. [More…]
In recent years the Department has negotiated agreements for the sharing of power poles for both overhead electricity and telephone distribution, and replacement of the deteriorated underground telephone cables by aerial distribution in accordance with these agreements obviates the need to excavate the made up surfaces and gardens and is considerably less costly than the underground alternative. [More…]
Whilst the Department is appreciative of the desirability of preserving the living environments from unsightly aerial construction, the erection of comparatively light unobtrusive telephone leads on existing power routes does little to add to the disfigurement of the environment. [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…]
Firstly, in reply to the point raised by Senator Cotton, the Australian Government has the right to enter into negotiations with a foreign power, and one would assume that the States could act as they determined to be in their interests, if they so desired. [More…]
There is concern at this monopoly power over the sale of natural gas. [More…]
There are monopoly powers over the purchase of all forms of hydrocarbons, including coal. [More…]
There is the power given to the Authority to subscribe for or otherwise acquire shares in a public company, which seems to us to give it power to take over such companies and, in effect, effectively to nationalise the natural gas industry and to make it a total captive. [More…]
The Authority is given the power to build the pipeline and to convey petroleum through it. [More…]
But it also is given the power to buy and sell petroleum in Australia or elsewhere. [More…]
It would be within the power of such a public authority to discriminate in regard to price and effectively to put one person out of business and another person into business. [More…]
The second matter with which the Liberal Party certainly is concerned is the power given to the Authority to buy and sell petroleum in Australia or elsewhere. [More…]
Nevertheless, we find provision made in the .Bill for this power to buy and sell petroleum. [More…]
This is a most potent power, or it could be a most potent power indeed, for all sorts of ulterior purposes with which a government may at some stage wish to clothe this Authority. [More…]
I do not hesitate to say that such a power could bc used virtually to close down a major gas or oil field or a major producer by means of the price which the Authority offered that producer or by buying petroleum overseas in competition with the producer. [More…]
However, we are conscious of the fact that, from a practical point of view, it may be necessary for the Authority to have a power of this kind. [More…]
There are all sorts of practical reasons why, in the day to day running of such an authority, the power to buy and sell petroleum would be required. [More…]
I believe that the Committee was stating in that original report that there should be some Federal Government control, that a commission should be established to control the size of pipelines, the quality of pipelines to be used, the areas in which they should be established, the various centres at which the power should be delivered, the routes which the pipelines should take and probably the various sizes of pipes that should be utilised and developed. [More…]
The proposed Authority is being established with very wide powers. [More…]
One needs only to look at the powers of the Authority as they are. [More…]
I refer to clause 16 of the Bill, which deals with particular powers of the Authority; clause 17, which deals with the power to enter land and take levels; and clause 18, which deals with the power to enter and occupy land. [More…]
The Australian Labor Party sees the opportunity to take over resources, and it will have the power to do so once it controls the gas pipelines. [More…]
The Authority has power to do, in Australia or elsewhere, all things necessary or convenient to be done for or in connexion with, or as incidental to, the performance of Us functions under this Act. [More…]
The Bill gives that power to the proposed Authority. [More…]
The Authority may perform its functions to the extent that they are not in excess of the functions that may be conferred on the Authority by virtue of any of the legislative powers of the Commonwealth, including the power of the Parliament to make laws with respect to trading corporations formed within the limits of the Commonwealth and, in particular, may perform its functions - [More…]
Time could be taken to demonstrate that the Authority has enormous power. [More…]
We should be looking to the construction of tidal power units. [More…]
There are known mineral resources in the central areas of Australia, but because of lack of power and water they have not been exploited. [More…]
The Authority must have power to borrow the money that is necessary. [More…]
Whole nations can become dependent on the power resources of the world. [More…]
One of the major contributory reasons for this has been the requirement that has developed in the United States for the expenditure of huge sums of her own capital to import the necessary fuel and power to maintain, in particular, her transport industry and to allow use of all the private motor vehicles that are on the roads in that country. [More…]
Saudi Arabia and other countries in that area are supplying much of the fuel and power required by the United States today. [More…]
But, as money and new techniques became available and knowledge was gained of the enormous voluntary power that was generated from the new wealth being received from the areas in which such resources were discovered, the Arab States were able to manipulate the situation and to exploit it in their own right. [More…]
1 notice that in the Bill certain provisions are made with respect to the proposed Authority and its power to construct pipelines. [More…]
Why does the Government seek the much wider powers, such as ‘to buy and sell petroleum whether in Australia or elsewhere’, that are outlined in the Bill? [More…]
The Government will be giving the Authority power to operate the reticulation of the alcohols and cane sugar and its derivatives. [More…]
The Government is giving the Authority much wider powers. [More…]
One should keep in mind, however, that the experience of the American Federal Power Commission has not been an enviable one. [More…]
I wonder whether honourable senators know that when the Federal Power Commission in America [More…]
In other words, the Government is creating a socialist monopoly that has the power to withhold and the power to discriminate. [More…]
When we come to the end of the matter we ask ourselves: For what reason does a government want to have power to buy and sell petroleum, whether in Australia or elsewhere and not to pipe it down the pipeline? [More…]
Clause 18 of the Pipeline Authority Bill will give the Authority certain powers. [More…]
Clause 18 states that the Authority shall have the following power: [More…]
We are giving that right to this Authority under this legislation, and the Senate is asked to pass a clause giving the Authority power to demolish, destroy or remove any building at all. [More…]
Having supported in principle the idea of a regulatory authority I must say that I am thoroughly opposed to the socialist methods and the accretion of power which are contained in this Bill. [More…]
The power needs of the Commonwealth and the two States had developed to the appropriate stage. [More…]
Previously, until that Government came into power, much of that work was far behind.schedule. [More…]
The longer it takes to construct the pipeline, the longer people, will be without the benefit of a cheaper form of power both in homes . [More…]
Also, with the Authority having the power to buy and sell the product and having control of the outlet from the wellhead to the consumer, or the gate of ditribution at the consumer end, it could force all of its competitors who also had potential markets into a situation where they would finish up being in a buyer’s market and not a seller’s market because the Authority would be able to call the tune completely. [More…]
The fact is that the platforms of both the previous Government and of the Labor Party acknowledged need in the areas of fuel, energy and power which Australia needs now and will need in the future. [More…]
But when from this current Government we have an ignoring of the Commission, a split-up and a breakdown of the Department of National Development and the emergence, without any research background, of a pipeline authority one wonders what is happening to the proposal for the development of nuclear power. [More…]
Maybe in 20 years time nuclear power will meet the greater part of our energy needs and the immense cost which has been faced in establishing a pipeline authority will be seen as so much money wasted. [More…]
I pose that suggestion only as a hypothesis because it is a matter which depends upon the likely needs of power in Australia and the availability of various resources to meet those power requirements. [More…]
In terms of cost and benefit we will have to ask what types of energy are best suited and the most viable to provide at the cheapest cost to the Australian people power which is needed by those who require it for their various operations. [More…]
Also, proposals, have been advanced for the creation of an atomic energy power station. [More…]
There does not appear to be any public awareness of the complementary roles’ the various power facilities are designed to fulfil or of the impact of new energy sources on the viability of traditional energy fields. [More…]
Almost entirely,- the administration and control of power supplies and fuel and energy resources have been in the province of the States. [More…]
It is quite obvious that there is a great need for recognition of the interconnection and complementary roles of the various power facilities and of the needs and the demands which may be made on the energy resources. [More…]
In the first place surely one has to ask: What are the needs of particular areas for power? [More…]
But what is the relevance of all these possible means of meeting the power needs unless some body has done the research? [More…]
Is this money to be expended properly simply by giving to an Authority now the power to be able at any time in the future to construct pipelines in accordance with some scheme or some project which has been devisd and which is not of the Authority’s own making? [More…]
He is suggesting that the Authority should be established, as the Bill proposes, and that the Authority should have all the powers necessary to make the researchers, to examine the feasibility of various pipeline constructions and then to present to the Parliament a comprehensive report indicating the benefits and the cost of the proposal. [More…]
But the gas from this pipeline will be used only for power; it cannot be used for light. [More…]
Before giving the Pipeline Authority too much power it should find out exactly what they intend to do. [More…]
But the proposed Authority has power to build pipelines only. [More…]
To briefly recapitulate those reasons, we are rather concerned about the power to buy and sell petroleum being included in the functions of the Authority at all. [More…]
However, for reasons which seem to us to be reasonable, we are prepared to agree to the Authority having the power to buy and sell petroleum in Australia as an ancillary power to its power to convey petroleum, provided, as we have said, that this function is purely ancillary to the Authority’s function as a common carrier and is used in special cases. [More…]
If the Authority has the power in such broad terms as to buy and sell petroleum outside of Australia - in other words, to be able to buy petroleum from overseas and to bring it into Australia, or to buy it in Australia and sell it overseas - it seems to me that subclause (1) paragraph (c) obviously is giving this Authority the power to be a trader on a big scale and a significant competitor in the petroleum industry. [More…]
If the legislation was intended to include that power, we would not have a bar of it. [More…]
1 think it is very good that the Authority should have the power to buy. [More…]
The Authority may perform its functions to the extent that they are not in excess of the functions that may be conferred on the Authority by virtue of any of the legislative powers of the Commonwealth, including the power of the Parliament to make laws. [More…]
Clause 13 (2) of the Bill gives the Parliament power at any time to impose on the Authority any restrictions that the Parliament thinks fit to impose. [More…]
So there is sufficient power in the Bill which the Parliament can use if the Authority acts in a way that might not be acceptable to the Parliament. [More…]
As there is that power under clause 13 (2), why do we want this amendment? [More…]
Rather, as he has said before and as the Government has stated, when the Labor Party came to power it undertook to make an in-depth study of the requirements of Australia’s defence forces. [More…]
When in Opposition the Australian Labor Party worked for those changes in so far 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 - as everybody with the welfare of the world at heart must - 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 and’ the Soviet Union, and thereby achieving a successful first round of the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks and in 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 central 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 26 January, 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 te insulate the region against ideological interference from the Great Powers’. [More…]
We have not assumed and endorsed these commitments uncritically but are submitting them all to close scrutiny to determine their usefulness and appropriateness in an age which bears witness to growing ideological co-existence and strategic interdependence between the great and small powers alike. [More…]
Wa 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 transfers of power to the Government of a united Papua New Guinea. [More…]
The point I am making is that, like the honourable senator, I am of the opinion that the Public Works Committee has the power to examine these matters at the present time. [More…]
I am of the opinion that the Public Works Committee, which would open a project to public scrutiny, has the power at the present time to examine these matters. [More…]
In view of the fact that I have had some discussions with the Minister for Fuel and Power in Victoria I feel that this point should be adverted to in this debate. [More…]
absent from part 3 of the Bill - is to give to the Authority an absolutely unrestricted power- to construct pipelines. [More…]
We know that in these matters when Government authorities have the power they are often very difficult to control. [More…]
I believe that the power of inquiry of the. [More…]
It ought to be within :the power of either House of this Parliament to put any proposal estimated to cost more than $2m before the Public Works Committee for con;sideration and examination. [More…]
Clause 16 deals with the particular powers of the Authority. [More…]
Paragraph (1) states that the Authority has power: to subscribe for or otherwise acquire, and to dispose of, shares in a company. [More…]
Similar powers are held by other statutory authorities. [More…]
For example, the Australian Coastal Shipping Commission Act lays down a similar power for that Commission, as does the Australian National Airlines Commission Act in respect of that Commission. [More…]
Those are 2 examples with which I am familiar to which certainly the power applies. [More…]
I presume that such power applies with respect to other statutory authorities. [More…]
The proposed amendment relates to the power to enter upon land which is given by clause 17 (1). [More…]
The Authority of course has to have power to enter upon land in order to determine whether it is suitable for building a pipeline upon it. [More…]
I draw to the honourable senator’s attention that the wording in this Act is the same as that in the Snowy Mountains Hydro-electric Power Act and 1 suggest that Senator Durack should perhaps explain why, if his concern over this clause is so great, he did not suggest an amendment to the Snowy Mountains Hydro-electric Power Aci when he came into this place. [More…]
When the previous Government, of which Senator Durack was a member, was in power it did not move, so far as I am aware, to insert in other legislation a clause of the nature which he now proposes to insert in this Act. [More…]
I shall not take more than 2 minutes of the Committee’s time but I would point out that the Snowy Mountains Hydro-electric Power Act was enacted as long ago as 1949. [More…]
On this question I raised a pertinent point - that I thought an authorised person had power to lop and cut down trees. [More…]
The next amendment I intend to move concerns clause 18 which gives the Authority power to occupy land for certain purposes all of which, I think, can be summed up as ancillary to the dominant purpose of constructing a pipeline. [More…]
The 30 days have been selected to bring the power into line with the power that the Authority would have under the Lands Acquisition Act. [More…]
Many people may say that a longer period is really desirable because of the great disruption which could occur to many people as a result of the power given here. [More…]
Clause 18 gives the Authority a great amount of power. [More…]
On top of this it will also have the power to ‘demolish, destroy or remove on or from land so occupied, any plant, machinery, equipment, goods, workshop, shed, building or road’. [More…]
I cannot’ accept the statements made by some of the Opposition senators who know themselves that for 23 years when they were in power the same provisions applied in the Acts which they administered. [More…]
The same powers are provided under the Act to which I was referring earlier. [More…]
I just put the proposition to the honourable senator with equal reasonableness: Why did not the previous Government provide for these things when it was in power? [More…]
I am not doubting for one moment that there is validity in that point of view, but it seems to me to be hypocritical for people who have been in power for 23 years to raise this point now and criticise the Government for conditions that will apply in this Act. [More…]
Is it a fact that the power to effect his exclusion rests only with the President and the Speaker? [More…]
Already a request -has ‘ been received from one State’ for the Commonwealth Government to take over certain State powers concerning Aborigines. [More…]
I believe that the request was for a takeover of this power from 1 July. [More…]
The period referred to was a time when the previous anti-socialist Government was in power. [More…]
The average worker in the community has a greater buying power today. [More…]
He commented also that in his opinion the parliamentary Committee had no power. [More…]
And the Government, having no power to fix prices, has decided to embrace an undisguised policy of intimidation. [More…]
Tribunal, again as an arbitrary power without any need to justify to the public what it has done or what it is to do, the right to exempt a specified company or companies either generally or otherwise from the application of clause 18. [More…]
One might give to the Tribunal powers to be able to say of a particular commodity: ‘We have investigated this commodity and, for the time being, you have the franchise. [More…]
The Government proposes to give to this Tribunal powers that no Parliament in the land should give. [More…]
The onus is on this Labor Government to say what it means by granting this trend of extraordinary power. [More…]
Inflation was inflamed on the day when Mr Hawke and his left wing brought in this approach to political unionism - using unionism as a weapon of the aggrandisement, the power politics of union leaders. [More…]
What has happened in Australia is that unions today, with the blessing of this Labor Government, are working towards the power politics of their leaders and against the interests of the ordinary worker. [More…]
The Government has no power to fix prices, so it decided on a course of what I regard a* intimidation. [More…]
It would not except 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…]
Mr N. H. Bowen also said in relation to the Bill 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…]
It 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, not 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 cannot believe that a Parliament would pass legislation requiring price justification on the part of a broad spectrum of citizens - in this case, companies with an annual turnover of more than $20m - and as a matter of policy, having required that to be done and price rises to be investigated and justified, at the same time give the power to perhaps 2 or 3 people who are members of this Tribunal to set aside that requirement imposed by Parliament, in respect of that policy of the Government, without any reference to Parliament again. [More…]
The amendment seeks to give the Tribunal the power to set aside completely the basic provision of this legislation. [More…]
It is true that Mr Barnard proposes to use a BAC-III aircraft on his visit for discussions on the Five Power Agreement and other matters of security. [More…]
That the committee have power to appoint sub committees consisting of three or more of its members and to refer to any such subcommittee 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 am prepared to go along with this Bill only because a Labor government is in power and this legislation is a little less obnoxious than most of its other legislation. [More…]
However, one cannot be critical of the States’ action in making this move because they are faced with this unilateral and arrogant assertion of power by the Federal Government without regard to them or discussions with them. [More…]
He referred to the unilateral and arrogant exercise of power by the Commonwealth Governfment. [More…]
It is a sensible attempt to have clarified a field of constitutional power around which some mists have gathered over the years. [More…]
Senator James McClelland has tremendous respect for the Victorian Premier’s power to attract voters because in Victoria recently he attracted a lot more votes than Senator James McClelland’s Party could attract, although Senator James McClelland has said that the Premier’s policies were really Labor’s policies. [More…]
It is argued now that, because they ceded powers that they conjointly and separately recognised should necessarily be held by the Commonwealth, the Commonwealth is in a position of power to extract from the States further concessions because commercial possibility are. [More…]
There is no doubt in the minds of any of the State Premiers about where the responsibilities and powers lie at the moment. [More…]
It is only the Commonwealth which says that there, is a case that should be argued before the High Court and that because certain powers have already been ceded to the Commonwealth it should have still more powers. [More…]
It is not justified by the origins of the Commonwealth and the fields of power that were ceded to it. [More…]
Not one State, irrespective of the fact that they are divided equally as far as the political party in power is concerned, is convinced that the power which is referred to in the Bill should be abrogated to the Commonwealth at this point. [More…]
What is the mysterious power which is causing all these State Premiers of different political orientation to be so stubborn? [More…]
But should it go to the High Court when there is such complete unanimity among the States that this power resides properly in them, has done so since the beginning of Australia as we know it today, has never resided in the Commonwealth in any shape or form and that the Commonwealth has exceeded its powers by endeavouring to legislate in the Commonwealth Parliament for the Commonwealth to have power which the States say that it does not have? [More…]
The Founding Fathers determined this when, at the turn of the century, they gave external and national power to the Commonwealth. [More…]
Somebody started to scurry around the back corridors of power in Canberra in order to compose the differences within the Opposition parties. [More…]
Therefore, the continental shelf is the product of an exercise by the Australian national Government of its constitutional powers in respect of external affairs, and it seems to me to be impossible to deny that this Parliament has power to legislate for what may be found - whether petroleum or minerals - within that continental shelf. [More…]
I believe that it would be readily conceded that, according to constitutional doctrine for the last 40 years, every State has had power to make laws of an extra-territorial operation in regard to anything that affects the peace, order and good government of a State, in most cases out as far as the continental shelf. [More…]
The only thing is that the States’ authority in that respect would always be subject to the overriding authority of the Commonwealth, if the 2 governments make laws within the authority of their own constitutional powers. [More…]
I believe that from the point of view of the exploitation of minerals and petroleum, there can be very little question as to the Australian Parliament having constitutional power to exploit the continental shelf. [More…]
If the Press would only look at the thing in perspective it would see that this Bill does not threaten the fundamental constitutional powers of the States. [More…]
There is a lack of ministerial responsibility or accountability in certain areas because the source of power for which the responsibility exists is not known. [More…]
If there is need to resolve any difference between the States and the Commonwealth as to the delimitation of any power which one claims and the other denies, the High Court, in its independence, integrity and world status on the experience of the last 73 years, was established for that very purpose. [More…]
It will be acquired through the States because they have the power to acquire it. [More…]
I do not know what power the Commonwealth body will have over local government authorities or State government departments. [More…]
In order to develop an area the Commission must have power to build roads. [More…]
The power of the Commission under this Bill is not limited; it is as wide as the horizons. [More…]
The only thing that Senator Lawrie is concerned about is the power of the Commission for the purpose of satisfying his grievance. [More…]
The power to report is the question that is of concern to Senator Lawrie. [More…]
As was mentioned during the debate, the Commonwealth has not the power to set up cities wherever it likes. [More…]
It has to get the power from the States. [More…]
There we see that the authority has the same power as previously for the purpose of investigation and recommendation to the Commonwealth Minister as to proposals on which he should seek agreement with the States for the purpose of establishing cities. [More…]
The Country Party is not in power in any State but Queensland. [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…]
Was the Minister for Overseas Trade, Dr Cairns, indicating Labor Government policy in his reported statement to the effect that China as a world power had justification for having a nuclear deterrent weapons system but that France was only pursuing Gaullist ambitions in seeking to do so. [More…]
I think I said clearly yesterday that there are good reasons why in respect of these very important discussions between Mr Barnard, on behalf of the Labor Government, and the other governments with which we are associated in the Five Power Defence Arrangement we should have a self-contained group of specialists, including the Defence heads. [More…]
The Commission was in conflict with the proper separation of power because it was given certain functions which would not stand up constitutionally. [More…]
The Commonwealth power relates only to the Australian Capital Territory and the Northern Territory. [More…]
Running throughout the whole structure of the appropriations - the estimates which we have been examining - has been the entire imbalance or the entire power grab of the Whitlam Ministry. [More…]
Today there is the concentration of effective power in the hands of 3 or 4 or, at the most, 5 Ministers. [More…]
There is a pretence that the power is spread. [More…]
To use Disraeli’s statement, like the courtesans of old - and I think he was referring to the newspapers - I would say they have absolute power with no responsibility. [More…]
They are reflections produced by the new lake which has been constructed by man for the purpose of producing electricity for warmth and power in Tasmania. [More…]
That report showed that the area concerned was a very valuable power source and that power could be developed at very favourable rates. [More…]
Already other natural lakes in Tasmania - Lake St Clair, for example - are incorporated in power schemes. [More…]
They were rejected by the committee, not only because they involved loss of power output but also because they had objectionable features from the amenity point of view. [More…]
I suggest that the Bills are yet another example of the product of a government which is determined to take from the States the right to determine their future even in areas in which they have clear constitutional power to determine their future. [More…]
The policies which have emerged over the past few years are policies in which the Commonwealth has utilised its power under section 96 of the Constitution. [More…]
The Constitution gives to the Commonwealth no power to make laws with respect to housing. [More…]
The only power that the Commonwealth has to make laws in regard to housing is as an incidental, for example, to the defence powers - the provision of facilities for members of the Services - or in the way of incidental provisions for members of Commonwealth instrumentalities which have been established under other heads of Commonwealth power. [More…]
In this broad area of public housing, the responsibility, together with the power, rests entirely with the States. [More…]
But as the power of the Commonwealth under section 96 in that application of funds for housing has evolved, so there has been a transformation from the rigidity with which conditions were imposed in 1945 to almost unconditional grants which characterised the 1971 legislation. [More…]
Even under the 1945 legislation a power was vested in the Slate authorities to sell the homes. [More…]
It was not a power that was greatly utilised and it was subject to strict conditions. [More…]
This Party came to power on the pledge in its policy to provide for the needy in Australia. [More…]
Honourable senators 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 Commission has power to do all things necessary or convenient to he done for or in connection with, or as incidental to, the performance of its functions and, in particular, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, power: [More…]
The power granted in paragraph (c) is very wide. [More…]
In that letter the Minister set out the amendment relating to the legislation covering TAA which the previous Government would have introduced in the first session of this Parliament if it had been returned to power. [More…]
I know that I have been critical of the argument that the Senate should not exercise its power on that basis. [More…]
Just because the Labor Party came into power, it is taking the occasion here to increase a payment from $9,0u0 to $20,000. [More…]
It is necessary to bear in mind that ICRP draws a distinction between controllable sources of radiation (such as planned releases of radioactive substances from nuclear power reactors) and uncontrollable sources (such as radio-active debris from nuclear explosions). [More…]
While, as a result of the referendum it is thought that the Commonwealth has complete powers over Aboriginal affairs, the Commonwealth has not exercised full powers and is in consultation with the States about their handing over of their powers as the Commonwealth does not desire to act contrary to agreement with the States. [More…]
As has been stated, South Australia has agreed to hand over full power to the Commonwealth as from 1 July this year. [More…]
The Commonwealth will then have full power over Aborigines in South Australia. [More…]
The Commonwealth has no power to obtain the information the honourable senator has sought. [More…]
The power lies in the Queensland Government, which could either acquire the land or stabilise prices by an Act of Parliament in order to ensure that there is no exploitation in land sales. [More…]
A few days after the new Government came to power there was a shipment of glazedware - cups and articles of that kind - in which the amount of lead parts per million was 2,000, although the permissible limit is only 7 parts per million. [More…]
Section 13 of the Ordinance empowers the Attorney-General to license certain types of companies and to exempt them from certain provisions of the Ordinance, and to revoke such an exemption. [More…]
The Committee believed that this power should be subject to objective criteria set out in the Ordinance, and that a company ought to have a right of appeal against the revocation of a licence or an exemption. [More…]
Section 45 of the Ordinance empowers the Registrar to exempt companies from compliance with the Ordinance. [More…]
The Committee considered that the Ordinance was defective in not laying down objective grounds for the exercise of this power. [More…]
If Senator Murphy’s proposition is to be accepted, the Senate should be abolished and as members of the Opposition do not believe that the Senate should be abolished we believe it should have the right, the time and the power to properly perform its functions. [More…]
The word means an engine which is given power by an outside field. [More…]
It is, without any doubt, a further assumption of power at the centre, and it is in line with Labor’s philosophy which has been laid down by Mr Whitlam. [More…]
There is a discretionary power vested in the Minister. [More…]
Under the Bill he has a discretionary power to recognise that authority as a regional authority. [More…]
While we shall to that extent raise the status of the local government authority and give it new financial strength and greater independence of action we must recognise also that in that process there will be necessarily by the sheer operation of the legislation a certain circumscription and truncation of the power and authority of the States. [More…]
I know that that is not any formal delimitation of the power of the States, but in fact it will operate in that section as it will remove local government authorities and many of their projects from the scrutiny of the States. [More…]
I wonder whether we are vesting the Minister with too wide a discretionary power? [More…]
We might consider the power under which the Minister, for purposes which seem good and sufficient to him, without any intervention by the Parliament to disallow his determination - I presume that Parliament would have no right of disallowance - may determine that a particular local authority shall be a regional organisation for the purposes of the Act and enable such local authority to come to the Commission to ask for a grant within the terms of the statute. [More…]
The power will be given to the Minister to say that a local authority may bc a region. [More…]
This is a very wide power to be given to a Minister without the possibility of intervention, disallowance or the exercise of some method of scrutiny by this Parliament. [More…]
everything in my power to remove laws which restrict freedom of the media. [More…]
This would involve the abolition of the Senate and the abrogation of the powers of State parliaments which would then handle only what is termed ‘delegated power*. [More…]
So eventually one House of Parliament would have vested in it the real power of the Commonwealth. [More…]
I am convinced that the decentralisation of power will be effected in this country not by shoring up indefinitely the existing States with their Irrelevant and ineffectual boundaries but by providing local authorities with the means and incentives to associate freely one with another on the basis of shared urban and regional interests. [More…]
The whole basis of the Labor Government’s policy for the dismantling of local government is to force local government out of its 900 bodies into 3 dozen or 4 dozen regions over which it can use the money power to direct policies. [More…]
So their power of approach to the Commission is in no way parallel with the power of approach of the States. [More…]
He will use the Federal power to shape the regions according to his own wish so that, looking at a case that he can accept or reject, he can apply a money power over a region or deny it for another. [More…]
It is a use of a money power to take over. [More…]
It will be a sad day for Australia if we allow the centralisation of power into fewer hands, whether socialist or non-socialist. [More…]
Already the arrogance and the power hunting of the Labor Government have been shown to the Australian people. [More…]
This is again a symbol of centralisation of power. [More…]
Canberra is using the power of the purse to centralise control of local authorities. [More…]
He is one of the 3 members of the Grants Commission who have been appointed since the Whitlam Government came to power and he was appointed, no doubt, with a knowledge of that thesis on his thinking. [More…]
For all practical purposes of adjudicating upon inter-regional Federal finance - some regions may be almost equivalent to a State, while others may be equivalent to only 1 per cent of a State - the Federal Minister has the unqualified power of marking out regional boundaries and the degree to which they differ from the State or carve up the State is a matter committed, as I see the Bill, to his uncontrolled decision. [More…]
The Authority has the power to transfer all manpower from other major ports to Tasmania to ensure that the crop is properly handled. [More…]
The Authority in fact is providing a subsidy for manpower at certain ports. [More…]
The only unfortunate element, which is not mentioned in the second reading speech of the Attorney-General and Minister for Customs and Excise (Senator Murphy), is that tractors of below 20 horse power are subject to a 30 per cent duty. [More…]
Tractors of that horse power are not used for farming in big areas but are certainly used in orchards and other types of rural industry. [More…]
I do not care a tuppenny dash which Party is in power; I consider that each Party should be given a fair go and a reasonable chance to produce laws. [More…]
While imposing a price control under the euphemism of prices justification on large scale employers of labour the Government resolutely has set itself against any form of limitation of wages or incomes for reasons which unmistakably reflect the pattern of government submission to union power. [More…]
It must maintain a balance between the powerful groups and interests in any community. [More…]
It should curb the unrestricted power of the economic pressure groups which, left to the pursuit of their own self interest, have little regard for the impact of their conduct on the public interest. [More…]
Why, when union power, backed by the pressure and coercion pf union solidarity, is so strong is the Government creating greater opportunity for this . [More…]
political Labor Party which was then being formed felt it absolutely necessary to have some system of statutorily regulated conferences and arbitration which would replace the law of the jungle under which power went to him who was strongest and suffering to him who had to submit. [More…]
When the Federal Government sat down to enact legislation to implement the grant of industrial power given it by the founding fathers there was a climate abroad which made a system of conciliation plus compulsory arbitration seem a natural one to adopt. [More…]
We in the Opposition shall not accept the precept, which the Labor Party accepts, that the only power, .which matters is union power.We believe in and we shall fight any. [More…]
What the Government is doing is reverting, and reverting by deliberate act, to the anarchy of laissez-faire so that unions may achieve by their industrial power whatever they aspire to achieve. [More…]
There is the removal of all penalties under the legislation and the removal of the power to make an award prohibiting bans on or limitation of work. [More…]
What the removal of all penalties and sanctions, the removal of recourse to the civil , courts and the withdrawal of the power of the Commission to prohibit strikes or limitations of work will mean is that unions will seek to achieve objectives by demand, by the threat of industrial action and, if need be, by industrial action itself to back. [More…]
that demand: The employer will be powerless to- resist, except by refusal and by preparedness to have his plant, factory or business .shut. [More…]
The removal of all penalties for strike action will render the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission and the Industrial Court virtually powerless. [More…]
Already this year we have experienced, in a host of areas, transport withdrawals, power shortages in Melbourne for approximately 8 weeks, lift maintenance strikes, meteorological service stoppages, bricklayers’ bans and hosts of stoppages and strikes in other areas. [More…]
Small unions and their members will suffer as larger unions, because of their greater power, make greater gains. [More…]
It is not surprising, in the case of a government which regards itself as the political arm of a labour movement which has for its industrial arm union militancy, that that overall purpose is to strengthen the power and influence of employees’ organisations, the powerful trade unions. [More…]
While the Government is threatening to sub ject the combinations of business to the strict rigours of the criminal law, it is providing a freedom of action to the amalgamations of unionism in a way which no society which expects its Government to hold the balance between the powerful economic groups in the community can possibly tolerate. [More…]
By deliberate choice the Government is laying the broad path for the monopoly power of trade unionism. [More…]
Despite what Senator James McClelland and other spokesmen for the Government have said there is no doubt that the provisions of this Bill would give increased power to the militant union bosses and would enable them to hold industry and the nation to ransom. [More…]
But I believe that if militant unionists and union bosses are given powers so that they can use tactics of militancy, coercion or intimidation against industry, then we could reach a stage where we could have industrial anarchy and chaos. [More…]
Since this Government came to power in December we have seen an increase in the unemployment benefit, which has reached a figure that must discourage a lot of people from wanting to work. [More…]
All penal powers are removed and it does nothing at all to strengthen the Act or to give the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission any power whatsoever to deal with strikes, including political strikes which have no bearing on industrial matters at all. [More…]
Workers are compelled to belong to unions by the sheer coercive power of unions, and Senator Wheeldon says that a union is a private organisation which can do as it pleases. [More…]
I put forward the proposition that in the industrial and political development of Australia we have reached a stage where the contest for the next decade is whether parliamentary government shall prevail or whether the arbitrary power of unrestrained unions will prevail as the ultimate power. [More…]
If one couples that identity of purpose in Parliament with unrestrained, uncontrolled and unlimited power on the part of unions to combine to destroy industry, prosperity and employment, outside, one finds a situation in which the contest is between unbridled unionism- militant unionism - on’ the one hand and parliamenary government on the other and this must come to a real crisis. [More…]
Anybody who has kept himself informed of the progress of this issue iri the United Kingdom since, say, 1967 will be quite aware of the situation, because both sides of politics were then quite alarmed at the trend of industrial chaos brought about by the irresponsible exercise of strike power by big combinations of labour. [More…]
It is when one comes to arming combinations of industrial power led by irresponsible unions and acceded to by weak government, who are their instruments, that there is danger to the prosperity of a free community. [More…]
Clause 26 gives a power to a union organiser to enter any premises for the purpose of inspecting not only conditions of labour. [More…]
We are talking of the days when unions are organised and have a collective power. [More…]
The Labor Government has decided that the trade unions, in concert with that power, should have new inhibitions placed upon them. [More…]
He told us about how Mr Wilson had failed and he said that when Mr Heath got to power he applied new measures against the union movement. [More…]
That arises simply because the obligation or the legislative power rests with the State governments. [More…]
The full Supreme Court of the Australian Capital Territory had expressed the opinion that the Commonwealth has sufficient powers as landlords to deal with camping without permission on Commonwealth land. [More…]
If any camping activity took place which seriously threatened the peace or good order of the city or which involved any question of public health the Government would look to the existing laws in force in the ACT for power to deal with those situations. [More…]
In any event, he has sufficient power under the existing law to deal with any problems which may arise. [More…]
Indeed, one of the participants was a Black Power girl from the United States of America. [More…]
The argument that this acquisition is necessary to prevent haphazard development ignores the fact that the Northern Territory Legislative Council has power to legislate for such developmental processes. [More…]
In the Northern Territory, the purpose is any, purpose at all for which the Parliament has power to make laws. [More…]
The Commonwealth Government would be better advised to exercise its power with a great deal more care than seems to have been shown in the precipitate decisions which have been made with respect to this land. [More…]
But the Commonwealth has power to freeze prices in the Northern Territory, and prices can be held at their present level for subsequent negotiation. [More…]
The Government probably has not turned to its powers in the field of social services where, for long since - I think, since the original Constitution - it has had the power to provide maternity allowances. [More…]
The Corporation has been a valuable instrument to Australia throughout its lifetime, lt was established for the purpose of supplying power, which it has done. [More…]
The Government believes that much work can be undertaken in Australia with the assistance of private engineers if the Corporation is given power and if it removes the restrictions which prevent the Corporation operating to develop Australia. [More…]
We believe that if this Bill were approved, this principle would be destroyed by giving the balance of power to Territorial representatives and the Senate would no longer be a true States’ House. [More…]
I think that we can look to other recent examples where the present Government is driving the wedge further and further into the foundation of the power of the States and we do not have to look very far back. [More…]
It is a hope in the hearts of members of the Government to increase the number of senators in the belief that they can create a balance of power in the Senate to the Government’s advantage. [More…]
The proposed territorial senators, with full voting rights, would not be representatives of sovereign States and might well achieve a balance of power in the Senate as I suggested. [More…]
This suggests that this move is simply a way of the Whitlam Government to destroy the States, to have a Federal voice and to centralise all power and government activity in the Commonwealth capital, in one House of Parliament. [More…]
Not feeling confident about its chances of success in a referendum on the abolition of the Senate, it sets about to erode the Senate’s power, influence and prestige. [More…]
It would further the grand Whitlam design to weaken and destroy the States and so concentrate all power in one Federal House whose electorates are suitably gerrymandered to perpetuate his power. [More…]
You can understand my feeling, Mr Acting Deputy President, as one who was cradled in the Labor movement and who saw the grand political edifice and the movement which had achieved so much destroyed by men who had not had the same experience but who were hell-bent on exercising their power, wherever they could get it and however they could get it, to take over the Labor movement. [More…]
I hope that the people of Australia will awaken, to a greater measure than they are awake at the moment or were awake on 2 December, and will realise just what is taking place at the present time under the present Government, the attempts on all sides to centralise power in Canberra and attempts by gerrymander and by fixing the numerical strength of this Senate to gain complete power and domination over people in a free land. [More…]
Equality of representation, it is argued, is a natural corollary of State representation, because the colonies were, prior to federation, politically equal; equal in constitutional power and status, although not necessarily equal in territory or population. [More…]
On close votes in the House or the Senate where one or two votes can make the differencein extremely controversial issues, should the people who choose to reside in the Nation’s Capital bold the balance of power? [More…]
But such territory representatives in the Senate under this Bill are to have full voting rights and could as non-State representatives hold the balance of power in an institution set up to safeguard the interests of the States - a principle embodied in the Constitution without which Federation would not have been accomplished. [More…]
This Constitution is on a little more liberal basis than that in this respect: the Commonwealth in the case of the secession of a territory which is cumbersome, gives power to allow the representation of it in either House of Parliament under the terms which the Parliament thinks fit. [More…]
Instead of the territories being governed in a way that only entitles them to be represented as delegates there is power to give them a certain degee of representation. [More…]
this instance did not carry with it the voting power which we generally understand accompanies representation. [More…]
I believe every member of the House must resolve the following question in his own mind before he votes on this proposal: On close votes in the House or the Senate where one or two votes can make the difference in extremely controversial issues, should the people who chose to reside in the National’s Capital hold the balance of power? [More…]
There is therefore no purpose while this Government is in power in arguing about theBill. [More…]
Under section 31(1) of the National Service Act the Minister has power to deferthe liability of such classes of persons as he determines where it appears to him to be necessary or desirable to do so in the public interest. [More…]
But over a period of years we have seen in this place very severe comments levelled by the present Government which was then in Opposition against the undue use of ministerial power and ministerial expression. [More…]
I think the Senate should advert to this and regard it as a very dangerous precedent which the Government, new in office and vested with great power, and Ministers, vested with great discretion that they can exercise, should exercise with prudence and restraint, having regard always to the pre-eminent position of the Parliament, the pre-eminent requirement of statute, and the need that Parliament itself should be the only organ which can repeal a statute of the realm, and in proper parliamentary form. [More…]
Kimba will now get its water supply and I think it is well to say that it has succeeded in getting it only because there is at the same time a State Labor Government and a Federal Labor Government in power in the respective spheres. [More…]
There is no power at all under the New South Wales Listening Devices Act for the Premier of New South Wales, the Commissioner of Police, an Assistant Commissioner of Police or anyone else to authorise the listening in to or the recording of private telephone conversations. [More…]
ion’s power. [More…]
Provided that this sub-section shall not apply where a person, who in the year of income beneficially owned shares which carried the rights to exercise more than one-half of the voting power in the company and to receive more than one-half of any dividends that may be paid by the company and to receive more than one-half of any distribution of capital of the company, owned shares which in the year of the loss carried rights to exercise not less than 40 per cent of the voting power in the company and to receive not less than 40 per cent of any dividends that may be paid by the company and to receive not less than 40 per cent of any distribution of capital of the company. [More…]
The law has always taken the view that, although the legislature has full power to change rights retrospectively, it will not ordinarily do so because of the possible injustice involved and Statutes have invariably been construed accordingly. [More…]
The numbers and categories are: 1 Chief Mechanician Marine Technical Propulsion 1 Petty Officer Marine Technical Electrical 2 Leading Seaman Electronic Technical Commu nications 2 Leading Seaman Marine Technical Power [More…]
The Labor Party would have been in power and Arthur Calwell would have been Prime Minister. [More…]
Are Australia’s strategic interests so different from those of New Zealand as to justify total withdrawal of all Australian forces from the Five Power Agreement? [More…]
I am not prepared to accept the honourable senator’s suggestion that either the Prime Minister in Ottawa or the Australian Government in any respect whatever has failed to indicate at all times objection to such atmospheric nuclear tests by any power. [More…]
I can assure Senator Mulvihill that everything possible within the power available to the Australian Government and to my colleague, the Minister for Social Security, will be done to ensure that the money of contributors is used for the benefit of contributors, lt is pleasing to note that at last there are people like Mr 0’Dea who have begun to point to consumer interest in the operations of these Funds. [More…]
I am disappointed to the extent that I appeal to the Labor Party - a great Party which is in power at the present time - not to renege on the promises given to the Australian people but to revise its decision and do as it said it would do, that is, to follow the Karmel Committee’s report. [More…]
If a great Party, which has come into power, promised the people, through its policy, that it would continue this support and then denied it - if the Prime Minister and the Minister for Education gave to the Australian people promises relating to the continuation of this support and then denied them - what are the people able to believe of the Labor Party? [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 reapportioned - it will be reapportioned on the basis of need. [More…]
That was a political undertaking which has been overridden, since the Government has come to power, by the screw of the left wing as a miserable compromise. [More…]
The same thing occurred, of course, with the Five Power Arrangements. [More…]
In exercise of the common law executive power of the Government under the authority of the Minister. [More…]
The Corporation is a completely independent statutory body with complete power to select whatever project it wishes to subsidise. [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 light 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…]
The complete and absolute absurdity of the Labor Party is demonstrated by the fact that the death penalty provision is only a reserve power. [More…]
We had a Labor Government in office in Tasmania for 30-odd years and this power was used once. [More…]
The extraordinary fact is that immediately the Senate - it has been like this for some years because the Government of the day does not have a commanding majority in the Senate - has amended, held up of defeated legislation, some among the news media, and always the Government, whichever party is in power, say that the Senate is frustrating, mischievous and interfering. [More…]
But I believe that the Senate in all cases, no matter which party was in power, was doing its job as the elected senators thought it should. [More…]
In a similar period when the previous Government was in power, but without a majority in the Senate, in 1972 the Senate dealt with 65 Bills of which it amended 6 and the Opposition coerced or encouraged the Government to withdraw one. [More…]
This indicates that when either major party or a coalition has been in power without a majority in this chamber the Senate has not in reality acted mischievously or to frustrate the government. [More…]
They are using their ministerial power and authority to declare war on the people. [More…]
One can make all the criticism that one likes to make about Lee Kuan Yew, but one should remember that when he came into power he was faced with an almost impossible situation. [More…]
When it came to the election after he attained power, with all his posturing, all his fun, all his sneers and all his quips, they preferred the man whom they thought would do a serious job of work. [More…]
It will be wonderful if we have Mr Whitlam and his Government in power because it will be so different in future. [More…]
If it is factual it is the duty of every South Australian in this place to do everything in his or her power to ensure- [More…]
Of course, as one would know, the Government’s powers may have certain limitations; it may be that those limitations are less in cases such as this than in a normal case. [More…]
The honourable senator would be aware that mostly the powers of this Parliament are constrained by, say, the corporation powers and a few others. [More…]
In this instance it may ‘be that under the weights and measures power the Parliament itself would have sufficient power to prevent an improper advantage being taken of the switch over. [More…]
Subject to this Act, the School has power to do all things that arc necessary or convenient to be done for or in connection with the performance of its functions and, in particular, has power - [More…]
Clause 40 appears to provide for some requirement of approval by the Minister though that appears to be limited to the power to purchase and dispose of assets. [More…]
All J can say in answer to the honourable senator’s question is that the statutory corporation seems to have extremely wide powers and to be independent largely of any kind of ministerial control or direction and therefore free to that extent of parliamentary control in the sense that the Minister is responsible to Parliament. [More…]
We are not hideous hangmen simply because we propose to retain the power of society to exercise this penalty in an extreme area such as this. [More…]
I feel that it will be a sad day if his Party ever gets back into power again and if he holds any position of power inside that Party. [More…]
I should not have to stress that in the Parliament we should always be concerned as to how Parliament exercises its traditional and unchallenged powers when those powers impinge upon the vocations and the accepted rights and freedoms of citizens. [More…]
But I am sure I am not misunderstood when I refer to Parliament’s traditional powers with the enormous impact with which they operate and the area over which they operate, and I say that this obligation has a direct and particular significance to us all. [More…]
The power and privileges of the Senate as one House of the Parliament deriving immense inherent powers from the House of Commons and the unexaminable authority with which our Constitution clothes those powers must be exercised with responsibility and restraint. [More…]
They are powers too easily used - and misused. [More…]
The power of the President and the Speaker to control admission to the Press Gallery lies in traditional usage and in the concurrence of each of the Houses of the Parliament. [More…]
It is entirely proper that the Presiding Officers of the Houses of Parliament should have wide powers to ensure the proper functioning of their Houses and the regulation of Parliament’s precincts. [More…]
But it is a question of importance as to whether the powers of the President and the Speaker should be as wide as they have been and as capable of unchallengeable exercise as they have been. [More…]
Mr Speaker Cameron in 1951 indicated the ramifications of the exercise of these powers and the width of the discretion power. [More…]
As I have said, I do not wish to go into the question of what happened in the case of Mr Evringham; I wish merely to go to the general proposition that this place is endowed with tremendous power and authority and honourable senators must by sensitive in their exercise of that power and authority, particularly where people do not have the rights that they have in courts of law to be heard with all the due protection of the law, the right of counsel, the right of defence and all the legal canons that surround the rights of those people in those places. [More…]
In view of the greatly decreased use of our defence forces’ aircraft, ships and modern equipment with the resulting increase in the use of moth balls and the general trimming of defence man power, has the Government yet given consideration to ordering a heavy cut in the advertising campaign that is still being conducted through the media for recruits to the 3 Services, as it would seem that the recruiting rate would not now be required at the former level? [More…]
But indirectly, the effect of the legislation would be to centralise power in Sydney and Melbourne to the detriment of the rest of the country and the smaller States, particularly Tasmania and Western Australia. [More…]
Looking at the Labor Party’s first Federal Budget in 23 years, one cannot blame the cynicism of the average Australian, who says that he takes the promises of political parties with a grain of salt and who thinks that no matter what a party may promise at election time it will do much as it pleases once it is in power. [More…]
I acknowledge that this Government was placed in a position of power so that it could say that it had a mandate in some areas to pursue a socialist philosophy. [More…]
For many years the last Government was subservient to the great powers. [More…]
But we have not seen that sort of stance taken since Billy Hughes was in power. [More…]
As former Senator Pat Kennelly said, the people with the numbers have the power, but the power ought to be mitigated by good sense. [More…]
So I say that honourable senators opposite have done badly by exercising that power and by criticising our leadership and our policies. [More…]
Why does this Government not do the right thing and admit straight out that it does not have the constitutional power to control prices? [More…]
And why does not this Government on the next suitable occasion seek Federal powers to control prices in this country? [More…]
I say once again to the Government that if it wants to control prices then the only solution is to hold a Federal referendum at which it should ask the people to give it the power to control prices instead of doing what it is doing at present. [More…]
The Government should have the sense to admit that it does not have constitutional power to control prices. [More…]
It told him all sorts of other things that he could not do owing to the promises made by his leader to get into power. [More…]
We had the balance of power when we had only 2 members of this chamber and we will have the balance of power irrespective of whether we have 2, 3, 4 or 5 members in the next Senate. [More…]
I think the Australian Labor Party got the message that Senator McManus personally agreed that the Commonwealth should have power to control prices. [More…]
When introducing a Bill to amend the Australian National University Act on 27 October 1970 the then Minister for Education and Science 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…]
The present Government agrees that there is a need for the university to have such a power and the measure I am now introducing is for this purpose. [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 abandoned 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 statutemaking power proposed for the University with respect to traffic control, is, however, restricted to the making of provisions which are not inconsistent with the provisions of the A.C.T. [More…]
The university’s council has pressed for a traffic control power for some time and I believe 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 draft terms of reference give rise to a concern that there may be a reduction in the power of the Legislative Council of the Northern Territory. [More…]
I ask the Minister to state that there will in no way be a reduction of the present power of the Legislative Council. [More…]
Indeed, it also robs the pensioners of their real purchasing power by its spending spree. [More…]
They crawled into power on the backs of the underprivileged and now they hit them. [More…]
But the Senate had the power, which it exercised, to repudiate that policy. [More…]
What we have had is a tariff reduction which, if it will have any impact at all, will have an impact in the employment field and scarcely any impact on the prices area, a Prices Justification Tribunal which lacks teeth and a parliamentary committee on prices which has no power to restrain anybody from doing anything. [More…]
The Director-General of Security has been given absolute discretionary power in that regard … the Director-General has been given complete authority on security, matters and I do not propose to interfere with him in the discharge of his functions. [More…]
The function of the Security Service is to defend the Realm as a whole from dangers which threaten it as a whole, such as espionage on behalf of a Foreign power, or internal organisations subersive of the State. [More…]
Either the Attorney-General has revoked warrants as he has the power to do, or he has refused to authorise warrants which the Director-General has asked him to grant, or the DirectorGeneral has decided that he does not want any longer to have warrants operating in areas where they were previously operating. [More…]
I refer to the decision made last week at the Constitutional Convention whereby, I gather, the Australian Government proposes to hold a referendum aimed at amending the Australian Constitution to enable powers to be referred by this Parliament to State Parliaments. [More…]
Power of reference the other way is, of course, possible under the existing instrument. [More…]
Has the Australian Government considered what powers of this Parliament should be referred to State Parliaments, and if so, which powers does it have in mind? [More…]
Another one would be the exclusive power over Commonwealth places. [More…]
There are two, and in general it might be said that it was those powers which are now within the exclusive province of the Australian [More…]
Every Act shall be read and construed subject to the Constitution, and so as not to exceed the legislative power of the Commonwealth, to the intent that where any enactment thereof would, but for this section, have been construed as being in excess of that power, it shall nevertheless be a valid enactment to the extent to which it is not in excess of that power. [More…]
The question is whether we have legal constitutional power to do this. [More…]
Upon examination of paragraph 1 of the Commonwealth Constitution one finds, for example, that the legislative power of the Commonwealth shall be vested in a Parliament which shall consist of the Queen, a Senate and a House of Representatives. [More…]
Yet the Attorney-General in our submission has brushed aside the requirements of the law in pursuance of this general philosophic proposition that all power rises from the will of the Australian people. [More…]
Why does the Government want to change the law to give the Minister power to withdraw post and telegraph services from subscribers whom the Government does not like? [More…]
What the High Court of Australia said was a judgment on the question of power. [More…]
The Court was divided on the question of whether there was power under the Act and the regulations as they stand to carry out the Government’s policy in regard to the Rhodesian Information Centre. [More…]
The Australian Government will do all in its power- if necessary, by amending the appropriate laws- to ensure that the will of mankind, as expressed through the United Nations in its abhorrence of the operations of this regime, is carried out as far as we can do it. [More…]
The reduction in consumer’s purchasing power, the increased cost to home buyers, the damage to export industries and local manufacturers, together with the consequence of unemployment in affected industries, without any significant impact on Australia’s inflationary problems, of the Government’s dollar revaluation and action to increase interest rates.’ [More…]
The reduction in consumer’s purchasing power, the increased cost to home buyers, the damage to export industries and local manufacturers, together with the consequence of unemployment in affected industries, without any significant impact on Australia’s inflationary problems, of the Government’s dollar revaluation and action to increase interest rates. [More…]
I turn to the question of consumers’ purchasing power. [More…]
Interest rate rises will add to price rises and diminish purchasing power. [More…]
The honourable senator referred to the reduction in consumers’ purchasing power. [More…]
The threat to consumers’ purchasing power is inflation. [More…]
To talk of reducing consumer purchasing power is quite unreal. [More…]
The Prime Minister’s statement, in listing the evils of inflation, mentioned first that it is ‘robbing people by reducing the purchasing power of their savings’. [More…]
-The problem of inflation is of such importance that the Opposition has moved a motion to debate a matter of urgency which deals mainly with the problems related to consumer purchasing power, increased costs to home buyers and the damage to our export industries and local manufacturers together with the consequences of future unemployment as we on this side of the Senate see it. [More…]
While it remains in power, which will be for some little time ahead due to bad luck, the Government will regret the action which it has taken in an attempt to dampen exports from the mining and other manufacturing industries in this country. [More…]
Figures can be quoted to show that the productivity of Australian industry has fallen since Labor has been in power. [More…]
-In the urgency motion which it has moved today the Opposition has spoken in terms of revaluation reducing consumer purchasing power. [More…]
But the real threat to consumer purchasing power is inflation, and consumers, who are basically the working man and his family, can only gain by measures that are taken to slow down the rate of inflation. [More…]
Inflation, which is robbing people by reducing the purchasing power of their savings, is responsible for pushing up the cost of housing and everything else. [More…]
Because of the fear of what the purchasing power of the dollar might be in 3 months’ time there is a tendency in the community to get in now and spend up. [More…]
I can recall that in 1 949 the Menzies Government was elected to power on the promise and pledge that it would put value back into the pound. [More…]
Of course the figure for the June quarter was inflated, but there were inflationary factors in the June quarter over which the present Government had no control whatsoever because it had not been in power long enough to control them. [More…]
These matters lead us to tell the Australian people that such policies will drastically reduce the purchasing power of all Australiansworkers, superannuitants, pensioners and the young people. [More…]
Let the Government explain to the people of Australia how robbing them of the money in their savings bank account, how robbing the pensioners who under the Labour Government cannot hope ever to keep pace with inflation, how reducing the purchasing power of the pensioner and how weakening the Western Australian economy and weakening manufacturers will be good for the people. [More…]
That Government had been in power for 23 years. [More…]
We want the people of Australia to know that this Government is coming to grips basically with the problems of a reduction in consumers’ purchasing power and increased costs to home buyers. [More…]
After this Government has been in power for 8 months, the Opposition has the temerity to attack it for a reduction in the consumers’ purchasing power and increased costs to home buyers. [More…]
We have seen, as often has been debated in the Parliament, the effects of the thief inflation that takes away purchasing power, particularly that of those in the community who are least able to withstand the loss. [More…]
As we all know, inflation robs people by reducing the purchasing power of their savings. [More…]
We believe that certain powers should reside in the Australian Parliament. [More…]
The Parliament should have the power to be able to control prices. [More…]
We hope that a referendum seeking to give the Parliament that power will soon be held. [More…]
It ignores the fact that if it can set up a justification tribunal it implies that the Commonwealth Government has some power to deal with prices. [More…]
But of course the Government goes onto the public platform and says that it lacks the constitutional power. [More…]
The result of leaving out those words will mean simply that the Attorney-General has the power to require certain articles which have been acquired by a person as a result of the offence to be delivered up with him when he is extradited. [More…]
But we thought, firstly, that there should be such a power and, secondly, that it is appropriate that the condition upon which the power be exercised should be stated in the legislation. [More…]
Mr Snedden, the Leader of the Opposition, has come forward with a sensible and practical plan to restore stability of purchasing power and real wages in this country. [More…]
Let it be made perfectly clear that the continuation and, indeed, the aggravation of inflation in Australia are directly due to the wilful refusal of the Prime Minister and his Cabinet first to seek, through a national conference, co-operation and restraint and, secondly, if necessary, to seek what is offered by the Liberal governments and Liberal leaders, that is, Federal-State co-operation in the temporary transfer of powers. [More…]
Let nobody on the Government side say: ‘We could not do it because we did not have the power’. [More…]
If it can be shown that what the Government seeks are sensible powers all the Commonwealth Government has to do is to call the State leaders together and invite them by cooperative action to refer the necessary powers temporarily. [More…]
I make no apology, nor does Senator Murphy or anybody else, for any action that we may have taken that may have helped to redress the balance and provided bargaining power to the existing work force engaged in menial, dirty and difficult jobs by which those workers have been able to force the payment of a better price for their labour. [More…]
The Opposition talks about Labor Ministers and of power corrupting. [More…]
It is interesting to note that since the Labor Government has been in power, strikes have increased to an alarming extent. [More…]
I have a newpaper cutting before me which shows how significant is the increase in the loss of work as a result of the Labor Party’s attitude to strikes since it has been in power. [More…]
One of the reasons why the power stations were established at Port Augusta, it being relatively close to Leigh Creek, was the fact that the Commonwealth Government of the day- a Liberal-Country Party government- was able to ensure that the freight cost from Leigh Creek to Port Augusta was at an economic level. [More…]
This was one of the major reasons why the power stations were established in that particular area of South Australia. [More…]
This is the reason, of course, why South Australia enjoyed the cheapest power in Australia for a long period, until recently when the Labor Party in South Australia chose to increase the rates of electricity charges by 1 1 per cent. [More…]
The real test of people ‘s buying power as far as you - [More…]
The Labor Government has acted more quickly and in a more determined manner than any previous government in carrying out the policies which it presented to the electors and which it was returned to power to carry out. [More…]
The prophets of doom were saying what would happen if Labor came to power. [More…]
He is the only member of the community who has some control over his labour power at the present time. [More…]
There is no control at all over the profits that may be made from the sale of the product of that man’s labour power. [More…]
This Government has been lucky that it has come to power at such a time so far at’ rural industries are concerned. [More…]
Any government coming into power after 23 years is obliged to look at the whole structure of the economy. [More…]
We came into power, of course, in the midst of a drought- something over which no government has control. [More…]
This is much the same thing as a tax rise; both mean less purchasing power in the pay packet. [More…]
I suggested that increased power was available under section 101 and 104 of the Constitution and that the inter-state commission might be available to help. [More…]
Real wages had risen to third in the world on the basis of total purchasable power. [More…]
During the time that we were in government and using this way of doing things Australia grew to be a medium economic power. [More…]
Surely to God Opposition senators do not think that the Australian public is so nonsensical that it would turn this Government out of power so soon and return to the conditions that existed prior to December 1972 when the Australian Labor Party came to Government? [More…]
It was so apparent to everybody that even the anti-Labor newspapers which traditionally have been against Labor openly and publicly castigated the then Government and did everything in their power to organise and bring about a change of government. [More…]
In the months in which the Labor Party has been in power it has relied on its progressive policies and its initiatives. [More…]
He also was in the power base, the Cabinet and the Ministry, and could have spoken up and done something for the prospective home buyer. [More…]
The way in which the Tribunal has been established does not give it the power to set price levels or to fix price movements. [More…]
But since the new Government has come to power an analysis of the tables produced back to that period and before in fact indicates that the statement which I made on 6 August 1966 was correct. [More…]
Any nation must stand condemned for nuclear explosions, whether they be in the atmosphere or underground, and for the operation of nuclear power stations where the waste cannot be disposed of safely. [More…]
As I said a few moments ago, anybody who tests nuclear weapons and anybody who uses nuclear power or nuclear powered powerhousesunless there is a safe way to dispose of the wasteis doing damage to mankind. [More…]
When the previous Government wanted to set up a nuclear power house in this country it arranged to bury the nuclear waste in north Queensland. [More…]
In view of the situation in Europe and as no other country in Europe has the military power to stand up to the Soviet Union, the French have decided that their only hope, faced with the possibility of an American withdrawal from Europe, is if they have a nuclear deterrent. [More…]
The French are not proposing to arm themselves from a nuclear point of view to the same degree as the Russians or the Americans because that would be beyond their power. [More…]
They believe that the great nations have made possession of the bomb a symbol of their power in the world today. [More…]
The point that has to be taken into consideration is that although the indignation has been focused upon them the French are not actually proposing to arm themselves with nuclear weapons to anything like the degree that the major powers have nuclear armed. [More…]
Professor Burns points out further that the only power that would be immediately disadvantaged by France’s development of an efficient thermo-nuclear warhead is the Soviet Union. [More…]
Whether we agree with it or not, we have to concede at least that in the present balance of the powers in Europe under which no country could stand up to the Soviet Union the French have an argument which ought to be looked at. [More…]
Representatives of the Czechoslovak Government, a government held in power by the bayonets of the Red Army, were here. [More…]
Bad as some of these border squabbles are, the day that a Middle East power- be it Israel on one hand, or Syria or Algeria on the other- is let loose with atomic weapons, I do not know what will happen. [More…]
The fact is that there were a number of middle powers- I think that Italy came into this category- who were not so strong in their views about the military limitations of nuclear power but who had some fears that their industrial expansion would be curbed if they did not share in nuclear knowhow, I think it was a complete distortion by Senator McManus to link nations which had a rightful concern about the limitation of their commercial expansion with other nations that took a different attitude on the military aspect. [More…]
We do this by X-rays and we do it in terms of nuclear power stations. [More…]
The French White Paper firstly says that the French tests so far, being some 43 tests as at January of last year, represented 5 per cent of all the testing in the world, or 1.8 per cent of the power in terms of megatons in the atmosphere. [More…]
Following the overthrow of the communist Government in Chile by a recent military coup, does the Government intend to recognise the present regime which is in power in Chile or will the Government regard it as a rebel group and, as such, not recognise it? [More…]
He said the Prime Minister, Mr Whitlam, and the Federal Attorney-General, Senator Murphy, had assured him the Federal Government was willing to do everything in its power to aid a black revolution aimed at the overthrow or the Smith regime. [More…]
I should remind honourable senators that war pensions are paid free of income tax and, in terms of purchasing power, have a greater value than equivalent earnings. [More…]
But the joy to all those who study politics a little must come when we look upon the Labor Party revelling in victory, exuding power and authority and resorting to new taxes and to indirect taxation, while we who have been in this chamber for a few years can recall without effort having been described by the Labor Party Opposition as the enemies of the working man because X on $40,000 a year was smoking the same cigarettes, attracting the same sales tax, as Y on about $4,000 a year, lt will cost the underdog just as much. [More…]
It has tried to raise its taxation income without offending anybody and it has tried to seem to keep faith with the promises made to get itself into power and it has been left with a deficit of $687m notwithstanding. [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…]
This 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…]
The Prime Minister 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, long lasting 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…]
We have actively and at great length sought action by the State governments to refer the necessary power to the national Government. [More…]
Nothing in the public or private responses of the Premiers of New South Wales or Victoria- not to mention the Premier of Queensland- gave the slightest room for hope that they were prepared to refer such a power to the national Government on remotely practicable or acceptable conditions. [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 have either refused to use or have been unable to use. [More…]
We recognise, for example, that the effectiveness of the Prices Justification Tribunal pardy depends upon its persuasive powers, working through informed public opinion. [More…]
Yet it will help the effectiveness of the Tribunal immeasureably 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 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. [More…]
This power would provide that additional element of confidence which will enable us to obtain complete co-operation from employee organisations. [More…]
We believe the National Parliament should have a power possessed by every State Parliament. [More…]
We believe the National Parliament of Australia should have a power possessed by every other national government, particularly when it comes to dealing with an international problem. [More…]
Without encouraging and developing an Australian identity in the production of films and television programs, we as a nation would be ignoring the power of the greatest medium of mass culture ever known, and forcing our nation into virtual captivity to another culture not of our own creating. [More…]
The Government then in power- the Liberal-Country Party Government- wanted votes. [More…]
What I am trying to do is to get it into the heads of those on the Government side of the chamber who are now in power - [More…]
The Government is prepared to submit a prices power to a Referendum. [More…]
But the Attorney-General’s Depanment says that if this prices referendum is passed it will also give the Commonwealth power to fix wages throughout the nation. [More…]
It was to the effect that power to fix prices would provide power to fix wages throughout the nation. [More…]
This affects also not only persons on fixed incomes such as pensioners and superannuants, the persons who have no industrial power with which to pressure for increased wages. [More…]
It lacks any decisive power. [More…]
Yet, even the former Liberal-Country Party Government with its tremendous hatred of the trade union movement and with its tremendous arrogant contempt for anybody who works with his hands was not game during the 23 years it was in power to take these things away from the people who, underneath, it hates so much. [More…]
The reduction in the consumer’s purchasing power, the increased cost to home buyers, the damage to export industries and local manufacturers, together with the consequence of unemployment in affected industries, without any significant impact on Australia’s inflationary problems, of the Government ‘s dollar revaluation and action to increase interest rates. [More…]
This will apply now and for evermore because it will be written into the Constitution that this Federal Government will have power to grapple with inflation and the inflow of money to the people of Australia. [More…]
It will give the power to divide up the cake in some more equal way, a division which was severely maladjusted by deliberate action of the Liberal.Counrty Party governments over the years. [More…]
Do honourable senators opposite think that in the first week in January, after we had been in power for a month, that we found a magic formula so that we could come forward and revalue the Australian dollar? [More…]
As the world economy shows and as the history of Australia shows, the Constitution of Australia does not give power to the government of the day, whether it be Labor, Liberal, or whatever, to deal with prices. [More…]
What we intend to do, in addition to all the things we have done in 9 months- we have shown more initiative in 9 months than the previous Government did in 23 years- is go to the final masters, the final judges in all of these things- the Australian people- to ask them to give us authority to write permanently into the Constitution of Australia the powers for this Government and future governments to deal with the whole question of prices. [More…]
For example, the honourable member for Riverina (Mr Grassby) was going around his electorate and around Australia as the shadow Minister for Primary Industry saying: ‘If Labor gets into power it will give you lower interest rates on long term loans’. [More…]
When this Government came to power on 2 December last, the inflation rate was 4.6 per cent, and it was falling. [More…]
Although inflation reduces the purchasing power of each dollar, we need to bear in mind that the test of people’s real buying power depends on the increase in their own money incomes as well as the increase in prices. [More…]
Many housewives have had an increase in their housekeeping money since this Government came to power. [More…]
More particularly, it erodes the purchasing power of individuals, particularly people who are recipients of fixed incomes. [More…]
But he slipped back into a political harangue in which he said that the Australian Labor Party was better than the Liberal Party of Australia and that, in terms of the rate of unemployment and everything else, we were better off when Labor was in power than we were when a Liberal-Country Party government was in power. [More…]
It is finding that the influences in its organisations are preventing it from making in the areas savings of money and, more importantly, labour power which it intended to direct into more productive types of industry. [More…]
Labour power that is involved in defence production is always inflationary because it produces nothing that can be commonly used to meet the demand in a time when there is no war. [More…]
Just over 2 weeks ago the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) put the proposition to the State Premiers at the Australian Constitutional Convention to give the Commonwealth power to control prices. [More…]
As a result of a decision taken in the House of Representatives yesterday we have currently before the Senate a proposal that the Commonwealth should have the power to control prices. [More…]
Yet when we have an opportunity to deal with the problem of price control, when the Commonwealth Government suggests that it should have the power to control prices, we have this time wasting proposition by Senator [More…]
It has asked the Senate to give the Commonwealth Government power to control prices, to give it an opportunity to manage the economy. [More…]
It is suggested that there was no real attempt to grapple with the problems facing this nation, that they were dealt with on a purely party political basis and not on a basis of assisting this Government to have power to control the economy. [More…]
The Opposition is prepared to leave the powers to control prices and incomes at the State government level. [More…]
It is not prepared to give the powers to the Commonwealth. [More…]
It is appropriate that we do so on a day on which the Press of Australia has announced an index of general food price rises of the order of 5 times the magnitude of those of last year when a Liberal government was in power. [More…]
The Bill is designed to give the Parliament of this country the powers that almost every other national parliament of a comparable country has. [More…]
It is a power sought for the Australian Parliament. [More…]
Under the Constitution, the power, if given to the Australian Parliament, will reside in the Parliament. [More…]
The Government seeks that power at a time when, it is fully aware, it does not control the numbers in one House of the Australian Parliament. [More…]
The matter is urgent because we are seeking this power for the Parliament, with the full knowledge of our limitations in this place. [More…]
We are seeking the power with the full knowledge of the powers of the Opposition in the Parliament, particularly in the Senate. [More…]
If the Parliament is given the power by the people, in the reviewing of any legislation introduced by the Government the Opposition can either amend it or reject it. [More…]
Apparently members of the Opposition still oppose the idea that the sovereign Parliament of Australia should have powers over prices. [More…]
It is the Senate that stands between the centralist power-hungry socialist party that now controls the Federal Government and the liberties of the Australian people. [More…]
Trade union power is preventing inflation control because it refuses to let the Labor Government have an incomes policy as part of an overall approach to attack and counter inflationary pressures. [More…]
We have actively and at great length sought action by the State governments to refer the necessary power to the national Government. [More…]
Nothing in the public or private responses of the Premiers of New South Wales or Victoria-not to mention the Premier of Queensland- gave the slightest room for hope that they were prepared to refer such a power to the national Government on remotely practicable or acceptable conditions. [More…]
The Prime Minister has said that he would accept a temporary reference of powers for control of prices and incomes from the States, but the Prime Minister will not say whether he would use the power over incomes. [More…]
He could not use the power over incomes because his own Party, and the union movement which is the very basis of his Party, could not permit him to do so. [More…]
It is an interesting phenomenon that in the rest of the liberal democratic world power is being decentralised and central governments are attempting to give responsibility back to local areas, and it is only in Australia, where we have a socialist Government, that there is a desire and mania for controls to be rested with the central government. [More…]
Why should the Australian people give price control power to this Government? [More…]
One has only to look at the example of the Australian Capital Territory to note how selectively and how discriminately it would apply this power. [More…]
We of the Opposition are also sure that Australia’s faith in the Prime Minister is not such as to persuade it to give this socialist Government more centralised arbitrary power to be exercised from Canberra. [More…]
In fact, he is against letting the people say whether they want to see the Australian Parliament have power over prices. [More…]
Indeed, earlier this week- I think it may have been yesterday morning- I heard the Premier of Queensland, Mr Bjelke-Petersen, who is the Leader of the Country Party in that State- incidentally, that Party has now amalgamated with the Australian Democratic Labor Partysay that in no circumstances would he, as Premier of Queensland, co-operate with the Commonwealth to give the Commonwealth Parliament power over prices. [More…]
But while honourable senators know that the Australian people are concerned about the price structure they have refused, by their remarks this evening and by the manner in which they have chosen to oppose Government legislation, to give the people the right by way of popular vote to say yea or nay whether they want to give this Parliament-not the Government but this Parliament- power over prices. [More…]
It is a measure designed to give the Parliament of this country powers which almost every other national parliament of a comparable country has. [More…]
It is a power which we seek not for the Government but for the Parliament. [More…]
Under the Constitution, as the Opposition knows, the power should reside in the Australian Parliament. [More…]
As I said during the course of moving on behalf of the Government the suspension of standing order 242 we are seeking this power for the Parliament in the full knowledge of our limitations in this chamber. [More…]
He said that under no circumstances would his Government introduce price control or would he consider doing anything to hand over the power to the Australian Parliament. [More…]
But 25 years ago the Chifley Government sought the same power by way of referendum. [More…]
Australia should be given the power to control prices, as is possessed by all other comparable countries. [More…]
But the gravamen of their objection to this Bill is that they oppose the Australian people being given the opportunity to express, by referendum, their opinion, as to whether or not the democratically elected Parliament of Australia should have constitutional power over prices. [More…]
It is for the people themselves to decide whether this Parliament will have the power, and it is impossible for me to comprehend why the members of the Opposition will not let the people determine this issue. [More…]
The Prime Minister realised that it might be a runner to ask the people for power to control prices, costs, charges and wages. [More…]
It is not news to anyone in this Parliament that the States have the power over prices. [More…]
But what is obvious is that the States have had enough of this Government’s usurping of the powers of the [More…]
If the honourable senator will stop his cackling and listen, I will tell him that, as I understand it, Senator Withers quite rightly said that it was likely that the Premiers would meet with the Prime Minister and cooperate, in a temporary sense, in respect of power over prices. [More…]
What I say- I believe that Senator Withers will agree with me- is that the State Premiers will not agree to give permanent power to the central Government. [More…]
What has happened in respect of the powers of the State governments since this Government came to office? [More…]
It was indicated quite clearly to the Premiers that, if and when they wanted anything from the central power, they could come to Canberra at a time convenient to them and the master and put their own individual case or their own individual requirements. [More…]
I do not blame the Labor Party for its efforts to persuade the Parliament if at the same time it gets across to the people of Australia the reasons why, if the referendum is held, they should be prepared to vote to give the central Government power over prices. [More…]
It is an extraordinary thing that the so-called democrats are now drunk with power on being elected to office. [More…]
After only 9 months of occupation of the Treasury benches by the Labor Government the people are waking up to the sorts of things it will do when it is in power. [More…]
But I must say- I think Senator Poyser will in all fairness allow me to say- that by using almost dictatorial powers he refused to accept the umpire’s verdict- the decision of the Commissioner. [More…]
This is an example of what Labor will do when it is in power. [More…]
The Opposition does not want to give the Government central power over prices because that is how it behaves when it has such power. [More…]
What is the situation at the present time in respect to the controlling of prices by Labor in the only place- the Australian Capital Territorywhere it now has power to control them? [More…]
This may not be of great moment to people outside the Australian Capital Territory, but it is at least an indication of what would happen if they gave this power by referendum. [More…]
Now we want to ask the Australian people to give us a power. [More…]
We have reached it, as the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) and Senator Murphy have pointed out, because in the consultations with the States they have indicated a resistance to the handing over of powers to the Australian Government. [More…]
Except for the Labor States, my own State in particular, there is a resistance to the handing over of powers to the Australian Government. [More…]
The Prime Minister has stated, in speeches in the other place, what the reactions of the States were when he floated this idea that we should have power over prices. [More…]
It is extraordinary that in this world today- 1 973- other countries have great and sophisticated powers over these things, but Australia does not. [More…]
We are saying that the only power which is necessary at present is the power to control prices. [More…]
There the Prime Minister floated the idea that the States should give the Australian Government power over prices. [More…]
The Labor Government has asked the State Premiers: ‘ What about giving us power to control prices?’ [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…]
We have said that the Australian Parliament should have the constitutional power to control prices. [More…]
It is extraordinary that today we cannot have that power. [More…]
We could use the corporation powers. [More…]
If the Opposition says that it will not allow the people to answer the question, we say that we would like to use the corporation powers. [More…]
If we talk about fixed prices for people generally- for workers in the community and for the average people in the community- they say: We will not give you the power. [More…]
We are saying that it is evident that we need to go one step further and ask the people of Australia what powers they think the Government should have. [More…]
We are confident that if a referendum is held the people will support us because it must surely be something unusual for a country such as Australia, in this day and age, not to have power over prices. [More…]
I am satisfied that if we have the power to control prices, in addition to the measures which we have taken and which I have mentioned, we will have the satisfaction of knowing that finally the trade union movement, once it sees that we have taken the initiative, will give us its support. [More…]
We have first to ask the people of Australia what powers they think the Government should have, if we win their support, which I believe we will receive. [More…]
We believe that the Government of Australia, in the same way as the governments of Great Britain, the United States of America and New Zealand, ought to have power to control prices. [More…]
We say that the power to control prices is useless unless it is accompanied by power to regulate wages and incomes. [More…]
For that reason, my Party introduced in the Senate today a Bill in which we state our view that the question to be put to the people should be whether they feel that the Commonwealth Government should have power to control both prices and wages. [More…]
But all honourable senators on the Government side know that without constitutional power the Prices Justification Tribunal, although very nice, is really worth very little. [More…]
Unless the Government of this country has the power, the Prices Justification Tribunal is just a mirage. [More…]
But even if the Government gets the power, not only over prices but also over incomes and wages, it faces no easy task in implementing a satisfactory method of dealing with inflation. [More…]
We in the DLP say that the question to be put to the people should ask them to give the Commonwealth a package power to control prices, wages and incomes. [More…]
If the Commonwealth Government is given power to control wages and power to control prices, and the complementary power to which I have referred, it will be put in the situation of trying to ensure that we will not have this vicious circle of continual inflation and of attempts- often unavailing- by sections of the trade union movement to catch up, and we will not have the position that we have today, in which people on fixed incomes, superannuation and so on, are reduced to the poverty line. [More…]
But, in view of the fact that a considerable number of the country’s leading economists and most of the critics who have written on this subject in the newspapers affirm that it is equally necessary to have power over incomes, let the Government adopt the DLP suggestion and include this second question. [More…]
‘Are you in favour of the Commonwealth having power over both prices and incomes? [More…]
It will be a pretty poor situation for them to have to go to the people and say, through their leader, that they believe that the Commonwealth should have power over prices, when their leader can be asked whether it is a fact that he believed that the Commonwealth also should have power over incomes. [More…]
I realise that the States have not been very co-operative on this issue, but I think we do well to remember that the States are the ones who have the power to control prices today in this country. [More…]
No system of price control can operate if the unions propose to institute, where they have power, a system of industrial anarchy. [More…]
I conclude by saying that the Democratic Labor Party is not afraid to give power over incomes and prices to the Commonwealth Government. [More…]
As I have said, when governments in Great Britain, New Zealand and the United States of America have these powers, we see no reason why they should not be given to the Commonwealth Government. [More…]
We appeal to honourable senators to have regard to the fact that if we are to implement a system of price control as one factor- I emphasise that; not as the single nostrum to cure inflation- in a series of measures which ought to be taken then I believe that it is essential that the proposition put to the people should give them the right to choose whether they want to confine that power only to prices or whether they are given an alternative choice which I suggest should be incomes. [More…]
One is surprised by the action of the Oppositionapart from the Australian Democratic Labor Patry- in directly opposing the giving of powers to the Federal Government and in not permitting the people to decide whether the Federal Government should have powers. [More…]
The first thing to remember is that this is not a new power. [More…]
We are prepared to leave it to the States but we have the knowledge that they are unable to use the power. [More…]
At the stage where either the cost of production or the return on capital is in excess of the amount produced there is an expending power whereby demand exceeds the amount of goods which can be purchased. [More…]
Of course, if someone is making a profit out of surplus interest this gives him a spending power in excess of the value of the goods produced. [More…]
You do that by taking the purchasing power away from a section of the community so that it is unable to buy. [More…]
Do these facts not demonstrate clearly that a power to control prices without the power, and the exercise of that power, to control incomes would be a total failure? [More…]
Further, how does the Government justify these record rises in housing costs in the Australian Capital Territory where it has total power to control the prices of land and building materials and indeed other prices? [More…]
It is a dispute between the real parents and the foster parents and so far as can be determined the Government has no legal power over the child. [More…]
In the present inflationary situation the Government takes the view that the people ought to have the earliest possible opportunity to decide whether they will arm the Australian Parliament with the power which is sought. [More…]
If we are to give some protection to the huge shopping activities that will take place during the Christmas period, it is important to have power to control prices prior to the Christmas shopping period. [More…]
You might not be allowed to run your hotel when they get the full power. [More…]
Any Marxist type government wanting to implement this policy of the complete socialisation of the means of production, distribution and exchange must have the necessary power vested in the Commonwealth to enable it to carry out this policy. [More…]
Anyone who has followed the history of referenda in Australia will know that in normal circumstances it is almost impossible to have power such as that sought in this Bill granted by the people. [More…]
Those lesser populated States, in particular, are very careful not to give to the Commonwealth Parliament powers which they believe may not act in their interests. [More…]
The power to control prices would be difficult to obtain through normal channels. [More…]
People are very much concerned about inflation, but they are being hoodwinked into believing that the cure for inflation is to give the Commonwealth powers over prices. [More…]
The Government can see that this is an opportunity for it to gain power which otherwise it would not have. [More…]
The first thing we must ask ourselves is where is the need for this power. [More…]
But the previous Government was able to build up the economic future of this nation tremendously with the powers that already exist by using strong and responsible monetary policies. [More…]
Yet, the previous Government combatted these problems for 23 years without the power sought by the present Government. [More…]
Honourable senators opposite want this power to be given to the Commonwealth Government permanently so that the Government can use it against the people. [More…]
Many countries throughout the world are following the doctrine of complete power where all the initiative and incentive for people to produce has been taken away. [More…]
This is why the Opposition does not want to give the Commonwealth Government or anyone else the power to enable it to carry out these socialist philosophies. [More…]
But the Government must have that power in order to implement them. [More…]
That is why the Government of the day is .trying to rush this legislation throughto try to panic everyone into believing that the only reason why inflation is going so badly is that the Government does not have power over prices. [More…]
It is important that the people be told what they will be in for if they hand over such a power. [More…]
In talking about this matter in the other place Mr Whitlam said that if the Government had the power it seeks it would be able to control land prices. [More…]
The Government has the power to impose such an export tax, but it does not have the power to control the price of meat products sold within the nation. [More…]
Despite that it is asking us to give it the power to control everything around the place willy-nilly. [More…]
As a matter of fact, a graph shows the price of beef- this is the one we are mainly concerned about- since the previous Government came to power in 1949 to be pretty well parallel with average weekly earnings. [More…]
It is a smokescreen, an endeavour to secure for this socialist Government powers to bring about its socialist program for the control of the means of production, distribution and exchange. [More…]
The Government knows that it cannot control prices unless it has the power to do so. [More…]
It knows that it cannot get that power from the elected representatives of the people, so it uses the back door method of seeking a referendum in the hope that the people, who are very concerned about inflation and who have been sold this great pup that the be all and end all and the cure of inflation is for the Commonwealth to have power over prices, will carry the referendum. [More…]
I wonder whether it includes Government charges for services, power, communications, postage and all those things which it is within the power of the Government to vary, I wonder whether prices of that sort are envisaged in the Government’s definition which would be affected by this constitutional alteration. [More…]
I also question the type of machinery the Government would find it necessary to use if this power were given to it and if it started a system of Government control of prices in Australia. [More…]
If we have a power over prices and a power to control them, within the ambit of the Australian Constitution, for the Federal Government to use, does this mean that the Government will use that power as a price freeze control or will it use that power as a price rise justification in terms of the Prices Justification Tribunal which it has already set up? [More…]
It seems to me that with Government measures to make price increases justifiable, to seek information with regard to price movements and now to place the power of control over prices with the Federal Government we have an attitude on price and profit that does not seem to show the relationship that we would see as people who understand the working of the commercial forces. [More…]
Perhaps the first step we should be looking at in order to achieve price stability, even in the short term, would require the curbing of the power of trade unions to pursue higher and higher wage levels. [More…]
Honourable senators of the Opposition continually contend that until wages of Australian workers are related to productivity gains we will always have increasing inflation and increasing price levels which diminish the purchasing power of all of us. [More…]
I find that the sort of policies which have been introduced give us concern as to how the use of such wide ranging power as the power to control prices would be determined by this Government. [More…]
They were prepared in the short term to refer powers to the Federal Government so that a whole economic and fiscal policy could be adopted that might be of assistance in reducing the spiral of inflation which is of concern. [More…]
If we were to consider that as an alternative to the present measure of referring the power to control prices permanently to the Commonwealth by altering our Constitution we could be adopting a more realistic approach and doing something which could have an immediate effect and which would have the co-operation of the people of Australia. [More…]
I find that the power which is sought needs a great deal of definition and a great deal of time for the Australian people to consider exactly what this power may do and the way in which it could be used. [More…]
I stress the fact that it is a Government responsibility to have sound economic management which will allow the control of inflation to be such that we do not diminish the expectation of the worker of the spending power which he has as a result of his labour. [More…]
Government the central power to control prices. [More…]
It is unable to manage the economy by proper businesslike fiscal measures and is now asking for power to control prices. [More…]
First, without price controls, rising domestic prices would have absorbed much of the excess purchasing power which resulted in a larger volume of imports. [More…]
I find it quite incredible that the Prime Minister, having created all this turbulent chaos in the economy, should ask the Australian people to put into the hands of politicians the power to control prices in Australia. [More…]
But a sensible government conscious of its responsibilities towards inflation would take counter steps at the same time to cushion the inflationary aspect of spreading an enormous amount of new purchasing power amongst the deprived section of the community. [More…]
The Government wants the people of Australia to confer upon it the power to control prices. [More…]
The Government says that it needs power only to control prices because wages are already controlled. [More…]
Whether that balance of power of 3 in the Labor Caucus necessarily illustrates that the Australian nation is getting what it hoped it would get when the Labor Party was elected to office- that is, the control of inflationary tendencies in the community, and at least control the ones which it has added in the period in which it has been in office- is another question. [More…]
I cast my mind back to 1 944 and to what was known then as the ‘Powers Bill ‘. [More…]
It would be done by a reference of power under 14 heads. [More…]
Standing Orders had to be suspended and it had to be agreed that power would be referred to the Commonwealth Parliament in that way. [More…]
Now the Prime Minister comes to light with a proposal that this same prices power be vested in his Government, after disclaiming any intention at all of trying to acquire such power. [More…]
I believe it is a fact that in reply to questions which were asked of him in another place only yesterday he would not come down on the proposition that he would operate an incomes policy even if he had the power to do so. [More…]
This reference of power if decided on by the Federal ALP Conference is binding on all State Labor Governments, and in fact, on all Labour members. [More…]
Government, through the ALP Conference, decides that a certain power shall be referred by State governments to the Commonwealth Parliament, if they are State Labor governments that referral must be made. [More…]
They would not use the power to help industry or the economy, not a bit; they would use it to torment and override the industrial people on whom we depend almost absolutely for our own prosperity. [More…]
The oil suppliers passed on the increase all over the Commonwealth, but in this one secluded spot where the Commonwealth Government has complete and absolute power, they were not allowed to pass it on and, as far as I am aware, they have not passed it on yet. [More…]
Can you imagine giving power to a socialist Government to control aif monetary transactions throughout the Commonwealth if it should wish to do so. [More…]
He has expressed a belief that the national Parliament should have a power possessed by every State Parliament and that the national Parliament of Australia should have a power possessed by other national governments. [More…]
Labor Government has been in power. [More…]
All that price control does is put power in the hands of some authority somewhere. [More…]
He pointed out, almost apologetically it seems, that the Bill does not give the power but is merely designed to give the people a chance to have their say. [More…]
We are not seeking to take a power from the States and transfer it to the national Government. [More…]
He went on to say that the Government was seeking power for the national Parliament which the States already have but which they refuse to use. [More…]
But if the Bill is agreed to and a referendum is held, what does the Government propose to do with the powers that might accrue to it? [More…]
If it wants to persuade me and other Opposition honourable senators that it wants more power, I want to know, and in some detail, how those powers will be used. [More…]
What it seeks to do is to add to section 5 1 of the Constitution which sets out the powers of the Commonwealth Parliament, a new paragraph ( XiVA.) [More…]
It is to me a supreme arrogance of a Government to come to the Parliament and to the people of Australia and say: ‘We want you to give us power over prices. [More…]
Indeed, since the word ‘prices’ can be construed in such a variety of ways what, in fact, the Government is leading us to is an endless litigation in the High Court, an activity which it states in the second reading speech with regard to the use of corporation power, it deplores. [More…]
It is supreme arrogance to come before the people and say: ‘I want to centralise a particular power but I am not going to tell you, even though you ask- and you may guess if you like- what the word “prices” means’. [More…]
This Government now has been in power for almost 10 months. [More…]
Neither in the years before it sought power and came to power, nor in its policy speech, nor in its election announcements, nor in the 9 and a half months since its election has it ever mentioned its lack of power to control inflation or its need to seek a further power by referendum. [More…]
One of the cruellest deceptions I have heard is the claim by the Government that unless we railroad this Bill through quickly the people of Australia will be denied the protection of this power in their Christmas shopping spree. [More…]
Even if the Senate debated this Bill for the next day or two with the greatest of haste, and by so doing it would fail to discharge its duty under the Constitution and its Standing Orders by deserting its full responsibilities, this power could not be granted to the Government until December. [More…]
The Government knows that its announcement that it wants power to control Christmas prices is the very incentive to commerce to put up its prices. [More…]
However the world knows that an application for this power was put to the people of Australia before and it was roundly rejected. [More…]
40 questions asking for more power to be given to the central Government have ever been agreed to. [More…]
The idea of giving a central power of unlimited magnitude to the central government invariably has been rejected. [More…]
But, pardon us, we just have not the power to deal with it’. [More…]
This power was not asked for. [More…]
It can be said quite clearly that this Government has no mandate for such a power. [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…]
But even if this constitutional power was not there, the national Government has full and adequate powers of other kinds. [More…]
The Labor Party sought no mandate or power, either before or after the election, in relation to this matter. [More…]
It went to the people not only seeking no mandate but also saying specifically: ‘We will not need any further centralised powers’. [More…]
For it now to go seeking further centralised powers is to reject the whole thesis of its argument on inflation in the past. [More…]
Therefore, anybody in this country who rests on the assumption that this power will be carried will be resting on something which is contrary to what has been shown by history. [More…]
Knowing the likelihood of failure, knowing the record of price control in the war years and the post-war years and knowing that one of the major reasons for the Chifley Government’s removal from power was the mess that it made of price control- there was a black market atmosphere of goods under the counter, shortages, spivs, wheeler dealers and corruption in the nation created by the continuance of price control far beyond its need- but hoping that the generations affected by those things have short memories or a total lack of memory, the Government is coming along with what in fact is a serious deception. [More…]
We got into a mess because of our abuse of the centralised powers that we now have. [More…]
For Lord ‘s sake help us out of this mess by giving us more centralised powers’. [More…]
Does anyone really believe that the people of Australia will willingly give more powers to a government when the mess that it is in has been created by its abuse of existing powers? [More…]
Does anyone deny that wealth, in terms of real wages and real purchasing power, was shared better in Australia than anywhere else in the world? [More…]
Are honourable senators opposite game to say that what they want to do by this is to reduce people’s purchasing power, because this is the fact. [More…]
Is not the Government’s answer the one given to me by the Attorney-General, when he said: ‘This is the classical technique of the economist- and that is to reduce the purchasing power of people? [More…]
Is not the device for which the Government has fallen a device which is aimed at reducing the purchasing power of every person in Australia? [More…]
Give us power, although we have abused power’. [More…]
Is it not a fact that there are 1 85 senators and members in these 2 chambers of Parliament, and that.only 45 senators and members can be assembled to support this proposition of a referendum power? [More…]
He is going to the Australian people to say: ‘I want you to put in our hands a great centralised power of one word. [More…]
Here again there is a very important question of the whole principle and philosophy of Parliament- the question of sovereignty and the centring of power in the democratic institution. [More…]
I am indebted to Latey ‘s recent work entitled Tyranny- A Study in the Abuse of Power’ which was published earlier this year. [More…]
What he does not tell us, for example, is the experience of those workmen who have been working at the atomic power stations in England and who have been exposed to massive amounts of fallout. [More…]
What I want to plead is that the Government should now present to this Parliament a White Paper setting out in true perspective the whole basic background of the ordinary natural fallout and of peoples exposure to it; the elective fallouts from altitude or travel, luminous watches and X- rays; the elective fallouts if we are to have civil atomic power stations; the elective fallouts if we are to bring in civil atomic ships- and this will be real in the future because of the energy crisisand also the fallouts from atom testing. [More…]
However, I am not empowered to reject the recommendation of the Australian Apple and Pear Board. [More…]
My power is limited to asking the Board to reconsider its decision, which I did. [More…]
In effect, he said that he was prepared to use the rights of pensioners as a bludgeon to curtail debate upon the important matter of the constitutional referendum to give the power to the Commonwealth to control prices. [More…]
Those pensioners whom I come in contact with in the course of my day to day work as I journey around Tasmania are dreadfully worried and scared at this time by the huge increases in the cost of living that have been so rampant in this country since this Government came into power. [More…]
I think that it is within the power of the Department to influence some tribunals. [More…]
I have heard in this chamber- I think it was from Senator Bishop- and I have heard outside this chamber from that illustrious man who wields such control and power over the Labor Party, Mr R. J. Hawke, how the labourer is entitled to demand a fair price for his labour. [More…]
Is it an argument that the Commonwealth Government lacks the power to deal effectively with prices? [More…]
Firstly, it makes a mockery of the prices justification legislation which was introduced earlier this year, because if the Commonwealth Government did not have the power to pass that legislation, what does it mean by imposing a fraud upon the Australian people by suggesting that legislation of that character could be efficacious? [More…]
Of course, the State governments have indicated as clearly and as unequivocally as words can convey that they stand prepared to support by complementary legislation or, if need be, by reference of powers, any plain, considered and comprehensive policy to cope with the inflationary problems which the Commonwealth Government puts up. [More…]
Fortunately history and the law reports are replete with instances of how the prices-control legislation of the wartime years and those miserable years immediately after the war until the Labor Party Government was displaced, exercised the power to control prices which it had taken under the aegis of the defence powers of the Commonwealth. [More…]
Many people in this country may well believe that the alteration which is being proposed is an alteration which is across the board and that it applies not only to prices of goods, ‘ which I readily would concede is the ready interpretation which people would give to it, but they may or may not know that it applieswho knows whether their apprehension is correctto the charges made by persons who repair television sets, plumbing and broken window panes, to the charges made by doctors when attending patients when the occasion arises or to any of the other prices which professional people are charging and which are comprehended by the type of power which is given here. [More…]
The Senate is continuing the debate on the Constitution Alteration (Prices) Bill 1973, the effect of which is to insert into the Constitution a paragraph which the Government seeks to give it power over prices. [More…]
The first reason for which they will reject it is because it has been proven beyond doubt over past decades that such a power is totally unnecessary. [More…]
Over almost the whole of 2 decades the previous Liberal-Country Party Government maintained stability of prices with an average rate of inflation of 2.5 per cent, the lowest rate in the world, without the necessity for any centralisation of power over prices. [More…]
So the proposition will be resisted because it is an open-ended bid for centralised power. [More…]
A socialist government- the Whitlam Government- seeking more centralised power is, in effect, like an alcoholic asking for another drink. [More…]
No one willingly would centralise more power. [More…]
A third reason is that the Australian people will be entitled to conclude on all evidence on all sides that the granting of this power and its use is not in itself the answer to the problem of inflation. [More…]
Even if the Government gets the power- and this request has been rejected in the past by the people of Australia- it could not act for 3 months, until after Christmas. [More…]
Even if the Government got the power, all worthwhile economists say that that power of itself would not solve the problem. [More…]
I say that on all grounds such a proposition to centralise all power would be and should be rejected by the people of Australia. [More…]
I admit that there are arguments about whether any long term power over prices and incomes should reside with a national parliament. [More…]
Let me make it quite clear that I certainly would not agree to giving any further powers to a Government such as this which has shown itself to be incompetent in managing the economy and to a Prime Minister who has shown quite clearly his inability to understand economics or even to lead his Party. [More…]
This mad gallop by the Government towards centralising all powers has to be stopped. [More…]
I believe that if this Bill passes the Senate the people of Australia will indicate clearly that they are not prepared to give any further powers to a government such as we have today. [More…]
He proposed that the Prime Minister- he offered to lend his goodwill to this proposal- should meet with the State Premiers to seek their co-operation in having their powers in relation to prices referred to the Commonwealth for a limited period. [More…]
He was interested only in centralised power. [More…]
He went on to say- and I will not quote him in full- that in his view there was no doubt that the Commonwealth Government had power to do this, and he criticised the former Government for avoiding doing it because it said it lacked the constitutional power to do it. [More…]
We oppose it because we believe that the people of Australia do not want the Senate to give powers to this power drunk Government that wants to centralise all powers in Canberra, powers that it has shown quite clearly that it is incapable of exercising. [More…]
As I said, we believe that this legislation is ineffective and we are not prepared to give power to a power drunk and incompetent Government led by an incompetent Prime Minister who cannot even control his own Party. [More…]
-We are discussing the Constitution Alteration (Prices) Bill which provides for the holding of a referendum to give the Commonwealth power to control the prices of any goods which are sold. [More…]
So really, the Government has had the power to control inflation all the time or at least to reduce it to a level below that of most other countries. [More…]
Personally I feel that we should not give any more State powers to this centralist Government. [More…]
As honourable senators know the Bill before the chamber is a Bill for a referendum to vest in the Commonwealth Government power to control prices. [More…]
The two heads will be put separately so that people may vote for or against power over prices and for or against power over incomes. [More…]
But we consider that an adequate and proper control of inflation- so far as these powers are concerned- demands the use of both instruments, that is prices and incomes. [More…]
If the Government is vested with the power it then rests within the discretion of the Government of the day whether it elects to use either power, both powers or neither power. [More…]
Our proposal related to power over prices and incomes. [More…]
Bechtel also indicated that it was prepared to carry out the study in conjunction with Australians and the work will be performed in the offices of the Western Australian Fuel and Power Commission where technical experts from the Pipeline Authority, the Western Australian Fuel and Power Commission and the Snowy Mountains Engineering Corporation will work with the Bechtel Team. [More…]
I ask the AttorneyGeneral: On whose authority are Commonwealth Police repaying the amount of fines imposed on persons who were convicted of offences against the laws of this country during political demonstrations held before this Government came to power? [More…]
In view of the strike by electricity workers in New South Wales and in view of the fact that the Australian Capital Territory is dependent upon New South Wales power stations for electicity, what provision is available to enable the business of Parliament to be carried on in the event of a blackout involving Parliament House? [More…]
Does Parliament House have an auxiliary power plant? [More…]
But I think that the electric power supply for the Australian Capital Territory comes under the responsibility of a Minister of the Government who should see that there is electric power for Parliament House. [More…]
The honourable senators will recollect that prior to the suspension of the sitting I informed honourable senators in answer to a question by Senator Lawrie that I would make some inquiries about emergency power that might be required. [More…]
-The Prices Justification Tribunal is restricted in its operation to the powers that the Commonwealth believes it has as a result of the decision taken in the concrete pipes case. [More…]
I do not know whether the Tribunal has the power to deal with air fares. [More…]
This is a matter over which the Commonwealth would have no power whatsoever. [More…]
As much as I would like to see something done I think that it is not within my power to do anything about it. [More…]
I ask the Leader of the Government in the Senate whether it is a fact, as reported in today’s news media, that the Government intends to hold a referendum for the purpose of referring to it power over prices and incomes. [More…]
I ask: If the power over incomes is referred to this Government, will it use that power? [More…]
If the power over incomes is given to this Parliament, the Government will use whatever power this Parliament in its wisdom chooses to confer upon the Government. [More…]
If the Senate agrees with the proposal, it is intended that the people should have an early opportunity to decide whether this Parliament should be clothed with the legislative power to make laws about prices and also whether it should be clothed with the power to make laws about incomes. [More…]
I will mention some of the things that we have already done since we have been in power. [More…]
Pursuant to section 32b of the Snowy Mountains Hydro-electric Power Act 1949-1966, I present the twenty-fourth 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…]
The socialist Labor Government came to office some 9 months ago without any thought whatsoever at that time- at least, without announcing it- that it needed this power to control prices and wages and salaries. [More…]
Any reference to this Government of power over incomes or salaries, whatever it may be, in fact will mean that the conciliation and arbitration system in this country will be bypassed. [More…]
A week ago the Labor Party Caucus decided, in its wisdom, that that power should not be given to the Federal Government. [More…]
I understand that today during question time in the House of Representatives a question was put to the Prime Minister asking whether the Government, if granted power over incomes, would use that power. [More…]
The Prime Minister said that the Government wanted a referendum so that the people could give it power over incomes but when asked whether he would use that power he said ‘No’. [More…]
The Government believes that by having some power over prices and incomes it can do something to reduce the inflationary rate. [More…]
This centralist, socialist Government really is seeking power which will deprive the States and other responsible bodies in Australia of their proper role. [More…]
We want to indicate that what the Government is doing is putting the prospect of constitutional power before the people as an excuse or a substitute for a real policy. [More…]
Of course, during the intervening period nothing can be done under the proposed head of power. [More…]
Then, on the Thursday he introduced into the Parliament a Bill which is designed to allow the Australian Government to request the people of Australia to provide it with the power to implement a prices policy. [More…]
There is again a question in Caucus as to whether there should be power to control incomes as well as prices, and Caucus says ‘No’, and the Prime Minister is once more in great difficulties. [More…]
As to the use made of the powers, that depends on Parliament. [More…]
There should be no exaggeration to the effect that if this referendum is held power is given to the Cabinet or to the Government to do anything it likes. [More…]
They produced a vote yesterday on the second reading of this Bill on the understanding that wage control would be exercised by the Commonwealth power. [More…]
The Prime Minister said that he will go through the processes of getting power to control prices and wages, which is the bargain that the DLP has made. [More…]
If the people vote for this proposition they will not be granting power to a government. [More…]
They will be granting power to this Parliament. [More…]
If legislation is brought along here which is consistent with the powers which are conferred upon the Government by a vote of the people and if we consider that that legislation is inefficient, incompetent and not sufficiently embracing to cover the whole field, then that legislation has poor chance of passing our Party. [More…]
The true situation is that this referendum will merely confer on the Parliament of the Commonwealth the power to do certain things. [More…]
Mr President, you will recall that Senator Webster said that the Prime Minister had said that no, he would not, if given the power, do anything about incomes. [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…]
If the 2 proposed amendments to the Constitution to give the 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…]
I would not vote for the suspension of this standing order for anything other than a prices referendum because if I agree with anything that has been said on this subject by the Government in either House it is with those who have said: ‘If the power is to be given, it should be given quickly, because the longer you give those who will be raising prices, the more they will raise them before the Government, if it is to get power to control prices, gets that power’. [More…]
A very late decision was made a week ago to hold this referendum, and the normal rules and regulations that have to be followed in order to conduct this referendum mean that at least 2 to 3 months- if not 4 months- will elapse before the Government, if it gets the power, introduces into the Parliament legislation to give effect to its policy on price control. [More…]
Secondly, I am confident that the Australian Labor Party will never be given power over prices in the Federal sphere while the Australian people have the right to deny the Labor Party that power. [More…]
Very well, against the centralisation of powers, but inevitably it would have had to face the position that the people were to be asked to give one power alone, and that is the power over prices. [More…]
I am staggered that, faced with the inevitability of one power only being given, the Liberal-Country Party did not say that if adequate powers are to be transferred let it be a balanced power over prices and incomes. [More…]
I would have expected that, accepting the inevitability of one power only, they would have said: ‘Let us at least have a balanced control ‘. [More…]
I know that the philosophy of the Liberal Party has been that no power should be transferred and that, therefore, to transfer a second power would be worse than to transfer only one power. [More…]
Throughout the world- in America, in the United Kingdom and in other places where these powers have been given- almost without exception the dual power has been the one which has been exercised. [More…]
We make this point: If these powers are conferred it is within the political disposition of the Government of the day, subject to the Parliament, whether it exercises the power. [More…]
With one voice the Opposition is against the conferring of the incomes power on the Commonwealth and then it says: ‘If you give it, it will not be exercised’. [More…]
If the Opposition thinks that the power will not be exercised it should have no objection to the power being conferred. [More…]
We consideredthatit was so important that both arms be availableto the Government, even at the risk, thatonemay be accepted and the other rejected,that if that was the best that the Government could do we were prepared to support a propositionthatit put prices and incomes as separate headsof power. [More…]
I think that the solution which hasbeen offered now, althouth it may not be theone which was totally acceptable to us, is atleast reasonably acceptable to us and is acceptable to the Government, and it rests within thedisposition of the Australian people as to whetherthey confer on the national Parliament both powers, neither power or one power or the other. [More…]
We hope that the integrity ofthe Government is such that if it is -vested with these; powers it will elect to use them in the.interestsof the nation, as the circumstances demand. [More…]
Under this clause it is proposed that the one word ‘prices’ be inserted in the Constitution among the other matters which are particularly described there as heads of Commonwealth power. [More…]
The clause that the Committee is considering simply contains a statement that the word ‘prices’ shall be inserted to denote a new head of power for the Commonwealth. [More…]
I hope that members of the Opposition will question the -Attorney-General, Senator Murphy, on what is embraced -by the word ‘prices’ in the request to the people that the Federal Government be given power over prices. [More…]
Not even the Leader of the Government in this place has attempted to envisage for the people of Australia the ‘.way in which a Labor government would handle such power if it were given to it. [More…]
In the first 6 months that this socialist Labor Government was in power people saw their money depreciated. [More…]
What will the Labor Party seek to control if it is given power over ‘prices’? [More…]
Are there any areas over which in the last 9 months the Labor Government has had control of those things in relation to which it seeks power? [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…]
Of course, that expression which is a rider to the taxation legislative power gives rise to more controversy. [More…]
There is no doubt that central to such a legislative power over prices would be the capacity to legislate with respect to the prices of goods. [More…]
The Parliament would deal with all of these matters in the same way as it deals with the other subject matters of legislative power such as the taxation laws, the trade and commerce laws and the arbitration laws. [More…]
But the central core of this is surely that goods would be covered- and by ‘covered ‘ I mean in the legislative sense- and that the Parliament would have power to deal with them, and probably power to deal with services of various kinds. [More…]
It may be that if this were here alone the view would be taken that not enough legislative power was being given to the Australian Parliament; but it must never be forgotten that that is all we are dealing with- power in the Parliament to be able to legislate on this subject matter, to do what the United Kingdom Parliament does as of course. [More…]
It is simply a matter of giving this Parliament the power which would exist in the United Kingdom Parliament and which exists in the State parliaments. [More…]
I would think also that it would be a very reasonable proposition that if there is not power elsewhere in the Constitution to enable this Parliament to deal with the subject matter of interest there ought to be such power. [More…]
Plainly there ought to be such power, and it may well be that the question of interest could be dealt with elsewhere. [More…]
There are powers such as the corporations power- power over financial corporations formed within the limits of the Commonwealth; there is the banking power. [More…]
An indication of such legislative powers and the administrative arrangements which might be made under the law could well enable a government, given the appropriate laws, to control interest. [More…]
Indeed, we ought to be seeking to give this Australian Parliament every legislative power which would enable it to exercise the proper management of the economy and there should be no hairsplitting over how far this goes. [More…]
I would think that the arguments to the people ought to be addressed to the necessity of enabling this Parliament to have the plain power to cover at least the price of goods, almost certainly the price of land, and perhaps, if the High Court agrees, the price of services- I would think of some services- and probably not any power over the other matters referred to. [More…]
No view has been expressed- despite statements to the contrary that appeared in newspapers on what was believed by the Attorney-General’s Departmentthat the power would cover wages or incomes. [More…]
The important thing to remember all the way through is that what we are dealing with is a broad power, necessarily vague because it is a constitutional legislative power. [More…]
What is being given is what has been given before- and in the wisdom of those who drew up the Constitution and of those who drew up other constitutions, these legislative powers were always given in the broad and general way which is proposed by this measure. [More…]
I do it for a specific purpose, that there shall be explained by the Government to the country the whole of the content, as the Government sees it, of the power that it seeks for this Parliament in the term ‘prices’. [More…]
Precise definition was more difficult then, but here we are now with one specific word proposed by the Government to be inserted into the Constitution, and it is the obligation of the Government, which will have the responsibility if this referendum is passed, to initiate legislation under this power to explain. [More…]
I ask the Attorney-General to give the Committee an opinion on behalf of the Government whether the Government takes the view that a contract of that sort can be controlled by the power described as prices? [More…]
Is the money instalment payable under hire purchase a price within the terms of this proposed constitutional power? [More…]
When 1 spoke previously I expressed my concern that the Government was so hurriedly asking for the power which it did not envisage previously to halt inflation in the interests of the public. [More…]
It is a fair thing to ask what has been the result of the Government’s action in the Australian Capital Territory and the Northern Territory because it is very likely that this will be what will happen in the whole of the Australian community if the Government is given this power. [More…]
I warn the people of Australia to see that this type of power is never given to the Labor Party. [More…]
This power in the Government’s hands is not deserved. [More…]
Certainly statements will be issued on the part of the Government dealing with the view which we have on the extent of the power. [More…]
But as I indicated before and as has been said over the years, the extent of that power will be what the High Court says. [More…]
The Bill that I now present is a companion to the other Bill we have been considering that seeks 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 is 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 helpful 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- we know that one has- 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 immediately 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. [More…]
I have no doubt that if the people of Australia give us power to control prices, we can count, if necessary, on the responsible co-operation of the trade union movement in restraining wages and incomes. [More…]
Their motives for the inclusion of incomes control as well as their intentions for the use of this power leave a great deal of scope for questioning. [More…]
Inflation, deliberately created and encouraged by the Government, is being used as a bogy for the Government to take unto itself enormous powers for the central government. [More…]
The Government already has the power to control inflation. [More…]
It has caused the present inflation rate and it has the power to stop it. [More…]
We know the Prime Minister will never use the powers given to him under this legislation because Mr Hawke and the trade unions will not allow him to. [More…]
We are opposed to the transference of more power to the central government. [More…]
As more and more power is concentrated in Canberra, more and more is federalism endangered and possibly destroyed. [More…]
The greatest protection of the liberties of the people lies in decentralised power. [More…]
In 1 948 we said: ‘ Keep the already exorbitant power of Canberra in check’. [More…]
In 1948- the last period until now when the Australian electors suffered arbitrary centralist, socialist power being exercised by a Labor government in Canberra- the electorate rejected the Labor Government’s proposal. [More…]
The US will provide a shield if a nuclear power threatens the freedom of a nation allied with the US or a nation vital to US security. [More…]
I would say that with the serious position to the north of Australia the increasing power of China and the Soviet Union and the big increases in the size of their navies, anybody who simply says that we can forget the rest of the world for 10 to 15 years will have a very serious awakening. [More…]
Last December a new and traditionally anti-militarist Labor Government came into power. [More…]
We have done everything in our power to increase morale in the Services, as everybody knows. [More…]
I know, and everybody else realises that despite the South East Asian conflict there are understandings between those great powers. [More…]
I point out again that the advisers are the same people who advised the former Government when it was in power. [More…]
It is also true that it can be argued- I am not sure how completely- that there is a new balance of power; a quadrilateral of power or a trapezium of power or a multipolar world. [More…]
I accept the view that there is safety in a balance of power between various groupings but how safe is it? [More…]
How will the balance of power be affected? [More…]
How would that situation affect the balance of power between the major powers? [More…]
It is reported also that a significant proportion of the Russian nuclear deterrent as well as a significant part of its air power is facing China. [More…]
Even the major powers in our strategic area are jostling for position in the power-balance struggle. [More…]
Regardless of which party is in power, this is Australia ‘s strategic situation. [More…]
When the investigation had been completed and the Treasury said ‘Yes, you can go ahead’, another government was in power to implement the decisions of the Committee. [More…]
If we weaken our defence power and go on insulting our allies, neighbours, influential countries and friends the greater will be the chance of attack from the north, be it the near or distant north, upon these shores. [More…]
It was claimed by one Opposition speaker that we had in some way abrogated our responsibilities to our allies and to those people whom we have traditionally called our great and powerful friends. [More…]
We have established a kinship and a trust in the short time that we have been in power, which was something that had not been done for many years. [More…]
We have heard about this subject for a long time and a large number of people in Australiaone American writer described them as little old ladies in white tennis shoes- were terrified of the hordes of reds and yellows descending on this country by unspecified means, mainly by sampans, as Senator Gietzelt suggests, while others swam and others came by some mystic power known only to orientals. [More…]
But is it suggested that, while every major power throughout the world is trying to lessen the tensions of the cold war, we in Australia should reject those moves, that we should stand against the Helsinki talks and that we should stand against President Nixon’s visit to Peking? [More…]
The key to victory for either Russia or China in a conflict between those 2 countries would be the economic power of Japan to produce the weapons of war. [More…]
I recall the absolute need for air power to cover whatever naval resources we had. [More…]
The potential for tomorrow is being restricted all the time yet in this area the Government knows, as I know, that we must plan 10 years in advance even for air power alone to be able to cope with anything like modern defence forces. [More…]
They hear suggestions that the Government will have a referendum about this or about that, and they are anxious to know what it will mean, what this power will mean, what the passing or the rejection of a particular referendum will mean to them, and what sorts of policies they can expect. [More…]
It has been suggested that this power either is or is not a cure for inflation. [More…]
We have seen not only in this chamber but also in the other chamber from time to time, and particularly since this Government came into power, the use of the Standing Orders as they are now printed to railroad completely the Parliament and members in this chamber and in another chamber, preventing them from performing their duties and even from expressing their viewpoints on matters of the greatest concern. [More…]
No one ever heard about a democratic system of parliament when honourable senators opposite were in power. [More…]
In fact, to put not too fine a point on it, the Democratic Labor Party has held the balance of power. [More…]
As the Minister for Labour has expressed himself in favour of a 35-hour week in the power industry, does he approve of the methods used by power industry union officials in New South Wales to gain the 35-hour week? [More…]
For the purpose of the question I refer to the speech which the Minister delivered on the Constitution Alteration (Incomes) Bill yesterday in which he said that 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 for wage and salary earners outside Commonwealth awards, and that under this Bill the national Parliament could guarantee basic standards throughout the nation. [More…]
Here is a case of a civilian being given power to detain. [More…]
Apparently provision was not made in the Bill- I cannot see it anywhere- for an officer to have the power to detain a person and search him and for that person to have redress. [More…]
A trade-union newspaper today bitterly attacked the Federal Government, which it helped to put into power. [More…]
The trade union movement and union newspapers supported the Labor Government ‘s battle for power. [More…]
I think he set out in clear and persuasive form the need for some power to exist. [More…]
If a person is suspected of being in possession of material, letters and postal articles which he should not have, there may be difficulty in obtaining a police officer who can exercise his powers of arrest in order to take the necessary steps. [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. [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…]
We are asking it not only because we should try to give freedom to these great men but because we have to treat with this nation which shares parity of power with America in this world. [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…]
In the context of the Government’s comprehensive welfare proposals this Bill represents only a small holding measure, designed to maintain the value, in terms of purchasing power, of the assistance being given to aged persons’ hostels. [More…]
As I recall it, the Senate itself several years ago noted the decisions of the United Nations and what had been done by the then Government to implement the decisions and requested the Government to do all in its power to implement the decisions. [More…]
Honourable senators will forgive me if I do not have a great knowledge of Aboriginal affairs as my administration of the Department of Aboriginal Affairs is a newly acquired power. [More…]
Electrification of VPC, $350,000-to provide materials and equipment to assist the Vietnam Power Company. [More…]
Is it a fact that the Prime Minister at the meeting of the Federal Executive of the Australian Labor Party held in Adelaide last weekend stated that the Government would not legislate for any form of wages freeze if the people granted the Commonwealth a power over incomes? [More…]
If so, how does the Government justify the Prime Minister’s discriminating commitment given yesterday that incomes of persons other than wage earners would be regulated if the Commonwealth secured this power? [More…]
So it is completely within not only the constitutional power but also the legislative power and ministerial responsibility of that Minister to see that Australia ‘s position in the future is safeguarded. [More…]
If one were to consult the average housewife I think she would say that in the years preceding the entry of this Government into power there was a steady erosion of the position of the wage earner. [More…]
-Does the Minister representing the Minister for Labour agree with the Prime Minister’s attack on those unions opposing power over incomes in the coming referendum? [More…]
Some are spending more money opposing incomes power than in supporting prices power. [More…]
Legislation is in contemplation in order that Australia may be able to implement its obligations, and again I remind the Senate that several years ago the Senate itself called upon the Government to do all in its power to implement those resolutions. [More…]
I ask the Minister whether that statement means that the supply from the Snowy was to be reduced so that the restriction on power, which the 35-Hour Week Committee operating the power strike was imposing on industry in New South Wales, could be intensified. [More…]
If so, does he not agree, in the presence of honourable senators, that it is a gross abuse of ministerial power in the operation of a public utility to act in support of strike functions? [More…]
The Minister or the Department would appear to have the power to pay money out of the Fund to an enterprise which would further Aboriginal welfare and employment. [More…]
Elimination of the power to award costs in proceedings before the courts, the Registrar or the Commission; [More…]
Provision to remove the Commission’s power to ban strikes and the removal of all penal sanctions on strikers. [More…]
In particular, I believe honourable senators 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 officer in the person of the Industrial Registrar. [More…]
The rural industries have been slugged and slugged again ever since Labor came to power. [More…]
Yet it was this Government which within weeks of coming to power gave the Australian wheat industry what it had been asking over the past 1 3 years from a Liberal-Country Party Government, namely, an increase in the first advance payment. [More…]
Prior to our advent to power the previous Administration had refused to take part in a compensation plan to be applied to cattle which had been slaughtered as a result of contracting these diseases. [More…]
That type of vice which is always accountable pretty readily where a Minister is involved, because questions can be asked in the Parliament, becomes multiplied when a departmental official has power to grant a remission of interest payments. [More…]
It does permit the dispensation of interest to be granted, and to seek to amend it would be to deny the power to have a remission of interest granted. [More…]
I do not think we are introducing anything new, so far as departmental practice is concerned, in providing that a Minister has the power to make these authorisations to officers. [More…]
Is it a fact that the Prime Minister at the Federal Executive meeting of the Australian Labor Party held in Adelaide last weekend stated that the Government would not legislate for any form of wages freeze if the people granted the Commonwealth a power over incomes? [More…]
If so, how does the Government justify the Prime Minister’s discriminating commitment given yesterday that incomes of persons other than wage earners would be regulated if the Commonwealth secured this power? [More…]
The Government is appealing for power to make laws with respect to incomes. [More…]
Yet yesterday in a Press conference the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) stated that the power will be used, if it is granted, to control the incomes of persons who are non-wage earners. [More…]
Can the Leader of the Government in the Senate inform the Senate whether the Prime Minister, Mr Whitlam, offered to make available to the Premier of New South Wales a presidential member of the Commonwealth Conciliation and Arbitration Commission in order to bring together the parties in the New South Wales power dispute? [More…]
Did the New South Wales Electricity Commission refuse to take available power from the Snowy Mountains Authority over the long weekend of 29 and 30 September and 1 October? [More…]
Has not this pattern of action that has been demonstrated by the New South Wales Government been part of a campaign to ride back to power on the sufferings of the public of New South Wales? [More…]
I am not sure about the question regarding the availability of power during the long weekend, but in regard to the other questions, certainly there was an offer of the use of a member of the Commonwealth Conciliation and Arbitration Commission, and in view of the immense difficulty, disruption and cost that this dispute was causing to the people in New South Wales, with its flow-on effect to the people of the rest of Australia, one would have thought that that offer ought to have been accepted. [More…]
I refer to the serious and protracted electric power dispute in New South Wales and specifically to 2 significant statements made yesterday by the Leader of the Opposition in New South Wales, Mr Hills, directed primarily to the trade union movement. [More…]
One statement was that he could not condone the power workers’ restrictions of output, and the other was that the Snowy Mountains Authority was not holding back power from the Snowy Mountains scheme for political reasons. [More…]
It relates to the power strike in New South Wales. [More…]
I do not know whether the inference which may be contained in the honourable senator’s question is right but it was singularly unfortunate that New South Wales should so arrange its outlet of power as to cause the Prime Minister’s important speech to be interrupted. [More…]
Perhaps honourable senators could envisage what I see as the great danger from the Government now in power. [More…]
The projects financed involve people and the money gets ultimately into their pockets giving greater spending power and hence the circle goes on. [More…]
Might I remind honourable senators that Australia, in common with other middle and smaller powers, must be concerned about this war. [More…]
We must be concerned because the stability of any region in which the interests of the 2 super powers- that is, the United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics- are so vitally engaged must be of concern to nations such as ours. [More…]
We must be concerned because the stability of such a region affects the world balance of power. [More…]
The United States and the Soviet Union have a special responsibility to do everything in their power so that conflicts on situations will not arise which would increase international tension. [More…]
Although Mr Nixon appealed to Chairman Brezhnev to cooperate in getting a ceasefire along the Suez … to cooperate in a big power effort to stop the fighting, the plain fact is that Washington got no co-operation. [More…]
I ask the Minister: Are we to take it that the present Australian Government accepts the position that trade negotiations with Communist China will depend on whether the government in power here is one of which Mao Tse-tung and Chou En-lai approve? [More…]
I refer to the recent overthrow of the Allende Marxist Government in Chile, the assumption of power by a military junta, the confusion as to the events prior to and surrounding the military coup and the pressure from some quarters in Australia that Australia should offer to accept Chilean refugees, including political refugees, either permanently or in the short term. [More…]
I indicated at an earlier date that on the weekend at the end of September when the Federal Executive meeting of the Australian Labor Party was held in Adelaide that Executive adopted a resolution that if the incomes referendum were carried there would be no wages freeze imposed by the Federal Government pursuant to the power which the people had granted. [More…]
The Government does not propose to use any power which may be given to it by the people of Australia to impose a wages freeze. [More…]
One leaves aside what reasons the Government might have for putting forward a referendum of this character seeking this power. [More…]
One may question the bona fides and the sincerity of the Government when it indicates so clearly that if it gets the power it does not propose to use it. [More…]
What I desire to refer to is the statement which was made by the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) at his Press conference held last week in which he indicated the sort of use that he would make of the power. [More…]
The Australian Parliament ought to have this power over incomes. [More…]
As part of that dispute fixing and resolving role it has always exercised a power to fix minimum wages. [More…]
It has never exercised a power- indeed it lacks the power because it would never be part of an industrial dispute- to fix maximum wages. [More…]
The Conciliation and Arbitration Commission has power to fix minimum awards and not maximum awards. [More…]
The next point is that the Commission could have no power unless it was radically transformed to fix other forms of incomes because, as I have said, it is a commission which is the apex of a system under which industrial disputes are resolved. [More…]
Here is a fruitful field of advice as to how the Australian Government may exercise its power to grant benefits to students. [More…]
The Commission is likewise empowered to give similar advice in relation to the academically, scientifically, artistically or musically gifted students. [More…]
Public interest involves the provision of power, transport and supplies generally, and the maintenance of employment, the security of the home and the ability of the breadwinner to provide. [More…]
As we then said, it was sectional legislation reflecting submission by this Government to the influence and power of the strong militant unions of this country. [More…]
The way in which that case was made out was by demonstrating the way in which the Australian Labor Party constitutionally is structured and how in so many ways many members of the Australian Labor Party in this Parliament are beholden to members of unions, not so much that they submit to the power and direction of unions, but they are subject to the influence of unions. [More…]
It sought to remove the power of the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission to make an award prohibiting bans on or limitations of work. [More…]
However, it was an approach which clearly meant that unions in terms of full employment, and employers in less affluent times, could use all the force of intimidation and duress- their blunt, stark naked economic power- to impose conditions on the opposite party which that power enabled them to enforce. [More…]
During the month of June strikes and work bans heavily reduced production in key industries such as steel, vehicle making, power, cement, beer, refrigerators, cotton and electric motors. [More…]
At the moment major strikes that are producing near-chaos in certain areas of national life include those by technicians in charge of navigation and landing equipment at Sydney and Canberra Airports, by builders’ labourers in Sydney, by mail officers at Sydney Mail Exchange, and by the power industry unions in New South Wales. [More…]
In fact, what we have at the present time when there is industrial conflict is a hollow protestation that there is nothing that the Government can do or should do, except in the notorious case involving the Minister for Minerals and Energy, Mr Connor, in which he gave aid, comfort and direction to the 35-Hour Week Committee which is still limiting Sydney’s power supplies. [More…]
However at present there is an underground attempt to erode the power of the conciliation and arbitration court, or of an independent judge, when dealing with industrial matters. [More…]
Perhaps the legislation will give the Senate an opportunity to declare its views on the amendments which the Labor Party sought, such as those for procedures to ensure that certain types of agreements were acceptable to members of organisations, the removal of barriers to trade union amalgamations, the very radical moves which were sought by the former Bill concerning the protection of organisations and members from some tortuous liability in connection with industrial disputes, the provision to remove the Commissioner’s power to ban strikes and the removal of the penal sanctions on strikers. [More…]
The powers to enact laws for conciliation and arbitration and to prevent industrial disputes extend from one particular section of our Commonwealth Constitution, that is, section 51 (xxxv). [More…]
Some people may not read it this way, but certainly it is the view of some of the more studious people in the community, I believe, that the very fact of promoting and suggesting that there should be control of incomes must leave it open for whatever type of government happens to be in power at any time to see to the elimination of the conciliation and arbitration courts of this country [More…]
The referral to the Federal Parliament of that particular power could see the complete elimination of the conciliation and arbitration system as we know it. [More…]
Labor, before it came to office, saying: ‘You will see fewer problems in the industrial sphere if we are in power’. [More…]
Immediately it gained power it said: ‘We must change the conciliation and arbitration provisions. [More…]
The drive is towards bringing together large and strategically placed unions for the specific purpose of concentrating power in their hands. [More…]
The problem in the power strike, if honourable senators want to use the word strike’, in New South Wales is this matter of worker control. [More…]
However, the power workers are presenting an alternative to the New South Wales Government, and that is the alternative of worker control. [More…]
By that I understand him to mean that there should be rank and file control of the organisation, that officials should not get too big for their boots, that they should do what they are entitled to do and no more than that and if they want greater power they must have it authorised. [More…]
It is an essential clause of this Bill because a Labor government in power should protect those who represent the trade union movement on the job, who fight for the protection and the interests of the workers on the job with all the pressures against them. [More…]
any of the terms is a term that the Commission does not have power to include in an award; or [More…]
any of the terms is a term that the Commission does not have power to include in an award; or [More…]
any of the terms is a term that the Commission does not have power to include in an award; or [More…]
But the honourable senator is suggesting here that when employers and employees get together- these are the people who know best what are their problems and their differences- and reach an agreement, there should be an overriding power to intervene on behalf of the - [More…]
It seems to me that what the Opposition is putting is that unless a member of the Commission is of the opinion that the terms are not in settlement of an industrial dispute, or any of the terms is a term that the Commission does not have power to include in an award, he will reject it if a major detriment to the public interest would result from certifying the memorandum or making the award or order. [More…]
it should be noted that any trust account will derogate from the power of Parliament to control expenditure.’ [More…]
I think I can say now that the decision of this Government is that, if the Tasmanian Government is prepared to have a moratorium of a 3-year period during which time draining would gradually reduce the quantity of water in the lake, this Government is prepared to finance the loss in respect of a further study of the possibility of finding other sources of water supply for the generation of hydro-electric power. [More…]
But we must realise that it was the Labor Party which after it came to power proposed and brought about the great change in the range of sitting hours which we have experienced during 1973. [More…]
I want to stress that the power of government resides on the floor of this chamber. [More…]
It seems to me that what the Opposition is putting is that unless a member of the Commission is of the opinion that the terms are not in settlement of an industrial dispute, or any of the terms is a term that the Commission does not have power to include in an award, he will reject it if a major detriment to the public interest would result from certifying the memorandum or making the award or order. [More…]
The power has always been there. [More…]
But there is, in a particular area, a small union which has immense power and which can by force of the arguments, the activities or the tactics in which it engages persuade an employer to give a very significant benefit to it and the result is reached by agreement, it may be that that ought not to be regarded as in the public interest and ought not to be certified. [More…]
The amendment which is proposed by the Government in the area where the Opposition is moving for an amendment seeks to limit the power of the Commission to consider all these matters to those areas where it is an arbitrated award which is being made and not the type of consent award or agreement which we have been discussing in our earlier debates and which are covered by the provisions of section 28 of the legislation. [More…]
The Opposition believes quite simply that the Commission in matters relating to such things as the standard wage, the minimum wage, the general range of wages for adults, standard hours and annual leave should have a power to examine whatever functions the Act gives to the Commission not only in regard to arbitrated awards but also with regard to consent awards and agreements. [More…]
There is a provision in the legislation under which the Attorney-General has power to apply to the Commission whenever he deems it necessary to do so in the public interest. [More…]
It is a power which Attorneys-General have exercised. [More…]
It is a power which has been exercised where it has been felt that it is necessary to put matters of some broad Commonwealth concern and broad public interest concern to the Commission in relation to agreements which have been made between employer and employee organisations or between employers and employees. [More…]
Shortly expressed, the new clause will give to an officer of an organisation, who is authorised in writing by his secretary, the power at any time during working hours to enter any premises in which work is being carried out and where there is an award which is operative for the purpose of ensuring observance by the employer, the respondent to that award, of the provisions of the award. [More…]
The clause further provides that a person shall not hinder or obstruct an officer of an organisation who seeks to exercise a power under this section. [More…]
I have set those things out at some length to illustrate the width of the power which the Government is seeking to confer upon officers of an organisation. [More…]
The Opposition recognises, from discussions which our spokesmen have had with officers of the Minister’s Department, the general intent and purpose of this clause and how it is designed to ensure that there shall be a power in at least one party to an award to endeavour to have the award observed by the other party to it. [More…]
This is a significant power but we recognise that it is one which has been exercised by persons authorised under the Act, under a section which has been in the Act for a long time. [More…]
But it goes further than that because the relevant Act gives the white manager on these reserves the power of veto. [More…]
I make this final plea: I hope that the situation we saw today never happens again while this Government is in power or while any other government administers the Australian Parliament. [More…]
In the first place, this development of Lake Pedder and Lake Gordon for hydro-electric power in Tasmania is specifically within the jurisdiction of the State Government. [More…]
The Snowy Mountains authority reported that this scheme is essential to the economic development of hydro-electric power, which is one of Tasmania’s chief competitive industrial resources. [More…]
It is time that especially the mainland Press of Australia knew a few of the basic facts with regard to this insane delusion that by draining the new Lake Pedder the environment will be improved while a lake of infinite beauty and with a terrific expanse of 93 square miles- as against 10 square miles of the old lake- will be destroyed, and the economic development of hydro-electric power in Tasmania will be impeded. [More…]
As a result of the referendum which was conducted we have the power to legislate to make ineffective some State laws. [More…]
We accept that the Tasmanian Government has the sole responsibility for this matter because it has the constitutional powers. [More…]
The Commonwealth cannot stop the filling of the lake or build another power house. [More…]
I recall that he was one who voted with the rest of us to note what was contained in the United Nations resolutions against Rhodesia, to approve of those resolutions and to request this Government to do all in its power to see that these resolutions were implemented. [More…]
In fairness to this Council, contrary to what a previous Minister has stated, the Council at no time had power to spend money. [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…]
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…]
I disagree with the idea that the Commonwealth should have the powers in relation to the advancement of Aboriginal people centred in Canberra. [More…]
I think that we have had quite a deal of experience of the centralisation of power. [More…]
He believed that the Commonwealth had the power to take the appropriate action in the States if it was felt necessary, and in fact he intimated that if he could not get action by co-operation he felt he would have to use that power. [More…]
If laws are made which make an ethnic group an inferior race of citizens the Australian Government, through Commonwealth law has the power, and shall exercise it, to override State laws, to ensure the civil rights and the dignity of the individual in accordance with international convention obligations. [More…]
They are that the responsibility for the control of banks and financial institutions operating in Papua New Guinea will take place as soon as practicable and that a central bank be established that will have a full range of power to act as a central monetary authority for a separate banking system. [More…]
In the absence of a High Commissioner there is power to appoint 2 deputies in his place. [More…]
The High Commissioner will assume most of the powers now held by the Minister for External Territories. [More…]
He will be empowered, temporarily, to transfer Ministers from one portfolio to another. [More…]
He will exercise those powers under an Executive Council style of approach. [More…]
As we know, over recent years there has been this gradual transference of power. [More…]
It could also mean a loss of authority by the better trained and better qualified judges and higher courts, and power could be exercised arbitrarily by courts at that lower level. [More…]
I can see a real danger from the point of view of maintenance of authority and of introducing political influences when a court structure at village level is established with too great a jurisdictional power. [More…]
After the Government came into power the Minister for External Territories started to talk about independence in 1974. [More…]
There is also the well known feeling of the Labor Party that we as an Australian nation should not be a colonial power in any shape or form and must unburden ourselves of this unwelcome responsibility which the Labor Party feels that we have. [More…]
It will be another Vietnam and the intervening power, instead of being the United States, will have to be Australia. [More…]
Since it would be utterly irresponsible of the Australian Government to embark on detailed feasibility studies without having first determined the precise location of the proposed plant and the intended methods of disposing of the highly dangerous and permanently dangerous massive radioactive wastes, including their possible use for heat for electric power generation, I ask: Where is the proposed plant to be located? [More…]
-I hardly think that it is appropriate at question time for me to enter into a discussion of whether one side is supported by which super power and which super power is the strongest of the super powers, or of the other questions raised by the honourable senator. [More…]
Before the month is out I therefore ask him the following question again: On whose authority are Commonwealth Police repaying the amount of fines imposed on persons convicted of offences against laws of this country during political demonstrations held before this Government came into power? [More…]
-Senator Wright interjects correctly to say: ‘As concurrent power with the States’. [More…]
There is also no doubt that the Parliament has authorised the Government to take certain action, and over the years certain delegated legislation has been enacted which gives the Australian Government power to regulate overseas trade in various ways. [More…]
In accordance with Standing Order 64, I intend to move today that the Senate, at its rising, adjourn until tomorrow at 10.55 a.m. for the purpose of debating a matter of urgency, namely, the monopoly power of the Seamen’s Union being used to boycott and destroy Tasmania’s seaborne trade. [More…]
The monopoly power of the Seamen’s Union being used to boycott and destroy Tasmania ‘s seaborne trade. [More…]
It is acknowledged that the greatest monopoly power operating in commerce today is the monopoly power of labour organisations. [More…]
But the monopoly power of the maritime unions in Australia is being used to impose conditions on Tasmanian trade that threaten to throttle that trade, and it is doing continuing damage to the economy of that trade. [More…]
We all know that the trade union movement has a power in this area. [More…]
This Government came to power with a promise that it would restore coastal trading, that interstate trade would be carried in Australian flag ships and that at least 40 per cent of overseas cargoes would be carried in Australian ships. [More…]
There is justification for giving us power to enter into agreements with unions so that no matter what might be the position with shipping we can guarantee to the workers compensation and redundancy payments. [More…]
The gravamen of the matter raised by Senator Wright is: for the purpose of debating a matter of urgency, namely, the monopoly power of the Seamen’s Union being used to boycott and destroy Tasmania ‘s seaborne trade. [More…]
Coming back to one of two of Senator Wright’s comments, he described the greatest monopoly power as being the labour organisations. [More…]
There is no question that labour organisations can be a very powerful influence and I say, as I have already indicated, that I am not by any means always on their side. [More…]
The greatest monopoly power in respect of the matter that we are debating today is not the labour unions but the Conference Lines. [More…]
Over the years there has been a long-standing agreementespecially since we have been in power- that Australian interstate shipping should be, as far as possible, carried out by Australians. [More…]
They do not come into this exaggerated motion which is before the Senate relating to the monoply power of the Seamen ‘s Union being used to boycott and destroy Tasmania’s seaborne trade. [More…]
All I wish to urge is that the reply which has come from the Government benches betokens a very poor appreciation of the difficulties that Tasmania is encountering because of the use of monopoly power to destroy its seaborne trade. [More…]
This is a case where the Tasmanian shipping arrangement is being boycotted by the Seamen’s Union simply because it wants to use its power over the cargo to compel the exclusive right for Australian ships and seamen to carry out the New Zealand trade. [More…]
I hope that the Senate will show its concern for Tasmanian interests so that we can accept this motion in the terms in which it is put forward, that is to say, consideration of the monopoly power of the Seamen’s Union being used to boycott and destroy Tasmania’s seaborne trade. [More…]
The Senate is dealing with a most important piece of legislation- the Trade Practices Bill- which incorporates provisions intended to prevent the operation of those restrictive practices which have been operating in the community for many decades and which it is generally agreed should be curbed as far as it is within the power of the Parliament to curb them. [More…]
I doubt very much whether this Bill, which the Government demands should be passed this year, would be a real tool for the socialist Government that we have in power at the present time. [More…]
In one particular part of the Act, which apparently I am not able to refer to, Mr Acting Deputy President, the Tribunal is to be given power to investigate consumers’ rights. [More…]
The Commonwealth was a claimant because it has, in respect of the nation, which is Australia, the sole, the effective power to act on behalf of Australia in its external relations. [More…]
The Commonwealth Constitution gave the Commonwealth the power over external affairs. [More…]
The survivors are: The master, Captain Cruikshank; The cook, Alfred Simpson; The bosun, S. Leary; and Seamen, Cliff Langford, Malcolm McCarroll, Lenton Power, and M. T. Doleman. [More…]
Is the Minister aware that an average family paying off a home or acquiring a motor vehicle and one major domestic appliance on hire purchase is now faced with an increased monthly interest payment of between $30 and $40, a huge drain on family purchasing power and a savage increase in inflation? [More…]
If this power of inspection is given to someone else he may put so many restrictions upon that right of entry that it would be of no benefit to the individual or to the union. [More…]
the terms of settlement contain provisions which the Tribunal has no power to include in an award; or [More…]
We feel that it would be a mistake for the Parliament to give an unrestricted power to the Minister to be able to appoint judges at will or to meet circumstances. [More…]
But what might erupt if the Government gained the power? [More…]
Therefore we as members of Parliament should ensure that such a power is never given to a government. [More…]
Is it not absurd to suggest that a power that can be so exercised must, if exercised by the court, be exercised by 3 judges, especially as Senator Greenwood is so concerned about the way in which the time of these judges will be spent? [More…]
The Opposition in the other place insisted on giving greater power to the Minister. [More…]
The essential point which the Opposition desires to make is that we should not take away from the Court the power which it has under the existing Act. [More…]
I believe that a court- I think that this is an appropriate consideration- should have power to control proceedings before the court because it is inherent in the power which a court exercises. [More…]
In 1934 the power of ministerial appointment of inspectors was first introduced by what was then ‘known as the [More…]
The present section does not give the power of appointment to the Minister for Labour. [More…]
The clause seeks to give to the Minister the power of appointment of what he might call trouble shooters, what Senator Murphy might call advisers, and what the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) and other members of the Government might call by various other names. [More…]
It was then discovered that the Industrial Registrar did not have power to grant such assistance. [More…]
We think that in those cases in which it is necessary to provide financial assistance, the granting of that assistance should be taken out of the realms of politics and handed over to an independent registrar to decide whether he has the power to do so, and whether he should grant such financial assistance. [More…]
-I do not know whether the honourable senator really wants the Government to have the power to require such a prescribing in relation to employer organisations. [More…]
Australia is not a major power with any military influence in the area. [More…]
But it would certainly be absurd to say that we should condemn those people who are giving material assistance to one side and, at the same time, not saying anything at all about the actions of the other major power which is giving material assistance to the other side. [More…]
If, for example, some other country were to have attacked Australia in 1967 and occupied the northern part of Queensland, and the United Nations had carried a resolution saying that that country should withdraw its troops from Australia, and in 1973 we sent our troops back into that part of Queensland which was occupied by that foreign power, would we accept a proposition which said that we were guilty of aggression? [More…]
But what we are faced with is a conflict which could well lead to a third world war because not only are the people of these countries involved, not only are their territories involved but also questions of the utmost strategic and economic importance to the major powers of the world are involved. [More…]
There are matters which prevail in those countries which would certainly encourage any power to take much more interest in the disputes which are taking place in the Middle East than probably in any other part of the world. [More…]
After all, when there is one super power increasing its support for one nation on one side and another super power increasing its support for a nation on the other side, unless something drastic happens, we could be in a situation where we could not stop a conflict and then we would all be involved. [More…]
But history has proved that while the United Nations might take pious views on certain things and insist on certain things it does not have the power to carry out these views. [More…]
The United Nations has no control over issues in which the super powers are involved. [More…]
There is no doubt that the 2 super powers, and not the United Nations, decided whether or not the conflict in the Middle East would go on and whether that conflict would involve the rest of the world. [More…]
I say still that it is the super powers who in the long term will be in the box seat to decide what will happen. [More…]
It is not much good the United Nations deciding where the boundaries will be when one side or the other is being armed by an outside super power. [More…]
Indeed, incidents that take place around the world today show quite clearly that it is only when things that are wrong are dragged out into the open and condemned by honest people throughout the world that nations that are attempting to engage in these acts for the promotion of their own power basis abandon their efforts and begin to conciliate and lean towards an attitude of world peace. [More…]
review Government support for research and development, in industry and to give the Australian Industrial Research and Development Grants Board power to award grants on a basis of greatest technical or commercial promises and to entourage (he-establishment of industry research associations. [More…]
I ask: Can the Minister tell the Senate whether the Government is aware of the fact that over the past 3 weeks there has been a power shortage in Victoria caused by the action of a few unionists who are seeking to secure their objective through industrial blackmail by holding the whole community to ransom? [More…]
For that reason I then issued the directive which I am empowered to issue under the Wheat Industry Act. [More…]
Of course, as the honourable senator knows, this power was written into the Act by his own Government. [More…]
If in fact the inclusion of the directive power of the Minister in the Act should be deleted, perhaps Senator Webster can tell me why his Party did not move for its deletion when the Wheat Industry Stabilisation Act was passed in 1968. [More…]
The directive power was put there for a good purpose. [More…]
I endeavoured to illustrate to the honourable senator the reason why the directive power is contained in the Act. [More…]
When that Government had the opportunity to remove the power from the Act at no time did it ever attempt to do so. [More…]
My Party believes that that situation could be rectified if we had the power to do so, but the Opposition will not let us have that power and therefore it must take the responsibility for the dislocation and the loss of man hours that is occurring at the present time. [More…]
However, we do not have the power in the Senate to implement our ideas. [More…]
They want to have one big union controlling iron and steel, one big union controlling transport, one big union controlling light, fuel and power, one big union controlling the building industries and one big union controlling all the rest. [More…]
The position has been reached where a union of the size, power and wealth- I emphasise the word ‘wealth’- of the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union has been able to dictate to a potential Prime Minister. [More…]
The other point I wish to make is that the small segments that the Federated Ironworkers Association and the Waterside Workers Federation wanted to absorb, were so insignificant that they would not disturb the balance of power within the large unions. [More…]
The amendment seeks to remove the power for inquiries to be made into court controlled ballots. [More…]
But the basic proposition to remove the right and power for a person to raise objection to seek inquiries into court controlled ballots is opposed. [More…]
The Opposition’s amendment retains sub-section (5) of section 168 which reiterates the power of the Court to award costs against parties in an inquiry. [More…]
I raise the question now and I invite- indeed, I challenge- the Minister to show where in this Bill in any of the clauses which we have so painstakingly examined over the past few days there is a provision which would enable the Government to take some action in regard to the dispute involving the Electrical Trades Union of Victoria which is denying Victoria power and which has created an enormous amount of unemployment in other areas. [More…]
They recognise their power and they have denied the people of Victoria the full power to which they ought to be entitled for the last 3 weeks. [More…]
I would be interested to know, particularly in the light of what Senator Murphy said this afternoon where in this legislation the Government claims there is a power which will enable it to bring this dispute to an end which otherwise it would not be able to use. [More…]
What we have said at all times is that you cannot compel a man to sell his labour power. [More…]
Members of the Opposition want to apply all power to stop disputes after they have occurred, but we are trying to provide an Act which will prevent disputes. [More…]
Because in those 2 Territories the Commonwealth has a plenary power, the normal constitutional guarantees do not run to protect the residents of the Territories. [More…]
It has been held in the High Court in the case of Teori Tau v Commonwealth that the power of resumption by the Commonwealth does not stem from section 51 and the appropriate placitum under that section but from section 122 of the Constitution. [More…]
Again in the processes of normalisation, I do not think the Commonwealth is entitled to place resumptions in the Australian Capital Territory on a basis that is different from those applying in the States merely because constitutionally it has the power to do so. [More…]
Of course, it may be only a matter of pique, because the Liberal and Country Parties when in power laid down these guidelines for acquisition. [More…]
There is a lack of ministerial responsibility or accountabiliity in certain areas because the source of power for which the responsibility exists is not known. [More…]
The development of petroleum resources of the off-shore seabed is not the only matter in respect of which constitutional power is important. [More…]
In areas of public and political controversyinto which questions of conservation and pollution have moved- the inability to identify political responsibility is as unsatisfactory as the inability, because of disputes and uncertain power, to initiate action or authoritatively to disclaim responsibility. [More…]
It took the Labor Party to come into power to do that. [More…]
Such delegation shall not prevent the exercise of a power by the Committee. [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…]
He was removed from his country and he is trying to return to power. [More…]
I remember that, when Opposition Senator’s were in power, on two occasions I wished to speak on foreign affairs. [More…]
Not one word from this power house of secret information was to be given to the public. [More…]
Japan is the third largest industrial power on earth and a country which, by way of balance industrially and indeed by its attitude to defence, its attitude to Asia and to the world, can play one of the great peace-keeping roles of the world. [More…]
Australia is a middle size power and we should not be measured in terms of population, in terms of industrial output, or in terms of rural output. [More…]
Australia was respected throughout the length and breadth of South East Asia because as a middle size power and without any imperialist sense at all it did not seek greatness or domination. [More…]
It sought to have as its philosophy a communication to the great powers on this earth that they should not merely be so pre-occupied with their own great power- or thuggery in many ways- but that they should respect the right of the little people to live. [More…]
It would be hard not to do so because the constitutional realities in Australia, whether people like it or not, are that the States have been given the power by the Constitution in relation to education. [More…]
The Commonwealth has not the power and it is only by the use or, as some people would claim, the misuse of section 96 that it is able to take action in relation to education outside the Territories. [More…]
Here is a fruitful field of advice as to how the Australian Government may exercise its power to grant benefits to students. [More…]
The Commission is likewise empowered to give similar advice in relation to the academically, scientifically, artistically or musically gifted students. [More…]
They will not represent one school of thought because different parties are in power in the States. [More…]
They were saying that they must, in principle, reject the idea of all power being vested in the Minister to appoint a commission of his own choosing. [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 9 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…]
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 repeated 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 reenacted. [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 6 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 External Territories to delegate his powers under this Act to the appropriate Minister in the Papua New Guinea Government who may exercise those powers independently. [More…]
Clause 8 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…]
have equal power with the House of Representatives in respect of all proposed laws. [More…]
If we reach a stage where we have not equal power and we become a lesser House than the other House it will be difficult to justify the continuation of this chamber. [More…]
At the moment we recognise the right of the Senate, We have equal power with the other House. [More…]
Remembering that, it seems to me that if a decision is made jointly by parliamentarians, without the power of a parliamentary enactment, it cannot have any real force. [More…]
-There may well be reason for requiring that the source of any kind of propaganda, as it is called, by or on behalf of any foreign power in Australia be identified, irrespective of the questions which the honourable senator raises about the Soviet Union. [More…]
But I want to place in perspective that as an earnest of the Opposition’s attitude we find in any State where a Liberal Government is in power that the great bulksome 42 per cent or more- of its total budget is directed to education. [More…]
This cannot be regarded as strictly inconsistent with the ‘proper constitutional responsibilities’ of the Commonwealth and the States as the power always lies with the Parliaments of the Commonwealth and the States to reject or amend the legislation. [More…]
It must be remembered that the purpose of the mirror legislation was to use all the constitutional powers of Australia, wherever they may lie. [More…]
challenge could be made to it because if the States did not have the power the Commonwealth did, and vice versa. [More…]
This Parliament has only the powers that it asserts it has- no other powers. [More…]
The issue of who has sovereign jurisdiction in this area will not be resolved in this Parliament; it will be resolved only by the assertion of the power by the Parliament and, if someone is sufficiently interested to challenge that assertion, by the High Court. [More…]
Because the States may have no power to legislate extra- territorially and because the Commonwealth has restricted legislative power under the Constitution there could be an area of legal vacuum. [More…]
It is a question of what the powers of the Commonwealth are under its external affairs power. [More…]
If I speak to my Leader who is the present Attorney-General (Senator Murphy) he will tell me that there is no question about the powers of the Commonwealth under the external affairs power. [More…]
But if I speak to some other legal people they will tell me that the question has not been resolved and that the High Court has not enunciated a decision with respect to the external affairs power generally. [More…]
Dependent upon a proper interpretation of the external affairs power, but looking at that power as it has presently been interpreted, one is faced with the restrictions imposed by the Commonwealth Constitution in this area. [More…]
He had no doubts that the Commonwealth had the power from the low-water mark out. [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…]
If the answer to (2) is in the negative, under what power or authority were search warrants obtained by the Police. [More…]
The anti-socialist Government had been in power for 20-odd years. [More…]
This is robbing the Australian people of their savings and of their spending power. [More…]
The Government is saying: ‘We will ask the people by referendum on 8 December to give us powers over prices and incomes- although, in fact, because the trade unions and the left wing will not let us, we will not use the incomes power’. [More…]
It is pretending that it is seeking the power over prices in the referendum for control of prices. [More…]
The fact is that this is one further step by the Government to achieve centralised powers, not just over a harmless word or a seemingly harmless word called ‘prices’, but over virtually the complete private sector of the economy. [More…]
What the people of Australia should understand is this: That in the pretence of gaining a power to control inflation the socialist government will be gaining the power over the lives of all the people of Australia. [More…]
This being so, what the Federal Government is doing is seeking to make a massive takeover by way of socialist power over the whole private sector. [More…]
But is says: ‘We are going to do this, and because one offshoot of that is that it will cause inflation, we are going to cut back on the spending power of you, the people of Australia, and we are going to decide what goods you should have and what you shall not have. [More…]
We are going to contrive a labour shortage by cutting back immigration’- and in fact it has done that- ‘and then with inflation running at Christmas time and diminishing people’s spending, we are going to plead emotionally to the people for power over prices and we hope, emotionally, that we will get it. [More…]
And when we get it, we, the socialist government of Australia, will then have power over the whole private sectorand that gives us total control ‘ [More…]
We are no longer a middle power firmly associated in ideology and integrity with the western approach but have become the running dogs of Chairman Mao or, if not Chairman Mao, the running dogs of the so-called third world. [More…]
In other words, the Chinese have agreed to a 6-months sale and have promised to extend it for 2.5 years if the Labor Government remains in power. [More…]
This is the method, the tyranny and the type of disgrace to humanity by which Chairman Mao and his friends have come to power. [More…]
We believe that if this Bill were approved, this principle would be destroyed by giving the balance of power to Territorial representatives and the Senate would no longer be a true States’ House. [More…]
Many Australians have been thankful for the existence of the Senate in the months since Labor came to power. [More…]
The first such matter is the giving of greater power to the Australian Government in relation to prices. [More…]
The second is that there should be referred to the Australian Government greater power over incomes. [More…]
We have this appeal from a Government that has been unable to control the economy during the past 12 months and which says that it needs more power. [More…]
Previously governments did not need the power. [More…]
But the purpose of this proposition is to attempt to ensure that the Senate is controlled by the Party that is in power in the House of Representatives. [More…]
It may not be fashionable to talk about France in this era of atomic testing, but at least it can be said that no matter what type of government has been in power in Francewhether it be a popular front government, the De Gaulle Government or any other political combination- little areas like Martinique and Noumea have had representatives in the Chamber of Deputies in Paris. [More…]
I came into the Senate with a determination to use any power in my capacity to make it a better chamber. [More…]
The childish accusation that I am a Black Power advocate is just too crazy for words. [More…]
If by the description ‘Black Power’ these gentlemen are implying that I am advocating equal rights for Aborigines and Islanders, then I am happy to be so classified. [More…]
Mr Row wanted to know also whether I had worn the red headband of the Black Power movement. [More…]
The Minister said that he did not know that I had visited the island but that, if Mr Row had said that I had and that I was a member of the Black Power movement, he had no reason to doubt it. [More…]
It would then be considered necessary to appoint a chief protector and assistant protector, and to confer on them power to send Aborigines to reserves and keep them there. [More…]
It is said that the councils on the reserves have this power; but when the real crunch comes, when we get down to the nitty gritty of it, they do not have this power. [More…]
Always the State Director or his nominee- it is largely at the reserve manager level that this power is exercised- has the power of veto and it is being exercised in many ways. [More…]
Kingdom the power and the glory for ever and [More…]
Row asked Hewitt if Senator Keeffe had visited Palm Island recently about the time of the recent disturbances and whether he had worn the red head-band of the Black Power Movement. [More…]
Hewitt said that he did not know if Keeffe had visited the Island recently, but if Row said Keeffe was a member of Black Power he had no reason to doubt him. [More…]
So Senator Keeffe is supposed to be a member of the black power movement. [More…]
Therefore I would say that under the new Act the Commonwealth will have greater power to supervise expenditure, and particular attention will be given to the roads leading into the Australian Capital Territory. [More…]
In view of the serious overseas fuel crisis necessitating drastic cuts in the use of hydrocarbon derivatives for power, heating and transport in the United Kingdom, Europe and the United States of America, would the Minister press for a higher priority for bringing into use at the earliest possible time the known reserves of the North West Shelf and the Cooper Basin which would include the early commencement of the national pipeline grid in order to avoid the possibility of the disruption to industrial and social life that is high and growing in other parts of the world? [More…]
The Committee further reports that it was unable to complete its examination of the Particulars of Certain Proposed Expenditure in respect of the Year ending on 30 June 1974 for the Department of Minerals and Energy, Division 890, Subdivision 1.- Plant and Equipment- Item 04 (purchase of pipes and associated equipment for the Moomba-Sydney Pipeline) $54,000,000; Sub-division 2-(for expenditure under the Snowy Mountains Hydro-electric Power Act) $13,100,000; Sub-division 3- (for expenditure under the Atomic Energy Act) $1,388,000; 4-(for expenditure under the Pipeline Authority Act) $107,000,000; and Division 891,-Other Services Item 01. [More…]
I do not say that the Senate has not the power. [More…]
Perhaps it is necessary that each House of Parliament have the ultimate power and retain the ultimate power, in effect, to disallow. [More…]
When the previous LiberalCountry Party Government was in power I can well remember over the past few years that on nearly every occasion on which indirect taxation was increased Labor Party members would stand up and criticise wholeheartedly the attitude of the then Government. [More…]
Labor in office, as is the case of working-class governments everywhere, is very much subject to the strength of the capitalist power centres. [More…]
They are still as much as ever the hegemonic power in Australian society. [More…]
It wants a prices power not merely to control prices but to control the whole private sector, to control the charges which State governments and local governments can levy and to control wages. [More…]
The Government wants these powers so that it can reach out and congeal the private sector, control it and stultify it so that the public sector can grow. [More…]
If I were the Leader of the Government in the Senate today, or the leader of the House- whoever has the power- I would say that we should withdraw our motion and the 2 amendments and allow Senator Wright to make a second reading speech on his Bill. [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. [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…]
This Parliament has power over corporations. [More…]
Is it a fact that the Stokes Hill power station at Darwin is still being repaired and that full generating capacity still is not available to the people of that city? [More…]
Can the Minister tell the Senate how long it will be before full power can be supplied to Darwin residents and what steps are being undertaken by the Department of Works to ensure that this is being done with all possible urgency? [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…]
I indicated further that we accepted that although there had been debate last year as to whether it was appropriate in Australia, with the division of power that existed with the desirability of decentralisation in education and with all of the other arguments which were put forward at that time, to have a centralised schools commission, that debate is now over. [More…]
The position in Australia is this: There are 3 administrative power areas in relation to primary and secondary school education. [More…]
We believe that it is totally unreal to approach the question of primary and secondary school education in Australia from the point of view of a failure to recognise the existence of those 3 major administrative power areas. [More…]
The second administrative power area which must be recognised, in my suggestion to honourable senators, not only is in existence but is the major administrative power area in Australia. [More…]
That major administrative power area is the State government area. [More…]
Thirdly, the non-government school sector, although diverse, can be regarded collectively as an administrative power area. [More…]
An attempt to set up an Australian Schools Commission which fails to recognise the existence of the administrative power areas is, in our submission, a Schools Commission which is bound to fail. [More…]
Let us hope that they do not arise on the massive scale on which they could arise through a failure of adequate communication between the various administrative power areas involved in primary and secondary education in Australia. [More…]
If the Minister genuinely believes in the creation of a body which does not have a direct liaison with all of those major administrative power areas and if it is not felt in those major administrative power areas that they have some say in the creation of the body, the Minister is indulging in Alice in Wonderland type thoughts if he thinks the body will work. [More…]
We also see it as desirable to start from the point of view of considering its constitution and identification and therefore the involvement of the major power areas. [More…]
I remind the Senate that it is based upon a recognition of the 3 administrative power areas that must be drawn together to act co-operatively and with a feeling of involvement if the Schools Commission is to work. [More…]
This would mean that recognition of the Commonwealth power area would give to the Commonwealth Minister a total discretion to appoint 3 people. [More…]
We would therefore see as desirable the inclusion of 4 persons recommended by the Australian Education Council who would represent the interests as seen by the State area of administrative power. [More…]
I have been told by people who know- I have heard the Minister say this-that, obviously if the Government does not accept a Bill amended in the way we desire to amend this Bill, the Government has the power to reappoint a Karmel-type committee which will proceed to do all the work which the permanent or semi-permanent commission could do. [More…]
I repeat that there is nothing dogmatic, doctrinaire or authoritarian about a Government which has been elected by the people exercising its power by appointing a Commission as important as this. [More…]
Although Senator Young’s question was put in the context of a decision of the Supreme Court of South Australia that doctors’ fees in that State were subject to price control under the South Australian Prices Act, the tenor of his question was clearly directed in more general terms to the forthcoming referendum on Commonwealth Legislative power over prices. [More…]
I have said on numerous occasions, and I say again quite unashamedly, that Government claims that the Opposition in the Senate is purposely frustrating, filibustering and not dealing with Government legislation are arrant nonsense, for the Government has the power to bring legislation into this chamber when and how it pleases. [More…]
I repeat that the Opposition parties in the Senate do not wish to have the power, and would certainly not try to usurp the power, to arrange the order of Government Business in the Senate. [More…]
The Prime Minister has had the power to call for a half Senate election since 1 July 1973. [More…]
Second, the legislation will establish an Australian Human Rights Commissioner who will have power to investigate infringements of rights, either on his own initiative or where a complaint is made to him. [More…]
The Commissioner will have also power to take legal proceedings on behalf of an aggrieved person. [More…]
This is particularly unfair when one considers how much power, prestige, affluence and education in the white community has been built on the exploitation of land from which whites ousted blacks’. [More…]
An aggrieved person may also commence proceedings for a remedy under the Act independently of the Commissioner, but the Commissioner will have power to apply to the court for a stay of proceedings if he considers that such proceedings would adversely effect the performance of his functions. [More…]
The Act also makes provision for the establishment of Conciliation Committees which will have power to achieve a settlement between the parties to a dispute. [More…]
This, in my opinion, is an attempt to break down the clear power conferred on the Australian Government by section 96 of the Constitution, which is a power to grant financial assistance to any State on such terms and conditions as the Parliament thinks fit. [More…]
I do not agree with the suggestion just made by Senator James McClelland when he said that there is a clear constitutional power for the Government to do the things it wants to do and that this legislation would break down that power. [More…]
Senator James McClelland, of course, knows that legislation cannot break down the power of the Constitution. [More…]
In other words, we wish to see that the powers of the Minister are limited to the extent that he appoints committees which are related to the functions as defined in clause 13 of the Bill. [More…]
It is a principle which is well known to all honourable senators that such powers as are given to Ministers by Bills such as this should be limited in regard to what the Minister may do in the exercise of the power. [More…]
Honourable senators will appreciate that the Commission has no power to deal with matters beyond its functions as laid down in clause 13 of the Bill. [More…]
The Commission has no power to deal with matters beyond its functions as laid down in clause 13. [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…]
Now you are giving power and money to 41 Aborigines to undermine our way of living and thinking. [More…]
The Government has been asked: ‘What do you want to do- give them power and money?’ [More…]
Should we refuse to give these people power and money? [More…]
Are we to be condemned for giving Senator Bonner’s race power and money? [More…]
It is true that it will not give increased power to the Aboriginal people. [More…]
As there was a heavy flow of overseas and Australian news on the morning of 10 October including reports on the Middle East War plus the train, airport and power disputes, the Sub-editor on duty decided not to include the item in the morning bulletin. [More…]
Would he give to the committee power to move to bar from the Press gallery any representative of the media proved to be responsible for publishing untrue or biased reports of the Senate’s work? [More…]
Is it not a fact that despite Government protestations none of the many Federal instrumentalities using foreign owned advertising agencies have changed to Australian agencies since the Government came to power? [More…]
In the circumstances, will the Minister examine these advertisements and advise whether the Commonwealth has any power to control or remedy misleading advertisements? [More…]
Dripstone High School, Darwin, Northern Territory and Stage 6 Extension of the Stokes Hill Power Station, Darwin. [More…]
He announcedand this has never been rebutted because I have a question on notice which was asked weeks ago and has not been answered- that the Prime Minister and the Attorney-General had told him that they would do all in their power to help to overthrow the regime in Rhodesia. [More…]
Should we continue in this way or has an appropriate moment arrived for a redistribution of power? [More…]
I am looking forward to the results of the deliberations of the Constitutional Convention so that as Australia moves into the next 30 years we can have a completely new distribution of power, so that the States no longer will feel themselves to be mendicants at the table of the Commonwealth and so that the Commonwealth will know at any time in view of its new international responsibilities just where it is going, where its areas of power, clearly and undisputably will lie and the States will have not only the responsibility for certain things but will have the means at their disposal without having to resort to alternative sources of finance by way of annual agreements or special approaches to finance their duties within the Constitution. [More…]
That is another illusion that whichever Party is in power always seems to run away with. [More…]
The Minister may, by instrument in writing, delegate to a person, either generally or otherwise as provided in the instrument of delegation, all or any of his powers or functions under this Act, except this power of delegation. [More…]
A power or function so delegated may be exercised or performed by the delegate in accordance with the instrument of delegation, and, when so exercised or performed, shall, for the purposes of this Act, be deemed to have been exercised or performed by the Minister. [More…]
A delegation under this section is revocable at will and does not present the exercise of a power or the performance of a function by the Minister. [More…]
That is a marked omission from the power of the authorised person which we insisted upon with such force in 1 969. [More…]
-The Minister for the Environment and Conservation is on record as having expressed already his interest in the large scale use of solar energy in Australia as an alternative source of power. [More…]
It is noted that the money spent on solar energy investigation in Australia is insignificant in comparison with the money spent on the investigation of other energy sources such as nuclear power. [More…]
Because of this the Government could, perhaps, support making some change in the priority of expenditure of money on future power resources. [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…]
That the Legislative Assembly of Queensland in Parliament assembled, having regard to the fact that proposed laws for the alteration of the Constitution of the Commonwealth by conferring on the Parliament of the Commonwealth power to make laws with respect to prices, or prices and incomes, will be submitted to electors as required by section 128 of the Constitution, and recognizing- [More…]
One measure that does not arise from budget decisions is designed to ensure that companies that are essentially public in character, but fail 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…]
In the long and tortuous evolution of the human race on this planet a stage has been reached when through the rapid acceleration of science and technology, man has acquired the power to transform his environment in countless ways and on an unprecedented scale. [More…]
Wrongly or heedlessly applied, the same power can do incalculable harm to human beings and the human environment. [More…]
In the long and tortuous evolution of the human race on this planet a stage has been reached when through the rapid acceleration of science and technology, man has acquired the power to transform his environment in countless ways and on an unprecedented scale. [More…]
Wrongly or heedlessly applied, the same power can do incalculable harm to human beings and the human environment. [More…]
This Bill proposes that the Parliament should assert what is called a sovereign power over the off-shore areas of Australia, that is, over the surface of the waters, over the seabed and presumably over all rock forms and so on in the area seaward of low water mark around the shores of Australia. [More…]
In any other spheres of constitutional interpretation where new areas of power are being tested in the High Court, years and years of litigation have been involved. [More…]
I refer also to the litigation which will probably proceed for years ahead concerning the limits of the corporation power. [More…]
I hazard a prediction that we have only had the first of many High Court cases in order to fathom the limits of that power. [More…]
He wants these sorts of laws to be clearly and unequivocally within the powers of his State Parliament. [More…]
He might even prefer to have them within the power of his local authority. [More…]
But if he seeks to have that power in regard to mining, the Parliament could have that power in regard to anything else if, of course, the High Court upheld the legislation. [More…]
We should come to grips with it and if the States are not prepared to cede this power to the Commonwealth we should allow the matter to go to the courts to be settled there. [More…]
It is an illustration of the fascist mentality of people who are so upset that the people would decide to put into power a Government that was not the one that had been in power for so long and which had allowed so much of the potential of this country to remain undeveloped and stagnant. [More…]
In the last 70 years the only times when governments of a non-Liberal or nonconservative nature have been in power have been in periods of crisis- in the first World War, in the depression years of the 1930s and during the 1939-45 war period up till the rehabilitation era was over- and during the other periods there had been conservative governments in power here. [More…]
Honourable senators opposite cannot understand why they are not in power when there is not a crisis. [More…]
We said we would ask the States to co-operate in giving us the power to control prices and they said it would not work; they could not allow that to happen. [More…]
If there is anything progressive to be done they try to spread fear and that is why Senator Durack said: If you give the Commonwealth power it will stop you swimming and will not allow your boat to come into the jetty’. [More…]
I opposed it some years ago for certain reasons when it was introduced by the Gorton Government and of course, those reasons have been manifested since this Government came into power. [More…]
Not only does the Government want to strip the States of all power as has been indicated in different legislation which has been before this chamber, but also on Saturday week at a referendum the Australian people have to decide whether this Australian Parliament and Government will be given full control over prices and wages. [More…]
Of course, it will whittle away any powers which the States might have. [More…]
It is my belief that the type of government which is in power in Australia at the present time will eventually give to the control of the United Nations the benefits to be had from the exploitation of the submerged lands surrounding this nation. [More…]
It is very interesting to note the way that this has come about and the attraction that a ‘yes’ vote must have for people at a time of great inflation; that if something can be done to eliminate price increases, then perhaps this power should be handed to the Federal Government. [More…]
As well there it to be a referendum on the proposal that power over incomes be granted to the Federal Government. [More…]
The people will hand to the Australian Government a power to control every aspect of commercial life which flows from any State. [More…]
I then spoke of the referendums which are proposed for next May and which again seek to declare this central Government’s power over matters that are at present under State control. [More…]
It is very important to see in this Bill not only the erosion of the power of the States but also the erosion of the future of the Senate by what the Federal Labor Government intends to do to gain complete power for itself. [More…]
If one is a centralist then presumably one would believe that the Commonwealth should, upon every occasion and in every circumstance, exercise its powers in the full irrespective of whether such an exercise would lead to duplication of administrative authorities and disharmony between the Commonwealth and the States. [More…]
On the other hand, if one is a federalist one would be conceding in each case an exercise of power both by the Commonwealth and the States which would avoid unnecessary duplication of governmental administration, provided that the national interest was properly safeguarded. [More…]
We were given, by the British Parliament, the power to make laws for the peace, order and good government of Western Australia and its dependencies within certain parallels of latitude and longitude. [More…]
We think that there was implicit in that grant of power that we must have power to make ports, harbours and the like because that was the only means of access. [More…]
We had power, therefore, to build breakwaters, groynes and the like . [More…]
I will not read what he said, but his general comment was that the various Acts of Parliament of the United Kingdom passed during the nineteenth century gave each State the power to make laws for the peace, welfare and good government of the State. [More…]
He said that that meant that each State could effectively make a law on any matter which relates to its peace, welfare and good government, provided it does not relate to a subject with respect to which the Commonwealth has exclusive power and it is not inconsistent with a valid law of the Commonwealth. [More…]
In short, those States believed that there was a nexus between the power which they held in relation to their own State and the adjacent areas. [More…]
It would be my view that this power would apply also to the normal harvesting of the growth that occurs on the seabed as well as the research activity and the generation of power, which is a matter which is becoming increasingly important at this time. [More…]
Australia, and indeed the world, has given insufficient attention to the great possibilities of generating power by means of tidal movements around the Australian coast. [More…]
If this Bill succeeds and the Australian Government has the power to do everything that it wishes, will there not be an argument, even if the Commonwealth gives back to the States some of the rights in relation to offshore areas which undoubtedly it would not wish to control itself? [More…]
I think that this legislation is an indication of the Federal Government trying to reduce the power and the rights of the States and it is an attempt to build the Federal Parliament into a much greater structure at the expense of the States. [More…]
I think that the allocation of the power of the States at the moment in regard to this issue is much better than the way which is now suggested. [More…]
I am not one of those who are prepared to see Canberra get every power. [More…]
It is because of the importance that has been given to this new area- the continental shelf- that it has become so important to consider which parliament has the power to deal with interstate trade, navigation, defence and petroleum exploitation or the subject matter of particular importance in this Bill, namely, mineral exploration in the territory off-shore. [More…]
I state, firstly, that I exclude any reference to bays and inlets because I think the Bill makes clear that it has nothing whatever to do with altering the constitutional power affecting them. [More…]
Those clauses simply give the Governor-General power to determine what are the areas of bays and inland waters. [More…]
At that time surely we had States with responsible legislatures in their own domain of power and the Commonwealth set up to exercise responsibility in its proper fields of power. [More…]
Australia has an off-shore domain of about 1 million square miles- almost a third of its dry land mass- and sovereignty to Australia has been conceded in respect of that 1 million square miles submerged land mass only by reason of the continental shelf treaty, which is the product, so far as Australia is concerned, of the Australian Government exercising its power over external affairs. [More…]
There is an express power in section 5 1 of the Constitution: the national Parliament is given power to legislate with regard to fisheries beyond territorial limits. [More…]
Is there anybody who suggests that the State has not power to legislate with regard to trade in the territorial sea? [More…]
Is there anybody who suggests that the national Parliament has not power to legislate with regard to interstate and foreign trade insofar as it is necessary to navigate the territorial sea? [More…]
Is there anybody who suggests that there is no specific power in the Constitution with regard to lighthouses, lifebuoys and other such things that may be in the territorial sea? [More…]
Is there anybody who suggests that as to defence the Commonwealth has not power to put defence emplacements, take land for defence purposes, operate the navies, and mine what seas it likes within the territorial sea or on the coast of the territorial sea? [More…]
But subject to paramountcy of all these national powers the State has power to prescribe the length of bathing costumes, to register sailing vessels, to prescribe regulations for hygiene on beaches and all the rest of it. [More…]
As to pollution, who ever suggested that the Commonwealth Parliament does not have the power to prevent pollution in the course of its power over interstate trade even in the territorial sea? [More…]
And who ever suggested that a State does not have full power to prevent pollution in the territorial sea so long as it breaks no laws consistent with the interstate laws of the Commonwealth? [More…]
-Under what power? [More…]
-Under what power? [More…]
It occurs to me that there is no relevant power that would enable it to do that, except perhaps if Mr Dedman were to be resurrected and he prescribed that there should be topless costumes in the crisis of a great war, or something of that sort. [More…]
But other than a silly situation of that sort, under what power could the Commonwealth prescribe the conditions of bathing? [More…]
We are dealing with a Bill which itself is pursuant to the exercise of Commonwealth power. [More…]
How could a Bill of a Federal Parliament give to this new continental off-shore area equivalent powers that the Constitution by sections 101,121 and 122 gives to a territory? [More…]
All I am saying is that in the proper exercise of national powers the Parliament has said that insofar as sovereignty shall be exercised by the Commonwealth over the territorial sea - [More…]
There is a lack of ministerial responsibility or accountability in certain areas because the source of power for which the responsibility exists is not known. [More…]
But the Australian Parliament has had full power over interstate trade to deal with the tankers going up through that area and the constant threat to pollution ever since that started and can regulate the conditions upon which they can carry oil. [More…]
The States have had power over the islands of the Barrier Reef all these years. [More…]
The Commonwealth has had power over interstate trade insofar as it is a threat to the Reef. [More…]
Let each of the governments have power to disallow any regulation or law which might be made with regard to the area. [More…]
I would like to see the arbiter under the Constitution say whether the Commonwealth has power to legislate in respect of the resources in the territorial sea, particularly noting that in the Convention on the Continental Shelf it is declared that the jurisdiction is outside the territorial sea. [More…]
-I think it is under the external affairs head of power. [More…]
Because the Convention on the Continental Shelf is the product of the exercise of the external affairs power. [More…]
This is not to say that if one enters into a convention for a bill of rights the exercise of the external affairs power enables one to invade the whole of the States’ power just because it is called a bill of rights. [More…]
So, for my part, the only arguable question is whether the Commonwealth can exercise jurisdiction by virtue of its original power in accordance with the minority judgment of the High Court in the case of Bonser and La Macchia. [More…]
I think that in relation to Commonwealth power over foreign trade, external affairs, navigation between Australia and foreign countries and defence the proper conclusion in these matters is the conclusion which was arrived at in relation to petroleum, and that is that the Commonwealth should legislate. [More…]
I think that there is a very respectable view to justify that power and, insofar as it is in doubt, the proper authority to determine it is the High Court, Therefore, I shall vote for the second reading of the Bill to give enactment to Parts I and II. [More…]
The Mining Code also gives power to the Executive, by regulation, to determine from time to time which of those laws of the Australian Capital Territory will apply and which will not apply. [More…]
It is to be noted that there is wide power of delegation by the Minister to any public servant, and it is a power of immense width contained in the delegation. [More…]
A power or function delegated under this section may be exercised or performed by the delegate. [More…]
The clause also states that a delegate must act in accordance with the instructions of the Minister, but the Minister, although he made the delegation, may exercise the power. [More…]
There is provision for the registration of instruments, and there are very wide powers in the Minister to grant and refuse, to impose conditions which he determines and to cancel any of the authorities, licences or permits which may have been granted. [More…]
The Committee recommends the immediate establishment of an advisory authority, with Commonwealth and State representation, which would collate information on Australia’s present and future needs of all forms of fuel and energy and power …. and which could act as an appeals board for appeals against Designated Authorities. [More…]
This is to be linked with other provisions in the Bill, in particular clauses 93, 94 and 95, which provide that the Minister or any person to whom he delegates his powers may summon a person to produce documents, to appear before him, to give any information, or to answer questions. [More…]
The fear that that reasonably strikes in a number of people of having to go before the present Minister for Minerals and Energy (Mr Connor) is, I think, sufficient to make the Senate scrutinise carefully whether any Minister, let alone the Minister I have named, should have that power. [More…]
That power, of course, permits ministerial direction which ought to be a matter for regulation. [More…]
The Committee reports its objection to the scope and present operation of the power conferred on Designated Authorities by section 101. [More…]
The power is too wide, unexaminable and not subject to parliamentary control or oversight. [More…]
Parliament should not countenance a power which may be so exercised as to prevail over regulations which have undergone parliamentary scrutiny. [More…]
The use made of the power, in the absence of regulations, is in principle, objectionable. [More…]
This is a power to take away all rights to continue with their work from persons who may have spent hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars in exploration or who have undertaken the work of exploiting what has been found. [More…]
No legislator worth his position as a member of Parliament ought to agree to give that power to anybody, let alone to the Minister for Minerals and Energy. [More…]
The discretions conferred by the Mining Code give the Minister enormous powers. [More…]
1 ) The Minister may, by instrument in writing, delegate to an officer of the Public Service of the Commonwealth, either generally or otherwise as provided in the instrument of delegation, all or any of his powers or functions under this Pan, the Royalty Act or the regulations, except this power of delegation. [More…]
If ever the general propositions which are implicit in that approach have been put to the test surely it has been in the last 6 or 8 months of this year since the Government came to power. [More…]
Winter was the most competent constitutional and economic authority available to report to the Government on power over prices and incomes. [More…]
Is it not correct to say that some of the overseas experiences in the operation of these powers quoted by Mr Winter certainly do not support the idea that they are necessary to combat inflation? [More…]
I do not know whether such a power is necessary in other countries. [More…]
I do know that most of them have such a power and we do not. [More…]
I know also that it is generally recognised that the Australian Government does not have the legislative powers which would enable it properly to manage the economy of the country. [More…]
I think that there would be very few people- I trust that the honourable senator is not amongst them- who would think that the Commonwealth Government ought not to be given the powers per medium of the Australian Parliament to take the administrative action pursuant to laws made by this Parliament which would enable us to curb inflation and to manage the economy properly. [More…]
For various other reasons there is a fount of constitutional power. [More…]
The rapidly growing concentration of excessive and arbitrary power in Canberra by the Federal Labor Government’ [More…]
The rapidly growing concentration of excessive and arbitrary power in Canberra by the Federal Labor Government. [More…]
The rapidly growing concentration of excessive and arbitrary power in Can berra by the Federal Labor Government. [More…]
The concentration of power in Canberra is rapidly growing and has greatly increased since this Labor Government came into office nearly 12 months ago. [More…]
We are familiar with the fact that probably over the last 30 or 40 years there has been a tendency for more power to be held by the Federal Government in Canberra. [More…]
But whatever may have been the slow development which had been occurring over many years there cannot be any doubt at all that since this Labor Government- this socialist Government- came into power there has been a rapidly growing concentration of that power. [More…]
That power is excessive because it is causing a fundamental change in the structure of federalism- the federal system- under which we have lived in this nation for 73 years. [More…]
That system has been rapidly eroded and torn down by this excessive concentration of power. [More…]
This Government seeks to apply a new province of control and power over the off-shore areas of Australia. [More…]
As I said yesterday, is it thought that Western Australians or Queenslanders will accept for one minute that notion of absolute and excessive power? [More…]
As I have indicated in my motion, the power which has been concentrated is, in my view, arbitrary power in many ways. [More…]
It is ironical that the Australian Labor Party, which professed to want to see a return to Parliamentary Government, has been in Government accelerating the arbitrary nature of the powers which are held by the Federal Government and seeking to increase them. [More…]
There are two most notable examples of such arbitrary power, as I see it. [More…]
I moved this urgency motion, as I have said already, because of this rapid acceleration of the process of concentrating power in Canberra. [More…]
As we approach the first birthday of the establishment of this Labor Government I think it important that we in this chamber should pause and dwell for a few hours today upon this rapid concentration of power and consider it as an urgent and fundamental problem facing not only us but also the Australian electorate, lt is not really surprising that we should have witnessed this process of concentrating power in Canberra under a Labor Government because fundamentally this is the aim of the Australian Labor Party. [More…]
The Labor Party platform, with which I suppose we are all familiar, states quite explicitly that its policy is that the Commonwealth Parliament should have such plenary power as is necessary to carry out Labor’s socialist objectives. [More…]
It does not contain any words saying that those powers are to be carried out in conformity with a federal system. [More…]
It is quite clear that the Labor Party’s policy is to obtain plenary power for the Commonwealth Government and ultimately to destroy State governments and State parliaments. [More…]
At the Labor Party’s recent conference at Surfers Paradise it sought to achieve that end by requiring that it be an obligation of any Labor member of a State Parliament to assist in the reference to this Commonwealth Parliament of such powers as may be necessary to carry out those policies. [More…]
There has been a rapid acceleration of plenary power, which I think is Senator Murphy’s favourite phrase, to Canberra and the creation in Canberra of new bureaucracies one after another. [More…]
There has been this rapidly growing concentration of power in bureaucracies of one sort or another, many of them without any legislative authority behind them. [More…]
These are some of the facts and figures which clearly establish the way in which this Government is rapidly increasing the concentration of power and the inflation of bureaucracy and bureaucratic forms in Canberra. [More…]
It has received a series of body blows but it has now been pretty well killed outright by the policies of the socialist Government and the concentration of power in the hands of a few Ministers and bureaucrats in Canberra. [More…]
This is something of which this Government really has to take notice because this talk is a direct result of the arbitrary and arrogant policies- this concentration of power in Canberra- being pursued by this socialist Government. [More…]
In addition to the acceleration of power concentration in Canberra, which I have been denouncing, to cap it all this socialist Government is asking the Australian electorate on 8 December to give it more powers- to give it the widest possible powers to legislate in relation to prices and incomes. [More…]
The Government is saying that it wants these powers in order to deal with inflation. [More…]
It has many powers by which it can deal with inflation. [More…]
The Government has been offered by the State governments a temporary referral of powers to cope with inflation. [More…]
It already has many powers under the Constitution which it can use. [More…]
The Prices Justification Tribunal was set up under powers that the Government already possessed. [More…]
So, in my opinion, it is quite clear that the purpose of this referendum which is seeking more powers for this socialist Government in Canberra has nothing to do with any desire on the part of the Government to fight inflation. [More…]
I strongly commend to the Senate the matter of urgency which I have raised, which states that the Senate should treat and discuss as a matter of urgency the rapidly growing concentration of arbitrary power by this socialist Government in Canberra. [More…]
In fact, at the end of Senator Durack ‘s speech he digressed miles away from this question of the growing concentration of excessive power into a discussion of the rights and the wrongs of the goldmining industry. [More…]
Senator Durack could not even restrain himself from reflecting on the honesty of the Australian Democratic Labor Party in proposing that a referendum should be held to give power over incomes to the Commonwealth Parliament. [More…]
What instances did Senator Durack cite for the shocking things which he says are going on- this rapidly growing concentration of excessive and arbitrary power in Canberra by the Federal Labor Government? [More…]
Another instance of the growing and excessive power of this socialist Government, which was quoted by Senator Durack and which I found a little difficult to follow, was the Government’s decision to establish the National Aboriginal Consultative Committee. [More…]
Senator Durack says that there is a growing concentration of arbitrary and excessive power in Canberra. [More…]
Senator Durack says that there is a growing concentration of arbitrary and excessive power because various councils have been established to advise the Government on the arts- the visual arts, the graphic arts, music, theatre, films and so on. [More…]
Senator Durack, again for mysterious reasons, says that the establishment of these consultative councils is a concentration of excessive and arbitrary powers. [More…]
Again, in the case of the arts there is not a concentration of arbitrary power in the hands of ministers or permanent heads of departments, but an effort to bring broad sections of the Australian people from the fields in which they are interested and active into consultation with the Government. [More…]
Is this a concentration of arbitrary power? [More…]
I say that it is a spreading of power and consultation. [More…]
It is a spreading throughout the community to those people who are involved in these activities of power to confer with the Government and to assist the Government in making its determinations. [More…]
Now that I am dealing with the subject of arbitrary power, let me mention some of the changes that have been made to the uses of excessive and arbitrary power by this Government since it was elected. [More…]
What could have been a more arbitrary and excessive use of power than the conscription of young men to go to Vietnam to be killed and to kill other people? [More…]
Go to those people who would have been conscripted to fight in a war in which Australia had no business to be involved and say to them that there was not arbitrary and excessive power in the hands of the Government that wanted to send them to Vietnam and see what they say. [More…]
Let honourable senators opposite tell them that they are labouring under a government whose power is so excessive and arbitrary that it will no longer send them to Vietnam because it has abolished the National Service Act. [More…]
Is it arbitrary and excessive power when a Government says that for the first time public servants will be able to speak publicly on matters relating to their departments, something which they could not do under the previous Government? [More…]
Is that arbitrary or excessive power? [More…]
Of course that is not arbitrary or excessive power. [More…]
Is it arbitrary or excessive power to amend the Crimes Act and the Immigration Act so that no longer naturalised Australian citizens will be eligible for deportation from this country? [More…]
Could honourable senators opposite go to a new Australian who has been naturalised and say to him: ‘Is not it a terrible, arbitrary and excessive power being exercised by this Government which has now passed a law which says that you can no longer be deported?’ [More…]
Of course, it is not arbitrary or excessive power. [More…]
Is it an arbitrary or excessive power to introduce legislation such as the Trade Practices Bill in order to break down the power of economic monopolies and oligopolies which rule the economic life of the Australian people; to see that the people can participate in a private enterprise economy, which we still have, on a basis of some equality, or to remove a situation in which there is not government regulation but regulation by private monopolies about which the previous Government said it was going to do something but about which it did nothing? [More…]
That is a limitation of the arbitrary and excessive power of those economic monopolies. [More…]
Is it arbitrary and excessive power to introduce a Bill to outlaw racial discrimination in this country? [More…]
Is it arbitrary and excessive power to introduce a Bill to provide for a charter of human rights for the Australian people? [More…]
Of course that is not arbitrary or excessive power. [More…]
It is not the action of a government which wants to exercise arbitrary or excessive power. [More…]
Whatever criticisms there may be of individual provisions within that Bill, could anyone honestly say that a government which is dedicated to extending arbitrary and excessive power in its own hands would introduce such a Bill which guarantees the rights of the ordinary citizen within Australia? [More…]
I think that the Australian Labor Party needs no debate and needs no argument because it has shown by its actions that it is extending power throughout all of the Australian community and is abolishing arbitrary and excessive power. [More…]
It is not that Senator Durack and his friends are interested in opposing uses of arbitrary and excessive power; what they wish to do is to preserve the arbitrary and excessive power which, until now, has been in the hands of those people who control the economic wealth of this country. [More…]
There has been no objection by them to the arbitrary and excessive power of the General Motors Corporation through its wholly owned subsidiary in Australia in increasing prices of automobiles. [More…]
I want to refer to only 2 of the considerations which he brought forward and which he said indicated that it was untrue to suggest that his Party was seeking in an undesirable way to concentrate power in Canberra. [More…]
If anyone here doubts that the Council for the Arts is not an example of the misuse of power, as exercised by bureaucrats, and of the right to direct money intended for the arts to their own personal aggrandisement, they should go and ask the top people associated with the arts in Australia today. [More…]
I recall from my reading of history that in 1780 the British Parliament carried a motion which said that ‘the power of the Crown has increased, is increasing and ought to be diminished ‘. [More…]
I believe that the motion before us today could well have been worded to state that the power of the Cabinet, the Executive, and the bureaucracy has increased, is increasing and ought to be diminished. [More…]
If it were so worded, I believe that I would get a sympathetic reaction from some members of the Australian Labor Party who have taken recently in their own Caucus the type of action that I would have expected Labor parliamentarians to take against what they obviously believe is misuse of power by the Cabinet and the bureaucracy in this city. [More…]
I believe that the centralised power of the Government is being increased and extended. [More…]
I believe that today it is more necessary than ever that Parliament should take action to exert its power and deny this excessive increase of power by the Cabinet and the bureaucracy. [More…]
I agree with Senator Durack that this increase in power probably began when the Government took office. [More…]
There was an obvious intention that power should be taken out of the hands of the Parliament and innumerable things were done on which Parliament was not allowed to adjudicate. [More…]
Trotsky raised the cry years ago: ‘All power to the Soviets’. [More…]
The present Government is raising the cry: ‘All power to Cabinet’. [More…]
What we have today is a definite and deliberate decision by the Australian Labor Party to arrogate to Canberra and the bureaucrats, mainly through the exercise of the power of the purse, all power over housing, all power over education, all power over health, all power over minerals, all power over conservation, all power over finance, all power over the control of off-shore minerals, all power over the control of Aborigines and all power over the control of arts and a host of other things. [More…]
This attempt by Canberra to arrogate to itself all power reached such an appalling stage that we had the most unusual spectacle of 6 State Premiers- the Premiers of every State in the Commonwealth of whom half were Labor premiers- going to London for the purpose of protesting against what they regarded as being unconstitutional and wrongful attempts by the Commonwealth Government to take power to itself. [More…]
Why did Mr Dunstan protest in London, why did Mr Eric Reece protest in London and why did Mr Tonkin protest in London if this Commonwealth is not arrogating to itself power which it should not have? [More…]
I believe that one reason for the failure of the present Government to take advantage of the opportunity which we have given it for a double dissolution is this: The Government knows that the Australian people are appalled at the power hungry character of the Government in Canberra and it is not game to go to the people to get their verdict. [More…]
If that is not an example of an exercise of power in an arrogant way - [More…]
He gave the Australian Council for the Arts as an illustration of his proposition that the power being exercised by this Government was being exercised in an arbitrary manner. [More…]
But Senator Durack takes this as an example of the exercise of arbitrary power. [More…]
What is perfectly obvious is that the Opposition’s lament is not that we are exercising power in an arbitrary, capricious or centralist way. [More…]
Senator Durack did concede that over the last 30 years or so there had been a gradual erosion of absolute State power starting with the introduction of uniform taxation. [More…]
If they really wish to assist the States by exercising the power which will act as a brake on the wicked centralist socialist government, they will have to go the whole hog and suggest what I make bold to claim they would not dare to suggest, that is, give the taxation power back to the States. [More…]
The contrary position put by members and supporters of the Government is that all the say should be concentrated in Canberra and that Sydney and Melbourne should have the power to control. [More…]
Of course, in respect of the people my Party has represented over the years- the primary producers of this country- the Government is doing everything in its power to bring them to heel and under control. [More…]
The Government knows that these people will never support its socialisation platform and the centralist powers that it wants to achieve. [More…]
In the next 10 days or so the Government will try to fool the people of Australia with a referendum seeking price control powers. [More…]
The rapidly growing concentration of excessive and arbitrary power in Canberra by the Federal Labor Government. [More…]
If anyone talks about excessive and arbitrary powers let him stand up and say where this Constitution has been contravened. [More…]
It has not been contravened at all; if it was, these people who talk about concentration of power and arbitrary power would have an action in the High Court within 5 minutes. [More…]
Everything which the Labor Party Government has done- and it has done it for the benefit of Australia- has been within this Constitution and under the powers given, in the main, 70 years ago. [More…]
Yet the Opposition says that we are using excessive and arbitrary powers. [More…]
These are the powers, old as they are, which we are exercising and under which we are governing. [More…]
So it is complete and utter rot for members of Parliament to say that we are using excessive and arbitrary powers. [More…]
We are using the powers which were given to us and we will continue to use those powers and to extend them as far as the Constitution will allow in order that the Australian people may have good and active governmentnot a government of the kind they have had over the past 23 years. [More…]
Senator Cant mentioned earlier that he would not agree that there are excessive powers operating from Canberra. [More…]
The State governments have been extremely concerned about the increased and excessive power, the obsession for total power, emanating from Canberra. [More…]
The one safeguard which this nation has at present and which stands between the Federal Government and its radical policies by which it wishes to get full power and control unto itself in Canberra- the ohe bastion which stands between those desires and which protects the interests of the people- is the Senate. [More…]
Nobody on the Government side has denied the Government’s centralist policies or centralist desire to have all power unto itself. [More…]
It was stated that the Government had not abused the Constitution in any way at all and that anything it had done in relation to excessive power had been done constitutionally. [More…]
This is a complete power and direction from Canberra to the State Parliaments, and it affects each citizen of this country. [More…]
During its first 100 days in office, when the Opposition was ridiculing the 2-man ministry or criticising the Government in relation to other matters, this Government- the facts are recorded in Hansard for anybody to readachieved more than the previous governments had achieved in the 23 years that they were in power. [More…]
Surely this is not the action of a government which is drunk with power or which wants centralist control; it is the action of a government which has come into office, sprung into action and been prepared to legislate and do something. [More…]
Let us have a look at the measures which have emanated from a government which, it is alleged, is self interested in gaining additional powers at the expense of the Australian public. [More…]
These have not been to the detriment of the Australian people and they are not the result of the actions of so-called power drunk bureaucrats here in Canberra. [More…]
Let us quickly analyse the activities of the socalled bureaucrats, the obsessed-with-power Government that we have in Canberra today. [More…]
I repeat: Surely this is not the action of a Government that is rapidly concentrating excessive and arbitrary power in Canberra. [More…]
Let us ask the Australian people whether all these things which I have enumerated regarding social welfare, education and so on have been achieved as a result of the rapid concentration of excessive and arbitrary powers in Canberra. [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…]
Let me take the minds of honourable senators back to 1949 when the Liberal-Country Party coalition Government first came to power at the commencement of its 23-year term of office. [More…]
The Prime Minister’s objective- and he has made it clear- is to destroy the States and to centralise all power in Canberra, hopefully, of course, in his hands. [More…]
So what we see is an objective to gain absolute power. [More…]
We are already witnessing the truth of a saying by Lord Acton many years ago, that all power corrupts and absolute power tends to corrupt absolutely. [More…]
We are already seeing at work the result of the corruption of power. [More…]
We see an arrogant and reckless abuse of power. [More…]
It is interesting that this abuse of power was condemned by the Australian Public Service Federation which met, I think in Sydney recently. [More…]
When I hear Ministers talk about plenary powers I am reminded of another gentleman who always spoke of obtaining plenary powers. [More…]
Perhaps the Ministers of this Government might remember that when they start speaking about wishing to obtain plenary powers. [More…]
Piece of legislation after piece of legislation is designed to concentrate power in the Federal Government and in Canberra. [More…]
If I had a text with which to preface my speech I would say that men who suffer injustice and have the power to remove it deserve not compassion but contempt. [More…]
-The Senate is very much indebted to Senator Durack for initiating this debate, which provides the occasion to draw attention to its subject matter, namely, the concentration in Canberra of excessive arbitrary power. [More…]
It is particularly important that we take note of the stage that has been reached today because we are on the brink of a referendum at which the present Government is seeking power over 2 comprehensive subjectswideranging subjects practically without limit insofar as the significance of legislative power is concerned- prices and incomes. [More…]
He added that a future State government will always be in doubt as to the extent to which this encroaching Commonwealth power, particularly in Federal-State financial relations, will permit a State Treasurer to have any degree of independence. [More…]
At its behest the chief arterial product of power in Tasmania, hydro-electricity, was submitted to a tax of 5 per cent a couple of years ago. [More…]
We now have this bid by the Commonwealth Government for a comprehensive prices power. [More…]
The incomes power is a little more intriguing. [More…]
It is quite obvious, of course, that if one has power to say that parliamentary salaries shall be $2,000 a year one will have a considerable impact upon parliamentarians, and every other section of the community will understand that so directly when it is applied to them that they will know pretty well, whether a person is a wage earner, a doctor, a plumber, an electrical tradesman or engaged in any other field of life, that if the bureaucrat under the control of Mr Whitiam and his Government has the right to fix their incomes it will be a pretty severe and rigid system under which we are living whereby Canberra instead of local and State governments operate to effect people ‘s livelihoods. [More…]
Matters such as the basic wage, cost of living adjustments, equal pay, annual leave, the requirements for wages to be paid in money, protection of wages from garnishee, are used as bait to invite people to give the Government this power. [More…]
Mr Whitlam was put on record yesterday in a report which showed how comprehensive the power was and drawing attention to the fact that it would not be unaccompanied by cost. [More…]
That is why in a debate upon the constitutional concentration of power in this country it is appropriate to call attention to it today. [More…]
In section 5 1 ( 1 ) of the Constitution rests the power on which the Commonwealth has the authority to legislate the Act and the amending Bill. [More…]
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 ( 1 ) [More…]
It is particularly important to remember that a law within a Commonwealth incidental power is not required to have the same subject matter as that contained in the main grant of power as enunciated in that section to which I have referred. [More…]
One of the dangerous implications of this Bill is that this Commonwealth power could conceivably extend to intra-State matters. [More…]
I think it is quite conceivable that with the wide scope of this section of the Constitution and the incidental powers, the Commonwealth could control nontrade, non-commerce and also non-interstate matters provided it could be shown that the regulated matter assisted the exercise of or was an appropriate means to the grant under section 5 1 ( 1 ). [More…]
So we need to equip the AIDC and to give it the resources and the power to be able to resist the inroads of the big multi-national companies in Australia and to ensure that Australian participation can not only be maintained in new development but also can be expanded in current Australian industries. [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…]
A power of the Chairman under paragraph (2) ta) or (b shall be exercised, as far as practicable, only after consultation with the Commissioners. [More…]
A member shall not exercise any power by this Act conferred upon him in any matter in which he has a direct or indirect pecuniary interest. [More…]
A member shall not exercise any power by this Act conferred upon him in any matter in which he has a direct or indirect pecuniary interest. [More…]
A member shall not exercise any power by this Act conferred upon him in any matter in which he has a direct or indirect pecuniary interest. [More…]
A member shall not exercise any power by this Act conferred upon him in any matter in which he has a direct or indirect pecuniary interest. [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…]
A commissioner shall not exercise any power by this Act conferred upon him in any matter in which he has direct or indirect pecuniary interest, unless- [More…]
It will add to the strength of integrity that should surround these decisions if we add to the provisions of the Bill that a member of the Commission shall not exercise any power by this Act conferred upon him in any matter in which he has a direct or indirect pecuniary interest, unless his interest is recorded in the minutes. [More…]
A Commissioner shall not exercise any power by this Act conferred upon him in any matter in which he has a direct or indirect pecuniary interest; unless [More…]
This refers to the power of the Commission to inquire into and report on its own initiative. [More…]
I had recommended in the report that, in relation to tariffs, the Commission should be given power to initiate its own inquiries ten years after the particular duties were imposed or since the Commission last reported. [More…]
I had also recommended that, in relation to other forms of assistance, the Commission have power to initiate inquiries after six years. [More…]
On reflection I now consider that the reasons I had for differentiating the time period as between different forms of assistance in relation to the Commission’s powers of initiative were not strong enough to justify ten years in one case and six in the other. [More…]
He said that the Commission should have power to initiate inquiries, as the Tariff Board does, and that it should have in various cases 6 years as a time limit. [More…]
It means that the power which Parliament has had in this field to a big degree is to be placed in the hands of the bureaucrats. [More…]
We feel that the provisions in this Bill establishing a large and immense power of bureaucracy are dangerous. [More…]
The important thing is that it is quite apparent that the Liberal Party can see that the formation of this Commission will bring about better government in this country irrespective of what party is in power. [More…]
We do not know, of course, whether they would get through Parliament, but when the constitutional power is available to the national Parliament it ought to be given proper consideration. [More…]
Finally I ask the Minister that he insist that Qantas stop using the power that it has of requiring of all air travel agencies that the fares of Australians must be paid in Australian currency whereas any other national can get a fare $173 cheaper than an Australian? [More…]
Can the Minister tell the Senate whether the Government’s fixation of interest rates at an all time record would be followed by a similar fixation of other prices if the Government had power to fix other prices? [More…]
If the Australian Parliament wishes to use its present constitutional power to propose matters for the consideration of the people by way of referendum it is entitled to do so. [More…]
There is to be a referendum of the Australian people on 8 December which is designed to give this Government more power. [More…]
It has not demonstrated any capacity to handle the power that it has now. [More…]
I have asked the Minister for the Media (Senator Douglas McClelland) to supply facts to prove that my information is incorrect, but the information I have shows that the basic pension when the Liberal-Country Party was in power last December was 20.7 per cent of average weekly earnings. [More…]
Despite assurances to the contrary, I believe that Australia is in for trouble with its oil and power supplies. [More…]
It can be converted and used to generate the power we require in Australia. [More…]
In addition to the conversion of charged hydrogen for capital cities and other areas requiring power, it is quite possible that the charged hydrogen could be liquefied and transported to other countries which require this source of power. [More…]
Back in previous days, in war time, the then Government had power to control prices and so on. [More…]
Apparently it carried quite a big spread, in the form of an advertisement or statement, which said: ‘Don ‘t give any more power to Canberra, Forgan Smith, the Premier of Queensland, said so’. [More…]
His view was: “No more power to Canberra’. [More…]
Indeed, I draw attention to this process which I would regard as unwise on the part of a Government which is seeking on 8 December more management of the nation’s affairs, more power and more control. [More…]
I assert here and now that the people of Australia should be well aware that there is certainly no need to give more power to this Government or any other government in Canberra, because the Government has adequate economic powers. [More…]
These powers have worked with previous governments so far as the nation’s economic conditions are concerned, and particularly with relation to inflation. [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…]
I refer to the recent overthrow of the Allende Marxist Government in Chile, the assumption of power by a military junta, the confusion as to the events prior to and surrounding the military coup and the pressure from some quarters in Australia that Australia should offer to accept Chilean refugees, including political refugees, either permanently or in the short term. [More…]
It should be noted also that Mr Odgers points out his book that a call of the Senate does not necessarily fulfil the objective for which it is made, in that there is no power to compel senators to vote. [More…]
Those who do not see that the programming of Parliament requires the Appropriation Bill to come on a month before it has to go through are sadly blind to the degree to which, simply by maneouvring, the power of the Senate over appropriation can be thwarted. [More…]
In the course of the second reading debate, Senator Murphy said: ‘I want you to know that this power, if given, will not be exercised always in a negative sense. [More…]
That he had the temerity to do so emphasises, if emphasis were needed, the Federal Labor Government’s determination to grab every significant State power for Canberra- a process which would lead, of course, to the achievement of the Prime Minister’s ambition to abolish the States, which he sees only as an encumbrance. [More…]
Among the newspaper headlines in New Zealand- in my view the newspaper headlines in New Zealand are just as foolish as some of the newspaper headlines in this country- there was one which said: ‘Labour Sweeps to Power- Mr Kirk party’s fourth P.M.’. [More…]
It will vote against the Bill because it is unnecessary, because it is a further erosion of the Constitution and because it is an underhand way of grabbing powers from the States to centralise arbitrary power in Canberra. [More…]
We further believe that it is within the Government’s power now, under the present Constitution, to make this money available. [More…]
The first is deceit, in that the Government hopes the electors will see the issue merely as one in which they are asked to give voting power to the Territories, and disregard the other proposal. [More…]
It was not within the power of the directors to remove him but a resolution was passed seeking the Minister’s co-operation to remove him as a director. [More…]
It is proposed that instead of the existing one resident judge in the Northern Territory there should be a power to appoint a number of judges, that number being unspecified. [More…]
If the Commonwealth Government says: ‘We are so almighty; we have all the wisdom; we have all the knowledge; we must have all the power’, then it will insist upon a Bill which gives it absolute right, absolute control, over the Schools Commission. [More…]
I have been told by 2 Ministers and quite a number of Australian Labor Party parliamentarians that, if the Opposition ‘s proposal that each group should nominate its own representative is persisted with, all the Government has to do is use its power, without legislation, to nominate another Karmeltype committee, and all the money can be given without any trouble. [More…]
All we say is: ‘All right, if you do not agree with us you have the power without any legislation to appoint a Karmel-type commission and it can go and do the whole job’. [More…]
I do not see any commonsense or justice in a proposal that we shall be forced to vote for a commission with which we disagree when at the very time the Government has the power in its hands to do the whole thing itself. [More…]
Yet, they are all receiving reduced or no aid under the scheme of this Government which wishes to break its promises, given so many dmes last year and repeated again after it came to power. [More…]
We have heard about the Labor Party’s attitude towards the maintaining of grants to all non-government schools in 1973 and about its deciding when in power that only some nongovernment schools will get grants. [More…]
The Commonwealth’s constitutional power to support education is probably limited to helping finance the inculcation of knowledge which is, in a religious sense, neutral. [More…]
But after the election the forces demonstrated their power and, of course, Mr Beazley was overridden. [More…]
I want to point out that in Victoriaand mind you, in this as in the Liberal Party and any other party Victoria is the mainspring in the heart of all political endeavour and I do not think there will be any challenge to that statement- the socialist left led by Mr Hartley and George Crawford are in a position of very great power. [More…]
He said he is confident the Liberal-Country Party coalition would be returned to power. [More…]
It would be for the benefit ofthe institution if he were to confine his accusations to matters pertaining to our authority and power. [More…]
One of the troubles, though, is that because of the lack of power of the Government over the management of the economy it is not possible to see to it that the goods are available to the community at the prices at which they ought to be available. [More…]
The Department of Primary Industry has power to control exports of protein meals under the Customs (Prohibited Exports) Regulations. [More…]
The Committee- I must say that this was a unanimous recommendation- has therefore recommended that the power of the Australian 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…]
Section 9 amends section 64 of the principal Act to allow the Minister, by notice published in the Gazette, 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 Minister’s powers of delegation under the principal Act relating to the determination of compensation for land acquired or to be acquired by compulsory process is limited to $1,000. [More…]
The Minister will have power to revoke delegations and to attach conditions to them and will be informed from time to time of the way in which the delegations are exercised. [More…]
The Government directed that those Acts which currently give statutory authorities power to make their own acquisitions or to arrange their own rentals should be amended so that a single government authority- the Department of Services and Property- would be the negotiating authority. [More…]
The second administrative amendment to the Bill is to widen the regulation making power contained in section 13A. [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…]
No doubt, if the court rules that the Commonwealth has control over parts of the Great Barrier Reef, that will be only a complementary power to that which already exists in Queensland. [More…]
I hope that some action will be taken to make quite clear what power we have over the area of the continental shelf which is claimed in respect of minerals under the seabed and what power we have over the swimming fish. [More…]
Of the remainder of the money, the largest percentage is in respect of programs recommended by the Australian Universities Commission and the Advanced Education Commission, both of which were approved by the previous Government before this Government came to power. [More…]
If you return us to power we shall abolish the excise and not replace it with a sales tax or any other imposition. [More…]
Labor in power has been able to produce high prices for rural industries. [More…]
I notice that the Attorney-General is to have the power- I think it is a proper power for the AttorneyGeneral to have in this area- to indicate the matters which the Law Reform Commission is to examine. [More…]
That Commission, in the discharge of its functions, will have certain powers. [More…]
It is the width of those powers, the scope of those powers and the purposes to which they are to be put which is positively frightening. [More…]
The Attorney-General will recall that some 60 years ago both the High Court and the Privy Council entertained much argument in a case in which the Attorney-General of the Commonwealth was the active participant and in which it was sought to justify the act of a royal commission in this country which had wide powers that could have enabled it to move into virtually any and every area throughout Australia. [More…]
As the Privy Council said in its judgment, the Commonwealth has no general power over the liberty of the subject. [More…]
What I found frightening in this Bill was the enormous power and scope which its provisions gave to the Commission to intrude into the ordinary activities of citizens of this country. [More…]
The Commission has a power to investigate any [More…]
What is proposed in the terms of the Bill as they are at the moment is a mammoth inquisition able to be directed by the AttorneyGeneral if he so chooses and able to roam at large in any area of prospective Commonwealth law making- and, having regard to the scope of Commonwealth power as envisaged by the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) and his AttorneyGeneral, that is virtually the whole range of law making in Australia. [More…]
I say to the Attorney-General that when we find similar provisions to these in his Racial Discrimination Bill and in his Human Rights Bill- provisions which give this tremendous inquisitorial power to commissions to interfere with the rights of ordinary citizens- this is the forum and this is the Parliament in which a voice must be raised to object to that sort of thing being done. [More…]
I say to the Attorney-General that a power given to a commission of individuals- notwithstanding the desirable objective of the appointment of that commission- to enable it to call any person in the country to appear before it, to require persons to answer questions about virtually any subject at all and to produce whatever documents, books, writings and papers they have, is comparable to the powers which were used by the Secretaries of State in the 18th century and which John Wilkes was able to challenge so forcefully through the courts. [More…]
I regret the right of the Commission to inquire and to exercise the compulsory powers which are contained in” this Bdi- and shortly to be removed from the Bill- should be finding their way into other legislation. [More…]
One could say that this is a vast power and that it is an intrusion into the lives of those who might be called. [More…]
However this point can be over-dramatised when one remembers that the same kind of powers are held by each of the courts in the country. [More…]
I think the Public Service Board has the same kind of power. [More…]
I take the point that was made but to suggest that this is frightening is to take matters a bit far when these powers relate to hearings. [More…]
All powers that are given to such a body are conditioned by the same conditions as apply generally. [More…]
Any such powers, whether they are to summon witnesses or to have a hearing, are to be exercised in a bona fide way and for the purposes for which they were given and with due regard to the rights of persons affected. [More…]
The argument put forward by Senator Greenwood would be a good reason for depriving all sorts of courts and other bodies of the power to summon witnesses and so on. [More…]
As Senator Greenwood said, this is to be a body with a considerable amount of power and except in relation to its reports and recommendations it is to be subject to ministerial control and parliamentary supervison. [More…]
I suppose that it would have the power to ask what directions were being given. [More…]
any other laws, including laws of the Territories, that the Parliament has power to amend or repeal; “ member “ means the Chairman or another member of the Commission; “proceedings “, in relation to a hearing, includes the evidence taken at the hearing; “ reference “ means a reference by the Attorney-General to the Commission under this Act; “ Territory “does not include Papua New Guinea. [More…]
I hope that when the people go to the polls they will treat that question with the due respect that it deserves and will not pass any more power to parliamentarians in Canberra. [More…]
We should be in this campaign to see that we have the power to stop any Whitlams who might want to exploit a property and see that we get the power next Saturday. [More…]
That would then create a class of individuals in one employ which would be totally privileged against all other sections of the community, and to my mind that would not be a proper use of the financial power which rests in the Commonwealth. [More…]
It seems to me that to give that power to a secretary of a department is not quite the appropriate thing. [More…]
Insofar as the first matter raised by Senator Wright is concerned, I am advised that at least at this stage no such action has been taken, although it resides in the power of the Commonwealth to take the action that Senator Wright suggests. [More…]
Insofar as the second point the honourable senator raised is concerned, the Bill does use the term ‘secretary’ but it was pointed out in the second reading speech that 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…]
In other words, ministerial directive power remains over any delegated authority in the terms of the Act at any time. [More…]
Nevertheless it does not mean that the power resides entirely in the hands of the secretary of the department. [More…]
By deleting this clause the retroactive power is removed. [More…]
In the end result, the Senate has a full power of rejecting any Bill. [More…]
It is only the Liberal Party senators plus the Country Party senators plus the Democratic Labor Party senators that stand between the exercising of arbitrary centralist socialist power in Canberra and the freedoms of the Australian people’. [More…]
I also felt that the Government which came to power on 2 December last, or soon after that, had been in the doldrums for so long- out of office for so long- that one would have to put up with its lack of expertise. [More…]
On Saturday the people clearly voted to indicate 2 things: Firstly, that they did not want power over prices and incomes centralised in Canberra and, secondly, that they did not trust the present Federal Government. [More…]
They are showing every day that this Government is in power that they are more against Labor. [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…]
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…]
This Bill establishes the Hospitals and Health Services Commission on a permanent and sound legal basis, enumerates its functions and gives it all the powers necessary to enable it to operate effectively. [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…]
However, when it comes to this agreement between the 2 sides one has to have regard to the fact that if the Government does not get its own way and appoint the Commission it has the power and it has always had the power, as it did in the case of the Karmel Committee, to appoint a committee of its own to do a Karmel type job. [More…]
So, strictly speaking, the Opposition will sacrifice nothing by agreeing on this point because the Government had the power to appoint such a committee without legislation if it wanted to do so. [More…]
One fact which will assure the retention of the aid is that there will be a different government in power. [More…]
The problem which arises is that the Commonwealth has no power other than the power it has in respect of people whom it has a constitutional right to look after. [More…]
The State governments have utilised their powers to acquire the land, to fix prices and to deal with other questions associated with the acquisition of the land. [More…]
Whether they are at AlburyWodonga, Bathurst-Orange or Monarto, there is agreement with the States, and State power is used to do everything necessary to establish the project. [More…]
Like Senator Davidson, I should like to know whether it is intended to direct- and, of course, the constitutional power of the Commonwealth to direct is somewhat hedged around in matters of this nature- incoming migrants to this Albury-Wodonga area. [More…]
As this is Australian Government legislation, clause 8 gives the Albury-Wodonga Development Corporation every power which the Constitution allows the Australian Government to confer. [More…]
Because we have power in that regard, we have included this in the Bill as one of the functions of the Corporation. [More…]
But the main reason why the Corporation is given power over migrants is that the Commonwealth has power to confer on the Corporation in this area but it does not have power in other areas. [More…]
Problems of limits of jurisdictions and of power to deal with a particular matter have thus been avoided. [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…]
As I understand it the Reserve Bank at any stage is under the direct control of the Federal Government which is in power at the time, whatever its political complexion may be. [More…]
The opportunists in our community have had their wings seriously clipped since the Labor Government has been in power. [More…]
Shortly after, when the Menzies Government came into power, it introduced a scheme. [More…]
The power enables the Government to proceed with the services set out in this Bill. [More…]
It is acting well within the framework of the Constitution and under the legislative powers available to it. [More…]
-The 2 Bills that we are debating tonight are probably the most significant Bills we have dealt with since the Australian Labor Party came into power. [More…]
In the meantime will the Government, where it has power such as in the Australian Capital Territory and its other Territories, initiate moves to have learning to swim made compulsory in the schools’ education syllabus? [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…]
I notice that the general power of consultation is really a consultation with persons who will in some way become employees of the Institute on a full time or a part time basis. [More…]
The land acquired under this section may be an easement, right, power, privilege or other interest that did not previously exist as such, in, over or in connexion with land. [More…]
The powers of the Corporation, as I said before, are very wide. [More…]
The Corporation will have power to charter shipping. [More…]
We note with approval that the Corporation will have the power to control exports, to charter and arrange shipping, to organise sales within Australia and to engage in research and promotion. [More…]
I notice that the chief change between the functions of the new Corporation and the Board- I hope I shall be corrected if I am wrong- is to give the Corporation power to buy and sell and otherwise to engage in trade in apples and pears. [More…]
But it is in relation to the Corporation’s power to buy and sell that this Bill makes a significant addition to the old powers. [More…]
Those days are gone and gone for good, irrespective of what party is in power in this country. [More…]
Courts of summary jurisdiction will be able to grant injunctions, and therefore the Bill provides that failure to comply with an injunction will be punishable by a fine not exceeding $1,000- although this is not to prejudice the power of a superior court to punish a person for a contempt of court. [More…]
Also, the States had been given the power to raise payroll tax. [More…]
It intends to set up the Petroleum and Minerals Authority, which by this Bill will have power to take over any mining exploration or development in any part of this nation. [More…]
I certainly know that when the Western Australian Liberal and Country Party government was in power, in its arrangements, contracts and agreements with companies developing mining deposits, it was particularly concerned to ensure that as far as possible there was substantial Australian participation and equity. [More…]
What has been happening is that during the time that this Government has been in power there has been a steady decline in the level of exploration for oil and gas. [More…]
I point out that before the last election the Parry now in power stated that grants would be made towards eliminating the sewerage backlog in Australia. [More…]
Boards and instrumentalities have the power of appointment of advertising agencies, within the policy directives of the Australian Government See answer to Question 3. [More…]
By way of preface, it may be observed that the power of the Governor-General under section 58 of the Constitution to return a Bill with a recommendation for amendments is a power that the Governor-General exercises on the advice of his Ministers. [More…]
That the Committee have power to send for and examine persons, papers and records, to move from place to place, to sit in open court or in private, notwithstanding any prorogation of the Parliament, and have leave to report from time to time its proceedings and the evidence taken and such interim recommendations as it may deem fit. [More…]
Also it would mean the installation by most stations of directional aerials and, of course, the boosting of power of most if not all existing commercial stations as well as some ABC stations. [More…]
Australia was also a co-sponsor of a resolution carried by the conference which appealed to all participants at the Diplomatic Conference on the Reaffirmation of Development of International Humanitarian Law in Armed Conflict that is at present taking place in Geneva to do all in their power by co-operation and fruitful negotiations to secure the widest and swiftest adoption of the two draft protocols proposed to the Geneva Conventions for the purpose of reaffirming and developing international humanitarian law applicable in armed conflict. [More…]
Did not Mr Justice Isaacs find that he had no power to order the parties to arbitration? [More…]
I do not believe that there can be the slightest dispute that so long as spokesmen for certain Arab nations continue to say that their goal is the destruction of the state of Israel and the driving of the people of Israel into the sea we can expect that the Government of Israel, whichever government may be in power, or the people of Israel cannot do anything but take very strong and vigorous measures to preserve their independence. [More…]
If honourable senators remember’ 1984’, what he spoke of was a division of the world into 2 huge areas in each of which a dominant power was able to control the destinies and the lives of the people who were living under the suzerainty of those 2 super powers. [More…]
I believe that while all of us welcome the relaxation in tension between the Soviet Union and the U.S.A., we should be very cautious lest a consequence of such a relaxation could be a division of spoils between 2 super powers with neither of which democratic people have a great deal in common. [More…]
We must see that while we support the relaxation between those 2 major powers- those 2 super powers- we do not fall into the weakness of saying: ‘Well, everything is fixed up between these 2 countries and we will just leave it to them’. [More…]
It almost seems as if we are being given living evidence of the Orwellian prophecy about the division of the world into 2 major power blocs in which leading power juntas in each of those power blocs does not care about what happens in the other. [More…]
This action of the Soviet Union has placed in jeopardy the very painfully and carefully constructed alliance between the Socialist Party, the Communist Party and the left wing radicals in France which showed very great prospects of defeating the conservative Government which has been in power for many years. [More…]
It will use its constitutional power resolutely to press its program to fulfilment. [More…]
Immediately this Government came to power and tried to reverse that situation it was attacked by the friends of monopolists and big business. [More…]
The Government has done much in that direction even though it has been in power only about 1 5 months. [More…]
He detests the constraints or checks on his thirst for power. [More…]
The Constitution does not state that the legislative power of the Commonwealth shall be vested in the Australian Labor Party or some egomaniac. [More…]
It states that this power is ‘vested in the Queen, a Senate and a House of Representatives’. [More…]
I repeat: The Constitution states that the legislative power shall be vested in the Queen, a Senate and a House of Representatives. [More…]
It introduced the Prices Justification Tribunal which has no real power. [More…]
It made an attempt to obtain powers with the referenda conducted last December. [More…]
Now they are in power, they are going to buy Boeing 707 aircraft for the VIP flights. [More…]
What must always be remembered about alterations to the Constitution is that they deal with the transfer of power. [More…]
I suppose, quite tragically, they have always dealt with the transfer of power from the States to the Commonwealth. [More…]
What referendum proposals are generally all about is the transfer of further and other powers to the Federal Government, powers which the State governments previously had as part of their residual powers. [More…]
He said that mostly when proposals for alteration of the Constitution are put forward they involve a transfer of power. [More…]
This Bill involves a transfer of power. [More…]
The transfer of power involved is a transfer of power to the people- that there will be democratic elections for each of the Houses of Parliament of the States, that there will be a democratic election for the House of Representatives, that there will not be the possibility of gerrymander, that the oversight - [More…]
They are checks and balances on the exercise of arbitrary power. [More…]
If the bicameral system is to survive in this country there must be mutual respect between the Houses of Parliament and the Executive must realise that the legislative power in this country is vested in the Queen, the Senate and the House of Representives. [More…]
Legislative power in this country is not vested in the Executive Government and the sooner the Executive Government realises that, the better off it will be. [More…]
Before the Labor Party came into power, it was a deliberative chamber. [More…]
After all, section 128 of the Constitution endows this chamber with tremendous power of authority in relation to referenda. [More…]
It has been part of our responsibility to see that governments, whatever their political complexion, made up of majority parties do not become arrogant in the application of the power that is unquestionably and rightfully theirs to the point that they exercise that power unwisely, not in accordance with the Constitution or against the interests of the people. [More…]
But now Government members are theoretically drunk with the taste of power. [More…]
I have said before today and I will go on saying as long as I am privileged to be a senator, that one of the great powers of the Parliament and one of the reasons for the second chamber is that it gives time for the people of Australia to be informed by the media and by other means of what has transpired in another place and what is coming up to the Senate for decision. [More…]
And whereas our existing Australian Flag and our national anthem, ‘God Save The Queen’, are perpetual reminders of these hard-won freedoms and of the wise British principle of the division of power, so well reflected in our own Australian Constitution with its careful separation of powers as between the Crown and Commonwealth Parliament, the Senate, the State Parliaments, the GovernorGeneral and State Governors, and the Independent Courts of Justice. [More…]
Because the majority of the people of Australia decided not to give the Australian Government power to counter inflation by approving consititutional power over prices, will the Minister say whether there are any facilities through his Department that would assist in ensuring that reduction in import prices following exchange variations and tariff reductions are in fact passed on to consumers? [More…]
The Senate ‘s greatest power, be it a reserve power, is to refuse Supply and bring about a single dissolution of the House of Representatives in circumstances where it may be considered that the government’s administration is not in the best interests of the country and that they should be sent to the judgment of the people. [More…]
The Bill would destroy this reserve power because it is proposed that 30 senators be sent to the polls every time there is a House of Representatives election. [More…]
This Government has obtained for itself the power to call a double dissolution. [More…]
Therefore, I suggest that there is no need for the question to be put to the people, because what the Government is saying to the people, in effect, is this: ‘Give us the power to do something that we already have the power to do’. [More…]
The Government has the power to bring about simultaneous elections now, and it wants to put the people to the expense and trouble of a referendum in order to get the power to do something that it already has the power to do. [More…]
I have been saying ever since this session commenced that the Senate is the only institution in this country which stands as a barrier to the exercise of arbitrary power in the hands of the Prime Minister. [More…]
The fact that the Prime Minister wants arbitrary power came out when Senator James McClelland said that the Prime Minister would decide on what matters the people should be allowed to vote. [More…]
The results and figures of the record of this Government will inevitably show a great improvement when compared with those long dreary years when the present Opposition was in power. [More…]
The Senate’s greatest power (be it a reserve power) is to refuse Supply and bring about a single dissolution of the House of Representatives in circumstances where it may be considered that the Government’s administration is not in the best interests of the country and that they should be sent to the judgment of the people. [More…]
He is one who, in the establishment of committees, in which he played a major part, has always held out for the power of the Senate, for its independence and for its right to function as a House of review and as a House to assess and study legislation and administrative actions. [More…]
In the short time that I have been here the Democratic Labor Party senators always said that the Labor Party would never get into power while the DLP existed. [More…]
They have to hand over this power to the one man band again. [More…]
Honourable senators 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 senators will also recall that, during the Convention, the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) 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, the Prime Minister 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…]
Mr President, the Bill before the Senate, 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…]
A designation of a matter by the Australian Parliament is to be possible- indeed, this is the principal purpose of the new provision- in respect of its otherwise exclusive powers. [More…]
The doubts that the States have felt about their powers to revoke or impose conditions should be removed by the express provisions of this section. [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 Parliament, 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…]
Now, Labor said quite clearly: ‘Put us in power and we will provide low cost housing within the capacity of those on the lower incomes and the middle incomes to purchase. [More…]
Then this Government is put in power and it cynically increases interest rates and drives money out of the permanent building societies and out of the home lending societies. [More…]
That is the promise by the Labor Party that if it were elected to power it would in a short time bring to the Aboriginal people of Australia a new deal, giving them a chance for dignity, good housing, good education and employment. [More…]
On foreign policy, the Labor Party gave the people the view that there would be no great change from our alliances with the Western world, no weakening of ANZUS and no great weakening of SEATO, and that the Five-Power Pact would be kept intact; we would carry on, with some modifications. [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…]
Senator Carrick referred to broken promises and contempt for people, but what did we see when we came into power? [More…]
In the war in Vietnam the Vietnamese people were suffering from all the power, technology and combined strength of the warmongers who were dropping bombs on those unfortunate people. [More…]
They are seeking development, but before we came into power maps were drawn and to fool the people arrows printed on them showed the alleged threat of attack by the Red Chinese. [More…]
The longer the Liberal Government was in power the more difficult it was becoming to escape being involved in war. [More…]
If people wanted to get something from the tight, lousy-bagged government which existed until we came into power, they had to bond themselves. [More…]
But I suppose when one puts that cost against the cost of the F 1 11 or some of the other hardware which the Government which Senator Little, who is interjecting, supported for so long, and whose Party by holding the balance of power kept in office, we could spend that money with the international warmongers. [More…]
When we came into power the single rate of pension was equivalent to 18 per cent or 19 per cent of average weekly earnings. [More…]
We applied to the electorate to give the Commonwealth the long needed power to try to hold down prices. [More…]
nonwealth this power. [More…]
The establishment of a Prices Justification Tribunal is a very sound contribution towards an oversight of the greed and the avarice of exploiters who were in such full flight when the previous Government was in power. [More…]
It would be up for revision whichever Party was in power. [More…]
The matter has been under consideration, of course, since the Government assumed power, more particularly because of the need to re-assess what the Government’s advisers said was necessary for the defence services. [More…]
But the Australian Parliament has legislative power over insurance. [More…]
Is it fair, with the law as it presently exists and which, as the Attorney-General states, the Federal Government has power to alter, to pick on insurance companies and say that they have a moral obligation to compensate recent flood victims in Queensland and New South Wales? [More…]
When I looked at what had happened since this Government came to power I found that some of the promises which it made during electioneering certainly had not been carried out. [More…]
There has been and still is talk of black power. [More…]
If the young of my race mean the kind of black power which says that I am proud of my race and I am as good as the next person, and if they get out and help themselves in the white man’s environment and beat him at his own game, I say that is good black power. [More…]
I warn my young friends that I will have no truck with the other kind of black power which, I know, brings in its wake violence, and I warn against it as I have done previously and as I will continue to do.I say to those of my race who are young, who have had the advantage of an education and who are articulate: ‘Use these God given talents to influence the thinking of non-Aboriginal communities’. [More…]
We must speak so that we can be a steadying influence on our younger people who speak of black power and violence. [More…]
My Party believes in a Federal system with strong States and we will not, if we can possibly avoid it, have any more centralisation of powers. [More…]
In the short time that it has been in power it has done all it can to weaken and destroy the authority of the States. [More…]
The proposed referenda are all aimed in that direction and at giving all power to Canberra. [More…]
Our Government, when it was in power, would construct the first 1 5 miles of a telephone service from a telephone exchange free of charge and maintain it in perpetuity. [More…]
Far from being a respected middle power which could be relied upon to discharge its international obligations, we have now become the running dog of Chairman Mao and sometimes even of Brezhnev, although it is a little difficult sometimes for the Government to balance the different requirements between Chairman Mao and [More…]
1 believe that we, like Nelson’s fleet, at least have been able to stand between the Australian people and the arrogant abuse of dictatorial power. [More…]
But we witness this continuing attack upon the power and responsibilities of State government. [More…]
I believe that there is always danger in centralised power. [More…]
I believe that what is required in Australia- I am indebted to Senator Withers, the Leader of the Opposition in the Senate, for using the phrase- is decentralisation of power. [More…]
I refer not only to decentralisation of power between Canberra and the States but also to decentralisation of power within the States between State governments and local authorities. [More…]
Certainly there is a complaint from local authorities of the centralisation of power within the States. [More…]
I think that freedom can best be protected by decentralisation of power and by those with the best local knowledge carrying out the responsibilities. [More…]
I certainly will be looking very carefully at legislation which attempts to diminish the responsibilities of State governments in those areas where State governments can more effectively and efficiently exercise power. [More…]
The lessons in China are that each purge since 1949 has brought increasing power to the hard liners. [More…]
Today there is no balance of power worked out. [More…]
Recently a series of Dyason lectures was given by Mr Rajaratnam, the Foreign Minister of Singapore, who pointed out the uncertainties and who predicted that South East Asia would remain an area of big power conflict and competition. [More…]
All indications point to the area between the northwest of Australia through to the China Sea becoming, in the foreseeable future, one of the great energy producing areas of the world, and that inevitably will bring big power competition and big power conflict to our shores. [More…]
I understand that it is the policy of the Government to centralise greater power in Canberra and in the process to decrease the powers of the States. [More…]
We would not be here today as a federation if the States in the first instance had not ceded certain powers to the central government. [More…]
The States which have sovereign powers themselves, are entitled to retain and, I think, should retain powers that they have exercised since the beginning of federation. [More…]
They should not have those powers diminished by rather back door methods such as giving, money direct to local government, not providing finance through the State Parliaments. [More…]
But the use of such grants has also tended to quite a degree to take away power from the States unless the grants have been allocated to State authorities for their distribution. [More…]
It is felt that the Senate and, perhaps, the Australian Government are not acting in the best interests; that there is a tendency to centralisation of power. [More…]
I want to refer briefly to local government finance which, in my opinion, has really been the pawn in the power struggle between the States and the Commonwealth. [More…]
I have said previously, and I repeat that it is the Senate and the Senate alone which stands between the complete arbitrary power which is being sought by this Government and the individual rights and liberties of the Australian people. [More…]
Mr Acting Deputy President, you would be aware that today the buying power of the basic pension is less in percentage terms of average weekly male earnings than it was when Labor took office. [More…]
If this power that Senator Murphy’s Government is now seeking were at present in the Constitution no Senate election would be held in 2 months’ time. [More…]
That, of course, is the reason why the Government seeks this kind of power. [More…]
Of course the Government wants this power; it does not want mid-term elections; it does not want the people of Australia to sit in judgment. [More…]
We are being asked to write into the Constitution a power which would, in future, prevent any kind of mid-term elections. [More…]
If one examines how the founding fathers put the Constitution together, it will be noted that they saw that the concentration of power in one man or in one group was bad. [More…]
Lord Acton’s dictum, ‘All power corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely’, was clearly in their minds and they said: ‘We will hedge our bets; we will decentralise; we will devolve, so that the people of Australia will have a brake on intemperate power’. [More…]
How well they knew their Labor Party; how well they knew the socialists in this community in putting these brakes, these governors, upon centralised power. [More…]
If the Government of the day, under the existing Constitution, wants to bring elections for the 2 Houses into line it can do so now without seeking any more power at all. [More…]
The people of Australia should understand that in the whole of the 5 referendum proposalsthe whole of the 5 questions being put to themthe essential point is that the people are asked to give more power to the Government of the day. [More…]
The Government is asking for the power to prevent the Senate from in any way reflecting upon the judgements of the lower House. [More…]
It is seeking to take away the power of the people. [More…]
Each of the 5 referenda is seeking more power for the Government. [More…]
Each of these 5 referendums- just as in past referendums that have been defeated -is seeking to give to a central government centralisation of power and, as much contains the essential dangers and the essential evils. [More…]
The power lies, at this moment, within the Commonwealth Constitution to do so. [More…]
But if the Commonwealth Government wants to go further, it has specific power under section 57 of the Constitution to seek a double dissolution and to bring out simultaneously the whole of the lower House and the whole 60 senators in a joint dissolution of the Parliament. [More…]
It is competent for the Whitlam Government to do this and it does not need the power it seeks in this Bill. [More…]
The simple fact is that this House of the Parliament, and this democracy, exist in the belief that sovereignty lies in the people, and that power lies in the people. [More…]
The essence of democracy is that the power which resides at present in the 2 Houses of this Parliament should be reviewed as frequently as possible and as desirable so that the people in Australia can sit in judgment. [More…]
We would not be having a Senate election in 2 months time if the power sought in this Bill were now written into the Constitution. [More…]
Therefore there is no need for the power sought in this Bill. [More…]
They want to abolish the Senate; they want to abolish the State Parliaments, all six of them; they want to abolish almost all local government so that they have all the power in one House in Canberra. [More…]
The seeking of the centralisation of power is tied up in the 5 questions involved in the proposed referendums. [More…]
I believe that in a world in which democracy is shrinking; in a world in which violence and anarchy are growing; in a world in which freedoms are under threat, we should do everything we can to preserve the decentralisation and diffusion of power. [More…]
In every way we should do everything in our power to put a brake upon centralised uncontrolled government. [More…]
After all, those who have the power of government recognise that if people are asked unnecessarily on too many occasions, too frequently, to express an opinion as to which Party should be in power there will be a reaction against them because it is generally accepted throughout the community that governments have an obligation to govern and if they must race to the people from time to time, either to have a issue determined by way of a referendum or to put their own authority on the line, there is a likelihood that the public reaction will be that some other government will get on with the job and will not require such frequent commendation of what it is doing. [More…]
If, for example, the Australian Labor Party, having been elected to power in 1972, were to be elected to power a second time in 1 975 and there were to be a half Senate election on the occasion of each election one would imagine that the Senate, at the end of the 1 975 election, would represent the view of the Labor Party as expressed at each election. [More…]
To weaken the power of the Senate is to destroy the Senate’s capacity to act in this vital area. [More…]
Firstly, it is proposed that the Commonwealth Government be given power to make laws with respect to the borrowings of money by the Commonwealth for local government bodies and, secondly, to grant to the Commonwealth power to make grants of financial assistance to any local government body on such terms and conditions as the Parliament thinks fit. [More…]
These are new powers which the Government wants inserted in the Constitution. [More…]
It seeks to assume unto itself, to arrogate unto itself, a power which will make it the only power in this country. [More…]
In fact what it is doing is shackling local government bodies so that they will lose their character as governments in local areas and instead become the machinery of the power which resides here in Canberra. [More…]
What Canberra is seeking is the power of the purse so that by the exercise of that power local government will do what Canberra wants. [More…]
It ought to seek to maintain the present power which it has of making decisions in the local areas with which it is concerned and about which it knows, for the people who live in the municipality to whom local government is responsive. [More…]
We know from statements which the Prime Minister has made over the years, such as the statement, emanating from 1957, in which he said that members of the State Parliament had an obligation and that obligation was to vote themselves out of power, that what he is looking for is the centralised control from Canberra. [More…]
This provision under which the Prime Minister seeks to give money to local government bodies on terms and conditions which he will fix is simply a ruse, a device, by which the central Government in Canberra will be able to exercise over local government bodies the power which, so successfully, it has exercised over State governments in the last 20 years. [More…]
The first is that it seeks to give to the Commonwealth the power to make laws with respect to the borrowing of money. [More…]
When the power is given to anybody to make laws with respect to the borrowing of money, power is given not only to determine what the interest rates will be but also to determine what will be the conditions upon which the money is lent. [More…]
In this issue we are at the heart of the distribution of power in government throughout any country. [More…]
But if we believe that wherever communities exist they ought to have a voice to say what they want in their own area, and that if they are not given what they want from their representatives in the area they can vote them out and put in a different group of local representatives, we will vote against this proposal and, believe me, we will keep a Liberal Government in power in Australia. [More…]
All of this stems from the power which is being sought by the Federal Government to make laws with respect to the borrowing of money for local government. [More…]
Once a government has power to make laws with respect to the borrowing of money for local government, there is no limit to the character and the conditions which it can impose, or the type of bonds which it can impose, on local government if it wants to accept that money. [More…]
The second limb of this Bill is that the Commonwealth should have a power to make grants of financial assistance to local government bodies on such terms and conditions as the Parliament thinks fit. [More…]
This is a power which has been exercised by the Commonwealth Government with respect to the grants of money which are made to the States. [More…]
If the people give to the Commonwealth Government the power to make grants on conditions which the Parliament lays down, it means that there is given to the Commonwealth Government the power to make grants on any conditions which the Commonwealth thinks fit. [More…]
Power will be given to the Commonwealth to make loans or to make absolute money grants and to impose whatever rates of interest it wants. [More…]
The Commonwealth will be given power to impose any conditions whatsoever. [More…]
We need constitutional power to do it. [More…]
One would think that the destiny of this nation is in the hands of this rag tag, rump, lame duck Opposition which, for a temporary period of a few months, is strutting the stage of power here and which thinks its word is more or less the ever lasting testament. [More…]
This it has the power to do under the Constitution. [More…]
I am greatly concerned to discover on going into the Bill in depth that its real purpose is to obtain more power and control for Canberra. [More…]
We have seen continually that through a centralist approach to legislation this Government is trying to erode the power of the States and their authorities and to take more power unto itself in Canberra. [More…]
But when we realise that the Prime Minister has stated in clear terms that the Commonwealth now has the power to make grants to local governments, but via the States, one questions why this legislation is necessary. [More…]
I repeat that it is purely because the Commonwealth wants more power unto itself. [More…]
It is reaching a stage where it is getting power hungry. [More…]
It just wants power. [More…]
One can look to so many other pieces of legislation in which it is a case of power, power, power and centralism. [More…]
I suggest it is for one basic reason only, and that is to centralise as much of the power as the Government possibly can in this place. [More…]
Centralisation of power can mean only one thing, and that is erosion of authority of the States. [More…]
In other words, under section 96 of the Constitution the Federal Government, when it makes a grant, has not only the power to say what money will be allocated but also how that money will be spent. [More…]
Secondly we have the situation where the Government has the constitutional power to say to any local government or, as they are now called regions, how it will spend that money. [More…]
He admitted that the Federal Government would have the power- - more than the power- and would take advantage of this power and use it in this way. [More…]
For the life of me I cannot see why any Government should want this power unto itself when it can already make all the necessary finance available to local governments through the States. [More…]
-Section 96A will give the Government all the power it needs and the Minister knows it. [More…]
That is all the power the Government needs. [More…]
But he does not want it that way because the Government wants the power unto itself in Canberra. [More…]
I say again that it will be the complete abrogation or the beginning of the abrogation and erosion of not only State powers but also local government powers. [More…]
The Commonwealth Government will have this power. [More…]
Firstly, the Prime Minister has made an open admission- it is in the Hansard recordthat today Canberra has the power to increase financial grants to local government via the States. [More…]
The Government is not prepared to act on the power that it has already and it is not prepared to wait for the results of the Convention. [More…]
One can only reach one conclusion which I repeat: The Government is power hungry. [More…]
This sort of legislation, if it were carried through to the ultimate and the power was situated in Canberra, would completely destroy the 3-tier system of government. [More…]
Under section 96 of the Constitution power exists now for the Government to make to State governments certain grants. [More…]
This power gives the Federal Parliament the authority to make to State governments grants to reimburse local government. [More…]
There is no question that the power exists now. [More…]
It has no mandate to diminish the responsibilities and powers of the State governments. [More…]
I will vote against this legislation not because I wish to deny to the people of Australia the right to decide on the issue involved but because I want to make it clear that I am not giving the seal of approval to the Government to bring in legislation, no matter how it is presented and for what motives it is presented, that will further diminish the powers and responsibilities of the State governments. [More…]
If we suspect that the Government, which has demonstrated that it is power drunk, is using back door methods to diminish further the powers of the States we have complete justification for doing so. [More…]
We have no such power today. [More…]
Opposition senators speak of their desire to help local government bodies but in fact are opposed to giving the Commonwealth power to borrow money to assist them. [More…]
The alteration is not designed to control local government bodies but to borrow money on their behalf- and the Opposition refuses the power to do so. [More…]
Since honourable senators opposite say that we are abusing section 96 and would likewise abuse section 96a, I challenge them to say that any application of section 96 since this Government has been in power has been rejected by this Senate. [More…]
It is opposed to giving the power to the Government to raise money for local government. [More…]
Are they standing for power towards the centre or away from the centre? [More…]
) That unless otherwise ordered the legislative and general purpose standing committees have power to inquire into and report upon such matters as were referred to the same committees appointed during the previous sessions and which have not been disposed of; [More…]
That for the purpose of completing the inquiries referred to in paragraph ( 3 ), each of the standing committees and select committees have power to consider and use motions, transcripts of evidence and other records,’ including draft reports, advisory papers, correspondence and other documents of the same committee appointed during the previous session; and [More…]
Is it just for the 3 populous eastern States to have the power to determine issues which might affect only the 3 less populous States? [More…]
Is it just that the Commonwealth Government which exists purely because of the goodwill of the States should continue its quest for State powers? [More…]
I make the short point that the Government as a government has no power to submit referendum proposals to the people. [More…]
We have been asked to approve a series of constitutional alteration Bills which have been shown in debate to be unacceptable in that broadly they represent a plunder of State rights and an attempt to centralise power in Canberra. [More…]
-The Bill before the chamber is perhaps different from the other proposed referendum Bills because while they deal with specific heads of power this Bill relates to the actual machinery of the Constitution itself and to the mode of altering the provisions of the Constitution. [More…]
The first aspect is the extraordinary power, effect and influences of the major States. [More…]
If the compact is that the alteration can be made by a majority of the States together with a majority of the people and the majority decides to change what the honourable senator calls the compact, how can anyone possibly resist it if those who have the wisdom and so on and those who are given the power by the Commonwealth decide deliberately to change the Constitution? [More…]
I do not desire to go through each of the particular clauses which are sought to be amended but if one were to do so one would find that there is an attempt to amend the various sections of the Constitution in a way that is more restrictive of the Parliament’s power to pass laws than is the present position. [More…]
Surely that is what democracy is all about, because that is the power which a Parliament should have. [More…]
To call it a gerrymander is to call it by something which is a fair description because the public knows that a gerrymander is a system of dividing up electorates; in order to secure in power a particular political party. [More…]
It is an attempt by the Commonwealth to arrogate power to interfere in the domestic affairs of the States by informing them of the opinion of the Commonwealth and then seeking to make that opinion binding upon them in respect of what constitutes a democratic election. [More…]
It is bound to create enormous hostility among the States, which have come together as a cohesive whole for the benefit of the whole nation and which would never have come together if it had been suggested at the time of Federation that the Commonwealth would take unto itself the power to say to the States what it considers to be a democratic system of election. [More…]
It is a naked attempt by the Labor Party to gerrymander the electorate for its own purposes and to secure its position in power forever. [More…]
This is to make it clear that the Commission has power to make general statements, for the guidance of interested persons, in relation to its functions and powers. [More…]
The monopolization provision is modified (clause 46 (1 )) to make 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…]
These provisions empower the Court, upon application, to make orders adjusting the rights of parties to contracts made before the Act which become unenforceable by virtue of the Act. [More…]
This is in addition to the power of the Court to make ancillary orders adjusting rights etc. [More…]
Clause 87(5) indicates that these provisions do not affect any power of severance a court may otherwise have in relation to a contract in restraint of trade. [More…]
Since we came to power we have caught up with all the things which we thought ought to be done. [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…]
I would imagine that if Papua New Guinea is to exercise a power over fisheries it will do so either because of a delegation of power under the existing Fisheries Act or by virtue of the Papua New Guinea (Application of Laws) Act which was passed by this Parliament last year as part of the steps by which we granted self government as a preliminary to the granting of independence. [More…]
I imagine that the exercise of either of those powers would be sufficient to give to the Papua New Guinea legislature the opportunity to introduce legislation. [More…]
Proposed section 108a gives States parliaments the power to make laws with regard to matters which are designated by the Commonwealth Parliament. [More…]
Also it does not prevent the exercise of any power by the Parliament by which it is made. [More…]
In short, it is to be a power which is capable of revocation and which will exist concurrently and not exclusively. [More…]
I shall deal with each of the powers in turn. [More…]
The first is the reference power under placitum (xxxvii). [More…]
I have read with interest a fairly long article on the reference power in the Australian Constitution and the problems which the attempted use of that power has created in the past. [More…]
He indicates that it is a matter of history that the States have been reluctant to refer matters to the Commonwealth, not withstanding that at the time the Constitution was established Alfred Deakin suggested that this was one means whereby the Constitution could be changed in form, as to the distribution of powers, without the necessity of having a strict amendment of the Constitution. [More…]
The areas in which references of power have taken place are significant matters. [More…]
The sixth reference, and the one which is the most recent, is the 1 966 Tasmanian reference of power over trade practices. [More…]
They are the only matters in which a reference of power has taken place under the Constitution and in which laws made pursuant to that reference have had effective operation. [More…]
But at the same time one cannot deny that in the field of air transport significant advances have been able to be made by virtue of the transfer of power. [More…]
It must also be recognised that 1 1 of the 23 Acts which were passed pursuant to the reference of power were for wartime Commonwealth powers in 1 942-43 or legislation which arose out of the Commonwealth Powers Act. [More…]
One recognises that there have been many factors militating against a use of the reference power to a greater extent. [More…]
Although many of those matters have been clarified as a result of court decisions or court dicta in recent years, there has always been considerable doubt as to whether powers could be referred for a limited time. [More…]
It was suggested that once a power had been referred it could not be referred for a limited time but would last indefinitely. [More…]
There is always the question of whether the reference of power ceases automatically at the end of the term or whether a repealing or revoking Act is required. [More…]
In addition to the matters to which I have referred, there has always been the uncertainty as to the limits of the power. [More…]
The ambit of the power is one matter which is clearly a question of concern to the States and one matter in respect of which one would believe there ought to be the utmost opportunity for the State governments to be satisfied by their legal advisers about the position. [More…]
The interest is highlighted possibly or added to by reason of what appears in proposed section 108a which deals with the power of the Parliament of the Commonwealth to designate a matter. [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…]
It may be that the possibility which I have raised- it is purely an interpretive suggestion which I am offering- can be answered, but it seems to me to be fairly open where we give to the Parliament a power to designate matters, to impose conditions and to suggest that this power is, as sub-section (3) of section I08a says, ‘not limited by the provisions of this Constitution other than this section’. [More…]
Let me begin by saying that one thing is certain, namely, that if the Commonwealth is seeking this referendum by way of a new power it is seeking it for the purpose of increasing, and increasing substantially, the powers of the Commonwealth Government. [More…]
I acknowledge that the Government Whip, Senator O’Byrne, has acknowledged the fact that inherent in this legislation is a mechanism by which the Labor Party aims to gain more and more powers for the central government. [More…]
Whenever we look at a device of this nature which is brought forward by the Whitlam Labor Government we should keep in mind one thing, namely, that the Labor Government aims to destroy the States and to centralise all power in Canberra. [More…]
Government will play a game of political pingpong, other than in Peking, with the States, whereby some days the States can have more powers and other days powers can be referred to Canberra, is a ridiculous idea in view of the fact that the Whitlam Government is pledged to destroy the States. [More…]
It is equally clear that since Federation in 1901 all referenda have asked for more power for the central government. [More…]
I think I am right in saying that there has not been a referendum which in fact sought to give back power to the States; that is, to relinquish power from the central written Constitution. [More…]
It is proposing by these 2 instruments to take over State powers. [More…]
I remind the Senate that the people of Australia decided that they should determine where the power should lie as between the written and fixed Constitution of the Commonwealth and the residual constitutions of the States. [More…]
The people decided that they would determine this by vote at a referendum which was related to a specific power. [More…]
The device foreshadowed under this referendum in fact enables the States and the Commonwealth to transfer powers from time to time- assuming it were a 2-way bid which I doubt very much- without reference to the people and, indeed, to entrench them for a long term- perhaps forever- in one sphere or another without the people specifically having said that they want those powers so to lie. [More…]
Whilst the sovereignty lies with the Commonwealth in terms of uniform taxation and in terms of section 96 of the Constitution, it will always be possible for the Commonwealth, by the duress of finance, to persuade the States to give up certain powers for a defined or indefinite period. [More…]
The fact that proposed section 108b of the Constitution puts all sorts of legalistic qualifications on this matter is, to me, of no importance at all because after a while the power becomes entrenched; after a while the will to take it back is gone and, in fact, the ability to take it back is gone. [More…]
We are not looking merely at the de jure powers. [More…]
1 am here to talk about the people of Australia and the very important fact of their sovereign powers. [More…]
If we allow this kind of Bill to go through and thereby entrench this kind of power, then sovereignty will not lie with the people. [More…]
The sovereignty of recall or the power of the people to decide where the power shall lie- with the Commonwealth or with the State- will not exist, because the States and the Commonwealth can, in particularities, determine the transfer of powers and the Commonwealth, by its force of financial arms, can entrench those powers. [More…]
But one thing is clear: The States and the State governments are ruman and they have a tendency to want to give up those powers and responsibilities which at any point of time are unpopular- those that are too costly, those that are difficult and those that they feel they could let the other fellow have without losing votes. [More…]
Of course these powers would not come back; they would move inexorably to the Commonwealth. [More…]
The Commonwealth knows that, by its money power and by its beckoning to take over unpopular things, it can take over more and more powers- unpopular powers, yes- until, as it does so from time to time, the States’ powers become smaller and smaller and the States become in effect total vassals of the Commonwealth. [More…]
I urge them to ask the Whitlam Government: ‘If by this you are implying that you recognise the sovereignty of State governments and the division of power between the Commonwealth and the States, what steps will you take to underline and underpin our sovereignty by financial measures? [More…]
Will you give us access to powers? [More…]
The people never know the reasons why an option was made to exchange powers. [More…]
I have heard that the Commonwealth Government has said that if it could have this interchange of powers it would give the excise power to the States. [More…]
I do not believe for one moment that the Commonwealth Government would give up a source of great financial power, a source of great revenue to it. [More…]
I wanted to stress that it is not the de jure power that matters much; it is the de facto power of the Commonwealth, once this objective is achieved, to fulfil its pledge to have in Australia all power residing in one body- the other place- in Canberra. [More…]
I believe there is only one way in which the people of Australia should resolve sovereignty as between the Commonwealth and the States and that is by, from time to time, giving specific powers. [More…]
There was talk that there should have been some temporary giving up of powers by the States to the Commonwealth recently in regard to incomes and prices. [More…]
Apparently there is no alternative method of the Commonwealth giving powers to the States under the existing Constitution. [More…]
It is a fascinating situation that when the people of Australia were asked whether they wanted to give power over incomes and prices to the Commonwealth Government they emphatically said no in one of the most emphatic results of referenda that have occurred in this country’s history. [More…]
I have never heard the Prime Minister suggest that the States should be abolished or that all power should be centralised in Canberra. [More…]
He has on occasions expressed the view that there should be a transference of some of the powers. [More…]
Honourable senators must surely recognise that this proposal seeks the concurrence of the States to transfer powers from the States to the Commonwealth. [More…]
Consider the path that must be traversed before one can get the 6 States to agree to the transference of power. [More…]
This is from Opposition senators who, when in power, were prepared to gaol young men for their convictions about the war in Vietnam, to deny Australian citizens the right to travel outside their own country, and to implement a whole number of issues which denied the normal democratic liberties which we defend in this country and regard as an inalienable right. [More…]
The Prime Minister is seeking to extend it, and I think I have indicated that in his desire to do this he will be recognised not only by the Australian people but ultimately by historians as a person who was prepared to go to the full extent of the democratic procedures to convince the Australian electorate to change the constitutional provisions relating to powers between the Commonwealth and the States. [More…]
It was reported in this morning’s newspapers that the New South Wales Government is prepared to sit down with the Australian Government and transfer to the Commonwealth for a limited period of time power to control prices. [More…]
It is clear from the decision made yesterday by the Premier of New South Wales that he is either campaigning for his own political advantage and is not sincere in his desire to hand over to the Commonwealth the powers to control prices and incomes or he genuinely holds that view and is fortified by the fact that his co.’league in Queensland will not be prepared to take the necessary step. [More…]
As a former Premier of Queensland, I warn State governments not to concede powers to the Commonwealth merely to relieve themselves of the odium or the responsibility of implementing some power that they possess. [More…]
Even the transfer of taxation powers was a temporary measure originally. [More…]
At an Australian Labor Party Conference held in Brisbane in 1957 I took up that attitude and read a paper in support of the restoration of taxation powers to the States. [More…]
It is very easy to transfer powers that you do not want to somebody else and then to cry about not having them. [More…]
I have stated repeatedly that the day the State governments gave away their taxing powers they gave away their sovereignty. [More…]
That is money that you are empowered to collect from the market that is available to you and distribute it amongst the States. [More…]
So I say that while this Bill which seeks to amend the Constitution and to enable an interchange of powers between the Australian Parliament and the State parliaments is indisputably attractive in its text, it is something that has to be examined very carefully and there must be unanimity between the States and the Commonwealth before a decision is made. [More…]
You might have some powers that you could give to us, and vice versa’. [More…]
I repeat that some leaders of State governments are prepared to sacrifice and to surrender any power which they think might cause them to lose votes, instead of having the courage and determination to preserve the sovereignty of the States which they are charged to control. [More…]
The honourable senator would want to give away the power of Queensland to a central power. [More…]
He knows as well as I do that there are no great powers that the States would want from the Commonwealth, unless in respect of something that the Commonwealth wanted the States to implement for it and had to confer the power on the States for that reason. [More…]
Another point which is overlooked by Senator Carrick and other opponents of this proposal is that the States are not being asked to give any power irrevocably to the Australian Government. [More…]
How can it be an invasion of the powers of the States when they are left in complete control of the duration of any reference of power that they give to the Commonwealth? [More…]
This elaborates, expands and in every way increases the powers of the States in relation to any matters that they may refer to the Commonwealth. [More…]
It is particularly shameful for lawyers on the opposite side of the chamber to suggest that this proposal detracts in any way from the powers of the States. [More…]
Up to now there has been considerable doubt among lawyers as to whether, when a State delegated or referred powers to the Australian Government, there was any power, to impose conditions or to include a power of revocation. [More…]
By this amendment the Australian Government, which is accused by Senator Carrick and other honourable senators opposite of attempting to destroy the States, puts a specific limitation on any reference of power which the States may choose to give to the Australian Government. [More…]
Yet this is pilloried as an attempt by the Australian Government to destroy the power of the States. [More…]
The Parliament shall, subject to this Constitution, have exclusive power to make laws for the peace, order and good government of the Commonwealth with respect to- [More…]
One result of that conferring of exclusive power on the Commonwealth is illustrated in the well known case of Worthing v. Rowell and Muston Pty Ltd, which was heard in the High Court in 1 970. [More…]
It was pleaded by the defendant company that the provisions of the regulations under the Act did not apply to the Richmond Air Force base because of the operation of section 52 (i), that is, that the Australian Government had exclusive powers to make laws in respect to territory which had been acquired by the Commonwealth for public purposes. [More…]
The Prime Minister has suggested, as I think all lawyers would concede, that this was an injustice which is wrought by this conflict of powers between the Commonwealth and the States. [More…]
The Prime Minister suggested that this would be an appropriate field in which the Australian Government would cede power to the States, that is, would acknowledge that the States’ laws of that nature would apply to a place which had been acquired by the Commonwealth. [More…]
So far from this being purely window dressing and far from suggesting that we merely want to make a pretence of conferring powers on the States in order that they might see fit to confer powers on the Australian Government with respect, for instance, to such matters as family law and defamation, I point to this offer of the Prime Minister which I respectfully suggest to honourable senators is an earnest of our sincerity and our genuineness in wanting to make this a 2 -way traffic. [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…]
He also referred to the fact that if the Commonwealth 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 jetties, marinas, moorings and water sports. [More…]
We are offering to let the States have some powers, and Senator Carrick says ‘powers which are now within the exclusive power of the Australian Government’. [More…]
After the Australian Constitutional Convention broke up it set up various committees one of which was designed specifically to consider the fine print and the detail of this proposition for mutual interchange of powers between the Australian Government and the States. [More…]
If it were just a change of power probably it would be well known to honourable senators in this chamber, but we have a new word in this Bill. [More…]
It is an interchange of power. [More…]
Of course the interchange of power is the carrot which is dangled before the States. [More…]
They cannot find where the real benefits of transfer of power lie. [More…]
Let us look at the track record of change of power in the past- not the interchange of power, because we have not seen an interchange of power. [More…]
Since the Whitlam Government came into power there has been a remarkable flowering of Federal interest in States’ affairs . [More…]
The point in question is the change of power. [More…]
I have little need to remind Western Australian electors that on issue after issue, particularly in the areas of taxation and mineral resources, the State Labor Government has sold this State short in its dealings with Canberra and has acquiesced in the drive for centralised power’, Mr McPharlin said. [More…]
How can a State relinquish or transfer without adequate and proper safeguards, power to a centralist government which has openly advocated the devolution of the Senate and the authority of State governments? [More…]
A case may be put in favour of an amendment of the Constitution so as to facilitate the reference of powers by the States to the Commonwealth. [More…]
An argument may be made that there should be provision for a reference of power by the Commonwealth Parliament to the State parliaments, which provision is absent from the Constitution at present. [More…]
We are not holding this Convention to try to obtain more powers from State Parliaments. [More…]
Here I am prepared to consider having a constitutional amendment which will give some power from the Commonwealth Parliament to State Parliaments. ‘ [More…]
The honourable senator fully supports the view of this Government that there should be one-way traffic only- that power should come only from the State Parliaments to this Parliament. [More…]
There is no real intention that there should be any transfer of powers from this Parliament back to State Parliaments- and Senator O’Byrne does not believe there should be. [More…]
It is not concerned just with facilitating the transfer of powers from State Parliaments to the Commonwealth Parliament. [More…]
This Bill starts off by providing means for the transfer of power from the Commonwealth Parliament to State Parliaments’. [More…]
On the surface- which, I suppose is all that Senator O’Byrne has looked at, if that- it would appear that the Bill does intend to provide for the transfer of some powers of the Commonwealth Parliament to State Parliaments. [More…]
But the question is: What powers might be transferred? [More…]
Indeed, what powers are available in any meaningful way for transfer from this Parliament to State Parliaments? [More…]
Under section 52 of the Constitution the first of the Commonwealth exclusive powers is the power to legislate with respect to the seat of government of the Commonwealth. [More…]
I cannot imagine that there is likely to be any transfer of power in that respect. [More…]
The second power relates to places acquired by the Commonwealth for public purposes. [More…]
As Senator James McClelland would say: ‘Ah, here we have an excellent example of where there would be a transfer of powers to State parliaments because’- and he quoted the High Court decisions on the matter- ‘this has been a problem in respect of which the High Court has held that State parliaments cannot legislate in respect of Commonwealth property such as an Air Force base, a post office or a telephone booth.’ [More…]
It did not have to transfer powers to the State parliaments in order to do so. [More…]
Can anybody imagine that there will be any transfer of power in that sphere? [More…]
Another one that is mentioned in section 52 refers to other matters declared by the Constitution to be within the exclusive powers. [More…]
The one that most obviously comes to mind in that direction is the excise power. [More…]
I think that in the excise power we have come to the nub of the question. [More…]
It is hoped by some State governments, I think, or by some State Ministers or Premiers, that there may be a transfer of the excise power or some of that power back to State parliaments to enable them to raise revenue by means of taxes, which the High Court on its past record would almost inevitably declare to be excise. [More…]
Does the Government seriously intend under this Constitution Alteration Bill to transfer to State parliaments any powers in relation to raising revenue of the nature of excise? [More…]
I believe that if there is any really good faith on the part of the Government in this matter, here is the opportunity for it to say definitely that if it had this power it would hand it over to the State parliaments. [More…]
I strongly question the wisdom or the propriety of inserting into the Constitution a power which would have such a major indirect effect on the existing provisions of the Constitution. [More…]
There is in the Constitution a very salutary provision that the Commonwealth Parliament in raising taxes shall not discriminate between States or between parts of States, yet under this legislation, if it were passed, it appears that the Commonwealth Parliament would have the power to hand the power over to the States without that salutary provision. [More…]
So it is clear that this proposal is not one in any serious or meaningful way for the interchange of powers between the Commonwealth Parliament and the State parliaments. [More…]
It is not really in a meaningful way to provide for a 2-way process as the Government represents in the hope of getting support from the States and in the hope of softening them up for many other major constitutional changes designed to transfer more and more power from the States to the Commonwealth Parliament. [More…]
Another thing about which they have been concerned is the doubts which have existed as to the extent of their power to refer, whether they would ever get back the powers referred, whether they could be revoked and so on. [More…]
This is a proposal to try to encourage the States more readily to transfer powers to the Commonwealth Parliament. [More…]
I am deeply concerned that what the Commonwealth Government is really trying to do in this leglislation is to induce the States to transfer their powers to it under some illusory suggestion that there would be a quid pro quo and that the Commonwealth would be transferring some powers back to the States. [More…]
After discussions with the States and at a major conference in Sydney, the Government has decided that the Commonwealth should have power to give back to the States certain matters that come within the constitutional power of the Commonwealth Government at present. [More…]
It would be a far simpler process for the Commonwealth to be able to grant these powers in what might be called domestic areas back to the States than to go through all the paraphernalia that will be necessary if it is found that the Commonwealth has all the power associated with areas off-shore from the low water mark. [More…]
All honourable senators know that the States have the power to refer to the Commonwealth certain constitutional rights that we now have but did not enjoy at the time of Federation. [More…]
They were red herrings dragged across the path to fool the people of this country in respect of areas in which there would be no intention by either side to transfer powers. [More…]
For example,to meet the situation in Worthing’s case it would suit the Commonwealth as well as the Stales to refer to the States the powerto make laws with respect to Commonwealthplaces within the States.If the Commonwealth 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 jetties, marinas, moorings and water sports. [More…]
f) does not prevent the exercise of any power by the Parliament by which it is made. [More…]
Although this is the main plank in the platform of the Party which won power in December 1972, no Labor senator stands on a platform and says that this is the main plank in Labor’s platform. [More…]
We are given some encouragement by the fact that after 18 months in power the Labor Government proposes to revise the tax scale. [More…]
We have seen the power of the present Federal Government being directed to the subversion of the States. [More…]
1 draw the attention of the Senate to the point that it will be beyond the power of this Authority, under clause 8 of the Bill, to provide financial grants or subsidies to industries. [More…]
I note the powers of the Authority that are set out in clause 12 of the Bill. [More…]
Surely the Senate should try to protect the public against the inroads of powers made by an allpowerful Canberra based Government. [More…]
Clause 12 states that without limiting the generality of an earlier proposed section, the Authority has power for or in connection with the performance of those functions which I have mentioned. [More…]
So we have the powers of the Authority as follows: [More…]
So we see that the Government has power, if it feels so inclined, to buy up large parcels of any corporation in Australia and exert its influence on the expenditure of funds in that company. [More…]
It is of enormous import that we should realise what this Authority is empowered to do. [More…]
They hope to see the Australian Government through this Authority, kept busy with many of the oil rigs that have gone out of operation since this Labor Government has been in power. [More…]
In 1973 the footage of oil drilling undertaken by exploration companies was about half that undertaken during the previous year- before this Government came to power. [More…]
If given effect to, it will constitute the most authoritarian and dictatorial assumption of power ever undertaken by the central government in the history of this country. [More…]
In the legislation power is given to the Authority to explore for, recover and refine petroleum and minerals. [More…]
It will have power to buy, sell and transport petroleum and minerals whether in Australia or elsewhere. [More…]
lt will be given a special power to acquire an interest in mining undertakings being conducted in Australia on such terms as the Authority deems fit. [More…]
The Authority will take to itself a fantastic degree of liberty and power. [More…]
The Authority will have the power to enter and occupy land in areas it would like to explore and develop, and in the event of the occupier’s withholding his consent the Authority may apply to a Justice of the Peace for a warrant to enter, and neither the owner nor the occupier can raise any effective objection. [More…]
A very vital power will be given to this Authority. [More…]
At the moment we will leave the other aspect, the strikes which have been engendered by those who feel that they can twist the Government’s tail much more easily than they can twist anybody else’s tail because they have certain influences on and power of threats which they maintain against the Government. [More…]
I have in front of me a chart which shows that ever since the Opposition parties came to power in 1 949 there has been a progressive increase in interest rates. [More…]
During 1972-73, before we came into power, the money supply increased by 26 per cent, having increased by no less than 1 7 per cent in the first half of that financial year. [More…]
Opposition senators know in their hearts that unquestionably any government in a democratic country like Australia, whether it is composed of members of the present Government or members of the present Opposition, could do many things if it had additional powers. [More…]
We know when we study governments of the far right and governments of the far left that they have certain powers that are used, legally or for that matter illegally, that we do not possess. [More…]
This Government recognised that there were certain economic fluctuations and it sought additional power to deal with them. [More…]
When the previous government was in power we had quite a good policy in relation to country telephones: Fifteen miles of line was constructed free of charge and for distances more than that the line was constructed at a very cheap rate; and it was maintained in perpetuity. [More…]
It will be remembered that when the Government came into power the Minister for Housing reported that there were, I think, 93,000 applicants for housing trust homes and that efforts were being concentrated on trying to get houses for those people most deserving of them. [More…]
A result was that the demand for housing exceeded the availability of materials and skilled manpower. [More…]
If it had had the numbers it would never have given to the Government in power the co-operation that this Government has received; it would have jacked up immediately and said: ‘We refuse to go on unless you come into the open and tell us exactly how the business is to be organised and essential matters such as the date of the Senate election’. [More…]
In March 1 973 the Senate Opposition said to the Government: ‘Our policies would be to proceed with sound anti-inflationary policies so that the purchasing power in the community can be stabilised, so that inflation can be contained and reduced and so that pensions, in terms of their real purchasing power, can have some meaning’. [More…]
In a prepared address to the Securities Institute of Australia Mr Crean talked about his philosophy for controlling the economy, keeping down inflation and, therefore, increasing purchasing power. [More…]
That is the measure of the destruction of social services by this Government- a destruction which is biting into the purchasing power of all people. [More…]
The purchasing power of this pension, which is now to be raised by $3, will fall each day until in the next month, the second month or the sixth month, when another pittance is granted, the purchasing power will fall far below this 22.5 per cent and will be back beyond where it was before the $3 raised it. [More…]
We should argue not about what this pension will buy now, because that is only fleeting, but about what it will buy, in terms of purchasing power, in 2 months time, 4 months time or 5 months time. [More…]
So the argument that the purchasing power of this pension will be good enough to help towards Labor’s policy is arrant nonsense, as are all the arguments which are embodied in this. [More…]
But looking at the value of the purchasing power of these pensions we must keep in mind that when the Liberal-Country Party Government went out of office pensioners in nursing homes, whether in general care or intensive care, because of the Government subsidy to nursing homes along with the size of the pension, found that after paying the full bill for the nursing home, they had up to $6 a week in their pockets. [More…]
But nothing is said about the fact that child endowment is falling badly in its purchasing power all the time and that the working families dependent upon it are being robbed more and more. [More…]
If you want social services to have any meaning, if you want people to be able to live in dignity and reasonable standards, you will establish an abatement of inflation so that the purchasing power of money can be there. [More…]
If a Liberal-Country Party Government gave anything it gave stability to the economy and real emphasis to the purchasing power of the rising real wages of the people. [More…]
Under a Liberal-Country Party Government, second to none in the world, we would be sharing real purchasing power’. [More…]
I regret very much that their purchasing power will immediately start to erode. [More…]
He says: ‘We made the increases retrospective when we came into power.’ [More…]
It is interesting to note that when the former Government was in power this sort of thing did not happen. [More…]
But he did not draw the attention of pensioners to the fact that even though the Government is giving them a $3 a week pension increase, it has, through its management of the economy, brought about a 14 per cent depreciation in the pensioners’ spending power or in the value of the dollar during last year. [More…]
I am sure that if the Government is still in power it will do this. [More…]
Whilst the Government has been priding itself on the fact that the figures of the unemployed have dropped since it has been in power, we see an increase in the number of persons who are receiving unemployment benefit. [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…]
But clause 36 contains a proposal to strip the State supreme courts of power in respect of Acts which are enumerated in clause 36 (5). [More…]
It can be seen that in that respect this Bill is a very important step in the development of this divided jurisdiction whereby the framers of the Constitution thought proper to divide the judicial power, authority or jurisdiction of the courts of this country into Federal jurisdiction or State jurisdiction. [More…]
The theory of the federal system is that power, particularly legislative power, may bc divided, that it may be defined by reference to subject matters upon which it is capable of exercise, and that it may be distributed between a central and local organs of government. [More…]
Such a system requires that the allocation of powers shall be accomplished by law and it is for this reason that it depends upon the supremacy of the law. [More…]
Further, it was considered an essentail part of the federal system, as the writings in the ‘Federalist insist, that the powers of central and local governments alike should operate directly upon the people. [More…]
An attempt of one agency to intrude upon the field of another was simply an excess of legal power and the attempt would, therefore, be nugatory and void. [More…]
This function must be peformed whenever the necessity arises for enforcing rights which depend upon a doubtful exercise of power. [More…]
These provisions in truth sacrifice the interests of the litigant to the desire of the framers of the Constitution to preserve to the High Court the power of giving constitutional rulings and making constitutional precedents. [More…]
In other words, we have it in our power to lay down the uniformity of administration of the Federal laws. [More…]
Judges do not appear to have been given any power to make the rules of court, which is a power customarily accorded to judges. [More…]
Not one ton of metal or ore, or petroleum or natural gas can be sold from Australian shores abroad unless the Commonwealth Government approves, because the export power of the Commonwealth Government is total. [More…]
On every level the Commonwealth Government has absolute power of control. [More…]
That is the coal that can produce heat which in turn produces electricity particularly with a power plant at the pit top and it is abundant in Australia. [More…]
The second permanent long time source of energy is clearly solar energy, and clearly in the next 30, 40 or 50 years solar energy will be developed by a direct energy conversion process so, either by fusion or solar energy, the world will move into a stage where the need for energy for electrical power generation will not depend on coal, oil, natural gas or uranium. [More…]
Coal, at the pit top, can turn out electricity, through thermal power, cheaper than orthodox nuclear power. [More…]
But we are moving into a world and into a technology of nuclear power that we need to know and to keep up with. [More…]
What I have said is that here is a Government that came to power saying that it would have a co-ordinated energy policy. [More…]
It came to power against a quickening energy crisis, one which in this chamber was recognised as likely to cause world conflict and world economic dangers. [More…]
I repeat that if we want to control any industry in Australia, this Government has the total power to do so. [More…]
Private enterprise will not touch the social services such as power supplies, sewerage and water supplies. [More…]
This Government has not learnt one solitary thing from the catastrophe which overtook Great Britain- the nationalisation, strikes and socialism as some people would call it- and which has brought it to its knees and made it a third rate power in the world. [More…]
Also, the householder being provided with natural gas is paying more for this fuel than would be payable if, as suggested to the Committee, a pricing formula for natural gas- irrespective of where it is produced- similar to that used by the United States of America Federal Power Commission, were adopted in Australia. [More…]
This Bill proposes to give the Minister for Minerals and Energy so much power that he can completely nationalise any company in the oil industry, and if it is carried it will achieve that end. [More…]
Clause 39 dealt with the aspect of virtually throwing in an amendment whereby the Commonwealth Government would have power under the Pipeline Authority Act to do things which the Commonwealth Government and the States had agreed would not happen until such time as there had been discussion between the States and the Commonwealth. [More…]
I mention that because I think it is essential that we point out to this chamber the attitudes of this Government towards agreements with the States and what it will do when it gets the opportunity to take unto itself total power. [More…]
The Authority 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 under this Act. [More…]
) Without limiting the generality of section 1 1 , the Authority has power, for or in connection with the performance of its functions- [More…]
When one looks at that sub-clause one can see very clearly that what the Government is going for here is to get total power for itself and to place itself in a position where virtually it can become a monopoly in this country. [More…]
We have seen in the dispute in Sydney in the last few days how they were prepared to hold the people of Sydney to ransom and the power which they had to do it. [More…]
Obviously if this report is correct- and I believe that we must accept a report from the Australian Mining Industry Council- the present Government and previous governments have had power to control any exploration in Australia. [More…]
That whereas our constitutional parliamentary democracy was clearly developed as a Federation to preserve for all time to the Australian people their cherished right to live as free men and women, enjoying complete liberty of worship, assembly, speech, movement and the communication of knowledge and information, and whereas our existing Australian flag and our national anthem, ‘God Save The Queen’ are perpetual reminders of these hard-won freedoms and of the wise British principle of the division of power, so well reflected in our own Australian Constitution with its careful separation of powers as between the Crown and Commonwealth Parliament, the Senate, the State parliaments, the Government-General and State Governors, and the independent courts of justice, and whereas all such rights, liberties, heritage, advancement and prosperity, etc., are of no avail if our armed forces are unprepared or incapable of repelling invasion of our shores or withstanding other military threats, so therefore must all these things be accorded the highest national concern and priority. [More…]
It has proved itself undeniably a government that cares only about power. [More…]
It is a government so unused to the reins of office and so determined to hold onto those reins that its churlish, self-interested members, with an unparalleled lust for power, are prepared to sweep aside principles, ideals, and attitudes they have long propounded to be the only true principles, ideals and attitudes, merely to gain thenend of everlasting, absolute, centralised power. [More…]
The power of other nations over us is that they can make us do something against our wishes and interests. [More…]
In posing the question of great power rivalry what Mr Whitlam is in fact accepting is that absurd premise that it is permissible for Russia to increase its present naval presence in the Indian Ocean but it is outrageous for the United States to take a counter measure, no matter how modest. [More…]
It is reasonable to assume that once the Suez Canal is re-opened, the Soviet naval power in the area will be further strengthened, and certainly access will be quicker. [More…]
Senior military officers now have more power than they had before. [More…]
Since this Government has come to power, as everybody knows- I point to the recent floods in New South [More…]
Looking at the situation, and having regard to the manpower position to which I have referred and to Senator Withers’ complaints about the Citizen Military Forces, Mr Barnard called for a report on the CMF and this is presently before the Government. [More…]
Some of these are part of requirements which were ordered before we came to power but they are in the process of being commissioned. [More…]
If we had been in power then, they would have been built here. [More…]
As I have pointed out, the defence officers have got more power under the reorganisation than they had before. [More…]
In the Indian Ocean- and Senator Withers referred to this- we see a growing build-up of the Russian naval strength to an extent where Russia is the dominant naval power in the Indian Ocean. [More…]
It is not a major threat; the Russians do not threaten anybody through their naval power- but they are an influence and they are there partly to extend their global influence and, secondly, of course, as a continuing counter to Chinese influence. [More…]
Whether we like it or not the Indian Ocean is an area of big power conflict. [More…]
The economic power of Japan is casting uncertainty over South-East Asia. [More…]
If power is defined, as it should be, not merely as military power but as economic power and cultural attraction as well, then what is likely to emerge in South-East Asia is a multiple system of great power balance. [More…]
These powers will contest for influence in the region because its strategic importance and its great economic potential have not been diminished in any way as a result of the detente and dimantling of the Cold War structure. [More…]
Mr Rajaratnum there sees continuing big power competition and conflict in South-East Asia. [More…]
All this is a change and all these possibilities have been given to these small nations by the fact that there has been removed from this area a situation of great power confrontation- I will not say rivalries; I think we will always get great power rivalries- in which people have to stand up and be counted and have to look over their shoulders to ascertain what their neighbours are thinking. [More…]
The Americans often say: ‘It is no good being a super-power. [More…]
But it is true that in 1937 Admiral Sir Francis Hyde, then Chief of the Naval Staff, announced that Australia had nothing to fear from any naval power, that our relations with Japan were satisfactory and that there was no danger of an attack from the Japanese. [More…]
New clause 57 deals with the power of the court to make declarations of interest in property and supersedes the similar power under State and Territory married women ‘s property legislation. [More…]
New clause 58 gives the court power to make orders altering property interests following dissolution of marriage and thus corresponds to section 86 of the present Act. [More…]
These powerful interests, these great lobbies, these special interests are making millions of dollars out of restrictive practices. [More…]
They are in a position of unparalleled economic power in this community, and that economic power carries with it political power which extends right into these chambers. [More…]
These powerful interests can ring up Mr Snedden, Mr Lynch, or those sitting opposite and tell them what they have to do. [More…]
And whereas our existing Australian Flag and our national anthem, ‘God Save The Queen’, are perpetual reminders of these hard-won freedoms and of the wise British principle of the division of power, so well reflected in our own Australian Constitution with its careful separation of powers as between the Crown and Commonwealth Parliament, the Senate, the State Parliaments, the GovernorGeneral and State Governors, and the Independent Courts of Justice, [More…]
I raised the matter with the Broadcasting Control Board, and arrangements have been made by the Board to establish a low power broadcasting station in that area. [More…]
Where this cannot be achieved, the Commissioner will have power to commence legal proceedings on behalf of the aggrieved person. [More…]
Arising out of that case the Australian Parliament, in the exercise of its power under section 5 1 (xxxvi), passed a special Act to otherwise provide for such questions to be referred to the High Court of Australia sitting as a Court of Disputed Returns. [More…]
I believe it would be mischievous to embark upon an inquiry in the assumption that this Parliament or this chamber does have that power. [More…]
The position has been put that the constitutional provisions under which this question has been put forward enable the chamber to refer this question to the Court of Disputed Returns, but that and the other provision made by the Act of Parliament in relation to questions respecting a vacancy have been viewed as exhausting the power which the Senate previously had to determine such questions. [More…]
Senate’s power to determine the questions for itself had been exhausted. [More…]
Such Committee shall have power to send for persons, papers and records. [More…]
Despite the view that there is an exhaustion of the power which was formerly available under section 47 of the Constitution because the Parliament made another provision which now appears in substance in section 1 8 of the Commonwealth Electoral Act, is it to be said that nevertheless the Senate will have its Committee of Disputed Returns and Qualifications inquire into and report upon the matter? [More…]
When the power under section 47 of the Constitution was originally unimpaired by provision made by the Parliament it was understood that a decision on a matter of this nature was to be a decision made at least after consideration in a judicial manner. [More…]
If we are not to proceed under section 203 of the Constitution, and if we are to ignore the view which has been put that the Senate’s power has been exhausted, does the Senate intend to have this question, which affects the rights of persons, determined in a judicial manner by the Standing Committee of Disputed Returns and Qualifications? [More…]
I will go further As far as it is within my power to direct- I do not believe I have such a power- I now state quite categorically that I would direct every Liberal senator to vote upon this question according to his conscience, and under no circumstances to vote on this matter according to his political affiliation. [More…]
I believe it would be mischievous to embark upon an inquiry on the assumption that this Parliament or this chamber does have that power. [More…]
We sit here in this chamber, a chamber whose significance has been growing year by year and will grow until it more nearly approaches the ambit of power in the comprehensive jurisdiction of the Senate of the United States if we accept the first principle of our existence, to guard and defend our own integrity. [More…]
The situation is that I have not the power of appointment of an ambassador or high commissioner. [More…]
On the hearing of any reference under this Part of this Act the Court of Disputed Returns shall sit as an open Court and shall have the powers conferred by section one hundred and eighty-nine of this Act so far as they are applicable, and in addition thereto shall have power- [More…]
Of course, they are words which he used in relation to section 5 1 of the Constitution which gives this Parliament power over matters in respect of which other sections provide ‘until the Parliament otherwise provides’. [More…]
Where, as under the Commonwealth Electoral Act, section 203 … the House has a discretion to refer such questions to the elections court, there can be no doubt that the House still retains power to determine whether a member duly returned has, subsequent to election, become disqualified or for some other cause has vacated his seat. [More…]
So in relation to the contentions which Senator Murphy and Senator James McClelland put before us that there now rests within us no jurisdiction to determine upon a vacancy or disqualification, this learned author says that there can be no doubt that the House reserves the power to make an effective determination in those circumstances. [More…]
I believe that the people are entitled to be disgusted with the Prime Minister who has schemed to gain a majority vote in this Senate in order to reverse the balance of power given by the people in a democratic vote. [More…]
It would be an unreal situation if this Parliament or any one House of the Parliament were to decide whether or not a senator had the qualifications to remain in this chamber, I believe it would be mischievous to embark upon an inquiry in the assumption that this Parliament or this chamber does have the power. [More…]
The first matter that comes in consequence is this- and I think Senator Murphy said this-that in looking at the section of the Constitution under which the Senate itself may determine the question of a vacancy until and unless otherwise provided, the Attorney-General (Senator Murphy) would argue that as the Electoral Act has been passed under the relevant section the Senate, to use his term, has exhausted its own power to determine this matter. [More…]
What I am arguing is that the Senate has the power under the section of the Constitution - [More…]
The Senate has the power under section 47 of the Constitution either to make the decision whether it will sit in judgment itself on the question of a vacancy or whether in a particular case it will pass that judgment over to the High Court sitting as a court of disputed returns. [More…]
It has various powers, including the power to compel attendance of witnesses, to declare an election void, and to declare any person duly elected who was not returned as elected. [More…]
This means that in these matters each House retains the power to decide whether to deal with the matter itself or to refer it to the court [More…]
This means that in these matters each House retains the power to decide whether to deal with the matter itself or to refer it to the court. [More…]
The court has similar powers to those which may be exercised by it when determining a disputed election, and in addition, the power to declare that any person was not capable of being chosen on sitting as a Senator or member of the House, and to declare that a vacancy exists. [More…]
In other words, the learned authors say, in spite of the protestations of the Attorney-General, that the Senate has not exhausted its power to deal with this matter, if it elects to do so, merely because it passes over concurrent jurisdiction to the court of disputed returns. [More…]
The question is that the Senate has this power if it elects to use it. [More…]
I hold strongly to the view that the Senate has that residual power. [More…]
In a particular circumstance in a proper case and in the appropriate situation it is not only able to do that but, it is also required and is under a duty so to exercise its power and authority. [More…]
There is too much of a tendency in these days for Parliament to surrender its power to bodies outside the precincts of these halls. [More…]
We had the discussion on whether the power of the Senate was exhausted. [More…]
We had cited to the Senate an eminent legal authority who considered that the power of the Senate was exhausted. [More…]
If we assume for the moment, against what was put by the eminent legal authority, that the Senate does retain some residual power to determine legal questions, surely it is not a question such as this. [More…]
At the time it was considered that the Commonwealth had a clear interest in the matter in that Commonwealth legislative powers were available in regard to the corporations power because the activities were being conducted by a trading corporation. [More…]
The export powers concerning trade and commerce with other countries were involved because this was incidental to the export of coal. [More…]
The Government’s reservations, all or some of which are shared by people outside the 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 themselvesthe 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…]
In this situation, but also because of other factors, such as our relative remoteness and non-involvement, the prospect of direct strategic pressures 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 three external powers, Australia, Britain and New Zealand and they help Malaysia and Singapore in developing their air defence capability. [More…]
That ploy has been used to try to cover up what is a disgrace to the Government that is now in power. [More…]
Changes in the pattern of power between the largest states do not seem to have reduced the incidence, or the level of violence, of these lesser hostilities. [More…]
In all probability, those gentlemen were holding their positions when the previous Government was in power. [More…]
It has been indicated in the statement that even after the introduction of manpower economies which were announced last August, the manpower of the defence Services will still be 39 per cent above the 1 963 level. [More…]
This scheme reflects an obsession for power. [More…]
I suggest that it is a typical reflection of this Government’s obsession for gaining power to the central Government, power over people. [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…]
He was always trying to find where the power was. [More…]
Australia: ‘Put us in power and we will give you a health Bill which will give a better health service for all at a cheaper cost for all’. [More…]
All that the honourable senator is saying is that the upper House in Victoria had the power to do something and it took the consequences. [More…]
The power units on the 2 bow thrusters are large electric motors run from main generators and are similar to motors in the most highly specialised United States submarines. [More…]
Following the statement made to the Senate last night by the Leader of the Opposition that if the Government did not jump he would push, can the Leader of the Government say whether Senator Withers has now advised him that Senator Withers does not have the numbers to reject the Appropriation Bills because South Australian Liberal senators now realise that a double dissolution will ensure the election of Mr Steele Hall to the Senate and so enable him to set up a power base for the purple Liberal movement on a national basis as was done by the late Senator Cole in 1955 in regard to the Australian Democratic Labor Party? [More…]
Party ideologues believe that by having power in this country they can masquerade as a reasonable type of government and still take us into the communist orbit, they will learn that they have been mistaken. [More…]
Neither will I say to a friendly power, much as our paranoid friends opposite may hate it because it has a communist government with which they and we have had friendly relations, that I reject something out of hand before I have had a look at it. [More…]
He should have mounting arms and nuclear power. [More…]
When the 2 super powers of the world today, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and the United States of America, combine in space research I suppose honourable members opposite would say, if they were sitting in Congress, that President Nixon would be a communist as also would Dr Kissinger and everybody else there; therefore, they are not even to be talked about. [More…]
The measures constitute the most authoritarian and dictatorial demand for power, in an area of fundamental interest to the States and the well-being of the nation that I have ever noted. [More…]
Of course, it is quite in keeping with this Government’s mania for concentrating all power in Canberra. [More…]
It is in pursuance of its desire to have the country believe that the Senate has been irresponsible in its reviewing of legislation and that it has been frustrating the House of Representatives where the Government has power. [More…]
In actual fact the Senate has proven to be a most responsible chamber right from the time the present Government came to power. [More…]
As I recall it, when the parliamentary Liberal Party Leader, Mr Snedden, first made an announcement on this matter he said that the Liberal Party would do all in its power to make certain that this Government got no more money until it submitted itself to the people. [More…]
But those of us who live in the Senate, who understand why the Senate was created by the founding fathers and who know the powers which reside in the Senate, know that we are doing nothing unusual. [More…]
It is well known that this Government is a central government, that it wants to take all power to the central government and to roll over the States. [More…]
Before coming to power the Labor Party said that as a government it would reduce interest rates for the people of this country. [More…]
The attitude of my Party is that an election must be held on the issue of whether all power shall go to Canberra. [More…]
It is whether all power shall go to Canberra and whether supreme power over State rights, family rights, workers rights and every other right in the community shall be dominated by Canberra and the bureaucracy. [More…]
They are means which make it essential that we should take action here and now to stop what has been, as I have said before, a course of bribery and corruption for the purpose of obtaining parliamentary power. [More…]
There is a bid for power, naked and unashamed in Canberra, bolstered up by a system of bribery, corruption and patronage and bolstered up by a deliberate design to alter the electoral system to benefit themselves. [More…]
I repeat: This election must be fought on one issue- the issue of all power to Canberra, the issue of the defence of the rights of the States, the defence of the rights of the family and the defence of all the other rights which are essential in any community such as ours. [More…]
I regard this Government as an authoritarian Government which has been kept in check to date only by the power of the Senate. [More…]
When Mr Whitlam spoke in Hobart he said that the big obstacle in the way of his plans for power was the DLP in the Senate. [More…]
Honourable senators opposite serve the interests not merely of ordinary business but of the great corporations which dominate this community by their economic power. [More…]
Therefore, when the Opposition is in power these great corporations hold the economic power in this community. [More…]
The Senate has co-ordinated power with the House of Representatives to pass all Bills or to reject all Bills. [More…]
What will be the position if we are to have tax rates so that if one is kept abreast of inflation one has to have a 25 per cent increase in salary in order that one’s real purchasing power is maintained at the same value it was when the year began? [More…]
We will do our utmost to ensure that we get Australia back to a level on which people ‘s purchasing power will be meaningful so that the person who receives a pension, a person who is on a fixed income and those who have not got the ability to act for themselves, as is always the case with a few people, will at least be protected in what they have and what they aspire to. [More…]
Let us allow the power of the unions to be able to determine what shall be the result in any industrial disputation. [More…]
If he was genuine he would have accepted our proposals, which we initiated in government, and legislated for them as soon as the Labor Party came into power. [More…]
We have as a recipe for the solution of inflation from the would-be Prime Minister, firstly, the injection of another $600m into the purchasing power of the community. [More…]
Senator MURPHY (New South WalesLeader of the Government in the Senate)- by leave- It is interesting to see the arrogance of power. [More…]
Now, the arrogance of power demonstrated by the Opposition moves into another area. [More…]
I say to the Leader of the Government in the Senate, who does not seem interested in my remarks, that this is the Government which came to power on the boast that it was going to give us open government, that nothing was going to be held back, that we were going to hear everything that happened. [More…]
It exceeded its power. [More…]
It was beaten fairly and squarely by the vote of the people of Australia who put the present Government into power. [More…]
The Opposition set out to put the Government out of power before that Government even had a chance to show its paces. [More…]
On its own admission it started from the jump, right from the last election, to see that this Government was put out of power. [More…]
Since the present Government has been in power the Opposition in this House has not set out to debate reasonable amendments on behalf of the people. [More…]
A great deal of nonsense has been talked about the Senate’s lack of power. [More…]
I think Senator McManus demonstrated very ably this afternoon the reason why the Senate has the power that it has. [More…]
When the Constitution was written and the Senate was created, it was given power to do certain things. [More…]
The fact that that power has not been exercised does not mean that that power should not be exercised. [More…]
If a special circumstance arises, there is no reason why that power should not be used if this chamber feels that it should be used. [More…]
It will be remembered that when the Legislative Drafting Institute Bill was before the Senate last week I raised a question of whether the Senate had been wise in relegating to the Remuneration Tribunal its power to supervise directly the remuneration of holders of certain statutory offices. [More…]
We succeeded and we exercised that power for a couple of years. [More…]
My recollection of the Remuneration Tribunal Act of this year is that that Tribunal has power not merely to recommend to the Parliament but to fu. [More…]
I express the view that it is probable that we have given too much power to the Remuneration Tribunal in giving it power to fix directly those salaries. [More…]
The difficulty of supervising a ceiling for these salaries I think has become such that the Parliament has unwisely relegated that power to a mere administrative tribunal. [More…]
Clause 3 (3) of the Bill contains a curious power. [More…]
The power to make regulations contained in an Act referred to in this section extends to the making of regulations for the purposes of this section. [More…]
In what way is that clause intended to extend the amplitude of the previous power? [More…]
That, in preparing the final 2 chapters of its report, the Committee have power to consider the minutes of evidence and records of the Select Committees on Securities and Exchange appointed during previous sessions. [More…]
The economic consequences of the introduction of a 35-hour week and that the Committee have power to consider and use motions, transcripts of evidence and other records including draft reports, advisory papers, submissions, correspondence and other documents of the Standing Committee. [More…]
He was the first Minister to operate under the new powers achieved for this Parliament by the referendum of 1946. [More…]
It gave this Parliament power to legislate with respect to the provision of maternity allowances, widows pensions, child endowment, unemployment, pharmaceutical, sickness and hospital benefits, and medical and dental services but not so as to authorise any form of civil conscription, benefits to students and family allowances. [More…]
It is quite clear that the Government intends to pursue its centralist policies and to grab more and more power for Canberra. [More…]
I put it to the Senate that Australia would be better off if the Government were to concentrate on making our postal system efficient, reliable and strike-free before it continued its quest for more power. [More…]
After failing to win electoral reform through its phoney referendums, the Government is quite determined to seek perpetual power by any underhand method it can use. [More…]
Are we to see a continuing expansion of central government power and control constantly reducing the freedom of the individual? [More…]
There seems to be no reason at all to get away from the basic principle in our democracy of the community’s involvement in government, the power and involvement of the people on the spot, so that their knowledge and priorities may have proper significance. [More…]
In this context surely the question of the sovereignty and power of the States is fundamental at this time. [More…]
We in this chamber constitute a States House, and we are witnessing an immense threat to the sovereign powers of the States of Australia. [More…]
Local government with the power and involvement of people on the spot is as basic to Australian democracy as is the strength, sovereignty and involvement of the people through their State parliaments. [More…]
I believe that it is a chamber that has very great power and responsibility. [More…]
I refuse to agree that its rights or powers are in any significant way circumscribed. [More…]
I see a great task for this powerful chamber and I intend to play my part. [More…]
That convention was growing with great acceptance until a Liberal government came into power in 1906 and the House of Lords took a stand. [More…]
And so, of course, the House of Lords met its nemesis in 1911 and it has been having its wings clipped ever since because the Commons then established legal mastery whereby it was entitled to have its measures passed through Parliament with only a minimum of delay, no amendment, and with certainly no power of rejection, in the ultimate sense, in the House of Lords. [More…]
But the Senate’s power of amendment was strictly limited to those appropriation Bills which deal with the ordinary annual services of the Parliament and, even as to new appropriations and new policies, the Senate has the same right of amendment as the House of Representatives. [More…]
Even as to other Bills it has the power to request amendments and to pursue its requests so that the situation is that, amendments having been requested, the Bill cannot be accepted until it is accepted by the Senate. [More…]
Then the section provides that except in those respects the Senate shall have equal power with the House of Representatives in all proposed laws. [More…]
It is after an enumeration of the powers of the Parliament, the exclusive powers of the Parliament, and a definition of any distinction between the powers belonging to this place and another place that we find section 57 brought into the constitution. [More…]
So in section 57, apart from the context to which I have referred, it is completely clear that having dealt with money Bills a section or two before, and section 57 referring to any proposed laws, and realising the degree of attention and the very great study that was given to section 57, it is not by any inadvertence but by deliberate enactment that the double dissolution power applies to money Bills as to other Bills. [More…]
This much is certain, that the people as final arbiters will be the gainers of power by the liability of both Houses to dissolution. [More…]
As previous speakers have reminded this chamber the Menzies-Fadden Government came to power in 1949 on the promise that it would put value back into the pound. [More…]
When they were in power they were responsible for record unemployment. [More…]
When he was in Australia Dr Porter said that if the previous government had remained in power inflation in this country, due to the economic strategy that the previous government was employing, would be running twice as high as it is today. [More…]
There was a deliberate plan, egged on by left wing union leaders, to create scarcity in the basic industries and so upgrade the bargaining power, and the Labor Party applauds this plan. [More…]
I remind Senator Mulvihill that the voice of the people said no to the referenda, and wisely so when we realise the kind of arbitrary power which the Labor Party would induce. [More…]
Merely by turning up the volume he cannot increase his candle power, as the years have shown with the dimming of the intellectual light from the other side of this chamber. [More…]
Honourable senators may recall that when the Labor Government came to power the Minister for Defence set 3 priorities, in this order: Firstly, he said, in relation to the conditions of engagement of servicemen, that he would make sure that they received a rate of pay which was commensurate with what was being paid in outside industry. [More…]
-Will the PostmasterGeneral tell us what steps have been taken by the Government to ensure the adequate delivery of mail to and from Tasmania in the light of the present dispute involving the Australian Institute of Marine and Power Engineers? [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…]
At this time the Tribunal has not the power to enforce its recommendations and, therefore, to control prices to the grass roots consumers. [More…]
That belief was epitomised in the slogan which the Country Party used for many years when it was in power, the slogan that it was just ‘waiting for the industry to tell us what to do’. [More…]
When one looks through the world’s history of great dictators one finds that they have used the same tactics to secure themselves in power. [More…]
The reason, I believe, is that the so-called free Press, which is supposed to be the critics and watchdogs of free society, has become the sycophant and the pawn of the party which is currently in power. [More…]
Can we believe that we will be secure in our power supplies? [More…]
Persons who may have purchased their home before the Labor Government came into power are now faced with the situation of paying interest rates which are higher than those which, at the time they made their purchase, were reasonable and within their means. [More…]
Certainly this is the worst inflation in the period since 1949 and it is far greater than that which was condemned by Mr Whitlam when he asked to be put in power because those who had presided over the previous inflation were not to be trusted. [More…]
I feel somewhat resentful, because I am a good Liberal, that the people who caused this election are now responsible for the power that the Labor Government has. [More…]
They gave the Government the power it has. [More…]
I wondered why, for so long after the election, these people who have given the socialist Government of Australia the power to socialise, as we will obviously find out at the joint sitting, continue to blame the Government. [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 LiberalCountry Party governments revealed. [More…]
From my recollection I think he said that if the Liberal Party got into power- I think at that time he thought that it would- it would not be able to back down on this proposal. [More…]
Don Chipp, Senator Greenwood and Mr McManus were celebrating 4 July, the anniversary of that great day when America, after defeating the British as a colonial power, obtained its independence. [More…]
These discussions shall cover only land within the Northern Territory, which is the extent of Commonwealth power, other than areas the subject of compulsory acquisition without interfering with the States, and areas adjacent which were covered by the Woodward report. [More…]
The purpose would be to prevent the government in power from losing office. [More…]
Once we have a situation where a political party can use Fred’s fiddle as soon as it gets into office to cocoon itself in power, then we will start a chain reaction. [More…]
The Country Party believes it is wrong that political power should be concentrated in a few great cities, swamping rural expression. [More…]
In May the people threw out the Government’s request to be given power to amend the Constitution so that electoral divisions could be determined on the basis of total population instead of numbers of eligible voters. [More…]
‘the problem of preventing the Senate from inhibiting and frustrating government can be solved’ by 2 constitutional changes: ‘Fust, deprive the Senate of the power to reject Supply, for if it is to defeat a Government it should do so on a specific measure, not on general grounds of dislike. [More…]
Representation was now based on population, not area, with the result that power in Parliament was confined to the heavily populated areas’. [More…]
I can remember that the Labor Government not long ago when it was last in power in Queensland had a redistribution in which it gave considerable preference to the areas in the western part of the State. [More…]
I think that the concentration of electoral power in the capital cities will have an increasing adverse effect on country areas. [More…]
Is it now trying to hoodwink the people by pushing through some law at a joint sitting because it has the power to do so? [More…]
-Certainly, we are fearful of a change which is designed to perpetuate in power, if the system will permit it, a government which is so devoid of principle and standards as this Government has shown itself to be. [More…]
I appreciate that the general purport of the Constitution is to confer upon the High Court of Australia the power to make decisions as to whether or not laws passed by this Parliament are or are not constitutionally valid. [More…]
I would anticipate, although one could appreciate arguments which could be advanced, that the power of the High Court to pass judgment upon the validity of this measure could be questioned. [More…]
If it stacks the Territory enough with bureaucrats it will get them, and if it stacks the Australian Capital Territory enough it will get them, and so it will have the balance of power and control in this House. [More…]
Essentially the difference between the new Corporation and the old Board will be that the Corporation will have power to trade in its own right, especially on a government to government basis. [More…]
It will have additional marketing powers in Australia and powers over general promotion and marketing which did not apply under the constitution of the old Apple and Pear Board. [More…]
It was our side of the House of Representatives which in 1959, 1966 and 1968 gradually upgraded the voting power of the member for the Northern Territory and the member for the Australian Capital Territory to the full status of all other members. [More…]
I think it would be extremely wrong, in cases where money is being appropriated by the Government of Australia to a Territory which is receiving very beneficial treatment, for that Territory’s representative in this place to have the balance of power. [More…]
Yesterday we found that same honourable senator speaking about the power of the States when he made his contribution. [More…]
In no way is the Government endeavouring to reduce the power of the States. [More…]
It is quite conceivable that Territory senators with only a 3-year term could hold the balance of power over the sovereign States, thereby thwarting the concept of the Senate as the proper House of review envisaged by the architects of our Constitution. [More…]
If anybody had attended the opening of Parliament and heard some of the Labor men from the Territory speak they would have heard them say that since the central government, since Labor has been in office, it has taken unto itself nearly every power from both the Northern Territory Legislative Council and the Administrator’s Council. [More…]
Is the Labor Party content that the Australian Capital Territory and the Northern Territory shall remain forever as Territories, as appendages of a Commonwealth or as appendages of a Labor Government which seeks to centralise all power in Canberra, which seeks to clutch them in its hands and which seeks to make them merely vassals of its central government? [More…]
The longer we live the wiser we are and the more sure we are that decentralisation of the diffusion of power is wiser than the centralisation of power. [More…]
On views expressed by legal authorities it is clear beyond doubt that this Parliament has the power to provide senatorial representation for the Territories to the extent and on such terms and conditions as it thinks fit as provided by section 12 1 of the Constitution. [More…]
There can be no doubt that the Australian Parliament has the power to allow the representation of each of these Territories, both in the Senate and the House of Representatives, in the numbers contemplated. [More…]
These choices are within its constitutional powers. [More…]
But when the Senate has the power it does not involve any question of default on its part if it does not pass the Bill. [More…]
The Constitution created this Senate of the States on the basis of 6 States, each with equal power in this place. [More…]
With respect to judicial power there is a remarkable distinction between the degree of the jurisdiction of the Federal courts in the territorial areas and in the States. [More…]
For the Northern Territory, with 36,000 electors to send to this place 2 senators and operate with an efficacy of vote one-fifth of the voting power of New South Wales which has 3 million population is just a denial, a defeating, of the fundamental basis upon which the Senate was constructed. [More…]
But such Territory representatives in the Senate under this Bill are to have full voting rights and could as non-State representatives hold the balance of power in an institution set up to safeguard the interests of the States- a principle embodied in the Constitution without which Federation would not have been accomplished. [More…]
That constitutional provision also gives power to the Parliament to provide how the number of members shall be chosen from each State. [More…]
I would have thought that if there is to be a power in the Parliament to give to Territory senators a full vote as ordinary senators the nexus provision could well apply. [More…]
But what we are really talking about as a problem is distribution of power. [More…]
In general terms, we would have to say that the diffusion of power through democracy is effective only when the voters take an interest in what policies are presented to them. [More…]
But between 1957, when the National Party- or the Country Party, the Liberal Party or the people’s party; whatever they called themselves at the time- assumed power, and now, it has whittled away the public bed system. [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…]
The second reason why I think the Senate is entitled to this material is that it affects the general powers, the privileges and the assumed rights which the Senate has exercised over many years. [More…]
I think that is an attitude upon which, irrespective of what government is in power, the whole Senate would wish to express some view. [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 the 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 my colleague, the Minister for Urban and Regional Development, that the committee should proceed to tender readiness, for the implementation of the works as recommended by the committee. [More…]
I stated that the medical profession has the power to police itself, and ordinarily did so. [More…]
Most of them are religious and charitable institutions which depend heavily on Government subsidy for their livelihood as they should, because they are religious and charitable and exhibit a power of goodwill by the maintenance of their institutions. [More…]
The difficulty with the Queensland scheme is that under the conservative governments which have been in power since the scheme started the hospital system has suffered from lack of funds and neglect. [More…]
I ask honourable senators to read clause 34 and observe the provision for the unrestricted control and power of the Minister in such cases. [More…]
A thoughtful discussion on this area is a very good example of the way in which the scheme will work, the effect it will have on communities and indeed the power which will be given to the Government. [More…]
It is a good example of the power and control that the Government will have if this legislation be passed because the measure before us today deals with the total social dimension of all Australians and within that total social dimension lies the nation’s health. [More…]
I warn the people against that control and power which the Government of the day will have over them if this legislation is passed. [More…]
However, while so many Opposition senators decry these measures and find so much fault with them, I again remind them that it was their action in forcing a double dissolution which gave the Labor Government the power to proceed. [More…]
I again say to those who so violently object, as I do to Labor’s ultimate plans, that, as they were senators in the previous Parliament and were the cause of the double dissolution, they can reflect for a long time in future, as they commiserate with the Australian Medical Association, on how they gave a socialist government the power to do that which they did not want it to do. [More…]
That rate has doubled in the time this Party has been in power. [More…]
That the Committee have power to appoint subcommittees consisting of 4 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…]
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. [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 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 Prices appointed during the Twenty-eighth Parliament. [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…]
8 ) 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 consider and make use of the evidence and records of the Joint Committee on the Northern Territory appointed during 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…]
7 ) 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. [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 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 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…]
This Parliament would have had the power to further reduce the opportunity for post-Budget profit-taking had the Government’s prices and incomes referendum been successful last December. [More…]
The Bill, which seeks to set up the Authority, clothes it with vast powers in this field. [More…]
Therefore, the powers of this Authority extend not only to the ordinary Australian continental land mass, which is defined as extending to the outer limits of whatever sovereignty Australia has or may obtain over the continental shelf, but apply to what is in popular parlance both on-shore and off-shore deposits of energy resources and minerals. [More…]
The Authority can operate over the whole of that area or outside Australia as well, because the Bill gives the Authority the power not only to explore, develop, transport and refine minerals and petroleum but to buy and sell both petroleum and minerals. [More…]
The Authority has the power not only to explore and develop mines but presumably to build and operate smelters, refineries and so on. [More…]
The Government seeks to clothe this Authority with the fullest conceivable powers to operate in the mining industry, whether it be for energy resources or minerals generally. [More…]
The Authority may then proceed to carry out all the powers and functions which it has under this Bill- they are vast- in respect of the particular exploration area declared by it. [More…]
This Parliament has no direct power to legislate in respect of mining in the States or to set up mining laws for the States. [More…]
So it is not just the abrogation of State power that concerns us; it is the abrogation of the rights and titles which countless individual Australians possess. [More…]
It has been said often- it was said in the Senate just a moment ago- that the Labor Government has been just recently re-elected to power and has a strong mandate. [More…]
Of course, it has been re-elected to power and, of course, it has a mandate. [More…]
On the one hand, the legislation envisages the establishment of a vertically integrated company with quite extraordinary and privileged powers. [More…]
That company will have power over the research, production, transportation, processing and marketing of petroleum amd minerals. [More…]
I disagree with the establishment of an Authority that has such extensive and unrelenting power, power of take-over, power from a privileged position. [More…]
The Authority is to have the power of take-over on its own terms and conditions. [More…]
I do not believe that this is a suitable or necessary power for it to have in order to control suitably the petroleum and minerals industry in this country. [More…]
As I said earlier, if the proposed Authority envisaged purely a capacity to be a regulatory and advisory authority with a power to devote funds to Australian enterprises where these enterprises needed such power, funds and encouragement of skills, I believe it would be an excellent authority and that it would have a very real area of control and development to employ. [More…]
I have perused the Address which you, on behalf of the Senate, presented to me on the 19 June, in which the Senate requests me to exercise the power vested, under certain conditions, in the Governor-General, by section 128 of the Constitution, to submit to the Electors the six proposed laws for the amendment of the Constitution, which are annexed to the Address. [More…]
Sir Ronald Ferguson again made the constitutional position quite plain in the following passages: 1 am advised further that to accede to the request contained in your Address would imply a recognition of a right in the Senate to make the Ministers of State for the Commonwealth directly responsible to that Chamber for advice tendered to the Governor-General in relation to the exercise of an Executive power vested in him by the terms of the Constitution, and that such a recognition would not be in accordance with the accepted principles of responsible government. [More…]
My plain duty in such circumstances, as it appears to me, acting, not as the representative of His Majesty the King as a constituent part of the Commonwealth Parliament, but as the designated executant of a statutory power created and conferred by the whole Parliament, is simply to adhere to the normal principles of responsible government by following the advice of the Ministers who are constitutionally assigned to me for the time being as my advisers, and who must take the responsibility of that advice. [More…]
It is either within the power of this chamber to send such a communication to the Governor-General or it is not. [More…]
So the Government had it within its power at any time in December or November, if it regarded this Bill as imperative or urgent and if it wanted to proceed properly with the forms of this chamber, to bring in the Bill and to debate it here over the period of a week or two. [More…]
The Attorney-General was at great pains to take note of Senator Sir Magnus Cormack ‘s intervention that there was a residual power in the High Court. [More…]
The Senate knows and the Labor Party knows that any government of Australia has complete power over its minerals, over its export trade and over who shall develop and exploit the resources. [More…]
Under the commerce and export powers the government of the day can and does decide what company shall establish itself in Australia, how much the company shall develop its resources each year, to what stages of refining or processing the company shall take those resources, how much in terms of tonnage shall be exported and what prices shall be received for the material exported. [More…]
Of course, following upon that the government of the day has complete powers of taxation and charges levied upon the company at all levels. [More…]
So the Australian Government, without taking on any further powers at all, has the power to say yes or no to a company that wishes to develop a particular mineral. [More…]
That is a total power. [More…]
Indeed, within the corporation power under the Concrete Pipes case the power of the Commonwealth Government to tell a company what to do is quite enormous. [More…]
What I have is a brief for the Australian people and the powers under our Constitution and existing law to preserve, conserve and develop the precious minerals we have in Australia. [More…]
Let nobody say that the powers do not exist. [More…]
It is very far-ranging and would clothe the Authority with terrific power. [More…]
It does not stop at giving assistance in an advisory capacity to Australian industry while at the same time providing guidelines to assist in the proper development of our resources; it confers so much power that it could lead to the nationalisation of the mining and petroleum industries of this country. [More…]
Since this Government came to power there has been a great down-turn in the volume of actual exploration, particularly in the off-shore areas, because of the lack of incentive from the Government. [More…]
I refer to Part II of the Bill which is headed ‘Establishment, Functions and Powers of the Petroleum and Minerals Authority’. [More…]
Under clause 6 of this legislation if it became law, the Government would have the power to explore for petroleum and petroliferous minerals on the Australian continental land mass and elsewhere; to recover petroleum, etc. [More…]
Authority include the power to explore for minerals; to recover minerals; to treat minerals; to refine metals and other substances; to crush, screen or otherwise treat or prepare for sale coal and construction materials in Australia or elsewhere; to buy and sell materials, refined substances and manufactured materials and substances; and to transport minerals, refined substances, etc. [More…]
Hence we see that this Bill would give the Government power to explore for petroleum, etc., and to explore and exploit minerals in the seabed to the outer boundary of the continental shelf. [More…]
I return to what I was saying, before I quoted that statement of the Premier of South Australia, about the power that the Commonwealth Government is taking unto itself for the exploration and exploitation of minerals and petroleum in the off-shore areas of Australia. [More…]
I am certain that many people, particularly the leaders, in the various States will not be very happy about such powers residing in the Commonwealth Government. [More…]
If we look at clause 43 ( 1 ) of the Bill we see the power that the Commonwealth gives to the Authority, and Senator Durack referred to this recently. [More…]
This again illustrates the wide ranging powers provided by this legislation. [More…]
The legislation states very clearly that the Authority will have power to transport petroleum, petroliferous minerals, petroleum products and petrochemicals on the Australian continental land mass and between Australia and other countries. [More…]
One must, in all responsibility, question how far the Government would go in this regard, because we all can recall the provisions of the Pipeline Authority Bill which was passed in this Parliament last year and we can also see just how far the Minister and the Government have stretched to the extreme to use the very maximum power given to them by the Pipeline Authority Act. [More…]
Will it lead to the Government believing that under this legislation it will have power to move into the field of shipping between Australia and other countries? [More…]
We find in clause 12 of the Bill that the Government has power to purchase land, to take land on lease, to take easements over land, to sell, or otherwise dispose of, land vested in the Authority but not required for the purposes of the Authority- in other words, the Government could become a real estate agent- to lease land vested in the Authority the use of which is not for the time being required by the Authority, to release any easements over land, to purchase or take on hire plant, machinery, equipment or other goods. [More…]
Further on in clause 12 we find that the Authority has these powers: [More…]
So we can see the great powers that this Government would take unto itself if the Petroleum and Minerals Authority Bill became law. [More…]
It would not have the power to do it. [More…]
If I may make an aside here, we are now coming to the stage of energy use throughout the world at which if uranium is not used fairly soon, there will be new techniques in the use of heavy water to produce power and the uranium that we now have may be completely useless. [More…]
We have seen 6 referendums in 6 months returned with a ‘ no ‘ vote which is a fairly positive indication, to me anyway, that the people of Australia do not want a lot of extra power to come to this part of Australia. [More…]
As I have said, the Government in its moves into an all-embracing governmental power over the mining interests should understand that the dynamics of the free enterprise system are behind the mineral wealth of Australia and particularly behind the oil wealth which Australia has enjoyed recently at a time of very great disruption on the world oil markets. [More…]
The Government, not having the power to nationalise the industry under the Constitution, as we know, has taken the only effective step available to it, and that is the creation of this Authority which will in fact work in conjunction with private enterprise, where necessary, in order to establish a proper working arrangement between Government and private enterprise. [More…]
It is not subject to State law because its powers flow from the Commonwealth Constitution. [More…]
It would be a denial of the Constitution to make the exercise of the Authority’s powers subject to a State. [More…]
Again, in relation to this Bill, we have the argument which was raised in previous debates and that is that the Australian government would exercise some monstrous power to the detriment of the States. [More…]
It confers substantial power on the Commonwealth in what might be called the monetary sector. [More…]
It is fundamentally an umbrella type operation in which great overriding powers are to be expressed in a form of varying kinds of regulations. [More…]
The Bill is the second Statute Law Revision Bill to have been introduced since this Government came into power. [More…]
The Bill made the claim that the Commonwealth Government, and not the States whose land was adjacent to the particular offshore areas, was the sovereign power as regards those offshore areas. [More…]
Then the matter of whether the Commonwealth has the power over the area, whether the States have the power over the area or who has control over what areas will be resolved by the High Court judgment. [More…]
We take the same view that if the Commonwealth establishes in the High Court the broad sovereignty over these areas, nevertheless although that would no doubt give the Commonwealth Parliament a power to legislate in these areas, whether it be in regard to mining or otherwise I will deal with some other aspects of that in a minute- we believe that it would be proper for mining laws in regard to the seabed to be passed essentially by the State parliaments. [More…]
Having regard to what Justices of the High Court have saidand all witnesses who gave evidence on this aspect generally concurred- it would appear that the Commonwealth has the constitutional power to legislate under its external affairs power to give effect to international obligations. [More…]
But it is generally regarded as an open question whether the Commonwealth may successfully claim that ‘rights’ or ‘powers’ -as distinct from duties or obligations- accruing to Australia under international conventions will entitle it to legislate to give effect to them. [More…]
If they do so, it would mean that in significant and, possibly, expanding areas the Commonwealth heads of power would become more extensive than the constitutional provisions expressly contemplate- and, consequentially, reduce the exclusive area of State authority. [More…]
It is strange that the Victorian Department of Mines- which was set up prior to that time and which has such great knowledge of the mining of land and also of mining in offshore areas- should be completely overlooked by a government which seeks to control and to concentrate its entire power in Canberra. [More…]
I see this Bill as an attempt not only to get rid of private enterprise and to concentrate power in Canberra but also to get rid of the various State governments and the various State authorities. [More…]
The very wording of this Bill and this mining code will give to the Minister for Minerals and Energy power such as we have never before seen conferred in Bills presented to this Parliament. [More…]
Since this Government has been in power there has been an exodus from Australia of geologists and mining engineers. [More…]
This problem arose in the United States of America in the 1940s and, although the Congress of the United States was given the authority by a decision of the Supreme Court and although the United States Congress vested the power which the Supreme Court had conferred in that Congress in the States of the Atlantic seaboard, still that has not resolved the legal problems. [More…]
Not only are those laws to apply but also the Minister is to have the power to say from time to time whether some of those laws will not apply and that general power of giving to the Minister or to a group of Ministers to advise the Governor-General in Council that some laws shall or shall not apply in an area is in my submission the type of action which you, Mr Acting Deputy President, will recognise ought not to be conferred by regulation upon anybody. [More…]
There is a wide power of delegation by the Minister to any public servant. [More…]
Whilst the power of delegation is a power properly to be exercised from time to time, an examination of the provisions of this legislation indicates that the type of delegation which is engaged in is such that any public servant might exercise powers which ought properly, if they are to be exercised at all, be exercised by a Minister. [More…]
I have mentioned the fact that there is a wide power of delegation contained in clause 10 by which the Minister may delegate his powers to Commonwealth Public Service officers. [More…]
There is a power vested in the Minister simply to grant or refuse a reconnaissance authority, to grant or refuse exploration permits, to grant or refuse renewals of permits, and the grounds upon which these grants or refusals may be taken or made are not specified. [More…]
So the Minister is given the power to override the regulations which are made under the Act of Parliament. [More…]
No Parliament should be prepared to give to a Minister that power in his own discretion without criteria to override the regulations, the laws of the land. [More…]
The power to take away a permit or licence from a person who is engaged in the actual work of exploring for minerals on the basis that the Minister, in his own discretion, unexaminable and unchallengeable by the courts, makes such a decision is in my opinion the antithesis of all that democracy and responsible government recognise. [More…]
Senator Greenwood also seemed to think that the Minister did not have the right to delegate power. [More…]
He must have the right to delegate power. [More…]
It has had the courage to do things that the previous Government when in power was never prepared to do. [More…]
As a further safeguard the AttorneyGeneral has residual power to determine whether- even if the courts say a proper case exists for extradition- a person ought to be extradited. [More…]
Initially we looked closely at the procedure whereby this new system could be invoked by regulation; but it does appear that the treaty making power is an Executive power and the extradition processes therefore depend on Executive action. [More…]
It finances soundly conceived and viable projects, mostly in the infrastructure area, and the sort of things which meet the following economic tests: agricultural development, irrigation development which leads to agricultural intensivity, road and rail communication and improvement, port improvement, telecommunication improvement and electric power development. [More…]
But in addition to authority to determine those matters the Tribunal has power to make recommendations with regard to the salaries of Ministers and also of judges. [More…]
The Tribunal was given the power to decide the issue so that there was the least possible discussion by the [More…]
I agree with the statements made by the Treasurer (Mr Crean), but the Australian Government has no power to peg wages. [More…]
The referendum question was rejected and the States have not given us the power to do this. [More…]
But such figures have nothing to do with the real purchasing power of those wages. [More…]
Just about every section of the community, including the Press and the members of the Opposition parties, went out on to the hustings and advised the people against giving the power to the Commonwealth Government for the control of prices. [More…]
There is no power there to deflect these determinations. [More…]
The power to deflect exists only from the start of this corridor and in these benches. [More…]
But such figures have nothing to do with the real purchasing power of those wages . [More…]
I guess that the Australian Labor Party, coming into power after 23 years in the wilderness, was subject to a rather over-enthusiastic desire to do many things too quickly for the benefit of the people in accordance with promises and so on but, in the process, this inflationary situation which now bedevils us has become the nation’s biggest threat at the present time to the continuation of development and the provision of good living standards for everybody. [More…]
But in fact the people regard the Parliament as the high court of the realm and they know instinctively that in the final analysis all power and all authority within the Constitution is derived from the Parliament. [More…]
The powers of this chamber ought to be exercised as powers of other bodies ought to be exercised with proper regard to the considerations embedded in the statute. [More…]
This power ought not to be so lightly used as to disapprove of a determination which has been properly made by the members of the Tribunal. [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 quasi-judicial functions of granting authorisations or clearances, but it will enable the Attorney-General 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 Industries 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 organisations concerned in the marketing of primary products. [More…]
There is also power to provide exemptions by regulation for practices related to intergovernmental arrangements. [More…]
The Senate’s power to oppose the legislation is undoubted, as is the Senate’s right to oppose the legislation. [More…]
I do not care who is in power; if people accept the responsibility of doing a survey, they are entitled to the respect of members of this Parliament. [More…]
We have been in power for about 2 years. [More…]
The previous Government was in power for 23 years. [More…]
But the situation is that his own government was in power and after 23 years it was unable to provide that service for the people whom the honourable senator is supposed to represent. [More…]
They do not change, nor can they change, ownership, power or control in Australia. [More…]
These circumstances have necessitated urgent steps by the Government to enable people on pension incomes to have additional purchasing power. [More…]
But the important thing to remember is that with the increased inflation which we are experiencing with such rapidity it will not be long before there is again an ever increasing gap between pension income and its purchasing power. [More…]
But I agree with Senator Wright, who is absent from the chamber, and to whom I pay tribute, that the adjournment debate is a forum for injustice, whatever government is in power. [More…]
Federation it was determined that this Parliament should have the legislative power over, amongst other things, weights and measures. [More…]
Our responsibility as a national Parliament is to aid and guide the Territory to self-government but we are not showing much ability at aiding and guiding when, in my view, we are literally forced into getting legislation through to bring into operation a House of Assembly that will have no power and no guidelines. [More…]
Between the time that the Legislative Assembly first meets and the time that the Government issues its opinion of the Committee’s recommendations the only work that the Assembly will have to do will be to keep in contact with the Government, to put up its ideas as to the type of power, work and responsibility that it feels Canberra should hand over. [More…]
I wonder where the power of veto will rest. [More…]
If so, I believe that this will not be a great step forward for the people of the Northern Territory and selfgovernment in the real sense of the term should Canberra hold the power of veto as it grasps it at present. [More…]
From whom will the powers flow? [More…]
Whatever a fully elected Assembly means in the Northern Territory, its members can bet their last shilling that Mr Connor will not hand over one tittle of power regarding the operation of minerals and energy in the Territory. [More…]
It is fair to remind ourselves that until the concrete pipes case or the Rocla case it was judged almost impossible for the Commonwealth to have sufficient power in itself to bring down such a measure. [More…]
As a result of all the proposals there will undoubtedly be substantial change in the area of government power and equally in the area of government responsibility. [More…]
No government would take on such power and responsibility lightly because it is involved in an area of increasing difficulty and increasing responsibility where mistakes that are made will lie at the door of the government and its instruments. [More…]
The Opposition believes that this extra power, which is quite massive, must be under restraint, under scrutiny and under a power of recall and constant renewal. [More…]
I am not arguing about the ordinary services of government or the power of a government elected to raise revenue for its purposes. [More…]
I want to again quote to the Senate and my colleagues the charge upon the Reserve Bank, because this charge also lies upon the Government that proposes with our support, that the effective power of the Reserve Bank be increased. [More…]
Mr J. R. Odgers, the Clerk of the Senate, is a notable authority on this subject and in his work ‘Australian Senate Practice’ at pages 478 and 479 he refers to the power of the Senate to summons witnesses. [More…]
By section 49 of the Constitution it is enacted that the powers, privileges, and immunities of the Senate and the House of Representatives, and of the members and the committees of each House, shall be such as are declared by the Parliament, and until declared shall be those of the Commons House of Parliament of the United Kingdom, and of its members and committees, at the establishment of the Commonwealth. [More…]
Under section 49 of the Constitution one of the undoubted powers of the Senate (and of the House of Representatives) is the power to summon witnesses to appear before it to give evidence and produce documents. [More…]
In accordance with such power, the Senate, in 193 1, called to the Bar of the Sente the Chairman of the Board of the Commonwealth Bank, Sir Robert Gibson, to give evidence in relation to the Commonwealth Bank Bill. [More…]
But the Bill provides for it It provides the Government, if it happens to have control of this matter, which is not unlikely in the ensuing years, with the power to prescribe a greater or lesser amount of sundry debtors and so include a certain company within the provisions of this legislation. [More…]
I question the power of the Bill to enable the Government to control inflation. [More…]
I also question whether the Government needs the powers contained in this Bill to control the inflation which we are experiencing. [More…]
The powers which are in the Bill certainly would be counter-productive in terms of the normal social and economic objectives of Australian governments and in some circumstances could be disastrous. [More…]
I had thought that he might draw attention to the fact that the powers for controlling the direction of lending could be directed towards an institution such as the Australian Industry Development Corporation and its objectives with regard to Australian ownership of some of our resources. [More…]
But I use my own examples of the effect of the power given under this Bill on the volume and direction of lending to draw attention to the fact that the achievement of the objectives of the AIDC could be one purpose for which that power could be used. [More…]
It gives power over the volume and direction of lending. [More…]
I also draw attention to the clause which relates to asset ratios, because by linking clauses 13 and 14 we see the effect which the Government could achieve by using the powers contained in this legislation. [More…]
I must acknowledge that I have not the support of my Party in stating my objections to this Bill, but I believe that clause 15, which grants the power to set interest rates, is the most dangerous clause in the Bill in terms of the dislocation of the financial market in Australia. [More…]
The fact that there are direct controls on interest rates, as well as the other 2 powers I have mentioned, means that we have not a satisfactory method of dealing with inflation but a control which results in the institutions themselves having no means of making commercial decisions with regard to their business undertakings. [More…]
They are faced with the possibility of the use of a power which may remove from the management of companies the ability to control the flow of funds which they handle and also their ability to enter into long term commitments. [More…]
It is interesting to see this Bill being introduced at this time when we consider that comparable countries which have had this sort of power and these controls are now seeking to dismantle them. [More…]
Before the suspension of the sitting of the Senate I was relating my remarks to clause 15 of the Financial Corporations Bill which contains the power to control interest rates. [More…]
In this present situation I think it is a dangerous power that is proposed. [More…]
Although the Government has suggested that it would not necessarily use the power, we have the feeling from the recent statements of the Treasurer (Mr Crean) and the Minister for Housing and Construction (Mr Les Johnson) that the provisions of clause 15 are highly likely to be implemented [More…]
I have this strong feeling of concern about the operation of the interest rate power within this Bill. [More…]
It seems to me that at this time in the history of this Australian Government the concrete pipes case appears to give the Government a power under the Constitution to implement direct controls over the non-bank financial organisations and that that is a power which the Government seeks to use. [More…]
Whether that power is to be used for political purposes or in the national interest remains to be seen. [More…]
But it is a power which is sought in this Bill and one which I feel could have far reaching implications into the future. [More…]
I shall be following through the amendments to be moved by the Opposition at the Committee stage of the Bill, but I wish to make these remarks in a somewhat personal way about the application of the interest rates power. [More…]
I suppose that if a government had wanted to go in for this sort of regulation it might have been possible in the past to rely.on the banking power in the Constitution; because I do not think that it could be denied that many of the institutions which we now seek to cover by this Bill are properly classifiable as banks. [More…]
However, as has been pointed out by Senator Guilfoyle, since the Rocla pipes decision the Australian Government can feel more confident that it can enact a measure like this under the corporations power. [More…]
It is on this power that this Bill is firmly based. [More…]
For that reason the Government has seen fit to rely on this corporations power in order to set up a structure which in this Bill merely lays the ground for some regulation and control of these fringe banks. [More…]
Of course, as a final safeguard I point out to honourable senators opposite that the power which resides in this Senate of disallowing regulations remains totally unimpaired. [More…]
This legislation will give the Government a considerable amount of control and power over the major sources of credit other than the banks which are already controlled under the Banking Act. [More…]
The Financial Corporations Bill gives considerable powers to the central Government through the Reserve Bank. [More…]
As I understand it, the Bill gives the Reserve Bank power to direct any part of the funds of building societies to any type of assets that it chooses. [More…]
The legislation has the power to determine the volume and direction of lending. [More…]
These of course are very profound powers, far and away beyond those that Senator James McClelland indicated. [More…]
Economists have always looked towards a power over what they call qualitative and quantitative lending as a significant power in the armoury of governments. [More…]
Depending how lightly or how heavily a government might use those powers, good or bad results can be induced. [More…]
I am bound to say that inherent in this Bill are sufficient powers so to do. [More…]
The thought that we can solve the problems of Australia by simply cutting down the purchasing power of the people of Australia is, in my view, wrong headed. [More…]
The same argument is inherent in the idea that in the non-bank area one can use discriminatory interest rates or powers under the banking legislation that we are now considering in order to reduce the flow of money. [More…]
One should not look to the kind of power that is inherent in this legislation as being a power that one should use lightly or a power that one should use in this kind of an atmosphere, because all it would do would be to create an illusion. [More…]
There is a whole range of methods of trying to get a balance of supply and demand in an economy so that the real value of money is maintained and so that, through productivity, real purchasing power can be increased. [More…]
I conclude by repeating that, whilst I believe in the principle of uniform banking laws, I worry at the inherent and very real power of arbitrary discrimination which lies in the Bill. [More…]
I turn to the Australia Labor Party’s platform and see that it has discharged the main planks which I have read out, and I worry that if the Party or its successors should seek to implement those planks the powers lie within the legislation. [More…]
We look towards the bona fides of the Treasurer and his Government in pursuing a moderate line in the use of these powers. [More…]
That clause provides very great power and might well sound the death knell of the freedom of enterprise that has developed in these other financial institutions. [More…]
The Committee has power to deal only with regulations. [More…]
So by the regulation process the Executive of the day has the power to discriminate between the categories and to fix an amount which is the magnet by which that particular category becomes subject to the Act. [More…]
The clause gives the Reserve Bank the power to make a determination which by an even vote- 30 all- we did not require to be enforceable. [More…]
Surely that brings to mind the enormity of the power, even if it were based on a regulation examinable by the Senate. [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…]
That an organisation within or under an authority of the Interstate Commission is the appropriate body with constitutional power ( binding both State and Federal authorities) to administer all Federal laws affecting Tasmania’s interstate and foreign shipping, with power to fix freights, wages, hours, schedules, port dues, and recommend financial assistance for ship construction and operation to ensure reliable and efficient shipping services; and [More…]
That such organisation should have power to declare a state of emergency after which strike action or similar disruptive practices should be made illegal and expose those responsible to liability to pay compensation for damage caused. [More…]
Opposition senators would be much better advised if they were to turn round and assist us to get through this Parliament legislation concerned with trade practices and consumer protection and also suggest to their colleagues in the States that they introduce for their States measures such as the price fixing power that operates in the Australian Capital Territory. [More…]
If we allowed the bank to make regulations of that sort under sub-clause (2) I think we would be giving it a power of discrimination which would go close to achieving that which nobody should want, namely, to provide that finance be given, for example, if Coles were known to have put in an application and the bank had been seen on the matter, or the trading bank had conveyed the information to the [More…]
I think the Opposition amendment is designed simply to ensure that the Reserve Bank will lay down what everybody understands by general policy without power to discriminate within categories in favour of or against particular beneficiaries of finance or companies who provide the finance. [More…]
I think there is a good deal of confusion, among Government senators certainly, in respect of the powers of the Regulations and Ordinances Committee under this Bill. [More…]
Not only would there be limitations upon the Regulations and Ordinances Committee but also there could well be considerable limitations on the power of this Parliament to deal with the exercise of powers under this Bill. [More…]
But the fact of the matter is that most of the powers that are to be given to the Reserve Bank of Australia or to the Government under this Bill will be exercised in the form of determinations and not by way of regulation at all. [More…]
Most of the exercise of powers will not be subject to the scrutiny of the Regulations and Ordinances Committee and not subject to the scrutiny of the Parliament. [More…]
The ambit of the regulation making power that is being given is very broad. [More…]
All this Bill will do is enable regulations to be made authorising the Reserve Bank to make determinations in regard to such assets that may be held, and all that the regulations will do is simply carry out that power by saying that the regulation authorises the Reserve Bank to determine these assets. [More…]
-As one who has served on the Regulations and Ordinances Committee for almost 25 years and for almost 20 years as chairman, and as one who has a great regard for the Committee, I feel that where there is a division of opinion or an element of doubt as to whether the Committee has power to act in these matters we should make sure that the legislation which goes through is watertight, because if we presume that the Committee has powers and ultimately a situation arises and we find that it does not have those powers this Senate will be at fault for letting the legislation go through on a risky basis. [More…]
Of course, essentially it is saying that the power will reside with the Reserve Bank whereas the original Bill proposed that it reside with the Treasurer. [More…]
If we did accept this amendment that power passes from the Treasurer to the Reserve Bank. [More…]
Once again, I do not think it is so much a question of which party is in power as a matter of the party that is in power being able to implement its basic policy decisions. [More…]
That power would be taken from it if we were to accept this amendment. [More…]
It does not matter whether it is this government or some future government; I suggest to the honourable senator that it is a much more sensible approach if that power remains with the Treasurer as a matter of implementing the policy of his government. [More…]
I would strongly suggest that in order to make the legislation a proper instrument of government policy, which it is intended to be and which is to be exercised by the Government of the day, we should leave the clause as it is and leave that power with the Treasurer rather than transfer it purely to the Reserve Bank. [More…]
We believe that these measures stand worthy of being looked at regularly, and those who express the power under them- it will be real power- should be subject to re-examination as to the use of the power. [More…]
The series of events leading up to the confrontation in Queensland resulting in the Minister requiring more powers is well documented. [More…]
I would like to use that letter to show that the Minister does have the power now that he is seeking. [More…]
It is true that the number is lower than it was when the Labor Party was in power in New South Wales. [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…]
Within the Constitution of this country the Federal Government is entitled, under laws passed by this Parliament, to acquire property on just terms from any State or person only for purposes in respect of which this Parliament has power to make laws. [More…]
I suggest that the Senate will scrutinise the Constitution from section 1 to section 128 in vain in an effort to find any purpose for which this Parliament has power to make laws that embrace the purchase of a slum area of Sydney for rehabilitation or reconstruction and for letting or sale to citizens. [More…]
No such power was given to this Parliament in the Constitution, and I protest that $ 1 5.75m that we have exacted from the taxpayers pursuant to our taxing powers should be illegally appropriated. [More…]
The power of the courts under subclause 43 (4) to direct supervision of access orders by welfare officers has been extended to enable the courts to direct supervision of any order under Part VI. [More…]
The main changes of substance to those provisions are the addition of a provision for the cessation of an order in favour of a child on the marriage of the child, the omission of the restriction on the power to vary security for maintenance, and a restriction on the retrospectivity of any variation of a maintenance order. [More…]
Of course, the consequence of a breach of conditions is that the Minister has the power to cancel the registration or to suspend the registration. [More…]
One wonders what other power the Minister could seek. [More…]
I presume it is his interpretation that the Minister’s powers are limited to acceptance or rejection in toto of the application. [More…]
This Bill seeks to empower the Minister to decide the levels of contributions separately from the medical benefits funds. [More…]
Once again, simple consultation between the 2 parties should be all that is necessary, rather than a radical alteration of the law which would give the Minister unlimited power- probably power to destroy the funds should he feel so inclined. [More…]
The Minister has said that the funds intend to use every step within their power to see that they retain intact the vast and excessive reserves that they have built up through the years by consistently overcharging contributors. [More…]
I think that it has become intolerable only to the Minister because he will not be able to get his hands on the reserves unless the Senate gives him the power to do so. [More…]
But I do point out that it does seem to be a rather severe measure to take to alter the whole Act in order to generate power for the Minister. [More…]
The Minister seeks in clause 3 of the Bill power to give a direction that an organisation shall be able to alter rules ‘with respect to the variation of the rates of hospital fund benefits payable by the organisation to all or any contributors’. [More…]
Back in 1971 that power was exercised under the existing Act by the then Minister for Health and the requirements were gazetted and the funds respected the directions they were given. [More…]
There was absolutely no warrant for that power to be written into this Act on a pretence that the power is not there. [More…]
She referred to section 73 (6) which gives the Minister the power to impose conditions which the organisations must observe. [More…]
This was a power which was exercised in 1971 and the funds acknowledged at that time that the power existed and they complied with the direction. [More…]
The fact is that clause 3 is unnecessary because the power is there. [More…]
The Minister for Health, in a direction which he gave to a Queensland organisation in February of this year, a copy of which I have seen, separated contributions and benefits in a way in which he now seeks a power to do under this Bill. [More…]
We find that the power which is claimed is a power which is already adequate, and that is a power to approve or refuse to approve of a change. [More…]
The other amendment we put forward is to remove from the Bill the power to ask for an injunction. [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 clear: 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 1 8 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 wil 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 oil, 72 per cen t 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 Bill 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…]
It provides impetus for fresh claims elsewhere and hence we witness a leap-frogging of wage increases from one area to another as unions outbid each other in an endeavour to protect themselves against an erosion of the purchasing power of the wages of their members. [More…]
Industrial and technological development in the twentieth century has been accompanied in highly industrialised countries by the greater concentration of economic power. [More…]
This was one of the important initiatives in respect of road safety that this Government took soon after coming into power. [More…]
What we ought to be doing is looking at these power hungry, powerful groups in the community with a view to ensuring that their activities are consistent with the public interest. [More…]
The unions’ trade practices of boycott, black bans, compulsory unionism and the exercise of power by monopoly of labour, with a consequent restraint on trade, are not only not punishable but are also sought to be justified and removed from examination. [More…]
For a trade union the ability to hold the community to ransom, to withhold vital supplies of power and transport and to impose hardship and inconvenience on tens of thousands of fellow citizens is a hallowed right acknowledged and defended by the Labor Government. [More…]
The Opposition attitude continues to ignore the legitimate interests of consumers who under its government when in power and under its current attitude comprise a forgotten race. [More…]
The fact is that this measure has been carefully framed to ensure that it falls within the limits of the constitutional power of the Australian Parliament. [More…]
Regrettably the restrictive trade practices provisions have had to be confined to corporations pursuant to the Australian Parliament’s corporations power. [More…]
But 1 want to emphasise that there is no reason whatsoever, if the State governments are sincere in their professed desire to protect consumers, why there should not be a referral of power so that firms and individuals can be embraced within that part of the legislation and also to set at rest any constitutional doubts there may be in respect of its validity. [More…]
In 1966, following the passage of the 1965 legislation, the Tasmanian Government passed a Bill referring power in this area to the Australian Parliament, and pursuant to that reference the 1965 Act was amended in 1967 to give extended operation, so far as Tasmania was concerned, to the provisions of the 1965 legislation. [More…]
I would hope that the States would be invited to refer power in this area. [More…]
Fourthly, it contains a clear message to State governments that in the area of restrictive trade practices and consumer protection there should be a referral of power in the national interest. [More…]
Big business at the moment has the power, the strength and the ability to pay legal costs; consumers do not. [More…]
It was 1978 and, according to Buchwald’s prescience, corporate power had become so concentrated in the United States that, after numerous mergers, only two corporations remained: Samson Securities west of the Mississippi and the Delilah Company east of the Mississippi. [More…]
The legislation is not important as far as Opposition senators are concerned because the legislation seeks to introduce laws to control the multinational organisations in this country; it will control the oil companies and it will control all those things that every one of us have appealed to the previous Trade Practices Commission to have examined but which the Commission did not have the power to examine. [More…]
Does the Government have the power under the Act to adjust the remuneration paid to Board members before a determination is made by the Tribunal? [More…]
In this Bill we are dealing with a Commonwealth power which is basically only jurisdiction in respect of the corporate power of the Commonwealth. [More…]
It is beyond the power of the Commonwealth, of course, to deal with the whole wide ambit of this area of consumer protection. [More…]
Ensure that the law maintains a proper balance between supplier and consumer, and, in particular, offers protection against unfair or dishonest business practices which militate against equality of bargaining power. [More…]
the right to be in a position of equal bargaining power . [More…]
Although it may appear that this part of the legislation sought to be taken out is based upon the fact that there is to be a reduction of some Commonwealth power, I would suggest instead that it gives the opportunity for the Australian Government to consider a Bill where this matter could be dealt with alone. [More…]
It needs a rethinking by the Australian Government, discussion by the States and an attempt to take up those parts of Commonwealth power which are necessary for it to have. [More…]
It has gone beyond those powers and desirable objectives in this Bill. [More…]
It was held that the Trade Practices Tribunal did not infringe the judicial power. [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…]
I refer to an article by Sir Arthur Bryant which appeared in the ‘London News’ of April 1973 and in which he said that the 2 outstanding problems facing the United Kingdom are inflation and the power of organised labour. [More…]
For, unless the excessive power of the great trade unions, in pursuit of their sectional, instead of national, interests, can be restrained, galloping inflation is bound to continue and at an ever-increasing pace. [More…]
Then, with his sense of history, he likened the turbulent, unrestrained mob rule of the industrial organisations, with their tremendous power, to that of the robber barons of 6 centuries ago who, with their tribes, besieged the castle and demanded this, that or the other of the neighbouring baron. [More…]
The secondary boycott had become an exceedingly powerful weapon. [More…]
Abuses of power under closed or union-shop contracts, although exceptional, gave force to the attack upon all union security agreements. [More…]
The Commonwealth has no power over such intrastate matters except insofar as they can be brought within the corporation power. [More…]
To impact a discordant pattern of rules conceived and expressed by Senator Murphy upon the long existing pattern of State legislation in this field would be putting the consumer to the problem of having to litigate the question of Federal-State inconsistency on many occasions and would be giving to the powerful merchant the advantage that he undoubtedly has in litigation from a long pocket as compared to the smaller consumer. [More…]
We will help them to the full extent of the national power. [More…]
The breadth of these laws goes into the other areas of national legislative power and deals with interstate trade and the various ways in which the legislative power of this Parliament can be used to enter into this field. [More…]
It would be much better for the States, if they so want, to fit in with national legislation, to carry out consumer protection in their own areas where the national Parliament cannot reach or to refer the power to this Parliament so as completely to cover the field. [More…]
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…]
If the proposal contained in the amendment were acceptable to the Committee it would mean that the only part of the clause which would remain is that dealing with the power of either House of the Parliament or a committee of either House or of both Houses to require information to be given concerning the performance of a function of the Commission under the Act. [More…]
We object to the width of the power which is given to the Attorney-General and to the immensity of the scope for directions in the functioning of an independent body which is thereby given. [More…]
We ought not to have the connection which is involved in the powers given to the Attorney-General. [More…]
When one considers clauses 155 and 156 of the Bill, to which we will give consideration in due course, which refer to the transitional provisions, one finds that enormous powers are given to the Commission. [More…]
The Commission has the power to summon people before it and to require them to answer questions on any matter or questions relating to a matter that constitutes or may constitute a contravention of the Act. [More…]
If the Commission has the power to summon people before it and to require them to answer questions and to be subjected to a penalty if they d o not answer questions, that is a power which ought to be circumscribed as much as possible. [More…]
A power is given in the Act to the Commission to require persons to furnish documents to any inspector who wants them. [More…]
If powers of that character are to be contained in the legislation they ought to be circumscribed. [More…]
I do not believe it is proper that a Minister or an Attorney-General should have the power to direct the Commission as to how functions of that character should be performed. [More…]
I am asking the Attorney-General to examine the width of the power. [More…]
If he feels that these powers are too wide I accept his suggestion that he take this clause away and redraft it. [More…]
Personally I am not satisfied that the AttorneyGeneral (Senator Murphy) has shown satisfactorily that this power should be contained in this clause. [More…]
The explanation today and the explanation which was given earlier indicate to me that at the very least, even if we do not remove the 2 clauses, they ought to be re-committed so that there is a limit on the power of the Minister in relation to the Commission. [More…]
I believe that this clause changes the Bill substantially and leaves with the Minister a power which should not remain in any Minister’s hands. [More…]
I suggest, with respect, that whoever was AttorneyGeneral would not use the power prescribed by this sub-clause unless there were special circumstances. [More…]
The Attorney-General having used the power is then under the complete control of Parliament. [More…]
It would not be quite clearly so interpreted by me, when the exception is limited to Part VII and I find in another Part a power for the Commission to treat evidence as confidential or public. [More…]
That is a power of the Commission with which the Attorney-General ought not to have the right to interfere. [More…]
They illustrate the width of the Attorney-General’s power to direct a quasi-judicial commission. [More…]
Naturally if our amendment is defeated we will welcome anything which limits the power in this area. [More…]
From reading the Income Tax Assessment Act it is clear that the Minister has not got any powers to tell the Commissioner of Taxation how he shall exercise his functions, and nor should the Minister have any power. [More…]
It is not really suggested that the Minister should have power to give directions to organisations such as the Snowy Mountains Authority. [More…]
Clause 28 sets out5 powers which are essentially of an administrative character which could be said to be functions which an ordinary government department would normally carry out. [More…]
As I have said, clause 29 is provided essentially in relation to those powers. [More…]
function- to conduct research in relation to matters affecting the interest of consumers, being matters with respect to which the Parliament has power to make laws; [More…]
As I have said, if the Opposition really examines this and appreciated that Part VII and anything related to Part VII is excluded from the power, it will see there is virtually nothing left on which the power can operate except the functions contained in clause 28. [More…]
That is a field in which the Attorney-General might naturally feel himself competent to give a direction, but the existence of his power nullifies the whole idea of this Commission having a critical function to examine independently the need for new or amended laws. [More…]
The Opposition seems to have accepted that sub-clause without any concern at all although the Houses of Parliament are given a very strong power to require information. [More…]
But the Opposition is not concerning itself with any of that and I suppose rightly so because one expects that the powers which are given, like all other powers, will be exercised bona fide and for the purposes for which they are given with due regard for the rights of persons affected. [More…]
It applies to all of these powers which are given. [More…]
If he desired, for example, to have research into matters in respect of which the Parliament has power to make laws- and that is an enormously wide power- it would be conceivable that the Chairman could feel that there ought to be a public hearing at which persons could present their views which could be tested by other persons who felt they had a right to question whether the proposals or arguments being put forward were soundly based. [More…]
Therefore to say it is sufficient to exclude from the power which the AttorneyGeneral wants to have over the workings of the Commission the proceedings in relation to Part VII is to leave a very wide area in which directions could be given which would be inconsistent with the whole scheme and frame of this legislation. [More…]
I notice that no consideration has been given to certain clauses such as clause 77 which will give the Commission power to institute proceedings for an injunction and the power to institute proceedings for a penalty. [More…]
No consideration has been given to the provision contained in clause 100 relating to resale price maintenance applications; and as I recall the debate, no mention has been made of the powers which the Commission will have under clauses 149, 155 and 156 of the legislation. [More…]
All those powers are tremendously wide, dealing as they do with the power of the Commission to acquire documents and to require people to give evidence before the [More…]
If the Attorney-General has the power to give directions in those areas then, as I said earlier, Parliament can blame only itself if at a later stage it objects to the way the power has been exercised- because Parliament now has the opportunity to decide whether this power should be given. [More…]
The Opposition is suggesting that not even that reserve power should be able to be exercised but that instead a commission should be able to exercise all those functions and virtually be able to thumb its nose at any government which felt that it was necessary to give it some kind of public direction. [More…]
I do not think that viewpoint would assist in the better maintenance of our system of parliamentary democracy and supervision over those who are exercising quite important administrative powers. [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…]
I ) 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…]
It is confined to the conduct by which a monopolist uses the market power he derives from his size against the competitive position of competitors or would-be competitors- for example, by inducing a supplier or customer who is dependent upon him not to deal with a competitor, or by predatory prices. [More…]
In doing these things he is not taking advantage of his market power. [More…]
Because in that instance he is not taking advantage of the monopolistic power. [More…]
It is an element of proof which is quite unnecessary having regard to the elements already required to be proved; for example the need to show that the monopolist has taken advantage of his power to control the market- not merely that he has it but that he has taken advantage of it. [More…]
The Opposition is really saying that: notwithstanding that all the other elements are established, the monopolist- the corporation- that is in a position substantially to control a market for goods or services and take advantage of the power in relation to that market that it has by virtue of its position, to eliminate or substantially damage a competitor in that market or on the other hand to prevent the entry of a person into that market or another market or to deter or prevent a person from engaging in competitive behaviour, will be permitted to do any of these things unless it can be shown that what this monopolistic corporation did was in some way wilful. [More…]
Under the Opposition’s approach a monopolist is perfectly entitled to take advantage of its power to do damage to and to prevent the entry of competitors into the market because it has not been shown that its action was wilful. [More…]
I would suggest that some reflection on this matter should induce the Opposition not to persist with the philosphy that a monopolist is perfectly entitled to do any of the things I have mentioned so long as it was not wilful and would be perfectly entitled to take advantage of its monopolistic power to eliminate or substantially damage a competitor without infringing the law. [More…]
A corporation that is in a position substantially to control a market lor 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…]
So we have the situation that if a corporation is in a position substantially to control a market, then, as I read the clause, it prohibits that corporation from taking advantage of that power in relation to that market for 3 purposes. [More…]
The 2 elements in this clause which would have to be proved in any prosecution- I take it to the stage of prosecution because it is easier to discuss on that basis- are, firstly, the taking advantage by a corporation of its market power and, secondly, that there was a purpose behind the taking of that advantage; for example, to eliminate a competitor. [More…]
shall not take advantage of the power in relation to that market that it has by virtue of being in that position - for the purpose of eliminating - [More…]
But I am dealing with a corporate decision which is made, firstly, to take advantage of market power and, secondly, to produce a certain result. [More…]
Firstly, he said that the company which is in the substantial position must take advantage of the power which it has in relation to that market; secondly, he used the words ‘ for the purpose of eliminating or substantially damaging a competitor’. [More…]
Suppose, for example, a companyI think Senator Wright used this general example- acquires additional machinery because it has a certain power or rights. [More…]
We believe that there ought to be a system under which misuse of power, misuse of dominant position and misuse of that control of a market which size produces is able to be controlled. [More…]
Such an approach would be taking advantage of the enormous power of the chain store and the huge market that it has. [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…]
Senator Everett told us that on his reading of the clause the provision that a corporation that is in a position substantially to control a market for goods or services shall not take advantage of the power to eliminate or substantially damage a competitor was to be taken to mean that it shall not take advantage of the power for the purpose of eliminating a competitor. [More…]
If the word ‘wilfully’- which has been suggested by Senator Greenwood’s amendment to see that that is the essential basis of what is being prohibited under the clause- is not acceptable, the arguments of both Senator Murphy and Senator Everett show quite clearly that some words are needed to be incorporated in the new paragraphs to show that it is only when the direct, specific or dominant purpose, intention or conscious wilfulness of a person is the use of power to damage a competitor that that is the offence. [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…]
When however a trader foresakes his quality of competitor, and becomes an engrosser, when he sets himself to stifle or strike down effective competition which stands as a commercial protection between himself and the community at large, and so substantially to gather into his own hands the power of dictating the terms upon which the public needs may be satisfied he offends against the enactment. [More…]
If that wine producer, as a result of selling his wine more cheaply than the retailers who are already in the market, substantially damages or conceivably eliminates one of his retail competitors, can it not be said that he has taken advantage of his position of power to achieve that result? [More…]
But under this particular clause of this Bill he is at risk of being accused of monopolisation simply because, to use the language of the Bill which the AttorneyGeneral has put before us, ‘a corporation that is in a position substantially to control a market for goods or services shall not take advantage ofthe power in relation to that market that it has by virtue of being in that position to eliminate or substantially to damage a competitor in that market or in another market’. [More…]
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 part of the goods or services in that market. [More…]
The Opposition’s amendment states: (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 part ofthe goods or services in that market. [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 unscrupulous buyers from using their economic power to exact discriminatory prices from suppliers to the disadvantage of less powerful buyers. [More…]
But the very thought and conception of giving to the regulation making power underneath this Parliament a right to negative a State statute that has been put through by a State parliament is not acceptable to me. [More…]
As I have said, the regulation making powers are subject to the supervision of both Houses of this Parliament The Parliament’s power to disallow a regulation would be readily used if in some case it was thought that a regulation had been made inappropriately. [More…]
Ever since regulations have been made, the effect of the making of a regulation under an Act of this Parliament- that is the delegated legislative power of this Parliament- has operated in that way. [More…]
But the Attorney-General, by the inclusion of the words ‘except as provided by regulations’, takes power for an officer at his desk to put through the Executive Council and into the ‘Australian Government Gazette’ subordinate legislation to override a specific statute of the State. [More…]
The defects of labor legislation notwithstanding, the excesses perpetrated behind the shield of union power have become at last too widely known, its grips on the total processes ofthe American economy - [More…]
The status quo of union power must be changed by moving it out of the anarchic no-man’s land where present legislation leaves it. [More…]
If Senator Wright wants to have stronger laws dealing with any kind of activities of trade unions then the course is open to him- it was taken during the period that his government was in power- to amend the Conciliation and Arbitration Act to go directly to the set of laws that deals with that subject matter. [More…]
It provides an extra power and additional facility to government. [More…]
We derive some small consolation from the fact that he suggests that the Opposition might be back in power and we might not be able to resist the pressures as strongly as he and his Government. [More…]
It has been pointed out that the Commonwealth, under its own legislation- limited, as it is, to the corporations power- is not able to provide the small claims courts and the consumer tribunals which are required and cheap, quick and easy justice which is necessary for individuals whether they are dealing with other individuals or with corporations. [More…]
to examine critically, and report to the AttorneyGeneral on, the laws in force in Australia relating to the protection of consumers 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…]
‘God Save The Queen’, are perpetual reminders of these hard-won freedoms and of the wise British principle of the division of power, so well reflected in our own Australian Constitution with its careful separation of powers as between the Crown and Commonwealth Parliament, the Senate, the State Parliaments, the GovernorGeneral and State Governors, and the Independent Courts of Justice. [More…]
And whereas our existing Australian Flag and our national anthem, ‘God Save The Queen,’ are perpetual reminders of these hard-won freedoms and of the wise British principle of the division of power, so well reflected in our own Australian Constitution with its careful separation of powers as between the Crown and Commonwealth Parliament, the Senate, the State parliaments, the GovernorGeneral and State Governors, and the independent Courts of Justice, [More…]
Would the Government welcome outside aid to an Aboriginal black power movement engaged in terrorism in Australia? [More…]
Interestingly enough, where their market power is reduced, as it is in the dishwashing or liquid detergent part of the marketwhere 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…]
We of the Opposition have the view that small claims tribunals cannot be established by the Commonwealth- apart from for the Territories, over which it has a comprehensive legislative power. [More…]
I turn to clause 55 which applies, because of the constitutional power of the Australian Parliament, to persons as well as to corporations. [More…]
But if honourable senators look at the reports of the various State consumer protection bodies they will see that over the years the complaint of the heads of those bodies has been the lack of effective power to take action. [More…]
The State Parliaments, for reasons that may have appeared good to them, have seen fit to withhold from the consumer protection bodies any grant of power that would permit them to function strongly and effectively in the interests of consumers. [More…]
The next point is that the Commonwealth’s power, if any, in this field is limited to corporations. [More…]
If the Commonwealth had the power to legislate with regard to the terms and conditions upon which goods and services should be sold or supplied, and therefore was able to bring into effect an effective and operative law which was simple, clear and easily accessible, we would not be protesting against provisions such as this one. [More…]
Let the States refer a power to the Commonwealth so that the Commonwealth can cover the whole field. [More…]
But because under the Constitution the Commonwealth cannot act without such referral of power, we have done what is right and proper in regard to corporations. [More…]
The Commission does not have power to grant an authorisation under sub-section ( 1 ) to a corporation to continue to be a party to a contract, arrangement or understanding unless- [More…]
A corporation that is in a position substantially to control a market ibr goods or services shall not take advantage of the power in relation to that market . [More…]
It would seem to the Commission that the legislature had solemnly and deliberately said that authorisation procedures could be used in this way to authorise conduct of a kind that would allow a monopolist to use the monopoly power to destroy a competitor, to keep competitors out or to undertake the other kinds of behaviour which are prohibited by this clause. [More…]
Yet if this amendment is accepted the Commission will say: ‘Well, if the legislature said we can do it, and gave us the power to authorise it, that is what it intended us to do and there must be some cases in which we would be expected to authorise this kind of use or abuse of monopoly power’. [More…]
The Opposition might answer my argument by saying that the power will never be used because how could it be used in the context of this legislation. [More…]
Our answer is that if the power is put in the legislation the Commission will think that it is expected to use the power, that it is expected to condone and preauthorise abuse of monopoly power to destroy competitors or to prevent the entry of competitors into the field or substantially to damage them or to engage in the other kind of conduct prohibited in the clause. [More…]
So I must say that we think it would be wrong to include such an authorisation power. [More…]
-I just rise to suggest to the Attorney-General that there may be many legitimate cases where the question of whether or not the taking advantage of power might cause concern to a company when it was engaging in perfectly legitimate activities. [More…]
It may be that because of the power it exercises through its dominance in the market, and because of the substantial control it exercises, it is in a position to have access to new machinery from overseas or to certain facilities that its competitors lack. [More…]
To take advantage of that power and to purchase that machinery might mean that the company reduces its costs and therefore reduces its prices and thereby damages or eliminates a competitor. [More…]
There is no obligation upon the Commission, just because an application is made, to grant the authorisation or to say: ‘We must be expected to grant it some time because the power is there’. [More…]
Clause 155 relates to the compulsory powers of the Commission to obtain information, documents and evidence. [More…]
It is a power of enormous import. [More…]
It is the sort of power which even the police forces of this land do not have when they are investigating serious crime. [More…]
In even more recent times the same type of power exercised by Senate committees has aroused controversy amongst interested people in the country. [More…]
Now we have a provision in the trade practices legislation which gives this power to the Commission to require the production of documents. [More…]
My recollection is that a power of this general character was in the earlier legislation out, of course, the earlier legislation was a different sort of legislation. [More…]
We accept, albeit reluctantly, the power of the Commission to obtain information in this way. [More…]
In considering the powers which should be vested in such a body it is useful to point to another of the lessons in this case. [More…]
If a regulatory authority is to have reasonable success in protecting the markets from deceptive practices such as insider trading it must have the power to inquire and obtain all relevant documents and records and it must expect to use that power. [More…]
The Commission needs the power to investigate and to uncover malpractices. [More…]
We are excluding the natural persons such as directors or officers because we are relying upon the power relating to corporations. [More…]
I do not think even Senator Greenwood disputes that the Commission should have the power to require the information. [More…]
We suggest, with respect, that in the light of the experience of everybody who has had anything to do with this field of affairs, the Opposition is trying to render the Commission and its powers nugatory by saying that the legislation will be there but in practice it will be unworkable. [More…]
I believe that there is a general power inherent in the law officer under which, if proceedings are instituted, he can enter his nolle prosequi and those proceedings are not further continued. [More…]
In effect, what the Opposition is proposing is that we write in a virtual amending power by way of regulation in relation to the greater part of the legislation. [More…]
Above all, one would think that it should not be left perhaps to some other government at some stage simply to destroy the legislation by the use of the regulation-making power. [More…]
Such referral will occur, and once this power of referral is firmly established- from the States’ point of view the referral of planning and research matters is probably the worst- it is my opinion that the centralisation process will build up and increase rapidly until the section which deals with these matters here in Canberra will become very large, requiring enormous buildings, the expenditure of large sums of money and all the other things that go with such great expansion of a department. [More…]
I suggest that these Bills have to be amended so that some of the power is taken away from Canberra in an endeavour at least to keep our Federal system strong. [More…]
We must not allow Canberra to become all powerful and take complete control. [More…]
When the Liberal-Country Party Government was in power it managed to keep the inflationary trend down to about 4 per cent. [More…]
So we have the absurd situation, created by the arrogant assumption of further power by the Federal Minister for Transport (Mr Charles Jones), whereby the expenditure of moneys which the States and local authorities are taking responsibility for raising and in respect of which they are directly responsible to their own taxpayers or ratepayers will still have to be submitted to and approved by the Minister. [More…]
That is arrogance of power if ever there was. [More…]
That is the arrogance of power of the Ministers of this Government as expressed by Mr Jones. [More…]
He says that despite the powers which this Bill gives him, he does not have and never really has had any intention of using these powers to coerce State governments and local authorities in respect of urban local roads, rural local roads, development roads, beef roads and minor traffic engineering. [More…]
If that is what the policy is, why does the Minister not circulate his own amendments to his own Bill and put in the Bill the powers he wants instead of adopting these sloppy methods of drafting Bills which are typical of the sort of inefficiencies that we are constantly experiencing at the hands of this Government? [More…]
Under the Prices Justification Bill now before Parliament the Prices Justification Tribunal will have power to take more extensive and effective action in this area. [More…]
And whereas our existing Australian Flag and our national anthem, ‘God Save The Queen’, are perpetual reminders of these hard-won freedoms and of the wise British principle of the division of power, so well reflected in our own Australian Constitution with its careful separation of powers as between the Crown and Commonwealth Parliament, the Senate, the State Parliaments, the GovernorGeneral and State Governors, and the Independent Courts of Justice. [More…]
The power and water supply projects to which you refer will be a direct asset to the South Vietnamese people, including many thousands of refugees displaced by a tragic war. [More…]
As far as formal recognition is concerned Australian policy is to maintain our existing modest relationship with the Khmer Republic, while holding ourselves in readiness to recognise and establish relations with whatever alternative government which might come to power and which appeared to enjoy the support of the Cambodian people. [More…]
I think the Minister has extremely wide power under this legislation compared with the road grant situation from which it takes over. [More…]
1 do not think the Minister will lose anything by its exclusion and certainly he has no cause to reject the Bill when the real power is almost left intact in it. [More…]
I did want to say, in view of my remarks last night, that I believe the Minister would still have the power to discipline Mr Dunstan who so badly needs it in South Australia. [More…]
He said it was caused by no other reason than that there was in power a Labor Government which has a policy of gaining political advantage. [More…]
If that were so, surely that would be a reason to take the power away from petty governments that would misuse it. [More…]
In my opinion if the power of revocation is tied to a substantial part of sub-clause (2) of clause 5 we get a complete veto by the Minister not only of a particular project but also of the allocation for a State if he wanted to be so extreme. [More…]
I would like to see the power of revocation removed. [More…]
I admit that aspect belongs to the next clause but it relates fully to this power of revocation. [More…]
In the hope that the amendment will be accepted by the Government as a reasonable compromise of the power which the Minister seeks, I ask the Senate to support it. [More…]
This is another example of the efforts by the Federal Minister to arrogate to himself as much power as he possibly can. [More…]
Not only is the Minister getting the power to approve of programs and to vary them, but having done all that and the local authorities having acted on approvals which are in the nature of agreements, he is then getting the power to revoke that approval, and it could have the serious effect of throwing into complete disarray the programs that the States or local authorities are carrying out or are planning to carry out. [More…]
If a State Minister, having received a grant for a project and having not used all the money on that project, has the power to say that the Treasurer shall not withdraw the unspent portion unless the State Minister approves, the approval simply will not be given. [More…]
Clause 5 (2) gives to the Minister a very strong veto power. [More…]
He would want to issue a lot of directions, of course, under the power he aggregates to himself here, but he would want to spend the full amount of money. [More…]
We cannot allow the Minister to have this very strong veto power. [More…]
I am advised that even if clause 4(1) and clause 1 1 were omitted from the Bill there might still be occasions when it would be necessary for the Treasurer to invoke the powers conferred under paragraph (c) to obtain information from the States in order that he could determine the extent to which financial assistance was to be provided for them under clause 5(1). [More…]
Paragraph (c) would also enable the Treasurer to obtain information which is essential for the Australian Government to have in order to determine whether the Minister should vary the amount specified in the Schedule under the power conferred in clause 8. [More…]
These 3 paragraphs of clause 12 provide power for the Minister to direct the States to set up departmental bodies to carry out planning and to furnish advice in connection with roadwords They also give power to the Minister to insist on having representatives of the Australian Government on those bodies. [More…]
The Opposition believes that that is an unnecessary intrusion into the States’ powers and functions in these matters. [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 purpose of this clause is to give to the Minister for Transport power to delegate to an officer of the Australian Public Service any of his powers under clause 4 which relates to approving programs. [More…]
We strongly object to a ministerial power of such magnitude being delegated to and exercised by any officer of the Australian Public Service. [More…]
The Government opposes the amendment There are few Acts which do not provide that a Minister with a multiplicity of functions and duties shall have power to delegate. [More…]
In both the portfolios I have occupied, involving the administration of the Department of Works and the Department of Aboriginal Affairs, there is power to delegate. [More…]
This power is used in certain directions. [More…]
It may be power for a public servant to approve of the allocation of funds up to a certain amount. [More…]
One cannot deny a Minister that power to delegate. [More…]
If he did not have that power he would have to chase every dollar that was spent. [More…]
Part VI of that Act provides that that Minister may delegate power to a public servant to issue licences and single voyage permits for coastal trading. [More…]
Then, the Air Navigation Act provides that a Minister may delegate powers in relation to international airports, the cancellation or suspension of a licence, approval of nonscheduled flights on foreign carriers and of the use of defence aerodromes. [More…]
In addition there are many other powers to delegate in the regulations made pursuant to the Act. [More…]
The Airports Business Concession Act which was brought down by a previous Liberal-Country Party Government provides for delegation of power in several areas including business concessions, except in cases in relation to the sale of liquor. [More…]
With my knowledge of the work of the Regulations and Ordinances Committee, I say that few Acts of the Australian Parliament do not include power to delegate. [More…]
It is envisaged that the Australian Government would have full power to declare national highways under this Bill and to declare all roads under the Roads Grants Bill. [More…]
This Bill seeks to extend the scope of the Prices Justification Tribunal by giving it a general power to inquire into and report upon the prices charges by companies irrespective of their turnover. [More…]
The Bill seeks to empower the Tribunal as an alternative to stating that it does not intend to hold an inquiry into the clause of a particular price increase, to notify the company concerned of any lower price that it considers to be justified. [More…]
When the Tribunal exercises that general power it will have 4 months in which to conduct its inquiry and to lodge its report. [More…]
Is the present Commonwealth Government ashamed of the word Commonwealth’, or is this action part of the Government’s plan further to weaken the power of the States and to centralise all power in Canberra? [More…]
All I can do is to refer the question to the Minister for Transport who, I imagine, would handle this matter- that is, if he has any power in this matter, and I would even doubt that. [More…]
I think there is power under the Parliamentary Papers Act or the Standing Orders of the Senate for the Committee to make documents public by its own order. [More…]
But in order to make the position clear I propose on the resolution of this motion to seek leave to move a motion to enable the Committee to present an interim report and also- if it is not already covered- to give the Committee power to table any of the evidence or documents which have been put before it. [More…]
The Government took the view that we should amend clauses 4 and 1 1 which relate to the Minister’s power to require State governments and local authorities to submit for approval programs financed from their own resources. [More…]
The Committee will recall that we took the stand in the Senate that it was quite improper that a Bill granting funds to the States for road purposes should include a general power under which the Federal Minister for Transport not only would be able to dictate to the States the way in which that Federal money was to be spent by the States and local authorities but he would be empowered by the Bill, as it came before this chamber, to dictate to the State governments and to the local authorities the way in which they would be able to spend their money on roads as well. [More…]
The Minister for Transport in the House of Representatives explained that the only reason he wishes to have that power is that he wishes to be able to control the construction of freeways in the cities of Australia. [More…]
We were not particularly satisfied that the definition of urban arterial roads, as it was stated in the Bill, was sufficient to restrict that power of the Minister. [More…]
For the information of the Committee, I would like to read the definitions of class 6 and 7 roads because they clearly indicate the limitations placed on the power of the Minister in respect to urban arterial roads. [More…]
It is quite clear therefore that with the limitations that have been placed on the Minister’s power, as contained now in the totality of these amendments, the only power which will be exercised by the Minister will be power in respect of freeways or the roads which are ancillary to them. [More…]
The Bill will impose no restrictions really on the power of local authorities, whether they be rural or urban local authorities, because, as local authorities, they will not be engaged in the construction of these classes of roads, the definitions of which I have just quoted from the report of the Bureau of Roads. [More…]
Therefore, as I have said, we believe that the stand we took was justified and the flow of further centralist powers to the Commonwealth Government, as these Bills originally provided, has been arrested. [More…]
It has indicated that it wanted to retain a particular power and I believe that we have met its wishes in that regard in that we have been prepared to accede to its further amendments. [More…]
I am pleased to see that the amendments which I moved regarding the veto power have been accepted. [More…]
Whilst we are pleased about the amendments, it is still a very small measure of alteration to the enormous powers that have been freshly taken on behalf of the Commonwealth in regard to overseeing all the expenditure of road funds by State authorities. [More…]
They related to the power of the Minister for Transport to declare a road an export road or a major commercial road. [More…]
The Government believes that this clause as originally drafted was a logical approach to the question of future growth centres and the delegation of the concurrent powers of the Minister for Urban and Regional Development. [More…]
The Standing Committees re-appointed pursuant to paragraph ( 1 ) have power to inquire into and report upon such of those matters as were referred to the same Committees appointed during the previous Sessions of Parliament and were not disposed of by those Committees. [More…]
Each of the Standing Committees have power to consider the Minutes of Evidence and records of the same Standing Committee appointed during the previous Sessions. [More…]
1 1 ) A Standing 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 of the matters which the Committee is empowered to consider. [More…]
12) A Standing Committee or any sub-committee shall 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 or dissolution of the House of Representatives. [More…]
The Standing Committees re-appointed pursuant to paragraph (1) be empowered to inquire into and report upon such matters as are referred to them by the Senate, including any Bills, Estimates or Statements of Expenditure, messages, petitions, inquiries or papers, and, in addition, have power to inquire into and report upon such of those matters as were referred to the same Committees appointed during the previous session which were not disposed of by those Committees. [More…]
As I understand Senator Murphy’s motion there is no power to give committees further inquiries. [More…]
It is a tribute to the Senate that it was able some years ago to see the need to exercise its power to review, in the form of a committee system, Government policy and legislation. [More…]
He was dead barely 12 months when the Government which he helped to put into power did what he said it would never do. [More…]
It may be an illusion to seek to maintain the ideal of freedom with regard to these countries because the de facto situation is certainly one in which the Soviet Union has an all powerful control. [More…]
But we have seen in the period in which the Labor Party has been in power a new subservience, and it is a subservience to the Soviet Union, to Communist China and to the nations of the Third World. [More…]
We have seen the weakening of the Five Power Arrangements. [More…]
We are talking of 3 republics which, apart from a brief period from 1920 to 1940, have in the case of Latvia and Estonia, never had independence, or in the case of Lithuania has been independent only for a brief period and then shared with another power. [More…]
Obviously, if a middle power is finally to make a contribution towards peace and the progress of people throughout the world, it faces up to the realities; it does not live in the cold war era as the Opposition is doing. [More…]
Yes, I think that Switzerland has but no major European power has. [More…]
The European powers make it clear that they have no intention of doing this. [More…]
This is the question that the Government must answer because there is not one Third World country which has the power or the will to be interested in the future security of this country. [More…]
We are looking to new friends to replace old friends and these new friends have neither the interests, the will nor the power to assist us and protect our interests. [More…]
At the same time, whether willingly or unwillingly, the Government is undermining our relations with the major powers and above all their confidence in us. [More…]
The Senate has no power over a Minister. [More…]
It would be bad enough if there were a strong enough case against a Minister for such a motion calling for resignation to be passed because it is beyond the Senate’s power to deal with a Minister. [More…]
We have established diplomatic relations with the German Democratic Republic which is the tenth industrial power and a growing power in the world. [More…]
In fact what he has done has been to sell out the small people and the small nations of this world for the price of a numbers game in his and his Government’s power politics, as revealed by Senator Wheeldon. [More…]
Have we lost the power of idealism? [More…]
Have we lost the power of intellectual honesty? [More…]
So, as a matter of reality, we say that we have no power to free these people. [More…]
He also believed that the United Nations should be controlled and conducted by the small countries and that it should attempt to curb and take power away from the 5 great superpowers which have the power of veto inside the United Nations Organisation and which, in essence, provide the sinews with which the peace of the world can be sustained. [More…]
As everybody knows, since the Labor Government came to power there has been a breath of fresh air in our foreign relations. [More…]
When Nixon was in power it was all right to go along with the Soviet Union in respect of great issues in order to maintain a peaceful situation; but now it is wrong. [More…]
The Government’s attitude- and this has been exemplified today- has been one of indifference to smaller states which have been overrun by a merciless great power. [More…]
We have indicated the transformation which has taken place in Australia’s stance and relationship with other countries in the 1 8 months in which this Government has been in power. [More…]
It is not novel because motions moved when a different Government was in power were directed at Ministers for decisions they took in discharge of obligations which they had to the Government of which they were members. [More…]
I ask: Is it not a fact that in real terms the nominal sums in the Budget for urban renewal, schools and hospital construction and home buildings must be discounted on the basis of those revelations by more than 50 per cent to compare with the purchasing power and real construction potential of last year and by at least 70 per cent when contrasted with 1972? [More…]
Thus, loans have been made to assist the development of infra-structure facilities in the electric power, transport and communications sectors as well as for agriculture, water supply and education projects. [More…]
The power under which the Minister seeks to operate under these Statutory Rules is contained in the Atomic Energy Act 1953. [More…]
The object of the Act and the wide powers given under it were, of course, at that time dictated very much by the strategic character of uranium as to its use in the production of atomic weapons and the great concern which was held at that time in respect of that subject. [More…]
The power that the Minister seeks to arrogate to himself under these regulations has never been sought before. [More…]
Moreover, the Commonwealth Government has adequate powers in regard to the national interest as far as mining, including the mining of uranium, is concerned under its export control powers generally and under regulations that have been made under those powers. [More…]
Those powers are quite adequate and they relate specifically to uranium in the provisions of the Atomic Energy Act to which I have referred. [More…]
Of course that Act deals with many other matters and certainly includes provision to grant the Minister power to obtain or issue licences. [More…]
The reason given by the Government as to why it wants these powers is to plan a coherent and rational policy for the development of Australia’s uranium resources. [More…]
In addition, there are these overall powers which the Commonwealth Government has to ensure that it is able to carry out what are conceived to be national policies. [More…]
So really one might well ask oneself why the Minister for Minerals and Energy is seeking to get a very wide power under these regulations. [More…]
These regulations give vast power to the Minister for Minerals and Energy. [More…]
If the powers were held to be legally valid- we are not concerned with that here- they would override completely all existing rights and titles which have been acquired by persons or companies under State or Territory laws. [More…]
One may speculate as to why it is necessary and why the Minister believes he wants to have this power. [More…]
As we have frequently debated the powers the Government has obtained under that Act the Senate will remember them. [More…]
It may be that at that time the Government thought that the Senate would not pass that legislation and that is why it was necessary to ressurect this old power which is contained in an Act which was first passed in 1946. [More…]
At least that would give the Government some sort of powers in relation to uranium which, apparently, the Government would not have over minerals generally throughout Australia. [More…]
In that respect, it was relying on the general ownership power contained in the Atomic Energy Act to which I have referred. [More…]
The Minister has the power to maintain Australia’s national interests through his control powers in respect to export and other matters. [More…]
These extra powers are apparently sought by the Minister for somewhat dubious purposes and they will have the effect of overriding all existing rights that have been acquired under State laws and under the Northern Territory mining laws. [More…]
Soon after Senator Durack gave notice of his motion of disallowance I contacted the Minister and he and his Department were good enough to send me what I think is an extremely good case for the Minister’s asking for this power. [More…]
To make sure that the Act is extended in the fashion he desires, he has given comparisons with other countries that are leaders in the free enterprise system in the world and which have similar, if not greater, powers in relation to the possession, use and regulation of uranium resources in their national interests. [More…]
In fact from my initial reading of the documents, those countries would have greater powers than the Minister is seeking. [More…]
I feel that it is quite proper for the Minister to ask for these powers and I can see no reason, if he had a policy which he wanted to implement, why he should not have these powers. [More…]
So there has to be some vision of Australia’s future fuel and power needs, and uranium, on the assessment which we have now of Australia’s fuel reserves of all forms, will probably play a very heavy part at around the turn of the century or thereafter in the supply of Australia’s power needs. [More…]
One can only assume that the legislation gives the Minister the right to ask for this power and he has properly done so in the ordinary fashion. [More…]
I think we are burying our heads in the sand if we assume that we can do without nuclear power in a country which is poorly endowed, in terms of our long term needs, with fossil fuels. [More…]
So where is the policy which will provide the long term management of Australia’s fuel resources and provide for the power that will come from Australia’s own uranium deposits? [More…]
A formula will be established ‘to enable each nuclear power reactor, operating, committed for construction or planned for operation 10 years into the future to operate on an average annual capacity factor of 80 per cent for 30 years from the start of the period ‘. [More…]
It is no good having these nebulous talks on the future planning of a specific- at this early stage still futuristic- plant as a type of lead-in to a general transfer of power to the Federal Minister without his revealing what he will do with that particular power. [More…]
To my mind there is an immense degree of control available in the powers already held. [More…]
There is ample power of control in this country without denying companies the right to research and develop areas which can be developed as part of this important uranium industry. [More…]
I believe that without these regulations the Commonwealth Government has already ample powers to ensure the national interest in the exploration, conservation and orderly development of uranium. [More…]
In addition the States and the Territories have supplementary powers, and they can work in cooperation. [More…]
As doctrinaire socialists Government senators see power and control as an end in itself and not as a means to an end. [More…]
Power generating utilities overseas are already committed to building nuclear power plants for which fuel could become scarce, and some countries are concerned at the implications of a shortage of fuel at a time of increased reliance on nuclear power for base-load generation. [More…]
They preserve the distinction to be found in the Act between the defence power, which is relevant to the power elsewhere than in the territory, and the territorial power. [More…]
This Government has never attempted to exercise overt power or an unreasonable power in developing those resources and maintaining control over them in the interests of the Australian people. [More…]
If the Government says that the only policy it has- and it is its only policy- is the establishment of the Petroleum and Minerals Authority and if one couples that with the licensing power given to the Minister for Minerals and Energy (Mr Connor) under these regulations, and with the attitudes of mind and the statements which have been made by the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) as well as the Minister for Minerals and Energy in relation to this rationalisation of the deposits in the Northern Territory, it makes me, as it is making the companies concerned, even more worried as to what are the real intentions and the real purposes of these regulations and these powers. [More…]
If there is the Petroleum and Minerals Authority and if total power over utilisation of resources rests with the Minister and the total ownership rests with the Commonwealth Government, how easy it is simply to hand over the deposits of some companies to this Petroleum and Minerals Authority and allow that Authority to become the sole proprietor of uranium mines in this country. [More…]
The paper, which is the result of the initiative taken by the Labor Government since it came to power in 1972, is something of an historic document. [More…]
The present position in relation to the power to make laws with regard to off-shore mining is that the provisions of the Papua New Guinea Act have been exercised in the manner in which, prior to self government last December, the power to make laws was transferred from the Australian Government to the legislature of the Territory of Papua New Guinea. [More…]
There is some doubt, as the Minister said in his second reading speech, whether that transfer of power is sufficiently clear to ensure the full plenary power of the Territory legislature. [More…]
Accepting that when the Territory of Papua New Guinea becomes independent it should have all the powers of a sovereign nation with regard to its off-shore areas, it is appropriate that there be no doubt that Papua New Guinea on independence will have that power. [More…]
The amendment to the Petroleum (Submerged Lands) Act is designed to carry forward logically and, one might suppose, is a matter of realisation of what was contemplated some 7 years ago, that some day the Territory of Papua New Guinea would exercise for itself powers with regard to petroleum exploration and exploitation in its off-shore waters. [More…]
The Bill excises from the parent Petroleum (Submerged Lands) Act of 1967 all those provisions which vested the powers of a designated authority in the relevant Australian Minister. [More…]
It will mean that the Petroleum (Submerged Lands) Act passed by this Parliament hereafter will contain no reference to Papua New Guinea and impliedly will divest all Australian authorities of power to make laws with regard to exploration for and exploitation of petroleum in the off-shore waters. [More…]
As I have indicated these 2 Bills are part of the ongoing process, with which the Opposition concurs, for the transference of power to Papua New Guinea so that when it assumes independence it will be a full independence in which the co-operation of the Australian Government at all times has been evident. [More…]
In his second reading speech the Minister reminded the Senate that the Asian Development Bank helped to finance facilities in the electric power, transport and communications sectors as well as agriculture, water supply and education projects. [More…]
I have had the opportunity, both on my own and with a parliamentary delegation, of seeing something of these electric power, communications, water supply and education projects and they are impressive. [More…]
They are provisions which permit the rights of the members of organisations to be overridden and I believe, and the Opposition believes, that they will enable a plain and unmistakeable abuse of power to be engaged in by persons who want an amalgamation of unions not for the purposes of improving the lot of the members of the unions but for other particular purposes. [More…]
We in the Opposition believe that the concentration of power ought to be subject to checks. [More…]
That trade practices legislation sought to reduce the concentration of power which comes about when large companies merge. [More…]
Provisions of that character are to be supported, as the Opposition supported them, but why should concentrations of power in the union field be allowed to take place not on a criterion of whether or not they are in the public interest but simply on the criterion of whether or not the organisation which wants to bring into its fold a smaller organisation is able to express that intention and to get some support for it? [More…]
Whilst opposing the greater concentration of power amongst the corporations of capital it is facilitating the concentration of power amongst the corporations of labour. [More…]
What is required in this country is a consistent attitude which enshrines the public interest as represented in the government elected by the people and seeks to check the unrestricted exercise of power by groups who cannot claim the legitimacy of public support which the Government which exercises power can claim. [More…]
It is regrettable that this particular Bill which the Government has introduced will facilitate that concentration of power. [More…]
There is now no longer to be any power to enact regulations making provision for ensuring equitable presentation of the cases in periodical publications. [More…]
If, to give an example, one examines the record of the Miscellaneous Workers Union of this country over the past few years one sees a record- which can be verified by examination of the various appointees of that union- which indicates that the union is capable of utilising its power to secure not only the 20 per cent of the membership of a smaller organisation dutifully to put in the petition or request but one can imagine also the wholesale moves which would be taken by the organisers of the larger union to move in wholesale on the smaller organisation with a view to securing the desirable result of the ballot. [More…]
It is an alarming matter to see how power has been secured, maintained and exercised in the Miscellaneous Workers Union. [More…]
Now there is no such power to enact regulations to provide this balanced information. [More…]
It is a fact that the one great, last undisciplined grouping of power in Australia is in the hands of the unions. [More…]
But the basis of this Bill is such that it cannot be supported unless the power over unions is widened. [More…]
The extension of elector control to the last great, undisciplined power grouping in Australia is essential. [More…]
-Senator Sir Magnus Cormack reminds me that shop stewards in larger unions gain more significance and greater power, whereas one expects in a small union a much greater sense of empathy - [More…]
I wonder whether in a country which as part of the general world trend is moving towards big government, big unions, big corporationsin other words, a country in which so many institutions are becoming bigger and bigger in terms of power, size and the impact they have on the society as a whole and on the national as well as the world economy- we are not going about it the wrong way by saying that we do not have to have regard to those developments and that if we amalgamate a few unions that is all we have to do. [More…]
Would it not then be better for us to say that if we are to have the development towards bigger unions we should be thinking about a trend towards more industry oriented unions which will be able to play a part in balancing the power which is being continually exercised by the big corporations and by government interfering- we will not debate whether it is desirable or not- more and more in the affairs of industry and in the affairs of the economy? [More…]
Just as the public interest is not served by large corporations or, for that matter, small corporations which ignore the rights of consumers, the interests of the environment, the interests of employees or the interests of the national economy, so too there is ample evidence that the other major section of organised power outside the Government, that is the unions, is currently failing adequately to recognise the public interest. [More…]
I repeat: Just as the public interest is not served by corporations which ignore the interests of consumers, the environment, the national economy, employees and others, there is ample evidence that the trade unions, that other major section of organised power, are currently failing adequately to recognise the public interest. [More…]
Huge numbers of members of the public and of the trade unions are unhappy, concerned and worried about the fact that there now happens to be an unbridled use of power in some instances, a misuse of power and a failure of the organisation both in its role and in its functioning. [More…]
is intended to play as part of a balancing of power within a mixed economy, but rather because of the fact that inadequate attention has been paid by the community generally and by the larger section of those directly involved, in not standing back and conceptualising for a period of time and then seeing what system can be made to work in relation to what we want, not what we have. [More…]
I remind honourable senators opposite that the ex Minister for Labor and National Service, Mr Lynch, at first wanted amalgamations when the Opposition was in power. [More…]
What could be better than to have at the source of industrial power, the union power, the President of the Australian Council of Trade Unions? [More…]
On the previous occasion when similar appointments were made the group that held the balance of power in this place was the Australian Democratic Labor Party. [More…]
That Party is no longer the balance of power group in the Senate; the balance of power is now held by 2 senators who occupy independent positions. [More…]
He has already been made aware by questions in this chamber of the iniquitous Fuel, Energy and Power Resources Act Amendment Bill at present before the Western Australian Parliament. [More…]
The origin of the restriction is to be found in the Northern Territory Administration Act under which the Commonwealth Government exercises a plenary power over the Northern Territory as a Territory of the Commonwealth. [More…]
We regard the provision in this Bill which seeks to give a power, by regulation, to make the provisions of this Bill applicable to some undefined Territory in the future as being unwise, and we believe that it ought not to be done in this way. [More…]
Government power is further centralised; [More…]
Since it came to power in 1972 we have done everything we can to rectify the anomalies which existed and which were compounded over 23 years of Liberal-Country Party government. [More…]
It mounted a very expensive campaign and influenced the Australian people to vote against the referendum which was designed to give us the power to control prices and wages. [More…]
I remind the people who are listening to this debate tonight that the Australian Government has power to control prices only in the Australian Capital Territory and the Northern Territory, but in both of those Territories we do not have any manufacturing industries. [More…]
When we wanted the power to control prices in the States, what did the Opposition do? [More…]
But I daresay that if we were to seek the power by referendum again we would find that we were faced with the same situation: The Liberal and Country Parties would go out onto the hustings and advocate a no vote again. [More…]
But it does not have the right through the back door, through the top door or whatever it may be, of usurping the responsibilities and the powers of the governments in those States in which it has not succeeded in gaining power. [More…]
I say to those people who are active at all levels of government and are attempting to diversify power and to keep power closer to the individuals of this country: ‘All power’. [More…]
I refer to the acceleration of the Commonwealth takeover of State functions, to the growing power of central bureaucracy and to the destruction of local initiative in so many fields. [More…]
The process of growth of central power is well known. [More…]
It was documented by Sir Robert Menzies in his lectures at the University of Virginia and published as ‘Central Power in the Australian Commonwealth’. [More…]
People who regard themselves as politically progressive tend to label those who seek to defend the continued existence of the States and their independent power and authority as conservatives trying to turn back to the nineteenth century. [More…]
In fact, I think history will show that those who are seeking to maintain the Federal system and the decentralised power structure that we have are the progressives. [More…]
In the long term the threat to freedom in Australia is much greater if a centralised bureaucracy is established having control of all facets of government than if the principle is followed- it was the principle to which Senator Martin referred in her speechthat power should rest as nearly as possible with the people who are directly affected by the decisions that are being made by government. [More…]
So England moves to decentralise legislative and administrative power as this inexperienced if idealistic Government tries to pull everything to the centre. [More…]
It is in this context that the people in my Party who selected me and the people who elected me in Western Australia would expect me to make judgments on matters which affect Western Australia and to exercise the power which has been vested in me as a member of the Senate. [More…]
But then came the time when industry was desperate for manpower. [More…]
The Government then in power encouraged them. [More…]
Before the Labor Government came to power there was ad hoc surveillance by aircraft and ships on passage. [More…]
I believe that the Minister mentioned the alternative proposal that a low power television service be installed in that area. [More…]
As Leigh Creek is essentially an Electricity Trust town and as such is of particular interest to the South Australian Government, and in view of plans to expand the coal mining activities in the area, prolonging the life of the town for a long period, will the Minister negotiate with the State Government with the object of discussing the possibility of jointly financing a low power installation to serve this town? [More…]
Finally, in the event of the provision of satellite television for Australia, is it a fact that low powered television installations such as this can be utilised and, because of this, money expended in that direction would not be wasted? [More…]
The Bill provides for the Australian Film Commission to have the power to do all things necessary for the performance of its functions. [More…]
The Bill also provides for the Australian Film Commission to have power to direct exhibitors that a specified proportion of the screening time given to short films must be devoted to films certified by the Commission to be Australian short films. [More…]
The Commission will have power also to require the provision of statistical and other information relating to the making, promoting, distributing and exhibiting of films but the confidentiality of information obtained in this way is protected under the Bill. [More…]
It is not fully within the power of the Parliament to be able to scrutinise these increases effectively. [More…]
There is a power to do these things. [More…]
Why does he have to have the power to do this? [More…]
We are extending this principle into the area of civil liberties and saying: Nobody is to be able to have these powers unless there is some really good reason’. [More…]
Frankly, the provision got into the Bill as a matter of form and we want to delete it because we cannot see any really good reason why any authorised officer should be vested with such an important power. [More…]
It used to be regarded as an extremely important power, reserved only to the courts and to some other important functionaries. [More…]
As honourable senators know, there has been a tendency to extend the powers. [More…]
Therefore, we do not ask the Committee to give such a power to an authorised officer. [More…]
There is still the power to question and to get information, and there is still the obligation to tell the truth and so forth. [More…]
I do not see how the Minister is getting rid of any power there. [More…]
I believe that the Minister is extending the power in that clause. [More…]
The criticism has been raised that a Labor Government was in power in New South Wales for 24 years. [More…]
The Labor Government was not in power in Perth for 24 years where the position is worse than it is in Sydney. [More…]
In 1972 the Labor Government came to office with a promise that it would look after the people of the States despite what brand of government the States might have in power. [More…]
It was stated that Townsville would be one of the great growth centres of this nation if a Labor government came to power. [More…]
We are certainly given the powers under the Commonwealth Constitution to make requests. [More…]
The founding fathers specifically wrote into the Constitution the power to make requests. [More…]
But during the latter years when the Liberal-Country Party Government was in power, there was pressure put on that Government from members of the Labor Partyindeed also from members of the Liberal Party and the Country Party- that there should be an extension of the committee system. [More…]
It is not a political secret, but it is known that during the period when the Liberal-Country Party coalition was in power, when urgent, important or controversial matters came before the Cabinet the Prime Minister or whoever was in charge of a particular measure would say- I hope to see my friend and colleague Senator Sir Kenneth Anderson nod his head in agreement with meThis is all right, but what is the Senate going to do? [More…]
I think that this gave honourable senators a terrific importance and power in the carrying out of their duties. [More…]
When the Senate Estimates committee system was established on 2 occasions that I can recall members of the other House rose and said that the Senate was the major House of Parliament, that it had this power, that is could do this and that because of the establishment of the Committee system. [More…]
I would have thought that the power that senators had achieved would be something they would never want to have taken away. [More…]
I think that it is a backward step for senators to give back a power and a right that they have achieved. [More…]
I can remember when the previous Government was in power the incessant probing on the particular committees with which I was associated, firstly as a senator and then as a Minister. [More…]
We should have the opportunity- this is an assertion which applies irrespective of what party happens to be in power from time to time- to probe the purposes for which government is claiming an appropriation of moneys. [More…]
One is that the Government is proceeding idealogically with its Budget and is adding to its general administrative program for the socialisation of Australia so that we will see more unbridled union power exerted on the industrial scene. [More…]
Obviously the Budget is a document which is seen to transfer economic power from the private sector to the public sector. [More…]
Industrial unrest, power struggles and militancy now being experienced in Australia are healthy signs . [More…]
It has highlighted and outlined the basic weakness inherent in the discipline Caucus has over its members of Parliament, a discipline which gives power to every member of its parliamentary team in the consideration of legislation. [More…]
Senators who care to read the economic journals in the Parliamentary Library and learn the economic facts stated by many economists in Australia will find that in one fashion or another all economists agree that the union system in Australia, which is the last great power system outside the control of the elector, has to be brought one way or another into the general planning of the economic progress of this country. [More…]
It is doing some very good and basic research on the development of solar power for lower grade heating of homes which is its only foreseeable benefit. [More…]
why is it that one hears always about the developments of atomic energy in the United States and Europe, rather than of solar power? [More…]
Firstly, we in South Australia had no source of power. [More…]
We were rationing power in our State. [More…]
Leigh Creek was developed and the Port Augusta power houses were built. [More…]
We gave a local base for a system of reticulating power throughout South Australia. [More…]
Power was reticulated to the smallest farms in most settled areas on the single wire earth return system, and Senator McLaren knows about this. [More…]
We had a base for power generation in South Australia. [More…]
We had our power bases on Leigh Creek and Port Augusta. [More…]
Power provided from those areas formed the basis for the development of Elizabeth and Salisbury and of the motor engineering industry in Adelaide. [More…]
You drew the boundaries to keep yourselves in power forever. ‘ [More…]
While ever he is in power in South Australia the Liberals will never get back to office in that State to carry out further gerrymanders. [More…]
It took this Government to come to power to give wheat growers the financial incentive to grow more wheat and to give them the biggest quota and the biggest first advance payment in the history of the wheat industry. [More…]
The Australian Parliament has the necessary power to proceed in this way and should exercise that power. [More…]
Theoretically there may be some merit in legislation which is designed to encourage single unions for each industry, for ease of administration, although the great centralisation of power would negate any benefits. [More…]
If that amount is multiplied by the number of members that the union would be able to dragoon into its midst if allowed to do what it wants to do the enormous centralisation of power and money which could result is clear. [More…]
The Government is setting up the Australian Housing Corporation, a new body to start all those housing functions that the Australian Government has constitutional power to implement. [More…]
But we believe that we can go to the United Nations and we have not got to look over our shoulders and decide what the attitude of the superpowers are. [More…]
We are not a colonial power. [More…]
I know that Senator Willesee and the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) at the United Nations will be endeavouring to bridge the gap between the Arab States, with their corralling of oil reserves, and the super powers who, in the main, have a different attitude. [More…]
When Labor came to power things were in such a shambles that Dr Rex Patterson had to go over there on several occasions. [More…]
Make no mistake about it; it does not matter what Government is in power, we cannot have a repetition of what happened earlier in history when the Luddites introduced a new form of industrial revolution by going around smashing all the wheels and rollers in machinery. [More…]
The plain fact is that our predecessors had a succession of Ministers for Labour and, in spite of technological changes, during the whole period that they were in power they did not call for one report in which they could attempt to assess the effect of automation in the following 5 years or 10 years. [More…]
g) Government power is further centralised; [More…]
It has done this since the time that it came into power. [More…]
A little while ago, Senator Mulvihill took us back to the days when this Government first came to power. [More…]
I want to recall the situation when this Government came to power, when there was a rate of inflation of 4.6 per cent and it was falling at that time because of the measures taken by the Liberal Party-Country Party Government. [More…]
In 1950 when the Menzies Government came into power the inflation rate was 10.2 per cent. [More…]
The sheer size, the resources and the limited number of firms in the secondary, and to some extent even in the primary and tertiary, sectors have provided for each of those firms a considerable degree of original monopoly power, and in response to this monopoly power organised labour has developed countervailing power. [More…]
It is a road that has no ending and no enchantment to travel on while a federal Labor Government remains in power. [More…]
If there is one problem greater than another facing the Australian people while the present Government is in power it is the varying policy statements either in the Budget or by Ministers. [More…]
This is at a time when the Government, if it had any common sense and any economic values and if it wanted to be honest with the people, would be doing everything in its power to encourage the saving of money. [More…]
Long before I knew I would use this advertisement in the Budget debate and before the election was held I had written in my own fair hand on this advertisement which was authorised by Mr Barnard, ‘Snedden and Anthony threaten our job’, because I thought and hoped that the Liberal and Country Parties would come back into power on 18 May. [More…]
If the Liberals had been in power the people would not have had one-fifth of that amount spent on education. [More…]
-Only recently has the Liberal Party decided to do this sort of thing, and maybe it has been brought about by the agitation of our friend from South Australia, Senator Steele Hall, who suggested that the Liberal Party is too conservative and the only way to get it back into power is to follow a line which is perhaps more that of a small ‘1’ liberal and more moderated. [More…]
I say that because the Government in power is a government of which he is the deputy leader. [More…]
There has been a remarkable change since the Labor Government has come into power. [More…]
Since the Commonwealth acquired power over Aborigines in 1967 it has been the desire to find them useful employment wherever possible. [More…]
That sentence contains the suggestion that the superstate is the ultimate objective of the Government which is in power in Australia today. [More…]
A newcomer to this chamber, Senator Button gave us some enlightenment- no doubt it was an early pre-selection speech for the Victorian when he said, according to a report in Tuesday’s ‘Australian’, that industrial unrest, power struggles and militancy now being experienced in Australia are healthy signs. [More…]
This is not a Budget of social reform which increases benefits, but one which restructures the power base of socialism. [More…]
More than 70 per cent of all costs incurred in rural industries are incurred off the farms- in the cities, in freight rates, water, power and rates. [More…]
But Mr Hawke has his power base as President of the Australian Council of Trade Unions because of Mr Carmichael, Mr Halfpenny, Mr Elliot V. Elliott and Mr Owens, all of” whom are of the same communist ideology as Mr Mundey. [More…]
It is an instrument of socialist power to transfer more and more power to the socialist sector for the ideological aggrandisement of the Labor Party. [More…]
government power is further centralised; [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; in general these are less senior appointments. [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…]
But if this Government is of the mind to co-operate with the States, as this legislation gives it power to do, I believe that only success can come to an industry that should be daily helping to strengthen the economic future of Australia. [More…]
However, it is intended to restrict the power and the frequency of the station when so approved. [More…]
Freedom to legislate with respect to social security, health matters, transport costs and transport charges has been a very difficult problem for those Tasmanian governments which have been in power. [More…]
In 1949 when the Liberal-Country Party Government came to power, Mr Duthie, the member for Wilmot, was the lone Labor member from Tasmania in the House of Representatives, and he sat there alone until the present Minister for Defence (Mr Barnard) won the seat of Bass. [More…]
But what concerns me and what should concern the people of Tasmania is that one of the greatest cries of the Liberal Party, and also of the Australian Country Party, is what it will do if it gets back into power. [More…]
It must be admitted that over and above the present rate of inflation- it was 4.8 per cent when we were in power and it is over 20 per cent now; a big increase in 2 yearsfreight rates have increased because of the heavily increased costs of shipping caused by industrial disputes. [More…]
So it has by far the greatest political power over the people of Tasmania that any government has had for many years. [More…]
The Government was refused the power it sought. [More…]
The provisions of Part IX A proposed by clause 16 provide for: The validation of all acts done in good faith by a collective body or by a person holding an office in an organisation or branch, notwithstanding any invalidity that may afterwards be discovered in any election or appointment or any making or alteration of a rule of an organisation or branch; the Australian Industrial Court to have power to determine the existence of an invalidity and to make rectifying orders provided such orders would not cause substantial injustice; the Australian Industrial Court to have power to decide, whether a part of an organisation has ceased to exist or to function effectively and to approve a scheme for reconstitution of the part so affected and a like power in relation to any vacant office or position in an organisation or in a branch of the organisation; a method whereby a person who is eligible for membership and has acted in good faith and has been treated as a member for a certain period of time is entitled to be admitted to membership and may apply to the Australian Industrial Court for a declaration as to his entitlement in that regard; the validation of acts done by a collective body or by a person holding office and of elections or rule alterations after the expiration of 4 years; and the Australian Industrial Court to have power to declare that the provisions validating certain acts, elections and rule alterations are not to apply where the Court determines that they would cause substantial injustice. [More…]
Mostly it is founded on the financial corporation power of the Commonwealth. [More…]
Can the Minister indicate what power the New South Wales Minister for Education has to direct the Australian Broadcasting Control Board in its audience research activities? [More…]
One of the most extraordinary features of our Constitution as it has been interpreted by the courts is the arbitral power. [More…]
The power of the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission to make an award is limited by some very technical interpretations which mean that it can make an award only within the ambit of the dispute between the parties. [More…]
Surely the members of the Opposition are not so naive that they believe the people in the world who are suffering from malnutrition or from absolute starvation are going to have the purchasing power necessary to secure a luxury commodity like beef. [More…]
If the Government wishes to prevent international airlines from uplifting excess quantities of fuel in Australia, is it not a fact that the Government has power to prevent them from doing so under the powers available to his Department? [More…]
It will involve not only agricultural development but also eventually, I believe, power generation. [More…]
-I ask the Leader of the Government in the Senate whether he is aware of a speech made last night, here in Canberra, by the Prime Minister to the Murray Valley Development League in which he was very critical of the River Murray Commission and proposed an expanded commission with, as he put it, ‘last resort power to ensure its effectiveness’? [More…]
As the Prime Minister has already expressed doubts that the States might not be interested, because of a loss of State power, can the Minister say whether it is proposed to confer with the States concerned before proceeding with any move of this kind? [More…]
For this reason I think it is important that the personnel who will be appointed to the Film Commission when it is established should have the experience, wisdom and ability to recognise the problems and to do what is within the power of a statutory commission to overcome them. [More…]
We do not think that a commission which is overridden in all its powers and functions by a Minister of Government is operating in the way in which any statutory body ought to operate. [More…]
That was one of our principal objections to the style of the Bill- that in relation to each power and function there is an opportunity for ministerial approval or direction to be exercised. [More…]
These remarks apply particularly to clause 1 1 of the Bill under which the power, as it now stands, is complete. [More…]
That is simply too wide a power to provide to the Commission for the purposes of film making and film distribution. [More…]
Therefore, I say that in my opinion the Senate should take a different viewpoint and in conferring, even under amended powers, very great power on the Commission, it should make sure that in the end it is the Parliament which has the oversight of the use or misuse of those powers. [More…]
Certainly, in this instance of conferring much wider powers on the Commission I would like to see the oversight of it left with the Parliament itself. [More…]
I see that clause as giving the Minister complete power over this authority to direct it wheresoever the Minister believes it should be directed. [More…]
I envisage that under that power a more entrenched socialist government than we have at present could pursue to a greater extent the elimination of private enterprise which I, for one, feel should be given encouragement in this field. [More…]
If one reads into that the powers that the Minister may exercise one sees that complete satisfaction is given to the States. [More…]
Under those circumstances the Minister could exercise the power to assist the State. [More…]
I do not believe that when we are establishing an Australian Film Commission which will have large sums of money to disburse in order to make films which are designed to influence people, we should allow the Minister to have an absolute power as to what films shall or shall not be made. [More…]
What is happening here is that the Commission is given power under the Bill to make, promote, distribute and exhibit any films and, in particular, films that would serve the purposes of a Department of State or an authority of Australia. [More…]
The Commission is to have that power.. Then it is stated that the exercise of that power is to be subject to the approval of the Minister. [More…]
If the Minister is to have power to say what the Film Commission can do in the making, exhibiting and distribution of films, our attitude towards the Commission will be one of suspicion because of the misuse to which the power could be put. [More…]
The amendments I propose take out the very specific power that the Minister has, make it of a far more general nature and apply it only by regulations laid on the table of this House. [More…]
We have seen sufficient in what the Labor Party has done in so many other spheres since it has been in Government to make us apprehensive as to the ways in which power could be used. [More…]
It is probably coincidental but it is frightening nevertheless that at a time when there is controversy about the powers of the Australian Broadcasting Control Board and the extent to which that Board may or may not have power over television and broadcasting stations- I do not embark upon the merits of whether what is proposed is good or bad- we have, at much the same time, this debate on what should be the Minister’s powers over the Film Commission and the extent to which he should be able to direct what films should be made by this Commission. [More…]
It is not only a question of what films might be made by the Commission because we know there are other provisions in this Bill under which the Minister has the power to issue requirements to any and every motion picture theatre in this country as to the short films- films of less than 60 minutes, I recall- which must be shown by theatres. [More…]
It is a power of enormous influence. [More…]
I would have wished that the Minister for the Media would have supported that principle in government as he espoused it in opposition because there is no question that if the Minister were to seek to exercise a power as to what film the Australian Broadcasting Commission were to make and as to what programs the Australian Broadcasting Commission were to produce, there would be an outcry from an enormous number of areas- no less, I imagine, than from the Australian -Broadcasting Commission itself. [More…]
In respect of the power which is given to make, promote, distribute and exhibit films and in respect of the power to provide financial assistance to a State or authority of a State for the purchase of Australian films which are of educational or national interest or importancewhatever that means- the Commission should have the right to make decisions and to report in due course to the Parliament how it is operating. [More…]
If he is dissatisfied with the Commission, he has the power to change it. [More…]
But I do not believe that he should have the power day by day to direct its operations. [More…]
The mere fact that the Minister has the power does not mean that the power will be exercised in the appropriate way and in the best interests of the community. [More…]
The value of establishing a statutory or autonomous corporation is lost when the Minister has that power. [More…]
If the Minister in this area of film making chooses to use his power politically- I am sorry that Senator Steele Hall feels that in some way Opposition senators are political and Ministers are not- then the misuse of that power is something which ought to arouse objection. [More…]
I think that the appropriate point of time to take the objection is when Bills which contain this power are going through the Parliament. [More…]
That is why we object at this stage to giving that particular power to the Minister. [More…]
He has that much power. [More…]
This afternoon we are discussing whether we should give the Minister this much power. [More…]
In my view, there is no need to give this total power and control of the direction of this Commission to the Minister. [More…]
1 now indicate that the Opposition will not oppose clause 5 in its present form but feels that because the Minister for the Media (Senator Douglas McClelland) has insisted upon his approval being included in the functions of the Commission it is unable to concur with clause 10, which will be dealt with later, which gives him power to require the exhibition of Australian short films. [More…]
That the Opposition would not be able to support the retention of clause 10 as a power of requirment. [More…]
The wide powers which have now been given to the Minister with regard to the assistance and the encouragement which can be given to films through the [More…]
Indeed in the recent annual report of the Australian Film Development Corporation which I tendered in this chamber 2 or 3 weeks ago there is set out on page 4 under the heading ‘Guarantees’ the fact that the Corporation has power to guarantee money obtained by the Australian producers from other sources to the extent of Sim overall. [More…]
The first part of that sub-clause contains a particularly sweeping power which is given to the Minister in relation to the Commission’s functions. [More…]
If we are setting up an Australian Film Commission which has any reality or any powers, surely we cannot say in one clause that every one of its powers is subject to the direction of the [More…]
1 ) The Corporation has power to do all things necessary or convenient to be done for or in connection with the performance of its functions and, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, has power - [More…]
I found the explanation of the Minister for the Media (Senator Douglas McClelland) not very convincing as to why this power ought to be provided. [More…]
I repeat: I am sorry that Senator Hall has put himself with the socialists on this issue, because I do not accept that if one writes into legislation a power which gives ministerial control over the activities of a commission one is helping private enterprise. [More…]
But it has a very humorous side because Senator Greenwood continually accuses me of being a socialist for insisting during the course of the debate on this Bill that the Minister is responsible on the floor of the chamber for the power that is given under the Bill, and in my view it ought to be this way. [More…]
The power of the Commission, if it is to be called a commissionperhaps some of the stumbling block is in calling it a commission; perhaps we ought to call it something else and in some legalistic way that might satisfy Senator Greenwood, but if it is to be called a Commission, let us use that term- is to be represented here through the Minister who is to be given the responsibility for approving of certain of the Commission’s important actions. [More…]
His reference to the exercise of this power in the formation of a company to be used for the purchase of a theatre is precisely one of our concerns regarding the functioning of the Commission under ministerial approval. [More…]
It is for this reason that before we voted on clause 5 I foreshadowed that we would adopt this attitude with regard to clause 10 and to any other parts of the Bill which we believe gave this absolute power of direction to the Minister in the showing of films. [More…]
There is a problem with this clause because it provides for a power to be given to the Minister in the following terms: [More…]
The power which the Minister so takes to himself has enormous import. [More…]
In short, the Minister is taking to himself a power to use the Film Commission as the greatest propaganda weapon which Parliament has ever given to an institution it has created. [More…]
That is the unmistakable and unchallengeable effect of this clause which gives to the Minister the power to direct the Commission as to the type of films it can make and exhibit. [More…]
We in the Liberal Party do not believe that any government, whether of Liberal or Labor persuasion, should have the power to use public moneys and the power of direction to tell the Commission what sort of propaganda shall be made by the film producers of this country. [More…]
Sub-clause (2), to which Senator Greenwood was primarily referring, gives enormous power in regard to the directions which the Minister may give. [More…]
If in fact what is intended by the clause is merely to repeat the power given in paragraph (b) of clause 5(1), which deals with the making, promotion and distribution and exhibiting of films being subject to the approval of the Minister, the clause could be regarded as unnecessary. [More…]
It must be taken as being a total power in accordance with a production being undertaken at any time and in regard to whatever may be done to a film or proposed film. [More…]
Therefore the power conferred on the Minister merits the strength of Senator Greenwood’s objection. [More…]
The Minister has power to give directions in relation to clause 6, which sets out the powers of the Commission. [More…]
The Commission will no longer have all of these real powers at all; it will be always subject to the direction of the Minister. [More…]
This is true not only in relation to its powers but also in relation to its functions, such as the holding of meetings, which is dealt with in clause 27, the staff it employs, which is dealt with in clause 28, and the moneys it expends as well as the control of its moneys, which are dealt with in clause 32. [More…]
All of the powers given to the Commission throughout this Bill become a nullity because, under this clause, they are all subject to the direction of the Minister. [More…]
It means that we will have a Commission that does not have any independent powers in any part of its functions. [More…]
The Opposition proposes to remove the Minister’s power to make directions in that instance. [More…]
It is quite absurd to say that it will not be able to make a film for a department of government because we have insisted an removing this other clause which gives power to the Minister to direct the Commission in the performance of its functions. [More…]
It seems to me that clause 5 gives extreme unlimited power as it stands. [More…]
This other power to give directions with regard to functions which are already under the approval of the Minister does not have the support of the Opposition. [More…]
Senator Hall would like to give the Minister the power to dictate whatever script is required for his own purposes. [More…]
We believe that this is a very dangerous power for any Minister to have, because it would enable him to generate his own propaganda machine. [More…]
From what we have seen of the Labor Government since it came to power, this would be a very dangerous power with which to provide a Minister. [More…]
But I say this irrespective of the government that may be in power. [More…]
Frankly, I am appalled and shocked at the abysmal ignorance of the people who have been putting the case that this clause should be omitted from the Bill merely because it gives the Minister, whoever he may be- whether it be me or someone else- the power of direction, a power that the Minister who was ministerially responsible for the Commonwealth Film Unit for 23 years before this Government came into office had and always had, a power that I, as Minister for the Media, have in regard to the Australian film production unit now known as Film Australia and a power that every other Minister who decides to use Film Australia as a production unit on behalf of his department also has. [More…]
That is the reason for the request for power of direction. [More…]
That power exists in a Minister now so far as Film Australia is concerned. [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…]
It seems that the main objection which the honourable senator has is to a possible misuse of ministerial power. [More…]
I think that it is quite apparent from what she has said that not only is she conversant with this Bill, what the industry is concerned to achieve and indeed what the Tariff Board has said about the industry, but she is also concerned about the import of what this Bill seeks to give by way of authoritarian power to the Minister. [More…]
I want to stress the scope of the power which a Minister is taking in this vitally important area. [More…]
Clause 10(1) gives a power to the Commission or an authorised person to serve upon a foreign corporation or a trading corporation carrying on the business of exhibiting films in a theatre or theatres in Australia a requirement in writing. [More…]
Let me stress that the power that is given to the Commission enables orders to be given to theatres as to the films which they may show at certain times. [More…]
It is not just the Commission but it is an authorised person, which means any member of the staff of the Commission, which has this power. [More…]
So the Commission takes unto itself an enormous power to decide what theatres shall show. [More…]
We have not moved them because at an earlier stage another amendment which gives to the Minister the power to decide which films may be made was rejected. [More…]
That ministerial power over the whole film industry, which is to be supported by this Commission, will give to the Minister the power to use the Australian Film Commission as a weapon of propaganda which is the sort of power that no democratic country which believed in its liberal traditions ought to give to any government. [More…]
Until that position is changed the Opposition believes that the Minister should have no power of control over the Commission to determine what films shall be made and then to say that the theatres in this country are to show those films. [More…]
It then goes on to say that the regulations may make provision- I emphasise the word ‘may’- with respect to any matter in relation to the exercise of power to make requirements under this section. [More…]
It states later that that power shall not be exercised otherwise than in accordance with any regulations. [More…]
There is a third reason that this clause has a power in it which warrants rejection. [More…]
-A Liberal Government was in office, but it never sought to use a document of this character to give power under an Act of Parliament to a Minister of this country to do what he thought was necessary under that Code to tell theatres in this country what they should exhibit. [More…]
This power virtually requires films to be given subsidies. [More…]
Something which I find very difficult to ascertain in terms of Australia’s obligations under this Code is the clause which gives the Minister the power to interpret it as he pleases. [More…]
If this Government in the last 18 or 20 months had not shown that it was prepared to use authoritarian powers to achieve any objective which it wanted, if it had not shown that it was prepared to use patronage and money to achieve desired objectives, one might have viewed the intent of this particular clause more charitably than one does at present. [More…]
But I believe that this clause, in the way in which the Minister now has a power to determine what films shall be made, is part and parcel of a great scheme to make the Film Commission an instrument which the Minister can use for Government propaganda, and we will reject it. [More…]
That is why I have proposed an amendment which I believe suitably limits the investigatory power of the Commission. [More…]
So we can point to many parallels of very great power being placed in the hands of government instrumentalities. [More…]
I support the Government’s clause and oppose the Opposition ‘s amendment, only on the basis that another amendment which I have foreshadowed will be passed and the investigatory power of the Commission is severely limited to its purpose. [More…]
Clause 1 1 contains another of those authoritarian powers which the Government is seeking to take under the guise of the Australian Film Commission Bill. [More…]
To equate the desire of the Government for the Film Commission to get information by compulsory process from any person with the compulsory powers that are occasionally found in health Acts which are concerned with public health is, I think, to have a sense of proportion which does not put public health or the Film Commission in its correct perspective. [More…]
I ask the Senate to consider the width of this power. [More…]
It is a power of enormous width. [More…]
The Commission may well say that as it has the power to compel this information why should not it exercise that power. [More…]
The immensity of this power is such that I cannot understand why the Senate, unless it is bent upon authoritarian designs should give the power to any commission in this area of film production. [More…]
Nevertheless it is a power which can be used and a power which, if used, a commission will expect to be complied with. [More…]
I think we should give further consideration to the matter rather than have the Commission lose its power by passing different amendments which are inclined to do the same thing. [More…]
I can well understand- I personally have some sympathy for- the type of proposition that has been put by the Opposition that it is a very far reaching power which is being given to the Commission. [More…]
I ) The Commission may, by writing under its seal, delegate to a member of the Commission or to a member of the Staff of the Commission, either generally or otherwise as provided by the instrument of delegation, any of its powers or functions under this Act. [More…]
other than this power of delegation. [More…]
We believe that the power of delegation under this clause to a member of the staff of the Commission is undesirable. [More…]
We seek to have a clause which gives the power of delegation to a member of the Commission, but states that that delegation requires the approval of the Minister. [More…]
It is simply that we do not see that a member of the staff of the Commission should be written into the Bill as someone to whom a power of the Commission should be delegated. [More…]
This proposed amendment refers to the elimination of the general power of delegation of powers or functions to anyone other than a member of the Australian Film Commission. [More…]
The Commission may, by writing under its seal, delegate to a member of the Commission or to a member of the staff of the Commission, either generally or otherwise as provided by the instrument of delegation, any of its powers or functions under this Act, other than this power of delegation. [More…]
The Commission may, by writing under its seal, delegate to a member of the Commission with the approval of the Minister, either generally or otherwise as provided by the instrument of delegation, any of its powers or functions under this Act, other than this power of delegation. [More…]
Paradoxically, in this case the Opposition seems to seek to insert ministerial power of approval. [More…]
In fact, it appears rather extraordinary that the Opposition should suggest that in the Commission’s day to day operations, the very area in which delegated powers are most commonly required- Senator Greenwood has had a lot of opposition to voice in regard to ministerial approval in this area- the Minister should be required to exercise some sort of discretionary or approval power in relation to the delegation of power. [More…]
The effect of this amendment would be to ensure that the Minister could pick and choose which of the commissioners- presumably, his favourite- could exercise the delegated power. [More…]
Frankly, the passing of the amendment in relation to the clause would mean a significant increase in the powers of the Minister. [More…]
It would mean that the Minister, whoever he was would have unlimited power to appoint full members of the Commission regardless of whatever interests they might have in the film industry. [More…]
Does the Minister agree with the President of the Australian Council of Trade Unions, Mr Hawke, that the trade union movement ‘worked its guts out’- that is Mr Hawke ‘s expression- to put a Labor Government committed to full employment into power? [More…]
-I think it is fair to say that the trade union movement in general around Australia worked very hard to have a Labor Government elected in 1972 and again worked very hard to have that Government stay in power in the election in May this year. [More…]
His amendment is to add at the end of the clause some sub-clauses relating to the bringing in of parliamentary regulations which would strengthen the regulatory power of this Parliament in relation to the establishing of quotas by the Commission. [More…]
We have said again and again that because the Minister has the approval power with regard to making, promoting, distributing and exhibiting any kind of film the Commission no longer has the discretion to exercise that we believe it should have. [More…]
What the Minister has introduced in his amendment does not strengthen the power of the Commission to certify. [More…]
That power of the Commission already exists within the Bill. [More…]
Despite some disparagement of my amendment last night, I feel sure that the regulation-making power is a very big safeguard for the members of this House in relation to what the Minister does, because the last part of the regulation-making power, which is now accepted so far as clause 10 has gone, says in fact that power shall not be exercised otherwise than in accordance with any regulation made. [More…]
I remind the Opposition again of the importance of the Minister’s regulation-making power. [More…]
Last night wc were faced with a situation that in clause 10 the Minister was taking a power through the Coinmission under which the Commission woun.1 direct the theatres to show a proportion of Australian short films. [More…]
Therein bes the enormous power which government can take to ensure that this Film Commission becomes a propaganda arm for government if it should want it to be that propaganda arm. [More…]
Therefore, we feel that if, in clause 10, there were a requirement under which those films could be shown in theatres, we would be just adding to the power which the Commission was taking. [More…]
Therefore, we believe that the appropriate course- as we have failed in an effort to persuade the Committee at an earlier date to exclude the power of ministerial approval or direction over the making of these films- is to remove that power to make a requirement. [More…]
Of course, clause 5 of the Bill still remains and the Commission will have the ability to make films- as many films as the Commission and the Minister want to make- but it will not have the power to require that these Commission-made, ministerially-directed films shall be shown in the theatres. [More…]
We believe that the Government ought not be allowed to take a compulsory power to direct what films shall be shown. [More…]
There is nothing in our amendment which will facilitate the taking of that power. [More…]
It seems to me that the Opposition would not wish it to be suggestedtherefore, I do not suggest it- that it would seek to do anything which would inhibit the widespread distribution of films which were made under the power contained in clause 5 (1) (b), which sets out the 3 categories of films that we are considering. [More…]
I suggest that it is in the public interest that there be the widest possible dissemination of films properly made pursuant to the power contained in clause 5 ( 1 ) (b) (i), (ii) and (iii). [More…]
In other words, there would be an additional requirement in relation to clause 10 that not only must the films which are the subject of a requirement under that clause be certified by the Commission to be Australian short films but additionally, I emphasise, in the case of films which were made under the power contained in clause 5 (1) (b) (i). [More…]
Whatever might be the thoughts we have about a number of clauses of this Bill- in particular about whether the requirement that conditions which the Parliament lays down can by parliamentary enactment be simply declared to be directory and not mandatory has any effect at all, and if it has, what effect it might be- and notwithstanding our concern about a provision in clause 1 1 which gives to the Commission a power to determine what bodies may represent what unionists in proceedings before the Commission; notwithstanding our concern as to the provisions relating to organisations and associated bodies, how they may be amalgamated or integrated and what might be the rights of members who are dissenting in that area; and notwithstanding the concern we might have as to the scope of the validating provisions, we believe in the absence of complementary legislation they cannot work an injustice. [More…]
The real heart of the problems lies in the demarcation constitutionally of the power of a legislature to make laws with respect to the settlement of industrial disputes between the Commonwealth and the States. [More…]
In the early days of our nation when the Constitution was being interpreted and was developing its own particular glosses there was an extension of the powers of the Commonwealth with regard to that head of power in a manner which had not been contemplated by those who had originally drafted and conceived the nature of the Federal power. [More…]
This head of power and the way it was implemented gave rise to the growth of Federal unions and Federal employers’ organisations and to the creation of disputes by easy, if somewhat artificial means. [More…]
In the settlement of those disputes awards which had been offered to those who sought to bring themselves within the ambit of the Federal power were more acceptable and more generous than awards which were obtainable under the State legislation. [More…]
But as I understand the position, since the present Government came into power there have been no further meetings of those particular groups to work together to achieve a resolution. [More…]
It is an interesting sidelight possibly on the attitudes which parties take that the desire to use the processes of the Constitutional Convention for the promotion of a further referendum on this subject of widening the industrial power of the Commonwealth was expressed as part of the Opposition Parties’ platform at the last election. [More…]
Of course, the real problem is getting together on the form of words which should constitute the head of power upon which the Australian people could be asked to vote. [More…]
One would suppose that the area which ought to be canvassed is the area under which there is a dispute settling procedure, preferably by conciliation and arbitration- not necessarily as part of the language of a head of power but as an exclusion from that head of power of a power to resolve disputes in the State or Federal public services. [More…]
It depends upon reading into placitum 35 of the Constitution and interpretation of the incidental power of the Constitution on placitum 39 of section 5 1 which will enable the Commonwealth Parliament to make laws which really relate to State organisations. [More…]
It is a bold step and one in which Mr Justice Sweeney may well be right in saying that he believes the Commonwealth has that power, but it is clearly an area in which doubt does exist and will exist until at some time in the future the High Court is called upon to make some adjudication. [More…]
I am of the view that such a power can validly be given under the Act in pursuance of the power to legislate under placitum xxxv which authorises 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 placitum xxxix which authorises Parliament to make laws with respect to matters incidental to the execution of any power vested by the Constitution in the Parliament. [More…]
In the Jumbunna Case the view seems to have been adopted that it would have been within power to give to trade unions and other associations constituted under the State laws a locus standi before the federal tribunal. [More…]
He states that each State system should in each case retain a power to register the bodies which are to participate in the system. [More…]
I contemplate that at least the discretion of the State tribunal in determining whether to register or not would be exercised having regard to the degree of autonomy of a federal branch for which registration was sought, the branch’s power to control activities within the State system, the presence of officers and like matters. [More…]
If this were removed and the power limited to cases concerning the working under State awards, there would in my view be no possible conflict with the Federal Act . [More…]
Vesting all the power in respect of Federal organisations and their branches in one court would avoid the embarrassment of possible different judgments on the same issues in two separate tribunals. [More…]
Mr Justice Sweeney went on: -the power which now appears in the Act and in a number of State Acts giving power to the tribunal to make an order entitling persons to membership and requiring the organisation to admit them is another question . [More…]
in the case of a Federal branch I think it preferable that the power be exercisable by one tribunal only and I think it quite sufficient if there is one power able to be exercised. [More…]
A power in the appropriate tribunal to demark the industrial interests under the State Act of unions registered under that Act including those with non corporate registration. [More…]
A similar power to be given to the Registrar when dealing with applications for registration. [More…]
I have not much doubt that if any attempt were made in certain union areas to exercise that power the validity of the section of the Bill which gives to the Commission that power would be taken fairly quickly to the High Court. [More…]
As in so many areas of government, it was necessary for a Labor Government to be elected to power in this country before any serious attempt was made to grapple with this problem. [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 or State branches of federal unions. [More…]
In increasing the ambit it is absolutely essential that we have a power to make sure that a new situation does not develop which would create competition and disorganisation. [More…]
Probably any advice which any government received as to whether or not the Commonwealth had the power to enact this legislation is advice which would have some element of uncertainty about it until such time as the High Court was called upon to adjudicate. [More…]
In my opinion, the Commonwealth Parliament could enact such a law in the exercise of its power under section 51 (xxix ) of the Constitution to make laws with respect to external affairs. [More…]
Additional support for such a law, insofar as it related to the recognition and enforcement of foreign arbitral awards made in connection with trade and commerce between Australia and other countries would be available under section 5 1 placitum (i)- the power to make laws with respect inter alia to trade and commerce with other countries. [More…]
The areas of inquiry are, I think, limited to 2 powersnamely, section 51 (i) and (xxix)- the trade and commerce and the external affairs powers. [More…]
Since the kinds of arbitral awards to which the Convention would apply if Australia were to become a party would not be limited to awards arising out of transactions in the course of overseas trade and commerce, it is clear that section 51 (i) would not provide the necessary power and that it is necessary to look to the external affairs power. [More…]
So this is one case where, if that approach is correct, the Deputy Leader of the Opposition may agree that it is desirable in any event that the Australian Parliament exercise its powers, because it seems that to do otherwise may not be fulfilling its international obligations as it should. [More…]
So that is the basis upon which we are proceeding- not only that there is legislative power to do it but also that it may not have been a fulfilment of the international obligations if we were not to do it. [More…]
That, in preparing the final 2 chapters of its report, the Committee have power to consider the minutes of evidence and records of the Select Committees on Securities and Exchange appointed during previous sessions. [More…]
No matter what government is in power people will get under Parliament’s guard if Parliament is not very watchful of these things. [More…]
However, I think that at some future stage there will have to be some legislation to curb the activities of any organisation which may have the power to move into this area and build a lot of office blocks on it. [More…]
As I understand it, an interdepartmental committee report has been prepared in relation to the powers of the Public Works Committee being extended over some of the statutory authorities. [More…]
If this becomes the case it would be within the power of the Committee of this Parliament to ensure that there is no ravage or rape of the area in front of Parliament House. [More…]
When the Labor Government came into power it immediately set about improving social services. [More…]
In that State a successful family court is operating and that may be the reason why it is not found necessary to use the power of imprisonment. [More…]
I suggest to the Parliament that it is within the power of the Commonwealth to make provisions irrespective of whether divorce proceedings have been instituted or not. [More…]
The power to set up this court and the power in respect of matrimonial matters generally rests on 2 placita in section 5 1 of the Constitution. [More…]
-Yes, which we might as well look at The Parliament of Australia is given power to make laws under placitum 21 in respect of marriage and under placitum 22 in respect of divorce and matrimonial causes and, in relation thereto, parental rights and the custody and guardianship of infants. [More…]
It is doubtful whether these 2 placita confer the power on the Australian Parliament to make laws with respect to affiliationparenthood claims, or matters of delinquency. [More…]
The Committee hopes, especially if this court gets off the ground and shows itself to be a social advance and a success that it would be possible to persuade the States to confer power on the Australian Government to make laws in respect of those matters also. [More…]
It is a national responsibility to undertake to decrease the level of inflation and the rate of increase in the consumer price index in order to allow these people to have the same purchasing power for the pension entitlements which the Government has granted to them. [More…]
When the Labor Party / came to power, far from abolishing the commission it expanded and widened its powers. [More…]
I rise to draw the attention of the Senate once again, as I have done over the past few weeks by asking questions in this House, to the situation which exists in Western Australia with the repressive legislation now in force there under the rather misleading title of the Fuel, Energy and Power Resources Act Amendment Act 1974.I want particularly to give an indication of the ignorance of the State Government in Western Australia in introducing legislation of this nature which could be used and abused at some time in the future. [More…]
This gives the Minister the power to override centuries of common law rights, criminal law appeals, industrial awards and so on. [More…]
In short, it gives the Minister power so sweeping as to be reminiscent of a dictatorship. [More…]
Section 43 is designed to allow for a state of emergency when any situation exists which will affect the provision, supply or distribution of fuel, power or energy. [More…]
So if members of a trade union, for instance, took action against a company providing any of those sources of power and the action was taken with regard to safety measures or wage issues, it would be enough to invoke these sweeping powers. [More…]
We hear the inane comment of a senator from Queensland: ‘How long were you in power?’ [More…]
One of the nations could use its power of veto. [More…]
There is no indication at the moment whether that power of veto will be used. [More…]
Can the Minister say whether this commission, because of the provisions of the Australian Constitution, would really only have the power only to draw salaries and incur large costs at the expense of the Queensland taxpayer? [More…]
At the moment one gets the feeling that the first and only thing to be applied is the judicial power of the court. [More…]
Under clause 90 of the Bill she has the power to obtain the protection of the court against bad behaviour, just as a husband has power to obtain the protection of the court against his wife’s bad behaviour. [More…]
Since this Government came into power we have had 6 referenda, not one of which has been carried and not one of which was submitted to the Constitutional Convention beforehand in an effort to obtain support from the representatives of the States as a means of achieving that sort of consensus which experience ought to have demonstrated was necessary for the carrying of referenda in this country. [More…]
But at a fairly early stage the Commonwealth decided to go it alone and the proposal for the referendum question on the reference of powers was not taken back to the States and instead it was brought prematurely to this Parliament, where the Senate rejected it. [More…]
I felt sorry that he had been caught up in his own use of power to obstruct the work of the Senate. [More…]
The situation is that for 400 years the Portuguese have been the colonial power in Timor. [More…]
The Portuguese have had a look at their colonial powers and this thing has come to a head. [More…]
We have been saying as a government since we have been in power that we believe in the self-determination of people. [More…]
I ask the Minister representing the Minister for Environment and Conservation: Is the Government aware that a group of unions in Victoria is standing over the Victorian Government by simply telling it that the power station, essential for Victoria’s future power needs, is not to be built at Newport? [More…]
Is it not also a fact that the Minister whom the Minister represents, after initial opposition to the Victorian power station, now indicates that the inquiries have been found to show that the station will not be a detriment to the environment? [More…]
I am not aware the Australian Government has the power to make any such determination. [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…]
The Bill has accordingly been amended to give 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 evidencegathering powers are given to Human Rights Commissions and similar powers are vested in the conciliator established by the New Zealand legislation. [More…]
The absence of evidence-gathering powers in the United Kingdom legislation is said to seriously impede the effectiveness of that legislation. [More…]
1 ) The Australian Government was given, by referendum in 1946, the power to make laws with respect to the provisions of certain benefits, allowances and services including sickness benefits, hospital benefits and medical services. [More…]
The Australian Government, by virtue of these powers, can assume certain responsibilities for the health care of the population generally, which of course, includes pensioners, but it does not have an exclusive or even dominant responsibility in that field. [More…]
It was against this background of rapid price inflation and the failure of the States to act uniformly that the Australian Government which came into power in December 1972 announced a number of initiatives in the area of price control. [More…]
Referenda were held in December 1973 on the questions of vesting in the Australian Parliament full constitutional powers to control incomes and prices. [More…]
In the event, the referenda failed to be passed so that these powers remained with the States’. [More…]
This group, in the interests of continuing the disputation, has decided to erect the tents so that it may have some power base. [More…]
He said the proposal to invoke the Federal trade power and use the provisions of the Companies Act in the Australian Capital Territory in order to found the corporation and have it in operation by next year was not yet a definite decision. ‘ [More…]
There have been, of course, the efforts- I would regard them as strained attempts- to invoke a Commonwealth power to justify legislation where on the face of it there is no Commonwealth power, but that is a matter of by-passing the Constitution for which ultimately the High Court of Australia is the guardian. [More…]
One ought to recall and accept that laws are accepted in our community because they are passed by the Parliament, because Parliament is the place where power legitimately resides. [More…]
I can only regret that from another angle we are seeing in Dr Cairns the same attitude as he expressed in 1970- that Parliament is only one of the places where power can be expressed. [More…]
I hope that this Parliament will not accept easily the bypassing of its processes or the emergence of other areas of power which can claim the same legitimacy as this Parliament. [More…]
It is interesting to recall that before this Government came to power its members and supporters were very critical of the Liberal-Country Party Government because of the high rate of inflation and the concern that was being expressed about unemployment in this country. [More…]
This Government came to power hell bent, if I may put it that way, on forcing its socialistic policies upon the Australian community and the Australian way of life. [More…]
He said that the power to halt inflation lies elsewhere than just in other fiscal policies; inflation in the next year would be caused by wage and salary demands. [More…]
The Federal Governmentone can see this in so many of its policies- has been doing all it can to erode State authority and to bypass the State parliaments as much as possible to enable it to have total power in Canberra. [More…]
But which government was it that sought power over prices and incomes in order to get some sanity into all this? [More…]
But somehow something went wrong 2 years ago and the people who now sit opposite were out of power and they have been sore about it ever since. [More…]
But even before President Amin came to power in early 1971 there had been campaigns by the black majority of Uganda of violence and intimidation of Asian businesses. [More…]
These are statements which have been adhered to by the Government since it came to power. [More…]
We have a situation where a loose organisation, a confederation of a number of terrorist groups which is not representative of the community it seeks to represent and which has exerted all its power through terror, seeks to sit down at the bargaining table and to address the United Nations to try to have a voice in what should be a responsible institution. [More…]
Somewhere in the grey area the initiative has to be taken, whether by Kissinger or by the United Nations or by a middle power like Australia. [More…]
Therefore it is the fundamental responsibility of parliament increasingly to make sure that it always holds the power to get answers on where the people ‘s money has gone. [More…]
The Auditor-General is referring to the year 1973-74 in which, tragically for Australia, the Whitlam Labor Government was in power. [More…]
Thirdly, I think that when such a statement is made by Dr Cairns, who has a long record of indicating that Parliament is only one of the places in which power may be exercised it is a frightening apprehension that any one concerned with the future of this country will have as to whether or not Dr Cairns has something else in mind. [More…]
He said the proposal to invoke the Federal trade power and use the provisions of the Companies Act in the Australian Capital Territory in order to found the corporation and have it in operation by next year was not yet a definite decision. [More…]
And whereas our existing Australian Flag and our national anthem, ‘God Save The Queen’, are perpetual reminders of these hard-won freedoms and of the wise British principle of the division of power, so well reflected in our own Australian Constitution with its careful separation of powers as between the Crown and Commonwealth Parliament, the Senate, the State Parliaments, the GovernorGeneral and State Governors, and the Independent Courts of Justice, [More…]
I turn now to clause 6 of the Bill, which amends section 25 of the Act so as to enable the occupant of an office established under an ordinance to be vested with the powers of a Permanent Head under the Public Service Act. [More…]
My own view is that the regulations are in fact valid, but I am sure all honourable senators 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…]
Mr G. Edminstone is liaison officer, Department of Aboriginal and Island Affairs and Mrs P. Power is a member of the Queensland Marriage Guidance Council. [More…]
If one reads the documents which have been circulated in support of this Australian Assistance Plan one can see that power is vested in those few people who happen to be the interim committee which has the power to decide who shall comprise the regional council and who shall comprise therefore the executive committee which determines the whole structure of this concept. [More…]
It is amazing that a sufficient number of commentators have not gone through this documents to realise the power that is given to a few individuals to use millions of dollars to give effect to some party political program. [More…]
What are the powers of that executive committee? [More…]
There is a power of veto if the executive committee does not like them. [More…]
If the executive committee does not like them it has the power of veto over them. [More…]
All power rests in that executive committee. [More…]
In fact I remember Senator Lawrie quite rightly raising this matter when his own Party was in power. [More…]
There will be no decline in the Government’s power with respect to the services. [More…]
Subsequently it was effective, whilst the previous Government was in power, in preventing persons moving on to those lawns and erecting such structures. [More…]
I would have thought that that may well be so within the precincts, and it is proper that Parliament should have a power in its own area. [More…]
But how far does that power extend? [More…]
The fourth point is that the police have a power and a duty to take action and they have not done so. [More…]
And whereas our existing Australian Flag and our national anthem, ‘God Save The Queen’, are perpetual reminders of these hard-won freedoms and of the wise British principle of the division of power, so well reflected in our own Australian Constitution with its careful separation of powers as between the Crown and Commonwealth Parliament, the Senate, the State Parliaments, the GovernorGeneral and State Governors, and the Independent Courts of Justice. [More…]
After all, the Leader of the Opposition in the Senate may believe that when his Government was in power it had only one breath and that was its last. [More…]
The honourable senator’s Party has breathed its last and will not get back into power until it has changed its constitution, its policies and even its name. [More…]
The Government, by this legislation, basically is seeking to remove any legal doubt about whether or not the Australian Broadcasting Control Board has power to carry out its functions and to exercise its powers under the existing Act. [More…]
With legislation of this kind the Government accepts that it is important that the method chosen to amend the legislation should be one which offers the best safeguards against possible abuse of power. [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 1956. [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 may have some validity. [More…]
The Board has consistently drawn attention to this lack in its powers of the past 7 years, but no action was taken by the previous Government 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 to 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…]
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 (3A) which specifically provides power to the Broadcasting Authority to determine, subject to the Minister’s approval, requirements with regard to programs of Australian origin. [More…]
On the day preceding the discussion of the Estimates the Senate had passed a resolution in terms which confirmed an earlier resolution of the Senate when a different government was in power. [More…]
On consideration, even though I had at first said I thought it desirable that we should be given it in secret, I ruled that although the Committee undoubtedly had the power in terms of the 1 97 1 resolution to compel Mr Mollison to give the information if it were of that mind, the Senate also had a discretion not to require him to give that information. [More…]
He is not attempting to enlarge the powers of the Senate or its Committees; he is seeking to limit them, because if our power in this regard is confined to the interpretation for which he contends, it means that where we have the power we are compelled to exercise it. [More…]
There is no question that under the resolution on which Senator Greenwood relies the Committee would have the power to compel an answer to that question, even if it were given in secret. [More…]
Does Senator Greenwood mean to tell us that this Committee or the chairman of this Committee would not have a power to rule, subject to being overruled by the rest of the Committee or later by the Senate, that that information should not be given at all? [More…]
It is not to limit the powers of the Committee or the Senate to say that it is to have this discretion; it is to give reality to such powers. [More…]
He has asked me to quote what he said in a debate in the Senate when a Committee came back with a recommendation for the adoption of the principle on which he relies, that is, the power of Senate Committees to compel witnesses to give evidence. [More…]
The principle is not that the Senate or a Senate Committee must on all occasions use its power to compel a witness to give information which it wants. [More…]
There is no doubt about that power. [More…]
There was no doubt that I ruled that the Committee had that power. [More…]
The power was conceded by Senator Murphy but the Committee, which upheld my ruling, said that even though it had this power there must be occasions when it may use its discretion not to use that power. [More…]
I would have thought that these things were right within the power of the Committee, appreciating entirely what Mr Mollison has said. [More…]
When it got dark the power was switched off even if there was a refrigerator running on the one point in the house. [More…]
According to the white masters of the day the Aborigines might have damaged themselves if they had left the power switched on overnight. [More…]
If he is still in power that will be the case. [More…]
There would be more people than the water supply, power and other services could cope with. [More…]
There is one question of the power of the Auditor-General which I will raise in the Committee stage only by way of query. [More…]
It appears to me that when Labor comes to power not only is it jobs for the boys and jobs for the kids but also trips for the family. [More…]
Channel 5A has been allocated for high power television services at Newcastle to replace Channel 5, and also for a new commercial service to be established at Loxton in South Australia. [More…]
I can also tell the honourable senator that it is planned to use Channel 5A for at least one high power service near Perth and for approximately 12 low power translator installations throughout the rest of Australia. [More…]
I think the unemployment that we have had in Australia commenced well before the Labor Government got into power. [More…]
We had the development of inflation, together with rapidly increasing unemployment, well before the Labor Party got into power. [More…]
Finally, Mr President, 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…]
Although this Parliament has always had the power under the Constitution to make laws with respect to marriage and divorce and all the other things that go with marriage and divorce nearly 60 years elapsed before any government was- I do not know how to put it- game to take on the knotty, thorny problem of making a common law for divorce, marriage and all the other things that go with divorce and marriage for the whole of Australia [More…]
This is one of the measures that should be as near perfect and fair as it is in the power of parliamentarians to devise. [More…]
If in some way this issue as to whether there is constitutional power can be raised for consideration before it is acted upon- supposing that the clauses go through- I think that a lot of the problems in the future can be resolved, because it would be absolutely disastrous to have a family court established as a Commonwealth court of record in which the decisions made by that court were not sustained by the High Court. [More…]
We ought to have one in Australia which is consonant with our constitutional obligations and divisions of power as determined by the High Court. [More…]
I am basing my statement tonight on the fact that Senator Webster was wrong in his determination that he has the power to ask any person to leave this chamber, however that person may be dressed, whether he be a senator or an adviser to a Minister. [More…]
Bay with power to remand persons for trial, to hear bail applications and to issue warrants of search and arrest. [More…]
That the Committee have power to send for persons, papers and records, to move from place to place, to meet and transact business in public or in private, and notwithstanding any prorogation of the Parliament. [More…]
In view of the continuing build up of foreign naval power in the Indian Ocean, what other patrols, if any, are operated through Pearce and Learmonth bases by aircraft of the maritime reconnaissance squadrons? [More…]
At that time reference was made to the Queensland Premier having said that if he had the power he would exercise some sort of mineral resources diplomacy with the Japanese, and if the Japanese did not buy more of Queensland’s meat they would not get Queensland’s coal. [More…]
It would be very difficult to find out the real power structure behind the Country Party and the Liberal Party. [More…]
What was the position when the Opposition was in power and introduced the various horror Budgets? [More…]
I have strong memories of all the bungling of the Opposition while it was in power without any attempt being made to establish training schemes, retraining schemes or structural assistance policies. [More…]
I have referred before to what was said by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development- I think that the quotation is in Hansard- about the onset of inflation in Australia which occurred well before the Labor Government came into power. [More…]
The problem which has been apparent ever since this Government has been in power is that exploration activity has declined to such an extent now that shortly there will be, in fact, only one drill operating on the north-west shelf of Western Australia seeking to find oil or gas. [More…]
In answer to a question in the House of Representatives yesterday the Minister for Minerals and Energy said that the people to blame for all this were members of the State Government in Western Australia because they are challenging his authority and his powers. [More…]
If it was not for the doctrinaire socialist attitude of the Government and the Prime Minister who keep the Minister in power and keep supporting him, the companies that have found the gas, have proven the reserves and have the technology to develop them would have been able to get on with the job a year ago instead of being completely frustrated by the [More…]
They said that this power should stay with the States. [More…]
The surest way to make it all the more difficult for the Government was to ensure that the referendum was defeated, simply because the States are not able to exercise these powers in an overall sense. [More…]
In 1969 the previous Liberal-Country Party Government was in power and when Liberal and Country Party governments were in power in all wheat growing States they imposed wheat quotas. [More…]
Perhaps it is worth looking back 2 years before this Government came to power when the likely size of the 1972 harvest was known, when farmers generally had had 3 years of pretty low incomes and when there probably was a genuine liquidity squeeze as distinct from a fictitious liquidity squeeze. [More…]
Speakers on the Opposition side have failed to state or to declare that what we are suffering at present is a result of policies which were initiated well before this Government came to power. [More…]
The escalation of land prices commenced well before we came into power. [More…]
The misdirection of moneys for building commenced well before we came into power. [More…]
The unbridled development of housing societies without any financial control commenced well before we came into power. [More…]
The uncontrolled speculation in commercial building commenced well before this Government came into office, and the use of labour, materials and moneys in the building of high rise commercial units and uneconomical shopping sites commenced well before we came into power. [More…]
When the Australian Labor Party came into power in December 1 972 there were some 93,000 applicants for housing trust or housing commission homes in Australia. [More…]
Because of the reduction in the price of land these companies went to the wall as they had to, whatever government was in power. [More…]
In other words, the long title simply recites the 2 constitutional heads of power pursuant to which this legislation is placed before the Parliament. [More…]
It is true that a good deal of the Bill deals with marriage dissolution but the constitutional power extends further than that. [More…]
Section 5 1 of the Constitution states that the Parliament shall have power to make laws in this area with respect to marriage, divorce and matrimonial causes, and in relation thereto, parental rights, and the custody and guardianship of infants. [More…]
There is no power to make laws with respect to the family. [More…]
To that extent I think the name of the Bill goes beyond what could be regarded and ought properly to be regarded as constitutional power. [More…]
In doing so I should perhaps point out to Senator Sir Kenneth Anderson that I think Senator Everett referred to the long title of the Bill in the context of saying that that really reflected the use of the constitutional power. [More…]
I do not know how the courts would have dealt with the situation of dissolving marriages, which they have power to do, when those marriages are denned by the Act giving them that power as being indissoluble. [More…]
The concept as outlined in the Bill is to open up the whole field of marriage and marriage effects and to make that an area of Commonwealth legislative power. [More…]
I believe that the power which the Commonwealth Constitution gives to the Commonwealth Parliament to make laws is not as extensive as the Bill assumes that power to be. [More…]
It is assuming a power which, if the Commonwealth does not have it, will cause distress, hardship and misery to people who may obtain orders based upon the width of this power and subsequently find that those orders or awards cannot be sustained by law. [More…]
The essential core of the difficulty in the 2 decisions of Knight v. Knight and Kotsis v. Kotsis was that decisions had been made by a commissioner of the court or a registrar of the court and the High Court had held that those 2 officers did not have the power to make the decrees. [More…]
I mention those decisions and that problem because they illustrate the anxiety and the hardships which can arise if power or jurisdiction is assumed where validly it ought not to be assumed. [More…]
I suppose in the Senate chamber where we are not concerned fundamentally with where constitutional power ultimately lies one cannot speak in terms other than the risk of what is being done. [More…]
I do not believe that the Commonwealth has the power to say that orders can be made with regard to any matters arising out of marriage. [More…]
which state that the power of the Commonwealth is to make laws with respect to marriage, divorce and matrimonial causes and in relation thereto, parental right, and the custody and guardianship of infants. [More…]
The High Court, within the last 15 years, has had occasion- I think this was the only occasion the High Court has looked at these powers- to decide, to determine or to say something as to what is the ambit of those powers. [More…]
I think it ought to be recalled that in one of those cases, the State of Victoria v. the Commonwealth, as to the meaning of the Commonwealth’s power to make laws with respect to marriage, the High Court divided four to three on, I think, two or three of the fundamental questions. [More…]
I only ask the Senate to bear in mind that if 7 judges of the High Court would divide in that proportion on that issue we have some idea of the niceties of interpretation which are involved and the limit which must be imposed upon the Commonwealth power as to marriage. [More…]
One does not know what the remaining 6 judges will say, but if lawyers are to approach this matter in terms of what the power might contain they obviously would look to what Mr Justice Menzies said. [More…]
These words are words of caution and if we are to embark, as this legislation proposes, upon giving to the Commonwealth a wide power and to give to all the instrumentalities to be established by this Bill power to make decrees and orders on applications of that character and subsequently they should be found to be invalid as beyond constitutional power, it is fair to say that people will be denied what they believed they had received and were entitled to. [More…]
It is cautious legislation in a federation such as ours not to assume- particularly in the matter of family relationshipstoo much power where there is doubt as to whether that power exists. [More…]
It would remove what is desirable, namely the power for persons to be able to approach the court- let us hope that it is a family courtwithout having to start matrimonial proceedings for divorce. [More…]
Also included in that jurisdiction is the power to enforce proceedings, maintenance orders and things of that sort. [More…]
A very valuable work on this precise subject- the constitutional power of the Commonwealth to regulate family relations- by Professor Sackville, who is known to all honourable senators, and by Professor Howard, who is the General Counsel to the Attorney-General, is reported in the 1974 Federal Law Review at page 30. [More…]
I accept what Senator Missen says- that the Constitution is the ambit of the power. [More…]
I think Sir Garfield Barwick and the Parliament in 1959 looked at the constitutional power and they sought, consistently with earlier definitions, to limit the operation of the Act to that constitutional power. [More…]
But if the acknowledgement is made, that is not to say that because something ought to be or it would be desirable if it were so, therefore the power is there- and that is what I thought Senator Missen was saying. [More…]
the limit of the power because he said, I think, by way of dismissing one aspect of the argument I had raised that an assault between a husband and a wife was excluded. [More…]
When you have legislation and it is the operative legislation then the ingenuity of parties who want to take advantage of statutory provisions knows no bounds and a resourceful counsel or a solicitor who is able and desirous of doing the best he or she can for a client will take advantage of any power which is available. [More…]
I suspect that there is in both what Senator Murphy and Senator Everett have said that attitude but I say- and this has not been adverted to; I do not think sufficient weight is given to it- that if subsequently the power is found not to be existing, how is redress to be effected? [More…]
But I invite him to consider that if in this area constitutional power is lacking legislation will not rectify the position because there is no Commonwealth power to rectify it. [More…]
I made inquiries and the view was expressed that the members of the Committee amongst themselves believed that the Commonwealth had the power. [More…]
Senator Missen, I remember, said in his reply to me that to accept my amendment would remove from the scope of the Bill the power to grant injunctions. [More…]
I am a little surprised that he put it that way because reflection would recall to his mind that the power to issue injunctions has always been contained in the Matrimonial Causes Act. [More…]
The problem of division of power would not arise in those circumstances. [More…]
Mr Justice Kitto expressed the view this aspect was adverted to by the authors- that many of the powers which were given under the 1959 Act could well be regarded as powers with regard to property, not with regard to marriage. [More…]
Far more extensive powers are being given under this legislation, and they could be categorised in the same way. [More…]
I believe that once that categorisation is made the legislation could well be beyond power. [More…]
I have not referred in detail to the judgments of Sir Owen Dixon and others in the case the State of Victoria v. the Commonwealth about the extent of a marriage power because it seems it is rather the matrimonial causes power and not the marriage power with which we are vitally concerned now. [More…]
Those judgments also indicated a limit to what is now popularly and easily regarded as the width of the marriage power. [More…]
There is a difference between a power to make laws with respect to marriage and a power to make laws with respect to the effects or consequences of marriage. [More…]
If there is an error in the assumption of power by the Commonwealth, I can only say in advance there is not much consolation if one is proved right in the long run for the problems will be immense. [More…]
One is that I do not advocate this because of some hope or desire alone that this is within constitutional power. [More…]
It certainly has to be within the power it will apply. [More…]
I am saying that, if it is removed, the power which clause 90 of the Bill gives is also removed. [More…]
That is a very wide power and one which is much wider than the existing one. [More…]
I think this Bill comes well within the ambit of power. [More…]
I did not mention them previously, but essentially they were decisions based upon the attempt to place in the hands of registrars and commissioners the power to make decisions and to make orders. [More…]
As I understand the result of those cases, it was on the basis that there was no power to put that judicial power in the hands of someone who was not a judge. [More…]
I think that the fears in those cases, which were cured by legislation, should not lead to any fear among members of this Committee because those cases dealt with the way in which the Commonwealth power will be exercised. [More…]
I agree that the complete absence of a power under this Act would not be curable in the way that it was in those cases but would be curable only by referendum or by reference from a State. [More…]
This is not the proper forum to try to analyse the width of the constitutional power. [More…]
Certainly the view that the Commonwealth has not exhausted its constitutional power in this area finds support from the High Court. [More…]
In the Marriage Act case in which the High Court considered questions involving the extent of the marriage power Justice Taylor was inclined to give a wide interpretation to the term “marriage’, as was Justice Menzies who said: ‘The power must extend to the mutual rights and the obligations of spouses unless it be that State laws could deprive that marriage, according to Commonwealth law, of any legal significance except for Commonwealth purposes. [More…]
After careful attention, careful consideration and careful draftsmanship, it is considered that this fits within the constitutional power. [More…]
I am satisfied that we should proceed and not be deterred by what is suggested by Senator Greenwood about possible lack of constitutional power. [More…]
Is it intended that there shall be forms which will give effect to this exclusive power? [More…]
I am giving the honourable senator the reason why the power has been put cautiously. [More…]
It is clear that the court ought to have the power to do this but because these children are under the care and control of Ministers of State and so on it is said that there are special circumstances. [More…]
Certainly the court’s power is widened. [More…]
When one considers that a court may grant an injunction which has the effect of separating the parties and of putting one of them outside the matrimonial home in which that person has lived and to which he or she has contributed, one realises that is a power of enormous significance. [More…]
My understanding of clause 90(2) is that it contains a power to grant an injunction in circumstances in which it is not for the protection of a party, and an injunction under clause 90(2) is one which is relevant in relation to the powers which are exercised under clause 14. [More…]
The width of the power of the injunction is enormous, and something ought to be done to persuade the Attorney-General, I would hope, to adhere to his original concept, which was to give that power of direction. [More…]
I notice that some representations which have been made strongly urge that a greater power than that already in the Bill should be granted in this area because, after all, if a case is adjourned and it is expected that the parties will go before a marriage counsellor or some person who has been nominated or some organisation and a party chooses not to do so, there is no compulsion upon that party to do so. [More…]
I am advised that this compulsory kind of power existed in Denmark and that the situation was- this is the word that was mentioned to me- catastrophic. [More…]
I am advised that in the United States these compulsory powers in regard to counselling have been done away with because experience has proved that it is not the way to go about this matter. [More…]
But to proceed now to say that failure to comply with a direction or with advice is not to constitute a contempt of the court is, I think, to make meaningless the power of direction which a court can exercise. [More…]
But if he feels it is a case for a direction- and there may well be few cases in which that power of direction would be sought to be exercised- I think it is a weakening of the authority of the court not to ensure that there is means by which the direction can be enforced. [More…]
I think it is failing to appreciate the circumstances in which this power of direction or advice may be availed of not to recognise the need to enable the court to be able to assert its powers. [More…]
After all, when we look at clause 90, the clause upon which this whole power in clause 14 hinges, we find that there are immense powers given to the court in the issuing of the injunction. [More…]
It is expressly said that the power of a court to punish persons for contempt of court is not excluded. [More…]
If that be the type of injunction which the legislation will empower a judge to make, I believe that if the judge, in the exercise of that same discretion, compels persons, in the interests of the children, to go before a marriage guidance counsellor, the person to whom that direction is given ought to obey the direction. [More…]
I think it is consonant with all that is sought to be achieved in giving greater strength to these counselling provisions at least to leave this particular power which a court has to be availed of as occasion requires. [More…]
I cannot conceive that there might be a power under which a court, which had given a direction with which the party did not comply, may then haul this party before it. [More…]
The second point I make is that the Committee considered that amendment was desirable in order to increase the constitutional strength of the power contained in the proposed new clause 14a- in other words, that the availability of the counselling facilities should be pursuant to a formal filing of a document invoking those facilities in the Family Court. [More…]
If you give assistance to a person as a person you might be getting into something that is not quite as related to marriage or to the other constitutional heads of power. [More…]
I do not suppose that anybody will greatly challenge it, but some attention has been paid to the available heads of constitutional power even in that. [More…]
Thirdly, whilst I fully appreciate and can see the points which the Attorney-General makes about the need to have regard to the head of constitutional power, this is a facilitatory area in which one would not believe that constitutional questions are likely to cause concern. [More…]
I would have thought, without harking back to an earlier debate, that there is more problem about heads of constitutional power in other areas than in this area. [More…]
What ought to be understood by the Senate is that this Government is pursuing a deliberate policy of centralising power in the House of Representatives. [More…]
) Did the Prime Minister propose that the Commission be expanded, with Mast resort power to ensure its effectiveness’; if so, will the Commission be expanded. [More…]
Did the Prime Minister also express doubts that the States might not be interested in such a proposal because of a potential loss of power; if so, (a) does the Commonwealth intend to confer with the States concerned before proceeding with such a move, and (b) will the recommendations of the Senate Select Committee on Water Pollution relating to a national water authority be studied and taken into account. [More…]
I did not propose that the Commission itself should be expanded with ‘last resort power to ensure its effectiveness ‘. [More…]
The consensus notes with satisfaction the co-operation of the administering power with the Committee of Twenty-four in regard to Cocos and its willingness to receive a further Visiting Mission and draws the attention of the administering power to the conclusions and recommendations of the Visiting Mission. [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…]
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…]
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…]
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…]
Since the section was drafted it has been recognised that, in order to be able to give full effect to economic and financial management policies which it may be desirable to pursue in the national interests, governments need to have full legal powers to control financial aspects of all the various types of transactions which may be entered into between residents of Australia and residents of overseas countries. [More…]
The wording of this section and the way it is drafted have 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 and so on 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…]
During the second reading debate I. made a comment about the place of family courts and Senator James McClelland indicated by way of interjection that some of the things I was hoping family courts could achieve probably had no constitutional head of power. [More…]
But the real problem arises as to whether the Commonwealth has the power constitutionally to set up such a family court with or without those additional facilities. [More…]
I feel quite certain in my mind that the Commonwealth does not have power for the vast range of activities which are contemplated by this Bill. [More…]
The Commonwealth has no constitutional power to appoint officers to State courts. [More…]
There must be grave doubts as to how far the Commonwealth has power, particularly in the light of what Professor Finlay says. [More…]
Such courts could be established as state family courts and invested with all matters of family law within both federal and state power. [More…]
The Superior Court of Australia could be entrusted with appellate jurisdiction in family matters within federal power, leaving only appeals in state family matters to be dealt with by State Supreme Courts. [More…]
My understanding is that there would be fairly ready agreement to enabling the Commonwealth to exercise power in this area. [More…]
The second aspect is that judges of the Federal courts exercise a judicial power. [More…]
I understand that much of the work which the Family Court, as set up by the Commonwealth, is proposing to do will not be within the concept of an exercise of judicial power. [More…]
Questions must therefore arise as to how far activities which are not determining rights between citizens are an exercise of that judicial power. [More…]
Under the clause to which we have just agreed the Parliament is given a power to appoint 6 judges or a power to appoint 100 judges. [More…]
As Senator Durack said, the power of patronage is unlimited. [More…]
If one looks at the Constitution it indicates that the judicial power of the Commonwealth shall be vested in courts such as these. [More…]
Subject to section 73, in an appeal the Court shall have regard to the evidence given in the proceedings out of which the appeal arose and has power to draw inferences of fact and. [More…]
(1) A power or function exercisable under the [More…]
Marriage Act 1961-1973 by a Judge or magistrate as defined in sub-section 5 ( 1 ) of that Act shall be exercisable by any Judge ofthe Family Court who is appointed by the AttorneyGeneral to be a person authorized to exercise that power or function, and that Act applies in relation to the exercise of a power or function in accordance with this section as if references in that Act to a magistrate or Judge included references to a Judge of the Family Court so appointed. [More…]
The Governor-General may, by Proclamation, de clare that a power or function referred to in sub-section ( 1 ) is exercisable in accordance with this section to the exclusion, in whole or in part as specified in the Proclamation, of the exercise of that power or function by Judges or magistrates as defined in sub-section 5 ( 1 )of the Marriage Act 1961-1973. [More…]
( 1 ) The Court has power, in relation to matters in which it has jurisdiction, to make orders of such kinds, and to issue, or direct the issue of, writs of such kinds, as the Court thinks appropriate. [More…]
Subject to this and any other Act, the Family Court has the same power to punish contempts of its power and authority as is possessed by the High Court in respect of contempts of the High Court. [More…]
The Marshal or a Deputy Marshal may authorize such persons as he thinks fit to assist him in the exercise of any power or the performance of any function. [More…]
Proposed clause 1 7s appears to provide that officers of the Court shall have such duties, powers and functions as are provided by this Act and the regulations, and such other duties and functions as the Chief Judge directs. [More…]
The judges of courts always have had the power to make their own rules of procedure. [More…]
This is implicit in giving the Executive the regulation making power. [More…]
The Marshal or a Deputy Marshal may authorize such persons as he thinks fit to assist him in the exercise of any power or the performance of any function. [More…]
It is very unsatisfactory where the regulations making power- this is what it amounts to- has been left in the hands of the court. [More…]
Senator Greenwood referred to some instances of where the rule making power is in the hands of the court. [More…]
-I think that the last statement made by the Attorney-General (Senator Murphy) ought to be reflected upon because to suggest that the way in which judges have exercised their rule making power is quite scandalous- [More…]
There may be a difference of opinion as to whether rules have been properly made but to say that in any area the judges’ exercise of the rule making power is scandalous is, I think, an unwarranted reflection. [More…]
Judges have been given the power to make these rules because they are conversant with the applications being made to the court and with the steps and procedures which ought to be followed by those who make applications to the court. [More…]
I do not quite see how it is that they do not exercise the power. [More…]
The rule making power is there. [More…]
Furthermore, it adds a connection between the judiciary and the executive which I think is always fraught with problems because the power of the executive over the judiciary strikes at the independence of the judiciary. [More…]
-That is a scrutiny which ought to be preserved, just as there is a power in the Parliament- if both Houses agree- to remove a judge for misbehaviour. [More…]
But the fact is that the power is there and that is where the power should lie. [More…]
Indeed, without checking one imagines that Senator Greenwood when he was Attorney-General was the author, no doubt on advice, of documents signed by the GovernorGeneral which prescribes rules under the very power which he now says ought not to reside in the executive. [More…]
To create a broad rule-making power in those judges was to endeavour to bring together judges from right around the country and that, of course, had its own problems. [More…]
The Governor-General having the power meant that it was vested in the Executive and there was a clear case when vesting the State courts with jurisdiction to have some regulation-making power which was a subordinate legislationmaking power. [More…]
It was not feasible to have rule-making power as we are accustomed to having it. [More…]
This power will be needed in the Territories where the jurisdiction of courts of summary jurisdiction has been phased out. [More…]
Once the Australian Parliament has power to deal with ex-nuptial children throughout Australia proposed section 55 will no longer be needed. [More…]
It gives a power to the Government, by Governor-General’s proclamation, to fix a date after which matrimonial causes shall not be heard in courts of summary jurisdiction. [More…]
This amendment is giving power to bring that situation to an end and to say that all matters of that character must be taken to some other court and that persons will not be able to institute them in the ordinary courts of the land where they are normally to be taken. [More…]
What is the intention or purpose in having a power to pick and choose what matters and what courts will be available? [More…]
I have the impression that a fair interpretation of this clause would give to the Government, the Executive, the power to deal specifically with particular proceedings. [More…]
Surely the Deputy Leader of the Opposition is not going to suggest that there is some great Government conspiracy that we are going to do something to some husband or wife or that the whole power of proclamation and so forth will be used in some improper way. [More…]
If the power is to be used, we know it must be used in a bona fide manner for the purposes for which it is granted and with due regard to the rights of persons affected by the exercise of the power. [More…]
Those are the conditions which are implied into the exercise of this power as with other powers. [More…]
It is recognised that the power over matrimonial matters is a very substantial Commonwealth power and I think it is right that the Commonwealth should exercise the financial responsibility in respect of the administration. [More…]
I do not feel that Parliament will have other than the power to supervise the arrangements because of the amendments that we carried earlier today which require the number of courts to be a matter of the regulation supervising power of this Parliament. [More…]
As I understand it, that notion is basically concerned with a division of powers in an economic and strictly political sense. [More…]
But in this piece of legislation- subject to the argument which has gone on before in which Senator Greenwood and Senator Everett have perhaps been the main protagonists- we have to see this matter at this stage of the Committee debate as a proper exercise of the constitutional power of the Commonwealth. [More…]
It is not the sort of exercise of the constitutional power of the Commonwealth which detracts in any way from the powers of the States. [More…]
We are exercising a federal power which relates to individual citizens in this community and their rights in relation to problems arising with matrimonial dissolutions and the like. [More…]
Are we then to cut back judicial commissions on the basis of some power acquired after they have been appointed? [More…]
If the Attorney-General can obtain an agreement between South Australia and the Commonwealth Government under which South Australia will concede to the Federal AttorneyGeneral a veto power over the judges appointed by South Australia then maybe the Commonwealth Government will get some access under the terms of this amendment, if it is carried, to the South Australian Family Court. [More…]
But in a State Family Court I suspect that they would want to have the power of appointment even if that power of appointment were in some way to be constrained by a requirement of consultation. [More…]
Surely that is a matter of State responsibility in which the State should have the power to say at what age its judges should retire. [More…]
In turn there is some fetter on the Attorney-General in that he does not have the unfettered power to create an unlimited number of judges to the court. [More…]
I suggest that, with his control over the appointment of judges, there is ample power for him within the provision that we are putting forward to ensure that the States go into this matter in good faith to create the sort of team that he wants. [More…]
We have put it within his power to get the court he wants if the States will not cooperate. [More…]
We contemplated it but it took 58 years before it actually came into operation and then those in power dared not go as far as they would have liked. [More…]
However, the Committee recommends that, in respect to those Executive functions retained by the Australian Government, the Governor-General be vested with the power to make regulations to be used only when agreement has not been reached on the legislation after the fullest consultation between the national and Territory executives. [More…]
The power of industrial blackmail is endeavouring to elevate the authority of a few union leaders above the authority of the elected and responsible members of the Parliament. [More…]
It is, or it has all the indications of being, a classic case of legitimate power and authority being challenged by those who hold private power, in this case not by a few powerful landholders or by a few important companies but by a few trade union leaders who have influenced and persuaded a trades hall council and now the State Parliamentary Labor Party to an action which seeks to undermine the authority of the Government of Victoria. [More…]
-This instance is no different from the classic examples which our history provides of those who claim special privileges and special powers attempting to prevail over lawful and legitimate authority. [More…]
In this case it is a union power attempting to prevail over the power of the people. [More…]
If” Senator Cavanagh is seeking to know specifically of what I am talking, it is the indication initially by about 5 unions, then 7 unions, then 15 unions and then the Trades Hall Council that they would prevent the Newport power station in Victoria being built. [More…]
The issue is whether the decision of the Government, backed by the unanimous vote of the Parliament, to construct a power plant at Newport is to be overridden by the decision initially of a few trade union leaders who in most cases have not even consulted their membership and who, in any event, even if the membership had been consulted and had supported them, have no right to place themselves in the role of government. [More…]
The need to plan for greater power to be available to industry and to people later this decade and for the balance of the twentieth century is surely unchallenged. [More…]
It is the responsibility of the elected Government and the elected Government in Victoria some 10 years ago, through its State Electricity Commission, commenced the investigation ofthe power needs of Victoria to meet peak loads and to meet the overall requirements in the latter part of the 1970s through into the 1980s and so on for the balance of this century. [More…]
After the presentation of that report there was an Act of the Parliament- an Act for the establishing of the Newport power station- the State Electricity Commission (Newport Power Station) Act of 1971. [More…]
Subsequent to the establishing of the Act and the commencement of the construction an Act was passed by the Parliament of Victoria providing for an Environment Protection Authority, an independent body over which the Minister had no power of direction and which had the obligation to pass judgment upon whether government decisions and government proposals were consistent with environmental protection. [More…]
It was the Government of Victoria which requested the Environment Protection Authority to conduct an inquiry into whether the Newport power station should be built. [More…]
The result was that in 1973 the Environment Protection Authority reported that under certain conditions, which the Authority said it could enforce and would enforce, the power station could proceed, be licensed and, as the report of the Authority said, be a compatible neighbour. [More…]
On 24 July of this year a favourable decision for the power station project to proceed was given. [More…]
In the present appeals, the third parties have focused public attention on the proposed power station in a manner which has called upon the Commission to justify to the fullest extent its proposed activity and to demonstrate that such activity will present no threat to the environment or to public health. [More…]
That the Commission was forced so to do should result in a public awareness that the power station is not to bc feared under the very stringent conditions of operations which have been imposed under the licences. [More…]
What sort of power, where the power plant should be located, what should be its energy, its fuel, its size, its cost and so on, are all matters upon which different opinions may be held but the resolution of those opinions is a matter for the Parliament. [More…]
It was on the day following that a union ban was placed upon the construction of the power station and that is the union ban which is still prevailing. [More…]
This represents a concerted attempt by a number of unions which are concerned only to have a direct confrontation with the Victorian Government to assert their authority and to indicate it is in the hands of the unions that power lies. [More…]
Leaving aside the totally unreasonable stance of any group which claims to exert a private power to determine how public authorities should act, there are a number of matters relevant to particular points raised by the unions which ought to be mentioned. [More…]
The unions claimed that the power station ought to be resited. [More…]
They are the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union, the Electrical Trades Union of Australia, the Furnishing Trades Society- one might wonder what particular interest that society has in a power station at Newport- the Plumbers and Gasfitters Union, and the Federated Engine Drivers and Firemen’s Association of Australasia. [More…]
It is not the province ofthe unions to run the State, lt would be a miscarriage of accountability if the unions were allowed to dictate to the Government the terms of how power was supplied, where it came from and under what conditions. [More…]
One can see how this is working in with a general pattern of seeking power when I recall to the Senate the statement made by the Victorian Secretary of the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union at a University of New South Wales seminar in Sydney last Thursday. [More…]
Trade union power should bc directed at challenging ‘the very basis of society’, the Victorian Secretary ofthe Amalgamated Metal Workers Union. [More…]
Mr Halfpenny forecast increasing moves by the trade union movement to take away power from its political ally, the Australian Labor Party. [More…]
More and more the trade union movement will take power back from its political wing because of the emerging worker challenge to the value of society’, Mr Halfpenny said’. [More…]
The union position is one of arrogant assumption of power- they are right and the Government is wrong. [More…]
The Government’s action is intended to maintain the value of recurrent grants to government and non-government schools and will ensure that the achievement of program objectives are not impaired by a reduction in the purchasing power ofthe original grants. [More…]
There was when the Labor Government was in power in Western Australia. [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 of the 1967 referendum, the Commonwealth had concurrent legislative power with the States regarding Aborigines. [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…]
Sub-section (6) does not prejudice the power of acourt to punish a person for contempt of court. [More…]
Clause 64 as printed is in terms similar to Section 120 of the existing Act and the general purpose of it is to give the court power to set aside instruments or dispositions which are made with the intention of defeating orders or claims pursuant to the statute. [More…]
I simply add that since the power is discretionary the court would always have the power to protect bona fide purchasers for value. [More…]
Perhaps attention might be drawn to them because they add considerably to the strength of what can be done by the injunction power under clause 90. [More…]
This will be a great improvement in the Bill and will greatly widen the Family Court’s power to make orders irrespective of divorce proceedings. [More…]
subject to the Constitution, authorizing an officer of a court to perform and exercise powers and functions, on behalf of the court or otherwise, in relation to proceedings under this Act and enabling the court to review the decision of that officer in relation to the performance or exercise of any function or power; [More…]
the duties of officers ofthe Family Court; ( 0 subject to the Constitution, authorizing an officer of the Family Court or of another court exercising jurisdiction under this Act to perform and exercise powers and functions, on behalf ofthe court or otherwise, in relation to proceedings instituted in the Family Court or proceedings tinder this Act, and enabling the court concerned to review the decision of that officer in relation to the performance or exercise of any function or power: [More…]
Is it a fact that the Australian Conservation Foundation has asked him for a legal opinion about the propriety of advertisements by the State Electricity commission of Victoria exposing the humbug of the union bans on the construction of the Newport power station? [More…]
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…]
that any member of the Committee have power to add a protest or dissent to any report. [More…]
that any member of the Committee have power to add a protest or dissent to any report. [More…]
Therefore it is necessary to get an authority- by resolution of both Houses- to provide that any member of the committee have power to add a protest or dissent to any report. [More…]
The power station, for instance, has risen in price because of these 2 factors from $9m in 1971, to $69.5m in 1977 price terms. [More…]
the acquisition of raw materials power steam and services for use in the Petrochemical Complex; [More…]
I understood him to say, firstly, that a State does have this power within its own borders but that it could come under the discipline of a regulation which the Attorney-General would have to frame under the Federal Trade Practices Act. [More…]
But when one looks at the details of the proposals put forward one sees that extraordinary powers are sought to be given to the Chief Electoral Officer. [More…]
I think that a great deal of excessive power is sought to be left with the Chief Electoral Officer without any power of appeal being provided in relation to the determination of the names of parties. [More…]
If in the eyes of many people there are too many candidates standing for the Senate the idea of using the power of the purse to deny such persons the opportunity of putting themselves before the public is not the most desirable way of overcoming that problem. [More…]
We should not necessarily use the power of the purse to deprive him of the opportunity of standing for the Parliament. [More…]
We then take the spectacle of democracy out of the hands of the individual and give this power to the type of organisations, of whatever sort- commercial or political- which have been known around the world at particular times to be less than savoury. [More…]
The Monarto Growth Centre had already been started by the State government when we came to power. [More…]
He has been able to manipulate them under the power of 2 Acts- the Aboriginal Act 1972 and the Torres Strait Islanders Act 1972. [More…]
They were proclaimed on the Monday following 2 December 1972 because the intention, I believe, at the time was to amend them further if the McMahon Government had been returned to power. [More…]
When the McMahon Government was not returned to power he took the first opportunitythat was on Monday morning, 4 December 1972 - to proclaim those 2 Acts. [More…]
It is a political manipulation by those who control them by virtue of their power under the 2 Acts of Queensland. [More…]
Under the Labor Government 20 years ago when we were fed on maggoty flour- this was before the Country-Liberal Party Government got into power- yes, our letters were opened. [More…]
I am confident that the public does not believe that the Board had such powers nor would it have been accepted in Australian society that such an infringement of the freedom of the Press would be tolerated. [More…]
The proposed amendments were not about power to determine rules and standards, they were simply about total power and the use of power itself. [More…]
To suggest that the amendments which were introduced clarified existing powers of the Board or those powers which were thought to exist is to overlook the intrusion which would now be possible into every function of a licensee of broadcasting and television. [More…]
The Government, by this legislation, basically is seeking to remove any legal doubt about whether or not the Australian Broadcasting Control Board has power to carry out its functions and to exercise its powers under the existing Act. [More…]
There is no talk there about an extension of power or an unlimited power or an undefined power. [More…]
The Minister then recognised one of our objections, which related to the possible abuse of power, and foreshadowed that he would move an amendment to place under the scrutiny of Parliament the rules and standards which could be determined by the Australian Broadcasting Control Board, or the Australian Broadcasting Authority as it is to be known. [More…]
In general terms clause 6 (a) of the Bill will give the Authority power. [More…]
We believe that this must be read in conjunction with sub-clause (d) which gives power to determine rules to be observed by licensees in relation to the televising of programs, including rules with respect to the nature and content of programs. [More…]
Moreover it would enable the Authority to deal with each program on its own and it would enable the Authority, especially when read in conjunction with other proposed amendments, to have the power to make a rule to require a licensee to insert particular material, even particular words, in any program which the licensee proposed to televise. [More…]
Concerning clause 6 (d) of the Bill, which seeks to insert a new sub-section 16 (3) (e) in the Act, the rule-making power with respect to the nature and content of programs could give rise to a rule, to give one of many possible examples, that the content of, say, a current affairs program which had in the opinion of the Minister any matter derogatory to the Government be not televised. [More…]
The rule-making power is such that it could be used to impose censorship of a general nature. [More…]
We believe that they are important matters and we have given a great deal of consideration to the application of the power which is sought in the proposed amendments. [More…]
This power is given in clause 11 of the Bill, which seeks to amend section 84 of the Act to grant a renewal of a licence for a period as short as 6 months. [More…]
We believe that this power could give the Minister or the Authority a power to require a station to carry out at all times whatever requests were made under the threat of a renewal for this limited period of only 6 months. [More…]
A most important feature of the rule-making power about which we are talking is that it can be invoked at a moment’s notice or without notice. [More…]
The Opposition does not question the power or authority of the Board with regard to the introduction of a system that has developed Australian content in programming, but we do question whether such a system would need the approval of the Minister as far as the Board’s authority is concerned. [More…]
We believe there is already substantial power and control over licensees in the existing Act under section 86 (2). [More…]
There is power in that section to suspend licences with not less than 3 days’ notice for a period of not more than 7 days. [More…]
We consider that this is a substantial sanction which can be exercised by the Board under the existing Act and is a power that can be exercised from which there is no right of appeal. [More…]
Although there are requirements for the Board to hold an inquiry and appeals can be made to the Australian Industrial Court for the revocation of licences, we consider that there is a strong power already existing in the hands of the Board in this matter. [More…]
We accept that that was the position of the then Government, but we do not accept that the proposed wording of the amendment relates to a technical breach, but rather that the Authority could have power to discriminate in licence renewals either as a sanction to ensure compliance or as an instrument to destroy the commercial decisionmaking functions of the licensees themselves. [More…]
I believe the power that is sought with regard to control of this function is very serious, because it will be recognised that the income side of the transactions of a commercial radio and television station is very much a matter of the advertising revenue which can be gained. [More…]
The unlimited power that would exist in the Act because of the amendment, which is to place in the hands of the Authority all matters relating to advertising, would appear to us to be an unnecessary infringement on the commercial decisions that should again be taken by those who have been granted a licence. [More…]
I think the Minister should have a good hard look at the Bill to be able to deny categorically that there would be an infringment of freedom of expression if this power were exercised by the proposed Authority. [More…]
What is the new undefined power needed by the Board to enable it to deal with standards? [More…]
He said also that the Government was concerned about the power of the Board to impose rules or standards to apply to programs and advertisements. [More…]
If we are to place in jeopardy the commercial identity of Australian television we are surely to place limitations on the future occupations of and the opportunities for our Australian performers and creative people, because if we create instability in the television industry through the imposition of unrealistic standards by the Broadcasting Authority, and if we place in the hands of the Authority the power to control the whole of programming, advertising and other commercial decisions which should be taken, I think it is fair to assume that in common with other policies which have been adopted by this Government the industry itself could be endangered and diminished. [More…]
An industry which needs to accept rules, standards, determinations, directions, orders, conditions, regulations and requirements could undoubtedly become confused and power itself could become confused if this were the way in which the Act were to function. [More…]
To have the confusion that stems from the variety of existing terminology is to place in our minds the doubt as to whether seeking to clarify the Board’s powers would allow to occur through the Bill unlimited, undefined power in the hands of the government appointed Authority. [More…]
Because we have reached this stage of being unable to have a concurrent point of view on the clarification of the power of the Authority without extending it, 1 regret to say that the amendments which have been proposed by the Government are unacceptable to the Opposition. [More…]
It is a matter of placing by stealth an undefined, unlimited control in the hands of a government appointed authority and to pretend that this control is not an extension of the powers which already exist. [More…]
To say, as the Minister did, that everyone thought these powers existed, I am sure overstates the situation and the way that people feel with regard to this important means of communication in this country. [More…]
I am quite certain that the people of this country did not accept that the Broadcasting Control Board had a power which allowed it to intrude on programming, on content, on advertising- on all of the functions of the commercial stream of radio and television. [More…]
If this were so I am quite sure that it would never be asserted by the Government that it had this power with regard to the Australian Broadcasting Commission. [More…]
As the Minister explained in his second reading speech, it has 2 basic purposes, the first of which is to give the new authority the legal power to perform a function which this Parliament- with the 1946-49 Government, through 23 years of Liberal-Country Party rule and now through this Government- has always believed was a proper function of the broadcasting and television control authority irrespective of its name. [More…]
The words to qualify the noun ‘programs’ are extremely wide- ‘adequate and comprehensive’- and although in 1948 the then Liberal-Country Party Opposition opposed the establishment of the Board that was set up by the legislation of that year, in 23 years of government it did nothing whatsoever to alter the power that was given by the 1948 Act. [More…]
During that period of 23 years it introduced 21 amendments to the legislation, and one can search the record of debates in relation to those 2 1 Bills and one will not find, I suggest, any assertion that the powers conferred by the 1948 legislation had been abused or were not necessary. [More…]
I ask the Opposition: In what way does section 1 6, as it would be amended if these amendments were agreed to, go beyond powers which in those 2 countries at least have been considered appropriate? [More…]
Senator Guilfoyle referred to section 1 7 of the Act which gives the Board power in these terms: In exercising its powers and functions under the Act to make such orders, give such directions and do all such things as it thinks fit. [More…]
It is true, as I understand it, that section 17 has seldom been used but it does seem to me that if the Opposition succeeds in defeating the second reading of this Bill it will be necessary for the Board, as it would remain, to consider exercising those powers. [More…]
Of course, it is pursuant to that power that certain standards have been laid down. [More…]
I question therefore the sincerity of the Opposition because- I think this is absolutely vital to judging its attitude- for over a quarter of a century the Board has had power and it has had the statutory function of ensuring that adequate and comprehensive programs are provided to serve the best interests of the general public. [More…]
It has had power to make orders to give effect to those powers and functions and, under section 99, it has had a direct control over standards. [More…]
The Broadcasting Control Board has excellent standards, but because it has no power to enforce them they are tragically largely ignored. [More…]
I have said that the essential purpose of this Bill is to clothe the Authority with a power commensurate with its functions. [More…]
Why is the Opposition not prepared to have the Authority given the broad general power which is contained in paragraph (a) of clause 6 of the Bill before the Senate? [More…]
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…]
The matter has been treated publicly and in another place on the basis that that provision which I have just read confers some magic power, some stealthy power to use an expression used earlier this afternoon by Senator Guilfoyle, to do something that it was never intended the Board should have power to do. [More…]
It is usual when an Authority is given certain functions to give it a power to carry out those functions. [More…]
To mention examples of statutes in which a similar power is contained in order to permit the function to be carried out, I need mention only the Australian National Airlines Act, the Australian Tourist Commission Act, the Australian Shipping Commission Act and the Australian Wool Corporation Act, all of which have general powers identical with that contained in clause 6 (a) of this Bill and none of which has ever been suggested as an unnecessary or an excessive power. [More…]
I submit to the Senate that there is just no substance in the claim that that power is an unnecessary power or an excessively wide power. [More…]
I do not doubt that violence would be a matter which would attract the attention of the Authority primarily hi relation to that power. [More…]
Is the Opposition prepared to be judged on the basis that it rejects to the Authority the power to control violence in a proper way? [More…]
Apart from the fact that that provision puts in proper legal perspective the powers of the Authority to carry out its functions, I ask: Wherein does it differ from the existing power in section 99 of the present Act? [More…]
As I have said, that section gives a power to the Board to determine standards and to require those standards to be observed by the proprietors of broadcasting and television stations and an ultimate power of direction by the Board. [More…]
Again I suggest that it would be a complete insult to the Authority to suggest that it would capriciously, arbitrarily or wrongly exercise a power which will be expressed, if the Minister’s amendment had a chance to be considered and passed by this Senate, so carefully by this proposed amendment. [More…]
I have emphasised that with respect to those three, there is no question of any ministerial power or control over the Authority. [More…]
The first is that for the first time in these amendments the Minister is mentioned so far as powers are concerned. [More…]
The Minister has no power of unilateral action. [More…]
I have referred to the safeguards which the Opposition virtually ignored, and I have referred to the fact that the only personal ministerial power contained in these amendments relates to the approval of requirements in relation to Australian content, as it is briefly termed. [More…]
There is even some doubt whether the Broadcasting Control Board has any power, has any teeth, under this legislation. [More…]
The inclusion of many of the amendments contained in this Bill will give an enormous amount of power to the proposed Australian Broadcasting Authority. [More…]
I do not know what difference that will make to the power and authority of the people in charge. [More…]
I believe that that is putting an enormous amount of power in the hands of one person- the Minister for the Media of the day, whoever he might be. [More…]
It is giving him power to control this form of the media. [More…]
We would not like to see at some future date, as a result of this power growing, this matter of socialism versus private enterprise getting round to the newspapers or other forms of the media and its being said that a newspaper has to have its leading article on its front or back page or that it has to have certain items on certain pages. [More…]
We support that but we do not think that unlimited power should be given to the Minister, through the Board, just to agree to these rules which, as I have already said, are not really the same as regulations. [More…]
I have been told that in certain quarters of the television management area there has been a pervasive influence of threat that has come out of the Australian Broadcasting Control Board’s view of the situation, and that it had been expected that this legislation would come before the Parliament because certain statements needed the backing of legislation and certain powers had to be confirmed. [More…]
If he wanted to strengthen existing powers, he should have tried to strengthen existing powers. [More…]
One can assume only that this Bill is really a statement of no confidence in the existing negotiating powers of the Board. [More…]
I could not imagine that the Board, with the powers in the existing Act, could not effectively go to management of the media and demand and get co-operation. [More…]
Its basic power is the power not to renew a licence. [More…]
If that is not a basic power, I do not know what is. [More…]
If after some further time the Board requires an increase in or a substantiation of its power to meet future challenges that will be engendered to its determinations, let this Minister or some other Minister bring the proposal to the Senate. [More…]
These words which it is proposed to substitute give further power to the Authority, which indirectly comes back to the Minister because the Minister’s amendments relate to clause 6 of the Bill, or section 16 of the principal Act. [More…]
Again I am not saying that it would have happened, but the proposed legislation contained the power for it to happen. [More…]
We have the same sort of power sitting in this Broadcasting and Television Bill. [More…]
I find it difficult to support the Bill particularly because the Board has rarely needed to resort to the power that it already has. [More…]
Among the powers of the Board, specifically provided by an Act of Parliament which has been amended by a series of conservative governments, we find that the Board shall have power to determine the hours during which programs may be broadcast or televised. [More…]
She would deny that power and Senator Guilfoyle went on to say that since this Government assumed office there has been an unprecedented interest in news programs both by the Board and by the Government. [More…]
I believe that that is the wish of the Australian people and that they have believed that the Broadcasting Control Board always was vested with those powers. [More…]
I believe that this Parliament always thought that the Control Board was vested with those powers and that the Australian people felt that the Broadcasting Control Board should have the responsibility to determine how much advertising is allowable. [More…]
I consider that the Australian people want to ensure that the Australian Broadcasting Control Board has the power to determine what type of advertising should be allowed, for instance, during children’s viewing time and during family viewing time and so on, and that they believe there is a responsibility on the Board to determine how much programming should be of Australian origin. [More…]
But by rejection of this legislation all those things that the Australian people believe to be the responsibility of the Board under powers they thought were vested in it are going to be denied the Board. [More…]
Henceforth when I get letters of complaint about the time slotting of particular programs on children’s viewing time or in family viewing time, complaints about excessive advertising on television or the type of advertising on television during children’s viewing hours I will be able to say that because of the Opposition in this Senate the Control Board has no power to act. [More…]
It was felt that the Board did not have the power to determine what should be transmitted on Sunday mornings. [More…]
On 30 March 1971 station TCN Sydney questioned the validity of the Board ‘s power to determine Australian content requirements under paragraph 25 of the Television Programme Standards in the following terms: [More…]
That the Board can, or can claim the right to, vary the requirements as between particular licensees is objectionable: that it may do so, relying solely upon its appreciation of circumstances generally and of circumstances applicable to a station in particular, appears to be a usurpation of a discriminatory power which can operate to the advantage of a particular station and to the disadvantage of another station, even though those two stations may bc in actual business competition within the same viewing area. [More…]
One ground on which Counsel bases his view is the reservation by the Board to itself of a dispensing power to relieve individual licensees of the obligation imposed by the Act to observe the standards laid down by the Board. [More…]
I have read that because Senator Guilfoyle queried my going to the annual conference of the Professional Musicians Union of Australia and telling the delegates that if this legislation giving the Board power to determine Australian content regulations is not adopted by the Senate, their jobs are in jeopardy. [More…]
The previous Government did nothing about the situation and we have determined, because we are bound to implement our policy of providing Australian content and quality in programming, that we must have the legislative power to bring that about. [More…]
The simple fact of the matter is, in reply to the original query put by Senator Guilfoyle, that there has been a challenge to the power of the Board to determine rules and standards so far as Australian content requirements are concerned. [More…]
After having introduced the Bill and then having a discussion with executives of the Federation of Australian Commercial Television Stations we determined that we would amend the Bill so that the power would vest in either House of the Parliament and either House of the Parliament would have the right to reject the regulations that were determined by the Board. [More…]
This is the second occasion on which we have extended the eligibility provisions since this Government came to power. [More…]
It is to be noted also that within the Territories power is being sought to allow the powers of a permanent head to be exercised in accordance with powers granted by ordinance to persons who are in charge of offices within the Australian Capital Territory. [More…]
Clause 13 meets certain objections which have been made by the Parliamentary Regulations and Ordinances Committee with regard to the ambit of the regulation-making power conferred by the Public Service Act. [More…]
The Opposition does not seek to restore that other provision about the Board having the power to reject persons whom it considers to be not fit and proper persons. [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 Commission to its full-time members to enable administrative procedures arising from the legislation to be expedited. [More…]
The Bill provides for the necessary legislative authority for delegation of the Commission’s powers. [More…]
There is, in effect, a formal move of power. [More…]
These Bills really put beyond doubt the power of the Australian Government to make regulations in respect of all types of overseas transactions. [More…]
Under the Commonwealth Constitution there is no direct head of power to enable a Commonwealth government to have sovereignty or responsibility over urban and regional development. [More…]
I seek clarification on the role which the Federal Government is playing or is proposing to play in respect of the union ban on the construction of the power station at Newport in Victoria. [More…]
I ask: Is it not a fact that whilst the trade unions have played an important role in their quest to protect the environment and general quality of life in the working class area of Newport in Victoria, these same unions are simply spearheading a campaign on behalf of numerous environmental groups and people living in the immediate and surrounding area of the district in which the Victorian Government is insisting that a new power station be built? [More…]
There is not even power in the Act for the responsible Minister to withdraw the special account subsidies from an organisation. [More…]
Clause 15 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…]
In opening my remarks on this Bill last night I drew attention to the fundamental fact that the Commonwealth Constitution provides no power to a Commonwealth Government to legislate directly with regard to urban and regional affairs. [More…]
That power lies directly and wholly with the States. [More…]
Quite clearly the Prime Minister has laid it on the line that he will not be associated with cooperative federalism, that he will take his Cabinet and his Government into the total centralisation of power. [More…]
This morning I heard on a news broadcast that the Gunning Shire Council is cutting its work program, is sacking its people, because of its reduction in spending power as a result of reduced revenue from rates. [More…]
With the power of approval given the Commonwealth Minister by sections 4 and 7, it could well prove that the ‘approval of programs’ vested in him could result in an imposition of Commonwealth priorities. [More…]
It is a Bill for the centralisation of power and indeed the destruction of the other tiers of government. [More…]
As Senator Carrick said, even if the Minister desired to do that he has not got the power to do so. [More…]
I think that the Minister would have been justified in keeping it in the Bill- at least he had the power to do so- but graciously he said that in this matter there will be full co-operation with the States and he agreed to the Opposition’s request to take that provision out of the Bill. [More…]
Over many months, as Senator Greenwood knows, the desire was expressed to regain power at all costs, but there was no consideration of the issues before the Federal Parliament of the state of the nation. [More…]
It is interesting to go back to the referendums of May when two of the major proposals were the transfer of power to the Federal [More…]
Whilst it is politically impossible at the moment, there ought to be a new referendum in Australia asking the Australian people to give to the Australian Government the power to fix wages and salaries according to the measure of productivity in this country. [More…]
If the Opposition in the Austraiian Parliament said to the Australian Government: ‘We urge you to go to the Australian people by way of referendum to obtain the power to fix wages and salaries as a measure directly indexed to the level of productivity, we will in return ensure that you go your full term of office without displacement by the Senate, the Labor Government would have every incentive to take that action. [More…]
The Opposition is too concerned with wrestling power from this Government to be concerned with the intricacies of inflation. [More…]
One of the implications of that statement is that landlords have unlimited power to set whatever prices they like for rent. [More…]
If that is so it seems to me that the validity of Senator Hall’s assertion that it is high time that governments in this country had and exercised power to control prices is emphasised. [More…]
If we are to follow Senator Wood’s line of reasoning and landlords have unlimited power to increase rents to any level that they choose, surely it is time that this Government had and exercised power to stop landlords from behaving in that predatory way. [More…]
I repeat that if Senator Woods’ assertion is to be taken on face value, namely, that landlords have total and unlimited power to set rents at any levels they choose, this emphasises that it is absolutely vital that the troglodytes in the Liberal Party and the Country Party review their attitude to this vital question. [More…]
The most striking indication of how the position of power is being used to help the appeal for John Curtin House is illustrated by a letter written by the First Assistant Commissioner of Taxation to the Secretary of the John Curtin House appeal. [More…]
I was saying that the use by this Labor Government of the power of patronage is well known in the area of activities of the Minister for Labor and Immigration; it is known in the area of the Minister for Social Security (Mr Hayden); and it is known in the area of the Minister for Urban and Regional Development (Mr Uren). [More…]
This is just another example in a slightly different vein of the way in which the income tax power is apparently being used by the Taxation Commissioner to facilitate donations to the Labor Party headquarters appeal in this city. [More…]
If the Parliament is not the place in which these allegations can be raised when a letter of this character comes to public light, then where can the people be protected from abuse of power? [More…]
So we find in chapter 2 of the Liberal Party’s platform a section which is rather pompously headed Federalism- the responsible exercise of power’. [More…]
In the section on the responsible exercise of power we are told about the distribution of power and responsibility between the Commonwealth and State governments and local authorities to ensure the maximum participation of the individual citizen in the decisionmaking processes and as an essential safeguard against authoritarianism. [More…]
Let us look at the proposed Newport power station fiasco, which has been raised again and again in this chamber. [More…]
The establishment of such a power station is the responsibility of the Victorian Government, but its minions in this chamber have raised it in the hope of gaining some sort of assistance from this chamber to get it out of its difficulties. [More…]
In dealing with the question of federalism as the responsible exercise of power, I refer to that sort of issue as showing something of the ill conceived nature of the view that State governments are somehow efficient in the interests of Australian people and are somehow the bulwarks of freedom and the individual against authoritarianism. [More…]
Obviously socialisation is the intention of his Party if it ever obtains full power in both Houses of Parliament. [More…]
We in this country know that that sort of” nonsense can be disregarded because there are States still with substantial power, and when the Liberal Party comes back to office then that power will be greater. [More…]
Senator Button tonight drew attention; he thought it was unfavourable attention; to the prominence which the Liberal Party places on federalism and the need to change that federalism so that the States have the reality of financial power. [More…]
It is not a laugh when the Opposition, which was in power for so many years, itself had Prime Ministers who were excellent at changing their Ministers whenever it suited them. [More…]
Although he is not in the chamber at the moment, I want to support the point which I believe was made by Senator Hall- it is critically importantwhen he referred to the prices and incomes power. [More…]
This Government sought power over prices and incomes 12 months ago, and at the national level this was an essential ingredient to holding down inflation. [More…]
But I have no doubt that if this Government was again to seek those powers which must be held at the Federal level- they are not effective through the States- again the Opposition would oppose us and it would do exactly the sorts of things that it did on the last occasion. [More…]
It would put the fear of old Nick into the people and say: ‘Centralist power! [More…]
But the majority of Australians, I believe, are now realising that the Government was right last year when it sought those Federal powers over prices and incomes. [More…]
Let me advert to the remarks of the Minister for Agriculture (Senator Wriedt) in his summary of the previous Bill in which he said that much of the woes that are this country are due to the lack of the power of the Commonwealth Government to control prices as well as wages. [More…]
The Minister said that the Government did not have these powers. [More…]
The States have said to the Commonwealth Government: If you want a temporary transfer of those powers ask for them and we will give them to you’, but the Government has not sought to do so. [More…]
Equally I say as a personal view that the corporation power as decided by the High Court some 2 years ago undoubtedly gives to the Commonwealth Government the power to control prices and indeed wages in regard to corporations and if I am right- I believe a search ofthe Attorney-General’s records will show that a former Solicitor-General has held that view- the Commonwealth Government has the power today to act on prices and wages in corporations and does not need any referendum and does not need any reference of power. [More…]
In any case it can get a referendum of power from the States and it can buttress it if it wants to with the corporation power. [More…]
If the Minister suggests by interjection that it is only a power over corporations all that would be left out of it would be those prices and wages that are for services and not indeed produced by corporations. [More…]
But if indeed the Minister seeks to get the power over services he can get it by reference to the States. [More…]
The current alibi is: We would have controlled these things but you did not give us the powers. [More…]
The Government can get those powers by reference if it asks for them. [More…]
The Government in fact, in my view, has those powers. [More…]
If the public companies find disfavour in Senator McLaren’s eyes or in the eyes of any member of the Government, the Government itself has that total corporation power- that cannot be argued- so that if” there is a mote it is in the eyes of the Government. [More…]
Under the terms of the resolution re-appointing the Legislative and General Purpose Standing Committees on 1 7 September 1974, the Standing Committees have power to inquire into and report upon matters which were referred to them during previous sessions. [More…]
In the light of this discretionary power, the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence has considered three references in this category, namely: [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…]
If the trend continues, by the middle of next year they will be some $2,000m, which is regarded by all authoritative people as perilous since it would be barely 2 months purchasing power for this nation. [More…]
Shorter hours, more leisure, better environments, more consumer purchasing power need an increase in the amount of capital employed relative to labour- a capital deepening in fact. [More…]
After careful consideration Council had decided that the permit system which gave them power to control entry to a reserve should remain for the time being. [More…]
They all have the power to override their local government, just as Mr Bryant has the power to override the local government in Canberra. [More…]
The people who founded the Constitution desired certain actions or gave certain powers. [More…]
The Constitution gave us that power and under the Constitution if the Senate wants to refuse a Supply Bill it has a perfect right to do so. [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 their use. [More…]
It is not envisaged that the Corporation will use all of these powers immediately, but rather as and when circumstances warrant their use. [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…]
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 amendment which has been moved by Senator Maunsell on behalf of the Opposition is, of course, in conflict with the provisions in other Acts which were passed during the time the Liberal-Country Party was in power. [More…]
Powers of direction were given to the Minister in exactly the same way as this power is proposed to be given to the Minister. [More…]
I am not aware that LiberalCountry Party Governments were averse to giving powers to Ministers under certain Acts when they saw fit to do so and when it was appropriate as on many occasions it is appropriate as it is in these circumstances. [More…]
If Senator Maunsell cares to look at section 41 (4) of the Wool Industry Act 1972 he will find in that Act power of direction given to the Minister by the previous Government. [More…]
That is a specific power of direction given to the Minister. [More…]
It is in respect of a different matter but the power of direction is still clear, and the same applies in this case. [More…]
Indeed, honourable senators opposite know that they have an opportunity to put their own henchmen into the positions they would like them to be in, despite the fact that when the Opposition was in power it allowed the wool industry to sink to the depths of despair 4 years ago. [More…]
Of course, other provisions in this amending Bill and in the Act give the Corporation power to buy in all forms, but of course not the power to acquire as is somewhat inherent in this clause. [More…]
I believe that the Corporation would not use this power in any untoward fashion, but because of that fact and the fact that it frightens some people, I have moved the amendment. [More…]
My intention is not to give to the Corporation the power to become a manufacturer or processor of wool or woollen products in its own right. [More…]
If that is a necessary requirement in some future market situation, the Minister of the day can come back to this place and ask for that power to be given to the corporation. [More…]
If that is the case, the Corportion should have the power to arrange for treatment or manufacture. [More…]
It has the same basic reasoning, that is, not to give the Australian Wool Corporation the power to process wool but to allow it to have the power to arrange for the processing of wool. [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…]
The Commission will be able to supplement this information by using powers which enable it to require information to be furnished on an ad hoc basis. [More…]
The Commission will also have power to nominate an officer to attend meetings of the directors, members or debenture holders of a company. [More…]
The Commission will have a rule-making power, which will be generally coextensive with, but subordinate to, a regulationmaking power of the Governor-General. [More…]
Where the Commission considers it necessary or desirable for the protection of investors or in the interests of the public it will have power to prohibit trading in a specified security for up to 2 1 days. [More…]
Any such action by the Commission may be cancelled by the Governor-General, who will have a power of his own to prohibit trading on a stock market. [More…]
He will be able to exercise that power for such period as he thinks fit. [More…]
The power to grant suspend or revoke these licences is vested in the Commission. [More…]
The Bill puts an end to the practice under existing State and Territory law of a corporation accepting oversubscriptions to an issue of debentures if a power to do so has been reserved in the prospectus. [More…]
These provisions relate to companies that have been declared to be investment companies, and the power to make such a declaration is vested in the Commission. [More…]
The honourable senator will also be aware that the Joint Parliamentary Committee on Prices appointed on 23 July 1 974 has the necessary power to inquire into and report upon complaints arising from prices charged by private industry. [More…]
I agree with the points that Senator Murphy has just made about the manner in which the electorates have been gerrymandered for the purpose of maintaining in power a man who does not understand the essence of democracy. [More…]
It would have to be someone who had the power to order their removal. [More…]
The police would lack that power unless they could accuse a person of some form of misconduct or activity against the law. [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…]
Powers and duties incidental to management of property. [More…]
Again I believe it is right that the councillors, not anyone else, should decide whether they should or should not retain the power over who shall visit their communities and who shall live in them. [More…]
Should anyone have the power to remove someone from the Island, for political reasons or otherwise, or perhaps because they do not like the person who is removed? [More…]
He has said that nobody has the power to do so. [More…]
But he has the very power to do it. [More…]
The old question arises of whether it is right to have these powers in an Act of Parliament. [More…]
I will do everything in my power to assist the advancement of my race. [More…]
That seems to me to be a totally unwarranted power to give to the Minister in addition to all his other quite complete controlling and supervisory powers in relation to approval and inquiry and all the other many-sided facets of control involved in giving his approval. [More…]
It seems completely unwarranted alongside those powers for him to be given the power to revoke a decision already made. [More…]
In the passage of the Commonwealth-States roads legislation we asked why the Minister wanted a revocation power in the legislation. [More…]
The Minister may reply that he would like to have this power and would use it sparingly and would never in any way be vindictive. [More…]
The power given in this clause gives that sort of Minister, whom 1 have clearly outlined in the example which I have just given, the ability to say to a State: ‘Not only may I not approve your future projects but I shall revoke my approval of this project you have half-completed’. [More…]
It is a power that is completely unwarranted and, as I have said, it can be described only as a vindictive power. [More…]
If the Senate allows this revocation power to proceed we must forget the fiction that we believe in the existence of States as separate governing entitites. [More…]
The decision that the Government makes will certainly set the course for future action or nonaction in relation to similar powers which are taken by the Australian Government in relation to expenditure of funds by the States. [More…]
I remind the Senate, as I said in my speech on the second reading of this Bill, that with this sort of power being extended by Bill after Bill passed by this House, the States are rapidly becoming constitutional skeletons and ultimately will become unnecessary in the system of Australian Government. [More…]
He believes in centralising power here. [More…]
He believes in removing power from the States. [More…]
Not only would he like to obtain the power of revocation over State governments; he would also like to strangle them. [More…]
That view has led to the power of revocation being written into this Bill. [More…]
I admit the right of people to write releases as they wish about those who stand up for some remaining State powers, as indicated in this amendment. [More…]
Let me say to the honourable senator and to the Minister for the Media (Senator Douglas McClelland) that the inclusion of this all pervading power in the Bill is one of the reasons why people in Queensland voted as they did on Saturday. [More…]
The honourable senator cannot understand that by the inclusion of this type of power he is activating those who will destroy his Government. [More…]
Certainly the inclusion of this power to revoke will give me added impetus to fight him out in the electorate. [More…]
The amendment does not affect the Minister’s power. [More…]
What the Government says is that the amendment, as proposed by Senator Hall, does not affect the Minister’s power to approve a project or a program in a State, but it withdraws his power to revoke his approval and limits his power to vary his approval except with the agreement of the State. [More…]
If the Minister is to continue to retain the power to approve a project without the agreement of a State, we suggest that it is not logical that he is to be required to vary his approval only if the State agrees. [More…]
The second aspect deals with a decline in the power of the States in Australia. [More…]
It is the latter- the unseen factor of the decline in the power of the States- which, of course, should be noticed as the debate on this Bill passes rather swifty through the second reading stage because it is typical of recent legislation that the Commonwealth, in providing special assistance to the States, shall become the dictator as to how that resource shall be expended in every way down to the most minor type of decision. [More…]
In specific areas it seeks to give the Minister for Education the power to revoke already approved decisions. [More…]
The very sobering thought is that the public will sacrifice federation and the rights and powers of the States to get what it wants from the Federal Government. [More…]
The Senate ought not to keep up the pretence that it believes in federation if the Senate allows the revocation power in this Bill to go through. [More…]
But I will proceed to put and call for a seconder to my amendments which request the Senate to remove the revocation power of the Minister for Education. [More…]
I think it is pertinent to point out that the extra funds referred to in the Bill are not so much for an expanded program of capital expenditure but rather to meet what I will call the rapidly diminishing purchasing power of the Australian currency. [More…]
That would enable certain investigations to be made and would give power to enter land and make studies of it, and so on. [More…]
The Bill is entitled the Northern Territory (Stabilization of Land Prices) Bill 1974, but in full truth it is a Bill which is aimed at giving Canberra the power to control the acquisition without the right of appeal of, to begin with, land around the urban area of Darwin. [More…]
Does the Government want to have the power to acquire that area for urban development? [More…]
In that statement he said that he would refer to the full elected Legislative Assembly, a decision on a request by Darwin nudists to establish a free beach in the area, but he will not give that Assembly the power to legislate and control urban land in Darwin. [More…]
It was happening before we came to power. [More…]
The critical point is that we as a Government realised that action should have been taken on this even before we were in power. [More…]
We have limited powers and limited options available to us. [More…]
When we sought those powers we were opposed by the Opposition. [More…]
It knew that by opposing our efforts to get those powers it would be deliberately robbing this Government of one of the most powerful weapons that it could have to fight inflation. [More…]
The Opposition opposed us deliberately, knowing full well that the States, in which the power presently resides, could not effectively control the cost inflation problem either individually or collectively. [More…]
By a deliberate act of the Liberal and Country Parties to ensure that the Government would not be able to grapple with inflation- that was the real purpose of their opposition- we have been denied those powers. [More…]
I also accept the fact that the other night he was prepared to admit that when the proposal in relation to the powers over prices and incomes came before the Australian people last year he did not support it, that he could not see the wisdom of it. [More…]
I hope that his argument will be sufficient to convince some members of the Opposition that those powers are indeed an effective weapon which is currently being denied the Government. [More…]
It was realised- and this was perfectly true, of course- that substantial improvements were necessary to the port facilities at King Island and it was decided while those 2 respective Liberal Governments were in power that extensive work should be done following a feasibility study. [More…]
The matter of referral of State powers was raised by the Prime Minister at the Constitutional Convention in September 1973 and has been pursued subsequently with the States but with no results, so far as the non-Labor States are concerned. [More…]
After the May 1974 elections the Prime Minister wrote to the non-Labor Premiers saying that he wanted lo pursue the offer to refer power for prices regulation they made during the election campaign. [More…]
As everybody knows, whenever there are important stoppages or national stoppages, the most effective method of dealing with them in an organised way, where there are factions in the work force, is to support in every way the taking over of the disputes by the Australian Council of Trade Unions which then has power to control all the elements in the disputes. [More…]
I hope that when the shipping agreement runs out he will support moves to give the Australian National Line the power at least to contract as a freight forwarder so that further improvement will occur. [More…]
It is as a result of the fact that the Opposition in this place created a double dissolution in May of this year that the Government now has the power that the Opposition so badly did not want it to have. [More…]
The power was given to the Government by the Liberal Party and the Australian Country Party in the Federal Parliament. [More…]
It has the power to introduce the scheme because the Opposition gave it the chance to do so and the chance to hold the Joint Sitting, which it would not have had if the double dissolution had not occurred. [More…]
I maintain my opposition in representation about these matters, as I have always done, to what the Government is seeking to do in this matter, but I must regard the Government as having the power since the Joint Sitting. [More…]
One of its main challenges is that it seeks to derive powers from a series of alleged heads of power. [More…]
That in itself has some elegance because as the Minister acknowledges with a smile clause 6 is one which seeks to establish heads of power. [More…]
There is a certain audacity about this, a certain almost buccaneering audacity which seeks in a fascinating way for the first time to establish a head df power which is not written in the Constitution but which is as it were, the infusion of the whole Commonwealth Constitution. [More…]
It seeks power over territories and clearly it has that power. [More…]
It seeks power over coastal areas and no doubt the High Court will have a lot to say about that. [More…]
It seeks power within the States in particular ways and it seeks power from its external powers relating to foreign treaties. [More…]
Therefore it looks to such powers as those over trade and commerce, and tourism and, of course, to its external powers. [More…]
The powers under it cover virtually anything and honourable senators should bear in mind that the Bill seeks the power to make regulations under this Treaty and some 4 others. [More…]
The Opposition intends to move a series of amendments which seek to restrict powers that the Government seeks to take to itself by way of trade and commerce within the States. [More…]
Quite clearly, the Commonwealth Constitution does not give the Commonwealth power over trade and commerce within the States. [More…]
It gives it external powers over exports. [More…]
The Constitution gives the Government customs power over exports and imports but it does not give it trade and commerce powers. [More…]
The power to regulate wildlife, flora and fauna, within a State is the sovereign power of the State. [More…]
If one studies the works of Stewart Udall, who was an extremely distinguished United States Secretary of the Interior- he had a much bigger area of power than our fragmented system in Australia allows- one will see that there are some questions to be answered. [More…]
I did warn Senator Carrick about my throat and I said that my voice today does not have its normal power. [More…]
If we are exceeding our constitutional power in the Bill it would seem that there is another place where that can be dealt with rather than here in the Senate. [More…]
Therefore, I state that the object of this amendment is to make it quite clear that no power we are giving to the Government under this legislation can in any way disturb those rights and titles which are already in existence under the Petroleum (Submerged Lands) Act. [More…]
I am simply stating that that will be the policy of the Opposition when we are in government and when we will be operating such a power as this. [More…]
As I said in my contribution to the debate on the motion for the second reading of the Bill, clause 69 relates to international agreements and seeks to give the Governor-General power to make regulations under international agreements. [More…]
I pointed out in that speech that this is giving a totally unlimited and unseen power. [More…]
I demonstrated by referring to one of the 5 treaties which the Government says have been signed already that we would be giving virtually an open ended regulation-making power to the Government. [More…]
Externally it is a customs or export power function of the Commonwealth Government. [More…]
It may be that the Government could succeed with such a provision by adding ‘within its Territories’ to it because it would have that power. [More…]
The power sought to be given under this provision relates to trade and commerce in connection with wildlife within the States, which would mean an enormous open ended pursuit of power within the States. [More…]
That is a power that we think should be restricted. [More…]
I am no lawyer, but there might be some argument about the application of constitutional power. [More…]
The paragraph as it stands now appears to give the Government an unrestrained right to prohibit the pollution of water in a manner harmful to wildlife which would, as I think I pointed out, mean that if the Government felt that the ponds in Centennial Park in Sydney were harmful to wildlife it would have the power to act instead of asking the State Government to act. [More…]
In my speech in the second reading debate I raised the principle that the Government was seeking power to create parks on the high seas and that this was an infringement of the convention relating to the high seas. [More…]
I do not object to the sentiments expressed by Senator Carrick but I think that the Minister will need this power in his administration. [More…]
I think it is necessary that we have this power. [More…]
The real, basic and fundamental criticism by the Opposition would arise if it were sought under this measure to have any duplication of impact studies when the States would normally undertake them or if there were to be any overriding or assertive power by the Commonwealth Government in this regard. [More…]
In the long and tortuous evolution of the human race on this planet a stage has been reached when, through the rapid acceleration of science and technology, man has acquired the power to transform his environment in countless ways and on an unprecedented scale. [More…]
The simple answer to that is that the effect of the Bill and therefore the application of the administrative procedures cannot transcend the constitutional power of the Australian Government. [More…]
The second approach which the Minister has included in this BUI is one of extreme importance to the public, and that is his discretionary power in clause 1 1 to require formal inquiries to be carried out by commissioners, with access by the public to those inquiries and with access to the results of those inquiries. [More…]
It does not apply to any matters which are outside the constitutional powers of the Australian Government. [More…]
That was considered in a formal legal way to be outside the power of the Australian Parliament, and one must accept it. [More…]
One can only hope that one day by constitutional referendum the powers of the Australian Parliament will be increased so that this measure can be a much more embracing one. [More…]
I know as far as Victoria is concerned- and this has been borne out in relation to the Newport power station environmental protection hearings- that the steps which the Victorian Government has taken have subjected the whole machinery of the executive government to the decisions of the Protection Authority and the Environmental Appeals Board. [More…]
-Before the sitting of the Senate was suspended I was indicating that the power which the Commonwealth Government was asserting in respect of this environment protection legislation was immensely wide. [More…]
When we consider the matters which this Bill is giving the Commonwealth Minister a power to examine, we see that they cover almost every aspect of human endeavour. [More…]
That is a mighty significant and far-reaching range of power. [More…]
I go further: On 3 1 October I asked the Minister for Repatriation and Compensation who represents the Minister for the Environment and Conservation in this place a question about the Newport power station project. [More…]
I asked the Minister whether he was aware that a group of unions in Victoria was standing over the Victorian Government by simply telling it that the power station, essential for Victoria’s needs, would not be built at Newport. [More…]
I also asked the Minister whether he was aware that this attitude was being taken against a background of exhaustive inquiries into the environmental impact of such a power station and the fact that those inquiries had been held and that all of them had been resolved in favour of the power station. [More…]
I ask him now, if he has either the courage or the knowledge to do so, whether he will assert that so far as this legislation is concerned it will not be used as a vehicle to examine the Newport power station. [More…]
I ask him that seriously and quite deliberately in the hope that he will give an indication now as to whether the Victorian Govenment can expect the Commonwealth Government’s assertion of authority with regard to the new power station. [More…]
But I ask the Minister whether he will say that the Commonwealth Government will not use this legislation in any way to affect the implementation of the Victorian Government’s policy with regard to the Newport power station. [More…]
The Authority and the Board have both decided that the Victorian Newport power station is a project which ought to be continued. [More…]
We know at the present time that in Victoria there is a move by certain conservation interests and certain trade union leaders to prevent the Newport power station from being constructed. [More…]
But notwithstanding those facts we find that certain union leaders, without the consent or authority of their union members, are prepared to tell the Victorian Government that this Newport power station will not be constructed. [More…]
This Bill provides for the establishment of the Australian Housing Corporation which is being created to strengthen the Australian Government machinery to perform those housing functions for which the Australian Government has constitutional power. [More…]
Inflation and the downturn in private housing activity have created special problems for which the Government needs additional and powerful administrative machinery to deal with. [More…]
By the use of its lending power the Corporation will help in establishing desirable social inter-relationships in the urban area which will disperse rather than concentrate community groups. [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…]
I appreciated their support when the amendments went through- they did not sponsor the amendments but they supported them- but now they have in this Bill power given to the Corporation to manufacture and to process in its own name and with its own plant. [More…]
Clause 9 requires the Corporation to negotiate with trade unions and sets out the power of direction of the Minister in industrial matters. [More…]
When the Opposition is returned to power it will certainly look at the scheme again with a view to expanding it and making it as good a scheme as it has been in the past. [More…]
The object of this Bill is to give power to the Treasurer to borrow on behalf of Australia and thereby to make it a pure government borrowing, but to on-lend the funds borrowed in this way on the international market to the Australian Industry Development Corporation. [More…]
Why must this power be vested in the Minister rather than in the Commission, which I hope would be made up of Aborigines? [More…]
Why is all the power being vested in the Minister? [More…]
Yet this Bill, which is brought forward by the very same Minister, gives the Minister so much power in Aboriginal affairs. [More…]
The honourable senator wants to take this power from the Parliament and hand it over to this Commission. [More…]
These persons will have coercive powers greater than members of the police forces in Australia to require persons to attend before them, to deliver up documents, to answer questions and to suffer penalties and possibly imprisonment if they do not do so. [More…]
The commissioners have a power to inquire into any of the matters which are set out in clause S of the legislation. [More…]
The width of these powers has already been adverted to. [More…]
It is hoped by the Opposition that, in the interests of this country, the power contained in this legislation will never be used. [More…]
However, the power is contained in the legislation and it is a coercive power of the greatest significance because of the width of the inquiries which commissioners could undertake and the powers which they would have to compel people to appear before them. [More…]
In other words, the provisions give them power but impose no responsibility upon them. [More…]
Likewise, it is an offence to insult a commissioner in the exercise of his powers or the performance of his functions or duties as a commissioner, yet he has such wide-ranging functions and powers that the ordinary person may not know when a commissioner is exercising his functions or his duties. [More…]
I note the undertaking which has been given but the original Bill conferred power on a commissioner, simply if he wanted to, to enter and inspect any person’s land, building or place, or to inspect any material. [More…]
I speak as one who is concerned that this Parliament should ever enact laws under which coercive powers can be used without restraint, guidelines or criteria to limit the way in which they could be used. [More…]
Australian Film Commission Bill 1974 -Bill, introduced into the Senate, amended extensively on 23 and 24 October affecting the power of the Minister to give general directions to the Commission, deleting a requirement for exhibitors of films to exhibit some proportion of Australian short films and deleting a provision that full-time members of the Commission not have any direct or indirect pecuniary interests on the film industry; Bill amended by the House of Representatives on 20 November and disagreed to by the Senate on 3 December. [More…]
Does Senator Murphy as Attorney-General have the exclusive power to appoint civil celebrants of marriage? [More…]
What is the source of the power? [More…]
Australia cannot in any formal sense become a member of the Third World, because it is a generic term used to describe the developing nations of the world that are neither major powers nor industrialised countries. [More…]
In describing Australia as an honorary member of the Third World the Deputy Prime Minister intended to underline the fact that since coming to power in 1972 the Government has shown a much greater awareness of and involvement with many issues of concern to countries of the Third World. [More…]
It is clear also that the Opposition would be no more able to exercise effective controls over wages and salaries than is the Government at the present time because of the lack of constitutional power, but at least this Government has taken the initiative to support the proposal for the indexation of wages now before the Arbitration Commission. [More…]
Therefore, only one abuse of power is allowed. [More…]
But there are always the ones who sometimes allow their power to go to their heads and when they are dealing with some unfortunate Aboriginal or group of Aborigines they do tend to use brutality that they would not use in other circumstances. [More…]
Limited training in respect of aid to the civil power is conducted by elements of the Papua New Guinea Defence Force (which at this time remains part of the Australian Defence Force). [More…]
Is Mr Anthony demanding that the Government reduce the Budget deficit by refusing to finance the reserve price scheme for wool, as the Country Party consistently refused to do when it was in power? [More…]
Since the station went to air in December the power for transmission has been considerably stepped up. [More…]
In that context I ask the Minister whether, in negotiations with New South Wales concerning certain boundaries, the original boundaries of the Gudgenby national park are in jeopardy due to the power hungry attitude of the New South Wales Premier. [More…]
These high class potential, great brain power executives in industry are unable to maintain their employment. [More…]
But what government has been in power when this has happened in this country? [More…]
Of course, the people almost removed the Government from power at that time. [More…]
If they are returned to power they will use every endeavour to strengthen the Conciliation and Arbitration Act. [More…]
Since we have been in power age and invalid pensions have been increased. [More…]
The man affected is the man who works for wages, the man who in his innocence and trust helped to vote this Government into power and the kind of Australian who will vote it out of power sooner or later- I hope sooner. [More…]
We are a full employment nation, except when we have the Whitlam Labor Government in power, and we have seen a steady erosion in employment and employment opportunity in the last 2 years. [More…]
I can remember the times, when the Opposition parties were in power, when employers would not put on apprentices. [More…]
Dunlop Australia Ltd, because it suited the company and irrespective of what government was in power, rationalised its operations and closed one plant in Sydney and moved across the border to Victoria. [More…]
He is desperate to be in power at the time because he has so many debts to repay to that sector of industry. [More…]
But Australian beef was subject to a very strict quota in 1970 when a Liberal-Country Party Government was in power. [More…]
The Opposition’s economic policy document contains a number of internal contradictions but more importantly I believe that there would be a great difference between what the document asserts and what a Liberal-Country Party coalition under pressure or under blackmail from its Country Party rump would actually do if it were in power. [More…]
It is the view of the Opposition in this Senate that the causes of that are in the main to be attributed to the incapacity of the Labor Government which came to power about 2 years ago with predominant themes of irresponsibility and inexperience. [More…]
I would like it to come out and tell the farmers of Australia that if it is re-elected to office it will put the tariffs back up and that prices as a consequence, not only to the farming community but to the whole of the Australian community, will increase and increase dramatically because the Government has not the power to control those prices. [More…]
We have taken all reasonable steps within our power to get the Australian economy moving at a faster rate. [More…]
But it was 15 months ago when this Government foresaw the explosion in incomes which would occur in 1 974 in Australia and it sought the power by referendum to control those incomes. [More…]
If in their anxiety for power, men lose sight of great principles they put at risk the safety of their institutions. [More…]
It is the unremitting lust for power, so crudely displayed on repeated occasions during the last 2 years that has driven the losers on. [More…]
A quick reading of the opinion poll shows that they are prepared to throw principle out the window and make a hasty grab for power. [More…]
It has been under attack since 2 December 1972 when the Whitlam Government came to power, a Government pledged to abolish the Senate, pledged to do everything possible to denigrate the States, to insult the Premiers and to bring about total centralism in Australia. [More…]
It has happened not because of proportional representation; it has happened from 1949 onwards because the Liberal-Country Party Government was in power in Canberra. [More…]
In this instance there is an attempt by a Premier of a State government which was elected when he was not the Premier to usurp the power of the ballot box and of the people of his State. [More…]
He has taken upon himself the power of numbers in this Senate and thus could force a national election on the people and on the Australian Government. [More…]
I am suggesting that the present situation is evidence of the reaction of a State Government when it has an opportunity to use its Constitutional power under section 15 of the Constitution to show its displeasure. [More…]
The Commission should clearly have power to do this in the performance of its functions. [More…]
However, it should be noted that the clause would not affect the power of either House of Parliament to refer to the Public Works Committee a work in the Darwin area irrespective of its cost. [More…]
But that commission has no power and no teeth until we get this Bill through. [More…]
The Opposition wants to adjourn for another 4 days the whole question of whether power will be given to the Commission to start the job, which everyone . [More…]
In answering this question let me remind honourable senators that last year the Australian Government presented to this Parliament a Bill to amend the Broadcasting and Television Act which, if it had been enacted, would have given supervisory power to the Australian Parliament- not to the Government but to the Parliament- over the existing regulatory powers of the Broadcasting Control Board. [More…]
In South Australia I have 3 political colleagues who in the choice of a replacement senator would hold the balance of power between the so-called Liberal Party, the one Country Party member and the Labor Party. [More…]
I will read portion of what is contained on that page, because I think it is relevant in this context to indicate that it was never intendednever even contemplated- that section 15 of the Constitution could be used in this blatantly political way to upset in some cases at least the balance of power in the Senate. [More…]
I suggest that what that does is to indicate that the framers of the Constitution never comtemplated, even before proportional representation- I emphasise that- that the Premier of a State presumably without consultation with his colleagues or other members of parliament could blatantly state that he would take advantage of the accident that he was in power on the other side of politics and would appoint a successor who could alter in a practical way the voting situation in the Senate [More…]
Is it to divert attention from his own political ineptitude and that of his Government as illustrated by the handling of the recent power crisis in New South Wales? [More…]
There is no doubt where the power lies and who may make the decision. [More…]
I hope Government supporters have realised that our particular amendment endeavours to state a principle, to give it moderate and sensible support, and not to endeavour to wave a big stick where we have no power possibly to follow it up. [More…]
It is sad that the Party of Sir Robert Menzies which in 1 95 1 , defeated on the Communist Party Dissolution Bill by the decision of the High Court, took appropriate steps constitutionallysteps which a Party in that position should take- and sought a referendum to obtain power in connection with that issue. [More…]
Realising that there can be no division of boundaries for senators for purposes of rigging the electorates or divisions, that power in regard to the places and times of elections is not unimportant. [More…]
If the States concede their constitutional power to fill a casual vacancy they could refer that power to the Parliament of the Commonwealth and enable the Commonwealth, having got rid of section 15, to go on and add to the present truncated proportional representation provisions, those provisions that would enable casual vacancies to be filled in accordance with those principles by a transfer and a recount of votes. [More…]
Am I to be attacked as subverting the Constitution when I point out that in accordance with its provisions the practice might be translated into a convention or even into a constitutional power? [More…]
It would be presumptuous of me, unless invited by the Houses of Parliament of New South Wales, to say what in my opinion would be the proper course on this occasion, just as presumptuous as it would be of them if they sought to offer me advice on my vote on off-shore oil legislation in respect of which I voted for an extension of Federal power. [More…]
The assumption was that the States, which were left with other taxing powers except the power of raising excise duties, would in the space of 10 years be able to reorganise their finances and to find other sources of revenue and after 10 years would be able to operate on thenown. [More…]
I think it was in 1959 that the system was altered to provide for the different basis, not based essentially on what the States would have been able to raise themselves if they had had the taxing power but based on a formula which had regard to the population of the States- it was to be varied each year in accordance with movements in the population of the States- and also took into account increases in the level of average wages throughout the whole of Australia. [More…]
But, in essence, the whole approach to giving a proportion of the Commonwealth’s revenues to the States has been confined essentially to an approach as to what the States themselves had forgone by their surrender- it was hardly a surrender because it was imposed on them- of their income taxing powers. [More…]
As we read the Bill, it will give the Commission and the Minister complete powers in respect of replanning Darwin, including powers which would enable it to decide upon the closure of certain areas of Darwin. [More…]
In order to carry out the replanning and rebuilding of Darwin the Bill gives the Commission and the Minister powers to override any laws existing in the Northern Territory which may impede the Commission in its operations and which may be contrary to its own decisions. [More…]
For instance, to the extent that the Commission wishes to alter existing building codes, health codes and town planning provisions it will have the power to do so. [More…]
As I have said, the Opposition has been a little concerned at the fact that the Bill gives very much wider and more extensive types of power than we had assumed it would. [More…]
We recognise that these powers may well be necessary in the case of the serious emergency which has arisen but they would not necessarily be required for a period of 5 years. [More…]
We must at all times bear in mind that we are setting up this Commission with such powers for a considerable time. [More…]
In addition to that the Bill gives power to an unspecified Minister. [More…]
I will deal firstly with the area of ministerial power which, as I have said, runs through the Bill. [More…]
The BUI will give the Commission power to decide priorities for suburban construction and reconstruction and even the relocation of suburbs. [More…]
The Commission should clearly have power to do this in the performance of its functions. [More…]
All the town planning powers and every rule of law that normally exists is being swept aside and the Commission is being given overriding powers. [More…]
What appeal have the ordinary people of Darwin against this power? [More…]
Approximately 16 of the Opposition’s proposed amendments seek to take the power from the Minister and invest it in the authority. [More…]
In recent years the experience in most of the States has been to move away from the bureaucracy making the decisions in respect of redevelopment and planning and to vest such power in a Minister. [More…]
The Opposition is suggesting by moving an amendment that the General Manager should have no voting power. [More…]
This is strange coming from a Liberal Party which recently sponsored in New South Wales a change in the whole local government system which would vest more power in the general manager and less power in the elected representatives by virtue of the general manager system. [More…]
That Commission which was appointed by the Askin Government was designed to remove certain powers of the elected representatives and to vest them in the general manager. [More…]
That is precisely the power which the States gave themselves under which to operate in certain conditions. [More…]
I believe that the Minister for Northern Development and the Minister for the Northern Territory, who has spent a great deal of time in Darwin since the tragedy, and the Minister for Urban and Regional Development have shown that they want to use the powers of persuasion and discussion in order to resolve these difficulties. [More…]
I think the Opposition has been mesmerised and has been put into a hysterical position in its endeavours to belittle the efforts of the Government by seeking to remove from this Parliament and from the Minister his important power to exercise a discretionary role. [More…]
The Interim Commission evolved while the draftsmen were working on legislation to give some bite to the power of the Commission to operate in Darwin. [More…]
They said they had the power and not the Australian Government. [More…]
The legislation has been held up another 4 days and no power has been given to the Interm Commission to carry on its duty. [More…]
Certain land in the Territory may be required for the rebuilding of Darwin; yet the Opposition proposes to refuse that power in order to make political capital out of the issue and thus greatly impede the Government ‘s capability to rebuild Darwin. [More…]
Of course it is a power that he will have, but does the honourable senator think that the Minister wants to deprive anyone of justice? [More…]
If some people feel aggrieved they will have the benefit of the specific power stipulated in the Bill. [More…]
It was intended to include this power and there is a provision to cover it. [More…]
Mr C. M. Toop, deputy manager of the Export Finance Insurance Corporation, formerly called Export Payments Insurance Corporation, explicitly stated under oath in Sydney last Friday at a public hearing of the Senate Standing Committee on Industry and Trade that neither the present nor the previous Government had any such negotiations with Export Finance Insurance Corporation or Export Payments Insurance Corporation regarding the acceptance of export finance risks, nor did or does the Government have power to negotiate. [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 clear the power of courts to order the kinds of forefeiture already provided for in cases of both the existing and the new offences. [More…]
Papua New Guinea now enjoys full fishery powers and does not issue Australian licences. [More…]
Our concern is that this Parliament should do everything in its power to complete the process of making the High Court of Australia Australia’s final court of appeal from all Australian courts. [More…]
This does not mean that of necessity there will be large scale acquisition of land, freehold or leasehold, but it leaves the Commission with power to deal with any specific area, should the need arise, without further amendments to the proposed Act. [More…]
The second argument raised, as I understood the Minister, is that there is provision in the regulation-making power for appeals to be provided. [More…]
At least the final power rests with the Commission to decide whether or not there is worth and merit in that objection. [More…]
I do not know how the Commission is going to work but it will have power to carry out planning in relation to land use in the Darwin area in accordance with any determination by the Australian Government. [More…]
In seeking to answer some of my arguments made during the second reading debate about the problem which would be created by this wide exercise of power by the Darwin Reconstruction Commission in regard to the use of land, at page 225 of Hansard Senator Gietzelt is reported as stating: [More…]
The second danger that I see is that it would be most unfair to the court to give it the power and to impose on it the duty, in the words of this amendment, to determine by whom any compensation so awarded shall be paid. [More…]
In that way we think there is a proper brake on the unbridled power of the Minister as contained in clause 9. [More…]
Clause 9 does not give complete power to the Minister. [More…]
The whole Bill is designed to give the Commission power for rebuilding only. [More…]
The Minister has powers to curtail the activities of the Commission and to hand them over to local government or local control as fast as possible. [More…]
In all these projects there is an overriding power with the Minister because he is the one directing government policy. [More…]
-The power that we are giving to the Minister will facilitate the shortening of that period because the Minister in his position of authority under the Bill, a position which the Opposition does not give him, can bring this Commission to an end and pass across its authority to the Legislative Assembly in the Northern Territory. [More…]
It will delay the reconstruction of Darwin and the passing over of powers from the Commission to authorities or a corporate institution in Darwin which will have to bear the full burden. [More…]
The Government did not declare a state of emergency but by means of legislation it is seeking emergency powers to enable a Commission to do this work. [More…]
We want to give that Commission power to start work. [More…]
We want to make certain that the provisions in the enabling Act are such that they do not delay the work of the Commission but we still want to leave power there for the Minister and the Government to do what is necessary to correct any error of which the Commission may be guilty. [More…]
But, rightly, the Government now is moving away from that situation and transferring power to the Commission. [More…]
We understood that it was to have powers to cope with it but what did we find when the Government brought down this Bill? [More…]
It is not the Commission that is to have the power to cope with the emergency because the Minister will be breathing down the neck of the Commission at all times. [More…]
What more totally unsatisfactory way of dealing with an emergency is there than to set up a so-called independent commission and then say that the Minister can have power to give it directions about everything it does? [More…]
That is why the Government seeks this power for the Minister. [More…]
It is true that this power is confined only to unoccupied Crown land. [More…]
Nevertheless the clause gives very wide power to place land in the Territory under the control of the Commission. [More…]
Because we believe that it is important that a Bill like this and the powers contained in it should not be wider than necessary we are moving to restrict the power under this clause to the Darwin area rather than to the whole of the Territory. [More…]
The power to place in the hands of the Commission land anywhere in the Northern Territory relates to Government land, not land under private lease or any other lease. [More…]
As we own the land, we will be compelled to take action to develop the store outside the powers granted to the Commission. [More…]
-I would like the people of Darwin to know that it is on record that the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs believes that their properly elected body, which overwhelmingly voted these people into power, is going to delay. [More…]
The Minister can, within his own power, tomorrow nominate these three others if he wants to do so. [More…]
In effect the Minister has no power to do anything under this Bill until this chamber decides whether it will accept what takes place in the other chamber. [More…]
Clause 24 relates to the power of the Governor-General to terminate the appointment of a part-time member. [More…]
So providing that the Commission has the power, duty or responsibility to recommend surely there is nothing wrong with the clause as it appears in the Bill. [More…]
If that is the case, why did we decide early in the piece to give that power to the Commission? [More…]
So the Commission has the power to determine the terms and conditions of the appointment of the General Manager, which must include the question of allowances, and then the Opposition permits that to be determined by the Governor-General. [More…]
It is such a nice sounding phrase that Senator Carrick uses when he wants to give this power to the Administrator ‘s Council. [More…]
The effect of these amendments would be to place responsibility for the numerical composition of the Darwin Citizens’ Council entirely with the Legislative Assembly which right throughout the passage of this legislation has shown a desire to obstruct, and, having achieved that, the power of appointment of members of the Council would rest in the Administrator. [More…]
The clauses only give to the Minister the power to determine the number and the right to determine that the character of this organisation should spread further than the character or composition of the original Commission. [More…]
Because this debate is being broadcast I think it should be clearly understood that the Government now in power set up the Joint Parliamentary Committee on the Northern Territory to inquire into and report to Parliament on a possible form of selfgovernment for that Territory. [More…]
I have no time for people on my side or the other side who legislate thinking it is all right to put it in these words: ‘It is all right while we are in power’. [More…]
The Government should be legislating in case the wrong person got into power. [More…]
The Minister for the Northern Territory has been stripped of much of the power that the Government intended to give him. [More…]
I remind Senator Marriott that if he had followed the debate carefully he would have found that this clause was one of the few clauses in which the Minister retains power. [More…]
In other words it gives to the Commission a power to make a request of the Council. [More…]
I believe that Senator Steele Hall has properly drawn attention to the fact that it could be construed that clause (2) (a) gives to the Council that power. [More…]
Furthermore, there seems to be no reason whatsoever why any such power should be given under this Act. [More…]
But it would be most dangerous for this Parliament to give a power of regulation to modify the operations of such an important Act as this. [More…]
The Government has the power to acquire land for a post office or for any Commonwealth purpose. [More…]
It is laid before the Senate and any senator has the power to move to disallow the regulation. [More…]
Extremely briefly, Mr Chairman, I think it is important that the attention of the Senate be directed to the fact that sub-clause (2) gives a power to modify only the operation of the Lands Acquisition Act. [More…]
This clause gives the Governor-General power to make regulations for suspending, modifying or adapting for the purposes of this proposed Act the operation of a law of the Northern Territory dealing with a matter to which the functions or powers of the Commission relate. [More…]
We believe that this is another one of these very wide dragnet powers, albeit one which can be exercised by regulation and albeit a fact that that regulation can be disallowed by Parliament. [More…]
In this case, a good many of these laws would be laws that are appropriate for the power of the Legislative Assembly and not for this Parliament. [More…]
It would be unfortunate if the only way in which any change in laws which are within the jurisdiction and powers of that Assembly could be brought about was by disallowance of regulations here in this Parliament. [More…]
The Commission appears to have the most ample powers to make decisions in regard to the replanning and reconstruction of Darwin. [More…]
Its decisions will undoubtedly affect a good many of the existing laws by virtue of the powers that are given anyway under this Bill. [More…]
We find it very difficult to see why any additional power should be given to it, to the Minister or the Governor-General to make regulations in any way further suspending or modifying the laws applying in the Northern Territory. [More…]
It seems to me that this regulation-making power falls in a very similar category to the matter we considered in relation to altering the law concerning acquisition. [More…]
I would suggest that the Senate could extend this decision, which it is doing, by relying on the regulation making power or by refusing to sustain a regulation. [More…]
The value of a regulation making power is that it enables a plan such as this to be formulated in a particular way. [More…]
I think it is a sorry day for parliamentary democracy when we give to the Executive the power to disallow Acts of Parliament. [More…]
This is a power which was criticised in the days of King Henry VIII. [More…]
Parliament should be supreme and to give to the Executive the power to disallow Acts of Parliament is a power which democracy gives away at its peril. [More…]
I sincerely hope that that side of parliamentary democracy- the use of regulation making power- which will receive scrutiny in this place, and the safeguards of disallowance, if necessary, will be scrutinised by Northern Territory senators in this place. [More…]
It would be surprising if I did not say that there can be no doubt what this power does. [More…]
It gives to the Executive a power to override any and every law which operates in the Northern Territory. [More…]
I have simply said that parliamentary democracy gives this power to the Executive at its peril. [More…]
I submit to you, Mr Chairman, and honourable senators, that this is an emergency, that the Government must have this power and that it can be relied upon that the powers will not be abused. [More…]
Everyone knows the dangers- no one knows them more than I do- of giving power to the Executive. [More…]
This provision does not give power as such to the Executive; it gives regulating powers to the Executive that makes the regulation. [More…]
Therefore this provision does not involve giving power to the Executive but involves parliamentary scrutiny. [More…]
The honourable senator should not regard it as Executive power, because the Parliament has as much perusal over regulations as it has over any Bill that is brought before the Senate. [More…]
I think it was a great pity that in the second reading speech the word ‘reform’ was not shown in inverted commas because whatever else might be said about the electoral Bills put forward by this Government since it came to power on 2 December 1972, none of its legislation has been reform legislation. [More…]
Minor parties attempting to establish themselves in power do not have to spend the same amount of money. [More…]
One of the other problems is that limitations could encourage minor parties to concentrate efforts on gaining balances of power where their political weight would be far greater than their true electoral support. [More…]
All the advantages of money and power lay with employers. [More…]
Anyone who has witnessed the explosion on the personal staff of the Premier who at the same time has refused additional staff to the Leader of the Opposition, should be well aware that the Party in power has a potential to entrench itself in power by using in its Party electoral interests the power which it commands. [More…]
There may be a government as scurrilous as this in power at a future date. [More…]
the grants to the States are free of restrictions, in detail, that infringe upon the power of the States to determine policy in their own areas of responsibility; and [More…]
It is now being abused as an instrument for the repression of the States and for the excessive extension of the growth of the Commonwealth Government’s power. [More…]
Therefore we have in the platform the clearest possible indication that the Labor Party wants a strengthening of the power of the central government, the abolition of this chamber, and the abolition of the upper Houses in the States and of the offices of State Governors. [More…]
He went on to refer to the fact that the Commonwealth Government does have an overwhelming financial power. [More…]
So in 1957 Mr Whitlam suggested that the Constitution had put it beyond the power of the Labor Party to perform. [More…]
Later in that speech Mr Whitlam made it clear that the Constitution also places substantial fetter on the Labor Government’s power to nationalise industry. [More…]
In the speech which I have just quoted he canvassed a number of ways in which Labor could tackle constitutional reform either through ordinary amendment or by using different devices such as State governments referring powers to the Commonwealth. [More…]
Nowhere does he get down to the field which has now been proved to be the really fertile field for Labor effort in this area, namely, the use of the financial power of the Commonwealth. [More…]
At the end of that speech we get a hint, which is missing from the first speech, of how the Commonwealth might use its financial power to achieve the end which Mr Whitlam clearly wanted and the end which the Labor Party clearly wanted. [More…]
We find Mr Whitlam moving to the idea that the use of financial power is a way to extend the influence of a Federal Labor government. [More…]
By 1963, at the Federal ALP Conference, we get a far clearer indication that the penny had dropped and that Mr Whitiam had realised that Labor had the use of the finance power to overcome the difficulties which he earlier outlined. [More…]
He put a paper headed ‘Labor Policies and Commonwealth Powers ‘ to that Conference. [More…]
We find it mentioned under the headings of Housing, Education, Roads, Rail, Power and Water, Development and Superintendence of the Private Sector. [More…]
Clearly they were an attempt to extend significantly Commonwealth power. [More…]
There was an attempt to reduce the separate power and authority of the Senate in the Constitution Alteration (Simultaneous Elections) Bill. [More…]
Clearly this was an attempt to ensure that the Senate did not have as much chance of being a countervailing power to the House of Representatives. [More…]
If the same procedures were followed and if the same power were available to the Commonwealth it would attempt to use section 96A, the proposal that it put forward last May, to impose rules and to impose its requirements on local government. [More…]
The present situation is that the Commonwealth Government has ample power to grant money to the States for the purposes of local government, and the only difference would have been that the Commonwealth would have been able to impose its conditions directly upon local government. [More…]
For one thing, they fix a date on which it must have been clear to any Federal government that it had access to this power. [More…]
For another, they demonstrate the extent of the power which is available to the Commonwealth by using section 96. [More…]
I shall refer to a number of cases which were mentioned by Sir Robert Menzies in his book Central Power in the Australian Commonwealth’. [More…]
The argument put forward in that case was that the Commonwealth simply did not have the power to impose conditions on the States in that matter. [More…]
It was argued that it was not really a law relating to financial assistance but a law relating to roadmaking and hence beyond the power of the Commonwealth. [More…]
Later, and more dramatically, after the Second World War, when the Commonwealth endeavoured to establish that it should retain the uniform taxing powers, there was another case called Victoria v. The Commonwealth, reported in 99 Commonwealth Law Reports in 1957. [More…]
The Chief Justice, Sir Owen Dixon, made it completely clear that the Commonwealth has an almost unfettered power to impose conditions. [More…]
This means that the power conferred by that provision is well exercised although ( I ) the State is bound to apply the money specifically to an object that has been denned, (2) the object is outside the powers of the Commonwealth, (3) the payments are left to the discretion of the Commonwealth Minister, (4) the money is provided as the Commonwealth’s contribution to an object for which the State is also to contribute funds. [More…]
So the States find themselves in the quite extraordinary position that notwithstanding that the object is outside Commonwealth power completely the Commonwealth can, by making a conditional grant, impose its will upon the States. [More…]
He totally failed to indicate the possible use of section 96 to achieve power over areas of State function. [More…]
But I can see no reason for otherwise limiting the power to appropriate for payment to a State subject to a condition. [More…]
But the facts are that the present Government has greatly extended the use of the power and has used it as a club instead of an instrument whereby assistance can be given. [More…]
Is that policy consistent with legislation introduced by Country Party Ministers when the Liberal-Country Party Government was in power? [More…]
The fall is due largely to seasonal factors, including the summer closedown of factories, and the effects of the New South Wales power dispute. [More…]
This is not counted in the calculation of the moneys which are available to a political party that is in power. [More…]
I have mentioned only some of the provisions of this Bill which are obscure, unfair and generally designed by the propounders of this Bill to serve the interests of the party that is presently in power. [More…]
Senate and $1,900 in the case of a candidate for the House of Representatives in order to maintain purchasing power comparable with that which existed in 1902 when those limits to which I have referred were set. [More…]
As honourable senators know, the Bill provides for power to deal with intrusion by Indonesian fishermen in particular into waters which come under the jurisdiction of Australian courts and which are principally adjacent to ournorthwest coast. [More…]
The Government has therefore decided, and decided wisely, that the Act should be extended to give the Australian courts power to deal with such cases. [More…]
Those of us who have been concerned in the past with the problems of the Australian coastline with its isolated areas and potential for the smuggling of goods and drugs would recognise that this is an extension of the Australian jurisdiction and an extension of Australia’s power to control these matters- not only fishing- and will do nothing but good for the Australian citizens. [More…]
Prior to May 1974 it may have seemed that this was not very important, but since we have witnessed that reckless grab for power last year it has become important that, if the Senate is to reject Supply, at least some of the senators who vote to reject Supply present themselves to the electors as well as forcing the Government and the House of Representatives to face the electors. [More…]
The Opposition’s general attitude is that on those matters which are within the federal power and which are matters of federal jurisdiction we should look to the High Court, as a court composed of Australians and existing within Australia, as the final body to which legal matters should be taken. [More…]
The point which must be stressed with regard to appeals which are taken from the State Supreme Courts is that the Opposition regards the Commonwealth as having no legislative power to abolish those appeals. [More…]
But this is a right which citizens have which, if it is to be taken away, ought to be taken away by those who have the power to take it away. [More…]
It ought not to be usurped- I think ‘usurped’ is a fair word to use in the circumstancesby those who seek to exercise a power which they do not possess. [More…]
Power tends to corrupt. [More…]
The sovereign legislative power exercised by the Commonwealth Parliament on the subjects of legislation assigned to it is no different from the sovereign legislative power exercised by State Parliaments on the subjects of legislation assigned to them, and of course the division of executive power follows the division of legislative power. [More…]
But even if the external affairs power were exclusive, and there is nothing in the Commonwealth Constitution to make it- so, relations between the United Kingdom and the States on matters that form pan of the constitutional structure of the States, such as the position of a State Governor or appeals to Her Majesty in Council, are clearly not external affairs. [More…]
The Committee of Public Safety of the French Revolution- the Committee of Twelve- were people who constantly beseeched their Legal power by saying that the purity came from the people. [More…]
What this Government is doing in a whole wide range of activities which it is invoking at present, not the least of which is this Bill, is an appeal to an amorphous citizenry who allege to be the people from which all intellectual power is derived. [More…]
As I have said before, if this legislation transcends constitutional power it will be struck down by the High Court in the proper and normal way. [More…]
If it does not transcend constitutional and legal power, then it achieves a purpose that the Opposition says it wishes to see achieved. [More…]
I sense that the Opposition’s attitudealthough not expressly stated by Senator Greenwoodis really another manifestation of its attitude to the Government in relation to all matters in which there is some interplay of power between the Australian Governments and the State governments. [More…]
In other words, there is power to do what this Bill sets out to do. [More…]
I would have thought that the Opposition would have shown its sincerity in its expressed desire to abolish appeals to the Privy Council if it had put its opposition to this measure more on the basis of constitutional legal power if it wanted to oppose, or if it had taken the alternative course of saying: ‘We support this Bill because it achieves the result which we wish to be achieved. [More…]
We have reservations or doubts as to whether there is power to do so. [More…]
Fortunately, wiser counsel prevailed when there was a change of government and the Hydro-Electric Commission was persuaded to put its very big file away, pay the damages, read the High Court’s judgment again if it was in doubt as to what the measure of its liability generally was, and get on with the business of generating hydro-electric power. [More…]
-That was Mr Mervyn George Everett, Q.C., who I think went there armed with the same advisers who advised on the Privy Council appeal to which he has disparagingly referred on technical grounds and which his Government, on coming into power, ruled against. [More…]
Having dealt with the Constitution of the States, 1 turn to the next section of the Constitution of the Commonwealth of Australia, which deals with the power of the Parliament of a State. [More…]
Every power of the Parliament of a Colony which has become or becomes a State, shall, unless it is by this Constitution exclusively vested in the Parliament of the Commonwealth or withdrawn from the Parliament of the State, continue as at the establishment of the Commonwealth, or as at the admission or establishment of the State, as the case may be. [More…]
Sincere people would, 1 think, respect the right of a State to continue that power subject to this Constitution. [More…]
With those guidelines, sincere people desiring to expose but not to expand the true constitutional limits would say: ‘When Federation was established we established a High Court and a federal judiciary’, which in relation to the next Bill to be debated by the Senate I shall try to demonstrate that the Government is seeking to confuse and condemn the country by exploitation ‘but in the State sphere we maintained the Supreme Courts, the State judiciaries, the State Constitutions, the State powers and the State laws’. [More…]
If we are going to guide ourselves by self discipline and if we look to the Statute of Westminster we will see that there is a power there for a Dominion to request and consent to future enactments by the British Parliament not for all the people in all their functions in Australia but only in respect of those people who become subject to the federal functions of Australia. [More…]
Senator Greenwood said that the power that we are seeking to abolish was conferred by an Imperial Parliament and should be abrogated presumably only by the States and the Imperial Parliament. [More…]
If there is some doubt as to the constitutional power of the Australian Parliament to pass this legislation and if Senator Greenwood holds the High Court in such reverence, why is he so reluctant to allow the High Court to decide this matter? [More…]
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…]
This is a special power to make regulations which is really more than a power because it is an obligation that is placed on the Government to make regulations providing for compensation. [More…]
Now, when the Government brings forward the legislation, all it can do is indicate that it is going to carry out the rebuilding completely on its own terms and that it insists on retaining the overweening power of the Minister to give the Commission any directions that he likes. [More…]
This was due largely to seasonal factors, including the summer close down of factories and the effects of the New South Wales power dispute. [More…]
Putting it shortly, the Commonwealth Parliament has the power to limit the matters in respect of which an appeal lies from decisions of the High Court to the Privy Council. [More…]
It is a power which has been exercised previously; it is a power which was exercised by the Liberal-Country Party Government in 1968. [More…]
I think it is arguable that the proper interpretation of the words in section 74 which give the Commonwealth Parliament power to limit the matters in relation to which leave to appeal may be sought involves that there be some residue of matters in relation to which an appeal must still lie. [More…]
It is interesting to note that in McGowan’s book ‘The Organisation of Judicial Power in the United States ‘ he states at page 1 3: [More…]
It has been, I think, a tribute to the sagacity of succeeding Federal governments that they have maintained the operation of those 2 provisions and have used the power which they have to create Federal courts very sparingly. [More…]
In respect of the original jurisdiction, the Bill proposes to gather in various powers of administration of the law that are now occupied by the High Court and also by the State courts, particularly in relation to taxation matters. [More…]
In the appellate jurisdiction, the Bill seeks to give power to the court to entertain appeals from all inferior Federal courts and from the Supreme Court when exercising Federal jurisdiction. [More…]
Whatever the merits of the matter may be the point for the moment is that the organisation of judicial power along its present lines has caused a clamorous cacophony as unseemly in aspect as it is fraught with serious questions about the efficiency of the current allocation and utilisation of our already over-extended store of judicial resources. [More…]
The Bill provides for the establishment of a Superior Court of Australia, a Superior Court of record beneath the High Court of Australia but exercising with that court the jurisdiction which the Constitution describes as the judicial power of the Commonwealth. [More…]
Some critics of this Bill have failed to realise, so far as the exercise of the judicial power of the Commonwealth is concerned, the difference between the situation which existed nearly threequarters of a century ago and the position today when Australian Government laws bestride our national life and inevitably, whatever government is in power, will continue to do so. [More…]
Section 7 1 of the Constitution recognises that Commonwealth judicial power would be exercised in 3 streams of jurisdiction: Firstly, the High Court of Australia; secondly such other Federal courts as the Parliament created; and thirdly such other courts as it invests with Federal jurisdiction. [More…]
With regard to the latter power it is significant that Quick and Garran in their commentaries on the Constitution indicate their judgment as to the comparative temporary basis for the exercise of that jurisdiction. [More…]
It was natural in 1 900 for the Commonwealth Government to be given power to invest State courts with federal jurisdiction. [More…]
The fourth criterion 1 would postulate is that in the interpretation of national laws it should reflect within the area of judicial power the proud spirit of a nation in which justice and its expression are paramount. [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 would exercise tremendous power over our citizens and it would be expensive. [More…]
Later the Bill gives the court the power to deal with questions such as admiralty and marine jurisdiction. [More…]
It must also be seen in the light of the growing significance of Commonwealth legislation and constitutional power whether apparent under Liberal or Labor governments. [More…]
It was effectively established because of the need, following that case, to define the exercise of judicial power from the exercise of arbitral power. [More…]
I remind honourable senators of the debate we have already had in this chamber in connection with the Family Law Bill where the view was expressed by many honourable senators that it was desirable that the full power of the Commonwealth in relation to matrimonial causes and marriages should be exercised by the same court and that the full jurisdiction of that court should relate to those matters. [More…]
I believe that, even in 1900, it was envisaged by the founding fathers of the Constitution that there would be the growth of a Federal or national judicial system to deal with matters arising under Commonwealth power. [More…]
That is why there is in the Constitution the power to vest, in the State courts, Federal jurisdiction, a power which is not found in the American system. [More…]
Problems of limits of jurisidctions and of power to deal with a particular matter have thus been avoided. [More…]
It is contemplated that there will be introduced either by a Labor government or a government from the other side of politics propositions for new departures in the world of administrative law to deal with appeals from decisions of public servants and people in power in society. [More…]
We find it extraordinary that the Government should be pressing on with this exercise of sovereign power, namely, to establish a mining code for the continental shelf at this time when the High Court of Australia has not yet determined the issue of sovereignty. [More…]
These powers cannot be exercised by the Government until the High Court determines that the Commonwealth Government has the sovereignty and the power to exercise the powers that are contained in this Bill. [More…]
This Bill is one which arrogates to the Commonwealth Minister for Minerals and Energy the sole power of deciding who will obtain all forms of permits to explore for minerals, to produce minerals and to market minerals on this whole vast new province for mineral exploration and development which undoubtedly exists on the continental shelf. [More…]
That power is to be given wholly and solely and in an arbitrary manner to the Commonwealth Minister for Minerals and Energy. [More…]
We in the Opposition believe that the exercise of power over this new province, which will be a vast and possibly a very rich province of mineral development for Australia, is one which should be exercised in co-operation with the State governments and parliaments. [More…]
We believe that it would not be either practical or appropriate for the whole power in relation to this area to be exercised by the Commonwealth Minister alone without regard to the interests of the States. [More…]
It is one which gives complete power to the Commonwealth Minister for Minerals and Energy. [More…]
This Bill does not lay down what policy is to be followed; it simply gives power to the Minister to do what he likes. [More…]
We are asked to pass this type of legislation without being given any clear idea of the policy which the Minister will pursue in exercising this power. [More…]
But I would say that the attitudes which he has expressed and the actions which he has taken in relation to the administration of such powers as he has under the present laws- the Petroleum and Submerged Lands Act and other Acts which have been passed by this Parliament, namely, the Pipeline Authority Act and the Petroleum and Minerals Authority Act- do not give us any reason to believe that these powers conferred by this Bill would be wisely exercised. [More…]
He has misused his political power in many instances in order to obtain this shareholding. [More…]
What a scene of disarray, commercially and otherwise, there would be if each of the States were to have power over the exploitation of mineral resources. [More…]
The Liberal and Country Parties, with Senator Young bearing full responsibility for it, gave the power to the socialists he now interjects about. [More…]
Having regard to what Justices of the High Court have saidand all witnesses who gave evidence on this aspect generally concurred- it would appear that the Commonwealth has the constitutional power to legislate under its external affairs power to give effect to international obligations. [More…]
But it is generally regarded as an open question whether the Commonwealth may successfully claim that ‘rights’ or ‘powers’- as distinct from duties or obligations- accruing to Australia under international conventions will entitle it to legislate to give effect to them. [More…]
If they do so, it would mean that in significant and, possibly, expanding areas the Commonwealth heads of power would become more extensive than the constitutional provisions expressly contemplate- and, consequentially, reduce the exclusive area of State authority. [More…]
The Government obtained a mandate on 2 occasions within 14 months to do what we are trying to do tonight, and John Gorton tried to do it before we came to power. [More…]
-As a matter of fact, the Government presently in power was elected twice within 14 months with a mandate that Senator Durack does not understand or accept. [More…]
I heard somebody, I think it was Senator Brown in one of his reminicences of 1934, refer to Hitler, lt was precisely by such legislation that Hitler came to power. [More…]
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…]
Senator Durack said that if the Opposition were in power it would do it a different way. [More…]
As I have said on so many occasions, we have endeavoured to obtain powers over prices and incomes at the Federal level. [More…]
Unless we have some machinery available to us and unless we have the constitutional power in this area, obviously there is little we can do. [More…]
Acting as paymaster and feesetter, the Government will effectively have nationalised the medical profession even without the constitutional power to do so. [More…]
It has been at stake to such a degree that when this Government came to power some 2 years ago it immediately imposed a 33 1/3 per cent deposit requirement on overseas investment in Australia. [More…]
With a union-abiding government in power one would have thought that it was unlikely that we would see a level of industrial unrest which is at the highest point since records were first kept in approximately 1913. [More…]
No such power to enact these regulations exists in this legislation. [More…]
Its attitude to takeovers in foreign fields and certainly its attitude to takeovers in the industrial and commercial areas have been directed against the establishment of monopoly power. [More…]
It will take years for the effects to filter through from the power that is held in this way and based in this fashion. [More…]
This is not the place to argue the pros and cons of the Building Labourers Federation power struggle but there already have been questions about certain action in that union and I know that there will be more when we come back here next week. [More…]
Is it a fact that the exclusion of Western Australia is said to be a result of the fact that the Agriculture Protection Board of Western Australia has the power to declare certain species of kangaroos as vermin and does declare several species as such? [More…]
I simply say to Opposition members, particularly to those whom I know have a fair knowledge of industrial affairs, that they would be aware that the situation in the New South Wales power industry is explosive. [More…]
In 1973 the Government urged a wages and prices referendum for permanent power to be granted to Canberra’s bureaucrats. [More…]
Surely, under the form of parliamentary democracy we have, the Opposition, whether in the House of Representatives or in the Senate, ought to acknowledge that once a government assumes power, having put its programs to the people, those programs, having been properly identified, ought not to be resisted unless there are special circumstances. [More…]
The second extension of the activities of the AIDC is in relation to its powers and here perhaps we ought to register some greater concern at this proposal because it seeks to give the Corporation power to borrow moneys both within and outside Australia, in those broad terms. [More…]
Nevertheless, we should register some concern that the emphasis of the Corporation’s borrowing power is being moved from an overseas borrowing power to a sort of generalised borrowing power. [More…]
The fund has been one of Dr Cairns ‘s major plans since this Government came into power. [More…]
Does the Senate think it necessary to develop the scope and power of the AIDC in developing Australia’s basic resources and strengthening Australia’s control over these resources? [More…]
That ( 1 ) A Standing Committee be appointed, to be called the Standing Committee on National Development and Ownership and Control of Australian Resources, with power to inquire into and report upon such matters as are referred to it by the Senate from time to time. [More…]
The Committee have power to consider the Minutes of Evidence and records of the Select Committee on Foreign Ownership and Control appointed in previous sessions. [More…]
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 consider. [More…]
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 sessions and notwithstanding any prorogation of the Parliament or dissolution of the House of Representatives. [More…]
I am interested that the honourable senator should ask that question because last year the Government introduced a Bill to amend the Broadcasting and Television Act to give the Minister power to approve certain actions such as the honourable senator has contemplated. [More…]
Therefore I tell him that whilst the legislation stands as it does I, as Minister, having regard to the legal opinions expressed to me, have little power in that regard. [More…]
When the present Government came to power, the question of the proportion of State and municipal costs and revenues that should be met by the residents of the A.C.T. [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. [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 prescribe a series of functions to be transferred to local control. [More…]
Our approach has therefore been to determine the powers that the Commonwealth should retain rather than the powers that the local assembly should have. [More…]
It is our conviction that in one area at least the Australian Government should retain full power, that being the area of planning development, land management and leasehold administration. [More…]
When this Bill was before the House of Representatives the Opposition there endorsed the concept or rationalisation of industry when this would lead to greater vitality and improved competitive power. [More…]
The history of this Bill is that on 10 October 1973 the then Tariff Board reported to the Government on its inquiry into tariff protection for domestic appliances, heating and cooling equipment, and recommended that assistance by way of bounty be afforded to the manufacturers in Australia of sealed unit compressors of lh kilowatt power or less. [More…]
At the same time the Board recommended a reduction in the rate of duty on sealed compressor units of 1 Vi kilowatt power or less from 43’/s per cent to 25 per cent. [More…]
A power conferred on the Governor-General or the Minister by this Act shall not be exercised in such a manner that bounty under this Act would not be uniform throughout the Commonwealth, within the meaning of paragraph (iii) of section 5 1 of the Constitution. [More…]
When the Government decided that an Australian Film Commission should be established, I was asked to remind myself that the exercise of power under the Bill is: [More…]
It was felt that because Australia was a party to that international treaty and because at some time it might be necessary for the government to see that that portion of the international treaty was abided by, an undertaking should be given that there should be a general power of direction given to the Minister under the Act. [More…]
Under this Bill while that power is still exercisable, if it is’ exercised now it has to be reported to Parliament within 15 sitting days. [More…]
One clause that does remain in some dispute is claue 69 of the original Bill which gives to the Governor-General power to make regulationsand I quote: [More…]
The Opposition said then that there were the gravest dangers in giving regulation powers to any Government under an Act derived from conventions or treaties made with foreign governments and in particular such treaties being those that have never been tabled in a parliament, debated in a parliament or the derivative legislation from those treaties being made. [More…]
I point out again- I will be brief- that the treaties themselves are so loosely worded as to give any government virtually total power. [More…]
Clearly, under such a convention, it would be competent for a government to claim that it has the power to make regulations. [More…]
There is a real problem which is involved not only in this Bill but in all sorts of other areas concerning the treaty and convention making power of the Commonwealth, lt is not something which is found only in this country. [More…]
I refer to the executive arm of government having the power to enter into international treaties and conventions. [More…]
Power to make regu l ations concerning some of the matters he raised will be given to the national Government as a result of the passage of this Bill but we shall not be acting without consultation with the States in respect of those or similar matters. [More…]
It was written by Professor Bernard Smith, Professor of Contemporary Art and Director of the Power Institute of Fine Arts at the University of Sydney. [More…]
The Australia Council Bill now before Parliament provides inadequate safeguards against bureaucratic power. [More…]
Under the Bill they will be appointed not only for their term of membership but also it will be within the power of the Government to determine who will be the chairmen of the boards. [More…]
We have to face this question of excessive bureaucratic power in such an organisation. [More…]
I am suggesting to the Minister that it was his Party that took away the disparity in interest rates which favoured beef producers in previous years when there was a different class of government, not a socialist government, in power. [More…]
Was it the former government when in power that did anything to assist the primary producer in respect of low interest rates? [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…]
563 the Prime Minister made a statement which I think is informative as to the way in which this power is exercised. [More…]
the power of the Governor-General under section 58 of the Constitution to return a Bill with a recommendation for amendments is a power that the Governor-General exercises on the advice of his Ministers. [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 think that when one speaks of compassion it is fortunate for the Australian public and for the people of southern Tasmania that the Whitlam Government is in power. [More…]
If Mr Booth accepts the view set out that he has no power to make the determination sought by the ABC Staff Association, there still remains one possible further cause for the Association to follow and that is to ask the PublicService Arbitrator to change the date of his determination retrospectively for only Mr Edwards’s position. [More…]
But such figures have nothing to do with the real purchasing power of those wages. [More…]
They have organised Black Power demonstrations. [More…]
What I have said in the course of this debate comes from a person who infiltrated a revolutionary organisation whose members are working towards the objective of overthrowing government and seizing power by force of arms. [More…]
Having regard to the number of countries in which this pattern of power-taking has occurred, it ought not to be surprising that there are persons, programs and parties working to this end. [More…]
As many newspaper leader writers have put it, they see simply an attempt by the Opposition to use its power at the proper and judicious time which will give it ascent to government in Australia rather than providing the leadership that this country desires. [More…]
They have devoted all their energy, as the editorial very correctly interpreted, to gauging when they should use their upper House power. [More…]
This ambiguity and this search for use of upper House power has led to a ridiculous situation. [More…]
The Senate would not have equal power with the House of Representatives. [More…]
It would have greater power. [More…]
I am not sure whether members of the Opposition, in their blind thrust for power, realise that if we backtrack 12 months- the period mentioned by Senator Withers- from 1 2 April, it takes us back to a point approximately half way through the first Autumn session of the new Parliament, when the newly elected Australian Labor Party Government had not even been in office for 6 months. [More…]
The Senate would not have equal power with the House of Representatives. [More…]
It would have greater power. [More…]
He was dealing with a double dissolution and was speaking about the Senate having the power to force the House of Representatives to go to the people but the House of Representatives not being able to force the Senate to go to the people. [More…]
The Senate would not have equal power with the House of Representatives. [More…]
It would have greater power. [More…]
Power without a corresponding responsibility always stands in danger of degenerating into a tyranny. [More…]
But the real power behind the throne in this force of politics in Australia is one who is arrogant and powercrazed. [More…]
But again he is the one who is pressing for and pushing for a grab for power. [More…]
Those who seek power and who have never conceded that the Australian Labor Party is in fact the Government- I am referring to the Opposition- will stoop to anything, stoop to any tactic or technique to try to undermine this Government. [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…]
The Commission will be able to supplement this information by using powers which enable it to require information to be furnished on an ad hoc basis. [More…]
The Commission will also have power to nominate an officer to attend meetings of the directors, members or debenture holders of a company. [More…]
The Commission will have a rulemaking power, which will be generally coextensive with, but subordinate to, a regulationmaking power of the Governor-General. [More…]
Where the Commission considers it necessary or desirable for the protection of investors or in the interests of the public it will have power to prohibit trading in a specified security for up to 2 1 days. [More…]
Any such action by the Commission may be cancelled by the Governor-General, who will have a power of his own to prohibit trading on a stock market. [More…]
He will be able to exercise that power for such period as he thinks fit. [More…]
The power to grant, suspend or revoke these licences is vested in the Commission. [More…]
It is envisaged that the Commission will give close attention to this form of trading and use its power to prescribe requirements for its regulation. [More…]
The Bill puts an end to the practice under existing State and Territory law of a corporation accepting oversubscriptions to an issue of debentures if a power to do so has been reserved in the prospectus. [More…]
These provisions relate to companies that have been declared to be investment companies, and the power to make such a declaration is vested in the Commission. [More…]
It challenged the might and will of the greatest power on earth. [More…]
The war unleashed on a peasant people the heaviest bombing in history and the greatest fire power used in history. [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…]
The refugee, the homeless, the starving, the innocent victims of war number millions upon millions across 3 continents, but Vietnam has a power over the Australian conscience for one particular reason. [More…]
Consequently, if the Australian National Railways is to provide the same range of services as former State railways it is essential that it have the power to operate such services. [More…]
Section 3 IB is intended to empower the Commission to provide these services. [More…]
The section has been the subject of some misunderstanding particularly by road transport organisations which saw it as giving the Commission the power to enter into unfair competition with them. [More…]
Similarly, some concern has been expressed in relation to section 31a which gives the Commission power to provide road and engineering services for Australian Government departments and Australian Government authorities. [More…]
I also said in my opening remarks that one of the purposes of the proposed Bill is to ensure that the power, 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- section 57b.’ [More…]
The proposed amendments to section 2 1 of the principal Act will empower the Commission to lease railway property. [More…]
The Bill gives power for the appointment of an inspector to conduct an investigation. [More…]
It gives power to the Minister, after the report of the inspector, to take such action consistent with the Act as he considers appropriate which may include making an application to the Australian Industrial Court for the appointment of a judicial manager to manage the affairs of the fund or for the fund itself to be wound up. [More…]
Our basic objection to the Bill is, without any question at all, that it does give the Minister absolute and dictatorial powers over the operations in the future of the private health funds. [More…]
Those powers could be used indiscriminately and for the ultimate or immediate destruction of the health funds. [More…]
If it were the objective of the Minister to eliminate competition from the health funds after the introduction of the Government’s Medibank scheme, the power to do so would exist under this Bill. [More…]
There is a provision within this Bill which gives the Minister the power to manipulate the reserves of the health funds. [More…]
We consider that the power that the Minister has under the Bill to use the special account, the outcome of which would deprive the chronically ill of their freedom to use private or intermediate hospital accommodation with the accompanying freedom of choice of surgeon or physician, driving them into public ward accommodation, is also an undesirable feature. [More…]
The Committee considers that this policy has not been sufficient, and believes that it would be desirable, whenever necessary, to exercise the power of suspension and to withdraw from any suspended organisation the payment of Commonwealth benefits pursuant to section 28 of the National Health Act. [More…]
Surely this cannot be termed the dictatorial powers of the Minister. [More…]
I doubt very much whether it is any greater a power of the Minister than the power exercised in the case of insurance companies by insurance commissioners who were mentioned earlier today by Senator Wheeldon. [More…]
We again try, through a Bill of this Parliament, to give this supervisory power to the Government. [More…]
Let us make this clear: It is no argument to say that the Commonwealth Government cannot do these things directly because of lack of constitutional power. [More…]
Sixthly, the power sought for compulsory acquisition of any land, including the Crown land of a State, is destructive of the federal system of government and a threat to individual rights. [More…]
Finally, at least some of the proposed powers are of very dubious constitutional validity. [More…]
There could be quite a threat if the compulsory acquisition power in respect of State Crown land were to be effected because it would be possible and competent for the Commonwealth, not in some small way but in some massive way, to alter the whole of the urban and industrial structure of any State or Territory. [More…]
The power to go in and compulsorily acquire land, Crown land in particular, means that the Commonwealth can dictate the future shape and pattern of urban communities. [More…]
The Bill gives the Commonwealth power to override the existing State and local government laws and therefore puts it in a very preferential situation in which it must, of course, have an enormous influence on the whole of the housing industry. [More…]
Ought it not to do what the defence service homes organisation has done in the past, even though it may well have had the implied power to do otherwise, and have houses constructed by tender by builders who obey all the laws of the State and local governments? [More…]
I think we can say of the honourable senators opposite that if they had the sense to stop their destructive policy, their frustration and their opposition to our measures just for the sake of oppositionthis has been going on ever since this Party came to power- and adopted a progressive social reform policy it is possible that they could come back into power in Canberra. [More…]
In 1974-75 the Australian Government advances to the States for housing have been further increased to $345m, an increase of $ 124m over the 1973-74 allocation and almost double the amount made available to the States for welfare housing when the previous Government was in power for the financial year 1 972-73. [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 Bill contains the proposition that the Government wants to have the power for compulsory acquisition of land. [More…]
It has merely said that it will use that power if it has to do so. [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…]
), that the Parliament shall, subject to the Constitution, have power to make laws with respect to: [More…]
The Commonwealth has no power to legislate for State governmental authorities, but it can legislate for those under its own jurisdiction. [More…]
As far as I am concerned, the Bill is absolutely horrifying because it will provide the basis for the Government to expand centralised power in the area of housing. [More…]
I am opposed to the centralisation of power and the socialist objectives in this Bill which will tend to stifle the private sector by restricting the provision of land, the construction of houses and, indeed, inhibit the private purchase of homes. [More…]
When this Government came into power in 1 972 although there was a 69 per cent rate of home ownership there were 91 000 applications before the housing commissions throughout Australia from low income earners who could never own a home. [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 . [More…]
Therefore the Corporation is limited to act in respect of those areas in which the Parliament has power to make laws. [More…]
It would be inviting challenge and defeat if it attempted to do something in respect of which the Parliament does not have power. [More…]
The pertinent words are contained in the preamble which says that the Corporation will operate to the extent that the Parliament has power to make laws. [More…]
The Bill sets out matters in respect of which we know we have power. [More…]
Immediately we say that we are without constitutional power to carry out the provision. [More…]
We define the matters in respect of which we have power to make laws. [More…]
The overriding feature of this clause is contained in the preamble which says that the Corporation may perform its functions relating to matters in respect of which the Parliament has power to make laws. [More…]
Honourable senators will remember that under the Homes Savings Grant Act the grant could not be paid to a person who intended to marry because the power of the Commonwealth was limited to the provision of family allowances; so the grant could be made only after the marriage. [More…]
No one could get the grant before marriage because the Commonwealth’s power was limited in that respect. [More…]
We are in the same position today in respect of our limited powers. [More…]
All in all this is only a means of the Commonwealth exercising a power it has to overcome the many problems we have experienced in housing construction, particularly under the previous Government which made necessary such things as the undesirable homes savings grants, to overcome speculation in building which puts the price of land beyond the reach of home owners, and to bring about a situation where we have some orderly organisation in these fields over which the Australian Government has constitutional power. [More…]
Does the Government of Papua New Guinea have the power to unilaterally change the year of an election, or would this require amending an Australian Act of Parliament? [More…]
1 ) Did Mr Justice Murphy, as Attorney-General, have the exclusive power to appoint civil celebrants of marriage. [More…]
What is the source of that power. [More…]
This power has been delegated by the Attorney-General to the Secretary to the AttorneyGeneral’s Department pursuant to the Law Officers Act 1964-73. [More…]
In fact I can tell the honourable senator that at the request of the ABC I have written to my colleague the Postmaster-General and also have had discussions with the Australian Broadcasting Control Board about obtaining more power for the station. [More…]
It is, of course, just one, but perhaps the worst and most despicable, of a number of exercises in dishonesty that the Government has perpetrated since it came to power. [More…]
We have always made clear our opposition to all great power interference in Indo-China. [More…]
Liberal-Country Party governments claimed that they were realists, that they were shoring up the balance of power and that they were helpng to prevent the dominoes from falling. [More…]
Nor did they help to shore up the balance of power- even assuming for the moment that that concept has validity and meaning in Indo-China. [More…]
We took the single most important step open to Australia, which was to see to it that, even if as an outside power with limited influence we could not stop the fighting, at least we would not contribute to it. [More…]
Secondly, the Australian Government was willing to do all in its power to bring the hostilities to an end. [More…]
In fact, no Chinese soldiers have been found there in the last decade, since the Menzies Administration illegally committed the Australian people to intervene as a Western power in a civil war that had been raging in the country of Vietnam for centuries. [More…]
They increased their fire power. [More…]
The third point is that the discretionary character of the many powers which are being sought under this Bill suggests that the Bill is designed to secure power just for the sake of having power. [More…]
What we ought to be able to assess is whether this wide ranging discretionary power to obtain information is necessary. [More…]
There is singularly little in the Bill or in the Minister’s second reading speech which explains why powers of this wide description are required. [More…]
It may be supposed that if an officer is to sit in on stock exchange committees any reasonable power which the Commission may require is a power to have details of complaints, which a person has made to the stock exchange and about which he is not satisfied, forwarded to the Commission. [More…]
The power of the Commission to make rules and of the Governor-General to make regulations is to be availed of in a vast number of areas in order to spell out the substance of company obligations. [More…]
It is a power of immense width. [More…]
This is bad legislation because the power to disallow regulations does not provide the same opportunity for consideration and amendment as does legislation. [More…]
The Commission and its officers have a power of intrusion into the affairs of stock exchanges and companies which no individual would tolerate if he were solely involved in running his own affairs. [More…]
Moreover, the customary power sought by this Government for the Commission to have power to summon persons to answer questions, provide information and produce documents is contained in this Bill. [More…]
Why should it not be removed as an unwarranted intrusion and not justifiable in the light of all the other powers contained in the Bill? [More…]
whether there may be any area of company activity and operation outside the ambit of Commonwealth constitutional power and whether there are appropriate courses e.g. [More…]
in co-operation with the States, whereby such deficiencies of power may be made good; [More…]
That the Committee have power to send for and examine persons, papers and records, to move from place to place, to sit in public or in private, notwithstanding any prorogation of the Parliament, and have leave to report from time to time its proceedings and the evidence taken and such interim recommendations as it may deem fit. [More…]
The third matter is whether there may be any areas of company activity and operation outside the ambit of Commonwealth constitutional power. [More…]
If there are, are there other appropriate courses which might conveniently overcome the deficiencies of power? [More…]
May I say, because it is not often recognised, that there are real doubtsgenuinely held doubts- as to the extent of power which the Commonwealth has to make laws with respect to foreign corporations and trading and financial corporations formed within the limits of the Commonwealth. [More…]
If that rule were to be applicable today, quite clearly there would be a hiatus in the Commonwealth’s power. [More…]
One comes more recently to the concrete pipes case which opened up this vista of power for the Commonwealth. [More…]
I mention these matters simply to indicate that there is basis for the doubt as to how far the Commonwealth’s power over corporations extends and how competent or capable it might be to pass legislation which would enable one national companies Act to operate and cover all companies operating in Australia. [More…]
One must acknowledge that four of the States of the Commonwealth within the last few days have put forward to the Commonwealth Attorney-General a proposal in which they have suggested that this legislation be deferred and that consultations take place as to whether there could not be a joint Commonwealth-State commission which would overcome any of the legal doubts which must attend the unilateral assumption of power by the Commonwealth in this field. [More…]
There may be other ways in which the problems of dubious legal power in the Commonwealth might be overcome by co-operation. [More…]
If the honourable senator wants all the things that he has dredged up, including the constitutional power question, to be considered by a select committee of this chamber, whose members will have primary and fundamental duties to this Senate and will have only the recess between the end of this autumn session and the commencement of the Budget session in which to hear mountains of evidence that will surely be a repetition of what has been said in the past, I suggest he is not genuine in his desire to see this legislation translated into law. [More…]
It is the duty of the Commission, to the extent to which the Parliament has power to confer that duty on the Commission, to- [More…]
Most- or all- great professions possess the power to police themselves, and they jealously guard their reputations; the success of their members depends upon their skill and their ethical standards. [More…]
The proposed corporation and exchange commission will have enormous powersfrighteningly wide powers. [More…]
The statutory commission proposed will be extremely powerful. [More…]
For the proposed regulation of foreign corporations, financial corporations and trading corporations, the Commonwealth would appear to need an additional constitutional power which it does not yet have. [More…]
Although I state that as a generality, I feel that it would be perfectly valid to suggest that this Bill would initiate an absolute power for the Federal Government, without consultation with or reference to the States, to govern the whole securities industry and the wide range of corporations which would be involved. [More…]
If we are to have a transition in this area from exclusive State powers to a dual system of regulation or legislation, we believe that the Bill ought to be considered in that context. [More…]
There are additional matters of great importance which such a committee should consider, namely, the constitutional powers which may justify this Bill. [More…]
Does this Bill in fact exceed the constitutional powers of the Parliament? [More…]
It must never be forgotten that under the Constitution the powers that we are concerned with as a national Parliament are those in relation to foreign corporations and trading or financial corporations formed within the limits of the power of the Commonwealth. [More…]
Suggestions have been made- I do not necessarily adopt them but I say that they must surely receive very earnest considerationthat in fact some parts of this Bill and some parts of the regulation of corporations are beyond the powers of the national Parliament. [More…]
For example, one can say that clause 83 of the Bill, which requires financial journalists to do certain things and to make certain disclosures as to their interests, may not be a law in relation to corporations and it may well be that it is not within the power of the Commonwealth under the Constitution. [More…]
I turn to another aspect of this Bill- the regulation and rule making powers which are contained in the Bill to an enormous degree. [More…]
I refer to 2 clauses- Clause 283 gives to the Commission power to make rules and clause 284 gives power to the Governor-General to make regulations. [More…]
A massive amount of power is given to those authorities to make rules and regulations. [More…]
Clause 284 provides a particular power in relation to the qualifications and experience to be possessed by directors of corporations, other than foreign corporations, to which Part III applies; namely, a complete power to prescribe whether directors of companies throughout this country need to have a university qualification or some sort of experience or whether they do not need any at all. [More…]
I am not concerned with what might be the intention of this Government or any future government, but once that power is given we no longer have any real control over the way in which governments operate. [More…]
I know that we have power to deal with regulations; they can come back here and, in the mass of other things, we may get around to repealing them. [More…]
In addition to these provisions is the power to impose penalties not exceeding $5,000 in the case of a corporation or $2,000 in the case of a person not being a corporation for offences against the regulations. [More…]
This Bill contains not only those general regulation powers but also something like 84 clauses under which matters can be prescribed and regulations made. [More…]
Those 84 clauses indicate to me and to many of the critics of this Bill that what is wrong with this Bill is that it is shoddily prepared; that the legislation which should set out as far as possible the matters in detail that are required has left to the Government the power of regulation in 84 clauses of the Bill. [More…]
The State will to the extent of which it is necessary confer power to operate the services referred to in this paragraph. [More…]
If we could arrange to fill in the constitutional gaps where the Federal power is deficient I would much prefer a uniform companies law throughout Australia. [More…]
I have never heard yet one remark either in the trade practices field or in this field that properly acknowledged that it was the Liberal Party Government that brought before the High Court the review of the old Huddart Parker case and argued for an expansion of the Commonwealth power under the head of the Constitution which deals with foreign corporations and trading or financial corporations formed within the limits of the Commonwealth. [More…]
I am yet to be informed- I will be grateful if anybody informs me as the debate goes on- that the High Court has ever suggested that this Parliament can legislate for the incorporation of companies or the formation of companies, because the language of the power as to domestic companies refers to trading or financial corporations formed within the limits of the Commonwealth. [More…]
It is quite obvious that the Commonwealth has not a full power to legislate for everything in this field. [More…]
Insofar as its power falls short of the whole situation then the State power remains in that fragmented field. [More…]
Sub-clause (1) of clause 60 gives the commission the power to prohibit trading on a stock exchange for a period not exceeding 2 1 days. [More…]
Clause 62 gives the Government the power to prohibit trading for an indefinite period. [More…]
It is of the utmost importance for an effective watchdog type body to have not only a market surveillance role but also the power to act speedily to prevent matters continuing to take place until such time as proper long term rules can be made to cover the particular eventuality. [More…]
Yet we have a Bill which proposes that the body charged with being an efficient, quickacting body has a rule-making power that takes 44 days to come into effect. [More…]
I believe that it is no answer for the Government to say, as the Attorney-General said recently in a discussion on this matter in Melbourne, that there is no need for the Commission to have the emergency rulemaking power or the power to make rules as a matter of urgency, because the Government can do that. [More…]
This body must have adequate power, in the constitutional sense. [More…]
It must deal with the abuses which have been widespread in the industry and to this end have the power to investigate nationally and follow-up effectively. [More…]
I pause to comment that I doubt that it has either adequate power or is really structured to be capable of investigating nationally and following up effectively. [More…]
I do not believe that a 44-day rule making power is flexible, adaptable, quick or effective. [More…]
1 ) A Standing Committee be appointed, to be called the Standing Committee on National Development and Ownership and Control of Australian Resources, with power to inquire into and report upon such matters as are referred to it by the Senate from time to time. [More…]
The Committee have power to consider the Minutes of Evidence and records of the Select Committee on Foreign Ownership and Control appointed in previous Sessions. [More…]
The Committee shall 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 consider. [More…]
10) The Committee or any sub-committee have power to send Ibr 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 or dissolution of the House of Representatives. [More…]
If the Committee had elected to conduct an inquiry into the ownership of land in Australia, and if that inquiry was to be carried out by the Committee in accordance with its terms of reference, as it had the power to do, more than one million titles to land in Australia alone would have had to be investigated. [More…]
If this motion is carried by the Senate, the Standing Committee on National Development and Ownership and Control of Australian Resources will have the power to inquire into and report on such matters as are referred to it from time to time. [More…]
The motion also empowers the Committee to consider the minutes, evidence and records of the Senate Select Committee on Foreign Ownership and Control appointed in previous sessions. [More…]
It is proposed in the Bill which will be presented shortly to establish an Australian Government insurance office that it should have power to purchase State government and private insurance offices or shares in them. [More…]
In the same way as existing insurance offices are able to have this power, an Australian Government insurance office would also have the power. [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 conciliation procedure 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 evidencegathering powers are given to Human Rights Commissions and similar powers are vested in the Race Relations Conciliator established by New Zealand legislation. [More…]
The absence of evidencegathering powers in the United Kingdom legislation has been said to impede seriously the effectiveness of the Race Relations Board under that legislation. [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…]
I do not believe this applies so much to the major political parties because they usually pick their candidates because of pressure of support for that person within the party and because of the value of the contribution that person will make to the Parliament, but for many of the smaller parties that mushroom up at election time this was their moment of glory, their little grab for power, to be king maker. [More…]
Clause 1 1 provides that there should be power to determine unacceptable names which will not be allowed to be placed on the ballot paper. [More…]
The system works there, and it would work elsewhere, I suggest, where the will of the people- the desire of the electorate- in relation to the type of government they want to see in power has been expressed and the government of their wish has been elected. [More…]
It seems that the Government is making another attempt to alter the electoral laws of this country, about which it has had a preoccupation since it was elected to government and came to power in December 1 972 and also since its quite narrow election victory in May of last year. [More…]
I think we will see the Government trying to make other gradual changes to keep a socialist government in power. [More…]
I suggest that it is patently absurd to say that the electorate in Australia can manage elections with even 4 or 5 candidates but, when one gets Senate elections involving 26 or 27 persons, and in the famous case in New South Wales last year involving 73 persons, it is obviously beyond one’s power, because no one can have knowledge of so many people standing for election. [More…]
Under no circumstances should any department of government, any department of the Public Service, ever get any power or influence over political parties in this country. [More…]
One of the real questions which ought to be answered by members of the Government, like the Leader of the Government in the Senate (Senator Wriedt) and a number of his colleagues, is where they stand with regard to these groups in Victoria whom they once expelled or removed from positions of power within the Victorian organisation but who are slowly but surely infiltrating back into positions of power in Victoria. [More…]
Did not this Government make the same statement of another Australian in the employ of the Rhodesian Government when it refused to renew his passport after it came to power? [More…]
Effective radiated power of the translator will be 20 watts and an omni-directional aerial will be used. [More…]
I did that deliberately, because, irrespective of what Party is in power I know that, regarding questions of security and citizenship, we can never get a perfect system. [More…]
As I pointed out previously it has been the practice of successive Ministers in the exercise of their discretionary power generally not to reveal reasons in respect of particular cases. [More…]
For example, the question of dual nationality is involved in section 44 (i) which prevents anyone who is a citizen of a foreign power being elected. [More…]
Regarding whether there is a so-called donkey vote- and I hate that expression- if one looked up the records of the 1966 election, when Prime Minister Holt was returned to power with the biggest majority the non-Labor parties have had in my term in the Parliament, one would see, I believe, that 23 new people were elected as members of the Liberal-Country Party coalition. [More…]
Country Party-Liberal Party governments have been in power in Queensland since 1957 and never on any occasion have they tried to alter the hours of voting which presently are from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Obviously they favour those hours rather than 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. That is the test now, and we will see how the Opposition senators react to it. [More…]
I recall that at the height of our power, when we really constituted a threat to Australia, there were about fifteen of us. [More…]
Australia’s Ministry for the Media is a frightening concept because of its great potential for abuse and power. [More…]
What steps has the Minister taken to make sure that there will be no such abuse of power in Australia? [More…]
So far as political control of the media is concerned, I remind honourable senators that the Department of the Media has no regulatory or legal power to exercise control. [More…]
The Snowy Mountains Hydro-electric Power Act 1 949- 1 973 provides for a Commissioner and 2 Associate Commisioners and that these be fulltime officers appointed for 7 years. [More…]
This section was based on the traditional English prohibition which was designed to diminish the power of the Crown to exert corrupt influence over Parliament. [More…]
There is nothing in those terms of reference that gave to the Committee any power to inquire into whether or not persons had breached the Constitution or whether persons should have given evidence to that effect. [More…]
Perceptive minds, however, foresaw that the superior power of Commonwealth could in due course erode, if not destroy, the independence of the States. [More…]
This was seen as likely to ensue from the power of the Commonwealth to impose taxation generally and from the provisions of the Constitution which gave Commonwealth legislation supremacy over State laws. [More…]
As the power of the purse in Geat Britain established by degrees the authority of the Commons, it will ultimately establish in Australia the authority of the Commonwealth. [More…]
The major step towards ultimate domination by the Commonwealth of the States’ financial power came with the uniform tax scheme of 1942, which the High Court then upheld as a wartime measure and 15 years later again upheld under peacetime powers. [More…]
Regardless of its political colour, no government in Canberra since the Second World War has been prepared to relinquish its major financial power and certainly not its control over income tax. [More…]
I like to look at things in reality, rather than in the abstract, and one must admit that Australia in a comparatively short space of time has become a major power, not only self sufficient to support itself but able to assist the weaker nations materially. [More…]
They see a bureaucracy unfolding quite contrary to the principles of democracy in which responsible governments have delegated their authority to boards, commissions, corporations and authorities with power to supersede local government authority. [More…]
Before expressing my thoughts, however, let me make it abundantly clear that I will do all in my power to assist in the development of the Albury-Wodonga complex and I trust that citizens in the area will do likewise. [More…]
It is regretted that more than one matter was dealt with at that referendum because if ever a section of the referendum should have succeeded it was that section which proposed that the federal Government should be given power to make funds available to local government directly for its own use. [More…]
I conclude where I started in seeking the support of honourable senators to do all in their power to assist local government to maintain its place in the trinity of government. [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 commissions, however, will not have the power to retire compulsorily, solely on the grounds of age, officers aged between 60 and 65 years. [More…]
The Bill provides power for the 2 commissions to appoint an officer of the Commission to a specific position and to determine the classification of the position. [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 inter-state 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…]
In Part HI, Clause 9 exercises the power conferred on the Parliament by Section 102 of the Constitution. [More…]
Clause 15 gives the Commission a potentially useful power to arbitrate, with the consent of the persons concerned, on any matter relevant to, or affected by, the provisions of the Constitution relating to trade and commerce. [More…]
Powers of the Commission to make orders are provided by Clause 16; and under Sub-Clause 16 (3) the Commission will have power to make orders if necessary following action pursuant to Sub-Clause 14(10), that is to say, in regard to pricing guidelines. [More…]
This will be an ultimate power which would not remove the presumption that the restrictive practices legislation will apply in the transport industry. [More…]
Its object is to amend the Snowy Mountains Hydro-electric Power Act to permit the Government to appoint a part time Commissioner and Associate Commissioners for any period not exceeding 7 years. [More…]
Under this Bill there will be no obligation to appoint any Associate Commissioners but there will be power to appoint up to two of them. [More…]
The control of the station and generation of power and the sale of that electric power is now in the hands of the Snowy Mountains Council, not in the hands of the Snowy Mountains Hydroelectric Authority. [More…]
It has the responsibility of manning and maintaining the dams, of which I believe there are sixteen, and although it is not responsible for manning power stations it is responsible for financial administration. [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…]
It is an incredible state of affairs that the senators from the parties opposite should take the view that all we have to do to right the state of the economy, which the Australian Government has very little power to determine because of the free enterprise philosophy that exists within this country, is for the Australian Government to reduce its expenditure. [More…]
It is a provision to this effect: From now on, the State railway management will be agent for and responsible to the Australian Government which will have full power on decisions concerning the operation of the railway including the services to be provided, fares and freight rates. [More…]
Why have a government at all if it is to go to arbitration with the Commonwealth Government which supplies the money after that Government has given to the Commonwealth Government the power to say which routes and which rail services shall be run for the people of Tasmania? [More…]
Can any Government justify a surrender of the power to control its railways as Tasmania has done when, if there is any justice in the country on the financial basis upon which States should be supported, this Commonwealth Government is bound to render financial assistance to Tasmania to enable it to run the railway services it thinks sufficient so that the economy of those railways is not too much out of line with other States. [More…]
I think the significant thing which ought to concern the Committee and which ought to concern us when we are considering appropriations, is that Ministers have no power to impose conditions upon the expenditure of moneys which the Parliament has passed without any conditions. [More…]
Section 96 of the Constitution empowers the Parliament of the Commonwealth to make grants to the States on such conditions as the Parliament lays down. [More…]
The Minister has used the power of the purse to impose upon the dispatch of this money to Victoria conditions which he has no authority to lay down. [More…]
The way in which the Commonwealth is seeking to use the power of the purse is to augment and extend its Australian Legal Aid Office, and to do so by withholding money for the existing legal aid schemes which have been providing a service, and which will continue to provide an adequate service, if they are financed in the way in which the Commonwealth assured the State they would be financed in 1973. [More…]
It is tremendously important that, as far as it is able, this nation should face its future unitedly and with a common approach to the fact that there is a danger which we ought to be prepared to resist and do all within our power to meet and to overcome, and overcome in the way that conciliation, negotiation and discussion can permit. [More…]
For as long as they held power the Parties opposite sought a military solution. [More…]
We have been regaled for the umpteenth time by the Opposition Parties with comments about the policies that the Australian Government has pursued, since it came to power in 1972, to seek a peaceful end to the bloody war that has raged in Vietnam for 30 years. [More…]
Nor did he make any attack on the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics or the People’s Republic of China for supplying the North Vietnamese with arms, until today the North Vietnamese are regarded as the third biggest military power in the world. [More…]
If one indicts the Minister for Foreign Affairs, as this motion seeks to do, one also indicts the Prime Minister because the complaint of the Opposition is not as to what precise words were used but that in its dealings with warring foreign powers Australia has favoured one side against the other, at least diplomatically, and that is where this motion falls down. [More…]
As such this motion will be seen by the public as a clumsy and even schoolboyish attempt to occupy the time of this Senate in discrediting a person who will never be discredited by this Opposition in the corridors of international power because his head is held very high. [More…]
They regarded it as a bogus regime imposed upon them by a foreign power. [More…]
During the term of that war many references and adverse comments have been made by members of all Parties in this Parliament about the government in power at a particular time. [More…]
Of course, that referred to those Ministers who had so strikingly castigated the United States shortly after the Labor Government had come to power. [More…]
Mr President, the House of Representatives transmits to the Senate the following resolution, which was agreed to by the House of Representatives this day, and requests the concurrence of the Senate therein: That paragraph 12 of the resolution of appointment of the Joint Committee on Pecuniary Interests of Members of Parliament be omitted and that the following paragraph be substituted: ‘(12) That the Committee report within the shortest reasonable period, not later than 30 September 1975, and that any member of the Committee have power to add a protest or dissent to any report. ‘ [More…]
In any event, Senator Greenwood totally misapprehended the basis of this power and he suggested that the Attorney-General had taken too much upon himself in insisting that before the grant was paid over to the State of Victoria the Australian Attorney-General was entitled to ask for certain guarantees of co-operation. [More…]
Senator Greenwood, under the misapprehension that this was a section 96 grant, accused the Australian Attorney-General of exceeding his power. [More…]
He may stand up and proclaim the evil of all things done by the Australian Government, this hostile foreign power, and in doing so he can deny legal aid to all sorts of necessitous litigants in the State of Victoria [More…]
Is it because the Attorney-General apprehends that if the High Court was able to pass judgment upon the way in which the scheme has been developing it would say that the scheme has been developed by the Commonwealth without constitutional power? [More…]
Nobody has suggested that legal aid generally comes within any power of the Commonwealth. [More…]
Under section 5 1 and other sections of the Constitution there is a claim that for migrants, for defence Services and for a few other things incidental to the various powers of the Commonwealth we can supply legal aid, but legal aid generally to the ordinary citizenry for State purposes must be channelled, under the Constitution, by section 96. [More…]
I ask: What is the position in respect of these moneys if the Commonwealth has not the power validly to fund expenditure under section 81? [More…]
Is he aware that with the present taxation scales the indexation of wages ultimately will result in a decline in real personal spending power? [More…]
In fact, payments this year under the program will be in the area of $2m which is a significant increase on what it was when we came to power. [More…]
This indicates that there has been a substantial redistribution of purchasing power to pensioners and social security beneficiaries under this Government. [More…]
More power to him! [More…]
I say that the Senate, far from being in a position similar to the House of Lords which is a House that is by its nature bereft of all financial power, is committed to a duty in relation to the ordinary annual services of Government to scrutinise them and if necessary request that amendments be made. [More…]
All right, if the honourable senator is convinced, but there is no power to do it. [More…]
-It seems incredible when one reflects upon it that the Government was able to convince a majority of the Australian electorate in 1972 that its advent to power would mean open government. [More…]
The suggestion that in some way we are bypassing the local government bodies because of some mad desire to exercise all the power from Canberra just will not stand up. [More…]
Somehow or other in the original motion peculiar language was used to the effect that the Committee report within 90 days and that any member of the Committee have power to add a protest or dissent to any report. [More…]
The proper casting of votes is a road to power. [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…]
I support what has been said by Senator DrakeBrockman and I want to emphasise the point he made towards the conclusion of his speech, namely, that in this Bill there is a very vague clause in clause 4, which gives the Minister power without any qualifications, without the Parliament in any way adverting to the terms on which it is to be given. [More…]
That is a tremendous power to give to a Minister. [More…]
That ought to be the position irrespective of the Government which is in power. [More…]
It simply creates a Commission to have the power and the function to restore the Tasman Bridge as soon as possible. [More…]
It is my contention that the Commission we are now considering should have the power to investigate whether the Tasman Bridge should be rebuilt and to recommend, if necessary, that a different type of bridge be built, probably between the Domain and Rosny Point, as was suggested in a 1958 report to the Tasmanian Parliament. [More…]
-I think the best thing I can do is to refer him to clause (g) of the agreement which states that the powers and capacities of the Commission shall include power, authority and capacity- [More…]
The other point I wish to make is that when the Minister said that the Tasman Bridge Restoration Commission had certain obligations with regard to the measure of damage he referred to paragraph 8 (g) of the Agreement, which he acknowledged in the next sentence or two that he used was not in language of an undertaking but in language of a power. [More…]
I have noticed that the power there is for the Commission to act as an expert adviser or assessor if so requested in connection with the apportionment of costs and liabilities arising out of the collision of the ship with the bridge. [More…]
It provides for a Commissioner of Community Relations to exercise coercive powers to endeavour to persuade a person to settle a matter. [More…]
The Commissioner is granted under this Bill powers of enormous scope so that if his attempts at settling an issue do not meet with the success which he himself believes they should meet with, he can then institute court proceedings. [More…]
It is a power which we believe is wide open to abuse. [More…]
It can be regarded as totally unfair, and as we know the person in whom these powers are vested- he is on the public record as having expressed views which might make those who could come within his surveillance regard him as prejudiced against them- it is completely unreasonable that he should have these wide powers vested in him. [More…]
That is a power to make laws with respect to external affairs. [More…]
There is no express power in the Constitution to make laws with respect to race relations or racial discrimination, or the conduct which may take place which is proscribed by this Bill. [More…]
What the Government is doing is relying upon the fact that there is an international convention for the elimination of all forms of racial discrimination which Australia is ratifying and which, because of the obligations which it is said flow from that ratification, enables it to exercise its powers to make laws with respect to external affairs. [More…]
One says that if that be the position the external affairs power is becoming a plenary power of virtually no limit whatsoever. [More…]
It would mean that the external affairs power could be invoked to virtually ignore or repudiate the divisions of power which are contained in the Commonwealth Constitution. [More…]
Those who claim that Australia has a power under its Constitution to make laws with respect to external affairs in order to implement the Convention must recognise that difficulties of this character will arise. [More…]
If you do that, can it be said that you are implementing the Convention in order to invoke the power. [More…]
I recognise some of the problems which flow from Senator Wright’s interjection, but is it to be accepted, if you can utilise this external affairs power because there is an international Convention made by the United Nations which is ratified, that you can search out some friendly neighbouring country and, on the pretext that you have made a treaty with that country, override virtually all the provisions of the Constitution simply to give effect to obligations which have been made with a small and relatively insignificant neighbour. [More…]
If it is challenged it will provide the opportunity for which many people have been waiting when the scope of the external affairs power may be the subject of a judicial delineation. [More…]
I suggest to the Senate that in this area of whether or not the Commonwealth has a power to enact a law of this character under the guise that it is a law made with respect to external affairs it should heed what Sir Robert Menzies said when dealing with this issue in a series of articles he wrote last year in connection with the Human Rights Bill. [More…]
The externa] affairs power was never designed to be an internal affairs power or to alter the distribution of power between the Commonwealth and the States. [More…]
States which had the constitutional power to enact laws in these areas. [More…]
We believe that, apart from the power to have a conference at which the effort at conciliation can be made, these powers should be removed from the Bill. [More…]
The provision for inquiries and the settlement of civil actions with this power to institute proceedings if a satisfactory settlement is not induced can be open to grave abuse. [More…]
They are put out by ‘Family Power: Families United for Australia’. [More…]
Can sane Labor and solid union leaders force a remake of Labor power, sack the massed hangers on and idiot fringe, and most of all return this country to the care, wisdom and patriotic love of its thousands and thousands of basic Australians, Mum, Dad and the kids and on whom the continuity of Australia depends, even the Tories know that. [More…]
It is still under the headline: ‘Family Power- Families United for Australia’. [More…]
The slobs and communists are peanuts with nothing, no ability, brains or potential power to govern- but that other black cloud over the future- the Money Bags- rich, unscrupulous, and dirty, can have set our nation back so far, Australia will not recover in your lifetime. [More…]
I think that sufficient attention has been paid to ‘Family Power’, and perhaps it might be appropriate for me at this stage to mention another little document which came into my hands the other day. [More…]
-We are discussing the Racial Discrimination Bill 1975 but after hearing that speech by Senator Coleman we could be forgiven for falling into some confusion because for all we know it could have been a discussion on a Bill on discrimination on the grounds of sex, income level, drugs, family power- anything but racial discrimination. [More…]
The Government hopes to bring this Bill in by the use of its external affairs power which I submit is an abuse of that power because it will give rise to an internal affairs power that will alter the distribution of power between the Commonwealth and the States. [More…]
This Bill will increase the power of the Government over the individual, both in extent and degree. [More…]
This is particularly unfair when one considers how much power, prestige, affluence and education in the white community has been built on the exploitation of land from which the whites ousted blacks. [More…]
If we are to progress as a united and cohesive society we have an obligation to do everything in our power to prevent the development of ethnic ghettoes in our community, with the residents discriminated against in employment, in housing, in legal remedies and even in their ability to obtain insurance cover, which is a matter we have heard referred to a lot in the Senate in the last few days. [More…]
The British Race Relations Board is required to make a judgement of the issues between the parties but it has no power to compulsorily acquire evidence as this Bill now before the Senate provides. [More…]
The first is that the Board in Britain is required to make a determination; secondly, it has no power to compulsorily acquire evidence; indeed there is a third difference, namely, that the Act in Britain does not establish the same sort of educative function as the Bill now before the Senate. [More…]
I appreciate that the Bill provides the power for the Minister to reject charges of that character and in the ultimate to reimburse the Postal Commission for any revenue it may forgo as a result of such rejection, but I think it is unrealistic for the Postal Commission to be given a financial objective of that character. [More…]
In respect of the sorts of matters which I have been speaking the Opposition proposes to move some amendments to the Bills to ensure that the commissions will not be able to operate on purely commercial lines and also to provide that the government of the day will not only have the power but will also have an obligation to ensure that the commissions provide services to all sections of the Australian community and to all parts of Australia. [More…]
Beyond that we think it is desirable that the Minister should have power to be able to give the commissions general policy directions. [More…]
We appreciate that the Minister has power to approve most of the basic charges involved in providing postal and telecommunication services and that he will have other ways and means of influencing the commissions, particularly in respect of capital requirements, board appointments and so on. [More…]
Nevertheless, we think it is important that he should have power to lay down general policy directions. [More…]
People who are providing the impetus- or who were until this Government came to power- to the development of our mining industries in this country, the people in the northern parts of South Australia and in the Northern Territory who are increasing productivity in pastoral areas are entitled to some service from this Government. [More…]
Where the services are not economic- and we think, in particular, of those in the country areas and in remote areas- we believe that there must be a power with the Minister to give general policy directions that the Commission is to provide services in these areas. [More…]
Therefore, we consider that the Minister should have power to give general directions in the way in which our amendment provides. [More…]
We are also concerned that the Commission may well discriminate against certain people or give particular preference to some people against others, and we think that, in those circumstances, there should be the power in and responsibility on the Government to ensure that the Australian Postal Commission provides these services in an entirely even-handed way. [More…]
I understand that under the powers that the Opposition is happy to give the Minister, the Minister could direct the Commission to use the services of the Department of Housing and Construction if he so desired and if he believed it was necessary in the public interest to so give that direction. [More…]
That is the sort of power which the Opposition is giving the Minister. [More…]
Obviously at the beginning, the Government never intended to have that power. [More…]
As far as I know, the general rule in courts throughout all the States of Australia is that if a court, having found that an offence has been committed, exercises a power not to record that conviction it does so for very special reasons. [More…]
It does so in the interests of the person concerned under very special powers. [More…]
However, not content with getting all the powers of a commercial agency and unlimited power to charge the public, with the approval of the Minister, without direct control by this Parliament, the Government now wishes to take an exemption which belonged only to the Bourbons or the royalty at the time before liability was imposed upon the Crown for wrongdoing, a time long since past- 80 or 90 years- in Australia. [More…]
I notice that there is a power to make by-laws, not inconsistent with the Bill, in respect of a number of things, including the registration and insurance of postal articles. [More…]
When we examine the by-law making power it seems that no obligation can be assumed because it would be inconsistent with this Act. [More…]
I preface my question to the Minister representing the Minister for Social Security by saying that no doubt the Minister is aware that many people who receive an increase in State superannuation benefits, for example, are forced to surrender their pensioner medical service entitlement cards, they lose telephone rental concessions and in Tasmania they lose power and transport concessions. [More…]
-The problem of the power, gas and transport concessions in Tasmania is a matter for the Tasmanian Government . [More…]
The presentation of Estimates of expenditure to the Parliament in time to enable it to complete its consideration of them before the beginning of the financial year would preserve the authority of the Parliament, vindicate the power of the Executive, and resolve many administrative problems. [More…]
If this principle is regarded as unimportant, the Executive may tend to regard its power to enter into commitments as unfettered, and the position of the Parliament will have become still further subordinate to the Executive. [More…]
The Opposition is saying that it wants some restriction to ensure that the Government at least reduces its power to advance. [More…]
I should have thought that to permit the Treasurer to continue carrying out the duties that he has under the various Acts of Parliament he could well be given an unrestricted power to appropriate with the knowledge that he must come to the Parliament and obtain approval, and with the knowledge that the Advance must pass the scrutiny of the Auditor-General and the scrutiny of the Public Accounts Committee. [More…]
He will know that at the time the Regulations and Ordinances Committee was constituted a lot of money was being spent by governments without authorisation or power to spend it. [More…]
We are giving power to the Treasurer to advance a certain amount of money to various causes which will be approved by Parliament before he must ask for more. [More…]
Yet the Chairman of the Public Accounts Committee was supported by a Minister of the Crown, Senator Cavanagh, who said that during the next 5 months the Treasurer ought to be given unrestricted power to expend what he will. [More…]
Of course, the theory of the Westminster system is that the control which Parliament exercises over this type of expenditure and conduct is that Parliament refuses to give the money to the Government to enable it to carry on its business, but where a Parliament does that- and in this case the Senate has the power- that action is tantamount to inviting the Government to have an election. [More…]
It relates to power of the Telecommunications Commission to enter upon land. [More…]
The clause gives the Commission power to enter upon land and to cut down any tree, undergrowth or vegetation growing on the land which might be interfering with the operation of any telecommunications installation. [More…]
Although the Commission has to give certain notice it may exercise its powers according to its determination. [More…]
In our view the most convenient way of overcoming this problem to ensure that absolute power of this kind is not held by the Commission is to remove the words ‘in the opinion of the Commission’. [More…]
It is designed to take away the absolute unchallengeable power which clause 17 gives to the Commission to go onto land and to cut down and remove trees, undergrowth and so on. [More…]
They ought to have some right somewhere to be able to challenge the power of a Commission like this which will be coming onto their land and simply saying that in its opinion certain things are obstructing an installation and they have to be cut down. [More…]
Probably there is going to be no doubt about this whatsoever, but in those cases where there is doubt, where there is some argument about the necessity of removing a tree, there should be some residual power left in the courts to determine whether that action is justified or not. [More…]
In this case I think the Commission ought to be allowed strong power. [More…]
Sub-clause (2) of clause 94 gives a number of exemptions from this general power of the Commission. [More…]
I can see that the purpose of the provision in the Bill is to ensure that the power given to railway authorities does not mean that they are given some general power to put telecommunication installations wherever they like. [More…]
There is a general power in clause 13 which enables the Commission to license anyone to erect telecommunications installations. [More…]
It would not give railway authorities any power to engage in any other form of telecommunications service. [More…]
I understand the Minister’s concern about the matter and that he does not want this power to get out of hand. [More…]
What was the number employed and the number in each Division at the time the present Government came to power. [More…]
The Commission has power to do any act or thing that it is authorised to do in pursuance of any law made under the provisions of the Constitution relating to trade and commerce, including but not limited to, a law with respect to the engaging in, or the use of, aircraft, vessels, vehicles or pipelines in, inter-State transport without the licence or consent of the Commission. [More…]
It is not merely an investigatory body with power to recommend change to government- it is an enforcement body, with the only proviso being the right of appeal to the High Court of Australia. [More…]
Its powers are immense. [More…]
This is an immense power to give a body which is not subject to parliamentary scrutiny. [More…]
Whenever the Government attempts, through gagging and guillotining, to force legislation through the House of Representatives, whenever it refuses to allow reasonable debate on major measures, we will do everything in our power to prevent such abuses in the Senate. [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 inter-state 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…]
To express our concern we refer to clause 16, which is the one where there is power for the Commission to make orders. [More…]
It is an unmistakeable intention, we believe, to give the Commission powers to make orders that have the force of law and, therefore, which could override both Federal and State laws and any contracts which would relate to such legislation. [More…]
It is not one that has the powers in this Bill which could be imposed by the proposed Inter-State Commission. [More…]
I consider that these matters are consistent with our approach where we say we ought to have time to find expression from the Government about its intention, what powers the Commission will use, and how it may best be developed as an Inter-State Commission which could be used for the purposes which we all accept as being valid ones- to improve the transport systems throughout Australia. [More…]
It is true to say that in the establishment of a body of this kind there could be an abuse of power. [More…]
Part III of the legislation, which deals with the regulation of, and powers of the Commission in relation to, trade and commerce, gives powers to the Commission and describes those powers. [More…]
If honourable senators can recall the provisions of the National Investment Fund Bill when it came before the Parliament they will know that the Bill contained the power to confiscate up to 30 per cent, if necessary, of the funds of the insurance industry. [More…]
I would hope that it would not be a Bill that gives so much centralised power and control to the Government but one which is acceptable to the States and generally to the people of Australia, particularly those engaged in the free enterprise system. [More…]
Those who know anything about the formulators of the Constitution will appreciate that the State governments which enjoyed the sovereign powers then surrendered only those powers to the Commonwealth which were necessary for the effective functioning of the Commonwealth. [More…]
He said that it was necessary to clothe the Commission with sufficient power to deal with railway rates, discrimination, rebates and all other forms of unfair treatment, as has been done in the United States of America where they have established a United States Commerce Commission. [More…]
I have never ceased from that day to this to urge, and urge again, that in the Inter-State Commission we have a source of power, or, perhaps, to be more correct, a searchlight, by whose help we can exercise Commonwealth powers with far greater certainty of success than by any other mode open to us … [More…]
Of course the power in this Bill is wide; but it is a power to assimilate, a power to accumulate, a power to investigate the problems involved in transport in this country. [More…]
The Inter-State Commission has not the power to legislate. [More…]
It has the power to make decisions as they relate to the discriminations and differences that exist within our State transport systems. [More…]
So, in our Constitution section 102 provided that there shall be an Inter-State Commission with such powers of adjudication and administration as the Parliament deems necessary for the execution and maintenance of the constitutional provisions and laws of trade and commerce. [More…]
Reference was made to section 5 1 of the Constitution, which invested in the National Parliament a power to legislate for trade and commerce with other countries and among the States. [More…]
Section 98 provided that that power as to trade and commerce should extend to navigation and shipping and to railways the property of any State. [More…]
Then, instead of shipping services around the coast being held up by unforgivable interruptions, we will nave an improvement due to the adoption by the Parliament of a Bill with proper powers establishing the Inter-State Commission. [More…]
It was to be clothed by that Bill with power to regulate the terms and conditions of employment in each [More…]
I welcome the provision giving the Commission the power to arbitrate if both parties agree to accept arbitration. [More…]
For my part, the Inter-State Commission, having been conceived as the body to be the eyes and ears of the Government obviously should have proper powers of investigation. [More…]
The Commission has power to do any act or thing that it is authorised to do in pursuance of any law made under the provisions of the Constitution relating to trade and commerce. [More…]
It seems to me that anyone who asserts that they are a constitutional exercise of power pursuant to section 10 1 of the Constitution or pursuant to any other head of power is simply using the vehicle of this Inter-State Commission to pursue a campaign against unions for party political propaganda purposes. [More…]
I suggest that those precedents do not throw any light on what ought to be the powers of this Commission in 1 975 and for the rest of this century and beyond. [More…]
We ought to realise that in Australia we suffer from the grave disability that the central government, the Federal government- call it what you like- has completely inadequate economic powers, so much so that in December of 1973 it went to the people to obtain a constitutional change to give it power with respect to incomes and prices. [More…]
The Opposition which now berates the Government for the quantum of power which is conferred by this Bill was in office for 14 years after the 1957 Joint Parliamentary Committee issued a report in which it recommended the re-establishment of the InterState Commission. [More…]
On no basis of power did the Opposition, when in government during that period of thirteen to fourteen years, move in any way to re-establish the body which it now says ought to be an integral part of the national economy of Australia, provided the powers are right. [More…]
The Commission has power to do any act or thing that it is authorised to do in pursuance of any law made under the provisions of the Constitution relating to trade and commerce . [More…]
The clause does not give the Commission any more power. [More…]
So far as I am concerned, if the Parliament crosses out clause 17 there is no harm done to the structure of the Commission or to its powers. [More…]
The clause gives no further power than the Commission already has. [More…]
When there are given powers that go far beyond transport, of course, we ought to assume that in the course of time the Commission will be operating in a wider field than transport. [More…]
Surely it is simply a question of what the Commission’s powers ought to be. [More…]
We should not be pettifogging in our arguments as to the extent of power which ought to be conferred on the Commission. [More…]
The very interesting argument which he brought before the Senate concerned the grave disability of the Federal Government through it having inadequate economic power. [More…]
I thought the Government was trying to get a power and was intending to use that power only in regard to transport. [More…]
Are we to understand from his reference that this is to be a means of achieving further economic power desired by the Government? [More…]
Is this another way to increase the Government’s powers? [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…]
But obviously there are different views and there may be a gradation of views which we will need to consider at length before we come to a final decision as to what shall be the powers of the Commission. [More…]
I say that the State governments certainly have an interest and a right to be heard in relation to the powers that would be ascribed to this body. [More…]
We also have to consider the extent of the powers and how they would affect bodies such as Trade Practices Commission, the Prices Justification Tribunal and other bodies which the Commonwealth Government has seen fit to set up, and to determine to what extent they should be overridden in any fields of power. [More…]
The first of these is the way in which the Commission’s power can be boosted merely by the use of delegated or subordinate legislation which is not, and cannot effectively, be subjected to the accepted approach of Parliamentary scrutiny. [More…]
If it is decided that an Inter-State Commission be established, it should be given only the power to investigate and make recommendations on matters pertaining to Australian trade and commerce but requiring, however, that any action to implement those recommendations must be effectuated in, and by, the Australian Parliament. [More…]
It has been said that a power of arbitration which is given in the Bill and which is subject to the consent of the parties may be a highly desirable power. [More…]
I do not say for one moment that at this stage I feel that we are in a position to delineate those powers. [More…]
Senator Everett, myself and others have had a good deal of opportunity in the year we have been in this place to see investigation by committees of this Parliament of powers contained in clauses which are hardly appreciated in the course of discussion in the Parliament. [More…]
The power of the Parliament to make laws with respect to trade and commerce extends to navigation and shipping, and to railways the property of any State. [More…]
That provides a wide power to take over the lot. [More…]
The Commission has power to do any act or thing that it is authorised to do in pursuance of any law made under the provisions of the Constitution relating to trade and commerce . [More…]
There is the power to authorise, yet there is concern about anything that is authorised. [More…]
They are the powers of the Commission and the Constitution gives wide powers. [More…]
The powers embraced in this Bill are the powers in the Constitution as set out in the particular section of the Constitution which says that this proposition is to be implemented. [More…]
It has been known that if Labor came to power this would be one of the things that it would put into operation. [More…]
While truck operators could cart more economically if longer vehicles were permitted, the danger that these vehicles would cause to vehicles overtaking them was such that some States could not entertain increasing the length of vehicles, although the power of the engines and the strength of the axles were sufficient to enable this to be done. [More…]
Of course clause 14, about which Senator Guilfoyle was much concerned, relates only to the Commission’s investigatory powers. [More…]
The Committee believes that the need for some rationalisation of the fuel and power resources in Australia is of more immediate importance than is the regulation of interstate trade in oil and gas. [More…]
We were told by the Minister when he introduced this legislation that it was the Government’s intention at this time for the Inter-State Commission to operate under the constitutional provisions by which it was empowered to be constituted, only in the field of transport. [More…]
I refer specifically to one clause of the Bill to disclose the monster that is being created by this Government without one word of explanation to the people of Australia as to why this power is needed. [More…]
What are the authorities or tribunals made under laws which the trade and commerce power justifies? [More…]
I suppose, if you wanted to be pedantic, you would say these are only those which the Parliament expressly says are made under the trade and commerce power. [More…]
It has said that the Commonwealth can justify, as a law made within its powers, any law which can be sustained under any head of the Constitution. [More…]
The Trade Practices Commission is a body purportedly established under the corporation’s power, but it is also said by the Act itself to be established under the trade and commerce power. [More…]
The Conciliation and Arbitration Commission is established under the section of the Constitution that gives the Commonwealth the power to deal with the settlement of interstate disputes; but if in a particular area that authority does something that can be justified under the trade and commerce power the High Court would regard it as a body established under that power. [More…]
The Prices Justification Tribunal is a body established under that power, as are the Australian Coastal Shipping Commission, the Industries Assistance Commission, the Australian National Airlines Commission, and the other bodies recently established in regard to railways. [More…]
If such regulations are made the effect is that the Inter-State Commission will be able to exercise all the powers of those bodies which are conferred upon it by the regulations. [More…]
It will be able to exercise the powers conferred on the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission to the extent that it has trade and commerce powers. [More…]
It will be able to exercise the powers conferred on the Prices Justification Tribunal, the Trade Practices Commission, the Australian National Airlines Commission or any of those other bodies. [More…]
To the extent that the Commission is given those powers by regulation the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission, the Trade Practices Commission, the Prices Justification Tribunal and all those other bodies are denied the opportunity or the right to exercise those powers. [More…]
An immense power is being given to this Commission, and I wonder whether those background supporters of the Australian Labor Party are aware of that, and whether they would welcome the blithe and bland support being given by their parliamentary representatives to a body which could override the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission or the Prices Justification Tribunal. [More…]
I wonder how Labor parliamentarians would explain to their supporters what might happen if that dreaded event, the Opposition getting into power, did happen. [More…]
I think it is absolutely ridiculous for this Parliament to accept that this power should exist in the hands of an Inter-State Commission without vastly more consideration than has been able to be given to it and with absolutely no public examination, as I see it, of the impact of those powers. [More…]
Furthermore, if one looks at the last limb of this provision, one sees that the powers which were previously exercised by the tribunal or authority can be modified by regulation. [More…]
In short, it does not matter what the Parliament has said should be the powers of the Industries Assistance Commission, under this legislation regulations can transfer the powers of that Commission to the Inter-State Commission and, furthermore, can modify, in effect, the powers of the Act. [More…]
I have mentioned that, because one question ought to be asked large and loud: Why has not the Government told the Parliament and the people in the second reading speech or in some Minister’s utterance why that power has been included? [More…]
For example, if one examines clause 10 one finds that the Parliament is arrogating to itself a power to declare unlawful, in respect of or so as to affect overseas transport or interstate transport or in relation to overseas transport or interstate transport, any preference or advantage, discrimination or disadvantage which the Commissioner adjudges to be undue and unreasonable. [More…]
That is an immense power. [More…]
I question how valid that clause would be, because the Inter-State Commission is empowered with processes of adjudication and enforcement with respect to the trade and commerce laws within the Commonwealth. [More…]
One ought to examine also the extent to which it is proper that the Parliament should have the power to override the provisions of a State Parliament. [More…]
Because of the requirement that trade, commerce and intercourse among the several States should be absolutely free, the High Court, in the exercise of the power which was conferred upon it, declared to be unlawful those legislative and administrative acts which it regarded as contrary to that guarantee of freedom. [More…]
I was interested in the criticism of Senator Wright’s statement about union matters and his desire to move amendments which would bring within the orbit of the investigations and the powers of the Commission actions of the unions in relation to transport matters in Australia. [More…]
The very mention of the most uncontrolled of all the power groups in Australia, the unions, and their great stranglehold on the transport links in Australia brings a rejection- we should not mention this; they should not be brought into it. [More…]
It has simply said, through its senior spokesmen, that it requires all the major powers which are outlined in this Bill, for a very limited usage. [More…]
Ministers know, or they will know if they are in office long enough, they will know that their various duties will lead them to ask their advisers: ‘What power do I have under my legislation? [More…]
We would see the extremes of the power applied for whatever purpose the administration of the day saw fit. [More…]
The answer is of course that under the Broadcasting and Television Act there is power to grant licences for commercial stations. [More…]
Under the Wireless Telegraphy Act, which is at present controlled by me, I have power to issue a licence which would include all systems of transmitting and receiving telegraphic and telephonic messages where there is no continuous connection, and so on. [More…]
The degree to which the Distribution Commissioners choose to exercise this discretionary power is left entirely to their independent judgment. [More…]
I think this is a premature presentation in the sense of political power and I think that the power structure will shift away from the Opposition in the Senate next year to a third middle group which will ensure that electoral justice is provided for all Australians. [More…]
Ever since it came to power this Government has been attempting to change the voting system in such a way that it will be able to remain in power for as long as possible. [More…]
Anyway, the Government is just hanging on to government by the skin of its teeth and it is doing everything that it can to attempt to alter the situation so that it can stay in power for another term after this present one. [More…]
I consider that all such matters are designed to keep the Labor Party in power. [More…]
On the other hand, when one looks at the Commission one may be forgiven for believing that it is supposed to be an executive body, because the Commission is to be given power to make orders for the execution and maintenance of the Constitution and all laws made thereunder relating to trade and commerce. [More…]
The Bill also gives the Commission power to issue licences with respect to the engaging in, or the use of aircraft, vessels, vehicles or pipelines in interstate transport. [More…]
The aspect of the Bill which concerns me more than anything else is the Commission’s obvious legislative powers. [More…]
Senator Greenwood has already very carefully analysed and set out the ambit of clause 13, whereby regulations may be made authorising the Commission to exercise all or any of the powers of any authority or tribunal under any law of Australia relating to trade and commerce. [More…]
That would be a clear exercise of legislative power, albeit by regulations, lt makes it even worse that it should be done only by regulation. [More…]
Another provision of the Bill which concerns me greatly, because of the ambit of the legislative power, is contained in clauses 10 and 11. [More…]
This Commission is being given complete power to decide what practices may be undue and unreasonable. [More…]
To my mind that is exercising powers which would normally be- and I would require to be- exercised by Parliament itself. [More…]
We are constantly criticising Bills that come before us on the ground that they are too vague, but in this Bill the Parliament is invited to hand over to this Commission the power to say what practices in interstate transport or overseas transport are undue and unreasonable. [More…]
The Bill gives the Commission power to determine what would be reasonable and just conditions of service in interstate transport. [More…]
In this regard, the Committee has noted the nature of the Inter-State Commission provided for in the Constitution, and believes that consideration might well be given to its re-formation with, if constitutionally possible, effective arbitral power, and in a form suitable for the resolution of these potential conflicts. [More…]
Senator Wright complains that our proposals are too drastic but the power in his motion is almost overwhelming. [More…]
The Commission cannot operate under other powers without further legislation or regulations, all of which are in the power of the Parliament to check. [More…]
Both Senator Greenwood and Senator Durack referred to clause 10 and said that they were very concerned at the extent of the powers contained in it. [More…]
The Bill may well alter the balance of power between the Commonwealth and the States. [More…]
Often quite innocuous legislation which is introduced into the Parliament has, in the ultimate, changed the balance of power and responsibility as between the Commonwealth and its constituent pans. [More…]
I enter the debate only because I interpret this agreement as being indicative of a maturity of relations between a small power and super powers. [More…]
However, when what was known as the Cold War era developed, there was a tendency to be with either the goodies or the baddies, and if people in what constituted the Western democracies- countries like Australia and Canada- had the temerity to question detail about the super powers, their loyalty could have been in doubt. [More…]
When this Government came to power there was a great conflict within the Labor Party. [More…]
Joint control- let me repeat- is not just the power to consult. [More…]
There is plenty of power to consult. [More…]
It is a power to veto- a power to say ‘No’ and that is what the Opposition wants to be said to the United States. [More…]
I also wish to refer to clause 6 (f) which states that the power of the Centre is- to arrange for the printing and publication of, and of information relating to, school curricula and school education materials. [More…]
I hope that the Commonwealth, which holds the power of the purse, will not always impose its will on the States as many people in the States fear. [More…]
My concept of State representation on the Council of the Centre is more along the line of having a diversity of skilled people who would be able to give a refreshing and perhaps somewhat localised decision-making power to the work of the Council. [More…]
The provisions in the Bill reinforce the power of the Commonwealth to direct the lines of development of technical and further education by recommending or withholding recommendations for financial support. [More…]
That the Committee report within the shortest reasonable period, not later than 30 September 1975, and that any member of the Committee have power to add a protest or dissent to any report. [More…]
The near hysterical exaggerations that Senator Greenwood and Senator Sheil manifested in references to star chambers by Senator Greenwood and by Senator Sheil the allegations that the Bill provides the Commissioner with ‘power similar to that used in the Spanish Inquisition’ should not be permitted to distract attention from the provisions which the Bill does actually contain. [More…]
It provides the Commissioner with power to subpoena witnesses for purposes of conciliation and inquiry and it provides the Commissioner also with powers to levy penalties against people who refuse to answer subpoenas. [More…]
That Commissioner then has power to summon the parties to a compulsory conference. [More…]
We leave the Commissioner with that power. [More…]
As he is a lawyer I think that if he had studied the matter he would have found that that is not the intention, nor would there be the power to do so. [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…]
It was in Victoria that I was first introduced to the problem of the redistribution of electoral boundaries where there had grown up, as there had grown up in many other Australian States, a means of entrenching parties in political power by adjustment of boundaries. [More…]
In the post-war period the matter that interested me immensely was our confrontation, in our struggle to obtain electoral power and to form a government in Victoria, with this situation: One seat, which was held by another party, had 33 000 voters and a Liberal seat in Dandenong had 75 000 voters. [More…]
This redistribution in Victoria has been carried out on the basis of entrenching in power a party which obtained the majority of seats in Victoria- 56 per cent of the seats- with 48 per cent of the vote. [More…]
The point I am making is that today with people owning power boats and surface craft we are getting a better class of resident on, say, the Parramatta River foreshores. [More…]
To analyse a redistribution we should look at not only how it alters the final fall of the seats but also at how it affects the individual borderline seats, because as the Senate and all Government members would very shrewdly know, the whole balance of power depends on who holds the marginal seats. [More…]
Protect the civil liberties of the individual in society including the implementation of civil, political and social rights wherever applicable according to international conventions adopted by Australia, in fields of Commonwealth power or where the adoption of the convention has been approved by the States. [More…]
It is for that reason that one of the proposed amendments of the Opposition is designed to divide that task, to let the Commissioner proceed with all speed and with all power to conciliation where possible and then, if that does not succeed, to allow for and to give proper legal aid to persons to enable them to proceed to enforce the rights they then have. [More…]
He pointed out that it is based on the defence power given under placitum (xxix) of section 5 1 of the Constitution, and he expressed certain reservations. [More…]
I am sorry, the external affairs power. [More…]
Senator Greenwood expressed certain reservations as to the dangers of this sort of extension of the Commonwealth power. [More…]
He expressed the fears that have been sometimes expressed by conservatives in the country about this business of using the external affairs power to adopt [More…]
If it is challenged it will provide the opportunity for which many people have been waiting when the scope of the external affairs power may be the subject of a judicial delineation. [More…]
I do not take that expression of opinion by Senator Greenwood as indicating any real reservations about the basis of this Bill or the desirability of the principles of this Bill becoming law, but it does give expression to an opinion sometimes voiced by lawyers that the foreign affairs power, especially in relation to treaties and conventions, could be abused. [More…]
We do not really have to fear that some subterfuge would be used by any government to enlarge the powers of the Federal Parliament in the way in which he suggests. [More…]
I am sure that Senator Greenwood would agree with me that we do not have anything to fear in regard to the impartiality of the High Court in deciding the limitations of the foreign affairs power in this regard. [More…]
One of the conditions of defence service home loan eligibility is that the applicant has served in a theatre of war, although I think there has been some extension of eligibility since this Government has come to power. [More…]
The Commission’s powers are set out in clause 6. [More…]
Apart from the general power to undertake the functions specified in clause 5, the Commission is given power to enter into agreements in its own name and to undertake procurement on its own behalf. [More…]
It is proposed that the Commission should also have power to collect relevant statistical and other information, to undertake or arrange research into aspects of procurement and, in consultation with the Public Service Board and educational institutions, to promote the training of government officers in procurement matters. [More…]
There are other authorities which one could draw to one’s side, such as Edmund Barton who points out to us that this is a chamber with perhaps the greatest potential power in the democratic system in the world. [More…]
Such power, of course, should be used with the greatest restraint and the greatest care. [More…]
In the second reading speech it is indicated that some departments are excluded from the power of this Commission and some are included. [More…]
Again this raises the problem of the balance intended under this legislation between the States- which have done a great deal, some more than others, in developing both standards and support for the provision of child care- and the Commonwealth bureaucracy which will be created and which on the face of it will have the power to bypass those State organisations. [More…]
A co-ordinated program was to be developed between the 2 governments, as is envisaged by section 96 of the Constitution, which gives power to the Commonwealth to make grants to the States on such terms and conditions as the Federal Parliament thinks fit. [More…]
The Bill should be more concisely drawn in relation to the way in which it will operate in order to ensure that the Commission operates only within the Commonwealth’s constitutional powers. [More…]
I believe it important that this sort of authority should have within its power a real measure of diversity in training and instruction, lt is perhaps a shame that it is not open to a greater number of people, a greater area of people, who desire to understand more fully the intricacies of union organisation, of union development, of union aims. [More…]
-The principles of trade unionism are to enable the employees of the country to organise and gain power from unity for the purposes for which they subsist in our society. [More…]
Other historians have regretted that one of the things that was not earlier accorded to trade unions was the power and authority of incorporation. [More…]
I take up another English authority who wrote an article under the heading ‘Parliament’s declining power’. [More…]
The most obvious shift in the focus of power has been towards the trade unions. [More…]
Anybody who does not bear that in mind has not the slightest realisation of the significance of the tremendous development that is taking place in the political direction of trade union power. [More…]
I do not go on to contemplate that in Australia it will be revelant for us in our time or the next generation to contemplate that trade unions will give way to communism, that is to say, a usurpation of parliamentary power by violence and arbitrary communism; but when we are establishing trade union training all these fields of thought associated with the proposed Authority’s function must be taken into account. [More…]
Having referred to England may I make a brief reference to an authority from the United States of America, Dr Schmidt, who in his recent book entitled ‘Union Power’ referred to the enormous power of trade unions. [More…]
It may be that there are some in the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union at present who use the powers that are conferred upon trade unions by our beneficent laws to get the power of the work force that they represent behind them in order to prosecute the class war even to the extent of overthrowing the present system. [More…]
Nobody in a major industrywhether it be the power industry, the engineering industry or any other industry- will last very long as a shop steward if he is not honest in his dealings. [More…]
It seems to me that we are in many ways approaching this matter with a very starry-eyed view which is not taking into account the realities of power which travel with the trade union movement. [More…]
The trade union movement is the most powerful entity in the community. [More…]
It is far more powerful than governments and it can dictate government policy at will. [More…]
The union view prevails and the Government is utterly powerless to intervene or to act in any way to have done what the Australian community wants done in relation to this very important economic matter. [More…]
So, without question, we are talking about the somewhat ludicrous position of educating the most powerful group in the community. [More…]
They have not only rejected the idea of a progressive abdication, and the shift of their social and economic function to the political process, but they have flatly declined to allow the smallest diminution of their power to press the sectional interests they represent. [More…]
Indeed they have steadily, ruthlessly and indiscriminately sought to increase that power. [More…]
So in looking at the objectives of the trade unions, we can say without fear of contradiction that they are power objectives. [More…]
Trade unions are about power as political parties are about power. [More…]
Unless the Authority is allied to the application of democratic principles in the operations of unions it will be futile and it wil simply educate people in how to use or misuse power more effectively than it is used or misused now. [More…]
Anyone who criticises the most powerful group for the most blatant misuse of power in this community is called a union basher. [More…]
Senator Steele Hall made some reference to an overseas article that indicated some concern about the over-power of unions. [More…]
He should have qualified his remarks by saying that there is an over-power of certain unions. [More…]
There is in the hands of perhaps one or two unions in this country an ability excessively to use certain powers. [More…]
It is a union that misuses its power. [More…]
-Irrespective of the Government in power. [More…]
Senator Hall earlier instanced the fact that our trade in wheat with Chile, amounting to $40m, has been brought to a termination because of trade union power. [More…]
One might look at what is happening in New South Wales where the power of the Teachers Federation is being used in an attempt to overthrow the authority of the State Government, the teachers tribunals and the Department of Education in that State. [More…]
There is a host of other activities which, if they are not current at the moment are about to be engaged in, represent the power of trade union leaders. [More…]
I have mentioned these things simply because they indicate that in the areas in which the trade union officials operate they have been pretty successful in establishing the unions as a rival to the power of legitimate government. [More…]
The vast majority of the people of Australia recognise the real problem in reconciling the power of the trade union movement when it is exercised for political ends, or even exercised for industrial ends which run counter to what is the interest of the community at large, with the power of the Government, the political complexion of which everybody in the country has an opportunity of determining. [More…]
Very few in the community today challenge the right of trade unions to exercise some power, but there is considerable debate about how trade union power should be exercised and in what direction it should be channelled. [More…]
One suggests that trade unions should be involved in a power-sharing arrangement with employers. [More…]
The other view, to which I subscribe, is that trade union power should be directed towards challenging the very basis of the present system and replacing the power of employers, particularly the national and multi-national monopoly corporations, with the power of workers and of the people. [More…]
I do want to indicate clearly that the aim of the trade union movement to acquire political and economic power remains now, as it did at the beginning, the principal objective of trade unionism. [More…]
They have not, however, become more generous or changed their aim of keeping political and economic power in order to use it in their own interests. [More…]
To deny that fact is to abandon the aim of seeking to win political and economic power, which is the only way which the working class will end exploitation and reform society to achieve an equitable redistribution of wealth and social justice. [More…]
Worker participation is also based on the notion of power sharing which stimulates some sections of the trade union movement. [More…]
There will, at least in the foreseeable future, always be political and industrial wings of the Labor Movement, but more and more trade unions will take back for themselves some of the power which at the turn of the century they transferred to the political wing. [More…]
The extent to which these new developments make an impact on trade unions and the extent to which trade unions become involved in these new areas of wider interest, is very much dependent upon the attitude, mainly within the trade unions, towards the question of trade union power. [More…]
Very few in the community today challenge the right of trade unions to exercise some power, but there is considerable debate about how trade union power should be exercised and in what direction it should be channelled. [More…]
One suggests that trade unions should be involved in a power-sharing arrangement with employers. [More…]
The other view, to which I subscribe, is that trade union power should be directed towards challenging the very basis of the present system and replacing the power of employers, particularly the national and multi-national monopoly corporations, with the power of workers and of the people. [More…]
As everyone knows, since the Government has been in power we have introduced amendments to the Conciliation and Arbitration Act which have provided for that democratic control. [More…]
( 1 ) A council may, either generally or otherwise as provided by a resolution of the council, delegate to a member of the council or to an officer of the Authority any of its powers under this Act, other than this power of delegation. [More…]
A power so delegated by a council, when exercised by the delegate, shall, for the purposes of this Act, be deemed to have been exercised by the council. [More…]
a delegation by a council under this section does not prevent the exercise of a power by the council. [More…]
It simply means that if the power of delegation was not there a council would have to act all the time as a full council. [More…]
In sub-clause (3), leave out ‘or members of the Council or to make regulations under this Act’, substitute ‘or to make regulations under this Act and the power of the AttorneyGeneral to appoint members of the Council ‘. [More…]
The first difficulty which comes to mind is that, on a reading of the Australian Constitution, the power to make laws about racial discrimination seems to rest with the States. [More…]
There is certainly no express power in the Commonwealth Parliament to make laws with respect to the outlawing of racial discrimination. [More…]
If there is such a power, as was adverted to in the course of the second reading debate, it must be on a generous interpretation of the Commonwealth Parliament’s power to make laws with respect to external affairs. [More…]
It has the power to deal with matters of complaint- the sort of matters about which Senator Greenwood was talking- after it has been ascertained that all available domestic remedies have been invoked and exhausted. [More…]
That means that the constitutional limitations, the general juristic limitations, on our power to deal with racial discrimination in this country will be considered by that Committee in considering as a result of complaints whether we have complied with the terms of the Convention. [More…]
Senator Greenwood was wondering whether this ratification would stand up under the external affairs power of the Commonwealth. [More…]
Is not such action contrary to the Trade Practices Act which gives no power to seize documents and gives no authority whatsoever to the police? [More…]
The Commissioner has very wide powers under this Bill. [More…]
The Opposition believes that those powers do not sit easily with the rule of law. [More…]
They are powers that can be greatly abused by threatening or qualifying a person’s rights at law. [More…]
The Commissioner is given a statutory power to settle matters out of court with the option of then proceeding with court action if the defendant does not settle, in effect, on the terms that the Commissioner feels are appropriate. [More…]
It is therefore all the more important that the powers that are given to the Commissioner are powers that do sit easily with people’s rights at law. [More…]
It is etirely appropriate that there should not powers that could be used in a way that mig amount to satisfying a private vengeance. [More…]
For the purposes of this inquiry the Commissioner has a number of coercive powers. [More…]
He has the power, for example, to compel the parties to come before him, so that at the compulsory conference the settlement may be endeavoured to be worked out. [More…]
That is a power of enormous import- the power to compel people to present themselves and answer questions- and in that environment the Commissioner may endeavour to reach a settlement. [More…]
It is the one coercive power that the Opposition in its scheme of amendments proposes to allow to the Commissioner because we think it is desirable that if the processes of conciliation can be engaged in there is the hope that out of that discussion an amicable resolution can be arrived at without recourse to court proceedings. [More…]
But we do not believe there should be any compulsory power to require people to answer questions and produce documents, and there should not be any threat or intimidation implicit in a Commissioner’s power, if there is no settlement of the matter, for him to be able to sa y: ‘All right, I am going to take you to court’. [More…]
That to us is one of the very real problems that these powers of the Commissioner involve. [More…]
It is power that can be used to summon anybody who the Commissioner thinks may be able to help. [More…]
We seek to eliminate from clause 20 the paragraph that gives to the Commissioner the power to institute a proceeding in a court in accordance with subsection 25 ( 1 ) in relation to a matter. [More…]
To put it shortly, we seek to remove the provision because we do not believe the Commissioner ought to have that power. [More…]
That sort of power of intimidation in an atmosphere of compulsion which attends the exercise of the Commissioner’s powers is we believe a denial of right. [More…]
In this area of racial discrimination, where we are making a start in this country with regard to a comprehensive law of this character, we believe it is tremendously important to tread carefully and not in an over-zealous pursuit of enforcement powers to create the possibility of a backlash that would do more harm in the long run than good. [More…]
After all, comparable legislation in other countries confers a similar power. [More…]
The Race Relations Board in Great Britain has the power to institute litigation in the way we are suggesting. [More…]
The counterpart of that Board, that is the Commissioner for Race Relations, should have similar power. [More…]
This is the only reason why we want the Commissioner to have that power. [More…]
There will be many cases which should be litigated and which will not be litigated if the power is not given to somebody of the prestige of the Commissioner to launch proceedings which otherwise would not be brought. [More…]
That is a power which is given to company inspectors. [More…]
In court cases the power of a party to summon a witness before the court requires that witness to answer the questions which the court thinks are proper in that litigation. [More…]
To what extent should legislation empower commissioners, Ministers and officials to summon before them for the purpose of producing documents, giving information or answering questions, individuals whom that particular bureaucrat or official would like to have before him? [More…]
For example, it has been generally accepted that in the Income Tax Assessment Act in respect of the protection of the revenue, to ensure that everyone fairly pays what he has to pay, this power is vested in the Income Tax Commissioner but I wonder whether it has any justification in areas beyond that. [More…]
I do not say fundamentally that it has none, but I think we should be tremendously careful before we put these powers into legislation. [More…]
This Senate removed similar powers from a Bill called the Law Reform Commission Bill because it did not seem to be appropriate legislation in which these powers should appear. [More…]
The Minister will recall that I asked him a question this morning about how powers of this character had been exercised under the Trade Practices Act. [More…]
He indicated that he would ascertain from the Attorney-General (Mr Enderby) the precise circumstances in which those powers were exercised. [More…]
Should these powers be exercised under this legislation? [More…]
It should never be forgotten that coercive powers of this character are given to a Commissioner when the powers possessed by the police forces of this country in the investigation of serious crime are not as extensive. [More…]
No police officer is entitled to require a person to answer questions or to produce documents, and when that situation prevails it is generally accepted that there is added justification for being cautious in giving wide powers to statutory officers or to members of the bureaucracy. [More…]
I acknowledge that in this Bill the concept of a prescribed authority being the person before whom one is to appear, is a variation from the general power which appears in so many other pieces of legislation containing provisions of this character which the Government has introduced. [More…]
He has no power to grant legal representation to the person attending and he cannot prevent the answers being used as evidence against other persons. [More…]
Therefore, the power is extremely wide. [More…]
However, the lesson he should draw from that is that it is the absence of just such a power as this in the British legislation which tends to fetter its power and to make it so ineffective. [More…]
This power exists in other legislation of this kind. [More…]
For example, it exists in Canadian legislation and in New Zealand legislation and it has often been said that the real failure of the British Board- I am not suggesting that it is a complete failure but refer only to whatever limitations on success of the British authority exist- is primarily due to the absence of this power to compel people to give evidence or produce documents. [More…]
I am at a loss to understand that there is something altogether novel about this clause- that it is something unknown to our law- which derogates from human rights when, as we have seen, the legislature on so many occasions has judged that there be compulsory evidence gathering powers conferred on various authorities and tribunals. [More…]
I sound this warning that I am very much afraid that this Bill will not have the effect which the Government seeks if this power for compulsory evidence gathering with all of the safeguards that are built around it is deleted from the Bill. [More…]
It is the character of quality of every bureaucrat that he wants more power and that is why it has crept into the statutes of this country in past years. [More…]
I have no doubt that in the future there will be more of this constant cry by administrators for more power. [More…]
His recollection of the practices of the Star Chamber bring to mind that the real offence of the Star Chamber in Stuart England was the fact that the King and those who served the King had the power to haul people before the commissioners, who could exact from anyone who was summoned before them answers that were wanted. [More…]
It gives expression to our idea that the Commissioner shall have the power to summon and preside over a conference at which he endeavours to resolve differences which have arisen. [More…]
I interpolate simply to indicate that the general power to award damages is comprehended in sub-clause ( 1 ) of this clause- in respect of loss suffered by, loss of dignity by, humiliation to, or injury to the feeling of, a person aggrieved by the relevant act- [More…]
The necessity for the deletion of this clause in this area is because, by the removal of the power of the Commissioner to sue, any reference to how damages are to be paid- albeit that particular types of damages are specified- becomes irrelevant. [More…]
I recall that the power to grant legal aid in particular cases is contained in the Conciliation and Arbitration Act. [More…]
It was inserted into that Act some years ago in order to facilitate the utilisation of the powers of the Conciliation and Arbitration Act and to ensure the enforcement of union rules. [More…]
There is power under the Ordinance to authorise a person to enter and remain on a reserve or to declare or order that the right of a person to enter or remain on a reserve or a part of a reserve is or shall be suspended and includes a power to revoke the authorisation, declaration or order. [More…]
By accepting this amendment we have left in the hands of the councils the power to exclude. [More…]
I can assure the Committee that I would have continued to oppose them today if the Minister had not moved his amendment which gives back to the Aboriginal communities the power to exclude persons from entering communities. [More…]
Senator Georges expressed some concern- perhaps rightly so- that the councillors would now have the power to keep people off the communities and not allow them to return. [More…]
If he can tell me that a minority vote of 19 per cent can put a majority party into power, he can hardly say that this is an exercise in the expression of the democratic will of the people. [More…]
We can be accused of doing nothing about it since we came into power because we have a different policy and have not put our policy into operation. [More…]
I am grateful that by decision of the Senate this afternoon that power will be taken away from the Queensland Department. [More…]
Therefore, more power is being given to public servants, commissions, government offices, government authorities and statutory authorities. [More…]
They also place into the hands of competent and responsible public servants a great deal of authority, power and influence. [More…]
Because I believe this Bureau of Statistics to be important and because I believe when it is established that it will be an instrumentality of considerable power, influence and persuasion, I am equally persuaded that every new proposal that it desires to undertake should first be cleared by Parliament It should first be discussed by the Parliament and its implementation should be decided by the Parliament so that at all times there is a close relationship with that which the Government of the day requires in terms of statistical detail and information and which the people of the nation are prepared to give. [More…]
Individuals are entitled to feel that they are free of the control and manipulation of the power of the mass corporations which might either employ them or supply them with finance and in return seek to exact a control over mind and body which is offensive and from which people would like to free themselves. [More…]
As Senator Greenwood just said, this Bill will confer upon the Bureau of Statistics an enormous amout of influence and power. [More…]
Senator McLaren can invite his Government to use the instrument of price control that it has under the corporation power of the Constitution. [More…]
His Government knows it has the power to control prices and wages in all corporations. [More…]
If he wants now to impose price control- he invited me to answer his question- let him say that he stands for the use of the corporation power to control prices and wages. [More…]
Let him go and tell the trade unions of Australia that he will invoke that power which is there at this moment. [More…]
The Attorney-General (Mr Enderby) has on his table the opinion of his own SolicitorGeneral that the corporation power gives the [More…]
Let the Government invoke that power if it wishes. [More…]
When this Government came to power there were 93 000 applicants for housing commission homes in the States. [More…]
When this Government came to power in 1 972 we found that those who could afford to save and those who could afford to invest in the industry were getting benefits under the homes savings grant scheme. [More…]
Each of its annual recommendations has been accepted by the Government in power, regardless of its political persuasion. [More…]
In the strict sense, the Commission does not exercise Federal judicial power as that term is used in the Constitution, but neither does the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission, the Prices Justification Tribunal, or the Flight Crew Officers’ Tribunal. [More…]
The AGIC will have power to enter into agency agreements, whether as principal or agent, and to conduct business outside of Australia. [More…]
The power of the Government to achieve its legislative purposes within the necessary compass of time can hardly be better illustrated than by the Prices and Incomes Bill 1966 and 1967. [More…]
The Minister speaks quite openly about this matter but does not openly say that it is the Government’s intention to add to its power to direct the investment funds which are at present accumulated privately in this country. [More…]
If it is, I compliment him; but the fact is that we are referring to and considering legislation which will confer power which can be used by a Minister other than the present one and by a government other than the present one. [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: acquisition- acquisition with the consent of a State- of any railways of the State on terms arranged between the Commonwealth and the State. [More…]
There is no power given to the Federal police and there is no power given to seize documents. [More…]
At the time when the Trade Practices Act was legislated in this chamber the Opposition, of course, drew attention to the width of the powers contained in that section and expressed concern as to how they might be used. [More…]
In the circumstances I think it is only proper and prudent that whenever a case is publicised of the powers of that section being used and, on the reports which are evident, the powers being abused, there should be as speedy a revelation of the actual circumstances as it is within the Minister’s competence to provide. [More…]
The Labor Party will help finance a return to socialist power in Chile. [More…]
They involve more than simply niceties of diplomatic conduct, because we have seen a pattern developed by this Government since it has been in power in which it has promoted and assisted the cause of those who by terrorist and other methods seek to overthrow the established governments in these countries. [More…]
What is a matter of current concern is the fact that the Government in Chile, albeit a government which has come into power by overthrowing the constitutionally elected government, has been recognised by the Australian Government as the valid Government of Chile. [More…]
The Christian Democrats, as I think Senator Gietzelt well knows, were people who initially supported President Allende into power and they were the people who, when they learned of the excesses in which President Allende was engaging, revised the initial views they held. [More…]
I find it curious that people who argue for the virtues of the parliamentary system justify the seizure of armed power in Chile, a country which has a long democratic tradition. [More…]
That does not mean, however, that we condone their seizure of power, nor does it mean that we will not be related to those elements that seek to have a constitutional rearrangement in Chile in order that that country can proceed along the path of emancipation for its people. [More…]
It is no accident that, similarly, the Catholic Bishops of Chile have condemned the terrorism and the violence of the present military group existing in that country and exercising political power. [More…]
Let Senator Greenwood make no bones about it: Those who are at the moment exercising military and political power in Chile will not be holding political, economic and military power much longer. [More…]
Is it wrong for the President who holds the political and constitutional power to have arms within the Presidential Palace when it was common knowledge within the country that there were members of the armed forces who were seeking to overthrow the constitutional government? [More…]
We still have an Embassy operating in Chile today- as much as we may regret the way in which the Government in Chile came to power. [More…]
We may regret the way in which many governments have come to power. [More…]
As much as we regret the Chilean situation, the way in which governments in other countries have come to power, and the fact that some sections of the people in those countries have been brought under the power of those governments, nevertheless we believe that the best thing for Australia to do is to recognise those governments. [More…]
Senator Greenwood knows full well that the answer to the great power blocs in this community and the power wielded by the unions, who are responsible at the moment to no one but an elite few, will be provided not by the Labor Party but by the Liberal Party. [More…]
What I am saying is that the Opposition is at a standstill in regard to the most important question which faces the community, and that is how to contain the power blocs who are a law unto themselves at this moment. [More…]
The Government proposes that the Bill should confer power to vary the Schedule by regulations. [More…]
A study of the existing statutory discretions not covered by the Schedule is proceeding, and the power to vary the Schedule by regulation will enable additional jurisdiction to be conferred on the Tribunal without the delays that would be caused if Bills for this purpose had to be fitted into a crowded legislative program. [More…]
By its power of disallowance, the Parliament would exercise a control over the matters to be dealt with by regulation. [More…]
The Ombudsman will not be entitled to investigate or review the decisions of Ministers but when the Ombudsman has investigated a decision he is entitled to report to the responsible Minister of the Crown and he also is to have the power to report to the Prime Minister and to the President of the Senate or to the Speaker of the House of Representatives so that the Parliament may be informed of any failure, as the Ombudsman sees it, on the part of the relevant Minister to afford redress or remedy. [More…]
The reason for that, as was given over many decades, was that such a system as is embraced within this Bill ran counter to the concept of the rule of law, and the argument went that the rule of law implied the absence of wide discretionary powers in the Government affecting the personal liberty, the private property rights and the freedom of contract of individuals. [More…]
The argument went further, saying that the courts were the appropriate places in which any excesses of power, any wrong exercise of jurisdiction- but not on the merits- should be tested. [More…]
So they were the 2 streams until this recent trend towards the conferring of power to review administrative decisions. [More…]
A large area of governmental activity will still be beyond the power of this Parliament to influence- that is, the discretions which arise under the State legislation. [More…]
I hope that the provision will be deleted because it gives to a Minister a great power to specify reasons which he thinks make it contrary to the public interest to disclose the contents of a document, but it may be very much in the public interest to disclose the contents of a document. [More…]
I reported that there were 93 000 outstanding applications for housing commission homes when this Government came to power. [More…]
Of course, it was a protection of administrative power. [More…]
I suggest that this Bill deals with one of the most important elements operating in our community today, that is, the ever burgeoning growth of the power of the Executive and the need to bring it under proper control. [More…]
The relentless growth in size and function of the Departments of State, and the relatively high level in calibre of those who staff them, coupled with the steady decline in importance and function of Members of Parliament, has led to a gradual transfer of power and influence from the floor of the House of Commons to the private rooms of permanent civil servants. [More…]
That was a significant year because it was about the time that Hitler came to power by a breach of these principles. [More…]
In the other direction, the Public Service sought power, not merely administratively and not merely by subordinate legislation but often by constituting special ad hoc tribunals which purported to decide anew original administrative decisions. [More…]
Again, the whole of the legislation administered by Customs needs to be reviewed in order to ensure consistency of terms in cases where the Minister is given power to cancel a licence for the carrying on of some manufacturing processes or other activity on the premises. [More…]
Section 36 1 does not confer any discretionary power on a [More…]
The deletion of existing sub-clause (2) removes the power for regulations made under another Act to make provisions for appeals under that Act inconsistent with the provisions of that Act. [More…]
If we find that that is required to be done with too great a frequency let us then give a power of regulation to amend. [More…]
I had not noted that there was a power to omit. [More…]
Insofar as the rest of the matter is concerned, it seems to me to be desirable that there should be power by the Government to insert provisions because there is obviously a need for further work to be done and more jurisdiction to be given to this Tribunal. [More…]
But in that event I do think that objection can be made to the power to omit provisions from the Schedule. [More…]
Two points arise: Firstly, who has this power to prevent the statement from being furnished? [More…]
The first amendment seeks to take away from Ministers this power which they have and to confer it on one specific Minister, namely the Attorney-General. [More…]
I think it is fair to say that the provisions contained in clauses 28 and 36 correspond fairly closely with what the Kerr Committee recommended; but it seems that they do not give to the Tribunal any effective power to scrutinise a reason given by a Minister for granting a certificate withholding the information. [More…]
I believe it is very desirable that this very vague and open reason be removed because it gives to the Minister a tremendous power to fail to disclose reasons. [More…]
The point I want to make is that although in clause 36 there is some power allowed to parties who appeal to the Tribunal to inspect documents the problem is in the area to which clause 28 applies, where a person wants to know the reasons for a decision and wants to make up his own mind whether he has some reasonable grounds for going to the expenses, where there is the difficulty and the general worry of appealing, at that stage the information is denied. [More…]
I think it would be highly undesirable to give that sweeping power to the Minister to make this certificate and thereby allow the person who has made a decision to know nothing about it. [More…]
The power to give a certificate has been vested in any Minister rather than just the Attorney-General for the following reasons: Firstly, the right to claim Crown privilege against the production of a document in ordinary proceedings in court resides in any Minister and is not restricted to the Attorney-General. [More…]
The Opposition has an amendment seeking to add 2 new sub-clauses to clause 40, which details the powers of the Tribunalpowers such as the taking of evidence, the adjournment of proceedings, proceedings to deal with a matter in the absence of a party, and the power of the Tribunal to summon persons to appear before it. [More…]
The power of the Tribunal to require people to appear before it is of immense import. [More…]
It is different from the power which ordinarily is availed of in court proceedings, where a party may determine who are the witnesses he wants in the court proceedings and require the issue of a subpoena which will ensure attendance. [More…]
In this Bill it is a power which is exercisable by the Tribunal. [More…]
It may be that the Tribunal can exercise the power irrespective of whether it is the wish of the parties. [More…]
Leaving that aside, because it would appear in all the circumstances to be a power which the Tribunal ought to have and which one hopes it will exercise with prudence, there are certain rights which ought to be available but which are not conferred by the provisions of the Bill. [More…]
Where there is a Tribunal which on its own initiative has the power to summon persons to appear before it, those persons ought to be granted certain rights. [More…]
I think the Senate will well remember that in recent years some Senate committees excited a considerable amount of attention because of the powers they were able to exercise in requiring people to appear before them. [More…]
The second part of the amendment, in my view, would be appropriate only if there were power for the Administrative Appeals Tribunal to require a witness to answer notwithstanding that the answer might incriminate him. [More…]
I have not seen any provision in the Bill that gives that power to the Tribunal. [More…]
I would point out also that the notion that what makes a need for such an exceptional right apparent is the power which this Tribunal has to issue a summons in its own right does not appear to indicate a genuine exception at all because that is an inherent right which resides in most courts. [More…]
Further, I see a danger in the proposed new sub-clause (3B) which on my reading of it, would exclude a power to take proceedings against a witness who perjured himself before this Tribunal. [More…]
I want to see the Administrative Appeals Tribunal having the status, respect, power and purpose- much more purpose than some- which the judicial courts have. [More…]
I suggest that the first amendment arises from a misconception of the power given by sub-clause (2) of clause 40 to a member of the Administrative Appeals Tribunal. [More…]
That sub-clause is designed to provide in a Tribunal the ordinary power to issue subpoenas to witnesses. [More…]
How does a party to the proceedings get a relevant witness before the Tribunal, except by invoking this power? [More…]
I suggest that the real purpose of clause 40 (2) is to provide the power for parties to be able to summon witnesses through the machinery of the Tribunal, just as they do now through the machinery of the courts. [More…]
I do not know, because I have not devoted my mind to it, whether the Tribunal would have the power to issue a certificate under the Evidence Act. [More…]
This clause gives a power, by regulation, to vary the Schedule by an inconsistent provision, and to that extent any provision in the Schedule which is inconsistent ceases to have effect. [More…]
It is understandable that there is some confusion in these matters but I believe that clause 26 (2) has to be considered initially separately from the Schedule because it appears in a clause which provides for the conferring of power, the giving of power, and not for any subtraction from it, because sub-clause ( 1 ) provides: [More…]
That is the origin of the power under clause 26 and the purpose of sub-clause (2) is simply to provide that where an enactment does confer that power- not takes it away- if there is any inconsistency resulting by virtue of the provision of the Schedule, to that extent the Schedule does not operate. [More…]
The objection was that a Minister could have too great a power to refuse to give reasons for his decision. [More…]
It is a Bill to safeguard the rights of the citizens of this country against abuses of power by Ministers and by bureaucrats. [More…]
I believe that in a period of growing governmental power, it is essential that the ordinary citizens should have the sorts of safeguards that are enshrined in this legislation. [More…]
It is all very fine for honourable senators opposite to get down to the voting power. [More…]
In the 23 years that followed, when the Liberal-Country Party Government was in power, it was not until the very late stages of the rule by those parties that any effort was made to look again at the question of national superannuation. [More…]
When superimposed on that innate contradiction the parliamentry group puts the personal prestige and power lust ahead of all commitment to policy or ideals, the original conflict of interest is exacerbated. [More…]
We were told at the last Committee meeting when I raised questions that we, as members of the Parliament who are elected to the Joint House Committee, have very little power at all. [More…]
If it does not propose to take action, will the Minister explain whether this is because of lack of willingness or lack of power? [More…]
It is certainly outside the constitutional power of the Federal Government to take any action of that nature unless there was some agreed quota arrangement with the State concerned. [More…]
Thus the power of the retailers has acted as a balance against the power of processors and has brought benefits to the consumer as well. [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…]
Recently, doubts have been expressed as to the power of the Supreme Court to order a change of venue in criminal proceedings before it due to the absence of a provision in the Northern Territory Supreme Court Act expressly conferring such a power. [More…]
It is one of those important aspects whereby the back bench members of the Parliament have to remain, they have to improve their position and they have to be in a position where they can stand up against the overwhelming power of the Government with the facilities that it has and with the office staff that it has. [More…]
One wonders whether or not the power which was able to be exercised by a very significant and powerful union on the waterfront played a far greater role in securing increases at the level which was able to be obtained than the public interest properly justified. [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…]
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…]
That the Committee have power- [More…]
b) in respect of the matter referred to in sub-paragraph (1)(b), to report on or before the 1st day of November 1975, and that any member of the Committee have power to add a protest or dissent to any report’ “. [More…]
I know that, irrespective of which government is in power, the Parliament will sit longer. [More…]
In the strict sense the Commission does not exercise ‘federal judicial power’ as that term is used in the Constitution. [More…]
It should be noted that notwithstanding the fact all States have the legislative power to charge patients treated in these institutions, only South Australia and New South Wales actually exercise this authority. [More…]
Unfortunately I have not brought with me the speech that she made on that occasion but she said that what this proposed legislation was about was power; not just the general exercise of power but the application of excessive and extreme power. [More…]
Basically one can say that this legislation is all about total power. [More…]
It is all very well to propose legislation to give control but there is not need to have legislation that goes further and threatens, through the provision of power such as that to be found in the legislation that we are now considering, to screw down commercial radio and television stations. [More…]
As was pointed out in a previous debate, there are powers here that, if they were carried to the extreme, could virtually be a form of censorship. [More…]
But the Board has that power now. [More…]
Therefore I think that the legislation itself should be framed in such a way that abuses cannot occur through the use of excessive control or excessive power. [More…]
Whilst I am dealing with the subject of programming standards let me point out that this Bill deals with legislation relating to the overall regulation and so on of the commercial sections of radio and television in Australia, but it does not provide in any way for any power with regard to the operations of the Australian Broadcasting Commission- not that I am being critical of that aspect. [More…]
To be providing through these amendments the unfettered power for the Australian Broadcasting Control Board to use these regulations seems to us to place in an intolerable situation those people who have been granted licences to operate broadcasting and television stations in this country. [More…]
The Government, by this legislation, basically is seeking to remove any legal doubt about whether or not the Australian Broadcasting Control Board has power to carry out its functions and to exercise its powers under the existing Act. [More…]
Two low powered experimental community radio licences have been issued to an ethnic community committee to provide ethnic group broadcasting. [More…]
I suggest that it is deplorable that nothing was done until Labor came to power to cater for the needs of people who have done so much towards the vitalisation of our country and who have contributed so handsomely to the expansion of our national horizons. [More…]
It is remarkable that so soon after the Labor Government came to power we found chaos in the Australian economy, particularly in the Tasmanian economy. [More…]
When this Government came to power it professed to indulge in a policy of open government. [More…]
When this Government came to power it thought it was the architect of a new economic system and it withdrew from primary industries ever so many of the supports by which they were benefiting. [More…]
He says that this is an example of a discretionary use of power. [More…]
If the Parliament desires to limit the number of other matters which go before the High Court the Parliament has power to do so. [More…]
But if it is thought that the High Court’s jurisdiction to hear appeals is so extensive that it prevents the High Court from giving appropriate time to the matters which are before it or which prevents the High Court from giving judgments with reasonable dispatch- I know that we in the Senate are waiting with interest for some judgments which have been awaiting delivery for some time- the Parliament has the power to make such exceptions as it desires with regard to the general power of the High Court to hear appeals. [More…]
Firstly, it must be independent of any outside power. [More…]
It will have power to fine and imprison and to enforce its own orders. [More…]
It will have the power to fine for contempt. [More…]
The Court will exercise tremendous power over our citizens and it will be expensive. [More…]
It is designed to transfer power from the States to Canberra at a high cost to the taxpayer. [More…]
The CSIRO was given power to carry out scientific research and investigation. [More…]
In that sense it is a powerful, independent corporation. [More…]
I suggest that the real danger in this move is that, to give to a Minister some increased power, you are fiddling with and perhaps destroying an organisation with an international and national repute. [More…]
As Senator Bonner said, the Australian Government has power to acquire. [More…]
As to any power to negotiate on behalf of the Australian Government, that was never given to any other person and I invite the Opposition to produce evidence to the contrary. [More…]
If he received information which would indicate that such moneys were available, he had no power whatever to negotiate on behalf of the Australian Government. [More…]
Ever since the December 1972 election when the Liberal-Country Parties were thrown out of power, and now that they are the Opposition, they seem to have flatly refused to accept the verdict of the people; they do not seem to realise and appreciate that they are no longer the Government; that they are the Opposition. [More…]
This is to include a constitutional amendment for the interchange of powers between the Australian and State parliaments- a much needed constitutional amendment; consideration of the constitutional position of local government; several important references of power to the Australian Parliament, and a number of matters of importance to the Territories. [More…]
This clause confers wide discretionary powers on the Minister whereby he may disregard any part of a vessel price for the purpose of determining bounty. [More…]
On the basis of such judgments it seems that the Minister would have the power to reduce the bounty price and hence the bounty itself. [More…]
If the discretionary powers are likely to be used in this way it will add to the uncertainty already existing in the minds of owners and builders in the whole matter of bounty determination. [More…]
The first power that will be given to the Corporation is one of a regulatory nature. [More…]
We do not see any great difference in this respect, except that there will be a strengthening of the powers available to the Corporation. [More…]
The second and probably most important power is the monopoly trading power. [More…]
I believe that these trading powers will help to strengthen the Australian Dairy Corporation to achieve what it is hoped will be achieved. [More…]
The other purpose of the Bill, of course, is purely one that concerns the borrowing powers of the Corporation. [More…]
I think it is known throughout the Commonwealth that there are very stringent powers, including the ultimate power of taking away a man’s livelihood, which supreme courts can exercise over barristers and solicitors. [More…]
The Supreme Court of the Australian Capital Territory had until 1971, and the Supreme Court of the Northern Territory has at the present time, the power which the State Supreme Courts have to exercise virtually, in terms of professional livelihood, a power of life and death over practitioners. [More…]
I can agree with the Government that it is desirable that that power should be exercised by a court comprised of more than one judge. [More…]
The right on occasions when there is a difference of opinion between individual judges, when considering past decisions, to decide what should be the law or what is the law in an area in which there are apparently diverging decisions, is a desirable power which a judge should have. [More…]
I think it is part of the normal progression and development that the Supreme Court should have the power to constitute a court of three when particular issues require it. [More…]
The amendment ensures that if the venue of a trial is to be determined by a court the power of the court to determine that venue is laid down so that there can be no challenge to that power. [More…]
When the LiberalCountry Party Government was in power discussions took place with the representatives of the Northern Territory Legislative Council. [More…]
I think one of the initial steps which ought to be seen in the development of self-government in any territory is the handing over to the local people of the power generally to maintain law and order in their territory. [More…]
I hope it will not be long before this power is conferred upon the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly. [More…]
I think this present Government has been slothful because it has not yet given to the Legislative Assembly any executive powers. [More…]
I pose the question: What is the value of having a representative assembly which does not have any powers to excercise? [More…]
-I draw the attention of the Minister for Labor and Immigration (Senator James McClelland) to clause 6 of the Bill which deals with the exercise of jurisdiction in relation to legal practitioners and the power of a judge to order that jurisdiction in a matter be exercised by not less than 3 judges. [More…]
It also refers to certain consequential provisions if that power is exercised. [More…]
For example, it is beyond dispute, as a recent article in the ‘Australian Law Journal’ declared, that a judge cannot take part in the decision of a matter in respect of which he has already appeared as counsel to argue one side of the case- a view which I think Senator McClelland might well remember that Mr Justice Murphy accepted when he declined to sit on the case in which it was argued whether or not the Petroleum and Minerals Authority Bill was a valid exercise of power by the Commonwealth Parliament. [More…]
-The possible evil to which Senator Greenwood adverted was one which must have existed before the Labor Party came to power. [More…]
The long term objective of this legislation is to permit this Parliament to take such steps as may be within its power to preserve for posterity the wonders of the Great Barrier Reef and, as has been said in debate in another place, to preserve not only a major part of Australia’s heritage but also to preserve an important and valuable part of the heritage of the world. [More…]
This legislation sets up an authority to manage the Marine Park and provides it with very wide powers. [More…]
It simply will give the Governor-General power to declare areas of the region to be a part of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park. [More…]
One would have thought that if powers are to be given to preserve the Great Barrier Reef, if there is to be a Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority, those controlling powers should cover the whole of the Great Barrier Reef. [More…]
I presume it is the intention that at least some powers should be exercised in respect of the whole of this region; but it does seem as though it is intended that the legislation will have a more restrictive effect and that only portions of this great region will be controlled and become a marine park. [More…]
There is no power in this Parliament to disturb the powers of the Queensland Government in relation to the islands within the region any more than there is to establish parks in a State unless the Government resumes areas of the State or the areas are conferred on it by the State. [More…]
Although legislation on this subject has been passed through this Parliament it is still a subject of consideration by the High Court of Australia and no decision has yet been made by the High Court which will clarify the nature of the powers of the respective parliaments of the Commonwealth and of Queensland. [More…]
Nevertheless, if the High Court’s decision is that the Parliament of the Commonwealth of Australia has the power beyond low water mark this Bill will have validity, of course, insofar as we can as a national parliament exercise jurisdiction out into the Pacific Ocean to the extent of sixty or seventy miles of the ocean itself. [More…]
If we are to exercise these powers effectively there will arise not only the questions of the control of the reefs themselves and of the subsoil of the sea bed but there will also be questions arising as to jurisdiction over the waters themselves, as to the fisheries within them, as to navigation rights and so forth. [More…]
So it is quite clear that the exercise of powers under this Bill raises and will raise a vast number of very difficult questions not only of Australian constitutional law but also of international law. [More…]
It involves a power to establish special zones within the region where a park is established. [More…]
This power to establish special zones within that park will be administered not by the Great Barrier Reef Marine Authority but by the national parks and wildlife authority. [More…]
Instead we are giving a very wide power to an authority to determine what should be done, and for that reason I think the vigilance of this Parliament and all parliamentarians must be exercised. [More…]
I am a firm believer in the federal system, but I am also a firm believer in a co-operative federal system, not a centralist system where all power is vested in Canberra. [More…]
I hope the comment of Senator Durack and, more latterly, the comment of Senator Bonner that honourable senators opposite will go over the Act again when they come to power will not inhibit the activities of the Authority because all of us should be aware of the need to get going with the Authority, get it established and let it go unhampered by any act of obstruction in the future. [More…]
Since the present Government came to power the Opposition moved a similar motion during the Autumn session in 1 973. [More…]
The purpose of the Opposition, which can on proper judgment control the course of this Senate’s power, should be to keep this Senate vigilant during the period until the Parliament reassembles and to observe the quite obvious intention of this dictatorial Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) to dismiss the Secretary of the Treasury. [More…]
In rising to support Senator Missen ‘s amendment I would like to remind the Senate that we are considering a motion which would allow the reassembly of the Senate before the normal time and which would allow the Senate to do any or all of the things within its power, including the summoning of persons. [More…]
We have neither discarded nor accepted the use of that very grave power by the Senate. [More…]
Before Senator Hall seeks to impress us all with his usual sanctimonious righteousness I would like to mention that some of us have some very real reservations about the use of the power which he is saying should be brought in. [More…]
I would be very upset if in causing the Senate to reassemble we were obliged to use that power. [More…]
We are concerned to retain the power to get the Senate to reassemble and we are not prepared to have ourselves limited in the way Senator Hall wants, with his usual assumption that he is the only person who knows how things can be done or what is best for the country. [More…]
Appeal dismissed; much of the Trade Practices Act 1965-1971 held to be invalid, but judgments indicated that trade practices legislation based on the corporations power could validly apply to wholly intrastate business transactions. [More…]
I put to the Senate that the only way in which this matter can be properly resolved is by a royal commission consisting of at least one judge, preferably three, with all the powers that a royal commission has- with all the powers to compel the attendance of witnesses and the production of documents and to provide protection for witnesses who give evidence before it- not one of those hole in the corner so-called judicial inquiries but a full royal commission of at least a judge or judges with all the power that goes with a royal commission. [More…]
It also has been said, of course, that the Minister for Minerals and Energy (Mr Connor) had but power to seek the availability of loans. [More…]
The point of my mentioning this is but to indicate that I stand in a constitutional relationship to the Crown in which under the Constitution the Executive power of the Commonwealth alone is vested. [More…]
1 ) That the Senate affirms that it possesses the powers and privileges of the House of Commons as conferred by Section 49 of the Constitution and has the power to summon persons to answer questions and produce documents, files and papers. [More…]
Before it assumed power on 30 April, the PRG was recognised by forty-six countries. [More…]
That the Senate affirms that it possesses the powers and privileges of the House ofCommons as conferred by Section 49 of the Constitution and has the power to summon persons to answer questions and produce documents files and papers. [More…]
Excessive secrecy in government is directly related to the fact that the Liberals have been in power too long: they have a lot to hide. [More…]
All political considerations aside, and no matter which Party is in power, this situation should never arise again. [More…]
The Government has challenged the power of a House of the Parliament. [More…]
The Executive is seeking to place itself above the power of Parliament, representing the people, to seek information which the Government has declined to provide. [More…]
That constitutes the power of the House of Commons then as today. [More…]
It constitutes the power which the Senate possessed in 1901, then as today. [More…]
If this Parliament, if this Senate, abdicates the functions and the powers and the rights which it possesses to get information in the public interest then it shall be doing a fateful disservice to the institution of Parliament itself. [More…]
I know that there are those who would claim that the power of the Executive is a power which overrides all who would seek to question. [More…]
The view that the Senate has a complete power to require information, both in practice and in theory, is unquestioned. [More…]
The existence of that power has been widely acknowledged and there are few who would challenge it. [More…]
I assert that the power of the Senate is a power which, in theory, is unlimited and which, if it is to be limited in practice, is to be limited having regard to the circumstances in which the request is made, having regard to the efficacy of other means of securing the information which is sought and having regard to the importance to the Senate and- -to the nation of securing that information. [More…]
When that situation exists is a Senate, or either House of the Parliament, to sit mute and to accept that those persons against whom these charges may be made will use the fact that they have a power which they claim to be an executive or Crown privilege to withhold information from the Senate? [More…]
We have in this case a motion which first affirms the powers of the Senate. [More…]
I believe that the Senate will not flinch from the task which it must perform, and that is to assert its right as a House of the Parliament in 1975 to do what other Houses of Parliament in the English tradition extending back over the centuries have done- resist the power of the Executive and resist it responsibly and in the public interest. [More…]
Jim Spigelman suggests that a state has been reached where the Federal Government can use secrecy, half-truths, lies and deceptions as a political screen behind which power struggles and survival plans are fought out. [More…]
1 ) That the Senate affirms that it possesses the powers and privileges of the House of Commons as conferred by Section 49 of the Constitution and has the power to summon persons to answer questions and produce documents files and papers. [More…]
-More central than the power of the legislature to summon witnesses before it and to put questions to them? [More…]
Mr Byers; No, I was not drawing a distinction or intending to imply any relevant inhibition on the power of the legislature to summon. [More…]
He is talking about excessive power. [More…]
If the Minister can show that Sir Frederick or Mr Hayden has the power, then of course Mr Whitelaw ought to be discharged forthwith. [More…]
That, notwithstanding anything contained in the Standing Orders, the Privileges Committee for the purposes of its inquiry and report shall have power to send for persons, papers, and records. [More…]
That, notwithstanding anything contained in the Standing Orders, the Privileges Committee for the purposes of its inquiry and report shall have power to send for persons, papers, and records. [More…]
I have no doubt that if the Opposition parties were back in power tomorrow they would allow the same situation to go on as I have outlined in the figures that I gave initially to the Senate. [More…]
If a House thought that a Minister was improperly exercising his power to grant a certificate it could, of course, withdraw its confidence in him. [More…]
It is also intent on centralising power in the hands of the multinationals. [More…]
We remind ourselves that this resolution deals with the powers and rights of the Senate not because we want to seek them for any personal reasons but because we recognise that we have obligations to maintain the position of the Senate as a protector of the people of this country. [More…]
If we look at Mr Odgers’ book, which is the authority on this matter, we find that at page 566 he says that the House of Commons, amongst other powers, had the right to institute inquiries and to require the attendance of witnesses and the production of documents. [More…]
It is no good just having a charade whereby witnesses are called and refuse to answer, because that power was essential to the House of Commons and is essential to and must be maintained by- as is stated in this resolution- this House of the Parliament. [More…]
The power of each House of the Commonwealth Parliament to call for documents and oral evidence from the Executive is as wide as that of the Commons at 1901 whose power, although not exercised to the full in practice, was at least in theory unlimited. [More…]
Is not such action contrary to the Trade Practices Act which gives no power to seize documents and gives no authority whatsoever to the police? [More…]
That present and proposed development of limestone mining at Precipitous Bluff, tin mining at Cox’s Bight, woodchipping in the remaining native forests and damming of South West rivers to produce power, will significantly affect the wilderness quality of South West Tasmania necessitating extensive road systems and damaging irreparably one of the last great wilderness areas of the world. [More…]
Is the Leader of the Opposition correct in his claim that the Government has unreasonable power to decide what should be national interest insurance? [More…]
The Opposition is a believer in the theory that the dispersion of power and authority in the current world and Australian scene is much more desirable than centralising power and authority. [More…]
Clause 9 (2) of the Bill which is to be read in conjunction with the report of the Committee of Inquiry into Government Procurement Policy- the Scott report- gives to departments and authorities the power to retain their purchasing function up to the $5,000 threshold. [More…]
Obviously, there will be duplication of effort and manpower in the departments under this proposal, if it were passed, because departments would still have some authority to do their own purchasing and would pass a lot of that authority away. [More…]
Under clause 37(3) the Minister has sole power to determine the composition of advisory committees. [More…]
It is my conclusion, after discussion with responsible people, that with price escalation, increasing movements by the Government into the private sector and more and more government control that we are talking about a Commission that of itself would currently have a buying power of about $20 billion if this Bill were to be passed. [More…]
That is a tremendous amount of buying power to put in the hands of one single authority without any evidence of economy and efficiency and with considerable evidence of the possibility of duplication and some areas of inefficiency. [More…]
Clause 15 (2) gives the Minister a wider power to demand documents than the courts have. [More…]
One is reminded in this circumstance of what a pity it was the Senate did not have such a power itself to demand some documents that it needed in the recent loans affair, it would have been most illuminating. [More…]
This Commission, as we see it, not only gives some power to be centralised buyers but also gives some substantial power to become centralised sellers and centralised market operators. [More…]
But the Government has an overriding power to give directions to the Commission for tenders to be accepted or rejected. [More…]
We think that the Minister would have too much power, and so would the Commission, and too little accountability. [More…]
Is not such action contrary to the Trade Practices Act which gives no power to seize documents and gives no authority whatsoever to the police? [More…]
What power and what influence does the Minister for Minerals and Energy have in relation to the Prime Minister that he is able to effect this dissection of the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization. [More…]
That present and proposed development of limestone mining at Precipitous Bluff, tin mining at Cox Bight, woodchipping in the remaining native forests and damming of South West rivers to produce power, will significantly affect the wilderness quality of South West Tasmania necessitating extensive road systems and damaging irreparably one of the last great wilderness areas of the world. [More…]
Since I have been Minister for Foreign Affairs and since this Government has been in power we have carried on a system, which we inaugurated and which is something that the previous Government never did, of always tabling in the Senate a report on every major issue such as my visits to the ANZUS Council, the United Nations or any of the other conferences which I attend, or indeed most visits that I make, so it goes on record and is there for all senators, all members and the public to examine if they wish. [More…]
-At about 5 a.m. on 15 August the Army took over power and installed a civilian government in Bangladesh. [More…]
The desirability and feasibility of establishing a securities and exchange commission by the Commonwealth either alone or in co-operation with the States and the powers and functions necessary for such a commission to enable it to act speedily and efficiently against manipulation of prices, insider trading and such other improper or injurious practices as the Committee finds have occurred or may occur in relation to shares and other securities of public companies, and to recommend generally in regard to the foregoing such legislative and administrative measures by the Commonwealth as will, having regard to the constitutional division of legislative power in Australia, enable the utmost protection of members of the public and the national interest. [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 Council from State Supreme Courts. [More…]
Equally, I can visualise a situation in which a government, irrespective of which party is in power, will say: We will not answer any questions on notice on a Wednesday’. [More…]
I point out that, even if the Government were to have this Bill passed and were to introduce policies, there are difficulties in their implementation and, of course, there are grave doubts as to the wisdom of introducing and using such power as this Bill would give to implement various other social and political policies of the Government. [More…]
When one considers the mighty powerful nature of this Bill, the nature of the criticisms made in the recommendations of and the references to that Committee are significant. [More…]
In the first place, there is the danger of the creation of a great economic and centralised power operating in this community and operating with great power and influence over the private sector of the economy. [More…]
We all know the power and control that an organisation such as the Myer Emporium, which has a very considerable amount of purchasing to do, has over its suppliers. [More…]
How much greater would be the power of an organisation with up to $20 billion to pay for work in a year? [More…]
This represents a very heavy power in the area. [More…]
In addition to that, and again emphasising the power which would be involved in this measure, is the power in clause 1 7 to which reference has already been made in this debate. [More…]
Clause 1 7 of the Bill, after all other things have been said, proceeds to state the following about the ministerial power in operating and controlling the Commission: [More…]
This is a most sweeping power and would be used no doubt, so that Government policies could be forced upon the Commission when needed. [More…]
This is a power which should not be placed in the hands of one centralised body. [More…]
The second danger, as I see it, is the fact that the use of this power over procurement and purchasing will be used under the Bill for the promotion of government political and social policies. [More…]
This is clear from the statements that have been made and it is obvious that we can expect the use of clause 17 and other powers in this Bill to give effect to Labor Party policies in the following areas: Urban and regional development, worker participation, compulsory unionism, compensation and insurance, import policies, environmental control, standards and efficiency in research, industry restructuring and so forth. [More…]
One can imagine the use that could be made of such a power. [More…]
However, industry does object to the thought that the Government should use its purchasing power to enforce such matters as pollution control, industrial efficiency and safety standards in industry. [More…]
In particular, industry objects to, in fact rejects entirely, any thought that the Government should use its purchasing power to enforce upon suppliers economic and social aspects of employment and the application of labour code. [More…]
There are even powers within this Bill, under clause 9, to declare, by regulation, the policies that are to be adopted. [More…]
Under clause 15 power is given to the Minister to demand information from anybody, including other departments. [More…]
Perhaps it seems strange, but clause 45 even confers power to impose penalties- no doubt even penalties upon another department- if information is refused. [More…]
This may appear to be far fetched but I think it is an obvious power which is allowed under this Bill to the Minister who has control of this great weapon of economic policy. [More…]
I suggest that the danger which perhaps caused the Government to exclude those 3 departments without giving proper information or explanation is a reason for excluding all departments from the power which this Bill would give. [More…]
I suggest that the Bill should be rejected and that whatever changes are needed- there is no doubt that changes are needed and that there always will be changes occurring as a result of the success or failure of operations over the years- can be achieved quite successfully without going to the extent of creating a Commission which then has this centralised power of purchasing. [More…]
It would be a body which could help in promotion and the education of persons in the departments as to suitable purchasing policies, but not one with the overwhelming power provided in this Bill. [More…]
The remarks Senator Cotton made yesterday contained an indication that when the Opposition comes to power it certainly will be considering the improvement of procurement and purchasing policies; but it will not do so in such a way as to create this great monolith with all the power that would be involved in this proposed Commission. [More…]
He suggested that given changes in prices since 1972-73 the Commission would have a buying power of $20 billion. [More…]
The Government already has the power to use the purchasing mechanism as an instrument for various policy purposes. [More…]
If it needed further powers for some particular purpose it would not be obtaining any of them under this legislation. [More…]
It has been claimed that the power in clause 1 7 is too wide, lacks immediate accountability and would be used for political objectives. [More…]
The reserve power of ministerial direction is a normal provision in Bills relating to statutory authorities. [More…]
Many cases could be cited and there is no evidence to suggest that such powers of direction have led to abuses in the past. [More…]
In a democratic society the government of the day must have a reserve power of this kind. [More…]
Now I shall refer to an observation by Lord Goodman in a volume entitled ‘The Corridors of Lordly Power’. [More…]
The premiums are the property of the Corporation, and the only extent to which the Government has any interest in or power over the funds of the Corporation lies in the financial provisions, to which I shall refer later, under which the level of profit that ought to be aimed at by the Corporation can be determined by the Minister. [More…]
It covers- I am just picking out a few- boot and shoe factories, boat-builders, building demolishers chemists and druggists, cinemas, electricity and power suppliers, electrical appliance manufacturers, plastics goods manufacturers, polish factories, printers ink factories, pop concerts in enclosed halls, porcelain and pottery manufacturers, produce merchants, secondhand dealers, sewerage and water supply authorities. [More…]
I am amazed at the Opposition’s attitude to this legislation, firstly, because I think it is contrary to the expressed view of the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Malcolm Fraser) after he assumed power and, secondly, because I have read to the Opposition the Liberal Party platform on the desirable criteria for competition in any industry. [More…]
We have the power to do it under section 5 1 of the Constitution’. [More…]
), of the Constitution gives the power to the Commonwealth. [More…]
Under the corporation power the Government has further powers. [More…]
In other words, it has the power, which no private company has, to sustain itself indefinitely. [More…]
Also, under the corporation’s power, this Government has total power over corporations. [More…]
If any defect in a foreign owned company is revealed then the mote is in the eyes of the Government because it has the power to rectify that defect now. [More…]
The way that democratic socialism works under such a depraved government as the one from which we have heard a spokesman just this minute, is that it gives power to a public corporation to go into business. [More…]
The Government uses its power to restrict competitors to the advantage of the Government enterprise. [More…]
They were partners in the development of Australia until this Government came to power. [More…]
It ignores the simple reality that in New Zealand the national government has much greater power over building regulations and safety standards and so on than does the government in a federalist state such as Australia. [More…]
In my estimation the basic role of government in respect to trade, commerce and industry is to provide the legislative framework within which economic activity can operate freely, having due regard to the rights of others and to the provision of such basic utilities as power, water supply, roads and railways which are beyond the capacity of free enterprise to provide. [More…]
I said a moment ago that I was in accord with the framework provided by government for power supply. [More…]
I pay great tribute to that which has been done by the Trust in South Australia in the provision of power. [More…]
But in South Australia we have a system of power supply and generation - [More…]
It is much better for them to have that State instrumentality available to the State government irrespective of what political party happens to be in power. [More…]
acknowledges the importance of effective competition as a preventive of the defects of monopoly power and as the incentive to creativity and productivity. [More…]
Will not this mean that an estimated consumer price index increase of 5 per cent for the next December quarter will be discounted to 3 per cent for wage indexation, thereby robbing wage earners of purchasing power? [More…]
Senate amendments Nos 14 and 16 restricted 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…]
Since it came to power the Government has spent more than $24m of taxpayers’ money of paid advertising- advertising telling the people how good it is- and this Bill will not put an end to that misuse of public funds. [More…]
One must think that this Government is the most scurrilous government that has ever been in power in Australia, that it is purely stupid and cannot recognise what it has written into this Bill or that behind it are some very shrewd people who have written into the Bill something which will be greatly to the benefit of the Australian Labor Party. [More…]
There has never been any attempt to my knowledge by the Opposition parties when they reigned in power too long- 23 years in this national Parliament- to introduce any sort of uniform insurance policy arrangements or legislation that would have the effect of rationalising policies and providing the maximum benefit to the claimant. [More…]
One overseas insurance company says that as a result of experiences in recent years a marked increase has occurred in the use of atomic energy for purposes ranging from the generation of electric power to the manufacture of weapons of war. [More…]
What is happening in the current use of section 57 is that a Government’s program is being dealt with, not in the traditional manner but in the manner in which conceivably a joint sitting will command the power to pass a number of Bills which, without a joint sitting, could never pass each House of the Parliament. [More…]
The limit of Commonwealth concern is the power which the Commonwealth has to limit appeals from the High Court to the Privy Council. [More…]
That power has been fully exhausted so that there is now no appeal from the High Court to the Privy Council. [More…]
I simply make reference to that statement of the Prime Minister because it emphasises the point which should be made quite clear, namely, that this Parliament has no power to abolish an appeal from State Supreme Courts to the Privy Council and the Government, in the course it is adopting, is ignoring and by-passing the State parliaments. [More…]
Technically the right is there if the British Parliament chooses to exercise that power but we believe that in a matter where the Australian nation has the power to determine these questions for itself the Australian nation, the Australian people, should be asked to make the decision, not the British Parliament. [More…]
The third ground of objection which the Opposition has is that it is a misuse of the powers of the Statute of Westminster. [More…]
It represents an endeavour by the Commonwealth, as I see it, to misuse the powers in the Statute of Westminster. [More…]
In an age of independent nation states it is not for Australia to assert a right or a claim upon the British Government to exercise a power in that way. [More…]
We desire to see the appeal to the Privy Council removed entirely, and we trust that in due course the Australian people will be given the opportunity to do it in a way which is consistent with this nation’s independence and with the verdict of the Australian people, but to do it in a way which invites a British Parliament to legislate for Australia is, we believe, not only inconsistent with Australia’s independence but also a most remarkable instance of the inconsistency of the Prime Minister who, having adopted one view when in Opposition, chooses in power, to adopt a course which reflects our dependence. [More…]
In December 1973, Mr Barnard 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 re-distribute, by legislation and regulations, the functions performed by the Naval, Military and Air Boards. [More…]
That is something which only someone with much more prophetic power than I have would dare to prognosticate. [More…]
As I have said before, this has nothing to do with whatever political party is in power. [More…]
Each of the annual recommendations of the Australian Grants Commission has been accepted by any government that has been in power, regardless of its political persuasion. [More…]
Honourable senators will remember that when it was proposed to bring in an Australian law to cover drugs, under the constitutional power of the Australian Government in relation to international agreements, it was the States, including Queensland, which opposed the Australian Government having that power. [More…]
The Australian Government’s power to prosecute is confined to the Australian Capital Territory and the Northern Territory. [More…]
Because we believe that we have been subject to inflationary pressures, what we are doing on this occasion as part of our effort to cut down on spending in the public sector- Senator Baume apparently thinks it is not high enough- is not to pursue that part of the policy but to see that at least the pensioners will not lose their purchasing power but will keep up with the increase in the consumer price index. [More…]
The UDT and the rival Fretilin party are struggling for power in Dili and in many parts of the interior. [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 clause 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 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…]
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 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…]
But the question arises whether we should ask the proposed joint standing committee on the new and permanent parliament house to decide which occupants should be removed, or whether we have not that power now. [More…]
We have power to do something about the present position, because the Joint House Committee already exists and has the task of overseeing the accommodation situation in Parliament House. [More…]
The Treasurer may examine a proposed acquisition which would have the effect that a foreign person, either alone or with associates, would acquire or increase an interest to 50 per cent or more in the ownership or voting power of a corporation. [More…]
Where the proposed acquisition means that foreigners would acquire or increase aggregate interest to 40 per cent or more in the ownership or voting power of a corporation, the criteria, as I mentioned earlier, really are not incorporated in the Bill. [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…]
The practical effect of all those provisions is simply this: Although the Treasurer may make an order which may not be complied with, he still has the power to apply to the Supreme Court for such order as it thinks fit for the attainment of the purpose for which the original order was made by the Treasurer. [More…]
1 suggest to the Government that that clause needs very careful consideration in the light of subsequent developments because, although there is power under clause 35 to apply to the Supreme Court to get orders in aid of any decision made by way of order by the Treasurer, there is under clause 38 that ultimate right of a corporation or a person to say: ‘Nevertheless, this transaction is still valid’. [More…]
I suppose the argument is that the power to apply to the Supreme Court for orders supplementary to the order of the Treasurer is a sufficient sanction. [More…]
But if there is a government which is concerned and people who are concerned about the operations of multinational corporations there is always power in the national Parliament to deal with those corporations. [More…]
This Bill reflects the power that this Parliament has to ensure that such controls exist. [More…]
The Treasurer has the power to make orders prohibiting share acquisitions or the issues of shares by companies in this country. [More…]
He has the power to make orders prohibiting acquisitions of assets of businesses. [More…]
He has the power to direct a person to dispose of certain assets which that person has. [More…]
He has the power to prohibit agreements or alterations of company documents. [More…]
Where an obligation would arise in a director to act in accordance with instructions or wishes of a foreign person he has power to order persons to do certain acts and to refrain from doing other acts. [More…]
The Treasurer has a power to restrain arrangements and to prohibit the termination of existing arrangements. [More…]
He also has a blanket power, before he has addressed his mind to whether he could make or should make any of those orders which I mentioned earlier, to simply make a blanket holding order in respect of any of the companies in regard to which he may make those orders at some stage in the future. [More…]
They are immense powers and I do not think anyone would doubt them. [More…]
I suppose that a Treasurer in whom a nation and a government has confidence can be as trusted with that sort of power as any other individual or any group of individuals but it is a significant power to give to any one man. [More…]
If he is satisfied in the light of those facts that what is occurring would be contrary to the national interest, then he has the power to act, and one man’s judgment of what is or is not contrary to the national interest is as broad or as wide as one man ‘s power as to what is in the public interest. [More…]
So this immense power is given to one man. [More…]
That legislation did not give to an independent authority the power to make these decisions. [More…]
The first point I make is that that original legislation gave a similar power of ministerial decision to a Minister. [More…]
On 27 November 1973, almost a year after the Labor Party came to power, the then Treasurer, Mr Crean, made a statement in the Parliament and said: [More…]
The other major point to which he referred, and the one on which he closed, was the powers which he felt were given to the Treasurer under this legislation. [More…]
I remind him that under the McMahon Government’s legislation power was vested in the Minister. [More…]
The powers under that legislation were no different from the powers which obtain under this legislation. [More…]
So it is not a matter of this legislation being the subject of any marked change in the powers which are given to the responsible Minister. [More…]
The power vested with the Minister. [More…]
Secondly, the military power of command is clearly defined with, for the first time, a clear line of command for the defence force, under the Minister, from the Chief of Defence Force Staff through the Chiefs of each Service. [More…]
Secondly, it gives greater power to the civilian component of the Department of Defence and to its Minister. [More…]
From my knowledge of the Morshead report and of other commitments that the Liberal-Country Party Government was heading towards, I doubt very much whether it ever envisaged vesting the power proposed to be vested in the Public Service in relation to the defence structure or the power that the Minister is to exercise over the defence chiefs. [More…]
Unfortunately one of the things that our defence personnel are very concerned about in this respect is the power to be vested in the Minister because any defence planning could be at the whim of the government of the day and any future plans could be scrapped. [More…]
Your petitioners most humbly pray that the Senate, in Parliament assembled, will do all in its power to bring to the attention of the Government this matter, that by legislation, regulation or administrative fiat this matter may be speedily attended to. [More…]
The regulatory power which the Australian Government has largely results from legislation introduced by the previous government which had found that there was such a dreadful mess, particularly in the field of general insurance, that it had to regulate the activities of the companies. [More…]
Had we the power to do so, we would have done so as I have just outlined. [More…]
An Australian Labor Party government, a socialist government, has been in power now for 2 1/2 years. [More…]
It means that 208 000 more children are now attending technical schools in Australia than when this Government came to power. [More…]
That is their exercise of their freedom- a freedom which they did not have the capacity to exercise before this Government came to power. [More…]
But in this respect I see further seeds being sown for denial of the encouragement of thrift and responsibility to be shown by each person to do all within his power to ensure that he will be the master of his own ship in due course through life assurance, superannuation and so on. [More…]
in 24 months’ time Australia could be floundering in the same evil bog in which the British people are at present sinking- a hideous morass compounded of rampant inflation, 5 per cent unemployment, crippling taxation, a huge and rising external deficit, irresponsible, power-drunk unionism, near bankrupt industries, business investment at a virtual standstill, declining living standards, a despairing, bewildered people, a helpless Government, a society in disarray. [More…]
In 1949 Senator Wright, together with Senator Guy, Senator Henty and Senator Wordsworth, issued a pamphlet which set out all the things they had promised to do if their Party were returned to power. [More…]
The Budget is the fiscal policy of the government in power which should portray its policy in that line to the people of Australia and businesses in Australia for the following 12 months. [More…]
Spending power has gone, whereas, except for an exclusive group, the aristocracy of today, the blue collar worker - [More…]
whose spending power’s increased enormouslymany families like this would perhaps spend more on beer in a week than I ever might do at a restaurant. [More…]
Like other aristocracies, Australia’s top families and landed gentry are dynastic; some like the Baillieus have their own family Coat of Arms, the power and status of these families have been nurtured over generations and reinforced by an intricate web of relationships forged by business links, and marriage. [More…]
They went out and campaigned against us when we wanted the people to give us the power to enforce price control and wage control. [More…]
Yet our opponents have the audacity to go out now and blame this Government for inflation, knowing full well that the Australian Government has no power to introduce price control on most commodities. [More…]
The States have that power, but no State can use the power unless all the other States are prepared to use it. [More…]
That is why the Australian Government wanted an overall power to bring in price control. [More…]
They are just as much to blame because they went out and campaigned against us when we wanted that power so that we could introduce some measures of control. [More…]
In addition, Opposition spokesmen had been running around promising the New Guineans that they would have more money if the Liberal Party were in power. [More…]
I believe that the extreme circumstances in which this country finds itself today are in a very real sense related to the extraordinary eagerness of the socialist government, when in power after some 23 years, to implement a circumstance that, if it becomes a fact at all, may well become a fact after decades or centuries and not in the process of a mere 2Vi years. [More…]
They are areas which are among those that were radically distorted, destroyed and swept away at the beginning of this socialist Government’s assumption of power. [More…]
I will make it my business to find out the position about the industrial upheaval that he mentions and do whatever is within my power to bring the matter to a speedy conclusion. [More…]
Therefore this amending Bill lists under the statute-making power the fees which the University may charge and provides that fees other than those listed shall not be charged. [More…]
Quite frankly, this matter has been under discussion and mooted around the portals of power in this country for long enough. [More…]
The military power of command is clearly defined with, for the first time, a clear line of command for the defence force under the Minister from the Chief of Defence Force Staff through the chiefs of each Service. [More…]
In the Minister’s words that officer shall have power of command of the Defence Force. [More…]
If we were to look towards the United Kingdom we would find queries again as to the functions of the centralisation of power. [More…]
Surely the basis of what we seek is that the control of the defence system, the control of the military forces, shall first of all lie in the sovereignty of this Parliament and, secondly, that it shall be executed through the Minister for Defence, a parliamentarian, a political figure, who represents the triumph of the civilian power and the parliamentary system over the military. [More…]
It of course applauds the execution of power over the Defence Force through the Minister, through the Executive Government, through the Parliament. [More…]
Nobody has suggested that there is not great confusion over the role of the Governor-General concerning his alleged incapacity to divest himself of or to vest in others the authority to devolve power. [More…]
The proposed new section 8 defines the present constitutional power of the Minister and provides that, as always has been the case, the authority exercised by the senior Service Chiefs will be subject to the directions of the Minister. [More…]
powers of the Minister should be cut down by independent authority vested in any official, whether he be Service or civilian. [More…]
The military power of command is clearly defined for the first time. [More…]
I consulted the members of the Chiefs of Staff Committee collectively (Admiral Sir Victor Smith, Vice Admiral Sir Richard Peek, Lieutenant-General Sir Mervyn Brogan and Air Marshal C. F. Read) and we unanimously agreed to recommend the creation of a single senior military officer with power of command over the Chiefs of Staff of the single Services. [More…]
Section 51 (vi) of the Constitution provides that ‘the Parliament shall have power to make laws for the peace, order and good government of the Commonwealth with respect to the naval and military defence of the Commonwealth and of the several States, and the control of the forces to execute and maintain the laws of the Commonwealth’. [More…]
Section 68 of the Constitution has never been regarded as a bar to Parliament, in pursuance of its power under section 51 (VI) of the Constitution, making laws investing officers and other authorities with practical command over the Defence Force, any part thereof or the members of any part of that Force or regulating the manner in which those powers are to be exercised- so long at any rate, as no attempt is made to derogate from the formal supreme command vested in the Governor-General by section 68 of the Constitution. [More…]
The Australian Government derives its power for the establishment of the Prices Justification Tribunal under, I think, section 5 1 (v) of the Australian Constitution. [More…]
It should be understood, however, that in view of the Attorney-General’s Department it would not be valid to provide for the membership by regulation as section 28 (1) of the Defence Act contemplates that the GovernorGeneral would make such appointments by an executive act and not by exercising his power to make regulations. [More…]
Section 51 (iv) of the Constitution provides that the Parliament shall have power to make laws with respect to ‘borrowing money on the public credit of the Commonwealth’. [More…]
Section 51 (vi) of the Constitution provides that the Parliament shall have power to make laws with respect to the defence of the Commonwealth. [More…]
I take it that that interjection was to the effect that if we had been in power we would have been in Timor. [More…]
If we had been in power we would have been looking now to help in real ways. [More…]
The State Electricity Commission of Victoria, because it has had to extend power supply to dairies which have converted to refrigerated bulk milk, decided that it will make a charge. [More…]
They upgraded the electric power supply to their farms. [More…]
In effect, to install now a 10 horsepower motor to switch from watercooled milk to refrigerated milk would be like plugging in an electric shaver to one’s domestic supply. [More…]
Now that he has installed this refrigerated vat, despite the fact that the State Electricity Commissionthis instrumentality of the Victorian Governmenthas not had to lift one finger to upgrade the supply to that farm, he is still being charged $80 per horsepower for the motor installed. [More…]
It is charging them the same rate of $80 per horsepower. [More…]
During the couple of years that this Labor Government has been in power it has been more maligned, I suppose, than Jesus Christ himself. [More…]
This Government had to come into power before people realised that pensioners existed, that they were human beings and that one did not shoot them if they were old, cold and needy but that one had to give them an income and treat them like human beings. [More…]
Even the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam), who seems to enjoy the superficial trappings of powers more than exercising the authority and responsibilities of power, has at last had the good grace to acknowledge this self evident fact. [More…]
It has aimed to centralise power in Canberra and in the Federal Government. [More…]
During the last couple of years we have seen some unions that occupy key positions in our community using their power to raise their incomes, regardless of the needs of the rest of the Australian people. [More…]
They are powerless. [More…]
Whichever government is in power, it seeks to exert some influence upon the economic affairs of the country. [More…]
I notice that Senator Webster seems to think that there is something to be laughed at in this, but I can well remember the opposition of Senator Webster, along with his colleagues in his Party, the name of which escapes me for the moment- it changes as frequently as the Party’s attitude to the appointment of senators to fill casual vacancies- and in the Liberal Party when this Government proposed that power should be given to the Parliament of the Commonwealth to legislate on prices and incomes. [More…]
It is an almost impossible situation for any national government to be in, to have no power to legislate over prices and incomes. [More…]
Despite the fact that this power was denied to us by the concerted action of endemic conservatism and the deliberate irresponsibility of the Liberal and Country Parties, we have still had to take steps which are very unpalatable to us indeed. [More…]
With the advances that are being made in the generation of power- such as the use of uranium and, no doubt, solar power- if we leave the coal in the ground we might be told in the future to leave it there forever because it is not wanted. [More…]
He has been in the Parliament for 24 years, and for twenty of those years his Party was in power but his colleagues never saw fit to elevate him past the back benches. [More…]
It came to power with the sole purpose of redistributing wealth in Australia. [More…]
I think it is worth reminding the Senate that when the Whitlam Government came to power inflation in this country was running at something like 4.6 per cent. [More…]
One of the tragedies which has befallen this country is the fact that when this Government came to power after 23 years in Opposition it went headlong into putting into reality its socialistic doctrinaire policies, completely overlooking priorities and completely overlooking one of the major elements which should be found in any responsible government- good economic management. [More…]
I am certain that they will not come back while the Labor Party is in power. [More…]
There has not been much sympathy for country people generally since this Government came to power and there is still not much sympathy for them. [More…]
He was not dead one hour before Joh BjelkePetersen was crowing about his power to decide Milliner’s replacement. [More…]
Even before Milliner had been dead 24 hours, Bob Sparkes, the president of the National Country Party in Queensland and the man who shares the real power in Queensland with Alan Callaghan, the head of BjelkePetersen’s progaganda machine, was announcing that the Queensland government would wait until after the South Australian elections before it decided from what party Milliner’s replacement would come. [More…]
It expressed a recognition of where the responsibility or the power for the appointment of a successor to fill a vacancy resided and the preference or view to which this Senate subscribes. [More…]
I suggest to him, however, that he does not rely on the force of such legal precedents, powerful as they may be, but that instead he should read the article in the Australian Financial Review to which I have referred and in which he will find a report from the New South Wales Corporate Affairs Commission in which it states, despite anything that Rex v. Kylsant may say, that it considered itself inhibited in prosecuting this particular person by the absence of the specific power to which I have referred and which, of course, will be repaired by the enactment of the Federal Bill which is at present buried in the Senate but which, I hope, will soon emerge from its burial place. [More…]
Naval transmitter building and power centre at Humpty Doo, Northern Territory. [More…]
It is an abuse of power. [More…]
I thought, and I am sure a lot of other members on this side of the chamber also thought, that we had got past the stage of the misuse of power and the intimidation to which we had grown accustomed under the former Leader of the Government in this place. [More…]
I thought it was a cause for some celebration when an event took place which meant he was no longer going to be in a position to hold that power. [More…]
We have just heard the fatuous comment by Senator Wright that there is no power under the Act for the Minister to obtain information which included names. [More…]
As Senator Cavanagh pointed out yesterday, that Act was drawn up by a Liberal Government, not by a Labor Government, and surely it must have been drawn up with the thought in mind that some day the Minister would use that power. [More…]
Is there anything improper about the use of a power that was drawn up by your own Government? [More…]
Accordingly, I do not need to be informed that many Koreans, Georgians, Austrians and Lithuanians were more active as torturers and executioners than the average national of the occupying power i.e. [More…]
Before this Government came into power social security payments were open for every collecting agent in Australia to see. [More…]
Whatever may be the doubts, I think that the course which is clearly to be taken is the course of assuming that the power of the Commonwealth to grant independence to its territories must be taken to be implied. [More…]
It would be, I think, an intolerable situation if the power were not to be there. [More…]
That is why I believe that whatever government is in power in Canberra, it has a responsibility to ensure that the new nation of Papua New Guinea does not become dependent on some other power. [More…]
If there is an election in the next couple of months Senator Wright will be out of this Parliament and in receipt of an age pension, so he will not have to worry about what Party is in power. [More…]
A great number of florid speeches have been made about this tremendously important occasion on which the people of Papua New Guinea are to have power transferred to them that will enable them to become independent. [More…]
Finally, there exists over the border in West Irian a menacing power. [More…]
Time should have been provided for a far longer discussion on matters relating to the transfer of power. [More…]
I now ask: Is the Minister aware that a number of mines on the western coalfields of New South Wales which supply steaming coal for electric power generation in Britain must face serious loss situations if forced to pay the $2 a tonne export levy? [More…]
Secondly, if so, under what power or authority and for what purpose is it proposed to acquire this equipment for a non-existent body? [More…]
It kept the companies in suspense, despite pleading from even the Labor Government which was in power at that time in Western Australia. [More…]
Therefore, we have this tragic situation in which a government came into power with its simple arithmetical system of 5 strings and 4 knots in each string with which they could come to some sort of complicated answer with a reasonable degree of accuracy and holding the belief that this country was rolling in money. [More…]
The Government came into power with the belief that this country was full of money. [More…]
I suggest that in this honest endeavour- and it was an emotional, honest endeavour by the Government when it came into power- to reform matters in the welfare and social structure all over the place- in the arts, in education and so on- it completely forgot that the money to pay for these things had to be found. [More…]
It is pleasing to note that on this occasion the standard rate of pension has been increased by a further $2.75, thus increasing the standard rate of pension to $38.75 compared with $20.50 when we came into power less than 3 years ago. [More…]
In this Senate resides the power to make a decisive determination as to whether the Budget is passed or not. [More…]
You would not believe it, Mr Acting Deputy President, if you looked at the vacant seats around me but the people entitled to occupy these seats have within their capacity the power to determine whether this Budget should be passed or not. [More…]
This Senate has the power to say whether or not any Bill that it presented to this Parliament shall be passed, including the Appropriation Bills which we refer to as the Budget and the Supply Bills which supply supplementary finance, as well as other substantive measures of Government policy. [More…]
Yet the Press of this country talks about whether the Senate has the constitutional power or authority to pass a Budget- poor little scribblers who take their information from yesterday’s newspaper. [More…]
As Senator Donald Cameron said, it is only the quarterly adjustment of the basic wage previously and the total wage now, to adjust the purchasing power of wages to the current level of prices. [More…]
a ) engine power at specified maximum speed [More…]
Under the Australian Telecommunications Commission Act and by-laws, which are the same as those which applied under the old Act and regulations relating to the Postal Department, there is power to grant approval for the use of various connector recorders. [More…]
There are other powers which may be administered by the Attorney-General under another Act, and I think that the question the honourable senator asks me covers an area into which I cannot intrude. [More…]
I do not know that the Australian Government would have the constitutional power to exercise any control over such an activity except possibly through the Prices Justification Tribunal. [More…]
The Workers Party advocates that Government power should be gradually reduced till the Government is responsible only for the defence of Australia (non-existent at present), for the protection of honest Australians against criminals (at present the police are handicapped by unnecessary laws which restrict individual freedom), and the maintenance of a legal system to protect individual liberty and the rights of individuals. [More…]
However, one does not have to be a Rhodes Scholar, like Mr Hawke, to work out that even with an increased pay packet the purchasing power of the dollar has greatly diminished. [More…]
But we are saying to you that what we want to do is take your spending power from you to spend on your behalf because we can do it better, more equitably and in a way that is more socially desirable. ‘ [More…]
But of course the budgetary power of government and the general influence of government over a statutory body is well known to honourable senators. [More…]
I repeat that I have never seen a mining company yet which has not had a great deal of bargaining power. [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…]
I generally believe if a government is elected to power in the Lower House, it 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…]
I feel that the people of my State would not be any happier if there were a change of government in light of the avowed policies which the Opposition has said it would implement if it were elected to power. [More…]
He stated that in the end result the Senate has a full power to reject any Bill, but he argues that the exercise of that power would create an impossible situation and would make popular government unworkable. [More…]
Unfortunately, in human nature there is the characteristic that when people come into a top position they like to feel very powerful; they do not like anyone to stand in their way. [More…]
He likes to think that he is a bit above even the supreme power. [More…]
When people have such lofty ideas of power, one realises that they do not like being frustrated. [More…]
The power of the Commonwealth was only in relation to export. [More…]
During the course of the inquiry, the Committee examined the international legal obligations on Australia as an administering power, as a background against which to consider the present and possible future involvement of the United Nations with Cocos and with Australia’s other island territories. [More…]
The Committee believes that Australia should not be in a hurry to force the islanders to choose any one option in preference to another and we hope that the Committee of Twenty-four will be amenable to the deferment of any kind of plebiscite for some years and will accept that, as the administering power, Australia is in the best position to assess the most appropriate time for such an act. [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…]
The Bill also amends the principal Act to extend the Corporation’s 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…]
Mr Fraser said: 1 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 Smith regime, representing about 280,000 Europeans of a total population of 6 million, holds power because the African population has no effective vote. [More…]
The cost flow-on will proceed in Australia through wage demands of workers producing coal for our internal use, whether it be for power generation or for steel production. [More…]
So indirectly the Minister is also forcing up the cost structure of power generation and steel making in Australia, and of all the residual products which follow. [More…]
For example, fluidised bed boilers are now being introduced into power houses. [More…]
If the Government wants to adopt more sophisticated techniques it should be looking now at what is called MHD, magnetohydrodynamic power generation. [More…]
It is estimated that we burned nearly 2 million tonnes of coal tar and 2 million tonnes of medium calorific gas in our power generation in Australia in 1973-74. [More…]
Let me state the matter this way: In our power generation we burned some 1 5 million tonnes of black coal. [More…]
Indeed, the simple situation at which we should be looking at this moment is the pretreatment by distillation of power station fuel which would enable us to remove the oil and gases as fractions and to use the char for the thermal generation. [More…]
The indirect effects are felt in the areas of freight, fares, power generation and, indeed, across a whole canvas of the Australian economy. [More…]
It may well be that in 10 years or 1 5 years- more or less- coal may find itself under very severe competition in the energy producing sector from all sorts of other sources such as nuclear power, water, solar radiation and so on down the line. [More…]
Why does not the Opposition use the power that it has under section 53 of the Constitution to request amendments? [More…]
Of course, the Australian Government has the power to enforce that situation. [More…]
Government, and particularly of its AttorneyGeneral, Mr Enderby, over the last couple of weeks, it has been aimed at establishing in some curious way an argument that the Senate has no power to reject a money Bill, yet today we heard Senator Everett, speaking on behalf of the Government, trying to encourage the Opposition to do just that, to reject these measures. [More…]
That honourable senator was the State Secretary of the Australian Labor Party in Queensland at the time when the Australian Labor Party was in power in that State and had a policy that all of Queensland’s development was to be based upon agriculture. [More…]
Thiess Peabody Mitsui, which employs 1000 men at Moura, a town very close to Biloela and which has had an effect on the Biloela economy, spent a total of $.721m on infrastructure $.077m on power and water and $0,382 m on the town itself. [More…]
The company has spent $20m on power and water and $20m on its towns. [More…]
Section 52 of the Constitution gives the Parliament exclusive power to make laws for the peace, order and good government of the Commonwealth with respect to places acquired by the Commonwealth for public purposes. [More…]
Under the Statutory power afforded by the Australian National Railways Act, the Commission’s liability for damage which occurs would not be absolute, but would be dependent upon negligence being proved against it or its servants. [More…]
As honourable senators on the Government side will appreciate Mr Ken Bur.dolph the Labor member for the Legislative Council found out in his fight with the New South Wales Government that the courts have no power to compel any Parliament to do this or to agree at any specific time to do any item of work. [More…]
But he did not tell the Senate who was in power in the Commonwealth Government. [More…]
The results for South Australia, where 57 per cent of people favoured a Federal take-over of the railways, are particularly interesting because of the recent State election, which was precipitated by this issue and which resulted in the return of Labor to power in that State. [More…]
So I am saying that under the provisions of the Agreement the Australian National Railways is given power to operate services that are incidental or supplementary to or are operated in association with the railways. [More…]
It does not give the Australian Government power to regulate road haulage in the States. [More…]
He provoked Miss Reid by some outrageous statements concerning the variety of women’s organisations which have been sponsored and assisted by this Government since it came to power. [More…]
It was an action condemned by the people of this country as being a disgraceful misuse of excessive power. [More…]
We have a great power in this Parliament which can be misused and can cause great damage to people. [More…]
Like the law of many other countries, the Australian law includes a provision to the effect that where a business carried on in Australia is effectively controlled or conducted by non-residents, and it appears to the Commissioner of Taxation that the business produces either no taxable income or less income than might be expected, the Commissioner has power to determine the amount of total receipts on which the business is to be liable to Australian tax. [More…]
The constitutional power of the [More…]
The view of the Australian Government remains that, as the sovereign power, the responsibility to retrieve the situation in Portuguese Timor rests with Portugal. [More…]
The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary defines an anarchist as: ‘One who admits of no ruling power; an advocate of anarchy; one who upsets settled order’. [More…]
If, in fact, she is a cautious anarchist, we could assume that rather than being one who admits of no ruling power, she is more likely to be one who upsets settled order. [More…]
In contrast, during the time that the Allende Government was in power in Chile, from September 1970 to September 1973, the Opposition, then in Government, admitted 4343 people from Chile. [More…]
It ought to be recalled that the Labor Party came to office in 1972 on 49.6 per cent of the first preference vote and that it retained power in May 1974 after the double dissolution of Parliament with 49.3 per cent of the first preference vote. [More…]
But I become somewhat sick and tired of being preached at and moralised at as to how we must abide by the conventions when at each and every turn since the Government came to power it has insisted upon its legal rights. [More…]
As Senator Davidson said in the debate on the Railways Agreement (South Australia) Bill the other day, before the Labor Government came into power he could make arrangements to travel by train with some comfort, but since the Labor Government came into office in South Australia he has to travel with everybody else in discomfort. [More…]
As the Leader of the Opposition (Senator Withers) said in his opening address in this debate, the evidence of the most recent elections in this country, percentage-wise and seat-wise, has suggested on 2 occasions in the last 3 years that a vote of slightly less than 50 per cent has produced a government in power with slightly more than 50 per cent of the seats. [More…]
One of the great philosophies on which Labor came into power was that Labor would see that there was no unemployment. [More…]
Labor has been in power for some Vh years. [More…]
What has happened not only when Labor has been able to nominate the Distribution Commissioners but also when it has had within its power, as the Federal Government has, complete control over an area such as the Northern Territory? [More…]
that although it was within the power of the Labor Party to appoint the Distribution Commissioners, to lay down the criteria as to how the Commissioners would break up the area, and to review all the decisions to see whether what the Commissioners were doing was fair and correct in the Northern Territory, what do we find? [More…]
Those parties have misused this chamber in the great game of power politics so often that it has become monotonous. [More…]
Honourable senators opposite have prostituted the powers of the Senate so many times that people outside the chamber are rapidly coming around to the stage that they hope the Senate will disappear forever and that everybody on that side of the Senate will go with it. [More…]
Honourable senators opposite receive directions from a certain small, powerful group to act in this matter. [More…]
That gentleman has been able to cling to power in that State because he has proved himself to be a past master at distorting all electoral boundaries in that State. [More…]
For 3 years this great upholder of the freedom of the country, this great upholder of the freedom of the electoral laws was able to cling to power as the leader of the majority party because he was able to secure at the previous poll the total of 19 per cent of the votes. [More…]
If that is not a distortion and the adoption of a dictatorial attitude in order to cling to power 1 would like to know what is. [More…]
But if it were a fact- it is not a fact- how can he justify the right of the Country Party to be able to hold power in a State Government for 3 years with 19 per cent of the vote. [More…]
Although he was supported by only a minority of the people he was able to cling to power because of the distortion of political boundaries. [More…]
But our dishonest political opponents thieve votes, thieve power and thieve office by manipulating the electors. [More…]
This power hungry man, this Premier who remains in power on a small percentage handful of the votes, is in the situation in which he is able to thumb his nose at authority, thumb his nose at convention, thumb his nose at the Constitution and thumb his nose at the law. [More…]
Having achieved that power, if this country is unfortunate enough to see it, they will carry out the very thing that they say now they will not do. [More…]
They thought that they would be able to stay in power until they retired on their pensions in due course. [More…]
This country merely became an appendage of powerful groups and powerful countries. [More…]
But it would not have mattered which party was in power; it would have had to contend with the same problems. [More…]
The Government is reducing the power, authority and influence of Parliament in the country, and it must take the responsibility for reducing the office of Parliament, the influence of Parliament and the institution of Parliament. [More…]
Liberal Party in Victoria had the guts to join with the Labor Party and throw the Country Party out of power. [More…]
Under its system electoral boundaries should be drawn in such a manner that it would be able to attain government itself or as an appendage- the tail wagging the dog- in the federal sphere or in the State sphere by virtue of its balance of power. [More…]
Then we hear this nonsense that we have rigged the redistribution to keep ourselves in power. [More…]
Let him go outside this chamber and say that the electoral officer for the seat of Corio succumbed to pressure from this Government to gerrymander the electoral boundaries of that seat so that we would stay in power. [More…]
Opposition senators are absolutely certain in their own minds that if they get into power they can put into effect a gerrymander which will keep Labor out of office for all time. [More…]
I have demonstrated step by step that the Labor Party’s electoral laws would corrupt the system, destroy the democratic vote and entrench itself in power. [More…]
An example has been proven that no party will hold office or power of privilege forever. [More…]
So presumably Senator Wood does believe that his electors in the city of Brisbane should have less power in determining national policy, less say in such legislation as an ombudsman Bill, which Senator Hall cited as an example. [More…]
Since he declined to accept Senator Hall’s invitation, I assume that Senator Wood believes that the electors of Brisbane should have less influence and less power in governing Australia than the electors of Horsham or Stawell. [More…]
What the Tonkin Government was able to do in respect of electoral reform was constrained at all times by the existence of that blatantly gerrymandered and reactionary Upper House, which I should hasten to add misused its power on some 28 or 29 occasions, I think it was, during the existence of the Tonkin Government. [More…]
Honourable senators opposite allege that the proposals are deliberately designed and concocted to keep Labor in power forever or to give Labor, at the very least, a grossly unfair advantage in any ensuing election. [More…]
The degree to which voting power is malapportioned in the State parliaments does vary quite considerably. [More…]
This Government seems to have had a preoccupation since it came to power with trying to remain in office. [More…]
No matter what it does I doubt whether it will be able to stay in power. [More…]
Although the Government has been in office for nearly 3 years it still has this preoccupation with trying to make sure that it stays in power. [More…]
Members of the Government have become used to having their big cars and the power of ministerial positions. [More…]
In my opinion, it is a dishonest attempt by the Government to ensure that it will stay in power, although the people of this country do not want it. [More…]
I do not think the Tasmanian people would be very pleased if I did anything that might help ensure Mr Neilsen remaining in power any longer than is necessary. [More…]
Now that the Government is in a mess electorally I think it will do anything and it will spend all its time, if necessary, in attempting to stay in power. [More…]
As I have said, I believe that Bills like the ones that we are discussing are being brought in purely to keep Labor in power. [More…]
We have had opposition on all these matters simply because they go to the very heart of the Opposition’s philosophy as a political party, to its survival and to the question of power. [More…]
The Labor Party came to power in 1972 with a clear policy that it would redistribute electorates to reduce the inequalities between them. [More…]
It was that if the Labor Party were re-elected to power it would proceed with its proposals for the redistribution of electorates. [More…]
a country in which all people have equal power to decide who will govern. [More…]
It is something that this country has never been before- a country in which all people have equal power to decide who will govern. [More…]
It is a law which would make this country something it has never been before, a country in which all people would have equal power to decide who will govern. [More…]
It is saying, in contradistinction to the point which was made in the article in the Melbourne Age newspaper to which I referred, that it believes in a country in which all people have an unequal power to decide who will govern. [More…]
It is saying that people have an unequal power. [More…]
Section 5 1 (iv) of the Constitution provides that the Parliament shall have power to make laws with respect to ‘borrowing money on the public credit of the Commonwealth ‘. [More…]
Section 5 1 ( vi) of the Constitution provides that the Parliament shall have power to make laws with respect to the defence of the Commonwealth. [More…]
In the 3 years in which this Government has been in power we have seen it do many things. [More…]
When we have a change of government they will have the confidence that back in power will be a government which led this country for 23 years and which had a record of achievement in development that took place in Australia, which tragically in the last 3 years has slowed down to an absolute dead stop. [More…]
Following the accident, an interim restriction of 100 hours flying time was placed on all engines in service, pending an investigation of the cause of the engine failure which had resulted from a failure of a bolt in the power turbine area. [More…]
It is rather a distant time to ask honourable senators to recall some words in a speech of mine in May, but I do take leave to remind honourable senators that when speaking in the debate on the motion for the second reading of this Bill I adumbrated this amendment and referred to it as invoking the powers of the Inter-State Commission for particular benefit from the point of view of Tasmania. [More…]
It will be recalled that the Constitution provides that the Inter-State Commission is there ‘to execute and maintain’ the words of the Constitution all the provisions of the Constitution relating to interstate trade and all the federal laws that have been made in exercise of that power ‘to execute and maintain’, whatever that means. [More…]
But it is a constitutional body that is not beholden to either the Commonwealth Government or the State Government and is therefore the only body in the Constitution of an executive nature that has a power to override divisions between a State and the Commonwealth. [More…]
Therefore if the body is to be set up with that power it can be of particular benefit to one region of the Commonwealth that has been sorely bereft of any efficiency in services of transport hitherto, particularly maritime services. [More…]
He rang the editor of the Melbourne Age and put before him the proposition that the Budget documents were shonky; in fact the deficit would be at least $5,000m; there were certain public servants who were so enamoured of this Labor Government that they would stop at nothing, including the falsification of the estimates of Government expenditure, to try to keep it in power. [More…]
Just to fill in the record completely, a Liberal-Country Party Government was in power in December 1971 and had been for 2 years when we had record inflation of 25. [More…]
-I think it is the normal role of an Opposition to try to get any government out of power. [More…]
It seems to me that paragraph (b) of the amendment in particular simply could not be made to work without a power to make legally binding orders. [More…]
I would also observe that paragraph (b) would have the potential of making the InterState Commission the most powerful statutory body in Australia. [More…]
The clause would give the Commission the power to make or break shipping operations without the responsibility for its decisions. [More…]
It is normal for Oppositions to exercise this investigatory power, but the degree to which and the emotion with which they have exercised it on this occasion spells disaster for the Australian community. [More…]
It will be a most difficult time for whichever party happens to be in power. [More…]
Under this Bill, the Financial Agreement- that is, the agreement between the Commonwealth and the States on the ability to borrow and the limit of the borrowing- restricts the Commonwealth’s power to borrow. [More…]
He also said that wherever Labor comes to power there is disaster in its trail. [More…]
-If Senator Webster, that giant of economists, can tell us, when his government comes to power, at any moment in the fiscal year within $300m, $400m or $500m what the deficit will be- of course he will have a deficit as I will demonstrate- he will be a very surprising figure as far as I am concerned. [More…]
When honourable senators opposite get their hands on the power for which they are so greedy we will be very interested to see what sort of wages policy they have. [More…]
I suggest that they should on the eve of resorting to this bushranger grab for power- which I understand is to be announced by the would-be Prime Minister at any moment- pause to contemplate the consequences of what they are about to do. [More…]
I had hoped that the people- even the conservatives who believe that it is outrageous that they have to cede power to a social democratic party, even for one termwould be long sighted enough to learn something from the lessons of history and that they would realise that to tear up the rule book and to deny the democratic processes is to invite disaster. [More…]
I think the Opposition would be very naive to believe that once having created the precedent- in fact it has been created twice because if we remove the euphemisms that surrounded last year’s events, there was, in effect, a refusal of Supply- it will be very difficult to persuade any party in this country which gets an adventitious majority in this Senate in the future not to use its power to throw it out of office. [More…]
But in saying this, I would like to say that they must not interpret from anything that I have said- if I may adopt the words of their leader- anything which indicates any intention on our part to hand power to them on a plate. [More…]
All it wants is power. [More…]
I think it was never intended- I hope to have something to say on this matter during the debate on the Appropriation Bills- that the Senate should be in the position where it uses its power for the purpose of stopping supply. [More…]
Under section 53 of the Constitution if the Senate has the power to reject a money Bill we could justify the exercise of that power if a Budget or an Appropriation Bill were introduced which would give an unequal allocation of funds to one State, to the deprivation of the smaller States. [More…]
So the House of Representatives can be dissolved by the effluxion of time or because of the power which resides in the Governor-General. [More…]
The Opposition will give the Senate power to decide that there should be an election of the House of Representatives. [More…]
It has no power to do this. [More…]
This power was never intended for the Senate. [More…]
It is a power which should not be exercised by the Senate. [More…]
It somewhat negates section 7 of the Constitution which provides only 2 reasons for dissolution, namely, the effluxion of time or the exercise of the power of the Governor-General. [More…]
But the Opposition has reached the stage in its wanderings, in its lust for power and in its desire to get power at any price that it will break all convention no matter what the cost. [More…]
Honourable senators opposite uphold themselves as the power and as the Government. [More…]
They are interested in Senate power. [More…]
For that reason we have seen the process today whereby the Opposition must get power at any price. [More…]
The Government’s position is: ‘You are not getting power’. [More…]
This Government came to power on the promise of open government. [More…]
It has been so obsessed with power for power’s sake that it has forgotten how to govern. [More…]
The very fact that he is so determined to cling to power makes it all the more necessary for him to be driven to the polls. [More…]
The Senate was given the power to reject a money Bill quite deliberately. [More…]
The fact that they are prepared to do this for the first time since Federation and virtually force not just the Australian Government to its knees but also the Australian people to their knees in order to obtain power 1 8 months after this Government was elected for a 3-year period shows the nature of the people who would seek power m this Parliament today. [More…]
In essence it is a mad grab for power, and that is the key to it. [More…]
I just want to say a few words about the culmination of this rather tedious competition of search for power in the Australian Parliament. [More…]
When we need, above all in Australia, a unifying consensus of thought we have a political leader who will snatch power and divide the country irrevocably in so doing. [More…]
Would they think this is another attempt by the coalition for a grab for power?’ [More…]
The Leader of the Opposition is taking the worst of all paths to power, one which I can tell him from some experience and observation in South Australia, will lead to his undoing. [More…]
There is no way that a party can filch power from a populace which can vote every 3 years and which, on some occasions, is forced to vote at more frequent intervals. [More…]
I suspect, of course, that in their impatience they speak for their own lust for power, which is so evident in the public statements which cannot be given as the reasons they have acted in this way. [More…]
Only 4 months after the election that course was embarked upon in what has been described and has gone down in history as a grab for power. [More…]
We are forced into that position by the Leader of the Opposition in the House of Representatives (Mr Malcolm Fraser) who came to power as a man of principle over a man who was not regarded as being a man of principle. [More…]
Again the country is to be disrupted by this sort of grab for power. [More…]
Whatever you do, do not run away with the idea that successful business organisations can exist only when a Liberal-Country Party government is in power. [More…]
In the end result, the Senate has a full power of rejecting any Bill but argues that the exercise of the power would create an impossible situation and would make popular government unworkable. [More…]
The fact that Senator Murphy used this power to knock over a money Bill, which cost the then Government $70m in loss of revenue - [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 . [More…]
Why will the Government not turn over its power to the people who are the masters of us all and call an immediate election? [More…]
My information is that the new engines will provide additional power giving the jumbos a greater range and reliability and a higher carrying capacity. [More…]
When the Australian Government came to power in 1972 it inherited a statutory authority called the National Urban and Regional Development Authority, or NURDA. [More…]
So far as I am concerned, the Constitution gave us the power. [More…]
No Senate can use that power irresponsibly, continuously. [More…]
What would happen if this Senate used that power irresponsibly and time after time the people re-elected the Government and said to the Opposition, ‘You did the wrong thing’. [More…]
Their earning power in real terms now is not capable, in many cases, of servicing the debt structure they have now, let alone the debt structure they need to get back to a line ball. [More…]
I want to establish merely that the Government has the right and the responsibility to remain in power, despite the postponement of the appropriations, a move which is succeeding as a result of the death of a Government senator. [More…]
The legislative power of the Commonwealth shall be vested in a Federal Parliament, which shall consist of the Queen - [More…]
What most people forget and what the Opposition refuses to accept is that the 3 parts of this trinity do not have equal powers. [More…]
While it has been generally believed that they have equal power, section 53, which makes provision for some restriction of the Senate’s power in respect of money Bills, concludes by stating that in all other respects the Senate has equal power with the House of Representatives in relation to Bills and only in relation to Bills. [More…]
But we find that section 57, which provides for a double dissolution, gives power only to the House of Representatives to initiate legislation and to the Senate to reject legislation and the House of Representatives again to initiate the same legislation. [More…]
This is a power that embraces both Houses of the Parliament. [More…]
Whereas section 128 gives power to both Houses of Parliament section 57 does not because section 57 touches upon the dismissal of a government. [More…]
Nowhere is this power given to the Senate. [More…]
Whilst section 53 is interpreted as giving the Senate right to reject legislation, I do not know whether it was ever envisaged that a government might have to resign as a result of the Senate using that power. [More…]
All of these were held at the request of the Prime Minister of the day who asked the Governor-General to exercise his power. [More…]
The Prime Minister does not have the power to dissolve the Parliament. [More…]
Mr Ellicott recognises that there is no alternative but for the Governor-General to ask the Government for its resignation because the Senate has taken power which is reserved to the Governor-General. [More…]
The Senate has become another power. [More…]
It is reasonable to suggest that section 53 was intended- and can reasonably be read that way- to give the Senate power to reject. [More…]
I do not agree with the theory of the present Attorney-General (Mr Enderby) that because we have not used the power, we have lost the power. [More…]
Suppose for example that the States complain that the Commonwealth is using its legislative powers in a manner which can be accommodated within the literal words of the Constitution but has the intention and effect of substantially diminishing the legislative powers of the States. [More…]
The substantial issue thereby raised is whether the shift in the balance of legislative power should be allowed to take place, at all events in this fashion, or not. [More…]
These include: whether it was originally intended that the Commonwealth should be able by unilateral action to bring about such a change otherwise than by formal amendment of the Constitution; if not, whether there is any such ground for departing from the original intention as factual changes in the relative responsibilities of the Commonwealth and the States, or in the place of Australia in the international community, or in economic and social developments since federation; and whether as a general principle legislative powers can be used to attain ends unrelated to the purpose of the power. [More…]
In 1964 in Lansell v. Lansell Menzies J. expressed an identical point of view in relation to the matrimonial causes power of Constitution s. SI (22): ‘It is right, in construing a grant of power, to ascertain as a starting point at least what the words used in the Constitution meant in 1901 when the Constitution was enacted - [More…]
This is the important point- but it is quite another thing to attempt to confine the legislative power of the Parliament to making the kind of laws then in existence’. [More…]
In that suggestion he is giving to a third tier power to dismiss the House of Representatives as a government. [More…]
The question now before us is whether we have the right to give a certain House of Parliament the power to dismiss a government. [More…]
May it not be that under present social conditions it is necessary for the interpreting authority to read into the provision that we do not have this power? [More…]
But if, on the other hand, the people of Australia are dissatisfied with the course which this country is taking, are dissatisfied with the performance of this Government and show by their vote that they want a change and that they want permanency and honesty in government, why should those in power at the moment deny to the people the opportunity of making that decision? [More…]
What moral right do members of the Senate have to refrain from giving to the electors- the ordinary people of this country- the right to change the Government and to change the direction in which this country is moving when they have given to them the power to provide that opportunity? [More…]
I have never changed or flinched from my acceptance of the fact that when we were elected in 1974 those who were given the majority in the House of Representatives were given the mandate to govern and those who were given the numbers in this Senate with the power to qualify that power of judgment were given it for a purpose. [More…]
The Senate has the undoubted power to reject or to delay the Bills which are before us. [More…]
Contrary again to what the Prime Minister stated yesterday, the Senate does have a power, if it chooses to exercise it, to amend certain money Bills. [More…]
It certainly has the power to reject or to defer. [More…]
Recently, the Attorney-General (Mr Enderby) said that the Senate did not have that power and suggested that the Governor-General might be asked to pass into law Bills which had passed only one chamber. [More…]
It is quite clear also from other authorities that the Senate has this power. [More…]
Those learned authors of the annotated notes to our Constitution, Sir John Quick and Sir Robert Garran, have said that the Senate has coordinate power with the House of Representatives to pass all Bills or to reject all Bills. [More…]
The real question is: When should the Senate exercise this power? [More…]
It was the principle which any Opposition Party which had power in one chamber had to the people of Australia. [More…]
That need to weigh these 2 principles and to make a decision responsibly is surely the only way in which the Senate can view the exercise of this immense power which it has. [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…]
In earlier times the Labor Party had relied upon that power and had sought to use it. [More…]
The fact that the power to withhold Supply has seldom been used is fairly simply explained. [More…]
It is absolutely pointless to use arguments about the House of Lords because it was the Parliament Act of 1 9 1 1 in England which expressly took away the power of the House of Lords to reject money Bills. [More…]
Section 49 of the Constitution gives to this Senate the powers, privileges and immunities not of the House of Lords but of the House of Commons. [More…]
The Senate had the power to do so; there was no convention preventing it using that power and that was that. [More…]
When professors of law contend that while the Senate has explicit power to refuse Supply, it should seldom if ever exercise that power, they are offering a political judgment, not a legal one. [More…]
There are 2 competing principles of great validity but we have reached the stage where in the view that the Opposition holds as to the fate of this country if it continues under the present Government, we should use our power responsibly. [More…]
We should use it not to change the Government by the power which we have in this place but to give to the ultimate judges the right to decide, and if there is an element of reiteration in that point I hope it will be reiterated throughout the country that what is being done is affording the people the opportunity to judge and what Mr Whitlam is doing is frustrating that opportunity being given to the people. [More…]
We seek to use the power vested in us by the Constitution to delay the passage of the Government’s money Bills through the Senate until the Parliament goes to the people. [More…]
I said- and I want it corrected in the record simply so that it cannot be used on the basis that Senator Steele Hall’s remark went unchallenged- that the issue was a decision between 2 principles, the principle of continuity in government, which is a sound principle, and the other principle that where you have the power then you have got to think of the country and what is in the country’s interests. [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 partially completed forms. [More…]
The Commission operates without respect to State boundaries or powers of States and the Commonwealth and therefore would have power to organise its work so as not to be dependent upon a decision of either a State government or the Federal Government. [More…]
The mainland States have alternative forms of transport, and Tasmania’s trade has been bedevilled now for years for the want of some authority with the requisite power to organise timetables, to inquire into the economics of transport, and to see that timetables are observed and freight rates applied on a proper economic basis. [More…]
I have taken the Inter-State Commission here as the repository of the power because it seems to me desirable to divorce industrial government as much as possible from politics and, therefore, to put it in the hands of the Inter-State Commission. [More…]
As regards the industrial questions which are bound up in the amendment, it seems to me, as I have mentioned before, that the amendment is just too powerful. [More…]
Paragraph (b) of Senator Wright’s amendment is the most powerful part of the amendment. [More…]
I would think that in other days the Australian Labor Party would have been glad to have such a power as is proposed in paragraph (b), which states: [More…]
That would be a very strong socialised power. [More…]
I think that even if we said we had to have that power to do what Senator Wright wants to do, no Parliament would accept such a wide and strong power, vested in that way. [More…]
While we are giving the Commission that additional power, I feel we should be giving it also additional power to examine whether this bridge should be rebuilt. [More…]
I believe that the Tasman Bridge Restoration Commission should have the power to investigate whether the Tasman Bridge should be rebuilt and to recommend, if necessary, the construction of a bridge of a different style. [More…]
Under this Bill, the Director-General of Health and his three faceless men in the pricing bureau would have huge powers. [More…]
I wonder how constitutional it is that these 3 bureaucrats should have the power to fix prices when government price fixing is not included in the Constitution and was rejected at the last referendum. [More…]
It knows the costs of power. [More…]
I do not look at any one person in particular, because I believe that there are persons on Bills- I Opposition benches who are capable of acquiring principles for the purpose of assisting the nation to be extricated from this constitutional crisis into which it has been plunged by the blatant and premature grab for power by power-hungry members of the National Country Party- I put them first, Senator Webster- and the Liberals in the Senate. [More…]
The Bill also contains some other important limitations on the power of the corporation. [More…]
I advise the honourable senator that I have received a communication from Mr Laurie Power, the head of the Canberra Bureau of United Telecasters Sydney Ltd which reads as follows: [More…]
Laurie Power Head of Bureau [More…]
-I do not think Senator Greenwood is as concerned about the constitutionality of the situation and the procedures of democracy as he is about getting into power. [More…]
No telephones in the vicinity were reported as being faulty following the storm, and there were no problems caused at the power transformers in the street nearby. [More…]
The engineers reported to me that the telephone operated by the lady was located near a stainless steel sink in the kitchen, and they believe that there may have been a power static electric charge which passed from the lady’s hair to earth via the sink, which could have appeared to be caused by lightning. [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…]
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…]
There can be no doubt about the Senate’s powers in this matter. [More…]
In his last desperate bid to keep power in his own hands, the Prime Minister will do everything he can to maintain an artificial atmosphere of crisis and, as usual, he is determined to deceive. [More…]
An incompetent government, one incapable of telling the truth, one blinded by power to its responsibilities comprised of a ministry whose members have not the confidence of the Prime Minister himself- and who have no confidence in him- is still responsible to the [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 . [More…]
The Prime Minister has already made it clear that he will do everything in his power to disrupt the economy. [More…]
We know quite well that since it came to power the Labor Government has been challenged by that group of Opposition senators who have set out by every means in their power to frustrate the work of the Parliament. [More…]
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 the responsibility of its actions, in all proposed laws passed by the House of Representatives. [More…]
But what they are doing is adopting an expedient attitude which is based upon the march to power by Mr Fraser. [More…]
That great challenger who deposed John Gorton and Mr Snedden comes to power as Leader of the Opposition and sets up a great campaign by marvellous and expensive measures, backed by lots of people who have many millions of dollars, to take charge of the country. [More…]
It has the power to govern, and the Senate ought to reconsider the matter. [More…]
They are not merely holding up a government, because it is not just an ordinary challenge for power. [More…]
It is amazing to me that the great advocates of parliamentary democracy over the years, the people who challenged all the new revolutionary movements in other parts of the world and talked about the Red thrust from South East Asia, from Saigon, about the danger to parliamentary democracy and about the great powers of the trade unions, should now seek to use a power which is badly based. [More…]
It is not based on the power of the Senate, properly represented from the States; it has been distorted in the way that we have indicated. [More…]
But again in this Parliament today, knowing what could happen in Australia, the Opposition attempts to push the Government out of power. [More…]
The Government will not be pushed put of power. [More…]
Yet the Opposition tries again, as some people said it ought to try, to get Labor out of power. [More…]
Of course, some of them want to chase the power of government. [More…]
The propositions contained in the amendment mean nothing to me but deception- the use of words to try to convey to the people that the Opposition is not seeking power but that it wants parliamentary democracy. [More…]
I say that the power used by the Opposition is badly based- it is distorted. [More…]
If that is the case, if it is presently a partly corrupt power, it should not be used in the way the Opposition is using it. [More…]
Every time Labor gets into power it sets out on a course of great welfare programs, as honourable senators well know. [More…]
It would now appear that from the start he was setting course on what is now a contest for power. [More…]
The critics expound and expand in the area of the power of the Prime Minister to control his Ministers, or not to control them. [More…]
I agree most strongly with his statement that no democratic government should take an action, in the situation promoted by this Opposition, to give away power. [More…]
The founding fathers recognised that there could well come a time when such a circumstance might occur, and the Senate’s power and responsibility were written deliberately into the Constitution. [More…]
The power exists, and because this Government is the worst government since Federation, because it is dishonest, because it is disastrously inefficient, because it has brought this country to the edge of economic chaos, the Senate Opposition, in company with the Opposition in the House of Representatives, is using the means and the responsibility provided for it in the Constitution to do one thing and one thing alone, that is, to ask the people of Australia to judge whether this is a good or a bad government- who shall deny it the right to do this in a democracy? [More…]
Not only does this power exist, but the most eager people to use it over the past 2 decades have been the members of the Australian Labor Party. [More…]
The most eager person to advocate it, both in its use and its philosophy, is the present Prime Minister, Mr Whitlam, who saw it as a necessary and a correct use of power by an opposition. [More…]
The fact that the power exists is beyond dispute. [More…]
Indeed, the present Leader of the Government in the Senate, Senator Wriedt, in response to a question asked of him, agreed and affirmed that he and his colleagues had used that power in the past. [More…]
Instead of denying the power, he said it is a question of judgment whether or not the circumstances merited its use. [More…]
The second allegation that needs to be analysed runs something like this: The money power in a democracy ought not to lie in an upper House; that if it does, the evolution of the Westminster system suggests that it ought not to and the only reason it still lies in our Constitution is that we have not got around to amending the power. [More…]
Those who as lawyers look to constitutional matters should go back to the Constitutional debates and they will understand that the constitutional fathers deliberately pondered upon upper houses overseas and their limited powers and constructed an upper House here with powers specifically given to it, including this power which is now being used. [More…]
Of course, the principle of Parliament is this: The power of the purse, the power to tax the people and to control the taxes of the people should lie within the Parliament and should lie within the power of the elected people of the Parliament- not that it should lie in the Commons or the lower House, but that it should lie within the hands of those who are democratically elected, whether in the lower House or whether in the upper House. [More…]
The whole principle of Federation and of this Parliament is based on the fact that the States would not agree to Federation unless there were a Senate interlocking in equal numbers each of the States and giving to that Senate virtually coequal power with the House of Representatives. [More…]
Of course, it is quite clear that, with the exception of the lack of power to amend a money Bill, section 53 of the Constitution specifically provides in part: [More…]
Except as provided in this section, the Senate shall have equal power with the House of Representatives in respect to all proposed laws. [More…]
I repeat that if that power is given then there is a co-equal responsibility in looking at that power. [More…]
The simple situation is this: The Commonwealth Constitution gives the power to the Parliament to bring about a cessation of Supply specifically for the purpose of bringing a government to the people. [More…]
It is now being said, of course, that this is really just a tactic of the Opposition to seize power. [More…]
How does an Opposition seize power? [More…]
When the Whitlam Government was elected it was, in its own euphemism, transferred to power because it had a glorious and devine right to govern, but if the Opposition were to be given a mandate to govern it would be, in the Government’s words, seizing power. [More…]
Not only is the power there in the Commonwealth Constitution but also there is the concomitant responsibility for an Opposition to use that power if the Opposition fels that the government is so bad that the continuation of that Government in office would be disastrous for the people of Australia. [More…]
Honourable senators opposite talk about the Opposition wanting, as an expedient tactic, to seize power. [More…]
This is no question of a seizure of power; this is an understanding of one important thing in the Constitution, that is, that if there is a power in the Constitution that gives a responsibility to an alternative government and that if an alternative government sat here and did nothing in the face of that power it would have abdicated its responsibility. [More…]
Ought not the people of Australia to say one simple thing to us, and that is: ‘You knew all this in November and December; you knew it was going to happen; you knew that there was going to be disaster; you knew ways of stopping or mitigating this and you did nothing in the knowledge that the Constitution has written into it the responsibility as well as the power to do something’. [More…]
So do not let us have any more of the nonsense that is being talked about this being a reckless bid for power. [More…]
Let me repeat again that Mr Whitlam, the former Senator Murphy and every Labor Party member of the Senate has tried to use that power here many times and has not resiled from it in any way. [More…]
The point I am making is that the Opposition is anxious to get into power to stifle the various social security initiatives which we have taken. [More…]
It is suggesting that the Government has to surrender power in the middle of a particular program and simply shut up shop. [More…]
The Opposition and the big powerful monopolies behind it think that they can take a short cut to office in the same way as occurred in Greece, in Germany after World War I or in Chile. [More…]
The compact of Federation in the formation of this great nation was that there would be an Australian Senate, and I believe that, without contest, the Australian Senate now has the powers to deal with all Bills and to deal especially with money Bills in the way in which it is dealing with them at the present time. [More…]
A day or two ago a headline appeared in the Press which stated that the Prime Minister will curb the power of the Senate. [More…]
The day before that, he was suggesting that we did not have the power. [More…]
He seems again to be overlooking that it is the Australian people who will alter the Australian Constitution and not an action from the Prime Minister who decides that he will change the powers and curb the powers of the Australian Senate as they exist. [More…]
It is our understanding that Parliament must have the supreme power over the actions of the Government as it appropriates the funds of the people of this country. [More…]
Even in Western Australia, where we have our own natural disaster in Sir Charles Court as Premier, it has never been envisaged that an upper House had the power to refuse Supply. [More…]
The House of Lords has no power over money Bills. [More…]
So there is no real parallel between the House of Lords and its powers and the Australian Senate in this Parliament. [More…]
The Prime Minister has said that the Constitution did not envisage the Senate to have this power. [More…]
However, there are many views, both from within the Labor Party and from outside the political scene altogether, which suggest that it most certainly does have the powers that it claims- the powers that are rightly the powers of the people of Australia. [More…]
The Senate has co-ordinate power with the House of Representatives to pass all Bills or to reject all Bills. [More…]
That is a pretty clear indication of the power of the Senate. [More…]
They are his reflections on the power and right of the Senate to reject a money Bill. [More…]
The Senate has co-ordinate power with the House of Representatives to pass all Bills or to reject all Bills. [More…]
The only restrictions on the exercise by the Senate of financial powers are the restraint which it traditionally exercises, and the electoral sanction. [More…]
A Senate which used its power capriciously could suffer only one fate, punishment at the ballot box - [More…]
So it becomes quite evident from a wide range of opinions from outside the Parliament and from opinions of senior members within the Australian Labor Party that the Senate has the power and on proper occasions the duty to take the action that it proposes to take at this point. [More…]
I want to suggest that we will find as we look at the past 3 years that there has to be a relationship between the problems that beset this land now and the attitude of the socialist Government when it came to power- an attitude that seemed to be driven by the desire to implement an ideology rather than an economic and social system. [More…]
But to come to power and suddenly to wipe 25 per cent off tariffs across the board is a totally irresponsible action. [More…]
Foreign investment was attacked tremendously vigorously by this Government when it came to power; so much so that it implemented a 33.1/3 per cent deposit requirement with the Reserve Bank of Australia. [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…]
They might ponder also that a normal general election would have been due in December had they not unwisely sought a premature return to power last year. [More…]
It is the question of the supremacy of Parliament against Executive power. [More…]
The Constitution was drafted to provide a balancing of power. [More…]
The Senate has powers to provide that balance if and when it decides to exercise them. [More…]
The Constitution was drafted to give the Senate equal powers, with one small exception, to those of the House of Representatives. [More…]
The Senate has a power to reject money Bills; it has a power to reject Appropriation Bills. [More…]
It has decided to exercise that power, and not all of the huffing and puffing of a dictatorial Prime Minister nor of a beleaguered government can prevent the democratic process from proceeding. [More…]
The Premier of New South Wales has shown that the system of giving suggestion involves this: that the Senate will, and indeed should, consider the full details of Money Bills, that it is their duty to go into them because they have the power of giving suggestions, and that being so, and if these suggestions are not acceded to, there is a great danger of a deadlock arising, a danger which never arose before. [More…]
It is quite untrue, as Mr Barton says, that deadlocks in the past have arisen on questions of tacking and so forth, and that we have to deal now with a totally different set of relations, but we have to deal now with the position in which the Senate are invited to give suggestions, and that if these suggestions are ignored there will bc a great temptation to the exercise of the full power of veto, and, although history shows that deadlocks have arisen from those other causes, still we are now introducing new causes- causes which are almost certain to be fertile in deadlocks unless we take great care. [More…]
They indicate the views which were accepted as the very basis upon which the Constitution was prepared and the powers given to the Senate. [More…]
Those views were, as I indicated before, that ultimately both Houses are responsible to the people and that the Executive has not got absolute power over either House and certainly not over the Senate. [More…]
The Opposition in this chamber has decided that it should exercise its constitutionally given power to send Parliament back to the people for judgment. [More…]
I do not think that there can be any longer any doubt as to the power of the Senate in relation to Supply. [More…]
The Government would take the course I have suggested unless it was deliberately setting out to create a situation in which the Prime Minister and his supporters could take advantage of that fear to smash the Senate’s power. [More…]
PM- I will smash the Senate’s power. [More…]
Smashing the power of the Senate- that is what it is all about. [More…]
It is part of a deliberate campaign by the Prime Minister to mislead the Australian public and lead the people into a situation in which the Prime Minister could put before them a referendum to curtail the powers of this chamber so that he can rule absolutely without challenge and without anyone being able to prevent him from being able to carry out the schemes which have already cost Australia so dearly. [More…]
He is determined, as Senator Wood says, to obtain and retain absolute power. [More…]
The real constitutional crisis arises from the Prime Minister’s determination to follow the lead of Mrs Ghandi in India- a country which had a Constitution to protect it from absolute power. [More…]
Lord Acton said that “all power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely”. [More…]
The Senate, with its full role in relation to money matters, was given those powers to be able to protect the States as one of its principal functions. [More…]
Without that power, it would not be possible for the smaller States to be protected against the use or abuse of power in the interests of the larger States in Australia or of one particular State against some of the others. [More…]
The Senate’s power to reject a money Bill has atrophied and become a dead letter. [More…]
Let me tell honourable senators, some of whom may have forgotten but many of whom will know, that in the period from 1950 to 1970 individual senators who were members of the Australian Labor Party recorded approximately 6000 votes in the assertion of the power of the Senate to reject or to take equivalent action by deferral or other similar action on a money Bill as defined by Mr Odgers and as accepted by this Parliament. [More…]
It is preposterous for the current Attorney-General in 1975 to assert seriously that the power has atrophied and become a dead letter when members of his Party, in a 20-year period between 1950 and 1970, individually on 6000 occasions asserted that right. [More…]
To be fair to Senator Murphy and Mr Whitlam, in those days they did not say that the Senate did not have the power to vote against a money Bill or to force a Government to resign. [More…]
If an honourable senator is entitled to vote against a money Bill- as individual honourable senators have done, including some fifteen who are still Labor members of this chamber, on some 6000 occasions between 1950 and 1970- then all honourable senators have the right and the power so to vote. [More…]
It matters not to the existence of the power whether they voted successfully or unsuccessfully. [More…]
They have continually asserted the power over the years. [More…]
I suggest it is nonsense even to contemplate for a moment that a power given by way of the Constitution, admittedly one to be used, as was obviously contemplated, on but very rare occasions, should be able to atrophy. [More…]
Senate the power to reject money Bills, knowing that this could create a deadlock. [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…]
I think that in the interests of stability of government it would be wrong for the Senate, for example, to reject a Supply for the sole reason that it did not like the financial measures and had the power to reject them. [More…]
Let me put it this way: The Leader of the National Country Party- who of course above all fears a just redistribution which would decimate his political power base- in common with Senator Withers and one or two others, has never accepted the verdict of the people at either the 1972 or 1974 elections. [More…]
Consequently, from the point of view of the Leader of the National Country Party it seems an attractive proposition that at any time when it appears that the Opposition may be able to seize power it should force an election. [More…]
Ultimately he gets rolled by his own Party, as the former Leader of the Liberal Party was rolled by his own Party in March of this year after his failure to attain power following his acceptance of Mr Anthony’s self-interested advice. [More…]
This power-hungry Richmond bushranger has again tricked or seduced the Liberal Party into trying to force a premature election in order to make him Deputy Prime Minister, knowing full well that if it fails the blame, the stigma will accrue not to him but to the Leader of the majority Party in the coalition, the Liberal Party. [More…]
I have no doubt that as a result of the failure of this second premature grab for power the present Leader of the Liberal Party will be destroyed as his predecessor was destroyed, and the prime destroyer in both cases will have been the Leader of the National Country Party. [More…]
So whether we like to measure the increase from the time that this Government attained power on an annual basis or on a quarterly basis, the facts show that this claim which is made so constantly by members of the Opposition and which was repeated by the Leader of the Opposition (Senator Withers) in the motion that he moved is simply untrue. [More…]
Then, of course, we had the words from the then Senator Murphy in the debate in the Senate as he led in the debate for so many honourable senators who sit opposite and who decry the Senate ‘s power at this point of time. [More…]
The Prime Minister has quite clearly, over the last few days, set himself to the task of destroying an important and a deliberate power of the Senate, a power which the Labor Party enjoyed to the full when it was in Opposition, but which now makes its members cringe, because they fear not the power but the consequences of the power, the fact that they will have to face the ultimate holders of authority and power in our political system- the people, the electors of Australia. [More…]
He, the Labor Party Leader in the Senate, rejected the argument that the Senate did not have the constitutional power and said quite clearly that it is a matter ‘of political judgment at the time that the decision is taken’. [More…]
If we desire to know what are the powers of the Senate over money Bills, we find them expressly set out in the constitution. [More…]
‘and except as provided in this section, the Senate shall have equal power with the House of Representatives in respect of all proposed laws.’ [More…]
1 do not believe that the Senate ought as a matter of political judgment, to exercise its powers in every case. [More…]
1 think that in the interests of stability of Government it would be wrong for the Senate, for example, to reject a supply for the sole reason that it did not like the financial measures and had the power to reject them. [More…]
It was the intention of those who drew up our Constitution and who agreed to it that the Senate should have the power to reject money Bills. [More…]
Certain powers it does not have in relation to money Bills, but there is no doubt that it has the power to reject. [More…]
It is not only the House of Representatives which has executive power. [More…]
If he sees Executive power as something which should lie only in the hands of members of the House of Representatives why does he allow any of that power, even within his own Party, not to lie in the hands of members of the House of Representatives? [More…]
The Senate does, however, have some Executive power and it has the same responsibilities as the House of Representatives in the matter of surveillance over public funds. [More…]
Concurrent with that right, that privilege of democracy, there is the responsibility of all elected members to take upon themselves the task of surveying government expenditure, deciding whether the Government is acting as it should, and whether that power of the purse is being exercised as it should be. [More…]
I do not believe that anyone imagined that the power put into the Constitution at the time- Senator Jessop called it the wild colonial days- would be used now that the Senate is a party House. [More…]
The people who vested this power in the Senate imagined that it would be a States House, a House in which the small States could protect themselves from the large States. [More…]
I do not believe anyone considered the lack of principle of people such as Senator Withers who admitted that a couple of months after the Labor Government came to power the Opposition started working towards not one but two double dissolutions to try to get rid of this Government. [More…]
They know that if this Opposition gets into power it will be determined to tear down all the good things that this Government has done whenever these things affect the position of privilege of certain people in the community. [More…]
Above all, they will be frightened by the arrogant grab for power by a man who has already assassinated one Prime Minister and removed a leader of his own Party in a very short time. [More…]
I believe that the thing people fear most is the bitterness which will arise from the frustrations of a large group of people who will have no representation and who will have no hope of getting their government into power. [More…]
That the legislative power of the Commonwealth is vested in the Parliament of the Commonwealth which consists ofthe Queen, the Senate and House of Representatives. [More…]
) 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…]
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 honourable senators opposite remain in power they will get this country into more and more trouble. [More…]
First, deprive the Senate of the power to reject Supply, for if it is to defeat a Government it should do so on a specific measure, not on general grounds of dislike. [More…]
I will, concede the legal aspect, as contained in paragraph (a) of the amendment- that the action is lawful and a proper exercise within the terms of the Constitution of the powers of the Senate- but I would also like to say that there is an implied obligation within that that there should be a just consideration if it is desired that the matter be brought before the Senate. [More…]
In paragraph (d) of the amendment we find it stated 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. [More…]
In the end result, the Senate has a full power of rejecting any Bill but argues that the exercise ofthe power would create an impossible situation and would make popular government unworkable. [More…]
He further pointed out that it was not within the power of the House of Representatives to force the Senate to an election. [More…]
Accordingly, he argued, not only was the situation one which the majority of Australians would regard as absurd but if the Senate were to adopt this course it would mean that the terms of section 53 of the Constitution were being trampled on because the Senate would not have equal power with the House of Representatives but greater power. [More…]
It goes further, however, in suggesting that the words of section 53 themselves prohibit the Senate from having greater power than the House of Representatives, thus preventing a rejection of Supply by the Senate. [More…]
Section 53 is, however, a statement of the powers of each House in respect of all proposed laws; it is the capacity of each House to deal in particular ways with individual Bills with which the section is concerned, not the powers of either House to force a dissolution of the other. [More…]
It would appear, therefore, that although there may be arguments based on underlying principles which can be used to deny the propriety of a rejection of Supply by the Senate, the words of section 53 cannot be used to deny the basic power to do so. [More…]
He does not agree that the Senate should not exercise its power to reject Supply. [More…]
He believes that the Senate’s power to refuse to join in the granting of Supply is its greatest power, which can be exercised in relation to both the House of Representatives and the Executive Government. [More…]
All this is because of the mad desire of the Opposition to get back into government and to grab power again. [More…]
I am sure the Opposition does not care if it sets out to wreck the Westminster system that we accept so much in this country and which, of course, over the years irrespective of which political party has been in power has given this country reasonable stability and the chance for development. [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 .marginally improve their position. [More…]
The powers of the corporation under clause 7 of the Bill are so wide. [More…]
Under Clause 12 it has not got the power to produce. [More…]
Those powers ought to be appreciated. [More…]
Any form of manufacture like that could be created because it would be part of the incidental powers, part of the things it would need, to export the flour which it had. [More…]
The last one- one could make many references to these clauses- is the power under clause 13, which is the national interest clause. [More…]
This clause gives the board -of course, on the direction of the Minister- the power to buy things not on an economic basis and not in order to compete against existing exporters and importers on some fair basis but because the country considers, or the government considers, that it is a matter of national interest, lt is then empowered to go ahead and carry on an uneconomical undercutting sort of trade. [More…]
Those are some of the provisions that make this Bill a Bill of deception and one with unlimited powers which would be soon seen to be exercised with vigour by this Government. [More…]
There is a great deal of apprehension throughout the land at the continued attitude of the Opposition parties, attitudes which indicate clearly that they are endeavouring to create not only a constitutional crisis, a political crisis, but also a financial crisis from which the Australian community may well suffer considerably more damage than from the indecision that has characterised the attitude of the Opposition since the Labor Government came into power in 1972. [More…]
It uses as its argument the inflation rate, ignoring the fact that in 1951, the second year of its 23 long years in power, Australia had the highest rate of inflation in the postwar years. [More…]
At that point of time in 1951 the Menzies Administration was in a minority in the Senate, yet there was no suggestion that the Labor Party should exercise its powers to reject the 1951 Budget, despite the high rate of inflation and despite the uncertainty that existed in the business community at that time. [More…]
Since the Whitlam Government came to power in 1972 we have been concerned with a large legislative program- 627 Bills have been passed by the House of Representatives, and of that number 498 have been considered and passed by the Senate. [More…]
That the Prime Minister’s office itself is not identified in the Constitution; that the Governor-General himself is not obliged to ask the majority leader to form a government; nor does the Constitution or any legal decision recognise any rights so far as the Leader of the Opposition is concerned; nor does it recognise the facility known as Cabinet; nor is there any reference to the fact that the High Court has power over and above the Constitution. [More…]
There is nothing in the Constitution that suggests that the High Court has any particular powers in these respects. [More…]
Of course, we know that Mr Fraser came to the leadership of the Liberal Party because of the dissatisfaction and the misjudgment which have been characteristic of the Opposition parties and which led to the defeat of their grab for power in 1974. Who among the Opposition senators will now not concede that they made a grave political misjudgment when they set in motion the denial of Supply in April 1974? [More…]
We have seen in many other countries what grabs for power mean. [More…]
We saw what happened in 1967 in Greece when the colonels seized power. [More…]
We saw what happened in 1 973 when the generals seized power in Chile. [More…]
I do not think that it is very much different from this savage grab for power by using blatant numbers in this place to achieve the same sort of result- to deny the very legitimacy of the Government which has been twice confirmed in the polls. [More…]
Leaders in other countries in their lust for power have raped the constitutions of those countries and it has been to the detriment of those countries and of the people in those countries. [More…]
He must learn to curb his insatiable urge for power. [More…]
Ever since the Whitlam Government has come to power the conservatives have used every opportunity to delay the Government’s legislative program. [More…]
The very gentleman who conned the Liberal Party into making that very blatant grab for power was the very person who undermined Mr Snedden. [More…]
He was the one who helped to undermine that grab for power from Mr Snedden in 1974. [More…]
Of course, Mr Anthony has set in motion the processes which have put the Senate in the front line of power politics in this country. [More…]
In the end result, the Senate has a full power of rejecting any Bill. [More…]
I think this is relevant to the debate before us because the Opposition parties are suggesting that the reasons for their grab for power are because the Government has not got a majority in the electorate. [More…]
The problem of preventing the Senate from inhibiting and frustrating government can be solved by constitutional amendment, firstly, to deprive the Senate of the power to reject Supply for if it is to defeat a government it should do so on specific measures, not on general grounds of dislike. [More…]
Whatever the political climate may be, no government could be expected to carry out its program if every May and October of each year it were subjected to these sorts of pressures by what can only be described as an irresponsible, politically motivated Senate determined to grab power for power’s sake. [More…]
We of the Australian Labor Party welcome to our ranks people of the calible of Senator Steele Hall and Senator Bunton- people who are exercising a fundamental faith in the democratic processes in rejecting this savage grab for power which has been a characteristic of the Opposition since 1972. [More…]
The President, as President, has a wide power, unique in my knowledge of democratic constitutions, to make treaties by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, provided two-thirds of the Senators present concur’. [More…]
In the United States, the President (in whom is vested the Executive power) cannot be removed from office by a hostile Congress, unless he is removed from office ‘on impeachment for, and conviction of, treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors’. [More…]
The strict Australian Constitutional position is that, except as to ‘money Bills,’ that is those which impose or reduce taxes or appropriate moneys, the Senate has equal power with that of the House of Representatives, in respect of all proposed laws. [More…]
In the end result, the Senate has a full power of rejecting any Bill. [More…]
It has no basic power within itself, apart from the normal powers on controlling its own proceedings. [More…]
Allegations have been made in this chamber during the lifetime of this Government concerning the way in which it uses government power to favour its friends and supporters. [More…]
Consider in the first place his position: He is President of the Australian Labor Party; President of the ACTU; a highly placed and favourably placed individual; a trade union official committed to involving the ACTU in business enterprises- in retail selling, travel, insurance and other activities; a person who in the past has used industrial muscle or trade union power to advantage the profitability of those ventures and as I have said in this place previously, a true twentieth century robber baron in the style of the commercial and industrial muscelment of nineteenth century United States of America. [More…]
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…]
An illustrious senator in the Opposition ranks, none other than Senator Wright, on one memorable occasion, as spokesman for the then Foreign Minister, said that any attempt to upset, dismantle or fragment Yugoslavia would affect the power structure or the power balance between the NATO and the Warsaw powers. [More…]
It may be said that Senator Greenwood feels at times that we are unduly disrespectful of certain super powers, but we could say the same about his attitude to another super power. [More…]
That the existence of a system of double taxation of personal incomes whereby both the Australian Government and Slate Governments had the power to vary personal income taxes would mean that taxpayers who worked in more than one State in any one year would- [More…]
The Constitution: Power of the Senate over Money Bills [More…]
that the Senate have no power to reject or delay Bills to expend or to raise monies [More…]
The Senate, in which the Opposition has a majority, has now failed to pass the Supply Bills as a means of forcing a general election, a power conferred upon the Senate by the Constitution for that very purpose. [More…]
the legal power of the Senate to refuse Supply, and the absence of any convention that it shall not do so, are quite clear from the debates of the constitutional conventions . [More…]
The Prime Minister and his party and trade union followers have decided however to defy convention and to tough it out’ (as they put it) with the avowed intention of smashing the power of the Senate forever, thus destroying the Federal compact, centralising all power in Canberra and effectively robbing us of one of the chiefest safeguards of our constitutional system. [More…]
Subject to the Constitution the Queen in Parliament has supreme power. [More…]
The Queen in Parliament means that the Queen (through her representative, the Governor-General) together with both Houses of Parliament have, subject to the Constitution, supreme power and this power is expressed by passing Acts of Parliament through both houses which are then signed by theG-G. [More…]
This supreme power can only be exercised with the concurrence of the three parties and subject to the Constitution. [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…]
They, of course, are always intent on grabbing for power because they have never been able to resign themselves to the fact that their snouts were pulled out of the pig trough. [More…]
He used extravagant language to suggest that what the Government is trying to do is to smash the power of the Senate. [More…]
This is an assertion of a power in the Crown which has long been ceded. [More…]
Mr Ellicott in his lust for power, in his desire to get off the back bench and get a guernsey as a Minister as soon as possible, has deteriorated even as a politician. [More…]
There is now massive and impeccable authority to support the Senate’s veto power. [More…]
For example, Quick and Garran in their work on the Constitution state that 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 in the use of its constitutional powers, except the limitations imposed by discretion and reason. [More…]
In his comments Sir Richard dealt with messages between the Senate and the House of Representatives, and he did not deal with the theory that Sir Robert Menzies had put forward when he said that the Senate had the absolute power to deny money Bills to the House of Representatives. [More…]
The Opposition had the numbers and the power to take this Bill into Committee and amend it in any way it saw fit. [More…]
We believe, that to seek electoral change at this time by using the power of the Senate to effectively block supply is to use that power in a way which threatens the future of stable government in this nation, and bring great hardship upon many people. [More…]
We believe, that to seek electoral change at this time by using the power of the Senate to effectively block supply is to use that power in a way which threatens the future of stable government in this nation, and bring great hardship upon many people. [More…]
This is a sheer abuse of the power which the Opposition thinks it can use at a whim. [More…]
If the Opposition were more attuned to the realities of life and less to its lust for power, it would realise that the use of that power is resented by the people of Australia. [More…]
An equal amount has been said about the Senate having certain powers, authorities, rights and principles by which it may abide. [More…]
It has the power, the authority and the right, among other things, to defer an Appropriation Bill and that authority, that right and that power have been acknowledged and spelled out very clearly and for very clear purposes. [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…]
So if the Senate has that power, that right and that authority it follows that it always has to consider these things together with its duty in all matters, because when the Senate takes its duty into account it has to wrestle with some other matters which might be described as principles. [More…]
It is a question of whether the Party in control does nothing in a given situation or takes its rights, powers and duties into account and does something about that situation. [More…]
We have a power, an authority and a right. [More…]
While we defer the measures, and I use the word ‘defer’ with some emphasis, the fact remains that it is within our power to resurrect those measures the moment the Government indicates that it is prepared in the true tradition of the British parliamentary system, in the conventions of the British parliamentary system and in the conventions of the Australian parliamentary system, to go to the people. [More…]
They act irrespective of the government which is in power. [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…]
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…]
Reliance on the constitutional power to reject Supply misses the point. [More…]
It is well to remember that most of what was done by Hitler was done within constitutional power. [More…]
For the Opposition to seek a change of government at this time by using the power of the Senate to block Supply is to use that power in a way which threatens the future of stable government and brings great hardship on many people. [More…]
Let us examine the record to see what was said by the Prime Minister who now says that we do not have the power to do what we are about to do. [More…]
They are arrogant in their display of the power of numbers in the Senate in what is I suggest, and as my colleague Senator James McClelland the Minister for Labor and Immigration suggested this morning, an unrepresentative House whilst they conveniently ignore the weight of numbers given to the Government in the House of Representatives by the people of Australia through the ballot box only 18 months ago. [More…]
Merely to satisfy their wants, their lust for power, they adopt this callous, ill-conceived and terribly tragic attitude of deferral. [More…]
We know that in December 1972- not 3 years ago- they lost the power of government which they had possessed previously for 23 years. [More…]
Like someone addicted to drugs, members of the Opposition find it difficult to kick the habit of power. [More…]
They demanded an election in May 1974 because they were addicted to power. [More…]
Now again, in their craving for power, in their addiction to a Cassius Clay philosophy of greater than thou, they have turned aside the long, well established, well understood, accepted and acclaimed standards of democracy and convention. [More…]
The Senate is entitled and expected to exercise resolutely but with discretion its power to refuse its concurrence to any financial measure - [More…]
Any move by Mr Whitlam to deny a double dissolution will be seen as a shabby attempt to cling to power at a time when the nation deserves its say. [More…]
We in the Opposition are not seeking power. [More…]
This decision-making element in the Constitution, outside the prerogative power, is the Parliament. [More…]
In other words, the people made a decision inside the terms of the Constitution and awarded to the Senate a supervisory power from the time of that election to the present day. [More…]
Crown privilege derives from what is known as the prerogative power. [More…]
It is an undefined power, except in relation to certain areas where the definition is clear and concise. [More…]
It is this: The prerogative power does not extend to any area that is barred by the Constitution or is barred by statute. [More…]
What has been activated and motivated at the present time is the Senate which, for the first time in 75 years, has had to reach for the constitutional power that is given to it to deal with matters of the high and scandalous nature with which we are involved. [More…]
Since 1911 it has been generally accepted that the upper House in every British-style parliament has no power to do so. [More…]
There is no power for any other action to be taken. [More…]
We heard that cry of desperation from a man of principle who suddenly had to descend into the cave of the troglodytes, walk across hot coals or whatever might be necessary in order to try to win electoral power. [More…]
Portugal is the administering power, but it was very much weakness of purpose on the part of the Portuguese administration which allowed the UDT ‘show of force’ in early August to develop into a probably unintended coup and thus provoked the Fretilin counter-coup. [More…]
The Interim Commission’s report, which was tabled in this House in July 1 974, 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…]
The Minister is 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 standards. [More…]
There is no doubt in the world, despite all the propaganda and all that Senator Keeffe might say, that the Senate has the power to act in the way it has acted. [More…]
Why did the founding fathers- after all, the rights of the States and how the Senate would be constructed were the biggest issues before Federationgive this power to the Senate? [More…]
What is the use of giving power to the Senate and then saying that it cannot be used, that by tradition we have got to do something else? [More…]
Is it true that we are doing the wrong thing in the Senate, as most people on the Government side are trying to put over, or is the propaganda which is coming from the Government side merely an attempt by it to try to stay in power at any cost? [More…]
Power, and power at any price, is Mr Fraser’s motto. [More…]
He suggested that it could reach the stage, as in overseas countries, at which senators could be killed in order to alter the balance of power. [More…]
That statement, honourable senators might be surprised to know, was made by the Leader of the Opposition in another place (Mr Malcolm Fraser)- this gentleman who is now so concerned that the people of Australia should be allowed to come out and have their say; this gentleman who is so obsessed with the will to rule and the greed for power that he does not care what happens to the ordinary people in Australia. [More…]
The greed for power seems to have slightly changed its members’ way of thinking. [More…]
It makes one wonder why these people in the Opposition are so anxious to get back into the saddle and why they are so anxious to get back the power that they misused for 23 years. [More…]
It was not until this Government came into power that these people were given a vote and a responsibility in the country. [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…]
That comes from the man who has put this poor divided Senate Opposition to the jump in order to find an argument to justify the Opposition’s rejection of the Appropriation Bills and in order to try to blackmail its way back into power. [More…]
One million, two hundred and fifty thousand married women were in sustained full employment on real wages with real purchasing power. [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…]
The Constitution recognises that fundamentally the Senate is an integral part of the legislative power. [More…]
The opening words of the relevant section are that the legislative power of the Commonwealth is vested in these three: The Queen, the Senate, and the House of Representatives. [More…]
The Senate has virtually the same money powers as has the American Congress, and the American Congress is one of the greatest and most respected legislatures in the world. [More…]
I think they would agree that in America the Senate is in fact more powerful and more influential than the lower House. [More…]
The second characteristic is that the Senate should have a concurrent money power with the House of Representatives. [More…]
Without the concurrent power, of course, all else would fail. [More…]
If it did not have the money power then the 2 great States in the House of RepresentativesNew South Wales and Victoria- could do 2 quite ugly things. [More…]
Since they had the voting power there, and if they had the power of the purse there, that would clearly happen. [More…]
If honourable senators support what the Prime Minister said today they must go back to their State- to South Australia, to Tasmania, to Western Australia, to Queensland- and say: ‘We are going to destroy your money power‘because that is what the Prime Minister saysand in destroying your money power we are going to destroy your legislative power’, because the legislative power of a chamber is the money power of a chamber. [More…]
Let me ram this home: The Prime Minister in a Curtin memorial lecture, part of which I heard on the radio and which was reported in a feature article in the Sydney Morning Herald, has made the claim and has asserted in the last 2 days that his aim is to weaken the power of the Senate, to draw its teeth. [More…]
Through you, Mr Deputy President, I ask this rhetorical question of Labor senators opposite: Do you agree that the money power of the Senate should be weakened? [More…]
-I want it noted by all the less populous States in Australia that the proposal of Labor senators in this place is to destroy the effective power of their States in the Senate. [More…]
It ought to be noted that Labor Party senators unanimously support the destruction of the finance power, the money power, in the Senate. [More…]
-I ask again: Is it the Labor Party’s policy to weaken and to destroy the money power in the Senate? [More…]
gives to this Senate not j ust a power but a responsibility. [More…]
The fundamental situation is that section 53 of the Constitution gives to the Senate the one responsibility and the one power which enables a government, which is a wrecking government, which is a destructive government, which is a government doing permanent damage to the people, to be brought to the people. [More…]
It talks of us trying to seize power. [More…]
Let us see how a wicked Opposition seizes power. [More…]
I will tell the Senate how it seizes power. [More…]
I sum up this way: It is beyond doubt that this Constitution contains not only the power but also the responsibility for the Senate to act as we have done. [More…]
It has now emerged as a thing of major importance that Labor senators in this chamber have indicated that it is the proposal of their government, supported by them, that they shall set out to weaken and destroy the money power of the Senate. [More…]
He is a man obsessed with power. [More…]
He is a man who has said in his writings and speeches that he sees all power concentrated in one House, the House of Representatives. [More…]
He sees the abolition of the Senate, the abolition of the 6 State parliaments, the abolition of municipalities and shires, and all international and national power, to use his words, concentrated in the House of Representatives without the restraint of the Commonwealth Constitution. [More…]
It now is revealed as being a bid by the Prime Minister to destroy the powers of the States and to concentrate power in one handhis. [More…]
I can understand how distressing that must be to 2 parties which believe they have a perpetual right to power, and which approximately 3 weeks ago launched publicly, after extreme orchestration, the vehicle which they are still attempting to drive to block Supply. [More…]
Therefore, I am prepared to concede for the purposes of this debate, because I have conceded it publicly that the Senate does have, according to the written Constitution, the strict legal power to reject- but, I will suggest later, not to continue to defer- a money Bill. [More…]
It really is a shame that a government can be so arrogant that, after having been returned to power as recently as May 1974, it asserts that it ought to be able to finish its term when it continues to have a majority in the House of Representatives! [More…]
Twice in the past week or so Senator Hall has tried to impress on the Opposition how foolishly it is acting because it is welding the Government into a force that, when it wants to go to the people as is its right, will be swept back to power. [More…]
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 . [More…]
It has full power of initiation, rejection and amendment of bills coming from the House and even in the case of money bills has the right freely to request amendments or to reject outright. [More…]
These powers, unusual in a modern upper House, reflect the federal character of our polity. [More…]
The power of the Senate to reject a proposed law- a power implicit in its position as one of the chambers of a bicameral legislature- is left untouched by section 53 so that the Senate may reject any proposed law, even one which it cannot amend. [More…]
Because it had exercised its power through the elected politicians it had been presented as hostile to government programs and an anomaly to modern government. [More…]
That occasion in 1970 was 21 years after the Menzies Government came to power. [More…]
The plain facts are- the Opposition must face up to this-that never in 75 years has the Senate exercised its power to reject a money Bill. [More…]
The Constitution specifically states that the Senate does not have the power to amend a money Bill. [More…]
I am pleased to follow in the wake of one of my colleagues who referred to the action of honourable senators opposite in their grab for power as the action of bandits. [More…]
The arrogant grab for power which he set in motion only a fortnight ago has failed and is clearly now not enjoying any support from the Australian people. [More…]
The decision that was taken was taken in the interests of those members of the Opposition who want to get back into power. [More…]
What has emerged from this opportunist grab for power is that Mr Fraser has shown himself to be not a credible alternative Prime Minister, and I think it might even show to the Opposition parties that he is not even a credible leader of the Liberal Party. [More…]
Yet in its insatiable desire to get back into political power in this country the Opposition has taken the step of trying to delay the passage of the Appropriation Bills and it has taken up an extremist position. [More…]
It is interesting to note that the extremists of those who seek power in the community and of those who have occupied political power in the community, always seem to have had recourse to the same sort of phraseology- whether it be the phraseology that was used in Germany in the 1930s, in Italy in the 1920s, by General Franco in the late 1930s, or by the military groups in Chile or Greece. [More…]
In considering this problem- I will deal with it only shortly because Senator Douglas McClelland has covered the whole ground- it must be realised from the motion of which Senator Withers gave notice- it was fairly obvious from the nature of the motion- that it was intended to proceed with the motion today forthwith, using the power that the Opposition has, the power of numbers. [More…]
Apparently, the Government is clearly running scared from people who decided not to have this Mr Khemlani brought before the Senate even though they have the power to do so. [More…]
I present a petition from the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly praying that the Senate redress the grievances of the Assembly relative to the determination of self-governing power for the Territory and set right the wrongs imposed on the Territory by the Australian Government. [More…]
The plain facts are- the Opposition must face up to thisthat never in 75 years has the Senate exercised its power to reject a money Bill. [More…]
The power of the Senate is the same. [More…]
The power is there and I think there is an analogy between this power of the Senate and the safety valve on a steam engine. [More…]
When a government, as in this case, exceeds its powers and its authority then these powers of the Senate are and were meant by the constitutional fathers to be a safeguard. [More…]
If one reads the reports of the constitutional convention one sees that 20 per cent or so of the time of the proceedings of the convention was taken up with a discussion of the powers of the Senate. [More…]
Those powers were given to the Senate deliberately to be used if the need should arise. [More…]
The Senate is exercising its powers properly and constitutionally. [More…]
I am amazed at the effrontery of the Government in challenging the powers of the Senate in view of the Government’s track record in the past. [More…]
There were no challenges then to the power of the Senate and there was no irresponsible talk about unwritten conventions. [More…]
Senator Chaney quotes 2 Justices of the High Court, Mr Justice Stephen and Mr Justice Gibbs, as upholding the power of the Senate. [More…]
Four Justices of the High Court unequivocally stated that the Senate’s powers were not being misused and that the Senate did have the power to reject. [More…]
What utter nonsense it is for the Government and Senator Gietzelt to talk about breaking the Constitution when the High Court- the highest constitutional authority in the land- has upheld the Senate’s powers. [More…]
I do not need to refer to other constitutional authorities such as Professor Lane and others who have upheld the powers of the Senate. [More…]
I am not quite certain whether there is the constitutional power for the Senate to reject a money Bill. [More…]
Opposition senators that there is such constitutional power; that there is no constitutional crisis as such, that it is a political crisis. [More…]
Honourable senators will find that almost all speakers took the view that, although the 2 Houses were to be co-ordinate and were to have almost equal power, one power which they did not intend to give to the Senate was the power to reject money Bills. [More…]
As to the constitutional power to deny Supply, as I said before, having listened to all the constitutional lawyers and having become aware of their divisions and variety of opinions, 1 am not certain of this power. [More…]
However, I can accept that there could be a situation where the Senate could take unto itself the power to reject Supply. [More…]
Here we have what is without doubt a grab for power by the Opposition led by Mr Fraser. [More…]
He has sought to achieve power before his time. [More…]
As to the constitutional power of what the Senate is doing. [More…]
Certainly four of the judges said that we have the total and absolute constitutional power to do what we are doing. [More…]
We never put forward an Executive Council minute that gave Mr Connor the power to borrow $4,000m through Mr Khemlani. [More…]
We saw last July one of the most massive criminal conspiracies ever attempted by people in power in this country slowly being exposed and revealed for the illegalities which it contained. [More…]
It is these people opposite who never reconciled themselves to the fact that we have won office, who think they are entitled to be over here and who have attempted by every method possible to usurp power again. [More…]
-Will the Leader of the Government in the Senate explain to the Senate and the people of Australia what are the claimed legal and constitutional means by which this Government proposes to hang on to power without the passage of Appropriation Bills? [More…]
What power does the Minister exercise over the operations of private inquiry agents in the Australian Capital Territory? [More…]
The advice goes on: in the event of a major national disaster, and when the resources of the regular components of the Armed Services are inadequate to support State Emergency Services to the extent required, it would seem useful for the Government to have the power to make reserves available. [More…]
I believe that the action the Opposition has taken in the debate on the Appropriation Bills is the responsible exercise of its powers in the Australian Parliament. [More…]
I believe that it is a responsible exercise of the Senate’s proper power and of the people’s brake that the Opposition should adopt the attitude and take the action that it has. [More…]
The Senate, through the Opposition, exercises its proper power of restraint, its proper power of review, on behalf of all the people because it, as well as the House of Representatives, is a people ‘s House. [More…]
It is because the Prime Minister finds that the Senate seeks, through the constitutional powers that it possesses, to refer the performance of this Government to its masters, the people, that his reaction now is quite different to his reaction only 18 months ago, quite different to the action that he advocated in this Parliament for many years. [More…]
The Prime Minister now suggests that he will set out to smash the powers of the Senate. [More…]
He seeks to smash the powers of the Senate, to make it a rubber stamp, a useless chamber in this parliamentary system. [More…]
The mass of people in Australia recognise in the Senate the only source of braking power that they have on any government, whether it is extreme right or extreme left. [More…]
It is the people’s source of braking power; it is their source of restraint. [More…]
I do not believe that the people are going to accept as a solution to the problems that confront us today the suggestion of the Prime Minister that he will now set out to smash the powers of the Senate. [More…]
Thus, it is difficult to follow the reasoning of the Prime Minister, when suddenly he decides that he will not take that former line of action, but rather that he will take another line of action, which is that he must smash the power of the institution that has made it possible that he may well have to face his masters. [More…]
Let me say very briefly that I believe there is no doubt as to the Senate’s power to take the course of action which it proposes to take in these circumstances. [More…]
People with political views and backgrounds as far apart and as totally divorced as Sir Robert Menzies, Mr Justice Murphy and, indeed, Mr Whitlam have indicated that they believe that the powers of assent and veto of the Senate are the same as those powers in the House of Representatives. [More…]
So there we have authorities who, although basically of differing political philosophies, are agreed that the power that is exhibited by the Opposition in the Senate today is a proper, meaningful and necessary power. [More…]
In all these views there is a strong consensus that the sort of power that is being used by the Senate today is a proper and responsible power to use on behalf of the Australian people. [More…]
Indeed, I would be the first to admit, and why would I not admit, that the Government was returned to power. [More…]
I suggest that the Government was returned to power with a reduced majority from nine to five, which has now been reduced further to three, in the House of Representatives and was unable to gain control of the people’s house of review- the Senate, the people’s brake on legislature. [More…]
They are relevant to the performance of this government, and they are relevant to the attitude of this Opposition in seeking to use its proper power to enable the people to decide whether this is the direction in which they want this great Australian evolutionary society to proceed. [More…]
-The main basis upon which Senator Scott mounted his attack on the Government on the one hand and attempted to justify the Opposition’s unprecedented action in blocking the Government’s Budget on the other hand rested on what he called ‘the exercise of the responsible powers of the Senate by the Opposition’. [More…]
It certainly is a desperate action; it is a desperate action by desperate men who can be seen for what they are in their grab for power. [More…]
The Senate would not have equal power with the House of Representatives. [More…]
It would have greater power. [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…]
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…]
For us it must be a matter of the utmost rarity- one requiring exceptional circumstances or the gravest danger to this nation- before the Senate should exercise its power and block Supply. [More…]
All this argument which is being put forward about the Senate not having this power is a lot of nonsense. [More…]
A great deal of time was given to the consideration of the powers of the Senate. [More…]
What honourable senators should realise is the great power which was given to this chamber by the people who created it. [More…]
We cannot fail to remember that the Consitution designed the Senate to be a House of greater power than any ordinary second chamber. [More…]
Not only by its express powers, but by the equality of its representation of the States, the Senate was intended to be able to protect the States from aggression’. [More…]
The Senate has that power, and it has the right to exercise it. [More…]
Mr Greenwood in his speech also goes to great lengths to point out that even in regard to money Bills and the amendment of them, the power of the Senate is such that if a request is sent to the House of Representatives and if the House of Representatives does not agree, this chamber still has the power to send back that request. [More…]
In dealing with this problem which we have before us now I think that we have to think of the power of this chamber. [More…]
On the other hand, we have seen industrial unrest at record levels since the Government came into power. [More…]
I recall reading in terms of the trauma which was hitting the United States after the corruption of the Nixon Government had become apparent how people in the United States wished that they had the power to take President Nixon and his Government to the people before the allotted period of 4 years had expired. [More…]
But it is also a clause which acknowledges what is at the heart of our inherited system of government; that is, that the Governor-General has the power to dissolve a Parliament in a period of less than 3 years. [More…]
In 1970 he purported to follow this course and would have succeeded if he had persuaded the Australian Democratic Labor Party which held the balance of power in the Senate at that time to vote with him. [More…]
The plain fact is that where there is in the Parliament an Opposition which has power which it may lawfully and legitimately use, it has the right to force an election to take place. [More…]
Mr Whitlam is hanging on to power, determined to use every day, month and year that he can maintain his hold which comes through being the Prime Minister of this country. [More…]
Inevitably he came back to the loans issue and to the question of the Government’s staying in power. [More…]
While the Senate is denied the power to change certain Bills, it is specifically granted the power to request changes and impliedly (at least according to some people) the power to reject such Bills. [More…]
Impliedly, too, it has equal power with the House of Representatives to debate and otherwise scrutinize such Bills. [More…]
The use of this power by the Senate has increased through its Estimates Committees especially since 1 970. [More…]
The result would appear to be that a Bill which does not comply with section 54 could become a valid law and one which the High Court would refuse to deal with even though the breach of section 54 reduces the scope of the Senate ‘s power to amend. [More…]
The Public Accounts Committee has no power to bring about any changes in the matters in relation to which it has statutory duties and, given its likely political and Parliamentary composition, is likely to exercise its powers with caution. [More…]
There are few institutions in the federal government with more potential power and less actual power than the Parliamentary Accounts Committee. [More…]
Significant factors which must be considered are the nature of the matter which is to be broadcast, the audience intended to be reached by the broadcasts and the frequency, power and location of the stations. [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…]
It has full power of initiation, rejection and amendment of bills coming from the House and even in the case of money bills has the right freely to request amendments or to reject outright. [More…]
These powers, unusual in a modern upper House, reflect the federal character of our polity. [More…]
The power of the Senate to reject a proposed law- a power implicit in its position as one of the chambers of a bicameral legislature- is left untouched by section S3 so that the Senate may reject any proposed law, even one which it cannot amend. [More…]
As to Quick and Garran, in their writings on the Constitution at that time they completely and absolutely support the legal power of the Senate to reject money Bills, that is, to reject a Bill for the appropriation of money for the ordinary annual services of the Parliament. [More…]
The Senate has no power to amend such a Bill, but we are dealing with two Bills, Appropriation Bills both, but divided into two for the very purpose of recognising the distinction that exists between them for the purposes of the Senate power. [More…]
It was a committee of this Senate which in 1954 insisted upon that division, and the Bills are divided into two solely because we have different powers of amendment in respect of one from the other. [More…]
2) we have unlimited powers of amendment, and in respect of Appropriation Bill (No. [More…]
1) we have power to send repeated requests for amendment. [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…]
Listen again to that great observation- equal power but not greater power. [More…]
Yes, equal power- that is to say, the power to assent to or reject a Bill, exactly in the same way as the House of Representatives, the Bill having originated there, has the power to assent to or reject; not one iota greater, and, in that respect, not one iota less, but equal power. [More…]
The Government recognises the desirability of tax indexation, but surely it has to be said that in this period of economic tightness it is beyond the Government’s power. [More…]
It would not matter whether there was a Labor government or a Liberal government in office at the moment; it would be beyond the powers of a government to introduce in the Budget at this time the new concepts of taxation indexation. [More…]
So when we came to power in 1 972, manufacturing industry was already in a very serious state of decline. [More…]
Because they are an integral part of the Budget, I would hope that when the Opposition finally agrees to pass the 3 Income Tax Bills honourable senators opposite might reflect this weekend upon the need to adopt the same constructive attitude in terms of their voting powernot their speaking power- in relation to the Appropriation Bills. [More…]
To work out what is going to happen for any individual taxpayer, we need to examine the income last year and the equivalent income in the current year in terms of its purchasing power. [More…]
For a taxpayer whose only increase in salary will be an increase allowed to keep him at constant purchasing power the figure will double from $550 to $1,055. [More…]
He will have gained nothing in real purchasing power. [More…]
I use the word ‘superficial’ because the individual taxpayer whose salary is increasing in a time of high inflation will, as a result of indexation, lose some of his residual spending power. [More…]
An occasion for the exercise of the power of double dissolution under section 57 formally exists whenever the event specified in that section has occurred, but it does not follow that the power can be regarded as an ordinary one which may properly be exercised whenever the occasion formally exists. [More…]
It should, on the contrary, be regarded as an extraordinary power to be exercised only in cases in which the Governor-General is personally satisfied, after independent consideration of the case, either that the proposed law as to which the Houses have differed in opinion is one of such public importance that it should be referred to the electors of the Commonwealth for immediate decision by means of a complete renewal of both Houses, or that there exists such a state of practical deadlock in legislation as can only be ended in that way. [More…]
The first is the power of officers of the [More…]
There is also a regulation allowing the opening of mail posted at concessional rates, but this power is so expressed as to leave some doubt as to its extent. [More…]
The Committee considers that the right to privacy of mail is an important right of the citizen, and ought to be abridged only pursuant to law, and with proper safeguards against misuse of the powers conferred by law. [More…]
The Committee regards these proposed amendments of the regulations and by-laws as providing proper limits to the power to open and dispose of mail, and proper safeguards of the rights of the citizen. [More…]
The practice of State Premiers substituting people of a Party different from that of the senators those people replace and so affecting the balance of power in this chamber has altered the whole concept of proportional representation. [More…]
The standing committees appointed pursuant to paragraph ( 1 ) be empowered to inquire into and report upon such matters as are referred to them by the Senate, including any Bills, Estimates or statements of expenditure, messages, petitions, inquiries or papers, and, in addition, where applicable, have power to inquire into and report upon such matters as were referred to the legislative and general purpose standing committees appointed during previous sessions and not disposed of by those committees. [More…]
In considering matters referred to the legislative and general purpose standing committees during previous sessions, the committees have power to consider the minutes of evidence and records of those committees. [More…]
14) A standing 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 of the matters which the committee is empowered to consider. [More…]
15) A standing committee or any sub-committee shall 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 or dissolution of the House of Representatives. [More…]
Is it a balanced commitment in terms of our national interest and our middle power status? [More…]
It gives the reasons why these people felt it necessary and incumbent upon them to do the extraordinary things they did to seize power last year. [More…]
If any single, powerful pressure group in this country believes that it is being sold down the drain, that it is not getting a fair go or that favours are being given to one section rather than to another section, the fight against inflation is doomed. [More…]
When in government they were drunk with power. [More…]
As I have said, the Labor Party got back into power marginally in the 1974 election. [More…]
We have problems in our State now, again because of the interference by the Labor Government when it was in power. [More…]
But because of the blind politics and ideologies of a certain political party in power, because of the mis-allocation of resources, because of its doctrinaire socialist policies by which the Government was to take in all and spend all, we have had excess spending by that Government and a total mis-allocation of resources culminating in a crisis situation in our economy. [More…]
We would not have minded if we had been defeated in an election that had been properly called under the parliamentary system in Australia, but under it there is no power to recall the members of the Parliament. [More…]
Senator Young talked today about offending our great ally, the United States of America, while the Labor Government was in power. [More…]
Despite the fact that previous LiberalNational Country Party coalition governments always talked about the concern for defence, we were the first government ever to give support to Returned Services League claims as soon as we came to power. [More…]
The Prime Minister at the time, Mr Whitlam, and the then Leader of the Opposition said that they would do all in their power to restore Darwin. [More…]
I am sorry to say that as a member of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association and the Inter-parliamentary Union I cannot go into the countries again that I have been to previously or meet the colleagues that I have met before and say that our parliamentary system is as good as it was when Labor was in power. [More…]
In conclusion, the Indian Ocean region has always been an area of some great power interest and attraction but until the 1950s and early 1960s it was essentially a colonial interest of colonial powers and to this extent any influence was generally confined to related interests. [More…]
With the march towards independence and the consequential opportunities of involvement of the great powers, there has been an extension of interest and participation especially by Russia, the P.R.C., the United States and Japan. [More…]
It is difficult to foresee a significant slackening of interest by any one of these powers with the result that no matter what the opinions of the countries within the region, they will be unable to prevent the Indian Ocean developing into an area of great power influence and involvement. [More…]
They are all legitimate interests in the Indian Ocean, as are the interests of other powers. [More…]
So in recent times the region has been one of big power interest. [More…]
It is also a major area of struggle between the Soviet Union and China, and today it is becoming an area of increasing struggle between those 2 communist powers. [More…]
They further highlight my statement that this is one of the major areas of struggle between the Soviet Union and the People’s Republic of China and that it is an area of increasing struggle between those 2 communist powers. [More…]
I trust you will do everything in your power to assist and sincerely thank you in anticipation. [More…]
The judgment may be said to have made 2 things quite clear: The first is that the boundaries of the States end at the low water mark and the second is that the Commonwealth Parliament has a power to pass laws with respect to matters extending beyond the low water mark seaward. [More…]
We can establish 3 facts: The region is an area of instability; it is an area of great-power interest and competition; and it is a major area of SinoSoviet struggle. [More…]
Following the British withdrawal in 1968 Soviet Russia attained its dream by the use of naval power. [More…]
We also need to be reminded that the Soviet merchant fleet is very closely integrated with the Navy, far more so than the fleets of any of the other naval powers, and that provides the Soviet Navy with far greater flexibility. [More…]
One of the major objectives of all naval powers, including Russia, is the ability to influence political events. [More…]
Throughout history sea power often has been used to achieve political aims without firing a shot, particularly in areas of instability, and I regard the Indian Ocean region as being an area of great instability. [More…]
The number of ships is immaterial; what is important is what those ships represent and the power that lies behind them. [More…]
For those who fear United States-Soviet escalation, I point out that competitive escalation is better than single escalation by a non-sympathetic power. [More…]
The Soviet has already used its power in the Indian Ocean, during the Somali crisis in 1970, during the Bangladesh war and in the course of the Arab-Israeli war in 1 973. [More…]
Common sense demands that we support the development by the United States of Diego Garcia and the use by friendly powers of a newly developed HMAS Stirling, which I hope will be developed rapidly. [More…]
We can talk and have our views about the reserve power that the Queen’s representative should have, but nobody has been able to give me any information that at any stage the Queen’s representative said to the then Prime Minister ‘ Mr Prime Minister, despite the eyeball to eyeball action that has gone on between you and the Leader of the Opposition, if some decision is not reached I will have to dismiss you- period’, the implication being that the then Prime Minister would have gone to a very vital national election not as the Prime Minister but as the Leader of the Opposition. [More…]
But when there was a military junta in power in Greece, no Greek in Australia, no matter how far left his political views may have been, ever attempted to blow up or destroy the property of the Greek Consul-General or the Greek Embassy. [More…]
If we look at the present Government’s manpower intake- this is where I questioned Mr MacKellar- we find that this is where the difficulties arise. [More…]
The Australian Labor Party lost the electorate of Kalgoorlie allegedly because the Liberal Party said that if it were in power it would be able to handle the gold mining industry. [More…]
What is worse than that is that some of the big American aviation companies and possibly their British counterparts think they can buy their way into political power. [More…]
As a matter of fact, shortly after the present Government came into power I recall that the Deputy Prime Minister, Mr Anthony, had to rebuke gently but publicly the Utah mining company. [More…]
The Opposition says that the options open to us to fix unemployment are exactly the same as they were when it was in power. [More…]
However, soon after these talks and contrary to the conversation the Governor-General had with his friend over the phone- contrary to the belief that he instilled in his friend ‘s mindthe Governor-General adopted an alternative attitude and dismissed the Government that was in power. [More…]
He upholds the power and independence of the Senate. [More…]
There have been some suggestions that not only was the power of the media involved but also there could have been a lot of bribes given for the purpose of purchasing votes. [More…]
How much was paid throughout Australia to hopeless independent candidates in order to get them publicity to win votes on the condition that they give their second preference to candidates standing for the purpose of opposing the Government then in power. [More…]
But I ask the Government in its proposed legislation dealing with the trade union movement never to underestimate the power of that movement. [More…]
In dealing with arbitration and the power of the trade union movement, we must recall that arbitration was a force applied against those who engaged in strike action. [More…]
I do know that there is to be some power of reference for the purpose of the right of appeal against a decision. [More…]
The power of the employer to control an employee at present not only by threatening dismissal but also by threatening dismissal through misconduct or misbehaviour, without any proof and possibly without any kind of misconduct or misbehaviour, is another weapon placed in the hands of the employer, unjustifiably, and is against the interests of the individual. [More…]
The first is the power of the Senate, when it should be used, how extreme its use should be, and whether that power should be reduced in any way. [More…]
What Mr Fraser is about and what the others are about is power, and any constitutional amendment would decrease that power. [More…]
I am very certain that a report such as the report of the committee of which Senator Rae was chairman, following Senator Sir Magnus Cormack, on the securities and exchange laws in this country will never come down while this Government is in power. [More…]
One would hope that those extra-parliamentary methods would not burgeon into violence, but if people look outside the boundaries of this country and look at what is happening in the rest of the world-apart from the Cocos Islands, with which Senator Sheil is very impressed- they can see what happens when all the power in a country is concentrated in the hands of a few and a large number of people feel that they cannot get anywhere. [More…]
I am talking about the power of people such as the members of Patrick Partners who can put people into the position where they have to take pensions when they do not want to, who are all broke themselves when they are brought to book for their crimes and whose only common feature is that they all have wealthy wives. [More…]
The vast majority of them did not want this power, and the few who did were not fit to use it. [More…]
It is this basic fact which will, I believe, prevent any effective system of social security from being developed in this country while the present Government is in power. [More…]
I’ve never been so certain of anything in my life as I am that the Senate’s money power will be broken as a result of this crisis. [More…]
This was the first double dissolution, and the Labor Party should remember that well because it was able to ride into power as a result of that election. [More…]
As a consequence of the December election, I believe that the Senate now stands confirmed as probably the second most powerful upper house in the world, exceeded in its power only by the Senate of the United States, on which it is modelled. [More…]
Its latent powers have neither atrophied nor have they disappeared, as some former Labor Ministers have tried to assert. [More…]
Mr Odgers, referring to the power of the Senate with regard to money Bills, states: [More…]
Any criticism of the exercise of the power brings to mind the devastating comment of a man who knew what he was talking about in 1902 when the Senate’s financial powers caine under serious challenge. [More…]
If any man had dared to stand up and tell the smaller States that the Senate had only such a power, the Constitution would never have been accepted. [More…]
So we have a situation where the Senate chose to exercise its power and an election followed. [More…]
Those of us who are parliamentarians must balance our duties to our colleagues in government and to our Prime Minister whom we support with our duties to the Parliament to see that its powers are not diminished now or at any time while we remain senators. [More…]
I believe that the power of the Senate was written into the Constitution only after long argument and much thought. [More…]
That power was asserted and tested in the fire of 1 975. [More…]
And I’m determined on this occasion to end for all time the Senate’s power over Money Bills. [More…]
The Senate was able to reject that challenge, to assert and maintain its power, and to strengthen that power in carrying through that exercise. [More…]
I believe that, irrespective of the government in power, the Senate must be sustained by both sides of the chamber, by all of us here who are senators, not just for ourselves but also for our successors in this place. [More…]
There has been continual talk in the Senate on the part of the Opposition concerning the problems surrounding the events of those days prior to 1 1 November and leading up to the election on 13 December, referring presumably to the improper use of power by the Senate itself in establishing a circumstance in which this Parliament was deadlocked. [More…]
I want to suggest once and for all that if the Australian Senate does not have, as the people’s brake on the House of legislature, the ultimate power, the power, through control over money Bills as over other legislation, to force this Parliament to the people, to force, one would assume on matters of responsibility, a guilty government to face its masters, indeed the Senate has no real province in the parliamentary system of Australia. [More…]
It has to have that ultimate power. [More…]
It is a power that carries with it an extreme measure of responsibility. [More…]
It is a power that was accepted and acted upon by the former Leader of the Government, now the Leader of the Opposition, Mr Whitlam, as recently as the April-May period of 1974. [More…]
So, it is an extraordinary circumstance that suddenly at the beginning of 1976 and at the end of 1975 we find a complete reversal in the Labor Party’s attitude to the proper power of the Senate. [More…]
I make the point that if the Senate is to be the useful, proper and responsible brake on behalf of the people of Australia on the House of legislature the Senate must have that ultimate power and in having it has an extreme measure of responsibility. [More…]
Consequently the chances of the Senate’s misusing its proper power are virtually nil because of the extreme consequences that would follow in the Australian electorate. [More…]
The Government is not concerned with power for itself. [More…]
If it is to be a sea of peace, surely we will have to work for a more realistic balance of power in that massive and important ocean. [More…]
The Government is not concerned with power for itself. [More…]
Not only has the demand for power created problems with respect to resources - [More…]
Nevertheless what he has said is perfectly true- the previous Government had its sights set on power in a different way. [More…]
We believe that we have to look after the future power resources of this country. [More…]
Anyone who lives in Sydney will realise that the emission of gases from the conventional sources of power is creating a problem in that city. [More…]
We have to come to grips with the problem irrespective of what State government happens to be in power. [More…]
The power station at Port Augusta is emitting extraordinary amounts of pollution into the air. [More…]
To get back to the subject matter of my speech, the only alternative source of energy that has been put forward as an answer to the world ‘s energy problem, due to the ever increasing demand for power, happens to be atomic energy. [More…]
In my opinion the question of nuclear power, nuclear fusion, brings with it problems of pollution. [More…]
For example, in South Australia we are still producing the cheapest power in Australia at Leigh Creek. [More…]
I have stated already that in my personal view- this does not reflect the opinion of my Party- uranium ought to be used as a bridging source of power to give us a chance to develop other technology which even Senator Mulvihill would applaud. [More…]
In fact, I suggest that our Government ought to do everything in its power to encourage the installation of domestic heating and cooling solar units in houses throughout Australia. [More…]
It would save about 25 per cent of the demand on our conventional sources of power. [More…]
The figures which the Treasury has supplied are as follows: In 1972, 2460 small businesses collapsed when a Liberal government was in power. [More…]
The legislative power of the Commonwealth shall be vested in a Federal Parliament, which shall consist of the Queen, a Senate, and House of Representatives, and which is herein-after called ‘The Parliament, ‘ or ‘The Parliament of the Commonwealth. ‘ [More…]
The executive power of the Commonwealth is vested in the Queen and is exerciseable by the Governor-General as the Queen’s representative, and extends to the execution and maintenance of this Constitution, and of the laws of the Commonwealth. [More…]
I suppose the honourable senator means Mr Odgers- upholds the power and independence of the Senate. [More…]
Of course the Clerk must uphold the power and independence of the Senate because the Constitution upholds the power and independence of the Senate. [More…]
The most recent judgments of the High Court clearly demonstrate that the Senate has these powers. [More…]
Of course, this raises the question of where power really lies in Australia. [More…]
One is entitled to ask, when dealing with the speeches of a Governor-General in relation to which we spend countless hours in preparation and oratory in this chamber, what really is the value of all of that activity when, in fact, power resides outside the Parliament. [More…]
There are other centres of power outside the Parliament, centres that clearly are more powerful than the Parliament. [More…]
I refer to the power that resides in the judiciary and, of course, the power that clearly is now accepted by honourable senators and unfortunately by the community generally to reside in the representative of the Crown. [More…]
We say that the principle or precedent has been established that the Governor-General has the power to dismiss an elected government. [More…]
The so-called reserve power which nobody had ever spoken about in either House of the Parliament in this country before now is suddenly elevated to be a major principle. [More…]
It undoubtedly was considered while the former Government was in power and it certainly has been considered by me while I have been looking after this area. [More…]
I am informed that the Trade Practices Commission, which has the power itself to decide whether it will initiate proceedings, made a decision in the first case relating to the tyre company not to proceed. [More…]
Discussions have taken place with the Queensland Government since we came to power with a view to constituting the Great Barrier Reef Authority on a basis which would give to Queensland and to the Commonwealth relatively equal rights in its administration. [More…]
Like Senator Jim Cavanagh, and indeed many of my colleagues, I will be spending less time in the next 3 years on this great charade that is known as Parliament and more on tackling where the real power exists within the Australian community. [More…]
when all is said and done, politics involves the pursuit of power while ethics impose restraints on the use of power. [More…]
It was not at the Melbourne Club but at the Union Club- not the real power centre of Australia, which everyone recognises is the Melbourne Club, but the Union Club in Sydney, which is not of such significance. [More…]
He has no greater power than the other six or seven members who comprise the full High Court. [More…]
Women are as badly under-represented here as they are anywhere else in our society where power resides or where decisions are made. [More…]
When setting about the immense task of creating a just society based on an equitable distribution of power and resources, the Labor Government did not overlook the inequities suffered by women. [More…]
1 want to look after and fight for the interests of a group of people who do not have any real bargaining power in this community. [More…]
Not having any real bargaining power they are unable to take advantage of pressuring others to see that they get their just rewards. [More…]
Because they do not have this bargaining power they are often the forgotten people in our society. [More…]
So far, so good but relating pensions to the consumer price index, whilst it sounded good to many pensioners throughout Australia, did not measure up to the policy which the Australian Labor Party had when it was in power. [More…]
I have prepared a table which shows what would have happened if pensions had been increased according to the consumer price index from when the Australian Labor Party came into power in December 1972. [More…]
I know what it was like to be on unemployment benefits when a government of the same political colour as the present Government was in power previously. [More…]
We now find that as well as the two-way traffic on the Mount Isa line, with coal and general products going to the mines and the power stations, and with copper, lead and zinc going back to the port and refinery at Townsville, the phosphates from Duchess will also have to be transported. [More…]
By using this method 3 large diesels, each of 2000 horsepower, are placed in the lead of the train and 3 more in the middle one kilometre behind the lead. [More…]
This enables a better distribution of power and braking, and quicker recharging of the auxiliary cylinders throughout the train, after braking. [More…]
Now that these translators are established I think that the Government in the very near future should look to increasing their power output so that reception can be obtained over a greatly increased area. [More…]
Because they hurl courage and truth into the teeth of totalitarian power when it would be so much easier, so much more comfortable to submit and to embrace the lies on which that totalitarian system exists. [More…]
Speaking of power, we heard Senator Gietzelt last night give a lecture to the new senators about power. [More…]
Senator Gietzelt then posed the question as to where the real source of power exists. [More…]
There are only 2 things wrong with that statement, one being that Senator Gietzelt did not tell us the sources of power with which he is very familiar, the second being that he rather sneeringly inferred that all senators- not only the new senators but all of us- were wasting our time in this place. [More…]
From what I heard of their speeches, I do not think that the new senators were wasting their time and I believe that together we will see whether the power can be restored to the people through the system of parliamentary democracy. [More…]
Ideally, in a parliamentary democracy power should be exercised in consultation and cooperation with elective organisations within the community, in preserving the integrity of institutions within society and in recognising that power should be kept close to the people and not manipulated by the corporate State method. [More…]
I subscribe to the view that power should reside with the smallest, most local group capable of performing efficiently the function for which the power is required so that the people over whom the power is exercised themselves have a greater control, a nearer control over the centre of power. [More…]
Let historians argue about whether or not the power exercised last November by this House was used prematurely. [More…]
On the one hand, there is the argument that the Senate should not have power over money Bills. [More…]
On the other hand, the statement has been made that the Senate has the power and passed its test by blocking Supply last year. [More…]
On the one hand there has been an argument that this House should not have the power to block money Bills and on the other hand there has been the argument that this House passed its test last year. [More…]
It is certainly an incontrovertible fact that the Senate has power over money Bills. [More…]
It is perhaps even more appropriate that, after launching his grab for power last October, Mr Fraser should have received an accolade and benediction from the most culpable liar of them all- that nautical Blimp, Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports and Knight of the Thistle, Sir Robert Menzies. [More…]
The powers of the Senate are embodied in the Constitution. [More…]
What we had was a political crisis that was brought about by the absolute incompetence of the Government that was in power at that time. [More…]
Nor am I aware of any section of the legislation which would give the Board power to make that specific direction. [More…]
It is true that the Board has general powers one of which is to ensure that during the period between the issue of the writ and the return of the writ all political comment shall be authorised so that a person shall be responsible within a particular medium for that authorisation. [More…]
As the Opposition reminded us constantly when it was in government, the Commission is an independent statutory corporation and within the terms of its legislation it has total power over programming. [More…]
I begin my remarks by making the general point that the Bill must be seen as part of the Government’s overall economic program on which it has a clear commitment to the Australian community and to the voters who put the Government into power last December. [More…]
It is true to say that by the adroit use of their money and power and their connections in high places; … by their lavish hospitality; by favours shown in the right places; by playing off one State Premier, anxious for ‘development’, against another; by what has been called the ‘subversion of the elites’ (the managerial and professional classes, the bankers and financiers) by sharing out some of the ‘goodies’, (the directorates, the local consultancies and minority shareholdings); by contributions to party funds; and (let’s face it) by thinking big and applying their undoubted managerial, technical and marketing skills- by these and many other means the MNCs - the multinational companies- can and do attain not only economic dominance, but very great political influence as well. [More…]
As I understand it, that Bill is precisely the same as the Bill that was introduced when the previous Government was in power. [More…]
The Standing Committees appointed pursuant to paragraph (1) be empowered to inquire into and report upon such matters as are referred to them by the Senate, including any Bills, Estimates or Statements of Expenditure, messages, petitions, inquiries or papers, and, in addition, where applicable, have power to inquire into and report upon such matters as were referred to the Legislative and General Purpose Standing Committees appointed during previous Sessions and not disposed by those Committees. [More…]
In considering matters referred to the Legislative and General Purpose Standing Committees during previous Sessions, the Committees have power to consider the Minutes of Evidence and records of those Committees. [More…]
A Standing 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 of the matters which the Committee is empowered to consider. [More…]
A Standing Committee or any sub-committee shall 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 or dissolution of the House of Representatives. [More…]
be empowered to inquire into and report upon such matters as are referred to them by the Senate . [More…]
and, in addition, where applicable, have power to inquire into and report upon such matters as were referred to the Legislative and General Purposes Standing Committees appointed during previous sessions and not disposed of by those Committees. [More…]
As the years went on, the adage about ‘power corrupting’ was demonstrated as there is no doubt that as J. Edgar Hoover grew senile he became a law unto himself. [More…]
It has not been generally acknowledged, because scarcely any publicity has been given to it, that virtually the whole of the top echelon of ASIO departed from ASIO after that raid and the Director-General of ASIO was brought to Canberra to be subject to the whim of whatever Minister of the day exercised a power over him. [More…]
I hope that in due course there will be a balance displayed which will reveal that for all the things which the CIA did which cannot be sustained and justified it also did a power of good in difficult years to protect the United States and, in protecting the United States, to protect a host of other countries which depend upon the stability and integrity of that country. [More…]
The power to submit a person to a. breath test is contained in Section 8b(1) of the Traffic Ordinance, which is set out in the answer to Question No. [More…]
That the existence of a system of double taxation of personal incomes whereby both the Australian Government and State Governments had the power to vary personal income taxes would mean that taxpayers who worked in more than one State in any one year would- [More…]
It is against that background that I wish to speak about the exercise of power. [More…]
The second pernicious factor is that in 3 years we saw an attempt to centralise all power in Australia. [More…]
Mr Whitlam would centre in one House- the House of Representatives, the other place- all power for all government at all levels in Australia. [More…]
No specific power has been written into the Constitution providing for the delaying or rejection of money Bills. [More…]
I believe that section 53 of the Constitution should be carefully examined and that if there are powers permitting the refusal or passing of Supply those powers should be curtailed and clearly defined. [More…]
The first point that I believe should be considered carefully is whether the Governor-General’s power to dismiss a Prime Minister and Ministers of the Crown should be retained or whether it should be altered. [More…]
Actions taken by the Opposition late last year comprised an improper use of power. [More…]
Government senators are adopting the attitude that they are in power, they do not care how they got into power as long as they remain in power. [More…]
They do not want to make the situation any easier than it is for the Opposition to regain power. [More…]
The second principle is the statement that the Government intends to make the most important reform of the federal system since Federation and that it will re-establish a pattern of co-operation in national affairs and reverse the excessive centralising of power in Australia. [More…]
The previous Government came into power in 1972 with a program of social reform designed to satisfy the needs of people in the community. [More…]
I think it is another important feature of this Government and the Governor-General’s Speech that is has recognised the dangers of adopting centralisation of power in Australia and that it will put that policy in reverse. [More…]
The Government will endeavour, as far as possible, to put power back into the hands of the people at the lowest possible unit of government at which it is economically feasible to do this. [More…]
If the Prime Minister proposed and insisted on means which were unlawful or which did not solve the problems of the disagreement between the Houses and left the Government without funds to carry on, it would be within the GovernorGeneral’s power and his duty to dismiss his Ministers and appoint others. [More…]
I should be surprised if the Law Officers expressed the view that there is no reserve power in the Governor-General to dismiss a Ministry which has been refused supply by the Parliament and to commission a Ministry, as a caretaker Ministry which will secure supply and recommend a dissolution, including where appropriate a double dissolution. [More…]
This is a matter on which my own mind is quite clear and I am acting in accordance with my own clear view of the principles laid down by the Constitution and of the nature, powers and responsibility of my office. [More…]
I would be surprised if the Law Officers expressed the view that there is no reserve power . [More…]
Mr Enderby, last week gave the Governor-General, Sir John Kerr, a legal opinion which said he did not have power to dismiss the Prime Minister. [More…]
This is a quote from something from which I quoted earlier- should be surprised if the law officers expressed the view that there is no reserve power in the Governor-General to dismiss a ministry which has been refused Supply by the Parliament’ and to commission a caretaker ministry. [More…]
I interpolate that the word ‘prerogative’ in fact means reserve power. [More…]
If such be the section’s purpose and intended operation, how is it possible consistently with the Constitution that a reserve power of uncertain existence and unknowable constituents must be exercised in a way necessarily denying effect to the one constitutional provision expressly directed to the solution of deadlock between the Houses? [More…]
Mr Enderby struck out Mr Byers’ signature and pointed out to the Governor-General that while this was the personal opinion of the SolicitorGeneral, it was not a joint opinion and that he himself expressed strong views in terms of, first, the powers of the Senate and, secondly, the powers of the Governor-General in the circumstances that then existed which were diametrically opposed- I repeat, diametrically opposed- to the action that the GovernorGeneral in fact took. [More…]
Yet the Governor-General was prepared to say in his statement of reasons: 1 should be surprised if the Law Officers expressed the view that there is no reserve power in the Governor-General to dismiss a Ministry . [More…]
Now the Senate has the opportunity to make the appropriate response to seal the series of steps by which one Government has been defeated and another Government has come into power. [More…]
He said that the Senate did not have the power to defer or to reject appropriation. [More…]
He disputed the Senate ‘s power to reject a money Bill. [More…]
Section 53 of the Constitution has been canvassed so often, and since that ignorant, impulsive conclusion of the then Prime Minister only one opinion that I know of which usually would be worth respect has emerged to deny the Senate the legal power to reject or defer supply. [More…]
Within a few days we had an express confirmation of the power from no less a jurist than the Governor-General himself supported, as it was, by a plain, succinct and clear opinion without qualification by one of the most eminent constitutional lawyers who has ever practised or presided over a Bench in this country, Sir Garfield Barwick. [More…]
That was published and a few days later there was published an opinion by Sir Richard Eggleston, which is the only opinion worth calling an opinion that has emerged from anybody who asserted that, on the proper legal construction of section 53, the Senate did not have power to reject Supply. [More…]
In that situation, who is there now in this place who expects this Senate to be persuaded that under section 53 of the Constitution this chamber has not the power to reject or defer an appropriation or Supply Bill? [More…]
Of course we have that power. [More…]
The power of the Senate to reject or defer any proposed law, including a money Bill, was affirmed. [More…]
Of most importance was the assertion of the supremacy of Parliament over the Executive Government, demonstrated by the exercise of the power of the Senate to withhold Supply and the dismissal of a Prime Minister who refused to advise an election or resign when denied Supply by Parliament. [More…]
For anyone to argue that the Senate should not have the power to withhold Supply is to misunderstand Constitutional intent. [More…]
The Senate was given its great power so that it could in a real sense be the checks and balances of the Australian federal system. [More…]
Any criticism of the exercise of the power brings to mind the devastating comment of a man who knew what he was talking about in 1902 when the Senate’s financial powers came under serious challenge. [More…]
If any man had dared to stand up and tell the smaller States that the Senate had only such a power, the Constitution would never have been accepted. [More…]
A proper classification of what are the ordinary annual services of the Government in order to protect the Senate’s Constitutional power of amendment in respect of certain money bills (1901-2, 1924, 1952, 1961, 1964, 1965, 1968). [More…]
The assertion of the power of the Senate to reject or defer Supply until a Government agrees to submit itself to the judgment of the people (1974 and 1975). [More…]
Those powers are checks and balances against any concentration of unbridled power in the Executive Government, or against any misuse of power or mismanagement by a Government. [More…]
Without the assertion of those powers, the Senate could not effectively fulfil its role as the safety valve of the Australian federal system and of the nation. [More…]
In the age-old struggle between Parliament and the Executive, the Senate must continue to be vigilant in safeguarding its powers. [More…]
Fortunately, the Senate has always been rich in institutional members, in whose hands the powers, privileges and immunities of the Senate have been, and are, in safekeeping. [More…]
I hope that any purposeful student of this situation will now ask himself seriously whether this Senate has the legal constitutional power to reject or defer an appropriation or Supply Bill. [More…]
If the proper constitutional course of a government whose appropriation of Supply Bill is rejected or deferred is then either to advise a general election or to resign, let us consider the propriety of the exercise by the GovernorGeneral of the powers that he exercised on 1 1 November. [More…]
So far from there being any evidence that the Governor-General was entering into an arrangement with any body or any party, as Senator Brown said tonight, as early as 4 November- a whole week before the double dissolution- Mr Byers, Q.C., had had time to prepare an opinion of about 22 pages in collaboration with the then Attorney-General on the very subject of whether the Governor-General had the power and, if so, whether it was proper in the circumstances for him to dissolve the Parliament. [More…]
When we talk about the GovernorGeneral’s power people ask whether the Governor-General has the power to dissolve the Parliament. [More…]
The Governor-General’s power to dissolve the Parliament does not depend upon the prerogative. [More…]
I believe that this opposition was based on their fear of allowing the local and regional areas of this country to have further power over decision-making in their own areas. [More…]
I believe it is ironical that the conservative governments in this country, which made such a fuss about the allegedly centralist policies of the Labor Government, vigorously and almost invariably opposed such Australian Labor Party initiatives as direct aid to local government, the innovations program in the field of education and the Australian Assistance Plan, which gave to local government areas and local government groups the power to make decisions. [More…]
However, the Government believes there should be a fail-safe system which effectively prevents the executive abusing its power, and effectively protects the integrity of senators and members in this Parliament. [More…]
Honourable senators will recall that shortly after the Government came to power certain entitlements- such as life gold passes, overseas travel, and similar matter- were altered. [More…]
They said very early in the piece that they would restore the purchasing power to the Australian dollar; in other words, they would reduce inflation, bring prosperity back and reduce unemployment. [More…]
Australia was a major civil aviation power. [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…]
I continue my remarks in this unique AddressinReply debate by pointing out that the GovernorGeneral has express power under the Constitution to dissolve parliament. [More…]
He denied the power of the Senate to adjourn or reject appropriation. [More…]
I should like to quote a passage in Forsey’s work on the Royal Power of Dissolution of Parliament in the British Commonwealth prepared in 1943- the year of the first edition. [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 constitutional safeguard. [More…]
The Parliament consists of two Houses: the House of Representatives and the Senate, each popularly elected, and each with the same legislative power, with the one exception that the Senate may not originate nor amend a money Bill. [More…]
First, the Senate has constitutional power to refuse to pass a money Bill: it has power to refuse Supply to the Government of the day. [More…]
Very wisely, he took the course of accompanying his letter of dismissal to the previous Prime Minister with a statement of reasons to be publicised so that the country could understand that the purpose of the GovernorGeneral ‘s action was that the ultimate sovereign power in this country, namely, the vote of the people at a secretballot, could be obtained, and it would lead to a solution of the constitutional difficulty. [More…]
He purported to dissolve both Houses of Parliament without any demonstration that he possessed constitutional power at the relevant time to do so. [More…]
The existence of that power is highly questionable. [More…]
His literal powers under the constitution are nothing to the point. [More…]
It is perfectly clear from our classic commentary on the constitution by Quick and Garran (see for example pages 406 and 685), published in 1901, that those powers were from the outset intended to be exercised only on the advice of his ministers. [More…]
It was a straightforward political power-play, also without national precedent until last year. [More…]
The Governor-General was advised by the Chief Justice on this point as follows: ‘First, the Senate has constitutional power to refuse to pass a money Bill: it has power to refuse supply to the Government of the day. [More…]
Parliament without any demonstration that he possessed constitutional power . [More…]
The existence of that power is highly questionable’. [More…]
As to the existence of the power in this case, Mr Whitlam himself did not question it and, the day before Professor Howard wrote, admitted: ‘A double dissolution was possible this week . [More…]
That is the way in which they came to power. [More…]
an opinion by Sir Richard Eggleston, which is the only opinion worth calling an opinion that has emerged from anybody who asserted that, on the proper legal construction of section 33, the Senate did not have power to reject Supply. [More…]
First, deprive the Senate of the power to reject Supply, for if it is to defeat a government it should do so on a specific measure, not on general grounds of dislike. [More…]
But he himself was a willing party to these conventions which he broke because of his lust and that of his Party for power. [More…]
But the honourable senator freely admits that in 1973, less than 12 months after the Whitlam Government was elected, he was conniving to get rid of it by using the power in this place to deny Supply. [More…]
I wish to refer to the fourth aspect of the matter, namely, the power of the Commissioner. [More…]
I hope that whoever is in government and whoever has the numbers in this place will exercise that power in such a manner as to ensure that the proper functionings of government can continue without unnecessary political hindrance. [More…]
Fraser does not strike me as a man who would, when it comes to the point, willingly surrender power to anyone. [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…]
He will recall that the previous LiberalCountry Party administration declared almost the whole of the Jervis Bay territory as a nature reserve, excluding only the Wreck Bay and Jervis Bay villages, the naval station and the site for the projected power station in that area. [More…]
In this morning’s issue of the Australian newspaper, in the course of an article written by ‘Our Political Staff’ and headed, ‘Caucus to curb Whitlam ‘s power’, the following paragraphs appear: [More…]
The Minister has really only a general supervisory power over the 2-airline system and within that system it is competent for the operators, if they wish to do so, to improve the standard of their meals. [More…]
The CSIRO also is investigating wind, tidal, wave and geothermal power, and studies are being undertaken into biological sources, such as the production of methane and other gases from organic materials. [More…]
The magistrate is expressly given a power under that ordinance. [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 Australia, and it is envisaged that when the Foundation has been established it will open an office in Tokyo in order more effectively to carry out its task of bettering and deepening Australian and Japanese relations. [More…]
The Government is not concerned with power for itself. [More…]
It is therefore beholden to government to do everything in its power at a time like this to see this great industry through its immediate problems. [More…]
It is because we have to meet the needs of an industry which has fallen into a trough totally outside its own control and its own power to avoid that this measure has been introduced. [More…]
Constitutionally, the Commonwealth does not have statutory or constitutional power to deal with meat for the domestic market. [More…]
The Commonwealth Department has effective power only where meat is for export. [More…]
When this Government came to power, it acted immediately on the report. [More…]
We were in power for a little over 2Vi years and had 3 elections in that time. [More…]
So to all intents and purposes there was very little disturbance of the power of the Country Party. [More…]
We are to put a bigger proportion of our gross national product into war preparationswarships, thermo-nuclear power, submarines, armaments and the smartening up of our defence forces generally. [More…]
For a long time- I think it goes back to the early 1950s- a Liberal Government has been in power in Victoria. [More…]
A Liberal Government has been in power- for not so long a period, of course- in New South Wales. [More…]
The gerrymandered BjelkePetersen Government has been in power in Queensland. [More…]
Reference is made in the Governor-General’s Speech to his Government’s adopting a complete reversal of the excessive centralising of power in Australia. [More…]
There is widespread support for the broad principles of reversing the centralist trend and restoring some real power to the States. [More…]
The federations in Canada and the U.S.A. as well as Australia have all faced the problem of how to share the power and responsibilities among the member governments. [More…]
It will not matter to which group of people they claim to aim as a basis for future power. [More…]
-I think that Hansard will show that what I said was that the previous Government used its ministerial power under the Wireless Telegraphy Act to issue licences. [More…]
Maybe the Minister did not formulate the policy but I suggest that before she embarks on this drastic re-organisation which will give bureaucrats greater power to determine whether people should be paid unemployment allowances she should do what the Liberal Party said it would do, that is, find more jobs for people. [More…]
He has never felt the power of the boss. [More…]
I have yet to hear Senator Bonner say anything that could not be truthfully construed as a speech on behalf of Black Power. [More…]
I would like to draw to the attention of the Senate and perhaps to the attention of that ‘gentleman’ a book of which I was a coauthor, entitled Black Power in Australia, published by Heinemann Press in the On Trial series. [More…]
The first point at issue in this debate is the meaning of Black Power. [More…]
Senator Bonner sees 2 kinds of Black Power: One which says, ‘Be proud of your race . [More…]
Further on in the book at page 33, when writing about Black Power and condemning it I had this to say: [More…]
My brief is to write against the concept of ‘Black Power’. [More…]
Now there are at least 2 types of ‘Black Power’. [More…]
This is what 1 see as ‘good Black Power’, for, until my fellow Aborigines gain the confidence and pride which is rightfully theirs, they will be at a permanent disadvantage in the world they now find themselves. [More…]
On the other hand there is what I term ‘bad Black Power’. [More…]
Its adherents claim that the present system will not cater for Aborigines, that it never will represent Aborigines and that Aborigines will continue to lack political power until the present system ‘ is removed, if necessary by violent means. [More…]
I have condemned this kind of Black Power. [More…]
I have never advocated that kind of black power. [More…]
So Mr Tom Aikens, who claims to represent Townsville South, is totally wrong in saying that either in this Parliament or anywhere in Queensland I have advocated Black Power of the violent and nasty type. [More…]
Power men and horning into Aurukun and similar places. [More…]
At the moment the matter rests primarily with the Premier of Tasmania to assess the report and to decide whether it should be implemented, because the constitutional power over such colleges of advanced education lies with the States. [More…]
I regret that as far as my knowledge extends the Commonwealth Government does not have the power to stamp out this interference, but I hope that this is a matter which the Prime Minister might raise with his colleagues at the next Premiers Conference to see whether there ought not to be some legislation passed in Australia to protect the free dissemination of opinion in this country. [More…]
Primary industry has put up with the whims of sawdust Caesars who gain power and use it not to promote their shareholders’ products but to promote themselves, largely. [More…]
I believe this results in a bitter power struggle in industry politics. [More…]
When it came to power the Whitlam Government had before it a document which should have assisted it to improve and maintain hospital staffing in the Northern Territory. [More…]
We had a 50 per cent increase in labour and packaging costs in the last 2 years of the Australian Labor Party being in power, but there has been no consequential increase in the price which the pharmaceutical industry receives for drugs. [More…]
We know that honourable senators opposite want centralised power in Canberra and have no time for what State governments may wish to do in relation to any problem concerning the dairy industry or anything else. [More…]
We have inflation; the cost of living went up over 50 per cent while Labor was in power; in other words the dollar of a year or two ago is now worth only 60c to 65c. [More…]
While Labor was in power unemployment went up and up until last year we saw a situation of which even some of the socialists who sit opposite were plainly ashamed. [More…]
While Labor was in power the cost of travel to and from Tasmania just about doubled, and air travel is now just about out of the reach of the ordinary people who want to travel backwards and forwards to this larger island for one reason or another. [More…]
I believe that that is exactly what the Labor Party wanted and what it eventually might have obtained had it been returned to power in the last general election. [More…]
As recently as 1968 the American Ambassador to the United Nations published that he felt the political and economic idiosyncrasies of the Third World should not be treated as though they would have a marked impact on the balance of world power. [More…]
The main advantages of locating in Tasmania mentioned by Tasmanian exporters were: a more stable workforce; relatively cheaper hydro-electric power; cheaper land for industrial and commercial purposes; an abundant supply of fresh water; and a very fertile soil with a more assured rainfall than on the mainland. [More…]
Honourable senators opposite may interject, but they have starved these people since they came to power- although I suppose that is in order, with their political thinking. [More…]
Now this year Mr Fraser took over the power ruling the rules of us black and white here in Australia. [More…]
There were no streets, no footpaths, probably no kerbs or gutters, no stormwater drains, no sewerage, no buses, no telephones, probably no power, no garbage collection, no dog catchers, no parks and gardens, no swimming pools, and no sports grounds. [More…]
I leave aside the comments which are a constant refrain of Labor Party members these days that a gentleman who resides in Yarralumla took away from them the power to conduct the affairs of this country. [More…]
After the Labor Party came to power it immediately made $5m available to the various States before Parliament met for the purpose of reimbursing the States until the June period- the existing agreement lasted for 12 months- so that they could keep employed the labour that had been used on building houses, the funds for which had been exhausted. [More…]
One of the reasons given for that rejection was that the enrolment of undergraduates in this subject at the University of New South Wales was sufficient to service the optometrical manpower needs of Western Australia, South Australia, Tasmania and the Northern Territory. [More…]
If it is within his power to visit the University to substantiate what I have said, I trust that he will do so. [More…]
Honourable senators will realise, of course, that the 60,000 had a very high purchasing power in those days. [More…]
The College has power to do all things that are necessary or convenient to be done in or in connection with the performance of its functions. [More…]
I think that Hansard will show that what I said was that the previous Government used its ministerial power under the Wireless Telegraphy Act to issue licences. [More…]
The University of Adelaide had already been issued with a licence under the Wireless Telegraphy Act and this was merely an extension of that licence in order to increase the station’s transmitting power to a radius of 5 miles around Adelaide. [More…]
-As I understand it, the Postal and Telecommunications commissions have a responsibility to function both as independent statutory bodies and in a profitable way, but there is an overriding consideration and that is that the government of the day has the power and the responsibility to intervene where policies may be necessary to provide equity and some form of social justice. [More…]
Japan is our most important trading partner but it is also an important regional economic power and may become also a very important regional political power. [More…]
I would assume that the Indonesian Government would see it as essential and that it would be doing everything in its power not only to inform people what birth control is all about but also to make sure that birth control is what the people themselves want. [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 existing superannuation arrangements. [More…]
The Minister has the power under clause 14 of the parent Act to call for the names of persons in receipt of the superphosphate bounty. [More…]
So the power is in the Bill that we are now debating for the Minister to ask the producers of this commodity to supply him with the names of the users. [More…]
It will be remembered that in July the UDT, which previously was in unity with the Fretilin forces for the purpose of the transference of political power for the act of selfdetermination and independence, broke with the Fretilin movement following a visit by leaders of that movement to Australia and Indonesia. [More…]
Excesses often occur now as a revenge for Fretilin’s cruelty when it was in power. [More…]
That the existence of a system of double taxation of personal incomes whereby both the Australian Government and State Governments had the power to vary personal income taxes would mean that taxpayers who worked in more than one State in any one year would- [More…]
-It is quite clear that where a Government under a federalist system has the sovereign powers to take a particular course clearly it may take that course without any interference at all, and that is the whole basis of federalism. [More…]
It is the basic reason why we want to alter the mess of centralism which exists today and to give to the States more power in decision making. [More…]
So the aim of our policies is to give the States more clearly identified powers. [More…]
Mr Cairns very perceptively put his finger on a crucial issue, that is, that this Fraser Government, which claims to be a power sharing, decentralising government, is overwhelmingly concentrated in the city of Melbourne. [More…]
I suppose one possibility is that the Premier of Western Australia, who has no objection to centralism whatsoever and who in fact is a very firm believer in centralism provided that he is centralising all power unto himself, sees in this proposal an opportunity to centralise further power unto himself, regardless of the consequences it may have for the State of Western Australia. [More…]
It is disgraceful that the Premier should contemplate abusing his power in this way. [More…]
We have to be concerned, for example, about whether the production of skim milk power or milk products could be increased if the prices of these products were reduced and whether the - increased turnover would compensate the dairy farmers to a large extent for their efforts. [More…]
The Australian Labor Party was in power and this legislation essentially gives effect to that agreement. [More…]
I understand from newspaper articles today that some doubt has been expressed as to whether the Senate has the power to oppose this clause. [More…]
When it came to power in 1972 it did not do so. [More…]
He has deprived these people of some $3 1 m of their spending power. [More…]
Both the people he referred to earlier in his letter- that pensions would be maintained at least at the level of purchasing power of December, and probably would be improved. [More…]
I want to know where are the instant and automatic increases in pensions, because the impression that the Australian people gained was that if the Liberal and National Country parties came to power there would be instant and automatic increases in pensions whenever there was an increase in the cost of living index. [More…]
These are the sorts of things that were said before the election and these are the sorts of things that should be put before this Parliament following the return to power of the people who made these promises. [More…]
But we know that as a Senate we do not have the power to make such increases. [More…]
We know that under section 53 of the Constitution we have no power to increase the expenditures which are required to make further payments. [More…]
At the time that the extension of the power of operation of radio stations 4IP and 4KQ was granted by the Australian Broadcasting Control Board I happened to be the Minister for the Media. [More…]
If there was any implication in Senator Martin’s remarks that this was done at the direction of or with the approval of the Minister, I should like to say at the outset that it was a decision of the Australian Broadcasting Control Board, under its existing powers. [More…]
Broadcasting Stations, the Board advised licensees of commercial broadcasting stations that it would approve increases in transmitter power in certain circumstances. [More…]
In a circular letter to all broadcasting stations the Board indicated that it was prepared to consider applications from every station not at present operating a 5 kilowatt transmitter power for permission to increase power to that figure. [More…]
In May 1975, 4 months after that circular had been issued by the Broadcasting Control Board, 2 commercial stations for the first time made application to the Board to increase their power from 2 kilowatts to 5 kilowatts. [More…]
What I am saying is that 4 months after the Board notified every commercial broadcasting station that this would be its new policy, these 2 stations made application to the Board for increased power. [More…]
Re-siting of both stations to a new location at St Helena Island, provision of a shared directional aerial and power increase from 2000 to 5000 watts. [More…]
I understand that prior to these approvals there had been discussions with Brisbane commercial stations with the thought of increasing the operating power of the commercial stations to 5000 watts. [More…]
Her questions relate to her assertion that the altered site for transmission of signal for the 2 stations, together with their altered power, has altered their relative penetration pattern for areas in general and, of course, their competitive advantage with other stations in a coverage. [More…]
Similarly, legislation in the States and the Territories gives the power to prohibit the movement of primary produce and animals across State or Territory borders. [More…]
The Stock Disease Ordinance gives the power to detain, examine and destroy travelling stock in certain circumstances. [More…]
In the Northern Territory the Administration has the power to prohibit the entry, or to place conditions on the entry, of stock, stock from particular areas, stock of a particular species or of meat or products from such stock. [More…]
Will the Minister ensure that residents of the Northern Territory are not disadvantaged by the tactics being adopted by the delegation and, will he reassure the Parliament that power over Aboriginal lands legislation will remain with the Federal Parliament and that sufficient funds will be made available for ongoing capital works in the Northern Territory and reconstruction work in Darwin. [More…]
That the existence of a system of double taxation of personal incomes whereby both the Australian Government and State Governments had the power to vary personal income taxes would mean that taxpayers who worked in more than one State in any one year would- [More…]
At that time we were accused of wanting to centre all power in Canberra. [More…]
We were told that certain authorities and powers that rested with the States were things which we wished to take away from the States. [More…]
Yesterday Senator Carrick, who is the Minister responsible for the Government’s federalism policy, insisted that under this proposal the States will not have the power to impose additional tax. [More…]
He said that they will have the power to impose a surcharge. [More…]
They will have the power to legislate and to impose tax in the State additional to that imposed by the Commonwealth. [More…]
The Labor Party, in its socialist narcissism, in looking towards centralisation of power, is looking into the past. [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 a power were there the Premiers would use it. [More…]
Therefore, I tell all the States here represented that the Commonwealth Government is abundantly and promptly willing to discuss with them the return to the States of their taxing power. [More…]
It has not been stability because there has been overweaning power on the part of the central government in this country. [More…]
It has been so overweaning that at times the government was not satisfied with it and sought the most extraordinary loans from abroad in an effort to gain complete power. [More…]
It is learning nothing about the way in which this country ought to be run and how there ought to be a decentralisation of power. [More…]
Sir Eric guaranteed that there would be no increase in taxation if his Government was returned to power. [More…]
What parliament in the country exists that does not have any power to raise revenue? [More…]
At the present time, the States have power to raise revenue by payroll tax, stamp duty tax, motor vehicle tax and lotteries. [More…]
I take a little further this thesis that Mr Hewitt is always talking about trade union power. [More…]
Surely the sovereign States of this Commonwealth have the power and indeed the right to exercise such a responsibility in government. [More…]
As socialism and centralism- the destruction of the power of the Senate and local government- are the particular philosophy of honourable senators opposite, of course they have the right to promote and project them. [More…]
Will the Minister for Education tell us whether the Government’s new federalism policies envisage a power resting with State governments to impose their own income tax? [More…]
Last year 4WK acted on the invitation of the Australian Broadcasting Control Board to make a case for increasing its transmission power. [More…]
It increased its power from 2000 watts to 5000 watts. [More…]
I understand that when radio stations are given permission to increase their transmission power from 2000 watts to 5000 watts some conditions are usually applied relating to the direction of the beam that is sent out and the area that it covers. [More…]
But since the elected Fraser Government came into power last December we have lived in an atmosphere of doubt and uncertainty on many Government projects, including water filtration, with hints of cut-backs and threats of reductions in financial assistance’, he said. [More…]
The station has not yet commenced transmission at the higher power, although a 5 kilowatt transmitter has been installed. [More…]
Station 4WK has applied for permission to transfer to 5 kilowatts following the Board ‘s letter of 7 January 1975 offering the increase in power to all medium frequency commercial broadcasting stations. [More…]
All but 15 of these stations have applied for the increase in transmitting power. [More…]
Until there is a variation in this frequency it is intended that night time transmission be at the lower power. [More…]
The Board advises that 4GR is currently received well in Warwick but has the option of applying to increase power to 5 kilowatts if it feels that the better reception in daylight hours of 4WK in the Toowoomba area provides undue competition. [More…]
Let me make it clear: I hope that never at any time will it be necessary for those engaged in teaching to hold strikes because, of course, in doing so they would be using the children of this nation as a bargaining power. [More…]
Can he say whether the estate provides free housing, free light and power, free medical treatment and free education for 2 children in the family and whether it also provides material to enable those who wish to do so to build their own outrigger canoes which were valued at that time at about SA800? [More…]
Our endeavours to set up land commissions and to place new emphasis on housing were part of a process of devolution of power. [More…]
Once having reached that point of centralisation, it is essential that the community and political parties should find the forms for a decentralisation of responsibility and a decentralisation of power. [More…]
The Sydney Morning Herald loves to get across anti-socialist propaganda, as indeed do many members of the Government Parties, not recognising that in the ideals of socialism are expressed an extension of the democratic processes, and extension of the decentralisation of power and responsibility and, in fact, a society upon which will be based the social and not individual ownership of the means of production and the right of people at the grass roots level to participate in all of the decisions which should be taken in the very complex industrialised societies which now predominate in the Western world. [More…]
If a State sought to raise no taxes and just lived on what came from the Commonwealth, I suppose it would be seen to be irresponsible when the power to raise or lower a tax was there and it was not using that power. [More…]
When are we going to get away from this simplistic philosophy that was developed by Adam Smith a century or two ago and get down to a proper understanding of the way in which the system operates in this country- a system which relies upon capital and a system over which governments have limited power? [More…]
The transference into a charge Act- the Wheat Export Charge Act- of the power to tax exports is a machinery matter, and the Opposition agrees with the submission and the argument which the Parliamentary Counsel made available to us. [More…]
No one authority therefore can place conditions for the sale from State to State contrary to the stabilisation criteria without the express co-operation and coordination of State and local authorities who would have to legislate in accordance with the overall plan and within the judicially defined constraints placed on their powers. [More…]
It is not beyond the realms of possibility that community needs and aspirations may require the unfettered use of an overall power for the good not only of those engaged in rural production but of the community at large. [More…]
Perhaps the existing powers of the Commonwealth under section 5 1 (iii) which deals with the power with respect to bounties on the production and export of goods- but such bounties must be uniform throughout Australia- and under section 99 by which preference cannot be given to one State or any part of a State, need to be altered. [More…]
In an already difficult area to achieve national powers and coordination to duplicate the problems six times and leave the overall policy to be determined by narrow parochial interest as so often happens is to abdicate totally from involvement to the detriment of the Australian economy and in particular the rural communities. [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 [More…]
The power of the Industrial Court to make these declaratory orders will not extend to the provisions of Division 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 senators 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 authorize mergers. [More…]
That will be the appropriate time to give attention to the implemention of our undertaking regarding the discretionary power under section 90. [More…]
Regrettably, when this Government came into power, with its policy of reducing Government expenditure, it reduced considerably the vote by which help could be given to the Aboriginal people. [More…]
My insistence on a royal commission into this matter met with no approval from the Western Australian Government until I decided that there was some constitutional doubt whether the Commonwealth, while it had power to look after Aborigines and investigate what happened to Aborigines, could inquire into the activities or action of State police. [More…]
It is unfair in that many of them considered that in paying those higher contributions they were in fact entering into a contract with their employer, the Government- not any particular Government but with the Government that employed themand that that contract would have been honoured by whichever Government was in power at the time when they were due for retirement. [More…]
So diligently have the architects of this Bill been in favour of the beneficiaries as distinct from the revenue that where there is a case of a deceased pensioner’s spouse- say, the deceased died in 1970- who remarried in 1975 and therefore lost the pension, this Bill, forsooth, gives the Commissioner the power to resurrect that pension and, notwithstanding the remarriage, confer the pension upon the survivor, now remarried. [More…]
He has the power to resurrect this right notwithstanding remarriage. [More…]
The Commission is anxious to accelerate the movement of a greater degree of decision-making power to regional and school levels. [More…]
However, the Commission believes that decisions made at these levels should be substantive rather than trivial, that they should be made in consultation with teachers, parents and senior students, and that unless, indeed, they give direct local power over spending they are not likely to be significant. [More…]
I do not believe anything could be more disastrous than for the Government to try to steer the recommendations of the Commission in some way which may give greater power to the States or which in some way may fit into the philosophy of the Government which is contrary to the needs principle. [More…]
That the existence of a system of double taxation of personal incomes whereby both the Australian Government and State Governments had the power to vary personal income taxes would mean that taxpayers who worked in more than one State in any one year would: [More…]
That the existence of a system of double taxation of personal incomes whereby both the Australian Government and State Governments had the power to vary personal income taxes would mean that taxpayers who worked in more than one State in any one year would- [More…]
Could the Minister ascertain whether the officer took an oath of loyalty to another power while being under oath to serve Australia? [More…]
In view of the lack of protection for Australians serving in overseas countries, as evidenced by the assassination of journalists in East Timor, will the Minister inform the Senate of what specific guidelines apply to mercenary soldiers being recruited in or leaving this country and serving a foreign power? [More…]
In point of fact, I participated in a somewhat minor role, after my discharge following the last war, in the famous Margaret Street demonstration which had as its aim the independence of Indonesia from the Dutch who were then the colonial power. [More…]
The assumptions on which the present Government came to power and the circumstances in which it came to power in November 1975 carried with them the implicit promise that it would do better than the Labor Government did in respect of all these things. [More…]
Let me refer briefly to the attitude and actions of this Government since it came to power in December 1975. [More…]
I believe that if we are going to look at the present position in Timor it is necessary to avoid hysteria; it is necessary to avoid an excessive use of emotive prose, because we find at the present time that there has been armed intervention by a power in the internal affairs of another piece of territory. [More…]
Apart from that, it seems to me to be very difficult to know what one is supposed to do if one is a colonial power. [More…]
I would like to refer to some of the actions taken by the present Government since coming to power. [More…]
Shortly after coming to power and when the major invasion by Indonesian troops occurred, on 1 1 December, Australia supported a United Nations Trusteeship Committee resolution which called on Indonesia to withdraw from Portuguese Timor immediately. [More…]
Now when our former allies have been invaded by a superior power we turn our backs and let them be. [More…]
As I read the clause, it gives a State Minister, after money has been allocated to a State for education and expenditure, the power in the last analysis to determine whether that money shall be spent on capital expenditure or recurrent expenditure. [More…]
We had a unique situation in 1973 in my State of Victoria when the then Minister for Education, suspecting what might be in the Karmel report but without actually knowing, went around Victoria promising that every school would have a library if the Liberal Government was returned to power in the State election. [More…]
I have been to schools which have the most elaborate audio visual equipment but, because they are old schools, they do not have enough power points to plug in the equipment. [More…]
In fact we believe that it is wrong for every political group, be it left, right or centre to control Ethnic Radio and use it as a political tool, let alone give that power to only one political faction. [More…]
From 1967, until the Whitlam Government came to power in late 1972, Aboriginal matters, including land matters, were administered by the Department of Territories and the Department of the Interior. [More…]
That power is totally there. [More…]
Indeed, we also tried to elevate the status of local government by a referendum that was held in conjunction with the May 1974 Federal election, namely, to seek a power to enable the Australian Government to make grants direct to local government throughout Australia. [More…]
It is quite clear that the financial power of the Commonwealth has led to the steady weakening of the State governments. [More…]
In my view, the importance of that provision is that while that power is there it would not be possible for any Federal government to allow local government to be neglected. [More…]
It would do so at its peril because any critic within the local government area would be able to point to that section and say that authority was vested in the Commonwealth and that it should be invoking the power of the Grants Commission. [More…]
However, I would like to express my appreciation in closing for the fact that this Government, I think for the first time in the 75 years of Federation, has set about reversing the trend towards central government in Australiaa trend which is, I think, best and most simply documented in Sir Robert Menzies’ book Central Power in the Australian Commonwealth. [More…]
I must say that I was somewhat intrigued by Mr Justice Wells’s decision but I assume that he had full power under the laws of South Australia to take such action. [More…]
Today, of course, an anti-communist government is in power in Indonesia. [More…]
The second similarity between West New Guinea and East Timor is that the United Nations was either powerless to act or disinclined to become too deeply involved. [More…]
The fourth similarity relates to the fact that both incidents involved a decolonising power which scarcely had a deep interest in the territory concerned. [More…]
In the case of West New Guinea that power was the Dutch and in the case of East Timor it was the Portuguese. [More…]
We must stand for the right of self-determination of all people, whether they are being taken over by a communist power or not. [More…]
If all bodies paying incomes do not have this power, why is it that some do and some do not. [More…]
The Government has no power under the Australian Shipping Commission Act to review such decisions. [More…]
1 ) Was it claimed in an article in the Financial Review of 22 April 1976, that the Government is considering removing the power of Parliament to disallow redistributions under the Electoral Act in cases involving variations to the quota of representatives from any one State. [More…]
This arises from the necessarily exclusive external affairs power of the Commonwealth. [More…]
The Minister has no power under the Passports Act to order the passports of persons convicted of bird smuggling or of any other offences to be forfeited automatically on conviction for a period of 5 years. [More…]
Stage one of the federalism revenue sharing program is a stage in which the States will be slotted in to a fixed percentage of personal income tax and they themselves will have no power to vary that. [More…]
It continues the process of removing from the Commonwealth Grants Commission the power to inquire into local government bodies. [More…]
I therefore seek from the Minister confirmation that my understanding is correct and that, should there be an attempt at some future date by some future government to make regulations- after all, it is that same regulation making power that is being given- which would enable a State to syphon off some of the funds for purposes other than the simple purpose of providing local government type services in an area where there is no local government authority, then other local government authorities will have available this debate to raise the question of whether any such regulation should be allowed through this chamber. [More…]
The addition of those words ‘or by way of expenditure for purposes declared by the regulations to be purposes to which this sub-section applies’ gives the regulation-making power to a person to expand purposes for local government purposes that are declared by the regulations. [More…]
Therefore, under sub-section (2) of proposed section 17 if the definition of local government authorities were contained in those regulations correctly, I should have thought that the Government would have all the power it wants when there is a reference to a grant of moneys to the State for the purpose of being applied by the State in payment to local authorities situated in that State. [More…]
If the wording of a clause is bad we should take steps to see it amended so that regardless of the government in power, the clause expresses its functions correctly and does what the Senate chamber, at the time of its passage, wanted it to do. [More…]
I suppose it is taking the matter to extremes, but the possibilities seem to be unlimited unless there is some restriction in the regulating power relating to the things that are necessary to be done for the administration of this Act. [More…]
-This clause would be subject to the regulating power. [More…]
That regulating power is provided in section 27 of the Act. [More…]
This clause would be subject to the regulating power. [More…]
We are told repeatedly by this Government that the only purpose of this new federalism policy, in particular, this piece of legislation as one component of that new federalism policy, is to decentralise power. [More…]
If the Government really believes in decentralising power from Federal sources, I put to Senator Carrick as the Minister now responsible for this legislation- I hope he will take up the question in his reply to the second reading debate- the same question which I put to Senator Maunsell: If the Liberal Party really believes that the States can more competently and more equitably spend whatever amount of revenue may be raised for local government, why is this Government insisting that at least part of the money be distributed on a per capita basis? [More…]
Assuming that the decentralisation of economic and administrative power was desirable, we ought to bear in mind the simple fact that the State governments pretty effectively centralise power unto themselves anyway. [More…]
So even if the decentralisation of administrative power were desirable, we ought to be very conscious of the fact that some State governments- I can think of one State Premier on the western side of the continent in particular- have no real objection to centralism at all. [More…]
I think it is supremely ironic that the President of the Northam Branch of the Liberal Party, signing himself as the President of that branch, should have said: ‘By arrangement with our mayor, I deny the charge that the Liberal Party has infiltrated the Northam town council and is misusing its power on the Northam town council’. [More…]
When I say ‘characteristic’, I mean characteristic of this Government which, after coming to power in December of last year with a number of vague promises, suddenly finds that it has to come down to the reality of implementing those policies into practical proposals. [More…]
We are implementing our federalist policy and, as far as possible, are bringing about a devolution of power in this country, not just at State Government level but at local government level. [More…]
They were dressed up and aimed, I believe, at empire building and power gaining. [More…]
There is no power under any Act by which government is able to determine a medical practitioner’s decision in any case. [More…]
Is it a fact that the power to issue cheques for unemployment benefit and similar payments is to be or has been withdrawn from regional offices such as that situated at Northam in Western Australia and that payments in future will be centralised from capital city offices? [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…]
The reason for that decision was that the partly elected Legislative Council of that Territory had power, conferred by statute, to make ordinances for the Territory, and such ordinances were no longer subject to disallowance by either House of the Parliament. [More…]
It has no power to make ordinances, which are still made by the Governor-General with the advice of the Executive Council, and are still subject to disallowance by either House of the Parliament. [More…]
The Committee was concerned with 2 provisions in the amendments- one which required holders of licences under the regulations and travel agents to keep detailed records and another provision which empowered officers to enter premises and examine records. [More…]
The Minister for Transport has undertaken to amend the regulations so that the requirement to keep records will be limited to two years, and the power to enter premises will be subject to a requirement of a reasonable belief that an offence against the regulations has occurred. [More…]
It points out that semi-military organisations were established in Australia when there was a threat to the Establishment of Australia or when there was some militant action by unionists when Labor was in power. [More…]
It was made clear before the election that the Federal government had been given too much power and that more of that power should revert to the States. [More…]
It is not overstating the position to say that the power of a Federal government is to be largely dismantled. [More…]
He said then that the fundamental philosophy behind federalism was to ensure that, in the event of a future Federal Labor government, that government would not have the power to do the things which we set out to do in 1 972. [More…]
In the lower income groups it is highly unlikely that we will see increased spending power. [More…]
The people realise that when the socialists get into power. [More…]
Leigh Creek is a coal mining town in South Australia and is responsible for supplying coal to the Port Augusta power station which supplies most of the electricity in South Australia. [More…]
That means that the people of South Australia possibly could be put on power rationing during the year. [More…]
We noticed on coming to power that one of the significant things that had been happening in the community was that stocks held by various businessmen had been falling over the last year or so. [More…]
When Labor came to power I say that there was a deliberate policy to forget the people of the outback and to pander to people in areas of mass population. [More…]
Immediately Labor came to power it set up the Coombs Task Force to inquire into what cuts and savings could be made in Australia. [More…]
The cash restrictions and the financial restrictions did not happen when this Government came to power. [More…]
Are you aware that a report of the Joint Committee on the Broadcasting of Parliamentary Proceedings, which was adopted some years ago by both Houses, includes a provision that if a member makes a personal explanation in rebuttal of any misrepresentation contained in a question asked that day or an answer thereto, the question and answer shall, subject to the exercise of a certain discretionary power vested in you, be excluded from the parliamentary rebroadcast? [More…]
But, in power, they have now decided that a Vh per cent levy should be imposed to provide for a new form of Medibank. [More…]
When the Fraser Government came to power last December it knew then that its task would not be easy. [More…]
If we look at the situation when the Fraser Government came to power we will appreciate that we were faced with a huge deficit. [More…]
If we recall, when the Labor Party came to power conditions in Australia were among the best of any country. [More…]
When Mr Whitlam went out of power last December what was the situation? [More…]
It has nothing to do with the political situation in their country or with the party in power in their country. [More…]
When this Government came to power some 300 000 people were unemployed- the worst unemployment rate since the Depression of the 1 930s. [More…]
At the first national wage hearing after the new Government came to power Mr Fraser sent counsel along to the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission to ask it to give half wage indexation. [More…]
As I have said in this chamber before, when the Labor Government came to power in 1972, if it had a mandate to do anything about which the Australian people knew it had a mandate to introduce Medibank. [More…]
It sieves Labor legislation, but it lets through much bigger levies when a Liberal government is in power. [More…]
The Government that Senator McLaren supports, the Whitlam Government, promised that if elected to power in 1 972 it would remove the tax on table wines which was imposed admittedly in 1970-71. [More…]
Not only was the atmosphere of the bon vivant introduced into our debate but also a rather delicate touch of nostalgia when the honourable senator referred to the present Government’s usurpation of power in the terms which he used when he said: ‘We took over a business’. [More…]
The simple and sad fact is that the present Government is totally bereft of moral authority because of the sleazy circumstances- to use Senator Hall’s succinct phrase- under which it seized power and the succession of repudiations of its pre-election policy in which it has indulged since it was elected to office in December last. [More…]
To conclude this brief reference to small businesses, there is no doubt that small businesses have fallen between the 2 power groups in Australia, the unions and government, and it is not enticing to consider the prospect of entering small manufacturing processes with all the incidental costs and pressures which are loaded against them. [More…]
As long as union power is sacrosanct in support of a full indexation I believe that no government policies will be successful in meeting the problems which are being debated here. [More…]
One of the most inefficient economic machines of all 3 tiers of government is the State government tier and to remove the spending power from a Federal government and place it in the hands of a State government is to reduce the value and efficiency of that spending. [More…]
One of the conditions that should be applied if the States are to gain income taxing powers is that they reduce those day labour forces and introduce far more contract work into their very large physical operations which involve the spending of their capital funds. [More…]
This one factor of the so-called federalism policy of returning spending power to the States will add to the ineffectiveness of the economic recovery of this country. [More…]
Does the Government propose to seek the co-operation of other Commonwealth countries that export primary products, some which are developing countries, in order that the EEC may assist in improving world economics and not acquire greater power and dominance? [More…]
To the extent that the Broadcasting and Television Act in its specific sections enjoins the Australian Broadcasting Commission to produce adequate and comprehensive programming there is, of course, a legislative power and responsibility from this Government to the Commission to carry out its duties. [More…]
These politicians would sooner have a multitude of struggling small farmers foolish enough to vote for them than relatively few prosperous farmers who might not vote for them or would be numerous enough to maintain their power base . [More…]
In the 23 years that the Liberal-Country Party Government was in power before 1972- in fact, it was in the dying days of that year- fruit growers began to suffer because of the failure of the Government to make decisions or to formulate worthwhile longer terms plans for the industry. [More…]
With respect to any positive proposal that this Government may come up with, I can assure the Senate that we will do everything within our power as the Labor Party and as the Opposition to view objectively and to take into consideration the opinions of and the problems facing the growers and the consuming public alike. [More…]
As Senator Wright says, every Tasmanian will take every step in his power to make sure this does not happen. [More…]
Local government has been able to say that unlike the times when Labor was in power, when it had to put up its municipal and shire rates by 35 per cent - [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…]
I have mentioned that the legislation confers power on the Minister to give directions 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…]
We have a situation on the waterfront in which the union has been using its monopoly power to hand spike out of the industry conditions which are far out of line with general conditions in industry in Australia. [More…]
A term of that agreement under which waterside workers received weekly employment was that there would be a power to apply to adjust the number of waterside workers required on the waterfront and to eliminate those who were redundant upon the application of the employer and after adjudication by the Council. [More…]
Such a degree of strike activity and force of monopoly power was brought to bear on the waterfront in 1972 that one of the concessions that the employers had to make was that no more applications should be made by employers to declare employees redundant; that henceforth a man on the waterfront payroll could be declared redundant only upon his own application. [More…]
For a continuation of government organisation on the waterfront there was strong advocacy from the present government authority, the Australian Stevedoring Industry Authority, which said some governmental agency was needed to organise the general activities the.e and to match the union power. [More…]
It said that the employers could not be trusted, by reason of their business connections with the overseas shipping companies, to withstand the pressure of the monopoly power of the employees. [More…]
But everything depends upon being satisfied that, if these people are given the right to operate the stevedoring activities on that system, there will be a guarantee that the commerce of the country will not be unduly eroded by monopoly power on the part of the federation and the terrific commercial advantage that the shipowners have to pass on their freight costs. [More…]
It may finally come to be realised that union power has to accept the responsibilities that other sections of commerce accept, namely, the payment of compensation for breaches of agreements and proper amenability to the conditions of employment. [More…]
We are certainly not going to get it if the industry is turned over to monopoly power which is governed purely by self-interest. [More…]
My concern about the statement of the Minister is that if the Government is going to withdraw from an interest in the stevedoring industry and if the community’s interest is withdrawn from the stevedoring industry then not only will the hard work that went into getting a community interest in the stevedoring industry go to waste but also we could see the whole of the industry turned over to monopoly power. [More…]
But we hear the employers- the ship owners- saying that they ought to have monopoly power over the workers on the waterfront. [More…]
Abroad, unrealistic notions that an age of peace and stability had arrived encouraged a neglect of power realities- a neglect which did not serve our interests. [More…]
Disagreement between Congress and Executive has impaired the capacity of America- the only power which can provide a balance to the Soviet Union- to act with full effect abroad. [More…]
This is not a 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 fact that there are many things which 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…]
We are told in this speech about increasing Soviet power, new ships, new missiles and so on. [More…]
None of us likes to see this increase in military power around the world, but we might accept some of the realities. [More…]
They derive from the unprecedented conditions of the thermonuclear age, the ambiguities of contemporary power and the perpetual revolution in technology. [More…]
Why does the Soviet Union desire military power far greater than any needed to secure its frontiers or the expanded frontiers embraced by the Warsaw powers? [More…]
It is possible, I suppose, although if the present Government is still in power I would think it is highly unlikely. [More…]
The newspaper articles forecast that 546 tractors with power in excess of 162 kilowatts, which I think is about 250 horse power in the old terminology, would be sold this year. [More…]
Clause 19 of the Bill gives the Minister a power to express directions and views to the Board from time to time about the sorts of criteria which it should be considering in making grants available. [More…]
I hope that the Minister will keep an eye on this situation in the years remaining to him in office- and I assume that that will be 2 years-and that he will use that power to give the Board some guidance in matters of the type which I have raised. [More…]
I hope that, if he feels it appropriate to use that power to direct the Board, he will use it to ask the Board to take account of industrial design consideration. [More…]
The 2Vi per cent levy is an added impost on the Australian taxpayer which would have been avoided had Labor stayed in power. [More…]
There are other clauses in the Bill which I consider give the Minister too much power. [More…]
It seems to me that that gives the Minister quite incredible powers and I fear would give him a capacity to dictate to the funds. [More…]
I would suggest that it is important that we have tax indexation and that it is important that we have as great a level of take home pay for every person in this country in terms of moving towards wages restraint and levels of income which enable people to maintain their purchasing power. [More…]
We are dealing in terms of constant prices, or the real purchasing power of money, and what we are saying is that next year universities will have 2 per cent more real purchasing power with which to undertake their recurrent and capital expenditure, together, incidentally, with a further $2m earmarked for capital in universities. [More…]
We are saying also that for years 2 and 3 of the rolling triennium they may plan on the assurance that in terms of real purchasing power they will get no less than 2 per cent extra growth in each year. [More…]
Having achieved that, there will be a further 2 per cent real purchasing power growth for 1978, and on top of that a similar further growth in 1979, as well as the ability, if and when the economy expands, to add more to it. [More…]
So the States are prospectively considerably better off in the knowledge that tax indexation and its abatement of inflation will reduce the wages bill of the States and therefore give them more real purchasing power. [More…]
I think we have reached the state of mentality where we talk about the introduction of indexation as being the means by which we are able to preserve the purchasing power of money and the level of benefits. [More…]
We did everything in our power to bring about a more definitive and stronger position in respect of the events that now are unfolding so tragically in East Timor. [More…]
What were the options that were open to the Australian Government, what was the only link when a super power in the Asian region, Indonesia, marched across the borders of East Timor in October last year, murdering Australians in the process? [More…]
When that power subsequently carried out a full scale invasion, what resources were left to the people of East Timor? [More…]
They did not ask to be aligned with another power. [More…]
Yet our Department was telling us that there was such a great quantity of refugees arising out of the seizure of power following the failure of the coup when the Fretlin movement took office in September last year. [More…]
When it did join it was on the distinct understanding- not just an understanding but something that is explicitly spelt out in the Constitution- that section 51 placitum (xxix) of the Constitution would provide that the Parliament of the Commonwealth would have power to make laws pertaining to external affairs and, under placitum (xxx).to relations of the Commonwealth with the islands of the Pacific. [More…]
The point I make is that it has been quite explicit from the beginning that power to make foreign policy is vested in the national Parliament and not the parliaments of the States. [More…]
The power given under this proposed new section is found in these words: [More…]
He can also refuse to sign a memorandum of agreement if any of the terms is a term that the Commission does not have power to include in an award; or it is not in the public interest that he should certify the memorandum or make the award an order’. [More…]
No one else has the power to appeal against a decision made under section 28. [More…]
Now for the first time the Minister will have the power to appeal. [More…]
I dp not know why this tremendous power is put in the hands of the Registrar. [More…]
Rather than criticise that power I will wait to see whether there is some logical reason. [More…]
While an arbitral tribunal deriving its authority under an exercise of the legislative power given by section 51 . [More…]
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 what, subject to the power of variation, it had actually done. [More…]
Clause 5 of the Bill provides that the Minister shall have power to appeal against a decision of a single member of the Commission whether it is in an arbitrated decision or a consent award or even the certification of an agreement. [More…]
The prime objective of the Conciliation and Arbitration Act, as limited by the constitutional powers of the Commonwealth, is in respect of the prevention and settling of industrial disputes. [More…]
Section 28, which follows the belief of the former Minister, Mr Clyde Cameron, that the Government should keep out of industrial disputes as much as possible, made it impossible if there was agreement between the parties for a member of the Commission to refuse to sign the certificate unless the award or decision was not in settlement of the dispute, was beyond the power of the Commissioners or was not in the public interest. [More…]
Its letter was in response to a circular letter that was sent not only to 4KQ and 4IP but to every radio station in Australia telling them that there was a changed policy regarding transmitter power of medium frequency commercial broadcasting stations and that if they desired to have their transmitters re-sited they could apply to the Broadcasting Control Board. [More…]
A major outside power which had no cultural or economic links with the territory has been able to force the outcome of domestic politics in a direction to suit its own ends. [More…]
Is this assurance a manifestation of this Government’s belief that power should be transferred to the [More…]
While decision was substantially favourable to the Act- and was welcomed by the Governmentthe 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…]
No opposition is given to the consummation of the power expressly provided in the legislation put forward by the Labor Government in the 1 974 amendments to the Bill. [More…]
The power is subject to the Minister’s approval. [More…]
It has no power to charge more for its products. [More…]
The reality of the situation is that the Government in power has little influence over the aggregate level of farm income except in those sectors that suffer from chronic surplus capacity. [More…]
Mr President, before the suspension of the sitting I was saying that the government in power, no matter which party constitutes that government, has little influence on the aggregate level of farm income, except where government action induces or sustains chronic surplus capacity. [More…]
If the debate today is on who is responsible, the Government that was in power in Australia in 1972 and the subsequent 3 years must take the blame. [More…]
The figures I have cited represent the approximate voting power of four or five urban electorates or up to 10 country electorates. [More…]
Although it is competent for State parliaments or the English Parliament to subtract that quality from one of their courts, in the judicature provisions of our Constitution we say that the judicial power of this Commonwealth shall be vested in the High Court and such other courts as Parliament provides. [More…]
Thirdly, the amendments, by reason of the cases of Russell v. Russell and Farrelly v. Farrelly, have come through the judgment of the High Court which demonstrated that there are limitations to the powers which the Commonwealth has to make these laws. [More…]
It is designed to reduce the definitions so that it only covers those things that are within the constitutional power at the present time. [More…]
I believe that probably now more than ever it is essential that States should be persuaded to exercise the power to create State courts, or they should be persuaded to refer the power to the Commonwealth so that the gaps can be closed. [More…]
Is it a fact that the power to issue cheques for unemployment benefits and similar payments is to be or has been withdrawn from regional offices such as that in northern Western Australia and that payments in future will be centralised in capital city offices. [More…]
I understand that the Gladstone City Council is anxious to avoid noxious industries on the Toolooa estate while the Clinton estate is primarily designed for large scale industries requiring heavy power inputs and sea board facilities. [More…]
Politics was Lord Casey’s overriding interest, but he always saw political power as a means and not an end in itself. [More…]
This was not only because he was in a position of power, as Senator Wriedt has already mentioned, but also because of a personal sense in that he often served people from his own purse. [More…]
That is what I mean by saying that Lord Casey not only served the people of Australia where he could exert power on their behalf but also in a most notable and personal sense tried to serve the people amongst whom he lived. [More…]
Would foreign aid be far more beneficial if small solar energy stations or packs were built to enable small communities to conserve fuel and other natural resources; if so, will the Government initiate the research required for the development and production of such solar energy power units by immediately providing funds. [More…]
That the existence of a system of double taxation of personal incomes whereby both the Australian Government and State Governments had the power to vary personal income taxes would mean that taxpayers who worked in more than one State in any one year would- [More…]
The same comments apply to the Government’s special charge, the Medibank levy, which will have similar effects and which will cause a dramatic drop in the purchasing power of consumers by 1 October. [More…]
The many retail traders to whom I have spoken throughout an extensive part of New South Wales have clearly indicated to me that in terms of the spending power of people there are no signs of any consumer confidence returning. [More…]
It prices itself out of jobs and services and prices itself out of being able to compete in any way with our overseas competitors for the purchasing power even of our own consumers. [More…]
I conclude my remarks by referring to an article in today’s Daily Mirror that was written by a journalist named Mike Power. [More…]
Certainly there was no extensive unemployment before Labor came to power. [More…]
The motion moved by Senator Wriedt comes from a Party which was in charge of this country for 3 years and which seeks on this occasion to get up and decry a Government which has been in power for 8 months. [More…]
I do not doubt that they are pleased this Government is in power. [More…]
Until this country can again afford to export its goods and protect its industries against imports, which are challenging the very industrial base of the country and have done since Labor came to power in December 1972, we will not be able to resolve the unemployment problem. [More…]
What has happened in the field of capital expenditure since this Government came to power? [More…]
On top of that, while there has been some apparent decline in public service jobs, and we hear this quite often from the Opposition, the fact is that private employment has increased by about 40 000 employees since this Government came to power. [More…]
The answer is that we should try to stimulate investment as we have done since we came to power. [More…]
Returning to Senator Bishop’s interjection, in a year in which the Labor Government was in power, 1973-74, we found that Government spending increased by 46 per cent while unemployment trebled. [More…]
That relates to the fact that under the external affairs power the Convention probably could have been extended in this legislation to enable uniformity between the States in the standard of prescription of dangerous drugs that are allowed in each State. [More…]
We hope that the Government will examine this aspect which is one of some concern, and see whether it cannot, by a more imaginative use of the external affairs power, overcome it. [More…]
Senator Button mentioned the use of the external affairs power to enable Parliament to give wider effect- I think that is what he had in mind- to the provisions of the Convention. [More…]
Of course, we do not accept the wide interpretation and use of the external affairs power which the Opposition would seek to exercise. [More…]
The Government has always fought very hard against the independent dissemination of information, but from the end of 1975 it has particularly felt its realistic power, and its influence on world opinion. [More…]
Some contradictions between the Soviet laws and the international conventions are principally of a character which reflects some of the knotty moments in the structure of power in U.S.S.R. [More…]
Having regard to the past, the Soviet dissidents have adopted in the beginning a sceptical view of the results of the European Conference, thinking, for good reasons, that the authorities intended to use it for the strengthening of their power. [More…]
Mr Whitlam said that his blueprint for the Australian Labor Party was the abolition of the Senate, the destruction of the States and the amalgamation of local government so that there would be one Australian House of Representatives with no check or balance on it and, in fact, with local government totally responsive to the government in power. [More…]
Field is living impoverished in a back room in Brisbane and the political neuter ex-Senator Bunton, has given up the ghost, in despair, for Albury-Wodonga, has the Government given any thought to the future of these 2 people who were so cynically exploited by the Government in its ruthless scramble for power last year and then dumped when they were of no further use to the Government? [More…]
The Committee considers that, if the Executive is to have a general power to acquire and transfer all land in the Territory for unspecified purposes, this policy ought to be laid before the Parliament in the form of a proposed statute for the Parliament ‘s consideration. [More…]
The Committee considers that, if the executive is to have a general power to acquire and transfer all land in the Territory for unspecified purposes, this policy ought to be laid before the Parliament in the form of a proposed statute for the Parliament ‘s consideration. [More…]
In its 52nd report presented to the Senate on 18 March 1976 the Senate Standing Committee on Regulations and Ordinances recommended the disallowance of the ordinance on the ground that if the Executive Government is to be given a general power to acquire all land in the Territory for unspecified purposes, this ought to be done by Act of Parliament and not by subordinate legislation. [More…]
In fairness to Senator Withers I should say that after this Government came into power I acquainted him with the agreement that was made by Mr Daly. [More…]
Perhaps I could put it this way: Those people who have read the life of Ernest Bevin, a very distinguished English parliamentarian, would know that when he was on his way up after leaving the coal mining areas and valleys of Wales he always thought that the power existed in a local council. [More…]
When he got up higher in the British Labour Party and in the British Government he still was not sure where the power was. [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…]
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 the appropriate powers in relation to staff made available under this arrangement. [More…]
I am sure honourable senators 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…]
As you would know from your long experience in this place, Mr Deputy President, the Regulations and Ordinances Committee has been quite undeterred by the party in power when determining its recommendations. [More…]
Section 5 1 of the Constitution of the Commonwealth of Australia lays down quite clearly 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 certain matters. [More…]
If one looks at placitum (xxxi) one will see that it refers to the acquisition of property, whether personal or real, on just terms from any State or person for any purpose in respect of which the Parliament has power to make laws. [More…]
The Committee considers that, if the executive is to have a general power to acquire and transfer all land in the Territory for unspecified purposes, this policy ought to be laid before the Parliament in the form of a proposed statute for the Parliament’s consideration. [More…]
In general terms the report was critical of conditions in Cocos and called upon Australia as the administering power to implement reforms. [More…]
No Government should be allowed to use the subordinate legislative power to give effect to matters which should be the subject of a statute of Parliament and not the matter merely of an Executive Council recommendation to the GovernorGeneralinCouncil. [More…]
Constitution which provides that the Commonwealth has the power to make treaties with a foreign power, in this case the United Nations. [More…]
It applied that foreign power to the compulsory acquisition of land in an Australian territory and then proceeded to acquire it. [More…]
The Government proceeded to go outside that power and invoke placitum (xxix) of section 5 1 of the Constitution and give itself the power to proceed against the Clunies Ross estate on Cocos (Keeling) Islands. [More…]
In this way at least the man who was entitled to justice of one sort or another could get access to technical and legal advice to enable him to protect himself against the action of the Government of the Commonwealth of Australia acting under the foreign power of section 5 1 of the Constitution. [More…]
The second ground is that it is the first time in my knowledge acquired during the 20 years I have been around the Parliament of Australia that the foreign power contained in placitum (xxix) of section 5 1 of the Constitution has been used in a domestic matter for the acquisition of property. [More…]
This is the first time that the foreign power has been used to obtain a domestic solution in Australia. [More…]
Since 1955 when Australia became the administering power little has been done to remove or alleviate the worst aspects of the truly feudal system operating on the Islands. [More…]
Mr Forrester eulogises the Government and says how proud he is of the Australian Government and its achievements as an administrating power. [More…]
The Committee considers that if the Executive is to have a general power to acquire and transfer all the land in the Territory for unspecified purposes, this policy ought to be laid before the Parliament in the form of a proposed statute for the consideration of the Parliament. [More…]
This ordinance was introduced in order to give the then Government -and this Government, if it so wished- the power to start along the long road to reform in the islands that had been put aside by the world for over 1 20 years. [More…]
The Senate will appreciate that the court that has that jurisdiction in the main is the Industrial Court, although the jurisdiction does reside in other courts; but the Industrial Court does not have any power to make a declaration or to issue orders in the nature of prohibition, certiorari or mandamus, all of which are important remedies for a court to have available to it if it is called upon to interpret an Act, such as the Trade Practices Act, and to oversee actions taken under it particularly, of course, by the Trade Practices Commission. [More…]
The proposed new section also gives the Minister in control of this Act the power to institute proceedings in the Industrial Court and to intervene in any proceedings in relation to matters under this Act that may be going on in any court. [More…]
I believe, as Dr Coombs has pointed out, that these departments in their own way are very jealous of their own responsibilities, their own areas of activity and their own power and view an intrusion like that of the Social Welfare Commission as an unwelcome one to say the least. [More…]
The experience of the Social Welfare Commission is a reminder to us all of the importance placed on power of various sorts in our systemthe importance of power to the bureaucracy as well as the importance of power to the political arm of government at any level. [More…]
Dr Coombs in his address to the National Press Club recently alluded to the fact that there are some people- I repeat, some people- in the upper echelons of bureaucracy, and I would say that there are certainly some in the upper echelons of the political arm of government in this country, who have established themselves and who will carefully guard their areas of responsibility and power against the intrusion of others. [More…]
This organisation was seen by both local governments and State governments as a threat to their power and influence. [More…]
He emphasised that it would be independent, flexible, autonomous and that it would decentralise power. [More…]
In relation to the co-ordination 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…]
Saleable reserves of washed coking coal are generally of the order of 70 per cent of recoverable reserves, but coal used for power generation [More…]
I am aware that the Minister has the power to invite the Centre to do certain things. [More…]
The Minister will be aware that some unions in the Latrobe Valley, the nerve centre of Victorian power supplies, have called a 48-hour stoppage commencing at midnight tonight in an attempt to force the State [More…]
Electricity Commission of Victoria to grant a 35-hour week to approximately 10 000 power workers employed in the Valley. [More…]
This stoppage will result in there being no power for industry and only half lighting for commerce in this period of 48 hours and will, as Senator Tehan said, result in a massive stand-down of workers throughout Victoria. [More…]
-Interest rates on trading bank overdrafts increased from the 7% per cent that they were when we were last in power to the incredible 1 1 i per cent that they were in the last year in which Senator McLaren and his colleagues were in power. [More…]
The contradiction between depending on increased consumer spending for recovery to occur, on the one hand, and cutting real wages and the spending power of the majority of Australians, on the other, is so apparent that I would have thought even the Treasurer, Mr Lynch, would have seen it. [More…]
If in fact the Treasury document has any validity, one would have thought that this Budget would have set about increasing the purchasing power of the community. [More…]
That means, of course, that we will then be subservient to some foreign power. [More…]
I have already mentioned what happened concerning the standardisation policy which was approved in 1970 and which was proceeding according to plans when it was stalled by the Liberal-Country Party Government when it came to power. [More…]
Honourable senators know how it came to power. [More…]
It came to power by frustrating the Labor Government and by sabotaging over several months, if not years, what the Labor Government was trying to achieve during a period of world inflation. [More…]
It came to power at a time when the Labor Government might have succeeded in getting on top of that inflation. [More…]
As I have pointed out in relation to shipbuilding, one of the characteristics of the lack of trade was the world situation with which we had to contend and which we were about to overcome when honourable senators opposite decided to take power as best they could. [More…]
I remind the consumers of Australia what happened to their consuming power under a Labor Government. [More…]
Labor went out of power in March 1 974. [More…]
Of course, they do not have any power so they do not have refrigerators, irons or stoves other than wood stoves. [More…]
Mr Fraser said: The effects will be felt immediately we come to power. [More…]
Everything will happen when Mr Fraser gets into power. [More…]
That is the sort of problem which must be pointed up specifically in terms of this Budget and in terms of the promises which were made by this Government before it came to power. [More…]
They have always had the power to be massive tax imposers and tax gatherers; the position has never been otherwise. [More…]
It so happens that the States have always had this power. [More…]
So let us get rid of this nonsense that is being talked about some new power. [More…]
Of course, we did this also because it is the one area in which the Federal Government has constitutional power in relation to the media. [More…]
That is to say, this Federal Parliament has power over broadcasting and television and power to stop advertising of products of this kind on that form of the media. [More…]
Of course, that requires an exercise of the constitutional power of each State. [More…]
The lack of constitutional power over the media in general terms including, for example, newspapers has the consequence that a government is unable to follow a consistent policy. [More…]
But there was a time when the previous Government was in power when I was most concerned, as were many other people, by the proposal for the proliferation of so many radio stations whose introduction was planned in my view on a haphazard basis. [More…]
By March 1973, only 3 months after Mr Whitlam came to power, unemployment was down to 1.4 per cent as a result of the working of the 1 972 Budget. [More…]
Defence expenditure is up 1 8 per cent, but that is just a start of a 5-year program in which we believe there will be a most significant increase in the morale and capacity of the Australian soldier, sailor and airman and indeed a significant increase in the mobility and fire power of our defensive equipment so that we can have and promote a realistic defence of this continent which of itself will create a measure of confidence among our friends and allies, a measure of confidence which we sadly need. [More…]
-Did the Minister for Social Security, in February of this year, issue guidelines giving departmental officers power to penalise the unemployed by withholding their unemployment benefit if they voluntarily surrendered their employment? [More…]
If so, were those discretionary powers retrospective? [More…]
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…]
The Labor Party came to power with a plan- it was in our policy speech in 1972- to house all Aborigines in suitable accommodation within a 10-year period. [More…]
If the policy of the Government is not to house all Aborigines within 10 years, it is an alteration of the objectives given to the Department when Labor was in power. [More…]
At page 369 of the Senate Hansard of 26 August we find that Senator Walsh, in discussing the increase in farm income over the 3 years when the Labor Party was in power, stated: [More…]
We will have returned to where we were before the Labor Government came to power and abolished fees at universities and colleges of advanced education. [More…]
When the ballot box has proved to be a futility, as it did late in I97S, and when a political party seizes power by violating conventions and by lies and misrepresentations, and when it arrogantly and blatantly breaks its election 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 - [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…]
Members of the Labor Party had the habit of asking such questions of Ministers when they were in power. [More…]
He having got himself into a position of power, through the haggling that went on we reached the unfortunate and very dangerous situation of almost losing Dartmouth. [More…]
Not only did we nearly lose Dartmouth then, but while Mr Whitlam was in power I remember a letter of intent being sent to the South Australian Parliament in which Mr Whitlam requested, following the Coombs report, a further deferment of the Dartmouth Dam. [More…]
I could say that the Labor Party introduced it, because when it came to power we had minimal inflation in this country. [More…]
Capital expenditure by this company on social infrastructure, housing, power, water and community facilities totalled some $189m. [More…]
I do not question the fact that this commercial radio station needs additional towers to boost its transmitting power. [More…]
Senator Carrick will appreciate that the dividing lines of power between Mr Eric Robinson, the Minister for Post and Telecommunications and Mr Kevin Newman, the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, have never been rigidly defined. [More…]
When the legislation which will refer to these matters is introduced, honourable senators will see that it contains a clause that will give power to make such exemptions. [More…]
There will be an exemption power that will enable the Government to look at groups of people or certain people who need to have a special exemption or whose cases require special consideration. [More…]
There will be such power in the legislation and the Government will look at these cases from time to time as the need arises. [More…]
I think it should be clear from the answer that I have given that the legislation will be dealt with in the Parliament and that the power about which we are speaking will be in that legislation for the Government to use in respect of those groups which are identified as having special needs. [More…]
The power is similar to that in the legislation of the previous Government to deal with these groups of people who can be identified. [More…]
The power will be contained in the legislation, and it can be used. [More…]
Will the Minister agree that the New South Wales Premier has done all within his power to make arrangements suitable to everyone in a genuine endeavour to ensure that the dockyard in Newcastle remains open? [More…]
I am very happy to say to Senator Coleman that in the coming year Western Australia will receive $ 10.4m more than it would have received from the Whitlam Government if a Labor federal government had been in power. [More…]
The present Fraser Government has done 2 main things: It has started a downward turn in inflation and therefore is restoring the value of purchasing power and it has increased untied grants for this year from $79.9m to $ 140m, representing a 75 per cent increase. [More…]
More particularly, how can a trade union official say that to his members in the context of the Government’s promises made at the time of the last election or in the context of a government which, in Opposition in 1973, opposed a referendum to give power over prices and incomes to the Australian Parliament? [More…]
When the present Government was seeking power in November and December of last year, it promised that it would slash unemployment if it were elected. [More…]
Our reforms will maintain the purchasing power of wages and ease the pressure for excessive wage demands. [More…]
It is in that situation that the Government seeks to make the unions the scapegoat for its failure to manage the economy, the scapegoat for its failure to keep its promises given in elections, the scapegoat for its continuing opposition to granting the Federal Parliament power over incomes and wages, and the scapegoat for its failure to deal with the incomes of people whose salaries and wages are not determined by boards of the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission. [More…]
The attacks which have been made on the central trade union organisation by the procommunist left are designed to weaken the power of the central trade union organisation in respect of the conduct and control of industrial disputes. [More…]
They are designed also to ensure that the central trade union organisation cannot come to a proper compact with whatever government is in power. [More…]
When speaking in support of the Budget last night, I made reference to the fact that, when the Fraser Government came to power last year, Australia could be described only as being in a complete economic mess, with inflation at its highest and at that stage unemployment at its highest level ever. [More…]
This proposal, perhaps more than any other proposal in the Budget, will do more to reduce inflationary trends and to restore real spending power in the community. [More…]
Secondly, a belief in equality, which goes beyond equality of opportunity and a redistribution of income to embrace all aspects of societythe division of property, the educational system, social class relationships, power and privilege in industry. [More…]
Whereas Medibank was pledged to be maintained by the people now in power, and having got there partly because of that pledge. [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…]
They are completely inapplicable in modern industrial society where there has to be a small group of people who have the power and the ownership of the means of production, distribution and exchange concentrated in their few hands. [More…]
Once again I go back a few years to the time when Labor was in power. [More…]
One of the first things that occurred when Labor came to power in 1972 was that Dr Coombs was asked to report to the Labor Government on savings that could be made in expenditures of the previous Government. [More…]
I must say that since this Government has come to power in the last few months some recognition has been given to the report of the Joint Committee on the Northern Territory which spells out the transfer of powers. [More…]
This Bill seeks to give power to the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly. [More…]
In the attainment of this power and as we move forward to Statehood more say will be given to the people in this particular area. [More…]
Until we came into power Canada was cornering the Russian wheat market. [More…]
In recent years, under his leadership, China began to adjust her ideological objectives to the realities of world power. [More…]
What I said last night and repeated on a radio program- I hope Senator Wriedt will understand it and I commend to him a second listening to that programwas that when tax indexation and the family allowances scheme were set off against the change in the tax rebate system, something like $ 1 , 000m increased purchasing power was in the hands of the people. [More…]
The Soviet presence in the Indian Ocean must be seen as a calculated extension of Soviet power into the region and it is now capable of extending its influence in every part of the world. [More…]
The United States is the only nation with the power and influence and, we trust, will provide a credible matching presence. [More…]
I do not suppose I need to go over the ground once more to discover that the problems stem from lack of control by the Australian Labor Party when it was in power immediately prior to 13 December last year. [More…]
In many ways these groups can be said to possess very little power within society to combat effectively their increasing predicament. [More…]
Whatever that industry represents in total spending power, those workers hitherto have received reasonably high rates of pay, but where will they be in 3 months, 4 months, 6 months or 12 months time in terms of purchasing power? [More…]
I refer to clause 5 of the Bill which deals with power of delegation. [More…]
Since I have been in the Parliament in most Bills provision is made for either the total delegation of powers of the Minister or directorate, or partial delegation of power to some officer of the Public Service. [More…]
The legal adviser to that committee is very much opposed to complete delegation of power to someone who need not have a greater title than an officer of the Public Service. [More…]
Therefore, I am of the opinion that if a Minister wants to delegate authority in relation to some duties which he or she has not time to undertakethis can be understood- it should be delegated to some class of officer or it should be a partial delegation or a delegation of only some powers. [More…]
The new clause seeks to give the DirectorGeneral the power to approve another site. [More…]
If the Director-General is satisfied that by reason of circumstances beyond its control an organisation has been unable to commence construction on its site within the specified period, I think that he should have power to approve building on another site. [More…]
I think that when, because of exceptional circumstances beyond the control of the organisation, it is necessary to vary the approval, power to do this is required by the Director-General. [More…]
I am pleased that Senator Cavanagh has interjected and said that the Hay Committee did not have any power to take evidence under oath. [More…]
One cannot cut back on basic running costs for a community, except run the power plant for only twelve hours a day, cut back on rubbish removals and town bank and mail runs, etc. [More…]
Wages for the person operating the power plant. [More…]
If Mowanjum is to operate only with the said $55,000.00, it means: no capital outlay whatsoever, running the power plant for only a limited amount of hours a day and having the workers put in only twenty hours a week. [More…]
The figures of power consumption have been increasing steadily. [More…]
The Commonwealth Government, as a result of the 1 967 referendum, has the power to make this Bill law for all of Australia and it must not shirk its duty in this regard. [More…]
Since this Government came to power the sort of situation which I just described has changed and this has become a matter of public concern. [More…]
If there is any doubt about that perhaps it is worthwhile to examine section 77 of the Broadcasting and Television Act because there the only power to direct that programs be taken off the Australian Broadcasting Commission airwaves is given to the Minister. [More…]
None of the things that have happened to the ABC since this Government came to power could have happened under any previous chairman of the Australian Broadcasting Commission or any chairman of the British Broadcasting Corporation, and they have not happened in relation to either of those national broadcasting bodies. [More…]
For 23 post-war years governments of Liberal faith were in power in Canberra. [More…]
Sections of the Act give the Commission power to delegate its responsibilities to management. [More…]
I suggest it is the role of the commissioners also to have a discretionary power because that is denned not just in a speech by Senator Button but in the Broadcasting and Television Act, which has remained intact. [More…]
This means, of course, to intimidate the ABC to stifle all objective comment and to turn the ABC into a timid mouthpiece of the Government which is in power. [More…]
No one could justly accuse Sir Henry of being other than extremely sensitive to the political thoughts of the Government which is in power. [More…]
He was the chairman of the committee of investigation, the precise name of which I have forgotten, which was appointed soon after the present Government came to power. [More…]
First of all he has assumed to himself the power of ministerial veto. [More…]
Already in this debate tonight we have had quoted section 77 of the Broadcasting and Television Act 1942-1973 which gives to the Minister, and to the Minister alone, the power to veto, to withdraw a program. [More…]
Of course, these things are later approved by the Commission and, as I said, the ultimate power of veto is vested in the Minister. [More…]
She suffers general condemnation right through the parliamentary year, depending on whatever Party is in power. [More…]
If he can achieve that and at the same time set a high standard for Australian talent to attain, be proud of and be part of, then all power and no government interference to him. [More…]
Senator Button in concluding his speech endeavoured to tell the Senate that the commissioners who are meeting tomorrow ought to consider the morale and the disputes in the ABC and endeavour to ascertain what are the matters in respect of which they have discretion and power to deal with under the Act. [More…]
For 3 years the Labor Government was in office, but never in power because it faced a hostile Senate. [More…]
No good purpose is to be served by Ministers continually rising to answer questions in this place and prefacing their replies in a continuous parrot-like fashion by saying, in effect, that the previous 3 years Labor was in power and certain things happened. [More…]
In the light of reports that the Labor Caucus has taken away from the Leader of the Australian Labor Party the power to sack Ministers unless he has the approval of two of the other 3 leaders in the [More…]
In view of his little homily a few moments ago on the virtue of Prime Ministers having unlimited power to sack other Ministers, I ask: Can the present Prime Minister unilaterally sack a National Country Party Minister? [More…]
At present the Tribunal has power to authorise the exemption of an individual company or groups of companies. [More…]
It is proposed to amend this section of the Act to give the Tribunal power to exempt companies which meet certain criteria. [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 1 4 of the Bill provides for this change in the Minister’s power of direction. [More…]
This power is already contained in existing sub-section 73ba (2). [More…]
However the amendment limits the scope of the prescribing power to the standard tables. [More…]
Each station has its own transmitters housed in the National building and shares standby power and other common equipment, with all facilities maintained by Telecom Australia. [More…]
In addition NEN9 has paid an amount of $35,658.80 towards the National station transmitter building, $40,735 towards the power line and $6,8 1 5 towards the access road. [More…]
Therefore the history of the Labor Party in federal power is a tragic one for local government in that every local government body was forced to cut back its basic services and to put up its rates merely to survive. [More…]
Its legislative origin and its head of power are Federal matters. [More…]
If not, has the Government realised the folly of the fragmentation of economic power, and has it abandoned the notions of State autonomy which are central to its federalism policy? [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 Attorney-General to delegate his power of intervention in proceedings to the AttorneyGeneral of a State having a State Family Court. [More…]
Can a guarantee be given that Professor Manning Clark will not use his power to stop other historians from getting paper, to have their pencils broken so that they can not write, and to have them sent to a leftist fascist Gulag Archipelago? [More…]
I remind honourable senators that they are here today because some 76 years ago the people of Australia gave to the Senate of Australia explicit and written financial power and responsibility. [More…]
I remind honourable senators that there would not be a Senate today if there had not been given to the Senate the power to accept, reject or request on finance. [More…]
Let me make this clear to the senator from the less populous State who is interjecting that if finance power did not lie with the Senate it would be possible for the other place, by the overwhelming numbers from the States of Victoria and New South Wales, to deny to Queensland- the State which the honourable senator who is interjecting represents- Tasmania and South Australia- the less populous Statesany real and fair share of finance. [More…]
What happened on 1 1 November- the expression in the Senate of the finance power of the Senate- is the fundamental expression of why the Senate exists; that it has the right to accept or reject finance. [More…]
It is within the power of Mr Neilson- because of the surplus funds of over $4m which were not used last year, the $4.5m additional funds that Tasmania is to get this year and the $ 17.3m he has accumulated in loan funds- to provide local government authorities in Tasmania with supplementary funds. [More…]
The possibility of providing a low power transmitter so that television facilities may be provided for the Leigh Creek area will be discussed at a conference in Adelaide. [More…]
It will operate on Channel 9 with sufficient power to provide a rural grade of service to the neighbouring township of Copley. [More…]
However, when the Labor Party came to power I can recall how very interested Labor Party senators from South Australia suddenly became in the provision of a television service for Leigh Creek. [More…]
The Liberal party, if elected to power, would make crown land available to young home builders for nominal amounts, the state opposition leader, Mr Askin, said yesterday. [More…]
If Mr Askin had not already beaten him to the gun on the subject, it seems unlikely that the Premier would have shown any more tenderness than the State government has so far displayed in its 24 years of power . [More…]
On page 2233 of Hansard I outlined objections I had to section 73 ba, which gave the Minister power to impose a fine of $2,000 on funds for certain breaches, and also to sections 73ba (1) (g) and 73BA (1) (k), which gave the Minister what I believed to be incredible powers. [More…]
When we came into power they were again debated. [More…]
When we came into power in 1 972 the scheme was revised to make sure that it had as little inconsistency as possible and was the best possible scheme. [More…]
Having opposed a levy when Labor was in power they now have imposed an even heavier one. [More…]
The point I was making, Mr President, was simply that the failure of the Government to honour the undertakings given to the electors before the general election with respect to Medibank is consistent with its entire actions since it has come to power. [More…]
Did he see in the Press a report of a conference at the weekend at which the Labor shadow AttorneyGeneral, Mr Bowen, stated that the Senate has no power to dismiss a government by refusing Supply? [More…]
Although Mr Bowen made a personal explanation about this matter, claiming to have been misreported, I note that he is recorded in Hansard as having said that section 53 of the Constitution did not give the Senate power of rejection and that there was no need to receive the Senate’s approval to a Supply Bill. [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…]
But it must be remembered that it is not proposed to deny the Senate the power of veto. [More…]
This power of veto may be exercised absolutely. [More…]
I did say that section S3 of Constitution did not give Senate power of rejection and that it certainly did not give it the power of amendment . [More…]
Governor-General need not intervene even if Section 53 of Constitution was justiciable because High Court had the power, but claims that case of Osborne V Commonwealth indicated that Section 53 was justiciable, i.e. [More…]
GovernorGeneral has no powers of intervention. [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…]
Section 53 of Constitution states that Senate may not amend laws “appropriating revenues or monies or imposing taxation” although it has equal power with House of Representatives in respect of all proposed laws. ‘ [More…]
But it must be remembered that it is not proposed to deny the Senate the power of veto. [More…]
There is much more likelihood of that power of rejection being used than there is of the power of amendment being used.’ [More…]
This power of veto may be exercised absolutely. [More…]
- The Senate’s power of rejection. [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…]
The description by the paper writers of this as a literal interpretation of a merely theoretical power to refuse supply seems to be an attempt to use political arguments to determine what is essentially a question of constitutional law. [More…]
Would one argue that because the power of affirmation was expressly omitted, the Senate had no power to affirm a money Bill? [More…]
Also says that the power to reject or to defer would confer a power to compel the acceptance of amendments. [More…]
Section I vests legislative power in the Queen, Senate and House of Representatives. [More…]
Reliance is also placed on the non-use of the power by the Senate to support the existence of a convention. [More…]
But the power was regarded as one to be exercised on rare occasions. [More…]
On no occasion has the Senate conceded the power to have fallen into desuetude. [More…]
Evidence of Whitlam’s acceptance of the Senate’s power to reject: [More…]
His commitment to the report on the Constitution of 1959 which expressly acknowledges that the provision of finance by the Parliament is essential for the maintenance of responsible Government and accepts the existence of the Senate’s power of rejection or deferral. [More…]
He accepted the existence of the power in acceding to the double dissolution of April 1 974. [More…]
I believe the framers of the Constitution clearly had the question of reserve power well in mind. [More…]
Evatt and Forsey, both socialists, give many illustrations of reserve power to: [More…]
Believing that the Constitution appeared to give the Senate this power (even though you might have thought its actions wrong), knowing that a half-Senate election would in all probability not solve the problem, knowing that you were after all choosing a course which in the circumstances and the Constitution permitted of sending the whole Parliament to the people and confronted with a choice- would you have thought it unreasonable to take this course?’ [More…]
At the time I went on to say that I thought that that advice was so much against the interests of science that it was difficult to believe that any group of people could be so silly as to advocate, whilst claiming an interest in science, that the Department of Science should be abolished, no matter what government might be in power. [More…]
-I recall the question asked by Senator Mcintosh in which he revealed that he had some advice that an electron microscope of a particular power would be of use to the community. [More…]
However, the original question was devoted to whether there was a definite requirement in the community for one of such power. [More…]
It relates to the ministerial power to appoint a manager to the private insurance funds if, at any time, the Minister feels he wants to do so. [More…]
I feel that the Minister has far too much power at the moment without the private funds having the right to appeal to, say, the Supreme Court. [More…]
In other words, the purchasing power of those health insurance services was reduced by an average of 15c in the dollar, and as high as 22c in the dollar in some instances. [More…]
While we were in government- never in power- it was the subject matter of extensive and detailed debate both in this place and outside by all interested parties when a White Paper was produced. [More…]
If there is to be any criticism he should be criticising his own Party and the previous Labor Government, because that Party when it was in power promoted and allowed private insurance funds to offer and sell gap medical insurance. [More…]
In the Fabian lectures which Mr Whitlam gave before he was Prime Minister in 1972, under the heading ‘Labor in Power- What is the Difference’ he had this to say about Medibank: [More…]
I contend that the Australian Labor Party’s scheme of Medibank that was operating when the present Government came into power was a profound success. [More…]
No opportunity has been given for real public debate on these proposals- a situation that is so much different from the public debate that we had on the Australian Labor Party proposals before we even came into power in 1972. [More…]
When we came to power the proposals were debated again for quite a long time before the legislation was introduced. [More…]
I should like to quote the remarks of the honourable member for Lilley, Mr Kevin Cairns, and his approach to the prospect of this levy before the Labor Government come into power in 1 972. [More…]
As was said in the second reading speech, the Government will use the regulation making power which is contained in the Bill to exempt pensioners covered by the pensioners health benefits scheme. [More…]
That legislation contained a power to make regulations conferring exemption from that levy. [More…]
It had similar regulation making power. [More…]
The Minister for Repatriation (Senator Durack) in his second reading speech indicated that the suggested fee was $60 and that the regulations would be amended- the power to amend the regulations is in the Bill- to provide the power to impose such a fee. [More…]
There is also a provision giving the Commonwealth power to delegate the right of intervention of the Attorney-General to the Attorney-General of a particular State where there is a State family court established. [More…]
We have always taken the view that the least messy way to handle family law legislation is for the Commonwealth to ask the States to refer powers in matters associated with divorce such as the custody, maintenance and ancillary matters of those kinds to the Commonwealth. [More…]
Senator Button, of course, hopes that the States can give the reference of power to the Commonwealth. [More…]
Let us use our power to undermine him and unseat him. [More…]
Can a guarantee be given that Professor Manning Clark will not use his power to stop other historians from getting paper and to have their pencils broken so that they cannot write, then being sent to a leftist fascist Gulag Archipelago? [More…]
(a) Comalco assistance to the Aboriginal community at Weipa in the period from 1968 to 1976 includes: extension of power supply to Weipa South installation of water supply system transfer of bulk refrigeration equipment to Weipa South salaries, travel and overheads of Comalco staff and outside consultants connected with Weipa South town planning and formation of the Weipa Aborigines Society. [More…]
For Labor senators, who believe in the abolition of the States, the amalgamation of local government authorities and all power in one House in Canberra, there would be no benefits at all. [More…]
The millions of additional dollars thai have poured into the coffers of the private health funds as from the first of this month as a direct result of Government policy could well be going into the private sector of the economy, towards increasing the spending power of people and could well be injected into the business community to create confidence all round. [More…]
The debate thus far has been characterised by point scoring attempts with the Opposition criticising the Government for failing to reverse the trend of unemployment and inflation and with the Government saying that in any event this was all the Opposition’s fault because of its actions when it was in power last year and the year before. [More…]
One of the strange things about this matter and a number of other matters in respect of which Labor is critical of the present Government is that the Labor Party, which showed no concern for the unemployed when it was in power, has suddenly found a conscience. [More…]
It was the Department of Labour when the Labor Government was in office, and the figures cover a period during part of which the present Government was in power. [More…]
My response to Senator Tehan, who put out his hand and asked for co-operation, it to ask him to table a statutory declaration tonight to show that when the Labor Government sought power over wages and prices at a referendum he voted yes. [More…]
At least those millions were keeping people in jobs, giving them new skills and boosting the purchasing power of the country. [More…]
The fact is that the captains of industry are concerned about the shackles which the Government has put on the purchasing power of the nation. [More…]
I do not blame the unions for trying to maintain the buying power of wages consequent upon inflation. [More…]
If in fact a consumer revival is the strategy of this Government it will not be achieved if we reduce the living standards of the Australian people and reduce the purchasing power of the consumers. [More…]
Under the Labor Government’s administration the IAC was obliged to have regard to the desire of the Government- a Labor Government was in power when this legislation was pursued in Parliament in 1973- in pursuing the general objectives of national economic and social policy and urban and regional development, to improve and promote the well-being of the people of Australia, with full employment, stability in the general level of prices, viability in external economic relations, conservation of the natural environment and rising living standards. [More…]
The Labor Government, which was in power until last November, was responsible for the most comprehensive plan for handicapped persons. [More…]
-Mr Bjelke-Petersen has the power and privilege of his own place and he misused that privilege not to do what Senator Colston did but to recall the Queensland Parliament for one day during the Federal election in order to defame people without naming them. [More…]
As you are aware, this local authority is not responsible for the welfare of the Aboriginal people and therefore has no funds made available to it, nor has it any statutory power to provide accommodation of a reasonable standard for these people. [More…]
He was a member of an Australian society that is highly mobile, and may it long continue that men of his quality can aspire to and reach the positions of power, authority and prestige which Greenwood reached through sheer ability. [More…]
I think it will certainly be to his credit in the eyes of us all and in the eyes of someone who probably has a greater power to do something about it. [More…]
Is the Minister representing the Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations aware of the success achieved in placing unemployed school leavers in jobs as a result of a community service project called ‘Operation Youth Power’ conducted by ADS television channel 7 in Adelaide? [More…]
I have been given some information about the scheme to which Senator Jessop referred, which apparently is known as Operation Youth Power’. [More…]
Admittedly, the Japanese market has been reopened to a degree, but this would have happened regardless of which Government was in power. [More…]
Matters of proper concern to more than one sphere should be decided through a process of genuine consultation and co-operation, and not direction, not by the use of financial power to achieve a purpose. [More…]
Was not that decision and its method of implementation one of the most extreme examples of the use of financial power to achieve a purpose? [More…]
Is the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs aware of reports that suggest that Australia might accept up to 100 000 immigrants from Rhodesia following the Nationalist assumption of power in Rhodesia? [More…]
That power of veto exists and I suggest that the inquiry should look at the Act and perhaps amend this right of veto on the part of the New Zealand Government. [More…]
We might be able to negotiate ourselves out of it, but one could well understand that the New Zealanders- no matter which Party was in power- would be somewhat reluctant to give up a very strong negotiating position. [More…]
What they should remember is that only when local government and communities have a real share in the exercise of power and decision-making can those virtues truly be said to exist. [More…]
As the Bill stands, the Advisory Council is empowered only to consider matters which are referred to it from the Premiers Conference or by a majority of the 7 governments throughout Australia. [More…]
Despite all the bombastic posturing about devolution of power, the heaviest cuts in spending in the Lynch Budget were not in the Federal Government’s own services but in outlays to the States and local government. [More…]
It will be only a source of advice- it will not have any decision making power. [More…]
The Australian Government used its powers under the Constitution to make direct grants to local government. [More…]
It achieved a true devolution of power to the local level in Australia. [More…]
The AAP was evidence of a real devolution of power away from Canberra to regions right throughout Australia. [More…]
The fact that this Government destroyed the AAP says more about its attitude towards federalism than anything else it has done since coming to power. [More…]
One finds that hard to believe, having regard to the general thrust of the Government parties, when they have done everything within their power during the last three or four years- and even in the year in which they have been in office again- to denigrate the activities of the public sector. [More…]
It was not wasting money; it was in fact giving power to the local communities to make recommendations to the national government for the allocation of sufficient funds to carry out a much better program of local works or to provide local facilities or amenities in a particular region. [More…]
At a conference on 2 May in the Lower Town Hall in Sydney he hopped on to the hobbyhorse again about Whitlamism and centralism, ignoring the fact that the whole thrust of our policy over the last 3 years was a devolution of power, ignoring that our policy was to invite local communities to participate, to try to encourage, particularly in the interest of economies of scale, some amalgamation of local government in areas where it was absolutely essential in order that it survive, and carry out its proper functions. [More…]
Whatever we may do in Canberra- irrespective of which government is in power either in Canberra or in the States- when it finally comes down to the local environment, it is the local council that makes or breaks the area which it represents. [More…]
If the honourable senator read the figures he would know that the greatest rate of inflation that ever occurred in this country was in 1951, 2 years after a Liberal-Country Party Government came to power. [More…]
The great nations of Europe and nations such as Canada, West Germany, the United States of America and even the United Kingdom have tested centralism, have found it failing and are setting up internal structures today to decentralise power, to devolve duties and to bring in federalism. [More…]
We, a group of Thai students in Australia, would like to express our deep concern about the imminent threat of imtimidation by the repressive military regime which recently grabbed power in Thailand. [More…]
What we as a government are concerned about and what a large section of the community is concerned about is the use of power by unions to strike or to exercise that type of activity to futher a particular political purpose. [More…]
The Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations has said, over and over again, that it is his view and it is the view of the Government- it is my view also- that that is an improper exercise of union power and an improper use of the positition of privilege that they have in the community. [More…]
That is an indication that there is a reserve power in the Crown to dismiss a Prime Minister. [More…]
One of the major concerns of this Government is to preserve, improve and expand the civil liberties of Australians insofar as the Commonwealth Government has power to do so. [More…]
There are matters which Senator Keeffe dealt with in his speech today but the Commonwealth Government does not have any power in relation to them. [More…]
We in this country live, and I hope will continue to live, under a Federal system of government and under a Constitution which provides for a proper and a fair distribution of powers between the Commonwealth Parliament and Government and the State parliaments and governments. [More…]
They are areas in which the Commonwealth Parliament and the Commonwealth Government have no power and no responsibility under the Constitution. [More…]
Therefore, no matter how concerned we may be about certain matters that occur from time to time, no matter how much we may believe that a question of civil liberties is at stake, there is nothing that we can do unless those matters come within the constitutional power of the Commonwealth Parliament and the Commonwealth Government. [More…]
One used to regard it as a sort of civil libertarian standard that people in positions of authority and power should try to behave in such a way that there was no conflict of interest between the performance of their duties as people in power and the interests which they were elected to represent. [More…]
One has to remember the enormous economic power which is concentrated in the hands of the trade unions. [More…]
What we are talking about is the very grave danger to the rights of individuals in those cases where the power of authority may be abused. [More…]
All of us, irrespective of which political party we belong to and especially when we are in a position to exercise power, must be careful to ensure that that intolerance is not allowed to warp our judgment and our sense of fairness and, above all, to permit any abuses or excesses in the name of law enforcement. [More…]
He made it quite clear that the present Government could not be said to have exercised power in violation of civil rights. [More…]
In the 10 months or so that this Government has been in power there has in fact been a series of actions by the Government which has led to an extension of civil liberties in Australia- an enforcing of civil liberties- and that of course is what one would expect from a government which is based on a philosophy of looking after the individual. [More…]
But this hope was dashed by the brutal crushing of the uprising by the totalitarian power of Soviet armed might. [More…]
Mr Nagy was not at first free to exercise the full powers of the Premiership. [More…]
By the time the grip of the AVH had been loosened, the real power lay with the Revolutionary and Worker’s Councils. [More…]
Since the second Soviet intervention on 4 November there has been no evidence of popular support for Mr Kadar’s Government Mr Kadar has proceeded step by step to destroy the power of the workers. [More…]
A massive armed intervention by one Power on the territory of another with the avowed intention of interfering in its internal affairs must, by the Soviet Union’s own definition of aggression, be a matter of international concern. [More…]
The cost of this pump would be tremendous as it would have to have the power to suck the water up 120 feet. [More…]
If benefits of this type are to be fully indexed, we see the only way of doing this with a conservative government in power is to write that requirement into the legislation because, on the basis of the past record of coalition governments in this country, there is no guarantee that these benefits will ever be increased again. [More…]
The Victorian Government in fact pointed out to the more conservative groups of women in Victoria that in fact the women’s adviser had no power. [More…]
As soon as we came into power in 1972 we set about giving a retrospective increase to pensioners. [More…]
We should take notice of the IAC argument that witnesses did not present claims with sufficient power of advocacy. [More…]
Can the Minister give an example of where the exercise of such a power would better financial arrangements between the 3 tiers of government? [More…]
Mindful of the caution shown by Mr Justice Fox in his interim report about any uranium extraction in the Northern Territory, will the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development and the Minister for the Northern Territory exercise the power mentioned by Senator Carrick during Estimates Committee discussion to declare the boundaries of the Kakadu National Park before- I emphasise before’- any future uranium extraction is attempted in the Territory? [More…]
A great deal depends upon the recovery rate of the Japanese economy and the buying power of the Japanese consumer. [More…]
Power tariffs have been increased by 50 per cent for domestic users in the Northern Territory and by 47 per cent to 56 per cent for commercial users. [More…]
Some bans have been placed on oil drilling, and I doubt whether oil drilling will take place on the Great Barrier Reef, no matter which Federal government happens to be in power. [More…]
The people who were the victims, who were forced into this situation by the policies which the present Prime Minister has engineered, were then castigated by that Prime Minister for responding in the only possible way in which they had power to respond. [More…]
Accepting for the moment Senator Scott’s stereotyped assertion at its face value, I wonder whether he can explain why farm income in 1 966 value dollars was $786m in 1970-71, which was some 12 per cent lower in real terms than in 1 975-76 and some 1 8 per cent lower in real terms than in 1974-75, the Labor Government being in power for 18 months of that 2-year period. [More…]
Incidentally, the average for the 3 calendar years, not the financial years, when the Labor Government happened to be in power was $ 1,430m, which was 45 per cent above what it had been for the 3 preceding years when the Liberal-Country Party Government was in power. [More…]
In other words, the consumer price index for the second half of the 1976 calendar year, with this Government in power, will increase by more than it did for the second half of the 1975 calendar year. [More…]
Once again I suppose this is just another demonstration of the audacity ofthe present Prime Minister, a man who engineered a plan to seize power under what the Liberal senators ‘ own colleague Senator Hall described aptly as sleazy circumstances. [More…]
This man who engineered a plan to seize power under sleazy circumstances and who expounded the proposition that whatever could be grabbed should be taken now has the audacity to say to the industrial wing of the labour movement that it ought to make sacrifices for the national good and that it ought to exercise restraint. [More…]
So there again we find a government now in office that got into power by misleading the electors. [More…]
The withdrawal of power from the Northern Territory Assembly to make laws over sacred sites, permits and entry to pastoral properties. [More…]
This is something that the Federal Government has not done since it has been in power since December 1975. [More…]
The law goes like this: When Labor is in power federally, unemployment is a Federal issue. [More…]
When the conservatives are in power federally, unemployment is a State issue. [More…]
From September 1975 to December 1975 it had an unemployment rate higher than the national average but not the highest unemployment rate in Australiaa distinction it did not achieve until June 1976, when the Liberal-Country Party Government had been in power some 6 to 7 months. [More…]
The Tasmanian Government has been in power, as Senator Rae says, for 39 of the last 42 years. [More…]
It has been in power for that time because it has the confidence of the people of Tasmania. [More…]
Unemployment is inherent in our system and this is particularly so while there are in power people such as those who support the present Government who are trying to turn the clock back to the private entrepreneurial system which says if you leave the problem to the private sector it will resolve itself. [More…]
He believes in that type of ideology and philosophy that it is possible in 1976 to be able to revert to the private enterprise philosophy by handing back to the people the spending power of the nation when he knows very well that all the criteria for the circulation of money have been altered by a new approach to economics. [More…]
It was going through a hard time when Labor came to power in the Australian Parliament. [More…]
When we came to power the problems still remained. [More…]
I suggest that the authorities who have analysed the situation from a constitutional point of view, such as Professor O ‘Connell, Dr Forcey and Professor Richardson, citing such authorities as Mr Justice Dixon for the right of the Senate to reject Bills with a consequent dissolution of the Parliament, bring home to the people of Australia how useful it is in this democracy to have a mechanism in the Senate with the power to reject a money Bill such as this. [More…]
That is a power which, of course, prudence will suggest should be exercised only on the most important occasions, such as was November 1975. [More…]
That exercise of power was supported by the country at the poll. [More…]
But we in the Senate have power as to which there is no capacity to dispute. [More…]
We have power expressly under section 53 of the Constitution as follows: [More…]
Those who argued from the archaic stance of E. G. Whitlam last November likened us to the House of Lords which lost at the beginning of this century all power to reject, amend or discuss for any purpose a money Bill. [More…]
We do not have the power to amend an Appropriation Bill of the type we are discussing but, as is stated in the section of the Constitution from which I read, we have express power to request the amendment by way of reduction or omission of any item within it. [More…]
I want to show tonight by reference to one or two facts on the record that the absolutely outrageous expenditure on the part of the Labor Government last year illustrates to us the wisdom of the Senate’s exercising that power year by year as the occasion makes it proper. [More…]
Although we have no power to amend this Bill, we do have power to reject, but we would not use that power except in exceptional circumstances. [More…]
The power to request amendments enables us in respect of any particular item about which there may be criticism or concern to require reconsideration by the House of Representatives before giving the Bill passage. [More…]
Whenever the waste and extravagance of proposals such as I have illustrated are revealed by the Auditor-General’s report in relation to the hovercraft, or the great ‘Domesday Book of Whitlam’, or in relation to the Australian Legal Aid Office, the proposition I am advancing is that the Senate turn its mind to exercising the undoubted power that it has to request amendments to those particular items. [More…]
I speak tonight in the hope that the Senate will interest itself in the development of the practice, that the Government will give consideration to it and that that practice will develop, notwithstanding the existence of the Public Accounts Committee and the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Expenditure that has recently been set up, because all these matters require that this chamber considers its undoubted constitutional power of request for amendment to be exercised on the appropriate occasion. [More…]
I rose to speak in this debate because I thought it was quite timely to remind the Opposition of the shock that it got in November 1975 when its supporters realised that the Senate had a power to reject or defer a money Bill. [More…]
They have the audacity to suggest that that power of the Australian Senate ought to be maintained. [More…]
The plain facts are that it is in a decline, that it is in a mess and that there are structural difficulties which are beyond the Government’s power of comprehension or legislative actions to overcome. [More…]
This Government came to power illegally and improperly for the purpose solely of maintaining its political base and getting some stimulation of the mining sector. [More…]
As long as I am a senator- for how long heaven only knows- the power and authority of this Senate will be exerted for good order and management of this country. [More…]
That is the reason I sought your acknowledgement, Mr President, when I rose in my place tonight to defend the rights, powers, authority and integrity of this chamber of which I am a member. [More…]
There is clearly an opportunity for the Government to do what the Labor Government did when it was in power and when it was facing an impending unemployment situation. [More…]
Perhaps it would be a good idea for the Estimates Committees to be given the power to send for persons, papers and records. [More…]
I think he suggested- I do not want to quote his speech because I do not want to advertise him too muchthat our Estimates Committees ought to be given far greater powers to call for papers, persons, etc., in order to enhance the operations of this committee work. [More…]
Yet the report of the Auditor-General which was presented while Senator Wright’s Government was in power disclosed instances in 3 States where delays had occurred in the occupancy of premises. [More…]
Incidentally, they are established basically under State law because the constitutional head of power in respect of universities and colleges is a State head of power. [More…]
Universities and colleges are autonomous bodies and within that autonomy they have the power to make their own by-laws. [More…]
They have the power to determine whether those fees, in part or in whole, shall be compulsory or voluntary. [More…]
As another example, in the Tennant Creek power house there is insufficient staff to maintain and overhaul engines properly. [More…]
As output of power from the power house is at near capacity, sufficient power for this mining town is in jeopardy. [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 communication, industry and electric power sectors as well as projects for agriculture, education, water supply and urban development. [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…]
75 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…]
I have been very concerned with the Tarcoola-Alice Springs railway over very many years as have very many members of the Northern Territory community, with the result that after much persuasion the Liberal and Country Parties, when they were previously in power, initiated the design and planning for a new standard guage railway line from Tarcoola to Alice Springs. [More…]
But of course the Australian Labor Party then came into power and there seemed to me and to the people of the Northern Territory to be almost a strange reluctance on the part of Labor to get on with the job. [More…]
I think that Senator Wright was encouraged in his remarks by the fact that the Auditor-General’s report covered a period when the Labor Government was in power and showed a misuse of public money. [More…]
Of course, that happens in every Auditor-General’s report regardless of the government in power. [More…]
There is justification for such condemnation regardless of whichever government is in power. [More…]
In attempting to address himself to the subject of computers, he raised a rather interesting problem over the power of the Senate to make requests in respect of money Bills involving the ordinary annual services. [More…]
I am delighted, as Senator Cavanagh says, that his side of politics believes that that power is there and ought to be used. [More…]
I have yet to draw the distinction between the power of the Senate to make a request, which in any other real language is an amendment and the power to put down - [More…]
I am delighted to see that Senator Cavanagh at last has picked up some part of the Constitution and now recognises that the Senate has the same power as the-House of Representatives over money Bills, except in a couple of little areas. [More…]
I do not know about the power of insisting. [More…]
I said that Labor does not accept that the true legal interpretation of section 53 gives the Senate also the power to reject a Bill for the ordinary annual appropriation of money. [More…]
Because he has a clear, analytical mind I was surprised to hear him say that the Senate had no power to reject a Supply Bill. [More…]
As I understand it, the question as to whether the Parliament has the power to investigate expenditure of a statutory body has been resolved on 2 occasions in this Senate. [More…]
I therefore assume that he does not have the power to audit the funds of the Australian Security Intelligence Organisationunless he has powers under some other Act. [More…]
The power to request amendments enables us in respect of any particular item about which there may be criticism or concern to require reconsideration by the House of Representatives before giving the Bill passage. [More…]
The Labor Government came to power and I carried on my crusade with the Honourable Les Johnson who succeeded Senator Wright in being responsible for that portfolio. [More…]
We are not party to any similar agreement covering military research and development in nuclear power. [More…]
Did not the Commonwealth of Australia, together with Canada, become a party to the Combined Development Agency for the purpose of providing atomic power? [More…]
He realised that he did not have either the authority or the power. [More…]
That the Committee have power to send for and examine persons, papers and records, to move from place to place, to meet and transact business in public or private session, and to meet during the sittings of the Senate. [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…]
In particular clause 6 ( 1 ) (b) of the Bill was amended to make it clear that the Commonwealth has no wish at all to exercise a power of veto over the distribution of local government assistance recommended by the States’ local government grants commissions. [More…]
The inquiry recommended in its report the disposal of the Australian Broadcasting Control Board and takes upon itself the powers and functions which were previously vested in the Broadcasting Control Board to a very large extent. [More…]
Some of the specific conclusions in the statement by the Minister indicate that it is quite wrong in principle in terms of governmental practice that a body should be established to investigate a situation in which it has a particular vested interest in respect of the accretion of power, the enlargement of its own activities and so on. [More…]
Perhaps the first step towards overcoming the problems involved in that regard would be to give the local Public Service inspector power to approve the appointment of these people to positions. [More…]
And whereas the peoples and the countries of Central and Eastern Europe, amongst others, described as the Captive Nations because they are under the forcible occupation of troops of a foreign power or are compelled to accept a puppet dictatorship under pain of military invasion by the troops of a foreign power should that dictatorship ever be seriously challenged, are indisputably denied these basic human rights. [More…]
At the present time the CSIRO is concentrating its resources on the types of research which may produce benefit for domestic water heating, industrial water heating, space heating and cooling, power production and heat storage distillation, controlled environment horticulture heat storage and the production of energy from crops, forests and other organic materials, which is of particular importance in Australia at the present time. [More…]
That the Committee have power to send for and examine persons, papers and records, to move from place to place, to meet and transact business in public or private session, and to meet during the sittings of the Senate. [More…]
In my study of this matter and from the replies which I received from the departmental officers- I want to put on record that throughout they were very courteous and helpful- I cannot for the life of me accept that the figure that was put before us under the heading of ‘authorised’ had been authorised in the generally accepted sense of the word, such as authorised by the Parliament or by some authority having the power to authorise. [More…]
He went on to say that the Senate should consider ‘its undoubted constitutional power of request for amendment to be exercised on the appropriate occasion’. [More…]
If that is the correct legal interpretation of the powers of the Government and the operation of the Public Works Committee, it could well be that many projects undertaken and completed in Australia have been undertaken illegally. [More…]
Perhaps this matter will never be questioned legally simply because no-one is sufficiently interested in it, even having the power and authority to take it to court. [More…]
So the position is that there is a series of recommendations by people who have given consideration to the role of the Parliament, the role of this chamber and the need for an expanded scrutiny of the expenditure of the Executive that this sort of move should be undertaken to give the Estimates committees a full time function, some full time staff, a power to examine the special Appropriation Bills and a power to examine the statutory authorities which are not departments of State. [More…]
There can be no doubt that the Senate has the power to engage in the investigation of special appropriations or of the funding of statutory authorities and commissions. [More…]
They are the issues of a unified system of industrial relations, the Commonwealth industrial relations power and union amalgamation. [More…]
They are there as a result of a political strike which involved the exercise of power by a group in this community to achieve what it regarded as important social community results. [More…]
-You, as a Government supporter, soon will be faced with decisions about whether you want to live in a society which is dependent on nuclear power. [More…]
It may be that many people in this community who expect to gain a lot in terms of money from nuclear power will support that proposition, but many people involved in trade unions will oppose that proposition because they do not see it being in the interests of their society, their children or the community in which they live. [More…]
An individual who is appointed in that way reacts better and more fluidly to the circumstances around him than do persons who are selected and kept in power by a clique. [More…]
It is not as though that clique will be able to run the organisation from such a power base. [More…]
The members of the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union are frustrated by the fact that these man have money behind them, that they have the capacity to organise their election and that they wield such tremendous power through the finances, possibly brought in- I am not saying this is definite- from overseas communist countries. [More…]
If at the conclusion of the 2 years the necessary alterations have not been made, the Industrial Registrar will have the power to make these alterations but will not have the power to alter substantially the entire method of voting of that union. [More…]
It still amazes me every time I hear members of the Opposition say that it is all right for the unions to take over the rightful position and the rightful power of the Parliament. [More…]
Senator Ryan claimed that the Government had assisted the executive of the Federated Clerks Union of Australia, which had not been democratically elected, to stay in power. [More…]
A classic illustration in Victoria is the Latrobe Valley power workers’ dispute. [More…]
These people hold the balance of power, and they are in the 15 per cent who do not have to face the ballot. [More…]
Balance of Power in FCU- [More…]
Balance of Power- The National Civic Council Faction has the numbers 1 9 votes to 1 7. [More…]
This would have precluded the 4 officers above from being in the college and the balance of power in the FCU would swing against the NCC 1 7 votes to 1 5. [More…]
It is done by notifying disputes in accordance with the rules of the trade union movement and not by going outside the trade union movement to build amalgamated bodies so that they can use their unrestricted power on their own without regard to anybody else. [More…]
All I can say is that the economy of this country had better look out if the stevedoring industry is handed over to the monopoly power of one union and the conglomerate monopoly power of overseas shipowners. [More…]
It clothes the Court with power to reconstitute the union, without giving members of the union an opportunity to determine for themselves in an effective way what they want. [More…]
It would be impossible to remove either of our political parties from power if they were given a head start of 15 per cent of the votes. [More…]
We in Australia know about the manifestations of union power and how ruthless that can be as one union vies with another and as one official vies with another to seize power. [More…]
It is an expression of power, and the workers of Australia in the main are the innocent victims of that expression of power. [More…]
There is no doubt that at this moment organised small power groups can take over most of the unions in this country; and most of the union leadership represents just that. [More…]
But most certainly most union leadership is prolonged in office by a small elite power group. [More…]
How different that is from these proposals that we have been considering this afternoon and tonight by which the Government wants the bigger unions to be able to elect their top officers with this tremendous power to stay there indefinitely. [More…]
But because Mr Clyde Cameron had had his notorious vendetta with the Australian Workers Union all his life and when at a very late stage of his life he suddenly came to power in this country- the country very soon tired of the power of people like Mr Clyde Cameron, as we found this time last year- he decided that this was the way of working out his long-standing vendetta with the AWU. [More…]
The withdrawal of power from the Northern Territory Assembly to make laws over sacred sites, permits and entry to pastoral properties. [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…]
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…]
These Bills relate to the Federal Court of Australia Bill and the Judiciary Amendment Bill 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…]
It aims to prevent dangerous concentration of power in a few hands. [More…]
The Federal Government decided that it would control not only the method of allocating the funds but also the position and style of operation of local grants commissions, and would have the power of veto over any recommendation of those commissions. [More…]
While this gave the States an important new taxing power it did very little for their immediate revenue positions, as there was an almost comparable reduction in the financial assistance grants. [More…]
I rise to support the Bill and to reject out of hand the amendment, which is totally unreal in the light of the circumstances, namely that this legislation is aimed at providing the sinews of finance for the most progressive policy in the devolution of power that we have seen since Federation. [More…]
The previous year, when the Labor Government was in power, the Bureau of Transport Economics had recommended a $64m increase in the amounts stated in the schedule to the Bill. [More…]
The Prime Minister stated very properly, I might add, that it would be quite improper for the Federal Government to accede to Sir Charles’s repeated incitements to go outside the law and grant such power to the Government of Western Australia. [More…]
I might add that in delivering that ruling the Prime Minister totally endorsed the legal view which had been stated frequently by both Mr Whitlam and the shadow Minister for National Resources, Mr Keating; whereas Sir Charles had been strutting around Western Australia asserting that under the 1967 Petroleum (Submerged Lands) Act he still had the power to exercise control over off-shore areas. [More…]
Apart from the probability that because tax collections will be lower this year than the Government forecast or than it expected at the time the Budget was prepared the extra $8 9m will not be received by the States, in the longer term there is the catch in clause 5 of the legislation which gives the Treasurer the power to define what may be special surcharges and what may be special rebates. [More…]
As the Commonwealth Government is involved in making moneys available to the State governments, surely Senator Carrick can give the Senate an undertaking that he will use everything within his power to prevail upon members of his own Party in the South Australian Parliament to agree to allow legislation to be passed so that every person over the age of 18 years who is entitled to be on the common roll, as people are in States such as Queensland, will have the opportunity to vote for councillors, aldermen and mayors and the opportunity also of being candidates for these positions in the State. [More…]
I point out to the Minister again that it is most important that he give the Senate the assurance that he will do all in his power to speak to members of the Liberal Party in South Australia and request that they not block legislation to bring about the means by which we in South Australia may have adult franchise. [More…]
But clearly, not having a portfolio for federal affairs on the one hand it would be incompetent for me to take the head of power of this Bill. [More…]
Yet the purchasing power of that wage was not changed. [More…]
Only the nominal power was changed. [More…]
When the Labor Government was in power Mr Broomhill, who was then Minister of Environment and Conservation in South Australia, raised the issue of a lighthouse on land which was a valuable area for a particular breed of wallabies. [More…]
I am aware of no firm proposal to build a solar power plant of anything like this size, and hence, as far as I am aware, there are no estimates of the capital cost for a plant in this size range based on a considered evaluation of the cost of a specific project. [More…]
I am advised that processes for the industrial production of power alcohol as a direct product from sugar or a by-product of sugar manufacture have been in existence for many years, but have had a negligible impact on the world demand for petroleum, and that there is little evidence at this stage to suggest that the substantial increases in recent years in the price of internationally traded oil will change this situation. [More…]
In view of the short term smash and grab tactics that were used by the Liberal and National Country Parties, when in Opposition, in their climb to power in inflaming public opinion against the construction of a satellite airport for Sydney at some other site - [More…]
This is an area in which Australia may well, within a few years, face a serious shortage of skills, a shortage which can have significant economic implications for the nation and one which we should now be doing everything in our power to avoid. [More…]
I do not believe that anyone can deny that the former Minister for Education, Mr Beazley, and the Government that was in power from 1972 to 1975 greatly changed the education system in this country. [More…]
The standards that are used must not be based on the philosophical, ideological, moral or any other prejudices of the people in power or the people influencing the education system. [More…]
They have the power within their Party and within the Government to take action and to check on whether what I am saying is true. [More…]
The withdrawal of power from the Northern Territory Assembly to make laws over sacred sites, permits and entry to pastoral properties. [More…]
The Commonwealth Government has limited constitutional power in this area. [More…]
I suppose that it would be well within the power of the Government to increase the number of commissioners if it were found that they could not manage. [More…]
Clause 7 (a) (ii) and (iii), relating to the power of the Commission to advise the Minister on expenditure, has been entirely deleted in the amendment Bill that we now have before us. [More…]
It just will not wash to suggest that in no way does this deletion affect the powers of the Commission. [More…]
They are being given the general power to advise on all measures to protect the National Estate, including the use of grants. [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…]
Having said those things, I indicate that the Opposition will not oppose the legislation; but I also say that it is incumbent on the Government to ensure that, should a situation arise in the future where the provisions of this Bill will apply, there will be no abuse of the power which obviously has been written into this Bill. [More…]
It gives almost dictatorial power to the Attorney-General and provides for a heavy penalty. [More…]
This urgent Bill is for the purpose of providing 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 coastal waters 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…]
Senator O’Byrne said at page 407: the Bill provides the Minister with the necessary legislative power to do these things. [More…]
The Bill allows the Minister quite a wide power. [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 may be that the court could see whether or not he had the power to issue the order and whether he is acting properly in doing so. [More…]
This Act would not supersede the present law which limits the power of appeal to the Privy Council to appeals from the decisions of the State Supreme Courts. [More…]
After all, the whole spirit of the Bill represents an assertion of the sovereignty of the Australian Parliament as against attempts of encroachment and assertions of extra-territorial power by other countries. [More…]
He asked in effect 3 separate questions: Firstly, has there been a reprint of many thousands of copies of the pamphlet; secondly, who is responsible for its wording; and, thirdly, does the pamphlet not show in its reference to the question of the Senate ‘s power to reject a money Bill a partisan attitude and is this fair to both sides in the House. [More…]
-Will the Minister for Industry and Commerce inform the Senate and the nation of the power he has to counter, or the action he intends to take to counter, the 1 7lA per cent increase in prices that retailers in Sydney, Melbourne and Canberra were busily marking up this morning? [More…]
The most that can be said about their reason for wishing to have the Senate abolished is that its abolition would give them unfettered power arising out of the more populous States of Australia. [More…]
One assumes, therefore, that there must already have been democratic elections for the Senate and, on Labor’s own admission, that there were not democratic elections for any of the other chambers in Australia, not even for the House of Representatives where at the time Labor held power. [More…]
Apparently, the members of the ALP thought that they came to power undemocratically in 1972 and that their colleagues in a number of States also had come to power undemocratically. [More…]
The rationale behind that seizure of power under unprecedented and highly suspect circumstances was the alleged economic incompetence of the Labor Government. [More…]
It is riddled with obfuscation, with self-contradiction, with a blatant denial of responsibility from someone who so ruthlessly sought power and responsibility, with factual error and technical incompetence. [More…]
Far from facing up to the fact that it represents an admission of failure of all the policies of this Government which was going to turn on the lights, it blames Labor collectively, it blames Labor individually and it suggests that somehow or other a man, who had ceased to be Treasurer and was not exercising any fiscal power in this country, by predicting devaluation was in some way to blame for the present position. [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 operation 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…]
1 have always believed that if agreements are made between the States and the Commonwealth, irrespective of the government in power it is essential that those agreements be carried out to the letter. [More…]
I take on board the point made by Senator Mulvihill that it is all very well for studies to be carried out but there is not much point in having studies done unless there is adequate power within government to deal with the problems which are revealed and adequate power to implement recommendations. [More…]
It shows the hypocrisy of those people who used that issue to obtain power in this country. [More…]
This is the great seer, the great knower, the person who stooped to the lowest of all lows in order to gain political power in this country. [More…]
Then, when he took power he tried to shift the blame to Mr Wran by suggesting that this high rate of unemployment in New South Wales was the fault of the Wran Government. [More…]
Yet honourable senators opposite did everything within their power, both in the national Parliament and in the States, to frustrate the attempts of the Australian Government to move into the land area by the establishment of land commissions and thereby reduce the land cost component of providing accommodation. [More…]
It is also against the national interest to blame the working people of Australia for trying to keep up the real spending power of the fruits of their labour. [More…]
I represented the executive power through B.I.A., at the Senate in order to explain and to support the government perspective about Indian Policies and about the promulgation of a new law for Indians. [More…]
On 4 November 1976 (Hansard, page 1596) Senator Kilgariff asked me a question without notice concerning staff ceilings and their effect on maintenance works in the Northern Territory where problems have arisen because of lack of tradesmen, particularly in the Darwin Hospital and the Tennant Creek power house. [More…]
The statement concerning Tennant Creek power station is not correct. [More…]
The matter of the output of the power station being near capacity is not a matter affecting staff levels, but rather the provision of a fourth generating set, currently under consideration. [More…]
The withdrawal of power from the Northern Territory Assembly to make laws over sacred sites, permits and entry to pastoral properties. [More…]
What in fact the socialist ideologist always does is to seek by the power of words, by the demagoguery of words- to try to damage others other than the socialist organisation. [More…]
By that decision which was taken 5 months before we were dismissed from office it was proposed that the responsible Minister have power to declare wrecks, relics from those wrecks and maritime sites associated with those wrecks as being of historic significance. [More…]
It was decided that that Minister should have power to declare an area surrounding a maritime wreck to be a restricted area and have power to amend or revoke such a declaration, and that the Minister have power to control the recovery of maritime wrecks and their relics, including the power to issue licences to competent persons to carry out research. [More…]
It was proposed that the Minister be empowered to dispose of relics as he thought fit. [More…]
In addition, the Minister’s power of delegation under clause 30 appears to be extremely wide. [More…]
I point out that in clause 8 the Minister has the power to cause the notice to be published in such newspapers, periodicals or other publications as he thinks fit. [More…]
So there is an obligation on the inspector by oath or affirmation to satisfy a justice of the peace that he ought to have these powers. [More…]
I say again, it is not as though this power is written in for the inspector; he must satisfy a justice of the peace. [More…]
The other matter I wished to raise was the general power of delegation which is covered by clause 30 of the Bill. [More…]
This subject is interrelated with my remarks during the second reading debate where I suggested that an annual report should be made to the Parliament upon the working of this legislation, because under clause 30 the Minister, who is responsible to this Parliament, is given a very wide power of delegation under this Bill. [More…]
1 ) The Minister may, either generally or as otherwise provided by the instrument of delegation, by writing signed by him, delegate to a person any of his powers under this Act, other than his 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 Minister. [More…]
A delegation under this section does not prevent the exercise of a power by the Minister. [More…]
I am practical and reasonable enough to realise that a Minister does not delegate his powers unwisely or unnecessarily, but there is provision in this Bill for the widest possible power of delegation by a Minister, although there is no provision for a Minister, whoever he may be, to make an annual report to the Parliament on the provisions of this Bill. [More…]
I do not mind the power of delegation being exercised by a Minister. [More…]
In order to carry out his ministerial functions he has to be provided by the Parliament with general and very wide powers of delegation. [More…]
Nonetheless, because, and especially because, he is being provided by this Parliament with very wide powers of delegation, ipso facto there should be a responsibility on the Minister representing the Executive Government to make a report to this Parliament. [More…]
Whilst I do not try to tie down the Minister’s general power of delegation, I implore the Minister to consider giving an undertaking, if he is not prepared to amend the Bill, that it is intended that there should be presented to the Parliament an annual report on the administration of the Historic Shipwrecks Bill, particularly as it affects the powers of delegation in regard to the responsibility of the receiver of shipwrecks. [More…]
Some 30 per cent of Australia’s total annual energy budget goes to power the various forms of transport and 95 per cent of that energy is of hydrocarbon origin. [More…]
In contradiction of the Minister’s claim in his speech that initiative was taken by the Minister for Transport in 1971, 1 ask the Senate to recall that until the Whitlam Government came to power no money was made available to the States for transport. [More…]
Into this rather complex arrangement the Government proposes to intrude a power in each State to legislate to impose a surcharge or give a rebate on personal income tax in that particular State. [More…]
Only a government which has the power to levy a profit related tax as a form of company income tax can satisfactorily ensure that the windfall gains accrue substantially to the Australian people without at the same time imposing distortions on company decisions of the type which would lead to a less efficient allocation or resources. [More…]
Of course, when Dr Edwards made that statement he was asserting that that was the action of the Australian Labor Party when it was in power. [More…]
I am not conversant enough with the subject to know whether his colleague has the power to ensure that, but I ask the Minister to ask his colleague to exercise whatever power he might have to ensure that such material is not brought into Australia, particularly for the purpose of enabling someone to make a fast buck from it. [More…]
I would go so far as to say that we could have the reverse effect as a result of the massive devaluation announced by this Government last Sunday night- a devaluation which all the economists tell us will reduce the spending power of the wage earner. [More…]
Having made those few reflections on this industry and having reiterated once again the immense importance of it from the point of view of employment, from the point of view of overseas credits and from the mere point of view that Australia produces some of the finest beef herds in the world, has some of the finest cattle producing country in the world and is a relatively economic producer at the producer level, I submit that it is absolutely imperative that we as a government do everything in our power to maintain and develop this industry and to see it ride out the rough passage that it is certainly in. [More…]
It is now 12 months since this Government came into power. [More…]
What has happened in the 12 months since the Government came to power? [More…]
It arises from the limitations of the power of this Parliament in relation to housing. [More…]
Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that the Australian Parliament do everything in its power to persuade the Government of Yugoslavia to free this honest man and return to his family in Australia. [More…]
In view of the Government’s announcement that it would do everything in its power to prevent the identifiable effects of devaluation upon the consumer price index flowing into wages, I ask: What measures does the Government propose to adopt other than putting submissions to the Commonwealth Conciliation and Arbitration Commission? [More…]
Will not any further erosion of the purchasing power of employees reduce even further the level of consumer spending and thus the demand for manufactured goods? [More…]
Government has a capacity to put submissions before those 2 statutory tribunals, it has no power of direction. [More…]
-It has no power of direction. [More…]
I ask the Minister whether reports in the Dunedin Evening Star and the Christchurch Star of Saturday, 9 October 1976 that the United States planned to ship 6500 cubic metres of soil contaminated by radioactivity from the McMurdo Sound nuclear power generator in the Antarctic are accurate. [More…]
So clearly the Prime Minister, in introducing this Bill which allows the free market forces greater power than they had previously, is being totally consistent with his well-known trenchant opposition to high tariffs, to paying a superphosphate bounty or to manipulating the taxation laws in such a way that the pattern of consumer spending and investment is distorted from what would prevail in the free market situation. [More…]
Obviously Mr Millar has changed his mind in the last 2 years because when his Party was in power he offered no objection to his Government commencing the phasing out of this bounty. [More…]
I am not entirely confident that the Prices Justification Tribunal either has the power or the resources, especially now, to ensure that that is done. [More…]
The increase in freight traffic resulted mainly from increases in central Queensland coal traffic to meet export and metropolitan power house requirements. [More…]
When we talk about people having radical views, and even views that are far to the right, the point to consider is whether or not they content themselves with the use of lung power or do something else. [More…]
He does not have the power to make decisions to change things, but he is able to investigate actions relating to matters of administration taken by a department or by a prescribed authority. [More…]
With the powers prescribed for him in this Bill he is able to go to departments and to officials to find out the facts. [More…]
This means that there will be judicious and careful scrutiny to ensure that this restriction on the ombudsman’s power will not be over used. [More…]
One also notices the considerable power which the ombudsman will have. [More…]
His power is not a power to change things. [More…]
It is not a political power. [More…]
It is not a power to make decisions that order officials to do something different if they have erred in their actions. [More…]
It is a significant power. [More…]
The Ombudsman will have powers to ensure that complaints which come before him from prisoners will not be interfered with by prison authorities so that he will be able to deal with them. [More…]
Under clause 5 of the Bill one of the main exclusions from the power of the ombudsman, perhaps the main one, is that he is not authorised to investigate action taken by a Minister. [More…]
If no decisions of Ministers are to be examinable, a power to make judgments about, and to recommend changes in, legislation fits oddly. [More…]
I regret that those arguments have not led us to decide at this stage to include such administrative acts of Ministers within the power of the Ombudsman to scrutinise. [More…]
The Federal Government’s proposals have not yet been released, but it seems that they will be even more restrictive than the States in relation to jurisdiction over Ministers (removing most opportunity to comment indirectly on their decisions), will adopt a general criterion narrower than wrong’, and will give the Government extensive power to exclude the Ombudsman from investigating any conduct which it certifies as relating to Australia’s security, international relations or defence. [More…]
It is important to bear in mind, as has been pointed out by the Minister, that the ombudsman’s power is not a power to do anything to rectify a grievance but a power to bring it to public light. [More…]
As he has said, the only sanction that the Ombudsman has, which 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…]
The Deputy Ombudsman for the Australian Capital Territory has all the powers, and may exercise all the functions, of the Commonwealth 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 or 1 9. [More…]
While the Commonwealth Ombudsman will have power to investigate the whole field of administrative activity of government and to make recommendations for remedial action where necessary, the Australian Capital Territory’s Deputy Ombudsman will be able to report directly to and seek action through the Commonwealth Ombudsman on matters directly relevant to the Capital Territory. [More…]
It obviously has important implications for Commonwealth employees as it is their actions which the Ombudsman will be empowered to investigate if complaints are made. [More…]
The Bill gives the Ombudsman and his deputies power to prevent unnecessary harassment of Commonwealth employees through complaints. [More…]
It is also significant that the fundamental sanction that the Ombudsman has is the power to report to this Parliament. [More…]
It is a very powerful sanction. [More…]
Darwin is beset by continual power failures which, it is reported, can last for several hours causing loss of air conditioning and normal electricity requirements. [More…]
Can the Minister have the matter investigated in an effort to bring about a more efficient reticulation of power or, in the event that there is insufficient power generated for the community, take urgent steps to bring back production of electricity to a normal state? [More…]
I acknowledge the honourable senator’s interest in ensuring that the people of Darwin have an adequate and sufficient power supply. [More…]
However, I believe that the power supply of Darwin has been a problem for some time. [More…]
If my recollection serves me correctly a scheme has been proposed for the redevelopment of the Darwin power house and I understand that that is progressing. [More…]
It is not acceptable to those in the Northern Territory that breakdowns in the power supply should occur. [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…]
Because there is a Labor Government in power in New South Wales, the Minister for Transport says that the States, especially New South Wales, ought to be able to provide more money. [More…]
I would make it quite clear that any redundancies arranged in the meantime were to be arranged according to law and that nobody would have the power to pay bonuses and premiums to this particular class of employee over and above those retirements pensions provided by law. [More…]
In the early 1 960s the power industry in New South Wales had a better type of power station. [More…]
Although amendments are being made to the Prices Justification Tribunal Act and to the powers of the Tribunal, it will continue to have the power to inquire and report in the same way as it has done and is doing in relation to the stevedoring industry. [More…]
It is proposed that promotion and appeal rights of existing officers wil 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 BUI. [More…]
The trusts will be title holding bodies only, having no independent power of initiative, and their actions will be directed by the traditional owners through Land Councils. [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…]
The power to determine the conditions subject to which the payments will be made by the Commonwealth will remain vested in the Minister for Health. [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…]
All those problems which have been familiar to any government in this country stem from the absence of power of the Federal Parliament to deal with wages and prices. [More…]
Senator Button started off with the very broad statement that all the problems that the Government faces in this area of prices- and presumably he included wages- stem from a lack of power in the Commonwealth Parliament to legislate directly in regard to this matter. [More…]
I want to emphasise, as I emphasised in the previous debate in relation to the stevedoring industry, that the changes that have been made by the Government do not take away to any extent at all the general power of the Prices Justification Tribunal, either on its own motion or when somebody moves before it. [More…]
So the Tribunal has that general power of inquiry. [More…]
As you know, Mr President, the Government changed and the Whitlam Government came to power and was in office during the time when the Scott inquiry deliberated. [More…]
By 1970 a block of land had kerbs and gutters, concrete footpaths, a 10 per cent dedication for public purposes, sealed streets, underground power lines, sewerage and stormwater drainage. [More…]
The trend-setting councils, which want everything but gold plated power poles, also are playing their part in putting up prices. [More…]
But because of the fundamental significance of the whole question of nuclear power and what it means to the whole of mankind, I believe it would be a futile contribution for us to assume either partywise or individually that we have the answers and that we know precisely the course that we as a nation should follow. [More…]
The world would not have stopped, nor would the power industry around the world have stopped if Australia had not made a decision on this matter. [More…]
In fact, Australia’s own power would not have stopped either. [More…]
If we consider that picture as a whole we can see that there would be a tremendous potential for nuclear power around the world and where, as Mr Justice Fox points out, it can be shown that the development of the industry will not be harmful to mankind we ought to avail ourselves of it. [More…]
We are locked into this horrendous form of power because we are determined to have more and more. [More…]
It has the power in this country for another 2 years-that is all- but at least in those 2 years it has the responsibility of not forgetting. [More…]
It has been said that typical coal fired power plants probably kill about 50 people a year through air pollution. [More…]
So we look to geothermal power, Whilst the Japanese are doing a lot of work on this subject, it is estimated that it could be at least the year 2000 before they will be anywhere near getting sufficient energy from this source. [More…]
Even with solar energy there are still grave storage problems because it is dark for a lot of the time when power is required. [More…]
At present there are 159 nuclear power units in operation. [More…]
The escalation in nuclear energy is taking place in the United States of Amenca, where there are 54 nuclear power stations and another 168 are proposed. [More…]
I turn now to the dangers of nuclear energy itself and of nuclear power plants. [More…]
To give an example of these dangers I again quote from the paper by Mr Bernard L. Cohen, where he states: since our country - that is, America- needs a power plant for every half million people, and a nuclear plant kills an average of 0.01 people per year, an individual’s probability of being killed by a nuclear power plant is one chance in50 million per year. [More…]
Nuclear power is as dangerous as driving one extra mile per year, an average of5 extra yards per day. [More…]
So nuclear power represents the same danger to an average citizen as the danger to a farmer from spending5 minutes extra per year visiting a city. [More…]
Leaving aside questions respecting terrorism, nuclear wastes and proliferation, our assessment of the position is that while the operations of the nuclear power industry need close regulation and constant surveillance, they probably do not entail risks greater in sum than those inherent in alternative energy industries. [More…]
This rapid acceleration of the technology was caused, firstly, by the concern of the allied powers that Germany may have developed an atom bomb during the Second World War. [More…]
But unfortunately many would suggest that this technology has raced ahead of the very safety precautions and the waste disposal precautions which will be necessary for the safe future development of fission power. [More…]
Some countries like Sweden, Austria, France, West Germany, Britain, Japan and India, faced with poor fossil fuel resources, high oil costs and uncertain oil supplies, have opted for nuclear power to a certain extent. [More…]
Other countries like the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, the United States of America, Canada and Iran have opted for nuclear power to a certain extent to protect their dwindling fossil fuel sources, their dwindling oil sources. [More…]
We in Australia are in a position where we have no need at the moment for nuclear power. [More…]
But even in those countries which have opted for nuclear power, serious questions are being raised about how they should go in the future. [More…]
In fact the Tokamak experiments in the U.S.S.R. and other experiments m the United States are showing the way; we will have fusion power in perhaps 20 or 30 years. [More…]
We could develop our solar power resources. [More…]
The dangers of an unchecked program of excessive growth in fission power are real. [More…]
One does not have to go to the opponents of nuclear power development and nuclear technology to be worried by this. [More…]
Dr Alvin Weinberg, who was the Director of the nuclear laboratory at Oak Ridge in the United States until 1973 and who is in favour of nuclear power, has said that we need to recruit a dedicated priesthood to guard nuclear wastes and reactors and keep them nonpolluting in perpetuity. [More…]
However, Professor Hans Alfven, the Nobel prize winner for physics in 1970 and a man who is expert in plasma physics- the area in which fusion power will be developed- has, I believe, put the whole problem of waste most succinctly. [More…]
The Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty, which is aimed at preventing the proliferation of nuclear weapons in the world and on which Senator Young hung his hat for one part of his argument, firstly has no teeth and, secondly, has not been signed by many of the nuclear power using countries in the world. [More…]
Fortunately it would seem that the costs of nuclear power production are escalating so much that in the United States and other countries orders are being cancelled. [More…]
I am not saying that we will never be able to develop safe nuclear power. [More…]
I am also convinced from my reading, as are many others from their reading, that fusion power, which may be the answer, is well on the way to being developed; that plasma physics and magnetic insulation may well solve the problems that we are worried about and may well make the sort of fission power that we are talking about redundant. [More…]
I would regret it if the arguments about the export of a few thousand tonnes from Mary Kathleen, which will make no difference to the world ‘s attitude to nuclear power and which will make no difference to the supplies which go to Japan, West Germany and the United States, should become the basis of the very real argument which Mr Justice Fox and the Ranger Uranium Environmental Inquiry have brought up. [More…]
Surely we can make our voice heard when we talk about international agreements to stop the proliferation of nuclear power in the world and international agreements about the treatment of terrorists or fanatics who may well get hold of it. [More…]
It is well to remember that there already have been attacks upon nuclear power stations in the world- and that an attack in Argentine was successful and that terrorists held control of a station for a few hours. [More…]
Should we not be leading the world in the development of alternative non-nuclear power sources? [More…]
We should not be condemning those who are concerned and those who express their concern about nuclear power in the way they were condemned in the debate in the other House. [More…]
Most of the developed nations have nuclear power plants. [More…]
But the fact is that nation after nation has considered this matter and nation after nation has made its decision over these 30 years to develop nuclear power for peaceful purposes. [More…]
Are we to miss out on all the advantages that can accrue from the use of nuclear power? [More…]
Unless we are prepared to fill the gap created by new power stations coming into operation between 1982 and 1985, someone else will supply the required uranium oxide. [More…]
160 nuclear power stations are already operating and, after 2000 power station years of operation, there has not been a single death or injury to the public at large. [More…]
The U.K., U.S.A., Soviet Union, France, Canada, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, West Germany, India, Italy, Japan, Holland, Pakistan, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland and many others are investing massively in nuclear power. [More…]
Indeed 180 new nuclear power stations are currently being built and another 1 60 are on order. [More…]
By the year 2000 near to SO per cent of all electricity generated in the world will be from Nuclear Power Stations. [More…]
It is not essential to have nuclear power stations to produce a nuclear weapons capability. [More…]
We have to look at this matter from a rational point of view and, as Senator Young says, and as most scientists will tell us, there is more danger today from pollution from oil and coal fired power stations than there ever will be from uranium pollution. [More…]
In fact, the pollution from uranium is one-fifteenth of that from a coal fired power station which produces the same amount of electricity. [More…]
I now refer to the safety of nuclear power. [More…]
The facts are: Nuclear power has proved to be among the safest industries yet established in the world. [More…]
Radioactive waste has been handled completely safely over the 20-year history of nuclear power production and plans now in hand for vitrification of waste material are technically sound and feasible and will lead to a continuation of this excellent record as the industry grows. [More…]
So Sir Philip Baxter and his successors are saying: ‘You let us have the power to extract uranium. [More…]
Time and time again the present Government has argued that we have a powerful alliance with some of the super-powers, including the United States and Britain. [More…]
In any case, is not the art of politics to play off one big power against another? [More…]
As my colleague, Senator Ruth Coleman, interjected earlier, it will not be pollution; there needs to be only one disaster m a uranium-fired power station and the consequences of that will certainly overshadow the misfortune of the eight or ten coalminers killed in industry. [More…]
Nuclear power development in the world has a long history. [More…]
The debate on this matter has reached its climax in recent times because the world has come to appreciate the exhaustibility of conventional methods of power generation. [More…]
I think the first nuclear power generation plant there was established in 1956. [More…]
When one mentions the mining of uranium most people tend to start talking immediately about nuclear power generation. [More…]
This is a different kettle offish from the matter of nuclear power generation. [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…]
When I was a child the problem was an economic one because my father could not afford to pay excessive power bills, and of course water was of great consequence in South Australia. [More…]
I believe it is important that people in Australia recognise that they should not waste power but conserve it whenever they can. [More…]
The recently published Fox Ranger uranium environmental report goes a long way in pointing out the hazards, fears and misunderstandings associated with the nuclear power industry. [More…]
The Ranger report is an excellent one and one of the few and rare attempts to look at nuclear power without using rose coloured glasses, as did those honourable senators opposite, including the optometrist, who spoke tonight. [More…]
Oil is the energy we need for transport- nuclear power cannot be used for transport- and it is in the field of transport that the greatest shortage of fuel will be found. [More…]
One of the greatest arguments by those who produce power from this area is that this is too expensive. [More…]
Proponents for uranium mining and nuclear power point to the economic advantages of nuclear produced electricity over other energy forms. [More…]
Data compiled by the Head of the Section for Economic Studies in the IAEA’s Division of Nuclear Power and Reactors confirm the weight of evidence that the relative advantage in capital costs held by coal-fired stations has not diminished. [More…]
Yet at the moment the Premier of Queensland is saying that he wants nuclear power. [More…]
-That is all right, because you would give the coal away to the markets of the world while you start setting up your nuclear power units. [More…]
We in Australia, with our vast coal reserves, should not be stampeded into condoning nuclear power until all aspects of the industry are fully and exhaustively debated publicly. [More…]
In this case, the ‘polluter pays’ principle will not be followed and the competitive position of nuclear power compared with alternative energy sources will be artificially improved. [More…]
The evidence indicates that use of coal rather than further extensions of nuclear power would not, in general, cause very substantial overall increases in the cost of electricity or in the general level of prices. [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…]
Mr Keating, the Shadow Minister for National Resources, claimed in the debate that the government has made no acknowledgement of the powers and hazards associated with nuclear power mentioned by the commission throughout the body of its report’. [More…]
We have reached the stage in civilisation today where we have a very great need for vast energy resources so that we can turn a switch and have lighting, power, heating, cooling, communications and whatever else we want. [More…]
Of course, we are looking at solar power, wind power, tidal power and hydroelectric power, but at this stage, despite the vast amounts of money that have been spent on those subjects, there is not enough of those sources of power available or enough technology to prove them feasible. [More…]
I admit that we can power some things with solar panels, but not enough to run a steel works. [More…]
I admit that we can run a station property with a wind generator, but it does not provide enough power to power a city. [More…]
So we have found that we have had to look for some sort of interim power. [More…]
This leaves us with only one alternative at present- albeit an interim one- and that is nuclear power. [More…]
Nuclear energy is just another source of power; it is as simple as that. [More…]
So I think it would be conceivable to start to try to generate more power by electricity and look towards coal liquefication to run motor vehicles in the future. [More…]
Looking at the economics of the matter, a feasibility study in 1974 of the Loy Yang power station in the Latrobe Valley showed a cost of 0.61c per kilowatt hour for a brown coal fossil fuel power station and 0.63c per killowatt hour for a nuclear power station- that is, a station with a potential output of 4000 megawatts. [More…]
It must be said that the power authority does own the coalfield and that the power station will be sited right on that coalfield. [More…]
So it can be seen that it is marginally cheaper to use a fossil fuel power station right on a coalfield in Victoria. [More…]
The Gladstone power station is now being run on steaming coal which has been bought literally at over-burden rates. [More…]
So, under these circumstances, why not use coal fired power stations? [More…]
The United States nuclear power plants saved utilities over $2 billion in generating costs in 1975, compared with burning fossil fuels. [More…]
In 1975 United States nuclear power plants saved the equivalent of the burning of more than 238 million barrels of oil or more than 50 million tonnes of coal. [More…]
So in this day and age we find that the nuclear power plant is indeed an economic proposition. [More…]
If they have growing cities and no source of power, the obvious thing for them to do is to look towards nuclear power generation. [More…]
So I question the morality of a nation of ‘haves’, such as Australia, withholding a possible source of power from the nations of ‘have nots ‘ around the world. [More…]
It is quite significant that not one life has been lost to this time at any nuclear reactor power generation plant in the world. [More…]
A 1000 megawatt power station would use 140 tonnes of yellow cake a year if it was a nuclear power station. [More…]
If it was a fossil fuel power station it would use 2 million tonnes of coal. [More…]
So here we see the significance of developing countries being able to use nuclear power as compared with all the ancillary industries needed to export steaming coal. [More…]
As well as that, from the fossil fuel power stations one has the sulphur dioxide, the nitrous dioxide and the fly ash. [More…]
It must be said that radioactive waste going up the funnels of every fossil fired power station in the world. [More…]
It has been mentioned that it is more dangerous to fly in an aircraft from Sydney to Perth than it is to live beside a nuclear power station for 25 years. [More…]
For those who are betting men and like the odds, let me say that there is one chance in 5000 million of being killed from a nuclear power station. [More…]
As I said previously, there is one chance in 5000 million of being killed by a nuclear power accident. [More…]
If all the high level waste from a 1000-megawatt power station in one year were put together there would be 33 cubic metres of high level liquid waste. [More…]
the spread of nuclear power will inevitably facilitate the spread of the ability to make nuclear weapons and, we fear, the construction of these weapons. [More…]
An alternative argument, which is partly moral and partly economic, has been put by those advocating uranium mining, the development of nuclear power, and a nuclear based economy. [More…]
Figures prepared for me by the Legislative Research Service of the Parliamentary Library suggest that nuclear power does not have an outstanding economic advantage over coal in the case of a power station on which construction commenced in 1975. [More…]
Press Party: Mr D. Baker, Mr B. Bayly, Mr W. Beeby, Mr K. Begg, Mr P. Bowers, Mr D. Brown, Mr R. Carleton, Mr P. Costigan, Mr R. Drewe, Mr C. Fryman, Mr P. Hardacre, Mr P. Harvey, Mr M. Hunt, Mr B. Jones, Mr J. Jost, Mr T. Kavanagh, Mr P. Lorant, Mr P. Morley, Mr M. Peterson, Mr L. Power, Mr R. Rea, Mr J. Shaw. [More…]
The court held that where a power is conferred upon a public officer or authority for the purpose of being used for the benefit of a specified class of persons in defined circumstances there is a duty on the officer or authority to exercise the power in relation to the class of persons concerned and in the event of a failure to exercise a power the Court will require the power to be exercised. [More…]
There is no constitutional power for the Commonwealth to be involved in housing. [More…]
Under the previous Act the Government had the constitutional power to pay the grant to married people because it had constitutional rights to give benefits to families. [More…]
So there would appear to be no legal support for the direction of the Government given in the hope that if a payment is made no one will challenge it and the Government will get away with something for which perhaps there is no constitutional power and which is not what Parliament intended when it enacted an Act of Parliament creating the benefit. [More…]
I think it falls far short of giving the constitutional power which the Government believed in 1964 it did not have. [More…]
Senator Cavanagh has raised a useful point, but my advice is that the Government is satisfied that there is a constitutional head of power to do this. [More…]
There are 10 hot showers, 11 toilets and no power points for those 1000 people. [More…]
Had it not been for that day when the Australian Labor Party lost power, that Bill would have been through by now. [More…]
On the subject of the Aboriginal right of veto in relation to mining, I point out that the Commonwealth Government will still have power to mine Aboriginal lands under the Atomic Energy Act. [More…]
They are, firstly, the power to declare and control Aboriginal sacred sites, about which a lot has already been said this evening; secondly, the issue of entry permits to Aboriginal land; thirdly, the access to territorial seas adjoining Aboriginal lands; and fourthly, the control of entry to pastoral properties. [More…]
They are also contrary to a report of the bipartisan Senate committee which inquired into the environmental conditions of Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders and which recommended a redrafting of this Bill now before us to re-establish Commonwealth power over all Aboriginal land. [More…]
This Aboriginal power of veto should only be over-ridden if, in the opinion of the Government, the national interest requires it. [More…]
It is unfair to aim at the representatives of the Northern Territory in the Legislative Assembly criticism on the basis of what has happened in the past because executive power in the Northern Territory in the past has been vested in the Federal Government. [More…]
We are moving on to a stage where some executive power is to be transferred to the Northern Territory. [More…]
As I understand it, except in the Federal Territories, legislative power to regulate cigarette advertising in media other than radio and television is vested exclusively in the States. [More…]
The Government is not contemplating any changes in its procedures or powers other than those that, as I said earlier, were passed this week. [More…]
The Government is satisfied that the power contained in section 1 6 of the Act, whereby the Tribunal may of its own volition and motion investigate any complaints that may be made to it or any indications that it has of unjustified price increases, is a sufficient power, particularly as it is coupled with a power conferred on the Minister to request a specified investigation. [More…]
These powers are not limited to cases where there is the requirement of notice by a company before it increases its prices. [More…]
Is the Minister representing the Acting Minister for National Resources aware of the statements made in the annual report of Mareeba Mining and Exploration Pty Ltd which suggest that the coming to power in December 1975 of the present Government may result in that company being forced to discontinue its operations? [More…]
Yet we are saying that we will pass the power to control all these things to the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly. [More…]
The Legislative Assembly is not given any power in relation to mining under this Bill. [More…]
The main amendment and the 4 consequential amendments do nothing else but extend the power of the mining company in Groote Eylandt. [More…]
The changes which were made to sub-clauses (2), (3), (4), (5) and (6) confirm the passive role of trusts by removing the phrase with the consent’, which might suggest that the trust might have power to act on its own initiative, and substituting the phrase ‘at the direction’. [More…]
It should be remembered that clause 20 gives power to the Minister to issue a lease of land to meet the Government’s obligations under agreements for mining at Gove and Groote Eylandt on behalf of a land trust where negotiations have failed, but only after an arbitrator has been appointed and has determined fair terms and conditions for a lease. [More…]
Paragraph 359 recommends that land councils have power to make representations to the land commission about priorities in the expenditure of moneys for land purchase and land development. [More…]
I suppose that the Parliament would decide according to the view to which Party was in power at the time. [More…]
2) Bill that the power of the House to override a proclamation on Aboriginal rights lapses if the matter is not brought on for discussion after 15 days. [More…]
To give this right, to give this great power, to the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly is a denigration of the rights of Aborigines. [More…]
The assurances of the Majority Leader in the Legislative Assembly and the fact that the Commonwealth Government has the power to withhold consent to Northern Territory ordinances will ensure that Northern Territory legislation will have the same effect as if the legislation were introduced into the Commonwealth Parliament. [More…]
This man wants to support a militarist regime which is in power in Indonesia at present. [More…]
Indonesia has exercised its militarist power to overcome an ethnic group of people who should have been given the right of selfdetermination. [More…]
I defend the right of people to commemorate the anniversary of the death of Australian journalists in East Timor, to pay our homage and our tribute to the work and assistance that the East Timorese people gave to the Australian forces, and also as a mark of our disapproval of a power which Australia assisted in getting independence. [More…]
What percentage of Australia’s total primary energy input is lost in the conversion of primary and secondary fuels to electricity at power stations. [More…]
The waste neat from large thermal power stations has not been utilised since they are, for the most part, remote from large population centres and the generally favourable climate and low population density in Australia militates against district heating systems as used in the colder areas of North America and Northern Europe. [More…]
1 ) Do many proponents of nuclear power claim that the level of fatalities and the level of diseases associated with uranium mining will be reduced if mine workers wear heavy protective clothing. [More…]
-Is the Minister for Industry and Commerce aware that 44 currencies have moved since the present Government came to power and that the Australian dollar has depreciated 19.5 per cent against the United States dollar? [More…]
There is also to be a more direct relationship between redeployment and retirement powers and their clear purpose, namely, the efficient and economical function of the Service. [More…]
There is also provided a power to determine special benefits payable to persons who are retired at the initiative of management. [More…]
The retention of the power by the Australian Parliament and Government was also recommended by Mr Justice Woodward and supported by the Senate Select Committee on Social Environment. [More…]
The Opposition has moved a number of amendments which would have brought that power back into the hands of the Australian Parliament. [More…]
They are the powers which the Government has so carelessly thrown away to somebody else. [More…]
It is quite fallacious for Senator Keeffe to draw from that the conclusion that the only right and proper way for the situation to be remedied is for the Commonwealth to exercise its power. [More…]
The Commonwealth has always had the power and until this minute it is the Commonwealth which has possessed the only executive power. [More…]
The Legislative Assembly has never had any executive power but it will acquire executive power on 1 January. [More…]
The Territory will be getting some executive power for the first time from 1 January, and it is up to us to give the Territorians a chance to do a better job. [More…]
Finally, I must say that until recently, when I read the Northern Territory Newsletter, I was not aware that the executive power involved would be passing to the Northern Territory on 1 January. [More…]
But when the pressure goes on Ministers it is only very infrequently that they apply the power of veto. [More…]
I have no doubt that when this law is passed into operation and pressure goes on to that section of the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly- I will not use the word ‘lobby’ because apparently it is offensive to Senator Baume- which fully supports the multinational mining companies in their bulldozing activities in Aboriginal traditional lands, the Minister will not be able to apply the power of veto. [More…]
I think that we have to be realistic and acknowledge that the Bill that is being passed through this chamber, unaltered by any of our proposed amendments, has been designed by the powerful mining interests. [More…]
Just wait till we get our hands on some power and we will bring it back’. [More…]
The Minister for Aboriginal Affairs (Mr Viner) will not exercise a power of veto. [More…]
Senator Kilgariff claimed that the previous Government would not give executive power to the Legislative Assembly in the Northern Territory. [More…]
The Northern Territory Legislative Assembly is now a fully elected body and now has certain powers because of the actions of the Whitlam Labor Government, not because of the actions of a previous Liberal-Country Party Government. [More…]
The Government policy now is to hand too much power over to the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly. [More…]
If it is not, we will be back to where we are now, with both the Commonwealth and the Legislative Assembly having power in regard to this question. [More…]
With the power that the Legislative Assembly is acquiring, it will have the right to protect sacred sites. [More…]
This shows the difficulty of handing power over to a new body to carry out what is desired. [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…]
This will not put us in the position where we will have to debate the wisdom or otherwise of whether the Legislative Assembly ought to have this power. [More…]
It should be pointed out that the Bill gives Aborigines power to control exploration and mining operations on their land and the reference is considered unnecessary. [More…]
The Bill is designed to put beyond any reasonable doubt the power of the State milk authorities to impose a levy on whole milk or butterfat. [More…]
It is vital that there be no hesitancy in the powers of the Commonwealth to vest State authorities with the power to collect the levies. [More…]
Dairy farmers in other countries who are totally uneconomic by any measure of Australian dairy standards have been able to use their political muscle to win subsidies from governments which rely on the dairy industry to stay in power. [More…]
Let us look at the situation of the Australian Broadcasting Commission in the light of what has happened this year and since this Government came to power. [More…]
-It has power to do it. [More…]
Senator Button took the view that it is a sensible function to place in a quasi judicial tribunal the rights which were held, as well as on some other powers, by the Australian Broadcasting Control Board previously, and that the Tribunal will operate as a quasi judicial body in dealing with licences- the creation and change of licences- and, if necessary, the removal of licences where the rules are not complied with. [More…]
In addition to the establishment of the Tribunal there is a proposal for the establishment of a broadcasting council- a council to represent views, but of course it will not be given powers to determine or to dictate the nature of the industry. [More…]
I believe that we must realise that in this transitory stage we are going to have to stand by standards, to stand by things which we want to see improved and to ensure that the community, in whose trust we are vested with power, will see that it does get out of all this a better system of radio and television. [More…]
As a result of that initial $300,000-an additional $300,000 out of a total amount of $70m that had been made available up to that date to the ABC- great programs were able to be developed; programs like Seven Little Australians, Rush, Ben Hall and Power Without Glory. [More…]
While the previous Government was in power, although public broadcasting had my full support I was particularly concerned at the way in which it was being introduced on a willy nilly basis. [More…]
As a parent who lets her children watch television, who knows her children enjoy television, who knows her children and she herself learn from television, I am concerned that this great power for learning should be treated in a proper way so that our children are not at a disadvantage in this field. [More…]
Television is a great power for good. [More…]
I have watched my children and I know that although the television screen mesmerises them, the programs they really enjoy are the programs that tease their imaginations, their powers to learn, their powers to investigate. [More…]
There is no indication that they care two hoots about our children or about the power that television has over those children. [More…]
There is a power to fine commercial stations who do that, but nobody has ever been fined. [More…]
It is a matter of common knowledge in this town, this little closed community where nothing is secret for very long, that people such as Mr Jim Malone, the head of FACTSFACTS’ is a curious title for an outfit that has little to do with truth- which is the Federation of Australian Commercial Television Stations, and a man named Des Foster, who is the head of an organisation called FARB, which is the Federation of Australian Radio Broadcasters, and Mr Kerry Packer, who probably does not need to be designated, have been in and out of the corridors of power in the last few weeks, whereas people demonstrating on behalf of the ABC and on behalf of the survival of an elected commissioner of the ABC such as Marius Webb have to take their place out on the lawn. [More…]
As far as I know, entrance to the corridors of power is not nearly as easy for them as it is for Mr Jim Malone, Mr Des Foster and Mr Kerry Packer. [More…]
Can the Minister give assurances that the Land Fund Commission will maintain its power to purchase land in all States for Aborigines and that it will be adequately funded in order to carry out this function effectively. [More…]
-The honourable senator was kind enough to alert me that he would be requiring some information on this subject and I have been advised by my colleague that the short answer is that a wife has no mandatory power to deny the issue of a passport to her husband. [More…]
Section 7 of the Passports Act provides the Minister with discretionary power to grant or refuse a passport. [More…]
In the exercise of this discretionary power successive Ministers- Ministers of Immigration prior to the transfer of responsibility to the Minister for Foreign Affairs in 1975, and Ministers for Foreign Affairs since then- have followed the practice of requiring an applicant for a passport, if married, to obtain the consent of his or her spouse. [More…]
The Minister will be aware of reports of frequent blackouts and selective interruptions to the Darwin power supply. [More…]
My information is that the problem is two-fold- shortage of staff at the power house and inadequate capacity of the generators to meet peak load while allowing for maintenance. [More…]
Will the Minister see whether more staff can be provided and will he take action to ensure that an additional generator is procured to enable regular maintenance to be carried out so that a reliable power supply can be provided for the people of Darwin? [More…]
I acknowledge that apparently there have been some minor power failures in the Darwin power house over recent months. [More…]
My understanding is that prior to cyclone Tracy the power lines from the power house to an extent were not as good as they could be. [More…]
My understanding is that the disruptions to the power supply have nothing whatsoever to do with a shortage of labour but have resulted mainly from breakdowns of equipment. [More…]
The Government will therefore be doing everything within its power to ensure that any identifiable effects of devaluation on the CPI do not flow through into wages and salaries. [More…]
Beyond that we will be taking every step within our power to secure restraint. [More…]
I refer to programs such as Seven Little Australians, Rush, Luke’s Kingdom, Certain Women, Bellbird and Power Without Glory. [More…]
For example, I am surprised at the tremendous success of Power Without Glory, which seems to me, as a piece of television drama, not to be of exceptional standard. [More…]
I have noticed that young children and teenagers particularly are absolutely fascinated by programs like Rush and Power Without Glory, which give them some insight into their own history. [More…]
It abolishes the Australian Broadcasting Control Board, sets up the Australian Broadcasting Tribunal and gives to that Tribunal in the interim period, prior to further legislation, virtually the powers of the Australian Broadcasting Control Board. [More…]
The Bill leaves with the Minister temporarily, in that interim period, the final power of licence approvals. [More…]
Ultimately that power will be transferred to the Tribunal. [More…]
Whilst in the past under the Wireless Telegraphy Act it was possiblethat Act was operated on by the Whitlam Government-for Ministers to grant licences, for instance, for public broadcasting, in the longer term this power will pass to the Tribunal and there will be no political or ministerial determination of licences. [More…]
The answer to the interjection by Senator Harradine is that proposed section 16(1) (a), as provided for in clause 6 of the present Bill, at page 8, is the head of power to which I refer. [More…]
This legislation proposes to transfer the Board’s powers of licensing to a statutory authority, and no one argues against that. [More…]
Also, it proposes to transfer the Board’s powers of inquiry to a statutory body, and no one argues against that. [More…]
In addition it proposes to transfer the Board’s technical powers to the Postal and Telecommunications Department, and there is no dialogue against that at all. [More…]
The legislation proposes to give to the Tribunal the power to undertake a major wide-ranging inquiry into standards, and everyone has sought just such a move. [More…]
Following my contribution to the debate last night, I might appear to be a little obtuse this morning, but I cannot see how, under clause 6, the Tribunal has, firstly, the authority and, secondly, the power to administer what is already able to be administered by the Australian Broadcasting Control Board under section 16 ( 1 ) (c) of the current Broadcasting and Television Act which is sought to be repealed by this Bill. [More…]
At least the amendment put forward by Senator Button attempts to enshrine in this legislation a power for the Tribunal to ensure that adequate and comprehensive programs are provided by commercial broadcasting stations and commercial television stations in the best interests of the general public. [More…]
I wonder whether the Minister can explain to the Senate just where in proposed new section 16 the Tribunal is given power to administer, as distinct from determine, the standards to be observed by licensees? [More…]
One is that this Bill specifically will give the Australian Broadcasting Tribunal the power to determine the standards to be observed by licensees in respect of the broadcasting or televising of programs. [More…]
That gives a residual power to the Minister. [More…]
If there were to be any hiatus- I do not acknowledge that there will be- it is competent upon the Minister, indeed he is responsible, to take such action as he sees fit, under his power of suspension or revocation of licences, if there is a decline in standards. [More…]
The powers of the proposed Tribunal have been more rigidly expressed in a clear way in the Bill before us. [More…]
In the interim 2 things can happen: The Minister may exercise his power which, I admit, is a bulldozer power and has some defects. [More…]
More importantly, the Parliament has the power to intervene by introducing legislation- if necessary, next February- if there are any defects in the present legislation. [More…]
It is important to identify the fact that this is not an attempt on our part to remove from existing legislation any legislative power to appoint a staff representative. [More…]
That power does not exist. [More…]
The clause with which we are now dealing proposes to give the Secretary of the Postal and Telecommunications Department power to plan the future of all broadcasting in Australia. [More…]
These powers, I feel, are pretty wide. [More…]
The Minister has already gone some of the way towards restricting the power of the Secretary of that Department. [More…]
It transfers fully the power of the Australian Broadcasting Control Board and the current functions that it exercises under section 16 ( 1 ) of the Act to the Secretary of the Postal and Telecommunications Department. [More…]
I am concerned about the Minister’s powers to override the Public Service Act and to transfer officers against will. [More…]
I am not suggesting that it will happen, but the power is there. [More…]
For a given breeding ratio, the power rating for given reactor core loading determines the rate at which new fuel is generated and a low value is being used at present. [More…]
Better transfer of heat from the fuel elements to the sodium coolant would allow increased power rating for a given reactor core size and so decreased doubling times. [More…]
What efforts are being made by the Federal Government and the relevant State bodies to (a) investigate the potential for energy conservation in Australia, and (b) encourage industrial, commercial and domestic power consumers to conserve energy. [More…]
Responsibility for the generation of electric power within each State, for instance, generally rests with the relevant State Electricity Commission, and many of the energy conservation measures which might be contemplated could be introduced only by the States. [More…]
Nuclear Power: Use in United States of America (Question No. [More…]
What percentage of nuclear power currently generated in the United States of America is used for (a) electrical generation, and (b) transportation. [More…]
100 per cent of commercial nulcear power currently being generated in the United States is fed into the electricity systems of various utilities. [More…]
It is not possible to distinguish between the various sources of utility power but it could be assumed that a similar percentage would be drawn from nuclear sources. [More…]
1 ) Will the Government ensure that in all future subdivisions in the Northern Territory power lines be placed underground. [More…]
Has the Government explored the possibility of obtaining up-to-date earth digging equipment from overseas, particularly designed for placing power lines underground. [More…]
Has Government encouraged private enterprise to obtain this equipment with the possibility of economically doing away with overhead power lines for all future subdivisions in the Northern Territory. [More…]
I ) The economic practicability of undergrounding electricity power lines in all future sub-divisions in the Northern [More…]
Territory is under consideration, including the relative costs of such installations and the possible impact on power charges. [More…]
The Department of Construction is responsible for public works initiated by the Department of the Northern Territory and projects such as undergrounding of power lines would normally be done under contract. [More…]
What proportion of these expenditures was allocated for (a) promotion of nuclear power, (b) safeguards, and (c) other purposes? [More…]
Figures are, however, available for the expenditures of the Nuclear Power and Reactors Division of the Agency. [More…]
The objective of this Division is ‘to disseminate information on the technology and economics of nuclear power, reactors, nuclear fuels and materials, to provide assistance and advice to member States in the application of nuclear power for generating electricity and for water desalination, and to facilitate the use of research reactors for research and training’. [More…]
Although the Nuclear Power and Reactors Division’s activities extend beyond the promotion of nuclear power to activities such as nuclear safety, environmental protection and information and technical services, its total expenditures have been listed in the following table. [More…]
The resolution also failed to take account of the the inherent right, recognised in the Charter of individual or collective self-defence and of the consideration that the military presence of an administering power may well be justified by obligations relating to the maintenance of international peace and security as well as local defence. [More…]
Electricity generation cannot be regarded as Australia’s most urgent energy problem as we are so well endowed with coal deposits which can be used to fire conventional power stations. [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…]
I imagine that the interest in this instance relates to an announcement by Professor Messel during his visit to England that there had been a breakthrough in solar power by a Sydney team. [More…]
Universities and colleges established in the States are established under a State constitutional power. [More…]
I also understand that the authority has the power to provide short to medium term assistance with housing loan repayments to farmers who can be expected to be able to service a housing loan at normal interest rates in the longer term. [More…]
Firstly, he has a power or discretion to reserve a law at the Queen’s pleasure. [More…]
That is a constitutional power which the Governor-General has. [More…]
I thought at the time that that was a strange procedure, that Parliament having passed a Bill for an Act containing certain words, when it was to receive royal assent the GovernorGeneral had the power to make amendments. [More…]
Quite obviously under section 58 of the Constitution he certainly has power to recommend amendments. [More…]
Another amendment is to provide a regulation-making power enabling the Minister to make orders in relation to detailed technical requirements to be applied under the Act, so that such requirements can be quickly implemented, or varied without delay, in the light of ship casualties, equipment failure investigations, or technical developments. [More…]
Secondly, it would take 20 to 24 months to obtain the Federal Power Commission’s approval to import the gas into the United States, thus further endangering the economics of the project. [More…]
Any proposal for the import of LNG from Australia will require approval from the Federal Power Commission. [More…]
Are reports in the Dunedin Evening Star and the Christchurch Star of 9 October 1976 that the United States of America plans to ship 6500 cubic metres of soil contaminated by radioactive material from the McMurdo Sound nuclear power generator in the Antarctic accurate; if so, does this proposal involve a violation of Article 5 of the Antarctic Treaty. [More…]
Does the Commowealth Government have the power to ensure that only ships having acceptable safety and crew standards trade in Australian waters? [More…]
It would be a brave or foolhardy Minister who got to his feet to say off the top of his head whether the Commonwealth Government had power over safety matters relating to these ships. [More…]
One is aware of the power off-shore flowing from the High Court’s decision. [More…]
Because of a dispute over tropical or isolated area leave and travelling allowances between the Public Service Board and members of the Public Service unions in the Darwin area, members of the Public Service unions once again went on strike in Darwin yesterday which resulted in the closing down of the power house for 13 hours. [More…]
The overtime shift at the power house was not worked yesterday as a consequence of the bans but I understand that the power house is functioning normally today. [More…]
Coming to the more recent position, Senator Chaney made the observation that it was irrelevant whether a Labor or Liberal government was in power because the development would go ahead anyway. [More…]
The implication was that because of the magnitude of the development it would not really matter much whether a Labor or a Liberal government was in power. [More…]
The Tonkin Labor Government was in power in Western Australia until March 1974 and in the March quarter the Western Australian unemployment figure was significantly higher than the Australian average. [More…]
Surely in that time and once these industries are developed, some other source of power will be developed, albeit nuclear power, but that of course is another argument. [More…]
Although I do not think that Mr Hancock’s language has ever been quite so blunt, he has frequently gone on public record as saying similar things about Sir Charles Court and Sir Charles Court’s refusal to co-operate with anyone and to share power or responsibility with anyone. [More…]
In conclusion, in addition to the threat posed by Sir Charles Court to the development of Western Australia, including the development of the Pilbara, there is the threat posed by the Fraser Government’s new federalism policy and its capital starvation of the States, which has forced the Western Australian Government into the ludicrous position where it is contemplating going out onto the private capital market and allowing a private consortium to build a power station at Muja to provide the electricity that is needed for industrial development in Western Australia. [More…]
If those changes occur and if China continues to see itself as having to maintain some strong military force because of its problems with its principal neighbour, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, the balance of power in the western Pacific region again may be altered. [More…]
Although the White Paper recognises that our spheres of influence are in the south-west Pacific and Asian areas, it is my view that there should have been a more detailed assessment of possible changes in what we generally term the balance of powereven though that term may in some way be considered dated at present- in the Asian and southeast Asian areas. [More…]
I do not believe that there will be a nuclear holocaust between the major powers. [More…]
There is a proliferation of nuclear power developing in the world at present and that is the great problem. [More…]
Quite clearly, what is meant by the north-west area of the Indian Ocean’- Senator Wriedt made some casual reference to this- is the development of an enormous strategical power which is taking place in the horn of Africa- in Somaliland. [More…]
So the thrust of the White Paper is this: First of all, there has to be an increase m naval power. [More…]
As Senator Wriedt has said, it throws in doubt the problem of air power in the context of the Royal Australian Navy. [More…]
Another problem also exists- I would describe it as maritime power- and that is the Navy and the land-based aircraft service acting in conjunction. [More…]
While possessing massive military power, the U.S.S.R. has long ceased to command the undisputed political preeminence and leadership it enjoyed in earlier years. [More…]
The U.S.S.R. has achieved essential nuclear strategic equivalents with the U.S. and competes with the U.S. as a global power. [More…]
Great power has never improved anybody and I think the present people who occupy high positions in the Soviet Union are living embodiments of that adage. [More…]
What I am saying is that if we make a systematic analysis of the relative strengths of the U.S.S.R. and the U.S.A. we find that the U.S.A. is overwhelmingly more powerful than the U.S.S.R. [More…]
Significant extension of Super Power Activity, [More…]
Capital letters are used for the words ‘Super Power’- however, can exercise a powerful influence on the strategic circumstances of nations in a region. [More…]
They continue: it can attract competition and confrontation from the other Super Power; regional states can be drawn into these rivalries. [More…]
After all this discussion about the super powers that we have in this document, does anybody seriously believe that one super power can go into the Indian Ocean in the way in which the U.S. has already gone-through its installations at North West Cape for example, which this Government wants it to add to by establishing a base in Diego Garcia- without inviting the Soviet Union to come into the Indian Ocean? [More…]
But to talk in these terms about Australia as if it were a super power or as if we ought to be part of some arrangements with super powers which would bring them into the part of the world in which we live, could be disastrous for this country. [More…]
The only way in which we can secure our defence is by our foreign policy, by taking steps to see that the super powers are not in the Indian Ocean, whatever may happen with Indonesia. [More…]
Indeed, Senator Wheeldon put the interesting proposition that, rather than seeking a matching presence in the Indian Ocean between the super-powers it would be far better if those super-powers abandoned any form of presence in the Indian Ocean. [More…]
But where is the guarantee that if the super-powers, with their present relatively small capacities there, move out of the Indian Ocean the other littoral States around the Indian Ocean will not involve themselves in a constant and continuing conflict? [More…]
I can see no logical reason why it should be assumed that if the superpowers withdrew from the Indian Ocean there would then be a sea of peace because there would then be no other navies- and there are significant navies and air forces and also nuclear capacities- around the Indian Ocean. [More…]
I do not believe that that would be so, and I tend to the view that in the foreseeable future the best security of this country and of many of the littoral States of the Indian Ocean lies in their capacity to ensure that there is a measure of matching power in the Indian Ocean between the super-powers at a low level. [More…]
That problem seems to suggest to me that we should be looking to establish around the northern, north-western and western coastlines of Australia a series of bases from which may operate long range patrol type craft with considerable hitting power. [More…]
Officers pointed out to me that they would be sending a task force into the Indian Ocean every 90 days as a perception of power, and purely as a perception of power. [More…]
They also pointed out to me that whenever the Enterprise is in the Indian Ocean the balance of power- if one wants to use that expression- because of fire power is overwhelmingly in favour of the United States. [More…]
Traditionally, we have relied on our powerful friends to assist us in this effort. [More…]
But as Senator Wheeldon said earlier tonight, the thing we must avoid is a super power buildup in the area. [More…]
No matter what we have to say about that now, because the United States took this low posture on the Soviet Union’s stance in Berbera, Diego Garcia as a base is practically completed and we do have a super power buildup in the Indian Ocean whether we like it or not. [More…]
This defence White Paper that we are discussing tonight goes a fair way towards establishing those prerequisites for Australia to assume the role of an independent and capable power prepared to undertake its responsibilities both at a regional and at an international level. [More…]
There are many encouraging signs amongst the Association of South East Asian nations- the ASEAN countries- but big power competition still exists. [More…]
The fear is that, if the United States regards South East Asia as an area of low priority, the only two major powers left to compete are the Soviet Union and China, without the balancing effect of the United States. [More…]
The other matter to which I make some reference concerns a statement which appeared to say that there has been no extension of nuclear power in the region. [More…]
I would have thought that that was an example of the extension of nuclear power certainly into the South East Asia and Indian Ocean regions. [More…]
I would have thought that this was a little unrealistic as, after all, the aim of detente is to restrict competition in areas where it is not- at least on the surface- in the interests of either power to have unrestricted competition. [More…]
A lot of threats of a similar kind were uttered in July 1976 by the Prime Minister in an attempt to cultivate in Australia the fear of some invasion, whether it be by the Soviet Union or some mythical power about which we have never heard. [More…]
That is not to say that the electoral commisioners have not the power to make the electorates exactly the same size. [More…]
If purchasing power and real wages are reduced, how can the people buy the consumer goods that abound in the warehouses and the retail marketplace? [More…]
The Western Australian Government, led by the unfortunate Sir Charles Court, that hapless, latter-day poor man’s Adam Smith- he would be a poor man’s Adam Smith if he happened to be familiar with his doctrines and had not read the version of them which appears in the Daily News- has been so starved of funds that it has found it necessary not to continue with the public enterprise State electricity operations to provide electrical power to the people of Western Australia. [More…]
Instead it has had to bring a business partner into the Muja power plant project. [More…]
The essential prerequisite to a lasting recovery in consumer confidence and, in particular, to sustained economic growth is the realism in terms of the level of wages and the purchasing power which ultimately people have. [More…]
March 1973 was only 3 months after Labor came to power. [More…]
Home building costs in October rose by 0.5 per cent, the lowest figure since we were in power in November 1972. [More…]
Other construction costs rose by only 0.4 per cent, again the lowest figure since we were in power in 1972. Business profits rose by 34 per cent in the 9 months between December 1975 and September 1976. [More…]
But I suppose that this is just a direct result of the 3 years when the Labor Government was in power when, just for selfsurvival, these people had to react to the slightest rumour to protect themselves against the various whims of the legislation of that government- the present Opposition. [More…]
Before the Liberal Party came to power we said that the road back would be long and hard. [More…]
The Opposition admits that it created the disaster we faced when we came into power. [More…]
The people who are to pay for the Government ‘s usurpation of power, the people who are to pay for the Government’s primitive economic doctrines, the people who are to pay for the Government’s total ineptitude are the unionists and the people in the work force of this country. [More…]
Finally, under amended section 45D of the Trade Practices Amendment Act there will be power to impose a fine of $50,000 on individuals who have the temerity to strike or impose black bans in defence of their standard of living. [More…]
Yet, Mr Hurford seeks to remove the investment allowance in exactly the way Labor removed the investment allowance when it came to power in 1972. [More…]
In 1973- we must remember that a Liberal Government was in power in 1 972 -there was an increase in productivity of 3 per cent. [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 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 direction of the then Prime Minister and his Ministers that public servants should obey their edict not to give any information to the Senate was based upon a view which sometimes was held in the courts of law with regard to the power of the courts to get evidence from government sources. [More…]
For the scope of this power we turn to its source. [More…]
A random sampling of parliamentary records stretching from 1621 to 1792 disclosed that the inquiry power had its inception as a prelude to impeachment, and before long covered the entire spectrum of executive conduct; inquiries into corruption, the conduct of war, the basis for legislation, disbursement of appropriations, conduct of foreign relations, and execution of the laws. [More…]
Later he referred to James Wilson’s tribute to the House of Commons, the Grand Inquest of the Nation, which checked the progress of arbitrary power. [More…]
With that authority we then went to what was written by Archibald Cox, a renowned professor at Harvard University who was called into executive responsibility by President Nixon and repudiated by him when he would not serve the interests of those exercising executive power for the time being. [More…]
He stated that he would be content to leave questions of executive privilege vis-a-vis Congress to the ebb and flow of political power. [More…]
That poignantly presents to the Senate the ever continuing contest for power by the Executive to override the Parliament. [More…]
It is by the exercise of that power on proper occasions that the parliamentary representatives of the people have made the exercise of parliamentary authority conform to the interests of the people. [More…]
The High Court has had occasion to discuss this matter- I think this is set out in the report quite simply- and one could say that the Court, particularly in the case of Osborne v. Commonwealth, has pointed out that it is for Parliament to resolve what are the meanings of these expressions and to determine these matters, and not for the courts to endeavour in any way to define the power of the Parliament. [More…]
I am glad to hear Senator Cotton, the Minister at the table tonight, say that he does not regard the Senate as having no authority or responsibility in the area of either economic power or fiscal power. [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 shall, subject to the power of removal contained in that section, be appointed for life. [More…]
In observing this distinction the amendment contained in this Bill 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. [More…]
We are going to do everything within our power to ensure that Queensland remains the most prosperous and the most rapidly-developing State in Australia, but we cannot be completely isolated from the national economic position. [More…]
I inform honourable senators that the blackout which occurred last Thursday evening was due to a failure in the supply of electricity to Parliament House caused by the explosion of a transformer at the Kingston power station. [More…]
The delay of 24 minutes in restoring power was due to the time taken by the Australian Capital Territory Electricity Authority to effect necessary repairs. [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…]
Firstly, there was the recommendation that a set procedure be adopted which would leave the power of appointment finally with the Cabinet as as always been the practice in the past. [More…]
The amount of power within the Public Service, particularly within certain parts of the Public Service, makes it of great importance to our community to examine the way in which appointments are made, the way in which we go about seeking people to take jobs within the Public Service, the way in which our departments are structured, the way in which they are led and the way in which those appointments, when they have been made, are given tenure or the way in which that can be discontinued. [More…]
They all have the same kind of rules of power. [More…]
They all operate, whatever their ostensible purpose, by certain hidden agendas which have to do with the use and distribution of power within the institution for the purposes of the people working there. [More…]
The position of Secretary of the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet is one of the 3 pivotal positions of power in Canberra. [More…]
It is designed also to make it difficult for incoming governments to make outside appointments merely by the device of placing very considerable power in the hands of the Chairman of the Public Service Board. [More…]
The Bill places in the hands of the Chairman of the Public Service Board extensive powers for which apparently under this legislation he is not accountable to the Parliament. [More…]
Had we as a Labor Government when we were in power contemplated putting legislation of this nature on to the statute book of this country- I am speaking hypothetically, because we would not have done so- I am certain that the then Opposition, having the numbers that it had, would have ensured that a provision of accountability was written into the legislation. [More…]
Senator Douglas McClelland looks upon this aspect; and as I said before, he spoke as I think he always speaks, with utmost sincerity- as a possible restriction on a Labor government, if it came to power. [More…]
The suggestion that the chairman of this committee, that is the Chairman of the Public Service Board, will have too much power and the other criticisms that have been levelled against the proposal are, to a degree, a reflection on the person holding the position. [More…]
What must always be remembered about alterations to the Constitution is that they deal with transfers of power. [More…]
I suppose, tragically, they have always dealt with the transfer of power from the States to the Commonwealth. [More…]
What referendum proposals are generally all about is the transfer of further and other powers to the federal governmentpowers which the State governments previously had as part of their residual powers. [More…]
The possession of great power attracts the need to exercise it responsibly and it does not seem to me to be responsibly exercising the power of the Senate, which is great, to refuse to discuss the program that the Executive wants to put to the Parliament, which is what the opposition to the suspension of standing order 242 amounts to. [More…]
No doubt they will be amazed when they find that the Bill on simultaneous elections really does not deal with simultaneous elections at all but deals with who had the power to force the dissolution of half of this chamber and that the other part of the Bill with which we are dealing provides for Senator Brown to have no real opportunity of coming back to this chamber, if I am not too unkind, and for Senator Lewis to have an excellent opportunity of returning. [More…]
The Senate is the only institution in Australia able tobe a barrier to the arbitrary misuse of power by a Prime Minister or his Cabinet. [More…]
If, however, the direction and control of State-owned land takes place under the heads of power of the Commonwealth Government then section 30 of the Australian Heritage Commission Act 1975 applies to Ministers and Authorities of the Commonwealth in respect of any action which might affect to a significant extent a place that is on the Register of the National Estate. [More…]
The Commonwealth Government has not sought a referral of wage fixing powers from the States. [More…]
The honourable senator will be aware that the Constitution gives the Commonwealth Parliament the power to legislate for the prevention and settlement of interstate industrial disputes by conciliation and arbitration. [More…]
If the Commonwealth Government were to consider more direct wage fixing powers necessary, then the approach the honourable senator speaks of would be one of the options open to the Commonwealth Government. [More…]
-I ask Senator Carrick: Is it not a fact that when the Australian Labor Party was in power at least there was a shipbuilding industry in Australia? [More…]
‘Democracy’ comes from 2 Greek words which mean the power of the people and, therefore, if we believe in democracy we will elect a government which truly represents the people, and as near as we can we will elect representatives to represent an equal number of people. [More…]
I cannot see that there would ever be a necessity for an election of the whole State if we took away from the Parliament the power to endorse or reject the Commissioners’ recommendations on electoral boundaries. [More…]
When there is no alteration in the State representation between ordinary elections there is no reason why a complete redistribution could not be made by ascertaining the number of entitlements for the State in the first year of the Parliament, before its 3-year term was up, if the Parliament did not have the power of endorsement or rejection. [More…]
In those days it was said by members of the Liberal and National Country Parties that the electoral commissioners had to have much more discretion than that and, in particular, that they had to have more discretionary power so that they could adjust the enrolment in an electorate at the time of a redistribution in accordance with the foreseeable population growth patterns in that and other electorates. [More…]
Therefore, it was argued by members of the Liberal and National Country Parties- with more logic than they normally display in these matters- that it was desirable that the electoral commissioners be given a certain amount of discretionary power to provide for a relatively low number of electors m those electorates at the time the redistribution was ordered. [More…]
So, the discretionary power previously available to electoral commissioners to forecast anticipated changes in population growth within divisions has now been effectively removed. [More…]
Although he supports that discretionary power for the electoral commissioners, I gather from his remarks that he also supports clause 7 of this Commonwealth Electoral Amendment Bill. [More…]
Those people who populate the Liberal and Country Party benches in the Senate, who rant and rave about the power of executive government and the necessity for the Senate, who proclaim that the Senate is the last bastion of the people’s rights against the arbitrary exercise of power by executive government, and who pontificate along these lines, ought to be terribly concerned about the possibilities for abuse which are opened up by this Bill. [More…]
The plain fact is that the Liberal and Country Parties proved in 1975 that they are not to be trusted with any discretionary exercise of power or with any sort of loosely, ill-defined power in any electoral Act or in the Constitution. [More…]
Good heavens above, when one gets out into the far flung areas of our nation- the productive areas- there are no televisions, telephone services or reticulated power, and the only water is what people have in their dam supplies. [More…]
I suppose that it is fair enough for us to talk in a parliamentary democracy of the equality of representation rather than the equality of voting power. [More…]
It is a theoretical, mathematical, simplistic and rather nebulous concept of voting power that is easy to conceive, quite difficult to deliver and impossible to give credence to. [More…]
To have complete equality of voting power with equality of representation one would want electorates of the same size, the same population, the same population growth patterns, the same geographical features, the same problems, the same industries, the same needs and the same methods of communication and transport. [More…]
I know that it will be argued- I have heard this argument alreadythat somehow the Senate’s security and the Senate’s power will be diminished by the carriage of this referendum proposal. [More…]
But it has grown to a zenith of power in recent years not because of separate elections. [More…]
We should realise that the actions of the Senate are to be found in its rightful power of review, its committee system and in the integrity of its members and their ability sometimes to stand up to governments and to say: ‘We will not accept this even if we belong to the same Party’. [More…]
That is not the responsible way to power. [More…]
Any government that came into power and then sought to hold a quick election again to get rid of the other half of the Senate would risk all. [More…]
It would risk the loss of the whole of its power. [More…]
Mr Whitlam in 1973 at the height of his powers threatened this action on occasions when he seemed to have a great deal of support. [More…]
Therefore, I do not believe that the irrational fears that somehow we as the Senate will lose rights or powers will result. [More…]
Since coming to power in a coup six years ago, Amin has instituted one of the most brutal regimes ever witnessed on a continent already noted for its savagery. [More…]
The Nile and Lake Victoria at one point became so clogged with bodies they were clearly visible at the giant Owen Falls power station and several Italian engineers there quit in disgust in 1973. [More…]
But we know that the dictatorship that exists in that country is a very brutal one and that since that government came to power 6 years ago many people have suffered at the hands of the tyrant who heads it. [More…]
I will certainly pass on the remarks he has made about Idi Amin, a man who is, I suppose, a prime example of a man with too much power going to his head. [More…]
It is not an unusual thing for people with some power or a lot of power, or even for those who seek power, to indulge in strange actions such as Idi Amin has. [More…]
My answer is precisely this: On 18 December 1973- so I should have said ‘one year and one week after the Whitlam Government came to power’- it reduced the subsidy from 45 per cent to 25 per cent. [More…]
Is the Minister aware of the hardship and suffering of the elderly and the sick, the inconvenience to housewives and workers, the losses to the business community and the disruption to schools caused by the continual power shedding, breakdowns and stoppages in Darwin over the last 6 months? [More…]
I am very much aware of the hardship which is caused by the power failures in Darwin to the residents of that area. [More…]
From our own records we know that the average electricity consumer has suffered particularly from the power failures which have occurred on 30 occasions in the last 13 months. [More…]
The present dispute, which resulted in the banning of overtime, is between the Public Service Board and the Public Service unions and actually has nothing to do with the power house itself. [More…]
I appreciate that the Minister is Chairman of the Fund, but I should have thought that he would not have the power to take the unilateral action of calling back money which has been allocated. [More…]
I find it incredible that the present Government should introduce this Constitution Alteration (Simultaneous Elections) Bill which radically weakens and undermines the powers of the Senate. [More…]
I find it completely beyond belief when that decision comes so soon after the Senate, in what I think was the most worthy exercise of its powers, used the express reserve power of rejection to give the people an election. [More…]
We remember from the great crisis of 1975 how the Senate demonstrated its power to reject a money Bill. [More…]
That power is fundamental and the way it is used depends upon the judgment of the Senate from time to time. [More…]
It was because of that power that there has been such unanimity and sustained advocacy on the part of Labor ever since the Constitutional Committee of 1959- it continued through the term of the Whitlam Government and now in to this debate- for the abolition of the Senate. [More…]
This deals with one of the cardinal powers of a State in relation to the States’ House in the Federal Parliament where each State has equal representation. [More…]
Clause 3 proposes that each State is to be deprived of the power for determining and fixing the times and places of Senate elections. [More…]
To show the extent to which the State legislatures have exercised those powers, I refer to one of them. [More…]
There is nothing to protect them from action of this Federal Parliament, if clause 3 of this Bill is agreed to, which simply gives to the Federal Parliament the power in substitution for the State to determine the times of elections. [More…]
After expatiating upon the Bill for simultaneous elections, the Attorney-General was good enough to say- and this was repeated by his representative in this chamber- that the fact that a State was being deprived of that power and the Commonwealth was being invested with that power was not conditioned by any requirement that the Commonwealth should provide in its legislation for simultaneous House of Representatives and Senate elections. [More…]
He said that that transposition of power is an incidental matter. [More…]
Of most importance was the assertion of the supremacy of Parliament over the Executive Government, demonstrated by the exercise of the power of the Senate to withhold Supply and the dismissal of a Prime Minister who refused to advise an election or resign when denied Supply by Parliament. [More…]
Those powers are checks and balances against any concentration of unbridled power in the Executive Government, or against any misuse of power or mismanagement by a Government … [More…]
In the age-old struggle between Parliament and the Executive, the Senate must continue to be vigilant in safeguarding its powers. [More…]
Having revealed the true purpose and operation of this Bill to be firstly, to take a power from the States and give it to the Commonwealth and, secondly, not to relate to elections but to relate to a half dissolution of the Senate, I say that this is the occasion when we should make ourselves clear in saying that we will be vigilant in safeguarding the powers of the Senate from erosion. [More…]
Therefore, on the basis of economy and the saving of manpower there is no defence against this Bill which seeks to provide for simultaneous elections. [More…]
To those who think that this Bill will erode the power of the Senate, will reduce its status or anything of the kind, I say it is time they realised that the Senate was destroyed on 1 1 November 1 975. [More…]
My Leader proposed a joint sitting and I violently opposed that suggestion because it would transfer the power of the Senate over to the more popular House of the Parliament and therefore we would lose our prestige as a House responsible for deciding questions. [More…]
They destroyed the power and prestige that [More…]
Indeed, it is a common circumstance for a Government to have only minority support in the Senate, particularly since the introduction of proportional representation in 1949 which has produced closely divided Senates with the balance of power from time to time being with minorities. [More…]
Those developments, together with the assertion in 1974 and 197S of its power to deny Supply until a Government agrees to submit itself to the judgment of the people, have given the Senate a new look which reflects a resolve to ensure that the Upper House has a significant role in the Australian parliamentary system of government. [More…]
The establishment desires to maintain its power and glory. [More…]
It has been raised up with a power superior to the power which the people of Australia have today. [More…]
We exercised our power cautiously and adopted a judicious attitude in the past. [More…]
That is why throughout this week I have attempted to have the matter debated on broadcasting days and to ensure that the standing orders of the Senate were observed so that people would become aware of the confidence trick which is being perpetrated against them by a denial of their opportunity in 1978 to express their opinion about the performance of the Government in power without taking the final step of throwing that Government out of power. [More…]
If that is what is wanted and if honourable senators want to turn this place into the best club in Australia they are entitled to try to do it, but I believe in working for my living and in order to achieve something one must have power. [More…]
What this legislation seeks to do is to emasculate the power of this Senate. [More…]
Get that- and ‘No’ to the referenda by which that Government seeks to keep itself in power. [More…]
I want at least to be virile and to continue to be virile for some considerable time, to have a little power for good in this community and for the protection of the people in the States of this country. [More…]
Little did members of the Country Party know that their coalition partners, who are pulling their coat tails about this matter, would give the electorate a second chance to destroy the power of the Senate. [More…]
If you regard the Senate as having any important role to fulfil as a States’ House and as a check on the power of the House of Representatives you will vote ‘No’ to this proposal. [More…]
The State Government believed it had a mandate to increase its opposition to centralism and more power to Canberra following the defeat of the 4 referendums last weekend, the Justice Minister Mr Knox said today. [More…]
They said that the danger of the proposal for simultaneous elections, as it was drafted by the then Whitlam Government and as it is now proposed by the Fraser Government, was that it represented a threat to the power of the Senate and also a threat to the powers and rights of the States. [More…]
It would be the first step towards placing all power into the hands of the House of Representatives and therefore into the hands of the Prime Minister for the time being. [More…]
We are being asked to write into the Constitution a power which would, in future, prevent any kind of mid-term elections. [More…]
The essence of democracy is that the power which resides at present in the 2 Houses of this Parliament should be reviewed as frequently as possible and as desirable so that the people in Australia can sit in judgment. [More…]
Why is there not a genuine realisation on the part of the Government that if it wants to change the Constitution let it do so and bring in matters of graver importance to the community such as inflation and unemployment if it reckons that the Commonwealth has not the power to deal with these matters. [More…]
Any government in power will be tempted not to make unpopular decisions to maintain that majority in this chamber. [More…]
I realise that there are divergent views in the Senate and people who have been in this chamber for much longer that I hold very strong views about the immutability of some of the provisions relating to the power of the Senate. [More…]
Too many elections are not good for government whichever government might be in power. [More…]
The simultaneous election Bill is designed to weaken the power of the Senate. [More…]
From 1933, after Mr Roosevelt became President of the United States of America, there commenced the growth of presidential power. [More…]
Finally, under President Nixon the growth of the Executive power reached such a stage that the staff in the White House surrounding the President numbered over 5000 people. [More…]
The ability of the Congress to control the Executive power reached the stage where finally the Congress, although it was loath to attack the 2 Democratic Party presidents who occupied that office before President Nixon-the Democratic majorities were in control of both Houses of the Congress- decided to assert the congressional power against the power of the Executive, against President Nixon. [More…]
No one can claim that there is not beginning here in Australia- certainly we saw it for the first time under the Honourable E. G. Whitlam when he was Prime Minister- an enormous growth in the Prime Minister’s power. [More…]
In all the formative years that I spent here in the Senate, the Prime Minister was primus inter pares, that is, first among equals; but there began in 1972 a new phenomenon that all other Ministers were less than the Prime Minister and the power of the Prime Minister became more enhanced and he became more powerful. [More…]
I know that the numbers are against me and any colleagues who care to support me; but we are providing an opportunity for the people, who quite rightly have been lauded this afternoon as the source of all power, to make a judgment. [More…]
That the motives, so far as the Government is concerned, are so reprehensible, if I may borrow the word, should surprise nobody who has watched the performance of this Liberal-National Country Party coalition both before its seizure of power and ever since. [More…]
He claimed that the referendum, if ultimately carried, would reduce the power of the Senate. [More…]
Whatever merit there may be in reducing the power of the Senate- and in my view it is substantial- the only power which this Bill and this referendum seek to take from the Senate is the power to force an election in the House of Representatives without any members of the Senate having to present themselves to the electorate. [More…]
The referendum, if carried, will remove the scope for capricious or malevolent misuse of power by the Senate without responsibility. [More…]
One can be forgiven for drawing from this fact the conclusion that the Liberal and National Country Parties believe that they have something to gain by bringing the elections for the House of Representatives and the Senate into synchronisation now, for this is a proposal that they vigorously opposed in 1974 as being a sinister move by the centralist socialist Labor administration to entrench itself in power. [More…]
The opposing cases, as I see it, are that on one hand this Bill is being presented as a convenient adjustment of the mechanics of the election provisions of the Constitution; on the other, it is being opposed in my case on the grounds that enactment of this legislation would result in a substantial and radical change in the nature of the Senate and in the distribution of political power in Australia in a way which I believe would be to the long term detriment of this country. [More…]
Nevertheless, that form of political power- economic political power- is exercised overwhelmingly from those 2 cities. [More…]
While we do not need to be paranoiac and we do not need to be over-parochial, we do need to be realistic and we in this Parliament should be realists in terms of the effect that numbers and economic political power have on the system. [More…]
The existence of the Senate balances that concentration of power and it is a balance which does operate for the benefit of our nation. [More…]
It came about by the exercise of the power that a Prime Minister has, a very great power, to take the House of Representatives to the people. [More…]
To give the Prime Minister the power to take the Senate to an election at any time would be a divisive and intimidatory tool in the hands of whatever man or woman might hold that office in the future. [More…]
The Prime Minister would have that power and it would lead, indeed, to the diminution if not the extinction of the power of the Senate to dissent from government decisions. [More…]
I want to say a few words about the effect that this proposal will have on the distribution of power in Australia. [More…]
Some people have suggested that if the Senate has a very particular power over the House of Represenatives to send it to an election, which it obviously does have at the present time, that it is only right that the House of Representatives ought also to have that power over the Senate. [More…]
Our system of parliamentary government is based on the principle of separation of powers and in the evolution of that system it had been decided in the past, and it is reiterated time and again, that it is essential that there be some proper separation of the functions of the Executive and the legislature. [More…]
In fact there is enormous power in the hands of the Executive over the legislature and it is fatuous to say that this allows power to the House of Representatives. [More…]
As the system presently operates there is only one group of people with real power in the House of Representatives and they are the members of Cabinet. [More…]
Of those people there is one person who has real and overwhelming power and that is the Prime Minister. [More…]
The proposition now before us would give to the Prime Minister power over the Senate which he has never had before and was never intended to have. [More…]
But the Prime Minister has a power to take the House of Representatives to an election at any time. [More…]
Australian political scientists are not notable for their power of generalisation or of political theory. [More…]
I read some British text books and I would like to quote one piece to illustrate the point I am trying to make about the situation of the real power of the Prime Minister in Australia. [More…]
I say to the Senate and to those who may read the Senate Hansard to find out what this is all about: Can you imagine what would have been Mr Whitlam ‘s position in 1973 if he had had this power? [More…]
How can giving the Prime Minister further power to call elections ensure that the number of elections will be reduced? [More…]
In considering the case for simultaneous elections it seemed to me that in some sense it was giving to the House of Representatives a capacity which this chamber already has, and I trust always will have, and there is no threat to the power that this chamber has. [More…]
I also believe that the proposal for simultaneous elections in this Bill does not contain within it any real and significant reduction of the power of the Senate. [More…]
I do not believe it contains any direct reduction in the power of the Senate. [More…]
The power of the Senate over money Bills, over Supply, the power that is held by Senate committees, is not under threat. [More…]
The argument against this proposition is suggested only if there is a real possibility of diminution in the power of the Senate. [More…]
If I feel that there would be a denigration of the power of this House, of its capacity to act as a responsible House of review, I certainly would not be supporting this sort of legislation. [More…]
If there is no increased threat to the significance and power of the Senate, to me it seems on balance that there is a good proposition that simultaneous elections may have more advantages than disadvantages. [More…]
It is a Bill which seeks to undermine the stability and power of the Senate and by so doing undermine the stability and power of Australian people. [More…]
This afternoon Senator McLaren admitted this when he agreed that this measure is the first step in abolishing the power of the Senate, the sooner the better. [More…]
It then has the power either to reject those Bills or to amend them. [More…]
I could not agree more because, if the power of the Senate had not been upheld and if this legislation that is before the Senate today had been in force, history could well have taken a different road. [More…]
If the power of the Senate is diminished, then without doubt the voice of my State will also be diminished. [More…]
It was only because of the far-sightedness of postwar Prime Minister Ben Chifley that we used defence powers to create the Snowy Mountains project. [More…]
All of us know that every facet of that project, whether it be power or work force, was a milestone in the development of Australia. [More…]
He referred to a period of presidential power from President Roosevelt to the ill-fated President Nixon. [More…]
Let them have a House of Representatives election but we will apply the power of veto in the Senate’. [More…]
A power hungry executive government put the referenda proposals to the people in the hope that it could gain more power. [More…]
They were an artifice of a power hungry executive. [More…]
The Senate is the only institution in Australia able to be a barrier to the arbitrary misuse of power by a Prime Minister or his Cabinet. [More…]
It would be the first step towards placing all power in the hands of the House of Representatives and therefore in the hands of the Prime Minister for the rime being. [More…]
This Bill is an attempt to destroy the only effective watchdog, the only effective check, on the abuse of power in this country. [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…]
It is part of the beginning of the erosion of the power of those who are members of the Senate. [More…]
Over the period of time that this Government has been in power it has been cutting down with the idea of economising. [More…]
I understand that the dominant population States might well prefer the greater apparent power to their States, but if that is so they must also recognise that as their power may increase it is achieved at the cost of the smaller States. [More…]
He used other words to that effect which seem to me to indicate that if we pass this type of proposal that is exactly what would happen, particularly if this power were in the hands of a Prime Minister who was ambitious, who wanted to gain control of this place and who was prepared to do anything to achieve that end. [More…]
I am concerned about the frequency of elections if that power is in the hands of an irresponsible Prime Minister. [More…]
The Senate is the only institution in Australia able to be a barrier to the arbitrary misuse of power by a Prime Minister or his cabinet. [More…]
I believe this is the first step in removing all power from the Senate and will lead to its eventual abolition. [More…]
I refuse to vote for something that will lead to more power for Canberra and particularly to power that may be used by a socialist Prime Minister. [More…]
What the legislation is to do with and what it is all about is the power of the Executive to dissolve the Senate and the serious implications of that. [More…]
With the handing over of this country to the terrible trio of big government, big business and big unions as almost the sole holders of power in Australia we are reaching a stage where this Senate is the one body which can stand between the people and the power brokers. [More…]
What is being done is to advance a proposal to put to the people what we have described previously as a deceptive question which will mislead the people into thinking that what they are getting is simultaneous elections at a reduction in cost and inconvenience to them when, in fact, what they are getting is the loss of the one bulwark that stands between them and the executive power of big government combining with big unions and big business. [More…]
I will do everything in my power to ensure that it receives that protection. [More…]
I defend the rights and powers of the Senate. [More…]
As Senator Scott pointed out in the debate earlier today, those rights and powers are not affected by this referendum. [More…]
He said that people are the source of all power. [More…]
We took the firm view that section 96a which the Labor Party wanted to bring in to exercise the same controls over local government would have resulted in a great growth of central power in this country. [More…]
He started talking about payments to the States and to local government, and section 96 grants to the States for the purpose of centralising the Government, that is, when the Whitlam Government was in power. [More…]
Let me spend the few minutes that I have remaining on the argument that has been used by those who say that acceptance of this proposal will reduce the power of the Senate. [More…]
It is easy to talk in general terms about how the Senate’s powers will be reduced by this Bill and associated Bills. [More…]
I would think that any senator in this chamber who is really concerned about Australia and the Australian people and not his or her own little privileged power position here should support this Bill. [More…]
I do not think that we should reduce its power or continue to have the view that the Senate can be a slaughter house where the lower House is brought to its knees and slaughtered. [More…]
I would like to take up the theme that has been emphasised by a number of honourable senators I think that Senator Wriedt was the most recent to refer to it in this debate and that Senator Tehan was probably the first to refer to itthat is, that the sovereign power in the Australian democracy is the people themselves. [More…]
It is not the Government or the Prime Minister, as many people who have participated in this debate seem to think, who is the sovereign power. [More…]
The House of Representatives is not the sovereign power. [More…]
The Parliament as a whole is not the sovereign power. [More…]
The sovereign power comes from the people themselves and it will be the people themselves who will decide the fate of the proposals for constitutional change that are contained in this Bill and the other Bills in the package before the Senate, as they have done on other occasions when there have been proposals for constitutional reform. [More…]
This Government, the Federal Government, participated in that forum and this is the only Government which has the power to initiate these reforms. [More…]
No body is putting forward the view that a fixed term of senators is vital to the power of the Senate. [More…]
I think the only honourable senator who presented an argument other than those I have mentioned was Senator Martin who spoke about the power of the Prime Minister being enhanced. [More…]
Certainly, it could not make profound changes to our Constitution because, as Senator Chaney has said, the major power of the Senate resides in its equal representation from the States and the influence which the less populous States have in the Parliament by reason of that representation. [More…]
In my view and in the view of the Government which I was expressing, the power of the Senate to which I am utterly devoted and which I will always support will reside, firstly, in that constitutional guarantee of equal representation. [More…]
The power of the Senate relies upon the integrity of honourable senators, their independence, the quality of their work and the sorts of reforms which the Senate has been entertaining. [More…]
It certainly will not reside or be maintained if the Senate takes the view that the Constitution or any power to alter it can never be entertained, that there is something absolutely sacrosanct in every word of the present Constitution. [More…]
I suggest that that could be achieved by making a simple amendment to the Constitution as expressed in clause 3, giving this Parliament instead of the State parliaments power to make laws for determining the times of elections of honourable senators, if the Constitution goes on and includes a condition which provides that elections of senators in all States and Territories shall be held on the same day and at the same time as general elections for the House of Representatives. [More…]
He said that there was no difference between a proposition that elections for the 2 Houses should be held at the same time and the proposition which we find in this Bill which gives to the Federal Parliament an untrammelled power to appoint the time of elections as distinct from the present Constitution which gives the State parliaments that power. [More…]
If we couple with the untrammelled power of the Federal Parliament to appoint times for the holding of Senate elections the provisions in clause 4 of the Bill which give the other powers, then we really bring in a shortened term for honourable senators. [More…]
Pedal Power. [More…]
Has the Minister considered the recommendation of the Joint Committee on Constitutional Review which reported in 1959 unanimously in favour of legislation to give the Commonwealth power over corporations, untrammelled by the limitations in the present Commonwealth power, which would enable a uniform companies Act and Federal legislation effectively controlling the securities industry? [More…]
There has been a fundamental change by the High Court in the interpretation of the provision of the Constitution in relation to the corporations power, which is the matter raised by Senator Wright, in a case known as the concrete pipes case with which I am sure Senator Wright is more familiar than I and certainly more familiar than most people would be. [More…]
My question is directed to the Minister for Education and I preface it by saying that since educational buildings in the Commonwealth and States are a major consumer of energy for heating, air conditioning, lighting and power purposes, has any thought been given to the future use of alternative sources of energy in such institutions? [More…]
The suggested amendment simply takes up the title of the Bill and says that if that is the genuine purpose of the Bill, let it be expressed in this clause so that any laws that this Parliament may make under the new power to legislate for the times of the elections of senators shall ensure, as the title says is the object of the Bill, that the elections of the 2 Houses shall be held simultaneously. [More…]
Parliament would have power just to make laws for the times of Senate election, ensuring that those elections were held at the same time as House of Representatives elections. [More…]
Surely Sir Eric Willis, for example, must be particularly concerned about the future and the power of the Senate. [More…]
Therefore, if this Bill goes through he would have the same power to make a request for a dissolution of half the Senate. [More…]
It is that undermining of the power of the Senate that we find so difficult to reconcile with a true description of this Bill, which is described as one merely to ensure simultaneous elections. [More…]
In 1974, words similar to what Senator Wright has just said moved senior members of the then Opposition, who are now members of the Government, to say that the Constitution Alteration (Simultaneous Elections) Bill should be opposed because it was a direct attack on the powers of this chamber and would substantially transfer power from the States and from the States’ Houses to the Executive Government. [More…]
The whole purpose is to preserve the power of the Senate to force the House of Representatives to an election every time there is a Labor Government in that place and it docs not have the numbers in this chamber. [More…]
The Prime Minister is enthroned with the Cabinet and is supported by the great bureaucracy with all its knowledge and all its power and all its control of public money. [More…]
The real question with which we are concerned is the power to dissolve this chamber. [More…]
I simply repeat, let us get back to the real issue, the one that concerned people previously and the one that still concerns us- the question of the transference to the executive of the day of the power to dissolve this chamber, without confrontation, without deadlock and without good reason, and what that would do to the strength and independence of this chamber. [More…]
It was a question as to whether the Governor-General had power to ask for a new Prime Minister who would recommend a dissolution so as to enable an election to take place to avoid mal-administration and to ensure that the Government could get parliamentary funds to carry on. [More…]
It is no authority whatever for making an assumption on the basis that the Governor-General would have power to refuse a dissolution requested by the Prime Minister on a political ground. [More…]
But the danger to this Senate is that the Prime Minister, who will be elected substantially by votes from Sydney and Melbourne, will have power to dissolve half the Senate. [More…]
However, we do object to and see grave consequences in the adoption of that principle providing any Prime Minister or Executive with unbridled power indiscriminately to dissolve the Senate. [More…]
Senator Durack sees no threat at all in this measure and he has indicated his confidence that a future government is not likely to use that power. [More…]
I would not be confident also that a Prime Minister of the character of Senator Keeffe, who is Deputy Leader of the Opposition in the Senate, would not use that power to achieve his goal of abolishing this House. [More…]
My concern with what is happening now is that power will be put into the hands of a Prime Minister so that he will be able to take this chamber to the people whenever he sees fit to do so. [More…]
He did not have a majority in the Senate, but if this proposal had existed in the legislation he very easily could have obtained a majority by the arbitrary exercise of the power which this Bill proposes to give a Prime Minister. [More…]
This Bill proposes to give an entirely different power to the House of Representatives or to the chief of the executive in that House. [More…]
It may be, as has been indicated by other speakers, that there are other reasons that will cause that power to be exercised which are nothing to do with the Senate. [More…]
I believe that the action being taken does effectively destroy the Senate by stealth by giving to the executive government of the day the power to be able to make threats to a Senate, however innocent that Senate may be in its actions. [More…]
This proposal gives power to the Executive Government to change the balance of power in the Senate by its own whim. [More…]
He already has great power in the House of Representatives through the large vote available from New South Wales and Victoria. [More…]
The Prime Minister primarily is elected by the 2 largest States and he would have power over this States’ House. [More…]
Realising that the Constitution gives the Senate the power to reject them as well as any other Bill but to amend only such money Bills as impose taxation or appropriate moneys for ordinary annual services as distinct from Apopropriation Bills that appropriate money for capital works, that brings to the attention of the Senate the significance of these money Bills. [More…]
What I was saying was that the Senate has the power in regard to Supply, and that the coalition parties exercised that power in 1975 when they would not even vote on the Bill. [More…]
Otherwise, in the future the fortunes of death or other sudden happenings may remove a couple of senators from one party and they may be replaced by people from another party, thus changing the whole balance of power in the Senate without any vote of the people. [More…]
Yet we are now giving power to political parties to over-ride the authority of the States. [More…]
Federal Government refused permission for these powers to be granted; (b) What would be the advantages of providing police with power to tap telephones in certain circumstances; (c) What would be the disadvantages of so doing; and (d) Does the Attorney-General intend reviewing this matter in the foreseeable future. [More…]
I am informed that the 1975 Conference of Commissioners of Police in Australia passed a resolution in favour of the police being given limited power to intercept telephones in relation to the investigation of serious crimes. [More…]
The plant was designed to use simplified equipment in an attempt to reduce reprocessing costs so that a small plant located near power reactors could operate economically, but this subsequently did not prove to be possible. [More…]
Are only 10 pounds of plutonium required to manufacture an atomic bomb having a substantial destructive power. [More…]
It has been estimated that about 300 nuclear power plants generating electricity will be operating in 1980, representing an installed capacity of about 200 G We. [More…]
If reprocessing plants start operating and plutonium recycling takes place, an OECD NBA/IAEA estimate puts annual plutonium extraction from world nuclear power programs in 1980 at some 18 tonnes. [More…]
I preface my question, which is directed to the Minister for Science, by drawing the Minister’s attention to a comment in the local newspaper, the Canberra Times, on 2 March 1977 that a plan to demonstrate the feasibility of solar power for domestic heating purposes in Canberra may fall through for the lack of finance. [More…]
The fact that a Labor Government was in power might not be significant or relevant to some people. [More…]
My main comments today will be directed towards the undertakings that were given by this Government when it was in opposition and when it chose to use certain tactics to get into power to satisfy its urge for power. [More…]
Because of the way it came to power I pointed out that if the Government’s policies which it had enunciated during the election campaign were not realised, if it did not bring down inflation and unemployment, it would be shown no quarter in the criticism which we would direct towards it. [More…]
Never let it be forgotten by supporters of the Government and by Mr Fraser in particular that in January 1 976, 2 months after this Government came to power, we had an unemployment figure of 257 000. [More…]
When in opposition Government supporters were prepared to attack parliamentary institutions to achieve power. [More…]
That attitude was clearly expressed by the Treasurer (Mr Lynch) as being effectively to reduce the purchasing power of the great majority of members of the Australian work force. [More…]
As I said earlier, that policy has been pursued in order to force wage and salary earners to accept less money in terms of real purchasing power. [More…]
Does it not realise what will happen if the real purchasing power of the community is reduced? [More…]
They are prepared to see the labour force represented in the Parliament, but they are not prepared to let a Labor government- a properly and democratically elected Labor governmentexercise power in the Parliament. [More…]
The point I wish to make is that when the Labor Government was in power the State Governments, local authorities, and road and railway authorities knew in what part of the economic sector they had a place. [More…]
In my opinion, it seized power by means of fraud, and the Senate might recall that when I spoke at that time I said that I believed parliamentary democracy was imperilled by the actions of Liberals in this place in refusing Supply to Labor. [More…]
The fact is that since this Government came to power, even though it promised it would restore confidence in industry, general manufacturing production is down. [More…]
We have had this continual campaign against the unemployed and those receiving the unemployment benefit since well before this Government came into power. [More…]
Certainly, we have received no reports from it since this Government came to power. [More…]
I believe that the Parliament and the members of the community in general should receive reports of this type as was the case when a Labor government was in power so that the people who have knowledge and the people who have some idea of what the problems are in the community, can discuss them and can put forward their views without radical changes in social policy suddenly being announced with no previous discussion except that conducted carefully within the confines of government. [More…]
The Speech includes several matters, references to positive achievements of the Fraser Government since it has been in power in respect of various areas to which it has paid attention. [More…]
When the present coalition Government came into power, it justified the sleazy circumstances under which it seized power on the grounds that the Labor Government had allegedly mismanaged the economy and that the consequences of that mismanagement were so disastrous and horrendous that anything could be justified which would install a competent team of economic managers in the government of Australia. [More…]
I seem to remember that in late 1971, when the McMahon Government was in power and clearly these very factors which Senator Messner identified were exerting powerful pressures for a revaluation of the Australian dollar, the McMahon Government caved in to Country Party pressure, as Liberal governments always do, and refused to revalue the dollar. [More…]
All that Sir Charles Court seems to be able to see is, first of all, that new federalism gave him an opportunity to increase his personal power. [More…]
I believe that such people will see that the alternatives which put political power in one pair of hands at the head of the community is undesirable and is not to be countenanced by this community. [More…]
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 consider, and that the quorum of a sub-committee be two. [More…]
The Committee or any sub-committee have power to send for and examine persons, papers and records, to move from place to place, to sit in public or in private, notwithstanding any prorogation of the Parliament, and have leave to report from time to time its proceedings and the evidence taken and such interim recommendations as it may deem fit. [More…]
There are problems because this Parliament operates as a legislative body over only certain aspects of life and the State parliaments have considerable powers in areas where human rights also may be affected. [More…]
The Bill at that time endeavoured to sweep aside this distinction and to impose powers which were regarded by State parliaments as an infringement of their rights and responsibilities. [More…]
When this commission is established I hope that it will have considerable power and significance and be able to do a great deal to improve human rights in this country. [More…]
He took the opportunity while the Australian Labor Party was in power to condemn its Minister for Agriculture, Senator Wriedt, for not assisting these people. [More…]
Knowledge is a tool for developing and amplifying power. [More…]
The discipline of further education and- non-formal education offers a variety of options and opportunities for the powerless to acquire and use power. [More…]
I do not propose to take the argument further in relation to what is meant by power but I give the quotation as it comes. [More…]
He and his colleagues made a grab for power and would not allow a democratically elected government to conclude its 3-year term of office. [More…]
But, casting back to 1975, we recall that the caretaker government came into power because it would not allow a government elected by the people to go for its full 3 years. [More…]
However, now that the Liberal and National Country Parties have been in power for about 15 months it is timely for us to look back at Mr Fraser ‘s promises and to determine whether those promises have been reflected in performance. [More…]
All the current evidence suggests that there is no feeling amongst the community that there is any reason to be confident while this Government remains in power. [More…]
But I doubt that he did mean what he said when he made his grab for power. [More…]
He will cling to his ill-gotten power for as long as possible. [More…]
Federalism, in its philosophy and practice, is based on the belief that States ought to have a substantial increase in their sovereignty; that they should have a substantial increase in the amount of money they receive which it untied and over which they can exercise decision making power uncluttered by Federal interference. [More…]
I think what we are doing at present is as it were consolidating the power or influence of a right-wing military group and against this we are giving no encouragement to those moderates, and many of them are - [More…]
The honourable senator was wrong: in government who depend upon our support and I think it is these people who would like to see in power in Indonesia. [More…]
He has the veto power. [More…]
I ask: Why not leave this power with the President who, technically, is impartial and let him make the decision as to whether a document should be incorporated, taking into account the practicability of incorporating material such as graphs, maps, blocks, etc. [More…]
I am a great believer in the Standing Orders and if we adopt what is now suggested we will be taking away some of the powers of our Standing Orders. [More…]
Adopting the recommendation before us will take away some of the power and the prestige of the President of the Senate in the same way as if the recommendations were adopted in the other place it would take away some of the power and the prestige of the Speaker. [More…]
If we are to take what is a right regarding incorporations away from the President we will take away some of his decision making powers. [More…]
It will be said that by virtue of recommendation ( 1 ) which we have just carried we will not take that power away because the new rule will operate only on odd occasions. [More…]
The last 25 years were dominated by the tension between the super powers in an essentially bi-polar world. [More…]
This domination was as evident in the overriding priority given to the search for super-power detente in the later years as it was in the stark cold war confrontation of the early years. [More…]
The ability of the super powers to control other states and to determine the agenda of international politics has diminished perceptibly, and they are being forced to give less attention to each other and more to third parties. [More…]
While the question of the military balance remains crucial, the process of converting military strength into political power and influence has become more complex and uncertain. [More…]
The traditional issues of international politics are not about to disappear, and some of them- notably the control and limitations of military power- will inevitably become more critical. [More…]
Many people in this Senate make good speeches which read well in Hansard, but if the President had the power to ask them to disregard their copious notes I doubt that they could put 6 words together. [More…]
A Standing Committee shall 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 consider. [More…]
I have a very high regard for the capabilities of Sir John Moore and some of his colleagues, but in assessing public opinion it should be remembered that over the last 10 to 15 years, having regard to the attitude of many in white collar industries, people in power stations, on the waterfront and in the railways were very slow to receive adequate compensation for weekend work. [More…]
Those penalty rates were provided, but they were provided in the face of a number of big disputes involving power workers, gas workers and others, and when essential services were disrupted. [More…]
This has been the aim of our Government since it was returned to power, as rural industry was the hardest hit in those 3 years by the Whitlam Government and by inflation. [More…]
Historic reforms are being made in the nation’s federal financial relations which will return power and responsibility to the State and local levels of government. [More…]
When the Liberal and Country Parties came to power in Queensland in 1957 they introduced a system of confidential freight concession rates which advantaged certain commercial interests in the country towns of Queensland as against their competitors. [More…]
We have introduced a radical federalism program for the devolution of power and have moved along the road towards implementing it. [More…]
If this is democracy, then it is no wonder that our Government has been swept back into power after only 3 years of socialist paradise! [More…]
A book has been written about the power of trade unions. [More…]
In fact, the real power is exercised through the Governor-General. [More…]
The Monarch does not in practice have the power of her Governor-General in Australia who is politically appointed. [More…]
I do not understand the full emphasis of the devolvement of powers to the States. [More…]
But to extend it further and to talk loosely of the devolution of power is, I believe, contradictory to the facts. [More…]
I urge the Government to be more explicit in the face of the reality that this Federal Government is finding itself in the position of disciplinarian of the States more than it is providing devolution of power. [More…]
That last paragraph smacks of the activities of a former Prime Minister of this country, the late Stanley Melbourne Bruce, who set out on a union bashing program and to eliminate the power of the union movement. [More…]
If the present Prime Minister proposes to use that son of operation to remove the power of the unions the same thing will happen to the Fraser Government in 1 978 as happened to the Bruce Government in 1929. [More…]
The project has been reinstated now, but as a result of this great delay it is almost inevitable that power shortages will occur. [More…]
The 1 1 Kv power line over the Todd River at Alice Springs, estimated to cost $200,000 has been deferred. [More…]
The stores and workshop at Stokes Hill power station was estimated to cost $1.5m. [More…]
It is Darwin’s only power station and the stores building was destroyed by Cyclone Tracy. [More…]
The Snell Street to McMinns sub-station 66 Kv power line, estimated to cost $2.2m, has been deferred from 1976-77 to 1977-78. [More…]
It is within his power to withdraw the challenge. [More…]
It can certainly be said that this Government is at greater pains at the moment to cover up its failures and to avoid confronting the unpleasant realities that have resulted from its policies than it has been at any time since it came to power. [More…]
I talked to quite a number of people in the community who said that the economic problems which the country was in would be solved as soon as the Liberal and National Country Parties were returned to power. [More…]
But if one looks at the facts, the Federal Government deficit at the end of February this year was approaching $5600m, and that is fully $ 1000m over the deficit which existed when the Labor Government was in power. [More…]
While I appreciate that the Minister may not agree that this represents a gross inconvenience to Tasmanian senators and members, I ask him not to be influenced by this aspect but to do all in his power to assist us with this service. [More…]
I draw the attention of the Minister to a report appearing in the Brisbane Courier-Mail under a Bonn, Germany, dateline of 16 March 1977 to the effect that a West German court at Baden- -Wurttemberg after 2 years litigation had cancelled planning permission and imposed a permanent ban on the construction of a nuclear power station on the grounds of inadequate safety precautions and serious reservations about plans for evacuating the area in the event of a break-down. [More…]
In view of the warning in the Fox report that adequate time should be given for debate on nuclear power, will the Minister obtain from our Embassy in Germany details of these court proceedings, which lasted over 2 years, and table them in the Senate so that honourable senators who have grave doubts about the safety aspects of nuclear power can study them prior to this country’s being involved in a similar situation? [More…]
Is the Minister aware that the Government’s position on the current situation with respect to super power naval presence in the Indian Ocean is currently at variance with the attitudes of both the United States and Britain? [More…]
I preface the question by drawing his attention to a comment in the local newspaper, the Canberra Times, on 2 March 1977 that a plan to demonstrate the feasibility of solar power for domestic heating purposes in Canberra may fall through because of lack of finance. [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…]
But what those who oppose the referendums- especially that for simultaneous elections- want is that which British Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin once described as ‘power without responsibility- the prerogative of the harlot throughout the ages’. [More…]
The Senate is the only institution in Australia able to be a barrier to the arbitrary misuse of power by a Prime Minister or his Cabinet. [More…]
I always think that it is better to keep the power in the hands of the people than in the hands of the Prime Ministers. [More…]
Unfortunately it is a fact that sometimes when men get high positions they get a love of power. [More…]
I always think that the safest democracy of all is a democracy in which the most power remains in the hands of the people so that when they vote they have the right to say who they will have. [More…]
Therefore, the more that the people can control the power and have it in their hands, the better it is for this country. [More…]
I urge the Government to be more explicit in the face of the reality that this Federal Government is finding itself in the position of disciplinarian of the States more than it is providing devolution of power. [More…]
Steps have been taken to reverse the trend towards the concentration of power in the hands of the Commonwealth Government. [More…]
The difference was highlighted by the referendum proposals which were put before the people in 1974, when the then Labor Government sought to add to the Constitution section 96A which would have given the Commonwealth the power to make direct conditional grants to local government in the same way as section 96 permits it to make direct conditional grants to the States. [More…]
Local authorities themselves have determined the priorities which they think appropriate for their local areas and I see that as a substantial step towards a devolution of power. [More…]
The fact that it was commissioned and the terms under which it was commissioned represent the potential for the greatest single step towards the greater devolution of power in Australia than we have seen to date. [More…]
The task force has put forward a detailed series of recommendations which includes broad banding some 26 programs into about 4 programs and suggests that there should be a major step back by the Commonwealth in terms of detailed control, a handing over to the States of a much greater discretion to determine internal priorities, and the giving to the States of a much greater power to administer the system in a proper way. [More…]
If we had had an elected president during the time of the constitutional crisis, he would have had the power to do what Sir John Kerr did which was to dismiss us and send us to an election in the event that we could not agree to the carrying on of government by the granting of Supply. [More…]
But really we ought to be talking about the constitutional powers of the Senate and what ought to happen in the resolution of deadlocks. [More…]
I would say that even the greatest Tory in the Senate would agree that there is one change that ought to be made: If the Senate is to have the power to stop the Supply Bills- I personally believe we should have it- which are the life blood of the government it is ludicrous that we can do that in a situation in which we ourselves cannot be taken to the people. [More…]
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 consider, and that the quorum of a sub-committee be two. [More…]
The Committee or any sub-committee have power to send for and examine persons, papers and records, to move from place to place, to sit in public or in private, notwithstanding any prorogation of the Parliament, and have leave to report from time to time its proceedings and the evidence taken and such interim recommendations as it may deem fit. [More…]
It is the responsibility of the administering power to prepare the population in a democratic manner for the act of self determination in order that they will be able to exercise that right with full awareness of the implications of their decision for their own future. [More…]
He did say that the breakthrough could mean the end of nuclear power needs within 25 years. [More…]
This in turn will mean that not only will our bargaining power be increased but also that certainly we will almost certainly be subjected to more demands and pressures from the Third World and from other countries which are concerned to find solutions to such questions. [More…]
The ASEAN countries have a very natural and understandable fear that unless some other great power maintains interest in the region they could be crushed between the 2 communist giants competing for influence. [More…]
Despite the economic difficulties in some of the Western European countries, there cannot be any question that the formation of the European Economic Community has greatly strengthened the economic and political power of Western Europe and has, at least in part, created another centre away from the previous bi-polar situation to which the Minister for Foreign Affairs refers. [More…]
They are going to go the way Angola and Mozambique went, and so they should, at least insofar as the transfer of power to the people is concerned. [More…]
It is natural that if one major power moves into an area, another major power will follow shortly after in order to protect its own interests. [More…]
In the Indian Ocean which is relatively unimportant among the world’s great oceans and is not bordered by any of the super powers- I include China as a super power in this respect- we have an opportunity to achieve a demilitarised zone. [More…]
It is the responsibility of all Australians to do everything in their power to attempt to close that gap. [More…]
To imagine that we can have the conception of the United Nations which is a most important one to institute and implement some form of real international law and yet have within that body no power to implement the law is perhaps the greatest tragedy of this century. [More…]
I turn aside for a moment to comment on the fact that there has been a shift in the emphasis on the conflict between the super powers. [More…]
The super powers basically have been concerned one with the other. [More…]
If liberation is to be the result of infiltration, if liberation is going to be the result of the promotion of a particular super power in an under-developed area, that in itself has within it the essence of a new and perhaps more dangerous imperialism. [More…]
As the emphasis of the super powers, one to the other, tends to change I hope that they do not become involved in circumstances in which a super power promotes a set of circumstances in some other part of the world through the use of a third or fourth party. [More…]
This is a man and a government which, since they came to power in 1975, have granted increased military aid to Indonesia whilst that country has been conducting a war of genocide. [More…]
Mr Fraser has made no bones about that line of argument since he came to power. [More…]
This was so particularly when we discussed this question of the relative strength of navies and the super powers in the Indian Ocean. [More…]
But this Government, this Liberal-National Country Party Government, since it came to power has pledged itself to go ahead with the building of another foreign base in this country. [More…]
Some of the tragedies are taking place because of the dictatorial attitude- power without glory if I can put it this way- of man against his fellow man. [More…]
This is still happening between the major powers. [More…]
There are tensions between Russia and China, 2 major powers. [More…]
But when we look at the competition which has taken place, the power seeking of these 2 major powers, the events in South East Asia and in so many of the African states, we question how much validity there is in that argument. [More…]
How much danger would there be in the world from what would then be the major super powers? [More…]
Perhaps there will not be the need for countries to arm themselves continually against each other in fear that if they do not arm themselves they will be taken over by some other country which in the interim period has gained far more power than they have done. [More…]
There have also been changes in the United States of America, one of the superpowers of the world. [More…]
We saw President Carter come to power. [More…]
This in turn will mean not only that our bargaining power will increase, but that we will almost certainly be subjected to more demands and pressures . [More…]
In theory it is an excellent idea to support the initiatives to lower the arms race in this area but in reality such a move could be accepted as appeasement and appeasement has never operated successfully because the end result is that there is one dominant power. [More…]
Having one dominant power is the one thing we must avoid at all costs in the Indian Ocean. [More…]
I support any moves we can make, as the Prime Minister stated, to reduce the competition of the arms build up and the power race in the Indian Ocean. [More…]
They are fearful that there could be some dominant great power rivalry within their region. [More…]
Finally, 1 hope that all nations as time goes by will play in international affairs perhaps not a bigger role than they are playing today but a more responsible role than they have played in the past and will not overlook the fact that, while power politics might be very important, the most important overall factor is man himself. [More…]
This claim again is brought to the fore in the Foreign Minister’s statement when he emphasises the growth of Soviet military power. [More…]
That country wants to project a perception of power in the littoral States in the Indian Ocean. [More…]
One of the main things we found was that it was not only the super powers that were trying to project this perception of power in the Indian Ocean. [More…]
The Prime Minister when in China put forward the notion “of a 4-power anti-Soviet military alliance between the U.S.A., Japan, China and Australia. [More…]
That, of course, refers to the basic shift of emphasis from political matters and military power to economic and particularly resources issues in foreign policy. [More…]
It is a very significant change that the Indian Congress Party has been displaced from power after 30 years. [More…]
He has made it clear, and rightly so, that we are not living in the bi-polar super power world of a few years ago. [More…]
I mention Chile because even when the Government of my own political persuasion was in power I was never satisfied that our Embassy in Santiago was as alert as it might have been to such problems. [More…]
Even when the Labor Government was in power- I am not being disrespectful to a former Minister in Senator Wheeldon- and person wanted to get into Australia quickly - [More…]
Aneurin Bevan tried everywhere from a local council to the House of Commons to find out where the power was, and then he did not find it. [More…]
At a time when Senator Wheeldon and I were members of a committee dealing with the Croat problem, Senator Wright came into the Senate and admitted that it was the view ofthe Liberal and National Country Party Government as well as of the Labor Party that any fragmentation of Yugoslavia could upset the balance of power between the North AtlanticTreaty Organisation and Warsaw forces. [More…]
He was able to gain the confidence of countries which were a little wary of the super powers, whether it was the United States, the Soviet Union or China. [More…]
If there were a transition of power in Yugoslavia people who might have quaint ideas in their minds about what they might do with the state of Croatia would have to be suppressed if it was going to upset world peace. [More…]
For a long while, until the Whitlam Government came to power, we were always asking what the United States thought. [More…]
It always amazes me that little countries like Peru and Iceland snub their noses at the big powers and get away with it. [More…]
Recent events and recent trends, including trade expectations, refugee situations, geographical location and our resources, all may increase our bargaining power internationally. [More…]
Yet bargaining power surely is not the final note. [More…]
I have been alerted regularly about problems associated with breakdowns in power supply in the Northern Territory. [More…]
Earlier in the year I visited the power station and saw that one or two of the generators were out of action. [More…]
She pleaded with me to get the power supply restored over the weekend and said that she and her children could not cook their meals and be fed properly. [More…]
My understanding is that everything possible is being done in the Territory at present to maintain a power supply for the people. [More…]
I understand that some problems have been due to breakdowns in equipment and some have been associated with difficulties with the power lines as a result of the cyclone. [More…]
There is a problem associated with equipment although, I understand, the available power supply is far in excess of the normal reserve supply for a city of the size of Darwin in comparison with that which other capital cities have. [More…]
As for the industrial situation, perhaps the honourable senator could assist in some way in seeing that that area of dispute is cut out so that the people of Darwin may receive their rightful power supply. [More…]
Otherwise we will end up with black power and guerrilla movements and Klu Klux Klan activities brought about by well-meaning but incredibly stupid people practising apartheid and racial discrimination . [More…]
It is easy to point to increased income in the hands of Aborigines as the cause, yet I believe that many thoughtful people recognise that sometimes increased spending power simply leads to increasing the money that can be used for the abuse of alcohol to the detriment of Aborigines and their families. [More…]
There is no sewerage, no power and the water comes from the river, or three or four families are jammed into a small house which was built for one small family. [More…]
That section goes on to outline some further conditions, but the Commission has the power and authority of a royal commission. [More…]
Given Mr Sinclair’s refusal to accept industry demands for a marketing corporation with sufficient market power to prevent that sort of expropriation of higher world prices by exporters, Mr Anthony’s statement has to be seen as a censure and as an expression of no confidence in the Minister for Primary Industry. [More…]
If the court under the existing provisions of the Act and Regulations lacks the power, consideration might be given to remedying that defect. [More…]
On Tuesday afternoon Peko-Ez informed me that the boards of their companies have decided, on legal advice, that they should bring force majeure to the notice of the Japanese electric power utilities. [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…]
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…]
I said that it is the existence and exercise of section 171c more than any other factor which has destroyed the confidence of unionists in the Court and which inevitably will destroy their confidence in any court in which that same or similar power is vested. [More…]
You will recall that sub-sections (2) and (3) of section 141 were inserted in the Act when the High Court found that the Industrial Court did not have the power to freeze funds involved in a Union amalgamation. [More…]
I was surprised to read in your letter that you seemed to be under the impression that sub-sections (2) and (3) of section 141 were inserted in the Act when the High Court found that the Industrial Court did not have the power to freeze funds involved in a union amalgamation. [More…]
The proposed committee would have no power to seek and obtain evidence outside Australia, yet this is a matter which has occurred outside Australia. [More…]
Senator Withers has said that such a committee would have no power to seek and obtain evidence outside Australia. [More…]
It certainly would not have power to subpoena people from outside Australia or to compel them to come before it. [More…]
But it would have every power in the world to make requests to people to give evidence. [More…]
I believe that there is sufficient power in Senate committees to make inquiries and evidence has been given today of the wide way in which Senate committees do examine facts. [More…]
First and foremost, it was a regulatory advisory body, but there is power in that Act for the Board, with the permission of the Minister, to buy and sell. [More…]
In 1973, although the new corporation was equipped with power to buy and sell with the permission of the Minister, the Government was not prepared to put its money at the risk of trade, whether organised or under the idea that Senator Grimes has, or not on the basis of Adam Smith but on the basis of private enterprise with all the Government assistance, modern communications and transport available today. [More…]
With the new relationship with Japan since our Government came to power, I believe that this is likely in the 1978 season. [More…]
Obviously he is determined to make the point that the power of the Senate in some way has to be preserved, or at least that is the argument that some of the people on the Government side are using. [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…]
He should be big enough to admit that it would not matter what government was in power. [More…]
In that connection, we ought to look at the background of the economy of the country when we came into power in December 1975. [More…]
This is one of the points that I made earlier- 37 per cent to agriculture and agricultural-related activities and 29 per cent to public utilities, mainly for exploitation of indigenous power resources. [More…]
I am not seeking the position of President in terms of influence or power but purely as an opportunity to make a contribution. [More…]
Ultimately, the people on this Committee will play a critical role in advising those who are in power, those who have the means of directing funds, governments and so on in Australia on what the Aborigines want from education, both in the short term and in the long term. [More…]
I hope that we will not have any rigid power group emerge. [More…]
As the Commonwealth owned land is obviously still required by the Commonwealth for immediate use, it is the view of the Attorney-General 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…]
The adoption of a proposal for legislative uniformity which recognises that the States are not required to surrender or refer any constitutional power. [More…]
One would hope that that will not arise, but if there were such circumstances then the Bill does provide the power by a declaration and statement, which will be known, that it is the belief of the Government that the defence of the particular country is something that should permit recruitment. [More…]
The Attorney-General is given power under clause 9 (2) to grant an exemption to the general prohibitions in clause 9(1) against recruiting in Australia. [More…]
Sub-clause (2) of clause 9 in general gives the Attorney-General the power to state that it is in the interests of the defence or the international relations of Australia to permit the recruitment in Australia, either generally or in particular circumstances, of persons to serve in or with a specified armed force. [More…]
I refer again to sub-clause (2) of clause 9 which gives the Minister the power to permit persons to serve in or with a specified armed force in a particular capacity. [More…]
If a conservative government had been in power in Australia at the time I have no doubt that even though it may have been a little chary of openly stating its preference for Franco, it could have brought itself to specify that the armed forces of Franco were those that came within the meaning of this provision and could have lifted the embargo on recruitment of volunteers or mercenaries to go to fight with the Franco forces. [More…]
Could not a government which was sympathetic to the PLO specify those armed forces as being armed forces which came within the power of sub-clause (2) of clause 9 to grant such an exemption? [More…]
As I say, sub-clause (2) of clause 9 could be interpreted as a power to allow recruitment of terrorists. [More…]
It is within the power of a government of the day to say that it approves of certain terrorists and then to invoke sub-clause (2) of clause 9. [More…]
The third point is that the Attorney-General’s role is likely to be politicised in view of the discretionary power which will be vested in him under clauses 9 and 10 of the Bill. [More…]
The Rhodesian government is not recognised as it comprises a group of people illegally holding power. [More…]
He said that there should not be a power vested in the Attorney-General by instrument to declare that it is in the interests of the defence or international relations of Australia to permit recruitment in Australia. [More…]
The honourable senator has expressed a view as to the operation of clause 9(2) which, as I understand it, is that even though the Minister may exercise his power under the sub-clause to permit recruitment in Australia, either generally or in particular circumstances, of persons to serve in or with a specified armed force, or to serve in or with a specified armed force in a particular capacity, sub-clause ( 1 ) of clause 9 does not apply in those circumstances. [More…]
I agree that it empowers him to do this. [More…]
Senator James McClelland says that the clause gives him that power. [More…]
I make this point on the second matter to which I wish to refer: If an Attorney-General is to exercise his power under clause 9 (2)- I am presuming that the proposed amendment to add subclause (4) to clause 9 is carried- this would mean that the instrument ultimately has the force of a regulation. [More…]
So, there would be power in the Parliament to disallow. [More…]
Various types of concern have been expressed about clause 9 (2), one of which is that in that clause the AttorneyGeneral is given the power by instrument in writing to permit recruitment in Australia for armed forces in another country when that recruitment is in fact prohibited by and large by clause 9(1). [More…]
If my proposed amendment is carried, which I presume it will be in view of the support which has been expressed for it, it will mean that the Parliament will have the power to disallow any action that may be taken by the Attorney-General under clause 9(2). [More…]
Senator Baume has expressed concern about this power which is given to the AttorneyGeneral. [More…]
He expressed concern also that the power given to the Attorney-General in clause 10 (3) would politicise his office. [More…]
Any decision that he makes under a power given to him in clause 9(2) would be a political decision but it would be one that I would think he would certainly make only with the concurrence of his colleagues in the Government. [More…]
I would assume that the main purpose of sub-clause (2) of clause 9 would be to give the government of the day the power to permit recruiting in Australia by a friendly government which wanted to obtain, perhaps, people to assist in training its armed forces. [More…]
It is in fact a government controlled by a small minority and has power over the great mass of the people in that country, lt is a government repudiated by the international community, the United Nations and the rest of the world. [More…]
We could debate whether the power ought to be wider than that. [More…]
I understand that in another place the Opposition put forward views that the power ought to be wider than that. [More…]
It is unfortunate that not only in East Timor but also in West Irian there is that type of government which at times is prepared to use the power of force and the power of the gun. [More…]
It is to the eternal shame of the Government which held power during our invasion, and it was an invasion of Vietnam by our troops. [More…]
Having heard the statements of the representatives of Portugal, as the administering Power, concerning developments in Portuguese Timor and the implementation with regard to that Territory of the relevant provisions of the Charter and the Declaration, as well as those of General Assembly resolution 1541 (XV) of 15 December 1960, [More…]
Bearing in mind the responsibility of the administering Power to undertake all efforts to create conditions enabling the people of Portuguese Timor to exercise freely their right to self-determination, freedom and independence and to determine their future political status in accordance with the principles of the Charter and the Declaration, in an atmosphere of peace and order, [More…]
Calls upon the administering Power to continue to make every effort to find a solution by peaceful means through talks between the Government of Portugal and the political parties representing the people of Portuguese Timor: [More…]
Regretting that the Government of Portugal did not discharge fully its responsibilities as administering Power in the Territory under Chapter XI of the Charter, [More…]
Calls upon the Government of Portugal as administering Power to co-operate fully with the United Nations so as to enable the people of East Timor to exercise freely their right to self-determination: [More…]
It was my hope that its greater strength as an international ‘super power’ might result in some action from the Indonesians. [More…]
Honourable senators will know that section 3 1 of the present Act gave the Minister power to engage experts to work on the aid program. [More…]
Arrangements are currently being made with the Public Service Board for the delegation of certain powers to the Bureau with respect to the engagement of experts. [More…]
That the existence of a system of double taxation of personal incomes whereby both the Australian Government and State governments had the power to vary personal income taxes would mean that taxpayers who worked in more than one State in any one year would: [More…]
To review and consider the delegation by Acts of Parliament of administrative or discretionary authority whether by regulation, ministerial orders, instruments in writing or otherwise and how to preserve the power of Parliament to protect the rights and determine the obligations and remedies of individuals. [More…]
Further, is the Minister aware of proposals to set up a shareholders ‘ tribunal with power to investigate complaints by individual shareholders? [More…]
The Opposition has repeatedly asserted that apart from the unfairness of such a move, no such power to do what the Government did exists in the Act. [More…]
In 1973 when the previous Labor Government was in power an effort was made- not before time, I might add- to improve the real living standards of Aboriginals. [More…]
It will, no doubt, often have involved the making of false or misleading statements, a matter dealt with by the penal provisions of s. 138 of the Act, which includes a power to order repayment of benefits procured by such statements. [More…]
The power to give declaratory relief is, as Viscount Radcliffe observed in Ibeneweka v Egbuna ( 1964) 1 W.L.R. [More…]
But in any event, the nature of the matter here in dispute, not at all concerned with the quality of a particular exercise of discretionary power by an officer but rather with the validity of a general rule of administration adopted by the Director-General, is such that I would not, as a matter of discretion, regard the existence of the right conferred by s. 15 as a reason for refusing declaratory relief. [More…]
Whilst we admit that it would have been preferable to have been able to achieve a more rapid improvement in that area, it would have been extremely difficult for any Government gaining power at the end of 1 972 to implement immediately a program for improving technical and further education on a Commonwealth basis because the data was not available. [More…]
None of those things were ever heard of before a Labor government came to power. [More…]
That was following the rapid expansion of funds that had been provided for education by the Labor Government since it came to power in 1 972. [More…]
Nevertheless, in addition to its advisory role, the Commission has certain executive powers in the area of course approvals and the distribution of funds for approved capital projects within a State. [More…]
Broadly, the Universities Commission does not have the same power over course approvals. [More…]
This is the time for a co-ordinated attack on inflation which seriously diminishes the purchasing power of workers and causes unemployment. [More…]
Secondly, the power of trade unions to contribute effectively and responsibly to orderly industrial progress depends on the co-ordinated and disciplined action of their members. [More…]
The Bureau will have wide investigative powers and, mark my words, a possibly unconstitutional mix of judicial and arbitral powers. [More…]
Clause 15 of the Bill clothes the Court with dragnet consequential order powers which in spirit, if not in law, go beyond the essence of the judicial power of the ascertainment, declaration and enforcement of existing rights and obligations. [More…]
I do not imagine that Senator Harradine will divorce himself from the view that trade union power is such that it should have a dominant role in the formulation of industrial legislation. [More…]
A whole series of authorities in recent years, particularly in the last 10 years, have pointed out how the unions having this monopolistic power to dislocate industry under the name of what Senator Harradine referred to as the right to strike and, presumably since he objects to the Trade Practices Bill, the right to employ secondary boycotts in enforcement of the right to strike, claim the right to dislocate the economy of the country to the great injury of other sections of the community. [More…]
It was Mr Whitlam no less who in the last year of his Government was forced to admit that the union abuse of power was the crippling feature of his effort to regain stability in the economy. [More…]
There are provisions in the Conciliation and Arbitration Amendment Bill bearing specifically upon registration whereby the court is given power to deregister a union, not only for the eight or nine grounds which the present Act provides but also for the abuse of any activity in the course of interstate trade or in the course of public service. [More…]
We must look at the number of strikes that have taken place since this Government has been in power. [More…]
Our reforms will maintain the purchasing power of wages and ease the pressure for excessive wage demands. [More…]
The purchasing power of average weekly earnings was reduced by about 5 per cent in the December quarter 1976. [More…]
On the basis of conservative estimates there will be a further 2 per cent to 3 per cent reduction in the purchasing power of wages in the March quarter 1977. [More…]
In the last 6 months there has been a savage reduction in real wages as the purchasing power of average weekly earnings has fallen by almost 8 per cent in this time. [More…]
On the other hand, sub-clause (3)(c) provides a link with other Acts, principally States Grants Acts, under which the Commission would have power and delegations to administer the financial programs. [More…]
Ever bigger machines, entailing ever bigger concentrations of economic power and exerting ever greater violence against the environment, do not represent progress: they are a denial of wisdom. [More…]
I have never heard in this Senate any form of complaint against the powers which moved into the vacuum created by the movement by Portugal out of southern Africa. [More…]
I have never heard in the Senate from either honourable senators on this side of the chamber or honourable senators opposite any comment about that armed incursion by a foreign power into Angola and Mozambique. [More…]
They are that the prerogative power extends to the use of the armed forces in war, and in the circumstances of non-war the prerogative exists in the control of foreign affairs. [More…]
It is based on a fundamental constitutional theorem which exists in the English speaking world, whether it be in the United States of America or in Australia in 1977, and that is that in circumstances of peace the conduct of foreign affairs lies in the area of the prerogative power; it does not lie in the area of the parliamentary power. [More…]
The parliamentary power in the prerogative sense relates to the fact that if a government conducts foreign policy in a way which is not acceptable to the Parliament of the day then the Parliament of the day has the power to dismiss the government that is carrying out a foreign policy which is contrary to the policy, the will and the wish of the Parliament. [More…]
I tell this story only because it is important to the argument that I first put forward, that is, that the conduct of foreign affairs is a prerogative power, not a parliamentary power. [More…]
Foreign affairs must be conducted by the echelon of government which exercises the prerogative power. [More…]
I put it to the senator that Australia is in no more favourable position than Chile or the people of Chile who became a sacrifice to the power manoeuvrings of great nations. [More…]
I also put it to the senator that Australia is in no more favourable position than the people of Greece who found themselves subjected to military dictatorship because of the manoeuvrings of major powers. [More…]
Each step that we have taken over the past 12 months seems to have encouraged the Indonesians to consider themselves a major power in the region. [More…]
3 ) If no figures for the likely increase in the death rate are available, does this indicate that scientists and doctors have little or no idea about the dangers and the limits of dangers associated with nuclear power. [More…]
It would not be correct to assume that scientists and doctors have little or no idea about the dangers associated with nuclear power, merely because there are no widely accepted figures relating to the possible increase in deaths which could be attributed to the release of radio-active wastes and materials. [More…]
To the contrary a number of reports have been produced in recent years, including the 1972 Report to the UN General Assembly on the ‘Effects of Atomic Radiation’; the 1976 OECD Nuclear Energy Agency Report on ‘Estimated Population Exposure from Nuclear Power Production and Other Radiation Sources’; the 1973 Report of the United States Environmental Protection Agency on ‘Environmental Analysis of the Uranium Fuel Cycle’; and the United Kingdom Royal Commission on ‘Environmental Pollution on Nuclear Power and the Environment’; all of which give objective and comprehensive assessments of the environmental and health impact of the nuclear power industry. [More…]
The official estimate of Japan’s nuclear power capacity remains at 49 000 MW in 1985 as stated in the reply given to Question No. [More…]
The Japanese nuclear power program is currently under review and unofficial estimates from industry sources suggest the revised target for 1985 may be much lower. [More…]
, (2) and (3) The effect of any increased safeguards costs will be small taken over all nuclear power programs. [More…]
214, at p. 248-9, that section 15 of the Constitution does not deprive a State legislature of the power to abolish one of its Houses, supports the view that a unicameral legislature can effectively comply with the requirements of section 15. [More…]
As I understand it, a number of State governments have legislative power to declare a state of emergency. [More…]
This is a power which the Commonwealth Government does not possess. [More…]
They and they alone have the constitutional legislative power to implement legislation as to essential services. [More…]
Lower bounty for tractors at the low end of the power scale- 1 5 k W to 34 k W; [More…]
The phased-in reduction of bounty at the low power end of the scale is substantial. [More…]
I refer Senator Wriedt to the fact that Queensland, as a State, has prospered very strongly in the 16 or 1 7 months that the Federal Liberal and National Country Party Government has been in power. [More…]
However, in response to the honourable senator’s question, I point out that CSIRO is not working at the present time on research into solar-powered irrigation schemes. [More…]
As a general rule it is not considered that solar energy is a suitable source for mechanical power at the present time. [More…]
Since conversion efficiency is low and capital cost is extremely high, the resulting cost of power is very much greater than that which can be obtained from conventional sources. [More…]
To place the Arizona report in some perspective let us assume that the plant operates at full capacity- that is 50 horsepower- for an average of 6 hours per day every day and that the electricity cost is 2c per kilowatt per hour, then the average annual saving would appear to be less than $2,000. [More…]
In 1972 this ‘terrible’ Labor Government came into power- the government which is alleged to be against the private sector. [More…]
In February of 1977, 12 months after a Liberal Government came to power, the figure had fallen to 351.78. [More…]
It is interesting to note that in the period June 1971 to March 1973- a period ending 3 months after Labor came to power- wages in Australia rose by only 5 per cent. [More…]
It must seem extraordinary to the dispassionate observer that a government which came to power proclaiming itself as the champion of private enterprise should have failed so dismally to live up to its promises. [More…]
That was 5 years before a Federal Labor government came to power. [More…]
Nothing this Government has done since it come to power and nothing it has contemplated in its legislative program will improve the health of manufacturing industry. [More…]
It would not have mattered which Party was in power. [More…]
We also know that the situation regarding manufacturing industry generally, both large and small business, was in a very bad state when the present government took office and when Senator Cotton accepted responsibility as Minister and inherited many problems which were created by the Australian Labor Party when it was in power. [More…]
Further, will the Corporation have the power to acquire, classify and distribute meat so that the return to the producers can be stabilised and increased? [More…]
Are these allegations not sufficiently serious for a responsible government to conduct an immediate and thorough investigation into them, no matter who may be accused or what government was in power previously? [More…]
I cannot see therefore that any section ought to have total power over the Corporation. [More…]
(a) No additional non-directional beacon installations funded by the Government are proposed at present, (b) Typical basic cost of installing a low power nondirectional beacon is $44,000. [More…]
That the existence of a system of double taxation of personal incomes whereby both the Australian Government and State Governments had the power to vary personal income taxes would mean that taxpayers who worked in more than one State in any one year would: [More…]
Because of the amount of protection the industry receives, without which General Motors probably would not operate profitably, there is a strong obligation for the company to consult in a meaningful way with whatever government is in power. [More…]
During the course of the Committee’s inquiry the ongoing arguments over uranium mining and the development of nuclear power have resulted in solar power being promoted by anti-nuclear proponents and others as a readily available energy alternative. [More…]
Other related aspects are wind power, tidal power, geothermal power, ocean thermal currents and hydrogen. [More…]
In the short run, the Committee feels that the areas of solar research which hold most promise for commercial development in the Australian context are low grade heat applications for industrial purposes and, in remote and isolated areas, heating and cooling of buildings and small scale power generation. [More…]
Sir Charles Court- and this has been a controversial subject over the last couple of months- has consistently eulogised this Government’s new federalism policy, the stated purpose of which is to phase out specific purpose payments such as road grants, to force the States to fund such areas of expenditure from their own revenue and to grant the States the power to impose their own income tax to fund such programs with the intention of making the States physically responsible. [More…]
He obviously craves power without responsibility. [More…]
Naturally enough, the land had to be filled, scrap metal containers and fences erected, and power, water and telephone connected to the property. [More…]
You will recall that sub-sections (2) and (3) of section 141 were inserted in the Act when the High Court found that the Industrial Court did not have the power to freeze funds involved in a Union amalgamation. [More…]
I was surprised to read in your letter that you seem to be under the impression that sub-sections (2) and (3) of Section 141 were inserted in the Act when the High Court found that the Industrial Court did not have the power to freeze funds involved in a union amalgamation. [More…]
Once my Department receives a valuation from the Taxation Office, because of Treasury regulations, the Audit Act and Treasury directions I have no power to substitute another value for that valuation and nor should I have the power. [More…]
An offer having been made as to compensation, if the person concerned is dissatisfied he has the powers and the right- he has the constitutional right what is more- to apply to a court to have just terms determined. [More…]
By the authority vested in it by resolutions of both Houses of the Parliament, the Joint Foreign Affairs and Defence Committee 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 power to appoint subcommittees to conduct investigations. [More…]
It concerns the Opposition and it concerns me somewhat that the present Government seems more concerned about fiddling with the administrative arrangements and the power-sharing arrangements and indulging in exercises in so-called federalism than in building new houses and making available new accommodation that is appropriate for the aged and invalid in Australia. [More…]
It is important, I believe, that the Government and all honourable senators should look at the problem of housing people adequately, rather than fiddling with administrative arrangements and indulging in philosophical exercises to redistribute power and financial responsibilities in this country. [More…]
We suggest that as the Government has now been in power as long as the first Whitlam Labor Government was in power from 1972 to the middle of 1974, it is in fact time it let the public and the members of this Parliament know just what its long term plans are to cope with one of Australia’s most serious problems. [More…]
Approval has been given in principle to the issue of an experimental licence under the Wireless Telegraphy Act, subject to the determination of operating conditions of the experiment and to the confirmation of the Minister’s power to grant this licence under this Act and related legislation. [More…]
It is the prerogative of any government to have those arrangements with a foreign power if it so desires. [More…]
It does not matter what our politics are, we ought to make sure that that does not happen, that we do not tolerate it under any circumstances with any foreign power. [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 clause 46 (2). [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…]
Sub-clause (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…]
The powers that the Court may exercise on an application for an order of review are set out in clause 16. [More…]
Although Senator Carrick is not here he would appreciate that since this Government came to power I have been arguing for a continuation of the idea of the former Department of Labour and Immigration to create an authority something like the Institute of Chartered Accountants to ensure adequate recognition of the proficiency of interpreters and translators. [More…]
Are personnel involved not so much in civil rights matters but in disputes such as that involving nuclear power stations in West Germany? [More…]
Everywhere he went he wanted to know where the power was. [More…]
They accepted the social service proposal and rejected the marketing and industrial power proposals. [More…]
The only determination is by members of the Executive with the thrust from behind of the Public Service to exert power. [More…]
We escape with the excuse that its proceedings are immune from scrutiny by the judicial power. [More…]
Outside the processes are continuing, with formidable challenge to the very constitution of parliamentary government and, much more importantly, to the effective exercise of any power of parliamentary government. [More…]
Members were struggling about from place to place in Service aircraft, not exercising the power of Parliament. [More…]
Before we can sensibly and usefully discuss the question of the trade unions, the extent of their power and the use they make of it, we must identify the real basic sickness in our society. [More…]
Power passes from the shaking, nerveless hands at the centre to stronger and power-hungry hands elsewhere . [More…]
It was natural that the House of Lords should be deprived of its power over money as early as perhaps the middle of the last century and finally in 1911. [More…]
All I am saying is that unless Ministers realise the true power of this House and exercise it for the good of the Parliament, as one sometimes takes distasteful medicine for one’s own good, we will wither. [More…]
Our power will be meaningless. [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 explosive 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…]
Do you have any power to do anything?’ [More…]
He does not have any power to do anything. [More…]
Liberal ideas and ideals, which originally emerged in opposition to autocratic power and entrenched privilege, are of the greatest relevance to the issues and problems facing contemporary society; to the problems of human freedom; to the problems of the relationship between the individual and the l arge organisations that dominate our society; to the problems of inequality and disadvantage; and to the problems of achieving meaningful change and reform. [More…]
None of them has stated the clear facts in relation to government policies and government fiscal policies which have been propounded since the Government came to power in 1975. [More…]
This interests me because I thought the whole burden of the No’ case was that if they did that, the power of the Senate would be destroyed. [More…]
Whether or not that is true, I further ask the Minister: Are there any residual powers that the Australian Government will retain? [More…]
Would the Government have the power to ban the exports of an offending company in such circumstances? [More…]
Honourable senators, of course, will be aware that the higher interest rates which Labor brought in when in power had the definite effect of making it very difficult for younger people to afford the cost burden of providing homes for themselves as they develop into families. [More…]
-If one refers to this table one sees that there has been a rapid increase in the number of unemployed since the present Government came to power. [More…]
If we look at the number of unemployed in April 1975 and in April 1976- this Government was in power in 1976- we see an increase. [More…]
If we look at the number of recipients of unemployment benefit we see increases since this Government came to power as well. [More…]
We have just seen the results of an election in Israel where a party that has an entirely different attitude from the previous Government of Israel has come into power. [More…]
Sir Charles Court believes it absolutely essential that the power to issue writs be retained by State governments. [More…]
One was the lack of quorums in the Senate; another was that too much power was given to the executive arm of government; a third was a lack of diligence in relation to Appropriation Bills in the Senate; a fourth point was a decline of the work ethic in Australia; and a fifth point was a lack of social discipline in societies like Australia. [More…]
In 1 977 Senator Wright persists in describing this chamber as a States House and apparently is incapable of recalling as far back as 1975 when his revered leader in this place, Senator Withers, walked the corridors of non-power here boasting that he had 3 1 in the bag when the then Leader of the Opposition in the other place had Senator Wright and other honourable senators now on the Government side of the chamber waiting breathlessly to find out what they had to do at the behest of the then Leader of the Opposition in the other place. [More…]
Like many Ministers, he probably deluded himself into the belief that the air traffic controllers strike was being run by a group of militants with some allegiance to a foreign power. [More…]
Everybody in Australia knows that it was never really on, because of the absence of power in this Parliament to do anything about it. [More…]
There never was any such power in this Parliament, because, for one thing, of decisions made by the then Opposition in 1973 to campaign against the referendum on prices and incomes. [More…]
The Government now finds itself without the power which would enable it to do the things which it would like to have done in the contest of the so-called price-wage pause. [More…]
That sort of thing can be imposed on any society only if one has the constitutional power to do so and the will to do so. [More…]
I do not want to go into an analysis of the Government’s degree of genuine will about that gimmick, but it did not have the power to do what it wanted to do. [More…]
In 1959 as a supporter of the Menzies Government- nearly 20 years ago- he recognised the fact that the Commonwealth Parliament lacked sufficient powers to deal with the sort of contemporary problems which existed in 1959. [More…]
In 1959 Senator Wright saw that it was necessary in the interests of the good government of this country if it was to develop as a viable political democracy, if its economy was to develop, to have changes to the industrial powers of the Commonwealth; he saw that there would have to be changes to the broadcasting powers, to the corporations powers, to the marketing powers of the Commonwealth Government; he saw that the Commonwealth Government should have power over interest rates; he saw that there should be alterations to the provisions of section 92 of the Constitution. [More…]
Of course the sad thing about all that is that a politician of Senator Wright’s generation and Senator Wright’s considerable ability sees these things, sees solutions to all these problems with which he cannot quite grapple and with which probably we are all inadequate to grapple as being some sort of reinvigoration of the life of the Senate- a little more attention to quorums and committees and watching the power of executive government and a few things like that will mean that all these things will come right and, suddenly, the Australian people will come to respect the institution of the Parliament again and know that we are all behaving ourselves here and working very hard on their behalf. [More…]
There can be no achievement in relation to the sorts of problems which Senator Wright discussed and to which I have adverted tonight in the context of an absence of power to deal with those achievements and, in some sense, in the absence of some unanimity within this Parliament about the extent of those problems and perhaps a bipartisan approach towards some of them if we are, in the interest of the people of this country, to achieve anything very significant in the future. [More…]
None of the women ‘s refuges that have been opened since your party came to power in 1975 have received any government funding. [More…]
Will the Minister provide a list of all the new Ordinances for the Northern Territory since 13 December 1975, and the actual power and constraints of each. [More…]
Nuclear Power Station at Whyl, Germany (Question No. [More…]
1 ) In the light of the Government’s stated policy that it will encourage widespread public debate on the uranium mining issue, will the Minister make public the recent court decision in West Germany which ordered the cancellation of planning permission for a nuclear power station at Whyl in West Germany. [More…]
Will the Minister also make public that the reason for such a court decision was because of the inadequate safety precautions for such nuclear power plants. [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…]
When there are many sellers of a fairly homogenous product the individual seller has no power at all over the price and any increase in his costs inevitably reduces his profits. [More…]
Of course, that is an old phrase which was used for many years by the Liberal Party when it was previously in power. [More…]
They want to sit in here and have the power to force the government of the day to the people while they sit pat and do not have to face the people. [More…]
With the powers this Senate has at present under the Constitution there is nothing to stop it from again forcing a government to the people. [More…]
This brings me back to saying to Senator Wood and those of his colleagues who advocated a No vote that they have the power in their own hands. [More…]
These people were fooled into thinking that they had to maintain the power of the Senate. [More…]
I venture to say that if the proposal for simultaneous elections had been carried the Senate would have been given more power and responsibility. [More…]
Fancy Senator Wood saying that after he joined with those 1 1 rebels opposite and went out and hoodwinked the people into believing that if they voted Yes in the referendum for simultaneous elections they would be taking power away from the Senate. [More…]
Where is it most important that the power be held- in the Senate or the Australian electorate? [More…]
In my view, power should be in the hands of the people and not in the hands of about 60 people who sit in this place. [More…]
He has taken away from the people the opportunity for them to be given more power. [More…]
I am hoping, as I said before, that Senator Wood and his colleagues will have the courage of their convictions and will put the Government to an election next April because they have the power to do it. [More…]
I think that the effect of what the Justice said was that the Director-General of the Department of Social Security had no power to issue a blanket order, that he had to deal with every case individually and had to make a decision on every application that came before him as to whether it met the criteria. [More…]
Of course as members of the Parliament we have done all within our power to urge the setting up of an international inquiry. [More…]
We have done all that is within our power to bring about such an independent inquiry. [More…]
Also killed was Dr Les Power, State Government appointee to the North Queensland Electricity Board and former alderman of the Townsville City Council. [More…]
West Germany: Nuclear Power Station at Gundremmingen (Question No. [More…]
1 ) Is the Minister aware that an atomic power station at Gundremmingen in West Germany shut down recently for an indefinite period because of an escape of radioactive steam? [More…]
the 250 megawatt boiling water reactor at the Gundremmingen nuclear power station, which is operated by the utility Rheinisch-Westfalische Elektrizitatswerk AG( RWE), was automatically shut down on 14 January after release of radioactive steam to the containment building. [More…]
Additional water was pumped in, using 2 pumps operating on emergency power, and the feedwater regulation valve was opened hydraulically. [More…]
I take it that in his continuous 1 6 months attack on federalism and on the system of federalism- despite the unanimity of the Premiers- what he is saying to the Senate is that the Labor Party not only rejects the policy of federalism but also, if elected to power, would return to the tax reimbursement uniform taxation that it in fact had in government, that it rejects tax sharing and that it favours tax reimbursement. [More…]
Let him tell the people of Australia and let him tell the Premiers and local governments in Australia that if his Party were in power it would return to the bad old days of Whitlam centralism. [More…]
Under the Social Services Act the Director-General has the power and responsibility to make determinations of eligibility. [More…]
Is the Minister representing the Acting Minister for Transport aware of the recent announcement of the South Australian Minister of Mines and Energy, Mr Hudson, that the Electricity Trust of South Australia proposes the construction of a third power station at Port Augusta, to utilise coal to be extracted as a result of further development of the Leigh Creek coal field? [More…]
Is he also aware that Mr Hudson said that the siting of the power station would depend upon the freight rate offered by the Australian National Railways? [More…]
I have an informal understanding that the 2 facts stated by Senator Jessop have been published- that is, the proposed establishment of a third power station to use Leigh Creek coal, and the Minister for Mines and Energy in South Australia has indicated that the future of the power station, its building and operation would depend upon the execution of a favourable freight rate. [More…]
That the Publications Committee or any sub-committee sub- committee thereof, when conferring with a similar committee or sub-committee of the House of Representatives, have power to move from place to place; and [More…]
28 which gave the Joint Committee on Publications broad powers of inquiry. [More…]
However, the Committee does not have the power of most other Parliamentary committees to move from place to place. [More…]
The power is required initially to enable the Committee to take evidence and undertake certain inspections in Sydney and Melbourne in connection with its current inquiry into the Australian Government Publishing Service. [More…]
We express the hope that the power is used only in circumstances in which it appears to be absolutely necessary for the reasons stated by the Minister in his second reading speech- that is, in circumstances in which it is desired to discourage frivolous appeals. [More…]
I think it is desirable that the Tribunal have this power. [More…]
Under the additional powers it is the President of the Tribunal who will determine the setting aside of the certificate. [More…]
(4) which preserves the power of a court to make an order despite the certification of the Attorney-General so that the ordinary common law is preserved in regard to these matters. [More…]
But of course we find that when Labor came to power, like a lot of Liberal governments they reneged on those statements and would not hand over their railways. [More…]
I agree with him that we ought to be doing everything in our power to encourage people to use the railways. [More…]
Therefore the need is apparent to place housing beyond the manipulation of companies which because of their concentrated strength and purchasing power are able to exploit the market. [More…]
Indeed, I should have expected that the location of Flinders Island would be such that it would have obtained its supply of power from other sources, such as wind or tidal generation. [More…]
Is the Minister aware also that the United States Federal Power Commission has recommended that a planned pipeline to carry natural gas from Alaska’s north slope be built across Canada and that the Commission’s economic study indicated that the cost per thousand cubic feet delivered to Chicago would be 80c? [More…]
Senator Mcintosh suggests is the estimate by the United States Federal Power Commission of the cost of the transport of gas in the Alaska-Canada area, which he suggests is a lesser cost. [More…]
Now that Brych has left New Zealand, and has been struck off the Medical Register, the Medical Council does not have power to investigate these 23 charges or to take further action. [More…]
It is highly desirable that we should do all in our power to restrict the extra suffering which he is threatening for Australians. [More…]
I believe in the Senate’s exercising the power that it arrogantly took unto itself until such time as the people rebel and take away from the Senate that power. [More…]
The only way in which that will be done is for the Senate to misuse continually its powers until the people are aware of that misuse. [More…]
Senator Wriedt pointed out that the Commonwealth pays entirely for the maintenance of universities and colleges; but he failed to point out, of course, that the whole constitutional power and responsibility for all areas of education, except that of student allowances, resides in the States. [More…]
Do they intend to destroy the decision-making power of the States in terms of primary and secondary education? [More…]
Even though the question of full tax indexation had been argued about and promised for some time, all major parties realised that its introduction would not be easy because of the amount of revenue forgone, whichever Government was in power. [More…]
The purchasing power of the wage earner is less today than it was in 1975. [More…]
1 am sure that the community at large will realise how detrimental this retraction will be to the purchasing power of the ordinary housewife especially and to the community at large. [More…]
Until such time as the Government recognises that the purchasing power of the wage and salary earners in Australia must be returned to at least the 1 975 level, we cannot expect the return to economicactivity and recovery which I am sure everybody would wish to see. [More…]
Senator Wriedt has made a great deal of the issue of a decrease in real wages and its effects on purchasing power. [More…]
Perhaps he will explain to us why it is that, since inflation has fallen from something like 16 Vi per cent when this Government came to power to about 10.2 per cent now, in that period of time household consumption has increased by something like 3.2 per cent in real terms. [More…]
There is just no purchasing power in the community. [More…]
At the present time the Wool Corporation, with the consent of the Minister, has the power to enter into freight negotiations, and it is in fact doing so. [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 marketdominating corporations which substantially strengthen the power of the corporation to control or dominate a market. [More…]
This power is, however, subject to a limitation of $50,000 on the amount of affirmative disclosure or corrective advertising which may be ordered in relation to a particular contravention or substantially related contraventions. [More…]
Whilst the increase in their pensions may have been in the order of 6 per cent, the inflation which occurred in that time was far in excess of that amount, and their purchasing power was eroded. [More…]
They have done so because the Australian Broadcasting Commission has assumed responsibilities, in respect of the carrying out of its broadcasting power, to broadcast music. [More…]
It has taken on the responsibilities of running 6 orchestras in the various State capital cities, all of which, as I say, has been done under its supposed broadcasting power. [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…]
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 only be able to exercise these powers 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…]
Such undertakings could involve significant expenditure of funds outside Australia and for this reason the Corporation is required to seek the approval of the Minister before exercise of this power. [More…]
Senator Button- jointly or severally with Senator Georges, I am not sure which- raised the question of powers granted under clause 5, which proposes a new section 54. [More…]
It gives power to an inspector to enter the premises of an employer to interview employees, but of course the employer might not be agreeable to the interview taking place with the employee. [More…]
I am advised that clause 5, by reference to other sections, contains the same powers as exist at present. [More…]
The clause goes on to say that the Director may, on behalf of the Bureau, exercise any power conferred on the Bureau by this Act or the regulations. [More…]
At an earlier stage when the legislation was being discussed, I was facetious enough to suggest to the Minister- 1 hesitate to recall it- that Norman Gunston might be an appropriate figure to direct the Industrial Relations Bureau; that is, when it had its full powers and was in its full glory under the legislation as it was previously drafted and not under the emasculated Bill which we now have before us. [More…]
The Director may, on behalf of the Bureau, exercise any power conferred on the Bureau by this Act or the regulations. [More…]
Where the exercise of a power referred to in sub-section (5) is expressed to be dependent upon the opinion, belief or state of mind of the Bureau in relation to a matter, that power may be exercised by the Director upon the opinion, belief or state of mind of the Director in relation to that matter. [More…]
I wonder how far the powers of the Director of the Industrial Relations Bureau are to extend. [More…]
What power are we putting in the Director’s hands and how is he to exercise that power? [More…]
The Director may, on behalf of the Bureau, exercise any power conferred on the Bureau by this Act or the regulations. [More…]
In addition to any powers that are conferred on it by any other provision of this Act, the Bureau has power to do all things necessary or convenient to be done to enable it to perform its function and, in particular, may institute proceedings before any court of competent jurisdiction for an offence against this Act or the regulations. [More…]
Whilst proposed new section 126B states that the Bureau is to secure the observance of this Act and the regulations and of awards, proposed new section 126C by the omission of the word awards’ would seem to deprive the Director of the Bureau of the power to institute proceedings for a breach of an award. [More…]
Can the Minister direct me to any part of the Bill where the exercise of a power relies upon the opinion, belief or state of mind of any individual? [More…]
Of course, proposed section 126c gives the Bureau the power to prosecute for any breach of the Act or Regulations. [More…]
Therefore, the word ‘award’ does not have to be repeated in proposed section 126c because power is given to the Bureau to act on a breach of an award, it is a breach of the Act, and the Bureau can then institute proceedings. [More…]
upon the opinion, belief or state of mind ofthe Bureau in relation to a matter, that power may be exercised by the Director upon the opinion, belief or state of mind of the Director in relation to that matter. [More…]
Presumably it is in the Bill out of caution in case there is some power in the Act or the regulations, as amended, which may depend for its exercise upon the opinion or the belief of the Bureau. [More…]
The first refers to the powers under proposed new section 126c enabling the Bureau to institute proceedings for offences. [More…]
This would cover the power under existing section 119 of the Conciliation and Arbitration Act to recover under-payments by employers. [More…]
The Bureau definitely is included in those powers. [More…]
Is there power for the Minister to reject a nomination? [More…]
Has he that power? [More…]
If one of the ACTU nominations was Halfpenny, and he did not like Halfpenny, would he have the power to appoint the other five and leave out Halfpenny? [More…]
Would he have the power to reject the leader of a union involved in a dispute when the application for appointment was made? [More…]
I am forced to rise because the Minister for Veterans’ Affairs (Senator Durack) did not answer the question I raised on clause 6 (2), which relates to the power of the Minister to appoint persons or, as I suggested, not to appoint persons. [More…]
I think it is important to obtain an answer from the Minister concerning his power under clause 6 (2). [More…]
I make the preliminary observation that the differences between the Bill introduced in the Senate and the Bill introduced in the House of Representatives on 3 1 March indicate something of the vacillation and, if I might use the word, schizophrenia of the Government’s industrial relations policies which have been manifest throughout any decisions which have been made on industrial relations since this Government came to power. [More…]
The second area of power which the Council will have and which I believe should not pass without comment is the question of the consideration of manpower matters. [More…]
I emphasise again the belief which I expressed in the Senate only a few days ago, during a discussion on another matter, that with the very real problems with which this country is confronted at the moment, the question of manpower policy is absolutely crucial to the continuing existence of this country as a viable democratic society. [More…]
The whole question of manpower policies was neglected by Liberal-Country Party governments for years and years. [More…]
I remind honourable senators again that less than 10 years ago the Treasurer of this country boasted that we did not have any manpower policies in Australia. [More…]
He boasted in international forums that Australia did not need manpower policies. [More…]
This Government, when it made all those promises and came to power, I think, genuinely believed that it could fix up the problems of unemployment with those sorts of techniques. [More…]
This all means that there are immense manpower problems of disemployment and the need to retrain sections of the work force. [More…]
I regard the reference in clause 5 of the proposed Bill to the powers of the Council to deal with manpower matters as being most significant. [More…]
I say that because in the field of industrial relations it is not often considered sufficiently that it is the abuse of monopoly power by labour unions- I say abuse although of course they have very many uses that are quite laudable- which is the chief contributer to inflation. [More…]
The most powerful instrument at the disposal of governments is the power to prevent monopoly. [More…]
How can we come to terms with the reality of the new industrial power of the trade unions? [More…]
The fact remains that trade unions do have the capacity to wield immense power, indeed excessive power, across the community. [More…]
He also said that the question was ‘accommodating this new power’. [More…]
This means neither total resistance, which given that power exists would be self-defeating, nor total concession which would place the effective government of Britain outside Parliament. [More…]
Nobody should rush to the conclusion that because that power was given we would deregister every union that participated in industrial action involving interstate trade or the Public Service. [More…]
Senator Wright has expressed the view that what is needed is some legislation to prevent the abuse by unions of their monopoly power. [More…]
Therefore, whatever government is in power must give a great deal of attention to the question how to avoid industrial disputes-how to create conditions in which strikes will not occur. [More…]
As we have experienced in South Australia, a dispute with the maintenance men at a power station for even a short period can paralyse that section of the community which that power station supplies. [More…]
Only 38 per cent thought that the Commission should have power to gaol officials who refuse to pay fines. [More…]
They say that the new statutory body has to be reinforced and that the director has to be given a new power which cannot be exercised by the employers. [More…]
Sir John said that courts had the power to impose penalties under the existing legislation, but only governments had the power to collect the fines. [More…]
If we look at the record of the Government which they supported we find that while it was in power an unprecedented number of manhours was lost- far more than has been lost under this Government. [More…]
The Bureau is to have the same powers as the Arbitration Inspectorate. [More…]
It is interesting to note those powers. [More…]
The inspectors have been assigned powers to make inspections, examinations, investigations and inquiries and to interview people to determine whether the Act is being observed or whether an offence is suspected, and several other powers which are really very strong powers. [More…]
The Inspectorate also has this power: For the purpose of ascertaining whether awards and the requirements of this Act are being carried out, an inspector may at any time during working hours, or at any other time which is necessary for that purpose, enter without force a building, place, vessel, aircraft, vehicle, etc., on which he has reasonable cause to believe that work to which an award is or was applicable is being or has been performed or a place of business of any person in which he has reasonable cause to believe that there are books or documents relevant to that purpose. [More…]
So that duty or power remains with the Industrial Relations Bureau. [More…]
Trade unionism is probably the greatest force in this country today and men in control qf it have used their power in a way which was never intended when trade unions were created. [More…]
In my view, the power to suspend would be of more value to the court than the present power to impose fines. [More…]
Fifty-two believed the Commission should be able to fine officials, but only 38 per cent thought the Commission should have the power to gaol officials who refused to pay fines. [More…]
I notice that Mr McMahon, in an article in the Sydney Sun, paid some regard to the fact that too many strikes are being caused by small groups, particularly in the metal, transport, power supply and communications industries. [More…]
We should not have been subjected to the greed of the Opposition at the time to gain power as quickly as possible, and that is exactly what the honourable senator’s Party did. [More…]
This legislation is going to separate, by way of a statutory authority, the powers that were within the Commission. [More…]
It will put those powers in the hands of a bureau, away from the influence of the Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations, so that he can disclaim all responsibility for what happens. [More…]
The power will be taken away from the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission and, so, will become an embarrassment to the Commission. [More…]
The Government intends to place unlimited powers to initiate in the hands of the Bureau. [More…]
This will lead to a confrontation initiated by a separate authority, not the employer or the employee, but the Bureau, which may seek to carry out the political ends of the government in power. [More…]
We are injecting into the industrial area a provocateur of immense power. [More…]
The person who becomes the leader of this Bureau and implements the penalties which exist in the Act will become the most powerful man in this country. [More…]
At times when trade unions argue on mergers people opposite question whether it would be a centralisation of power. [More…]
The power ofthe trade unions to contribute effectively and responsibly towards industrial progress depends on the co-ordinated and disciplined action of their members. [More…]
I was all prepared to come into this place and to show that under the Constitution the Parliament does not have the power to legislate as was intended by way of the original Bill. [More…]
Section 5 1 (xxxv) of the Constitution does not clothe the Parliament with that power. [More…]
; Soaps and Detergents; and Bench or Pedestal Drilling Machines, Not Power Fed. [More…]
It will also have power to determine applications for the provision of legal aid in specialised areas referred to it. [More…]
I think it is a very sorry state of affairs when we find the South Australian Premier criticised for putting not only his own views but also the views of 3 other State Premiers to senators in this place asking them to do all in their power to have legislation deferred so that they might have a closer look at it. [More…]
How can he ever lead his party to power? [More…]
How can he ever get to power? [More…]
He has no power or direction over him. [More…]
Clause 4 provides the Minister with discretionary powers to approve road works. [More…]
As already indicated to the Senate, this power will be exercised strictly in accordance with the arrangements discussed in detail with State administrations. [More…]
Of course there was an application of the Act to the Territories within the constitutional power. [More…]
That is a general matter so that the Minister is entitled to give directions to the Commission as to any power or function under the Act - not including - [More…]
However, the power of ministerial direction in relation to the policies pursued by the Commission has always been in the Act. [More…]
All that is added now is a power for the Minister to give directions on special matters of policy which the Government may wish the Commission to follow. [More…]
My questions related to the power to take any property or money of the individual which he has obtained as a result of his membership of the union. [More…]
In the meantime, I intend to demonstrate, by reference to proposed sub-sections (5) and (6), that the Bill has travelled completely beyond any power that can possibly be considered to be contained within the corporations power of the Constitution upon which this Bill depends. [More…]
How in the name of fortune can that be considered to be within the scope of the corporations power? [More…]
The corporations power relates to the target corporation. [More…]
The Government is not invoking the industrial jurisdiction incidental to the arbitration power in this case. [More…]
We are seeking power to deal with them under this Act. [More…]
As I have said, the legislation is limited in its operations by the corporations power. [More…]
It will separate unions and, although it may not have any power and does not intend to have any power over a strike situation within a union, it definitely does have the power to prevent support of strike action in a particular place of employment. [More…]
I think that these judicial powers about which we are speaking weaken the ability of the Commission to pursue vital lines of prosecution. [More…]
There is a reduction of powers to subpoena witnesses and documents. [More…]
The Commission now has no power to obtain evidence on oath. [More…]
The Bill takes away the power to enforce witnesses to appear and it ends the Commission’s power to enforce answers to questions that may incriminate witnesses. [More…]
How is the Government going to bring a big corporation to account, especially a trans-national corporation, after limiting the powers of the Commission? [More…]
If the Government accepts that the Commission is a worthwhile commission and that the powers of the Act are worth while-I questioned that- I cannot understand why the Government wants to diminish the powers of the Commission any further. [More…]
I believe that proposed section 45D(3) would provide to a ruthless employer the opportunity for monopoly power and unfair advantage over unprotected workers in certain industries. [More…]
Trade unions, on the other hand, have the power to exercise a practical veto over decisions of governments, using their industrial strength. [More…]
At present, most unions do not use their industrial power to veto decisions of governments- even where they vehemently disagree with them. [More…]
However, there are a number of powerful unions which reject this convention, and strongly assert the right of unions to take any action, within the selfimposed limits of political expediency. [More…]
The Medibank strike … the bans on Indonesian and Chilean trade, green bans and the Newport power house ban have had the effect of widening the ‘accepted’ area of political activity of unions. [More…]
Legislation such as the amendments to the Trade Practices Act and the Arbitration Act, now before Federal Parliament, have aroused opposition across the whole trade union spectrum, because they restrict legitimate trade union activity, as well as abuses of unions’ power. [More…]
The only restraint on the misuse of power by an individual union is the possibility of isolation from the rest of the trade union movement, and the possibility of government action (e.g. [More…]
Legislation such as the amendments to the Trade Practices Act and the Arbitration Act, now before Federal Parliament, have aroused opposition across the whole trade union spectrum, because they restrict legitimate trade union activity, as well as abuses of unions ‘ power. [More…]
Because of the limits on the constitutional power of this Parliament, that other person has to be a corporation. [More…]
Did a United States Starlifter aircraft airlift vast quantities of intelligence gathering electronic equipment when the Australian Labor Party won power in 1972; if so, what was the reason for this. [More…]
By way of preface I refer to a statement emanating from the spokesman in the Senate on foreign affairs under the McMahon Government, Senator Wright, who said that people advocating the fragmentation of Yugoslavia endangered world peace because such action would disturb the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation and the Warsaw Pact power balances, bearing in mind Yugoslavia’s non-aligned role. [More…]
He, above all, should know that this Government has no power whatsoever to legislate in that area. [More…]
The new corporation is to have much wider powers, particularly over livestock exports. [More…]
It will have the power to act independently of the Ministerthis underlines the statement which was made by Senator Wriedt- within guidelines established by the Corporation in consultation with the Minister. [More…]
The Corporation has much wider trading powers, and these will be assisted by its right to borrow money. [More…]
The only restriction on its power to borrow money is that any borrowing must be approved by the Treasurer, and that is a reasonable restriction. [More…]
It also will have much wider powers over the control of shipping, and this too is quite important. [More…]
Senator Primmer and Senator Wriedt, in their parsimonious way, said that the Minister had too much power. [More…]
If the Opposition’s amendment does not give total, utter and complete power then I do not know what else does. [More…]
Senator Archer went on to say that if that amendment was agreed to we would be giving the Minister some outlandish powers, that he would be able to do all sorts of things with the legislation. [More…]
On the one hand Liberal and National Country Party senators opposite, and particularly Senator Archer, have no complaints about that particular clause being in the Wheat Industry Stabilisation Act, yet when it is put forward as an amendment to tidy up this piece of slip-shod legislation, as Senator Walsh referred to it, they say in criticism that we are giving undue power to the Minister. [More…]
We believe, as was indicated then, that the Corporation should be given this power. [More…]
If it became a matter of debate as to the actual power given to the Minister, the clause is most indefinite. [More…]
Our argument is not with that final power but with the manner in which the power is exercised. [More…]
Yet the Opposition and others have complained about the way in which the provision in regard to ministerial power has been worded in the clause which we debated previously. [More…]
That provision limits the Minister’s powers to deal only with those occasions when the Corporation might want to operate outside ordinary commercial practice. [More…]
Contrary to what the Minister has just said in answer to the previous amendment, the distinction is that the amendment I have just moved seeks to give the Minister overriding power which, as Senator McLaren quite rightly pointed out, is identical to the ministerial power that is contained in the Wheat Industry Stabilization Act. [More…]
Senator McLaren’s question was a good one: If such power is not suitable in this legislation, why does it remain in the wheat industry legislation? [More…]
The power conferred by clause 14 has been included in this legislation pursuant to that review and its likely outcome. [More…]
It is for the purpose of that general oversight of these export arrangements, in the interests of trying to minimise freight costs, that this power is included. [More…]
This power will be exercised by the Minister in consultation and co-operation with the Minister for Transport. [More…]
In conformity with the previous amendments concerning the power of the Minister, I move: [More…]
The Legal Aid Commission will be given power to make recommendations to the Attorney-General concerning the provision of legal assistance in Commonwealth matters. [More…]
The Commission has no power to grant funds directly to legal aid bodies. [More…]
Honourable senators will remember that it happened when the Whitlam Government was in power. [More…]
The Commission has no power to grant funds directly to legal aid bodies; any recommendation will have to be approved and carried out by the Attorney-General of the day, who is of course subject to the usual political pressures. [More…]
The Commission is empowered, as requested by the Attorney-General, to report to him as to the provision of financial assistance to State legal aid commissions. [More…]
The Commission has power to advise on such other matters as it considers appropriate, but this is different from a duty to consider financial assistance to the voluntary services. [More…]
Has the Minister considered the recommendation of the Joint Committee on Constitutional Review which reported in 19S9 unanimously in favour of legislation to give the Commonwealth power over corporations, untrammelled by the limitations in the present Commonwealth power, which would enable a uniform companies Act and Federal legislation effectively controlling the securities industry? [More…]
Does not the Minister representing the Attorney-General recall that the recommendation of the Joint Committee on Constitutional Review for the alteration of this power expressly recommended legislation that did not authorise this Parliament to regulate the trade and commerce of corporations, which is the effect of the recent interpretation of the High Court? [More…]
1 ) The Commonwealth Parliament should have power to make laws with respect to corporations. [More…]
The power to make laws with respect to corporations should not authorise the Parliament to make laws with respect to the trade, commerce or industry of corporations, or which apply to corporations of a State, including municipal corporations formed for governmental purposes ‘. [More…]
Since then the High Court decision in Strickland v. Rocla Concrete Pipes Limited in 197 1 has indicated that the existing power extends at least to the regulation of the trading activities of trading corporations. [More…]
However, the full scope of the power remains to be finally determined by the High Court. [More…]
In 1973 the first meeting of the Australian Constitutional Convention referred the question of amendment of the corporations power to its Standing Committee ‘A’ for consideration and report. [More…]
An important element of the Commonwealth’s approach is that it does not involve a formal reference of power by the States to the Commonwealth. [More…]
867 and 1266 relating to the operating costs of the television transmitter at Mount Dowe, was the cost of electrical power included in the figure for total costs of operating the transmitter. [More…]
What was the cost of electric power for operation of the transmitter for the year ending 30 September 1 976. [More…]
Who paid the accounts for electrical power during the period referred to in ( 2 ) above. [More…]
NEN9 transmitters are separately metered by the local power authority and the costs are charged by the authority direct to the commercial station. [More…]
Is the Minister aware of the recent court decision in West Germany which ordered the cancellation of planning permission for a nuclear power station in that country. [More…]
How does the court’s decision affect the claim by pronuclear proponents, such as Sir Philip Baxter, that there is absolutely no danger with respect to nuclear power station safeguards against failure and fall-out. [More…]
The Government has no plans to introduce nuclear power stations into Australia. [More…]
1) In the light of the Government’s stated policy that it will encourage widespread public debate on the uranium mining issue, will the Minister make public the recent court decision in West Germany which ordered the cancellation of planning permission for a nuclear power station at Whyl in west Germany. [More…]
Will the Minister also make public that the reason for such a court decision was because of the inadequate safety precautions for such nuclear power plants. [More…]
I refer to the Aboriginal Loans Commission which has the power to make loans to Aborigines for the purpose, among other purposes, of enabling them to purchase homes. [More…]
It does not matter whether it is a government of my party’s complexion or of the complexion of the party that is in power now, we all know that it is very hard to prophesy our intake or our needs. [More…]
Intermediate repeaters on this system are solar powered and because of their limited power, provision of additional facilities is restricted in comparison with systems elsewhere, e.g. [More…]
Mount Isa-Tennant Creek-Darwin, which are operated from other power systems of substantially greater output capacity. [More…]
Tennant Creek will also be restricted, particularly in the light of the power supply limitations mentioned above. [More…]
1 ) Did the Pritchard Steam Power Company seek Federal Government funding assistance some two years ago, as was claimed in the television program on the energy crisis on Four Comers on 22 April 1977; if so (a) what were the details of the Company’ s submission (b) when was the submission received, and (c) what response has the company received to its submission? [More…]
1) (a) (b) and (c) Pritchard Steam Power Pty Ltd made an application to the Commonwealth Government in early 1 975 for assistance against a program of development as laid down by them. [More…]
As a result of that application the Commonwealth Government agreed to manufacture, at no charge to the company, three ‘quick change’ power units to detailed manufacturing drawings supplied by the company. [More…]
and (2) Other than the manufacture, at Bendigo Ordnance Factory at no charge to the company, of three quickchange steam power units designed by the company for installation in its specially designed car, no assistance has yet been provided by the Government to Pritchard Steam Power Pty Ltd towards the development of a steam car. [More…]
The first of these power units is expected to be completed in July 1977; the remaining two will follow shortly afterwards. [More…]
Two shipments of 101 and 98 short tons of uranium oxide exported to Canada were destined for final use by a Japanese electric power utility. [More…]
Two shipments of 52 and 10 short tons of uranium oxide were exported to the United Kingdom for final use by a West German electric power utility. [More…]
The present Martial Law Administration led by General Zia al Haq removed Prime Minister Bhutto from office on 5 July and plans to transfer power back to the civilian authorities by way of a national election on 18 October. [More…]
At the same time the Government increases the difficulties and the hardships of the unemployed in the community, as it has done consistently since it came into power. [More…]
The Government in this country today shows its callousness and great unconcern, as it has done since it has been in power, by making things more difficult for those who are unemployed, by making benefits harder to get, by making application for benefits difficult, by failing to increase the allowances for dependants of people who are unemployed and by now introducing, half-cocked, a system of reform which, with all the other suggestions of Dr Myers and Mr Norgard, may be a very good system but the Government is pulling out that reform in isolation, an act which can only make life difficult not only for the unemployed but also for the people in the Department of Social Security, particularly those clerks in the office who answer the telephones and who will have to handle the great confusion which will inevitably arise. [More…]
Under the Land Rights Act the Legislative Assembly of the Northern Territory is empowered to make ordinances in respect of these matters, hence the reciprocal legislation. [More…]
In accordance with this power the Aboriginal Lands and Sacred Sites Bill was introduced into the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly on 3 March 1977. [More…]
The Committee believes that in relation to entry to Aboriginal land the Northern Territory legislation should contain the following provisions: Power to delegate by the Land Councils; permits to include conditions laid down by traditional owners; conditions to include that a person should leave the land if requested by the traditional owners; power to revoke 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 and police should notify in advance their intention to enter Aboriginal land. [More…]
Instead of legislating on the whole question of land rights in accordance with the powers which the referendum gave it, this Federal Government is handing some of this responsibility to the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly. [More…]
The Committee had the power to determine only whether the legislation of the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly was sufficient to meet the intentions of the Aboriginal [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 Committee is always wary of restricting the power of courts to obtain information and documents and of conferring upon executive or statutory bodies privilege from court orders. [More…]
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…]
Is the Minister aware of the ‘Nodding Ducks’ trial at Loch Ness for tapping wave power as a source of energy; if so, is there to be research on the implementation of the scheme in Australia, with particular reference to the Northern Territory. [More…]
The United Kingdom has one of the world’s most favoured coastlines for wave power. [More…]
-I can understand the honourable senator’s wish to get as much detail as he can prior to next Tuesday and I am certainly trying to get that for him, but I certainly do not in any way expect to be able to stand here and answer all questions concerning the Treasury, primary industry or trade as though I am an instant ready reckoner with the power of instant recall like the late Senator Martin Nicholls. [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, urbanisation, industry, population and nutrition, tourism, telecommunications and electric power. [More…]
During the discussion 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…]
The Labor Movement is concerned about the spread of the use of nuclear power throughout the world. [More…]
We are concerned about the use of nuclear power and the effect and consequences of its use on communities. [More…]
We are concerned that it has not been proved- indeed, it is far from proved- that the use of nuclear power is safe beyond all doubt. [More…]
That fact alone, perhaps more than anything, should indicate to Australians and to this Parliament the seriousness of the matter we are discussing, namely, whether with all the hazards that exist so far as the use of uranium as a source of power is concerned, we as a nation should proceed at this time and in these circumstances with mining of the yellowcake and its export. [More…]
Believing 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 to the proven contribution of the nuclear power industry to the proliferation of nuclear weapons and the increased risk of nuclear war; and the absence of procedures for the storage and disposal of radioactive wastes to ensure that any danger posed by such wastes to human life and the environment is eliminated), [More…]
Yankee reactor; and dynamited nuclear power plant transmission towers in Washington and Oregon. [More…]
Uniquely amongst private police forces this constabularly has power to carry arms at all times, to engage in ‘hot pursuits’ of thieves or attempted thefts of nuclear materials and to arrest on suspicion. [More…]
Britain, I suggest, represents only some 7 per cent of the world nuclear power generation capacity- this is taken from the second table of the first Fox reportwhile the United States represents 5 1 per cent of the world ‘s total capacity. [More…]
The United Kingdom Atomic Energy Agency in its monthly bulletin A tom, to which I have already alluded, gives a summary of a report produced by the European regional office of the World Health Organisation on ‘Health Implications of Nuclear Power production’. [More…]
These releases may occur at such places as uranium mines, nuclear power stations, fuel processing plants or research organisations. [More…]
I believe that a fantastic market is available to us in South East Asia for any development of solar energy because what those countries want is a source of energy that has nothing to do with oil or nuclear power. [More…]
These countries do not have the distribution networks which a nation would need or must have with nuclear power. [More…]
We cannot have small nuclear power stations operating because they are not economical. [More…]
Nuclear power stations appear to be designed only for highly developed areas such as the East Coast of the United States or large cities like Chicago and large cities in Europe. [More…]
Nuclear power stations certainly are not appropriate for the developing nations. [More…]
Those countries need small energy resources to replace their present diesel power stations. [More…]
There are a lot of these remote towns spread throughout the nation, all of which have similar problems so far as power development is concerned. [More…]
Those towns are paying tremendous amounts of money for their power, and all have plenty of sunshine. [More…]
Overseas countries which have been using oil almost exclusively are now looking at the two alternatives -nuclear power and coal. [More…]
A lot of them are not using nuclear power but are reverting to the use of coal, as is set out in the Carter policy in the United States. [More…]
Therefore, for all these reasons, there is a necessity for us to be devoting our resources to the development of other forms of power- power from solar energy, power from coal and its alternatives. [More…]
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development group of countries are rapidly turning to nuclear power. [More…]
Figures I have show that the share of nuclear power for electricity requirements in the OECD countries in 1985 will be 20 per cent; by the year 1990 it will be 27 per cent and by the year 2000 it will be over 40 per cent. [More…]
The nuclear power industry is unintentionally contributing to an increased risk of nuclear war. [More…]
Let me quote Dr Edward Teller who has been working on the peaceful application of nuclear power and who was brought out here to encourage us to mine and sell our uranium. [More…]
Once we have used uranium to produce nuclear power we have radioactive waste and, despite what Senator Young has said and despite the pious hopes he has that we may find a way to dispose of the waste, there is no known satisfactory way to deal with the waste at this moment. [More…]
Senator Young wanted examples of how nuclear power can kill. [More…]
In January 1961 the reactor in the Idaho Falls complex in the United States of America experienced a power excursion that lasted one fivethousandths of a second. [More…]
They are out of kilter because the capital and development costs of coal-fired stations and oil from coal plants are comparable or less than the capital costs of nuclear power. [More…]
In West Germany, as all honourable senators would be aware, there are areas in which the courts have refused to give licences for the building of nuclear power plants until the courts can be convinced that proper arrangements have been made to deal with the waste. [More…]
In France, as all honourable senators will be aware, thousands of people are concerned about the dangers that come from nuclear power plants and the fast breeder reactor that France is trying to build. [More…]
If the $20m which has been spent up to this point of time on research into atomic energy was spent on research into solar power- a clean renewable safe source of energy- we would be advancing the cause of the Third World countries much further than we are advancing them at the moment. [More…]
We have absolutely no power to enforce those safeguards if we do not export uranium, but we have some power if we export it. [More…]
I put it to honourable senators that not only mishaps in a nuclear power station are involved. [More…]
I for one would not like to believe that Australia will contribute to a holocaust that could easily occur in the not too distant future, either via a mishap at a power station or by way of an earthquake in which a lot of this radioactive waste is vomited up again to create a lot more hazards. [More…]
The major concern was not whether there were inherent dangers in nuclear power generation but rather whether such dangers were sufficient to require Australia to ban uranium exports. [More…]
Our introduction to the awesome power of the nuclear age came in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. [More…]
Because of that a lot of people in the world who know nothing more about nuclear power than that introduction have a quite emotional problem in coming to grips with it. [More…]
At the same time, because if the awesomeness of these bombs, the nuclear power industry- Operation Ploughshare, as it became known- was able to take commensurate safeguards down to this present day and age so that we now have safe nuclear power generation without any fatality to this point. [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…]
Nuclear power generation is now a fact of life. [More…]
As of the first of this month there were 184 nuclear power generators operating, 204 being built, 102 ordered and 291 planned. [More…]
It is making us burn more petrol to get less power. [More…]
Any electric power generated should be generated either by nuclear reactor or by the burning of coal. [More…]
I think it is of the utmost folly that any large power station in this day and age should use anything other than those methods. [More…]
As the power requirements of developing countries rise in the future they will be looking more to nuclear power generation, especially those that cannot meet their own fossil fuel requirements. [More…]
It has been estimated that for a 1000 megawatt power generator the annual fuel consumption would be 2.3 million tonnes of coal, 420 million gallons of fuel oil, 64 billion cubic feet of liquid petroleum gas or 30 tonnes of enriched uranium or, in yellowcake standards, 130 to 140 tonnes of yellowcake as it leaves [More…]
It costs only about one-and-a-half times the cost of a 1000 megawatt coal-fired power station to put in a nuclear power station and the running costs are now less. [More…]
It has been estimated that, depending on the positioning of the power station and the number of scrubbers that it has in its funnel stacks, between 10 and 100 people die each year because of the noxious emissions from a fossil fuel power station. [More…]
In all the years of nuclear power generation there has not been one death. [More…]
So every time we put in a fossil fuel power station instead of a nuclear powered reactor we are condemning between 10 and 100 people a year to death. [More…]
Nuclear power stations give out a tremendous amount of heat. [More…]
I understand that in some places of the earth where cities are being designed around nuclear powered reactors the heat produced, instead of going into the atmosphere or into sea inlets as is often the case, is being used to heat the houses of the inhabitants. [More…]
We have been told about the alternatives of wind power and solar power. [More…]
Let us look at the problems of wind power. [More…]
In solar power there are two methods, either by using the concentration of the sun to make steam or, as has been done at the Australian National University, by breaking down ammonia and re-combining nitrogen and hydrogen and using the resultant heat. [More…]
By using the concentration of the power of the sun we need 2.3 square miles of collectors, which would be six times the cost of a coal plant to produce a similar amount of energy. [More…]
The photo voltaic collectors are only half as efficient as other methods so we would need about 4.6 square miles of collectors, and I must say at at least 18 times the cost of a coal power station, and this is only for a city the size of Canberra. [More…]
So there is a lot of work to be done before we can even think of solar power taking over our power generation. [More…]
I would concede that more use could be made of solar power as far as domestic and commercial heating of water and the heating and cooling of homes are concerned. [More…]
I believe that the Government should take a lead and when Government houses or buildings are built in the tropics they should be designed so as to make the maximum use of solar power as a supplement, but only as a supplement. [More…]
We are working with the United States which is looking to us for our expertise in solar power, and we are looking to that country also. [More…]
It is estimated that the United States will spend $300m on solar power exploration this year. [More…]
Yet by the year 2000 it is estimated that it will provide only 7 per cent to 8 per cent of its total power output. [More…]
Japan, I understand, will spend $100m per year between now and the turn of the century, and even France is spending $30m this year looking at the possibilities of solar power. [More…]
As I said previously, there have been no reactor deaths in the commercial power generation field since it has been in operation. [More…]
The problem was with the Defence and research reactors, not in commercial power generators. [More…]
So all the problems do not reside in nuclear power generation. [More…]
First of all, let it be stated that no bomb has yet been made out of plutonium that comes out of nuclear power reactors. [More…]
There has never been a bomb made out of plutonium that came out of a normal power reactor. [More…]
You tell me of any bomb that has been made out of plutonium that came out of a nuclear power reactor. [More…]
If we stopped nuclear power generation today we would not prevent countries making atomic bombs. [More…]
So the nuclear power generation cycle has nothing to do with bomb manufacturing. [More…]
Nuclear power generation stands accused with no real evidence to say it is of any harm to the population. [More…]
Senator Collard said that there had been a lot of research into solar power. [More…]
I should like to emphasise the following points which, I believe, are too often overlooked when the subject of nuclear power is brought up. [More…]
Neither nuclear power nor coal- unless it is liquefied- will solve this problem. [More…]
Despite all the loud cries about the important contribution that nuclear power will make to the world’s energy needs, it will be only a minor energy source by 1985. [More…]
This is the same year in which miners in Australia are saying that nuclear power will be making a significant contribution. [More…]
It is stated that by 1985 nuclear power will contribute only less than 7 per cent of” total OECD energy use. [More…]
It should be remembered that the OECD includes most energy-hungry industrial countries and, more importantly, the nuclear powered countries of Germany, France, England, Japan, the United States of America, Sweden and others. [More…]
Having stated these two very important facts, I wish to outline briefly the reasons which I consider to be rational, and a logical conclusion from available evidence, for my opposition to nuclear power in its present state of development. [More…]
I interpolate here to say that a lot of people had not heard of the Third World until the uranium lobby decided that it needed it for power. [More…]
It will be shown that nuclear power does not solve our real energy problems. [More…]
In other words, nuclear power already is redundant. [More…]
Mr Justice Fox went on an overseas trip to look at some of the processing installations and at the manner in which power was being used. [More…]
Energy resources can be divided into two groups- the non-renewable resources such as coal, oil, gas, uranium, et cetera, and the renewable resources such as solar energy, wind power, tidal and wave power, et cetera. [More…]
Further evidence of the dangers of nuclear power are illustrated by Dr Michael Flood in his paper on nuclear sabotage. [More…]
Dr Flood listed the breaches in the nuclear power industry under the following headings: Attacks on nuclear installations or facilities; threats to nuclear installations or facilities; vandalism and sabotage to nuclear installations or facilities; security breaches of nuclear installations or facilities; United States nuclear companies fined for noncompliance with security regulations. [More…]
To my mind, nuclear power is the least desirable of all energy forms for them (the developing countries). [More…]
These are muscle power and solar power. [More…]
Nuclear power, because of the size of production at which it is feasible and economical, cannot serve vast and scattered rural populations and, instead, would simply enhance centralised development and exacerbate the drift to the cities. [More…]
Also, nuclear power requires massive amounts of capital, which is clearly in short supply in developing countries. [More…]
What are our options if we do not develop nuclear power? [More…]
and the renewable resources (solar energy, wind power, tidal and wave power etc.). [More…]
There is no imminent shortage of electricity; in fact there has recently been a decline in orders of new electrical power stations, most notably in Britain. [More…]
At this point it is important to remember that nuclear energy is used to generate electricity; all controversy aside, nuclear power will not help to solve the coming energy problems of the world. [More…]
Even on their reduced estimates of energy consumption in 1985, the OECD now believes that nuclear power will contribute less than 7 per cent of their energy use. [More…]
Extract maximum use of heat rejected from power stations, wherever possible. [More…]
There is no imminent shortage of electricity; in fact there has recently been a decline in orders for new electrical power stations, most notably in Britain. [More…]
At this point it is important to remember that nuclear energy is used to generate electricity and- all controversy asidenuclear power will not help to solve the coming energy problems of the world. [More…]
Twenty countries already are operating power stations. [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 report states that the position of all governments with nuclear power is clear; they support the maintenance and expansion of nuclear energy. [More…]
We will not be establishing nuclear power stations for many years, if ever. [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…]
British statistics show that the accident rate to nuclear power workers is less than the average accident rate for British industry as a whole. [More…]
I think that today we have heard most of the arguments advanced for and against the development of the nuclear power industry. [More…]
My delegation listened with great interest to the statement made by the Chief Delegate of the Philippines in which he gave facts and figures illustrating the very high cost involved in the building of nuclear power plants. [More…]
It will be very interesting to know of the reasons and causes of such an enormous increase in the cost of bringing light and power through nuclear energy to the less prosperous countries. [More…]
I think he is aware that developing countries do need light and power and that they will be looking to some means of satisfying their needs. [More…]
The findings of this study tend to show that it is possible to justify on perfectly proper grounds the use and development of nuclear power in Britain. [More…]
We know that around the world there is considerable public support for the use of uranium and nuclear power. [More…]
Honourable senators will be aware that 42 million people or about 20 per cent of the citizens of the United States of America, in seven States, had a chance to vote at referendums giving them a chance to say in their own States whether there would or would not be use of nuclear power in their own areas. [More…]
By a majority averaging out at between 65 per cent and 70 per cent they determined the vote in every case in favour of the use of uranium and in favour of the development of nuclear power. [More…]
No member of the public or employee in a commercial nuclear power plant has been killed in a radiation accident. [More…]
There have been the normal construction, transport and other industrial accidents, but even these have been less in the nuclear industry, which now has 2000 reactor years of experience, than in the fossil fuel power undertakings. [More…]
Honourable senators who have an X-ray will receive more radiation from that examination than they will receive from the effects of nuclear power generation in this or in any other country. [More…]
If we take orders of magnitude we see that the naturally occurring radiation may contribute to bone marrow 101 millirems per year, medical radiation may contribute 46 millirems per year and the radiation from the nuclear power industry may contribute 0.25 millirems per year. [More…]
Sir Brian Flowers makes the point that medical radiation is a useful yardstick to take since it is quantitatively orders of magnitude greater than the radiation which you or I will receive from nuclear power reactors. [More…]
They are not members of the public; they are the people who work in that nuclear power generating facility. [More…]
I want to talk now about some of the other uses of nuclear power and nuclear energy. [More…]
We know that a lot of this debate has developed around the question of power generation, but there are other important uses for nuclear power in this and in other countries. [More…]
I say to honourable senators opposite that we require uranium for the peaceful use of nuclear energy, not for generation of power in this country. [More…]
That is the power which the Government wants under this legislation. [More…]
The Bill also invests in the GovernorGeneral the power to make ancillary rules and regulations. [More…]
The expression ‘employing authority’ in this legislation has to be seen in connection with the provisions of clause 13 of the Bill which provides that the employing authority may, either generally or otherwise, delegate to a person all its powers under this Act other than the power of delegation. [More…]
It could be a person from the Minister- or for that matter any Minister, if the legislation is to be relied on- down to a relatively insignificant person down the chain of authority in Commonwealth employment to whom these powers may be delegated. [More…]
It is quite clear that it is necessary for the Government to have powers of the kind contemplated in this definition contained in the Bill. [More…]
The power of the employing authority or of the Minister to take any action under this legislation is founded upon the existence of industrial action. [More…]
It gives a quite unfettered right which is unavailable to any employer in this country other than the Commonwealth, a right which this Government has not the constitutional power in a direct sense to give to any other employer in this country. [More…]
They are classic examples of serious and wilful misconduct which would justify, under common law, instant dismissal, but in no other circumstances is an employer in this country entitled to do what the Fraser Government now seeks power to do- to dismiss a person summarily, except in those circumstances of serious and wilful misconduct. [More…]
The Bill that the Senate is discussing this morning is a Bill to equip the Government of this country with the power, if necessary, in the case of industrial action by public servants or the employees of government authorities, to suspend those engaged in that industrial action and to stand down those who are rendered superfluous by reason of industrial action causing their services to be not required- that is to say, in the terms of the statute where the other persons, by reason of their fellows’ or private employees’ industrial action, cannot usefully be employed or where there is serious disruption to the performance of the Government to function. [More…]
Nor would it be any tribute to the Parliament of this country if it saw its Executive, to which it entrusts the administration of the law, in need of additional authority or power. [More…]
If the Parliament was not prepared to sit upon the request of the Executive when it says that it needs specific power, the Parliament would be wanting and not discharging those functions that the people elected it to perform. [More…]
In the private field, it must be deplored that so much abuse has been made of the monopolistic power of unions to weaken arbitration and disrupt the private field. [More…]
Only those who are engaged in the industrial action bring themselves within the power to suspend. [More…]
It gives a Minister, an authority or somebody declared to be an officer of an authority new dictatorial powers which get around the old relationship between the employee and the employer. [More…]
In an arbitrary way it places in the hands of people the power to sack or suspend employees who may not even be actively engaged in a dispute. [More…]
If the Government has the power under the Public Service Act now, why does it not use that Act instead of coming here and asking for new legislation to be passed? [More…]
Why did not the Minister for Veteran ‘s Affairs (Senator Durack), as Minister representing the Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations (Mr Street), recommend to the Commission that it use its powers under the Conciliation and Arbitration Act? [More…]
He knows, because he was the shadow Postmaster-General, that we legislated to give the Commission employees the same rights and powers as most of the community. [More…]
When I say that, I am not defending any arbitrary act by any employee, but the history of the postal dispute proves that the negotiation system which was strengthened while Labor was in power is not being used to the extent it should be. [More…]
It is clear also that it gives not only the Government but also the employing authority or some small-minded bloke in charge of a department the power to sack a man arbitrarily. [More…]
This Bill gives a new dictatorial power to Ministers. [More…]
Even if it had happened when I was in power I should not have had that power. [More…]
The Government is transferring the conciliation and arbitration power which exists in this country to people who are masters and employers. [More…]
This new power which the Government wants is either a dictatorial power to enforce its new right wing tendencies in the industrial field or it is a gimmick which is a prelude to a general election which will be argued as being necessary to do away with the malcontents in industry. [More…]
Despite the inconvenience of not delivering mail on time- this was improved when we were in power, as I said before, by the Minister himself using special people to find solutions- the Post Office registered the best record ever of. [More…]
Wider than that and more important is the power the Government will have over other public servants. [More…]
When the Government takes this power it will take it not only against the group it is complaining about but also against every honest worker. [More…]
Does it want to give a new power to the Minister? [More…]
Does the Government intend to arm new Liberal Ministers with these strong powers, keep them to itself, or will it make sure that each employing authority uses not only his judgment but its judgment? [More…]
The sad facts are that while the commissions are supposed to operate independently we know the Government has a strong power over them. [More…]
We know that the Minister assumes strong powers. [More…]
Under this section there is complete power to dismiss any public servant. [More…]
This power has been in the Act for many years although I have not been able to ascertain for how long. [More…]
We remember, when the Labor Party was in power, Senator Wright coming into this chamber on so many occasions and saying that under no circumstances should we give the [More…]
Executive these powers, that the power resides with the Parliament and that we must protect the rights of the Parliament. [More…]
He comes in here today and argues exactly the opposite case and says that the Executive needs these powers and therefore the Parliament must give the Executive these powers. [More…]
This Government is prepared to enact legislation which will give it quite arbitrary powers over its employees. [More…]
Quite contrary to what Senator Wright is saying, clause 8 provides power of dismissal and that power is quite clear. [More…]
What an incredible power to give to a statutory authority. [More…]
The Bill gives the employing authority the power to say that it will decide whether an employee may come back to work on the same terms and conditions of employment as existed before. [More…]
They use their considerable political clout and they hold their great power over the workers who are members of their unions to drag those workers into all sons of political situations in which they do not want to be involved. [More…]
The air traffic controllers were just a small group of people in a position of particular power. [More…]
It is bad enough that certain Public Service unions in particular have exploited their position of privilege and completely ignored their responsibility to show respect for the power that they hold. [More…]
Proper and effective power to penalise and discipline workers acting illegally exists already. [More…]
The Trade Practices Amendment Bill, which was steamrollered through the Parliament during the last session- in a way similar to the way in which this legislation is being forced through in an abbreviated time- also provided new and wide-reaching powers for governments or corporations to act against people who take industrial action. [More…]
The Commonwealth Employees (Employment Provisions) Bill highlights the vexed question of a small minority in public services being able to disrupt the purposes and utilities of the general community by withholding power, especially in key areas. [More…]
On balance, this is a desirable Bill in that it is designed to aggregate more power into the hands of employing authorities and the responsible Minister to meet this particular and grave problem within the Australian public services. [More…]
As a democratic country we desire to rest whenever we can on a consensus of views through arbitration and conciliation rather than by the direct use of centralised power. [More…]
For instance, Senator Wright, other than mentioning the fact that the power exists under this Bill, hardly dealt with the matter of stand-downs of people in the Public Service because no useful employment is available to them as a result of action taken by people outside of their own organisation. [More…]
We should possess this power and should use it wisely, but we should excise from the legislation that matter which, as I have mentioned, does not belong in it. [More…]
This Bill has been introduced into this Parliament to give the Executive or a Minister of the Crown the power to sack or suspend and, as Senator Steele Hall has said, to stand down any Commonwealth public servant after making a declaration that the public servant has taken part in an industrial action and is somehow interfering with service to the public. [More…]
If when in Government the Australian Labor Party had introduced a Bill which gave a member of the Executive the power to sack anyone or to do anything without providing a right of appeal, Senator Wright would have been the first on his feet screaming about socialist evils and all the other nonsense he goes on with. [More…]
The Bill gives to the Executive power to take arbitrary action. [More…]
Under this Act a Minister, who for better or worse is a member of a political party, has the power, quite arbitrarily in the circumstances, to dismiss employees by direction to the employing authority. [More…]
Second, there are a number of conditions that have to be fulfilled before termination can occur employees engaged in industrial action employing authority suspends him because of that conduct he remains suspended the employing authority or Minister is of the opinion that it is in the public interest that the power of termination should be exercised. [More…]
But at the same time I think the Government must, in the circumstances, because of the nature of the power of the Minister concerned, give an unqualified undertaking that the legislation will not be used to dismiss employees for political purposes. [More…]
I believe it would give some reassurance that the executive power provided by this Bill would not be misused in that way. [More…]
Senator Bishop asked earlier why this power is not used and why this new legislation has been introduced. [More…]
No one has yet explained- I hope that the Minister for Veterans’ Affairs (Senator Durack) will do so in the Committee stage or in replying to the second reading debate- where the constitutional power to control employees in relation to industrial matters is to be found. [More…]
Section 5 1 of the Constitution gives the Commonwealth the power to set up conciliation machinery to prevent or settle industrial disputes which extend beyond the borders of a State. [More…]
Section 52 gives the Commonwealth the power to control public servants. [More…]
But, if one were to regard as a public servant a miner employed at the Mary Kathleen mine under an award of the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission just because the Commonwealth has 5 1 per cent of the shares in the Mary Kathleen mine, I think one would be stretching the term ‘public servant’ sufficiently far for a court not to hold that there is power in the Commonwealth to do that. [More…]
One concerns the power of dismissal and the fact that the direction to the authority can be given by a Minister. [More…]
I can only interpret that to mean that, whatever the industry, the Minister responsible for the industry in which the authority is established is the Minister who gives the order for dismissal or gives that power to the authority. [More…]
There is a power of delegation under clause 1 3 of the Bill. [More…]
The Minister could delegate authority to a foreman on the line down at Redfern who is there possibly because of bis power to push the men around. [More…]
Anyone can have this power simply by a delegation in the form of a declaration in writing and a signature on a piece of paper which is handed over the table. [More…]
-I should have thought that what the Rockhampton City Council does it does either within its own area or as a result of a power granted to it by the Queensland State Parliament. [More…]
I know of no power that the Commonwealth Government has in this area. [More…]
If he is such a great expert on the Constitution, I invite him to advise the Senate where the power would lie. [More…]
It has been used in the Antarctic Division of the Department of Science to provide power for scientific instruments. [More…]
The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation currently is examining methods of harnessing wind power in Australia together with its economic potential. [More…]
The form of petition was evolved in the 1 7th century, and the rights of petitioners and the power of the House to deal with such petitions were laid down by two resolutions of the House of Commons in 1669. [More…]
Most of the money is spent on agriculture or the development of power programs or transportation. [More…]
In terms of the established, traditional agenda, framed essentially in terms of political and military power, our problems have always been that we do not possess enough of that power. [More…]
This is likely to increase our international significance and bargaining power in some respects, but it also is likely to result in more demands being made on us, more pressure being brought to bear. [More…]
In other words, it must be clear to every taxpayer in Australia that the Dunstan Government had it within its power to carry out certain extra or additional policies and decided not to do so; it decided to forgo revenue. [More…]
When this Fraser Government came to power in 1975 it promised the electorate a return to business confidence; it promised jobs for all who wanted to work; and it assured the rural community that it would be given the confidence it so desperately needed. [More…]
Unemployment has risen month by month since Mr Fraser came to power. [More…]
Any person in the middle and lower income groups who believes he or she will have additional real purchasing power should forget it right now. [More…]
When this Government came to power manufactured exports constituted 23 per cent of all exports. [More…]
The increases will give benefit to those who receive them and will maintain the purchasing power of pensions in accordance with movements upwards in the consumer price index. [More…]
One of the other features of this Budget is that it is designed to reduce real wages, to encourage a reduction in purchasing power and to increase the profitability in the private sector. [More…]
The present Budget still maintains and reinforces the economic strategy that the Government introduced when it first came to power and which it has consistently pursued over the last 1 2 months. [More…]
This can be compared with the 46 per cent increase in outlays when the Labor Party was in power in 1974-75. [More…]
More importantly- and perhaps I should have put this at the top of the list- a great deal less expenditure will be required for infrastructure at this site as adequate road, rail, power and fresh water facilities already exist in the area. [More…]
The Commonwealth Government allocated to the States $36m in 1973-74,$ 108m in 1974-75 and in 1975-76, in a Budget which was introduced when the Labor Party was still in power, the Government allocated $1 13m. [More…]
Unfortunately after Labor was no longer in power the position changed and in 1976-77 only $49m was provided compared with $ 1 1 3m in the previous year. [More…]
I am sure that members of my party and my committee will do all in their power to force this Government to take some remedial action at the earliest possible opportunity to try to have the laboratory established at Geelong where it should be established. [More…]
The third main thrust of coal research is in the area of combustion, particularly in respect of power generation. [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 thousand megawatts of electricityfour 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 214 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 tons in the year 2000. [More…]
The fact that nuclear energy usage for electric power generation has proceeded in other ountries without access to Australian uranium, id will continue, in no way relieves Australia of s 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, then 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…]
The Government has been awaiting the legal power to issue to judges commissions providing that they retire at 65 years of age. [More…]
He has the power to act in this instance. [More…]
The passing into law of the Environment Protection (Impact of Proposals) Act 1974-75 has helped greatly in providing a basis for formalising environmental assessment requirements into statutory power. [More…]
I have examined the environmental impact statement for the third northern power station in South Australia to be built by the Electricity Trust of South Australia at the head of Spencer Gulf, south of the city of Port Augusta. [More…]
A period of seven to eight years was required to choose the site, design and build another power station. [More…]
Their knowledge of past trouble at the northern power stations was of great assistance in their consideration. [More…]
The State Government recently installed in the A station at the Sir Thomas Playford power station near Port Augusta a device for the electrostatic precipitation of the pollution that emanates from that chimney. [More…]
An examination of the potential threat to the environment by emissions from conventional power stations is rather interesting. [More…]
Every one in Australia requires over a twelve-month period one kilowatt year of power in order to provide us with energy. [More…]
This power can be provided by burning three tonnes of coal. [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…]
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…]
Mr Fraser held a long background discussion with two journalists, Michelle Grattan from the Age, and Laurie Power from Channel 10- on board his VIP plane returning from Port Moresby to Canberra. [More…]
It is a cost structure which has been pushed on by the philosophy of the parliamentary wing of industrial Labor that was sent into power in Canberra to wreak havoc in the economy on behalf of the sectional interests it has always represented. [More…]
In addition, it is proposed that the Australian Wool Corporation be given more power in the negotiation of freight rates for the carriage overseas of wool. [More…]
The decision by the Government to grant the Australian Wool Corporation power to negotiate freight rates, which is the other major part of the Bill and to which I will now direct my remarks, is a very significant move. [More…]
Until now there has been no clearly defined power available to the Corporation and, as a member of the wool commodity group negotiating with the AustraliaEurope Conference as well as other conferences, its position has been somewhat unclear. [More…]
We know that costs are increasing very significantly for all sections of the industry, and by giving the Corporation this power we hope it will be possible to reduce those costs. [More…]
Unfortunately, the increased power granted to the Corporation will not entirely overcome the problems in this area. [More…]
It is interesting to consider that in the wool industry, which has traditionally been a major part of what might be termed the free enterprise system, this Government is prepared to recognise that a central authority such as the Australian Wool Corporation should in fact be given additional powers to ensure that the producer, the community at large, and particularly our export earners, are given every possible advantage. [More…]
The Corporation already has the power under the Act to participate in negotiations in respect of freight rates. [More…]
I really feel that that very clearly describes the policy that the Opposition would have brought in if it had been in power instead of this Government. [More…]
My question is: Does Mr Whitlam know something that the Treasurer does not or is he, by a slip of the tongue, inadvertently letting the rural industries know what will happen to them if by some misfortune Labor is returned to power? [More…]
The rural industries have a lot of worries but one of their great statisfactions must be that Mr Whitlam and his Party will never get back into power. [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…]
1 might add that when the Labor government was in power and there was a need for the government of that day to restrict in its third year of expenditure the amount that was being allocated to education- after, as I have just indicated, an average 41 per cent increase in real terms in expenditure on education in those three years, including that third year, compared to the miserly one per cent increase in expenditure provided by this Government- this is what the Minister of the day wrote to Dr McKinnon, the Chairman of the Schools Commission, on 19 August 1975: [More…]
I refer the Minister to the statement made yesterday by the Chairman of the Uranium Producers Forum, Mr Mackay, that the present Government was drunk with power. [More…]
The only currently available method of substantially increasing the thermal efficiency of utilisation of power station fuel is to combine electricity generation with the production of steam or hot water for industrial or household purposes. [More…]
Is the Minister aware also that the U.S. Federal Power Commission has recommended that a planned ipeline to carry natural gas from Alaska’s north slope be uilt across Canada and that the Commission’s economic study indicated that the cost per thousand cubic feet delivered to Chicago would be 80c? [More…]
I consider that there is undoubtedly power to give such a notice of motion and to move such a motion. [More…]
Can he say whether any statistics are available on the economic loss caused to the nation by guerrilla tactics, particularly in the building trade, and the economic consequences to the community generally of strikes in the transport and power industries which are occurring with increasing frequency in Victoria? [More…]
It did so by confining the role of the Grants Commission to inquiring into financial assistance to States for local government purposes but transferring the power to inquire into and collect data about local government areas back to the States. [More…]
In view of this, it is earnestly requested that you take all steps within your power to ensure that any Amendment BUI which will disadvantage the State of Queensland is defeated. [More…]
In view of this, it is earnestly requested that you take all steps within your power to ensure that any Amendment Bill which will disadvantage the State of Queensland is defeated. [More…]
When this Government came to power constant lip service was given in the early stages to the needs principle and the functions of the Schools Commission. [More…]
Queensland had the worst education system in Australia under a Labor government which expected that it was never going to be turned out of power. [More…]
Irrespective of which party has been in power, the non-government sector has been disadvantaged. [More…]
What happened when the Liberal Party came to power? [More…]
The objective of the Government is to impose a double income tax in this country so that from here on, no matter what party is in power, no federal government will again be able to implement national programs in this country. [More…]
It will be self-defeating whether the government in power is Labor or Liberal. [More…]
In 1976, immediately after we came to power, nongovernment primary schools were operating at a level that was 28 per cent below that of government schools. [More…]
The Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) in justifying rejection of the amendment said that it is not necessary because the Acts Interpretation Act gives power to either House of the Parliament to disallow a regulation. [More…]
One thing which does disappoint the Opposition is that in deciding to increase licence fees for commercial radio and television stations the Government, in terms of its own conduct in relation to broadcasting since it came to power, has really dipped its fingers in rather dirty money. [More…]
It has done nothing in terms of broadcasting policy since it came to power which in any way reflects a concern for the public interest or the public philosophy in relation to the content and nature of broadcasting programming in Australia. [More…]
This is really only the second positive thing the Government has done in respect of broadcasting since it came to power. [More…]
An extraordinary feature of this Government is that since it came to power there has been a tremendous amount of talk about broadcasting policy but nothing has happened in real terms. [More…]
The Government sought since it came to power to grapple with the difficult problem of ethnic broadcasting in Australia. [More…]
What has the Government done in this area since it came into power? [More…]
The uranium in question was destined for use by power generating utilities in Japan and the United States of America. [More…]
I have been advised by my colleague as follows: The uranium in question was destined for use by power generating utilities in Japan and the United States of America. [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…]
It is true that, whilst constitutionally the Commonwealth Government has no power, it has a money power. [More…]
-Mr President, I suppose I could try to hang it on the external affairs power, seeing that the honourable gentleman mentioned is alleged to be going to London. [More…]
I now ask: Are there any powers in the National Parks and Wildlife Conservation Act under which the Ranger mining company directors could be gaoled if there is any defilement of the environment in the park? [More…]
Finally, will such power be under the control of the chief scientist, who I imagine is supposed to have the same power as General Sheridan had? [More…]
Another section of the Act confers upon a warden the power of arrest without warrant- no doubt General Sheridan did not have any warrants, so perhaps there is a similarity- where the warden reasonably believes that a person has committed an offence against the Act. [More…]
The only countries I know of which take the view that international undertakings and commitments of one government need not be honoured by the next are the communist countries where power has been seized by revolution. [More…]
The new federalism policy is a policy which means all power to Canberra and no money to the States. [More…]
I repeat that it means all power to Canberra and no money to the States. [More…]
We were frustrated in our attempts to grapple with the international recession that was affecting Australia at that time, as it was affecting all other countries, by the ruthless grab for power by those who now control the government of this country- the Liberal and National Country parties. [More…]
When the Government came to power it heralded the much vaunted concept of an investment led recovery. [More…]
That levy has further eroded consumer purchasing power. [More…]
Secondly, at a time of high inflation the Government has decided to increase petrol prices substantially, a policy which will directly erode the purchasing power of all Australians and will add substantially to the inflationary spiral. [More…]
In the 22 months since this Government seized power, its economic policy pronouncements have progressed from mindless optimism to the sort of wishful thinking and self-delusory nonsense which was epitomised by the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) in a statement he made just over a year ago on 13 August 1976 when he said: [More…]
Let us compare that with the period when Labor was in power. [More…]
During the course of the debate both Senator Coleman and I pointed out that under the so-called new federalism of this Government, which means, as we all know, more power to Canberra and less money to the States, the States are in fact worse off. [More…]
I point out that this is especially so in the western suburbs of Melbourne where few nursing homes are available and where, so far as I can see, the Government has no power to initiate more nursing homes being made available in the area. [More…]
In short, the Bill seeks to give the Commonwealth Government the power to acquire land for Commonwealth Government purposes, particularly in the Cocos (Keeling) Islands, which are an external territory of Australia. [More…]
It should be understood that in many instances this could involve a registered nursing home or some other place where a number of pensioners who are unable to deal with their own affairs may have either through the power of the Director-General or in some other way, entered into an arrangement by which their pension may be paid to another person. [More…]
If I understood the second part of his question correctly, the honourable senator asked whether the power to ban exports still remains. [More…]
That is a power which is inherent and entrenched inside the Commonwealth Constitution. [More…]
The power over exports- over overseas trade- is a permanent and enduring power of any Commonwealth government and is therefore available to any Commonwealth government for use at any time as a means of enforcing its impact studies. [More…]
I would be surprised if anybody in Australia found anything controversial about the constitutional power of the Commonwealth over exports. [More…]
If there is one bipartisan understanding in this Senate and in Australia it is that the Commonwealth has power over exports and can use it if it wishes to enforce its policies, whether on environment or on other matters. [More…]
Therefore, the figure will be such as to underline my former statement that the amount of money available to New South Wales will be at least equal in real purchasing power to the money last year. [More…]
Power steering and generator- 1 4 per cent [More…]
From the foregoing it is clear that substantial economies can be made by encouraging the use of smaller and or lighter weight vehicles, diesel engines, multi-speed manual boxes with overdrive, a minimum of power operated functions, steel belted radial tyres, engine and body design changes and lower maximum speeds. [More…]
People are using more petrol to get a lesser power output, all to keep down the pollution in the inner city areas. [More…]
There will still be pollution while we are using fossil-fuelled power stations to supply our electricity, but it will be outside the city areas. [More…]
In the near future could we change to nuclear power generation and thus do away with our pollution problems completely? [More…]
Sir Charles Court and Mr Bjelke-Petersen insist on having a minimum of responsibility and a maximum of power. [More…]
A government which was serious with a policy of energy conservation, or particularly of petroleum conservation, would not be introducing legislation after nearly two years in power for a miserly $5m in new commitments to improvements in urban public transport. [More…]
Since this Government has come to power there has been a cut in real terms in Federal road funds. [More…]
I have noticed also that these State Premiers, these grandstanders like the Premier of Western Australia and the Premier of Queensland who always assert in the abstract sense their willingness, indeed their eagerness, to assume greater fiscal responsibility in return for greater power, have been bitterly critical of this cut in real terms of Federal road funds. [More…]
The point I make is that a big power is vested in the Federal Minister. [More…]
Now we have a different government which says that under federalism power is given to the States. [More…]
The Government retains a clause which permits the Federal Minister for Transport to have complete powers. [More…]
I do not know that he will use the power capriciously, but it is there. [More…]
It was a great problem then, and the Opposition, which was then in power, did not know how to cope with it. [More…]
He is also using that position of power to refuse assistance to those who are desperately in need in Queensland, as they are in need in other States. [More…]
Our Father which are in heaven, Hallowed by thy name; thy kingdom come; thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven; give us this day our daily bread; and forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors; and lead is not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. [More…]
The true entitlement of emergent nations to sovereignty is not power, numbers, wealth, influence, quality, contribution or achievement. [More…]
In Britain’s view, Rhodesia’s unilateral declaration of independence did not make Rhodesia an independent state which she had clearly proven herself to be both before and after the unilateral declaration of independence but had reverted the country to the status of colony for which the United Kingdom was the responsible administering power. [More…]
This was the view of the super power leaders, irrespective of who was the United States President. [More…]
Consequently the purchasing power of people is not relative purely and simply to a statistic because demand itself is a changing fabric. [More…]
What the Budget sets first clearly is the need to reduce the deficit- the familiar pre-occupation which has dominated all the Government’s thinking since it took power in November 1975. [More…]
There has been a drop in real wages and in the real consumption power of wages. [More…]
In fact, in the two years since this Government came to power 120,000 jobs have been created in the private sector. [More…]
In the Klongpraim Central Prison in Thailand a political prisoner ORISA IRAWONWUT is dying from injuries received during the military coup that brought to power a military dictatorship in Thailand on 6 October, 19/6. [More…]
The answer, of course, to the interjections is that there was no unemployment amongst juveniles in the two decades of the 1950s and 1960s when Liberal-Country Party governments were in power. [More…]
The article goes on to say that he got into power by accident and manipulation. [More…]
In January 1974 when the present Opposition was in power there were 121,082 people unemployed, 2.1 per cent of the work force. [More…]
Since we came into power the number of persons unemployed has gone up by 0.2 per cent. [More…]
In March 1976, after we came into power only 25 per cent of the people training under the NEAT scheme were being trained in in-plant operations. [More…]
In November of that year, just a few months after we had been in power, 68 per cent of people in the NEAT scheme were then employed in in-plant training. [More…]
He had the political power to implement them. [More…]
On the other hand, of course, everyone knows that whatever statement is made by a person in the present Opposition, there is no way that person has any effective political power, at least until after the next election. [More…]
If Senator Kilgariff has any power in the coalition parties, he might propose to the Prime Minister that he should go to the people. [More…]
Last night I commenced to speak about the Budget Papers and I was interrupted at the point at which I was discussing the problems of small businesses and outlining the steps that have been taken to assist them by the Fraser Government since coming to power. [More…]
I refer to an interview on the AM program this morning with the Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations, Mr Street, when he was asked a number of questions relating to the power industry dispute in Victoria. [More…]
-As Senator Button reminds me, there is a Labor Government in the United Kingdom- a government which, as I understand it, is expanding its nuclear power stations. [More…]
Curtain are very keen on the production, implementation and use of nuclear power. [More…]
So far as it is within my power to do so, I strive to be fair and impartial to all honourable senators. [More…]
What are the terms of reference and the powers of this Committee. [More…]
If it was in the power of this Committee, I think it could well look at such matters where there has been abuse. [More…]
Utah is providing that steaming coal to the Gladstone power house at such a low rate that it will be of eventual benefit to all people in Queensland. [More…]
I refer to the fact that the leaders of the Builders Labourers Federation and the leaders of those concerned with the generation of power in the Latrobe Valley have set out to destroy our way of life. [More…]
When the Labor Party was in power- Senator Georges was a supporter of that Government- it did not recognise the need for the sustenance of the Australian work force and support of Australian industries. [More…]
We were doing everything within our power to ameliorate the unemployment problems that were occurring as a result of the world wide economic recession. [More…]
These reversals were carried out by a government that came to power on the undertaking that it would provide sound economic management. [More…]
Restoration, of the National Sports Institute, scrapped soon after the Liberals came to power in Canberra, is really the only answer to the problem. [More…]
I am sure there is a need to update and review the Commission’s statutory charter to give it some further authority and power to deal with the problems which inevitably arise from time to time along the river. [More…]
If it was good enought to make claims on a Labor Government to bring in some financial measures to assist lone fathers surely it is good enough for her to do something now because it is within her power. [More…]
It has been so used to coming into this place and holding the balance of power over the Liberals, holding the balance of power in the Cabinet, and saying: ‘If you do not do this, we will not support you. [More…]
They did everything in their power to prevent us doing so. [More…]
The administering Power acknowledges that some changes in community arrangements must take place before several conventions can be declared applicable. [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…]
I refer to the Victorian power strike and ask the Minister whether he is m a position to indicate the number of people who are now unemployed because of the strike. [More…]
When the Labor Government came to power, it established the floor price for wool at 250c a kilogram for clean micron wool. [More…]
So, Britain’s ‘Socialist Generation’, having wreaked so much havoc at home by its passion for levelling, its search for power and by its upper class guilt, ends up by blurring the historical distinction between social democracy and marxism. [More…]
Anyone who opposed was gaoled or exciled and the gun was the power used to complete the job. [More…]
If it is wise for the countries of South East Asia to avoid dependence on any great power it is doubly so for Australia. [More…]
Since our essential interest is the maintenance of an equilibrium between the major powers in the region we will have to be sure of our own weight- which although not large could in some situations be important- is not used to endanger the equilibrium. [More…]
We should therefore move towards the fullest possible disengagement from our present strategic ties and towards a position of neutrality in relation to the competition between the great powers. [More…]
He is a member of the Communist Party’s industrial committee and a key figure in the crippling Victorian power workers’ dispute. [More…]
It demonstrates that if one compares the systems introduced by this Government since coming to power with the Hayden Budget introduced in 1975 and indexed one will find that all but two groups of people are considerably worse off and in fact will have a lower disposable income, they will be unable to lead the consumer-led recovery that, according to the Government, was apparently need in this country. [More…]
This is a strange argument, perhaps a surprising argument, from a government which, when it came to power, ignored the promises it had made. [More…]
I refer to the headline in today’s Australian Financial Review which states: ‘Power Settlement Looms’, and similar headlines which have appeared today in all the daily newspapers. [More…]
Is the looming power settlement the result of any rhetoric, threat, bluster, initiative or intervention by the Federal Government or is it in fact the result of the intervention by conciliation of the President of the Australian Council of Trade Unions, as was suggested by the Opposition ten days ago? [More…]
We have to realise that we are not a world power. [More…]
We do not want to think that we are a major power but we are an important power particularly in the region in which we live. [More…]
There is in the Department a great number of very able younger men who have had no training in assessing intelligence; yet the curiosity is that when an attempt was made some years ago to set up a new structure known as the Joint Intelligence Organisation, the JIO, the Department was powerful enough to insist that the Chairman of the Joint Intelligence Organisation should be an officer from the Department of Foreign Affairs. [More…]
Now there is to be superimposed on the whole structure another intelligence assessment operation, in this instance headed by a director-general appointed without a Bill going through this Parliament but by the use of the Executive and prerogative power to make such appointments. [More…]
The Bill gives the Director-General a wide power to obtain all the information it is possible to obtain. [More…]
Sub-clause (2) refers to a request, but if there is any power of direction sub-clause (4) does not make the Director-General independent. [More…]
But I should have thought that a security organisation that is making an assessment for the Government on international matters of political, strategic or economic significance to Australia would have power to examine every record possible and to obtain all information possible. [More…]
It may be alleged that someone who is in receipt of a social security payment is giving information to a foreign power on Australia’s defence and that he has a huge amount of money in the bank. [More…]
Rents have been increased several times since the Fraser Government came to power. [More…]
The Government recognises that a large number of countries overseas are building nuclear power stations. [More…]
Also a number of nations generate a large proportion of their electricity from nuclear power stations. [More…]
The last figure I saw was that in the United Kingdom approximately, I think, 30 per cent of electricity now comes from nuclear power stations. [More…]
It is well known that a large number of European countries wish to turn to nuclear power stations so as not to be so totally dependent on oil from the Middle East. [More…]
Whether or not Australia mines and exports uranium, there is no doubt that a large number of countries will go into the nuclear age and build nuclear power stations. [More…]
When the Labor Party was in power it cut down the amount of money that was given for this area of research of excellence. [More…]
Hydro-electric power is far too dear. [More…]
In fact, power for industry is 25 per cent dearer in Tasmania than it is in decentralised areas of Victoria. [More…]
Spending power of Tasmanians is significantly reduced’. [More…]
One will not have to go out to refuel diesel engines every three months, or whatever the period is, because the sun will in the meantime have generated power to recharge the batteries. [More…]
He suggests that petrol will be rationed by that time and that the price per gallon will rise to between $3 and $4; that cars will be smaller and lighter; that public transport will be overcrowded; that private cars will be barred from the centre of our cities; and that it will be illegal for industry to use oil where coal and solar power could be used. [More…]
My father just could not afford to pay the power bill. [More…]
I think it was probably a humourous interjection from Senator Missen but I suggest that not only has the Liberal Party not been able to generate the power to get Australia moving as it promised us in 1975 it would do because it cannot find the switch but also it has now pulled out the plug and we are sort of gradually sinking into a state of depression. [More…]
Ultimately, perhaps, it will be directed towards providing power alcohol. [More…]
A small place at Sarina has been manufacturing power alcohol for some considerable time. [More…]
Brazil, with its serious balance of payments problem, this year hopes to obtain about 20 per cent of its total power requirements from the treatment of sugar cane. [More…]
The use of such solar collectors to replace the boiler in conventional thermal power generation has long been understood. [More…]
However, the commercial development of solar power generation stations will be a long process, due mainly to the complexity of the systems presently envisaged and the scale of the investigation required. [More…]
Photovoltaic power systems in small packages are commercially available at the present time, largely as a by-product of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s space program. [More…]
The past S years have witnessed a dramatic increase in international research investment, especially that concerned with the potential uses of natural energy resources as complementary sources of energy to fossil fuels and nuclear power. [More…]
Electric power generation [More…]
The program covers systematic research and development in four areas- solar, power generation, geothermal energy, the production of synthetic gas and oil from coal, and the use of hydrogen energy. [More…]
These monies were increased when Labor came to power in 1972, but still lag far behind that spent in comparable countries. [More…]
The development of these technologies would not only strengthen our energy position and help overcome our dependence on the rapidly dwindling oil supplies, but it would be easily available to the Third World countries who do not have the high level technology necessary to develop large scale power networks. [More…]
An election promise by the Liberal-National Country Party Government to investigate the possibilities for the development of solar power, has not been matched by action. [More…]
Indeed, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for National Resources, Mr Doug Anthony, has indicated that the Government equates the matter with such low priority areas as the development of wind and tidal power. [More…]
I took an active interest in it and I think the honourable senator will recall that the Opposition generally supported it as a useful extension of the overall monetary and economic power in the hands of the Commonwealth. [More…]
Following the decision of the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission in respect of power workers in the La Trobe Valley, and the possibility of further industrial action, which would inevitably cause widespread disruption to industry and commerce throughout Australia, will the Minister take action to ensure that special arrangements are made for the provision through the banking system of adequate carry on funds for hard pressed businesses that are adversely affected by that action? [More…]
The Areyonga Progress Association requested a $9,000 subsidy for a power house. [More…]
They have asked for power and water for a new town site at Areyonga, which will require $100,000. [More…]
At that time, unemployment was less than 100,000; inflation was about 4.2 per cent; the deficit was certainly nothing like it was after the three years of incompetence and lack of understanding exhibited by the Government that came to power. [More…]
Crazy as it may seem, that solution actually increases fuel consumption and means a loss of power. [More…]
There is already enough knowledge to permit homes, office blocks and factories to be so built, especially in the tropics, as to make greater use of solar power in order to supplement energy requirements. [More…]
The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation has accumulated much data on the solar heating of domestic and commercial water supplies, as well as the domestic and commercial heating and cooling of buildings, albeit in a supplementary fashion, but this all adds to the total saving in power usage. [More…]
This brings me to my last point, the need for more research on, and greater use of, alternative energy sources, such as has been advocated by the environmental lobby in regard to the wider use of solar and wind power. [More…]
Solar power, of course, covers a wide spectrum. [More…]
However, I think that most people, when they think of solar power think of it as an alternative form of electricity generation. [More…]
I understand that France will spend $30m in the field this year, that Japan has pledged $100m a year from now until the year 2000 and that the United States, although spending $300m this year, estimates that by the year 2000 only 7 per cent or 8 per cent of its total energy requirement will be met by solar power. [More…]
That country is looking to the CSIRO in Melbourne for some of its expertise, and vice versa, but to believe that solar power will in the near future take over as a major source of power generation is a mere pipe dream. [More…]
This leaves us with what is becoming one of the most emotive subjects of our time, the nuclear power cycle and the mining and exportation of uranium. [More…]
We should use for power generation either coal-fired boilers or nuclear reactors. [More…]
When we consider the problems of the developing countries, their need for an energy source and their lack of fossil fuels, nuclear power generation does make sense. [More…]
We have had 2 1 years of completely safe nuclear power generation. [More…]
As at 1 August there were 184 nuclear power generators operating, 204 being built, 102 ordered and 291 planned. [More…]
Both, although not quite able to power successfully the internal combustion engine without some modification, could be mixed with petroleum products up to a certain ratio. [More…]
Hydro-electric power, because of our large land mass and relatively sparse high rainfall areas, is being used as a supplementary source of energy. [More…]
More research should be done on alternative portable fuels, conversion of coal, and all aspects of nuclear power. [More…]
But while Queensland is far away and Mr Bjelke-Petersen wields no practical power in the rest of Australia, Bjelke-Petersen principles involved in his latest law-and-order campaign demand wider consideration. [More…]
to (3) The Ombudsman Act 1976 does not give the Ombudsman power to hear such appeals. [More…]
The Government’s policy in relation to the power dispute in Victoria, as is its policy in relation to all industrial disputes, has been to support the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission and the arbitration system and to encourage to the best of its endeavours the unions and the union leaders to support that system and to give leadership. [More…]
Although the legislation relating to entry onto Aboriginal Land has not been introduced by the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly, it will certainly give power to the traditional owners to restrict European entry onto their lands. [More…]
In view of the uncertainty facing these vehicle builders and the apparently confusing advice being given to them, I ask: Is the Minister now in a position to advise whether unemployment benefit will be payable to Queensland vehicle builders laid off because of the Victorian power dispute? [More…]
As a result of the shortage of component parts because of the Victorian power dispute, the employer was proposing to stand down between 600 and 700 workers, the balance being retained to carry out essential maintenance programs. [More…]
Does the Minister acknowledge that power alcohol is feasible from sugar cane and has he had brought to his attention the theses of Mr Mollison of the Tasmanian University that other agricultural production, given further study and funds, can be converted as energy sources? [More…]
On a previous occasion the honourable senator raised the possibility of waste from sugar cane being used to obtain power alcohol. [More…]
The power of a board of inquiry in Victoria is even stronger than the power of a royal commission. [More…]
It is almost equivalent to the power of a royal commission except that it may go beyond that. [More…]
A board of inquiry is not restricted to the powers granted under the Evidence Act. [More…]
People in that State know that the power strike continues, know that they are suffering and know that they in their thousands are out of work because of the determination of a small gang of thugs- as they have been properly described by the leaders in Victoria- to have their own way. [More…]
In our society there are many descendants of Aboriginal people who are trying to gain power. [More…]
Let me say that he is not the only one of the Aboriginal community who seeks power and prestige by exploiting the Aboriginal race and using his Aboriginal origin. [More…]
Now we are told that the Committee’s membership is to be reduced by some five members and that it is to have no power. [More…]
What we ought to be doing, I believe, is to make it clear that, provided we can see substantial changes coming about- and even within the Nationalist Party there are changes coming about, not the phoney stuff that Senator Sheil has been talking about, not that sort of honesty, but a real honesty- even if they are somewhat gradual, to elevate the position of the non-white people, we will encourage those white South Africans, because white South Africa does have the strength and the power to lock South Africa in a bloodbath for many years, if there is any form of armed uprising there. [More…]
As to Father Christmas, since the honourable senator is dreaming of a cheaper Christmas- I think that is his theme- I will ask the Minister for Post and Telecommunications whether such is within his power and discipline. [More…]
-Can the Minister for Social Security confirm that the Salvation Army and other voluntary organisations in Victoria which have been providing emergency aid to families of people out of work because of the power strike have now depleted their funds? [More…]
That was done in the exercise of the power given to the Parliament by the constitutional amendment. [More…]
I describe Government people as hit and run men because they are doing to the Parliament and to the institution of the Senate what ruthless and reckless power crazed road hogs do to the pedestrians of this country. [More…]
When we need, above all in Australia, a unifying consensus of thought we have a political leader who will snatch power and divide the country irrevocably in so doing. [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 senators 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…]
Until the advent to power of the Nazis in Germany in 1933 the settlement was very slow. [More…]
I ask the Minister: In view of the Goverment ‘s continuing policy of reducing the real purchasing power of incomes, what prospects does he see for better economic conditions in 1978? [More…]
This, of course, has come from a Deputy Prime Minister of a Government which came to power in 1975 in quite extraordinary political circumstances: A strike in the Senate in 1975; a refusal to pass the Budget; a delaying of the Budget. [More…]
The next detailed point in the Bill to which I want to refer is the powers of investigation of the Industrial Relations Burea. [More…]
It is empowered under this legislation to enter premises, something which the police traditionally have had difficulty in doing in the way in which this legislation vests that power in the Industrial Relations Burea. [More…]
It has power effectively to amend rules of organisations. [More…]
It has power to hear complaints from anybody who wishes to make them. [More…]
All it does is to give the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission the power to say: ‘You do not belong to that union. [More…]
We have a Prime Minister, a sort of affluent bikie who gets high and goes on a trip every time he takes a sniff of power. [More…]
I refer honourable senators to the Australian Financial Review editorial of a few days ago which states that this government has no program and no real policies; just a desire for power. [More…]
In a country which desperately needs manpower policies, which desperately needs employment policies, which desperately needs industrial relations policies, and which more desperately needs leadership, these things are not being supplied by the present Government. [More…]
The next step in this legislation which is a remarkable advance is that where cancellation proceedings are before the court, the court can have incidental powers. [More…]
The first one is that where there has been a finding of conduct causing industrial disruption by a particular class of members of an organisation, the court is, for the first time under the arbitration legislation of our country, empowered to exclude from eligibility for membership that particular disruptive class. [More…]
If it gives power to scourge a union of the militant troublemakers, often communists, one can see the advantage of that because it will enable the majority of men to get back to work while excluding the troublemakers. [More…]
So far from going the whole distance of cancellation of the union’s registration, this Bill, for the first time, gives power to the court on a cancellation application, to suspend the rights, privileges and capacities of the organisation or any of its members under the Act or under any award. [More…]
The court is also given power to make directions as to the exercise of any rights or capacities that have been so suspended and, more importantly, it is given power to make provision for restricting the use of funds or the property of the organisation or a branch of the organisation. [More…]
It is given power to give directions for the control of those funds to ensure observance of the restrictions. [More…]
This Bill, in the few aspects that I have chosen to emphasise, illustrates that it is a step forward in providing the court with those particular powers which hitherto it did not have. [More…]
The court was deterred often from using the only power it had- total cancellation. [More…]
The unions have absolute power to do that. [More…]
Perhaps we could look at the record of the Labor Party when it was in power. [More…]
Clause 19 of this Bill seeks to give a court power to take away the right of an individual to belong to the organisation of his choice. [More…]
If the Declaration of Human Rights means anything, while it may not force an individual to join a union, it does not mean that there should be power to prevent a person from associating with an organisation with which he wants to associate. [More…]
I begin by quoting from an article by one Vincent Basile which appeared in the Melbourne Age of 12 October last, when he claimed that the recent power dispute was ‘unique’- that was his term. [More…]
They are powerful words. [More…]
We had the General Motors strike of 1960, the Ford strike of 1970 and the Victorian power strike of 1972. [More…]
The argument sponsored by the Communist Party is to transfer power over disputes to shop stewards on the basis that it will eliminate the old craft unions as we know them and to have one union and one union only in each factory controlled by shop stewards. [More…]
I pay tribute to the vast majority of responsible trade unionists in Australia who are powerless to control their own economic future while there is this small, irresponsible and powerful group of people outside the movement who control it, as Ken Stone has acknowledged. [More…]
This is what he said in part, to the National Press Club yesterday: perhaps the real incidence for the high level of disputation over wages is the fact that the unions have a monopoly power over the supply of labour. [More…]
As a practitioner in the field of industrial affairs I propose to exercise every power that I have to oppose this legislation outside this chamber. [More…]
In November last year the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) did his best to buy into a dispute in Victoria over the Newport power station. [More…]
If honourable senators opposite are prepared to be objective about this, they will realise as well as I do that there was no way in the world that the powers of that emergency legislation which was subsequently introduced could have been applied to the air traffic controllers strike for the simple reason that nobody in this country has the skills required to control air traffic at civilian airports. [More…]
The power to represent unions so often no longer resides at the top of the union structure. [More…]
The ACTU President (Mr Hawke) last night described the three-man Full Bench that rejected the power workers pay claims as ‘those pack of bastards’. [More…]
It therefore supports the naked power of those people in the union movement who will use gangster tactics to force into their organisations independent contractors in this community, who drive cement trucks, brick trucks et cetera that they themselves own. [More…]
Why is it that, having dealt with the business sector, when we look at the other side of commerce and industry, the greatest power groups in the community, to see whether they are fair, it is wrong to ensure that they have fair rules. [More…]
When we find that power, fuel and transport are held to ransom by a handful of people, this legislation, of course, becomes not only desirable but also absolutely essential. [More…]
I also referred to that very poor power of increasing the ability of the court to say who should belong to which union. [More…]
Yet the first thing that this Government did when it came into power, despite its undertaking, was to go to the Arbitration Commission and destroy the indexation principle and argue against the employees and the unions in this country getting what had been agreed upon between them and the employers in the Commission in 1975. [More…]
It is all very well to say that workers have their power. [More…]
But what real power do workers have today within a trade union? [More…]
There is concern in the community today that the unions have too much power. [More…]
The proportion of trade unionists whose unions were affiliated with the Australian Council of Trade Unions who believed that unions have too much power increased from 35 per cent in 1969, when the last survey was conducted, to 57 per cent in 1976. [More…]
Already it has been estimated that 2,900 people could lose their jobs as a result of this power strike. [More…]
One does not have to be an industrial Einstein to realise that, if a fitter at a power station in New South Wales or South Australia is on a higher rate of salary for performing the same duties as fitters in another State, discontent will erupt like a festering sore. [More…]
If the Government wants to emulate Peron or Franco in regard to the trade union movement and the power of government, it is going the right way about it. [More…]
But it seems that the Government is saying: ‘Here is a power dispute.^ People are disadvantaged’. [More…]
All it will do will be to reduce Australian purchasing power. [More…]
Who has the power? [More…]
It is because this Government has reduced the power of people to buy. [More…]
Government supporters have the nerve to blame shop stewards in the Latrobe Valley and not the people who really have the power. [More…]
It has already been said, so I will not press the point, that power does not reside in the trade union movement. [More…]
Senator Melzer has indicated very clearly where the real power exists in this country. [More…]
He says that the rank and file, the people at the grass roots and in the workshops, have too much power; that they are the people who are causing the trouble. [More…]
Yet Senator Young, and he is joined by even Mr Fraser and other leaders of his Party, says there is too much power in the hands of the elected trade union officials. [More…]
By introducing the Bill on Friday when President Hawke of the Australian Council of Trade Unions and Premier Hamer of Victoria were still trying to solve the Victorian power workers dispute, there was very great danger of aggravating the dispute in the Latrobe Valley and making Commissioner Mansini’s task just that much more difficult. [More…]
He said that the new laws would not solve the Victorian power strike; and of course they did not. [More…]
Trade unionism is probably the greatest force in this country today and men in control of it have used their power in a way which was never intended when trade unions were created. [More…]
I think that Government senators should read or listen to and digest this article because there is a power of truth in it. [More…]
The Victorian power strike has now become a veritable chamber of horrors and open to exploitation by the political hit men of the extreme right and left. [More…]
However, the extremists of the left are not the only ones who might be welcoming the power strike chaos. [More…]
The public has no confidence at all in its leaders because there is no limit to which those leaders would not sink to achieve power. [More…]
Using again the word which Senator Sir Magnus Cormack used earlier today, every member on the Government side has prostituted the history and traditions of Australia to gain power. [More…]
They have been deprived of their voice in this Parliament because of all the instruments that were used by the establishment to gain power. [More…]
All the underhand methods that were used to attain power have resulted in an overkill, to use that modern word, and have placed the Parliament in a position where the working people who produce the wealth have no respect for the Parliament. [More…]
The Government is so blind or so stupid that it underestimates the power of the people who produce the wealth. [More…]
Have all the leases been equipped with water, power, sewerage, shelters and other essential facilities; if not, what is the present situation, and when is it anticipated that the facilities will be completed to enable Aboriginal people to move to the leases from public areas. [More…]
External services including water and power have been provided to the Mt Nancy and Ilparpa leases. [More…]
Provision of power, water and sewerage services are on the current Department of Construction program in respect of Charles River, Humes area, Dalgety’s paddock and Alec Simpson’s camp area and road access to Alec Simpson’s and Dalgety’s areas is also on the program. [More…]
Connections to the main Alice Springs power, water and sewerage supplies are as follows: [More…]
The Fraser Government came into power on the promise that it would give to the business fraternity a sense of confidence and security which would enable increases in consumer spending and capital investment and some stimulation in the private sector. [More…]
It introduced substantial reforms which gave the ordinary wage earner the hope of increased purchasing power and an improvement in real wages. [More…]
The Prime Minister alone has the power to kill those rumours once and for all. [More…]
The biggest cost to the SEC was the loss of vital hydro supplies which had been stored to give security of supply until 1 980-the planned starting date for the Newport power station. [More…]
We are now vulnerable to power shortages. [More…]
But how can we expect a person in business, be he a member of a company, an investor of an industrialist, to invest in Victoria when there is uncertainty as to the future of power in that State? [More…]
Mr Trethowan also hinted that power tariffs were likely to be increased as a result of the strike which had cost the State Electricity Commission several million dollars. [More…]
He said that the power restrictions introduced a month ago had cost $300m in lost reduction, $150m in lost wages and at least 75m in lost retail sales. [More…]
Another 3,000 Victorian workers are likely to lose their jobs in the aftermath of the power strike. [More…]
One member of the deputation told me- this is germane to this debate; but I do not think I should name the company although this member of the deputation said that the information could be used- that his company had intended setting up a frozen food factory employing upwards of 100 people and involving an expenditure of capital but was now moving to the South Island of New Zealand where the workers had a strike free record and where his company would not face the power shortages and unauthorised industrial stoppages which we have in Australia. [More…]
Can seize the advantage of the day to try to maintain power again. [More…]
I said at the beginning that this Government has a concern with the maintenance of power. [More…]
I referred to the Financial Review editorial which pointed out that the speculation about an election was not a question about speculation of policies which this country so desperately needs in the manpower area, in the industry area and in the industrial relations area, as Government spokesmen tell us. [More…]
As far as the Government is concerned, it is purely a question of power. [More…]
In 1921 the High Court held that this Act was invalid as it was outside the legislative power of the Commonwealth. [More…]
The Committee is of the opinion that the legislative process would be considerably improved if the High Court was given the power to give advisory opinions. [More…]
Another matter which had considerable significance in the Committee’s deliberations was the fact that the States have the power to seek advisory opinions from State courts and that in fact one State, New South Wales, has passed legislation requiring the New South Wales Court of Criminal Appeal to give advisory opinions on a limited range of matters. [More…]
The most control it had was a power of veto over the other two partners. [More…]
I recall speaking on this matter on 23 February and saying that if we were to have complete equality of voting power with equality of representation we would have to have electorates of the same size, the same population, the same population growth patterns, the same geographical features, the same problems, the same industries, the same needs and the same methods of communication and transport. [More…]
The principle of the Electoral Act is to provide independent people with the power to draw up boundaries and to make a redistribution based on certain stated principles. [More…]
It is interesting too that the Australian Labor Party should object to a redistribution which followed the redistribution made while it was in power which had the happy effect of returning nine Liberal and one Labor member to the House of Representatives. [More…]
There were some little oddities in that redistribution, such as the Applecross Peninsula being put into the electorate of Swan rather than into the electorate of Tangney which meant that to get from one end of Swan to another one would have to get into a rowing boat, or perhaps a power boat if one was lucky, because there was no direct connection between the two parts of the electorate of Swan. [More…]
The name of the game is power. [More…]
The Prime Minister is a powerful man. [More…]
I think I advised at that time- again, I am calling on memory- that the advice we had from the Attorney-General was that it was very doubtful whether that power existed. [More…]
The Congress backed a call for an expanded nuclear power program in England. [More…]
It was the same sort of attitude that the Whitlam Labor Government had when it was in power. [More…]
The Attorney-General (Senator Durack), in response to the Committee’s view that a court should have the power to decide whether costs awarded against a legally assisted person will be paid by the Legal Aid Commission, has pointed out that this would require an Act of Parliament, and could not be achieved in the present Parliament. [More…]
In such an interdependent community that which is within the power of Parliament and its partners to do to promote this objective should be done with alacrity and with total disregard to self interest. [More…]
In such an interdependent community that which is within the power of Parliament and its partners to do to promote this objective should be done with alacrity and with total disregard to self interest. [More…]
As Mr Chatterton pointed out, two farmers in South Australia received up to $50,000 each from the superphosphate bounty when this Government was previously in power. [More…]
For this reason I had research conducted by the Senate Research officer, firstly, into the historical development of the House of Commons’ exclusive power over money Bills. [More…]
Historical development of the House of Common’s exclusive power over money bills. [More…]
if the Lords who have the power of treating, advising, giving counsel and applying remedies, cannot amend, abate, or refuse a bill in pan, by what consequence of reason can they enjoy a liberty to reject the whole?” [More…]
Thus by the end of the Seventeenth century, it seems to be generally claimed that the House of Lords had a veto power, but not an amending power, over financial bills. [More…]
The Commons replied by passing three resolutions which, while not denying that the Lords might have a power of rejecting money bills, and intimating, as Anson suggest, that the Commons had it always in their power so to frame money bills as to make the right of rejection nugatory. [More…]
The second, that although the Lords have exercised the power of rejecting bills of several descriptions relative to taxation, by negativing the whole, yet the exercise of that power by them has not been frequent, and is justly regarded by this House with peculiar jealousy, as affecting the right of the Commons to grant the supplies and to provide the ways and means for the service of the year. [More…]
The third, that to guard for the future against an undue exercise of that power by the Lords, and to secure to the Commons their rightful control over Taxation and Supply, this House has in its own hands the power to impose and remit taxes, and to frame bills of supply, that the right of the Commons as to the matter, manner, measure, or time, may be maintained inviolate. [More…]
Before proceeding to an outline of the culmination of the Common s achievement of exclusive power over money bills as enshrined in the Parliament Act of 1 9 1 1 , it is interesting to set down a passage from a proposed report of the House of Commons Select Committee on Tax Bills of 1860 (the report was presented to the Parliament in a different final form) as it provides an indication of the depth of feeling in the Commons over Lords interference in financial legislation. [More…]
“The Committee cannot conclude their Report without reminding the House, that, if henceforth, which they will not believe to be possible, no tax, hurtful to trade,’ and grievous to the People, can be remitted unless the Lords be pleased to remit it, or can be even recommended by the Crown to be considered by the Commons with a view to its remission, with that full assurance which has heretofore existed that such a tax will be remitted; not only will the powers of the House of Commons be impaired, but the foundation of the ancient freedom of England will be undermined; for where shall that ancient freedom be found when the right to determine the mode and the sum of taxation is divorced from the Representative Branch of the Legislature”. [More…]
Before the Commons achieved ascendancy and complete power over money bills does history provide any instances of Lords amendments? [More…]
If it is disagreed to by the government of the day we shall engage in conference and compromise, according to sensible people, because I need not remind all honourable senators that in the American Senate once a money Bill comes onto its floor the Senate has powers equal to those of the House of Representatives. [More…]
The American Senate has no power to initiate but it has power to amend or reject with no section 57 but only conference procedures which invariably result in compromise. [More…]
To apply those proposals to surplus excessive expenditure such as things that are unnecessary, is the way to get money back into relation to earning power. [More…]
I was Minister for Works when Labor came to power and I took up the question of Commonwealth offices. [More…]
Senator Wright referred to section 57 of the Constitution dealing with the power of the Senate to reject or to request an alteration in money Bills. [More…]
A recognition of the Senate’s power to request amendments lends itself to some agreements. [More…]
While we always had the power to request amendments or to reject money Bills no one ever accepted that we had the power to dismiss a government. [More…]
-No one ever thought we had the power to dismiss a government but if Senator Sim holds that view then let me amend my remark and say that only one person thought that we had the power to dismiss a government. [More…]
For the first time we found that the Senate had the power to dismiss the elected government of the people and that is a power which the people never thought this Chamber possessed. [More…]
While that power exists there can never be respect for this chamber. [More…]
Anyone who has the concern of the Senate at heart must advocate an alteration to that section of the Constitution so that when deciding what figure we shall appropriate we cannot again use the power which the Senate assumed and operated under before. [More…]
The Senate can never regain its prestige and the previous public opinion of it until it abandons the power which it has now. [More…]
As well as reconsidering the role of the Senate we must look at the powers of the Governor-General whose decision on the operations of the Senate can be superior even to that of both Houses of the Parliament. [More…]
I presume that the Minister knows that yesterday an allegation was made to the Windscale inquiry in England, an inquiry into aspects of nuclear power industry, by the widow of a former director of the Lucas Heights atomic energy establishment that 100 lb of pure plutonium and 300 tonnes of highly radioactive waste was dumped at Pine Gap and Maralinga. [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…]
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 it is expected that they will pay particular attention to the need for consultation with and the involvement of the various port authorities around the Australian coast. [More…]
He got up and said: ‘We will amend this Bill when we get to power’. [More…]
Last Friday in a display of grandstanding he telexed all the State Premiers asking them to use their powers in respect of the auction laws to eliminate collusive buying in cattle saleyards which apparently Mr Fraser believes is occurring. [More…]
But if the Government had any genuine interest in the position of primary producers and if it believed that there was collusion in saleyards and that monopolistic practices were depressing prices received by producers, why did it not give the Australian Meat and Livestock Corporation full trading powers in its own right? [More…]
If the Government believes that sort of malpractice exists in the saleyards why does it not give the Meat and Livestock Corporation the power to break that monopolistic malpractice by giving it full trading rights? [More…]
In the face of this incompetence, this rapidly deteriorating economic situation, it is useful to look back on the excuse this Government used when it came into power, the excuse it used for blocking Appropriation Bills two years ago. [More…]
When he got into the Senate, we witnessed week after week that he thought he held the balance of power. [More…]
When we need, above all in Australia, a unifying consensus of thought we have a political leader who will snatch power and divide the country irrevocably in so doing. [More…]
All I can say as to Sir Thomas is that he has most likely been in some sort of decline ever since he chose his successor who certainly sent a government and a party which had been in power for 24 years or 25 years into Opposition. [More…]
Country people are heavily dependent on that source of energy for cars, tractors and pumps and for power generally. [More…]
We notice that some 46 countries today are turning or have turned to nuclear power generation. [More…]
On the contrary; the world has made up its mind that nuclear power generation is a reality and a necessity. [More…]
At a Press conference on Thursday he said that Britain would be a very poor country by the end of this century without continuing nuclear power. [More…]
If we could meet them then we would hope they would do the same as the Liberal Party in power. [More…]
They are the most technologically developed and sophisticated countries in the world, countries which have made the independent decision that they require nuclear power for their welfare and the welfare of their people, their workers and their industry. [More…]
It seems that one thing is clearly understood and that is that it is a policy which means more power to Canberra and less money to the States. [More…]
In 1975 the then Liberal Party Opposition made accusations about power being concentrated in Canberra. [More…]
That policy claimed that the federalism policy ofthe Liberal Party, if implemented, would prevent dangerous concentration of power in a few hands. [More…]
We have not seen one power transferred to the States under this policy. [More…]
There is as much power in Canberra now as there was under those terrible centralist years of the Australian Labor Party Government, with one exception. [More…]
This is not what we are told about by the Government, but it is essential that the Australian public realises this because it will get a lot more of this after 10 December if this Government is returned to power. [More…]
I think that all political parties when in power support the system of election that most suits them. [More…]
The party in power will support the election system which it thinks will give it an advantage, whether that be the preferential voting system or optional preference voting. [More…]
Just as one can depend upon the party in power to favour the system of election must suitable to it one can depend upon the opposition party to oppose the election proposals of the party in power. [More…]
At no time did I wish to convey the impression, as has been inferred from my remarks, that I was opposed to the Senate having powers to reject a money Bill or to request an amendment to a money Bill. [More…]
I think that this is a power the Senate has and it is a power that the Senate should retain. [More…]
I think this is a power that the Senate should retain. [More…]
I disagree that such a power should be retained in the Constitution. [More…]
As I have made clear on a number of occasions, it is the policy of the Commonwealth Government to support the development of renewable energy sources such as solar, wind and tidal power. [More…]
The fact is that, no matter what the Opposition says, the increase in tax sharing funds made available to the States this year, which is of the order of 17 1/2 per cent, means greater and greater real spending power in period of declining inflation and falling interest rates. [More…]
Is he aware that a recent report from Conzinc Riotinto of Australia Ltd stated that the demand for uranium will depend on the rate of growth in nuclear power generating capacity and advances in nuclear technology; that m the United States of America there have been only four orders for new nuclear plants in 1 977, two for tentative preliminary contracts only; and that Howard Winterson, Vice-President of Combustion Engineering in America has said recently: ‘In about two years you will see this business disintegrate’? [More…]
The power exists, and because this Government is the worst government since Federation, because it is dishonest . [More…]
We are accustomed in debates in this place on the powers under the Constitution, and the actions of the Governor-General whoever he or she may be, in the exercise of that power, but it is another thing to suggest as Senator McLaren has suggested, that the Governor-General has not done his duty. [More…]
Because of the intransigence of Mr Healy and Mr Roach, who were both communists and members of the commission, the commission had to be stripped of its arbitral power. [More…]
The Authority was given the power to tax the industry in order to supply amenities and benefits for waterside workers. [More…]
All this idle time and all this costly redundancy is due to the surplus labour that we cannot get rid of because the power of the Waterwide Workers Federation is unique in that the Federation could prevent the employers seeking compulsory redundancy. [More…]
I could not be expected to allow this imposition in the form of this scheme in which the power of the waterside workers is the bon in the path. [More…]
In conclusion, I say that the reason why no solution has been found to this industry’s problems is that up to the present time the power of the monopolistic union, predominantly communist controlled, has prevailed against any challenge from government. [More…]
We should have a system whereby someone will have the power on the spot, after hearing both sides, to say: ‘I shall order another sixpence for that’ or ‘This should not be loaded by this ship’ so that we can be reasonably assured that the service will be provided. [More…]
The Conciliation and Arbitration Act already provides that if there are such deals and if the public interest is affected in a major way by them, there is power for the Minister to intervene. [More…]
If there were a deal of a kind which is concerning honourable senators, under other provisions of the Act the Minister has the power to intervene and to place before the Commission the way in which the Government sees the conflict of that agreement with the public interest. [More…]
I know that each House has power to disallow a regulation but the reasons for making a regulation do not come before the chamber for debate and are not explained. [More…]
That is quite contrary to what we normally find in the power of the Government to prescribe regulations. [More…]
-The power of the Governor-General to consider the Committee’s recommendations to the Minister suggests to me that the Minister may draw up the regulation or suggest a different amount from that set by the Finance Committee. [More…]
If this is so, are we giving the Governor-General the executive power to decide what the levy will be against two sets of figures which apparently come from different sources and which are recommended to him? [More…]
Parliament and the financial powers of Parliament are under attack. [More…]
Once the financial powers of the Parliament are abdicated by the refusal of the constituents of the Parliament to know and understand what is happening, the Parliament becomes reduced to an enigma and a cypher in the constitutional functions of government and the power of the Executive becomes overwhelming. [More…]
As I mentioned earlier, that legislation, which was passed by the Senate on 21 October, I think, gives employers the power to resist unwarranted intrusions in this area. [More…]
There is quite extended power in that legislation by means of which employers can resist what they consider to be unwarranted intrusions into these matters. [More…]
No matter which government is in power, the Treasury will always attempt to crack down on those practices. [More…]
Further, will the Minister request the Commonwealth Australian Electoral Officer to take all steps within his power to advise all Australians especially Aboriginal Australians of their rights to enrol and cast a vote for House of Representatives and Senate candidates at the elections next month. [More…]
The Tasmanian sugar beet industry last week conducted visits connected with the establishment of a pilot plant for determining the feasibility of a power alcohol operation. [More…]
Can the Minister advise whether the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation or any other organisation under his control has any current project under way for the development of power alcohol and whether there has been any approach from the Tasmanian Government or the sugar beet committee for the $200,000 mentioned? [More…]
The honourable senator may be interested to know that at the present time the CSIRO is carrying out laboratory and economic studies on the production of power alcohol from molasses and from timber. [More…]
The organisation is also studying the feasibility of producing power alcohol from sugar cane juice. [More…]
Although these investigations are still at an early stage, the CSIRO will be pleased to make its preliminary findings available to any interested parties as background information for the production of power alcohol from sugar beet in any State. [More…]
In the case of the Northern Territory electricity supply undertaking the financial results since 1 97 1 -72 clearly indicate that the increasing costs of operations have not been matched by corresponding increases in revenue to recover the full cost of providing power to residents. [More…]
This Government has been in power for two years and has done nothing to establish a much needed national energy policy. [More…]
It is a pity that, although this Parliament has the power to appropriate sums of money to the States, it has no way of forcing the States to spend it. [More…]
Is the Minister representing the Minister for Primary Industry and the Treasurer aware that in December 1975, the month the Government came to power, interest rates charged by the banks for farm development were 9.9 per cent? [More…]
Finally, assistance to research and development, particularly on 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…]
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…]
If there is to be any hope at all for the future of the west coast copper mine at Queenstown it is appropriate that we should now do all in our power to ensure that the mine continues until such time as a cash flow position operates again and the mine can enjoy the good times it has had in the past. [More…]
If it is possible for lasers to be used to disable satellites, power millions of times greater would be required. [More…]
It is of similar power to the satellite tracking laser but has a more sensitive receiving system so as to pick up the very faint reflections from the moon. [More…]
It is essential for healthy relations between the Commonwealth and the States that the power to make grants under that section- [More…]
We wanted to ensure that that power was exercised on definite and sound principles. [More…]
Another general objection that we have to the legislation is the discretionary power which is being given to the Director-General by the Government. [More…]
Despite what the Minister for Social Security may say in this House in answer to questions, it amounts to the Government having discretionary powers. [More…]
It believe and the Opposition believes that before something like this measure is introduced into the Parliament or when it is introduced we, as representatives of the people of this country, should have at least some details on how that allowance is to be paid, who will get it and at what level they will get it and that it should not be left just to the discretionary power of some public servant or of some future Minister, whoever that Minister may be. [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…]
-Unlike Senator Wriedt ‘s government when it was in power, we are not widening the gap between government and nongovernment schools to the great disadvantage of the non-government schools, nor are we slowing progress to and beyond the Karmel targets. [More…]
During the years in which his Government was in power, there was a continuing decline in the number of students in nongovernment schools. [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…]
That responsibility was given to the Parliament by the people of Australia in an overwhelming vote at the 1967 referendum when this Parliament was given the power to make special laws for the Aboriginal people of this country. [More…]
But the government has decided that the council is to enjoy a brief which is vague and expects no real power. [More…]
it greatly increases the power of the Minister in relation to licensing of broadcasting and television services and is contrary to the stated intention of the government to “take broadcasting out of politics ‘ ‘; [More…]
This legislation provides for a mock transferral of power from the Minister to the Broadcasting Tribunal in respect of the granting and renewal of broadcasting licenses because the power which is being given to the Tribunal by the legislation is, of course, tremendously limited by the powers given to the Minister- for the first time quite explicitly in this regard- to call for applications for broadcasting licences. [More…]
The Minister is being given exclusive power to call for applications for broadcasting licences. [More…]
It is a recipe for corruption, which is the objectionable feature and which historically has been the objectionable feature of having licensing powers residing in the hands of a politician. [More…]
So, first of all, it represents a mock transferral of power to the Tribunal because the Minister retains the power to call for applications. [More…]
Secondly, this legislation gives the Minister power to revoke or vary the conditions of a broadcasting licence at any time. [More…]
That is a horrifying power for a Minister to have. [More…]
There is a lot of money involved in broadcasting and if one has a licence for five years and if the Minister has the power to vary the terms of that licence in the middle of that period not only would one be potentially up for a financial loss if that happened but also there would be very disastrous circumstances in terms of the capacity of people who have licences or who are seeking licences to plan ahead in relation to broadcasting policy. [More…]
That incredible power is now being given to the Minister. [More…]
We have this absurd charade of repeated statements of that kind and at the same time he is granting himself, by this legislation, these quite enormous powers in relation to the broadcasting structure. [More…]
This legislation does nothing to cure any of that because the Minister will still have the power to engage in that sort of skulduggery, whether he be a Liberal Minister or a Labor Minister. [More…]
It is for that reason that the Opposition is very concerned about the increased licensing powers given to the Minister, the abuse of which has been discussed in the Press and is the common parlance of people concerned with broadcasting in this country. [More…]
The sort of problems that the Government is going to have, now and in the future, are on its own head because of the stirring that was done in those euphoric days of early 1976 after it came to power and was going to display to the people h ow a really good government ran the place, or so we used to hear. [More…]
Right from the beginning, when the Government came to power, it found that the world had changed since the days of Bill McMahon as Prime Minister. [More…]
Senator Button also talked about the mock transfer of power. [More…]
I am fascinated by that and would like to find out how many migrants are in top executive positions in trade unions, how many of them represent the tremendous power - [More…]
It is quite likely under that provision that those with the money will get the power yet again when it comes to broadcasting and sponsorship of programs. [More…]
Even though the Minister in his second reading speech claimed to be divesting himself of power and control over broadcasting in respect of the proposed body, when one looks at the provisions of the Bill one finds that the Minister is increasing his own control. [More…]
The Minister’s claim that the present ministerial powers in the licensing area are transferred to the Tribunal by the Bill is simply not true. [More…]
While formal power to grant and renew licences is given to the Tribunal by the Bill, the most significant part of the real power over licensing is to remain firmly in the hands of the Minister. [More…]
That is a serious extension of the Minister’s power. [More…]
The Minister will have power to specify the nature and purpose of programming as well as the technical specifications for all commercial and public radio and television stations. [More…]
As these ministerial specifications determine the scope of the Tribunal’s inquiries, the powers given to the Minister by thus Bill are clearly greater than those transferred to the Tribunal. [More…]
In addition, the Bill gives the Minister power to vary, revoke or add to the specifications at any time. [More…]
This means that in spite of the Tribunal’s formal power over licence revocation the Minister will have an effective power of licence revocation through his power to alter the specifications without any kind of public hearing or a decision by the Tribunal. [More…]
S powers in the area of licensing are to be transerred to the Tribunal by this Bill. [More…]
The real power stays with the Minister. [More…]
That has been tailored to the Minister’s specification for laying down such conditions of a licence as it sees fit on matters not covered by the Minister’s powers. [More…]
In view of the wide powers of the Minister, the Tribunal’s conditions will be substantially confined to programming and advertising standards. [More…]
Enforced observance of the conditions of a licence through the power of suspension, revocation and short term renewal of licence include the enforced observance of ownership and control provisions of the Act. [More…]
Of course, the Tribunal will have the power for the approval of licence transfers. [More…]
Substantial powers in the licensing area are retained in the hands of the Minister. [More…]
The only power the Tribunal will have in licensing matters which is not subject to severe limitation by ministerial direction is the power to determine standards in relation to programs and advertising. [More…]
This is a power which both the Tribunal and its predecessor, the Australian Broadcasting Control Board, has always had. [More…]
The Minister is transferring no real power other than the unpleasant and unpopular responsibility for enforcing observance of licence conditions. [More…]
Proposed new section 79d stating that the functions of the service are to provide broadcasting and television services for such special purposes as are prescribed gives the power entirely to regulation to prescribe any further function. [More…]
Whatever sort of government is in power we do not think that it should have the right to have its own propaganda channel through which it may direct any kind of broadcasting it sees fit to inflict on the listening public or the viewing public in the case of television. [More…]
I do not, as a rule, correct incorrect newspaper statements, nor do I reply usually to accusations that come from people of very limited brain power. [More…]
Since we are discussing radio and television, I think I could fairly say that the total brain power that would emanate from that person would amount to less than a microwatt; that he would do much better not to broadcast incorrect statements. [More…]
In no way do I feel that this Tribunal should have the power to threaten to reduce the period of a station’s licence. [More…]
For radio perhaps it would be too long, but with television stations that have to gear up to huge capital investments and are involved with large expenditure in promoting and producing Australian content programs, which take anywhere between 12 months and 15 months to produce, it is crazy to give to a Tribunal that is not responsible to the electorate the power to say that a station can have a licence for 12 months because it is satisfied that the circumstances justify it so doing. [More…]
I also believe that if the Government insists on giving the Tribunal that power it should add words so that the section would read: ‘Subject to this Act, a licence granted by way of renewal continues in force for three years or such lesser period (being not less than 12 months) as is specified in the licence, but the Tribunal shall not specify a period of less than three years unless there have been persistent breaches of specifications, conditions or standards’. [More…]
We ought to take the ethnic radio that existed when the present Government came to power and try to build upon it to make it better. [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…]
Let us look at what happened in the area of the transfer of licensing power to the Australian Broadcasting Tribunal. [More…]
Traditionally, of course, the Minister has had this power. [More…]
There have been complaints from the public and from industry that the Minister should not have the power to grant licences. [More…]
So the decision was taken to transfer the power to the Australian Broadcasting Tribunal. [More…]
The Minister in his speech said that this power has been transferred. [More…]
But has the power really been transferred? [More…]
It is certainly an unnecessary power to leave in the hands of a Minister. [More…]
Imagine what power we are talking about going into the hands of a Button or, as Senator Lajovic says, a socialist government. [More…]
What terrible things could happen if this power got into their hands. [More…]
They have called it bad because it puts too much power in the hands of the Minister. [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…]
Our concern, therefore, is not that the Bill gives the Minister more power over licensing than he had before but that it retains this power in his hands within a completely new structure of planning that creates unprecedented dangers for distortion of the broadcasting system in the exercise of these ministerial powers. [More…]
How does this compare with the active community involvement in the Australian Assistance Plan which the Government, despite a firm election promise, effectively torpedoed without any consultation with the States soon after coming into power. [More…]
I am unable to go into detail concerning the fields of education which are mentioned, but I note that the Minister was careful in her statement to say that the recommendations of Dr Fitzgerald could be only partly implemented, that is, in the Territories in which the Federal Government had direct power to act. [More…]
The constitutional power is being used to enforce the situation because elections are coming up in Queensland and in the Commonwealth. [More…]
So the power has been taken from the Aboriginal community and is in the possession of a body to which the Minister and the Aboriginal community appoint equal numbers, but the Chairman is appointed by the Minister. [More…]
The Munster for Transport 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 for Transport during the trading year with proposals to correct the situation should it appear that the target will not be achieved. [More…]
It puts the formal licensing power in the Tribunal’s hands as distinct from those of the Minister. [More…]
It gives the Tribunal the powers it had under the old section 16 of the Act and it clarifies some very doubtful legal relationships between sections 16 and 18 of the present broadcasting legislation. [More…]
Clause 9 deals with evidence before the Tribunal and the power of the Tribunal to summon witnesses. [More…]
It is a matter for comment that the Tribunal is given quite draconian powers in terms of penalties for witnesses who fail to attend. [More…]
A double power now exists in the Minister. [More…]
This is another example of powers being very firmly in the Minister’s hands. [More…]
It empowers the Minister to vary or revoke a licence during its currency. [More…]
There are no guidelines for the exercising of the Minister’s power and no reason is given as to why the Minister should have it at all. [More…]
When one comes to think of it, the fact that a licence is issued for between one year and three years gives a tribunal that does not have responsibility to the electorate a tremendous threatening power that I do not think it should have over the people who run the television or broadcasting station. [More…]
The second reason is that unless this length of time is given, the television station cannot produce programs with the Australian content that governments of whatever political persuasion happens to be in power seem to want them to produce. [More…]
It should be borne in mind that in any adversary situation in the legal sense before the Broadcasting Tribunal, the parties do not come equally to the Broadcasting Tribunal in terms of power. [More…]
The financial power is all on one side, the side of the licensee who, in renewal proceedings, again is granted that additional right to appeal. [More…]
If this legislation is passed we will of course be promised something else in 1984 or some such time, if the Government is returned to power, which will patch up the mess that is made today, but that is not satisfactory. [More…]
In fact, that Government merely injected into the granting and policing of licences the arbitrary power of the politician. [More…]
Every educationist and every parent in Australia should realise that what they have had over the past two years is only a taste of what they will get in the succeeding three years if the present Government happens to be in power after the next election. [More…]
Since this Government came to power it has become the practice in the Senate on the last day of sitting of all sessions of the Parliament to debate Bills dealing with primary industry. [More…]
In the two full financial years that this Government has been in power net farm income has fallen. [More…]
Mr Wentworth ‘s fears are not shared by me, but they certainly would be shared by those apostles of free enterprise who sit on the other side of the chamber; those who say that there should not be any limitations upon the powers of the Parliament. [More…]
Senator Sir Magnus Cormack spoke earlier this year about the growth of executive power in the Parliament. [More…]
The Party, the all-powerful Party, the one party state, has expressed itself, so not only the Party but also the Parliament has to fall into line. [More…]
Will the other members of the board be able to out vote the Treasurer’s nominee or will the Treasurer have the power of veto? [More…]
The second reason is probably just the time factor- that is, the legislation was aborted by the premature electionand the Government’s need to be seen to be doing something for the farm or rural community which has suffered a fall in net income of more than 20 per cent in the two years that this Government has been in power. [More…]
The RAAF presence at Butterworth is pursuant to the Five Power Communique of 16 April 1971, which related only to the external defence of Malaysia and Singapore. [More…]
Sir Robert Menzies’ return to power in 1949, Sir John served as Attorney-General for 7 years. [More…]
The Prime Minister, in his statement of 9 February 1978, indicated that the Government would do everything in its power to ensure that the Ranger project was developed as quickly as possible, subject to meeting the necessary constraints, social and environmental, and protecting Aboriginal interests in accordance with the Government’s decisions announced last August. [More…]
We find that in October 1975 when his Party was in power, a particularly thorough investigation into this matter was carried out. [More…]
I do not think that the problems of manufacturing industry can be solved by government, under the present adversary system, while people are so cynically concerned with power, as distinct from the problem solving and principle. [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…]
One of the ways to achieve that power, that choice and that freedom is through the acquisition of useful information. [More…]
That is a funny remark when one realises that it was the Walsh Government which came into power in 1965 in South Australia and in a very short period reduced the State to ashes. [More…]
Since three years ago when the Labor Government was in power rural incomes have fallen by 30 per cent. [More…]
Since January 1976, when this Government came to power, the number of people in private employment has declined in fact by no fewer than 198,000. [More…]
They were battles between the power of Executive government to say, ‘I am the greatest’, as Gough Whitlam said. [More…]
They pillaged the system in so many ways but this was never better demonstrated than by the attempt to hang on to power at a time when the democratic system in a bicameral democracy had reached the stage where the people were entitled to have their say. [More…]
I certify that the interned MOHADED ANA MARIA arrested by the Nation Executive Power by law No. [More…]
I believe they should be accepted regardless of whatever Government is in power. [More…]
He clearly set out the sequence of events which led up to that appointment and the possible consequences when persons in vice regal office, which we know now has considerable power in this country, are appointed to a sinecure after they leave that vice regal office. [More…]
In 1976, when safely in power, legislation was presented by the then coalition Government to introduce a Medibank levy. [More…]
But the reality is that when the crunch comes, when it gets back to power in this country and politics is about power- the Senate behaves like a rubber stamp except on a very few occasions. [More…]
I have pointed out that while the Senate has the power to refuse supply and while it has the power to throw out the lower House at any old time the fact of life will remain that that is the position. [More…]
There are people- not many yet, but an increasing number- who see parliament as a place that has no concern for their hopes or aspirations and who, whatever attempts are made to introduce reform to overcome what they see as their disadvantages or difficulties, feel that the system is rigged against them either by the nature of parliament itself, by the electoral system or by the fact that the decisions of parliament itself are so often able to be overcome or got around by those in power outside the parliament. [More…]
Senator Wheeldon admits, and I admit, that this was done when the Labor Government was in power. [More…]
Politicians who whinge about a lack of power and influence make me ill. [More…]
The reason is that they have all the legal power in the world but they have not chosen to use it. [More…]
We learnt in 1975 that this Parliament has the ultimate power to make or break governments. [More…]
We know we have, with our voting ability, the power to control government. [More…]
We have chosen not to use that power in most areas. [More…]
As I went around New South Wales I was consistently told- I certainly did not agree with it- that this Government had not been in power terribly long and it deserved another chance. [More…]
This makes Mr Packer, Mr Fairfax and Mr Murdoch three of the most powerful men in Australia. [More…]
In all three cases they hold their power not only by virtue of talent in their particular field but also because of inheritance. [More…]
They obviously have interests in common with the most wealthy and powerful sections of the community and little sympathy for anybody or anything except their own bank accounts. [More…]
One of the most tragic interventions recently, of course, was when he told his Minister for Mines that he was not to accept the recommendation of the Electricity Authority in Queensland, to establish a power station on coalfields at Millmerran which were partly Australian-owned- j but instead was to give the project to an almost wholly-owned- less about 3 per cent- overseas company which would site it almost on the boundary of Mr Joh Bjelke-Petersen’s own State electorate of Barambah. [More…]
The Millmerran Shire Council Chairman, Councillor Viv Saal, in a Press report said yesterday that he was staggered by the Cabinet decision in favour of a Tarong power house. [More…]
He was referring to the State Electricity Commission’s recommendation favouring Millmerran as the site for the power station. [More…]
For quite some time I, obviously along with many other members of the Parliament, have had a growing concern about the power of statutory corporations in our society, about the way they are using that power and about the seeming impotence of Parliament to try to reach out and do anything about it. [More…]
They have not faced their real responsibilities for what is happening with the political and social power and the public funds conferred on them by government. [More…]
That has a positive effect on the spending power of people living outside the metropolitan area. [More…]
-Will the Minister for Administrative Services advise whether the new Ford Fairmont motor vehicles acquired recently for Commonwealth transport in Canberra include power steering and a radio but no airconditioning? [More…]
I recognise that eventually airconditioning in motor cars will be as common as power steering and automatic transmission, but I do not believe that we should be leading the headlong rush into spending the taxpayers’ money. [More…]
Therefore, overall one increases the real purchasing power of the community. [More…]
When I came into the Senate in 1965 or 1966 the then Minister for National Development, David Fairbairn, said to me: ‘We will be attending the openings of various power stations and we will make reference to the engineers, the pioneers and the workers. ‘ [More…]
The decision we must make is whether we sell uranium oxide to an energy starved world that has already made a decision to develop nuclear power. [More…]
It seems to me that the impression is gained around the place that Australia can decide whether or not the world has nuclear power and that if we refuse to supply uranium oxide to the nations of the world they will change to some other form of energy. [More…]
I do not know the break-up of costs as far as nuclear power is concerned, but when one hears that nuclear power for electricity generation is somewhere near the cost of conventional type generation these days one can assume that the 75 per cent figure will not vary; each has the same means of reticulation. [More…]
I think South Africa would use the bargaining power resulting from its uranium resources in order to protect its domestic policies. [More…]
The Government has embarked on a deliberate policy, as was in evidence today at Question Time, of reducing the real purchasing power of the consumer. [More…]
All statistics show that the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission has been influenced by the Government over the last two years to reduce the purchasing power of wages and salaries. [More…]
The Government is determined to continue to reduce that purchasing power. [More…]
referendum proposal which, if passed, would have strengthened the Executive Government’s bargaining power with senators empowering it at any time to threaten to take senators to the polls, with the House of Representatives . [More…]
During the two years that this Government has been in office the real value of wages- the purchasing power of the general mass of people, the consumers- has been reduced by approximately $10 per week and savings are increasing. [More…]
He saw governments exercising economic power over the macro-economic factors in the economy, and mild government intervention as keeping capitalist organisation healthy. [More…]
As we found in 1975. there are other centres of power. [More…]
There are also centres of power in the regal area, in the judiciary and in the top echelons of Australian industry. [More…]
As I understand the Trade Practices Act it is based upon the corporation power and applies to corporations only. [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…]
But because of the lust for power of the people who now sit on the Government benches, I had to face two more elections before I had even completed my first six years in office. [More…]
The attempt of the Labor Government to stay in power in defiance of Parliament compelled his proper and inevitable dismissal of that Government. [More…]
Many of the people inside the Parliament who have made comments about the Parliament itself- I am speaking of members in the other place and senators here- are critical of the power of the Executive, and much has been said about this. [More…]
In the wake of Parliament’s diminishing role in government in the last 30 years there has been a dramatic expansion in the role of the Executive Government and with it the status and power of Ministers of State, viz-a-viz nonministerial members of Parliament. [More…]
However, over the same period the nation has developed an Executive Government vastly expanded in power, personnel, organisational variety and in its capacity to direct the modern state. [More…]
Various suggestions have been made on the way in which we might improve the situation that has been described by Reid and others, and the first is to restore the power of the House of Representatives. [More…]
That is, the Government’s 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…]
I believe the Senate has the power to ensure that the States are protected. [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…]
When, however, an Upper House possesses the power to reject a money bill including an appropriation bill, and exercises the power by denying supply, the principle that a government which has been denied supply by the Parliament should resign or go to an election must still apply- it is a necessary consequence of Parliamentary control of appropriation and expenditure and of the expectation that the ordinary and necessary services of government will continue to be provided. [More…]
It was designed to provide representation by States, not by electorates, and was given by Section 53, equal powers with the House with respect to proposed laws, except in the respects mentioned in the section. [More…]
It was denied power to originate or amend appropriation bills but was left with power to reject them or defer consideration of them. [More…]
The Senate accordingly has the power and has exercised the power to refuse to grant supply to the Government. [More…]
There have been public discussions about whether there is a convention deriving from the principles of responsible government that the Senate must never under any circumstances exercise the power to reject an appropriation bill. [More…]
I should be surprised if the Law Officers expressed the view that there is no reserve power in the Governor-General to dismiss a Ministry which has been refused supply by the Parliament and to commission a Ministry, as a caretaker ministry which will secure supply and recommend a dissolution, including where appropriate a double dissolution. [More…]
This is a matter on which my own mind is quite clear and I am acting in accordance with my own clear view of the principles laid down by the Constitution and of the nature, powers and responsibility of my office. [More…]
It is nowadays a commonplace in British countries that Parliament is in eclipse, a pale, even sickly pale, moon reflecting but a little of the shining sunlight of Executive power. [More…]
It is within the power of the Senate to reform itself and to ensure that it maintains the critical parliamentary role which it, and thus the Parliament, holds. [More…]
That is the international agenda- framed essentially in terms of political and military power, our problem - [More…]
That is Australia ‘s problem- has always been that we do not possess enough of that power. [More…]
This is likely to increase our international significance and bargaining power in some respects, but it also is likely to result in more demands being made on us, more pressure being brought to bear. [More…]
I suppose that it depends a little on one’s definition of security, but certainly security now takes in much more than military power, as suggested by the Foreign Minister in the statement that I quoted earlier. [More…]
Again, that emphasises that security is now not seen simply in terms of military power, as the Foreign Ministry suggested in November 1 976, but rather in economic terms. [More…]
It was on that day when he- I do not know whether he was drunk with power, conceit, vanity or arrogance- sitting approximately in the place now occupied by Senator Drake-Brockman, in response to an interjection, broke his oath or affirmation as an Executive Councillor and made known the secrets of the Executive Council by tabling an Executive Council minute. [More…]
-Senator, the job of any opposition worth its salt is to get rid of the government and get into power itself but the Labor Party has neither the leadership nor the will. [More…]
I remind honourable senators that section 1 of the Constitution- I remember quoting it with great glee in the dark days of Labor, without being overprovocativestates that the legislative power of the Commonwealth shall be vested in the Federal Parliament which shall consist of the Queen- the Executivethe Senate and the House of Representatives. [More…]
Of course Senator McLaren, being a member of the Labor Party, will recall quite well that the previous LiberalCountry Party Government had a preferential rate of interest for primary industry, which was at least Vh per cent below the normal lending rate of the banks, and that the Labor Party when it came to power reduced and eliminated the preferential rate of interest for primary producers. [More…]
The Minister will have the power to bring additional matters to the attention of the IAC and to direct it to observe certain priorities in regard to its policy guidelines. [More…]
Hence the majority party in the Senate has assumed the position, I believe properly, that senators sitting on a joint committee prior to the dissolution of the House of Representatives are still members of that committee in the new Parliament because the Senate is a House which has power and authority irrespective of whether the House of Representatives is dissolved or not. [More…]
The Opposition, despite the fact that it might not have the numbers, would have the power. [More…]
I am one of those who are agitating for the Parliament to be a much more effective place in the distribution of power in Australia. [More…]
That being the case it would seem that the power of the President to exercise that right is something which should not be of concern to us. [More…]
We had quite a long period when these debates did go for three hours because no honourable senator had the power to move the gag. [More…]
At present there is the power to adopt that procedure. [More…]
We know that after the present Government came to power it brought in certain regulations in relation to what happens if one leaves a job of one’s own choice. [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 1 973 have been prepared on the basis that certain financial provisions were probably beyond their power and would be provided for in complementary legislation. [More…]
All those things have been included in the Bill as it now comes before the Senate, as has the suggestion in clause 20 of the Committee’s report that it was undesirable for the Attorney-General to have power to delegate his power to authorise prosecutions. [More…]
I do not think there has been a major problem- if there has been it has not been drawn to my attention- of Australians volunteering for the armies of foreign powers and taking part in the invasions of other countries. [More…]
Some of these organisations purport to be left wing and others right wing and they may be receiving some clandestine assistance from a foreign power but they are not the armed forces of a foreign power. [More…]
They are members of various organisations dedicated, for various reasons, to activities of this kind in order to further ends which, if they are the objectives of some other power, are only indirectly the objectives of some other power. [More…]
If I were exercising a discretionary power in this respect I would recognise this. [More…]
It is probably reasonable- it may even be necessary- that a reasonable government should have the power to tell the Commission what its policies are, if it has any policies, and to ask the Commission to take account of those policies. [More…]
Under the de facto, one man government which we now regrettably have, we fear that the new powers may be misappropriated by the Prime Minister to intimidate or even emasculate the IAC and to effectively silence the institution best equipped to do the economic research which will question and sometimes discredit the economic policies of the Prime Minister who is not noted for his tolerance of informed criticism. [More…]
If this man’s arbitrary power is increased, as it will be by this legislation, will the IAC be used as a tool to advance the business prestige and interests of Andrew Grimwade or some of Mr Fraser ‘s other cronies from the Melbourne Club? [More…]
It increases the potential for misuse of arbitrary power by a Prime Minister and Government which are bereft of a policy, or even ideas for a policy, on industry and employment. [More…]
I suggest that it will not speak up now; I suggest that it will not speak up later; that it will not act in any way to curb the arbitrary powers of, or the arbitrary misuse of power by, the Prime Minister in the future as in the past. [More…]
Senator Douglas McClelland has mentioned proposed new sub-sections (2) and (3) of section 22 which gives the Minister certain power. [More…]
More recent figures show that despite the poor growth rate throughout the manufacturing industry sector, the increased growth rate for furniture manufacturing, as of July 1 977 was still 27 points higher than the average, ranking second among durable goods and sixth among all manufacturing groups, including fuel and power. [More…]
It gives the Minister power to suggest further guidelines in particular situations if he feels they are desirable. [More…]
I refer to an article in today’s Age, attributed to Tim Colebatch, querying the relevance of the reports of the Australian Bureau of Statistics on strike days lost for the year ended 31 December 1977 which, on first reading, showed a vast improvement in the number of working days lost compared with previous years but which excluded working days lost as a result of the Victorian power strike. [More…]
Had the Bureau’s definition of strike days lost included those days lost due to the stand downs caused by the Victorian power dispute, would the total statistics reflect the second highest number of days lost since 1967? [More…]
Under that Act the officers can exercise power but in practice this is done by the Navy. [More…]
The second reason I put to those who believe that coastal surveillance ought to be under the aegis of the defence forces is this: My attitude- I am sure that the bulk of Australians who are interested in civil liberties and other important aspects would have the same attitude- is that the defence forces should not go to the aid of the civil power except in absolute emergencies. [More…]
In Australia the defence forces go to the aid of the civil power. [More…]
But certainly the defence forces should not go to the aid of the civil power as a matter of course. [More…]
The article entitled Policing Offshore: Civil Power or Armed Forces’ by Elizabeth Young goes into the political and diplomatic problems associated with using armed forces as a matter of course to go to the aid of the civil power or to perform what are essentially civilian tasks of a constabulary nature. [More…]
On land, we cannot imagine the armed forces habitually providing the police- the civil power- with the bulk of their personnel, facilities and hardware. [More…]
But I come back to the essential principle which ought to be given consideration by Opposition senators, namely, that as a general principle the armed forces should not go to the aid of the civil power other than in specified urgent circumstances. [More…]
The function of the Security Service is to defend the Realm as a whole from dangers which threaten it as a whole, such as espionage on behalf of a foreign Power, or internal organisations subversive of the State. [More…]
A House Committee, to consist of the President and six Senators, shall be appointed at the commencement of each Parliament, with power to act during Recess, and to confer or sit as a Joint Committee with a similar Committee of the House of Representatives. [More…]
Is the Minister representing the Acting Minister for Trade and Resources aware of the decision by the Labour Government of the United Kingdom to proceed with a nuclear waste treatment plant to produce plutonium for future power generation? [More…]
I refer to an article appearing in the Sunday Mail in Queensland on 12 March which described how a 200 series Boeing 727, on a domestic flight from Miami to Newark in the United States of America, sequentially suffered complete power loss on all three engines. [More…]
It was not that the knowledge was not available; it was that the knowledge that was available was ignored by the politicians who were in power, and by one politician in particular. [More…]
It would have power to do certain things. [More…]
The three States concerned have told us that the River Murray Commission is working well and that it has all the power it needs to carry out its functions satisfactorily. [More…]
The salinity of the Murray River is a problem that is growing all the time and the fact that the Commission is empowered to take an interest only in the area immediately surrounding the river and has no power to operate in the areas from which the salt comes certainly reduces its power. [More…]
It becomes a power struggle as to who gets the money. [More…]
It would be a tragedy indeed if, because an authority such as the River Murray Commission does not have the power and the finance to grapple with the situation, these forests were to be lost. [More…]
The Liberal Party has within its power in my State the right to oppose the continuing development of a police state, but its parliamentary representatives in the main sit around like stunned mullet unwilling to rock the boat and unwilling to overthrow a dictator. [More…]
We have seen it happen in so many other countries as a prelude to greater power being taken, whether by an elected dictatorship or a military dictatorship. [More…]
It has ignored the promises, statements and policies of whichever government has been in power. [More…]
It is the power vested in this Act that enables the Minister of the Queensland Government to ride roughshod over Aborigines in that State and in the case of Aurukun and Mornington Island to take over the church missions without consultation with the Aboriginal people themselves. [More…]
In an article in the Melbourne Age of yesterday Mr Viner, the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs, was reported as saying that he would find out the wishes of the people of Aurukun and Mornington Island but that the Government was powerless to prevent the Queensland Government taking control of the two Aboriginal reserves. [More…]
The Minister admitted that there was no legislation which would give him power to stop the takeover. [More…]
The constitutional position in relation to the power of the Australian Government is clear. [More…]
It has power to make laws for the people of any race for whom it is deemed necessary to make special laws. [More…]
This would not mean that the States would automatically lose their existing powers. [More…]
What is intended is that the National Parliament could make laws, if it thought fit, relating to Aboriginals- as it can about many other matters on which the States also have power to legislate. [More…]
The Government has made it clear that it holds its legislative power in reserve pending the outcome of those discussions and pending, I hope, some sensible behaviour on the part of the Queensland Government. [More…]
I make that concession because I do not like the idea of centralised power. [More…]
In common with a number of other members of this Parliament, I engaged last year in one of the exercises we have performed pursuant to our constitutional power. [More…]
When will the Queensland Liberal Party and the Federal Liberal Party use its power to prevent the continuation and extension of these policies? [More…]
Request you demand Government declare national emergency to use power given referendum 1967 to administer all Queensland Aboriginal reserves and affairs. [More…]
We urge all Federal Parliamentarians to get the Federal Government to take over all responsibility for Aboriginal affairs in Queensland to implement the power given in the referendum of 1 967 to administer all Queensland Aboriginal reserves and affairs. [More…]
The referendum gave power to the Commonwealth Government and the Commonwealth Parliament to make special laws pertaining to Aboriginal people. [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…]
In 1967 this Parliament was given the constitutional power to protect those people and to allow them to make their own decisions. [More…]
The Parliament is honour bound to use its constitutional power to make laws for the protection, peace, order and good government of the Aboriginal people in that area. [More…]
It is about time that the Parliament asserted its power, given to it in the Constitution, to protect these people. [More…]
Every speaker in this debate has supported the use of that power. [More…]
What is being proposed by the Queensland State Government is nothing more than the accretion of power for purposes which have not been made clear to us. [More…]
There is no power to disallow. [More…]
But under the Bill he has that power. [More…]
I am also disturbed to note that the introduction to the feasibility study states that in a letter dated 4 March 1969 the River Murray Commission asked the Snowy Mountains Hydro-electric Authority to undertake in close collaboration with the Victorian State Electricity Commission a preliminary assessment of the likely cost and energy output of various power installations at Dartmouth on the basis of a three million acre feet storage. [More…]
The Minister, when in replying, seemed to support the proposition that the power to decide where money should be spent should not be taken from the Parliament. [More…]
Whilst the Minister is obliged to submit to the Parliament a statement showing where he is spending money under an agreement, we have no power to disallow that expenditure. [More…]
We will be giving the Minister that power. [More…]
Whilst it may not be desired that every agreement come before the Parliament, I think that if we give the Minister the discretion he gets under the Bill we should have the power to disallow an agreement when he tables it in the Parliament. [More…]
As the Bill stands we are not to be given that power. [More…]
We have it in respect of many other matters including the power to disallow regulations and ordinances or to declare that something is not in the national interest, or that something is a violation of Aboriginal lands, et cetera. [More…]
In 1973 it became apparent that provisions for the payment of Budget appropriations may be beyond the power of a Territory ordinance. [More…]
We know that we need another power station and that we need new distribution substations. [More…]
He has given to the people of the Northern Territory all the information that it is within its power to give. [More…]
We find it difficult to understand why the Minister would be charged with power to refuse an application for registration for the bounty from a company which complied with the conditions for the bounty other than that it was not ‘engaged in the spinning of bountiable yarn at the premises to which the application relates’, and was not so engaged on 1 October 1 977. [More…]
At Proserpine, mains electric power is connected to the carefully selected site of the mobile control tower, which is in the middle of the aerodrome and raised some two metres to provide better vision for the controller. [More…]
Has the Government been approached by the Tasmanian Government for assistance in a power alcohol research project based on sugar beet? [More…]
Senator Brown raised the first matter which relates to the power of the Minister to refuse to register premises for the purpose of the bounty where the applicant was not engaged in spinning bountiable yarn on 1 October 1977. [More…]
He referred to the constitutional power to confine the payment of bounty to bountiable yarn spun in registered premises and the Minister’s power to register premises and in that way to select who is entitled to the bounty. [More…]
Certainly this is a power which has been exercised in other bounty legislation. [More…]
It is in this area that these rather arbitrary powers are being given to an individual. [More…]
Originally under the definition, the power was given to a senior naval officer. [More…]
Turning to proposed new section 6, on the face of it the superintendent would have greater power. [More…]
Where, before the commencement of this Act, a Senior Naval Officer incurred expenses in the execution of any power . [More…]
That sub-clause only gives the power to make regulations concerning that matter. [More…]
I put it to the Senate that the mere power to make regulations in itself is reasonable, provided that there is proper provision for adequate parliamentary scrutiny of the regulations made under that power. [More…]
It has but the power to present a report to this chamber. [More…]
That is the only power or function of the Standing Orders Committee. [More…]
As everyone praises the work of the Estimates committees, I cannot see the necessity for permanent staff unless the whole report is adopted and the committees are given extra power and a fulltime function. [More…]
At this stage I accept what Senator Withers said, namely, that following this discussion the President, being cognisant of the debate that has taken place, as he has indicated, will give consideration to the rearrangements which are directly within his power. [More…]
Assassination or a threat upon life is a state of mind rather than the power of weapons. [More…]
Products to be covered by the scheme will be motor spirit, power kerosene, automotive distillate and aviation fuels. [More…]
Decisions about the control of Parliament House are within the power of the President and Mr Speaker. [More…]
But I think it behoves us, and particularly those who wield executive power and who hold the power, to act in such a way as to avoid the sort of public reaction which provokes people to acts of terrorism. [More…]
I think it is true to say- Senator Missen correctly underlined this fact and other speakers referred to it- that there is an alienation in the Australian community about the use and abuse of arbitrary power. [More…]
I find it incongruous for somebody like Senator Sir Magnus Cormack to give unqualified support for what has been done at the request of the Executive or of the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) when Sir Magnus, in this place and in articles, has attacked the excessive use of executive power. [More…]
One question with which members of all political parties should concern themselves is the use of this power and the degree to which there is growing alienation of sizable sections of the Australian community because of the way in which those who hold power exercise that power. [More…]
It seems to me that it is part of the responsibility of those who have power to exercise it in such a way to show that they take into consideration the minority views which exist within the community. [More…]
I would prefer to see the exercise of legislative power. [More…]
I do not believe the real power resides in Parliament, but others believe that there is some purpose in the parliamentary process and that governments in fact do exercise the major power. [More…]
I hope that some of the more senior members of the Government who have been concerned about the use of arbitrary power and the rights of Parliament express wherever they can the need to preserve, as far as is practicable, the rights of members of parliament and the rights of citizens to assemble and to present a point of view. [More…]
What I am concerned about is the rising incidence of violence and terrorism as a strategy, a tactic, a means of achieving and using power in today’s world. [More…]
It should not be forgotten that although a Labor Government was in power the Privileges Committee was dominated by nonLabor senators. [More…]
Furthermore, it is open to the objection that if an official has the authority over a member to exercise a discretion as to whether he has been properly identified, it would probably be a misplacement of his power and authority. [More…]
1 ) What progress has been made in securing the agreement of State Governments to transfer or refer power to the Commonwealth to enable the Family Courts to make necessary orders with respect to children who are not the legitimate children of a marriage. [More…]
1 ) A reference of constitutional power to the Commonwealth to enable it to confer jurisdiction on the Family Courts over children not covered by the Family Law Act necessarily depends entirely on the willingness of States to make such a reference. [More…]
Standing Committee of Commonwealth and State Attorneys-General is currently considering the form of a possible bill by which States could refer the necessary power. [More…]
Amendments were made to the Family Law Act following the decision of the High Court in Russell v. Russell to bring it within the limits of constitutional power as determined in that case. [More…]
In so far as the action referred to in the question can only be taken if the Commonwealth acquires additional family law powers, it must await the outcome of the initiatives that has been taken in the Standing Committee of Attorneys-General referred to in ( 1 ) above. [More…]
The question of the constitutional power of this Parliament to pass section 45D of the Trade Practices Act is an issue before the High Court and it has not yet been resolved. [More…]
Does the Australian Postal Commission have any power to confiscate such articles and, further, to screen all postal articles to see whether they contain narcotics? [More…]
Reports of the speech that I made in Sydney on Monday morning at the opening of the new Family Court premises indicate that I proposed to ask the States to hand over to the Family Court the power in relation to custody matters which has been denied to it as a result of decisions of the High Court, a situation which leads to considerable problems that have been previously canvassed and are well known. [More…]
What I said was that the solution proposed, that of a reference of power from the States to the Commonwealth, was a satisfactory one and probably the best available; that, in fact, the Standing Committee of Attorneys-General for some time had been discussing the matter; and that both my predecessor and I had indicated that the Commonwealth Government would be prepared to act on a reference, if it were given. [More…]
The fact is that the discussions have proceeded in a very satisfactory way; that the matter will be discussed again at a special meeting of the AttorneysGeneral on Friday and Saturday of this week; and that I am hopeful there will be a reference of power by at least a majority of the States. [More…]
If only a majority refer the power, certain jurisdictional and technical problems will of course arise. [More…]
I believe that probably substantial benefits would be obtained even if there were a reference of power from some, rather than all, of the States. [More…]
At this stage we are still discussing the matter on the basis of a reference of power generally and I am hopeful that the discussions later this week will achieve that end. [More…]
It depends which Foreign Minister from which powerful country our Foreign Minister or Prime Minister last met. [More…]
We are not a colonial power. [More…]
The Whitlam Government was in power when I walked around Timor with some young Timorese, visiting villages and so on. [More…]
Those are the plain facts of the situation when the Opposition was in power. [More…]
He did not look at the resolution which was adopted by the United Nations on 12 December 1975 when this Government was in power and which called for the withdrawal of Indonesian troops from East Timor. [More…]
This resolution was adopted unanimously by the United Nations organisation, which included the major powers, and in my view indicted for all time the action taken by Indonesia. [More…]
It is well known- I think Senator Gietzelt in his statement conceded that it was known to the Labor Government- that Indonesian regular forces were in East Timor while the Labor Government was in power. [More…]
The point probably does not need to be laboured that when it was in power the Labor Government’s approach to morality in politics and its concern for oppressed peoples was well demonstrated in the decision to accord de jure recognition to Soviet control over the Baltic States. [More…]
It is attempting to sweep up the debris left as a result of actions taken before it came to power. [More…]
Fourthly, national, indeed international, regulation of the physical bounds, the broadcasting airwaves and of all electromagnetic communications channels- for example, their frequencies, power and points of origin and delivery. [More…]
I also express the hope at this stage that the Minister or the Tribunal which now has been given the power to conduct hearings and allocate licences to public broadcasters will take into account the work that has been achieved by the pioneers in this area. [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…]
I think Senator Carrick will agree that once we get the legislation there is the power of appeal. [More…]
I think that is the value of the report and it shows the full fire power of the Committee. [More…]
The picture which emerges when we examine the exhaustive list of these pricing localities is that in many instances subsidies may be payable on a minor petroleum product such as power kerosene, aviation fuel or aviation turbine fuel, but none is payable on the major petroleum products such as distillate and petrol. [More…]
But in 1972-73, when the Whitlam Government came to power, there was a review of the scheme. [More…]
It is said that the aim of the Bill is to reduce the price of motor spirit, power kerosene, distillate, aviation gasoline and some turbine fuels to some country areas in Australia. [More…]
That is the equalisation of price between city and country- by subsidising freight costs outside the metropolitan area on motor spirit, aviation fuel, automotive distillate and power kerosene. [More…]
In view of the statement by the Minister to the effect that the State Electricity Commission of Victoria was obliged to meet all costs associated with the construction of the hydroelectric power installations at Dartmouth I now ask the Minister: Is the SEC of Victoria also obliged to meet the full cost of any necessary work which may have to be carried out below the Dartmouth Dam on the Mitta Mitta River to control surge effects when the hydro-electricity plant is operating or will this cost be shared by all governments which are members of the River Murray Commission? [More…]
It is carefully designed to achieve that result within the constitutional power of the Commonwealth, given by the 1967 referendum, to make special laws for the people of any race for whom it is deemed necessary. [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…]
His Government has become nothing less than a corrupt, undemocratic, power-hungry Government which is pursuing in a wide range of areas policies which show a general distaste for the democratic rights of Queenslanders, many of which were won over a long period of years. [More…]
It is tragic to realise that what is occurring in Aboriginal affairs in Queensland is only the tip of the iceberg, only part of a whole series of events which demonstrates clearly that, after 20 years in government, power has certainly corrupted. [More…]
It does not give me any pleasure whatsoever to come to the conclusion that the misuse of power in Queensland that we have seen in relation to Aborigines is no more than a symptom of a malaise in government generally within that State. [More…]
It is not his love of Aborigines that hurls him headlong into battles with the Federal Government; it is because he wishes to retain and exercise power arrogantly across a wide range of social issues. [More…]
Several of the key legislative powers conferred by the Queensland Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders Act are racist. [More…]
The power to remove people from their tribal areas was most clearly demonstrated by the case at Mapoon in 1963 when Aborigines were removed at gunpoint by police and exiled to Bamaga and Weipa. [More…]
He has the power over the Aboriginal people which denies them as a people to make decisions relating to their lives. [More…]
The current Bill will provide Aborigines in Queensland with the powers of exclusion in relation to who enters their reserves, but it fails fundamentally- and this is one of our points of contention- in that it does not provide them with the power to exclude individuals. [More…]
It is disgraceful that those who are in a position of influence and power over their opinions would so blatantly use that position of power and influence to terrify them with statements which could not in any way be claimed to be based on truth. [More…]
The Queensland legislation- the Aborigines Act and the Torres Strait Islanders Act and the regulations and by-laws made under them- provide 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…]
In this particular case, now that this Bill is before the Parliament, it has ignored the fact that the 1967 referendum empowered the Commonwealth under section 5 1 (xxvi) to legislate for Aborigines. [More…]
Whilst the State retains its current power to legislate, any Commonwealth legislation must prevail. [More…]
What we are doing through this Bill is exactly what the people of Queensland said in 1967 should happen- that the Commonwealth should have the power to legislate, to take control and make laws for Aboriginal people throughout Australia. [More…]
My colleagues and I made a solemn promise to the people of Aurukun and Mornington Island that we would do everything in our power to ensure that the Federal Government introduced forthwith legislation to prevent the Queensland Government from taking over those communities. [More…]
We said that we would do everything in our power to urge the Government to take steps to introduce legislation to give self-management and self-determination to those people. [More…]
It is carefully designed to achieve that result within the constitutional power of the Commonwealth, given by the 1967 referendum, to make special laws for the people of any race for whom it is deemed necessary. [More…]
They are supporting what the Government is doing, at the moment, I too support what the Government is doing for the simple reason that I gave a promise to these people that I would do everything in my power to ensure that this legislation was introduced, following the promise of the Prime Minister and the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs that it would be done. [More…]
We have always had this power to ban mining and this Bill does not alter the situation. [More…]
Its powers have been stripped. [More…]
It has no powers today except the power to select five people to advise the Conference to sit in conjunction with five people whom the Minister appoints- his hand-picked crowd. [More…]
There is not an Aboriginal organisation funded by the Department of Aboriginal Affairs which has not had a reduction in funding since this Government took power. [More…]
I well remember that when the Labor Government was in power calls of centralism came from South Australia and other places. [More…]
I refer back to the AddressinReply debate and to those people who spoke strongly in criticism of the power of the Executive. [More…]
Let them now come forward and say: ‘Let us take the power away from the Executive ‘-in this case the Minister- ‘and place it in the Parliament’. [More…]
We have a responsibility to hold the nation as a unity and an entity and to allow neither Croatians nor Aboriginals to erect themselves as one factor in our community which has an overriding power or authority solely for itself. [More…]
Subordinate bodies peculiar to the State functions, such as municipalities, marine boards or other special groups which have power to make by-laws, are directly responsible to the State parliaments. [More…]
They have power to legislate for the peace, order and good government of the community. [More…]
That is within the ambit of their powers. [More…]
But if through this Council there comes a by-law in relation to its function, such as in the judgment of the Council is proper, that has just as much legislative effect within that community as has any Act, which is passed here within the ambit of Federal power, on the Australian community. [More…]
It is excellent to have a giant’s power but it is tyrannous to use it as a giant. [More…]
We were given in 1967 power to use if need be, if the proper occasion arose. [More…]
My last word on the subject for the purposes of honourable senators tonight is this: Let us remind ourselves of the unique situation of Commonwealth interference, we being in that excellent position of having a giant’s power, the right to override inconsistent State laws within the ambit of our authority. [More…]
But if it remains within the State’s power, subject to these requirements of finance, ex-State or Commonwealthand in this field where both have an interest- then of course the position is completely the subject of proper negotiation and discussion between Federal and State authorities. [More…]
Further to my question without notice on 14 March concerning the sequential complete loss of power of the three jet engines on a 200- series Boeing 727 in the United States, I ask the Minister: Has any additional information as a result of the investigation into the incident yet been made available to either the Department of Transport or our internal airlines? [More…]
Can the Minister advise whether his Government has done any research in the field of magneto hydro-dynamic power generation. [More…]
I do not know of the contract in the United States relating to research into power generation. [More…]
I do not know of anywhere within the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation or within my own Department where power generation of this type is being researched. [More…]
The position is that the Commonwealth has no legislative power to control the sale, possession or use of hand guns except in the Territories. [More…]
However, the Northern Territory is approaching selfgovernment so our power will be limited there in future. [More…]
As honourable senators know, about $26m additional purchasing power a month has been injected into the community from 1 January. [More…]
We will need to look to the future to see whether the sustained application of purchasing power means that sustained demand across the counter will result in a sustained need for more employment and that of course will be a healthy thing. [More…]
Section 7 and section 10 of the Act make it quite clear that the Director has the power to do as his title suggests, to direct. [More…]
Apart from the fact that the State is engaged in the provision of the fundamental services on the reserves, the State Government has maintained the power to direct. [More…]
The role of the manager is limited by that power. [More…]
It gave us the power to enact special laws for the people. [More…]
What was the purpose of the referendum if it was not to give to the national authority power to legislate? [More…]
Therefore those men have the power to subvert any attempt by the Commonwealth to grant selfmanagement in any short period. [More…]
I want the select committee to examine what sort of a body will have what ambit of power under by-laws and then what will be the effect of those by-laws, firstly, in relation to State legislation and, secondly, in relation to the continuance by the State of the provision of essential services. [More…]
the proposition is to come before us, which we will have to debate here this afternoon on the information that we have- I hope we will purposefully- that by-laws are to be sent only to the Minister and that on reaching him he will have no power of approval or disapproval. [More…]
They do not come within the Acts Interpretation Act and we will not have the power of disallowance. [More…]
The Opposition believes that it is necessary for it to move the amendments so that the Queensland Government cannot change the definitions referred to in this Bill- at present it has the power to do this- and cannot take steps which would nullify to a major degree the purposes of the legislation we are discussing. [More…]
Even in today’s Melbourne Age he is reported to have said that he has a secret plan and is going to take extraordinary steps within his province or within the power of his Government to circumvent what this legislation seeks to do. [More…]
The Minister is given completely unqualified executive power himself to create a body, declare and identify that body and publish it in the Gazette as ‘the body’. [More…]
The National Aboriginal Consultative Committee, which was an Aboriginal elected body and which was truly representative of the Aboriginal people, now is only an Aboriginal council which has no greater powers than to appoint five members to a body to which the Minister also appoints five members. [More…]
We are giving to the Minister a terrific power to act contrary to the wishes of the Aboriginal community. [More…]
The Bill as it is presently drafted vests in him an unfettered power which ought to be subject to at least some control. [More…]
-It would be undesirable for a council to be able to have a mandatory power to require a Minister to do certain things. [More…]
In it power is given to the councils to manage and control the affairs of the Aboriginal or Islander community. [More…]
Of course in this regard the proposed amendment does not cover the situation and it gives power only to the Minister. [More…]
If” it were to take effect it would give the Minister power to determine whether, for example, a State government department continued to provide services to a community. [More…]
The additional ministerial power which the amendment would provide would be inappropriate and would be an unnecessary intrusion into areas of State responsibility. [More…]
By-laws are subject to some exercise of power by a higher authority. [More…]
Clause 10 gives the councils independent by-law making power since the existing by-laws will cease to take effect under clause 14. [More…]
The power in the Bill, as expressed, is unqualified. [More…]
It will have power to make by-laws untrammelled by the existence of other laws which are inconsistent with them. [More…]
As I understand it, the purport of Senator Gietzelt ‘s amendment is to remove that control, that is to say, the control of the Minister to approve and the power of either House to disallow. [More…]
Like him, we are of the opinion that unless Aboriginal communities have the power to require non-Aboriginal residents or visitors to observe standards of behaviour- normal standards of behaviour- which are acceptable to those communities, social disintegration may well take place. [More…]
It confers on Aboriginal communities no more rights than are possessed by any other Australian landholder although it does offer real power to those communities which, surely, is important. [More…]
Clause 12 re-inforces the council’s power to authorise entry of people. [More…]
It ensures the power of the councils to authorise entry and it also ensures that any person authorised entry by the council cannot be removed by another authority. [More…]
This Bill does not affect the power of the director to issue permits if application is made to him. [More…]
Nor does it affect the power of the council to revoke any permit issued either by the director or by the council. [More…]
It is for the reason that the whole intention of this Bill is to re-inforce the council ‘s power that we believe that the Opposition amendments are unnecessary. [More…]
I refer to a report in the Melbourne Sun on 10 April of the weekend meeting between Commonwealth and State AttorneysGeneral and in particular to the statement that all State governments except those of Queensland and Western Australia are prepared to transfer family law powers to the Commonwealth to enable the same laws and facilities to apply to the custody and welfare of ex-nuptial children and to all matrimonial property in order to overcome the effects of High Court judgments in 1976 which limited the effectiveness of the Family Law Act. [More…]
Is it correct, as was further reported, that the proposed transfers of power will not be enacted without the approval of all States? [More…]
Is there a constitutional or any other reason why the majority of States cannot transfer such powers despite the obstruction of the Queensland Government? [More…]
In fact, what was intended to be said was that the matter of a reference of power was for the decision of the States and whether legislation could be enacted in respect of any State would depend on the decision of a particular State. [More…]
It was not intended to convey that enactment of legislation by the Commonwealth depended upon the concurrence of all States in a reference of power. [More…]
There seems to be some speculation about which governments will or will not refer power. [More…]
I have said that I do not see it as necessary that all States should refer power as a condition of the Commonwealth Government’s deciding to act on a reference of power. [More…]
Really the matter can be decided by the Commonwealth Government only when we find out finally how many States are prepared to agree upon a reference of power and that information is conveyed to me as a formal decision of the State governments. [More…]
Then I will take the matter to the Commonwealth Government for a decision as to whether a sufficient number of States have indicated a willingness to refer power for us to act. [More…]
I do not care which government is in power, but if a matter comes up and a Minister is in Western Australia or in northern Queensland and someone else is acting for him, passions become inflamed. [More…]
The motto of the British printing trade union states: ‘The man who suffers an injustice with the power to remove it deserves not compassion but contempt. ‘ [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…]
I have a couple of queries which are partially general but which refer in particular to proposed new section 4 (1) (a) relating to the scheme itself and to its costing and to proposed new section 5 (3) (b) which deals with the power given to the Minister to determine to whom payments may be made and, by implication, to whom payment may not be made. [More…]
This will he done bv subsidising freight costs outside the metropolitan area on motor spirit, aviation fuel, automotive distillate and power kerosene. [More…]
There the Prime Minister made it very clear and very concise- he did so without any excessive verbiage- so that it would be clearly understood in the electorate that the Government, if returned to power, early in its new Parliament would bring down the price of petrol in country areas to a price differential of less than lc a litre or 4c a gallon and eventually in the life of this Parliament would bring the differential down to 2c a gallon. [More…]
We are bringing back for country people something that was abolished by the Labor Party when it was in power. [More…]
When the Labor Party was in power in 1974 fuel equalisation was suddenly abolished overnight, and on that occasion it was abolished by ministerial direction alone. [More…]
The purpose of this legislation is to subsidise the freight differential from refining ports and seaboard terminals on petroleum, power kerosene, automotive distillate and aviation fuels. [More…]
The scheme will cover motor spirit, power kerosene, automotive distillate and aviation fuels. [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 might add that under this Bill the Minister is given the power to exclude from the benefits of the subsidy any sales which he is satisfied do not require to be afforded the benefit. [More…]
That power to exclude large mining towns in the north and north west from the benefits of the subsidy, incidentally, was issued under the previous scheme. [More…]
I understand that the Minister intends to use that power again if he is satisfied in the interests of the nation that large undertakings do not require the benefit of this scheme. [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…]
The position of this Government is no different from the position when my Party was in power. [More…]
The Family Law Court has no power to deal with payments to be made under the Superannuation Act after the death of the particular contributor concerned; such payments are solely governed by the provisions of the Superannuation Act. [More…]
The Family Law Court has no power to deal with payments to be made under the Superannuation Act after the death of the particular contributor concerned; such payments are solely governed by the provisions of the Superannuation Act. [More…]
Is the Minister aware that the cost of nuclear energy in the United States is climbing astronomically and that this cost spiral, plus the waste problem, are already causing some American States to back away from nuclear power development? [More…]
Finally, will the Minister reconsider his previous statement that he will be the one to enunciate the nuclear power policy of our country? [More…]
Inasmuch as the legislation of this country uniquely confers upon the Waterside Workers Federation of Australia a statutory monopoly to supply labour for waterfront activities, will he consider whether, in the event of the intervention of the Waterside Workers Federation in a dispute that involves the export of commodities beyond Australia not affecting waterside workers’ conditions, that absolute monopoly should be cancelled in the event of the Waterside Workers Federation’s using the power that comes from that monopoly to abuse our trade in exports? [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 1 94 nuclear power units operating in 2 1 countries with a capacity of over 95,000 megawatts of electricity. [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…]
The whole thrust of his policies over recent years has been to paint Canberra as an evil source of power to portray himself as the protector of the rights of people. [More…]
It must be recognised that, in this power conflict between the rights of the Queensland Premier to determine the lifestyle of Aborigines in Queensland and the determination of this Government and this Parliament to free them from that influence and to give them the rights of self-determination and self-management, the Aborigines have become the meat in the sandwich. [More…]
I would hope that they would do so because if their genuine concern is a matter of State rights and if they really believe that the Constitution does not confer on the Commonwealth the power which the Commonwealth has assumed in passing this legislation they really ought to put it publicly and not wait until the next move in this rather unsavory game of chess, or whatever it is that we seem to be engaged in at the moment, in which of course the Aboriginal people are the pawns. [More…]
Although the essence of this Bill is concerned with the Corporation’s borrowing power, it gives us an opportunity to consider some aspects of the industry that face the growers in Australia, and the general question of marketing. [More…]
The Apple and Pear Corporation was formed in 1 974 and replaced the Apple and Pear Board which was a body with more restricted powers. [More…]
It was considered at the time- I think generally agreed by the industry and most people involved in it- that a body with wider powers, particularly in the marketing area, would be to the advantage of the industry. [More…]
The Authority is obliged to send these particular varieties to these markets- I do not know whether the Apple and Pear Corporation would have any power to act in this matter; I understand the Tasmanian Authority itself has no power- and it is to be regretted that certain sections of the industry are not prepared to co-operate with the Authority in the manner they should be. [More…]
exercising its power to engage in trade; [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 apples and pear products. [More…]
We now come to the Bill which asks us to give this Corporation power to expend for promotion. [More…]
So the Bill asks us to give the Corporation authority to borrow moneys for the purpose of exercising its power to engage in trade. [More…]
We are blithely told that the Corporation has not engaged in trade nor has it that power. [More…]
But the Liberal-Country Party Government comes to office and, to encourage the Corporation, it gives it power to borrow, to engage in trade and then to perform its function of promoting. [More…]
I have had only a short time in which to look into this matter but the purport of the second reading speech, the whole draft of it, has been to give power to borrow for the purpose of promoting the industry. [More…]
Inasmuch as the Corporation had not engaged in trade and inasmuch as those who did engage in trade needed this assistance for promotion, the purpose was to give power to borrow. [More…]
exercising its power to engage in trade; [More…]
Whilst the Corporation already has the power to engage in trade it has not to this date used used that power. [More…]
There have been dramatic increases in size, in power, in technology, in the carriage of dangerous cargoes, in the introduction of automation and in the overall complexity of operations at sea, both in the merchant services and in the fishing area. [More…]
I ask the Attorney-General and Minister representing the Minister for Business and Consumer Affairs: In view of the difficulties which have recently been experienced in maintaining export contracts, the importance of export trade to our economy, and the damage to our international trading reputation due to our failure to maintain delivery schedules because of industrial troubles on the waterfront, will the Government give consideration to introducing legislation under section 51(1) of the Constitution which gives the Government power to enact laws with respect to trade and commerce with other countries, thus enabling exporters to fulfil their international commitments? [More…]
Certainly there does seem to be under section 51 ( 1 ) of the Constitution, as suggested by Senator Tehan, ample constitutional power for the Parliament to pass legislation in regard to conciliation procedures in this area. [More…]
Although couched in terms of power and responsibility, the much trumpeted Fraser federalism is really an attempt to vary the basis of Commonwealth-State financial relations. [More…]
What the States overlooked were the consequences of the introduction of tax indexation, and the Commonwealth reserved power to increase personal income tax by way of levies in which the States do not share. [More…]
Of course the intention of this Government to give the States the power to impose State income taxes over and above Commonwealth income tax is what the new federalism is all about. [More…]
There will be no reduction in the powers of the Commonwealth. [More…]
The Commonwealth will maintain those powers. [More…]
The only power it wishes to give to the States is the power which we know no State government really wants, and that is the power to collect income tax from the people in those States. [More…]
Indeed, the Premiers have acknowledged that the decentralisation of power, which we are introducing at this moment, is of profound importance. [More…]
It saw, and Mr Whitlam saw, one Parliament only, one House, the House of Representatives in Canberra, with all power centralised in it. [More…]
When the Labor Party was in power, in its centralism, its policy was simple. [More…]
The central feature of federalism was supposed to be the devolution or decentralisation of power. [More…]
In response to some of the noisy interjections which were coming from my left a minute ago, I cite the Premier of Western Australia, Sir Charles Court, who in his public posturings has been one of the major supporters of this federalism policy because he saw it as a way of increasing his power and his prestige. [More…]
Their intention was- and remains, as it was made quite clear in the speeches we heard today- to abolish the States and to seek the centralisation of power, particularly in relation to tax collection and the capacity to expend money on programs, in the hands of the Federal Government here in Canberra. [More…]
It has been the purpose of the Fraser Government since being elected in 1975 to seek the devolution of power both by means of expenditure and by means of alterations to laws. [More…]
As was demonstrated by Senator Carrick during his earlier speech on the Seas and Submerged Lands Bill, it is the intention of the Fraser Government to have a working relationship with the States in a way which is relevant to the whole power process within the Commonwealth. [More…]
If we properly support the principles of devolution of power and the devolution of proper monetary control, surely we agree with the principle that more people must be employed at this level rather than at the Commonwealth level. [More…]
Senator Walsh made the point that there have been some six Premiers Conferences since this Federal Government came to power in 1975. [More…]
That was an understandable position, because when Labor came to power in 1 972 it had to pick up the tab for so many years of deficiency so far as community and public services were concerned. [More…]
There is never any mention in the Parliament or elsewhere of the tremendous development of centralism within the private sector and the way in which the major corporations centralise power within that sector. [More…]
I think it is true to say that one of the major issues in the 1975 election campaignSenator Gietzelt is still propounding the proposition- was that federalism will not work and that all power should be centralised in Canberra. [More…]
I suppose this debate is about philosophies because we on this side of the chamber propound the policy of division of powers, the right of the States and local government to receive their legitimate share of the tax revenues of the Commonwealth and to spend it without direction by the Commonwealth on items which they think are of greatest priority. [More…]
It went on to say that the power of the cyclone was gauged to be up to 275 kilometres per hour. [More…]
Proposed amendments to the principal Actthat is, the Atomic Energy Act 1953- will make clear the power of the Commission to engage in the Ranger project in accordance with the Memorandum of Understanding dated 28 October 1975 between the Commonwealth Government and Peko- Wallsend Ltd and the Electrolytic Zinc Co. of Australasia Ltd. As to the third question asked by Senator Young, he will be aware that some time ago the South Australian Government and the Premier showed a keen interest in the question of attracting a uranium enrichment plant to South Australia. [More…]
We are therefore moving in this scene as a powerful, useful friend in a world of very substantial foreign policy initiative. [More…]
It ought not to be forgotten either that the United States of America, while in effect a metropolitan power- as are the United Kingdom and France- has a substantial interest in the Pacific. [More…]
It was turned into a ruin without essential services such as power, sewerage and water. [More…]
The Menzies Government came into power and dithered and bothered about until 1957 when it replaced the board with the Australian Stevedoring Industry Authority, the Authority whose terms of operation expire at this time and which has delivered to us the last report of its responsibility. [More…]
But the incubus of inertia, the lack of support by governments and, of course, the monopoly power of the union and the militancy of its members so much encouraged by Senator Mulvihill in his speech, have meant that Mr O’Connor’s health has been impaired severely. [More…]
The next point I wish to raise is that this report shows the conditions that have been granted due to the militancy of the union, its monopoly power and the weakness of government to discharge its responsibility. [More…]
Therefore, in decasualising the waterfront and altering the basis of waterside employment from casual work to weekly employment- now called permanent employment- it was a cardinal condition that the Authority, if application were made to it by the employers, should have the right compulsorily to retire men with proper long service payment, with proper redundancy payments, paying all sick leave and annual leave up to date, but if the number of people registered were in excess of labour requirements the Authority, with responsibility to provide quotas and to ensure that the labour was usefully employed, had the power under that arrangement compulsorily to retire people on the terms- quite generous terms- to which I have referred. [More…]
On a number of occasions I have indicated that with my limited knowledge of the law I believe that the High Court, in a decision some months ago in, I think, the H. C. Sleigh Ltd case, suggested that the States have the power to impose a turnover tax, which in many ways would be parallel to a sales tax or purchase tax, and that the States might be able to go ahead unilaterally if they desired to impose such a tax. [More…]
Power Alcohol from Sugar (Question No. [More…]
922 ( Hansard, 1 6 November 1976, p. 2010) where he stated, ‘I am advised that processes for the industrial production of power alcohol as a direct product from sugar or a by-product of sugar manufacture have been in existence for many years, but have had a negligible impact on the world demand for petroleum, and that there is little evidence at this stage to suggest that the substantial increases in recent years in the price of internationally traded oil will change this situation ‘. [More…]
and (2) I understand Mr Anthony made reference to the possibility of using sugar as a base for the manufacture of power alcohol for mixing with petrol to make our oil reserves last longer. [More…]
This is still basically the position and it is not anticipated that power alcohol from such sources will make an early significant contribution to the anticipated liquid fuel shortage. [More…]
Has the Government initiated any research in the field of magneto hydrodynamic power generation; if not, why not. [More…]
Pan of the White Bay Power Station in Sydney has been made available by the New South Wales Government for this project. [More…]
The project, led by Professor Messerle, has placed Australia in a good position to participate in this form of power generation should developments overseas make it economically feasible. [More…]
The Government recognises the potential value to Australia of MHD power generation and is maintaining a watching brief on world developments, as recommended in the 1977 report of the National Energy Advisory Committee. [More…]
As I indicated in my letter of 20 March, the State Electricity Commission of Victoria has agreed to meet all the costs associated with the construction and operation of hydro-electric power installations at Dartmouth Dam. [More…]
These works include the construction of a re-regulating dam on the Mitta Mitta River downstream of Dartmouth Dam to smooth out fluctuations in river flow resulting from power station releases. [More…]
In addition, the Victorian Government has undertaken to be responsible for any river bank erosion directly attributable to the power station operations. [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…]
The reason is that, under the program for the development of Northern Territory selfgovernment as announced by the Minister for the Northern Territory (Mr Adermann) on 14 September 1977, it is planned that the power to levy payroll 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…]
Mr Cavill said that SAATAS could not survive when faced with the use of arbitrary power to our consistent disadvantage when we have absolutely no appeal from the decisions of or access to the responsible Minister’. [More…]
This means that building restrictions will no longer have to be imposed lest an aircraft lose power on one engine after take-off. [More…]
Power. [More…]
First of all, there is the Commonwealth Government’s approach to the seas and submerged lands legislation whereunder the High Court has given all power to the Commonwealth Government. [More…]
It will mean that he will have the right to subdivide a large tract of land and sell it off in his own market- in Japan, Hong Kong and other powerful financial centres in the East. [More…]
There is a possibility that Australian citizens will have to compete, for land surrounding this resort at Yeppoon, against the power of the yen, which is considerably stronger than that of the Australian dollar and, for that matter, the United States dollar. [More…]
I think it is most important that we look at that and, while doing so, look also at the powers of the Commissioner of the Northern Territory Public Service because he would appear to have more power than other public service commissioners. [More…]
The governments of Australia, Commonwealth and State, have between them complete power to decide how any land, any project or any aspect of the environment shall be managed for the future, so if this project is developed complete control over it lies with the elected governments. [More…]
The idea that foreign governments can come to this country and do something within their own power is wrong. [More…]
The power of the Australian Government to control the import of this material is limited to the point of entry. [More…]
Although the Commonwealth can take certain positive steps under its powers, of course it cannot dictate to the States the steps to take in matters within the powers of the States. [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…]
It should be noted that the Bill does not give the Court power to impose new environmental requirements- only to make orders in relation to requirements which are imposed elsewhere. [More…]
This part part 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 agreements. [More…]
Should any 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 1 3 of the Bill, to authorise the appropriate Federal Minister to act to control hazards associated with the situation. [More…]
Mr President, the Government appreciates that the powers conferred on the GovernorGeneral 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…]
However, it was not within my power to decide who would have a vote if such an election were held. [More…]
It certainly has the power to do so and it will do so. [More…]
While the States retain concurrent power to legislate, any Commonwealth legislation prevails. [More…]
The Commonwealth Government considers the provisions of the Queensland legislation are discriminatory and outdated, primarily because they give Government officials extraordinary powers to manage and direct the lives of Aboriginals and Islanders on reserves, trusteeship of reserves and the right to negotiate on behalf of Aboriginals and Islanders about land use, in particular exploration and mining on reserves; power to manage the property of Aboriginals and Islanders. [More…]
That Bill gives the Queensland Government power to do the following: To set aside any part of the lease for unspecified public purposes, such as mining, tourism and national parks; under clause 1 6, to sack the Aboriginal council if it does not act in accordance with the wishes of the Queensland Government; under clause 27 (2), to determine who can enter into either shire; under clause 34, to approve or not approve the appointment by either shire council of a town clerk; and under clause 1 8, to appoint an advisory committee consisting of two appointees who are Queensland Ministers and one appointee who is the Commonwealth Minister for Aboriginal Affairs- the Commonwealth Government will again be outnumbered by the State Government- who would assist the shire to formulate policy towards the control and management of the shire and would advise the shire in a number of matters, including fiscal management, economic planning, administration and the making of by-laws. [More…]
If agreement cannot be reached to these vital questions, the Commonwealth will have to use its constitutional power including the power to acquire. [More…]
If the Commonwealth Government is not satisfied with the terms of both the local government legislation and the leases, it will exercise its constitutional power to acquire land in the interests of the Aborigines. [More…]
It has been said and said again that if at the end of all of this discussion and consultation the Commonwealth Government is not satisfied with the tern i of the legislation and of the leases it will exercise its constitutional power to acquire land in the interests of the Aboriginals. [More…]
In relation to each point in the Minister’s speech she said that the Commonwealth will consult with the communities and, if the communities do not agree, the Government will use its constitutional power and acquire land. [More…]
No one really knows what power the Australian public gave to the Commonwealth in the referendum of 1967. [More…]
It gave the Commonwealth power to make particular rules for the people of any race over whom it has power to make laws. [More…]
So the Commonwealth has power to make particular rules for Aborigines. [More…]
Whether the courts will uphold the proposition that that gives the Commonwealth power to acquire land to establish settlements is something I do not know. [More…]
One such decision was to the effect that the Commonwealth has power to acquire property on just terms from any State or person for any purpose in respect of which the Parliament has power to make laws. [More…]
If we do not have the power to acquire land, we should tell that to the Aboriginals so that they do not build up false hopes. [More…]
If we do not have the power to acquire land for the purpose of establishing settlements then we must make another appeal to the Australian people to give us that power. [More…]
One thing that should have come out of all the discussions over the last few weeks is that the Commonwealth Government has very limited powers to act in this area. [More…]
The Government then had the power to legislate for the welfare of the Aboriginal people. [More…]
I believe that it gave this Parliament a very substantial power. [More…]
The lease needs to provide that there will be an entitlement for control over the improvements on the land and not just control of the land itself; it needs to provide that the councils of the communities will have the right to sublet and to collect rent; and it needs to provide that the power to dissolve the council, which is left in the hands of the Queensland Minister for Local Government and Main Roads, will be taken away. [More…]
The Bill removes the power of the Aborigines to decline to make an agreement with the Director of National Parks and Wildlife for the use of their land. [More…]
The provisions protect the power of corporate secrecy and make 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…]
This Bill, as I read it, removes that right, lt removes the power of the Aborigines to decline agreement with the director of the National Parks and Wildlife Service. [More…]
Section 41 (3) gives the Minister power to seize control of all prescribed substances in the Commonwealth. [More…]
In other words, it claims virtually unlimited powers over property. [More…]
So in relation to a prescribed substance- that in itself has a pretty broad definition- the principal Act asserts that the Federal Government has power to pre-empt any State law. [More…]
The Atomic Energy Act 1953, which we are amending by this Bill, gave the Minister power to exercise control over nuclear materials but only in connection with defence or with a Territory. [More…]
This amending legislation, if passed, will extend the power of the Act to cover under the Constitution many other purposes in the Commonwealth. [More…]
We know that there are many trade unionssome powerful trade unions- that are wholeheartedly in favour, and have publicly expressed that they are in favour, of the mining and the exporting of uranium whilst there are other trade unions that are diametrically opposed to the mining of uranium. [More…]
Senator Colston said that he and many of his friends in the Labor Party will be doing all within their power to make sure, even if this legislation is passed, that the mining will not get under way. [More…]
It is equally clear, however, that many of the anxieties which are felt are without foundation and spring from a fear of anything nuclear, no doubt partly due to the fact that the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs with their devastating effects were the opening events in the development of nuclear power. [More…]
In 1 975 oil supplied some 45 per cent of the world’s energy needs; coal supplied 30 per cent; natural gas supplied 18 per cent; and hydro-electric and geothermal power supplied some 5.7 per cent. [More…]
At the present time there are some 194 nuclear power plants in the world in some 20-odd countries. [More…]
It has been estimated also that at present deaths in coal-fired power plants are 1 1 times higher than deaths in the nuclearpowered plants with the same generating capacity and that injuries in the coal industry, because of the volume of work undertaken, are seven times higher than injuries in the nuclear industry. [More…]
I want to repeat that Australia has not forced other countries to adopt the use of nuclear power. [More…]
These countries have gone nuclear because they could see that there is no alternative to fill the energy gap than nuclear power generation. [More…]
Once a decision was made to adopt nuclear power and a great number of nuclear reactors were established and proposed to be established throughout the world, a need existed to make sure that a sufficient volume of uranium was available as feedstock for those nuclear reactors. [More…]
The projected increase in electricity demand cannot possibly be met without a major contribution from nuclear power including breeder reactor application. [More…]
The other night when I was watching television I saw a previous chairman of the Australian Atomic Energy Commission, Sir Philip Baxter, applying himself to a different aspect of this whole problem of nuclear power which, at its fullest projection, will decide the fate of mankind. [More…]
At this time when people are racing around the world holding secret conferences, when the tensions of the world are such that members of the general public are not being fully informed of what is going on and when deputy heads of state can visit a country for what are almost clandestine meetings, it can be seen that there is a great deal more in uranium mining and the future use of nuclear power than meets the eye. [More…]
We are still using the term atomic energy, when on all other occasionsexcept in this amending Bill which is the hidden clout in the Act- every other reference is to nuclear power. [More…]
Atomic power- the splitting of the atom- was a great discovery. [More…]
The Bill is amending an Act which is related to the defence power of this country. [More…]
The Government’s dishonesty lies in the fact that the legislation extends the defence power into commerce and into external affairs. [More…]
Before the sitting was suspended for dinner I had made the point that the haste to mine and treat uranium and to develop it throughout the world for power purposes had been attributed to the possible shortage of fossil fuels. [More…]
It is my view that because the possibility of generating power from an alternative fuel has been made economically feasible as a result of the rising cost of fossil fuels, the people who have found a new dimension, because they can obtain uranium, develop reactors and supply energy, are taking advantage of the situation. [More…]
It is a source of amazement to me that the Japanese people are able to be sold the idea that they can gain temporarily from the use of thermo-nuclear power in the generation of energy when they have experienced Hiroshima and Nagasaki. [More…]
There is enough radioactive waste now, enough plutonium in the United States and other countries to produce hundreds of nuclear bombs or if they are exposed to the atmosphere to destroy hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of people, so that that’s the criteria by which we judge whether there should have been radioactive waste disposal solved before the nuclear power plants were on line. [More…]
I believe that at this time in our history when we can embark upon an era in which man can be liberated from many of the disadvantages of the past we should tread very warily in the use of thermo-nuclear power. [More…]
As I started off by saying, I support the attitude of those on this side of the chamber who believe that those safeguards should be assured before we tie ourselves into the cycle of nuclear power generation from which there will be no withdrawal once we start along the path. [More…]
The nuclear power cycle probably has a better track record than any industry when it comes to accidents- another cause of concern to the prophets of doom on the benches opposite. [More…]
To my knowledge there has not been one death in the nuclear power cycle attributable to the nuclear reactor part of the nuclear power generation cycle. [More…]
That speaks well for the nuclear power cycle. [More…]
Because it is a new power and because of the emotional outbursts, possibly from Hiroshima and Nagasaki, we have been able to take commensurate safeguards all the way down the line, and it has a track record that is second to none. [More…]
For this reason alone, we should be looking more seriously towards further use of nuclear power. [More…]
To give the Senate an idea of the amount of power involved to establish diffusion enrichment plant in Australia, of the type operating in [More…]
America now, such is the amount of power used that it would require electricity generation of greater capacity than all the power generation in Queensland today. [More…]
It does not quite need the amount of power used in the diffusion process. [More…]
For a bomb to be made out of plutonium it requires almost pure plutonium 239 and the plutonium that comes out of the power reactors is not pure plutonium 239, it has other impurities in it such as plutonium 240 and plutonium 241. [More…]
I certainly have no hang-ups about using fast breeders for power generation. [More…]
The reality of new federalism in operation, as we all know now, is that if the Premier of Queensland stands the Federal Government up on a particular matter in which the Government has not only constitutional power but also constitutional obligations- like the question of Aurukun and Mornington Island- then the Government goes to water. [More…]
The first reason is that the Atomic Energy Act, which dates from 1953, contains specific provisions based on the defence power which will offer the Government a means of intimidating and suppressing public opposition to uranium mining. [More…]
I remind honourable senators again that the Atomic Energy Act is based on the defence power. [More…]
The security described by Dr Flood and Mr Grove-White (in their book, Nuclear Prospects: a Comment qf the Individual, the State and Nuclear Power) include very substantial vetting of individuals in the nuclear industry but also in the electric supply industry. [More…]
Secondly, the Bill adopts a recommendation of the Fox report by extending the power of the Minister to exercise control not only for defence purposes but also for all proper constitutional purposes. [More…]
Previously, the Act had limited the power to defence purposes only. [More…]
There would seem to be little doubt that the Commonwealth has constitutional power to assume full control for all proper purposes, and we suggest that consideration should be given to its doing so. [More…]
I have before me a report from the Committee on Government Operations of the United States Congress entitled Report on Nuclear Power Costs’ which was recently provided in the United States Congress. [More…]
Based on present trends of nuclear power growth the supply of uranium will exceed demand by 21 per cent or 21,000 tonnes in 1985, [More…]
The agencies 1975 predictions on the growth of nuclear power production has been cut by 42 per cent. [More…]
The New York railway station which is built of granite emits many times the amount of radiation that would be permissible for any atomic energy power station in America. [More…]
Any power station in America emitting the same amount of radiation would not be allowed to operate. [More…]
We ought to take into account the damage being done to the environment by conventional power stations. [More…]
These create tremendous environmental problems which are not evident from nuclear power stations. [More…]
Nuclear power stations pose no threat to the atmospheric environment at all. [More…]
Yet we go along happily recognising that the world’s energy requirement is such that we have to build a power station every nine days. [More…]
Moreover, the nitrous oxides and other gases that are liberated from conventional power stations pursue a course which takes them to the ozone area and would endanger the environmental shield and increase the threat to life in this world. [More…]
Nuclear power stations do not do that. [More…]
It is also interesting to hear suggestions that nuclear power generation threatens people who are mining nuclear materials. [More…]
It is the mining of uranium and the advent of nuclear power that forecasts doom not only for Australia but on a world-wide basis. [More…]
He said that we must mine our uranium and we must give it to countries to enable them to develop their nuclear power stations. [More…]
But the majority of people living in the Third World countries do not even have a power point in their homes. [More…]
They cannot afford a power point. [More…]
I see that we are expanding our constitutional base from the defence area into the area of power relating to trade and, of course, to external affairs. [More…]
Quite clearly this legislation does give the strongest power to the members of the Government who will need it in order to control the development there under proper conditions. [More…]
One large, modern nuclear power plant in one year produces 1,000 megawatt years of power. [More…]
It has been calculated on the basis of current theories on radiation induced illness that 400 deaths will occur among future generations from the mining of sufficient uranium to produce that 1,000 megawatt years of power. [More…]
The price for the supply of that power is 400 deaths in future generations. [More…]
Even Sir Philip Baxter said recently that it is not necessary for countries to have a nuclear power industry for them to be able to produce atomic bombs. [More…]
In Canada, Pickering’s giant nuclear power station could face a sudden shutdown within a year because of the growing shortage of space for storing dangerous radioactive waste fuel. [More…]
I refer to a document entitled ‘Conclusions and Recommendations of Report “Nuclear Power Costs” Environment, Energy and Natural Resources Sub-Committee of Committee on Government Operations, United States Congress’. [More…]
The concern of many people in those countries is that if the countries are to continue with nuclear power, what will they do with the waste? [More…]
If Iran goes ahead with its proposal for nuclear power, if it signs a contract what conditions will be in the contract about waste disposal? [More…]
Japan is cutting back on nuclear power and increasing its use of coal-fired stations. [More…]
The cost of a 1 ,000 megawatt nuclear power station is $1 billion. [More…]
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission should require applicants for construction and operating licences for nuclear powerplants, as a condition of such licences, to amortise the full cost of radioactive waste disposal, spent nuclear fuel management, perpetual care, contingencies, and decommissioning costs over the expected useful lifetime of each powerplant. [More…]
Funds sufficient for such costs should be levied by the power facility on its customers, and such amounts should be held in trust for purposes of such costs. [More…]
that the section gives power to carry on operations only if they are ‘on behalf of the Commonwealth’. [More…]
It seems to us that s. 4 1 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 America in nuclear weapons was uppermost in the minds of those concerned. [More…]
The power, if it can bc applied in the circumstances, should not bc used simply because it exists and may appear convenient. [More…]
The fact is that the Japanese are well aware of what happened then too, yet the Japanese are one of the leaders in the nuclear power generation field. [More…]
Of course, there is another reason the Japanese have been so keen on nuclear energy, that is, because it is such a highly industrialised nation that the normal methods of generating power, such as coal burning and the like, have created a tremendous amount of pollution in that country. [More…]
Nuclear power is one of the cleanest fuels, with approximately one-fifteenth of the emission of pollution for the same generation of power. [More…]
The fact is that if we do not supply uranium to the world and keep the price down to a reasonable figure of $30 to $40 a lb-if the price goes up to $60 or $100 a lb, whatever it might be, because of a shortage of cheap extractable uranium- all the nations are going to turn from the ordinary power plants as we know them today to the breeder reactors and will be using plutonium. [More…]
This Government does not give a damn about the dangers associated with nuclear power. [More…]
It is true that at this stage there is no plan to build a nuclear power station in this country. [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…]
One of the other reasons this Government has used over the past 18 months to justify the mining of uranium is that the uranium is needed to produce power in the underdeveloped Third [More…]
There are neither the facilities nor the requirements in those countries for the use of nuclear power, and if the uranium miners are able to export uranium it is very doubtful whether they will be worried anyway about the Third World. [More…]
In the wake of the world energy crisis many countries have no viable alternative energy source other than nuclear power. [More…]
In Sweden there is great debate on this matter, and in fact the conservative government in that country took over from the equivalent of a Labor government, which had built nuclear powerhouses, on the basis that it would not proceed with the construction of stations powered by nuclear energy. [More…]
France is debating whether this type of energy ought to be used for power production or whether they should keep it for manufacturing their bombs. [More…]
During the debate, both here and in the other place, government members have gone to great pains to point out the safety of nuclear power but I propose to read into the record a list of accidents that have happened in comparatively recent times. [More…]
There are now 194 nuclear power units operating in 21 countries with a capacity of over 95,000 megawatts of electricity. [More…]
There arc 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 arc either in operation, under construction or on firm order in 34 countries throughout the world. [More…]
This is a total of 8 14 nuclear power units in operation, under construction, on firm order or planned. [More…]
Finland and Japan, have registered their desire to secure uranium from Australia for their nuclear power programs. [More…]
In any case, suppose that the mining of uranium was going to contribute to the rectification of the power shortage throughout the world. [More…]
whose fundamental charter is the promotion of the nuclear power and uranium mining industries. [More…]
The Movement Against Uranium Mining believes that this hastily drafted legislation ignores the growing doubts, worldwide, at a government level about nuclear safety and economics, and the massive global citizen opposition to nuclear power. [More…]
By conducting uranium mining under this Act, the Government has the power to deny the ordinary industrial rights of workers and unions associated with the mining, handling and transportation of uranium. [More…]
1 have mentioned the weakness in using that sort of power. [More…]
Today I received a letter from Mr Bob Phelps, the Organiser of the Campaign Against Nuclear Power. [More…]
Various instances of closing-down (some 15-20 nuclear power stations) due to cracks in the cooling system. [More…]
A nuclear power station is evacuated. [More…]
HOW SAFE ARE NUCLEAR POWER STATIONS? [More…]
1969- Nuclear power stations Bradwell, Hinkley Point, Dungeness. [More…]
That bears out what I was saying earlier in this debate, that some countries are going cold on the idea of further development of nuclear power. [More…]
Firstly, a report issued by the US Union of Concerned Scientists claims that nuclear power plants being supplied from the US are technically flawed and incapable of supplying reliable power. [More…]
Last year reports appeared in newspapers giving details of the sale by Westinghouse to the Philippines of a nuclear power plant. [More…]
In Kern County, California, a referendum was held to decide whether or not a nuclear power plant should be located near Wasco in that State. [More…]
It would have been one- of the world ‘s largest nuclear power installations. [More…]
We do little about experimentation in the fields of solar energy, wind power, tidal power and the growing of crops that will produce the type of power alcohol that has been produced for years at Sarina in north Queensland. [More…]
Therefore, that proposition only argues for the weakness and inappropriateness of building an industry without a national power to control it. [More…]
In respect of nuclear energy and the need for a national single power to control it, we were quite unanimous. [More…]
I find it incomprehensible that we attempt to launch this industry without getting the States to refer the power to the Commonwealth or without taking a referendum to the country in order to have the people give the Commonwealth the power. [More…]
I believe that the continuation of the States holding powers in this field is quite anachronistic, archaic and inappropriate. [More…]
If Government senators in their speeches have not even referred to the constitutional power, I shall refer to the question of power as it was raised in the Fox report. [More…]
It may be doubted whether a power relative to mining in the states which is limited legislatively to reliance on ‘defence purposes’ is adequate. [More…]
There would seem to be little doubt that the Commonwealth has constitutional power to assume full control for all proper purposes, and we suggest that consideration should be given to its doing so. [More…]
Then it refers to the Customs Act, pointing out that it has already exercised a power over the import and export of radioactive substances, a power that it would never occur to anybody was ever denied. [More…]
How, from that picture, can it be said that the Commonwealth has power to assume control for all proper purposes, and why it should not have that power I do not know. [More…]
But if it has that power, why in the name of fortune are the States to be brought in by way of consultation with regard to the codes in this Bill? [More…]
It seems to me to indicate that the Commonwealth does not accept the interpretation of that statement in the report of Mr Justice Fox as to the unqualified power of the Commonwealth Parliament. [More…]
I am dismayed to think that in this constitutional menage we have a structure that is so indefinite as to the degree to which it depends on the States that it suggests that the code will be referred to the States, but insofar as their laws do not provide properly for the code, the Commonwealth takes power under the Bill to add to the legislation and supplement it. [More…]
Whether the Commonwealth comes in on a principal basis or on a supplementary basis, the power must be in question. [More…]
But for our purposes today the Commonwealth comes in by regulation and exercises any power it has without consulting Parliament, conceding to Parliament the right to disallow but not conceding to Parliament any participation in the formulation of the scheme. [More…]
On a textual interpretation of the amendment I regret that the States have not been visibly involved in consultation up until this time but my theme is that the States, having regard to the national character of nuclear activity, ought instantly, except as to the question of actual mining, refer all other questions of power to the Commonwealth. [More…]
The Government has decided 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…]
An additional power to amend estate duty assesments 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 adjusted -up 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 amendent of an assessment after the expiration of three years from the date on which the duty became due and payable under the assessment. [More…]
He also made a good point regarding the power base in the legislation that we are discussing. [More…]
I refer to 28 October 1975- the Australian Labor Party was in power at the time- when it was decided that uranium should be developed with the participation of the Australian Government. [More…]
For this purpose the power to grant mining licences pursuant to regulations under the Act is to be expanded. [More…]
The powers of the Commission are to be extended to include minerals found in association with uranium. [More…]
In one particular area, a power of delegation that we sought was not agreed upon, but nevertheless we have brought about representation on a compulsory consultation basis. [More…]
I am not concerned with what might be the intention of this Government or any future government, but once that power is given we no longer have any real control over the way in which governments operate. [More…]
The honourable senator was referring to the power of regulation and he went on to state: [More…]
I know that we have power to deal with regulations; they cun come back here and, in the mass of other things, we may get around to repealing them. [More…]
The Minister has the power to maintain Australia’s national interest through his control powers in respect to export and other matters. [More…]
These extra powers are apparently sought by the Minister Tor somewhat dubious purposes and they will have the effect of overriding all existing rights that have been acquired under the State laws and under the Northern Territory mining laws. [More…]
It may be considered that the Local Authority could sublet to the community companies the power to continue to carry on the businesses, but as earlier observed Clause 32 has only been amended to delete a restriction to exact rent, but the Council is not empowered to sublet, sell, license or subdivide in anyway. [More…]
If the Council now has the power to exact rent we must pose the obvious question- what is ‘rem’- rent has been defined as the sum certain which a tenant pays his landlord for the right of occupying demised premises and we consider with respect that it is an empty power to exact rent without having the ability to demise (being of course the quid pro quo of charging rent). [More…]
It is submitted that the Aboriginal Police will be basically Inspectors employed by the Local Authority to see that the by-laws are observed and although such a power is now expressly given to members of the Queensland Police force it is suggested that the Police Commissioner define to his Officers and men when such a control will be exercised so that the Local Authority can consider itself to be independent and able to carry out a similar role to other Local Authorities. [More…]
We are told that Section 51 of the Australian Constitution gives the Commonwealth power to acquire: property on just terms for any State or person for any purpose in respect of which the Parliament has power to make laws’. [More…]
We know that Mr Fraser has the power to give it back to us. [More…]
Considered that powers of entry under 23 sufficient without this express power. [More…]
It is considered that amendment to Clause 23 is a sufficient power to Departments of Queensland Government to carry out statutory duties. [More…]
the shires will now have power to deal with the land in the lease in the same way as other local government authorities in Queensland subject to the approval of the Governor in Council, this means that shire councils will be able to sublet and subdivide the leased land, as well as acquire interests in land outside the lease, shires will be able to appoint Aboriginal police, subject to the approval of the Minister for Police, the Bill has now been amended to secure to the communities the same rights to use timber, and to quarry materials as other local government authorities. [More…]
Under the agreement, if the Commonwealth is not satisfied with the terms of both the local government legislation and the leases it will exercise its constitutional power to acquire land in the interests of the Aborigines, but it has been agreed by everybody that there ought to be a testing period to see whether this legislation will work and will achieve for the Aborigines the degree of self-management which will enable them to determine their own affairs. [More…]
We would need our constitutional power to do that. [More…]
I have some doubts about the legislation and that is why I want the Senate Standing Committee on Constitutional and Legal Affairs to look into the question of how far our right to acquire land for Aboriginal settlement extends and whether or not that power was given to the Commonwealth Government in 1967. [More…]
If there are any doubts as to whether the Commonwealth Government has the power to acquire land for settlement, they should be resolved by the Commonwealth taking over this land and permitting it to be challenged in the courts. [More…]
If it is found that the Commonwealth does not have the power, it should approach the people of Australia at a subsequent referendum and ask them to grant it that power. [More…]
We had a second declaration on the campaign trail in 1975 when the caretaker Minister for Aboriginal Affairs, Mr Ellicott, made a number of statements about what the Liberal Party would do if it attained into power. [More…]
The Minister said that the amendments would give the Senate or the House of Representatives power to disallow a government decision overriding Aboriginal refusal for mining or exploration on Aboriginal land. [More…]
The land trusts that have been established by this Government, and also the Northern Land Council of the Northern Territory, have tremendous power. [More…]
To demonstrate how much it is under the control of the Aboriginals, let me say that fairly recently three mining companies wished to explore in the Kimberley area but, because of the power of the land trust, only one was permitted to do so. [More…]
That demonstrates the power that the Aboriginal people have over their land; a power that, in many cases, exceeds that which the primary producer, the farmer, has over his own freehold land. [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…]
He is a man who quite laughingly dismisses the fears of many experts and thousands and thousands of other people in this country about the dangers of nuclear power. [More…]
I think that this legislation is an indication of the Federal Government trying to reduce the power and the rights of the States and it is an attempt to build the Federal Parliament into a much greater structure at the expense of the States. [More…]
I have quoted from the speeches of five Ministers and seven back benchers, the seven back benchers being a sample of the people in this chamber who now represent the Government which came to power by talking about probity in government, principle, continuity and all those things which have become part of the rhetoric of Australian politics. [More…]
With regard to the codes and the parts of the codes, that power of disallowance is written into this Bill. [More…]
It is worth recalling the powers that this Committee has and which I believe, as does Senator Wright, are not included in the disallowance of these codes. [More…]
Those powers which the Committee has are set out in Mr Odgers’ Australian Senate Practice, Fifth Edition, in this way: [More…]
One is that this legislation is eggshell legislation which does not have any substance to it and we are passing that power to the Executive Government. [More…]
He referred to his doubt as to the constitutional power on which the whole of this legislation is based and said that there had been failure to obtain by agreement with the States a very firm constitutional basis for it. [More…]
One of the important recommendations of that Committee was that the Commonwealth Parliament should be empowered by constitutional amendment to make laws with respect, firstly, to the manufacture of nuclear fuels and the generation and use of nuclear energy and, secondly, to ionising radiation. [More…]
It was considered by that Committee that the power was not adequate. [More…]
Yet here today, we work upon the basis that the power is adequate and we are proceeding to build an industry on that basis. [More…]
Therefore, I think that constitutional power is linked very much to the attitude of the States. [More…]
Nonetheless, we are in a somewhat unsatisfactory situation where we have this opinion of the States and the very doubtful constitutional power upon which the legislation is based. [More…]
Clause 1 3 of the Bill gives powers to the Governor-General to deal with special situations if he is satisfied that the health or safety of persons, or the environment, are likely to be harmed by a situation resulting from a nuclear activity that exists in a State or Territory. [More…]
It is true that it is confined only to three months with some power to extend it and that such orders are subject to disallowance in either House of the Parliament. [More…]
Nonetheless, I express some concern at the width of the power that is given and at what may be encompassed in it. [More…]
In respect to this Bill, there is power to make a regulation to ensure the confidentiality of information obtained in or in connection with the carrying out of, giving effect to or securing the observance of a code or practice. [More…]
How far that power under this clause may go is very vague and we are empowering confidentiality without, I think, very much restriction. [More…]
It has been interesting to find out what is the justification for using the Atomic Energy Act 1953- an Act largely of a defence nature- which set up the Atomic Energy Commission and which places very great power in the hands of the executive Government. [More…]
After pointing out that section 41 of that original 1 953 Act gave very great power to the Government and after expressing some doubts as to whether it did- nonetheless it could be said that the Ranger activities were done and carried out on behalf of the Commonwealth and I should mention here that one of the amendments to the Bill covers that particular point- he went on to say: [More…]
Yes- we find that executive officers or staff try to get around it by using another outlet as a source for their power. [More…]
If we are to pass legislation of this character, leaving so much of it unfilled, in the words of Senator Wright like an egg shell, we will be giving unprecedented power to the Executive and the Public Service to use regulations or other aspects which, as Senators Wright and Missen said, we may not be able to control. [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…]
It did so, of course, against the background that it is not currently the intention of the Australian Government to use uranium, or its attendant fuels, for the generation of nuclear power in Australia in the contemplated future. [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 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 corporation, consisting 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 70 A of the Audit Act. [More…]
The Supervising Scientist has power to do all things that arc necessary or convenient to be done for, or in connexion with, the performance of his functions. [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…]
The Minister will be required to exercise that power in good faith. [More…]
Where the power lies with the Act so the authority of the Commonwealth lies. [More…]
But in fact the final and residual power lies with the Commonwealth. [More…]
When it does that, the power of the Commonwealth to acquire land for other purposes is qualified by this provision. [More…]
Therefore, the Aboriginal community is brought under the power of the Act whether they want it or not. [More…]
I read section 7 (2) (a) of the National Parks and Wildlife Conservation Act which gives the Government power to make proclamations. [More…]
There were some things that I would have said on the amendments to the Land Rights Act if I had had the opportunity, but this is the one that definitely gives the power. [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 this power of direction. [More…]
If that power is given to the Director he may hand over the land. [More…]
The amendment as proposed would restrict the Minister’s powers. [More…]
The Minister’s power would not affect any legal remedies against the Director to ensure compliance with his statutory duty. [More…]
Plutonium 238 is used within the body as the power source for heart pacemakers. [More…]
The Congressional report also finds itself in agreement with a recent study by the Rand Corporationa Californian-based ‘think tank’- that the cost of nuclear energy is climbing astronomically and that this cost spiral and the waste problem are already causing some American States to back away from nuclear power development. [More…]
California, for example- America ‘s most important State- has rejected nuclear development, opting instead for more conventional energy sources such as coal, and at the same time investing public research moneys in safe alternatives such as solar power. [More…]
We are endangering this splendid land because of the boom and bust nuclear power industry. [More…]
According to American sources no industry has ever declined as rapidly as the nuclear power industry. [More…]
The great nuclear power boom that was forecast 10 years ago is never going to happen. [More…]
He will certainly not have the power to step in and stop things when he finds they are going wrong. [More…]
He has the power only to advise that things are going wrong. [More…]
At the dreaded risk of appearing emotional on the subject, I shall quote a resolution which was published by the National Council of Churches in America, which set up a committee to investigate nuclear power. [More…]
First of all, I must point out that the development of uranium mining in Australia was first proposed when Labor was in power. [More…]
If the honourable senator feels so strongly, why on earth did he not attempt to get the Labor Government to take action when it was in power and the mining of uranium was taking place in the Northern Territory. [More…]
The Bills we debated yesterday provided that power. [More…]
Indeed, I think some Opposition senators said that we ought to have vested the power not in the Supreme Court of the Northern Territory but in the superior Court, the Federal Court of Australia. [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…]
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 a Deputy Arbitrator to issue orders authorizing 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…]
1 have the very strong suspicion that that Convention will not deal with important issues, such as the nature of Commonwealth industrial power, the nature of Commonwealth economic powers, the nature of Commonwealth foreign affairs powers, and matters of that kind which were dealt with in 1958, apparently as matters of importance then. [More…]
The proposed new sub-section 21 (2) merely ensures that both parties are required and have adequate power to enter into the proposed lease agreement. [More…]
Of course, if the Land Council does not consent to the lease, the arbitrator has power to intervene and there are powers under section 7 of the Act for the Government by proclamation to take over the area. [More…]
Upon being confronted by some opposition from the States, the Government has gone to water and has signified its intention of introducing amendments which I presume the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) will later be moving, which in effect give the States power to veto any code of practice which may be laid down by regulation pursuant to this Act. [More…]
There are, we recognise, difficulties inherent in this sort of legislation where there is any doubt concerning the Federal Government’s power to legislate, but the Opposition stands by its view that rather than carry the Bill in the form the Government now proposes, a further attempt should be made to apply a uniform code of practice throughout the country. [More…]
Earlier the Government insisted that when it came to power it said that there should be a uniform nuclear safety code for the whole of Australia; that it considered that desirable in light of the Fox recommendations. [More…]
He said that the uranium issue was a matter of such concern that the States should cede their powers in that regard to the Commonwealth. [More…]
It is attempting to apply those principles in 1978, when we are dealing with the nuclear power industry and with uranium. [More…]
Nobody here, even the greatest of lawyers amongst us, would be able to assert that there is an absolute head of power so to do. [More…]
I think we must concedeperhaps even more readily than did the Ministerthat there are problems of constitutional power for the Commonwealth Government in dealing with this matter. [More…]
We find it extraordinaryI think Senator Wriedt touched on this point- that, in the process of consultation which the Minister says he has had, it never occured to the Commonwealth Government to advert to the weakness of its own constitutional power until it was pointed out by a State Premier. [More…]
The second point to which I should like the Minister to respond is whether in those discussions between State officials- perhaps that was not an appropriate place for it to be done- any discussion was on the agenda or took place relating to the desirability of State power, of the States giving powers to the Commonwealth in relation to this matter of a code. [More…]
Equally they will know that a series of heads of power from defence to trade and commerce right throughout the situation was sought. [More…]
One of the honourable senators opposite asked whether there was a discussion on the transfer of power. [More…]
Does the Minister agree that that clause quite clearly gives any of the States power to veto regulations which comprise the code of practice which the Commonwealth Government may issue at some time in the future? [More…]
What I am really concerned about- I cannot find mention of it in the Bill- is whether there are any safeguards in the legislation to prevent a country like Japan from trying, because it relies to a great extent on nuclear power and no doubt will enter into contracts with Mr Bjelke-Petersen and Sir Charles Court with the sanction of this Government’s granting an export licence, to return to Queensland or Western Australia boatloads of nuclear waste for burial in the backblocks as has been suggested. [More…]
Government has ample power to ensure that. [More…]
Beyond any doubt at all it has the constitutional power to ensure that, and it will not occur. [More…]
Does the Minister agree that if the Government’s proposed amendment is accepted it will effectively give the States power to veto any regulations which the Commonwealth may issue on a nuclear code of practice? [More…]
Senator Carrick has not responded to my invitation to state definitely whether the Government’s fifth proposed amendment effectively gives all the States power to veto any Commonwealth regulation made pursuant to this matter. [More…]
In the absence of his reply I assert that it does give the States that power of veto. [More…]
-Under this Bill the Government will be given power to do that, to bring it in by regulation. [More…]
Has the attention of the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development been drawn to reports of the findings of a United States Congressional committee last week, which are set out in a document entitled Nuclear Power Costs? [More…]
That obviously is for the power lines, the road and the rail lines to go through if the mining starts. [More…]
Is it reasonable to the Aboriginal people to say that they can have that land excepting a bit in the middle because we are going to cut it to allow Mount Isa Mines Ltd to put through its power lines, roads and railway lines? [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…]
Essentially, this clause grants to any State the power to veto within that State codes of practice that the Commonwealth may lay down for the mining or milling of uranium. [More…]
There will still be provision for the Commonwealth to issue orders pertaining to these matters, but effectively, although this is not the way the clause is worded, all the State governments will be granted the power of veto. [More…]
The Opposition itself has indicated that there is without any doubt some lack of assurance throughout Australia regarding the constitutional heads of power as to the Government’s capacity to enforce totally its laws. [More…]
I point out that lots of people and lots of lawyers have doubts about the whole range of the heads of power. [More…]
If that does not mean- I invite Senator Carrick to correct me but I fail to see how it can possibly mean anything else- that it grants the States effectively the power of veto, I do not know what it means. [More…]
It grants them the power of veto in advance, so to speak, in that no Commonwealth regulations will be made concerning codes of practice unless they have been requested by the States. [More…]
If I heard him correctly, he said that the Australian Government has other reserve powers to persuade the States as to the types of codes of practice or the codes of practice they should request. [More…]
I assume- if I am wrong, again I hope Senator Carrick will correct me- that one of those reserve powers he had in mind was the power of the Commonwealth to grant or to withhold an export licence. [More…]
If he envisages a situation in which that Commonwealth power will be exercised to persuade- I think ‘coerce’ would be a more appropriate verb to use in the circumstancesa State into requesting the codes of practice which the Commonwealth wants, then I suggest that it would be much better if the legislation dealing with the codes of practice covered that situation instead of using the reserve powers, or what Senator Carrick called the reserve powers, of the Commonwealth over export trade, to discipline the States. [More…]
I pointed out that the Commonwealth had not given any indication of where it thought its source of power was located. [More…]
I have not yet been afforded with any supplement to that knowledge in relation to where the Commonwealth gets its power. [More…]
Therefore we are confronted now not with the mixture that we had in the Bill dealing with regulation-making powers implementing the code but a straight out unvarnished proposition contained in this amendment which seeks to substitute a new sub-clause ( 10) of the following terms: [More…]
-In the second reading debate I likewise expressed concern about the dubious constitutional power and the fact that that matter had not been resolved. [More…]
I do not go as far as Senator Wright in this, but it seems that we have moved from a situation in which we were going to repose certain powers into a situation, following objections by the States- I think many of their objections were sound- in which the States now have a veto. [More…]
I wonder why the Government is not making some effort to reach agreement with the State with regard to the power so that there might be agreed power and the Commonwealth and the State can work these aspects out together rather than the present situation where the matter is being left to complete veto by the State, in which case there will be no power, no restriction and no codes at all unless the State agrees. [More…]
What we are trying to do now is to have each State amend its legislation, where necessary, so that any possible defect in the constitutional power of this country can be removed. [More…]
He said this afternoon that the Commonwealth should have prominent but not exclusive power. [More…]
The attitude adopted last week by the honourable senator in the second reading debate was one that virtually would give the Commonwealth an overriding power. [More…]
It has become a matter of degree, but the Government now has moved into a position in which it is not only giving the States exclusive power but also giving every individual State an exclusive power to go it alone. [More…]
He has mentioned again the reserve power which the Commonwealth Government can use to persuade- I think that was his euphemism but I think that ‘coerce’ would be a more appropriate word- the State governments to apply a code of practice which would meet with the approval of the Commonwealth Government. [More…]
I ask specifically: What reserve powers does the Minister have in mind? [More…]
I had some concern about the original clause in the Bill because it seemed to me that it gave the Governor-General power to make regulations or to give effect to or to secure the observance of a code of practice in a State. [More…]
It is the Opposition’s view that if the Commonwealth has assumed power in relation to those matters it should also assume responsibility in relation to enforcement of remedies. [More…]
Anyone charged with an offence against the regulations or failure to comply with an order under clause 1 3, in the court in which he was charged, could challenge their validity, for example, on the basis that they did not come within the power. [More…]
Is the advice of the Minister for Educaton (Senator Carrick) such that the regulation power is sufficient to make any regulations providing not only for a penalty but also for any right of action? [More…]
As I read the power set out in clause 14,I see it as covering that situation. [More…]
The Parliament may have the power to disallow regulations but under what conditions. [More…]
That is extremely wide language to use in a regulation-making power, [More…]
It now includes the power of veto for any State. [More…]
The amendment which the Government now proposes in a sense waters down the Commonwealth’s power to declare martial law. [More…]
In any case, the power of public criticism is very real indeed. [More…]
It appears to the Opposition that this is a completely open-ended clause which gives the Governor-General- the Government- power to impose any restrictions whatsoever on the behaviour of individuals. [More…]
The Government will oppose the amendment, which cuts down the extent of the regulation-making power of the Bill and could prevent the making of regulations necessary to ensure effective implementation of the policy objectives of the Bill. [More…]
1 ) It is a fundamental right of the House to legislate on any matter within Constitutional power. [More…]
It is the answer of a politician who is concerned with power rather than responsibility, and that is the name of the game as it is played in the Senate. [More…]
-I am informed by my colleague, the Minister for Trade and Resources in another place, that it is common knowledge that Italy has a significant nuclear power program. [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 of power there; 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…]
I refer to an announcement that the whole of the port of Tientsin is now using solar cells to power all its lighthouses and light buoys. [More…]
I ask whether any of Australia’s lighthouses or light buoys are powered by solar cells. [More…]
If not, would not such power be an economy that would be worthwhile effecting in Australia? [More…]
If this power source is not being used for our lighthouses and light buoys, can steps be taken to evaluate the worth of using such a system for these navigational aids? [More…]
I ask the Minister representing the Minister for Trade and Resources: What discussions, if any, have been held between Commonwealth and Victorian government officials regarding possible proposals by the latter Government to install a nuclear power station at Portland in Victoria? [More…]
When this Government came to power certain things happened in relation to the Australian Broadcasting Commission. [More…]
In any discussion which relates to aspects of national broadcasting, we recognise that broadcasting is an instrument of great power and a social communications force; indeed, it is a national resource. [More…]
I wish that concern had been paramount when her Government was in power. [More…]
We were the recipients of the benefits of that program initiated, as I said, by the Liberal-National Country Party Government when it was in power prior to 1972. [More…]
Anyway, so long as this Government remains in power, I do not think the question is likely to arise. [More…]
Property confers power in Australian society. [More…]
These official documents from the Brisbane Stock Exchange and the Companies Office show that a company called Oilmin has tendered to the Queensland Government to supply coal to a State electricity commission power house in be commissioned in the mid-1980s. [More…]
It has powers, it has responsibilities. [More…]
But it has not always been given opportunity either to respond to or to exercise those powers and responsibilities. [More…]
The troubles we have, which are fundamental, with our Constitution in practice are because executive power has been permitted to override constitutional arrangement. [More…]
What was demonstrated in that referendum was that in relation to an attempt to deny the Senate its position of equal power and equal responsibility a majority of people in three States did not agree. [More…]
It will depend not upon a situation which has developed as a result of the policies of a government dominated by Melbourne and Sydney, regardless of the party that is in power. [More…]
It was not a surrender; it was a contract, a compact or an agreement whereby they would be protected from the overwhelming numerical power of the two major population centres. [More…]
Over a period of years people who took an interest in politics, people who took an interest in their Constitution and people who took an interest in the future of their country were led to believe that a situation existed whereby if they were to agree to a proposal for so-called simultaneous elections, that that would destroy the power of the Senate. [More…]
It is a review function which is related to the review of the Executive and, in particular, to ensuring that it has the power to require accountability out of not only the Parliamentary Executive but also the administrative executive. [More…]
Those are the two fields in which the Federal Government has the power to intervene. [More…]
We are also aware of the enormous decline in the construction of nuclear power plants in the United States of America. [More…]
A recent congressional report on nuclear power costs in the United States of America stated: [More…]
After 80 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…]
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…]
They have not given self-management to the Aboriginal people and the State Minister himself, Mr Hinze, has the power to dismiss the Council whenever he so chooses. [More…]
These are the people who tell us on one hand that in the Federal sphere they are going to uplift employment figures and put the economy back on the rails but on the other hand in South Australia these people cannot even run their own party affairs because they are being torn apart by a power struggle within their party. [More…]
The presentation of Estimates of expenditure to the Parliament in time to enable it to complete its consideration of them before the beginning of the financial year would preserve the authority of the Parliament, vindicate the power of the Executive, and resolve many administrative problems. [More…]
In these cases it is the Parliament that must have the power to scrutinise expenditure or proposed expenditure. [More…]
Whether Senator Walters likes it or not, there is a feeling amongst a large section of the younger generation of Australians that this Parliament is a mere rubber stamp for the members of the Executive, when Ministers rush Bills through to give them and their departments more power and influence. [More…]
What he is saying is that it is within their power - [More…]
The Bill completes the legislative framework of the tax sharing arrangements which are a central element of the Government’s federalism policy, a policy aimed at restoring a proper distribution of powers and functions between the Federal, State and local spheres of government, with governments more responsive to the needs and preferences of the community. [More…]
The Government believes that this approach offers the best protection against concentration of power in Canberra. [More…]
In answer to a question on notice from the honourable member for Grey (Mr Wallis), Mr Staley said on 3 May that low power national translators were envisaged to serve Streaky Bay, Smoky Bay-Haslam, Wudinna and Kimba. [More…]
A medium power translator would be installed to serve the farming area in the central Eyre Peninsula, including the towns of Cleve and Lock, a translator would be installed at Port Augusta and an additional translator at Port Lincoln. [More…]
Will the Government investigate the truth of the assertion made by a Mr Bruce Chu, a vicepresident of the government-run Taiwan power company, that uranium safeguards can be avoided because, to use his words, ‘There will always be a free market in uranium. [More…]
Is it a fact that the Ombudsman has powers of recommendation only, but the Administrative Appeals Tribunal, where it has the power to hear appeals, can actually reverse an administrative decision? [More…]
The legislation itself does not set out what is power or prohibited. [More…]
It vests an unreasonable power, in my view, and an increasingly greater power in the hands of the Commissioner to allow or disallow certain matters, and I think that the taxpayer, in some cases, is left without a remedy if he wants to argue against the opinion given. [More…]
Labor’s amendment illustrates the dangers of its policies and shows how far our socialist friends on the other side of the chamber would be prepared to go if they get back into power. [More…]
At an extraordinary general meeting of shareholders of the company, held on 6 May 1 969, it was resolved that the nominal capital of the company be increased to $250,000 by the creation of 150,000 new ordinary shares of $1 each and a special resolution was carried amending the articles of association to give the company the power required for subsequent actions. [More…]
It is a sad legacy because it is the legacy of a government which, when it came to power, seemed to be hell-bent on implementing a socialist philosophy, a socialist ideology. [More…]
It was mentioned briefly that the chief objective of the Government when it came to power was to reduce the rate of inflation. [More…]
Let us look at what happened to the private sector during the period that this Government has been in power. [More…]
Instead, we have had the same old tired stories that we have been hearing since the Fraser Government came to power in December of 1 975. [More…]
There was the great Latrobe Valley power strike as a result of which production in this country fell through the floor and consumer demand was obviously affected by the lack of confidence created by that huge dispute which had considerable effects throughout the economy. [More…]
His assidious and enthusiastic work is well known to the nation and has been of substantial importance in ensuring the success of the Committee as a constant watchdog over the regulation-making power of the Executive. [More…]
That was eight years after Lord Hewart’s book The New Despotism was first published, if my memory is right, and two years before Hitler, by an abuse of subordinate legislation, invaded the Reichstag with this power. [More…]
But the Bill gives the power of veto to the Federal Minister. [More…]
Notwithstanding what the Minister has just read, I would refer in particular to subclause (8) of clause 5, under which the Minister has power to refuse a variation that a State may require. [More…]
Certainly, the State must make the proposal- it is clear that the Commonwealth does not propose projects- but the Minister is given power to refuse the making of a variation. [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 [More…]
I simply say to him that the power within the clause requiring consultation is an important one. [More…]
The reason for the problem is that many of the areas of jurisdiction contained in the Covenant on Civil and Political Rights are traditionally matters which come within the power and the province of the States. [More…]
Whatever might be the views of Senator Georges about the external affairs powers of the Commonwealth and, indeed, whatever the ambit of those powers might be in law, the policy of this Government is one of co-operation with the States and not one of riding roughshod over the States. [More…]
Because of this particular deficiency in our tax law, I believe that we, as a Parliament, are giving far too much power to the Commissioner of Taxation in regard to his discretion on matters affecting tax avoidance schemes. [More…]
We could then give the Commissioner power to advise the donors how much he will allow before they make their gift. [More…]
The other principles implied in the Bill suggest that the giving of decision-making powers is what the Bill is all about. [More…]
Surely one can put the point that the first decision that has to be made is when, and perhaps the second decision to be made is on what basis that power is to be conferred. [More…]
Surely if the people of the Northern Territory cannot be trusted to elect a group into power and if that group in power cannot be trusted to make these sorts of decisions, we ought not to be talking about self-government. [More…]
Devolution of power is the catch-cry under the heading of new Federalism in Canberra right now. [More…]
Typical of those with doubts is Mr Dennis Power, proprietor of Power and Buckland Pty Ltd (Sunny Citrus) one of the Territory’s major suppliers of fruit juice, who in apt metaphor says: ‘ We will be sucked dry. ‘ [More…]
Under this Bill the Administrator- and no doubt some of the lawyers who may speak to this legislation will have some comments to makeseems to have undue constitutional power. [More…]
To vest all power in one man really denies power in every way to the Northern Territory itself. [More…]
However, I believe- Senator Robertson made the point also- that in relation to some aspects the power of the Administrator appointed by the Federal Government is too great. [More…]
Other Bills relate to the transfer of powers, the Ombudsman Amendment Bill and the Remuneration Tribunals Amendment Bill. [More…]
In the present situation there is no necessity for further wastage of time in the transfer of powers to the Northern Territory by having an opinion poll. [More…]
I have indicated that over the years the people of the Northern Territory have striven hard for this transfer of power. [More…]
I conclude my remarks by again reminding the Senate that it was the people who sit opposite us who did everything in their power to deny Senate representation to the people of the Northern Territory. [More…]
The people of the Northern Territory were given some autonomy by the Whitlam Government and not by the people who sit opposite, because they did all in their power, through legislation, to deny them that right. [More…]
We have a very odd situation in which this Bill gives the Legislative Assembly plenary legislative powers under clause 6; but under clause 35 proceeds to hand out executive power in dribs and drabs. [More…]
What we have effectively done in clause 6 is to grant the Legislative Assembly of the Northern Territory legislative powers that are in excess of those which are enjoyed by any State. [More…]
the Territory wants- State-type powers- and have given it the widest possible legislative authority. [More…]
That legislative authority is restricted only by the powers which remain to the Commonwealth under clause 7 or clause 9 to disallow laws. [More…]
One must bear in mind that clause 9, which empowers the Governor-General to disallow laws generally, is of the kind that was generally. [More…]
It is quite wrong for the Commonwealth to legislate in terms which do not specifically restrict the Legislative Assembly to the exercise of State powers; in other words, to give the Legislative Assembly power to impose duties on excise, for example, is to my mind an error and one that we could live to regret. [More…]
With respect to the granting of executive power, we have chosen an exceedingly untidy way to go about it. [More…]
I have considerable concern for the fear which is felt in the Northern Territory that the granting of a list of executive powers will give rise to what might be termed demarcation disputes over precisely where executive powers lie in any situation. [More…]
I believe in the decentralisation of power and I think it is desirable that the relatively small population of the Territory should, to the maximum extent possible, run its own affairs without interference from Canberra. [More…]
The purpose of this amendment is to return power to the Legislative Assembly and remove power- what we regard as the extraordinary power- from the Administrator in this legislation. [More…]
It seems to the Opposition that it is a travesty of democracy where the Administrator has power to veto or to override the elected government, that is, the Legislative Assembly. [More…]
These words give an opportunity for review; they give an opportunity for a re-think; they give an opportunity to alter; to make use of the expertise of the Administrator’s advisers, officers and so on; but the power is retained in the hands of the Legislative Assembly, where we contend that it belongs. [More…]
If the Government really is sincere about wanting self-government for the people of the Northern Territory it has no alternative but to accept this amendment or something like it, but at least put power back into the hands of the Legislative Assembly. [More…]
If we talk self-government, if we really mean self-government, we must put real power, real decision-making into the hands of the Legislative Assembly. [More…]
I want the responsibility moved away from the Administrator who under this legislation has the power to say that the Executive Council will meet only when he says so and, in the words of the Bill, ‘ not otherwise ‘. [More…]
As Senator Robertson said, the Opposition is passing no reflection upon the present Administrator but the Federal Parliament has experienced the exercise of power by the Federal Administrator, the GovernorGeneral and the Administrator in the Northern Territory will be acting in exactly the same capacity as the Governor-General. [More…]
The same recognition in respect of the AWIC was given by Senator Wriedt as the Minister for Primary Industry when the Whitlam Government was in power. [More…]
Since the Liberal Party came to power, bankruptcies in small business have reached post-war records. [More…]
If he knew anything about retailing he would know that when Labor was in power the escalation of costs was so rapid that most businesses started to go to the wall. [More…]
Negotiations with the States have been proceeding to clear up problems arising out of our limitations of constitutional power in this area. [More…]
I have already answered questions at length on that and on the progress that has been made in negotiations with some States towards reaching agreement with the States to refer powers to the Commonwealth. [More…]
I am still hopeful that there will be a reference of power from a sufficient number of States to make the exercise worth while for the Commonwealth Parliament. [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…]
In .certain matters that touch the fundamental concerns of government the Bill places the final power to decide whether a document should be exempt in the hands of responsible Ministers and the most senior officers of departments and authorities. [More…]
It is contemplated that, where appropriate, regulations might be made under this power to exclude those categories of documents that require special protection from disclosure. [More…]
In addition, the Archives will have power to seek the deposit in its custody of other records closely associated with the origin, history, and functioning of the Commonwealth Government and to take steps to ensure that such material is properly preserved. [More…]
In other words, it gives the Bank board power of veto over lending policy. [More…]
The normal directional power se.t out in clause 8 sub-clause ( 1 ) cannot override the intent of clause 6 sub-clause ( 1 ). [More…]
That is part of the power of direction. [More…]
But it also has an enormous discretionary power contained in the following words: [More…]
The history of these Bills goes back to late 1975 when the Liberal Party, which was then in Opposition, advised during the general election campaign of that year that if it were elected to office it would introduce the new federalism policy and that that policy would mean that the States would be given the power to introduce a State income tax. [More…]
Stage 2 means, according to the Income Tax (Arrangements with the States) Bill, that the States will now have the power to introduce a State income tax if they so desire or they can give a rebate if they so desire. [More…]
Ample opportunity was given to the Prime Minister to tell the Australian people that the States would be given the power to introduce a State income tax. [More…]
There is nothing unusual about restricting the powers of the Arbitrator on matters which the Government feels that it, as an employer, should exercise power through a Public Service Board. [More…]
Western Australia- Under the Western Australian Public Service Act the Board is empowered to determine salaries and conditions governing payment of salaries and, upon the recommendation of the Board, the Governor may make regulations covering conditions of employment. [More…]
Apart from those matters, the Board would seem to have exclusive power to set the terms and conditions of employment for public servants. [More…]
If the Government is confident that it has the constitutional power, through its taxing powers and so on, to make this legislation operative or to achieve the purposes sought by this legislation, why did the Minister go on to talk about the Commonwealth having recourse to section 96 grants if any State really wanted to play it tough? [More…]
If the Commonwealth is so confident that the objective sought is within its legal power or can be achieved legally under this legislation, why does the Minister speculate about completely different legislation being introduced using section 96 of the Constitution? [More…]
I think the Minister for Primary Industry (Mr Sinclair) went to some lengths to set down that there are various means by which the Commonwealth can act in support of its own proposals.The Commonwealth has some power along those lines, as the Minister indicated. [More…]
We have shared the sort of experience which helps members of the Parliament to understand what should be the power of the Parliament and the Executive in relation to regulations. [More…]
It is nice to remember that having been on the Constitutional Review Committee with a dissenting report in favour of maintenance of the Senate powers, in the only three referenda that have been put forward on this matter either by my side or by the Opposition, the majority of the Australian people, according to the Constitution, have not accepted the view that was put that the Senate power should be eroded. [More…]
The office you assume is the highest that is within the power of the Senate to confer upon any of its members. [More…]
He sees royalties for his Government, he sees more power for the mining companies that want to exploit those reserves and he wants to place the people of those communities in exactly the same atmosphere- a frontier town atmosphere- which helped to destroy many of the indigenous people in other parts of” this continent, in Africa and in America- the Indian people- who were forced to live side by side with the advance of so-called civilization. [More…]
Again, the Government of Queensland, and its Premier, have exercised their power over the lives of people and have said, ‘You cannot be a council any more; we are going to sack you’. [More…]
In the meantime, as I said in the beginning, when this legislation was introduced in Queensland and that clause was insertedproviding that the Minister for Local Government would have the power to dissolve the councils and appoint an administrator- there is nothing to say for how long that administrator will be there. [More…]
So the Queensland Government will have the power over the lives of the people of Aurukun and Mornington Island, despite the fact that those people have done everything in their power to get support from the Federal Government, from the Prime Minister, from the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs (Mr Viner) and from anyone else- as my colleague on the other side of the chamber has said, from anyone prepared to listen, saying: ‘Please help us; we do not want the State Government to have control of our lives’. [More…]
The first trouble of recent times occurred when the Whitlam Government came to power and started its program of hand-outs to Aborigines. [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…]
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 Australian Government does have the power to make special laws in these cases and to implement them. [More…]
It is carefully designed to achieve that result with a constitutional power of the Commonwealth, given by the 1 967 referendum, to make special laws for the people of any race for whom it is deemed necessary. [More…]
I refer to section 16 of the Act which limits the usual power of the Queensland Government simply to dissolve local government authorities and which requires consultation with the Commonwealth. [More…]
The fact that that is a limitation on State power, we have been told, has been demonstrated today in the Supreme Court of Queensland where an interim injunction has been granted against the State Government. [More…]
The United States continues to follow the policy, which does not seem to have varied regardless of the President in power, of benign neglect with regard to its balance of payments after a very aggressive policy it had adopted in August of 1971 of attempting to realign exchange rates by devaluation of the United States dollar. [More…]
A Legislative and General Purpose Standing Committee shall have no power to make amendments to a Bill, but may recommend amendments or requests for amendments. [More…]
1 ) Have Professor L. Lyons, of Queensland, and a team working with him, discovered a new method of producing electricity from solar power. [More…]
However, it has not been the practice of successive Ministers in the exercise of this discretionary power to give reasons in respect of particular cases for deciding to withhold passports. [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…]
The crux of the matter is that these people argue that they are very antiLeft and that they fear the super powers of the Left. [More…]
Without embarrassing the Government of Yugoslavia or the Government of my own country, let me say that we know that if we disturb the balance of power between the NATO and the Warsaw Pact nations, particularly in those countries in the middle, we certainly are not going to help the cause of world peace. [More…]
Senator Missen should look for a moment at some of the great Graham Greene novels which depend on this theme and, of course, The Power and the Glory is not one of them. [More…]
Honourable senators will recall that The Power and the Glory depends very much on a theme of alcoholism, which probably brings it to Senator Missen ‘s mind at this moment and leads him to interject. [More…]
This claim by the Yugoslav regime gives its embassies abroad, and in particular Australia, an outstanding power to control, through intimidation and harassment, their former citizens should these citizens ever require a visa to visit their friends and relatives in their homeland. [More…]
They are also concerned that this very fact gives the Yugoslav Consular authorities in Australia power to haunt its dissidents beyond their terrestrial life, since this claim of citizenship extends beyond them to their children. [More…]
They are concerned of course to see the Australian Government so indifferent when its citizens are being harassed by foreign powers in Australia, imprisoned by a foreign power abroad and even executed by a foreign power abroad. [More…]
I ask the Attorney-General (Senator Durack) whether he would care to indicate why he feels it is necessary to allow this immediate power of entry to any of his enforcement authorities. [More…]
We seem to have drifted into the situation- I overstate the case slightly but not to an unpardonable extent- where the Government introduces legislation which says that the Minister shall be given the power to make regulations about A, B and C, and that is about as much as we are told in the Bill which is actually presented to the House. [More…]
I realise that the Commonwealth Parliament does not have the power to legislate across the broad spectrum of consumer protection in a way which could cover instances such as this in all the various fields of commerce, but there are certain areas in which this could be done. [More…]
I think that the Commonwealth Parliament should consider introducing such legislation in those areas where the Commonwealth Parliament does have the power to do so. [More…]
I think that it has that power in the field of insurance and life assurance. [More…]
This can be partly explained because the metropolitan powersFrance, the United Kingdom and the United States of America in particular- were the dominant powers in the region. [More…]
The metropolitan powers began to move out as more and more countries- as I said, some only mini states- achieved independence. [More…]
Australia had to realise that this was an area in which we were the largest single power. [More…]
I refer to Great Power relationships within the region. [More…]
We should be eager to ensure that no Great Power rivalry exists in the region. [More…]
We know that many Great Powers are interested in it. [More…]
If Australian giving is matched by a change of heart, increased ability to listen and learn, the power to say sorry for aspects of the past and to make amends, the giving will be enhanced by trust. [More…]
Retain Child Endownment at its present level so that families are able to maintain their present purchasing power. [More…]
He observed 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…]
I had occasion to observe at the time of the Premiers Conference that 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 override all State legislation in the area. [More…]
The object of this exercise which we have been engaged in since last year 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…]
It is proposed therefore by sub-clause 18 (2) that the regulation-making power in the Bill should authorise regulations providing that provisions or classes or provisions 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 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…]
The growing power of executive government and the limitations on the right of the citizen to obtain information from the government departments in an increasingly complex state has been a source of continuing concern to a small, but interested and important section of the community. [More…]
In these cases the tribunal will have no power to investigate the validity of the claim, nor will it have power to examine the excuse of ‘public interest’ which will often be a justification for refusing to disclose. [More…]
It has been spelled out to me by these young people that there is no hope of any better society through the parliamentary system because even most members of parliament have no power to influence events. [More…]
Political power, these young people say, which should rest properly and equally with the people, is in the hands of increasingly few men- now possibly, virtually in the hands of one man. [More…]
Certainly such a suggestion is a limitation on the power of parliaments, an extension of more power to the people themselves and a trust in them, but I believe that in the interests of Australia it must come and must come soon. [More…]
As a matter of fact, in 1973- just as the Labor Party came to power- the CES offices did not have very much to cope with. [More…]
As a matter of fact, even a year after the Labor Party came to power- that is, in 1974- the CES offices did not have much to cope with because at that stage the Labor Minister for Labour and Immigration said that we had ‘overemployment’. [More…]
The next year that Labor was in power- that is, in 1975- unemployment rose by another 0.4 per cent. [More…]
When Labor was in power it had to cope with 3 1 1 , 596 unemployed. [More…]
It acknowledges the importance of effective competition as a preventive of the defects of monopoly power and as the incentive to creativity and productivity. [More…]
It is of course greatly opposed to monopoly power. [More…]
I think we have to be concerned that monopoly power does not become predominant in our society. [More…]
It acknowledges the importance of effective competition as a preventive of the defects of monopoly power and as the incentive to creativity and productivity. [More…]
I have spoken many times about the monopoly power of trans-national and multinational companies which is terrible and terrifying. [More…]
When we talk about manpower policies, in particular we are talking about programs such as the National Employment and Training scheme, the Special Youth Employment Training Program, the apprentice support program, the Community Youth Support scheme and the relocation assistance scheme. [More…]
Indeed, the total number of people employed in the scheme when we came into power was about 7,000, whereas today the figures show that 36,000 people are involved in that scheme and that a total of 94,000 people has gained some skills under it. [More…]
The Commonwealth Rebate for Apprentice Full-time Training scheme was a totallynewinitiativeofthisGovernment.Those clearly are what we have in mind as manpower policies and we will, of course, pursue them as manpower policies and programs. [More…]
Your petitioners humbly implore the Government of Australia to do all within its power to help this prominent Ukrainian lawyer. [More…]
A deputy ombudsman, if so designated, could exercise all the powers of the Commonwealth Ombudsman in relation to official action taken in the relevant Territory, except the power to report to the Parliament. [More…]
It has shown a great power for innovation and resourcefulness. [More…]
In Namibia, through an initiative inspired and carried through by the Western powers, and sub: stantially 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 United Nations auspices, SWAPO gains power in Namibia. [More…]
When the Fraser Government came to power it promised that the economy would improve and it was argued that tax reductions were needed to initiate a consumer-led recovery. [More…]
The list is larger and indicates just how willing the Prime Minister is to break promises on which he was elected to power. [More…]
At the present moment it is unusual to have a system of government in the world which embraces the idea of a loyal Opposition- a system whereby the majority has the power to make the laws, but recognises the rights of minorities to dissent in practical ways which do not involve violence. [More…]
I am convinced that this national Parliament needs to be possessed of adequate power to deal with interstate trade and commerce and with the business organisations engaged in all aspects of our economic life. [More…]
George Birdwood ‘s comment that ‘only education enjoys the dubious privilege of having the power to make matters worse ‘ is not just a smart quip, but the plain truth. [More…]
It would perhaps be as well if I left to another occasion any further thoughts I may have to offer on the uses and abuses of Senate power. [More…]
If this House does have a useful role to play in the legislative process, it does not lie in menacing or threatening a properly elected government with the power of life or death based on some spurious conception of the Senate’s position as a defender of States’ rights or federalism or the more recently fashionable notion that it is a last resort defender of the national interest against the Huns and Visigoths of the lower House. [More…]
As democratic socialists- we bear the label proudly- we stand for the values of equality, liberty and democracy: greater real equality in the distribution of wealth, income, power and status in the community; full respect for the personal freedom and dignity of the individual; the fullest possible opportunity for democratic participation by every individual in all the major decisions that affect his or her life in the work place and in the local community as much as in the larger political sphere. [More…]
It was alleged at the public hearing yesterday that CSR Ltd is using its monoply power to threaten potential witnesses and discourage them from giving evidence to the inquiry. [More…]
We are looking at the operation at a coal washery site in New South Wales, and the results obtained to date demonstrate that coarse rejects and partly thickened slurry material burnt readily on a fluidised bed have the potential to produce heat and power, which is particularly important. [More…]
The Committee points out that it has no power to take any in camera evidence or to receive any evidence of a confidential nature. [More…]
The position simply is that the Committee was not asked to make the information confidential and it recognises that it does not have that power. [More…]
When in power, the Australian Labor Party Government had no doubts about the importance of external factors for the Australian economy. [More…]
That Bill provided for the establishment of a similar organisation to the one which this Bill proposes but the powers that that legislation gave to the Corporation were broader and the intention was much clearer that it had the power to do certain things. [More…]
-So, the limit of this Corporation is not having the power– [More…]
I express my concern that this Bill is not providing power to promote the use of Australian goods overseas. [More…]
Are we to promote Australian private enterprise, our private industries, our manufacturing industries outside Australia, or are we to curtail the activities of this Corporation by not giving it the power to buy and to sell? [More…]
Senator Wriedt made the point that the Corporation should have the power to trade in goods. [More…]
My question related to reports in Australian newspapers and in particular reports of United States Congressional hearings regarding the development of the nuclear power industry in the Philippines. [More…]
On 23 February this year the Australian Financial Review simply reported that the nuclear power plant in the Philippines was being built close to an active volcano, close to a potential hot mud flow, possibly near a fault line and close to the Subic Bay naval base where more than 5000 American families live. [More…]
It was reported later in 1972 that the research reactor was operating on only one half normal power due to the failure of one of the compensating chambers in the reactor control system. [More…]
Upon further inquiry it developed that the failure occurred in April 1971 and that the operation had been carried on at half power since then because there was no one there to fix it. [More…]
The United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission prevented work from proceeding on that nuclear power station in the United States because of the presence of the proving ground. [More…]
In 1976 the Filipino Energy Development Board- and this was also reported to the United States congressional committee- found nuclear power to be much more expensive than coal, geothermal or hydro power in the Philippines. [More…]
The United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission was concerned about the justification for the erection of a nuclear power plant in the Philippines in view of the findings of this body of the Philippines Government as to the costs of nuclear power in the Philippines. [More…]
The other points I wish to raise were also raised, as I have said, by the United States congressional committee and they, of course, basically involve the question of the siting of a nuclear power station so close to a volcanic fault line. [More…]
I simply want to make the point that there is a volcano not far distant from the site of the nuclear power station. [More…]
I am talking about evidence that was given to the United States Congressional Committee on the siting of the nuclear power station near Subic Bay. [More…]
However, I am making the point that we would all be able to hear the result if there was a volcanic fault near the nuclear power station in question. [More…]
The siting of the proposed nuclear power plant is very doubtful in terms of what I have said, based on evidence given to the congressional committee. [More…]
In one information drive by the National Power Corporation a Philippine Constabulary officer got angry and shouted at a Protestant Minister who asked questions during the open forum and who mentioned some near accidents in nuclear plants in the US. [More…]
When the present Government came to power the levels of overseas borrowings started to escalate. [More…]
Might I say, therefore, that the Government’s policy of seeking to reduce the deficit as much as possible, and the Budget proposes a decrease in the deficit of over $500m compared with the result in 1978, points the way towards increased economic activity and is consistent with the Fraser Government’s policy since it came to power in [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…]
In fact, when applications were called for medium power licences in major cities, as I recall it, there were eight applications in Brisbane for three licences, a number of applications in Perth for a limited number of licences, eight applications in Melbourne, and a similar degree of enthusiasm was shown in all the other major cities. [More…]
Instead of Mr Street having to consult with Mr MacKellar in this case, I would rather him have centralised power. [More…]
Unfortunately, because of what the Labor Administration did to the companies and the general attitude of the Labor Party- which of course will keep it out of power for years to come- we have not as many of those successful companies as we would like. [More…]
Unfortunately this has meant that the power output of the engine has been reduced and as result more fuel has to be used in order to get a pre-ADR 27A power output. [More…]
We may have less pollution- it is very questionable as to whether these regulations are really having the effect which people think they are- but we have less power and we are burning more fuel. [More…]
engine with fuel injection and turbo-charging will give all the power that is needed. [More…]
When extra power is not needed extra fuel is not burnt. [More…]
In Sarina we have the largest power alcohol distillery in the southern hemisphere. [More…]
Indeed, I conveyed that to him personally when we rose for dinner, but even his speech came through as expressing basically the same philosophy, a philsophy which, when the Australian Labor Party was in power, helped to destroy so much that had been developed in this country in the post-war years. [More…]
We recall that the Labor Party came to power in December of 1972. [More…]
I know that the present Government had by then returned to power, but one does not suddenly move out and start drilling wells overnight. [More…]
Let us go back again to what happened when Labor was in power. [More…]
It is also trying to improve its revenue to overcome a deficit that was created by the Labor Party during the times of high inflation when it was in power. [More…]
The honourable senator put forward the argument that somehow if the Australian Labor Party were in power it would impose a resources tax which would save the ordinary consumer in Australia money, that somehow it would reduce the rate of inflation and that in fact would assist in the economic recovery. [More…]
The Bounty (Agricultural Tractors) Amendment Bill extends the bounty which formerly had been payable on tractors below 105 kilowatts- or about 150 engine horse power, in the language that is more commonly understood in agriculture- to tractors above 105 kilowatts in accordance with the recommendation by the IAC in its report of August 1977, even though it appears that at the time the IAC made that report it was ignorant of the fact that tractors in that power range were being made or at least fabricated within Australia. [More…]
The amount of bounty payable varies with the horsepower of the tractors. [More…]
Companies Ordinance I do not have power to publish part only of a report. [More…]
I am unable to inform the honourable senator whether a court in a prosecution of the sort he has mentioned has the power to suspend a licence in the same way as a traffic court does for a traffic offence. [More…]
I can tell him, however, that the Secretary to the Department of Transport has that power, which to date does not appear to have been exercised in this case. [More…]
When Labor was in power it brought this country to its knees and regrettably it is not willing to acknowledge it at present. [More…]
Those who now plead innocence and ignorance of the cause of the problems in Australia should reflect on and recapitulate some of the well documented events of the early 1970s when a Labor socialist government was in power in Australia and had the opportunity to bring down several budgets. [More…]
Many groups in society are now asserting their right to a greater role in redefining the culture that has traditionally accorded them little status or power. [More…]
Sir Magnus was a great senator, a member of this chamber for 18 years and its President for three; but above all he was a fighter for the Senate, for its prestige, its organisation and its power. [More…]
Such a fixed term would remove the power effectively given to the Prime Minister to dissolve the House of Representatives before the end of its term. [More…]
I know of nothing in the theory of responsible government that necessitates giving a Prime Minister the power to hold an election at a time which suits his political advantage. [More…]
The power of the courts to constrain the Executive has been reduced. [More…]
The House of Lords, which once stood guard over the actions of a too powerful House of Commons’, wrote another authority, ‘now stands guard over a too powerful Cabinet’. [More…]
We have done something unique in this country to restrain the power of the Executive. [More…]
That is the decentralisation of Executive power. [More…]
The proper way for a federation to be run is for the Executive power to be delegated to the body closest to the people in which that power can be effectively exercised. [More…]
I believe that a prime role of the Senate should be to examine every relevant piece of legislation to see that the Executive power is appropriately decentralised. [More…]
What about the problem of controlling the excessive power of the Executive, which is straining and vexing all countries which are using the Westminster system of government? [More…]
I do not think the option of the American system of a rigid division of powers is an acceptable alternative. [More…]
As we are operating at the moment we are accepting responsibility without power. [More…]
It will be said that this will be a vast increase in the Senate’s power; and also that the giving up of Ministers would be a remarkable act of self-abnegation by senators. [More…]
This Senate has always been potentially powerful. [More…]
I do not want during my maiden speech to enter into the area of our power over Supply. [More…]
But the use of our existing power in a different area along the lines that I have suggested would I believe be wholly beneficial. [More…]
We do not need more power; we just need to use beneficially the power that we have already. [More…]
What about the question of the loss of ministerial privileges and power? [More…]
If it is power we are talking about, we have only to compare the power of a chairman of a major committee of the United States Senate with the power of a Minister in one of our recent governments. [More…]
I have no doubt where the greater power lies. [More…]
But it is not individual privileges or powers that I am talking about. [More…]
We are desperately needed in roles which we alone can perform, as a watchdog on the proper decentralisation of Executive power and as a public chamber of review of the implementation of the policy decisions of the Executive. [More…]
What will happen if the power of those reserves is such that the diminished Australian dollar cannot withstand the onslaught? [More…]
I am also opposed to any suggestion of abolishing the money powers of the Senate. [More…]
If this were to happen, the Senate would lack power and credibility and its constitutional roles would be emasculated. [More…]
When the Government came to power at the end of 1975 this promise was not carried out. [More…]
The extent of the erosion of family income, which has occurred since this Government came to power, was demonstrated in a table prepared by the Legislative Research Service of the Parliamentary Library. [More…]
first sought, and grabbed power. [More…]
This was done with the supreme assurance of executive power, despite the fact that the Australia Council is a statutory authority. [More…]
The honourable senator was quite correct in stating that the role of the Senate was to exercise proper surveillance over the executive government, no matter which party happened to be in power. [More…]
Korea, for example, has embarked onaprogramofnuclearpowerdevelopment which again reflects the interest in these countries of ensuring an adequate supply of energy. [More…]
They are anxious to expand their production of power through atomic nuclear energy to something like 60 million megawatts by 1 990. [More…]
This year’s Budget was a shrewdly prepared document because it paved the way to take away spending power, to lift prices, to remove some benefits and raise a lot more revenue. [More…]
Most Australians are in favour of constructing a nuclear power plant in Western Australia, according to a recent poll. [More…]
The next most favoured energy sources were oil from coal (35 per cent) and hydro power (34 per cent). [More…]
Nuclear power rated fourth with 22 per cent, and tidal power ( 1 7 per cent) last. [More…]
’- Solar energy; Hydro power; Oil from coal; Nuclear power; Tidal power; None of these. [More…]
Do you favour or oppose the proposed construction of a nuclear power station in Western Australia?’ [More…]
Men and women were in fairly close agreement on each of the first four sources of energy named on the card, but nuclear power was favoured by nearly twice as many men as women (29 percent against 15 percent). [More…]
Nuclear power was also advocated by twice as many Liberal-NCP voters as ALP voters. [More…]
On the question of constructing a nuclear power station in Western Australia, there were some very marked differences of opinion. [More…]
Comparison of the results of the two polls shows a pronounced upwards swing (from 68 per cent to 79 percent) in favour of solar energy, and a swing from 29 per cent up to 34 per cent in favour of hydro power. [More…]
Does the Minister have the names of such persons who have a consistent association with terrorist organisations or activities and who are known to be involved in acts against a friendly power? [More…]
If there is any evidence to indicate that the particular way in which we are proceeding to calculate the freight component of the import parity price at the moment is deficient, the Minister has the power to rectify it at any time. [More…]
When all is said and done, we come back to the fact that the Minister has the power to determine what is the true import parity price on the market basis. [More…]
As I have said, the Minister has the power to vary his determination from time to time. [More…]
I often wonder- I have some doubts- whether the Government has such constitutional power. [More…]
I am of the belief that the legal advisers to the Government and the Department of Aboriginal Affairs also may have some doubts as to whether the Commonwealth has the constitutional power to take over land for Aborigines. [More…]
Although it is said that in the 1967 referendum the people gave this power to the Federal Government, I think it is open to legal challenge that the people of Australia did give that power to the Federal Government in that 1967 referendum. [More…]
About 92 per cent of the people in all electorates in Australia, including Queensland, voted to give to the Federal Government power for the purpose of bettering the welfare of Aborigines. [More…]
If the legal position is that the Commonwealth does not have this power the feeling is that a referendum today supported by all political parties would make sure that we do not have that power. [More…]
The Government, despite any possible fears about what power it has, should act upon the basis that it believes it has the power and should acquire land on behalf of Aborigines in such a way that there would be a challenge to the High Court for the purpose of determining the actual legal position in Australia. [More…]
Although everyone today thinks that in 1967 the people gave power to the Federal Government for the control of Aborigines, is that the real position? [More…]
Whilst the Constitution says that we have the power to make special laws for people of a particular race- much of the legislation that I would have presented would have dealt with part Aboriginals- it was not thought by the legal profession that a part Aboriginal would be classified as a person of any particular race. [More…]
Therefore, the authorities thought that a successful challenge was beyond our power. [More…]
When the Founding Fathers wrote the Constitution, under section 51 (xxvi) they gave the Commonwealth the power to make laws for the peace, order and good government of the Commonwealth 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…]
We had the power to make laws for the good government of the people of any race except the Aboriginals. [More…]
The American Government wanted to make special laws for a migrant group but an American court found that it did not have the power to make separate laws; everyone was covered by the Constitution and the law had to apply to all. [More…]
Section 51 (xxvi) of the Constitution gives us power to make laws with respect to immigration and emigration. [More…]
Now we have power to make laws for the good government of the people of any race for whom it is deemed necessary to make special laws. [More…]
The intention of the Constitution is to restrict the power of the Commonwealth to make a uniform law for its citizens- that is, for Australians if that term can be denned- and another law, a separate law, for people of a particular race. [More…]
If this is so, then an appeal should be made to the people for the appropriate power. [More…]
It is no use saying that the people gave the Parliament power to make laws in respect of Aboriginals in 1967; the Parliament has the power to make special laws in respect of people of a particular race. [More…]
However, the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders (Queensland Reserves and Communities SelfManagement) Bill can never have any application because of the power of the State Government to declare a reserve a non-reserve each time an Aboriginal community asks for the provisions of the Bill to be implemented. [More…]
In the Draft Bill of 1891, this sub-section appeared as the first of a group of three subjects, with reference to which the Parliament was assigned exclusive legislative power. [More…]
It is now placed in the list of powers generally described as concurrent; that is to say, the States may occupy the ground until the Federal authority interferes and displaces them. [More…]
Before such legislation the State Parliaments will be free to pass laws concerning any part of their resident population, including the people of any particular race, coloured or otherwise, but as soon as the Federal Parliament by legislative intervention has shown that it has dealt with, or contemplates dealing with, the people of a particular race by special laws, the power to discriminate in respect of that race will thenceforth be exclusively vested in it and the State legislatures Wili be deprived of jurisdiction. [More…]
Even contemplates dealing with- the people of a particular race by special laws, the power to discriminate in respect of that race will thenceforth bc exclusively vested in it and the State legislatures will be deprived of jurisdiction. [More…]
I do not think it could, because it takes the attitude that it has the necessary power. [More…]
provides that the Commonwealth shall have the power for ‘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…]
We accept that the Commonwealth Parliament has the power to make special laws for people of a particular race, the Aboriginal people. [More…]
It also has the power to acquire property, as the Constitution provides very definitely. [More…]
We must remember that there are no particular powers written into the Constitution to acquire property for Aboriginals. [More…]
The only power is the power to legislate for people of a particular race. [More…]
is interpreted as being a power to acquire property for Aboriginals, it must be a power to do the same thing for other ethnicgroups the Germans, the Italians, the Greeks and everyone else. [More…]
I do not believe that a court would ever uphold a claim that that power existed. [More…]
Whilst 1 do not think that the Australian publicwould give the Commonwealth Parliament power to acquire land for all people of a particular race, I am certain that if all parties supported an appeal to the Australian public to allow it to alter the Constitution sufficiently to let the Government legislate to give land to Aboriginal people there would be a successful result. [More…]
I make my appeal today because it is not sufficient for the Commonwealth just to say that it has the power. [More…]
Let us exercise that power. [More…]
In this debate on the first reading of the Bill I appeal to the Government to take action to try to test the powers it has under the Constitution. [More…]
No Government Department had sufficient power to act, however. [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…]
We call on the Government to immediately review its Budget strategy and humbly pray that the Government will implement measures to protect the purchasing power of consumers and prevent worsening unemployment by creating new jobs. [More…]
Did the Minister not say at Question Time earlier today that the Government exercises all possible options and powers towards containing costs in the Australian community? [More…]
Does the Reserve Bank have the power to seek from the trading banks a different policy, one which would not allow them to pursue the practice to which Senator Watson referred? [More…]
By contrast, since this Government came into power it has extended the nitrogen bounty on a year only basis and has progressively reduced the amount of bounty from the original figure of almost $79 a tonne to the figure of $40 a tonne which will prevail if this legislation is passed. [More…]
That is how they see the inflation rate- in the benefits that they have in the purchasing power of the money that they take home each week. [More…]
-Has the attention of the Minister representing the Minister for Finance been drawn to the United States Government report that solar power will be able to supply 20 per cent of America’s needs by the year 2000? [More…]
I am unaware whether the Minister for Finance has had his attention drawn to the United States Government report on solar power or whether any consideration has been given to the matter of tax deductions for the installation of solar heating units. [More…]
We know that while Labor was in power it proposed a referendum. [More…]
The industry wanted it when the Liberal-Country Party Government was in power. [More…]
As a democrat I regret the imperfections of our political system which are within our power to remedy. [More…]
Let it be clearly recorded, firmly asserted and proudly boasted that it was the Liberals of their day who curbed the power of the Crown, who extended the suffrage, who freed the Press, who took the children out of the mines and who, above all, ended the trade in human slaves. [More…]
Even now there are elements in Australia seeking to replace the government of men by the administration of things, a trend to which we in Parliament have contributed by unthinkingly vesting power over people in non-elected bodies and corporations and by seeking to rely upon ombudsmen and tribunals to protect the rights of individuals when in fact it is we who should be making the decisions and we who should be providing the protection. [More…]
Man has always been a technological creature from the first Neanderthal toolmaker on, and every technological device contains some inherent power to dehumanise if we let it. [More…]
When the Government came to power it made it clear to the people that it would set about doing two major things: Reduce the rate of inflation and overcome the great deficit- both things we inherited from the Whitlam Government. [More…]
Rather than have people put off and stood down from their employment because of the shortage of power and the crises that came during that period as a result of the shortage of coal in South Australia- the same situation faced the other States- staggered hours were introduced in South Australia. [More…]
Farms throughout the State were supplied with 240 volt power over a great number of years. [More…]
Cheap power was provided in rural areas. [More…]
Since Mr Dunstan came to power State taxes have increased by over 400 per cent. [More…]
It was stated that this would not lead to any real increase in power costs. [More…]
The newspaper article questions how much of this increased charge is due to the fact that the 37^-hour working week is being introduced into the power supply system in South Australia. [More…]
All that I have referred to has happened since Playford gave up and Dunstan came to power. [More…]
We believe that no hope remains for Australia to solve its problems if all power remains in the Executive. [More…]
Not one honourable senator in this chamber now- I include the Attorney-General (Senator Durack)has any power whatsoever over decisions relating to Bills and other matters that come into this chamber. [More…]
We stand here, we make powerful speeches. [More…]
More and more power is being placed in the hands of ‘big brother’ and the ordinary decent citizen out there who wants to make a contribution to his or her country is being denied that opportunity. [More…]
The upshot of its actions in recent years is that the Arbitration Commission is increasingly like the High Court, setting itself up as an economic legislature, with power to make arbitrary and ill considered forays into economic policy making to defeat the intentions of Government policy. [More…]
This is truly power without responsibility. [More…]
Prominent ministers, including the present Leader of the Government in the Senate, Senator Carrick, ridiculed this proposal and said that this absolute power would corrupt. [More…]
As a result of the 1 960 Act, however, the Commission was given power to recruit its own staff. [More…]
The proposed new section 1 8AF 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 is 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…]
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…]
He was in power for 26 years in that State and created a situation based on the simple reality that one cannot sell something at a price which is more expensive than that for which somebody else can make it. [More…]
It is clear that the advantage which prevailed before the Dunstan Government came to power in 1970 has disappeared, and clearly the State has suffered a crisis of conscience and confidence in its industrial future. [More…]
Consequently, the Liberal Government of South Australia, which was in power from 1938 to 1965, encouraged and developed those ideas. [More…]
We hoped, as indeed the people of South Australia hoped, that this bright new fancy pants of a Premier would deliver the goods when he came into power. [More…]
That Government ‘s ability to jump about and change its mind on various issues has been demonstrated clearly ever since it came to power. [More…]
Of course, we all remember that the Dunstan Government came to power in 1970 on the promise: ‘We will build Chowilla’. [More…]
May I mention first, since it comes readily to mind, the situation of the Weapons Research Establishment and the defence industries which, since this Liberal Government has been in power, have been whittled down bit by bit. [More…]
the failure of the Australian Wine Board to use its long-standing power to trade overseas as an agent for wine producers, to organise the effective penetration of new markets in the United States, Japan and countries in South East Asia, and to establish Government retail wine centres in cities other than London, despite the potential for such outlets in numerous other locations; and [More…]
Is the Minister aware that, on Wednesday, ten Japanese nuclear power companies entered into a contract with British Nuclear Fuels Limited worth nearly $1.5 billion to reprocess 16,000 tonnes of nuclear spent fuel? [More…]
Is he aware that, under existing United States- Japanese nuclear power agreements, Washington ‘s approval is necessary for transport overseas of spent fuel from American uranium? [More…]
Is the Minister aware that the Japanese power companies conceded that they had not received the Carter Administration’s sanction for the reprocessing? [More…]
The conclusion of the type of long-term commercial arrangement which Japanese power companies are reported to have reached with a British company would in no way lessen the treaty obligations of the Japanese Government to obtain the prior consent of the United States Government before actual retransfers or reprocessing takes place. [More…]
Australian Wheat Board be given sole power to trade overseas but that the Board be not permitted to be the sole trader within Australia. [More…]
It is a direction which I believe takes from the Government the power to control the economy. [More…]
Transnational corporations have become a major instrument in internationalising capital and revolutionising the relationship between private capital and labour and public power. [More…]
No matter what government is in power these corporations are able to make decisions which transgress national boundaries and which interfere with whatever strategy may be followed by individual countries. [More…]
This degree of penetration by transnational corporations into national economies means that a large sector of industry has become more or less immune to government intervention and throws into relief the absurd theories of those who claim that there ought to be less government intervention when in fact we are living in a period when international intervention is reducing the limited powers which governments have in the economic scene. [More…]
The dollar is not falling in value: It is being pushed by a handful of people with more power than any one government. [More…]
But since the Fraser Government first grabbed power in 1975 and subsequently retained that hold on power, a very different picture has emerged here in the A.C.T. [More…]
One Victorian Minister has been forced to resign; a Premier of Western Australia in 1968 accepted for his family company a private placement of Comalco shares when he was Minister for Industrial Development in the North-west in the State Government; and a Premier of Queensland who did the same thing at the same time, who has done much worse since and who, although he is not a member of the Liberal Party, is kept in power by the Liberal Party. [More…]
I would like the Attorney-General (Senator Durack) or the Treasurer (Mr Howard)- perhaps the Minister for Social Security (Senator Guilfoyle), who is in the chamber, will pass on my request- to examine ways in which the tax power, the broadcasting power or the interstate trade and commerce power of the Commonwealth might be used to prohibit this antisocial advertising. [More…]
I would like to see it use its inherent power to protect itself against internal subversion. [More…]
With regard to the tertiary education institutions of the States, which come under State law and over which the Commonwealth has no power to legislate, the Prime Minister wrote to the Premiers suggesting that they consider introducing similar legislation where they have not already acted along the lines proposed by the Commonwealth. [More…]
Did not the Senate at all times have power to refer any Bill at any stage to any committee of the Senate? [More…]
Does not the acceptance of the new Standing Order relating to the referral of Bills to committees restrict the Senate’s powers to refer Bills only to a legislative and general purpose standing committee and then only after the second reading has been agreed to? [More…]
We of the Opposition are concerned that this Government came to power to boost confidence in the private sector of the community, to develop a change of direction in our manufacturing industry, to give incentives to export production and to bring about an increase in consumer spending. [More…]
All of this means that it has taken out of the hands of the consumers a considerable sum of money, a sum of money which it must surely be obvious to the Government, will not be spent on a consumer-led recovery, which of course was the basis upon which it came to power in 1 975. [More…]
His negotiating skills have brought to an end almost every major industrial dispute that has occurred since the Fraser Government came to power. [More…]
This Government, since it came to power, has done nothing to settle industrial disputes; it has been Mr Hawke who has been responsible for the settlement of most of those disputes in the public interest. [More…]
We cannot talk about the transfer of power to the Northern Territory. [More…]
We cannot hide behind the fact that power is to move to the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly. [More…]
The situation has existed ever since this Government came to power. [More…]
It benefits those few which because of the nature of their occupation have the power to blackmail people and they rarely pass up the opportunity to do so. [More…]
Twice-yearly indexation was introduced when inflation was at a high level and it was felt necessary to maintain the purchasing power of pensions by two increases each year. [More…]
Generally speaking, the Senate did have, and still does have, power to refer any Bill to a committee at any stage. [More…]
The adoption, on 16 August last, of a new sessional order, providing for reference of any Bill, other than an Appropriation Bill, Supply Bill or Bill imposing taxation, to a Legislative and General Purpose Standing Committee does not in any way restrict the Senate’s powers to refer Bills to committees. [More…]
Because it has received these undertakings from Ministers the Committee has then withdrawn its notice and consequently has lost all power to do anything about the matter. [More…]
Once we have accepted undertakings and allowed the time to go past, we lose all power; the Senate no longer has the power. [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 1 976 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…]
Secondly, if an authorised officer is given power to sign a slip of paper to grant a refund to one person but also to withhold it from another, I think that is going very close to being a matter for objection as to whether it is an impartial law. [More…]
I am advised that the legislation provides for circumstances in which refunds may be payable and the regulation-making power provides for additional circumstances to be set out. [More…]
Under clause 7 (1) (b) if the authorised officer is not satisfied that any tax payable in respect of the departure of the person has been paid or will be paid before the departure, the authorised officer has power to take the necessary steps to stop him from leaving the country. [More…]
The Government is giving a mighty power to officers who, because of all the frailties of the individual, may act in error at some time and stop someone from departing from Australia when he has a legitimate right to do so. [More…]
As Senator Cavanagh said, clause 7(1) (a) and (b) confers a fairly awesome power on the officer in question because if he is not satisfied that any tax payable in respect of the departure of the person has been paid or will be paid, he can take such steps as he considers necessary to prevent departure. [More…]
In general terms, I believe we can expect higher unemployment among women, decreased spending power, especially among lower income families, reduced services, and hardship arising from the decision to index pensions only once yearly. [More…]
There are a number of other questions in my mind, not only about the responsibility of the Joint House Department to the Joint House Committee but also about the power of the Joint House Department. [More…]
Neither of these stations has the output power of which the Darwin station is capable. [More…]
At full strength the Darwin station is able to broadcast Radio Australia through three transmitters, each of 250 kilowatt power. [More…]
Now its low power output can’t compete with other stations, especially in the prime Asian listening time between 6 and 7 a.m. [More…]
The Minister added: ‘The facility will include its own power plant, air-conditioned laboratories to house electronic equipment, and two radomes, each of which will enclose a large antenna. [More…]
In a confrontation with a foreign power, even if a nuclear warhead aimed in that general direction scored a bull’s eye hit on the facility itself, the town of Alice Springs would still be wiped out and quite a number of miles of the surrounding countryside would be devastated. [More…]
I merely had tried to establish a principle that there should not be secret bases on Australian soil even if the area had been excised for a foreign power. [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 1 908, 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…]
Court subsequent to the Union Label case and that the trade marks provision of section 5 1 (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…]
The Minister will have power to give directions to the Director-General, not inconsistent with the legislation, in relation to the exercise of his powers and duties. [More…]
It seems to the Oppositionand I hope that the Committee will take note of this-that the ministerial powers are greater than are justified for material of this nature. [More…]
It seems to give too great a power to the Minister to override or by-pass the provisions for access. [More…]
It is crucially necessary that this Parliament and, through it, the community at large be given the detailed opportunity which this reference affords to give the Bill the fullest possible scrutiny, not just from the cautious, protective perspective of the Executive and the Public Service itself, but also from the perspective of those who are dedicated to making Australian government, whatever party is in power, more open, more responsive and more attractive to the people it is supposed to serve. [More…]
It may well be also in this respect that the Senate Regulations and Ordinances Committee, which is charged, of course, with the task of passing upon and recommending to the Senate the validity or desirability of these regulations, will, given the relatively limited scope of that Commute ‘s charter, be a somewhat uncertain buttress against a misuse of that power. [More…]
Clause 5 causes a great deal of concern because it confers a broad power on Australian Archives to obtain material relating to the archival resources of the Commonwealth. [More…]
As well as that, I think that it is the policy of whichever party happens to be in power to have a member of the House of Representatives or a senator present flags- so I am led to believe. [More…]
Some time ago- in fact more than a century ago- when John Stuart Mill was writing about the rights and responsibilities of the individual, he wrote that the only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over a member of a civilised community against his will is to prevent harm to others. [More…]
A person is being subjected to the police power of the state, with the possibility of incarceration and certainly the payment of a fine, without any claim being made by society that any other person is affected or even that the offender is affected. [More…]
If I were to respond, and had the power so to do, to the last part of the honourable senator’s question, I fear that some of the mystique of democracy would disappear from around us. [More…]
It gives power to the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission to make an order providing that a registered employee organisation shall have the right to represent in respect of all or some industrial interests a class or group of employees who are eligible for membership of the organisation either generally or subject to limitations it may specify. [More…]
Of course, the Commission has ancillary powers to direct organisations to alter their rules, regarding eligibility. [More…]
There have been two instances of failure of the number 1 bearing, one instance of failure of the fuel control/oil pump spur gear support bearing and one instance of failure of the power take-off and torquemeter gear. [More…]
The failure of the power take-off gear and torquemeter gear is the first encountered in the Allison B 1 7B engines and is still under engineering investigation. [More…]
The Government Aircraft Factories consider the B17B engine to be a reliable and highly satisfactory power plant. [More…]
That because this Budget will further increase the number of persons unemployed, because it reduces the average worker ‘s spending power by $ 1 0 per week, because it will reduce the incomes of pensioners, because it is unfair in placing a greater burden on the poor rather than the rich, and because it is driving this country into a depression. [More…]
Is it correct that since coming to power in November 1975 the Fraser Government has borrowed in excess of $3,000m overseas? [More…]
Virtually unchallenged by Labor (which may lipsmackingly be looking forward to using the precedent when it’s in power) the Government has naively backdated several bills related to tax. [More…]
More graphically still listeners will remember that the people of Australia were asked to dial a tax cut- to ring up to find out what the Fraser Government would give to them in February 1978 if it were returned to power. [More…]
Certainly the one great thing about the Fraser Government since it came to power in December 1975 is that there has been consistency in its policies right from that time. [More…]
That has been a consistent policy objective since this Government came to power. [More…]
As the power to distribute wealth is transferred to Australian governments, it is natural that individuals and groups in the community at large will look to those governments to meet more and more of their needs, whether it is reasonable to do so. [More…]
However, the problem for the survival of the market economy arises when the voters permit or encourage the expansion of government power to such an extent that private business can gain short-term profits through intervention into the competitive market by government officials. [More…]
By direct political intervention into internal markets, governments possess an extremely potent device for expanding political power. [More…]
One of the reasons, I suggest, the Government is in difficulties electorally is that it has broken every election promise on which it came to power in 1975 and 1977. [More…]
In fact during Question Time I thought I heard the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) say that while the Labor Government was in power there was no increase in the amounts payable under this scheme. [More…]
I could not imagine a formula which would not involve a discretionary power being given to the Commissioner in an area where it would be almost impossible to prove facts. [More…]
My attention has been drawn to a recent article in the Melbourne Sun News-Pictorial which does suggest that there has been a complete reversal of the policy of the Swedish Government with respect to the development of nuclear power. [More…]
That is a false argument and a false impression deliberately created by this Government ever since it has been in power. [More…]
The struggle for power in all countries today is very great. [More…]
The first point you need to decide is would both the present Government and a Labor Government (if one came to power) - [More…]
There will be one come to power not later than 1980. [More…]
Does the Northern Land Council have the power to make demands on either the Australian or the Northern Territory Governments? [More…]
1., of Goulburn Island in the Northern Territory of Australia, power house supervisor, MAKE OATH AND SAY as follows: [More…]
I heard Mr Yunupingu tell the Northern Land Counsellors words to the following effect: ‘If we don’t sign the agreement, Mr Fraser the Prime Minister has told me he has power to block the Aboriginal Land Rights Act, and that he will stop the funds for our outstation ‘.Mr Yunupingu also said that Mr Fraser would take the Land Councils away from the Aboriginal people if we do not agree to the mining going ahead. [More…]
At the meeting Mr Yunupingu addressed us for many hours although I can not recall the exact words, I clearly understood from what Mr Yunupingu said that if this Agreement is not signed by the Aboriginal people, Mr Fraser, the Prime Minister, had told Mr Yunupingu that he has the power to block the Aboriginal Land Right Act and that he will do so. [More…]
The white man has the last say over Aboriginal land rights because the Government has the power to either put in an arbitrator or use the national interest clause. [More…]
I have far too much respect for Sir Lenox Hewitt- who in my view is a magnificent Australian and is a credit to Qantas and to this country- and for his long experience and expertise in the Public Service to think that he would even contemplate concluding a deal of such sensitivity with a foreign power. [More…]
The prohibition of religious tests was a denial of power- a denial which was necessary, because otherwise there would have been nothing to prevent the Federal legislature, in defining the qualifications for federal office, to impose such tests. [More…]
The fact that this happened five years ago indicates that governments of both political complexions have been in power while these arrangements have been operating. [More…]
These actions started with the first legislative act of the Government in 1976 of abolishing the subsidised health and pharmaceutical benefits scheme and continued with a long campaign conducted by Government members against the unemployed and with the failure to increase benefits to pensioners and children as well as supplementary benefits in the time the Government has been in power and they culminate in this legislation. [More…]
A further reason can be seen from the manner in which this legislation and the manner in which this Government, since it has been in power, have failed to recognise- it has frequently taken steps to disadvantage them- families with children, particularly families of those in receipt of various social security benefits. [More…]
When the Government came to power in 1975 the firm policy was that it would abolish the means test. [More…]
The argument could be applied with equal force in reverse: Reduced inflation should make it easier for the Government to preserve the spending power of pensioners. [More…]
During the three years that the Labor Government was in power it certainly did not abolish the means test. [More…]
In October 1973, a year later and when the Labor Party was in power, it had risen to $40.50 and to 35.1 per cent of average weekly earnings. [More…]
In November 1976, when we were in power, it increased to $72.50 and to 38.7 per cent of average weekly earnings. [More…]
I would like to underline just a few of the things that this Government has done during the time it has been in power. [More…]
Let me put the record straight: When we came to power in 1972, the standard rate of pension was then about 19 per cent of average weekly earnings. [More…]
It was quite clear from that advertisement, which was part of the campaign to get this Government back into power in the 1977 election, that the people of Australia, the pensioners of Australia, were led to believe that these six-monthly adjustments would continue. [More…]
It means that pensioners will be 16 months behind in their actual purchasing power. [More…]
The argument could be applied with equal force in reverse: Reduced inflation should make it easier for the Government to preserve the spending power of pensioners. [More…]
We believe that to maintain the purchasing power of pensions and benefits is important We said that we would do that and we’ve done it and I believe that this is one of the things that has been most thankfully received by those people who do receive them. [More…]
To cut a long story short, a family with five children is now worse off by $8 a week by way of loss of purchasing power than it was in 1976. [More…]
If we were living in the ideal world and there were no restraints on expenditure it could be argued that an immediate increase on changes of the consumer price index would maintain effectively the purchasing power of pensions. [More…]
The lower the rate of inflation, the greater the maintenance of purchasing power of this additional fixed income. [More…]
We retain a structure which now rests purely in the hands of the Minister, and the ministerial control, of course, will be subjected to the activities of the lobbyists who have grown much more effective in size and influence since this Government came to power. [More…]
Of course, in the three years that this Government has been in power we have seen a consistent attempt to meddle with the effectiveness of the Prices Justification Tribunal. [More…]
Today the Government wants to give that group of big business interests which refused to co-operate with a legitimate determination by the Tribunal more power so to do. [More…]
The Prices Justification Tribunal was set up to examine and monitor the activities of groups of companies which, because of their concentrated power within the community, were able to set prices without any checks or balances, except through the intervention of the PJT, the Industries Assistance Commission or the Trade Practices Commission. [More…]
That obligation is now to be by-passed and to be replaced by a piecemeal approach, an ad hoc organisation under the control of the Minister who, on the basis of this statement, as we interpret it, has the power to decide what the Tribunal shall do. [More…]
He will make that decision and the powers of the Tribunal, which is employed by the Government under the legislative processes of this Parliament and which previously had the responsibility and obligation to carry out its duties to the best of its ability, with the resources available to it under legislation set by the decisions of this Parliament, will be taken away completely. [More…]
Having regard to the lobbying influences in Canberra since this Government came to power we can say only that the surveillance will not be very effective at all. [More…]
It is possible to combine those two points when we are talking about this amendment because there would not be annual or any other indexation of pensions unless there were a level of inflation which needs some adjustment to pensions in order that they maintain their purchasing power. [More…]
At the time that Senator Chipp mentioned, when the policy of my party was written and the introduction of legislation was effected, inflation was at a level which needed compensation if the relative purchasing power of pensions were to be maintained. [More…]
If we are to accept that there is a need to recompense people for the inflation that is abroad, we certainly should wish to see that the rate of inflation is as low as possible to give purchasing power to every dollar that people have and not simply to an income security dollar. [More…]
It relates to the power given to the Director-General. [More…]
It ruled that that Director-General had supreme power; that the Minister concerned had no say in the question. [More…]
For a Minister to relinquish that responsibility and to give the power to someone else, to give sole power to someone else so that that Minister cannot then control the situation, is a breach of and a departure from parliamentary democracy. [More…]
We should be cautious in giving power to a director-general. [More…]
We should be cautious in giving power to the Director-General of Social Services because he has a record of doing things that Parliament would never tolerate. [More…]
So we have a Minister who is prepared to let this sole power rest with the Director-General, to move the odium for any unpopular actions from herself, to leave matters in the hands of the Director-General, and to blame him when acts under undesirable legislation. [More…]
The other thing I need to say is this: Whilst we may argue about the Director-General having the power of determination, this power could perhaps be compared with the power that exists under the Income Tax Act for the Commissioner of Taxation to make a determination. [More…]
I therefore think that the determination power of the Director-General is not one with which I find complete difficulty provided there is a proper appeals process against the determinations which are made. [More…]
I simply draw a parallel between the power of determination held by the Commissioner of Taxation which does not lie with the Treasurer and the power of the Director-General under the Social Services Act which does not lie with the Minister of the day. [More…]
He just says: ‘That is the law, you have given me the power and therefore you do not get it’. [More…]
If we were living in the ideal world and there were no restraints on expenditure it could be argued that an immediate increase on changes of the consumer price index would maintain effectively the purchasing power of pensions. [More…]
-Following Senator Young’s question, I ask the Minister representing the Treasurer: Is it not a fact that under the new proposal for so-called infrastructure borrowing the final approval will still be with the Loan Council and that no new power is being given to any State to undertake overseas loans - [More…]
I appreciate that under the Navigation Act the Minister has certain powers to act where oil already is escaping from a ship, or he is satisfied that it is likely to escape from a ship. [More…]
I ask: Does the Minister have any power similar to that recently adopted in the United States of America to ban- I repeat ‘ban’- foreign vessels which have a history of pollution accidents? [More…]
I am advised by the Minister for Transport that provided ships comply fully with international requirements as to construction, load line and safety matters, the Commonwealth Government has no power to prohibit them from entering Australian waters, so the short answer to the honourable member’s question is no. [More…]
Under the by-laws under which Telecom operates, a power is granted to disconnect a subscriber’s telephone when the subscriber has failed to pay rental service charges or other charges due within 1 4 days. [More…]
Is it true that originally when the guns were fired the vibrations were so extreme that the power hinges on the weapons bay cracked and broke, and that attempts were made to rectify this problem but that the vibrations still caused the rivets in the fuel tank to break causing danger of fuel leaks into the weapons bay? [More…]
The Minister has no power to intervene in or to direct the Tribunal on the conduct of public hearings. [More…]
I turn finally to what I believe is the most challenging power to be conferred on CSIRO by the Bill when it becomes operative. [More…]
For now the hidden spring of power is knowledge; and more than this, power over our environment grows from discovery. [More…]
The CSIRO has not achieved the industrial successes necessary to maintain Australia as a world ranking industrial power. [More…]
The Organization has power to do all things necessary or convenient to be done for or in connection with the performance of its functions and, in particular, may - [More…]
What section of the Customs Act gives the Government power to curtail the release of spirits from bond prior to the presentation of a Budget? [More…]
Power Without Glory or series of such consistently high quality as Rush or Seven Little Australians. [More…]
When Malcolm Fraser seized power in 1 975 he made his views on the public’s right to information quite clear. [More…]
Concern has been expressed about the rate of increase of health costs in this country, not since 1975 when Medibank was introduced, not since 1972 when Labor came to power but back in the late 1 960s when we had the Nimmo investigation into health insurance in this country. [More…]
2) 1978 that is before us provides the power. [More…]
What we must now do is to use this power. [More…]
There are many things wrong with this approach, quite apart from the fact that we probably have not the constitutional power to do anything effective about it anyway. [More…]
Both these problems are within the power of the profession to regulate, if it had the will. [More…]
In the three years that the Labor Government was in power the cost more than doubled. [More…]
Proposed new section 8DA restricts the power of the Minister to a prescribed function in relation to a direction to the Commission to implement any function in respect of health insurance, and I think that that is a most important change. [More…]
This section which came into force in June last gave the Minister this power by regulation. [More…]
Now we are giving the Minister power to put the guidelines down but it is a secret document to the Minister and the health organisation. [More…]
These committees have the power to investigate the operations of a medical practitioner, a dental practitioner or a pharmaceutical chemist. [More…]
But there does not seem to be any power for the Minister to act except where there is a successful prosecution. [More…]
Under the proposed new section the Minister will be empowered to determine the form or forms of pharmaceutical benefits that may be prescribed by persons specified in the determination. [More…]
This clause has been inserted to give power to the Minister to determine the forms for the benefits. [More…]
Under the principal Act the Minister has power to make similar determinations but only in respect to medical practitioners. [More…]
The amendments that are now introduced broaden the Minister’s power to enable him to make determinations with respect to various classes of persons, including both medical practitioners and participating dental practitioners. [More…]
If those changes are advertised on every occasion that will be all right, but why is there a need to give the Minister the power of secrecy when this Bill is amending an Act which has been in operation for only some 4 months and which prescribes by regulation. [More…]
I should think that the Minister, with the power that is being given to him under this provision, would be able to make a judgment by informing himself of both sides of the case. [More…]
Why take away from the Parliament the power to disallow such changes in the guidelines? [More…]
The sole power rests with the Minister. [More…]
Now we find that is superseded by prescribing guidelines, or by giving the Minister power to prescribe them, not in accordance with regulations, which takes it out of the observation of Parliament altogether. [More…]
It is one section of the legislation which makes me predict quite confidently that next May or even earlier we will be back here again debating a health insurance amendment BUI as we have done every six months almost since this Government came to power. [More…]
Will the Government investigate the truth of the assertion made by a Mr Bruce Chu, a Vice-President of the Government-run Taiwan Power Company, that uranium safeguards can be avoided because, to use his words, ‘There will always be a free market in uranium. [More…]
As Mr Chu is reported to have said, the Taiwan Power Company currently purchases its nuclear fuel from the United States. [More…]
For some 51 or 52 years of the 77 years of Federal Parliament in which a Federal Liberal government has been in power, the government leader in the Senate, like myself, has been appointed by the Prime Minister. [More…]
I submit that we have the power to enact this legislation- in fact I believe we have the duty to do so. [More…]
The power was given to the Commonwealth in the referendum in 1967 by 89 per cent of the Australian voting population. [More…]
The vast water resources of the Burdekin River system, large areas of topographically suitable land for irrigation and extensive coal reserves still under exploration initially suggested that irrigation, power generation- hydro and/or thermal- and power-intensive industries offered the soundest basis for future economic development. [More…]
I suppose that the Snowy system has proved to this country for all time that water conservation on a large scale and the development of hydroelectric power can be carried out successfully and profitably. [More…]
The summary continues: soils and land capability studies to identify areas suitable for irrigation development; agricultural production and marketing possibilities: a special study of the sugar industry in view of its present and likely future paramount importance in the Burdekin region; prospects for establishing new industries in the region; hydro-electric and thermal power generation possibilities; urban and industrial water requirements in neighbouring areas of economic influence; and potential for flood mitigation. [More…]
Cassava is one of those crops that can be used effectively for the production of power alcohol. [More…]
With the continuing shortfall that this country and the world will encounter over the next 20 or 30 years in the availability of processed fossil fuels, obviously we have to look at the prospects of manufacturing power alcohol from vegetable matter. [More…]
The Burdekin Basin as such is not a suitable location for power-intensive industries because of the lack of necessary infrastructure, such as port facilities, etc. [More…]
However, it is considered that Townsville has the necessary facilities to be an attractive location for specific power-intensive industries, provided relatively cheap power is available from the State electricity grid and adequate water supplies are available. [More…]
Three coastal sites and two inland sites- one on the Galilee Basin coalfields- were investigated as possible locations for new 2,000 megawatt thermal power plants. [More…]
The economics of pipeline transportation of coal to coastal power plants were also investigated. [More…]
The generation of hydropower for peak or for base loads from storages on the Burdekin system, ranging in size from 40 to 1 ,000 megawatts installed capacity, would appear to be an economic proposition- but only if based on the incremental costs associated with the power installations. [More…]
That is the big dam- with a 500 megawatt hydro-electric power station and the use of residual water for irrigation has been suggested for further economic assessment. [More…]
The evidence shows that in the three Budgets that have been considered by the Parliament since this Government came to power at the end of 1 975, the allocation of Federal funds for housing and urban and regional development- this also relates to the accommodation problem- has been seriously cut back. [More…]
Here again is another application of the principle which has been referred to in debate this week, that is that we are taking away from the Parliament the power to make determinations. [More…]
The Government has constitutional power over exports. [More…]
It has exercised that power traditionally in certain situations. [More…]
There is a very fundamental difference between the way in which a Labor government has exercised that power and the way in which a Liberal-National Country Party government would exercise it. [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…]
Finally, it 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…]
Indeed, a number of State governments seem to have developed a very pernicious method of operation under which they bribe enough pressure groups and pork barrel enough electorates to gain or retain power. [More…]
If Canberra will not pay they then pick up an electoral bonus by condemning Canberra for refusing to fill the pork barrel with which the States maintain political power within their domains. [More…]
Senator Georges mentioned the three-mile limit and I can say only that it is the Commonwealth’s general view that there should be greater power within the States in regard to this matter. [More…]
This has led to statements during the last 12 months by the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser), in discussions at Premiers Conferences and following the High Court decision that power in relation to those waters in actual fact lies with the Commonwealth. [More…]
I would think that within the near future we will see decisions being made which will give the States some power in relation to those waters. [More…]
That because this Budget will further increase the number of persons unemployed, because it reduces the average worker’s spending power by $ 10 per week, because it will reduce the incomes of pensioners, because it is unfair in placing a greater burden on the poor rather than the rich, and because it is driving this country into a depression. [More…]
The Minister will be aware that opponents of the use of nuclear power for the purpose of energy generation have alleged that nuclear power generation is more costly than power generated from conventional sources. [More…]
Is the Minister aware that the latest annual report of the Atomic Energy Authority in the United Kingdom states that nuclear power stations generated electric power 35 per cent more cheaply than coal fired power stations and 50 per cent more cheaply than oil fired power stations, with 16 nuclear power stations providing more than 15 per cent of the United Kingdom’s electric power needs? [More…]
ls he also aware that as three new advanced technology power stations come into operation, this proportion will rise to 20 per cent? [More…]
Is the Minister also aware that the Central Electricity Generating Board in the United Kingdom estimates that each of its new power stations will reduce the cost of overall electricity generation by about $2. [More…]
I think the Senate must be indebted to him for providing such particularly interesting and valuable information in relation to the respective costs of nuclear power generation and power generation by conventional sources. [More…]
I certainly will refer the information that was contained in the question to the Minister for National Development whom I represent here because I am sure that he will be as interested in the material that is supplied in that report as I am and as I am sure honourable senators on this side are interested, even though the Opposition seems to be determined to fly in the face of all facts in relation to the question of nuclear power and the development of uranium resources. [More…]
I am not aware of the details of development of nuclear power stations in the United Kingdom. [More…]
Of course it is a well known fact that the necessity for development of nuclear power stations in Europe is clear, and European countries have been relying on the development of such stations for some time. [More…]
My question, which is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for National Development, relates to the answer that he gave earlier today to a question asked by Senator Sim about the cost of nuclear power. [More…]
Did the assertion in his answer that nuclear power is in fact competitive with other fuels take into account two factors- firstly, the cost, which apparently is very high, of the demolition of nuclear power stations past their useful life and, secondly, the cost of the permanent and safe disposal of radioactive waste resulting from both the operation and the demolition of nuclear power stations? [More…]
There is no doubt that the Australian Bankers Association demanded that restriction or that Mr Fraser, as is his custom when confronted by determined opponents who have some independent source of power, weakly complied. [More…]
Bankers Association’s domination of the new institution by giving the trading banks a clear majority on the board and giving the board more power over the conditions of borrowing and lending. [More…]
The present Government was in power during those two years but nothing was done. [More…]
The free source of water provides the State with pollution free hydro-electric power producing an output in excess of at least that from two of the other geographically larger States. [More…]
If any chaplain, irrespective of his denomination, suggested that there was underpayment or exploitation of workers in the textile industry which is so competitive with us today, they simply were assumed to be an agent of some foreign power, which usually implied a government of the Left, and they were shipped out of the country. [More…]
I recall attending Labor Party conferences just after the Menzies Government came to power. [More…]
A person who just has to press a button and not push a trolley around a supermarket might say that that is a better way of life, but what is going to happen to the denied purchasing power of the people in that industry? [More…]
Last week, together with Senator Jessop, Senator MacGibbon and other people, I was in Queensland talking about power alcohol. [More…]
If we accept that situation and apply it to our regional areas what is going to happen to the purchasing power in those areas? [More…]
We should concentrate on doing the things within our power, not frittering our efforts on making token contributions to things beyond our power. [More…]
I draw the attention of the Senate to a fact that we must consider soon, namely, that any future submarines we order will have to be nuclear powered. [More…]
There are no diesel electric powered submarines of a modern type available in the world today. [More…]
If we want to get a new type of submarine it will have to be nuclear powered. [More…]
The Parliament has given the Government the power to do this. [More…]
Whilst it has been the practice of successive Ministers in the exercise of this discretionary power generally not to give reasons in respect of particular cases, it has long been the policy of successive Ministers to withhold passports from persons who are attempting to escape from justice, are the subject of court orders restraining departure, are of unsound mind, are under the age of 1 7 years and unable to produce the consent of both parents or are the subject of custody or access orders of Australian courts, and those for whom the Minister for Foreign Affairs could not, in the context of Australia’s international relations, request other countries to provide free passage, protection and assistance. [More…]
He attributed to the Assembly a capacity, a constitutional power, beyond its constituted limits. [More…]
The second basis ofthe honourable senator’s argument very substantially was that there is power for the Capital Territory Health Commission to go ahead and set up a clinic of its own volition. [More…]
The fact of the matter is that this Senate is in a position of having extremely limited power in this matter. [More…]
The only power that this Senate has is a power to disallow the Termination of Pregnancy Ordinance. [More…]
So to suggest that this Senate has the power to rectify the position by legislation is cant. [More…]
I would simply say to honourable senators opposite that if a majority of senators vote in favour of the motion then who is to predict what power the Government will have in this matter. [More…]
Its power to legislate is also subject to the power of this Senate. [More…]
It is not tenable because constitutionally the Legislative Assembly just simply does not have the power to determine these issues. [More…]
They included questions relating to the referendum to be conducted on 25 November, the question ofthe Canberra-Royalla power line, the Territory Authorities (Finance Provisions) Bill, Land Titles Office fees, teachers for occasional care centres and the national velodrome. [More…]
If the people of the Capital Territory or a majority of them accept option A the Legislative Assembly will in fact, under Stage 2 of those proposals, have executive power over health matters. [More…]
If the community does not accept option A the Legislative Assembly will not have executive power over health matters immediately after the referendum or subsequently as a result of that decision, and one must assume that under the Constitution the Parliament will retain this traditional role. [More…]
If the people opt for proposal A of the referendum proposals then the Legislative Assembly eventually will have transferred to it powers over health matters and will therefore be competent to legislate on them in its own right. [More…]
If the people in the Territory do not opt for proposal A but instead opt for proposal B or C then the Assembly will not have those powers and the Government will retain control of those matters as is now the case. [More…]
It has recommended to this Government- if any other government had been in power the Assembly would have made the same recommendations- that it requires a properly organised clinic to be run under proper supervision in Canberra and that it expects such a clinic to be established here. [More…]
It is clear that the Minister does have the power to prohibit private clinics while at the same time moving to implement the Legislative Assembly report in full. [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 and shearing type. [More…]
Bearing that in mind, I suppose it was natural that those in power at the time developed manufacturing policies designed to substitute Australian made goods for imported goods. [More…]
I’d hate to see a socialist Government in power again, but the Prime Minister has got to wake up to himself and stop thieving from the States. [More…]
I know that the Standing Orders provide that a senator may attend a Senate committee, that he has the power to speak but not vote, but in my case I am physically precluded from doing so because I must fund the cost of my attending. [More…]
Did the Minister’s Department seek from the Attorney-General or his Department a legal opinion covering the power of the Remuneration Tribunal to make determinations on any of the matters contained in its determination Number 1978-9; if so, on which matters was an opinion sought. [More…]
to (S) An opinion was sought from the AttorneyGeneral’s Department in June on the question whether the Remuneration Tribunal had power to determine a minimum salary for electorate staff of Senators and Members. [More…]
Snowy Mountains Hydro-electric Power Act 1949- Section 32 B. [More…]
It follows a question I asked last week on the cost advantage of electric power produced from nuclear power stations in the United Kingdom in comparison with that produced from oil and coal. [More…]
Will he obtain information on the cost of electricity produced from nuclear power compared with power produced from oil and coal in the following countries: The United States, Canada, countries of the European Economic Community, Sweden, the Soviet Union and the Eastern Bloc countries? [More…]
What proportion of electric power needs are met from nuclear power stations in those countries? [More…]
Would cost advantages for nuclear power, if they exist in these countries, also apply to Australia? [More…]
I refer to the negotiations that have been proceeding for some considerable time now for the transfer to the Commonwealth of power with regard to family law in the areas where there is divided jurisdiction as a result of High Court litigation in the last few years. [More…]
Can the Attorney-General tell us whether there have been negotiations or any indications by the States recently that they are now prepared to transfer the necessary powers to the Commonwealth? [More…]
I shall check to see what progress has been made in each State in respect of the reference of this power. [More…]
I ask that when the comparisons between the costs of nuclear generated electricity and the costs of other sources of electric power sought by Senator Sim today are supplied, such costs include realistic estimates for the dismantling of nuclear power houses at the end of their useful life, and storage of radioactive materials resulting from such dismantling during the necessary time spans. [More…]
The existing specific provisions in the Public Service Act enabling the Board to grant leave without pay are replaced 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…]
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 1977. [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…]
I have been advised that it is obligatory for a member of the Australian Defence Forces to obtain ministerial approval through normal service channels before he may be permitted to serve with a foreign power. [More…]
What concerns me greatly is that under the proposals, as I understand them, the new Commission still will have no power whatever when it comes to water quality. [More…]
It does not have any power to determine or set standards with regard to water quality. [More…]
Whilst the River Murray Commission does have control of the main stem or stream, as it is referred to, that is the River Murray, it has no control or power whatever over any inflow from any tributary or drain into the main system. [More…]
Now we are facing great risks, and I emphasise that they are great risks, with regard to the establishment of a newsprint industry in close proximity to the main River Murray stream because, as I understand the proposals, the Commission will have absolutely no power to give any directions with regard to water quality or effluent that may come into the river system. [More…]
I think it is necessary that consideration be given to the overall river system as a single resource and that there be more responsibility or power given to the River Murray Commission itself. [More…]
Yet the River Murray Commission will virtually have no power to set standards in any way in relation to the inflow into the river from that industry. [More…]
I hope that the governments concerned will Took more closely at this situation and give more power to the River Murray Commission, particularly where industrial development takes place, to make sure that South Australia which for years has been on the end of the drain, will not be placed in great danger of actually going down the drain. [More…]
War pensions were never to be interfered with or manipulated for political gain to any political party that came to power. [More…]
That eligibility has been limited to some extent since the Liberal Party came into power. [More…]
I ask: Has the Government’s attention been drawn to the report on nuclear power costs which is the twenty-third report by the Committee on Government Operations of the House of Representatives, United States Congress, made on 26 April this year? [More…]
After 30 years of nuclear power development, technology to dismantle a large commercial reactor has not been demonstrated. [More…]
I emphasise that this Government has the advice of world-recognised experts in the field of radioactivity and has received an assurance that it can indeed proceed with the mining, milling, marketing and exportation of uranium for subsequent processing through power generating plants, without this posing a threat of a significant kind. [More…]
However, I assure the honourable senator that the Government will do all within its power to see that, on a fair and equitable basis, there is a return of funds for the administrative purposes of the Northern Territory Government in line with those which are given in the various States. [More…]
As Senator Cavanagh pointed out, the Minister has the power under the Act to direct any State Minister as to where he should spend the money. [More…]
The Minister has that power if he desires to use it I think that is agreed by all parties. [More…]
I think that Senator McLaren in particular has drawn to the attention of the Committee the position which arose very soon after the LiberalNational Country Party Government came to power. [More…]
I think we could probably say that we interrogated the officers of the Department of Post and Telecommunications until we were satisfied that in respect of this matter Telecom Australia was doing all within its power to overcome the problems and to act compassionately in respect of the complaints that have been made from time to time. [More…]
Do not the Taxpayers Association figures show that contrary to the Prime Minister’s claim that taxpayers are now better off than in 1975, spending power for that group- that is, the average taxpayer- is down by more than $7.50 week? [More…]
The Committee considered that this power, vested in the Commission, which effects the rights of subscribers, ought to be subject to some form of review. [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…]
At Aurukun, which, as you know, has its own sawmill, the Department of Construction in December 1 976 designed (DC drawing AC 77/ 1, 77/2, 77/3, 77/4) a concrete block house (the cement and probably the aggregate for the blocks would have had to be transported from Cairns, together with the bricklayers to lay them) without ceilings or an insulated roof, without internal or external doors or flyscreens (not even to bedrooms or bathroom), without power points, without verandahs and without toilet, which, it was estimated, would cost $36,700 to erect. [More…]
He had been to Warrabri this month, and was told by the manager that he was told by Welfare representatives that as signatory for the co-op he had power to sign it over to Welfare as a social club, and if he did so the Aborigines would take a long time to find out, and in any case would not understand the legal processes, also they would guarantee him twice the wages he was receiving currently. [More…]
It does not have the economic power or economic resources which are available to the Federal Government to create job opportunities on a large scale. [More…]
64.- ( 1 ) The powers of a company shall, if they would not otherwise do so, be deemed to include power to make the following provision for the benefit of persons employed or formerly employed by the company or any of its subsidiaries, that is to say, provision in connection with the cessation or the transfer to any person of the whole or part of the undertaking of that company or that subsidiary. [More…]
Sub-section ( I ) above relates only to the capacity of a company as a body corporate and is without prejudice to any provision in a company’s memorandum or articles requiring any exercise of the power mentioned in that sub-section to be approved by the company in general meeting or otherwise prescribing the manner in which that power is to be exercised. [More…]
When I first became a member of this chamber I told honourable senators that my concept of one role of this Senate was that it should be the watchdog on decentralisation to ensure that the executive power of the government was appropriately decentralised. [More…]
I totally reject the notions put forward by Senator Walsh who obviously looks at the achievements of this Government with envy and wishes that his Government had been able to achieve them when it was in power. [More…]
There has been a rapid and unparalleled increase in the amount of overseas borrowing undertaken since the Fraser Government came to power. [More…]
Table 6 shows that in the first year after the present Government came to power- the financial year 1976-77- overseas borrowings rose by what could be described only as a staggering 385 per cent, to $ 1 ,760m. [More…]
It is a truly disgraceful thing that the former GovernorGeneral of Australia, a member of Her Majesty’s Privy Council formerly Chief Justice of his State, for years a Federal Judge should be accused of having venally bargained with a political leader to dismiss a government, place him in power, later resign from the Governorgeneralship- and before actually leaving- presumably as some sort of final encore- grant him improperly a dissolution of the House of Representatives. [More…]
The Dutch Government has not only economic interests but also a very substantial degree of sentimental association, if one can call it that in the case of an ex-colonial power. [More…]
I am informed that the State Department of Agriculture officer had the legal power to order the slaughter of the birds but was reluctant to do so until he received an assurance from the Australian Agricultural Council, or the federal authority, that compensation would be paid in respect of the birds slaughtered. [More…]
However, if the fact as given to me are substantially correct it would appear that there is a case for examining or re-examining the procedures which operate between State departmental veterinary officers, who have the legal power to order slaughtering, and the co-ordinator or the centralised authority, which handles compensation funds, to ensure that unwarranted or avoidable delays in diagnosis and compensation arrangements are avoided. [More…]
I take the matter no futher at this point other than to say that again I raise my voice in protest at the Minister being given this power which takes a right away from someone who possibly has been done an injustice. [More…]
I want to query why we restrict the power to give compensation for the destruction of animals that are diseased only if they have an exotic disease. [More…]
I think that if there is to be a limit on when a claim can be made, there should be a limit on the Minister’s power of declaration. [More…]
I ask the Minister What is the justification for the restriction of the period within which a claim can be made under sub-clause ( 1 ) to a period which is shorter than the period in which the Minister has power to declare an area? [More…]
When the Government introduced the Overseas Projects Corporation Bill last year it had been hoped that sufficient power would be given to the Overseas Projects Corporation to fulfil its role. [More…]
However, ideological rather than pragmatic commonsense seemed to overtake the Government and the Overseas Projects Corporation was not given that power. [More…]
The Commonwealth benefits will be kept before the Government by me and I will see what decision is taken some time in the future by the Government to give recognition to the changes in circumstances, not only of the States but also of the purchasing power of the benefits. [More…]
Has the Government given any consideration to the recent report by the Prices Justification Tribunal that it be given the power to establish a monitoring service on commercial prices imposed both in the private sector and by statutory bodies? [More…]
The number of jobs available for juniors has been reduced from 20,500 to 4,100 during the Fraser Government’s three years in power. [More…]
Let us look at what the Labor Government did when it was in power. [More…]
Seeing that the Government is being accused of being very uncaring, of not doing anything and to quote Senator Ryan today, ‘just sitting by and not doing a thing’, let us look at what the Labor Party did about the unemployment position when it was in power. [More…]
In one year alone while the Opposition was in power, unemployment went up to 5.2 per cent. [More…]
What did the Opposition do when it was in power to try to correct that situation? [More…]
The Labor Party abolished the RED scheme before we came to power. [More…]
The third amendment is to give State Ministers, or in the Australian Capital Territory the Australian Wheat Board itself, power to stipulate the varieties of which which will be accepted into a particular class of wheat and to set dockages. [More…]
The legislation gives the Board power to set dockages for varieties of wheat which will not be accepted in particular classes. [More…]
The present and past situation is analogous to arrangements which operate at government level in this country under which the States have fiscal power but dodge nearly all fiscal responsibility. [More…]
The changes in this Bill in respect of handling and storage costs establish a nexus between fiscal power, control of expenditure, and fiscal responsibility. [More…]
The four smaller sovereign States would never have combined under the hegemony of numbers of the two larger States to form the Commonwealth in 190 1 but for the protection of the Senate with its equal representation for all States and its powers without parallel in any other upper House. [More…]
Constitutionally this Senate has the power to see that there is a fair balance made, and that this separation, which I would view as an unmitigated tragedy, can be averted. [More…]
I believe that it is possible to defend this country with our population and our resources against attack from all but a super power. [More…]
Let us by all means argue the great concerns of our lives, such as the preservation of the environment or the nuclear generation of power. [More…]
Non-lawyers may think that this would give the Commissioner of Taxation adequate power to deal with artificial schemes but, in fact, the High Court has completely emasculated this section, rendering it ineffective. [More…]
It would be unnecessary to say that the Commissioner had any discretionary power. [More…]
However, since this Government came to power at the end of 1975 there has been a cumulative increase of about 52 per cent in air navigation charges, of course showing the hypocrisy of this Government when it criticised us during the period 1972-75 for the steep increase which arose purely because of the inactivity of the Liberal-National Country Party Government. [More…]
This group has the power to co-opt. [More…]
Under Air Navigation Regulation 82 the Secretary to the Department of Transport may determine the conditions of use of aerodromes operated by the Commonwealth and under Section 1 8 ofthe Air Navigation Act the Secretary has power to authorise the use of by civil aircraft of joint-user (Defence) aerodromes in accordance with such conditions as he specifies. [More…]
In exercise of these powers the Secretary has issued a direction, as a condition of use of these aerodromes, that passengers shall submit themselves and their hand luggage to a search if required. [More…]
This, in itself, is as good as an increase in real wages and real purchasing power. [More…]
I ask Senator Carrick and all the Ministers who talk about the Liberal philosophy of freedom of choice whether they think that those 400 oil refinery operators should have a choice and not have the power of the State dragooning them. [More…]
Has the Government any information to support reports that a power struggle is developing within the Chinese leadership or reports of growing instability within the leadership? [More…]
One of these has been found by the AAT to be the most powerful quasar known, emitting the power of 7 supernovae per day. [More…]
These two reports are being tabled simultaneously because their central recommendation is the same, namely, that a joint parliamentary committee, to be called the ‘joint committee on scrutiny of Bills’, should be established to maintain a watching brief on all Bills introduced into the Parliament so as to highlight those provisions which have an impact on persons either by interfering with their rights or by subjecting them to undue delegations of power. [More…]
In assessing the need for such a committee we noted that many Bills come before the Parliament which contain provisions that: Significantly interfere with personal rights and liberties; delegate powers which, arguably, should not be delegated at all; delegate powers to affect rights, liberties and obligations without providing an opportunity for the exercise of those powers to be reviewed either by the Parliament itself or by an independent body; or delegate powers to impose obligations without any clearly defined guidance as to who is to impose them, upon whom and in which circumstances. [More…]
In our delegation of parliamentary authority report we noted that for practical purposes there are no legal limits on the power of parliament to delegate its legislative power. [More…]
Nor is there any legal limit on Parliament’s power to confer administrative authority, and other forms of power short of legislative power, provided that such conferring is otherwise within the Commonwealth’s range of constitutional powers. [More…]
It is, therefore, important that Parliament exercise its powers carefully and devise its own procedures as to what are proper delegations of power. [More…]
Inappropriate delegations, which are those delegations which, by virtue of the subject matter involved, should not be delegated at all; uncontrolled delegations, which are those delegations as to which insufficient provision has been made for scrutiny by the Parliament or review by a judicial or quasi-judicial body of the action taken under the delegated power; and insufficiently defined delegations, which are those delegations vesting discretionary authority as to which the extent of the discretionary power or the guidance given as to the manner of its exercise are imprecise. [More…]
inappropriately delegate legislative power or insufficiently subject its exercise to parliamentary scrutiny. [More…]
We believe that, if our substantial recommendations are drafted, the new joint committee on scrutiny of Bills will add a valuable facility in ensuring the real control by Parliament over legislation which may endanger the rights and liberties of the subject or create undue delegations of power. [More…]
We are seeking, as Senator Missen explained, to make a major innovation in our legislative machinery, one which should enormously improve and enhance the quality and in many ways the legitimacy of all the legislation produced by this Parliament, whichever party is in power. [More…]
In an endeavour to untangle and clarify what has become a very muddled situation, the Committee ‘s report does four things: First of all, it gives a detailed analysis, for really the first time in the legal literature, of the nature, scope and extent of section 51 (xxvi) of the Constitution, which of course empowers the Commonwealth to make laws with respect to the people of any race for whom it is deemed necessary to make special laws. [More…]
That power was conferred upon the Commonwealth in those terms in the 1967 constitutional referendum. [More…]
Our conclusion in respect of that particular power is that it is such as to fully enable the Commonwealth to act in any conceivable way that it might wish to in conferring self-management rights on Aborigines and Tones Strait Islanders in Queensland. [More…]
The second thing that the report does is to give a full account of the relevance and application of section 5 1 (xxxi) of the Constitution, which sets out the power of the Commonwealth to acquire property on just terms. [More…]
I hope that the Government will exercise its power as pointed out by the Committee, because I am quite certain that the legislation brought in by the Queensland Government which is supposed to provide self-management of local government will not work because the Queensland Government will not allow it to work. [More…]
Therefore I believe that the Government finally will have to exercise its power and acquire the lands and let the people of Aurukun and Mornington Island and the other Aboriginal people in the west of Queensland and other parts of Australia have what they want. [More…]
There are still many Commonwealth countries who do not send mixed delegations; they send delegations made up of members of the parties who are in power at the time. [More…]
For example, the Board will be given a discretionary power to decide on eligibility of permanent overseas sales representation by company directors. [More…]
The nuclear power industry is unintentionally contributing to an increased risk of nuclear war. [More…]
6, giving the Commonwealth the flexibility and the necessary power to intervene should some hazard arise in relation to the international movement of this material or in relation to the disposal of waste, would in fact be carried out. [More…]
The second criterion in our policy is that the means exist to guarantee that plutonium created in such profusion as a by-product of the nuclear power industry is not diverted to the making of nuclear bombs by irresponsible governments or criminal elements. [More…]
The third element of our policy is that in the light of these requirements the nuclear power industry is economic when compared with other sources of electric power. [More…]
These matters relate directly to the very basis of consideration of this Bill which I see as being the flexibility in decision-making in the future in the whole area of nuclear power and the export of uranium so that the decisions may quickly and readily be taken in accordance with the wishes of the Australian people. [More…]
The future viability of the nuclear power industry becomes a matter for deep concern in any consideration of this Bill. [More…]
We await with interest the final costing of nuclear waste disposal, especially that created by the closing down and dismantling of nuclear power stations. [More…]
As some honourable senators would know, some of the world’s first nuclear power reactors are due for close-down and disposal, yet no satisfactory means of doing this has yet been worked out other than at enormous cost. [More…]
As experience in the more advanced nuclear countries is showing, these prime factors of waste disposal and control are tending to make nuclear power uneconomic, quite apart from any moral, safety or environmental considerations. [More…]
Indeed, the productive lifetime of reactors is shorter than was once hoped in the days when we believed that nuclear power was to be the great hope of tomorrow. [More…]
There was the view that nuclear power would provide cheap and safe energy throughout the world. [More…]
But now the picture is one of major nations abandoning or restricting their nucler power programs severely. [More…]
Japan, which expected to have a nuclear power capacity of 60,000 megawatts by 1985, now seems likely to have barely one-third of that amount- about 21,000 megawatts. [More…]
How can any attempt to perpetuate the uranium mining industry through legislative means be justified in circumstances in which there has been an actual decline in nuclear power production and when there is recognition, as there is in the State of California, that it is necessary for societies to live without nuclear power. [More…]
They now say that it is viable to support their society by other means of power. [More…]
Instead of introducing these amendments the Government should be considering the fact that the nations which are now seeking nuclear power houses and nuclear fuels are of a quite different and more alarming type. [More…]
They are typically nations which, based on their known records, might not be at all averse to acquiring a number of dirty atom bombs- that is, high fall-out type atom bombs, the sort of crude device which can be produced in association with an ordinary power reactor at quite low cost and with access to quite limited technologyprecisely the type of atomic weapon which was produced by India through the use of its Candu reactor. [More…]
I believe it is true that the low rate of mishap associated with nuclear power houses over the last two decades has been due in no small part to the fact that it is the highly developed nations technologically, such as the United States, West Germany and Japan, amongst others, which have built and maintained the reactors. [More…]
Surely we can see in this situation a danger to the whole world in the spread of nuclear power or the attempt to promote it artificially as this legislation attempts to do. [More…]
Such nations also very often are ruled by juntas supported by power bases, often military, within which corruption of all kinds is rampant. [More…]
That nuclear fuel will be used at the first Filipino power reactor located quite close to Manila. [More…]
It should recognise that the Act is unduly repressive because it relates purely to nuclear power, the science of which is now so well and so openly known as to require quite different provisions which separate completely the power generation area from the military area. [More…]
At one stage the Australian Labor Party did support the mining of uranium but it was not then aware of the dangers and the difficulties attached to the use of uranium and nuclear power. [More…]
Overseas the production of nuclear power stations has been drastically cut; the use of electricity from nuclear power has been drastically cut. [More…]
In America, the General Electric company said that halfway through this century it was faced with the greatest disaster, so far as the production of nuclear power plants was concerned, that it had ever been faced with. [More…]
The Energy Commission in America said that nuclear power was finished; it was gone; it was over. [More…]
The German producers of nuclear power stations say gloomily that there is no future in the industry. [More…]
Japan- the customer most lauded by this Government and the country that in the 1970s, at the height of the furore about the use of nuclear energy, proposed the installation of 60,000 megawatts of generating capacity by 1985- now says that it will have no more than 26,000 megawatts by 1985, and it may not even reach that because of the sharp contraction in the growth rate, the drop in demand for electricity and public opposition to nuclear power. [More…]
One of the overriding reasons all over the world is the cost of the building and disposal of those nuclear power stations. [More…]
Soaring costs of nuclear power projects far beyond the originally estimated limit have led to great difficulties, disappointments, controversies and even to the cancellation of projects. [More…]
Later it says that the Environment Energy and Natural Resources Sub-Committee of the United States Congress published its findings on the cost 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…]
As he said, we live in a nuclear age in which the technology of nuclear power production has outstripped our capacity to get rid of the radioactive wastes that reactors produce. [More…]
Mr Chatterton said the magnitude of this crisis had not yet sunk into the minds of those in the corridors of power in Canberra. [More…]
It is really rather surprising that the Labor Party Opposition should be so concerned about the problems of this industry when one recalls the way in which the Labor Government treated the industry in the three years when it was in power. [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 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…]
That is an admission that although I had brought up something in the Act that should have been altered, and the Minister knew it should be altered, he had not the power to do so. [More…]
This House was given the power to supervise regulations. [More…]
However, on 25 October 1978 we discussed and carried an amendment which, in regard to the prescription of guidelines under regulations, took that power away from the Regulations and Ordinance Committee and from the Senate and gave the sole right to the Minister, with the proviso that the Rules Publication Act 1 903 did not apply in relation to a determination under sub-section (2) of section 73E. [More…]
It is peculiar to note that the taking of power from the Parliament that has taken place under this Government seems to be happening in relation to the activities of the Minister for Health (Mr Hunt). [More…]
While section 73E gives the Minister some power to present the report to the Parliament, Parliament has the right to disallow the Minister’s declaration. [More…]
I do not know whether my previous remarks on this matter had any influence on the draftsmen, but this provision is either the result of the stupidity of the draftsmen or a cunning and deliberate attempt to fool the Senate into believing that at last it has power over something over which, in effect, it need not have power. [More…]
The Regulations and Ordinances Committee, in the exercise of its power to scrutinise regulations and, informally, instruments in writing which are perpetrated by the Executive, from time to time draws to the attention of the Senate deficiencies in the principal parent legislation. [More…]
This belief that there is power in a Minister in this Government is false. [More…]
This matter simply emphasises the fact that there is no power in a Minister of this establishment. [More…]
Article 70, however, authorises the suspension of certain Constitutional guarantees by the executive power “when the security of the State demands it”. [More…]
The Red Army is the symbol of the power that is keeping formerly free people under subjugation, and its presence enables blatant violation of Human Rights to be perpetrated. [More…]
Announcer: ‘The Gordon River power scheme. [More…]
Like other planned power developments, it has been a longterm investment in Tasmania’s future’. [More…]
It would be premature to suggest, however, that the wall poster campaign represents a major power struggle between China’s most senior leaders. [More…]
I suppose it is within the power of the Committee to do so. [More…]
This means that the Minister will continue to have the power of direction with regard to determinations on fees by the College Council and will now have the same power with regard to the determination of which amenities or services are eligible to be supported from compulsory fees. [More…]
One can examine every major strike that this country has had since the Fraser Government came to power and note that it has been settled through the conciliation and arbitration system and largely, if not exclusively, as a result of the negotiating efforts of the President of the Australian Council of Trade Unions, whom this Government indulges in the luxury of abusing from time to time. [More…]
I hope that consideration will be given to including it in the future- is that whereas in the ordinance or in the law as it exists in the Australian Capital Territory there is power to prescribe written regulations which set out the form of the written warranties to be given by manufacturers and also the manner in which such warranties are to be printed this is not included in the Bill. [More…]
What it is about is the protection of the interests of business, not from the depredations of monopolies or from other people unfairly manipulating market power, but rather from the legitimate activities of trade unions and their members; protection from trade unions and their officials doing the kind of things for the protection of their members that they have done since time immemorial and that they will go on doing so long as they are to discharge the trust and the confidence that their members vest in them. [More…]
A whole new set of constitutional powers is being wheeled in to sustain the legislation, not just the previous power in section 51 (20) of the Constitution relating to corporations. [More…]
Now section 51(1), the trade and commerce power, and section 122, the Territories power, of the Constitution are being employed. [More…]
Thirdly, any action taken by unionists to protect the strength and the bargaining power of themselves and their union by an endeavour to unionise work places which are not unionised or not completely unionised at the time of such action- for example, the kind of action that is in issue in the present Alliance Messenger dispute in which the Transport Workers Union again finds itself involved and which aroused the indignation of Mr Justice Smithers earlier this week- again is clearly outside the scope of those limited exemptions for which the Act provides. [More…]
The argument is made, and no doubt it will be made again by someone in the course of this debate, that what this Act is really doing is simply giving a bargaining counter to the employers, giving them some muscle with which to force the unions into a posture of retreat and compromise, and that its real significance is as a counterbalance to the raw brute force of industrial bargaining power exercised by the unions themselves. [More…]
It may be a bargaining power, but so is a can of petrol and a match in the hands of a madman. [More…]
Legislation such as the amendments to the Trade Practices Act and the Arbitration Act, now before Federal Parliament, have aroused opposition across the whole trade union spectrum, because they restrict legitimate trade union activity, as well as abusers of union ‘s power. [More…]
The only restraint on the misuse of power by an individual union is the possibility of isolation from the rest of the trade union movement, and the possibility of government action (e.g. [More…]
One of the principal changes was the transfer of 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…]
In the Government’s haste to transfer licensing power to the Tribunal two major points were neglected: firstly, that the Tribunal had sufficient administrative and legal competence to ensure that the provisions of the Act were properly observed; and, secondly, that the major inconsistency between renewal and application procedures was removed. [More…]
These amendments give the Tribunal discretionary powers to extend any deadline for submission of applications, renewals, evidence or replies to submissions. [More…]
The Opposition welcomes that power and expects that it will be exercised in a fair and impartial manner to ensure that hearings are conducted in the most open manner. [More…]
Is under any acknowledgement of allegiance, obedience, or adherence to a foreign power, or is a subject or a citizen or entitled to the rights or privileges of a subject or a citizen of a foreign power or (ii.) [More…]
1 ) Does the Reserve Bank Act 1 959 require the Reserve Bank Board to exercise its power as to best contribute to the stability of the currency of Australia, the maintenance of full employment in Australia, and the economic prosperity and welfare of the people of Australia. [More…]
Does the Banking Act grant the Reserve Bank power to determine the policy in relation to advances to be followed by trading banks where the Reserve Bank is satisfied that in the public interest it is necessary or expedient to do so. [More…]
He did all in his power to make sure that the Committee considered all aspects of death duties and the other matters that had been referred to it. [More…]
One double dissolution had just taken place and we were heading for another; we had in power a reforming government and, of course, the numbers on both sides of the Senate were equal. [More…]
For example, the Board’s power to impose staff ceilings on some authorities is uncertain. [More…]
According to the report of the Senate Standing Committee on Constitutional and Legal Affairs the Federal Government has the power to acquire the land, but it has done nothing about it, even though the Commission was prepared to make the highest bid for the property. [More…]
It is simply that this Parliament, rather than take the time to enact an ordinary criminal code to deal with all matters beyond a low water mark, as it could within its power- it is entitled to do so- is proposing in relation to offshore offences, connected with Tasmania for example, to take and adopt the provisions of the Tasmanian Criminal Code and transmute them into the provisions of a notional Federal statute to deal with offences at sea, off the coast or related to Tasmania. [More…]
The High Court decision, of course, ascribed to the Commonwealth Parliament the full power to legislate in respect of this area but in that decision it did not take away in terms the very considerable powers that the States themselves have, in relation not only to the three-mile limit but also probably even further, provided there is a connection between the off-shore activity and the State whose laws are sought to be applied. [More…]
The exercise in which we have been engaged with the States, and in which we will continue discussions with them because a very complicated series of measures is involved in respect of the territorial sea, relates to our withdrawal as a Commonwealth Parliament from that area, although not from areas of traditional Commonwealth power, and our leaving it to legislation by the States. [More…]
The Governor-General may make an arrangement with the Governor of a State for or in relation to the exercise or performance in or in relation to that State of a power, duty or function (not being a power, duty or function involving the exercise of judicial power) 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 this Act and, where such an arrangement is in force, the power, duty or function may or shall, as the case may be, be exercised or performed in or in relation to the first-mentioned State accordingly. [More…]
In clause 4, leave out sub-clauses ( 1 ), (2) and (3), substitute the following sub-clauses: “(1) The Governor-General may make an arrangement with the Governor of a State or with the Administrator of the Northern Territory for or in relation to the exercise or performance in or in relation to that State or that Territory, as the case may be, of a power, duty or function (not being a power, duty or function involving the exercise of judicial power) by an authority of the State or Territory under the provisions of the criminal laws in force in any State or Territory as applying by virtue of this Act and, where such an arrangement is in force, the power, duty or function may or shall, as the case may be, be exercised or performed in or in relation to the first-mentioned State or Territory accordingly. [More…]
Of course, the time I am referring to here is that period when the previous Government- that is the Liberal-National Country Party Government- was in power and introduced the petrol subsidy scheme. [More…]
As I have said before, the transfer of power occurred less than one year ago. [More…]
As I have said, they were proved in the Queanbeyan court the other day to be completely wrong, yet the then Opposition hiked them all over the nation and convinced the people that they had in power in Canberra a corrupt and dishonest government. [More…]
The honourable senator will appreciate that it is not within my power to grant approval for a translator to bc erected and used by TNT9. [More…]
Has the Government given any consideration to the recent recommendation by the Prices Justification Tribunal that it be given the power to establish facilities for monitoring commercial prices in the private sector, and commercial prices charged by statutory bodies; if so, will the Government also take into account the need for the examination of activities which cause higher prices to the consumers, and the value of objective reporting on costs, productivity, prices, sales and profits by such a Government Agency. [More…]
The PJT already has power under the Prices Justification Act to inquire and report on prices charged by companies for goods and services. [More…]
It is not within my power to say yes or no to the release of the report. [More…]
They are the people who are hurt the most, and unless a government has the resolve to reduce inflation to a point where pensioners are able, with in some cases their slender other income, to have greater purchasing power, we are not talking constructively about the purchasing power of the pension simply by relating it to twice yearly indexation. [More…]
From our point of view, the person who has a small additional income from investment, security or some sort of superannuation from his former employment is the person who wishes to see a low rate of inflation so that that part of his total income has a greater purchasing power. [More…]
When an event happens that threatens the very power of this democratically elected institution- the Parliament- they do not even notice that it has occurred. [More…]
They have said that the traditions of our Westminster system are protected by three sources of power in our country- the judiciary which interprets the laws, the Executive which frames the laws, and the Parliament which passes the laws. [More…]
Every speaker on this subject says that these three sources of power must always be kept distinct so that one can have a check and a balance on the others. [More…]
They can see that there will be a lack of purchasing power by the pensioners due to the fact that they will not receive the May increase they were expecting. [More…]
Government came to power. [More…]
When honourable senators opposite were in power none of them had the courage to say anything contrary to their government. [More…]
It was in recognition of this fact that the Whitlam Labor Government, when introducing its legislation in 1973 for the very first time, allocated $500m, at 1973 values, over five years, with compensatory escalation provisions to maintain the basic purchasing power of original grants. [More…]
I give credit to both the Labor Government in New South Wales and the Liberal Government in Victoria which raised very sharply with the conservative national Government which was in power prior to 1972 the need for the Commonwealth to become involved in the herculean task of making funds available to improve our urban public transport system. [More…]
I suppose this gives us a feeling of authority and power. [More…]
It is true that, at present, the Commonwealth Government has declined to provide further financial assistance to Pritchard Steam Power Pty Ltd to allow it to continue its tests on the 3 power units already made for the company by the Commonwealth at no cost to the company. [More…]
The present Government position is based on the rather slow progress the company has made in the tests with the money now being provided, its failure to raise the supplementary funds that it undertook to raise when the present agreements were entered into, and the lack of success the company has had in generating any contributing interest in its work on the new power units. [More…]
His comments followed a decision at the Australian Labor Party conference in Rockhampton to hand over management to the Federal Government if Labor came to power in Queensland. [More…]
Because of shifting alliances and attitudes it is impossible to make a fixed delineation of world power groups. [More…]
For example, on 2 1 October 1964 he constructed a scenario of the Chinese sending a merchant ship with a nuclear weapon in it into some foreign harbour, then blackmailing that country with Chinese nuclear power. [More…]
They should responsibly have the power to decide in which directions priority of spending should go at particular times. [More…]
Of course, a constitutional change would be necessary to introduce this power in Australia. [More…]
That seemed to me and I think to many people to be an exercise in politics which only goes to confirm what I am saying now, that is, that some vital and basic step needs to be taken by the Parliament to show the people of this country that it genuinely consists of a group of people who have been elected in the interests of the nation and that it is not afraid- I repeat that the Parliament is not afraid- of placing more power in the hands of the people. [More…]
I agree also that when the Federal Government has proposals for urban planning perhaps it should retain some power to have a say in the allocation of grants in the area in which it has developed planning. [More…]
I do not know why we persist in reserving that power in the Federal Minister when he is operating with the States, possibly in an area where, under this Government’s policy, we do not want power and perhaps should not have it. [More…]
The Court operating under the Family Law Act 1975 has no power to deal with their application. [More…]
This Court has no power to deal with his application. [More…]
But, had each party started in the right court, two different courts would have had power to deal with custody of the same children between the same parties. [More…]
Certainly the family law type situation could, as the honourable senator indicates, be solved by the State governments being much more willing than they hitherto have been to refer to the Commonwealth under the constitutional provision in section 51(xxxvii), the exercise of legislative power in respect of certain presently exclusive State matters. [More…]
An example of a matter which could thus be referred would be the power to legislate and to confer jurisdiction in respect of custody applications by persons who are not parties to a marriage, which is the kind of situation that was in issue in the case to which I referred. [More…]
I have been having discussions about them and they have been discussed at meetings of the Standing Committee of Attorneys-General, lt does appear that there is fairly wide agreement on giving the Federal Court a power to remit a matter which arises in that Court under the Trade Practices Act if an alternative claim on the same facts is commenced in a State court. [More…]
Until we recognise that and until we do something about getting a rational distribution we will continue to find, as Senator Missen said by way of interjection, that one area scarcely gets a guernsey and another area, through historic power, keeps getting accretions to its amounts. [More…]
Such planning is, of course, an abuse of power no matter how well meaning it was in the first place. [More…]
If it is to continue, private enterprise must be prepared to modify itself in many directions and especially to exercise much greater social responsibility than it has done in the past, while at the same time retaining its most important and useful feature- the motivating power of enlightened self-interest, which we believe cannot be done without. [More…]
In this matter, particularly, the Government should not hide behind its power to stifle debate. [More…]
The Committee considered that the regulations made under the Postal Services Act in 1975 conferred too wide a power to open mail. [More…]
The then responsible Minister gave an undertaking to amend the regulations to restrict that power properly. [More…]
During those three years the mail of citizens in this country has presumably been opened by officers exercising powers which the Committee regarded as excessively wide. [More…]
The Australian Capital Territory Consumer Affairs Ordinance is of particular concern to the Committee as the provisions objected to in the Ordinance were regarded by the Committee as fundamental breaches of individual rights and liberties and of the power of the courts, and it should be a matter of grave concern to the Senate that the undertaking given in August 1977 has still not been carried out. [More…]
The consequence has been that the lower House has no real power to constrain or question the Executive. [More…]
The restraining role, if it is to be performed at all, must fall largely on the upper House; and this Senate, because of its powerful constitutional position, is better placed than any other second chamber in the Westminster system to perform this role. [More…]
As we are operating at the moment we are accepting responsibility without power. [More…]
Then there is the problem of the decentralisation of power. [More…]
In a democracy one should aim to delegate Executive power to the body closest to the people on whom that power can be effectively exercised. [More…]
We badly need a watchdog on the decentralisation of power. [More…]
We must develop a body to balance the excessive power of the Executive and its dominance of the lower House and involve the community more in the parliamentary processes. [More…]
If these Senate committees develop as they should, as public scrutineers of proposed government legislation and as watchdogs on the proper decentralisation of Executive power, their chairmen will be at least as powerful and important as any Ministers, and it is just that they should be appropriately recognised and rewarded. [More…]
On another point, am I being naive in thinking that any Senate would be prepared to give up the power, prestige and rewards of Ministers? [More…]
If it is power we are talking about, I invite honourable senators to compare the power of a chairman of a United States Senate committee with the power of a Minister in one of our recent governments. [More…]
I have no doubt where the greater power and prestige lie. [More…]
I should also make it quite clear that the review powers I am talking about are not new. [More…]
We already have all the power we need. [More…]
I am merely proposing a reorganisation which would make effective our use of our existing powers. [More…]
The Government, knowing that the Senate is here and has the power to act as a States House, must pay regard to that fact and also to the less populous States. [More…]
I am suggesting that if this motion is agreed to the Senate really would be given some power. [More…]
Senator Hamer drew an analogy with the situation in America, where the chairmen of the Senate committees have tremendous power. [More…]
The reason I entered the debate tonight at short notice was to say that if Senator Hamer’s proposal is the sole reform proposed to give expression to that principle of linking government and the House of Representatives and breaking the link between the government and the Senate, I predict it would be unacceptable to the Australian Labor Party, which would want to see such a reform coupled with the removal of the claimed power of the Senate to dismiss a government by withholding supply. [More…]
We maintain that responsible and effective national government in Australia cannot be reconciled with a form of parliament in which each ofthe chambers, possibly with majorities of politically different persuasions, is empowered to reject Supply. [More…]
To entrust such a power to the opposition- that is, to the minority group within the House of Representatives- is destructive not only of responsible government but also of stable government. [More…]
Its association is strictly in accordance with legal provisions relating to aid to the civil power. [More…]
In dealing with these matters, however, the Minister for Foreign Affairs (Mr Peacock) has 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: Firstly, because it sought to settle a dispute within the region by military means of the most extreme kind, a general invasion across a border; secondly, 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 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…]
I do not think that the people who are creating the present chaos have within themselves the power to stop. [More…]
It is a grapple for power by the communist giants. [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…]
I believe what the United States has done is to allow the communist countries to exercise their full power in many countries throughout the world. [More…]
Whilst it is fairly obvious that the Chinese are a greater potential source of trade for Australia and that it may be of benefit to Australia to share China’s attitute in regard to the demilitarisation of the Indian Ocean and a reduction of super power activity in Asia it does not justify, either on moral grounds or strategic grounds, Australia’s unqualified support for China. [More…]
Surely we have learned, after our tragic mistakes in Vietnam, that to support any super power in the area and give it unqualified support is wrong and will always be wrong. [More…]
because it created the conditions for an escalation of great power rivalry in the region. [More…]
Perhaps it is only because of the term great power rivalry* that all of a sudden we are becoming holier than thou and very indignant about countries that carried out exactly the same type of operation as we supported in East Timor. [More…]
But if the people who win out are supporters of the Moslem religion there is a great potential for very fundamental change in the whole balance of power in the Middle East. [More…]
He sounded the warning that it was quite wrong to assume that the prominence of these matters meant that he had laid to one side as it were the traditional issues of what I suppose can be generally summarised as power politics. [More…]
However, regardless of whether one has economic, domestic, political or personal and social issues, as long as the world is organised in a system of free and sovereign states there will be this emphasis on power and power politics and it will continue without doubt to be the main interest in international affairs. [More…]
I suppose that if we had had any doubt about the importance of the role of power politics and its influence on international negotiations and relationships, recent events would have dispelled that doubt entirely. [More…]
I think that the Minister was absolutely right when he said that the matter of economic influence and interest, the matter of power politics, certainly has played a part in reaching the point where we have a deterioration in the international environment. [More…]
To reflect on what I mentioned earlier, I point out that these conflicts were created by the power rivalry that exists between four major states adjacent to the areas, namely, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, China, Vietnam and Kampuchea. [More…]
I know that foreign affairs must, of necessity, relate to the importance of power struggles. [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…]
I mention that for administrative and privacy reasons it is not proposed to publish names, addresses and other details of individuals who have received act of grace payments or benefitted from the waiver of monies due to the Commonwealth The joint committee of public accounts has the power under its own Act to require information from departments in relation to these matters. [More…]
Over the last few years, and for a variety of reasons, one of the super powers- 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…]
What has happened since the Fraser Government came to power? [More…]
In addition, as we all know, when the Government came to power it abolished a number of posts overseas, and we criticise the Government for doing so. [More…]
In respect of the Middle East situation, the Government is encouraging another power, a greater power, to take action when it considers that to be appropriate. [More…]
He qualified the importance of those issues in relation to the continuing significance of what are usually referred to as ‘power’ politics and ideology in international affairs, and I think it is generally recognised that these remain the main arbiter of international relationships. [More…]
On the one hand, the old issues- the issues of ‘power politics ‘-are not there as a result of capricious choice, but because of the basic character of the international system. [More…]
As we approach the nineteen eighties some perceptive commentators are pointing to a dangerous asymmetry: 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…]
Soviet Union, at least, with its isolation as a great power and indeed as a super power. [More…]
Over the last few years, and for a variety of reasons, one of the super powers- 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…]
In terms of the established traditional agenda, framed essentially in terms of political and military power, our problem has always been that we do not possess enough of that power. [More…]
Mr Eric Robinson can never disclose the reason because his power over the Prime Minister at the present time, the power of a threat of exposure, would simply be the finish. [More…]
When I made inquiries to find out why this was so, I was told that Standing Order 99 gives the President the power to do certain things with questions. [More…]
It is a pity that the first speaker to respond on behalf of the Government took the motion to be an attack and replied by merely defending the Government’s record and reciting some of the things that the Government claims to have done for the unemployed in the three years that it has been in power. [More…]
The Government in which he is a Minister came to power in 1975. [More…]
In 1974 the present Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) upbraided the previous Labor Government for not having adequate and effective manpower policiessomething we are still waiting for in 1979. [More…]
The present Government came to power in 1975 with the promise, amongst other things, that there would be jobs for all people in Australia who wanted to work. [More…]
In 1975 when the Government came into power its members made all sorts of pious utterings about how they would protect our natural wonders, including the Great Barrier Reef, but they have progressively moved away from that stance ever since. [More…]
The Commonwealth Govenment has no power to force the closure of any hospital facilities within a State and it is unfortunate if a State Minister sees fit to blame the Commonwealth Government when he well knows that it is the State Government which is responsible for the day-to-day administration of the public hospital system. [More…]
The second matter of concern is that under the present Bill the Attorney-General has power not only to refuse to recognise a foreign judgment and to say that it would not be enforceable in Australia but also to vary the amount of that judgment if it were recognised in Australia and in so far as its enforcement by an Australian court would be allowed. [More…]
We will be moving, in the Committee stage, that those provisions empowering the Attorney-General to vary the amount should be deleted. [More…]
The second point with which I would like to deal concerns the power of Parliament over the decisions of the Attorney-General on these very important matters. [More…]
What power does Parliament have over this abrupt change of a decision which has been implicitly approved by Parliament. [More…]
I think that the power of Parliament in this respect is very doubtful. [More…]
Thirdly, even if this rescinding order were subject to disallowance, is that an effective power? [More…]
I do not think it would; and, if it did not, the disallowance power would be futile. [More…]
I think it is just as important for Parliament to have power over a rescinding order which alters a decision implicitly approved by Parliament as it is for Parliament to have power of disallowance over the original order. [More…]
This power will be used very sparingly and in matters of great international interest, as demonstrated by the constant exchanges between the Attorneys-General of Australia and the US. [More…]
That does no more than suspend the power to enforce the judgment until such time as it is made definite by lack of a decision on the part of the Parliament or by the Parliament rejecting any move which seeks to object to it. [More…]
If a company deserves relief and the AttorneyGeneral will not use his power under this legislation there is no method whereby the company can say that it has all the qualifications under the legislation and is entitled to protection. [More…]
The report then recommended that the Court should have the power to call for a report in any cause and at any stage in the proceedings. [More…]
I doubt that this power has been used enough, mainly because of the lack of ancillary staff and councillors available to the court. [More…]
It is important to be able to use that type of power at an early stage in proceedings before the parties have reached the situation where they have placed on record affidavit after affidavitwhen parties, their friends, relatives and so on have sworn to a certain situation and the position has become rigid. [More…]
Thus clause 1 1 of the Bill, which relates to the powers of the Court in custodial proceedings, will be useful in ensuring that counselling is used at any time. [More…]
Clause 1 1 widens the power of a court to issue a warrant expressed to apply to any vehicle, vessel, aircraft, premises or place where there is reasonable cause to believe that a child the subject of a custody order may be found. [More…]
As I said before, since the Karen Green case and the recision about giving power to a commissioner or director, there is no validity in placing restrictions upon an applicant or an appellant in a particular case. [More…]
Also the committee would still have the power, after the legislation had been passed, to report, possibly adversely, on its terms. [More…]
It ought to be a matter of maturity for us to appreciate and squarely acknowledge that what matters when one is talking about the reviewing of legislation, by reference to criteria such as these, is not the power or prerogatives of one chamber vis-a-vis another. [More…]
Even if the judge found that she was entitled to unemployment benefit it was not for him to usurp the power that the Parliament had given to the Director-General. [More…]
I suppose the people who called him a dictatorgeneral would agree that it is not right for legislation to confer such power. [More…]
Any standing committee considering the question of power should never permit power to be exercised by an official unless it is a delegated power. [More…]
There must be some delegated powers. [More…]
But the power to act under legislation must be retained by the Minister. [More…]
The Minister then has the power to delegate to the Director-General. [More…]
The Minister for Social Security should not have stood back and said: ‘Whatever I may think about whether Karen Green should receive the unemployment benefit, the Parliament gave the power to the DirectorGeneral. ‘ [More…]
If the Director-General was using delegated power we had a responsibility to say to the Minister ‘Your delegate did this and if it is not right you should alter your delegation.’ [More…]
The Commissioner has the power to refuse the application. [More…]
However, the court’s powers are restricted to what can go before it under this Act. [More…]
Where is the power of appeal against an action of the Commission under proposed sub-section (5)? [More…]
I have sat at those conferences at which an unanswerable case for the transfer of powers was put forward. [More…]
They would get together and say: ‘We must not let this power go to the Commonwealth because it is an intrusion of States rights’. [More…]
No matter what goodwill the present Minister for Science and the Environment (Senator Webster) or the Minister for National Development (Mr Newman) may have- and I believe they have the goodwill to get an energy policy- I can tell them they will never get it and they ought to know they will never get it unless the people give us this power at a referendum. [More…]
We know the possibilities of obtaining power alcohol from sugar cane, sugar beet and cassava. [More…]
But let us not chase good relations with China at the expense of unnecessarily offending the other great paranoid power in the world, namely, the Soviets. [More…]
I am talking principally of those who have the real power in our community, the conservative sources of power in our community, whether they be in the Parliament, in the media or in the corporate sector of our society- those who really influence the thinking of most of our people. [More…]
There are those in our country and in the United States who believe that the United States has the power, the wisdom and the obligation to decide the future of nations everywhere in the world. [More…]
It is now being said that Vietnam is antiChinese and is part of the Soviet power bloc. [More…]
The Prime Minsiter of Vietnam went to Europe in pursuit of funds so that his country would remain independent of the power blocs in the region. [More…]
Did he mean that when we have power we should try to tell these countries what to do? [More…]
The Russians build up their imperial power by what the Chinese call ‘hegemony.’ [More…]
We are not a world power. [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 troubled spots of the world, politically it is the odd-man-out among the great powers. [More…]
All these governments exist by the sheer force of Soviet power. [More…]
I visualised a situation in which Vietnam was something like an Algeria in the Middle East or a Yugoslavia or Romania in Europe, that is, Vietnam would skilfully play one super power against another. [More…]
That was a sort of strategy that the Americans would not buy, although there were top commanders, both Macarthur and Matthew Ridgway who succeeded Macarthur in Korea, who agreed that there was no future for a Western power in a land battle in Asia. [More…]
One does not become a slave of any of the super powers. [More…]
One of the big difficulties is that if we can accommodate some of the war reformers of the Left to a certain stage, we do not necessarily push them into the arms of another super power. [More…]
But with Stalin, Roosevelt and Churchill and the subsequent ‘big three’ discussions there was certainly a change in the balance of power in Europe. [More…]
the one hand by the Brezhnev doctrine on Soviet imperialism, if one can use that term, or American power on the other. [More…]
We should not forget that many of the boundaries were drawn to suit the occupying power, be it Britain, France or other nations. [More…]
With respect to Aboriginal land that is not a power that we have given it in this legislation. [More…]
In Sydney the Street Openings Conference has as some of its members the Water and Sewerage Board, the Australian Gas Light Co., councils, the power authorities, Telecom Australia and the Institution of Engineers. [More…]
The answer was not entirely satisfactory, firstly, because of the Minister’s reference to the State authorities being empowered to vary the terms within the Act, whereas a reading of Part 1, paragraph (h) of the Schedule on page 8 of the Act suggests that the authorities are required to vary the conditions of loans granted under those Acts as soon as the people who receive the loans reach a condition of viability or are no longer dependent on concession interest finance. [More…]
The answer was less than satisfactory because full power is set out in the Schedule to the Act for the Commonwealth to acquire all details pertaining to the administration of this Act. [More…]
The Commonwealth clearly has the power to obtain from the State authorities any information it chooses. [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…]
If the Federal Government spent only a small portion of what it has already spent on nuclear power development for the commercialisation of solar power, solar generated electricity would be economically competitive within five years, in the view of many experts. [More…]
In the early 1970s, atomic power seemed the logical energy source for the last quarter of the century and utility companies ordered an average of 30 reactors a year to run their electricity generating plants. [More…]
The nuclear power industry is unintentionally contributing to an increased risk of nuclear war. [More…]
It is a world in which the rights of citizens, the rights of minority groups, the rights of any organisation and any element in society are subdued by military force and, most importantly, a world in which there is no question of dissent, no check, as occurs in our society, on what might be going on so that once those countries have a nuclear power industry it will be impossible for the outside world, much less their own people, to know or influence just what is going on in those places. [More…]
The fact is that there are nations which have been shown to be lacking in responsibility as far as world peace is concerned and who have the money and the determination to obtain the plutonium which is the inevitable product of the nuclear power industry and which is also the major ingredient of dirty forms of atomic bombs in terms of fallout. [More…]
Most of the major Western powers are ending or severely restricting their commitment to nuclear power because of the virtual impossibility of long term storage of nuclear waste at acceptable cost, the basic expense of nuclear power, which makes it no longer economic in comparison with other sources, the shorter life of nuclear power houses than was once supposed, and the great cost of actually disposing of plants that have passed their useful life. [More…]
The problems of the world will not be solved by electric power. [More…]
What the nuclear reactor does is produce electric power, but what will we use the electric power for? [More…]
It is the desire of the Government that we should have a great boom economy based on nuclear power, even if it were possible, at the expense of running out of these resources so that our great great grandchildren will have nothing left and will look back on our generation with contempt as the looters, the people who did not think for the future, the Huns of the 20th century in terms of exploitation, deprivation and the destruction of our resources. [More…]
This move against nuclear power by responsible nations is absolutely beyond doubt. [More…]
The customers now are the less responsible nations, those who are not prepared to give the guarantees, those who are not prepared to have safe and reliable engineering, and I would concede that safe and reliable engineering has kept nuclear power free from a major accident for nearly three decades. [More…]
They are in many cases not so much interested in nuclear power for the benefit of their people as they are in the accumulation of plutonium to make dirty nuclear weapons with which to attack or terrorise their neighbours or perhaps even their own people. [More…]
The pessimism I have heard tonight reminds me of my history book and the time when steam power was first introduced into the world. [More…]
The use of uranium in power generation is with us now and this usage will grow. [More…]
I suggest that it will be used as it is being used by some countries now to provide up to 25 per cent of their power. [More…]
In Switzerland uranium is used to generate power for heating and for the general well-being of the citizens. [More…]
In the future nuclear power will be directed towards the development of other nations and the well-being of their people. [More…]
It was not until the present Government came to power that work on the High Court building returned to normal. [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…]
However, the Commissioner is given a wide discretionary power to refuse the refund. [More…]
Of course, the Fraser Government introduced income tax indexation in 1976 after it had come to power to stop the rip-off of taxpayers of all descriptions that occurred during that period of rapid inflation. [More…]
There was a time when, in fact, the Commissioner could very safely invoke the power given to him. [More…]
I believe that there is power within the Commonwealth to ensure that between the tax power, the broadcasting power and the interstate trade and commerce power we could prohibit this sort of anti-social advertising. [More…]
I do not doubt that the honourable senator is being apologetic because while the Whitlam Government was in power it did not seek to continue the search for petroleum. [More…]
The Government policy appears to be to keep education- hence power, because education is related to power, there is a quite clear connection- in the club and to deny access to those who wish to break out of their situation of disadvantage. [More…]
It is certainly not true, I believe, to adopt the sort of approach that Senator Robertson seems to adopt, that is, that it is really the purpose, function or even within the power of the Government to bring about a situation in which students can study without being subject to any external sources of worry. [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 powerand terrorism. [More…]
It should be noted that, whilst ASIO will be empowered to collect intelligence concerning these matters, criminal offences are not thereby created. [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 such offences subject to the same safeguards as apply to interception by ASIO. [More…]
When the Australian Labor Party came to power in 1972, virtually nothing had been spent on sport by the previous Federal Government. [More…]
Since the Fraser Government came to power, Commonwealth funding of sport has almost completely disappeared. [More…]
He brought to the attention of the Senate this afternoon the very interesting fact that there has been a significant increase in alcohol consumption in our community since the Fraser Government came to power. [More…]
It was taken over by the Commonwealth when Labor was in power. [More…]
Sometimes a very lowly clerk is vested with great authority and some of them really love using their power to give these directions. [More…]
Even during mid-summer, at 6 p.m. each evening, the power was switched off to every hut in the reserve. [More…]
It was subsequently built, but then the power situation was bad. [More…]
So, a power pole was planted in the middle of the sports reserve. [More…]
I am the power’. [More…]
In fact the giving up of this priority may not have a very significant effect on government revenue because if ordinary traders and employees can recover their commercial debts and annual leave and long service leave payments, I believe that would create a situation in which the revenue would do very well out of the fact that these ordinary traders would not have so many bad debts and employees would of course have spending power within the community. [More…]
Over the service boards was the rather amorphous Department of Defence, almost entirely public service in nature, but with the enormous power which resides in the body which presents to Cabinet the case of the individual service’s financial requirements for manpower and equipment. [More…]
Effectively, all the remaining power is in the hands of the Secretary. [More…]
The divisions under the Secretary admittedly have the responsibility of advising and informing the Chief of Defence Force Staff as appropriate and as required- I use the words of an official document- but the effective power rests with the Secretary. [More…]
A skilled committee man in the position of power can delay a decision not for months but for years. [More…]
The power of expansion or resistance through Parkinson’s law would undoubtedly overwhelm such nibbling. [More…]
Now let us look at what happened when the Fraser Government came to power in 1975. [More…]
Then the Labor Government came to power and gave them worthwhile financial assistance. [More…]
They adjusted their budgets accordingly but the Fraser Government, when it came to power, cancelled all this assistance and again left the sporting bodies to their own resources. [More…]
What the proprietorship of these papers is aiming at is power without responsibility- the prerogative of the harlot through the ages. [More…]
Sporting bodies cannot accept the power which is given to them by money raised through sponsorship without accepting the responsibility which goes with that money. [More…]
If we support the principle that those who have the power to advertise can do so with impunity and in fact with the support of the forces that are so influential within our society, this is a natural corollary. [More…]
This reflects not only on the medical use of X-rays, but also on the safety of the nuclear power industry which this Government has so irresponsibly presented as being safe. [More…]
The exercise of power by the Executive is a profound question which I do not wish to explore tonight. [More…]
The most important distinguishing feature of the Australian Federal Parliament is the Senate, with its powers without parallel in any other second house of parliament in the world. [More…]
As senators we have the power to change the ways we conduct our business. [More…]
Section 6 1 of the Constitution vests the executive power of the Commonwealth in the monarch, exercisable by the Government-General as the Queen ‘s representative. [More…]
Section 62 empowers the appointment of Executive Councillors, holding office at the Governor-General’s pleasure, to advise in the governing of the country. [More…]
George Ill’s attempt to reassert the power of the monarchy stimulated the development of the doctrine that Ministers should be united by political principle and that the Prime Minister should be the freely elected chosen leader of his colleagues. [More…]
If the review function of the Senate were enhanced, then the State could exercise more effectively its responsibilities to the States and play an important role in the decentralisation of power. [More…]
The origins of the Senate are to be found in the concern of the smaller States at the time of Federation to see an equitable distribution of power. [More…]
It is incorrect to say that the power of the Senate would be diminished and that the power to withhold Supply would disappear. [More…]
The powers of the Senate are defined in the Constitution and can be altered only by a referendum. [More…]
There is no intention at all to alter those powers. [More…]
Far from diminishing the powers of the Senate or the respect in which it is held, it would enhance them because it would become a more effective body. [More…]
We are concerned with the individual member of society, with the distribution of power, with the maintenance of the States and of the Federal system of government. [More…]
One of the factors contributing to variations in fuel prices between the two areas is the fact that in peacetime the Commonwealth has no Constitutional power to control reseller profit margins, ‘ Mr Fife said. [More…]
There was in the Prime Minister’s policy speech nothing to warn the electors that the Government had no power to invoke his policy promise that petrol prices would be not more than 4c a gallon higher in country areas than it was in city areas in Australia. [More…]
Mr Fife is now on record- I assume that he would be because this Press release is attributed to Senator Jessop and is reported in the Adelaide Advertiser- &s using the excuse that the Government cannot honour its promise because under the Constitution in peacetime it has not the power to control prices. [More…]
Yet here we have Mr Fife using the excuse that the Government has not power under the Constitution to honour its election promise to equalise fuel prices. [More…]
Mr Fife now has the audacity to write to Senator Jessop- no doubt in an endeavour to get him off the hook because the Government had not honoured its promises on fuel equalisationstating that the Government has not the power under the Constitution to invoke price control. [More…]
Will the Minister raise this matter with the Commissioner of Taxation to ensure that careful consideration is given to this onerous practice which may be interpreted as a misuse of administrative power in order to break private contracts? [More…]
People have made complaints arising out of these incidents to the Ombudsman who has the power to deal and will deal quickly with such matters. [More…]
Leave out all words after ‘That ‘, insert 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…]
If it is extended to drug detection, it is likely to get out of hand, lead to abuses of power along the lines experienced in America, have little, if any effect on crime detection, inhibit freedom of communication by law abiding citizens and be gradually extended to areas of crime detection. [More…]
Even the limitation on the Minister’s power is self-explanatory. [More…]
I am prepared to say that I am somewhat troubled about the way in which we would respond to activities which I suppose come under the category of active measures of foreign intervention which are defined as meaning clandestine or deceptive action taken by or on behalf of a foreign power to promote the interests of that power. [More…]
are supporters of the activities of a foreign power, people who favour particular policies supported by a foreign power, are entitled to use the legitimate means of propaganda and information within Australia to have that point actively debated. [More…]
The Congress, which has the constitutional power and, indeed, the responsibility to monitor the CIA and US intelligence, has almost totally failed to exercise meaningful control. [More…]
As Senator Puplick has stated, clause 8 of the present Bill confers upon the Minister of the day general powers to give directions to the Director-General. [More…]
But it limits his specific powers to give directions in a number of specified ways, some of which we believe are unacceptable. [More…]
We believe that the approach to the exercise of ministerial control and responsibility should be one of absolutely maximising so far as possible the power of the Minister vis-a-vis the Director-General because only the Minister is politically accountable to Parliament and the people in any sense at all. [More…]
We believe that any restrictions on that power vested in the Minister should be as narrowly defined as possible. [More…]
The only really legitimate or acceptable limitation we see as appropriate on the power of the Minister in this respect- in the Committee stage we will be attempting to amend the Bill accordingly- would be to limit his power of access to the detailed content of individual files or individual papers containing security assessments of particular individuals. [More…]
Fourthly, we seek in paragraph (d) of our amendment to give the Leader of the Opposition a greater formal power and access to the system. [More…]
He does not get told about the granting or the authorisation of special power warrants. [More…]
There are many ways, short of war, in which a foreign power can weaken another, or strengthen itself vis-a-vis that other by clandestine activities in the latter’s territory. [More…]
After a great deal of consideration the Government has approved additional powers for ASIO to enter premises, to search for records, to use listening devices and to open and inspect postal articles. [More…]
Before these powers can be exercised in any particular case the Director-General of ASIO has to make a formal request and the Minister must be satisfied that there is need for this action before he can grant a warrant. [More…]
This is the appropriate power in what inevitably is a very difficult situation. [More…]
There is no dispute about the undesirability of the Minister being able to obtain information on the contents of files on individuals but in general the Minister has the sort of power that is asked for in paragraph (c). [More…]
The limitations on the Minister’s power are contained in clause 8 (2) of the Bill and we should look at them because they are relevant to whether that paragraph in the Opposition’s amendment is appropriate. [More…]
The DirectorGeneral is subject to the general directions of the Minister, but the Minister is not empowered to override the opinion of the Director-General on the question of whether the collection of intelligence on any particular individual by the Organisation would or would not be justified by reason of its relevance to security. [More…]
We must never let the situation in which a person has such power develop in this country. [More…]
If there is this power for the Auditor-General, not to go through every cheque butt and every receipt but at least to have an overall supervision on the expenditure of ASIO, we believe that this in itself will be a tremendous safeguard for the security of this country. [More…]
If the aim is to give the pensioners increased real spending power- that is, to stop inflation from robbing the pensioners- we have discharged our policy not only by maintaining their spending power but also by increasing it. [More…]
I emphasise for the information of the Senate, although I would have thought it was clear enough, that the Tribunal has the function, under its Act, of determining whether prices charged, or proposed to be charged, are justified, and that the Minister has no power to direct what the findings of the Tribunal shall be, or to review its findings. [More…]
The history of this Government clearly shows that, despite all the crises and ills following Budgets of the Labor Government and the actions of some people, from the time it came to power its fiscal policies and budgetary measures have been working. [More…]
Unfortunately, at present Australia could not withstand that kind of attack from many similar middle power countries. [More…]
In fact, our defence preparedness compared with that of other middle power countries is lamentably poor, especially when we consider that Israel, with only 3lA million people- in spite of the wars in which that nation has been involved- has a tremendous capability not only to defend itself but also to manufacture weapons on its own soil. [More…]
For honourable senators opposite, who are critical of the import parity pricing, I repeat that from 1972, when the Whitlam Government came to power, some 101 wells had been completed. [More…]
One of these days perhaps we will see in its proper perspective the enormous power that the oil companies exercise in international politics, in the world economy, in the making and breaking of governments, in sustaining and bringing down shahs, principalities and the like. [More…]
The inescapable conclusion is that unless the Tribunal is prepared to either act on a majority opinion or to delegate to the Committee its power of regulation in this field of programming, we shall yet again be faced with a continuing saga of frustration identical in both its terms and its tone to those expressed by the Australian Teachers Association in 1 944 and witnesses to the Royal Commission on television in 19S3, the Senate Select Committee on The Encouragement of Australian Production for Television (the Vincent Committee)) in 1963, the Senate Standing Committee on Education and the Arts looking at Broadcasting in 1972-74, the Broadcasting Tribunal ‘s Self Regulation Inquiry in 1 977, the Senate Standing Committee looking into the impact of Television on Children in 1978, and a repeat performance of the two previous Children’s Advisory Committees. [More…]
In some ways children’s television is developing as the central issue of the inquiry that is currently under way in Sydney, despite the challenges to the power of the Tribunal and, indeed, to the personnel of the Tribunal. [More…]
The Senate Standing Committee on Constitutional and Legal Affairs produced what I regard as a generally important and good report which advocated, basically, that there was a need in relation to all legislation to ensure that civil liberties were preserved and protected; that there were no undue degrees of delegation of legislative power; and that the interests of the public were adequately protected by the Parliament. [More…]
An important function of the Parliament is to ensure that the Executive, in the exercise of Executive power, does not unduly interfere, or over-use the power to delegate; to ensure that civil liberties are protected. [More…]
The first thing the report does is make a quite detailed analysis of section 5 1 (xxvi) of the Constitution, the Commonwealth’s power to make laws with respect to people of any race for whom it is deemed necessary to make special laws, a provision which assumed that form as a result of the 1 967 Aboriginal powers referendum. [More…]
The Committee concludes on this particular subject matter that the doubts which have been thrown up from time to time about the scope and effect of that Constitutional power are, by and large, without any real substance at all. [More…]
When I last spoke on this question, I expressed considerable doubt whether the High Court would uphold the point that the Commonwealth had power to acquire land for the settlement of people of a particular race. [More…]
The legal evidence points to the fact that the Commonwealth has power, given to it in the 1967 referendum, to make laws for Aboriginals and to acquire property for the purpose of the enactment of those laws. [More…]
The Committee questions whether the Constitution gives the Parliament power to make special laws but implies that in the absence of a power given to anyone else it must be accepted that Parliament has the power. [More…]
The Committee refers to Parliament’s powers under the definition of special laws and questions whether Parliament is restricted from making particular laws for one race of people which may be contrary to the rights given in law to another race of people. [More…]
However, the conclusion of the Committee is that Parliament has the power to make special laws, whatever that may mean, for the people of the Aboriginal race and those laws need not be ones that we would normally make for the balance of the Australian community. [More…]
Further, the Committee stated that under section 51 (xxxi), the Commonwealth has power to acquire property for the purpose of the laws that it makes. [More…]
Parliament cannot make laws giving people power over property which is Crown property of one of the States. [More…]
If it is our intention to empower people to control particular areas, we must acquire the land for that purpose by the use of just laws and with proper compensation. [More…]
In the words of the Committee, that legislation which the Parliament passed was totally ineffective because of the Queensland Government’s power to remove from settlements the status of reserves. [More…]
The Committee pointed out the legality of provisions in other Acts such as the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders (Queensland Discriminatory Laws) Act of 1 975 and the Aboriginal Councils and Associations Act which give some sort of power to Aboriginals without controlling or occupying the land. [More…]
I read a report in the National Times which said that such action had been taken and that the court had dismissed the charge because the Commonwealth had no power to impose laws upon settlements under State Government control. [More…]
There was a ‘ massive and well-heeled ‘ attempt to organise a very dangerous activitist black power operation in Queensland . [More…]
A matter that is equally obvious and particularly grave is the massive and well-heeled attempt being made in this State- a drive as it were- to organise a very dangerous activist black power operation. [More…]
That legislation, says the Minister’s own Department, is in the Commonwealth Government’s view discriminatory and outdated, primarily because it gives government officials extraordinary powers to manage and direct the lives of Aborigines and Islanders on reserves, trusteeships on reserves and the right to negotiate on behalf of Aborigines and Islanders about land use and in particular exploration and mining on reserves. [More…]
It also gives them the power to manage the property of Aborigines and Islanders. [More…]
Is the Minister aware that the decision of the New South Wales Government was made to overcome blackouts during the forthcoming winter and to facilitate the use of maintenance men on shift work, thus enabling the Electricity Commission of New South Wales to utilise the less costly of the power stations which feed into the grid? [More…]
I preface my question, which is directed to the Minister for Social Security, by saying that no doubt the Minister is aware that in this nation there are many invalid pensioners whose condition is a result of their being chronic asthmatics, that the more seriously ill of these pensioners are required on medical advice to install air-conditioning units in their homes so as to ease their condition and improve their quality of life, and that such air-conditioners are required to operate non-stop, thereby resulting in increased power charges which are causing financial hardship to these people. [More…]
Does the Government see any inconsistency in its reaction to the New South Wales power workers being granted a 37’A-hour week in view of the fact that power workers in Victoria already enjoy a 37W-hour week? [More…]
The attack on State rights would come if one State in a maverick fashion were to incite inflation in Australia and destroy or weaken the purchasing power of people in other States and, also, of the Commonwealth. [More…]
Indeed, if the direct action of the Wran Government were to exacerbate inflation and, for example, weaken the purchasing power of pensions, it is not State rights that are affected. [More…]
The question of assisting needy persons with their power expenses is a matter for State and local governing bodies. [More…]
The Austraiian Library Promotion Council and the Library Association of Australia have done all in their power ( barring strikes, violence and terrorism) to get attention to the historic report, without avail, since April 1976 when it was tabled in Parliament. [More…]
I know that the New South Wales Government is doing all within its power to bring work to these areas. [More…]
It is a movement towards bringing power and responsibility together instead of separating them, which is always desirable. [More…]
I am concerned, as is the Minister for Primary Industry, Mr Sinclair, who has brought in this amending legislation, that we do something to benefit every egg producer- the family farmer, the person who makes his living on his own farm, and not the person who wants to become a great monolithic power, to have everything under his wing and to control the whole egg marketing system. [More…]
If so, it could lead to an abuse of powers. [More…]
It is for that reason, if for no other, that we are concerned at the extraordinary powers given to the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation, the Director-General and the Minister under this legislation. [More…]
What concerns me is lawyers, or damned lawyers, saying in this place or the other place that a particular law contains protections against abuses of power. [More…]
Of course, if the police abuse their powers or if ASIO abuses its powers, Senator Puplick, Senator Durack or any other lawyer or politician, because of their training and positions, can object straight to the Chief Commissioner or to the Director-General. [More…]
The fact is that if inflation were to increase it would erode the purchasing power of all existing wages, fixed incomes, pensions and benefits including superannuation. [More…]
Has the Minister representing the Minister for National Development seen today’s reports that the Commonwealth, Western Australian and Northern Territory Governments were exploring the feasibility of installing a $90m hydro-electric power station on the Ord River to supply Darwin with power? [More…]
Will the Minister give an undertaking to extend the feasibility study to the Burdekin Dam in North Queensland, which not only is ideally suited for hydro-generation but also, unlike the Ord River, is supported by a highly developed community infrastructure which will require additional electrical power in the near future for its industrial and residential expansion and, as such, is eminently to be preferred, in the national interest, to wasting further money on the Ord scheme? [More…]
I am aware of the decision with which the Western Australian Government agreed, I think yesterday, that there should be a feasibility study of the proposal to establish a hydro-electric power station on the Ord River to provide power for Darwin, in particular, and other parts of the Northern Territory as well as parts of the north of Western Australia. [More…]
I understand that most of the power stations in the area are oil fired. [More…]
It was said hoping that someone would not remind them that during the years 1973-74 a Federal Labor Government was in power and apparently was not solicitous then in its auditing of others. [More…]
So they have been around for a long time, and more shame to those in whose power it is to make the allegations no longer applicable. [More…]
In particular, the Victorian Government refused the Commonwealth Government and the responsible Minister, Tom Uren, although he tried often enough and was insulted often enough for his pains in trying to get the relevant control, the independent power to check the valuations of the properties that Victoria wanted to purchase. [More…]
Implicit in the motion moved by the Opposition today is its concern to make a statement about how it would deal with federalism if it were in power. [More…]
I thank the Labor Party for drawing attention to the way in which it would control the States if it were in power. [More…]
Gosh, my mind went back to the days when Labor was in power and what it did about profiteering land developers. [More…]
I remember that before Mr Wran came to power he promised tax relief for New South Wales taxpayers. [More…]
Even though that incident occurred many years ago, I raise it tonight to remind honourable senators of the misuse of power and the dangerous erosion of civil liberties which can occur when we have a security system which is not properly accountable and when we have an improper relationship between the political process and the security system. [More…]
I have very great faith and confidence in them and I thereafter do not fear misuse of power in their hands. [More…]
Therefore, I think we must be conscious of the fact that we can have mistaken or unfortunate officers at times who hold such vital powers. [More…]
I have indicated that I accept the general definition of powers set out in this Bill. [More…]
I believe we should retain what we can of our power of scrutiny in this Parliament. [More…]
In the context of the overall situation and the great powers that have been given to ASIO and will be given to it under this Bill, I hope that there will be a finite limit. [More…]
But the reenactment of this legislation should come before this Parliament so that we can carry out our duties as legislators and ensure that we have not sacrificed the liberty of the people by giving too much power to public servants. [More…]
Such was the power, the feeling and the attitude that was adopted by the hierarchy of ASIO during the early part of that inquiry that they presented themselves to be a law unto themselves, a body of men who were not only out of touch with someone who was given a charter to investigate them but also completely out of touch with what they were purported to be in the first instance and who set themselves above every institution in this country. [More…]
I then ask myself: What type of intelligence are we in Australia capable of providing to some enemy or foreign power which is hostile to us, particularly in a time of peace? [More…]
The only conclusion I can come to is that Australia, for its population, has on its soil a large number of foreign military bases and that this is the military intelligence for which a power, supposedly hostile to Australia, is searching. [More…]
In reality, it is probably a power which is hostile to the country for whom Australia acts as host. [More…]
If we look at the areas in which the Minister has no power over the Director-General, we find that they are very limited. [More…]
Of course, this is not now a matter for the Federal Government because the Northern Territory has, as a result of the transference of power, its own form of selfgovernment. [More…]
‘Overthrowing the government’ does not, of course, refer to the ousting by constitutional methods of the political party in power for the time being but the overthrow by unconstitutional methods of the established constitutional government or system of government. [More…]
They give the union power to try members for breach of the rules of the organisation. [More…]
Since the Fraser Government came to power in 1975 we have witnessed an unparalleled abuse of government resources that is designed to boost the image of the Liberal-National Country Party Government and keep it in power. [More…]
Staying in power is far and away more important to it than is responsible government. [More…]
It is a major trading nation and a middle-sized power with vital interests to protect. [More…]
I met with a delegation from the Australian Council of Social Service on 28 October 1977, following the Victorian power strike, to discuss among other things the effects on the finances of welfare agencies of an apparently increasing provision of emergency relief. [More…]
The Committee supports the unanimous expression of views by all who made submissions as to the appropriateness of Parliament’s power to disallow rules of court. [More…]
The Committee considered, and rejected, a proposal that the Parliament or one of its committees should be empowered to amend or substitute its own rules for judge-made rules of court. [More…]
The Committee sees merit however, in parliamentary committees exercising effectively a power which they currently possess to make recommendations for amendment of particular judge-made rules or even for creation of new rules in respect of matters for which adequate provision has not been made. [More…]
In addition to the assistance which such an institute could provide to the judiciary, it is envisaged that its advice and assistance would be made available also to the Senate Standing Committee on Regulations and Ordinances in the exercise of its power to recommend the creation, amendment or substitution of rules of court. [More…]
Although the Commonwealth has very limited power to do anything about the matter, we were quite distressed to see the hardship that is being created by the problem in the Deniliquin area in particular. [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 super-powers 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…]
We know that since the Fraser Government came into power every department has been upset by these financial cuts that come off the cuff and the Department of Defence is one of those departments. [More…]
In the result, the Committee feels that it is appropriate that we should rewrite principle (d) and reserve a general power to scrutinise delegated legislation in general and Australian Capital Territory ordinances in particular, to determine whether under ail the circumstances that piece of delegated legislation or that ordinance ought not to be more appropriately dealt with by parliamentary enactment. [More…]
The basis of this power has been said to be a delegation by the parent to the teacher of the parent’s own right to administer reasonable and moderate corporal punishment when required, but with the advent of compulsory schooling the more modern view is that the privilege is based upon the necessity for maintaining order in and about the school. [More…]
The limitation placed by the law upon the exercise of the power is that the punishment must be moderate, reasonable and not dictated by bad motives. [More…]
I think the legislation is an attempt by Andrew Peacock to get reserve power to deny people citizenship or at least the issue of passports because they believe by having Australian citizenship they can have a bit each way. [More…]
He said in jest: ‘The good old British passport is all right; we are still a big power’. [More…]
This claim by the Yugoslav regime gives its embassies abroad, and in particular Australia, an outstanding power to control, through intimidation and harassment, their former citizens should these citizens ever require a visa to visit their friends and relatives in their homeland. [More…]
They are also concerned that this very fact gives the Yugoslav Consular authorities in Australia power to haunt its dissidents beyond their terrestrial life, since this claim of citizenship extends beyond them to their children. [More…]
They are concerned of course to see the Australian Government so indifferent when its citizens are being harassed by foreign powers in Australia, imprisoned by a foreign power abroad and even executed by a foreign power abroad. [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…]
Can we now assume that following the discussions between the Prime Minister and the Premier of New South Wales at the Loan Council meeting no punitive action will now be taken against the New South Wales Government as a result of its decision to grant power workers a 37 1/2 hour week? [More…]
Lest the responsible Minister argue at some later stage that we cannot put any conditions on agreements of this sort, I refer to the example set by the Treasurer, Mr Howard, in standing over New South Wales in respect of the shorter working week for power workers in New South Wales by saying that that State will not receive the financial assistance that - [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 Parliament gave him the power. [More…]
The threat did not come from the radicals or from the people’s movements; it came from those who exercised real power within the community. [More…]
ASIO has no power to oppress the people in the way the KGB has. [More…]
Under section 1 7 the powers of ASIO are limited to obtaining, correlating and evaluating of intelligence relevant to security, communicating that information to others and advising Ministers in relation to those activities. [More…]
I have seen a lot of sloppy statements about industrial relations since this Government came to power, but this is by far the worst. [More…]
The legislation sets up a security appeals tribunal which will be presided over by a judge and two other people who will, of course, be exercising power by the virtue of the tribunal’s consideration of security assessments provided by the Organisation. [More…]
It simply limits the power of the Minister to override the opinion of the Director-General in relation to the collection of security information about a particular individual, the communication of intelligence about a particular individual or the nature of advice that should be given. [More…]
We believe that the amendment I will be proposing, along with the existing provisions, will give sufficient power to deal with cases where anybody may have suffered any injustice. [More…]
The United States has 70 nuclear power plants. [More…]
If all the known deposits are utilised it may supply a minimum of power for only 20 or 30 years at the most. [More…]
But those who want to use uranium for the production of power tell us that there cannot be human errors in spite of the accidents that have happened at various nuclear power plants around the world, and that there can be no technical failures. [More…]
A jet plane could hit the Three Mile Island $ 1,000m nuclear power station and not damage its important sections. ‘ [More…]
A guide stated this flatly, as a fact, when he showed me through this massive nuclear power plant on Easter Saturday last year. [More…]
West Germany has 15 operating nuclear power plants and hopes to have another 1 1 operating by the mid-1980s. [More…]
A major promise in its platform was that it would eliminate nuclear power plants. [More…]
It said that it would build no more plants and would gradually wind down the country’s nuclear power stations. [More…]
Denmark has no nuclear power stations. [More…]
The people who do want nuclear power stations feel that the Harrisburg accident is just one of those things that happen. [More…]
The people opposed to the building of a nuclear power station in Denmark feel that if this lesson is learned Denmark will not construct a new reactor. [More…]
The result was a narrow margin in favour of those who did not want nuclear power stations built. [More…]
The people who opposed the building of nuclear power stations have now decided that as far as they are concerned Harrisburg might also be a blessing in disguise. [More…]
In France there is a large body of opinion which does not want to see a continuation of the construction of nuclear power houses. [More…]
Queensland Mines Ltd is negotiating the sale of a further 3,000 short tons of uranium from its Nabarlek deposit to the two Japanese power utilities, the Shikoku Electric Power Co Inc and the Kyushu Power Co Inc. [More…]
It has approved the negotiations and had taken part in discussions about a letter of intent to be signed by the two power companies. [More…]
Queensland Mines already has sales contracts for 3,500 short tons of uranium with the two power utilities. [More…]
Of course, the Government was also conscious in coming to its decision, of the fact that the nuclear power industry has an excellent safety record. [More…]
Upon coming to power in the wake of the breakup of his country, his main goal was to overcome the divisive trends in Pakistan and to re-build the country as a unified nation. [More…]
Worst of all is that his life has now been destroyed; that the persons who exercise the present power in Pakistan decided to remove him. [More…]
On the Indian subcontinent where only recently parliamentary democracy received one of its greatest victories in years- I refer to Indiaand where an Opposition which was thought to be in a hopeless situation was able to win power through the ballot box this tragic situation occurs. [More…]
He came to power as a result of the division of his country along essentially racial lines. [More…]
This Parliament has to be sensitive in this particular instance and in all instances to the way in which persons coming to power, very often by means that are illegal or regarded as improper, then use the judiciary, the military and the means of force at the disposal of the state to deal with their political opponents and to silence them in the most complete way possible. [More…]
Aborigines have lost the right to control roads that run through their areas- a power which previously was contained in the legislation. [More…]
The Northern Territory Government has raised with the Commonwealth its wish to have the power to resume Aboriginal land for public purposes. [More…]
It is not a final agreement because those parties did not have the power to agree to a final solution. [More…]
I did not have the power to commit the Government to amend the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act. [More…]
The Northern Territory Government has raised with me its problem that it has not the power to resume Aboriginal land. [More…]
The Northern Territory Government has raised with the Commonwealth its wish to have the power to resume Aboriginal land for public purposes. [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…]
In 1 976 when the legislation was introduced we warned the Government that it was doing a damaging thing to the Aborigines in the Northern Territory by handing over power to the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly. [More…]
A person having a prejudiced view or even a majority view of community attitudes at a point in time is being given the power to say that the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation is entitled to take the steps that this legislation gives it because it believes that a tentative action, which may only be a person sitting down in a coffee shop to talk about a particular issue, may ultimately lead to the sort of consequences that are suggested in clause 5 ( 1 ) (a). [More…]
For example, the United States Congress and the United States legislative processes exercise a great deal more power, influence and control over the activities of their intelligence organisation. [More…]
The legislation here is designed to centre the power in the hands of virtually one man. [More…]
This legislation is concerned with giving ASIO its charter, its powers. [More…]
Powers of this kind are required so that the Organisation, if it believes in its professional judgment that an organisation should be brought under investigation at any time, will have the power to do so. [More…]
It seems a strange proposition that after setting up a security organisation we should say to it: ‘You are not empowered to take any notice of or investigate in any way people or organisations who have a commitment to the use of violence in the long run for the purpose of overthrowing the Government of the country. [More…]
We are not talking here about the responsibility, the duty or the power of the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation simply to keep itself informed, to keep its eyes and ears open, to monitor in a general way the political and social developments in the community and to keep track in a general way of what various organisations with revolutionary aspirations might be saying or doing. [More…]
We are talking about a definition of ‘subversion’ which, if satisfied, will bring into play the operation of some quite extraordinary, far-reaching and very dangerous powers; powers to tap telephones, install listening devices, open mail, intercept telegrams and enter and search premises. [More…]
They are the powers we are talking about. [More…]
In fact he has made it clear that the Government regards the word ‘ultimate’ as being a desirable power to be given to officers of the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation so that they may make an evaluation in any given circumstance that they consider could lead to unlawful acts which would overthrow or destroy a constitutional government. [More…]
You will never get anything while you have this Government in power’. [More…]
That does not include the overthrowing of a political party which happens to be in power. [More…]
In broad terms the purpose of this clause is to give a wide brief and power to a security organisation. [More…]
Nuclear power stations have in fact posed less dangers than any other form of power generation. [More…]
Dr Tumerman said he witnessed the aftereffects of the catastrophe when he was travelling on the main north-south Urals Highway in June 1 96 1 , on his way to visit the construction site of the first major Russian atomic power plant … [More…]
The figures are for the years 1975 to 1976 and they relate to the purchasing power of the Australian dollar in terms of special drawing rights as calculated by the International Monetary Fund on a mix of worldwide currencies. [More…]
The delay in restoring the Cox Peninsula station has meant that Radio Australia has not had the transmitter power to compete effectively against the major international services broadcasting to the Asian region. [More…]
But if the Minister has to account to someone, if the Leader of the Opposition has to be supplied with information on the warrants, any abuse of power by the Minister would become obvious. [More…]
This restraint upon the Minister would prevent him from abusing that power. [More…]
There may not be any abuse of power. [More…]
One could only come to the conclusion that the Special Branch was abusing the power it had. [More…]
We regard it as appropriate that the position of the Leader of the Opposition should be different from that of the Minister of the day only in respect of the actual ability to exercise executive power, to make decisions, in particular about the issue of warrants, and to give directions to the Director-General. [More…]
The most extreme view, which in my opinion was quite ill founded, was peddled about from an anonymous Melbourne Queen’s Counsel after the Murphy visit in 1973, namely, that the Attorney-General had no jurisdiction over the Organization at all; he had no power to demand files or to gain entry to premises of the Organization. [More…]
On the other hand, as Mr Justice Hope acknowledges, there was the accepted view that he had complete authority, powers of direction and access to records and premises. [More…]
He said that there is a general power of direction in the AttorneyGeneral except with respect to certain matters, namely the communication of intelligence, where the discretion rests with the Director-General. [More…]
We are happy with it to the extent that it seems to embody the general principle that the power of the Minister should be maximised and that the independent, restraint-free power of the Director-General should be minimised to the greatest possible extent. [More…]
It is important that the power of the Minister be maximised as against the power of the Director-General for the simple reason that it is only the AttorneyGeneral of those two people who is answerable to Parliament and the people. [More…]
If democracy means anything we have to maximise the power and responsibility of the elected official at the expense of the unelected. [More…]
It is why we argue, firstly, for a clarification of the situation and, secondly, for the power of the Minister to be maximised. [More…]
However, although we say that the power of the Minister should be maximised we do not say that his power and responsibility should be complete. [More…]
We acknowledge the legitimacy of certain specific restrictions on the power of the Minister to exercise complete authority over the DirectorGeneral. [More…]
We have no quarrel with the language of clause 8 (2) (a) and (b), both of which have the effect of limiting the specific power of the Minister to give directions on questions relating to the collection and dissemination of intelligence about particular individuals. [More…]
It is a curious provision which in turn limits the power of the Minister to give specific directions concerning the nature of the advice that should be given by the Organization, to a Minister, Department or authority of the Commonwealth’. [More…]
We see this as an unnecessary limitation on the general power, authority and responsibility of the Minister. [More…]
There is not a sufficiently strong reason to limit the general power, authority and responsibility of the Attorney-General in this area. [More…]
We say, insofar as access is concerned, that the Minister should be entitled to have knowledge of the existence of particular files or material on an individual but he should not have the power to get access to the actual content of those files. [More…]
The reason why we want to say something about access as well as just leave it in the realm of the ability to give directions is that the question of access has been the single most controversial aspect of this whole point of ministerial power. [More…]
The sensitive question of access should not be concealed within the language of clause 8 (2), which is just about powers of direction, although obviously a direction could be given to give access to material and it could be argued that access is subsumed within clause 8 (2). [More…]
We would regard it as desirable to have an explicit clause setting out, in language which no one can misunderstand, the powers of the Attorney-General and the limitations on the Attorney-General’s powers insofar as access to files is concerned. [More…]
There are many people who would say that the principle of ministerial power and responsibility ought to extend to full ministerial access to everything including the content of individual files and data about particular individuals. [More…]
Thus we would limit the power of access to individual files in the way which we have suggested and in the way which, as I keep saying, 1 think is quite consistent with the principles embodied in paragraphs ( a ) and ( b ) of the existing clause 8(2). [More…]
We of the Opposition regard it as important that the Government should go further than it has already gone in this area and accept these amendments because it is only by accepting these amendments and spelling them out in the way we have suggested that we believe that the proper balance between ministerial responsibility and limitations on ministerial power can be achieved. [More…]
Therefore, I think it is desirable in some sense- and I share Senator Evans’ problem- I think there should be some sort of mitigation or limitation of the absolute power of the Director-General in this regard. [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…]
The Minister, though, should have the power to give directions, as was said by Mr Menzies and Dr Evatt on another occasion in another place. [More…]
That is why we put one major qualification on this power of direction. [More…]
These paragraphs will protect the individual against misuse of ministerial power. [More…]
The Opposition seems to feel that that clause limits in some way the power that the Minister may have to obtain information about the way the Organization operates and that therefore it is an undesirable restriction. [More…]
Apart from those limitations- which are supported by the Senate- we see clause 8, as drafted, as enabling the Minister to exercise the full power of investigation of the Organization and to obtain all the information that he would need in order to exercise his responsibility. [More…]
Where it is a matter of supplying information to another State, even though it is done indirectly through a Commonwealth Department, I would not have thought that it would come within the powers of the Director-General unless that clause were changed. [More…]
Even though the Director-General is given this power, it should not be left there. [More…]
There is a power of appeal, and the appeal provision is a very important one. [More…]
However, if this is the way in which information is to be supplied to the State authorities, then it ought to be made perfectly clear in the legislation that this is within the powers of the Director-General and that there will be the opportunity for people to appeal in these circumstances. [More…]
The Committee is of the view that the Aboriginals and Torres Strait Islanders (Queensland Reserves and Communities Self-management) Act 1978 clearly falls within the scope of the power conferred upon the Commonwealth Parliament by section 5 1 (xxvi) of the Act: [More…]
The Committee notes that, since the amendment of the Constitution in 1967 to give the Commonwealth Parliament power to make laws with respect to Aboriginals, most attempts have failed to achieve any co-operative arrangement with the Queensland Government regarding management and control of the affairs . [More…]
When the Labor Government was in power, as I said a few moments ago, we tried to set up a housing association at the Gorge so that people could live on their own 60 acres of land. [More…]
The second thing that the report does is to give a full account of the relevance and application of section S 1 (xxxi) of the Constitution, which sets out the power of the Commonwealth to acquire property on just terms. [More…]
We tried to set aside the fault that has developed in this country for years, namely, that we have doubted the powers ofthe Commonwealth. [More…]
Those powers are not only considerable but also diverse. [More…]
The Commonwealth has substantial power and, if necessary, it should use that power. [More…]
His big chance to really assist sport came when he won the portfolio of Recreation and Tourism when the Whitlam Government was swept to power in 1972. [More…]
He had that great power of evoking loyalty and affection from people in all walks of life. [More…]
I ask the Minister: Notwithstanding the accession to statehood by the Northern Territory, does he, through the Commonwealth Attorney-General, have the power to control these leases, or is he under extreme pressure from the Northern Territory Government to sabotage this vision splendid? [More…]
The position, as I understand it, is that the Australian Conciliation and Arbitration Commission does in fact have a power to order secret ballots. [More…]
In spite of the well known reality that nuclear power will not be economically viable in this country this century- Sir Charles Court’s hallucinations notwithstanding; everyone knows that nuclear power will not be viable on purely economic grounds this centry- more money is devoted to nuclear research than to solar research. [More…]
It is to spend more on research into nuclear power, which we will not be using this century, than it is willing to allocate now for solar energy research. [More…]
The Legislative Assembly will have power to make laws 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…]
Part VIII ensures the continuation of present laws regarding employment and appointment of officers, grants of land and audit by the AuditorGeneral, provides for the Governor-General’s power to grant pardons, remit sentences and make regulations, and ensures that the exclusive powers of the Legislative Assembly, as set out in Schedule 2, will not be able to be altered in any way without the consent of the Assembly. [More…]
He was quite clearly indicating that the Tribunal has the power to impose conditions on licences if it is so minded. [More…]
The fault is with the Government forgiving the Tribunal a job but no power to perform it. [More…]
1 submit that, in fact, the Tribunal has those powers and is able to exercise them if it is so minded. [More…]
We know that Ministers and the Tribunal have this power. [More…]
The Minister for Health has no statutory power to control the numbers of private hospital beds in the various States. [More…]
If the former, then the Minister for Health has power, under the Health Insurance Act 1 973, to approve premises as private hospitals and to determine the number of beds to which the approval relates. [More…]
Hydro-electric Power [More…]
Between 1973 and 1976, the Commonwealth and the Queensland governments jointly funded a Sim study into the resources and potential of the Burdekin River Basin for industrial and agricultural development, power generation and flood mitigation. [More…]
My question, which is directed to the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs, concerns the provision of electric power to remote Aboriginal communities. [More…]
To what extent has the Commonwealth Government assumed responsibility for the provision of major services such as power and water in these Aboriginal communities? [More…]
In particular, will the Minister give very urgent consideration to the provision of electric power to the Pitjantjatjara community at Fregon in South Australia where this week the power supply, after a history of difficulties, has again failed, causing very real stress in that community? [More…]
-The Commonwealth Government has not made any recent assumption of responsibility for the supply of power and water in remote Aboriginal communities. [More…]
In fact, the movement is somewhat the other way because on 1 July 1978 the Northern Territory Government became responsible for the provision of services of that sort in the Northern Territory, particularly the provision of power and water supplies and sewerage disposal systems for Aboriginal communities. [More…]
In Western Australia we are presently negotiating for a fairly substantial takeover of power supplies by the State authority. [More…]
The officers of the Department of Aboriginal Affairs and the Department of Housing and Construction went to Fregon on 27 March to assess requirements for the community’s power supply. [More…]
If a State sought to raise no tax and just lived on what came from the Commonwealth I suppose it could 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…]
He says that, as well, there must be a redistribution of economic power; industrial democracy must be encouraged where workers challenge the prerogatives of bosses on the how, when and where of production. [More…]
We need to pray when we look across the benches at the Labor Party, and a little prayer would help even Senator Gietzelt, although he would deny its influence or power. [More…]
I refer to the circumstances in which his Government came to power in 1975 and the circumstances in which he acted in this Senate in order to achieve power in 1 975. [More…]
In addition- and I would like the people of Victoria to take into account what happened when the Federal Labor Government was in power during 1972-75- Mr Wilkes has promised that there will be 42 new boards and commissions and that 26 inquiries will be established, for the benefit of the legal profession. [More…]
That recommendations should be made for desirable Commonwealth action within the areas that are fully and indisputably within Commonwealth power and responsibility. [More…]
As we took evidence throughout the country, and as we talked to constitutional authorities, we were very firmly of the view that the evidence established clearly that the Commonwealth had what we called a coalescence of power in a number of fields, including taxation, defence, foreign affairs, fisheries and quarantine, which gave it sufficient legislative competence to lay down and enforce a national approach through legislation alone. [More…]
But it is high time we had a Water Resources Council which had some authority, some power to act, and could bring its expertise to bear. [More…]
Australia is a significant middle power and therefore does have some influence, especially in the region in which we live. [More…]
I expect that the Government, if it were within its power, could respond sympathetically to the case that has been outlined. [More…]
However, the Opposition, on balance, after carefully considering this matter, has decided to accept the principle embodied in the Bill as it stands; that it ought to be the Minister who accepts the responsibility for the issuing of these special power warrants, the reason being that the Minister is accountable to the Parliament and to the people in a way that in our system the courts are not. [More…]
One such amendment that we have moved involves the Leader of the Opposition, not just in consultations with the government of the day- a principle which I am delighted to acknowledge the Government has conceded in the amendment that we passed just a few moments ago- being involved in the detailed day to day scrutiny of the operations of the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation and being entitled to be fully briefed on the way in which in particular the special power warrants are dispensed and what the outcome of their use is. [More…]
To my knowledge this is the only information that has been placed on the public record as to the actual numerical extent of the exercise of telephone tapping powers. [More…]
Of course, we now have to think not only about telephone tapping powers but also the installation of listening devices and all the other powers to which I have referred. [More…]
That is the available statutory power at the moment with respect to security telephone tapping. [More…]
I contest the assertion that the exercise of surveillance powers on the scale that has been exercised in the past and will be exercised in the future does not do anyone any damage and that the mere existence of this squirrelling away of informationgathering activity does not in itself do any harm and should not in any event cause any neurosis. [More…]
The reason I say that is the well established and accepted argument, certainly in the United States, that the implications of the use of these powers go primarily to the chilling effect that their use has on the political activity which is essential to the workings of democracy. [More…]
effect on individuals of uneasiness, whether rational or even irrational, caused by feelings that they are under surveillance by those with power to harm them, which feelings may go to the extent of inducing them to restrict the exercise of their ordinary freedoms. [More…]
I gained the very clear impression from watching my colleague Senator Baume that he was trying to indicate to the Senate that it was not within his power to give an undertaking on behalf of senators other than himself. [More…]
There has been comment and speculation about geological factors at the site of the Philippines nuclear power project. [More…]
To place these reports in perspective, it should be remembered that a number of nuclear power stations have been built in countries which, like the Philippines, are subject to earthquakes. [More…]
Will he give the Senate an assurance that no power has been given to the Premier of Queensland which will enable him to take similar action in relation to the Great Barrier Reef? [More…]
Clearly running through those answers has been an assurance by the Federal Government that it will do everything within its power to see that no harm is done to one of the world ‘s great natural phenomena and resources, the Great Barrier Reef. [More…]
The Senate is well aware that there are divisions of State and Commonwealth powers and that these need resolution. [More…]
I say in passing that Labor members of the Committee are certainly not under any illusion that the introduction of proper methods of evaluation or accountability will make unnecessary changes to the distribution of wealth, wages and power in this country, which we see as a basic problem behind the necessity for welfare. [More…]
The Minister for Primary Industry (Mr Sinclair), who alone has the power to direct the Australian Wheat Board under section 1 8 ( 1 ) of the Wheat Industry Stabilization Act- there is no other Act which gives any other Minister power to direct the Australian Wheat Board- said nothing. [More…]
The point of Mr Wallis ‘s question was whether the Reserve Bank of Australia had any power to direct the Board to reduce its overdraft. [More…]
Looking past the portuous prose, what the Treasurer was saying there was that the Reserve Bank does not have any power to direct the Wheat Board. [More…]
Nobody disputed that this unequivocally gives the Minister power to direct the Wheat Board on any matter concerning its functions and duties. [More…]
1 ) What international agreements or treaties govern the allocation of each of (a) frequencies: (b) radiated power levels; and (c) radiation patterns in particular directions, for medium frequency radio stations. [More…]
) At what level of radiated power output is it obligatory to consult international neighbours before an allocation is made. [More…]
Is the agreement of international neighbours needed at all levels of radiated power output; if so, which countries must be consulted by Australia. [More…]
The Convention and its associated Radio Regulations together with the adopted agreements of later ITU Conferences govern the technical arrangements for medium frequency radio stations including frequencies, radiated power levels and radiation patterns in particular directions. [More…]
5 ) to ( 7 ) For the majority of cases in Regions 1 and 3 it is necessary to consult with neighbouring countries for any change in the technical operating conditions of medium frequency radio stations including levels of radiated power. [More…]
Power Without Glory (26eps. [More…]
Power Without Glory (26 eps. [More…]
Two complete spare engines, including gas generator and power turbine sections, are being procured for the three FFGs. [More…]
the declaration should not proceed until formal extension of State power over territorial sea has been accomplished in line with the decisions taken at the Premiers’ Conference in June 1978. [More…]
In fact, it is proud that it does talk to its State colleagues and does try to resolve these issues by consultation and not by an attitude of confrontation, which in this and many other areas was the policy and attitude of the Australian Labor Party when it was in power. [More…]
The constitutional settlement of the powers relating to the marine parks is a matter which is under intense discussion. [More…]
I preface my question by saying that no doubt the Minister is aware that daylight saving was introduced into Tasmania many years ago for six months of the year during a period of power shortage due to a water shortage in the lakes of Tasmania. [More…]
I imagine that it would be better to provide for the Minister to be able to say that he wants to depute somebody from his own staff to act in certain ways rather than to leave the provision as it is expressed in clause 23 and gives the DirectorGeneral full power and authority to act in the way suggested. [More…]
The second main category of our objection to the Bill as drafted was as to the event which triggers the exercise of these extraordinary powers. [More…]
In rejecting that amendment the Government, as honourable senators will recall, has left an officer of ASIO with power to look at an activity at a certain time and prophesy that ultimately it is likely to lead to a situation of violence, even though it is not intended or a purpose of the current activity. [More…]
We felt that that position was so dangerous that we were obliged to urge that further constraints concerning the actual exercise of powers be written into the Bill. [More…]
True enough, overall that is the scheme of the Bill, but this Division of the Bill at which we are looking now- Division 2 of Part III- the special powers division of the Bill- does not operate that way. [More…]
This division, with the exception of the emergency power provision- let us leave that to one side and deal with it when we come to it- operates quite explicitly and directly to vest powers not in the Director-General, with only a supervisory role for the Minister, but in the Minister himself. [More…]
Under those circumstances, it is incumbent upon this Parliament to be satisfied that the guidelines provided in the Bill as to the way in which the Minister does exercise those powers are in fact satisfactory and do spell out all the considerations which should be present to the Minister’s mind. [More…]
Clearly, what it does not do, and what this amendment is designed to correct, is to specify quite directly and explicitly some of the, as it were, civil libertarian considerations which ought to be present in the Minister’s mind before issuing warrants of the draconian effect that these warrants over search and seizure powers, inspection of the mails and the installation of listening devices actually represent. [More…]
The clauses of the Bill dealing with the Minister’s power and responsibilities in this respect do not spell out any requirement at all that the Minister pay regard to the competing considerations of civil liberties, or that the citizen not be unnecessarily subjected to harassment by these surveillance and investigatory techniques. [More…]
This clause will give him power to issue a warrant to obtain information which could be obtained by means other than through the issue of a warrant to enable the forcible entry to premises, the seizing of documents, the inspection of files and the taking of records from premises. [More…]
He want this power so that he can use it in circumstances in which the information could be obtained by other methods. [More…]
Even though other areas of this legislation do in fact tie the Minister very intimately into the process of the issue of warrants, when it comes to this very clause of the legislation which widens the power to issue warrants the Minister stands pat. [More…]
Our worry about the misapplication of the listening device warrant power becomes so much more acute by virtue of the rejection which the Government has just made of our proposed new clause 23a which would at least have had the effect of ensuring that listening devices were not installed until other less extreme investigative measures had been employed and found wanting or impracticable. [More…]
That consideration makes it so much more important that within the text of the description in the Bill of these powers themselves there be some greater degree of safeguard governing their exercise than appears in the Bill at the moment. [More…]
But we take the view that a period of 90 days or three months- a period which the Government has itself employed in respect of certain other classes of special powers, in particular, the power relating to the interception of postal articles- as the initial maximum period is a period which the Government ought to be prepared to accept as a proper limitation on the perhaps casual, cavalier or unthinking exercise of these powers. [More…]
This clause gives too wide a power to the Minister, or anyone else, to issue a warrant simply in order to get a snippet of conversation in the brief period during which the person is on the premises. [More…]
He attempted to bolster his otherwise threadbare argument by claiming to point to the duration of warrants under legislation which he said was within the power ofthe previous Labor Government to amend. [More…]
The Attorney-General said that the power has existed for some time in the Telephonic Communications (Interception) Act. [More…]
One of the major protections of the clause is that which appears in sub-clause (l)(b) whereby the Director-General does not have this power if, to his knowledge, the Minister has refused to issue a substantially similar warrant within the preceding three months. [More…]
The effect of this amendment, which is a significant one, is clearly to remove the decisionmaking power in respect of the issue of emergency warrants from the Director-General and place it clearly and squarely, here, as elsewhere, with the Minister. [More…]
The concept, even for a short time- 48 hours- of a mere official, unaccountable to the Parliament, not an official of judicial stature, having the power to himself, without reference, to, or authority from, anyone else, to issue warrants of the kind in issue under this Division, is a prospect which is alarming and one to which this Senate ought to give no countenance whatsoever, unless perhaps it is persuaded that overwhelming considerations of practicality demand a deviation from this central principle of ministerial accountability which the Government has adopted and which, generally speaking, the Opposition has accepted. [More…]
What about the supposed demands of urgency which are built into the very operation of this clause and which, it may be suggested by the Government, are such as to make it far too cumbersome for even the oral authorisation by the Minister to be a pre-condition of the exercise of this power? [More…]
There is ample power elsewhere in the statute book and in the common law for the police agencies to react in the case of bomb scares and so on. [More…]
The second point to make about the argument of practicality is that there are already a number of time consuming constraints on the exercise of the power in question here by the DirectorGeneral. [More…]
A formal request- one presumes that it is in writing or at least the product of some preparation- has to have been generated or initiated already by the Director-General before this clause can operate and before the Director-General can have the power to issue a warrant physically off his own bat. [More…]
The second example of these constraints already being embodied in the Bill is the requirement in clause 28 that a warrant actually be issued physically by the Director-General before the powers can be exercised. [More…]
Realistically speaking, a variety of conditions already has to be satisfied before the power can be exercised. [More…]
Bearing those considerations in mind detracts from any argument that here we are talking about a sequence of events which arise out of the blue and have to be reacted to within a matter of minutes if the exercise of the power in question is to have any utility. [More…]
In the last paragraph of section 7 ( 1 ) it can be seen that under that Act the Director-General of Security has this power by warrant under his hand to authorise the interception of communications passing over any telephone line that forms part of the service or connects the service to a telephone exchange. [More…]
Presumably therefore one is put back on to the second test that Senator Evans put before us this evening, that is, that the test is one of practicality and not one involving any great matter of principle whereby this power should be vested in the hands of the Director-General. [More…]
As 1 said at the opening of my remarks, I do not like at all the provision for the Director-General to have this extraordinary power even though the warrant remains in force for the limited period of 48 hours. [More…]
I do believe that it is a very serious matter to vest in a public servant whose tenure of office is guaranteed for a fairly significant period, barring the most unusual circumstances, that sort of power over individual citizens. [More…]
In those circumstances, the Opposition’s amendment, because I believe that potentially it creates more problems than it is likely to solve, is not one that would have my support, however, the power that the clause currently vests in the DirectorGeneral is a power which, within the system of parliamentary democracy that we know in many ways is an unwise one to so vest. [More…]
-Has the attention of the Leader of the Government in the Senate been drawn to the fact that there have been some 192 political executions in Iran since the monstrous regime of the Ayatollah Khomeini came to power? [More…]
Further, has the Minister’s attention been drawn to the detention without trial of the distinguished elder statesman, the 84 year old Senator Ali Dashti, who apparently is being held for the crime of assisting to come to power Reza Shah, the father of the current Shah, in the 1920s? [More…]
If we are to talk of the promise of the Fraser Government, of the promise of the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) and of the promise that was read by Senator Grimes with regard to the maintenance of the level of pensions so that they did not lose their purchasing power, we do need to look at the comparison of the increase in the CPI and the standard rate of pension through the period of office of this Government. [More…]
In the terms of this Government, the purchasing power of pensions in relation to CPI has not only been maintained but has also been improved. [More…]
I think it is important to say that because of the claims that are made about broken promises with regard to the maintenance of the purchasing power of the pension. [More…]
Those figures show- as I have shown in other ways from time to timethat that purchasing power has been maintained as a deliberate policy of Government and as a commitment by the Government to find the funds to pay for those increases as they have occurred through our legislation. [More…]
The Government would not establish it when it was in power prior to 1972. [More…]
I ask the Government not to use the power of numbers that it has because it will make life very difficult. [More…]
I do not think that the question confronting the Senate is the power of the Government to act in certain ways including the power to gag a debate such as this one. [More…]
We do that because it is another check and balance, as it were, on the frivolous exercise of this power which the Director-General has. [More…]
The Organisation has power to make its findings available to an authority of the State, which we have just defined. [More…]
-With respect, Mr Minister, I am not sure that it does, lt might be an extreme or an isolated occasion, but nonetheless it would appear to be possible under the powers vested in the agency in clause 17 to communicate intelligence for purposes relevant to security. [More…]
Bearing in mind the width of the definition of security earlier in the Bill, which includes terrorism as well as subversion, it would appear to be possible and within the agency’s power, if the mood so struck, to communicate security assessment information directly to a private employer who was not a Commonwealth contractor. [More…]
It seems possible for such information to be communicated, albeit that is not one of the more likely or routine ways in which the agency would be likely to exercise its power. [More…]
Nonetheless, it is a possible way of exercising the power of communicating security assessments. [More…]
It may be that that is misreading the powers. [More…]
What would be the position of a minister of religion who goes on to a defence establishment such as a warship and who demonstrates against the use of nuclear power? [More…]
He could preach to that congregation that it was immoral to use nuclear power in the community. [More…]
The exercise of any power, or the performance of any function, in relation to a person under the Migration Act 1 958 or the regulations under that Act: or [More…]
The exercise of any power, or the performance of any function, in relation to a person under the Australian Citizenship Act 1948, the Passports Act 1938 or the regulations under cither of those Acts; [More…]
The question therefore is not a matter of debating that, but a matter of debating whether in fact the civil liberties of the individual concerned are adequately protected by vesting this power in one elected public official or whether they are better protected by vesting them initially in one elected public official, with that official being required to have his decision subject to review or further consideration by a person who has been appointed to a particularly sensitive position as the presidential member of the Security Appeals Tribunal. [More…]
The question then arises as to who is to exercise this power. [More…]
The fact that the proposal that there should be such a power of withholding this information certainly was recommended by Mr Justice Hope. [More…]
He saw it as such an exceptional and serious situation that he recommended that the power should be exercised by the Prime Minister himself. [More…]
Therefore, the Government decided that it was better that the Attorney-General, who is, by and large, directly concerned with this matter, should be the Executive member who would be responsible for exercising that power. [More…]
The Attorney-General is given other very strong powers in this legislation, particularly in approving the issuing of warrants. [More…]
Under this legislation the Attorney-General may not in many cases be the Minister exercising the power, although normally he would be; but those powers of the Attorney-General under this legislation have not been challenged in this Committee debate. [More…]
Therefore, it does seem perfectly appropriate that he ought to have the power to make this type of decision which is concerned with making an assessment of what is essential to the security of the nation. [More…]
Because of the serious nature of the disaster that overtook the nuclear power station at Harrisburg and the increasing cloud of doubt that now hovers over every nuclear power station, can the individual States of Australia act unilaterally by deciding to go nuclear, deciding on reactor design, and deciding on location? [More…]
As these decisions affect every Australian, should it not be the responsibility of the Federal Government, in conjunction with the Atomic Energy Commission, to say whether atomic power stations should be built or not? [More…]
If the answer is to the effect that the States do have the power, would they have the power to build fast breeder reactors for power generation? [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: (xxxviii) the exercise within the Commonwealth, at the request or with the concurrence of the parliaments of all of the States directly concerned, of any power which can at the establishment of this Constitution be exercised only by the Parliament of the United Kingdom or by the Federal Council of Australasia: [More…]
This obscure power was dug up by the Attorneys-General as a way of achieving the aims of the Commonwealth without involving too much public debate. [More…]
The matter admittedly is not free from doubt because it is an untested power of the Constitution. [More…]
In coming to any arrangement in relation to a joint authority, the Commonwealth is giving away power, rights and responsibility or sharing it with other people. [More…]
The Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority has the power to declare areas as marine parks and this is probably the major matter of concern. [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…]
The rate of bounty recommended by the Industries Assistance Commission was $20 per kilowatt of engine power of the prime mover, which would have provided eligible manufacturers of bountiable machines with a bounty of $45 per unit. [More…]
Accordingly, the Government has decided to increase the rate of bounty payable to $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…]
The provisions of the Bill are designed to provide power for the Commission to issue public securities and to provide guarantee powers thereto. [More…]
In relation to 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…]
It is only on those conditions, with the existence of a right to appeal, that we are even remotely happy about the existence of that power of communication. [More…]
I think, from the points that Senator Mulvihill has made, he is concerned that any action of that kind would be in the performance of any powers or functions under the Migration Act, the Citizenship Act or the Passport Act. [More…]
The tribunal is not going to be concerned with a general review of the exercise of a power to grant citizenship or not grant a passport, but will be concerned simply with that element; that is, if there is a security assessment which is an element in that decision, the appeal will be in relation simply to that security assessment. [More…]
The Government is aware of Mr Justice Hope’s recommendation which, if implemented, would have gone a little further and given the Tribunal the power to decide this question. [More…]
Otherwise I cannot see what, essentially, constitutes the difference between the power that the tribunal is vested with currently under subclause (11) and sub-clause (12), and the power that the tribunal would still retain if Senator Cavanagh ‘s amendments were accepted. [More…]
If the applicant asked any question for the purpose of disclosing anything that was contrary to security considerations, the Tribunal would have the same power that it has under sub-clause 1 3 which states: [More…]
The Director-General has that power. [More…]
A judge in a court has a power to disallow a question. [More…]
To give such a person all the justice possible, we should place such a restriction on the power of the Tribunal. [More…]
If any official with government status or origin is seen as the person who determines a citizen’s right, who has the power to stand up to the government, so it is perceived, on a civil liberties issue it is the Ombudsman. [More…]
The second point relates to the Minister’s power to give directions to the tribunal. [More…]
Apart from being able to withhold from individuals the fact that they have an adverse security assessment, this provision puts in the hands of the Minister a fairly considerable power in relation to the civil rights and liberties of individual citizens. [More…]
That Attorney-General will have under the existing legislation the power to require the Tribunal to undertake the review in what the Act calls special circumstances’. [More…]
It is crucially important that the abuse or misuse of ASIO power ought to be able to be made public. [More…]
This new power is intended to be exercised only in regard to those accounts that have always been the subject of a certificate. [More…]
If the Government of the day refuses to do so it is within the power of the Parliament to require that it be done. [More…]
Then the Parliament would retain some power and new and amending legislation would have to go through the Parliament before that period had expired. [More…]
A number of times during the debate honourable senators have heard argument as to whether there should be explicit statutory guidance on how the Attorney-General’s mind should be focused in the exercise of the various directions, discretions and powers vested in him. [More…]
This is another attempt to give explicit statutory content to a particular power and to require him to direct his mind specifically to the question of whether security would be seriously prejudiced by the kind of communication that is in issue. [More…]
To avoid duplication of effort and waste of resources, will the Government react favourably to a call by the Western Australian Government that power to act in consumer affairs matters be delineated by agreement with the States? [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…]
In coming to power, after the economically disastrous Whitlam-Hayden period, the Liberal coalition government promised to reduce big government and to promote a healthy private enterprise economy. [More…]
In order to test that, I put a question on notice last November- six months ago- in which I asked each Minister to identify those areas under his responsibility in which powers had been transferred to the States. [More…]
Not one power has been transferred to the States by that department since this Government took office. [More…]
I make a plea to all honourable senators and to all members of the House of Representatives that they ensure that no drilling on that reef is undertaken- that we do not give any power or permission, to mining companies, exploration companies, the Queensland Government, or anyone else for that matter, to drill on the reef. [More…]
Could you ascertain how much power is used by the television lights here today and investigate the possibility of permanently increasing the light level in this chamber so that we can see our colleagues a little better? [More…]
Will the Minister give an assurance that he will oppose any move by the Federal Government to give power to the Queensland Government in relation to control of the Great Barrier Reef until such time as the Minister knows the interpretation of the Queensland Government as to what is the Great Barrier Reef? [More…]
Will the Minister oppose any transfer of powers to the Queensland Government if its interpretation, as Senator Martin suggested, is the outer reef? [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 or may be committed. [More…]
If we look at a couple of other factors concerned with the Government’s administration of the Prices Justification Tribunal over the last three and a half years, we see that there is a consistent administrative pattern, as well as a legislative campaign, aimed at reducing the powers and effectiveness of the Tribunal. [More…]
For example, the staff, which numbered 138 when this Government came into power, has been progressively whittled down to a current level of 99. [More…]
I was about to add ‘and the instructions of the Tribunal’ but one cannot really say that because I understand that the Tribunal did not have the legal power to implement its finding that, if it was necessary to recover the costs for the physical handling of wool, the company should charge at cost for the purely handling service and reduce its commission charges. [More…]
Many people may have doubts about the effectiveness of a body such as this, especially when it has no direct legal power to enforce its findings, in controlling price increases. [More…]
However, pricing decisions of noncompetitive public firms- that is firms which have sufficient market power to significantly set their own prices- are not subject to the same rigorous public scrutiny of their applications and the justification for them. [More…]
Therefore it follows inescapably that an essential part of any package deal on wages policy, aimed at getting on top of inflation, should not only incorporate some reasonable assurancethat is something which is seen to be a reasonable assurance to the unions- but also that applications for price increases by companies with a great deal of market power should be treated in the same way as are applications for wage increases by the unions. [More…]
While this Government is in power I think we can forget about the provision which permits the Minister to direct the Tribunal to study the pricing policies of particular firms. [More…]
The fact is that by establishing more effective price surveillance methods and better methods of inquiry and by ensuring that the Minister who is going to direct the inquiry is given more power to ensure that he can get more information on price rises he will be able to survey and keep control over prices more effectively than he can under the method applied up to now which is by ensuring that there is a reporting procedure within the community, imposing costs not only on business but, more importantly, on the consumer. [More…]
The Prices Justification Tribunal needs to be strong to prevent abuse of market power. [More…]
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…]
Secondly, we argue that at the present time we could go much further in relation to a number of specific matters in terms of the heads of power which are given to the island people to administer for themselves and to remove some of the avenues for interference by the mainland government and its representatives on the island who, of course, include the Administrator. [More…]
Thus, we propose that in Schedule II there be added exclusive powers for the local assembly over referenda, electoral law, the recruitment and management of a Norfolk Island public service and education. [More…]
Firstly, we seek to remove the power of the Administrator or the Governor-General to obstruct the government of the island by placing limits of 60 days and 90 days respectively on the time in which they may consider proposed ordinances. [More…]
That is a restriction which we regard as absolutely reasonable in the interests of efficient government and one which we regard as reasonable in relation to the powers and functions of the assembly itself. [More…]
Secondly, we suggest that we should place powers on appointing members of the executive council and terminating appointments- I am referring to both powers of appointing and terminating appointmentsalthough we are opposed to the concept of an executive council as such. [More…]
We think that insofar as the powers exist in the Bill, and to which I have referred, the matter of accepting resignations of assembly presidents and deputy presidents should be placed in the hands of the assembly rather than of the Administrator. [More…]
Thirdly, we suggest that the placing of the power to convene assembly meetings and the power to fix dates of elections in the hands of the assembly president would be a most desirable amendment and innovation in this legislation. [More…]
Fourthly, we think that there should be removed from the Governor-General the power to disallow ordinances on Schedule II matters passed by the assembly, as we would propose, or passed by the assembly and assented to by the Administrator as would be the case under the Bill as presently drafted. [More…]
Secondly, we think that there should be a procedural change which would again affect the powers of the people in the assembly in that there should be a right of appeal to the assembly when an Administrator rules that an ordinance is beyond power. [More…]
The powers of the Administrator as contained in the Bill introduced by the Government are in a sense quite arbitrary and autocratic. [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…]
The whole notion of a power of disallowance remaining in the hands of the Governor-General is an archaic one and one which was justified by the Minister for Home Affairs (Mr Ellicott) in his reply to the debate in the other place, in terms of its mirroring section 59 of the Australian Constitution which provides that any law passed by the Australian Parliament is subject to disallowance by the Queen. [More…]
It is appointed by the Administrator from the local Legislative Assembly and if the Administrator of the day does not like the advice he gets from the Executive Council he will have the power under this legislation to terminate the appointment of any individual member of the Executive Council. [More…]
It is absolutely clear that the real power remains in the hands of the Administrator. [More…]
The powers that the Administrator can exercise under this legislation would not be such as to embarrass an oriental potentate. [More…]
The literal powers vested in the Adminsitrator are very extensive- powers to convene the Legislative Assembly, to initiate money legislation, to appoint and dismiss the Executive Council and to assent or refuse assent, as the case may be, to legislation. [More…]
In particular, we cannot make any assumptions to this effect, given the absolute and dictatorial way in which the powers of the Norfolk Island Administrator have been used and abused in practice in the past. [More…]
There is quite recent evidence of the abuse of power by the Norfolk Island Administrator. [More…]
Enshrined in clause 23 is the proposition that there is a necessity for real selfgovernment for the people of Norfolk Island to be limited by this very extraordinary power of the Governor-General to disallow laws made by the Norfolk Island Legislative Assembly and approved by the Administrator. [More…]
The Opposition takes the view that for power of this kind to be vested in the Governor-General and not be subject to any sanction, any power, any intervention or any redress, if the islanders are unhappy about it, by the elected Legislative Assembly, is to make absolute nonsense of the supposed scheme of the Bill which vests primary money powers in respect to activities on the island in that Legislative Assembly. [More…]
It is for that reason that the Opposition seeks the deletion of the empowering sub-clauses 3 and 4 of clause 27 and the addition of a new sub-clause 7 which says: [More…]
What we do suggest is that the same facilities should be available to citizens, employees and, to a lesser extent, employers of Norfolk Island, having regard to the balance of power between those two groups. [More…]
In addition the Tribunal is 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…]
Of course, we all know that the average person in Australia has come to see this Government in its proper light- as a government that came to power in a period of dishonesty. [More…]
-The Federal Government has full power of control in relation to this area. [More…]
The Federal Government has the ultimate constitutional power here to ensure that the policies are carried out and to ensure the exercise of its responsibilities. [More…]
I have just said that the Commonwealth has the ultimate constitutional power in this area. [More…]
As I said in a similar debate recently, the discussions with the States are on the basis of the exercise by this Parliament- not anybody else- of its constitutional power. [More…]
We are not talking about giving away the ultimate constitutional power of this Parliament. [More…]
In the ultimate the Board will have the power to redeploy staff in departments. [More…]
This general power is already given to the Board in the Public Service Act- the more detailed provisions in the new Bill are consistent with the role recommended for the Board by the RCAGA in handling excess staff cases. [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 the Minister 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…]
At present the Government obviously has the power to accept or to reject those recommendations. [More…]
There is some doubt as to whether it has the power to accept only some of the recommendations and not the others. [More…]
The proposal put forward today is designed to give the Government the power to accept some of those recommendations. [More…]
It cannot be said that this Parliament has never granted in the Aboriginal Land Rights Act the power for Aboriginals to reach agreement for any reason other than the payment of compensation for disturbing their land. [More…]
This upsets the whole basis of the power we gave Aboriginal communities under the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act to reach a satisfactory agreement. [More…]
Of course, the whole power system has failed. [More…]
In response to that statement Senator Button interjected that the Tribunal did not have the power to do so. [More…]
1 now ask the Minister: Is it true that the Commonwealth has argued that Mr Justice Ludeke of the Academic Salaries Tribunal did not have power in this area and therefore the dispute is still unresolved? [More…]
They have had only one rise in their compensation payments in the four years that this Government has been in power; whereas workers have had many rises and until last November even pensioners received rises twice a year. [More…]
The situation of pensioners in our community in relation to wage earners has deteriorated ever since the Fraser Government came to power. [More…]
In 1972-73, when the Whitlam Government came to power, health costs represented just under 6 per cent- 5.97 per cent actually- of our gross domestic product. [More…]
The diversion of income to Aboriginals in that way is a substantial attempt to ensure that they are not third class citizens but are put in a position of economic independence and, indeed, a position of some economic power. [More…]
The sycophantic attitude of the present Government is to be expected of a conservative and elitist party which prefers to squander taxpayers’ money on the external symbols of power and prestige than to remedy some of the manifest injustices of our society. [More…]
We should not end up trying to overcome the problems of further man-made pollution which could be avoided if the River Murray Commission were given the power to ensure that the pollution did not exist in the first place. [More…]
Can he say whether there have been any reports of permanent loss of memory bank data or other computer malfunctions due to inconsistent power supplies? [More…]
Are power supplies at Commonwealth Government computer installations adequately protected? [More…]
However, there have been some cases of computer malfunction due to inconsistent power supplies. [More…]
I am advised that it is technically possible to protect computer installations against inconsistent power supplies. [More…]
Britain was the metropolitan power controlling Uganda for a period of, I think about 70 years dating back to the nineteenth century until Uganda became independent in the 1960s. [More…]
As can be deduced from that text the amendment is concerned largely with the bucketful of guarantees on various matters which this Government gave at the time when it first assumed power late in 1975. [More…]
But what happens if part or all of the island chain to our north is in hostile hands and is held by a government which is a client of one of the major communist powers? [More…]
This is certainly within our power. [More…]
For a more realistic operationthat of supporting a friendly power in our neighbourhood- the Navy’s task should be, firstly, to have an amphibious landing force. [More…]
There is that much land suitable for growing sugar-cane, from which power alcohol can be extracted to be injected into a mix in petrol tanks to drive internal combustion engines. [More…]
When Gough Whitlam was in power he boldly and candidly challenged the Australian people to make sacrifices to go without tax relief. [More…]
The power exists, and because this Government is the worst Government since Federation, because it is dishonest . [More…]
When Gough Whitlam was in power he boldly and candidly challenged the Australian people to make sacrifices and go without tax relief. [More…]
I wonder whether the sort of description used by Senator Carrick on a previous occasion about a dishonest and corrupt government does not fit adequately the way in which the Fraser Government has operated since it came to power in 1 975. [More…]
For example, in the 1972-73 Budget- which was the last Liberal Budget before Labor came to power- $442m was spent on education. [More…]
We of the Opposition say that if the Commonwealth is genuine about its commitment to protect the reef, it has the power to act on that commitment. [More…]
It has that power as a result of the High Court decision in the Seas and Submerged Lands case, which decided that all waters below the low-water mark are subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the Commonwealth. [More…]
The Federal Government has full power of control in relation to this area. [More…]
The Federal Government has an ultimate constitutional power here to ensure that the policies are carried out and to ensure the exercise of its responsibilities. [More…]
Not only has the Federal Government power over the Great Barrier Reef region, it also has a responsibility under its own legislation to do nothing which would damage the reef, unless there is no feasible and prudent alternative. [More…]
I have already referred to Senator Durack ‘s comments during the debate last Thursday about the Commonwealth having ultimate constitutional power. [More…]
We are not talking about giving away the ultimate constitutional power of this Parliament. [More…]
It is of no consolation to the people of Australia that the Commonwealth has ultimate constitutional power if it permits the Queensland Government to act as that Government sees fit and to allow drilling on the Reef. [More…]
We saw, in Queensland’s treatment of the Aboriginal people in those areas, that ultimate constitutional power in the hands of the Commonwealth Government is worthless if it is prepared to allow the Queensland Government to take over the administration of those activities. [More…]
The Queensland Government is determined that drilling on the reef will take place if the Commonwealth allows it to get control over those areas- even if the Commonwealth retains ultimate constitutional power- such drilling is inevitable. [More…]
It has the power to act on those assurances. [More…]
The Federal Government has full power of control in relation to this area. [More…]
The Federal Government has the ultimate constitutional power here to ensure that the policies are carried out and to ensure the exercise of its responsibilities. [More…]
I have just said that the Commonwealth has the ultimate constitutional power in this area. [More…]
As I said in a similar debate recently, the discussions with the States are on the basis of the exercise by this Parliament- not anybody else- of its constitutional power. [More…]
We are not talking about giving away the ultimate constitutional power of this Parliament. [More…]
The Government fully understands that it has the full constitutional powers. [More…]
It will use whatever constitutional powers are necessary to achieve its objective- the total protection of the Great Barrier Reef and the ecosystem and the establishment of the park. [More…]
The Commonwealth Government of today, unlike the previous disastrous government, believes that rather than simply asserting its clout of power in relation to seas and submerged lands it should discuss with the States the sharing of territorial seas. [More…]
He is saying: ‘Let the Labor Party come to power. [More…]
The Federal Government has full power of control in relation to this area. [More…]
The Federal Government has the ultimate constitutional power here to ensure that the policies are carried out and to ensure the exercise of its responsibilities. [More…]
the discussions with the States are on the basis of the exercise by this Parliament- not anybody else- of its constitutional power. [More…]
We are not talking about giving away the ultimate constitutional power of this Parliament. [More…]
It ought to be taken into consideration in the whole of our approach to mining uranium for the development of nuclear power. [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…]
In view of the number of judges available there is no need to retain power in the Comptroller-General to give emergency warrants. [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 senators 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…]
We should be prepared to do everything in our power to solve this problem. [More…]
What I am suggesting is that now the war is over we should be endeavouring to assist Vietnam to wrench itself free from dependence on two major powers. [More…]
One major power is the People’s Republic of China, which has withdrawn aid, possibly because of Vietnam ‘s dependence on the Soviet Union. [More…]
The final matter that I wish to raise involves what I call the misuse of the powers of Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs officers to seize and imprison people who perhaps have overstayed their visas or who are here illegally. [More…]
I say that that is a misuse of a power and it ought to be investigated. [More…]
That power ought to be taken away from the bureaucrats who misuse it. [More…]
Is that within the power of an official of the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs? [More…]
I have gone from the general Cases about which I spoke before to these specific cases- the misuse of the powers of immigration officials and the taking away of the freedom of those people who in some way may have misused their entitlement. [More…]
Another wrangle between the Queensland Government and Canberra over Aborigines is looming following an Industrial Court decision that the State does not have power to pay below-award wages to blacks living on reserves. [More…]
He and I are aware that the President of the Queensland Industrial Court, Mr Justice Matthews, has handed down his decision that the State does not have the power to pay below award wages to Aboriginals living on reserves. [More…]
In this instance, the information was made available but in a form which the Committee quite properly resolved it did not have the power to receive. [More…]
Under the present practice, the Estimates committees do not have the power to receive the information to determine whether, one way or the other, confidentiality is involved. [More…]
I understand that the team is producing something more than a power house in western New South Wales. [More…]
will install and commission within two years a 25 kilowatt electrical power plant which is driven only by solar energy. [More…]
Thatcher is so concerned over growing Soviet power that Tory strategists have considered the formation of a joint USEuropean fleet based on the island of Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean. [More…]
I said that whilst the Commonwealth Government had undoubted total constitutional power and could use that power- and in its discussions with the States was working within that constitutional powerthe Government felt that the wording of the motion was so narrow that it was inflexible in the situation. [More…]
Whilst we respected the objective, we found the mechanism too delimiting, even though we may move through that mechanism to assert our constitutional power. [More…]
Whilst I am on my feet, I also remind Senator Button in relation to the Capricornia region that yesterday I made it clear that we believed that, the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority having the power to declare particular regions, will be capable of declaring the Capricornia region as part of the national park in the very near future. [More…]
This building was designed in 1 973 in a competition instituted when the Whitlam Government was in power. [More…]
It reads: lt would be in vain to attempt an enumeration or every act which might bc construed into a contempt, the power to punish Tor contempt being in its nature discretionary. [More…]
A certificate issued under subsection ( 1 ) shall, without any court having examined, or heard a record of, the communications so certified or having inquired into the power of the Attorney General to give the certificate, be accepted in the legal proceedings described in the certificate as conclusive that the communication is a government communication and is confidential and that the disclosure of the communication in those legal proceedings is not in the public interest. [More…]
In other words, the Auditor-General or anybody who has any financial responsibility has no power to initiate an efficiency audit of a department. [More…]
When that happens, not only is injustice done to the community at large but also a fundamental danger exists in giving a High Court such power that it can move in a direction which, philosophically, is contrary to that which is in the best interests of the nation. [More…]
It will be unfortunate, though it may be necessary, if the Commissioner of Taxation has to be given additional discretionary power simply to overcome a provision in the Income Tax Assessment Act in relation to tax avoidance. [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…]
The loss of purchasing power is of the order of 1 1 per cent, meaning a cut of about $6 a week in real terms to every pensioner. [More…]
The point I seek to make is that it is very difficult to distinguish qualitative considerations- if they are things one just talks about in the Senate- from quantitative considerations in view of the role of the Federal Government in education funding, lt has no real constitutional power. [More…]
I think that the changing nature of Commonwealth-State relationships reflected in the education sector is one of the factors that we have to bear in mind in discussions of the Commonwealth’s role of providing the money, as it does in the schools sector, without having much of the constitutional power to see that the money is spent according to its own priorities that it may consider important. [More…]
If that is so, I invite the Government to have a look at its performance in the area of constitutional power in relation to Aborigines, and its performance in relation to the Queensland Government on that issue. [More…]
In 1957 the Australian people voted overwhelmingly to give power to this Parliament in relation to Aborigines, yet this Government has been prepared, in a defacto sense to trade that power to the Queensland Government so far as Aboriginal reserves in that State are concerned. [More…]
Is the Great Barrier Reef going to suffer the same sort of abdication of power and responsibility from which the Queensland Aboriginals have suffered? [More…]
The performance has been exemplary in terms of staying power, but not in terms of content. [More…]
1 ) At this stage, UHF channel allocations have only been considered for the high power transmitters in Sydney and Melbourne where the permanent ethnic television service will be introduced. [More…]
So that the people of Australia can be assured of the Government’s good intentions in this matter, will the Leader of the Government assure the Senate that in relation to negotiations presently going on between the Commonwealth Government and the Queensland Government over control of territorial waters and submerged lands, until the results of the research to be undertaken by the Government are known, no decisions will be made that will give power to the Queensland Government or that will set up an authority by which the Queensland Government would be able to enforce its will to drill in the Great Barrier Reef region below the low water mark? [More…]
Ministers in relation to the respective jurisdictions that would be exercised between Queensland and the Commonwealth Government in the light of the general discussions that have taken place with the States as to the exercise of State powers in the territorial seas. [More…]
I take this opportunity to make clear- I hoped that I had made it clear in the debate in the Senate some time ago- that whatever relationship is settled upon between the States and the Commonwealth- and this includes marine parks generally and the activities of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority in relation to the territorial sea of Queensland- as to the respective exercise of jurisdiction, the Commonwealth Parliament will at all times retain the full constitutional power, legal power, to exercise its ultimate will and control in relation to the matter of marine parks or, indeed, anything else. [More…]
The Senate must be familar with the fact that, under the Constitution, in most cases there are concurrent powers between the Commonwealth and the States. [More…]
In other words, the States can exercise powers even though the Commonwealth Parliament has powers in those areas. [More…]
But once the Commonwealth Parliament exercises a power, even though a State may have a power in the same area, by virtue of section 109 of the Constitution the Commonwealth’s power prevails. [More…]
I am explaining the situation because Senator Wriedt has asked questions today that ] was afraid were based on a misunderstanding of what is the Commonwealth’s power and what will be the result of these discussions. [More…]
Bearing in mind the recent airline disaster and the resultant inspections and recognising that DC 10 aircraft are currently operating with two different power plants, namely, the General Electric CF6 and the Pratt and Whitney JT9D, has recent inspection shown any commonality in corrosion and fatigue cracks on engine pods, pylons and wing attachments per se, or just on those in use on one engine type? [More…]
Have inspections shown any corrosion or fatigue cracking on other aircraft using underslung engines and /or the alternative Rolls Royce RB2 1 1 power plant or on engine pods, pylons or wing attachments supplied by any other manufacturer? [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…]
The Minister decided to withdraw this power from the Legislative Assembly, without consulting it or giving it, as the elected body of the Australian Capital Territory, any notice of his intentions in the matter. [More…]
As she herself pointed out, the people indicated that they did not want selfgovernment and did not want an Assembly with executive powers. [More…]
It is quite appropriate that the Minister for the Capital Territory (Mr Ellicott) should act in the interests of the expressed will of the people- that that Assembly should not exercise executive power. [More…]
Sixtythree per cent of them did not want the Assembly to exercise executive power. [More…]
I pointed out that the people of this Territory have clearly expressed the view that the Assembly should not exercise executive powers. [More…]
It is to me, and I think to most others who are involved, a mystery why the Assembly was given this power. [More…]
We can only presume that the granting of this power was included in the legislation when it was enacted because at that time it was expected that the Assembly might at some time in the future have executive powers. [More…]
When this Ordinance was introduced in 1975 it was unknown why the executive power was originally given to the Assembly. [More…]
At the time the Minister responsible, Mr Bryant, thought it appropriate to do so because it was believed that the Assembly would gradually be given greater legislative and executive power. [More…]
We were told in those advertisements that those fistfuls of phoney dollars were the savings that would be made by the average Australian taxpayer if the Fraser Government were returned to power. [More…]
The Government, since coming to power, has taken measure after measure to make the rich richer and the poor poorer. [More…]
What are the realities of what has happened in Australia in the Vh years that the Fraser Government has been in power? [More…]
The deficit under this Government is a higher proportion of gross domestic product that it was in the three fiscal years that Labor was in power. [More…]
Here 1 interpose that we are dealing in real money terms and they will therefore be adjusted for purchasing power. [More…]
I wish to make one general observation about the nature of the education debate which has taken place since this Government came to power. [More…]
We have had more committees of inquiry than hot breakfasts since the Fraser Government came to power. [More…]
However, one has to consider that, as they achieve some sort of satisfaction for their efforts, the price of the commodities which they produce increases under these international pressures to which the Government now admits but to which it would not admit when the Australian Labor Party Government was in power. [More…]
When the Labor Government was in power, all the faults, all the increases and the level of inflation were due to the errors of the Government and were not in any way due to any external pressure or demand. [More…]
Under these circumstances, it is not surprising that the community at large will see that the real purchasing power of their wages is seriously eroded. [More…]
The current amendments being sought are to essentially give me power to implement what the Territory administration wants’, Professor Ovington said. [More…]
Mr Isaacs, said whatever Government was in power in Canberra it should have responsibilities for national parks as national resources. [More…]
The sorts of comments which have been made would have been made regardless of which colour of politics was in power in Darwin and in Canberra. [More…]
So the important thing to note is that although the Director has substantial power as far as the issue of licences is concerned, his decisions may be overriden by the Minister and he has a responsibility to act on the determination that a Minister may make from time to time. [More…]
Further, it provides sufficient guarantees in the overriding power of the Minister, in terms of these matters, for those who are genuinely concerned with the conservation issues to feel quite secure that no damage will be done to such a valuable national asset as the Kakadu National Park. [More…]
There has been a considerable transfer of power during the last year in which most Statelike responsibilities- about which I have spoken in the Senate- have been passed to him and to his Ministers. [More…]
While this inquiry into the development and preparation for the orderly control and development of mining of uranium was taking place, there were constitutional changes being planned in the Northern Territory which involved the giving of powers to the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly. [More…]
If he wants that in the Standing Orders he has power to take action in relation to it, but it is not in the Standing Orders at the moment. [More…]
They show the misuse of power by Ministers to subvert the Act and detail lies told by Liberal Party workers, for which they were congratulated by Mr Ridge, a Minister of the Crown. [More…]
That is the purpose of this motion: The Opposition is seeking an assurance from this Government that, having been given the power and the obligation to protect the rights of Aborigines, it at least guarantees- if necessary by an Act of the Federal Parliament pre-empting the Western Australian Act, if and when that is passed- the rights of Aborigines to vote at elections in Western Australia. [More…]
The first is that notwithstanding the legal advice which has been given to us through Senator Walsh, I think there would be room certainly for some argument about the powers there. [More…]
I do not argue that the power does not exist. [More…]
The power under which it would be suggested that we would make such laws is the same power which enables us to make special laws for the people of any race. [More…]
I remind the Senate again that this is the report of the Atomic Energy Commission dealing with the year 1974-75 when the Whitlam Government was in power and the Commission was working under the policies of the Whitlam Government. [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…]
I repeat the words ‘having to take a decision to go to nuclear power.’ [More…]
The projected increase in electricity demand cannot possibly be met without a major contribution from nuclear power including breeder reactor application. [More…]
The problems of developing nuclear power to the extent required by the projected needs are seen to be very substantial particularly in the area of gaining public confidence and political support for such programs. [More…]
In the absence of such a large 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…]
Because of these energy gaps, because of the need for Australia to play its part in supplying uranium, and because of the need for us to back up the safeguards laid down by the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) soon after we came into power, it has been necessary for us again to amend the Atomic Energy Act so as to allow the Australian Atomic Energy Commission to play its part as a commercial partner with the other two partners in the Ranger consortium, Whilst we are hearing criticism from the Opposition today, this Government is merely applying those safeguards and making the Act efficient so that the Australian Atomic Energy Commission can become an efficient partner. [More…]
I quote to the Senate from an article in Fortune magazine on nuclear power in which it was stated: [More…]
Shearon Harris, chairman of Carolina Power & Light, decided some time ago to build coal plants instead of reactors at a new generating site. [More…]
The main reason for those rising costs is the continuing imposition of stricter safety standards by the regulators … the reevaluation of the nation’s seventy-two nuclear power plants after the accident seems bound to lead to costly new safety requirements. [More…]
The New York State Power Authority last month decided to cut its losses after the price tag on a proposed 1,200 megawatt nuclear plant on the Hudson River below Albany, scheduled for completion in the late I980’s, climbed from $1.8 billion to $3. [More…]
Since nuclear power provides only one-eighth of all electricity, it represents a mere sixty-fourth of all energy at the point of use- not a great deal more than firewood. [More…]
Critics have long complained that the federal government subsidizes nuclear power in several ways: by undercharging for uranium enrichment, by proposing too low a fee for radioactive-waste disposal, and through the Price-Anderson Act, which sets a $S60-million limit on utilities’ insurance liability for each reactor accident. [More…]
And the cost of nuclear power has been questioned because it does not cover the entire anticipated cost of dismantling reactors when their useful life is over. [More…]
In 1976 nuclear power was endorsed in seven out of seven State referendums. [More…]
The Japanese Atomic Energy Commission planned to have 100,000 MW of nuclear power installed by 1990. [More…]
The great nuclear power boom that was forecast 10 years ago is never going to happen. [More…]
We certainly have time to solve a lot of the problems which are concerned with the nuclear power cycle before we need to be so anxious to dig uranium out of the ground and export it. [More…]
The men complain of a bad dust problem, of an unreliable power supply and inadequate facilities for the number of people at the construction camp. [More…]
Nuclear power stations do exist. [More…]
In fact 199 nuclear power stations operate today around the world, 209 are being built and another 106 are on order. [More…]
Countries are not building nuclear power stations to annoy the environmentalists or the people who get frightened by radiation. [More…]
They are building the nuclear power stations because they need them to maintain the welfare of their people and their industries. [More…]
For example, the United States of America generates 13 per cent of all its power from nuclear sources. [More…]
There is no way that the United States can suddenly overnight withdraw 13 per cent of its power segment which comes from nuclear sources. [More…]
These countries need nuclear energy in the short term to provide them with a source of power. [More…]
What I am saying is that we do need nuclear power stations because they are established and they cannot be substituted overnight. [More…]
One of the interesting things that have come out of its work has been in relation to coal-fired thermal stations for the generation of power. [More…]
One of the implied arguments against the use of nuclear power generation is that other forms are utterly safe. [More…]
In contrast, there is a case for the comparative ecological cleanliness of the nuclear production of power. [More…]
We of the Australian Democrats have the gravest doubts about the viability of the nuclear power industry. [More…]
Indeed, our policy is to oppose the mining and export of Australian uranium because we believe, after considering as many aspects of it as we can find, that nuclear power, as an industry, is pollutant, dangerous and uneconomic. [More…]
I think it is also unfair that the Commission should appear to be so much a propagandist for nuclear power. [More…]
I believe that it is wrong, in a country which is so divided and in a world which is so divided on the subject of nuclear power, that the Commission and its staff, to which every taxpayer contributes, should be called on to carry out a partisan role. [More…]
It gives the Atomic Energy Commission power to borrow moneys for the commercial arrangements which have already been entered into and to carry out decisions which have long since been made by the Government and about which there has been considerable progress in implementation. [More…]
Apart from the gross inconsistency of condemning in 1973 a measure which he himself introduces now, the iniquitous 9 to 10 per cent interest rates is certainly an interesting reference given the fact that they are above 10 per cent now when his Government has been in power for Vh years. [More…]
It is a country which is more or less in between the Warsaw and North Atlantic Treaty Organisation power blocs. [More…]
That means that the price has increased by 10c a litre since the Fraser Government came to power. [More…]
I believe that I recommended it should be looking a bit further afield and that the RB2 11 -Rolls Royce engine should be one power plant looked at. [More…]
An engine is also, as you realise, operating under full power for take-off. [More…]
The difficulty about this provision is that it gives the Government a power essentially to emasculate the Public Service by executive decision. [More…]
Not only is it given by this legislation the very important power to prescribe the procedures which will apply in determining whether an excess situation exists- which procedures can be as wide an loose or as narrow and circumscribed as the Public Service Board chooses- but also it is vested with a quite specific power under clause 8 (3) (c) to identify not only general criteria but also particular employees who are to be the subject of redeployment compulsory action. [More…]
In this respect it is to be noted that it is just not so- as the Minister claimed in various statements that have been made, in particular his Press release of 20 Maythat this Bill embodies the substance and spirit of recommendation 178 of the Coombs inquiry to the effect that the diagnosis of excess staff should be a decision-making power which is vested in departmental management rather than in the Public Service Board. [More…]
As I think all honourable senators are aware, that Committee, by its charter, looks not at the desirability of particular regulations but merely at whether they are within power. [More…]
If we pass this Bill, we will give the executive Government the power to do what it likes in relation to the redeployment and retirement of employees in all of those departments. [More…]
We are also concerned about the comment made by the Australian Government Lawyers Association that ‘as clause 8 stands, it would give the Public Service Board wide power to single out employees by name or by description’. [More…]
New laws dealing with the publication of sensitive private facts concerning an individual; a new remedy called a correction order which will give the courts power to order a defendant to correct a false statement defamatory of the plaintiff; a new action for appropriation of a person ‘s name, identity or likeness; and abolition of exemplary or punitive damages. [More…]
It says that so far as the Department of the Senate, the Department of the House of Representatives, the Department of the Parliamentary Library, the Department of the Parliamentary Reporting Staff and the Joint House Department are concerned the Government will have the power to make regulations in respect of the particular matters to which this Bill is related. [More…]
My reason for saying that is that section 28 specifically gives the Governor-General power to make regulations declaring that the Act shall apply in relation to employees of the department subject to specified modifications and adaptations. [More…]
In other words it gives power to vary the Act in its application to parliamentary Departments. [More…]
One is the power to disallow. [More…]
wide power to single out employees by names or description. [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…]
When one looks by contrast at clause 8 (3) (c) one will notice that a procedure is there set out whereby the Public Service Board itself can have the power to direct in effect that particular employees or particular classes of employees be declared eligible for redeployment and retirement. [More…]
So we have a situation here where the Public Service Board, with all the might, majesty and remoteness from the battlefield that that Board might be thought to have, given the way its role has been described by the Minister and the Government in defending this legislation, is given by this provision the power to descend very specifically to the battlefield and to single out particular individual employees as eligible for redeployment and retirement under this Act. [More…]
This proposed new sub-paragraph seeks to create a specific power or responsibility in the permanent head to make findings about the application of the procedures to a particular departmental area. [More…]
As clause 9 stands at the moment, such a power is at best implicit in the way in which the clause is structured. [More…]
Clause 9(1)(b)(i) vests in the permanent head the power to give such directions as are necessary to give effect to the procedures laid down by the Public Service Board in the administration of a department. [More…]
Sub-paragraph (ii) vests in the permanent head a specific power to identify a particular employee as being excess to requirements and to declare such an employee eligible for redeployment. [More…]
What is sought to be accomplished by this new sub-paragraph ( 1) (a) is to write in between, as it were, those two existing powers vested in the permanent head, a further explicit power in the permanent head actually to make the finding that there is an excess, a surplus, an overmanning in that department by reference to the criteria or the procedures which have been laid down by the Board. [More…]
What is sought in that proposed addition to clause 1 5 is to use the specific power which hopefully, by the time we consider that clause in the Committee, will have been written into clause 9 as the foundation on which to launch an appeal under clause 15. [More…]
That picks up the point which I was making in a question I directed to the Minister a few moments ago about the fact that clause 8(3)(c) does vest a very specific power in the Public Service Board to apply the redeployment procedures to particular employees or classes of employees. [More…]
Surprisingly, the Minister was not opposed to giving power to the Parliament. [More…]
I instance the carriage of iron ore in Western Australia; the carriage of the products from Mount Isa Mines Ltd; the carriage of coal to the power stations and to ports for our large export industry. [More…]
Before he goes I would like to remind him that whilst he tells us about the problems being experienced in the Northern Territory because of the high cost of transport and the further problems we will experience because of the high cost of fuel, it was his Government which shortly after it came to power in 1975, took action to close the Larrimah-Darwin link. [More…]
the power of appointment and dismissal of the Commissioner to be vested specifically in the GovernorGeneral in Council [More…]
The Commissioner is given exclusive and unchallengeable power to make decisions covering transfers, appointments, promotions, disciplinary action, demotions, retirements and dismissals. [More…]
Under clause 39, which gives the Commissioner power to transfer officers to a lower rank or to retire them on the grounds of overstaffing, no appeals are allowed. [More…]
It seems to me of fundamental importance, with the Westminster style of government which we have in Australia, that the separation of powers is the best safeguard of the individual’s liberty; that is, the more we can devolve power throughout the administrative structure within our country and the executive arm of government, the more likely it is that the interests and the liberties of individual Australians will be safeguarded. [More…]
I believe that it is of fundamental importance that the Parliament should decide who should be the recipients of that information and that the Minister should not have a specific power of direction in respect of that information which would enable it to be misused for political purposes. [More…]
With the change of government and the emergence to power of the Fraser Government, the whole concept of an amalgamated national Australia police force was explicitly abandoned and with it of course the legislation which the Labor Government had introduced. [More…]
The point I make to wrap this up is that the Government had the opportunity in this legislation to create at last the statutory basis for a national police force of which we could all be genuinely proud, a talented, professional, well trained and equipped force, one that is free of corruption and abuse of power, both in reality and in appearance; in short, the kind of police force which all too regrettably and all too conspicuously has been absent in the Australian experience. [More…]
We now do not measure its sea power in those terms. [More…]
Is the Minister representing the Minister for Foreign Affairs aware of reports from Ghana, where it appears that a group of armed persons has seized power and has now described itself as the government of the country, and where the fate of members of the previous government seems at least uncertain. [More…]
I also draw the Senate’s attention to the fact that prior to the Australian Labor Party’s coming to power in December 1972, Commonwealth outlays on education were abysmally low compared with Commonwealth outlays on education since. [More…]
Whereas the United States legal system has been manipulated by United States consumers in order to achieve benefits for those consuming these energy resources within the United States, that manipulation is now being confronted by an Australian government which at last, somewhat belatedly, has recognised its obligation to ensure that Australian producers, whether of energy resources, iron ore, bauxite or alumina, et cetera, can themselves present a united front to the united buying power of groups abroad, of which United States utility companies and Japanese steel companies are perhaps the best known examples. [More…]
The Opposition believes that in order to ensure that accountability there must be a general power, not only to hire and fire the commissioner and other police officers, but to give directions. [More…]
Such a power, to give directions of all kinds, must be vested in the government of the day. [More…]
We notice, of course, that clause 13, as written, does to a certain extent vest in the Minister power to give directions. [More…]
So the power vested and acknowledged in the Bill relates only to general policy matters, whatever that means. [More…]
It is a general power that we propose to vest in the Minister- one of simply giving written directions. [More…]
A reading of that table shows that in five of the six States of Australia a general power to give directions is vested in the political arm of the Government. [More…]
Only in Western Australia is there no such explicit statutory power at all. [More…]
In three States, namely New South Wales, Queensland and Tasmania, the power to give directions is vested, without reservation or qualification, in the Minister in charge of police. [More…]
In Victoria the same general power is vested, again without reservation, in the GovernorinCouncil. [More…]
In South Australia, the fifth State in question, under statutory provisions which have applied since at least 1972, the power is vested in the Governor-in-Council, but with certain reservations. [More…]
Obviously that acts in practice as a disincentive to any tendency to misuse the power of direction. [More…]
It is a proposal to add in line 14 the word ‘voluntary’, to make it clear that in this clause which deals with the regulation making power, the Government is empowered to legislate not as is presently provided simply for the early retirement from the Australian Federal Police of members who have attained the age of 55 years, but rather to ensure that the power of the Government is confined to making regulations with respect to the voluntary early retirement from the police force of members 55 years of age and above. [More…]
The Opposition is particularly anxious to ensure that there does not sneak in here, through the aegis simply of the regulationmaking power, something akin to the Commonwealth employees legislation which we have recently debated in this Parliament, but which is not, of course, legislation dealing only with the subject of voluntary retirement. [More…]
It is the belief of the Opposition that the regulation power, however, is wide enough to encompass situations of involuntary retirement. [More…]
The third matter dealt with in respect of clause 40 is the omission of paragraph (f), which provides for a power to make regulations in respect of disciplinary offences and disciplinary procedures. [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…]
The ability of any European power to help Australia is severely limited. [More…]
In an age of satellites, when the precise position of surface ships can be updated every few minutes, and with missile technology, the only place to survive is under the water, except for the massive fleets of the superpowers. [More…]
It is simply not a cost effective exercise, even for a major power. [More…]
Power does reside in the hands of the black majority in that Parliament in that it has complete authority over the allocations of money to the armed forces and to the police. [More…]
The Bill includes penalty provisions for non-payment of levy, recovery of amounts unpaid and power to call for returns. [More…]
-On 10 May 1979 (Hansard, page 1794) Senator Mcintosh asked me, as Minister representing the Prime Minister, a question without notice concerning nuclear power stations. [More…]
Some time ago the Solicitor-General gave an opinion on the power of the Commissioner for Community Relations to call State Ministers to a conference of this kind. [More…]
I explained to him what in our opinion were the limits on his powers. [More…]
It is, it seems, just a matter of judges, whether waving their robes or exercising some other kind of strategic power, being a small group of strategically located employees who are able to exercise industrial muscle which is out of all proportion to their desserts. [More…]
The power of the Attorney-General to intervene in proceedings in State Courts exercising jurisdiction under the Family Law Act 1975 (s. 91 (a) ) has been delegated to the Western Australian Attorney-General with respect to WA courts; [More…]
The Commonwealth Grants Commission’s power to recommend general purpose grants to individual local councils has been taken over by State Grants Commissions. [More…]
National Development: Transfer of Power to the States (Question No. [More…]
Nothing can get away from the fact that in the three years before we came to power the States all ran into deficits and were all forced to put up taxes and that in the last three years they have been able to cut taxes and balance their Budgets. [More…]
One cannot help but believe that the promises of tax indexation and related tax reforms were largely a result of the Prime Minister’s greed for power. [More…]
When we take into account inflation for that period we find that in 1974, when the first Budget of the Whitlam Labor Government was presented, taxes increased in real termsthat is, in terms of the spending power taken from the pockets of the people- by 1 9.9 per cent. [More…]
Nearly 20c in the dollar was taken from their incomes in 1974 not through inflation, but in real money, real spending power. [More…]
In other words, more was given back to the people in increased spending power and living standards than was taken. [More…]
We were elected in 1 974 on the basis of reducing taxation and putting spending power back in the dollar after tax. [More…]
I think the Opposition should come out and say quite clearly where it stands on that issue, not seek to have this very serious and very difficult question debated in a muffled way by saying: ‘It might be a breach of the law, but you should not have this particular power of investigating the breach conferred on the Narcotics Bureau’. [More…]
The fact of the matter is that this is not putting a power as such in the hands of a narcotics officer. [More…]
He can exercise that power only under a warrant granted by a Supreme Court judge. [More…]
As I said in the second reading debate, this power- the use of listening devices and the use of telephone interceptions- is desired, and the Government believes properly desired, by the Narcotics Bureau and officers of that Bureau in order to attack the suppliers, the importers, the distributors- the big men in this evil trade. [More…]
I quoted in the second reading debate what have been stated to be the reasons why the Government has moved these amendments to the legislation and sought this increase in power. [More…]
So there are a number of reasons why we believe that if the Opposition amendment were adhered to it would severely detract from and inhibit the value of this proposed amendment and extension of the powers of the Narcotics Bureau in the investigation and pursuit of the major importers and distributors of narcotic substances in this country. [More…]
We only add the qualification to that view that dangers are inherent at any stage in the extension of the power to authorise phone tapping, bugging or anything of that kind. [More…]
If it is extended to drug detection it is likely to get out of hand, lead to abuses of power along the lines experienced in America, have little, if any effect on crime detection, inhibit freedom of communication by law abiding citizens and be gradually extended to areas of crime detection. [More…]
Of course, it can be said that that power will not be exercised; that any intelligent and benign Attorney-General such as Senator Durack would never exercise that right, even in a fit. [More…]
The power of the Parliament and the power of Ministers of the Crown and their servants to intercept communications was well established even when the postal service was in a fairly rudimentary state. [More…]
In 1 844 a secret committee of the House of Commons reported in the following terms on the question of interception of the mails and of communications: lt must also be remembered that if such a power as this were formally abolished, the question would not be left in quite the same condition as though the power had never been exercised or disputed; by withdrawing it, every criminal conspirator against the public peace would be publicly assured that he could enjoy secure possession of the easiest, cheapest and most unobserved channel of communication, and that the Secretary of State would not under any circumstances interfere with his correspondence. [More…]
We therefore think that no useful purpose would be served by recommending that the power of interception be no longer exercised in the detection and prevention of crime, for it would remove from the hands of the Police a weapon which they have found to be effective when all other methods have been unavailing, and would announce to potential wrong-doers that they have nothing to fear from the Police in this particular respect. [More…]
(Quorum formed) I was dealing with a case in which I was simply saying that the use of telephone taps ostensibly for one purpose- in order to gather evidence which may be useful for an entirely separate purpose- is something that will need to be borne very much in mind, not only by the judicial officers who have the responsibility for issuing the authorisation for these taps, but by the officers of the customs service, the Attorney-General and his officers to ensure that this power which is being not newly vested in anybody’s hands, but is likely to be portrayed as something related to narcotics when it is not, is a matter of considerable importance. [More…]
There is an important matter of judgment for members of Parliament as to whether they believe that vesting that power in the hands of various officers of the Commonwealth but now requiring that a warrant should be of a judicial character before it is issued, is adequately balanced with the safeguards which we believe necessary for the protection of the rights of individuals. [More…]
I support the Bill because I believe that the narcotics investigators have to be equipped with this power. [More…]
The three Bills set out to provide features which would be regarded by most Australians as somewhat repugnant insofar as we are now to delegate to the Director-General, and down the line to some of his officers, the power to listen in on telephone conversations and to intercept mail and open it. [More…]
That is already evidence of the way in which some of those in the areas of surveillance in our country interpret their powers. [More…]
But the fact is that intelligence organisations used certain processes, procedures and devices to establish what was being said in conversations in which a representative of a major power was engaged, when he felt he was acting within his area of responsibility. [More…]
When we talked about this matter in the earlier debate, Senator Puplick stated that clause 8 of the present Bill confers upon the Minister of the day general powers to give directions to the Director-General. [More…]
However, he pointed out that it limits his powers to give directions in a number of specific ways, some of which we believe to be unacceptable. [More…]
We believe that the approach to the exercise of ministerial control and responsibility should be one of absolutely maximising, so far as possible, the power of the Minister visavis the Director-General because only the Minister is politically accountable to the Parliament and to the people in any sense at all. [More…]
We believe that any restrictions on the power vested in the Minister should be denned as narrowly as possible so that the protection is there. [More…]
The only really legitimate or acceptable limitation we see as appropriate on the power of the Minister in this respect- and in the Committee stage we will be attempting to amend the Bill accordingly- would be to limit his power of access to the detailed content. [More…]
Of course, if he is involved in activity which affects the security of the country or in an activity which is in some way associated with the development of large scale drug trafficking in this country- and of course this legislation to which we are asked to give our assent gives extra powers to the Comptroller-General of Customsthat would be a matter for the judgment of the Minister concerned. [More…]
I personally support the concept of the Bill, particularly as it gives powers to the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation and the Narcotics Bureau to tap telephones and intercept telecommunications in certain circumstances and with certain safeguards. [More…]
I remember with some chagrin and disappointment that in 1972, when I was Minister for Customs and Excise, I put this very concept to Cabinet, asking for this very power for the Narcotics Bureau, and I was almost unanimously rolled in Cabinet. [More…]
A lengthy debate has taken place in this chamber in relation to the package of legislation, including this Bill, regarding the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation, but, insofar as the Bill extends the powers of that Organisation to intercept telephone communications, the power is not a new one. [More…]
The power of the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation to intercept telephonic communications on a warrant authorised, under certain conditions or circumstances, by the Attorney-General is one that the Organisation has possessed since 1960. [More…]
1 say that because there seems to have been a good deal of misunderstanding in the public debate on this subject to the effect that somehow or other the Government was proposing some radically new power for ASIO. [More…]
As I have said- Senator Evans made this point clear in his speech, this is a power which has been available on warrant from the Attorney-General for a number of years. [More…]
Such powers have been exercised, I believe, in a responsible way over those years, without any real diminution of civil liberties in this country. [More…]
The purpose of that power is in aid of the security of this country in the exercise of the powers that ASIO has to watch over threats to this country of subversion, espionage, sabotage and now, as extended by the ASIO legislation, in relation to terrorist activities which, of course, as we all know, are a growing threat in the modern world in which we live. [More…]
The Royal Commission on Intelligence and Security, which was presided over by Mr Justice Hope, by and large accepted those powers and indeed recommended some additions to those powers in other respects, such as listening devices, all of which have been dealt with in the Australian Security Intelligence Organization Bill which passed through the Senate some months ago. [More…]
Mr Justice Hope recommended that as far as ASIO’s power is concerned, the legislation should be updated and expanded only to apply it to all modern forms of telecommunications, not limiting it as existing powers are to communications over the telephone system. [More…]
However, the Government, as part of its policies in strengthening the fight against drug trafficking in this country, has decided that there should be enabling powers for those investigating narcotics offences to extend those powers also to interceptions of telecommunications or to messages on the telecommunications system as well as for the purpose of security. [More…]
The main effect and purpose of this Bill are not to expand the powers of the security organisation but to expand the powers of the Narcotics Bureau in its investigation and prosecution of narcotics offences, that is, primarily the importation and disposal in this country of the great and vicious variety of drugs which we have been concerned with for some time and which are a threat to so many Australians. [More…]
I do not pretend that these powers are the answer to the drug problem. [More…]
The Government and the Narcotics Bureau believe that in the investigation of these serious crimes the additional power to intercept telecommunications messages will be a weapon of great added value. [More…]
In the second reading speech in introducing that Bill in this chamber, I have referred to the same purposes that the Narcotics Bureau has in the extension of these powers. [More…]
Telephone interception is something which can be physically accomplished very easily whereas the installation of a listening device may well be, as a practical matter, something which occasions a great deal of difficulty and accordingly might be thought to justify a power to operate for a longer period of time. [More…]
Both the amendments relate to our proposal that in emergency situations the Minister should still be required to authorise the warrant in question rather than in emergency situations that power being vested in the unelected official, the Director-General of Security. [More…]
We regard it as something of an alarming prospect that such power should be vested in a non-elected, irresponsible- in that sense- official, even for a relatively short time. [More…]
We take that view especially given the failure of the Government during the ASIO debate to accept any of the additional safeguards that we wanted to insert into the security system to ensure that the exercise of discretions and powers by non-elected officials would be in accordance with democratic civil libertarian principles. [More…]
It is in that context that we reiterate our concern that powers of any kind, particularly of this very far-reaching kind, ought to be vested in officials in this way. [More…]
We accept the need for some kind of emergency procedure whereby the Minister of the day, rather than formally, in written terms, having to authorise the exercise of the power in question, should be able to do so orally. [More…]
As to the new power that is provided in this legislation to aid in the investigation of narcotics offences through warrants issued to the Comptroller-General of Customs, clause 27 (2) of the Bill provides that the Comptroller-General of Customs will furnish to the Minister, in respect of each warrant issued within three months after the expiration or revocation, a report in writing on the extent to which the interception of communications, or the inspection of telegrams, as the case may be, has assisted officers of Customs in narcotics inquiries that have been made by officers of Customs. [More…]
This is a new power and I think we need to proceed cautiously. [More…]
It is not normal practice because the powers to tap telephones have been very limited. [More…]
Admittedly this is an additional power but it is part and parcel of law enforcement. [More…]
Because of OPEC and crude oil prices, the average household will in fact pay more for oil and therefore will have reduced purchasing power. [More…]
The fact of the matter is that the tax scale to apply to the taxpayers of Australia will be a better tax scale than when the surcharge was applied, and an infinitely better tax scale than when the Labor Party was in power. [More…]
In Australia it will be quite impossible for the Federal Parliament to deal with the matters largely dealt with by the States, and it is essential for the participation of citizens in their Government that they have legislative and executive power close to them, so that there can be more effective participation of citizens in Government. [More…]
I found his logic somewhat eccentric when he was quoting Mr Dunstan from 1974, I think it was, and thought that he was refuting Senator Wriedt ‘s assertion- which Senator Wriedt backed up with a great deal of statistical evidence; it was not just an assertion- that the States had been significantly worse off financially since the Fraser Government came into power then they were under the last Labor Government. [More…]
At the outset, it is probably worth while mentioning that it is central to my Government’s co-operative federalism policy that to have power is not necessarily to exercise it (Quorum formed). [More…]
Of course, they sought to establish overriding Federal Government power, centralised and entrenched in a bureaucracy in Canberra. [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…]
The Senate can disown the report which has no effective power. [More…]
If it were a term of legal art, as is the notion of judicial character or judicial power, that probably still would not solve too many of our problems. [More…]
As lawyers well know, one of the most nightmarishly and fiendishly complex areas of the law is that area of constitutional law which involves the delineation of what is an exercise of judicial power as distinct from an exercise of non-judicial power. [More…]
If some very strict and narrow view did prevail and there were a tendency to launch into these kinds of lawyers’ argument about what was and what was not within the jurisdiction of the Committee that would still not be of enormous practical significance because, as Senator Missen pointed out, it would still be the option or still be within the power of any individual senator to bring the matter forward to the chamber if the instrument were one capable of disallowance. [More…]
Whether the Committee has power under this regulation even to consider such a matter I still do not know despite the contribution of two highly eminent legal men. [More…]
Senator Georges stated that if we had the power we should assert it, rather than merely note the item, so as to ensure that qualified officers attend committees. [More…]
Nor do I know whether the Standing Orders Committee has the necessary power to act. [More…]
I would seriously suggest, although I will not move a motion to this effect, that the question be referred back to the Standing Orders Committee to examine what power the Senate has to dictate which consultants a Minister must have in attendance before an Estimates committee. [More…]
If we have that power we could perhaps have a more informed discussion and consider whether we should utilise that power. [More…]
If I might say so, the power still rests with an Estimates committee itself to demand that there be proper representation before the committee. [More…]
The Senate has its own powers in this regard. [More…]
That power is not taken away by this Standing Order. [More…]
Every power proposed we have now. [More…]
The Senate at all times has power over itself. [More…]
If sufficient honourable senators desire the right to refer any Bill to a committee, I ask them to leave their options open and to use the power that they have today without agreeing to restrictions being placed in a sessional order. [More…]
The power to send Bills to committees at second reading stages, as pointed out by Senator Cavanagh, has been in existence for years. [More…]
Those powers that we have continue and they will continue. [More…]
It is an additional power. [More…]
As for its contention that the Diplomatic Service is using too many good men in jobs that could be done by lesser mortals, the White Paper says stiffly: ‘It is precisely because our power as an individual nation is diminished, while our interests remain global, that Britain’s future is more dependent than ever on the skills of those who represent us abroad ‘. [More…]
The Government is sympathetic to these objectives and will continue to support international efforts to focus attention on the need for an independent and neutral Kampuchea free of Great Power rivalries. [More…]
He achieved this by calling on great reserves of diplomacy, powers of command and a great sensitivity. [More…]
It is no less a tribute to Mountbatten that from the pinnacle of power in India he resumed his naval career. [More…]
The purchasing power of the wages of the Australian people depends entirely upon our ability, first of all, to get inflation down in this country and, therefore, to get purchasing power up. [More…]
Again, I am grateful to Senator Georges because I want to tell the Senate now what is happening to purchasing power, including the purchasing power of wages and the purchasing power afforded by the reduction in taxation. [More…]
We have in fact increased purchasing power by taking over a country and halving the inflation rate which was running at 18 per cent to 20 per cent. [More…]
That, in itself, is the vital statistic in terms of taxation and purchasing power. [More…]
Of course, that is the raw material of nuclear power and of the atomic bomb. [More…]
I raise this point now especially since it has been proven that the technology available to many smaller powers involves the use of so-called peaceful electricity power reactors which can be adapted to the making of nuclear weapons. [More…]
It will be built, as was the Indian device, through the use of power reactors designed for so-called peaceful uses. [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 reserved seats ‘even out of proportion to the numbers involved’. [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…]
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…]
The policy of the Progressive Federal Party does not provide even for voting rights for all black adult citizens, lt provides for a restricted franchise; it provides for a situation whereby, under its plans for the proposed South African Senate, all the racial groups within South Africa- the blacks, the whites, the coloureds and the Asians- have a power of veto which is much greater than the limited powers that the white minority in Zimbabwe has preserved in the Constitution under which its is now functioning. [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…]
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…]
In this Bill the same power is conferred to a Customs officer to apply to a judge for a warrant to insert a listening device for the investigation of the same type of offence. [More…]
The Government takes the view, first of all, that this is a power which can be exercised only on application to, and with the approval of, a judge of the Federal Court or of a State supreme court. [More…]
However, there are problems in seeking to confine that investigative power simply to those who are engaged in large-scale operations. [More…]
The Government believes that it should not hamstring such operations; that, as the power is to be used only upon a warrant issued by a Federal Court or State Supreme Court judge, one can rely upon the circumspection of those judges in such matters. [More…]
The substance of the latter was such as to exclude from the range of offences which could attract the operation of these new electronic surveillance warrant powers all that related to less than trafficable quantities of the whole group of narcotic substances, including not only cannabis but also heroin, opium and so on. [More…]
The intention there was that the electronic surveillance power should be exercised only in relation to trafficable quantities, or greater, of drugs generally. [More…]
In the first place a number of things can be said about the new powers which are to be conferred upon Narcotics Bureau officers and Customs Bureau officers, in particular the power to employ electronic surveillance and the listening devices to which I have referred. [More…]
It ought to be appreciated that the Narcotics Bureau has hardly been without power of a very considerable kind in the past by virtue of the luxury it has enjoyed of almost total freedom from judicial or other scrutiny in its exercise of search and seizure powers. [More…]
Although the vesting in it of powers with respect to electronic surveillance does represent a quantum jump, as it were, in the range and nature of its law enforcement power, it certainly is true to say that in the past Customs officers in general and narcotics officers in particular have had very wide powers in the search and seizure area. [More…]
The warrants are of a kind which in effect empower their holders to go anywhere at any time of the day or night and break open or ransack any building or anything within it. [More…]
In passing I make one further point about the offence and penalty provisions in this Bill, and that is to draw the Government’s attention- if it is not already aware of it- to an article by Mr John Willis in the Australian Law Journal for September 1978, volume 52, page 502, entitled: To What Extent is s. 235 of the Customs Act 1901-1975 (Cth) Invalid as Contravening s. 80 of the Constitution’, It seems to me that Mr Willis has made a very interesting argument to the effect that to the extent that section 235 vests not in the jury but in the judge the power of determining to its satisfaction that particular factual conditions have been made out, this provision may well be in breach of section 80 of the Constitution which demands on its face that there be a jury trial for all aspects of the court determination of an indictable offence. [More…]
The argument is that the language of section 235, which has not been amended in this respect by anything in the Bill presently before us, vests in the judge the power to determine whether the quantum of the drug in question is such as to bring it within the description of a trafficable quantity or a commercial quantity. [More…]
The courts are trying to tell us that the judges, whose business it is to determine the sentencing practice, do not wish to avail themselves of the sentencing power they already have. [More…]
I have the oldfashioned view that the Westminster system is designed on the basis of divisions of power; that the Executive frames the laws, that the Parliament, not the Executive, makes the laws, and that the judiciary attempts to give effect to the laws. [More…]
The Bill gives new powers to the Federal Narcotics Burea- powers to institute electronic surveillance and to use listening devices. [More…]
It provides power to recover pecuniary penalties for dealing in narcotic goods. [More…]
This Bill provides for increased legal powers further to improve methods of detection, and that is really the major purpose of the legislation. [More…]
Those two measures are expected to bring about, and I am sure will bring about, a very considerable improvement in the powers and effectiveness of investigations of the Bureau of Narcotics. [More…]
It is true that in some States powers already exist to use listening devices, but it is not satisfactory for the Narcotics Bureau, exercising on behalf of the Federal Government powers of investigation and enforcement, to have to observe the laws in different States in relation to these matters. [More…]
However, that must be seen as being coupled with the completely new power they will be given, if the legislation is agreed to, to intercept telephone conversations in the same circumstances. [More…]
A power of seizure of money and goods in some circumstances was given recently. [More…]
I am advised that in the past year, acting within those powers, drug enforcement officers have seized moneys and goods exceeding some millions of dollars in value. [More…]
However, the existing powers of seizure are very limited indeed and cannot be used to cope with the very elaborate washing devices these very sophisticated commercial operators are able to use, particularly with the expert advice they have at their disposal. [More…]
Another limit on the power of the board or a majority in general meeting to condone a wrong done to the company would seem to exist where the wrong is also a crime. [More…]
That, notwithstanding anything contained in the Standing Orders, the Privileges Committee for the purposes of its inquiry and report shall have power to send for persons, papers and records. [More…]
I understand that one junior counsel raised the subject with the magistrate who, of course, had no power to make an order one way or the other. [More…]
I went to see a great nuclear power station which was very near an important river. [More…]
At that time- this was two years ago- it was stated that they had all the safeguards necessary to contain the residue from this power station. [More…]
I have seen more nuclear power stations than the honourable senator has. [More…]
A number of nations do not regard existing treaties and international arrangements, embodied in the IAEA/NPT system and certain regional arrangements, as adequate to deal with the proliferation risks arising from the widespread use of civil nuclear power. [More…]
He disregards the other power generating industries in Australia. [More…]
All the waste accumulated from throughout the world since the 1950s when nuclear power was developed would cover the Adelaide Oval to a depth of about one metre. [More…]
We could do that if we had the courage, the guts perhaps, to spend much more and to devote much more of our physical resources to researching other forms of energy, such as solar power. [More…]
SAFETY RECORD OF THE NUCLEAR POWER INDUSTRY ACCIDENTS, LEAKS, FAILURES AND INCIDENTS [More…]
The reactor had been operating at 1 5% of full power and was afterwards de-commissioned. [More…]
“Ten workers died as a result of over exposure to radiation from experimental reactors or in laboratory work connected with the development of nuclear power”. [More…]
(Source: Contingency Plan) 1969- Bradwell Nuclear Power Station Hinkley Point Nuclear Power Station Dungeness Nuclear Power Station Sizewell Nuclear Power Station Oldsbury Nuclear Power Station Trawsfyndd, U.K. Nuclear Power Station [More…]
It was also stated that a nuclear power plant diffuses 30 curies of radioactivity per megawatt per year into the atmosphere. [More…]
The plant was stopped after a power excursion accident, potentially more dangerous than a loss of coolant ( LOCA) (Sources: Nous allons tous Crever, J. Pignero, 1st April, 1 974; Les Amis de la Terre ) 1971, August-Muehlenberg, Switzerland [More…]
86 1 incidents were reported in U.S. nuclear power plants. [More…]
Charlevoix County is the home of the Big Rock Point nuclear power plant. [More…]
Northern States Power Company reactor dumped 10,000 gallons of radioactive water into the Mississippi River causing Minneapolis to close its water intake gates. [More…]
Over a one-year period 15-20 nuclear reactor power stations had to be closed by the NRC due to cracks in the water cooling system. [More…]
Two hydrogen/oxygen explosions in the waste radioactive gas stream at Millstone Nuclear Power Station, Waterford, Connecticut, U.S.A. Chimney door blew off. [More…]
Exemption was granted to two reactors temporarily to prevent power shortages in three States. [More…]
Nuclear sabotage attempt at Surry Nuclear Power Plant. [More…]
July 10 1979-Gentilly 1 Power Station Trois Rivieres, Canada [More…]
Quebec’s only nuclear power station shut down indefinitely. [More…]
The only commercial nuclear power station in the Netherlands closed after a turbine steam bellows sprang a leak. [More…]
*It is also likely that this is a very conservative estimate as most of those in connection with nuclear power have proved to be. [More…]
One of the proposed sites for Western Australia ‘s nuclear power plant would not comply with Regulations of the U.S. [More…]
Yearbook”, 1977 “Accidents, near accidents and leaks in the Nuclear power industry” [More…]
How safe are nuclear power stations? “ [More…]
Sunday Times “5.8.79 “Sunday Telegraph “ 5.8.79 “Nuclear power plant safety- The risks of accidents” in “Atomic Energy” October 1976 No. [More…]
Research Service, Parliamentary Library, Parliament House, Canberra “Nuclear Accidents “Four Corners 21 July 1979 “Nuclear Power” Walter Cram Patterson Harmonsworth Penguin 1976 [More…]
If he is still not satisfied I ask him to come back to me and I will then talk to him about the Nugget file, which contains excerpts from the United States Government’s special internal file on nuclear power plant accidents and safety defects, as obtained in January 1979 by the Union of Concerned Scientists under the Freedom of Information Act of that country. [More…]
The Nugget File is a collection of short reports, averaging perhaps 2-3 pages in length, about a wide variety of astonishing safety deficiencies at U.S. nuclear power plants. [More…]
It casts light on both the technical and institutional aspects of nuclear power reactor safety and shows how seriously the image of safety in the nuclear program is blemished by simple and widespread carelessness. [More…]
Hansard relates to the world nuclear power reactors. [More…]
It indicates that the world nuclear power reactors are not just in the developed countries, but that very many are now being constructed or planned in the undeveloped countries. [More…]
But would she like to go to the Philippines, as I have, and see the people there living in the open without comfort or any source of power? [More…]
Let her go to the Third World countries- to the poor countries- which are short of power. [More…]
I have a table which indicates that nuclear power reactors exist in Iron Curtain countries. [More…]
The point I make is that nuclear power reactors are a part of life in the world today; they are required for the good living and welfare of the very many nations. [More…]
He was talking about greed, money, hate and power. [More…]
I believe, the Democrats believe, that going to nuclear power and exporting our uranium is the ultimate insanity. [More…]
How can a person who is a millionaire several times over say to another person earning $ 1 SO or $ 1 60 a week that we must further depress the purchasing power of his wage or salary? [More…]
We have listened to these arguments from Mr Fraser now for Vh years and, despite the fact that they have been demonstrated to fail, exactly the same thinking has been pursued in this Budget and it will have exactly the same results: Declining purchasing power by everyone in the community; higher unemployment; and, as has now been revealed by the Australian Taxpayers’ Association, higher taxation for everyone- a combination of the three least desired factors in any economy. [More…]
While the Prime Minister has been quick to claim that the capital inflow has increased, he has failed on two counts to be completely honest with the electorate: Firstly, he has not clearly stated in the Budget Papers or elsewhere that since it came to power the Fraser Government has borrowed nearly $5,000m overseas, and all for the purpose of propping up the Australian dollar. [More…]
They have within their means the power to moderate the effects of increases in oil prices. [More…]
Inflation was still running at about 1 7 per cent when the Fraser Government came to power. [More…]
The Liberals in South Australia still want to hang on to power in the Legislative Council. [More…]
Can he tell us which of the other distillate users- miners, fishermen, heavy transporters, foresters or power generators- will be deprived of supplies if that guarantee to farmers is to be fulfilled? [More…]
If the Tribunal does have the power to consider the matter of concentration of ownership- I point out that it did so in the recent decision regarding radio station 2HD and it did so in the decision regarding Telecasters North Queensland Ltd in Townsville in July 1977- it ought to do so without requiring specific directions from the Government. [More…]
If it does not have the power, as it says it does not in the Channel 10 decision, to consider the question of concentration of ownership the Government ought to proceed forthwith to amend the Broadcasting and Television Act and establish such power. [More…]
As counsel put it: ‘the Tribunal cannot order the shares to be returned to vendors or the money to be returned to the purchaser, and, by that means, restore an existing status quo; there is no power to do so’. [More…]
If the Tribunal lacks power to decide the general question at large, it is clear that it equally lacks power to decide it within the context of a particular case. [More…]
Delegates were first told, incorrectly, that this was a direction which would require the expenditure of some $260,000 to upgrade the struggling station’s power. [More…]
It may interest him to know that we live in a federation and most of the power does not rest with us. [More…]
Although my colleagues and I on this side of the chamber make no bones about our desire to change the distribution of wealth or of power itself in this society, we had no difficulty signing this report. [More…]
From Senator Evans’ remarks, that he is disgusted and outraged, one must assume that when his Labor Government was in power in this Senate it had a 6-month rule and observed that rule. [More…]
We are here conferring powers on judges of a particular status in the judicial system, namely, judges of the highest courts. [More…]
We know that there are jurisdictional distinctions between them in the exercise of their ordinary judicial powers, but in this cass we are selecting them for the purpose of issuing warrants without regard to their jurisdictional limits, which are entrenched in our constitutional Federal system and historical reasons, which many people think ought to be changed. [More…]
The powers that are being given here do not arise from respective jurisdictions. [More…]
It is simply that we are selecting these judges on whom to confer a power. [More…]
We are selecting them because we desire that power to be exercised only by judges of high standing and experience. [More…]
That the Committee report by 31 May 1980 and any member of the Committee have power to add a protest or dissent to any report. [More…]
It can detect the odour of potential defeat and will do anything to try to retain power or to bolster its flagging image. [More…]
It is essential that we remember that the Fraser Government has been in power for over V/i years. [More…]
His policy speech asserted that anyone without a job after the parties he led came to power would be someone who did not want to work. [More…]
The level of unemployment has risen consistently since Mr Fraser came to power. [More…]
Since Mr Fraser came to power unemployment has increased. [More…]
Over that time it has lost about 60 per cent of its purchasing power. [More…]
The increase in the pension doesn’t even cover one month of rising prices let alone a year- kerosene went up 38c in 3 days when the threat of the power strike was on. [More…]
We had no power so it cost me the overcharge also. [More…]
Otherwise we have no power of direction or control over the company. [More…]
-In the course of the 1 975 election campaign, the then Leader of the Opposition, Mr Malcolm Fraser, promised that if his party was elected to power in this country it would provide what he called government for all the people. [More…]
It is a matter of history that under the three years of the Whitlam Government inflation rose to a record and destroyed the purchasing power of people on fixed incomes and destroyed savings and investments. [More…]
It lowered the purchasing power of those on fixed incomes and pensions. [More…]
When we came to power we removed the obligation of half a million people on lower incomes to pay any tax at all, quite apart from giving those people extra purchasing power. [More…]
Having restored the purchasing power that the Labor Government had eroded by inflation, having increased the number of people eligible for pensions by 180,000-odd, having increased the value of pensions- all these things helped the little people- the Government then did something that is quite historic. [More…]
Senator Button made the point that he knew that inflation rates in this country had risen since the Fraser Government came to power. [More…]
Similarly, Senator Button said that interest rates had risen since the Fraser Government came to power and that this was somehow reducing the real incomes of families. [More…]
Total unemployment in December 1975, when the Fraser Government came to power, was of the order of 340,000. [More…]
I guess that if Corcoran is returned to power on Saturday taxes will go up in South Australia. [More…]
Let me say it loud and clear: Since this Government came to office it has increased taxation by $23,000m in its first three Budgets; $23,000m of additional tax has been collected by the Fraser Government despite the fact that it came into power saying that it was a tax reducing government. [More…]
Australia has one of the largest concentrations of corporate power in the Western world. [More…]
When the coalition Government went out of power in 1972, unemployment and inflation were stabilised. [More…]
It has been stated before, and it is a fact, that when Labor went out of power in 1975 the inflation rate was nearly 18 per cent. [More…]
A vote for the Corcoran Government on 15th September will add to this State’s bargaining power in vital forthcoming Federal/State talks about finance and taxes. [More…]
Rupert Murdoch put Labor into power in 1972 because he wanted Labor in power. [More…]
When he could not get himself a place of power, as Ambassador to Great Britain, he put Labor out of power, in 1975. [More…]
It is not a question of politics but rather one of power. [More…]
The State does not want to cut out payments to sub-contractors, as alleged; it wants simply to give the arbitration machinery, the industrial court, the power to supervise the payment to sub-contractors. [More…]
Power is cheaper in South Australia, despite the fact that the rates have gone up. [More…]
Why do the Liberals attack people of such experience and such moderation and talk about the power of the left wing? [More…]
Everybody knowsthe dogs are barking it- that this Government, since it has been in power, has cut back on almost every sector of the economy. [More…]
It is higher than when Fraser came to power. [More…]
During the pre-Budget talks which the Labor Government had when it was in office, and since this Government came to power, Bob Hawke has submitted to the Federal Government that he would do this. [More…]
He repeated that offer again on Monday when he said that the trade union movement is not satisfied with the loss of value in the wage packets of wage and salary earners, which has gone down by about 4 per cent since the Liberal Government came to power, and that it will seek to improve their lot and to make a productivity claim. [More…]
The listening public should direct its attention to the things which are to be found in those policies and which will be reflected should the Labor Party come to power. [More…]
1 ) Do CCIR (International Consultative Committee on Broadcasting) regulations for radio broadcasting stipulate the need for higher protection ratios (higher fringe area field strengths) for low-power AM stations like 3CR. [More…]
Are there any migrant workers in the western suburbs of Melbourne, within the station’s 10-mile radius, who cannot be served by 3CR due to the low power allowed the station. [More…]
5 ) Has station 3CR been allowed the lowest power of any AM station in Australia. [More…]
Was the station accused by the Postal and Telecommunications Department in August 1 978 of illegally increasing its transmission power by a large amount; if so, did 3CR totally refute this allegation and point out that the evidence pointed to illegal interference by someone else on 3CR’s frequency, possibly to discredit the station. [More…]
10) Did the State Branch of the Minister’s Department recommend that 3CR should be allowed an increase in power because the Department was convinced that the allowed power was inadequate for the station ‘s licensed purpose and radius. [More…]
Have other public broadcasting stations had numerous complaints against the Federal Section of the Postal and Telecommunications Department concerning lack of cooperation and inadequate allowance for power. [More…]
The power of 3CR is not the primary factor affecting reception. [More…]
3CR shares the lowest power of any non-national AM station in Australia, along with some other stations. [More…]
Some ABC AM stations have even lower power than 3CR. [More…]
On 25 August 1978, a telegram was sent to the station by my Department indicating that variations in the 3CR power level had been observed and asking the station to contact my Department as soon as possible. [More…]
1 wrote to 3CR on 12 January 1979 concerning, inter alia, the variations in the power level of the station. [More…]
Following the observations of increased power, the power output of 3CR was brought under constant surveillance by my Department with the full knowledge of the station. [More…]
However, no further increases have occurred and consequently the cause of the increased power readings is not known. [More…]
It is only possible at this stage to carry out intermittent power readings, trusting that the exact cause can still be determined should there be further occurrences. [More…]
There is an agreed need to provide suitable protection and avoid the possibility of interference among MF stations and accordingly a directional aerial is essential in most instances where a power of I kilowatt is used. [More…]
Does the electricity power supply for operation of computers and radar for SSM fire control exceed normal needs by a magnitude of two to three times. [More…]
It is perfectly clear that the situation is very much complicated by the major power politics of the Russian and Chinese conflict in the area. [More…]
Thirdly, but by no means least, what is to be the fate of the crocodile which, we have heard, adopts a militant posture when it hears a power boat? [More…]
The Labor Government dismantled the growth formulas of the export incentive scheme, one of the major incentives for export trade; it presided over the shutout of Australia from one of our major traditional markets, the European Economic Community; and it was also in power during the disastrous shut-outs of beef from the United States and Japan in 1 974. [More…]
It needs to be modified by the consideration that if ordinary traders were able to recover and share in equally the distribution of assets and if ordinary employees were entitled to receive long service leave, workers’ compensation, wage and salary claims and so on, on a par with the community seeking its taxation then, because of the lesser incidence or amount of bad debts, and because of the spending power that would be put into the hands of employees, quite a bit of that $5m or $6m apparently lost would return to Government revenues by the obvious greater income of employees and the good debts within the trading community. [More…]
Ultimate power rests with the Commonwealth, which can refuse to grant an export approval for woodchips. [More…]
People are being forced to close down due to lack of spending power in the community. [More…]
Since the ascension to power of the Liberal and National Country parties in 1975, the percentage of total Budget outlays allocated to housing has declined. [More…]
Since this Government came to power in 1975, the lists have grown and the waiting time, whether it be for a two or three bedroom Housing Commission home, has gone back to where it was pre-Labor in 1972. [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…]
When it came to power in 1975 in the manner in which it did, it took upon itself the obligation to deal with all these matters. [More…]
The point which the statement does not mention is the need for the Commonwealth Government to obtain constitutional power so that it can impose a more uniform system of industrial relations throughout Australia. [More…]
He suggested that perhaps the States might refer powers on those matters to the Commonwealth Government. [More…]
Its report carries an implication that the usefulness of the United Nations is declining because of the increasing political power of the Third World in that body. [More…]
Capital Territory: Transfer of Power to the States (Question No. [More…]
president of Kansai Electric Power Co., . [More…]
This lack of competition is directly related to the dominance of the consumer loan market by a few powerful companies. [More…]
I have already referred to the great market power of the seven major banks and their capacity to move the business of their customers to the subsidiary finance companies. [More…]
Let me say that the real destruction of consumer credit was the Labor Party’s inflation rate, which went into every savings bank account, every permanent building society, every credit union, every pensioner’s little purse and pocket, and robbed them and downgraded their purchasing power. [More…]
All those people on pensions and fixed incomes and all the people who had small investments in Australia were robbed of their consumer purchasing power which was destroyed by the Labor Party. [More…]
Senator Carrick also made the statement, in his usual tirade against the former Whitlam Government, that it was that Government that, more than any other, destroyed, as he said, consumer purchasing power. [More…]
In both these ways, by deliberate government decision, the purchasing power of Australian consumers, Australian households, has declined dramatically in the last two or three years. [More…]
That would mean that, if the Labor Party were in power today and if it were extending the same privileges to the bank cartel as is now accorded it, the interest rate for Bankcard would be something like 14 per cent per annum. [More…]
I think it is relevant, in discussing this matter of public importance, to look at two things: Firstly, a comparison between the situation as at 30 June this year and the situation as at 30 June last year; and, secondly, a comparison between the situation when the Labor Government was in power during 1975 and the situation in mid- 1979, when we have a Liberal-National Country Party coalition Government which has effective control and management of the Australian economy. [More…]
It is not a question of politics but rather one of power. [More…]
It is not a question of politics but rather one of power. [More…]
If I am correct, sub-section (3 ) of section 52 of the principal Act is the section which provides the Government with the power to take other payments into consideration. [More…]
If that provision will permit the taking into consideration of other payments, that is not a power which presently exists. [More…]
If we are to allow the Commissioner to have what seems to me to be an unlimited power to add to the amount available for that sort of payment, one wonders why we need to insert any limit in the Schedule or to impose any limit on section 37(3) payments under the Act. [More…]
The amendment states that the Commissioner has power to approve costs in excess of the limit where he is satisfied that they are justified. [More…]
The tribunal to which an appellant takes his case has all the powers of the Commissioner and the appeal is heard on its merits. [More…]
But where the circumstances are analysed by the Commissioner and he decides that it is reasonable to have amounts in excess of $780 he has the power to award such amounts. [More…]
Any person who is not satisfied with this decision has the power of appeal against it. [More…]
My colleagues and I, I am sure, are not opposed to the extension of the Commissioner’s power in this area. [More…]
Is it that the Minister hoped that it would slip through; Is it that the Minister did not know and the officers hoped that it would slip through; or, is it that the Minister did not like to point out to this Parliament, and to this chamber of this Parliament, that in fact what she is doing is taking away from the Parliament the legislative power to debate these increases when they come through? [More…]
I suggest that if the voting power of those who were affected were sufficiently low- in those cases I have mentioned, such as post-graduate scholars, there is some reason to believe that that is at least a basis of motivation- there would be no increase at all. [More…]
The tendency of this Government is to take more and more power away from the representatives of the people and hand it over to the Executive. [More…]
Because the Regulations and Ordinances Committee has power only to recommend the disallowance of a regulation, the Parliament can only disallow the regulation. [More…]
This is giving the Parliament a very low legislative power. [More…]
I have fought as hard as anyone could, with the possible exception of Reg Wright when he was in this Parliament, for the right to maintain power within Parliament and not to pass it on to subordinate committees or other bodies. [More…]
Some powers must be delegated. [More…]
I wait anxiously to hear the Minister justify how this can be permitted, how we can take away from the representatives of the people the power to decide what is just compensation and instead put that decision in the hands of the Commissioner. [More…]
The only power of the representatives of the people is to take away the meagre sum that the Government may be prepared to offer. [More…]
As Senator Cavanagh has said, we do not want to be in the situation where the power of deciding how much these people will get resides in the Executive and the only power that a member of this Parliament will have will be to disallow that amount and not to amend it upwards. [More…]
Regrettably, in debates on most of the Bills over which the Minister has had control in this chamber, particularly the health Bills, I have claimed that this Government is attempting to take all power away from the Parliament. [More…]
But we do have a Minister who is worthy of support because she is opposed to power being taken away from the Parliament, which the Government is pledged to do. [More…]
Parliament has the power to disallow a regulation which it does not like. [More…]
The only power that Parliament will have in the case of this legislation will be to disallow a regulation which gives an increased payment to injured workmen with family responsiblities. [More…]
We certainly believe that, if the Government introduces a change, taking from the Parliament the legislative power to change rates and makes it into a regulation, it deserves at least a mention in the second reading speech. [More…]
The tax measures are such that they will encourage the conversion of industry and commerce from oil producing energy sources to other sources of energy such as coal, gas, solar power and so on. [More…]
There is no good relying on the Commonwealth Government because they won’t bc in power after the next election and they know it. [More…]
Then he went on to say ‘there is no good relying on the Commonwealth Government because they won’t bc 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…]
I should make it clear that the present issue is not the building of nuclear power stations in Australia. [More…]
Our cheap coal resources make it most unlikely that nuclear power will be economically competitive here within the foreseeable future. [More…]
Of course, coal power generation has its disadvantages. [More…]
Coal, like all fossil fuel but unlike nuclear power, gives off carbon dioxide. [More…]
This is a world wide problem and Australian power generation is only a small contributor. [More…]
It is far safer, for instance, than the underground mining alternative power source, coalabout 100 times safer. [More…]
Nuclear power stations have been in use in Britain for a quarter of a century. [More…]
Recently an intensive study was made of the health of long term nuclear power plant workers who receive radiation doses comparable to open cut miners. [More…]
The health of the nuclear power plant workers in every respect, including incidence of all types of cancer, was found to be marginally better than that of their peer group in the community. [More…]
Here they raise three issues: The risk of nulcear weapon proliferation, the dangers of nu.cear power generation, and the possibility of terrorists obtaining nuclear weapons. [More…]
But what about the alleged dangers of power generation? [More…]
I wish to turn to another matter, that is, the alleged danger of power generation. [More…]
There are dangers in every system of power generation. [More…]
What right have we to attempt to dictate to other countries which system of power generation they should use? [More…]
As I said earlier, every system of power generation has risks. [More…]
If we wish to give risk numbers to energy machines, such as a power station, we must add up all the risks associated with the production of a particular amount of energy from the beginning. [More…]
I am indebted to Lord Rothschild, the former head of the British Labor Government’s think tank, for a table showing the estimated deaths for a specified energy output from various power sources. [More…]
Coal is 100 times as dangerous as uranium; wind is 60 times as dangerous; and solar power is 12 times as dangerous. [More…]
A few weeks ago, Senator Coleman tabled a list of incidents in nuclear power plants of varying authenticity. [More…]
It would be easy to construct a list which is one hundred times as horrendous as Senator Coleman’s list for the production of an equivalent amount of power from coal. [More…]
Every method of power generation has its risks. [More…]
Look at the situation with hydro-electric power. [More…]
1 think it is clear that nuclear power generation is probably the safest method of power generation. [More…]
I suppose that some people might say that, although a power station might have acceptable local dangers, it could be offensive to the rest of the world because of the way in which it damages the worldwide environment. [More…]
Nuclear power stations do not emit carbon dioxide, but do they emit radiation which would affect other countries? [More…]
It is possible that a geiger counter could prove that the level of radioactivity in the Grand Central Railway Station is higher than that emitted from a nuclear power plant. [More…]
The average person receives in radiation in the course of a year 100 millirem from background radiation, 70 to 80 millirem from medical and dental X-rays, four millirem from all past nuclear explosions and 0.2 of a millirem from all the nuclear power stations in the world. [More…]
But it is worth noting that one receives more additional radiation in a single one-hour flight and nine times more radiation by living in Canberra rather than Melbourne or Sydney than one receives from all the nuclear power stations in the world in a year. [More…]
To suggest that we should attempt to stop nuclear power generation in other countries because of possible damage to the world environment is farcically absurd. [More…]
They can do nothing with yellowcake or with the fuel rods for nuclear power plants, and the plutonium in the reactor waste is in a highly radioactive environment and is not accessible without enormous technological effort. [More…]
In the belief that the world had very little recoverable uranium, it was felt that nuclear power would not be available on any large scale unless the plutonium were recovered from the spent fuel and reused. [More…]
France is aiming to produce half of its electricity by nuclear power by 1985. [More…]
Let there be no mistake: If there are doubts about the supply of uranium, countries will not give up nuclear power. [More…]
What they will do is to move into the plutonium economy, recycling the wastes from power plants to extract the plutonium and building fast breeder plutonium reactors. [More…]
If the facts are as decisively in favour of uranium power generation as I have suggested, where does the Opposition get its arguments from? [More…]
A recent poll in America revealed that twothirds of Americans thought that under certain circumstances nuclear power stations could explode like atom bombs. [More…]
So it will be with nuclear power. [More…]
The non-communist world is heavily hooked on Middle East oil and nuclear power is the only feasible relief in sight. [More…]
Massive increases in coal power generation would be too environmentally damaging. [More…]
Solar power, if all goes well, might provide a small proportion- 5 to 10 per cent- of the world’s power by the turn of the century. [More…]
From the Russian point of view, if the non-communist world can be kept hooked on Middle East oil by denying or delaying its use of nuclear power, then the non-communist world is weakened both economically and militarily. [More…]
They themselves are major users of nuclear power. [More…]
But, dangerous or not, it is their policy, and left wing groups in the Western countries, including Australia, are obediently leading the fight against nuclear power. [More…]
The first question we must 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 and to prevent the world from moving into the plutonium age, with all its attendant dangers? [More…]
I suppose that this is one of the typical examples of the way in which the power of the state is operating in Czechoslovakia. [More…]
I draw the Minister’s attention also to the fact that India, South Africa, Israel and now Pakistan have obtained nuclear power by stealth. [More…]
Are legal and technical reasons consistently applied when deciding Australian recognition of other regimes which come to power by other than democratic process? [More…]
The matter which was of concern to the Committee was the power of the Minister to determine whether any person, including an Australian citizen and an inhabitant of the Territory, would be allowed to enter or reenter the Territory. [More…]
The Committee considers that the power of the Minister to refuse entry to the Territory is potentially a power which could seriously inhibit the rights of the citizen and of the Parliament. [More…]
The second question is whether it is tolerable that there should be within the discretion of the Minister a power to exempt the accounts of whole departments or whole agencies from independent scrutiny simply because there are some small parts of the accounts of those departments or agencies which, on balance, may justify some special security procedures being associated with them. [More…]
Even if the Minister makes an undertaking, as I understand he has been prepared to do, not to exempt any further part of the departmental accounts pursuant to his power under these regulations, I still take the view that it is intolerable in principle that the situation of formal legal entitlement to make such a declaration should continue. [More…]
The difficulty seen by the Committee is that the Act allows the prescription of the whole of a department or authority, and once a department or authority is prescribed, the Minister is empowered to exempt all or any of the accounts of such department or authority from audit. [More…]
The Parliament then has no control over what is exempted from audit unless it is known in advance how the Minister intends to use the power conferred upon him by the regulations, and the regulations may be accepted or disallowed by the Parliament on the basis of that knowledge. [More…]
Under the Audit, as it stood prior to the enactment of the Audit Amendment Act 1979, there was no formal means by which the Auditor-General could be relieved of his responsibility for examining accounts, although he had a discretionary power to dispense with all or any part of the detailed audit of accounts. [More…]
That the Commonwealth Employees (Employment Provisions) Act 1977 should immediately be repealed because: lt provides unfettered power to Ministers to suspend, stand-down and dismiss Commonwealth Government employees and places them in a markedly disadvantageous position as compared with all other Australian workers. [More…]
I do not think the question is appropriately addressed to me because the responsibility for the development of any laws in this area, so far as they may be within the competence and power of the Commonwealth Parliament, would he with other Ministers. [More…]
If the Minister is not prepared to take this action or does not have the power to take such action, will he request the Prime Minister to make a public statement telling the Australian people, particularly those Australians living in remote areas who rely on avgas and distillate for transport and on-going farm activities, the true story regarding supplies of both types of fuel? [More…]
I preface my question to the Minister representing the Minister for the Capital Territory by saying that the Minister will be no doubt aware that daylight saving in recent times was originally introduced into Tasmania for six months during a period of extreme water shortage and consequent power shortage in that State. [More…]
The aim of daylight saving was to save power. [More…]
Will the Minister ask the Minister for the Capital Territory to examine the possibility of extending the date at which the Australian Capital Territory returns from daylight saving time to standard time with a view both to saving power, and consquently fuel, and to setting an example to the other daylight saving States, to extend the period of daylight saving, which obviously from a scientific point of view we should be enjoying at this time? [More…]
The agricultural system was destroyed utterly, the people fled from the lands in hundreds of thousands to the towns to escape first the bombing, and then the communists and most important of all perhaps is that the communist Khmer Rouge who had hardly existed as a political force in 1 970, who numbered perhaps 2,000 guerillas in a country by now about 7 million and had no political strength and no hope of gaining power, then throughout the war, grew and grew and then grew vicious and by 1975, the country had been destroyed and the Americans had fled the region and the Khmer Rouge were left to take it over and we know what has happened since. [More…]
We are not debating the rights and wrongs of the regimes which have fought for power and control in Kampuchea. [More…]
It was not one which we would have politically supported in its coming to power. [More…]
It is very important to note that this Government recognises the Pol Pot regime, or what is left of it in enclaves in Kampuchea; but it does not support the genocide of which obviously that regime is guilty, or the vicious behaviour of that regime when it held more effective power in that country. [More…]
Not only have we done that; we have also constantly done everything in our power as a government and a nation to relieve the problems of refugees. [More…]
I think that most parliaments have adopted the policy of delegating to someone else powers under legislation, but we have always reserved the right in the legislative machinery of this country to have supervision over the actions of that person. [More…]
We have had a position in Australia for some considerable time whereby lawmaking can be carried out by regulation and the power is given in an Act of Parliament to someone else, such as a Minister, to make a regulation. [More…]
But in giving that power to the Executive we imposed some restrictions. [More…]
The Parliament does have some control over this delegated legislation; some power stays within the Parliament. [More…]
Therefore, the power to alter the amount is taken completely away from the Parliament. [More…]
The amounts are stated in a regulation; the Parliament has the power to disallow the regulation. [More…]
The only power that the Parliament has over a regulation is to disallow it. [More…]
But we must have some safeguards to ensure that Parliament has power to determine what the rate shall be. [More…]
That was the fundamental economic principle which seemed to have been adopted by this Government when it came into power in late 1975 and which, although with declining enthusiasm, it has followed ever since. [More…]
When the military junta was in power in Greece a Greek committee known as the Committee for the Restoration of Democracy in Greece was kept under fairly close surveillance by the Commonwealth Police and police special branches in the States. [More…]
While there is no denial that the Yugoslav government can exercise considerable power over its citizens at home and abroad and may have done so occasionally, especially in the immediate postwar period, we accept the fact that governments of all persuasions do so occasionally, when it suits them. [More…]
To us living here in Canberra and Queanbeyan, there is much more insidious and relevant the pressure and power exercised over us in our daily living by extremist groups in our midst. [More…]
- It provides unfettered power to Ministers to suspend, stand-down and dismiss Commonwealth Government employees and places them in a markedly disadvantageous position as compared with all other Australian workers. [More…]
The interjection serves to remind me that when the interjector’s government- the Whitlam Government- was in power, Australia was in the top quarter of the inflationary countries in the Western world and had costed itself out of world markets. [More…]
For anyone to say, as Senator Georges is saying, that there will be an increase in interest rates is to invite people not to lend at the moment, to withhold their lending power. [More…]
The Labor Government was in power between 1972 and 1975 when the case concerning the Oceanic Grandeur disaster went before a Hong Kong court; but one matter was never resolved. [More…]
I ask the Minister whether he can equate the work skills of that girl as a ‘model’ and the skills or a rigger or auxiliary plant attendant in a power station. [More…]
As honourable senators will gather from the sound of my voice, my fire power is lacking tonight. [More…]
Other than for pharmaceutical benefits, the Government has no power under the National Health Act to control prices charged by drug manufacturers or chemists for proprietary pharmaceuticals. [More…]
Medical Registration Boards are established under State and Territorial legislation and have the power to discipline doctors. [More…]
It has watched with considerable interest and concern the changes in Australia’s balance of payments, the movements in our international reserves, and the capital movements since the Fraser Government came to power in 1975. [More…]
The previous Government, the Whitlam Government, came to power in 1 972 in the initial stages of the oil price changes and the massive capital transfers, which amounted to approximately $70,000m in the first year. [More…]
Honourable senators will recall that immediately the Whitlam Government came to power in December 1972 there was a revaluation- an upward valuation- of the Australian dollar of about 7 per cent against the United States dollar on the world market. [More…]
McAuliffe can say what he likes about the Labor Government having borrowed only $400m in the period in which it was in power, but quite clearly the sum that Government intended to borrow was far higher than that. [More…]
All sorts of side-alley activities, which obviously would have had a tremendous effect upon the borrowing power of the Australian dollar, were undertaken. [More…]
On the other hand, the State Governments are beginning to embark on a series of major international borrowing programs, mainly for infra-structural projects, such as power stations, coal loaders and port facilities, most of which will be of substantial benefit to private corporations, particularly transnational mining corporations. [More…]
Despite the fact that this Government has cut back in every sphere of government activity, it finds itself in infinitely more difficult circumstances after three and a half yearsnearly four years- of government than it was in when it came to power. [More…]
The objective of the Fraser Government since it came to power obviously has been to try to reduce that deficit. [More…]
Senator Wriedt clearly was leading the people who were listening tonight to believe that somehow the deficit had increased over the last few years and that in fact the Liberal governments since they have been in power from 1975 have been in favour of increasing the deficit. [More…]
If the Minister cannot supply this information now, and that is something which is readily understood because the Minister representing the Minister for Defence possibly cannot supply it, should we, without knowledge of what is the surplus overhanging, give the Government power to raise it? [More…]
Is the Minister representing the Treasurer aware of the introduction by the Thatcher Government in the United Kingdom of a new statistical index- a tax and prices index- which measures the combined effects of changes in direct taxes and prices on people’s purchasing power? [More…]
Under the previous legislation the Minister had no power in relation to the issue of passports although he had wide discretion in their cancellation. [More…]
The power to issue passports resided with officers authorised by the Minister. [More…]
affect the Minister’s general discretionary power to issue passports. [More…]
No more restraint ought to be placed on an Australian citizen by the Executive in exercising its power to issue, cancel or reject an application for a passport than would be placed on that citizen by the courts of this country. [More…]
It is admirable to the extent that the freedom of movement- the right to travel, to enter, to leave from and return to one’s own country- is too important to be left to unfettered ministerial or bureaucratic whim, which is exactly the situation that has prevailed until now, with a general discretionary power being vested in the Minister with respect to refusals to issue passports and the cancellation of passports. [More…]
I would prefer, if there is to be a discretionary power vested in the Minister, firstly that that be properly articulated, acknowledged and not dressed up with the kind of smokescreen which we have in the presentation of this Bill, where it is suggested that a formerly wide discretion has now been confined within narrow statutory provisions. [More…]
The first is to empower the Minister for Foreign Affairs, in addition to the officers authorised by him, to issue passports. [More…]
Let me say in response to Senator Evans that there is nothing equivocal about the ministerial power as such. [More…]
The Bill itself is quite unequivocal in defining that power. [More…]
The third objective is to impose an obligation on passport holders to report any loss of a passport to the relevant authorities and to empower officers to demand the delivering up of passports in certain cases. [More…]
Three major groups are involved in the fight for power in the National Assembly, and each comprises a variety of different parties with individual ideas on the role of R & D. [More…]
Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. [More…]
The River Murray Commission is inhibited simply because the State and Federal governments have not agreed to give it the necessary power, authority and financial resources to determine what salinity mitigation control projects should be undertaken. [More…]
I agree with Senator Jessop in saying that it is most essential that we endeavour to force through the three State governments and possibly the Federal Government acceptance of the need for the River Murray Commission to have the power and responsibility to deal with water quality as well as water quantity. [More…]
Petitioners who are shift workers without whose assistance such essential services as power, ambulance, fire and Police would not operate will suffer acutely from noise and pollution emanating from your special houses [More…]
I ask: Are these guidelines official, who introduced them, and are they designed to destroy confidence between the Minister and his or her departmental head and further centralise power in the hands of the Prime Minister? [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…]
However, this drift runs completely counter to the kind of society where a real decentralisation of power is required if people’s needs are to be met in ways most sensitive to those needs. [More…]
A second provision of the Bill will give quarantine officers the power to enter and search, a power that has hitherto been lacking. [More…]
He did everything in his power to ensure that that happened. [More…]
I welcome the power that this Bill will give to quarantine officers to take steps by their own initiative to search any baggage which they might reasonably suspect to be at risk. [More…]
Throughout the history of our country this power has never been in the hands of quarantine officers. [More…]
They have relied upon the powers given to Customs officers. [More…]
This Bill will make sure that there is such a power both at the time of entry with the power to search and later by way of warrant to enter and to search any premises. [More…]
The third major element of the Bill deals with appropriate powers to be granted to quarantine officers. [More…]
It took quite a deal of evidence on the lack of adequate powers by quarantine officers, a lack which was evidenced by the fact that for many years there were legal opinions- for example, I think one was given by a Deputy Crown Solicitor of one of the States, perhaps New South Wales- to the effect that after the granting of pratique- that is the granting by quarantine officers of permission to a vessel to unload passengers or goods because it is thought to be free of infection- quarantine officers lost any power to deal with goods discharged from a ship or aircraft. [More…]
If that clause is not directed to dealing with that particular problem, and the quarantine may have lost power once pratique is granted, then I think the Minister for Science and the Environment (Senator Webster) may care to tell the Senate whether it is intended to deal with it by either an amendment to this Bill or at some stage in the very near future. [More…]
It is a gap that was brought up in evidence quite often before the Senate Committee on Natural Resources, as indeed was the whole question of the powers of quarantine officers. [More…]
We need to realise, as a community, that we have been lucky and that the havoc that follows from breach of quarantine is such that both the general public and the courts need to take a more sympathetic view of the necessary inconvenience that may be caused by the exercise of power to search, inspect and question which this Bill gives to Australia’s quarantine officers. [More…]
I do not know whether it is sufficient for the officer to have such tremendous power under a warrant issued only by a justice of the peace. [More…]
I think that the power of the inspector justifies a requirement for an approach to a magistrate if there is reasonable ground for suspicion. [More…]
I protest at the giving of this power just on the signature of a justice of the peace. [More…]
If the Minister had the power within a certain period to destroy that product and paid the owner- in this case we were informed that the amount involved was about $6,000- that would have been the end of the case. [More…]
that the making of the decision was an improper exercise of the power conferred by the enactment . [More…]
Among them is the question of the Minister’s improper use of his power under the legislation, and that is what I am concerned about. [More…]
I refer to clause 7, which gives power to search baggage. [More…]
I had hoped that in this legislation there would be a clause giving quarantine officers the power to stand alongside Customs officers at ports of entry. [More…]
Some powers should be given to quarantine officers so that they can stand alongside Customs officers at every port of entry into Australia and when a person states on his card that he has been on a farm the quarantine officers should then have the right to look at his luggage, inspect it and fumigate his shoes, particularly in cases where passengers request to have their shoes fumigated. [More…]
Another anomaly in this amendustry nding legislation is that no power is being given to a quarantine officer to enable him to search luggage. [More…]
A prerequisite for the establishment of an independent and neutral Kampuchea, free of Great Power rivalries, is the withdrawal of Vietnamese armed forces. [More…]
Is the Minister aware of the significance of this admission, given the Soviet Union’s commitment to nuclear power and the fact that it has presently 10 large nuclear power plants under construction? [More…]
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 . [More…]
We should be doing everything in our power to ensure that if a union is to be deregistered, if the funds of a union are to come under the control of the Government, that should be done only upon direct instruction and following argument before an independent judicial tribunal. [More…]
By what corridor of power may complainants hope to reach the ear of the President and induce him to defrock a colleague? [More…]
That is the conclusion of not only the editor of the Financial Review but also of any fair-minded person as he looks at that very loosely defined power put in the hands of the President of the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission by this Bill. [More…]
Perhaps the most difficult aspect of this Bill to take on because of the public sentiment involved, and upon which the Government is playing, is the notion that the Commission is to be denied the power to order the payment of wages for time lost through industrial action. [More…]
I want to make the point that no matter what legislation it is, whether it is industrial relations legislation or that which is referable to any of a host of other areas of importance, unless the Australian community is prepared to give it a trial, to get behind and promote the legislation, whatever government may be in power, that legislation has less and less opportunity of proving successful. [More…]
The problem that confronts every Australian- I mark every Australian because that includes millions of trade unionists- is the abuse of power, whether by organisations in a significant measure or by individuals within those organisations. [More…]
This type of legislation is an attempt to amend the Conciliation and Arbitration Act to the extent that it will be more effective in solving the problems that confront us in the industrial area and in curtailing the abuse of power which from time to time creeps into a free society. [More…]
It is in that area of trying to direct itself to the control of the abuse of power in the industrial relations area, whether it be abuse from a trade union area or from an employer area. [More…]
They are relatively simple and most thinking people will admit that they are responsible efforts to control the abuse of power in industrial relations. [More…]
They will enable an industrial dispute or part of an industrial dispute to be referred to a Full Bench at the conciliation stage and they will reinforce the powers of the President of the Commission by enabling him to withdraw a matter from another member of the Commission and either deal with it himself or refer the matter to a Full Bench. [More…]
The amendment that makes it outside the power of the Commission to award pay retrospectively to people on strike is a reasonable and proper amendment. [More…]
There is no reason on earth why the Commission should be empowered to award strike pay retrospectively. [More…]
It becomes patently clear under this sort of amended legislation that there can be a real retribution for abuse of power- I emphasise the words ‘abuse of power’- because that is the only area with which this sort of legislation involves itself. [More…]
I merely hope that in the remarks I have made tonight I have indicated that the amendments proposed in this legislation seek responsibly to stop the abuse of power in industrial relations in this community. [More…]
I do not think there are many people who have the power those commissioners have who would willingly give up part of that power no matter how justified it might be. [More…]
If we bear in mind that these commissioners will not happily give up part of that power, even though it may be well justified, I think that we will be keeping the position in perspective. [More…]
Senator Douglas McClelland said that Mr Justice Samuels of New South Wales criticised part of the policies of the Labor Government when it was in power. [More…]
The Government has not insisted that a deputy president has an overriding power on a commissioner. [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 this 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…]
If the Victorian Egg Marketing Board is not prepared to act reasonably in this matter so that an ACT industry is able to survive, it is incumbent on the authorities in the Territory- the authorities with the power to do something, such as the Minister for the Capital Territory (Mr Ellicott)- to take action. [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…]
The second area that the Bill focuses on is the conferring of a power in the President of the Commission to take a matter entirely out of the hands of some individual member of the Commission in order either to deal with it himself or to enable it to be referred to and dealt with by a Full Bench. [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…]
Because it does represent such a substantial sanction to deregister a union it has always- in the whole history of the conciliation and arbitration system- been thought appropriate that that deregistration power be vested in the courts and in nobody else but the courts. [More…]
Originally, it was vested in the Court of Conciliation and Arbitration itself and then, following the split of functions in 1956, the power of deregistration was vested very specifically by legislation in the Federal Court. [More…]
It is now proposed to vest that power in the Executive itself. [More…]
To pass a law in the terms in which the Government here wants to pass it, limiting the power of the Commission to make awards or determinations of this kind, is to make a law directly with respect to the subject of wages. [More…]
What would be the status of a provision which said: ‘The Commission is not empowered to make an award in respect of a claim for additional pay for skill or for working in confined spaces or at heights or for working in heat or dirt or any other disabling condition’? [More…]
What would be the situation if it were said in legislative form: ‘The Commission shall have no power to make an award in respect of any claim for payment of wages in respect of public holidays worked or in respect of travelling time to or from work or in respect of absence from work for so many days a year for reasons of sickness, or in respect of additional rates of pay for hours worked in excess of 40 a week’? [More…]
When there is a fuel strike, a power strike, a transport strike, or a delay or difficulty in obtaining supplies of raw materials for a particular factory, it is not the white collar workers or the professionals who are stood down, it is the blue collar workers. [More…]
As some of the resolutions adopted at the Labor Party Conference recently held in Adelaide tend to suggest, the majority of the Opposition detests, and rightly so, monopoly influence and monopoly power, but not when it is the sole preserve of the union movement. [More…]
Unions in Australia have acquired a monopoly power over the supply of labour similar to that which the 1 9th century industrialists had on the demand side for labour. [More…]
However, this unique position of a monopoly power over the supply of labour must never place the unions above the law. [More…]
Some communist-led union bosses often use their power in pursuit of social and political changes; they use the benefits and privileges afforded by industrial legislation which is designed to protect the economic interests of their members. [More…]
In 1976 the High Court examined this matter and stated that the legislature has the power to make laws directing the Commission with respect to procedural matters, but may not direct the Commission on how to settle disputes. [More…]
It would hurt the small unions, which can be manipulated and would then be without registration, but I should have thought that an extreme left wing communist-led union with lots of muscle, with the tiered system where power is vested in the top, would love to go back to the jungle of open bargaining, particularly in the big industries. [More…]
I come then to the question of the power in proposed new section 34a- clause 8 of the Billconcerning the reference of disputes to the Parliament. [More…]
But the principal objection to the Bill, one that has not emerged in the debate so far, is to the section which confers upon the Executive government the power to deregister organisations. [More…]
This is given barely one year after this same Government introduced legislation in 1978 conferring that power, not on a single judge as had been the case previously, but on a full bench of three judges. [More…]
I shall quote the remarks of Mr Street, the Minister for Industrial Relations, to the House of Representatives on 4 May 1978 in support of the proposal which the Government considered necessary to confer this power, not a single judge but three judges. [More…]
In either event, the exercise of the power to deregister need involve no more than simple and expeditious proceedings under the Act in the Federal Court of Australia before a full bench of three judges. [More…]
There has not been a session of this Parliament since the Fraser Government came to power in which we have not had legislation designed in some way or another to restrict the legitimate rights of the workers of this country and of the trade union movement. [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 Government is not game to go to the Australian people and ask for the power to set wages; it knows what the Australian electorate would say in a referendum. [More…]
It seeks to amend section 25 of the principal Act to divest the Commission of the power to award wages to workers on strike. [More…]
The Government believes that the legislation it has introduced progressively since it came to power in 1 976 is in the interests of the people. [More…]
Naturally I thought that clause 3 was the main clause because if the courts were to find that clause 3 goes beyond the power of the Commonwealth the whole Bill would be invalid. [More…]
The Minister for Industrial Relations (Mr Street) stated today that the presidential member of the Commission has no power over what a commissioner may adjudicate on or what he may award. [More…]
It makes a difference when the Government does not have a justification for its return to power and it wants to find the enemy and someone to blame. [More…]
It cannot be suggested here that the deputy president has the power to make the decision, to settle something. [More…]
I refer to the power which the President will have to withdraw matters from a commissioner and the power in regard to standdowns being expedited. [More…]
We must remember in regard to this whole area that we have very limited powers insofar as the Constitution is concerned. [More…]
Before dealing with the last matter, which I think is of the greatest significance, I would like to read something about the power as described by Sir Robert Garran in Prosper the Commonwealth, his autobiography. [More…]
The Commonwealth Parliament has power 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. [More…]
The end, the purpose, is the prevention and settlement of industrial disputes; yet not every means for attaining that end is included in the power, but only the particular means of conciliation and arbitration. [More…]
He goes on to say that the possibility of the power here being either too great or too smallone can go one way or the other. [More…]
I have always thought that the power is either too great or too small. [More…]
That, I believe, sets out pretty clearly the weakness of the power. [More…]
It is a power which we should be careful not to use to create a great deal of heat in the community only to find that it falls to the ground. [More…]
It is given the power in the Bill only to make declarations. [More…]
Frankly, I doubt whether that is part of the power of a ‘conciliation arbitration’. [More…]
One then turns to the Executive power. [More…]
That is a power to deregister a union at any time within six months. [More…]
The Government can make an order which includes the power to suspend any of the rights, privileges or capacities of the organisation or all or any of its members. [More…]
There is a limitation but under this Act or under any other Act, award or determination there is very wide power. [More…]
It is difficult to know how long or how short might be the exercise of that power. [More…]
I cannot see how that power fits into conciliation or arbitration, bearing in mind what was said by Sir Robert Garran about constitutional limitations and the fact that it must be a power in respect of the settlement of disputes and not just a wide open power. [More…]
I must say in regard to both elements of this power that I have the gravest doubts as to whether that criterion could be found. [More…]
I know also that there is power in the High Court to ‘read down’ powers, as happened in regard to the Family Law Act, so that they fit within the constitutional framework and so that they can operate without defeating the law. [More…]
I think that the powers would have to be cut down quite considerably if the courts were to uphold this particular law. [More…]
The last thing I want to point out about this provision is that although it empowers the Government to make orders under clause 1 6 of the Bill, those orders are in no way subject to disallowance in this Parliament. [More…]
We know the usual provision under the Acts Interpretation Act whereby regulations are made and are subject to scrutiny and possible disallowance in either chamber of Parliament, there is no power whatsoever do disallow in this case. [More…]
It is most unfortunate that powers are given to the Executive government in this way to make very drastic orders which are not to be subject in any way to the control of the Houses of Parliament. [More…]
The entering of private premises, on the authorisation of the Minister, in times of emergency, is far too loose a power. [More…]
In fact, the source of all power for the Arbitration Commission in its dispute-settling practices and procedures has been the Parliament. [More…]
Quite obviously, therefore, the superior power must reside in the Parliament itself which, as has been pointed out, derives its power from the Constitution. [More…]
During the constitutional conventions of the 1 890s there was some debate about what form of power the Federal Parliament should have over its arbitration procedures. [More…]
All power resided in the States. [More…]
There was a suggestion that perhaps total power should be vested in the Federal Parliament. [More…]
I was making the point that the power of the Arbitration Commission derives from the Constitution and, of course, from the Parliament itself. [More…]
During the constitutional conventions of the 1890s there was much discussion of the way in which power should vest in the Federal Parliament. [More…]
In fact, Mr Kingston of South Australia proposed in 1891 that the Federal Parliament should have total power in this area. [More…]
However, the States were jealous of their powers at that time and clearly did not want to hand them over to the Commonwealth. [More…]
However, we now have set out in section 51, subsection (xxxv) of the Constitution the power of the Commonwealth to legislate in this area so that industrial disputes which affect more than one State may be handled through the Arbitration Commission. [More…]
I make the point that at that time the Federal Parliament discussed very deeply the question of the powers in this area that it ought to assume. [More…]
In earlier days the Federal Parliament debated whether it would take unto itself the power to administer the detail of industrial law. [More…]
As a body with such central power and such great importance- its decisions are impacted upon the community- its role obviously extends far beyond the very superficial tasks that it sometimes performs. [More…]
Its power stems, as I have demonstrated, from the Federal Parliament, which stems from the Constitution itself. [More…]
The power and the source of the power is the Parliament and the Commission, and the unions should listen to that power and to the expression of that voice through the Parliament. [More…]
The position is, as I have said, that the Commission draws its source of power from the Federal Parliament by the laws that this Parliament makes. [More…]
But I must say this also, that he, like his colleagues, with the exception of Senator Missen- I must pay tribute to the observations of and the contribution by Senator Missen to this debate; it was a very thoughtful and constructive contribution- is locked into a power group that is astride of this country at the present time. [More…]
As the pressure grows in this system to perpetuate and justify itself, so will the powers grow ruthlessly to overpower and subdue the accepted traditional patterns of industrial relations. [More…]
They have a track record of using every snide and questionable backdoor charade to have and to hold power. [More…]
One would think that we on this side of the chamber were vying for the power to control the trade unionists. [More…]
The minister has the power, under certain prescribed pro forma, to take control of the unions and to affect the rights of members. [More…]
The Australian Security Intelligence Organisation has received unprecedented powers. [More…]
It has the power to break into premises and to use bugging devices. [More…]
This Bill seeks to inject into the principal Act a provision which purports to give the Government the power to order that claims for lost wages due to industrial action shall not be awarded by the Commission in any circumstances. [More…]
That is the power of this Bill. [More…]
Our reforms will maintain the purchasing power of wages and ease the pressure for excessive wage demands. [More…]
It is not until those facts have been established that the powers of deregistration can be exercised by the GovernorGeneral under this legislation. [More…]
That is a discretionary power of the Governor-General which can be exercised only after the facts have been investigated and a declaration made by the Commission that these very strict conditions have been satisfied. [More…]
That is clearly a judicial process in which facts are determined, and it is only after the facts are determined in accordance with the legislation that these powers can be exercised. [More…]
Apart from the fact that in one case the court would be deregistering and in the other case the Governor-General would be doing so, and he has a discretion as to whether to do so, there is no fundamental difference really between the exercising of the powers of deregistration, except that the Government believes that in these cases the procedures will be able to be exercised more quickly, and for the greater protection of the community, than they can be exercised under the existing powers in the generality of cases when applications for deregistration take a considerable time. [More…]
It is only because of the urgency of the matter in the particular threat to the safety, health or welfare of the community that the Government is proposing these additional and more expeditious powers. [More…]
It may well be argued that there is, but in our opinion the legislation is a valid exercise of power. [More…]
The petition of the undersigned citizens of Australia respectfully showeth that the very survival of mankind is at stake, with the stockpile of nuclear weapons able to kill every person on earth 24 times over and with conventional arms of increasing sophistication having enough destructive power to destroy most life on earth. [More…]
Are electrostatic precipitators installed in chimney stacks at coalfired power plants in Australia? [More…]
-Did the Minister for Science and the Environment notice statements in the media this week that Japan plans to spend $35,000m, no less, on a huge plant to develop alternative energy sources and that her investment in solar energy, geothermal power and coal conversion is expected to create 300,000 new jobs in Japan between now and 1990? [More…]
If transmit powers of 20 watts were to be utilised, it is considered that it would be most difficult to obtain the agreement of administrations which might be expected to offer freedom from interference to earth station reception in Australia if the low power services employ the same nominal orbital positions as those assigned to Australia in the Plan. [More…]
It does not matter which party happens to be in power; there is no Minister who cannot be relied upon to make a personal evaluation and make the ultimate decision. [More…]
On the subject of documentation- I want to dish out criticism fairly- when the Labor Government was in power some Filipino girls were conned into coming to Australia as textile operative trainees. [More…]
Commonwealth power with respect to immigration. [More…]
It may well be that there is on the present case law a point at which a person becomes a member of the community or becomes absorbed into the community- as the judges have put it- so that at that point the person ceases to be an immigrant for the purposes of the reach of Federal constitutional power. [More…]
So, one still can have a situation where someone has been in Australia for just three years, applies immediately for naturalisation and, I am suggesting, can be construed as the law now stands as an immigrant for the purposes of federal statute law and for the purposes of the reach of federal constitutional power, and as such be then liable to the impact of these particular sections. [More…]
The Bill seeks to repeal provisions which give to the Attorney-General the power to deport persons who are not natural born Australians- notwithstanding the fact that they may be naturalised Australians- and who have committed certain offences under the Crimes Act. [More…]
1 ) The Minister may, either generally or as otherwise provided by the instrument of delegation, by writing signed by him, delegate to an officer 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 Minister. [More…]
A delegation under this section does not prevent the exercise of a power by the Minister. [More…]
I see that the Minister cannot extend his power of delegation to someone else. [More…]
There are two vital questions that arise: Firstly, the power of an individual in the case of wrongful arrest and gaoling and, secondly, the question relating to the spouse, which I think is most important. [More…]
These measures should encourage the increased use of LPG which ultimately could power 10 to 15 per cent of Australia’s motor vehicles. [More…]
The petition of the undersigned citizens of Australia respectfully showeth that the very survival of mankind is at stake, with the stockpile of nuclear weapons able to kill every person on earth 24 times over and with conventional arms of increasing sophistication having enough destructive power to destroy most life on earth; [More…]
The facility would handle spent fuel from commercial nuclear power reactors located not in the United States but in other countries of the Pacific area which have nuclear power programs. [More…]
Senator Chipp informed its readers that his Party would have the balance of power in the Senate and would then introduce private members’ Bills to reduce sales tax, telephone call charges and petrol prices in country areas. [More…]
In 1 980, it is likely that the Australian Democrats will gain the balance of power in the Senate. [More…]
His explanation for having said that the Democrats, whom he expects will hold the balance of power after 1980, will introduce private member’s Bills to do three things appears to be that, from the Bills that he proposes to introduce, the sections that actually appropriate the money will be omitted and therefore the Bills will not be disqualified by virtue of section 53 of the Constitution. [More…]
compared to the risks of not disarming, the risks of sitting on your hands’, of drifting on with the arms race and the so-called balance of power. [More…]
The trouble is that the Treaty on the Non-proliferation of Nuclear Weapons is seriously defective, particularly because three nuclear powers- France, China and India- are not signatories to it. [More…]
To be usable in a power reactor U235 has to be enriched to 3 per cent. [More…]
If we try to restrict the supplies of uranium and artificially create a shortage, we will not stop countries from using nuclear power but we will force them into recycling their nuclear power plant wastes and extracting plutonium- a great danger to the spread of nuclear weapons- and going into fast breeder plutonium reactors. [More…]
As I have said, in two key areas of nuclear weapons proliferation we have a chance to play a significant role, if we use our power. [More…]
Military spending generates a stream of buying power without producing an equivalent supply of economically useful goods for the civilian market. [More…]
Therefore, I make the formal protest that the Opposition has made every time this has been attempted since the Government came to power. [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…]
When the Liberal Government came to power, it was expected that there would be a change in the situation. [More…]
Since it came to power in 1 975 the Government has not increased by one cent the allowance for pensioners’ children, despite the fact that there has been a 40 per cent increase in the consumer price index since then. [More…]
It was proposed by Government members in 1977 at the time of the La Trobe Valley power dispute. [More…]
The final objection that we have to this legislation- I can mention it only briefly but I will mention it again in the Committee stage- is that it changes the discretionary power of the Director-General to withhold benefits from people who, he thinks, have voluntarily left employment or who have been guilty of misconduct. [More…]
The previous speaker, Senator Walters, who has already left the chamber, did not really have her heart in her speech until she referred to the period when she was in her mid-20s and recalled the time when the Chifley Government was in power. [More…]
In 1973 to 1974 when the Whitlam Government was in power it was 15.2 per cent. [More…]
During the next year when the Whitlam Government was still in power the percentage increase in real terms was 10.6 per cent. [More…]
If we look at the percentage increases which followed that, we see that they are: Minus 1.2 per cent- the first year that the present Government was in power- 3. [More…]
The petition of the undersigned citizens of Australia respectfully showeth that the very survival of mankind is at stake, with the stockpile of nuclear weapons able to kill every person on earth 24 times over and with conventional arms of increasing sophistication having enough destructive power to destroy most life on earth. [More…]
None of the committees, the Tribunal, or the Minister has power to impose fines or to gaol doctors. [More…]
I can assure the senator and the Senate that I will be taking every step within my power to ensure that progressively various parts of the reef are investigated, assessed and, if there is a capacity to declare and manage them correctly, that will be done at the earliest opportunity. [More…]
Senator Evans knows, of course, that power to determine the ownership of commercial broadcasting and television stations is vested in the Australian Broadcasting Tribunal under the Broadcasting and Television Act 1942 and is, therefore, a matter over which neither the Minister nor the Government has any control. [More…]
We agree, but we point out that it was in 1974, when the Labor Government was in power, that an Australian Government first sought to secure for us membership of what was then the Conference of the Committee on Disarmament in the United Nations. [More…]
This was not possible because of the balance of power prevailing in the United Nations, and the fact that the Western allied nations had what was considered to be sufficient representation. [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…]
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, as well as the whole of the decision, to make an order subject to condition, 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…]
I hope the Minister for Social Security (Senator Guilfoyle) will see that the transfer of power to the Administrative Appeals Tribunal is soon made. [More…]
That will lead to further administrative difficulties; not the administrative difficulties which will arise in individual unions, which Senator Harradine pointed out, but the administrative difficulties which will arise for the Director-General of Social Services, or more often for his delegates- the people to whom he delegates the power to decide. [More…]
The important thing about the whole of the Social Services Act is that so much of it relies on the delegation of power and the discretion of the Director-General or his underlings. [More…]
This power- this operating ability- is decided by regulations and guidelines which are given to those underlings by the DirectorGeneral with the agreement, we assume, although we sometimes suspect without the agreement, of the Minister involved. [More…]
When any legislation of this type comes into this placewhen any legislation giving power to a public servant comes into this place- I believe we as members of parliament should be able to look at the relevant guidelines, instructions and regulations. [More…]
In regard to matters that were raised by Senator Cavanagh, again relating to the discretionary power of the Director-General of Social Services- with regard to onus of proofalso referred to in the same way by Senator Tate, it must be accepted that a person who is seeking an unemployment benefit needs to show that he is eligible for it. [More…]
However, unfeeling officersunfortunately there are some- will have the power to deprive people of income. [More…]
In the magistrates court a power of this kind would be used only in severe cases. [More…]
However, this mandatory six weeks period is too harsh and puts too much power in the hands of what may be relatively junior officers. [More…]
Previously the Director-General had the power to change the penalty. [More…]
-No, but I wonder whether he would now have the power. [More…]
He had the power before. [More…]
If in his opinion someone left employment for one of the reasons under the Act he will not have the power that he had before to make the penalty one or two weeks. [More…]
All we are seeing is a repeat of the performance that we have seen since this Government came into power- this obsession every year in the social services legislation and practically every month in the Commonwealth Employment Service guidelines, to tighten up the guidelines, and change the legislation to restrict people on unemployment benefit in order to impress those of their supporters and those misguided people in the community who believe that the unemployed are unemployed because they want to be, that unemployment does not in fact exist and that there are jobs for all, despite the figures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics and the CES, which show that there are some 25 unemployed in this country for every job vacancy available. [More…]
The net result of this is a loss of comparative purchasing power for those pensioners not of the 2.3 per cent of the December quarter CPI increase but in fact of the 3.8 per cent in a single quarter. [More…]
We on the north-west coast of Tasmania, not a few miles from where I live, are fortunate to have a Mr David Cunningham who has an imaginative and constructive mind and who has drawn on his engineering and farming experience, in cooperation with the staff and students of the local technical college, to try to devise an on-farm power alcohol distillation system which will enable him to run farm machinery. [More…]
He applied for a general distillation licence to manufacture power alcohol from vegetable matter at his premises in Ulverstone. [More…]
My question for passage to the Minister for Business and Consumer Affairs (Mr Fife) by the Minister for Science and the Environment, who is in the chamber, is simply: Will the Minister urgently consider the removal of such restrictions as exist either on the issuing of licences or the imposition of excise on the construction and operation of a distillation plant to manufacture power alcohol from vegetable matter? [More…]
I note the personal interest shown by Senator Tate from Tasmania in his comments about Mr Cunningham and the distillation of power alcohol from sugar beet. [More…]
To those colleagues I did release information obtained during the testing program that was carried out primarily with public funds made available to the Company by the Commonwealth and Victorian State Governments, and that was carried out on the power units manufactured at public expense at the Bendigo Ordnance Factory. [More…]
Pritchard Steam Power Pry Ltd for the project. [More…]
It provides unfettered power to Ministers to suspend, stand-down and dismiss Commonwealth Government employees and places them in a markedly disadvantageous position as compared with all other Australian workers. [More…]
-The amendments to the Customs Act to expand the powers of narcotics officers to use listening devices and the complementary amendments to the Telecommunications (Interception) Act were based upon the argument from narcotics officers and others that these powers were needed. [More…]
There was no power in me under any Federal law to authorise the use of listening devices. [More…]
If that is the case, can we have an assurance that the representative of the Department of Foreign Affairs on the Committee on the Determination of Refugee Status, which will in the very near future be considering permanent residence for a Sydney power station worker, Roger Guttierrez, a Bolivian national, is fully aware of all those facts and what would face that man if he were deported? [More…]
The present Bill is based on a fundamental reluctance to give courts and tribunals power to set aside executive decisions. [More…]
However, since the authoritative High Court decision in Sankey v. Whitlam, it is apparent that much of this attitude has been based on a misconception of the existing powers of the courts. [More…]
We recommend that the power to grant access should be delegated downwards as far as possible, whilst power to deny requests be confined to senior agency officers. [More…]
the Bill should specifically confer upon Ministers and agencies the discretionary power to waive or reduce fees where an applicant is impecunious or where the provision of the information in question can be considered as primarily benefiting the general public. [More…]
Careful consideration was also given to objections by Pedal Power to modifications of the cycle path system. [More…]
No doubt other Ministers, both Labor and Liberal, have also done that and have been knocked back because Ministers are frightened of public reaction if police forces are given too much power. [More…]
We might not be able to do that in respect of Kampuchea because we are confronted with wider issues, major power rivalries and all sorts of subjective factors, but in Timor there is no need for any person to suffer. [More…]
I preface my question by saying that no doubt the Minister is aware that daylight saving was introduced into Tasmania many years ago for six months of the year during a period of power shortage due to a water shortage in the lakes of Tasmania. [More…]
I am aware of reports that a research project is under way in Japan to recover and make use of the large amount of uranium contained at low concentration in seawater, for nuclear power generation. [More…]
Is the Minister aware that steaming coal is about to become the most highly prized energy source now that the generation of nuclear power has proved to be too dangerous and too costly? [More…]
At the present moment there is some assertion of power by the Northern Territory in respect of land in the township. [More…]
I now have the following answer for him: In order to conform with atmospheric pollution control requirements, the gaseous products of combustion in coal-fired power stations in Australia are passed through either electrostatic precipitators or, less frequently, fabric filters which remove coal dust and fine ash particles before these emissions enter the chimney stack and escape to the atmosphere. [More…]
The CSIRO is not aware of any studies being undertaken in Australia aimed at determining whether the electric charges on particles emitted from chimney stacks have any effects in the immediate environment of coal-fired power stations but has good reason to believe that such effects will be minimal. [More…]
During a recession when sales fall, firms operating in concentrated markets with substantial economic power will increase their prices to offset revenue losses from declining sales, thereby charging a higher markup per unit sales in order to attain their desired target rate of profits. [More…]
There is an abuse of corporate power; there is a market concentration; and there is excessive profit making. [More…]
When the Government came to power, it took several steps to weaken the legislative effect of the Prices Justification Tribunal, lt took steps to reduce the number of companies that could be examined by the Prices Justification Tribunal. [More…]
It gave to the Minister for Business and Consumer Affairs the power to decide what activities the Tribunal should examine. [More…]
That indicates that, by removing the Tribunal’s effectiveness as a resource centre and by removing the powers to investigate, it is left to the States to play some small but ineffective role in the whole area of prices. [More…]
Time will not permit me to say very much about the problems of transfer pricing other than to refer to what is happening in the petroleum industry and how the Prices Justification Tribunal, in its limited power; sought to do something in 1979 about the rising price of petroleum products. [More…]
When the present Government came into power at the end of 1975 it conducted discussions with the unions and the employers. [More…]
One of its most important roles is in petroleum products, where it has had an inquiry and it now has the power to require notification to it of price increases in that area. [More…]
I am sure it would be delighted to think it had that power. [More…]
To the extent that inflation is worsened by firms exploiting market power, the PJT has reduced inflation by checking this. [More…]
The fact of the matter is that prior to the Whitlam Government coming to power the consumer price index increased at an average annual rate of about 6 per cent. [More…]
It is true to say that there have been fewer changes in the method of making payments to local government, but this has been only because local government has not had the political power to put sufficient pressure on the Federal Government in reponse to the treatment that it has received. [More…]
This is where there is a great difference between our policies and attitudes and those of the Labor Government when it was in power, and even today in opposition. [More…]
We still do not have the power as a Commonwealth Government to make funds directly available to local authorities. [More…]
After the Fraser Government came into power it continued to provide untied funds although the format by which it provided them became different. [More…]
After the Fraser Government came into power funds were no longer distributed by the Commonwealth Grants Commission, but were distributed by individual State Grants Commissions. [More…]
This Government has done all in its power - [More…]
1 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…]
I would not like to commit myself to a general statement regarding the powers that the Commonwealth Parliament and the Government may have in relation to these matters. [More…]
Obviously defence powers and matters of that sort come to mind. [More…]
By and large the general power in relation to control of the manufacture and use of products of this kind would come within the State area. [More…]
I ask the Minister: Will he confer with the Minister for National Development and prepare a complete statement on the Government’s intentions in dealing with the problems which might be foreseen in the future and on the plans of both Federal and State governments concerning oil and energy supplies generally for a 10-year period, including proposals to encourage the development of sources of power alternative to petroleum and the fossil fuels? [More…]
It asked whether we are satisfied that the Commonwealth has the necessary constitutional power. [More…]
Our relationship with neighbouring countries like Indonesia is, of course, important, but the sensitivities of the Indonesian Government should not be considered more important than the lives, the freedom, the self-determination and the health of the men, women and children of East Timor who have been sorely abused for centuries by a neglectful colonial power, who have been abandoned in the wake of a revolutionary change in that colonial power and who were then taken over by a neighbour obsessed with unreal fears that a hostile power could develop amongst the 600,000-odd people on the edge of its own country of 1 30 million people. [More…]
East Timor presents a typical tragedy of modern times; of people who initially were denied freedom and development by their colonial power, then were denied self-determination by a neighbour and then, despite the willingness of others to help and despite the good will which existed, perverse national pride prevented the Indonesians admitting until now that a problem existed. [More…]
The first is that the Soviet Union is a super power. [More…]
It is one of the two super powers, along with the United States of America. [More…]
No country can avoid having relations with the super powers. [More…]
No country can be secure so long as it believes that there is any threat of any kind whatsoever from either of the two super powers. [More…]
However horrendous the events that are occurring in any of these smaller countries, the consequences of those events are in no way as important to the people of this country and to the people of the rest of the world as are the events which take place within the boundaries of the super powers, nor are the policies of those countries in any way as important or as significant or as potentially dangerous as the practices and policies of the super powers. [More…]
With regard to the other super power, the United States of America, nobody I think is going to argue that there have not been and still are deprivations of human rights within that country from time to time, as there are in all other countries. [More…]
Apart from the importance of the Soviet Union as a super power, the other reason why we believe it is important to understand what is happening inside that country is that the Soviet Union is an evangelical super power. [More…]
But if there is a super power, if there is indeed any country which is actively pursuing the propagation of a system of government, a system of society, throughout the whole world, it is surely of importance to the people of the rest of the world to understand how that country behaves within its own borders. [More…]
The 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…]
I take the view and the Opposition takes the view that here, as elsewhere in this whole human rights area, the Commonwealth should gather up its courage and legislate under the external affairs power- section 5 1 (xxix) of the Constitution- in such a way as to extend its jurisdiction in human rights matters over the States. [More…]
Yet, while on the one hand the Government derives the benefit of the looseness of the Covenant’s definitions, it does not rely on the Covenant as a basis for extending, as I suggested it should under the external affairs power of the Constitution, legislative reach of the Bill into the States. [More…]
He started with a piece of legislation which had been emasculated by the Liberal and National Country Parties in this Senate by removing from it provisions or rewriting provisions so as to make the proof of discrimination more difficult, so as to remove from the Commissioner his power of compulsory evidence gathering, by removing from the Commission his power to initiate litigation. [More…]
But experience so far surely should have persuaded the Government, and certainly persuaded Mr Bailey, as the Government’s main adviser in this area, that cooperative federalism, here as elsewhere, is destined to be an abject failure, and that there is no prospect of getting effective, inegrated acrosstheboard machinery unless the Commonwealth itself takes the initiative and exercises that constitutional power which it almost certainly in my belief at least has available to it under the external affairs power, and enacts its own human rights legislation. [More…]
Protect the civil liberties of the individual in society including the implementation of civil, political and social rights wherever applicable according to international conventions adopted by Australia, in fields of Commonwealth power or where the adoption of the convention has been approved by the States. [More…]
The Human Rights Commission Bill creates a Commission designed to ‘protect and promote the observance of human rights throughout Australia within the limits of Commonwealth power’. [More…]
It should have power to present such reports on its own initiative and not be forced to await Ministerial instructions. [More…]
For example, the Minister could arrange for Aboriginal complaints in Queensland to be investigated solely by Queensland Government authorities and the Commission would be powerless to intervene. [More…]
While this may not be the Government’s intention, the power is clearly there and the Commission (and Commissioner) would be effectively excluded. [More…]
It is a dangerous diminution of the powers of the Commission and Commissioner for Community Relations. [More…]
It is a dangerously uncontrolled power. [More…]
However, as there is danger that some complainants or witnesses (especially employees) may suffer victimisation because they give evidence supporting a human rights complaint, some restricted power should be given to the Commission to enable the anonymity of such complainants or witnesses to be preserved in necessary cases. [More…]
At the same time, the Clause restricts the Commissioner for Community Relations from any delegation of his powers except to a member of the Commission ‘s staff or any person the Commission approves. [More…]
Bearing in mind the possibility of racial discrimination occurring in remote areas of the country, the contrasting power of delegation is significant. [More…]
Therefore, to be able to look into that seems to me to be one of the objects that obviously should be within the powers of this particular Commission. [More…]
When one looks at the amendments which I propose to move, one sees that certainly it is only the power of inquiry into the laws that I am concerned to ensure that the Commission will have. [More…]
Maybe we could alter them under the terms of our external affairs power. [More…]
I will come back to that in a moment, because the lack of any enforcement power is one of the great weaknesses of the Bill. [More…]
I believe also that this Commission should have power to make reports on its own initiative, whether it is in regard to international documents we are examining, or whether it is in regard to complaints. [More…]
I believe that if we take the office of the Commissioner for Community Relations, which has a certain amount of power, and put it into a Human Rights Commission, which on its present base is relatively weak, we will weaken the operation of the Commissioner. [More…]
I am certainly not going to support any Bill which has that weakening effect of losing the present operation of the Commissioner for Community Relations in a relatively powerless Human Rights Commission. [More…]
His freedom to act independently from the political pressure of the government of the day, and from the power of the bureaucracy must be preserved. [More…]
We will have cynicism developing by those people who take complaints before a commission only to find it does not have very much power to do anything at all. [More…]
His freedom to act independently from the political pressure of the government of the day and from the power of the bureaucracy must be preserved. [More…]
The powers of the proposed Human Rights Commission are very limited. [More…]
These powers are limited to Commonwealth legislation only. [More…]
It has no power to investigate the violation of human rights under State legislation, and this is where most violations are currently occurring. [More…]
$300,000 within 30 days after the completion of commissioning of the power generation plant; [More…]
The Council cannot delegate its power to sign agreements and must pass a resolution. [More…]
Blitner- ‘You have the power from the traditional owners. ‘ [More…]
complete action on the National Parks lease as soon as possible, even at the expense of making some concessions (e.g., giving up the NLC’s absolute veto power over park management plans). [More…]
To continue: the outlawing of publishing and disseminating racist material; group actions by discriminated parties; and wider power for the Commissioner for Community Relations to pursue actions where aggrieved parties are intimidated. [More…]
It ought to have the power to make its own decisions. [More…]
It ought to have the power to prosecute where necessary. [More…]
It ought to have the power to subpoena witnesses and to carry out investigations on the spot. [More…]
A Senate standing committee or a select committee has this power. [More…]
But now this Government, of course, has decided that the Office of Commissioner for Community Relations ought not to have that power and will whittle it away basically because of its fear of the Northern Territory Government and two State governments. [More…]
The same jurist has cast doubts upon the validity of key sections which, in his view, cannot be supported by the external affairs power, or any other legislative power of the Commonwealth. [More…]
In his Menzies Oration delivered on 12 May 1978 in Sydney, he warned about the problems of centralised democracy which required us to write down limitations upon the power of the Parliament. [More…]
But one knows from the Australian experience that a case which may be regarded as the precedent may be overthrown and an entirely new precedent established in terms of things like the immunity of instrumentalities with the case of D ‘Emden and Pedder being overthrown by the Engineers case or in terms of the corporations power with the case of Huddart Parker and Moorehead being overthrown by the Rocla Concrete Pipes case. [More…]
Arrest without warrant is provided for in the Crimes (Powers of Arrest) Act of Victoria, section 459; in the Criminal Code of Tasmania, section 27; in the Criminal Code of Western Australia, section 5; in the Criminal Law of Queensland, section 5; in the Police Offences Act of South Australia, section 75; and in the New South Wales Crimes Act, section 352. [More…]
The power to interfere with the correspondence of citizens in Australia who happen to be in mental institutions- the power of a superintendent to decide that it may not be delivered to them or from them- is provided in the Mental Health Act of Western Australia, section 59 (2); the Mental Health Act of Tasmania, section 109 (2); the Mental Health Act of Victoria, section 79 (2); the Mental Health Act of South Australia, section 72 ( 1 ); and the Mental Health Act of Queensland, section 53 (2). [More…]
One concerns the constitutional power of the Federal Parliament to enact human rights legislation. [More…]
In a speech which the former Attorney-General- (Quorum formed) I was saying that there was some debate as to whether the Commonwealth possesses the constitutional power to enact human rights legislation which might have any effect whatsoever upon the States. [More…]
Leaving aside the serious doubts which I share as to the power of the Federal Parliament to legislate on the matter for the whole of Australia (there would appear to be no constitutional difficulty associated with the Commonwealth and each State legislating for Bills of Rights in their respective areas of responsibility), there are other difficulties which I see. [More…]
But despite the fact that Commonwealth governments have made it a practice in relation to some conventions not to use s 51 (xxix) to create intrusions into fields of State legislative authority, and have looked to the States to pass implemental legislative measures, it would seem clear that if s.51 (xxix) is to have any meaning whatsoever as an independent head of power, then it does give the Commonwealth at least some power to intrude into “State” fields, so far as this is necessary for the implementation of its foreign affairs commitments. [More…]
It is now clearly beyond doubt that the external affairs power, whatever else is within its reach, extends to the domestic implementation of international treaty obligations. [More…]
In that report we, as a parliamentary committee, in a bipartisan, unanimous resolution, recommended that a parliamentary committee should be established to maintain a watching brief on all Bills introduced into the Parliament to highlight the provisions which had an impact on persons, either by interfering with their rights or by subjecting them to the exercise of undue delegations of power. [More…]
That is quite different from the proposition I am putting that one needs a judicial Bill of rights or list of human rights in the sense that, once they are denned with as great a precision as is possible by the elected representatives, an independent and impartial tribunal, a judiciary, ought to be given the power to enforce them. [More…]
If the Government is not relying on the external affairs power for the provision of this Bill- I will give the reasons why I do not think it needs to- why has it neglected to do this difficult task of compiling an indigenous list of human rights? [More…]
If it is affecting only its own laws, or the territory as a geographical entity, I do not see why it cannot do that simply by exercising its power to make the laws concerned. [More…]
Can he tell us which of the other distillate users- miners, fishermen, heavy transporters, foresters or power generators- will be deprived of supplies if that guarantee to farmers is to be fulfilled? [More…]
Is it true that several major Australian companies are now preparing to spend many millions of dollars on the production of fuel ethanol to power motor vehicles in this country using known and proven technology? [More…]
I read that there was a decision by the Australian Labor Party, including Mr Hayden, that the powers of the Senate, particularly its power over money and finance, should be removed. [More…]
If that is literally true and if it is intended that the Labor Party’s policy would be to remove the money power from the Senate, the policy would be one of total destruction of the Senate. [More…]
The money power was the fundamental power built into the Senate in 190 1 to protect the four less populous States against the possible depredations of the two larger States in the lower House. [More…]
Unless there was a final power in the Senate to act against that, then what is called the tyranny of numbers in the lower House would prevail and there would be a threat to the four less populous States. [More…]
One cannot weaken the finance power of the Senate without, in fact, destroying the founding fathers’ concept of the Senate. [More…]
It is well to remember that the States themselves would not come into the federation without the guarantee that there should be a Senate that had two ingredients- equal numbers from each of the States and a residual finance power. [More…]
It is made especially important by the fact that the people involved have recently been given the power to conduct investigations into narcotics trafficking in this country and have had their powers widened considerably by their incorporation into a much larger police force than existed before. [More…]
Given the fact that the Government is not attempting to reach into the States’ sphere, is not attempting to use any special constitutional power, such as the external affairs power, in order to reach into State jurisdictions, which is where most breaches of human rights in Australia occur, it is unfortunate that the Government did not take the opportunity to set itself the very difficult task of defining for its own laws and territories those human rights which ought to be secured without the sort of modifications and reservations which are expressed in the International Covenant which is taken now as the document of criteria of the Human Rights Commission. [More…]
Therefore, in the face of these indications of opinion by the other two arms of government, namely, the judiciary and the Parliament, indicating that the balance of power between the Executive and members of the public needs to be altered in favour of the member of the public or at least that an impartial tribunal should make the judgment and not the Executive by way of a conclusive certificate the Government ought to withdraw clause 15 of the Bill. [More…]
From my reading of the Bill, the Commission will have no power to initiate reports when human rights violations occur; it will have to await a request by the Minister. [More…]
I believe that the Commission should have the power to move on its own initiative and to instigate such reports, rather than it having to wait for instructions from the Minister. [More…]
Such a power could have very wide implications and, I believe, is extremely dangerous. [More…]
Clause 16 does not provide the Commission with enforcement powers by way of legal action when all avenues of conciliation have failed. [More…]
The Attorney-General (Senator Durack) remarked in his second reading speech that the Commission would not need enforcement powers of the type vested in the courts and that sanctions of a legal kind ‘may even provide antagonism ‘-antagonism, mind you- ‘rather than a spirit of co-operation which is so central in matters of reciprocal rights and obligations’. [More…]
That is why I believe we should have legislation which gives power to prevent people continuing this kind of oppression. [More…]
As I have said time and time again, there is no power in them to stop people committing the kinds of stupid acts committed by a man such as John Singleton. [More…]
If we apply the yardstick of what democracy is really about, we need to analyse society itself to see whether in a democratic society power is shared and whether there is a means by which citizens can feel that they participate in the affairs of society and of government, whether it be in the form of representative democracy or participatory democracy. [More…]
I suppose that what this legislation is really about is the effort to create in our country conditions that will diffuse power at the top and develop it more strongly at the lower levels of our society. [More…]
That is why earlier I referred to the discrimination that existed and the power that, because of the way in which our society is structured, flowed from that discrimination. [More…]
One cannot say that we live in a democracy or equal society when, for example, even in the reporting of the debates of the Parliament, one person sitting up in the Press Gallery can be said to have a lot more power than one who sits at the table itself, inasmuch as what the former decides to report plays a part in disseminating what is said in this place. [More…]
Obviously, more power resides in that area. [More…]
It is epitomised even more in the power that is concentrated in the media of this country. [More…]
We witness a concentration of power not only in the newspapers but also in the radio and television stations, a power that spills over into sections of our manufacturing and mining industries. [More…]
Even if we look at the way in which the Parliament operates, we can ask what right, really, does a back bencher of a government have in the parliamentary sense in respect of the Executivemembers of his own Party- when compared with the power that a John Stone, for example, wields in the Treasury. [More…]
Much more power is centred in the hands of those who occupy such important positions in the bureaucracy itself. [More…]
There is a need to recognise the deficiencies that exist in the society and the need for some public debate, some legislative action, and some better understanding within the community about the power disposition, the power discrimination and the inequality that that brings to the average person in the Australian community. [More…]
We know only too well how limited our power is within the Parliament itself, particularly within the constraints which are imposed upon us as members of political parties. [More…]
A close look at this Bill reveals that the proposed Commission will have little practical power to guarantee human rights or to ensure that existing laws are brought into line with the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights which the Australian Government is on record as saying that it proposes to ratify this year. [More…]
I know there is a school of thought that suggests that the Commonwealth has limited powers in this area. [More…]
The powers of the proposed Human Rights Commission are very limited. [More…]
Its powers are limited to Commonwealth legislation only. [More…]
It has no power to investigate the violation of human rights under State legislation, and this is where most violations are currently occurring. [More…]
The ultimate power of legal penalty must be vested in the Commission for it to have any effectiveness. [More…]
If one has a problem of discrimination, it has to be examined to see why that power is exerted in such a way to create the act of discrimination. [More…]
Those who exercise more power than others must have it to laud it over others. [More…]
The more serious practical problem of the Murphy Bill was that it would have vastly extended Federal powers at the expense of the States. [More…]
The constitutional justification of this was the external affairs power; the doctrine that if we enter into a valid external treaty that obliges us to do certain things, the existence of the treaty gives the Commonwealth Parliament the powers necessary to give effect to the treaty, even to the extent of powers which would otherwise be beyond Commonwealth competence. [More…]
This power has been the subject of several High Court cases. [More…]
The latest case on the subject was the 1975 High Court decision on the Seas and Submerged Lands Act, which does not help us much because it was not concerned with the internal scope of the external affairs power, although Justice Murphy did state a wide view of the power. [More…]
Indeed, it is clear that if section 5 1(29) is to have any meaning at all as an independent head of power, it must give the Commonwealth at least some power to intrude into State fields. [More…]
In the more recent Airlines case of 1965, there is little discussion of the external affairs power, although Justice Menzies did say that under section 51 (29) the Commonwealth has power to make laws that carry out international obligations under a convention with other nations concerning external affairs. [More…]
I believe we must accept that there can be no doubt that we have the power, although there are many uncertainties about its limits. [More…]
For one thing, the international treaty would almost certainly have to be honestly entered into; for another, the High Court will probably be cautious about how far it will let this power be used for fear it will get out of control. [More…]
To my mind, the fundamental defect of the Murphy approach was that a Bill of Rights based on the United Nations Covenant would quite possibly be constitutional, under the external affairs power, but it would be in many ways less than our present rights. [More…]
I mention this external affairs power because it is vital to our consideration of the present Bill. [More…]
There is no real doubt that the power exists. [More…]
Senator Missen has pointed out some substantial procedural defects in the present Bill: The lack of any enforcement power by the Human Rights Commission; the power given to the Minister to by-pass the Commission and give its power to the States; the possible conflict of the revised Freedom of Information Bill which I thought dealt very effectively with the undesirability of conclusive certificates by Ministers; and the undesirable introduction in the Human Rights Commission Bill of the legal concept of standing to preclude people without sufficient interest from making a complaint. [More…]
We have the power to override the States to make these rights effective. [More…]
We must not hold ourselves out to the international community as being powerless in this respect. [More…]
We may not choose to use the power but we certainly should have it if we want it. [More…]
As a State Senator I am an ardent defender of the decentralisation of power where it is appropriate for administrative efficiency or political freedom. [More…]
He would certainly be entitled to do this under the external affairs constitutional power. [More…]
Before we pass this Bill which is openly intended to enable the Government to ratify the UN Civil and Political Rights Covenant- if the amendments moved by Senator Missen and Senator Evans are accepted that would be made explicit- we must be sure that the Government is prepared if necessary to use its constitutional power within a reasonable time to ensure that the Bill is effective in all parts of the Federation without any limitations or exceptions. [More…]
That power is contained in clause 11(1). [More…]
Thus the Commission may well be bypassed and powers to investigate, for example, Aboriginal complaints in Queensland could be delegated to the Queensland authorities. [More…]
The signs of inequality are four: Riches, rank, power and merit. [More…]
The Opposition, on the contrary, does want there to be such an extended power or right of enforcement in this particular area. [More…]
For that reason it is crucial, if this legislation is to have any utility at all, that it be extended into the State domain, using all the constitutional power that the Government can utilise obviously under the external affairs power. [More…]
But we are not prepared to impose powers on the States which it may be doubtful we have at all. [More…]
I am putting aside the question of legal power. [More…]
One of the more fatal threats to human rights is the concentration of overweening power in one place and amongst a few people. [More…]
The dispersal of power which a federal system involves is one of the bulwarks by which human rights can be preserved and enhanced. [More…]
As I said, the Government is not prepared to impose its views on the States, irrespective of whether it has the legal power to do so- I put that aside. [More…]
-The powers will remain subject to directions given by the Human Rights Commission, but obviously those powers of direction will be exercised only in a general way because the existing powers of the Commissioner for Community Relations will remain and will not be replaced in the Human Rights Commission exercising those powers. [More…]
As I said, this proposal to amend the Racial Discrimination Act is designed simply to rationalise the machinery so that, when the proposed Commonwealth institution, which will have an overriding position in relation to human rights, is established, it will have that power in relation to the Racial Discrimination Act and in relation to other specific Acts in that area which might be passed by the Parliament. [More…]
Parliamentary government has become an illusion perpetuated most assiduously by the very people who exercise the real power. [More…]
After what he has said today and after what his colleagues have said about the Commonwealth Police, does he feel happy with this group of dishevelled, inept and untrained people in that force who are fantastic at playing power politics interdepartmentally but who are hopeless at law enforcement? [More…]
We must remember that Mr Fraser led the Liberal-National Country parties to power on the basis of a promise to rectify the economy in three years. [More…]
Chapter III of the Constitution which deals with the judicature commences with section 7 1 , 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, such other courts as it invests with federal jurisdiction. [More…]
The amendment arises from the expression by the Senate Standing Committee on Constitutional and Legal Affairs of its view that the present wording of section 7s of the Evidence Actwhich 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…]
The Commissioner is not to have the power any longer to produce those independent reports. [More…]
The Director-General advises that neither he nor I would have the power to give approval for the payment of a reward. [More…]
In its April 1978 report on nuclear power costs, the United States Congressional Committee on Government Operations concluded: [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…]
The substance of the recommendation was, of course, to extend the rule-making power beyond the simple confines of the judiciary and to create committees in which the legal profession would be properly represented. [More…]
As far as the first recommendation is concerned, the Government takes the view that, with a few exceptions such as those I will mention shortly, the power to make rules of court should continue to be vested in the judges. [More…]
We would not therefore seek to amend the relevant legislation to vest the power in rule-making committees as proposed by the Senate Committee. [More…]
At present the Parliament has power to disallow rules of court. [More…]
The second recommendation would not affect that power but would involve an additional element by broadening the criteria under which the Senate Standing Committee on Regulations and Ordinances operates to enable it to make recommendations for the amendment of rules of court which it has before it as a result of its present function and to recommend new rules to deal with matters not otherwise adequately covered. [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…]
The legislation seeks to remove some of the independence of the Northern Land Council and to vest even more power in the hands of the Minister. [More…]
The Opposition finds it particularly obnoxious that the amendments give the Commonwealth power to intervene and interfere- some might even say fiddle the books- so far as the Aboriginal benefits trust account is concerned. [More…]
That means that the legislation has been weakened because, whereas hitherto the Council had more power, there has now been a variant imposed which gives greater power to the Minister and less power to the Council. [More…]
As the Opposition understands it, he has that power under the existing legislation. [More…]
If that is the case- that is the way the Opposition reads the legislation- it seems to be in line with the Government’s aim to prevent any possible impediment to the views that have been expressed openly in a publication by the Australian Mining Industry Council and in other magazines, which seems to indicate that they have set about to weaken the legislation and to vest more power in a development-minded Government to deprive Aborigines of the rights that were originally contemplated in the legislation. [More…]
The Act gives Aborigines power to veto the project because pan of the land needed by the company is subject to a claim by the Northern Land Council. [More…]
It gives the council power to block mining because Pancontinental applied for the land after the Act was introduced in 1976. [More…]
That relates to the power of the Minister to accept or reject parts of a Land Commissioner’s recommendation. [More…]
Mr Justice Toohey, the present Commissioner, has expressed the view that the Minister has 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 the Minister 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 was to provide Mt Isa Mines Ltd with a road, power lines and railway lines if necessary. [More…]
Reference is made to the Minister’s power to direct payments out of the Aboriginal benefits trust account for the running of land councils. [More…]
The Commissioner’s view is that the Minister already has this power. [More…]
It is true, one could argue, that the scheme of the Act should be different and that the Commissioner should have the power to make recommendations which exclude areas which it is argued successfully before him should be excluded. [More…]
This clause simply provides the Attorney-General with the power to give legal aid in appropriate cases. [More…]
I think there is some difference in the sense that it is a weakening of the power of the Houses of Parliament to disallow if, in fact, the onus is on them to get a matter on and to disallow it. [More…]
I would welcome any corrections that might be forthcoming from the Attorney-General, but matters in the Bill which do not appear to be the subject on any Review Council recommendation anywhere include, for example, clause 7 which is a proposed amendment to section 43 of the Act relating to a power to specify the date at which a Tribunal decision may come into effect. [More…]
A further matter is an associated recommendation, contained in paragraph 84 of the report, that a power be vested in the President to vary the composition of the Tribunal in certain ways for different purposes to create, again, a greater degree of flexibility than exists at the moment. [More…]
ACT Lakes Ordinance, Section 51, 14(2), 26 and 34- Determination of compensation, revocation of authority to use power boat and cancellation of licence to sell or hire goods et cetera in a lake area. [More…]
In respect of clause 6, the proposed new section 41 (3) confers on the Tribunal the power to vary or revoke, but the Council’s recommendations referred only to revocation. [More…]
The Minister would still retain the ultimate power of deciding whether a person should be deported. [More…]
Under the provisions that now apply doubts have been expressed as to whether the Tribunal has the power to exercise some lesser powernamely, to prevent the deportation- but not to affect the power to detain. [More…]
The Bill clarifies that and confirms the Minister’s power to detain the person even though he can be prevented by order while the case to deport is being heard; that is the purpose of these provisions. [More…]
From that privileged position with the ear of the government- as I say in the very corridors of ministerial power- they have required the Government to introduce into the national Parliament a piece of legislation to help them in their cause. [More…]
It seriously and conscientiously came to some conclusions in relation to a statute which it has the power, subject to the approval of the Governor-General, to introduce. [More…]
What is the estimated power consumption of the small earth station using an antenna of 1.2 metres’ diameter or less, envisaged for use on remote homesteads, needed to effect: (a) television reception only from (b) two-way telephony through, a 20 watt satellite transponder similar to that used in the Canadian Hermes satellite and planned for use in the ANIK C series satellite. [More…]
It has been estimated that a small television receive only earth station would require a power supply of 15-20 watts. [More…]
In addition, the television set would require 200 watts, making a total power requirement of 220 watts. [More…]
It is understood, however, that the Canadian earth stations used in the recent Hermes demonstrations had a power requirement of an estimated 460 watts. [More…]
How many of three thousand remote homesteads which the Task Force Report on a National Communications Satellite System identified as needing a satellite service to provide television reception and two-way telephony have a power supply of two kilowatts available. [More…]
What is the estimated cost of providing a power supply of two kilowatts for each homestead without electricity. [More…]
1 ) Only a relatively few homesteads would be without electric power generating equipment. [More…]
The cost 2 kWA electric power generating equipment varies from $390 to $500 (plus tax). [More…]
What is the engineering assessment by ABC engineers of 2JJ’s actual transmission power needs. [More…]
Are any transmitters suitable for 2JJ’s increased transmission power needs currently held in stock; if not, what is the estimated cost of a new, suitable transmitter for 2JJ. [More…]
It is not, however, the responsibility of the ABC to assess transmission power needs. [More…]
Is it a fact that Uganda is really under Tanzanian occupation with a puppet regime kept in power by Tanzanian guns? [More…]
In each case was not a horrible and genocidal regime deposed by external force and a puppet regime installed and kept in power by the invader? [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…]
In fact, in January 1977 terms the award is worth only 64 per cent in terms of real buying power after paying tax. [More…]
If we were to have an equitable system which applied to all of the other areas to which I have referred- the Tribunal has approved it and the Parliament has subsequently approved it in respect of judges, public servants and parliamentarians- and if there were to be the same buying power in September 1 980 as there was in January 1977, with the payment of tax the award would need to be $6,410 a year. [More…]
I do not wish and I have no power to pre-empt the view the Government will take in the future about the level of these awards. [More…]
More importantly, it also contains a clarification of Parliament’s power to disallow all kinds of rules of court made by the judiciary. [More…]
The main substantive change in this particular Bill is the removal of the power of a casting vote from the Chief Justice where there is an equality of judges, an evenly divided court, in appeals from the Federal Court, from Territory Supreme Courts, or from the Family Court. [More…]
It would also appear, certainly to the Opposition, to be very appropriate to be reducing the personal power of the Chief Justice in this respect. [More…]
Of course, this represents an interesting dimuninon in the power of the present Chief Justice, Sir Garfield Barwick, and his successors, -to which they will be obliged to accommodate themselves. [More…]
But I suspect that Sir Garfield at least will bear that dimunition of power in this respect with some fortitude, given the aggrandisement of power which has been accomplished in recent years and is now formalised in the further provisions of the High Court of Australia Bill, to which I will turn in a moment, relating to the financial administration on an independent basis of the affairs of that Court. [More…]
The powers now vested specifically in the High Court, which presently are exercised by the Attorney-General ‘s Department on behalf not of the Court but of the Commonwealth generally, include the power of the Court to enter into contracts, its power to deal in various ways with property, its power to manage buildings and the staff of the Court and also its power, which has raised some rather quizzical eyebrows in various quarters but 1 suppose one can assume that it will be administered sensibly to accept gifts, devices and bequests directed to the courts- one hopes with the best of motives- from various sources. [More…]
It is clear, then, that this is really just a symbolic gesture to satisfy the Court’s and, especially Sir Garfield Barwick ‘s, desire and passion for the trappings and appearance of power as well as, of course, the reality. [More…]
While I am on the question of precedent- I think this has a very important bearing- I note that the excuse given for clause 17 is that the High Court must have power over its own finances and spending because only in that way can it be seen to be truly independent. [More…]
The establishment under this Act of the power of the Court to administer its own affairs and of the office of a Clerk of the High Court places the High Court in a position analogous to that of an independent statutory authority. [More…]
The power of appointment remains exclusively with the Governor-General, of course on the recommendation of the government of the day, as has been the case all along. [More…]
There is no suggestion that there will be any direction to the government or any restrictions on its absolute power and discretion to decide whom it will recommend for appointment to the High Court. [More…]
After all, the Senate was responsible for the Prime Minister being able to make his grab for power in 1975 following the dissolution in 1974 and prior to the dissolution in 1975. [More…]
argument is and how reasonable amendments may be, nobody has the power, without consulting someone higher, in some sort of a fuhrer concept, to adopt a reasonable approach to a reasonable proposition. [More…]
I am of the opinion, and have been for a long time, that the power of the Parliament seems to disappear on matters relating to the Commonwealth’s constitutional powers and its attempt to get uniform legislation. [More…]
I refer to clause 36 (2) and ask the AttorneyGeneral whether the power to hold a hearing wherever the Commission chooses is implied therein. [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 prorities 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…]
This clause deals with a person who has been appointed, for the purposes of the National Companies and Securities Commission Act, or a person who has been engaged as a staff member or authorised to perform or exercise any function or power of the Commission. [More…]
As I have indicated, the scheme- both the basic machinery before us today and the subsequent body of” substantive law- is proposed to be implemented primarily by the Australian Government passing legislation jurisdictionally confined to the Australian Capital Territory and, constitutionally speaking, passed in pursuance only of the Commonwealth’s territories power. [More…]
The new approach the Rae Committee recommended was built very much around the concept of national legislation and national machinery established by that national legislation in pursuit of the Commonwealth’s constitutional powers. [More…]
That the Commonwealth does have power to act in this area is, in my submission, as clear as it could be, given that the area has not yet been completely charted by High Court decisions and, to some extent, one does have to rely on analysis and extrapolation of likely trends in those decisions. [More…]
The Labor Government, when introducing its own corporations and securities industry legislation in 1 974 and when foreshadowing the further introduction of substantive companies legislation which was to be introduced in that illfated week in November 1975, was certainly satisfied that the corporation’s power in section 51(xx) of the Constitution in itself, provided sufficiently ample constitutional foundation for this kind of legislation. [More…]
In addition, it is possible to rely constitutionally on the trade and commerce power on a number of individual heads of power like the postal, telegraphic and telephonic communications power, and incidental power. [More…]
Even if, in fact, everyone were genuine about cooperative federalism the reference of particular powers presently enjoyed by the States to the Commonwealth - [More…]
The banking power and insurance power; I will not stop and endeavour to lecture the Senate on the constitutional possiblities. [More…]
I simply suggest, indeed assert, that there is a substantial body of learned legal opinion which does not suggest that these powers are available. [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…]
There is, in my submission and certainly in the Labor Party’s view, the power to proceed in this way. [More…]
The existing legislative scheme before the Senate attempts to deal with that to the extent that it vests basic powers, for a start, all in the national commission and proceeds on the basis that the various State administrative agencies will operate thereafter by means merely of delegated power and be subject always, as I understand it, to the overriding direction of the national body. [More…]
This is accepting for the purposes of debate at the Committee stage the basic thrust of the legislation which, as I have indicated, we do not like very much- the co-operative federalist basis of it rather than the exercise of Commonwealth power. [More…]
It is my firm belief that there is no real doubt that the Commonwealth has the power and the duty in this area. [More…]
If the federalist approach does not work, if there is obstructionism from the States, it will be the responsibility of whatever government is in power in Canberra to ensure that this national approach is adopted. [More…]
I believe we need to defend and identify and extend the power of the Commission to be able to publish its thoughts, its investigations, its reports. [More…]
Investigators need the power to operate nationally. [More…]
As a member of that Committee I have heard legal disputation about the limits of Commonwealth power in this area, legal argument and a great deal of legal sophistry. [More…]
I came to the conclusion then- I acknowledge that it was a layman ‘s conclusion- that the matter of Commonwealth jurisdiction, or the limits of Commonwealth power, was co complex that it could only be satisfactorily settled in the courts. [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…]
I am aware of the fact that some lawyers have expressed doubts- I think Senator Evans expressed the same doubts- that the Commonwealth power may not be wide enough to cover manufacturing corporations. [More…]
In other words, if one is going to have uniform legislation on this basis, the most reactionary or the most inept or, if one likes, the most corrupt State government will retain at all times the power of veto. [More…]
In any event, the present Government believed that, regardless of questions of its constitutional power, the proper approach would be one in accordance with its policies and philosophy of co-operative federalism. [More…]
Senator Evans said that we should have proceeded at the national level only and imposed national companies and securities legislation by virtue of the powers that, in his view, the Commonwealth Parliament has and leave it to the High Court to resolve any doubts about it. [More…]
Although there certainly are doubts about the extent to which the Commonwealth Parliament can pass legislation to cover the whole of the companies and securities area, doubts about the Commonwealth power are not the basis for the Government’s approach. [More…]
Regardless of the legal power, the practical common-sense approach to this subject is that the Commonwealth Government should concern itself with the national securities market and with companies that are acting on the national and international levels. [More…]
The object here is to make it clear that the Commission still has a quite explicit function to investigate the matters relating to the operation of the Covenant and that it should have that power not merely when requested by the Minister but also to initiate such an investigation on its own. [More…]
True it is that human rights are denned in this Bill as meaning the rights and freedoms recognised in the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights or in any relevant international instrument and true it would be that a general power under clause 9 ( 1 ) (c) to investigate matters relating to human rights would accordingly enable a good deal of the matters associated with the operation of the Covenant to be specifically dealt with; but our concern, for example, is with something like Article 4 1 of the Covenant which on its face is not concerned with the subject matter of any of these human rights but with the procedure whereby a state- that is, a country which is party to the Covenant- may declare its recognition of the competence of the international human rights committee. [More…]
That would rather suggest a quite limited power being vested in the Commission in respect of international instruments, given the fact that that matter has been singled out specifically to the exclusion of any other matter as far as international instruments are concerned. [More…]
I understand that the Attorney has agreed to this proposal, which relates to a relatively minor and specific power concerning the investigation of an instrument to see whether in fact it may contain inconsistencies by comparison with the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. [More…]
If we are not in a position in which the Commonwealth and the Commission have the power to investigate those matters it may well be argued- as was argued by the Queensland Council for Civil Liberties- that we are not acting in conformity with the Covenant when we fail to take up the necessary power. [More…]
In fact, our external powers may not apply. [More…]
We may not, in fact, be complying with the Covenant and using our external affairs power if we do not take up the duty to investigate, or look into at least, interstate laws. [More…]
to have the power to compare State laws with Federal laws, to compare one State law with another, or to come up with draft suggestions to try to give leadership in this country on the question of improving the various laws relating to human rights. [More…]
I said, I hope fairly clearly, during my speech at the second reading stage, that I believed that failure to extend the power of the Human Rights Commission to examine matters under State law was an unnecessary weakening of the effective role that the Commission could play in the protection of human rights in Australia. [More…]
Frankly, if the Human Rights Commission is to have any validity I think it should have the power to inquire into breaches of human rights which takes place under State jurisdiction. [More…]
I would be heartened in my belief in this position if I could have an assurance from the AttorneyGeneral (Senator Durack) that if the Senate passes this Bill, which is openly designed as a mechanism by which we can ratify the United Nations Covenant, the Government is determined to make the human rights legislation effective in Australia by any means in its constitutional power. [More…]
I should like an assurance that it will try co-operative arrangements with the States and that if they do not work it will use its constitutional power to make the Bill effective. [More…]
Therefore, the Government is not prepared to make what would be an absolutely fundamental breach of that principle to establish a Commonwealth commission whose business it was to look not only over the States’ laws but also the acts and practices adopted by State governments or indeed any acts and practices within the power of the States Governments. [More…]
That would be an extremely wide-ranging power and would change the whole character of this Commission as proposed in the Bill. [More…]
We believe that a federal system of government is one of the major bulwarks in preserving human rights and in the dispersal of power away from central government. [More…]
The concentration of all power will not be vested in the hands of one person, one body and one place. [More…]
The exercise of power will be by those who are close to the subject, that is, of course, those who are being governed. [More…]
It opted for giving courts power to reject actions “if satisfied that the plaintiff has no real concern with the issues”. [More…]
It does not give the power to the Minister to hand over functions and prevent the Human Rights Commission from performing those functions. [More…]
I have advised the honourable senator that the Senate has the power to determine its own affairs as it desires. [More…]
Is it a fact that Vietnam is today a much more significant military power than it was as recently as 1975? [More…]
Therefore, Australia’s strategic environment is influenced to Australia ‘s disadvantage by any deterioration in the Middle East, with its uncertain effects on superpower competition in many areas of the world. [More…]
The other new reference is: the changing power structure in Indo-China since 1975 and its effects on Australia and the region. [More…]
The changing power structure in IndoChina, and more recently serious conflict in Kampuchea, has been accompanied by an appalling refugee situation. [More…]
The industry has suffered over the years as a result of successive government action, particularly when the Labor Government was in power. [More…]
In this rationale, this framework of reason- which I do not necessarily subscribe to- it is said that those prosperous people do not give a damn about the unemployed; therefore it is better for any party that wishes to either regain power or gain power to forget about the unemployed completely. [More…]
Another $6,470m would be spent on construction of 10 250,000 kilowatt terrestrial-heat power plants across the country and other $7, 700m for construction of coal liquefaction plants in foreign countries. [More…]
In the same package, we would suggest pilot manufacture of devices of an innovative nature for the conservation or production of energy, including electric and petrol-electric commuter cars, wind and tidal electric power generators and more efficient solar cells capable of direct generation of electricity with special reference to the ‘doped’ plastics now being researched in other countries for this purpose. [More…]
It produces two megawatts of power. [More…]
It is a small power station but the cost is also small. [More…]
It works out slightly cheaper relative to the costing for the nuclear power house proposed also for Jutland. [More…]
When the legendary James Watt observed the lid of his mother’s tea kettle lifting and deduced that therefore there was harnessable power inside the kettle nothing much would have happened if the intellectual conditions which made the exploitation of this power possible had not already existed. [More…]
Fifty years after the famous opening up of Japan by Commodore Perry in 1853 its feudal society had become not only an industrialised nation but also a prominent naval and military power in the Far East, able easily to defeat the Russian colossus. [More…]
The Middle East and North Africa have had a long and close association with Western technology and organisation, both in pre-industrial times when Islam, at the peak of its power, colonised most of southern Europe and also in modern industrial times when Europeans controlled countries such as Egypt and Iraq. [More…]
Senator Hamer gave us quite a lecture on what power is all about. [More…]
People who have it can increase their power and those who have not cannot do so. [More…]
The purchasing power of families has been reduced sharply, resulting in a tightening of demand for goods and services. [More…]
That person’s purchasing power will not increase one per cent. [More…]
In the year 1979-80 that same taxpayer, having virtually the same income and the same purchasing power, will pay $278.36, which gives an effective tax increase of $134.63 percent. [More…]
People who have power should exercise it with compassion. [More…]
Unless one considers other people ‘s rights in this country, or anywhere in the world, people with power who use it as a weapon will lose that power one day. [More…]
It shows the cynicism of a government which has achieved power and holds power for power’s sake. [More…]
I mentioned earlier the big majority that had been achieved by virtual stealth and by the use of the power of the media. [More…]
As we witnessed today, that power is becoming greater as a result of a further monopolisation of the very essence of democracy- the dissemination of information. [More…]
I go so far as to say that the Parliament of this country has been reduced in stature not only by the events of 1 1 November 1975 but also by the activities of the present Government in maintaining its power by deluding and misinforming the people in our democracy. [More…]
That power is exercised in a subtle way by the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) and people who are close by him. [More…]
The way in which the Government can manipulate State elections, the way in which it can manipulate preselections within the Government parties, the power and the fear it can impose on individual members of the Government parties, constitute a denigration of the whole democratic spirit. [More…]
One must remember that when this Government came to power the inflation rate was running at nearly 18 per cent per annum. [More…]
It is about time that we as a parliament had a very close look at the procedure that exists in the United Kingdom because if we allow the present situation to continue, with the Executive’s having complete power and control over the legislature and over the legislative process, this Parliament will come to be regarded by all and sundry, particularly by the younger generation in the community, as merely in the nature of a rubber stamp. [More…]
I believe the debate will continue to develop in an intelligent and rational way and that the end result will be reform which enhances the power and stature of the parliamentary institution in Australia. [More…]
Again I would interpolate that the purpose is to prevent the sort of growth which has proceeded unchecked in recent years and to limit it to the amount which in the last couple of years has been regarded as a necessary but maximum sum, so that it will not be left within the power of the Executive to put before a Parliament any amount that it may choose, without at least the Parliament having a specific opportunity to say: ‘No, this has gone too far. [More…]
It may well be that we are outside the constitutional power in including in Appropriation Bill (No. [More…]
The Commission will also have a borrowing power within Australia which will be subject to appropriate limits. [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…]
Already the States have been authorised to borrow an amount of almost $2,000m for the purpose of infrastructure borrowing; that is, for capital works, roads, rail facilities, port facilities, power development and things of that nature. [More…]
The Nuclear Power Industry-Accidents, Leaks, Failures and Incidents’ which was compiled by Senator Coleman and incorporated in Hansard. [More…]
It is equally clear, however, that many of the anxieties which are felt are without foundation and spring from a fear of anything nuclear, no doubt partly due to the fact that the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs, with their devastating effects were the opening events of the development of nuclear power. [More…]
The accident occurred due to a control rod being withdrawn by hand during maintenance, an operation which is physically impossible in today’s nuclear power plants. [More…]
an operation which is physically impossible in today’s nuclear power plants. [More…]
Scientists, technicians and other people who work in areas where nuclear power is used do not know what to do with the waste. [More…]
If nuclear power can be found to be a safe means of generating power for the use of mankind then certainly let us use it. [More…]
With respect to Senator Young, he has stated here tonight that virtually false arguments have been used by members of the Opposition in presenting the Opposition’s case against the development of nuclear power. [More…]
Just-look at what has gone on with the thermal generation of power. [More…]
Let us look at the thousands of people who died in the building and maintaining thermal powerhouses. [More…]
We have not had one death in nuclear power houses. [More…]
What if a thermal powerhouse fails because of some action taken by the unions and thousands of people in a city are disadvantaged? [More…]
What happens to a place that is without power. [More…]
With nuclear power generation we would not have that rate of failure. [More…]
All this humbug is spoken about getting rid of nuclear power but, as Senator Young said, we are in a nuclear age. [More…]
Japan gets about 20 per cent of its power from nuclear sources; Belgium gets about 18 per cent; Britain about 13 per cent; and the United States of America about 13 per cent. [More…]
Does the honourable senator think that those people can change overnight to an alternative source of power? [More…]
All this business of the old socialist dogma of the research, the entrepreneurial production business, and safeguards is really a veiled attack, a Trojan horse to destroy our capacity to understand and use nuclear power in this country. [More…]
The statement by Senator Coleman at page 363 of Hansard on 29 August indicates that right throughout the whole area of development of the uranium industry and of nuclear power generation these accidents are happening, and there is a tremendous amount of basic work still to be done. [More…]
I raise these matters because of the attitude that has been taken by Senator Young and Senator MacGibbon- that this industry will go ahead regardless of the consequences to the human element associated with the production of uranium and the development of nuclear power. [More…]
It is a power that can be turned to the greatest use for mankind if it is used in the way that we would like to see it used- with the greatest respect and concern for those who are associated in the industry. [More…]
A loud word of warning should be sounded about those people who would advocate the helter skelter, go ahead regardless of the consequences policy that the very powerful financially well equipped uranium lobbyists are influencing so many people in this place to believe. [More…]
The history of nuclear power so far is a reflection on the fact that the scientists are prepared to subvert the great ideals that they have held in the past for the sake of a fast buck. [More…]
As long as I am able to stand in my place and warn people against the hazards and dangers of uranium and nuclear power generation, I intend to do so. [More…]
Senator Young said in his opening remarks that Senator Coleman had incorporated in the Senate Hansard of 29 August 1979 false and misleading statements in reference to nuclear power industry accidents. [More…]
Those people met their deaths because of nuclear power. [More…]
Firstly, there is no provision within the Conciliation and Arbitration Act which clothes the IRB with such a power; and secondly, the IRB is not the appropriate body to make such an investigation. [More…]
2 I asked Mr Nixon if he was suggesting that, and I reminded him that under the Act he had the power to direct a State Minister to spend money in particular areas. [More…]
For some reason or other- although we are not a large naval power; we do not have any plans that I have heard of for any large program of naval building- we have committed ourselves to the construction over a period of 1 5 craft which could have a considerable sting, which would inspire respect from our neighbours and which we have deliberately an perversely decided we will not equip in that way. [More…]
I think that anybody who has read the Snowy Mountains Hydro-electric Authority annual report would know of the millions of dollars which the efforts of those men have contributed in water resources and electrical power. [More…]
-Has the Minister representing the Minister for Foreign Affairs seen an article in the Sydney Daily Telegraph dated 19 October in which it is claimed that Prince Norodom Sihanouk will soon fly to Australia to seek recruits and money for a guerilla army to help restore him to power in Kampuchea? [More…]
The Attorney will notice that that report recommends the bringing down by this Government of specific legislation and it draws the Government’s attention to the United Kingdom Domestic Violence and Matrimonial Proceedings Act, which gives police power to restrain the offending party from molesting the other partner or children, and which in fact can exclude that party from the matrimonial home or part thereof. [More…]
Does the Minister agree with the goals of this association and, indeed, of many other Australians that there should be a moratorium on building nuclear power plants and a phasing out of existing ones, a cessation of the export of nuclear technology, extensive studies of populations exposed to nuclear radiation, nuclear weapons disarmament, and the development of conservation policies and renewable energy resources? [More…]
Of course, we are implacably committed to all the safeguards associated with the use of nuclear energy for electric power purposes. [More…]
This is an area of potential international conflict, perhaps even involving an area of relatively low indigenous military power in which Australia ‘s potential influence could be a determining factor in the maintenance of stability. [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 cannot be said that, even in the Committee debate on Bills in the Senate, a great deal of consideration is given to questions of whether a Bill contains such powers as a power of entry or search which it ought not to contain. [More…]
inappropriately delegate legislative power or insufficiently subject its exercise to parliamentary scrutiny [More…]
The Government is at one with the Senate Committee in its concern to protect the personal rights and liberties of the individual, and to ensure that there is no inappropriate delegation of legislative power or avoidance of adequate Parliamentary scrutiny of the exercise of legislative power. [More…]
As an additional aid the joint committee would provide to each parliamentarian for his or her consideration a commentary on the Bill linking the operative provisions of the Bill to such questions as whether the Bill significantly alters or interferes with personal liberties and rights, delegates powers which ought not to be delegated or in some way delegates power without giving sufficient consideration to ongoing parliamentary scrutiny. [More…]
The main purpose of the Snowy Mountains Hydro-electric Power Amendment Bill is to amend the finance provisions of the Snowy Mountains Hydro-electric Power Act 1949. [More…]
The power stations provide valuable peak-load electricty to New South Wales and Victoria. [More…]
The charge for this power is low compared with similar schemes overseas. [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…]
Subject only to clause 1 1, which is the ministerial direction power, the Corporation will have power to charge Australian consumers whatever it likes. [More…]
The Opposition notes with some interest that the Government retains in this legislation the provision empowering the Minister to issue directions to the Board and requiring the Board to act in response thereto. [More…]
The significance of this is, of course, that when the provision for the power of ministerial direction was written into the 1974 Act there was also a great outcry. [More…]
Let us accept tonight for the purposes of this discussion the desirability of having a scheme which involves a statutory authority with a power to acquire compulsorily the produce of individual people, with a responsibility to negotiate in relation to the sale of the total Australian wheat crop, with the responsibility to manage what amounts to something like $2 billion- that is $2,000m- worth of sales which, given the state of our economy, would have to be regarded as a significant amount of money to be handling, and in a position as a trustee on behalf of growers given a statutory right to acquire, a statutory obligation to sell and a statutory obligation to account. [More…]
I have had some concern in my mind about the power and water supply being sufficient to meet the demands of an increased population. [More…]
This Bill applies only to Aborigines, not because we are indifferent to these other groups, but because the only Commonwealth power relevant in this context, is a restricted powerrestricted that is to make laws pertaining to Aborigines. [More…]
Thirdly, Senator Chaney expressed a somewhat equivocal attitude to a question of Commonwealth power to control State electoral procedures. [More…]
He said ‘I do not argue that the power does not exist’. [More…]
Indeed, apart from the general support he expressed on behalf of the Government, he pointed out that all disadvantaged people- and most Aborigines are disadvantaged- being without other power, have a special interest in the political power conferred by the franchise. [More…]
I cannot visualise Mr Fraser exposing himself to a charge in international forums of failing to take action which was within his constitutional power to overrule a State government’s attempt to prevent Aboriginals from voting. [More…]
But in 1 975-76, the first year that it came into power, 134,000 new dwellings were approved. [More…]
I suspected him having intentions of cutting off my power, because our account may have been overdue. [More…]
If Collin Roll had approached me in a proper manner I would have accepted the fact that he was only doing his job (although I wonder whether he has the authority to do this) however, I can’t see why the electricity had to be disconnected on Friday which gives us no opportunity to have power put back on before Monday. [More…]
We went around the village to look for Collin Roll and Benny McGreen and found them in front of Alfie Cobus ‘ home, where Collin Roll was in the process of removing the fuse from the electric light pole in order to cut off the power to their house. [More…]
Again he showed no courtesy at all and despite Mrs Cobus looking on from the front steps of her house he made absolutely no effort to inform her that he was about to cut off her power. [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…]
I feel that the public should know who has the power to run this country. [More…]
We often hear from the other side of the chamber that it is the Executive which has the power to govern. [More…]
Clause 15 deals with the power of the Attorney-General to give a certificate that certain evidence which it is sought to place before the Commission should not be given on grounds such as security, that they are Cabinet documents, or something of such a major character. [More…]
I make only one further comment and that is that it might not be as effective as one would like, even within its own terms, to the extent that the Opposition would regard it desirable not only that an aggrieved individual or group be able to litigate but also that the Human Rights Commission have the power to initiate litigation on behalf of someone so aggrieved, as was a provision in the Human Rights Bill 1973 and as has been recommended by the Senate Standing Committee on Constitutional and Legal Affairs in respect of the enforcement of freedom of information matters by the Ombudsman. [More…]
We have taken an attitude that, in order to have a Human Rights Commission which has some power in terms of investigation and the ability to generate some publicity and some study of this matter, it is better to be in the position of having a commission- albeit a commission which we believe to be a weak one and one without the powers of enforceability- than to have nothing at all, which seems to be the alternative. [More…]
) Will the guidelines destroy confidence between a Minister and his or her departmental head and further centralise power in the hands of the Prime Minister. [More…]
a reference of power by the States to the Commonwealth pursuant to section 5 1 (xxxvii) of the Constitution, uniform legislation being enacted by the States and the Commonwealth, or a Commonwealth Act using all available powers with supporting State legislation to fill any gaps in the Commonwealth Act. [More…]
Is the Minister aware that steaming coal is about to become the most highly prized energy source now that the generation of nuclear power has proved to be too dangerous and too costly? [More…]
Steaming coal has, in my view, already established itself as a highly prized energy source, particularly in the minds of overseas power utilities confronted with increasing uncertainties as to oil availability and price. [More…]
The Magistrate granted the application, holding that he had no power to bind Mr Nakis over and noting that Mr Nakis had been excused as a witness. [More…]
The Government favours the creation of a neutral and independent Kampuchea, free from Great Power rivalries. [More…]
As regards this notice of motion, relating to the Australian Capital Territory Electricity Ordinance 1971, I wish to acquaint the Senate that the Regulations and Ordinances Committee was concerned with provisions in this ordinance v/hereby the Electricity Authority was empowered to enter upon a lessor’s property, after notice, and trim or lop any tree which in the opinion of the Authority was interfering, or might interfere with, electrical wires. [More…]
The Committee was concerned that this provision gave to the Authority an unduly wide power and provided the citizen with no redress in case of the misuse of that power. [More…]
Has the Papua New Guinea Government the power to change unilaterally the year of an election or would this require amending legislation by an Australian Act of Parliament? [More…]
Officers of the Department of Minerals and Energy are to have further discussions in October with representatives of the Japanese steel mills and power companies to exchange more detailed information on the quantities and qualities of coal required, and those areas in Australia from which this can be supplied. [More…]
I ask whether this blunt, if unsympathetic, evaluation by a senator of the Australian Labor Party makes clear the absolute impropriety of attempting to bypass or ignore the Crown or the Queen ‘s representative and whether it indicates an implicit acceptance by the Labor Party of the possession by the Crown of reserve powers, including particularly the power to dismiss a Government behaving illegally? [More…]
That the existence of a system of double taxation of personal incomes whereby both the Australian Government and State Governments had the power to vary personal income taxes would mean that taxpayers who worked in more than one State in any one year would- [More…]
Since the amendment of the Constitution in 1967 to give the Commonwealth Parliament power to make laws with respect to Aboriginals, attempts have failed to achieve any co-operative arrangement with the Queensland Government regarding management and control of the affairs of Aboriginals and Torres Strait Islanders in that State. [More…]