powerful - hofreps - 1970

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

I remember the speech by the honourable member in a Grievance Day debate recently, and a very powerful speech it was too. [More…]
But I can give the assurance that if the Attorney-General is looking at this matter, he will have to be extraordinarily persuasive and have a very powerful case to persuade me and I believe the Cabinet to change the present policy. [More…]
The second is to arrange, and deserve, the support of powerful allies. [More…]
Does he say that another and more powerful Bill will be introduced to take the place of this Bill? [More…]
The announcement last Friday that the consumer price index in the June quarter had risen by no less than 4.1 per cent not merely dispelled those hopes but reflected the influence of new and powerful influences at work in the formation of prices. [More…]
In our view, it represents a complete cave-in to pressure from powerful business interests which are implacably opposed to the Government’s proposal, which was to tax foreign source income at Australian company tax rates. [More…]
No one can doubt that this Government has a powerful commitment to lower tax. [More…]
Is this use of an expensive, overly powerful, high fuel consuming motor car wasteful in today’s energy-conscious world; if not, why not. [More…]
I believe that a powerful case can be made out for many amendments to the Conciliation and Arbitration Act and the Public Service Arbitration Act, but perhaps the most urgent amendment is one which will discourage delaying tactics on the part of employers by providing that wage claims which are not settled within 90 days from the date on which the claim is filed shall, if partly or fully granted, be made to operate retrospectively to the date of the application. [More…]
This is a very dangerous assumption to dwell upon because, as I have said before, it is becoming obvious that even powerful primary producer organisations such as the United Graziers Association of Queensland are fast becoming fed up with the lethargy and complacency of the Government in solving the serious problems confronting this country. [More…]
The Australian Wool Industry Conference, the so-called parliament of the wool industry, recommended a reserve price plan, but because powerful people in the wool industry objected to it the Government would not take the initiative and introduce it. [More…]
the governments of 112 nations in the United Nations, including our great and powerful allies, called on Australia to transfer full executive and legislative powers to elected New Guineans. [More…]
In the face of this unco-ordinated attack the local governments do not have the resources to give themselves a meaningful voice powerful enough to be heard and taken into account. [More…]
Not only must we maintain a national service training programme and improve the technical capacity of our weapons but we must also continue to strengthen our alliances with powerful friends and friendly neighbouring countries. [More…]
The taxation allowance has been a powerful stimulus to investment but it has the defect that it is of too short a term. [More…]
To do this, as we approach the last part of the twentieth century, we have very powerful and persuasive media. [More…]
It is the largest and most powerful complex on its kind in Australia and I commend the Department for this exciting new broadcasting venture which will increase our effectiveness as a free voice in South and South East Asia. [More…]
We can do only a certain amount against a more powerful aggressor. [More…]
Where the Leader of the Opposition was I do not pretend to know, but no doubt when he rises to speak he will make a powerful statement defending his own position and saying: T was not drinking tea, I was preparing the powerful statement which I am now going to deliver.’ [More…]
It has suited Australia’s interests to have a strong international financial institution, such as the Fund, to ensure that the more powerful industrial countries of the world observe certain basic rules of behaviour in their trading and financial relations with others. [More…]
Our relations with the United States have always been to take account of the fact that it includes the world’s most powerful black, community. [More…]
Beyond these reasons, each powerful enough in itself, is the greater reason - the futility of foreign troops in national Wars. [More…]
The main difference from the old foreign policy is that the main emphasis is no longer on supporting the traditional great and powerful allies and upholding military alliances. [More…]
Once a unified bloc, its solidarity has been broken by the powerful forces of nationalism . [More…]
When we got back to our constituents and were asked how was the Federal Parliament - that greatest forum in the nation, that powerful institution - and what had we done about this, that and the other thing, what answer could we give? [More…]
and football hooliganism can be stirred together into an anti-Labour stew, it is, to be sine, powerful saloon-bar stuff; and provided Selsdon Man can keep the argument at the level of ill-informed rumour, ignorant prejudice and gut-reaction, there may be some electoral mileage in it. [More…]
Has this challenge by unions reached a free-for-all stage and will the powerful unions eventually push the system to the wall? [More…]
Will this be to the detriment of the less powerful unions and certainly to the detriment of Australians generally? [More…]
The concern that I have about direct negotiation is the degree to which powerful unions in an industrial sense are able to use the threat of strike action to coerce employers to give wage increases beyond the capacity of the economy to pay and in advance of the development of productivity. [More…]
It is high lime that someone was big enough, realistic enough and powerful enough to convene all the nations in the world that are producing wool and to say: ‘We should dig our heels in and not be prepared to receive prices for our product which do not give us a fair margin.’ [More…]
He uses that as a powerful argument against the employment of anti-ballistic missile systems by the United States or any other country. [More…]
In 1970 it is the most powerful single thing we have in the community, through which people can express their will. [More…]
But the weak Cambodian army would need very substantial assistance to contain the powerful North Vietnamese units in Cambodia. [More…]
Certainly they have been weakened, as the Minister pointed out in his statement, but they retain in North Vietnam very powerful reserves which have never been committed to the war. [More…]
The United States proved to be a most powerful ally during the last war. [More…]
Honourable members should not forget that this decision was made after the Deputy Prime Minister, the Leader of and the most powerful man in the Country Party, had addressed this conference. [More…]
The powerful master has all the funds and will not keep the children. [More…]
I might say that he gave a very interesting, informative and statistical survey of the general problem, but I do not believe that his speech was a very powerful argument in support of the amendment that he moved. [More…]
There were two lesbian love scenes - without doubt the most powerful and moving items on the programme. [More…]
The domestic industry has a powerful lobby which is acutely sensitive to imports and it has been very successful in securing higher domestic .price supports over the last 4 years and a tightening of the restrictions on imports. [More…]
The powerful combined industrial unions committee group yesterday moved unanimously against supporting next Friday’s Vietnam Moratorium. [More…]
This is not merely a matter of compassion, which is a powerful factor. [More…]
The most powerful nation ever known is doing this to one of the smallest nations in the world; it is trying to bomb this small nation into the stone age. [More…]
Certainly the National Liberation Front would then be powerful in South Vietnam, but so too must some religious and regional groups or there can be no negotiations. [More…]
Sixteen years ago the Geneva Convention resolved to end the blood bath and to recognise that the people of Indo-China were determined to remain unaccommodated to any foreign power, even to China, the greatest, strongest and most numerically powerful country in that region. [More…]
Our half-hearted participation is not designed to win the war in Vietnam but to slavishly acquiesce in subjective sycophancy with a great and powerful friend. [More…]
He devoted 25 words of that statement to Indonesia, a nation of 120 million people, one of the richest archipelagos in the world and a nation rich in resources that inevitably with the march of history and progress will become a powerful factor for stability in the whole of South East Asia. [More…]
If hundreds of B52s, Phantoms and other aircraft have failed in Vietnam it seems completely illusory to expect a powerful deterrent capability from 24 F111s with conventional armaments and bomb loads. [More…]
There are powerful authoritarian and even totalitarian forces potentially, if not actually, present in all societies, including our own. [More…]
If the USSR deploys a strike naval squadron in the Indian Ocean, including helicopter carriers and naval infantry, the options available to the Soviets will multiply unless there is a powerful free world countering force. [More…]
With growth comes increasing interdependence economically and increasing responsibility to play our part in the world, particularly in South East Asia, economically, diplomatically and even on occasions militarily, because this is a world in which armed might is still the most powerful factor in the conduct of great affairs between nations. [More…]
As I was saying, if we were in a situation where we wished that our strong and powerful friends or whoever else it may be would come to our aid, in the event of Singapore not being available, surely it would be indicative of our concern for our own defence and for the role that we may have to play in the future that we had constructed an efficient naval base at Cockburn Sound on the western coast ot Australia. [More…]
I think this is a powerful and a persuasive argument for having the matter settled one way or the other and for not entering into such arrangements as may seem fit though they may not approximate the arrangements enteredinto by the United States of America with California and the other littoral States. [More…]
This is a powerful consideration and it is highly relevant. [More…]
I was impressed by how he was able to prove that the quota system is really knocking the small farmers, of whom there are so many, and that the big wheat growing interests, small in number but very powerful within the Australian Wheatgrowers Federation and within the Australian Country Party, have been able to force the spread of quota reductions over the whole industry so that the little man, the man whose capacity to grow wheat even if he were given the right to grow all he could, would not give him a handsome income, has now been forced to reduce the capacity of his farm. [More…]
These are the people to whom we have the commitment - the great unorganised mass of people in our society who, unlike the established interests, have not formed powerful pressure groups, whether they are labour or capital, pastoral interest groups or other special interest groups. [More…]
I know how important and how powerful it is against imports. [More…]
Australia’s rural industries are now sharing the experience of their counterparts in other countries with developed and powerful industrial complexes. [More…]
Yet into this conflict, Mr Prime Minister, powerful neighbours intruded, and so you committed Australia. [More…]
Or was it to allow you to ingratiate yourself upon the leaders of the most powerful, yet most hated and feared nation in the world today? [More…]
They are friends of people many of whom are very wealthy and powerful people with great connections in business. [More…]
There is much humbug about the attitude of some of the critics of Australian tariffs who assume, because they do not know, that countries like Japan and America are much less protected and that their world competition has such a powerful and beneficial effect. [More…]
Consequently it became a vocal and powerful pressure group. [More…]
Laws are much more easily applied by the State to individuals for the settlement of disputes than they are to exercise compulsion over powerful organisations such as a trade union. [More…]
This is a powerful section of the community. [More…]
The Country Party appears to be frightened by the numerically powerful Liberal Party which without doubt represents the vested interests, the middle man, the overseas cartels and the very big growers who are in a position to dictate their own terms. [More…]
Powerful speeches have been made by a number of people. [More…]
As they have made their powerful speeches they have looked out over a great many people and have no doubt misled themselves into the belief that this has been a powerful protest, very solidly supported. [More…]
It was not a powerful protest and it was not strongly supported. [More…]
Where is there another powerful ally in the world to whom we could turn if we threw away the alliance with the United States? [More…]
The Minister for Trade and Industry (Mr McEwen) has made a very powerful speech and in view of what he said I think I should devote some of my time to spelling out the attitude of the Australian [More…]
Labor Party on some of the matters which were raised in what I have said was such a very powerful speech. [More…]
They prove how the PostmasterGeneral has driven a horse and carriage through the provisions of the Act and, by signing renewals of licences, has condoned gross violations of the provisions of the Act I believe that the proper course which should be taken with this Bill is to refer it to a standing committee of this House, which should conduct a full public inquiry into how our mass communications have been thrown into the hands of a few powerful newspaper proprietors. [More…]
I would like to make one very short but powerful point. [More…]
apparently, unique in having powerful policy making departments pulling in different directions, frequently at the expense of overall national consideration. [More…]
Galbraith said that there is, furthermore, a powerful incentive to exploit this price discretion when wages are raised, particularly when we have a monopoly situation. [More…]
There are 5 groups of different foreign ideology which are powerful in Australia. [More…]
The ‘Emden’ had a speed of 24 knots and it was more powerful than the ‘Samarai’. [More…]
The honourable member for Lalor (Dr J. F. Cairns) made some very powerful statements about the magnificent Vietnam Mortorium Campaign which he was going to organise, lt seemed to me that that, was becoming his prime objective. [More…]
The Leader of the Opposition said that the reason he was going was to speak to the national leaders of the great countries of our great and powerful allies. [More…]
The overseas countries with these policies are mainly the powerful trading blocs which are hell bent on self sufficiency and which have no qualms whatsoever about the dumping of deliberately generated surpluses. [More…]
Plaintive appeals by Australia to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade complaining about the cut throat policies of the most powerful trading bloc in the world - the European Common Market - are a useless display of despair. [More…]
But the Government, torn apart by the influence of powerful vested interests spearheaded by the middle men, the brokers and the private bankers, refuses to act despite the national urgency. [More…]
The latest effort of powerful vested interests to sabotage the proposed statutory wool marketing authority is the visit to Australia of representatives of the International Wool Textile Organisation. [More…]
Are we so naive as not to believe that the IWTO fears a single marketing authority and that the reason why it fears a single marketing authority is that, instead of a disorganised fragmented marketing rabble as we see today, dominated by wool brokers, international cartels and by companies fixing unnecessarily high freight rates, adoption of this proposal would see the substitution of a strong powerful single marketing authority which would transform the Australian wool industry. [More…]
The picture most frequently presented is of a valiant band of people, united by tribal ties, fighting the all powerful Government and influential vested interests for the right to establish themselves in an area of land to which they have some tribal attachment deeply rooted in their ancient history. [More…]
The United States, the most powerful nation in the world, continues to bomb Vietnam indiscriminately. [More…]
It is futile to think that the American alliance can effectively endure if we affront the world’s most powerful negro community, with the world’s largest negro army. [More…]
The subsidy system, which in general is designed to help the small, traditional family farmer, has been a failure because the biggest share of the federal subsidy payments is going to the powerful manufacturing interests on the one hand and to a very small number of large and affluent primary producers on the other. [More…]
We deeply deplore the open and evident aggression being committed against you by your more powerful neighbour. [More…]
The Opposition’s variegated attitude towards foreign affairs is determined by the powerful union bosses who inform members, including the Leader of the Opposition, what the policy will be. [More…]
The beef producers in America have organised into a very powerful lobby to see that this remains so. [More…]
The United States, which is the most powerful nation in the world, is trying to bomb and destroy one of the smallest nations in the world. [More…]
There have been many powerful interests beyond the wool industry itself - some in Australia and some overseas - who have opposed at all times any interference or any change at all in the marketing of wool. [More…]
This is a particular marked feature in South Australia and Victoria where educational snobbery was always more powerful than it was anywhere else. [More…]
Therefore the voice of the people who provide, handle and disburse this cash is powerful and persuasive. [More…]
As one famous American general said in respect to Vietnam ‘The North Vietnamese have the most powerful propaganda machine in the world but it does not cost them a cent’ because indeed certain sections only of the publicity media, and now the Opposition, and now even further the Leader of the Opposition, appear to be carrying out perhaps unwittingly what they most seek to gain and that is the ineffectiveness of our defence forces, the lack of morale of our people and the complete lying down of our will to resist. [More…]
The war supporters, never having dared or managed to speak on a basis of human equality with Communists, see them as massively more powerful than the rest of us. [More…]
I suspect that the significance of this approach will not be lost on the other and more powerful bodies in the health scheme, so that the manner in which the Government has disposed of the present problem may well encourage far more difficult and intransigent problems in the future. [More…]
There is a powerful meat lobby in the United States. [More…]
I know when I lived there that lobby was powerful even in the Chicago area. [More…]
Is it a fact that many irrigation projects have resulted in types of production that cannot find remunerative markets, whereas Sydney beaches provide greatly appreciated amenities for between 2 million and 3 million people and a powerful attraction for both tourists and immigrants? [More…]
No doubt he hopes that the powerful speech that he made will appear in the official journal of the Association of Professional Engineers’, Australia, and that alf members of the APEA will be persuaded that the Deputy Leader of the Opposition is right on their side. [More…]
It is known that powerful United States pressure groups, backed by influential members of Congress, are hell bent to limit or even eradicate imports of [More…]
In addition to the powerful meat lobby, relentless pressure is being exerted against Australian imports by rival central and South American export interests. [More…]
The temptation to show violent incidents to obtain powerful communication is strong. [More…]
- In recent months we have seen a mounting attack by television’s work force spokesmen such as Bobby Limb, Barry Crocker, Bo Bo Faulkner and Lance Peters, President .of the Australian Writers Guild, and a counter attack by the television industry’s powerful propaganda machines. [More…]
Let them remember, as I have pointed out tonight, that there are some very powerful Labor Party figures ranged against the country people in many ways. [More…]
The honourable gentleman will recall on one occasion in this House - I rarely interject and when I do I try to do so with the utmost courtesy - the honourable member for Hunter (Mr James) was making a powerful forward-looking speech and he said that the country was spending 204m on defence. [More…]
It is an attitude which has been forced upon it by the trade union movement and particularly by the powerful trade union muscle men who want to see the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission destroyed. [More…]
It knows full well that the wage drift goes to the powerful unions and that 85 per cent of the community - the clerks, the carpet layers, the architrave builders and these sorts of people - do not have industrial power. [More…]
The major capacity in a money sense as distinct from a real sense would be distributed among the powerful unions. [More…]
But, periodically, we will find that the powerful trade union leader wants to strike the Commission down. [More…]
What has been happening in this industrial field is that that which the powerful union leaders want to destroy - that is, the Commission - they first rob of its probity. [More…]
In office, the Australian Labor Party would erode the Commission to the benefit of the musclemen and the powerful unions and to the disadvantage of 85 per cent of the workers. [More…]
It has always been considered that the Army commander of the water-borne Army forces in the west has a more powerful navy at his normal disposal than the Royal Austraiian Navy in that State. [More…]
If one cares to grab hold of that powerful, forward looking document known as the ‘Platform, Constitution and Rules’ of the Australian Labor Party- [More…]
The very powerful senior officers in the great public service departments must be convinced in their own interests that dissatisfaction and discontent in the Australian armed forces reflects in truth upon them because they are the advisers of the parliamentarians who constitute the Cabinet. [More…]
The armies of die Warsaw Pact countries are the most powerful in Europe in 1970. [More…]
The forces of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation were the most powerful in 1960. [More…]
The Minister replied, and I am sure that he would not mind at all if I were to read to the Committee a short, powerful extract from the letter which he sent to me. [More…]
The Minister for Trade and Industry will scarcely deny that his great and powerful friends, the overseas shipping interests, contributed heavily to the establishment of McEwen House. [More…]
This is the pushfulness of powerful trade union leaders possessed of great industrial power and using it to force employers, by the use of naked force, to grant them wage increases and increases in conditions which the economy really cannot afford in real terms. [More…]
The vice of inflation, I assure honourable members, whether they know it or not, is the redistribution of income and assets in our community so that the persons who have assets or past savings, or who are wage earners in the non-powerful industrial areas, are the people who suffer. [More…]
In our country there are strong and powerful forces at work to extirpate the family wool grower - to end the family enterprise. [More…]
It is important to record that it was defeated, as the honourable member for Dawson has said, by a campaign to mislead and confuse the growers, which was carried out by a combination of some Government members of the Parliament and of the powerful forces outside the Parliament which both control and support this Government and keep it in office. [More…]
Yet under the circumstances obtaining, it is possible for powerful buying groups to stifle competition and obtain our wool at prices below its cost and fair value. [More…]
If the Government was consistent in its belief in forward defence and in the maintenance of a strategic military force in Malaysia then there is a powerful argument for the setting up of this naval base at Cocos Island so that the great populace of Perth would never suffer in the event of a nuclear attack upon the base - and may we hope that this never occurs. [More…]
Chifley, although not so articulate, was certainly a very powerful man. [More…]
The trade unions are becoming increasingly powerful. [More…]
International oil company profits have created the most powerful private governments in the world. [More…]
All of us are aware of the many institutions - perhaps the most powerful being the Reserve Bank - in our economy which are involved, in all aspects. [More…]
I ask the Minister for Trade and industry a question about an arrangement to have an Australian fortnight at the Neiman-Marcus store in Texas, ls it a fact that such an arrangement was entered into and that this very famous, powerful and attractive store was willing to spend $100,000 to display Australian products and other items favourable to Australia? [More…]
In view of the failure of the 56 wheat growing countries to reach agreement on prices for the next 3 years and the inroads into trade with China made by our great and powerful friends and allies such as Canada, Japan and Britain, will the Minister, in the interests of Australian trade and Aus tralian producers, consider opening a trade office or even a Wheat Board agency in Peking until the battle of conscience over China and party preferences has been resolved by himself and his colleagues? [More…]
The whole broad spectrum of censorship nowadays is extremely complex, particularly with the advent of the most powerful persuader - television. [More…]
This is a pretty powerful argument; it is one that I find difficult to answer. [More…]
There should be as little as possible within the limits of community standards, but not those limits defined by a vociferous and powerful minority without responsibility. [More…]
Why the United States and the South Vietnamese should have invited a direct confrontation with this powerful army on its own ground at this time is beyond my comprehension. [More…]
The situation has now moved from what might be called ‘civil war’ to a major war between two fairly populous countries which would be pretty powerful and effective when they are mobilised. [More…]
But the Minister for Defence, a very powerful and important man in this country, had nothing to say about the future. [More…]
I suppose it could happen in Russia if you had offended a powerful Minister or if you had endangered some interests in which he was involved. [More…]
Thirdly, the land on which ‘Edrom’ stands fronts the ocean and a powerful overseas company has made an offer to Mr : Home for that land for a competing wood Chip industry. [More…]
This debasement of public life was not criticised by most papers and the then State Premiers apparently took their premium shares and put themselves in moral debt to powerful foreign interests. [More…]
Powerful forces support Bjelke-Petersen and the mineral exploring rights he gives to his own companies. [More…]
It is clearly their right to pronounce on these extraordinary events - this government of the country by Press campaigns; this control of political parties by the intimidation of powerful interests. [More…]
The Prime Minister made this perfectly clear when he gave the all powerful National Employers Policy Committee a firm promise to place a bridle on the wage fixing powers of the Commonwealth Conciliation and Arbitration Commission and to collect the $38,000 outstanding in fines imposed under a repressive law that became so discredited that even the Gorton Government felt impelled to move for its repeal. [More…]
This evening I wish to examine in some detail the performance over the years of the former holder of the External Affairs portfolio - the present holder of the Foreign Affairs portfolio - and the man who through the intrigues of powerful outside interests and the devisiveness of the Liberal Party has finally scrambled to the position of Prime Minister of our nation. [More…]
Once a unified bloc, its solidarity has been broken by the powerful forces of nationalism. [More…]
Before the suspension of the sitting we were considering in detail the pathetic performance over the years in the field of foreign policy of the man who through the intrigue of powerful outside interests and the chronic divisions within the Liberal Party has finally scrambled to the position of Prime Minister of this nation. [More…]
Once a unified bloc, its solidarity has been broken by the powerful forces of nationalism . [More…]
Is it correct, as published, that the Cabinet paper being prepared by that Minister recommends action to bring about this clash, one ground being that it must gain substantial party political advantage for the Liberal and Country Parties, another ground being that it is a course backed by major groups of powerful employers? [More…]
Powerful sections of the industry are now on the verge of revolt. [More…]
At the present time some of the most powerful monopoly forces in the nation have joined together to frighten the Government into doing as little as it can and what it is doing is not very much. [More…]
Some of them represent the most powerful forces in the political life of Australia at the present time. [More…]
In the circumstances 1 believe that this could be one of the most powerful weapons that the industry could have. [More…]
He also gave very cogent and powerful reasons why the people of Australia should support such legislation. [More…]
If the Government wants to preserve the federal system, as honourable members on the other side of the House claim they want to preserve - a situation which constitutionally I believe at the moment there is no prospect of departing from - the Government should make all of the elements in that arrangement or compact powerful as far as its responsibilities are concerned, resourceful as far as its capacity to carry out those responsibilities are concerned and above all responsive to the needs of the people. [More…]
Violence is inevitable because we are geared to America in every other way and America heads the wealthy, scientifically powerful forces of the world against the economically poor and suppressed coloured masses of the world. [More…]
I believe that somewhere in the Government there is a powerful line of thought blocking the development of charter flights. [More…]
The question which the Labor Party has to answer is: Does it believe that the smaller countries, such as Czechoslovakia, should be dominated by the great and powerful countries? [More…]
Both the Commonwealth and the Government of New South Wales must share responsibility for the Clutha Development Pty Ltd Act Under its provisions, Clutha, the company controlled by the American multi-millionaire, Daniel Ludwig, said to be one of the world’s richest and most powerful industrialists, expects to earn a minimum of $90m a year for the next 20 years exporting high grade coking coal from the Burragorang Valley in New South Wales. [More…]
However, society itself could be the sufferer if there is an unnecessary stock-piling of powerful legal weapons. [More…]
In that war we see the most powerful nation in the world dropping more explosives on the little nation of Vietnam than were dropped on all the Axis nations throughout the whole of the Second World War. [More…]
The Committee which recommended the proposal and which will be recommending the proposal to the next federal conference of the Australian Labor Party consists of 5 of the most powerful and influential industrial leaders in Australia. [More…]
Barney Williams; Mr John Egerton, one of the most powerful influences in the trade union movement in Queensland; Mr Ray Gietzelt, the general secretary of the third biggest union in Australia; and Mr John Ducker, the assistant secretary of the Labour Council of New South Wales and the State president of the Australian Labor Party. [More…]
We are not nearly so large and powerful as West Germany but we are more significant in our region than our size and power by world standards would at first indicate. [More…]
In return for a few meagre concessions China has received an overwhelmingly favourable response from its most powerful adversary. [More…]
It is a measure of the fascination of this huge and powerful nation that even the slightest sign that the barriers are starting to crumble produces such a response. [More…]
We are not a powerful country. [More…]
It is always a very difficult task to follow a powerful speech from the honourable member for Griffith (Mr Donald Cameron) because usually by the time he finishes the House is empty. [More…]
On 8th April the Treasurer foresaw and deplored a situation in which, he said, ‘a person would have an income which determined his standard of living, based on whether or not he was a member of a powerful union’. [More…]
apparently from a fear that such action might be unpalatable to powerful sections in Country Party electorates. [More…]
But even with this dictum it is a source of surprise and regret that Australia has failed to seek an association with one of the most powerful and useful organisations in the world in furthering economic growth. [More…]
This body was one of the handmaidens at the rebirth of Europe as one of the most powerful economic forces in the world today - from the ruins of war to a renaissance which is still in full flower. [More…]
It was a powerful intrusion of outside thinking. [More…]
The powerful governor surrounded by his nominated advisers over a period of 70 years or 80 years is a training in the American presidential system of government. [More…]
If I remember correctly, he spoke about the powerful intrusion of outside thinking into the Territory. [More…]
I believe it was a powerful intrusion for good, perhaps, in the sense that it alerted the Australian people to the issues involved, more rapidly than they might otherwise have been, although I would not go too far in that. [More…]
The honourable member for Denison (Dr Solomon) referred to the powerful intrusion of outside ideas. [More…]
Until he gets the nod from his great and powerful friends, the Prime Minister is incapable of action. [More…]
Sukarnoist Indonesia was committing violence against its near neighbours, with the then powerful Indonesian Communist Party exercising major influence over Indonesian policies. [More…]
They will not admit that things are changing, above all, in the policy of our great and powerful ally, the United States of America. [More…]
The great crime of the United States Government - the Government of the most powerful nation on earth - is that it has inflicted over 10.000 million tons of TNT on the people of Vietnam. [More…]
That the Australian people both in Metropolitan and Ruralareas should have the best of television programmes available to them and that television as a powerful means of communication should not be in the control of too few hands. [More…]
That the Australian people both in metropolitan and rural areas should have the best television programmes available to them and that television as a powerful means of communication should not be in the control of too few hands. [More…]
That the Australian people both in metropolitan and rural areas should have the best of television programmes available to them and that television as a powerful means of communication should not be in the control of too few hands. [More…]
The fact is that we would never have been in Vietnam but for the Sino-phobia which is felt in Australia and her great and powerful associates. [More…]
This is a very powerful indictment of the AmericanJapanese policy. [More…]
It is a disastrous foreign policy exercise which results simultaneously in alienating our allies and surrendering and throwing away all our bargaining points for future dealings with one of the most powerful countries in the world. [More…]
He is going to placate the powerful and turbulent Left in the United States, and this is how he does it. [More…]
This is a very powerful indictment of United States-Japanese policy. [More…]
It is true that China has the most powerful army in the world. [More…]
That the Australian people both in metropolitan and rural areas should have the best of television programmes available to them and that television as a powerful means of communication should not be in the control of too few hands. [More…]
That the Australian people both in metropolitan and rural areas should have the best of television programmes available to them and thattelevision as a powerful means of communication should not be in the control of ton few hands. [More…]
That the Australian people both in metropolitan and rural areas should have the best of television programmes available to them and that television as a powerful means of communication should not be in the control of too few hands. [More…]
That the Australian people both in Metropolitan and Rural areas should have the best of television programmes available to them and that television as a powerful means of communication should not be in the control of too few hands. [More…]
That the Austraiian people both in Metropolitan and Rural areas should have the best of television programmes available to them and that television as a powerful means of communication should not be in the control of too few hands. [More…]
Will the Minister for Labour and National Service consider requiring the registration with the Commonwealth Conciliation and Arbitration Commission of Australia’s most powerful trade union, the Australian Medical Association, so that doctors’ fees can be fixed in the same way as the wages of patients whom they treat? [More…]
But if I am going to hitch my horse to any rail of hope - and I think history as it has been and as it probably will be will support me in this view - I would rather align with a powerful ally such as the United States than to put my faith in a glimmer of hope. [More…]
That the Australian people both in metropolitan and rural areas should have the best of television programmes available to them and that television as a powerful means of communication should not be in the control of too few hands. [More…]
That the Australian people both in metropolitan and rural areas should have the best of television programmes available to them and that television as a powerful means of communication should not be in the control of too few hands. [More…]
That the Australian people both in Metropolitan and rural areas should have the best of television programmes available to them and that television as a powerful means of communication should not be in the control of too few hands. [More…]
That the Australian people both in metropolitan and rural areas should have the best of television programmes available to them and that television as a powerful means of communication should not be in the control of too few hands. [More…]
The Government apparently saw the problem mainly as ‘a powerful upthrust of costs’. [More…]
there has been and still is a powerful upthrust of costs, stemming largely though not wholly from large wage claims relentlessly pursued. [More…]
Billy Snedden underlined the whole theme of the Budget when he said in his Budget speech: In general, as we see the problem, there has been and still is a powerful upthrust of costs, stemming largely, though not wholly, from large wage claims relentlessly pursued.’ [More…]
Billy Snedden underlined the whole theme of the Budget when he said in his Budget speech: In general, as we sec the problem, there has been and still is a powerful upthrust of costs, stemming largely, though not wholly, from large wage claims relentlessly pursued. [More…]
Of course, if such a person is represented by big and powerful friends - I mean by that trade unions who can look after and protect his interests - he can manage to keep up a little. [More…]
But if he is a person who is not represented by big and powerful friends - pensioners or superannuated public servants - he will fall further and further behind. [More…]
Is the Minister aware that some large and powerful firms are anxious to co-operate with the appropriate authorities in the protection of our environment? [More…]
That the Australian people both in Metropolitan and Rural areas should have the best of television programmes available to them and that television as a powerful means of communication should not be in the control of too few hands. [More…]
So far as the situation in regard to our foreign affairs and defence is concerned I would point out that this is a novel situation in 1971 that we have never faced before, where our great and powerful friends are in the process of departing from our area. [More…]
That the Australian people both in Metropolitan and Rural areas should have the best of television programmes available to them and that television as a powerful means of communication should not be in the control of too few hands. [More…]
We have only to look at the names to see that the Government has picked out very powerful people of proven capacity and status in the community. [More…]
We are a small nation and have sought the assistance of powerful allies by treaties to improve our defence capabilities. [More…]
It is the most powerful economic weapon in the hands of a government and this powerful economic weapon will decide the fate of all Australians during the next 12 months. [More…]
No more powerful weapon is wielded by a government than its annual Budget because, through it, a government works out its economic theories and its financial policies. [More…]
Mr Snedden’s wage bogy, described as ‘a powerful upthrust of costs stemming largely from large wage claims relentlessly pursued,’ was not backed up by wage statistics. [More…]
If the Treasurer wants any further details of this proposal, 1 refer him to a powerful speech made yesterday in the debate on the Budget. [More…]
It has been reported to me that the honourable gentleman made a powerful speech yesterday. [More…]
We should try to exercise the art of statesmanship and in this area of policy it is a good working rule that no government will ignore the advice of its military advisers except for the most weighty and powerful reasons and it is not a weighty and . [More…]
powerful reason that a particular course of policy that military advisers say is requisite may be electorally unpopular. [More…]
Does he regard the dramatic events leading to the further disengagement of our great and powerful friends from the eastern and South East Asian area and the strengthening of potentially hostile powers in the Indian Ocean area since the last statement was made as justifying complacency? [More…]
Here we have the most powerful nation in the world moving into our own region and trading most vigorously and on the basis of credit. [More…]
So this giant company, the Consolidated Fertilisers consortium, has as its shareholders a wide range of powerful companies. [More…]
My worry is about the fertiliser consortium because it is becoming more powerful through lack of competition. [More…]
That would have been a respectable and reasonable approach to the problem because when all is said and done our great and powerful friends stood over the Department of Civil Aviation and got away with murder and Qantas is suffering accordingly. [More…]
The interests of the Australian people are second as long as the Government can kowtow to the powerful interests behind the airline operators in the world today. [More…]
That the Australian people both in Metropolitan and Rural areas should have the best of television programmes available to them and that television as a powerful means of communication should not be in the control of too few hands. [More…]
Secondly, is it a fact that, if the course urged by these powerful pressure groups were adopted, it would add fuel to the fires of inflation, whatever else it might or might not do? [More…]
Even with that powerful and overwhelming voice it has been impossible to get action taken in the direction in which so many of us reckon it ought to be taken. [More…]
That the Australian people both in Metropolitan and rural areas should have the best of television programmes available to them and that television as a powerful means of communication should not be in the control of too few hands. [More…]
If we like to think of the justice of this case, those who are not responsible - the trade union members themselves - will pay the penalty, not the powerful associates of the members of the Labor Party. [More…]
It does not occur to him that for the first time in our history we have no great and powerful friends in this part of the world to protect us. [More…]
Yet these apparently heterogeneous components can be combined into a powerful instrument to serve a national purpose of immense value and importance. [More…]
Is it not a fact that in both World War I and World War II the Russians were on our side in a very powerful form at a time when their friendship was needed, and ought not we set out to generate friendship with the Russians rather than provoke their hostility? [More…]
Apart from these bodies, the Australian Broadcasting Commission, through its symphony orchestras, television and radio programmes, has continued to exercise powerful direct effects on the content and style of the performing arts. [More…]
I believe strongly that there is a case for a foundation for the arts or for some sort of council for the arts to tie various groups together and to give the sort of advice and feed it into the government in a fairly balanced and unbiassed way so that we do not have a situation where one, two or three powerful interest groups are able more effectively to assert their point of view when they are challenging the Government round about budget time for more funds for their form of artistic endeavour. [More…]
Not so far from this part of Bengal is a narrow neck of land known as Naxalbari which joins India to the northeast frontier areas, and in that Naxalbari area has been one of the most vicious guerilla movements, one of the most powerful anarchist movements in the world, the Naxalite movement, and any sort of chaos is grist to its mill. [More…]
The article reminded its readers that 822 men had died in this disaster, and the inference was obvious and powerful. [More…]
In these circumstances, it is a good thing that a country as powerful as the United States is prepared to take up seriously this matter of unfair trading practices. [More…]
Most people are moved by a variety of incentives, but the most powerful in almost all walks of life is undoubtedly that of personal monetary gain. [More…]
We deeply deplore the open and evident aggression being committed against you by your more powerful neighbour North Vietnam. [More…]
Seemingly we have a most powerful ticket on our side. [More…]
We deeply deplore the open and evident aggression being committed against you by your more powerful neighbour North Vietnam. [More…]
Both these honourable members are no doubt very powerful figures in their own right but any honourable member on this side of the House might have been excused for believing that if the employment market in this country was a matter of sufficient urgency for the Opposition to require a debate such as this, the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Whitlam) might have made a contribution. [More…]
If the honourable member for Sturt believes that Australia can be completely isolated, as the defence statement of his Leader would seem to indicate, that Australia can call down the curtain at the 3 mile limit, that it needs no interchange with our great and powerful neighbours, our great and powerful enemies, our trading partners or anyone else, it is high time those views were made abundantly clear to the rest of the Australian population. [More…]
The revision in the role of the DDL from a fairly simple vessel to a large, powerful and expensive destroyer performing a number of roles has been reflected in a spectacular cost escalation. [More…]
With advances in electronics, automated weapons systems, lightweight rapid fire guns and self sufficient surface to surface missiles, a greater number of more powerful weapons can be installed on hulls of smaller displacement and serviced by smaller crews. [More…]
With the rapid advances in armaments these are powerful warships, even in their smallest form. [More…]
When they are armed with proper guided missile systems they can be as formidable as any other ships and could well hold at bay larger, more modern and more powerful ships belonging to other navies. [More…]
In these circumstances, what a poor and miserable lot Australians would be if they were prepared to avoid that necessary defence effort which will earn the respect of our powerful allies. [More…]
I believe that Australia’s future survival in the Pacific will be side by side with our powerful allies. [More…]
The Labor Party says: ‘Yes, we will have defence but we will not have a complete sellout to our great and powerful allies. [More…]
Our moves in this direction have again been halting, hesitant and guided by great and powerful friends. [More…]
The USS ‘Enterprise’ looks powerful and impressive. [More…]
One can rest assured that, as the newspapers have already reported, wheat farmers in America are becoming a powerful lobby whose aim is to make the sale of substantial quantities of wheat to China the first means of improving relationships between the People’s Republic of China and the United States. [More…]
That is a most powerful group. [More…]
North Vietnam is the most powerful Communist country remaining outside the world community. [More…]
Here again the Commonwealth is setting up a powerful advisory body, to advise on the financial needs of all these colleges of advanced education. [More…]
My purpose in rising in the early hours of this morning is to appeal to the Acting Minister for Primary Industry to convene now that conference, to which Premier Askin has belatedly agreed to send representatives, and at least to see whether 2 powerful Governments can match the efforts of a small town and a small cooperative to avert a sentence of death given so carelessly in Sydney this week. [More…]
I am not suggesting that the court or the jury were corrupt in any way, but I know that corrupting a jury over a period of a lengthy trial is not without precedent in Australian criminal courts where big money and powerful influences are involved. [More…]
To do so would be to deny the interests of all in the community except the clever and the powerful. [More…]
It is no use anyone denying that continuous full employment has placed trade unions in a very powerful position which they are exploiting to the utmost. [More…]
Secondly, as a government, which we will become, we will enact fully effective and powerful legislation not only on trade practices but also in wide relevant fields. [More…]
I also know that the most powerful opposition would come from the vested interests - the wool brokers - and this. [More…]
Another important factor is that I believe there will be considerable savings in that a strong single buyer under an authority will be able to exercise a powerful voice with respect to shipping and also in the calling of lenders, as has been done in other industries with the same type of management. [More…]
This was an inevitable result of policies aimed to suppress demand across the board rather than concentrating correc tive action on the sectors of the economy where powerful inflationary forces existed. [More…]
They would be views which are open to persuasion towards change if powerful enough evidence were presented to me to encourage me to change these views. [More…]
It is that nationalism is still the most powerful force in the region. [More…]
Sir Frank Packer is a powerful man and he will go after issues in which he believes. [More…]
What we have to consider’ is whether a very experienced journalist and a very powerful newspaper are to -be immune to withdrawal and apology in circumstances where .every member of the national Parliament is subject lo it. [More…]
I think that the honourable member for Warringah (Mr MacKellar) made the most powerful point that emerged in this debate when he pointed out that this method of attempting to formulate policy by the Labor Party [More…]
In fact, there was considerable opposition from very powerful wool organisations. [More…]
Unfortunately, when the PostmasterGeneral (Sir Alan Hulme) made a statement about the Ceduna area in 1969 the statement was in some way distorted and the people in the area were informed by the local Press that they were getting a powerful station which was to serve a pretty wide radius. [More…]
From inflation the speculator or the industrially powerful is the beneficiary. [More…]
If it had a wages policy it would find itself in conflict with the trade unions of Australia, particularly the powerful trade unions, and more particularly with the powerful trade union leaders of this country. [More…]
They have to prove their case to an arbitration authority or to powerful employers, but the big corporations are free to do what they like whenever they like. [More…]
Money can be used to extend one’s personality: for instance, men pour money into such virility symbols as costly and powerful cars, and women buy such symbols of sexuality as lavish clothes.’ [More…]
Within our society the position of economic independence in the light of what I am putting to the House from sources regarded as fairly powerful authorities in the field of welfare work emphasises that reasonable money resources play a dominant role and is essential to the mental welfare of people in our community. [More…]
In general, as we see the problem, there has been and still is a powerful upthrust of costs, stemming largely though not wholly from large wage claims relentlessly pursued. [More…]
However, I suppose that in the circumstances, with a man as famous, as tremendously powerful and, at that particular time, as good a man as the late Archbishop Mannix was, I would do the same again. [More…]
I would welcome the Russians to the Indian Ocean because in the world of today I would rather see in the Indian Ocean powerful people who might be friendly to us than make enemies of them so that they will be opposed to us in the future. [More…]
The humble petition from certain residents of the western suburbs of the Sydney metropolitan area and surrounding districts respectfully showeth: That due to an expanding passenger air travel business together with larger and more powerful jet aircraft, aircraft noise has already become a serious problem for people living in the vicinity of airports. [More…]
At present it is divided into powerful economic trading blocs dominated by the European Economic Community, [More…]
They are backed by powerful selling agencies, whether we like them or not, such as the Colonial Sugar Refining Co., Vesteys, Swift Aust. [More…]
For such conditions are conducive to the exercise of unbridled industrial strength by powerful union groups; to the rapid passing on of cost increases - and sometimes more - in higher prices; to bottlenecks and delivery delays and all the other signs which, each in its small way, point to a falling away of overall standards of efficiency and real productivity. [More…]
It is often used to gain support for the Liberal Party and Country Party from newspaper proprietors such as Sir Frank Packer who first sold his services to the Liberal-Country Party Government for a knighthood and has now emerged as the most powerful man in the Liberal Party. [More…]
The United States of America, the richest and most powerful nation in the world, seems to have thrived over the years by using Mr and Mrs. [More…]
But we also believe that the Australian people have the right to put under scrutiny those people who are controlling this most powerful medium of television. [More…]
There is no evidence in the research studies to support the claim that these social advantages constitute a number of powerful social factors which work to accentuate the trend towards centralisation’ - certainly not m terms of justifying continued metropolitan centralisation. [More…]
But are not the rights involved in the provision of welfare services just as powerful in their demands for adequate financing as are the rights of the people who command and operate our defence Services? [More…]
Foreign banks - and British banks are foreign banks - have always been and still are powerful in Australia. [More…]
It has been subservient at all costs to great and powerful friends who would own so much of Australia that they must at all costs come here to defend us. [More…]
I would think that this Commissioner in the initial use of his authority is much more powerful than any other person in the Australian public services - certainly in the Commonwealth Public Service, as I understand it. [More…]
All that the process of Vietnamisation has meant is that two very powerful Vietnamese armies are now equipped and geared to continue the war. [More…]
It meant that American ground forces were withdrawn but the powerful North Vietnamese divisions remained. [More…]
But the Government is bowing to the wishes of and pressures from a small powerful group in the wool industry. [More…]
In conclusion, the cold facts are these: The Government is being pressurised by a powerful group of vested interests of stud breeders, of agents and of pastoral houses to relax this embargo for their own financial gain. [More…]
The Deputy Leader of the Opposition went on to say that the North Vietnamese could never be defeated, that we were to blame for turning a local insurgency into a war and that all we succeeded in doing was to give time and help to the South Vietnamese to build up a powerful fighting force. [More…]
The honourable member for Hunter gave the impression that well-known and powerful cattle station interests are not concerned about this road. [More…]
The honourable member for the Australian Capital Territory (Mr Enderby) and the honourable member for Barton (Mr Reynolds) have put too dark a complexion on this matter, particularly on the question of discipline and the mechanism for it The Commissioner has been variously described by honourable members on the other side, firstly, as being essentially potentially authoritarian and, secondly, as being a rubber stamp for the Public Service Board, and one is not quite sure just how powerful he might be. [More…]
The Commonwealth Government, in the Tariff Board, the Department of Trade and Industry or the Department of Customs and Excise, which at the moment is probably the most powerful of them all, does not possess the means to make this continuous and effective examination. [More…]
Australia then, as it is now, was hopelessly unprepared and the first job of the then Prime Minister, Mr Curtin, was to ensure the return of Australia’s 6th, 7th and 9th Divisions from North Africa where the Menzies Government, in pursuit of this myth of forward defence, had sent them in eager response to the demands of great and powerful friends. [More…]
That due to an expanding passenger air travel business together with larger and more powerful jet aircraft, aircraft noise has already become a serious problem for people living in the vicinity of airports. [More…]
Then came the era of great and powerful friends when we depended on the British, for example, in Malaysia and on the Americans in Vietnam. [More…]
We were accustomed to hanging on to mother’s apron strings, but as mother was no longer powerful and her apron strings were of no avail to us we -decided to hang on to uncle’s coat tails instead. [More…]
This period of great and powerful friends has been decried, but let us not forget that it was the period during which the advance of communism in Malaya was halted during the emergency. [More…]
So let us not decry the period of great and powerful friends. [More…]
We have to depend upon a great and powerful friend for defence against irresistible forces with which we cannot deal ourselves. [More…]
That due to an expanding passenger air travel business together with larger and more powerful jet aircraft, aircraft noise has already become a serious problem for people living in the vicinity of airports. [More…]
That due to an expanding passenger air travel business together with larger and more powerful jet aircraft, aircraft noise has already become a serious problem for people living in the vicinity of airports. [More…]
One is forced to ask whether it is in fact the intention of the increasingly powerful left wing faction in the ALP to undermine our efforts to maintain stability in this region. [More…]
All that Vietnamisation has done is to pit two huge and powerful armies against each other on the ground. [More…]
I think that there is a very powerful set of reasons for cutting down the speaking time quite drastically. [More…]
That due to an expanding passenger air travel business together with larger and more powerful Jet aircraft, aircraft noise has already become a serious problem for people living in the vicinity of airports. [More…]
The Opposition believes and believes quite firmly that this visual art form, this perhaps most powerful persuasive medium of communication of the twentieth century, can be a powerful and wonderful medium for the development of understanding not only between the people of this nation and the peoples of our area, but with the peoples of the entire world. [More…]
They cannot compete, under existing policies, with the rich and powerful foreign interests now exploring our off-shore resources. [More…]
lt is the largest and most powerful trade union organisation in that country. [More…]
Despie reports that the major part of the North Vietnamese Army is outside North V’etnam, it is obvious that only a fraction of this powerful army is engaged in South Vietnam in these operations. [More…]
Honourable members opposite are governing one of the world’s wealthiest countries, one of the most powerful countries in this region, one that in the past has been able to influence international events and one which 25 years ago when it was much less significant internationally was able to get the independence of Indonesia guaranteed through United Nations action and also was able to launch Israel as an independent nation. [More…]
A united Vietnam would have one of the most powerful armies on earth, certainly the one most hardened in combat. [More…]
When I returned to Australia I found that a powerful section of the Labor Party had voted in support of the Communist forces of North Vietnam. [More…]
What credibility can Lee Kuan Yew of Singapore, or Malaysia, or New Zealand or any of those countries with which we have alliances - the United States of America, if you like - place on Australia’s future defence policy when all the time the alternative government of Australia - perhaps only a powerful section of it, or the whole of it - is prepared to repudiate our alliance with the United States, to attack the United States and to give succour to the Communist forces in Vietnam? [More…]
I am sure that the powerful public service of Australia, the Commonwealth Public Service, which has to do this work, would resent very much a Minister who asked for material to bring into the House half-baked. [More…]
In addressing my question to the Minister for Foreign Affairs I refer to the invasion of South Vietnam by the powerful army of North Vietnam supported by Russia. [More…]
He might care to discuss with the people of Pakistan why he thinks the Treaty is so powerful and he might hear their views on why they think it is worthless. [More…]
The article overlooks the fact that Laos has been invaded by a ruthless and powerful neighbour which, in pursuit of its own ambitions, has disregarded Laotian attempts to live in peace and neutrality. [More…]
Just as a person who is seriously ill does not shop around for the cheapest doctor, trade unionists who want the backing of an efficient and powerful trade union movement cannot afford cheap unionism. [More…]
We are convinced that certain powerful elements in the trade union movement have exercised their strength on too many occasions in a totally irresponsible fashion. [More…]
Bearing in mind what happened in Caucus last time I would not care to take a bet on how long it will last, because clearly a powerful faction within the ALP is bitterly opposed to it. [More…]
The laws of the land are much more easily applied by the State to individuals for the settlement of disputes between them than to exercise compulsion over powerful organisations such as trade unions. [More…]
It is then dealing with a powerful section of the community. [More…]
I am wondering whether the spokesman for the Labor Party - ‘that is big brother, the President of the Australian Council of Trade Unions - does give any real consideration to the problems that he is creating through his powerful position in that organisation. [More…]
One might compare the situation in Vietnam to a thug attacking a victim in the street with some fairly powerful accomplices helping him and the victim attempting to defend himself and one or two friends coming to his assistance. [More…]
Commonwealth employees have been under attack since January 1971 by the Government and the powerful employer lobbyists. [More…]
The laws of the land relating to the settlement of disputes are much more easily applied by the State to individuals than to powerful organisations such as trade unions. [More…]
The State, in attempting to exercise compulsion over trade unions, is dealing with a powerful section of the community. [More…]
They may have powerful views on the issue but the other 5,000 people could not care less. [More…]
It lies there not because he is so powerful but because not one honourable member opposite has one inch of grit, stomach, guts or self reliance. [More…]
I would like an explanation from the Minister for Education and Science (Mr Malcolm Fraser) why such a powerful recommendation, that there should be reports to the Minister on all matters relating to marine science and in particular the establishment of additional institutes, has been ignored. [More…]
Even though the decision in the Keyn case is not binding on Austraiian courts, in my submission it has and would have powerful persuasive influence upon Australian courts. [More…]
Pakistan has a powerful influence in the Jordanian army. [More…]
She has powerful influence in the Saudi Arabian army. [More…]
Has the Minister for Primary Industry seen a transcript of yesterday’s interview on the programme ‘This Day Tonight’ with the honourable member for Moore, in which he stated that the Prime Minister was delaying changes in the methods of selling wool because of pressure from certain powerful unnamed interests. [More…]
It is prepared to sacrifice the economic livelihood of thousands of traditional small wool growers and their families in order to support powerful wool broking interests and an inefficient auction system. [More…]
But still the Government refuses to make a decision, obviously because of its political allegiance to the powerful vested interests who bitterly oppose a governmentbacked marketing organisation. [More…]
Although, like every other industrial State, Western Australia has had its vicissitudes, there has been a powerful, underlying, continuous story of expansion and of absorption of new people into the work force. [More…]
Or does this Government come down on the side of the very wealthy and powerful organisations and leave them to their own devices when it comes to a question of amalgamation? [More…]
Awareness of the health risks involved in snicking was iiic most powerful influence in those children who gave up smoking. [More…]
Nothing short of a powerful massing of world opinion will stop France. [More…]
One very powerful factor in the lack of linguistic ability, as I propose to comment later, is a lack of a preschool education. [More…]
My comment on the field of education which we have just been discussing is that the whole of the scholarship system, which is a powerful determinant of economic assistance - unfortunately to those who need it least - is geared to the intellectual and verbal skills, and a child who does not possess verbal skills will appear to be unintelligent when intrinsically he is not unin telligent. [More…]
Australia was completely expendable, a point always to remember about great and powerful friends when the crunch is really on. [More…]
With our diversified industrial base our powerful and diverse banking and financial systems our significance to the Western and other economies is growing dramatically. [More…]
If a relatively small union could successfully mount such an attack, what could be achieved by the more powerful unions with more resources if they acted in a similar way? [More…]
The honourable gentleman and his colleagues on the other side of this chamber have given a very powerful thrust to the concept of collective bargaining in Australia. [More…]
Part of this picture should be the growth of a powerful and influential money and investment market in close touch with countries of South East Asia and the financial centres of the United States, Japan and Europe. [More…]
Our assets would not be sold out in the vain hope that the great and powerful friends to whom we sell them so cheaply will be here to protect us from the red hordes or the yellow hordes coming down from the north. [More…]
There are better ways to protect Australia’s assets than to sell them cheaply to our great and powerful friends. [More…]
But irrespective of whose figures are correct, the fact remains that the Government apparently believes that $600,000 to provide a powerful station in the areas to which I have referred is apparently unwarranted. [More…]
On the Board of the Reserve Bank is the Secretary of the Treasury, Sir Frederick Wheeler, who is one of Australia’s most powerful financial policymakers and adviser to the Federal Government. [More…]
It has said: ‘We must have a situation where ever more powerful unions use ever greater blackmail to achieve their purposes’. [More…]
There is a very powerful case for having a representative from the medical sciences, particularly someone connected with social and preventive medicine- a subject which is directly related to the needs of people living in the poverty area. [More…]
If we get a Labor government it will be without doubt under the direction of the left wing trade unions, dominated by the most powerful man in Australia, Bob Hawke, and I leave it at that. [More…]
Confidence on the one hand and lack of confidence on the other can each be powerful influences on the national economy. [More…]
And let us not forget that the Government is all powerful in this country. [More…]
It can rescind laws, it can amend laws and it can introduce new Bills; it is almost all powerful. [More…]
The reformers who preached progressive taxation, when the weight of authoritative economic opinion was against them, have exercised a powerful practical influence upon the tax systems of the world and I have no doubt that they won in part because they were right, because their proposals were sound. [More…]
The Government believes that it is not right for a government to stand by and allow the issue to be fought out between powerful unions and the employers. [More…]
The combination of the powerful unions, of course, usually renders them far more powerful than an individual employer. [More…]
Is that the next claim to be made by the Australian Labor Party and by the powerful unions? [More…]
The powerful unions are trying to advantage themselves at the expense of the community. [More…]
Others hold interesting academic arguments that huge and powerful economies such as West Germany and Japan are not moving at this stage and that indeed the United Kingdom will be posed fairly shortly with entry into the European Economic Community. [More…]
These 50 men descended upon them with all the force and vigour of which strong powerful well uniformed men are capable. [More…]
We are still participating in conjunction with our powerful and great friends, particularly the United States in South Vietnam. [More…]
A closer examination of that deficit shows that it relates to the United Kingdom and the United States, our great and powerful friends. [More…]
How much can one do for one’s great and powerful friends? [More…]
I believe that this cosy arrangement between the Government and the oil companies shows very clearly that the Government was in a very powerful position to say to the oil companies: ‘We do not want you to negotiate. [More…]
There is no argument about that, I am sure, I would have thought that we would have been able to expect from our great and powerful ally, as a quid pro quo, a reduction in import duties on Australian wool since, as I understand it, America is the only country in the world that does levy import duties on Australian wool. [More…]
Honourable members will recall the very compelling and powerful speech made by the honourable member for Bennelong (Sir John Cramer) this afternoon - a very substantial contribution it was. [More…]
Whilst some of them may not be physically powerful, the very impression created by a police force which is capable and efficient gives one the feeling that one has security and this is a feeling which permeates the whole community. [More…]
Foreign aid is one of the most powerful instruments we have to reward our friends and punish our enemies. [More…]
Having read the various speeches he has made on the issue, I think the honourable member for Griffith gives powerful enough reasons why we should take some action. [More…]
It has given a very powerful thrust to the whole concept of collective bargaining. [More…]
The legislation is yet another attempt at stalling the introduction of essential reforms in the marketing of wool under the pressure of powerful vested interests that have dominated the Liberal and Country Parkes’ policies for decades. [More…]
I hope that the PostmasterGeneral (Sir Alan Hulme) in one of his last public appearances - and perhaps in one of mine - will look at the situation and ask his very powerful central office to insist that from now on all telephone wires in Australia go underground. [More…]
A couple of years ago a public announcement was made- I do not blame the Postmaster-General (Sir Alan Hulme) for this - that a powerful station would be established in the western part of Eyre Peninsula to service quite a wide area. [More…]
The day may well come - I hope to goodness it never does - when we find ourselves in a situation where the Labor Party has to call on our great and powerful allies. [More…]
Our great and powerful allies, after their treatment by the Labor Party, may well consider whether they should undertake any obligations. [More…]
We would be better employed in making Australia a powerful country in the region in terms of independence in the manufacture of defence equipment and in its defence forces. [More…]
We should not allow ourselves to be put off because Cabinet has been influenced by a powerful, manipulative Public Service which is opposed to the recommendations of the Jess Committee solely, reportedly, because they would provide better retirement benefits for members of the defence Services than are available to public servants. [More…]
As the Opposition has pointed out in its amendment, the Government is seeking to usurp the powers and functions of future parliaments in the interests of its great and powerful friend, Sir Reginald Ansett. [More…]
The modern world has coupled the most powerful science and capital to low wages in developing countries and communist countries. [More…]
This makes a more powerful competitive force than ever before. [More…]
Perhaps one of the worst features of the open door for foreign investment in which the Country Party or some of its spokesmen see such virtue is this: Quite deliberately, under the Menzies administration particularly, it was considered that the more foreign investment there was in Australia the more cheaply it could be defended because our great and powerful friends would have to come in and defend their interests. [More…]
The person summoned could be a little man or a big man, a powerful man or a weak man. [More…]
That is a very powerful action indeed! [More…]
There is a strong suspicion that a powerful section of the Government wants to do a hatchet job on the Jess recommendations and produce a watered-down version which will satisfy no one. [More…]
These were powerful submissions on which we would have liked to be able to make some recommendations. [More…]
It is inevitable that the head of the world’s most powerful nation should have unparalleled opportunities to exert his personality and to leave his mark on history. [More…]
We are both seeking accommodation and new understandings with powerful neighbours. [More…]
When I sat behind the late President during the memorial service I could not help feeling what a powerful but lonely role this man played in carrying the great responsibilities of the Western World and yet how fragile and temporary that power was in the light of death. [More…]
Yet nobody on the Opposition side of the House can tell us for what purpose it was spent The honourable member for Farrer spoke with horror about the people to whom he is apparently ideologically opposed, but he neglected to tell us about ‘our great and powerful ally* and about the obscenities of the Vietnam war caused by the United States of America. [More…]
Australian nation must tag along at the coat tails of what he and his colleagues constantly refer to as ‘our great and powerful ally’. [More…]
It is interesting to read the history of ‘our great and powerful ally’, as he describes the United States of America, and its entry into the war in 1941. [More…]
We have, under the umbrella of our powerful friends, been able to create a society which has developed at an enormous rate - a society which has been prosperous and within which the welfare of the average family is as well developed as can be found in any country on this earth. [More…]
Australia now pursues its own foreign policies rather than following slavishly and uncritically the rigidity of powerful, if friendly, nations. [More…]
But at this point, so far as I can judge, I would say that he sees the United States as immensely powerful and well-meaning but rather myopic and blundering in its conduct of international affairs and in need of some guidance in its actions from smaller and more sophisticated friends - like Labor-governed Australia. [More…]
Be that as it may, one can certainly go along with the Prime Minister to the extent of agreeing that the United States is immensely powerful. [More…]
I will focus on the approximate figure of $US1,100 billion and compare it with the second most economically powerful country in the nonCommunist world, Japan, with a gross national product of upwards of $US200 billion. [More…]
It does this in its eagerness to pamper its power base - the trade unions and their powerful leaders. [More…]
We will support the Government if it governs as elected representatives of the people and rejects the influence of its all-powerful machine. [More…]
They think that it will be roses, roses all the way, that somehow the path will be shortened, that all the difficult bends and corners will be straightened out, and that all that is needed to achieve this is an all knowing, ail powerful Federal government taking over the responsibilities for spending what is, as the honourable member for Perth (Mr Berinson) acknowledged, our money. [More…]
We believe the Government will be forced by powerful unions to award contracts to those firms which for various reasons, are approved by particular unions. [More…]
The unions consequently grow more powerful and more wealthy and at election time they have more money to donate to the ALP to keep a Labor Government in power. [More…]
And it’s goodbye to those powerful nudges from the White House that helped Australia in trade matters in recent years. [More…]
Our valuable share of the American sugar quota is in jeopardy, because the White House is not likely to argue on our behalf with the powerful men in the Congress who decide these things. [More…]
thanks to the comments - widely published here and read in the White House - of Ministers Cairns, Cameron and Uren, we have angered the most powerful man in the world. [More…]
One of the major facts which has emerged from recent considerations and could have been anticipated from at least 1971 when the Americans devalued their dollar for the first time is that the American dollar is now not the powerful influence in world business that it has been in the past. [More…]
In fact the United States Government has conducted a very powerful campaign called Operation Breakthrough. [More…]
We watched the previous Government caring little about those who were exploiting Australia so long as its powerful friends were protected. [More…]
He has made many powerful speeches about the shipbuilding industry. [More…]
Galbraith said that there is, furthermore, a powerful incentive to exploit this price discretion when wages are raised, particularly when we have a monopoly situation. [More…]
Is he able to advise the House whether he has the distinction of being the only Australian Prime Minister to be declared, temporarily at least, almost non persona grata by the world’s most powerful leader? [More…]
I say that Parliament should not be cut off from the most used and powerful medium of mass communication today. [More…]
As the honourable member for Bradfield, and I think other honourable members, pointed out, television without doubt is the most powerful modern medium of communication. [More…]
Obviously it is powerful and has been used to the disadvantage of the nation. [More…]
They were told that they allowed themselves to be picked off one by one by a powerful buying cartel. [More…]
But it would be a powerful step towards such a position if this Bill were to become law. [More…]
Whatever tol erance is measured in the terms of this Bill, there are powerful constitutional reasons why the one vote one value concept just does not apply. [More…]
I could not help but reach the conclusion that in many ways, instead of being what might be called a powerful relation of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association, Australia was placed in the category of being a somewhat poor relation despite our influence in this part of the world and particularly the contribution we have made as an original member of the Association. [More…]
Let us look at one of the most powerful States and ask ourselves: Do we want the Northern Territory to move in that direction? [More…]
He dined at the Lodge with a powerful oratorical accompaniment from the Australian Prime Minister to the interpreters and a handful of witnesses there assembled concerning the likely deportation of certain individuals. [More…]
The usefulness of the present provisions will be tested by the simple question - do they help or do they hinder the unification of the trade unions into more powerful institutions to represent and uphold the interests of the employees? [More…]
I was stressing the enormous potential of Australia to become a powerful partner. [More…]
I think the Treasurer will recognise that I stand very strongly for Australia expressing its independent view, and it will not weaken the independent view which we express simply because there will be times when the view we are expressing is precisely that of a powerful ally. [More…]
We are not to be thought in any way subservient to that powerful ally because we are saying the same thing, because there will be other occasions on which we will be saying the very opposite. [More…]
So we ought not to be reluctant to side with countries on the basis that we may be thought to be subservient to them, and we must not be reluctant to be in total opposition to the view of a powerful country when our national interest is not the same as theirs. [More…]
It has infiltrated itself into the Labor movement because the Labor movement admits itself to be under the control of bodies outside this House, and in those outside bodies the communists are very powerful. [More…]
When that action is taken to protect the economy the Government will enter into a deflationary period in which people will be thrown out of work and there emphasise that I am talking about powerful groups like the Amalgamated Metalworkers Union which is a combination of what were formerly the Boilermakers and Blacksmiths Society, the Sheetmetal Workers Union, and the. [More…]
This Bill is a way of giving to the trade union movement - the powerful sections of the trade union movement - tangible thanks for the support that was given to the Labor Party to get it into office. [More…]
The Government talks about socialist philosophy, about a classless society, but by this legislation they are creating a class society in which the dominant class comprises the officials of powerful trade unions. [More…]
I am not talking about small unions but about the powerful agglomerations of unions that the Government wants to see become even more powerful in amalgamation. [More…]
This is not really a fair go for the Australian people, who are very greatly affected by what happens in amalgamations of unions, the putting together of very powerful groups in the community. [More…]
The major force for amalgamation is in the big and powerful unions. [More…]
I believe that to take away any statutory provision relating to amalgamation is simply to turn over to the powerful officials at the top of the trade unions a tremendous accretion to their power. [More…]
They are already powerful men. [More…]
After this Bill becomes law they will be excessively powerful men. [More…]
Combination on one side is patent and powerful. [More…]
I know that the honourable member for Parramatta (Mr N. H. Bowen) being a legal man, and believing as I do in the liberty of the subject, would be able to use a powerful argument against such a concept. [More…]
This leaves us then with seemingly the most powerful of the moral arguments against abortion, namely, that abortion is murder. [More…]
It may be in the interests of Australia’s survival not to forgo our own concept of nationality but to maintain the links which will give us defence protection, evidence of which in the eyes of the world may protect us from attack, because these outward signs may give to countries which might have aggressive intentions against us the lively apprehension that we would have powerful friends, powerful kinsmen, to come to our aid. [More…]
If one has defences one can do without powerful friends; if one has powerful friends one may well be able to do without defences. [More…]
It signifies our realisation as a nation that, no matter how opulent our houses, no matter how powerful our cars and no matter how numerous our television sets, stereograms, trail bikes and motor boats, life will remain impoverished for us so long as the shape of our cities is determined more by developers than by town planners and so long as in those cities the quality of air and water supply continues to deteriorate, the roads become more dangerous and congested, public transport becomes more decrepit and the areas of open space become fewer and further apart. [More…]
If it should be held that sovereignty with respect to the continental shelf does not reside with the Commonwealth, there would be a powerful case to be put before the Australian people. [More…]
The Australian Wool Corporation is the most powerful organisation the industry has ever had by way of a marketing authority. [More…]
However, the Commission cannot be expected to handle the 900 or so local government bodies and thus the powerful idea of requiring regional groupings or a regional context within individual local government areas is put forward. [More…]
I have always been critical of the expectation that big powerful rich companies such as CSR should get such generous tariff protection as they have been getting. [More…]
I cannot quite understand why an industry which is as important to other industries as this one is and which is in the hands of a firm that is as powerful and competent as CSR should need to have this kind of lavish protection handed out to it whenever it asks for it. [More…]
I do not think there is a member sitting in the House, excluding the new members, who will not recall attempts made to turn such phrases as ‘our great and powerful friend* into terms of ridicule and contempt. [More…]
We are no longer simply a junior partner whose activities are largely shaped by the strategic and military policies of more powerful friends. [More…]
The role of committees is still not clear - whether they are to be miniature chambers like the British standing committees, impartial critics like the British select committees or powerful influences on the legislative process like American congressional committees. [More…]
As one Government member, Marcel Lambert, Vice President of the powerful Procedures Committee, and former Speaker of the House said: ‘The system is overworked and we are overworked. [More…]
The economic power of sectional interests can be a significant inflationary cause and here the changing relationships of the great and powerful amalgamating unions and employers can be a significant factor in causing inflation. [More…]
Most powerfully of all, the increase in Government spending in todays circumstance is the greatest inflationary factor of all. [More…]
These measures should provide a powerful incentive to the small investor to put his money into investment bonds, and thereby to seek to achieve the objectives of the AIDC. [More…]
This single powerful voice will help to counteract domination by companies, particularly international companies, with large blocks of shares. [More…]
It is based on the basic assumption that individual action is good but it recognises that the individual today is vulnerable to powerful groups, many of them international, and that if he is to hold his own he needs more strength. [More…]
Yet the Government has the cheek to go around and say: ‘We are going to defend Australia; we are going to play our part in regional defence arrangements; and furthermore we are going to walk the stage of the world and be a powerful middle power.’ [More…]
A very famous German philospher - not one whom I usually quote - Nietzsche, once said: ‘Distrust everyone in which an impulse to punish is powerful.’ [More…]
I hope that the Government will take notice of this powerful union and the last sentence in that article: [More…]
Is this race to go to the more powerful, to the strongest? [More…]
Firstly, it gives unions a monopoly of representation, a powerful weapon indeed. [More…]
These are powerful arguments and are clearly the key to the overwhelming support given to the system by the union movement. [More…]
Furthermore, some of the provisions of clause 6 would have a powerful and harmful effect if the Government were later able to muster a majority for its proposals concerning tort, to give union officials immunity from certain aspects of the civil law. [More…]
The honourable member for Wilmot is such a powerful man in this Parliament that I could not even remember what seat he represents. [More…]
We have huge and powerful corporations, which can for all practical purposes set their own prices, and by a process of hectoring of the Government and deception of the consumers, adapt economic conditions to suit themselves. [More…]
Whatever the result, the situation of having the 2 most powerful men in the union movement and the Labor movement pulling him in 2 different directions is not an entirely happy one for the Prime Minister. [More…]
As a result of the separation of functions in the United States there is a system in which powerful congressional committees have been established with the right to summon and question the presidential appointees to particular positions, whether they be the Secretary of State, foreign affairs, defence or whatever the home affairs in that country are called, and the multifarious Cabinet positions in the United States. [More…]
I assure him and other honourable members that insofar as I have influence on these matters, voluntary agencies will be playing a powerful role under the program we are putting forward. [More…]
I know that this is a transitory thing, but when we have a government in Canberra of the type of this Government, strikes occur because the strikers know that they have a great and powerful friend in Canberra. [More…]
It is perfectly true that it is, but when there was a Liberal Government in Canberra also there were fewer strikes in New South Wales because the strikers did not know, as they know now, that in Canberra they have a great and powerful friend who is on the side of industrial disruption. [More…]
These are powerful forces for this region. [More…]
We are no longer simply a junior partner who-e activities are largely shaped by the strategic and military policies of more powerful friends. [More…]
They started off with the same clarion call - the same strong, powerful, overwhelming, persuasive arguments about nationalism and assisting people - the hands of compassion stretching out to the hungry throughout the world. [More…]
It is only one reason but it is a very powerful reason. [More…]
And the serious implications of this are that we are being asked to create a powerful central planning authority with extremely wide terms of reference - far wider than those of the Tariff Board - and a body which will, by the nature of its genesis in the national Parliament and the deference with which it will inevitably be treated by the Government, exercise an influence of such power as should not be vested in any organisation outside the Government itself. [More…]
It will be a vastly more powerful body with vastly wider authority and influence than the Tariff Board. [More…]
These judgments will be presented to the Government in such a way and with such powerful authority that the Government will be unable to resist them. [More…]
Nevertheless I say that this House should reject this Bill because the proposal it embodies will reduce the standing and authority of the Parliament; it will remove from the Government and the Parliament responsibilities which should be theirs, and it will place those responsibilities in the hands of an extremely powerful central planning authority which I believe will not have the capacity to make the kinds of decisions which will be in the interests of the majority of the Australian people - the kinds of decisions which only elected governments can and should make. [More…]
We are denying the rest of the public, and for too long this denial has occurred as a payoff to the various powerful, albeit minority interests, in the community who have been able to prop up a tired lethargic government that had run out of inspiration at least a decade ago. [More…]
No assessment had ever been made to establish whether these payments should be provided, whether they should be continued or whether the taxpayer should be required to continue paying to surrender some of his living standards so that in some cases a particular powerful supporter could continue to get what can be fairly termed as a welfare payment at the expense of the rest of the community. [More…]
That was a much more powerful decision. [More…]
That involved not only the Prime Minister and the Treasurer but it has the powerful economic influence of the Deputy Prime Minister (Mr Barnard) in consultation. [More…]
I am going there leading the most prestigious and powerful team of Ministers ever to have left this country. [More…]
It wants to keep it for its rich and powerful friends - the overseas monopolies, the international cartels and the multi-national corporations. [More…]
Hitherto she had merely yapped like a well-trained poodle behind the powerful flanks of the great Dane, the American power bloc. [More…]
The sphere of our influence during the last quarter of a century has been so subservient to powerful friends and allies and therefore so predictable that the emergence of an Australian upon the international stage courageous enough and confident enough to represent a young nation rich in natural resources and equally rich in the talents, energies and abilities of its people has, not unexpectedly, taken them by surprise. [More…]
Although America and Russia still will be best placed to be the most powerful, due to their control of resources, it will be constructive co-operation with smaller countries that will win them more votes in global and regional forums. [More…]
The European Economic Community could well emerge as an equally powerful unit due to its techno-economic capability, cultural ties, geography and diplomatic skills. [More…]
That is one very powerful argument in favour of the Capital Hill site. [More…]
It is a place where blocs collect - usually communist or Afro-Asian blocs - to gang up and pass powerful resolutions against individual nations. [More…]
I challenge him to deny this: He advocated that the time was ripe to drop the hydrogen bomb on the People’s Republic of China not so many years ago, but he never repeated it because powerful influences went to work - I think it was in the days when Sir Robert Menzies was Prime Minister - and warned him never to say it again. [More…]
No matter how justified some of the Government’s measures have been, we have seen massive campaigns by the articulate and powerful in our community being orchestrated by the Opposition. [More…]
Barton was soon boasting that he had powerful friends in political circles. [More…]
It is vitally important that we develop the area generally called micro-economics so far as agricultural economics is concerned, because it is in this area that we can develop the sensitive marketing mechanisms which give the grower, and therefore the seller, a much more powerful and much stronger bargaining position in the market, not because the Government imposes on the market some artificial restrain or some Draconian pressure but because we can impose on the market a better understanding of market requirements and use the market mechanisms to further the interests of the grower or the seller. [More…]
The rural industry has been left at the mercy of the Government, trading combines and multi-national corporations which have become bigger and more powerful than ever. [More…]
They are more effective now because they have great and powerful friends here in Canberra. [More…]
Our Liberal-Country Party governments have been very loath indeed to interfere with the power of their rich and powerful benefactors. [More…]
It can affect the smallest and the largest, the most prosperous and powerful or the weaker and less financially powerful sections of industry. [More…]
In fact, there have been powerful pressures from people such as the members of the AMA - there are some very powerful people in that organisation - to prevent any such choice from developing. [More…]
If you ask them to honour an agreement that was made by somebody without their knowledge, that is a different thing;but if you ask them merely to honour their own agreement, you go in with a very powerful weapon. [More…]
The Government started this movement by increasing the bond rate, thereby forcing powerful financial institutions to raise their interest rates on debentures. [More…]
The strikers know that they have a great and powerful friend here in Canberra, and that is why there can never be industrial peace in Australia while this Government remains in office, and this Government is run by the left wing on these industrial matters. [More…]
Its plans for rationalisation and reform of health insurance in Australia were swept under the carpet by the LiberalCountry Party coalition for fear of opposition from the powerful private insurance funds. [More…]
As if it does not already have enough great and powerful financial friends to help it in its fight. [More…]
Of course, the honourable gentleman politely ignores that because his instructions from his rich and powerful friends are to leave it out. [More…]
It makes the Senate a powerful House. [More…]
I might mention that what was done in Caucus, no matter how powerful that body is, has nothing to do with the fall in the price of gold this morning. [More…]
From 6 State parliaments, governments and bureaucracies spread throughout the length and breadth of the Commonwealth to one all-powerful parliament, one government and one bureaucracy, centralised in Canberra, isolated from the people and remote from their needs. [More…]
I also believe - and history confirms - that too great a concentration of power is apt to corrupt, and that corruption feeds on the inevitable failure of secular gospels based on the conviction that some in high office are all powerful and have a monopoly of wisdom. [More…]
The Commonwealth would, by financial inducement, take over responsibility for loan raising and be a consequentially more powerful force in the loan market. [More…]
In the case of the Redcliffs project we can obtain it and at the same time leave quite a reasonable profit for the good and powerful consortium which has been formed. [More…]
I would suggest that in terms of sheer logic one could build a powerful and quite respectable case for carrying a proposition on a majority of electors alone. [More…]
The Prime Minister unwittingly - intelligent though he is - was making a much more powerful point for price control than even he realised, in drawing attention to the fact - again by accident - that the result obtained for a 20-year comparison starting at 1948-49 when price control effects were still manifest is different from that obtained by drawing a comparison with later years when the benefits of price control had passed away. [More…]
The Deputy Leader of the Opposition (Mr Lynch) has covered the general field very adequately, and I find myself in powerful agreement with him. [More…]
We believe that there are powerful arguments for establishing procedures to facilitate the co-ordination of the plans of the various tertiary institutions. [More…]
Yes, powerful in the sense of fear. [More…]
This very powerful committee is given discretion to allocate money to a wide spectrum of projects involving at present 13 projects, of which six are concerned with astronomy and space. [More…]
Every great social reform will by definition have a powerful campaign organised against it by vested interests. [More…]
There was a powerful investigation of the sorry plight of our hospitals, outlined in a hard hitting series in the local edition of the ‘Australian’ newspaper by Jim Briggushaw. [More…]
If a person is a member of a powerful union which by its actions can pull out trains, pull out trams, pull out a means of supplying power, pull out bread baking or, specifically, the Transport Workers’ Union pulling out those who supply fuel, or if one is a member of any of the other powerful trade union organisations in our community, that person can protect himself against inflation. [More…]
But if one is an ordinary person - say, a clerk, a member of the Public Service, a carpet layer or a curtain hanger; just one of the ordinary people engaged in tertiary industry in Australia - one does not have that power because one is not in the special privileged class of belonging to a powerful trade union. [More…]
There are powerful incentives in the present scheme for the proliferation of proprietary hospitals, whose standards are unknown and in which doctors of unknown competence practise medicine at standards which are unknown to their professional colleagues, with results which are often known only in the public hospitals to which the consequent mistakes and accidents are admitted. [More…]
The temporary advantage to powerful unions’- [More…]
It was warranted because ready access to minerals and energy at reasonable prices will become an increasingly powerful determinant of economic activity. [More…]
Powerful and semiindependent, they operate under, the loose supervision of the appropriate Minister. [More…]
Our connivance in that bloodshed and barbarism there has helped reduce the status in the world of our great and powerful friend, the United States. [More…]
Yes, it is a powerful union but if I do not resign it might be because I have a case. [More…]
If ever the Liberal and Country Parties should again become the Government of this country the Prime Minister of that government will be open to all the pressure groups and the powerful forces that stand behind the Liberal Party. [More…]
We dissent from your ruling, Sir, because we believe that in this case you employed a double standard - one standard for the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) by means of his office the powerful member of this House, and another standard for those of us on this side of the House. [More…]
It is not the intention of the Australian people or Government to sit back and rely on a powerful friend to safeguard and protect us. [More…]
There is no secret about the socialist ideology to concentrate all power in Canberra, to get rid of the second House - the Senate - and to make one man all powerful. [More…]
If they wish to take the credit for it, this situation has been brought about by those powerful pressure groups which wanted to maintain the status quo. [More…]
The disruptionists know that they have a great and powerful friend here in Canberra when it comes to a showdown and that the Minister for Labour (Mr Clyde Cameron), the Minister for Housing and Construction (Mr Les Johnston) or the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) will get up and say: ‘You know, the strikers are really right and it is the people who are exploiting the workers who are wrong.’ [More…]
We proceed openly in these matters because we want to serve the best interests of the Australian public and not the vested interests of a powerful few. [More…]
If such a powerful section of the community is insulated against the immediate effects of inflation, the prospects of a united attack on the problem are seriously reduced. [More…]
Any person who works in a job which has not a powerful trade union will find the level of his income going down compared with the amount received by persons working in jobs where they are represented by a powerful union. [More…]
The powerful and the wealthy can handle inflation and out of inflation they can become more powerful and more wealthy. [More…]
Inflation, therefore, benefits the rich and the powerful at the expense of the poor and the weak. [More…]
Inflation redistributes assets and incomes to the strong and the powerful against the weak and those on fixed incomes. [More…]
If the Senate rejects them, not only is there a powerful argument of those matters which the Senate has already twice rejected and been twice passed by the House of Representatives but also there will be the additional powerful argument for the Prime Minister to give to the Governor-General that the Senate is deliberately withholding Supply - an unprecedented action. [More…]
Nowhere is this more evident than in the Government’s capitulation to the powerful vested interests of the trade union movement and its attempts to weaken the statutory processes of industrial settlement. [More…]
There are some on the other side who could well make a powerful contribution as scullery maids when the staff does go back to work. [More…]
There are many other important proposals which attracted public support for this Government at the last election and which still hold powerful appeal to the community. [More…]
The only member of the former Government who was ever prepared to confront the powerful interest groups in the health insurance funds and the medical profession, who had cosy arrangements and in many ways abused the system, was the right honourable member for Higgins (Mr Gorton). [More…]
I am well aware, from private discussions I have had in various quarters, how determined he was and how much better the scheme of health insurance that we have today - the private enterprise scheme of health insurance that is so defective - would have been if he had been able to win out in his battle with the powerful vested interests in the community. [More…]
But the Minister is beset by expenditure policies which are inviolate, and by a Minister for Labour who is a good deal more powerful and persistent than the Treasurer is. [More…]
It all amounts to an extraordinarily powerful case for a double dissolution. [More…]
Another powerful reason for an early start upon the new terminal is that the present building is a structural hazard in high wind conditions. [More…]
The reactionary notion that it is only boys and men who need career and vocational education and training is too powerful and is rejected as totally invalid. [More…]
The report suggests the ending of a powerful and probably unconscious discrimination against the handicapped in technical and further education. [More…]
An article relating to the Kaiser scheme shows that in view of the facts that the group practice surgeons - that is, the non feeforservice surgeons - are fully trained and, like all surgeons, interested in the surgical treatment of organic disease, but are not paid by the operation, a knowledgeable observer has difficulty avoiding the interpretation that a fee-for-service is a powerful, if subliminal, influence in the decision to operate and therefore is unnecessary hospital utilisation. [More…]
Of course the previous Government was serving the interests of its rich and powerful friends. [More…]
They put their heads in the sand because it did not affect their rich and powerful friends and therefore it was of no concern to them. [More…]
The Prime Minister’s great and powerful friends in Communist China let off a rather big bang only recently, but we have not been given the contamination figures from that big bang. [More…]
Just prior lo this vital election, which saw the annihilation of the Liberal-Country Party Government, this Minister appointed the members of the Wool Corporation, which is the most powerful industry executive in Australia, be it primary or secondary industry. [More…]
The board of the Corporation was sufficiently powerful to resist any Labor pressure. [More…]
It will provide powerful reinforcement for, and give great impetus to, efforts already made to protect consumers and to develop consciousness of consumers’ rights. [More…]
It is an instrument which can be good, which is very powerful and which can be abused, but there are so many other instruments in the economy which could be abused that it is really not relevant to say this can be made an instrument of socialisation. [More…]
It is a very powerful instrument. [More…]
Again, these are areas of the consumer price index which have a very powerful effect on the cost of living. [More…]
It is significant that the Minister has said that the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union, which has demonstrated itself to be probably the most powerful union in Australia - certainly one of the most militant; certainly one of those that has visited more harm on its own members because of the money lost through strikes - has gained no more and much less than the waterfront unions have for their members but has used much more militant tactics and done more harm to its own members and enormous harm to the Australian community. [More…]
This would be a powerful thing to say, but I do not think it would bear much weight, I have represented Australia at the United Nations on 2 occasions. [More…]
speeches that are written for them by their rich and powerful friends, but they do not convince anybody who thinks for more than 30 seconds about what they say. [More…]
The obvious inflationary effects of these proposals and the costly construction of a new and all powerful central bureaucracy remote from and inexperienced in the realities of road needs. [More…]
Let us unite Australia as one powerful productive force, as one great and undivided people, as a country ready and able to assume its responsibilities in a difficult world. [More…]
Why is the Minister so anxious to have this new powerful authority? [More…]
He said that so powerful was the Hamersley Iron Pty Ltd- he spent a lot of time analysing its financial transactions- that the Hamersley iron ore province in Western Australia was named after the company. [More…]
Australia at the time of the change of government was a most powerful country- strong in reserves, strong in resources, strong in its export position and great in its balance of payments situation. [More…]
Two of those reasons have been legal challenges in the courts and pressure on governments- previous governments and this Government- by strong, powerful, vested interests. [More…]
and the State Ministers are powerful enough in their own right to resist the all-power dominance of the Australian Government. [More…]
Although demand pressures are being contained, powerful cost pressures have been unleashed which threaten further unsettling price increases. [More…]
No longer do the rich and powerful friends of those in Opposition call the tune. [More…]
It is the story of him walking down the front steps of Parliament House after an all night sitting, and as the sun was rising over Canberra, singing in bis powerful voice: ‘Oh What a Beautiful Morning’. [More…]
The association of powerful emotional buying motives. [More…]
It is a tribute to Mr Hawke’s charisma that people think he is powerful. [More…]
Are they to continue with their advocacy of fighting inflation by hitting only the little people- the wage and salary earners who earn income out of personal exertionand leaving it to the big and powerful alone to exploit the weak? [More…]
It is obvious that the present Labor Administration is hog-tied to the powerful trade unions which exist on the mainland. [More…]
I believe that if this power were centralised in Canberra to a greater degree- and there is this tendency at the moment- then the bureaucracy would become so powerful that it would be dangerous to the future progress and development of Australia. [More…]
I subscribe to the view that in the main the larger and more powerful industrial organisations have acted in a more efficient and responsible way than most of the smaller, fragmented organisations. [More…]
Because of the physical problems of heat from necessarily powerful lighting and because of the artificiality or stage-managed nature of televised proceedings in the past, he felt we should not take the step of televising proceedings on a regular basis. [More…]
We have come a long way since the days when Prime Ministers of Australia made annual pilgrimages to London and Washington to receive the blessing from the heads of ‘great and powerful friends’. [More…]
The last thing that members of the Opposition will accept is that a substantial and significant part of the inflation in Australia is caused by the greed of their rich and powerful friends in Australia who are the price makers- those who establish the prices of goods and services in the community. [More…]
For how many years were honourable members opposite put off by the pressure- and being a person subjected to it myself I know how strong it can be- of vested, powerful groups from giving this country a proper set of anti-restrictive trade practice laws? [More…]
Naturally a story about, for example, General Sumitro, who was recently very powerful in Indonesia but now appears to have been deposed, is not of interest to Australians because they know nothing about the subject. [More…]
It is likely that there will be significant developments in the area of insurance legislation directed at, amongst other things, such matters as protection of policy holders and safeguarding the community interest in insurance matters, and such committees could prove to have a powerful use in consultation for such developments. [More…]
In the context of Government policy it is in Australia’s interests to build up a very powerful and efficient wool industry. [More…]
These are unfortunate developments which, it would seem, could be avoided if Portuguese Timor’s 2 powerful neighbours, Australia and Indonesia, could join together in helping the people find a just and free solution to their future status, the outcome of which would surely carry obvious advantages in terms of both security and goodwill in Indonesia. [More…]
At one stage, Minister after Minister was making most derogatory statements about our most powerful ally, the United States of America. [More…]
Japan is clearly much more powerful in a military sense if she wanted to mobilise, and so is China. [More…]
The basic difference between them and a Labor government is that whereas the Government initiates economic activity, they react to whatever happens to occur and whatever may be the wishes of their rich and powerful friends. [More…]
Many trades employees fall into this category, employees who are represented by powerful trade unions. [More…]
This city has welcomed many distinguished and powerful men, but there is within its boundary tonight a man who is not only distinguished but who is also a spiritually powerful man and a man whose presence I think we should note. [More…]
The very serious situation that applies in regard to the supply of sugar is illustrated by the fact that the President of the world’s most powerful nation is urging Americans to eat less sugar, not because of its qualities but because of the shortage. [More…]
So the immediate impression is that what is happening in overseas countries will have a fairly powerful influence on how the economy of this country performs. [More…]
Of course, that is understandable as the previous Liberal-Country Party government had no intention of hurting its powerful and wealthy friends. [More…]
I want to detail some of the specific actions to give rebuttal of the Prime Minister’s waffling and his distortions in what were meant to be powerful insults but in effect have caused mere ripples of effect. [More…]
The Prices Justification Tribunal is a powerful body but I think it is also remote and bureaucratic. [More…]
Into this situation has sprung a new and powerful factor. [More…]
But I think he would feel more flattered and more satisfied and more achieving if he knew the contributors were getting a better deal, that their interests had been looked after and that they, instead of minority powerful groups controlling private health insurance funds, were saying those things about him. [More…]
I can understand the frustrations of the honourable gentleman opposite when the Australian Prime Minister goes overseas and is received by heads of government and by organisations which have a direct and powerful influence in world relations. [More…]
Reports that multinational corporations and other powerful organisations have been making substantial contributions to political party campaign funds in Australia highlight the need for urgent remedial legislation in this area. [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…]
The multi-national corporations, his rich and powerful friends? [More…]
The rich and powerful corporations will have only the same power as the less affluent groups in the community to influence events. [More…]
His blood pressure rises at the thought of the secret, furtive meetings in the night- the knock at the door at 2 a.m., not by the Minister for Services and Property but by some rich and powerful friend of his from outside this Parliament; some representative perhaps of the International Telephone and Telegraph Corporation or United Fruit or one of the other international conspirators who will knock on his door, not to take something out of the fridge but perhaps to leave something under the bed or some other appropriate place. [More…]
Similarly, the absence of evidence of corruption does not guarantee that rich and powerful corporations and even foreign governments cannot influence, or attempt to influence, events by donations to political parties or persons holding influence in them. [More…]
Perhaps it is that the guilty men want to protect their rich and powerful friends. [More…]
The honourable member for Moreton (Mr Killen) presented a number of very powerful and persuasive arguments against this Bill and he has left no doubt in our minds about just how far this Government is prepared to go in intruding into the freedom of people in this country. [More…]
-The purpose of this BUI is to provide for the disclosure of financial support received by Australian political parties, not from their own members, not from the little people in our society, to use a term that the late Mr Chifley used to use, but from powerful business interests or others in this community who might from time to time, given one election or another or given the issues that come before the people at those elections, place substantial amounts of money behind a political party in order to give it an unfair advantage, in order to wield real economic power. [More…]
How does the accident victim feel about the time involved in an appeal to London while waiting for his damages even though powerful insurance companies are paying the costs? [More…]
But in the legislation concerning amalgamations are provisions which reduce rank and file influence almost to nil and gives major control in the hands of large and powerful unions and significant control in the committees of management of the trade unions themselves. [More…]
That does open up opportunities for the larger and more powerful unions to subject the smaller organisations, the smaller trade unions, to takeover tactics which would be just as vigorous and just as ruthless as any takeover tactics that might have occurred in the commercial field between a large company against a smaller company. [More…]
It also ought to be noted that in many areas the trade union movement is now more powerful than even the most powerful companies in Australia. [More…]
In one Bill he is all for the rank and file, and in the next BDI- this Bill- he is for the large and the powerful. [More…]
He is not one who, as the honourable member for Wannon would seem to indicate, speaks only with those who are strong and powerful. [More…]
2], was passed by this House by the tactics of the Government- it supported the large and the powerful against the rank and file membership of the unions- so too in this Bill we find another contradiction but of a different character. [More…]
If the bigger organisations are to hold their own against the multinational corporations which are so powerful and so extensive they will need the support of the Government. [More…]
The possibility is therefore decreased that any established organisation or powerful elitist group can maintain too solid a grip on the Council ‘s affairs, as this legislation insists on strict limitations of a member’s tenure of office not normally required, I might say, in other Australian statutory authorities. [More…]
I hope that the head’ never gets too powerful and that the tentacles spread and develop further and further with greater help to the various artistic sections which those tentacles touch. [More…]
An attempt by any state to bring about political or economic change in another through unconstitutional, clandestine, corrupt methods, by assassination or terrorism, undermines the rule of international law, encourages adverturism and anarchy, endangers world peace and turns quite quickly against even the most powerful nations who would seek to advance their cause by such methods. [More…]
I am happy to see that two of the parties- the two which support independencehave come together to make a more powerful political force. [More…]
There are powerful economic arguments which sustain the need for an efficient and competitive market for investment funds. [More…]
It will give the Australian Government a powerful weapon in improving the housing standards of our population. [More…]
a powerful new vehicle - [More…]
That is exactly what it is, a powerful new vehicle- capable if properly directed - [More…]
I would submit that these comments certainly indicate what is intended by this Bill and that is the creation of a powerful new vehicle. [More…]
My concern about this particular provision is that by the very matter of the Commonwealth’s taking unto itself the greatest possible power it can assume under the Constitution- and that is what the Minister is seeking by this powerful new vehicle- it is assuming responsibility for only some people within the Commonwealth of Australia. [More…]
It is proposed to set up a powerful new housing vehicle. [More…]
Funds being made available at the appropriate rate of interest by the Opposition’s rich and powerful friends outside this Parliament mean nothing if the skilled labour is not available to construct the houses and dwellings which are required. [More…]
In a democracy it is vital that the media should not be in the hands of a small number of rich and powerful men. [More…]
Unlike mass associations, its ties are informal, but it inspires powerful loyalties all the same; its authority is effective although it is exercised within a very indefinite rule structure. [More…]
Also right throughout the 1960s, at the same time as the Japanese increased their share of the market with small light efficient cars, the Australian producers have made their basic 6 cylinder cars longer, heavier, and more powerful, and consequently more out of time with the market. [More…]
Even President Nixon - I am not accustomed to quoting President Nixon - said that the solidarity of a once unified bloc had been broken by the powerful forces of nationalism. [More…]
1 should have thought that the remarkable, dove-like Minister who is the Deputy Prime Minister (Dr J. F. Cairns), with his powerful friends in Hanoi, which is the description he gave- ‘I am proud to call these people my friends’- and who takes the view that all virtue, compassion, understanding and love for peace is bound up in his one body and that other people have no understanding of those things, would have reached out and said to his friends in Hanoi: ‘In the name of humanity, stop this’. [More…]
Most of his time was devoted to trying to denigrate the honourable member for Moreton (Mr Killen), who of course gave a very powerful speech in this House a month or so ago in opposition to the Bill. [More…]
May I also put this reason to honourable members: It seems to the Government unjust, it seems wrong, it seems oppressive to expect a person in the community who is probably a very inarticulate person, often a very vulnerable person, to pick up the cudgels against a more articulate and more powerful person even though the more powerful person may have broken some rule of law and even though the weaker person is assisted with legal aid. [More…]
Completely objective foreign observers have been enormously impressed by the incredible effort of the RAAF in moving essential basic supplies with such powerful efficiency. [More…]
Mr Fraser is circulating a 14page document among influential industrialists and employers throughout the country advocating an effective return to penal provisions, a powerful industrial ‘police force ‘-type operation and an elaborate framework for settling disputes that would make direct action virtually impossible within envisaged new industrial legislation. [More…]
The honourable member for Braddon, whose electorate takes in King Island, has worked tirelessly over many years and has led powerful deputations to Canberra to try to help the soldier settlers. [More…]
The corporation also needs to be powerful enough to coordinate all levels of government as well as private and public investment. [More…]
Surely they understand that what is required in any advanced society not in the grips of the rich and powerful few is to ensure that all the resources, both human and technical, are utilised for the production of goods and services for the benefit of the community. [More…]
Of course, on many occasions particularly in recent years those State governments have been led by Premiers more powerful than the former government’s Prime Ministers. [More…]
It is the structuring of an all powerful body which can override decisions of other statutory bodies without reference to the Minister or to the Parliament itself. [More…]
This is the point of the debate- the overriding of the seat of responsibility by an all powerful commission whose area of responsibility is uncharted, uncontrolled and unchallengeable. [More…]
It looks as though the Government will be very brave and strong, and a great defender of the public interest, when it is dealing with flight crew officers, but will it demonstrate equal concern and determination to protect the public interest when it is confronted by financially and numerically powerful unions? [More…]
By its actions in the wider cases before the Commission we will be able to judge whether this legislation really marks a new acceptance by the Government of its national responsibilities or whether it is just a bit of window-dressing, another example of double standards to be applied to a small section of the workforce when the really important economic decisions in matters affecting the nation as a whole will undoubtedly involve numerically large and financially powerful unions. [More…]
If his authority is so’ extensive at the moment and if the authority of the Australian Broadcasting Control Board is so powerful, then why is it necessary to introduce additional measures? [More…]
As I have mentioned, it is strange that anything that appears to damage the interests of the great and powerful friends of the Liberal and Country Parties in the media world is seized upon as being undemocratic. [More…]
Has he seen criticism of the fact that Mr Carmody has offered ASIO access to the Australia Police’s proposed powerful new computer with the proposal that it will have its own key to that computer? [More…]
The third point I raise concerns the continued building up of a massive and powerful bureaucracy in Australia that one day or other will dominate the community. [More…]
There is grave danger that the Family Law Bill at present before Parliament will fail or be rendered ineffective by a small but powerful section of Church hierarchy aided by vested legal interests. [More…]
The Government at that time- the LiberalCountry Party Government- refused to give it powers because, on the one hand, it had the powerful brokers and the international cartels and, on the other hand, it had the wool industry. [More…]
First the EEC which has formed itself into a powerful bloc is virtually closed as a market for our dairy products and is strongly competitive in other markets. [More…]
We feel that to create 2 powerful, monopolistic authorities with a large degree of independence from Government control necessitates the fixing in far more definite terms of the objectives which the Commissions should be seeking to attain. [More…]
But perhaps he would become too close to the sun and too powerful a force if he were given that responsible job. [More…]
On the other hand, we have introduced a streamlined Wool Industry Act which gives the Australian Wool Corporation the most powerful marketing and trading relationships in the wool market that any trade organisation in wool has ever had. [More…]
I have spent many very happy hours with him and with his family, arguing over a great variety of things; but right throughout such arguments 2 qualities always emerged- a powerful, unfailing sense of humanity and a quite unwavering sense of humour. [More…]
Of course your rich and powerful friends will not let you; those to whom you have made promises about mining concessions and mineral concessions if you ever get back into government will not let you do it. [More…]
We all know that Sir Arthur Tange is regarded by some people as having a very powerful intellect but we also know that people in the uniformed sections of the defence structure have powerful intellects. [More…]
What a powerful and forward looking pronunciation that was. [More…]
Those who are weak in organisation and resources have had to take a back seat to the well organised and the powerful. [More…]
The real problem lies in the fact that the Opposition is dependent for its support on a narrow, powerful and vocal base of vested interests whose horizon does not reach beyond their immediate needs. [More…]
Wage earners know, and the Mathews Committee confirmed, that the ever-increasing proportion of wages going in tax is one of the most powerful influences in generating high wage demands. [More…]
However, the situation is that the Country Party, the Leader of the Opposition and others- there are thousands of them in the same position as the Leader of the Opposition, wealthy and powerful men in the farming community- are raking it off in thousands at the expense of the small farmers and others. [More…]
That is not a very powerful or overriding reason for publication of the report. [More…]
I refer also to his ability to introduce restraint without abandoning the social philosophy which distinguishes our Party from the tools of the rich and the powerful who sit on the Opposition benches. [More…]
As to whether or not the present system can survive- is all the more urgent because the United States, by far the most powerful capitalist economy, is recovering from its recent debilitating bout of inflationary recession and faces a particularly uncertain economic future. [More…]
However, waste and inefficiency provide a very powerful argument for those who wish to decry the efforts to assist Aboriginal people. [More…]
As part of this Rand-like philosophy it would be consistent for the Leader of the Opposition to support a situation where the more powerful and more prosperous StatesNew South Wales and Victoria- asserted more and more irresistible pressure against the smaller States forcing them to take up the surtax avenues to raise more revenue locally. [More…]
Nobody who followed the media coverage of that conference would doubt that there are powerful forces prepared and eager to misrepresent those aspirations and needs in every way and at every opportunity. [More…]
Unfortunately, history abounds with examples of powerful countries getting together to impose their will on smaller countries and swallowing them up in their so-called spheres of interest. [More…]
We have found that this BUI will lead to the domination of legal services throughout Australia by the Attorney-General, who will become all powerful as a result of having power over the Australian Legal Aid Office. [More…]
But aU of us know in our hearts that without the assistance of powerful allies overseas we cannot hope to do that. [More…]
One only has to look at what we are talking about to see that that is not a very powerful argument. [More…]
I forsee such reports as being most useful documents and powerful forces for good through the exposure of malpractice and the lauding of good practice. [More…]
All these preparations seem likely to go for nothing because Mr Hamer and his Ministers are unable or unwilling to stand up to powerful landholding and land developing interests within the Liberal Party. [More…]
It is no secret that this disastrously retrograde decision has been accepted by the Liberal Party at the instigation of a handful of powerful people, among its members. [More…]
It is a very powerful organisation. [More…]
The media and their mates, the members of the Opposition, together with their powerful friends the bankers, investors, big business, cartels, monopolies and others, have formed a partnership to destroy this Government by hook or by crook. [More…]
It was deliberately and calculatingly left out of the Australian Constitution because the founders recognised that to include such a provision would be to give a powerful and improper weapon to the House which was not the popular House. [More…]
inflation favours the active and the powerful; the position of poor people deteriorates. [More…]
The real issue in this country at the present time is the constitutional confrontation which has been thrown up by the Opposition in the Senate and which, in its own way, is as powerful, as significant and as historically important as the confrontation between the House of Commons and the House of Lords over the Parliament Bill in 1911. [More…]
It seems to me that it is in an extremely powerful trading position in the market and already we are getting indications from overseas merchants that the [More…]
First of all, let us consider his concept of an all powerful House of Representatives. [More…]
It appears that the Registrar is to be a very powerful and very important person. [More…]
If the Senate rejects them, not only is there a powerful argument of those matters which the Senate has already twice rejected and been twice passed by the House of Representatives but also there will be the additional powerful argument for the Prime Minister to give to the Governor-General that the Senate is deliberately withholding Supply- an unprecendented action. [More…]
They inherited from us, or took over from us or usurped the authority to run one of the world ‘s most resilient and powerful economies. [More…]
How has the public sector been created if not by the powerful, the private sector? [More…]
It is a very powerful organisation. [More…]
Not only do we have those enormous national and multi-national corporations that dominate the economy but also we have extremely powerful unions which have grown to allow the worker to obtain his share of income that that system generates. [More…]
So we have powerful business corporations and powerful unions. [More…]
In addition we have a powerful Public Service. [More…]
Everything else is taken as given in this enormously powerful economic system. [More…]
He has never been more powerful than he is today. [More…]
Whatever way we look at progress in this respect, it means we must think of a system that has three great power blocs- the private corporations, national and international, the powerful unions and the powerful Public Service. [More…]
The threat to freedom lies in the 3 powerful complexes that are developing, the complexes of the multi-national and national corporations, of the powerful trade unions and the powerful State bureaucracy whether it be in Canberra, Melbourne, Sydney or anywhere else. [More…]
Honourable members opposite represent a very select group of people in Australia- a few people and few powerful companies. [More…]
Inflation favours the active and the powerful; the position of poor people deteriorates. [More…]
It would be an Australia in which powerful interests- both business and trade union- recognise their responsibilities to the individuals they serve and to the wider Australian community. [More…]
He was referring to the world-wide activities of the CIA- people still don’t understand what a huge, powerful and sinister organisation the CIA is. [More…]
It is the biggest and most powerful secret service that has ever existed. [More…]
-The honourable member for Burke made a powerful statement when he spoke. [More…]
HMAS Perth, a Charles F. Adams class destroyer that went through a tremendous reconstruction, though a relatively small ship is probably now one of the most powerful weapons systems in the world. [More…]
These are immensely powerful ships. [More…]
There in no time left for the industry to be divided because if it is divided I am sure that it will be the producer who will be left captive to the other powerful industry forces. [More…]
But one will find very few company directors, wealthy graziers and people with powerful international connections amongst our ranks. [More…]
The institutions are generally controlled by the most powerful economic interests and their servants. [More…]
These institutions are used to direct and advance objectives which tend to oppress those less powerful in society and those who seek fundamental change. [More…]
In this free society the tyrannical notion of an all powerful state is rejected and dogmatic socialism with it. [More…]
Unless there is a genuine attitude, the Foundation will not survive and will not be stimulated to become the powerful force it should most certainly be. [More…]
At least one cannot be unaware of the powerful economic forces that are now in operation in some of the areas that are supposed to be the land areas of the Aboriginal population and the problems such as whether we will take uranium, whether we will take bauxite, whether we will take some other minerals without consideration for the rights of these people. [More…]
All we have had this New Year is the promised satisfaction of the costly demands of some powerful vested interests and a couple of lectures on the virtues of austerity and idealism for the rest of us. [More…]
We know that pensioners cannot withhold their labour and that they do not have access to powerful bodies like chambers of manufactures, chambers of commerce, sectarian bodies or trade unions. [More…]
In manufacturing industry short term disruption caused by imports is a common justification for increased assistance, even though the resource allocation arguments are seldom as powerful as they are for the rural export industries. [More…]
I introduce my maiden speech with 2 quotes which were powerful influences on my deciding to seek preselection for the seat of Canberra and hence on my being here tonight. [More…]
The great and powerful leadership, steeped in the traditions of the past of the Melbourne Club and the squattocrazy and so on. [More…]
But everybody who knows anything about education knows that normal State procedure is for powerful political personalities to put the best and the most expensive high schools in their electorate, irrespective of whether there is the number of children there to justify them. [More…]
That places him in a most powerful position to pork barrel the rural constituenciesa practice for which the National Country Party is justly famous. [More…]
This Government has already shown its readiness to side with the wealthier and more powerful sections of the community against the weak, the disadvantaged and the needy. [More…]
They were two of the powerful sections of the system. [More…]
What of our great and powerful friend, America? [More…]
They are powerful words because they in fact indicate the abysm into which this Labor Party has plunged the Australian people. [More…]
It is a very powerful drug, as was mentioned by the previous speaker who is a medico. [More…]
This alibi is a flimsy concoction to justify what has easily been the most powerful, crude and ill-informed assault on the principles and practices of the Westminster style of parliamentary government and the proper conventions of Cabinet collective responsibility. [More…]
They are the powerful sections of the system. [More…]
I said that it does not really lie in the Australian Parliament; it really lies in the powerful companies, the monopoly sections, the media and the federal bureaucracy. [More…]
Money will be diverted to the very powerful sector. [More…]
Of course the owner of a newspaper chain or the owner of a television station network is a thousand times more powerful than an ordinary citizen of this country. [More…]
The establishment, the powerful economic interests that control this country, and the Fraser-Anthony Government that represents their interests have clearly chosen a strategy which amounts to no more than an attack on the wage earner, and the small businessman, the less privileged groups in our society. [More…]
It is a strategy designed to increase the wealth and the power of the establishment and those powerful companies that I have mentioned at the expense of the worker and the people ‘s quality of life. [More…]
1 believe that to do so would be a very powerful incentive so far as small business is concerned. [More…]
Big and powerful unions are as dominant in the determination of wages as big and powerful corporations are dominant in the determination of prices. [More…]
Honourable members may recollect that I staunchly defended the firm action in defence of the public evidenced on that occasion by Mr Gorton, who as Prime Minister was one of the first Ministers in a very long period of government in this country prepared to oppose a very powerful vested but minority interest group in the form of the Australian Medical Association in the interests of the community. [More…]
It is the justification for offending one of the most powerful nations on earth and discrediting the honest and painstaking efforts of the Western powers to improve the climate of international relations. [More…]
The most powerful agent of change is man. [More…]
Thirdly, will he ensure that the Government in setting the reserve price level will give serious attention to the valid and powerful argument advanced by the wool industry that the reserve price level should be lifted above the current 250c per kilo clean? [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…]
There are members of this community who do not have powerful industrial muscle. [More…]
He said recently: ‘I consider myself the most powerful figure in the world’. [More…]
Organised labour is more powerful than the apparatus of any state; but I repeat that labour must be organised, and it is not possible to do this other than through the trade union movement. [More…]
A reason for the great strength of the trade union movement in Sweden is that the unions are bound together by the powerful LO Federation, which has the necessary clout to make binding decisions for all its affiliates. [More…]
The ultimate spotlight of exposure in the Parliament, and hence to the world at large, is a very powerful sanction which the Ombudsman will have. [More…]
No doubt it is a power that he will use only as a last resort, but it is a very real power which bureaucrats know can be exercised, and it will act as a very powerful inducement to them to comply with the reasonable recommendations of the Ombudsman. [More…]
I am told that those who rode in on the hysteria of 1975 and who hold their seats by narrow margins are already organising themselves into a fairly powerful and effective group. [More…]
These are some of the things which the present Government has undone because it is on the side of powerful monopolies, big business and multi-national companies. [More…]
It is quite obvious that the Australian Labor Party, which does not want the States to exist as viable, powerful and respected entities, wishes to see this Bill rejected. [More…]
That will lead to inequalities between the States and make them less powerful partners in the federal system than they are today. [More…]
The picture emerged of those who were significant, powerful trade union people in large numbers being greedy and committing to nothing those who were absolutely dependent upon unemployment relief. [More…]
These developments have meant that well organised and powerful economic groups now have sufficient strength to pursue their own ends. [More…]
But powerful capitalist companies and employers’ organisations granted equally high and record increases in wages and salaries also. [More…]
There is no doubt that the Australian Government finds itself in a powerful position in any relations it has with the States in developing what might be called an acceptable Budget. [More…]
It not only is needlessly offending Australia’s neighbours; it is also needlessly embarrassing our allies, including its great and powerful ally, the United States of America. [More…]
Because of this we have an administration- we call it a bureaucracy when we want to be unkindwhich in its more powerful areas is completely market oriented or market blinkered. [More…]
The conservatives of this country in the Liberal Party and the National Country Party and, frankly, the most senior administrators in the Department of the Treasury and other powerful departments, believe that policy should be formulated only for the short term. [More…]
In brief they express the belief that Treasury is too privileged, too powerful, and too prone to substitute its own judgments, its own values and its own priorities for those of other departments, ministers and the government itself. [More…]
Whether it is powerful in the sense in which my friends opposite think of power in the world at large is open to question. [More…]
That was the policy of the Foreign Minister- to split the ASEAN partners and incite them to turn against their largest and most powerful member. [More…]
Sir John Kerr has made himself more powerful than any monarch since the Stuarts. [More…]
Frequently, when talking to groups of people, particularly the captains of industry in Sydney or Melbourne, the great and powerful people, they have said to me: ‘That is all right about you, Kelly, but you do not realise that the farmers are getting far more subsidy than secondary industry. ‘ [More…]
The Prime Minister expressed the belief that the United States had a unique leadership role and mission as the world’s most powerful democracy. [More…]
He was dedicated to the rule of law because he believed that it was only the law that protected the weak from the powerful. [More…]
Or is he just a cipher in the Party meeting rooms meekly going along and agreeing with all of those things which are being done because he is hoping, by being a mee-too, tooting behind the powerful people in the Cabinet such as the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) and one or two others, that somewhere along the way he will get caught in the slipstream and be dragged into the Cabinet as a reliable cipher for what the Prime Minister and others want to do. [More…]
Many powerful speeches are made around Australia by State Ministers in which they say that if only the Commonwealth would agree to such and such a proposition they would be able to do certain things. [More…]
Following the Guam doctrine of 1969 the Americans, our powerful friends and allies, have made it clear that they expect countries like [More…]
But there is the possibility that we can, within a short space of time or a comparatively short space of time, with the new spirit in the various defence forces build up a capacity to enable us to hang on until a powerful ally could come to our assistance. [More…]
They deal with the reality of defending this country with a holding on operation until the forces of a country powerful enough to assist us arrive. [More…]
If we are talking about great and powerful friends, it is true that we do not need to think as deeply about the matter. [More…]
One of the most powerful weapons on them is the Ikara missile system. [More…]
It wanted to create a powerful central government here in Canberra. [More…]
Accordingly, as is now common knowledge, and as the Minister admitted in his second reading speech, the Government was lobbied strongly by these powerful forces to amend the 1973 legislation to allow the retention of the collegiate system. [More…]
Those are powerful arguments against this House or indeed this Parliament supporting the legislation now before it. [More…]
Not only was this decision a clear breach of the legislation, but also it shows a complete disregard that powerful elements of the current Government have for environmental considerations. [More…]
Mr Green envisaged a powerful role for the proposed Broadcasting Council which has been downgraded to some sort of advisory function. [More…]
With the new Minister having 2 Minister-assisting portfolios and a powerful Minister on top of him, and having to guarantee that he will carry out his duties as Minister - [More…]
The powerful vested interest groups which also oppose land rights have, however, adopted Albrecht ‘s opinion with great enthusiasm and considerable relief. [More…]
Yet this Government would have us believe that the NTLA, dominated by the National Country Party which shamelessly acts as an electoral front for its clients in the mining industry will act to thwart the wishes of its great and powerful clients. [More…]
Various theories have been offered and submitted as to how long we would have to hold this country before we would receive the assistance of a powerful ally. [More…]
If one reads the Paper carefully one will see this point made quite often: No longer are we going to rely so absolutely on our great and powerful friends. [More…]
It is well known, and it can happen to the detriment of developing countries, that a powerful nation can stockpile and then destroy the market of a developing country by releasing the stockpile at a time when it would lose its market because of that release. [More…]
We do not want to have this play by powerful influences in the company structure whereby they can affect a market by stockpiling and then suddenly releasing the stockpile. [More…]
-The acknowledgments from the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) and the Treasurer (Mr Lynch)- less than friendly at times, I suspect- about my alleged role in recent economic decisions leave me with the feeling that the Prime Minister and the Treasurer see me as some sort of Uri Geller of Australian economic affairs- a person with such powerful influence that I can bend the mind not only of the nation but also of a substantial part of the world. [More…]
If it is simple matter of blind Freddie and his dog having this enormously powerful, persuasive effect on the economy, does anyone believe for a second that if blind Freddie and his dog went out into the public square and stated that our currency was undervalued and that there ought to be a revaluation, then tomorrow morning there would be a massive flood of money into this country from overseas? [More…]
But I put what I believe is an even more powerful case to the House. [More…]
It was the people coming onto the streets in the United States of America, in Britain and other countries around the world and questioning the right of those who had been elected to government to take decisions and the morality of those decisions that forced governments as powerful as the Government of the United States to withdraw its troops from Vietnam. [More…]
The present Committee, with the addition of the senators, will be a fairly powerful one. [More…]
Dr M. Teichmann strongly attacked the lack of confidence generated by successive Australian governments that had espoused the need to rely on big and powerful friends, and the incapacity of the nation to defend itself, and the resultant breakdown in the will of the people being prepared to defend their country. [More…]
Its economic policies had been judged and found wanting by those interests powerful enough to move large sums of money out of the country and its decision to defer company tax payments had given these people the dollars with which to speculate. [More…]
Is it fearful of offending powerful sectional interests, its own supporters, or the States? [More…]
As I understand it the permanent head in the Commonwealth Public Service is a much more powerful functionary than he is in most of the State services. [More…]
If this agreement is to be tampered with and if interest rates and consequential rentals are to rise, a powerful weapon for keeping down general housing costs will be struck from the hands of the Australian community, and that will be a great tragedy. [More…]
I also vouchsafed the opinion that in respect of Cocos Island and Christmas Island there are powerful international arguments for giving votes for the House of Representatives to the citizens who reside there. [More…]
The provision aims to prevent unscrupulous suppliers from attempting to gain an unfair advantage over their competitors by discriminating among buyers and to prevent unscruplous buyers from using their economic power to exact discriminatory prices from suppliers to the disadvantage of less powerful buyers. [More…]
The Commission went on to concede that that is a powerful argument. [More…]
I went through the commentary and looked for the powerful arguments that he suggested would persuade me to another course. [More…]
But, when people band together, as they sometimes do in powerful unions, and partially withdraw their services and thereby prejudice the jobs of a great number of people across a wide area, they have gone too far. [More…]
After all, in my view regulation of restrictive trade practices means the regulation of big business because big business can become so powerful in relation to the total economy that it has to be regulated. [More…]
The legislation acknowledges that in the community certain organisations by reason of their existence can be more powerful against the community than others. [More…]
The Government is going to draw money away from the wage earners and is going to direct it to big business, many of which are powerful foreign-owned interests. [More…]
In 20 years’ time we do not want to be a distant colonial outpost of a political or a powerful Japanese interest. [More…]
So, why make a legal provision that the Senate is so powerful that it can refuse Supply, thus depriving the Government of any money? [More…]
However, I feel that it is reasonable to say that alongside the other great, important, powerful families in the world our Royal Family is outstanding. [More…]
There have been suggestions that a more powerful transmitter can be established on a high point within the area, at a place called Mount Cooper. [More…]
Our dignity is again recognised overseas with our powerful allies. [More…]
Without dwelling further on the vast volume of additional data available to rebut these 3 key, but spurious, assertions of the Foreign Minister let me conclude the point by observing that this sort of unwarranted belittling of American military strength is unnecessarily offensive towards the world efforts for peace of a powerful friend. [More…]
He said, however, that he thought it was of great international significance that the conflict between the People’s Republic of China and the Soviet Union should continue, the inference being, of course, that were there to be established between the Government of Peking and the Government of Moscow a rapport and an understanding the probability would be that there would be a greater threat in the world because those 2 governments would be so powerful- in truth, two super-powers combined- that the rest of the world would need to tremble. [More…]
I would like to see a permanent, impartial and powerful watch dog established for the Aboriginal community. [More…]
Although pensions of various sorts and social service benefits of various sorts pre-date the establishment of the Repatriation Department, no other field of activity in social services have had the same continuing experience with a specialised group of beneficiaries as the Repatriation Department, nor has it had the same powerful groups nudging it along to try to overcome anomalies and difficulties and new disabilities as they develop. [More…]
The Bill puts the Attorney-General in a very powerful position indeed. [More…]
It has provided the impetus for the growth of large and powerful trade unions. [More…]
It has thus placed unions in Australia in a very powerful position. [More…]
But the problem is more fundamental than that: The Government believes that it is basically a manifestation of the phenomenon we have all witnessed from time to time when an organisation which sets out initially to serve the interests of its members and the community becomes so large and powerful that it loses sight of what it should be doing; self-interest takes over, and its original purpose is lost in the pursuit of selfinterest. [More…]
Now one of the world ‘s 2 major producers of nuclear reactor components has been given a powerful interest in Austraiian mining. [More…]
The powerful vested interests of General Electric in nuclear reactors will put pressure for uranium mining on the Government through its links with Utah. [More…]
Transportation capabilities provide powerful tools for rebuilding obsolete cities, moving out of the old congestion, and taking possession of the land for new patterns of urban living. [More…]
This will not be the case when it is joined with the Bureau of Roads, which is perhaps the most powerful of the Commonwealth statutory authorities. [More…]
Rapidly rising use of energy, especially nuclear energy, will be concentrated in the hands of those who are rich and powerful already. [More…]
They are powerful enough to pass on the costs. [More…]
Inflation hits those who are not powerful enough to pass on its costs. [More…]
But as I understand the law, my friendsthese small people who are dealing with powerful insurance companies- are unlikely to win the case because of the very strict business about every detail on the proposal form being correct. [More…]
They are subject to very powerful ethnic group pressures to conform and to maintain their culture. [More…]
This reflects the Government’s concern that powerful businesses should not be able to undermine the position of a small business competitor by such an arrangement. [More…]
The availability of the injunctive remedy on the application of private persons and companies gave a powerful tool to opponents of the merger. [More…]
A clear decision by the people in a referendum on this issue would be a powerful propaganda weapon for the moderate to use against militants in defence of his position. [More…]
Deregistration of a union is a powerful weapon if there is another organisation ready to fill the gap thus created. [More…]
Under those circumstances we will have people in powerful positions, such as magnates of corporations, taking decisions that may not be in the best interests of the community as a whole. [More…]
Mr DEPUTY SPEAKER (Mr Giles)Without wishing to detract from the powerful speech that has just been made, I remind the [More…]
The Government seems to believe that if it can cause widespread industrial action it will then have the justification for introducing its powerful anti-union weaponry. [More…]
There have been meetings this month, including one in Melbourne this week, aimed at leading to formation of the largest and most powerful business association in Australia. [More…]
honourable member for Burke and the honourable member for Gellibrand (Mr Willis) would agree that if they talked to the rank and file of the trade union movement they would find that the rank and file are seeking desperately to have that sort of provision incorporated into legislation so that their right to choose whether they will join or not join an organisation is enshrined in legislation and they are protected against powerful monopoly organisations. [More…]
It will not be long before the Department of Productivity- Sir Alan Cooley is a pretty good operator- puts up to the Prime Minister a powerful case pointing out that it is impossible to have the Department of Productivity unless it has control of the National Employment and Training scheme and the apprenticeship training scheme. [More…]
The trade union movement developed out of a situation where capital was more powerful than labour. [More…]
But the present situation we face is that in many respects organised labour is more powerful than the vast majority of small and medium sized companies in Australia. [More…]
While Australian uranium remains in the ground we have a tremendously powerful force to exercise in lifting the world on to a safe and sane energy plane. [More…]
Some people are astounded when I tell them that Switzerland with only 3 very powerful commercial nuclear reactors is producing 1 7 per cent of its electricity. [More…]
We are used to hearing from this Minister dissertations about the powerful readiness, alertness and defence preparedness of the defence forces of Australia. [More…]
In fact, at a time of slack economic activity like the present a most powerful argument can be mobilised in support of the fabrication of more goods in this country as part of an aid program. [More…]
By and large they do not have a powerful record of assistance to poor non-oil-producing underdeveloped countries in the past. [More…]
Air traffic controllers, by the nature of their work, are in a powerful position. [More…]
It is these same trade unionists, who are too greedy, and because they know that they are in a powerful position they want to grind the last cent out of the community, regardless of the consequences. [More…]
If I may say so, that is a pretty powerful affirmation of a contrary view. [More…]
The force of adverse world opinion and pressure from powerful nations must be quickly focussed on Nation X. [More…]
This country was handed over to honourable members opposite in a powerful economic situation relative to other countries. [More…]
The old cliches were wheeled out about how the bureaucracy was going to take over, about the remoteness of Canberra being damaging to local government, and about how the Grants Commission would be all powerful. [More…]
The fact of the matter is that a proper energy and minerals policy would means that die Government would have to sit down and negotiatenot just talk- with powerful foreign and national industry groups. [More…]
The citizens who insist on driving large, unnecessarily powerful cars must expect to pay more for that luxury. [More…]
You do not even know that the Soviet Union at this moment is building one of the most powerful atomic breeder reactors ever seen. [More…]
In order to support his argument the honourable gentleman referred to a great and powerful country. [More…]
If we are to say our best customers ‘go elsewhere to get your uranium oxide’, I imagine that a large powerful country Uke Japan will do exactly that, think there might be some people in Tokyo who would get out their little black book and put a couple of ticks against us and say: ‘Well, there will come an opportunity one of these days for us to remind them that you have given us unfriendly treatment on this matter’. [More…]
It represents the very powerful elements in our community. [More…]
Since it took power in a very dubious way, this Government has represented the powerful elite in this country.Not only has it transferred wealth from the workers’ wage packet to the private sector but also it has cut back on public works and transferred this activity to the private sector. [More…]
It created a powerful impetus which influenced Singapore and Papua New Guinea also to ignore Indonesian aggression in that small country. [More…]
The fact is that, compared with all other countries apart from that with the wealthiest and most powerful economy in the world- the United States of America- the Australian record in these matters is better than that of any other country and certainly compares very favourably with that of countries like Canada. [More…]
They say: … we have spoken of myths which exercise a powerful influence on the ways in which we think and act in the criminological field. [More…]
It is an idea which has long exerted a powerful influence on the minds not only of journalists but also of law enforcement agents and serious students of crime. [More…]
By contrast, the union movement today is a powerful economic and social pressure group. [More…]
Unions have grown greatly in size and are in a position to influence powerfully, by concerted action, the economic wellbeing of the community. [More…]
The fierce yet farcical battle between leading members of the Liberal Party for control of the NSW Permanent Building Society shows the importance which some members of the conservative establishment place on these powerful financial institutions. [More…]
The United States of America, our great and powerful friend, as somebody was once wont to call it, does not maintain any territorial claims to the Antarctic continent, but it gathers scientific research material in that area. [More…]
We rely on our great and powerful friend, the United States, and the New Zealanders to fly aircraft into the Antarctic continent. [More…]
We are a long way from great and powerful friends, we are underpopulated and we are also rich beyond dreams. [More…]
The report works on the assumption contained in the defence White Paper, which is that Australia no longer can depend upon ‘powerful friends’ for protection. [More…]
South Africa no longer can depend on powerful friends. [More…]
In many cases, corporate criminals tend to be the most respectable and powerful men in the community. [More…]
The representatives of the people must face up directly to the great forces which direct the community, the media, the great and powerful commercial and industrial institutions and so on. [More…]
Overseas trade is a vital ingredient in our nation’s economic wellbeing and, unfortunately, people in the stevedoring industry have occupied a far too powerful position. [More…]
His wartime experience gave him a deep and continuing concern for ex-service men and women and over many years he was a powerful and effective advocate in the Parliament on their behalf. [More…]
Allan Fraser was a great and powerful debater. [More…]
It places enormous power in the hands of a government and in the hands of one man if he is a powerful, influential and domineering man in that government. [More…]
Many of those issues involve questions fundamental to the direction which Australia will follow in the last quarter of this century- questions concerning our rising affluence while we continue to be surrounded by countries which suffer from immense and deep seated poverty; questions of how to employ our people whose skills are being made daily more redundant by the relentless march of technology; questions of our extravagant use of energy in an energy starved world; questions of how in an increasingly materialistic society we can be encouraged to have some concern for our fellow man; questions of how we deal with powerful international economic forces in this country so that Australians do not sacrifice further the control of our country’s destiny; questions of how best to share power and responsibility between the various tiers of government; and questions of the alienation of minority and other groups which manifests itself eventually in a repudiation by them of law and order. [More…]
but the crucial power over the allocation of resources either in Britain or abroad lies with a miniscule class of enormously powerful top managers. [More…]
The problems of Parliament also arise from its inherent division; not only is it divided by the federal Constitution into two nominally powerful, and often conflicting, Houses: Each constituent House accommodates competing factionseach of which is usually divided between leaders and led. [More…]
But what I am saying is that a more powerful Parliament with better equipped members of Parliament should be able to improve government in Australia, thereby working in a cooperative and constructive manner with the Executive. [More…]
While claiming to be ‘good economic managers’, this Government is reorganising the basic structure of the Australian economy to favour those powerful interests that have great influence on its policies and its parties’ finances. [More…]
I cannot claim to have been the secretary of such a great and powerful Party. [More…]
I put it again: If there is a really powerful case for change and an unconscionable protection cost to stall change, orderly assisted adjustment is the sensible and logical course. [More…]
During the post-war period in Australia and in other comparable countries governments have been goaded by the powerful financial, industrial and automobile association lobby groups to spend almost unlimited funds on roads and other improvements designed to promote without limit the use of a motorised vehicle for every transport task, no matter how inappropriate or no matter what the cost to the non-user or to the urban environment. [More…]
I would have thought that in the case of the employees of Ali Castings there is a powerful case for the exercise of this discretion. [More…]
The attitudes that I have expressed in relation to the policies of the Soviet Union originally in June or July 1976 have been echoed on many occasions since in more cogent and more powerful terms by the Foreign Ministers and the Defence Ministers in the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation and in recent times by a fine editorial in the Melbourne Age. [More…]
It is quite obvious that Australia is in the hands of some of the most powerful oil companies in the world when it comes to the supply of fuel to Australia. [More…]
However, in deference to the Prime Minister and the all powerful oil companies, they are prepared to ride along and participate in presenting a fraud to the people of Australia, and even to their own constituents. [More…]
We are dealing with a wealthy and very powerful profession, and it needs to be emphasised that it is not merely a profession. [More…]
There is no evidence that a consensus can be achieved because what has come into existence is an immensely powerful coalition of interlocking institutions and processes that tend to act in concert. [More…]
In short, broadcasting is so powerful a social and communications instrument, so valuable a national resource, so crucial to the public interest, that no government can afford to ignore it. [More…]
a small but powerful group may move to undercut Liberal MP Mr Don Cameron in his south-east Queensland seat of Fadden. [More…]
If I understand the Minister correctly and if there are medium powered stations which in fact are pretty powerful stations covering more than most of the metropolitan areas at this stage, as I understand it - [More…]
I believe that there is a very powerful prima facie case and that it is utterly contemptuous of this Parliament to leave that case unresolved. [More…]
It can play a powerful role in reducing structural unemployment in the longer term, especially if it is directed at helping teenagers acquire skills needed in the future. [More…]
There are dangers of course in such a production in that the subject is so powerful that it is always in danger of neglecting to entertain and make patrons happier to have paid their $4 admission fee. [More…]
Naturally, in these circumstances there is a powerful incentive for employers to take advantage of the investment allowance and to invest in machines which enable them to maintain their present output at lower cost, rather than to increase capacity to produce more by investing in machinery to enable them to produce more with the current methods of production. [More…]
These are the statistics the Deputy Prime Minister (Mr Anthony) conveniently overlooks every time he pushes the barrow of his party’s campaign financiers in the powerful uranium lobby. [More…]
We believe that so much protection is offered by this sub-section, for some kinds of breaches of the law there would be no remedy possible and that all sorts of powerful restraints are available to corporate bodies to restrict the flow of information to such an extent that it is very difficult to police their behaviour. [More…]
There may be differences of opinion on that point, but basically my belief is that local governments, whether in Queensland or in the Northern Territory- I refer especially to the Northern Territory which has a very small legislative assembly- are likely to be influenced much more easily by powerful mining groups in allowing certain things to happen than would people from down here. [More…]
If one looks at the progress of capital investment figures since the investment allowance was introduced I think one can make a very powerful case for it. [More…]
Certainly the cost to revenue, if I may put it like that, of the investment allowance is a very powerful case to the extent to which it has been used. [More…]
He said, in effect, that it was the responsibility of a member to protect the rights of the individual, no matter how many influences there might be in the opposite direction and regardless of whether they came from the government or from a powerful clique or group, and that if the member thought that it was right that he should support the individual in his fight against might he had every obligation to act as a liberal. [More…]
The United States is the largest, most powerful and most influential leader of all the democratic nations. [More…]
It has been widely reported in the Press that he has powerful friends in the Government and that he is a friend of the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser). [More…]
Fretilin leaders are said to recognise that East Timor is located in an isolated part of the world between two powerful non-communist nationsIndonesia and Australia- and that the East Timorese must ultimately live and work with their neighbours. [More…]
It is certainly not true where the contestants are powerful industrial organisations whose activities can affect, for good or ill, the welfare of all Australians. [More…]
I understand the general philosophy of the Government, which says: We are dealing with powerful social institutions and the Government of the day has to give itself a right to intervene to protect the public, if necessary’. [More…]
The Minister attends those meetings and he would be aware that he should not try to camouflage the action taken by the Government of again writing into legislation a provision relating to the Minister by saying that there are some powerful institutions. [More…]
Most of the powerful responsible institutions with which the Minister deals as the Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations are not only opposed to the idea but also have advised him accordingly. [More…]
He was equally aware that we should retain our relationship with the more powerful and more distant nations of the world. [More…]
He had a commanding presence, a powerful intellect and a rare eloquence. [More…]
The reduction of interest rates is perhaps the most powerful and pervasive stimulus the economy can receive. [More…]
One thing that baffles me about the President of the United States of America- and there is a great deal of humanity in what he has said and in the objectives that he has promulgatedis the decision that he has just made to supply incredibly powerful weapons to both sides in the conflict. [More…]
We are presently considering the reequipment of the Royal Australian Air Force with very expensive, very sophisticated, very powerful but I think totally irrelevant fighter aircraft. [More…]
No executive would want the Parliament to be more powerful than necessary. [More…]
France and Sweden, have powerful planning units within their finance departments. [More…]
Australia has had so little experience of planning, and opposition to it is so entrenched in Treasury, that it will more than likely be sidestepped, starved of necessary information, opposed and blocked at every turn of the bureaucratic wheel unless it is a powerful organisation in its own right. [More…]
The bureaucrats who in the Labor model were to be isolated in their powerful new structure in Canberra are in our model involved in continual dialogue and consultation with the private sector. [More…]
The proposition being put forward by the Opposition for the creation of a major new structure, the creation of an even more powerful one by adding to it many other functions creates, I suggest, a monster which would be not only a threat but which in fact would be also clearly unnecessary in terms of what is going on now. [More…]
Those companies are held to no guidelines as to the national interest by their great and powerful friends on our Treasury benches except for a few watered down guidelines inherited from the Whitlam Government and which were brought in against entrenched resistance. [More…]
In the area of the protection of civil rights against a large and, as some would see it, an increasingly powerful bureaucracy this Government has done more than any in the history of Australia to protect the rights of average Australian men and women against bureaucratic decisions of one kind or another. [More…]
There may be differences of opinion on that point, but basically my belief is that local governments, whether in Queensland or in the Northern Territory- I refer especially to the Northern Territory which has a very small legislative assembly- are likely to be influenced much more easily by powerful mining groups in allowing certain things to happen than would people from down here. [More…]
Every Minister ought to be able to ride herd on his subordinates, no matter how senior they are, the positions they have held or the powerful friendships that they have cultivated, because he can say to them ‘I take the blame for your errors. [More…]
The proposals contained in these clauses consist of the following elements: Firstly, reducing the role of the Australian Council to one merely of advice; secondly, the introduction of an all powerful Executive Board; thirdly, the creation of a politically appointed position of National Director; and, fourthly, the introduction of new interests into the membership of the controlling bodies including employer representatives. [More…]
He is very powerful. [More…]
They often want to ride all sorts of powerful bikes. [More…]
When the States study this legislation and when the States really realise the powerful weapon it puts into their hands they will understand the importance of this legislation. [More…]
I contend that this legislation gives a great opportunity to the States that wake up first, the States that wake up to the fact that we have put a powerful weapon in their hands, the States that wake up to the fact that they can give their people an income tax advantage. [More…]
The Department of the Special Trade Negotiator- later renamed the Department of the Special Trade Representative was created a year ago when there was already a large and powerful Department of Overseas Trade. [More…]
Bhutto was in a powerful position to exert influence over the Federal Security Force. [More…]
At another place, he said that the principal accused had become the strongest Dictator in the world and would be so powerful that he would not go out of the House as a living person. [More…]
He offended many rich and powerful groups. [More…]
I know that governments, bureaucrats, courts and legal people have a habit of using words such as practicable’ in such a way that the powerful people can benefit but the weak people are continually pushed to the wall. [More…]
The further reduction of interest rates, which this Budget is pitched to achieve, is the most pervasive and powerful stimulus to the economy you can get. [More…]
The rich are few and powerful. [More…]
-Because people like to identify themselves with the strong, the rich and the powerful. [More…]
Again, this Government persistently has argued before the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission that we cannot have one sector of the economy- those people who happen to be in the most powerful or dictatorial unionsdemanding more and more wages while other people are continually deprived of jobs. [More…]
No one can doubt that this Government has a powerful commitment to lower tax and to responsible taxation policies. [More…]
One of the most powerful figures in the Liberal Party in Western Australia has strongly criticised the Prime Minister, Mr Fraser, over the Federal Government’s economic policies. [More…]
Mr Mitchell is known as the most powerful lobbyist in Western Australia. [More…]
No member of this Parliament would have the ability to negotiate in a foreign language within an unfamiliar system of government with a man as powerful as the Prime Minister on an issue as sensitive to the Aboriginal people as is land, the very symbol of their culture, their traditional social system, their sense of identity and self-dependence. [More…]
If it could look beyond the admittedly powerful but narrow ranks of the big foreign investors it would see that the eyes of the world are on Australia. [More…]
The Third World mystique plus the insistence of great and powerful friends have kept us involved more or less directly in the United Nations and I personally feel that we are too deeply involved. [More…]
We should remember that sometimes great and powerful friends did nothing for us when a few years ago we were unwilling for Indonesia to have West New Guinea. [More…]
The only point I make about this is that powerful friendships do not necessarily last unless the interests are there and it just was not in the interests of the United States that we should keep West New Guinea. [More…]
It seems to me that uranium is much more powerful than Third World rhetoric because in uranium we have a sure counter at the bargaining table. [More…]
There are very powerful arguments that multilateral aid may be the most effective form of international aid. [More…]
This Association is a front for Fascist and Right-wing forces who serve only the interests of the rich and powerful- four per cent of the Lebanese population. [More…]
He pointed out that Congress has powerful political weapons ( page 47). [More…]
It gives warning that if this Government endeavours to site that second international airport in the western suburbs of Sydney it will have to fight a pretty powerful organisation. [More…]
What a commentary on their powerful sense of inquisitiveness. [More…]
What a commentary on the powerful state of relations between the Whitlam led Labor Government and the Dunstan led Labor Government in South Australia. [More…]
1 admit that they had some distractions in 1974 and that things worsened a bit in 1975 but such was the powerful, passionate, continuing interest of the 1 5 that they did not even bother to inquire what happened at Maralinga. [More…]
It is simply not good enough to be encouraging millions of Australians to accept a second-class standard of living while the lucky, the tough or the powerful enjoy the security of their ruling class situation. [More…]
We constantly allow ourselves the luxury of extraordinarily high standard facilites for the few whilst permitting and even encouraging the poorest quality services for the less powerful- and in education we have a classic example of that. [More…]
The United States is an immensely powerful country. [More…]
Of sturdy build, round faced, firm jawed and with silver-grey hair, this newly created Prince of the Church, fluent in French, Italian, English and German and powerful in his native tongue, attained joint leadership of his Church in Poland with the heroic Cardinal Wyszynski. [More…]
I notice that some journals with a powerful sense of giving free wheeling translations have described these officers as being senior officers. [More…]
The wise, the wealthy and the powerful are now deserting the suburbs and moving back into the intermediate areas of the large cities because they can see the coming impact of the energy crisis and its implications for urban transport. [More…]
The bulk of telegrams that have been received are from trade unions not affiliated with the most powerful trade union group in Australia- the Australian Council of Trade Unions. [More…]
At the same time our singularity as a nation, our separation from great and powerful friends, has increased. [More…]
We certainly cannot base our defence policies, our procurement policies, on the easy assumption that any action that we take will be taken in conjuction with great and powerful allies. [More…]
He has made the Northern Land Council a distrusted body which will be seen as a mechanism and a tool of powerful white interests. [More…]
I hope that at the last ditch there may be a reconsideration by both the Minister and the honourable member representing the Opposition on this matter, and an appreciation of the fact that they are about to put in the statute books a very powerful weapon in the hands of a member of the Executive who could maliciously, and without any substantive right of review or redress being available to a public servant, take it out on a public servant about whom the Minister had formed the view that the public servant had acted contrary to the interests of the Service. [More…]
Do laws which distinguish capital gains from taxable income guarantee that there will be tax dodges which favour powerful companies which employ the best experts to ensure that they will never need to pay tax. [More…]
With all due respect, I would want to hear some more powerful arguments than those advanced by the honourable member for Gellibrand to persuade me that we ought to use what in effect would be a penal rate of tax for the company involved to force it to change its mode of operations. [More…]
It is very easy for the powerful to have immunity from penalties in the misappropriation of funds. [More…]
When we bear in mind that standby passengers under any circumstances are only taking up seats which otherwise would have been empty, there is a very powerful argument to suggest that the concession for those people who are prepared to travel in that way should be much greater than it is at the moment. [More…]
But don’t you see, this is just the point- what has for centuries raised man above the beast is not the cudgel but an inward music; the irresistible power of warmest truth, the powerful attraction of its example. [More…]
In this modern age, radio and television services are very powerful and influential tools of knowledge and understanding. [More…]
So we have a situation in which governments take on the job of attempting to rationalise decisions that are made by powerful financial interests and land companies after those companies have determined the direction of investment. [More…]
Vietnam is regarded as militarily the most powerful country in the area and, clearly, as prospectively the most powerful industrial nation of the South and South East Asian region. [More…]
I have said before, and I repeat, that I believe the best way in which we can establish secure, long-term stability in the Indo-China peninsula is by providing aid for the peaceful reconstruction of” Vietnam and encouraging Western countries to provide generous aid for that purposenot so generous, of course, that Vietnam can establish herself as a supremely powerful industrial, and accordingly military, country in the area- so that she can feel more secure and confident in the future. [More…]
It maintains the sell out of the Australian taxpayers to the minority interests of the Liberal Party’s powerful friends in the board rooms in Australia and around the world. [More…]
From the viewpoint of the few powerful capitalists who control this country, and from the viewpoint of their puppets in the [More…]
Australia can be a powerful influence for good in world affairs. [More…]
She has her own reasons for trying to marshal powerful forces against the Soviet Union. [More…]
That Australia should pursue economic and social policies that were reflections of those of the United Kingdom and the United States, its great and powerful friends, and had no need to cultivate close relations with Asia. [More…]
In short, the Fraser Government has shown once again its inability to plan properly for increased international competitiveness in our industries, its inability to minimise adverse effects of change on thousands of working people and its inability to build up techniques to negotiate meaningfully on behalf of the Australian people with great and powerful transnational corporations whose interests are not necessarily the same as those of our nation. [More…]
It is predictable because so many countries around the world, some of which are very much larger than Australia, are asking for the recipe- perhaps it is co-operation between all of the countries concerned- so that we can get the answers from some of these companies which indeed are far more powerful than the countries in which they operate. [More…]
There are other companies in this country in the same field which are equally as powerful. [More…]
I refer to the Ford Motor Company, Chrysler Australia Ltd, which is perhaps a little less powerful, and the Japanese manufacturers, Nissan and Toyota. [More…]
Carter is in the position of heading the most powerful nation in the world, but he seems incapable of taking any concrete initiatives of any sort to deal with the problems facing the Western world. [More…]
I do not know what the President of the United States or anybody else could do, because I believe in this idea: If a nation believes that it is large and powerful, that it has some strings it can pull and some influence it can exert on the people, that belief belongs to the past. [More…]
By capitulating to powerful business interests which lobbied against the tax credit proposal, which is certainly what happened, the Treasurer ensured that this proposed amendment would be ineffective and that a substantial area of tax avoidance could not be closed off. [More…]
I can only hope that this most powerful, democratically-elected leader in the world has thought through his decision for America to be a major supplier of military equipment to China and what the results of this trading in arms might be for Australia’s part of the world during the next decade. [More…]
Engines are much more powerful. [More…]
To give effect to this decision a powerful and competent authority will be established to undertake and carry out the design and construction of the project. [More…]
Many of the measures included in this Bill are powerful weapons. [More…]
Thus, if one considers which nations in the world are militarily the most powerful, clearly the distribution of economic wealth is one of the major determinations on the list. [More…]
The strength of these arguments for a prices justification body is as powerful if not more powerful today than in the early 1970s. [More…]
The Opposition firmly believes that this is further evidence of the influence of powerful vested interests in conflict with, and overriding, the public interest. [More…]
Its demolition represents a great victory for powerful vested interests close to the Government, but well removed from the public interest. [More…]
As a consequence of the lack of a strategy, the Government responds to diverse pressures ranging from its own dogmatic ideology to the pushes and pulls of every powerful institution and interest group in the society. [More…]
When this Government speaks of promoting free enterprise, it means featherbedding the powerful vested interests that support it. [More…]
The Ombudsman, the Administrative Appeals Tribunal and other provisions are areas where the Commonwealth has shown concern for the rights of individual citizens against, for example, what can sometimes be regarded as a large, powerful and hard to understand bureaucracy. [More…]
The powerful and guilty do away with the weak, the innocent and the defenceless. [More…]
I would also like to take this opportunity to make one point perfectly clear I do not believe that the role of the Public Service in the department is as all powerful as many outside defence say it is. [More…]
However, as with most changes, I have no doubt that those powerful arms of the bureaucracy, Treasury and Finance, are capable of conjuring up many objections to such a proposal. [More…]
It is a powerful group, as it should be, and I would like to see whether the Government is prepared to do that. [More…]
We now have longer and larger trains drawn by more powerful locomotives. [More…]
I say that the Liberal Government was responsible to its rich and powerful friends. [More…]
He is a very powerful man in the trade union movement and in the ALP. [More…]
Even on the Newport power station resolution, the powerful union leader, Mr Ken Carr, stated emphatically that a number of unions will continue to maintain bans despite the passing of the resolution. [More…]
This paper discusses some of the powerful influences which can now be seen to be operating, and speculates on the future pattern of work in the UK. [More…]
Never has a powerful technology advanced so rapidly in such a short time. [More…]
Not only are these social and economic factors of great significance, the very structure of industry can be a powerful disincentive to innovation. [More…]
That, in the opinion of the House, the Government has repudiated its policy and legislation on Aboriginal affairs when these clash with powerful pastoral, mining or State Government interests. [More…]
That, in the opinion of the House, the Government has repudiated- , ‘ repudiated ‘ is the key word - its policy and legislation on Aboriginal affairs when these clash with powerful pastoral, mining or State Government interests. [More…]
The Hamer Government has served the interests of its powerful business friends very well. [More…]
In this sense, electronic surveillance is a rather super-powerful general search warrant and, in the same way as a general search warrant, is exploratory, unselective and indiscriminate in what it records. [More…]
Of course, they are much more powerful than a general search warrant because the intrusion is hidden, it is secret and unknown. [More…]
I have stated the case against electronic surveillance at its most powerful for two reasons. [More…]
President Carter has described SALT as being based on the powerful common interests of the two superpowers in reducing the threat of nuclear war. [More…]
Vietnam had to stand up against the most powerful nation in the world- a nation which was spending $35 billion a year and which spent over $ 150,000m in trying to crush that nation. [More…]
The Rockefeller Institute argues that in 30 or 40 years only the most powerful economies will afford what is left of world supplies. [More…]
Let us now take the steps necessary to harness this powerful machine to our new objectives, by making it more profitable to export and perilous to rely solely on the Australian market. [More…]
Clause 8 gives the Public Service Board a powerful regulatory and coordinating role which we believe the Board sought to divest itself of some years ago. [More…]
In these days of large international combines and df large and powerful nation states, there is no such thing as free trade and open markets. [More…]
In addition to the powerful economic arguments in favour of federal control over all energy decisions there is the fact that energy resources are not distributed uniformly over the Australian continent. [More…]
I believe that Mr Strauss, in constructing the arguments he had between the United States and Japan, constructed very powerful arguments to assist Australia in the relationship between Australia and the United States. [More…]
Within 30 or 40 years only the richest and most powerful economies will be able to afford to buy the oil which is left. [More…]
I think there are very powerful arguments for the establishment of a Commonwealth police force which is organised in a multifunctional way- a force with a range of functions. [More…]
Mr Gordon was a well known entrepreneur in Australia during the 1950s, but he now resides in New York and is a vice-president of the powerful Paramount Pictures organisation. [More…]
I believe this for two, as I understand it, powerful reasons, firstly because the terms of settlement it envisages are essentially right in themselves in that they are based on the principles that the people of Zimbabwe- all the people- have the right to choose who shall govern them, and that the government so elected should have real control over the affairs of the country. [More…]
Lord Mountbatten ‘s achievements resulted not from his noble birth, but from his intelligence, his skill, his dedication and hard work and his powerful sense of public duty. [More…]
What all this means is that the Government is plundering the pockets of ordinary taxpayers while big business, the corporate sector, the wealthy and powerful friends of the Prime Minister, are coasting along, making record profits but paying a disproportionately low share of tax revenue. [More…]
I would not like to see- and I am sure no one would like to see- the people of our areas brainwashed by a signal that came from an urban area produced by one of the powerful television groups. [More…]
-In the closing moments of a speech interrupted by a week’s adjournment the honourable member for Brisbane (Mr Peter Johnson) left no doubt in the minds of members of the Australian Labor Party that the rift between the once great Liberal Party and the once powerful National Country Party is wider than it has ever been before. [More…]
Welfare politics in Australia today is currently dominated by powerful lobby groups representing the interests of the aged, the invalid and the veteran. [More…]
Likewise, tax politics is dominated by powerful groups which seem to care more for general tax reduction than the attainment of a fairer and more equitable tax system. [More…]
But the more powerful oil companies such as Shell opposed it because it did not suit their marketing structure and instead opted for lowering the rating of super grade petrol from 98 to 97. [More…]
It has long been obvious that such a powerful incentive for oil companies to use their profits on oil exploration is essential for Australia. [More…]
This Prime Minister came to office on the shoulders of a conspiracy and an hysteria manipulated by his powerful friends in the media. [More…]
They have waged international political campaigns which have caused countries individually more powerful and wealthy than them to alter their stance on central issues. [More…]
Nevertheless, there are powerful forces of unity operating among them which have enabled them to maintain an impressive degree of solidarity on a range of issues in their dealings with the developed countries. [More…]
The reality is- this kind of political statement is not understood by most people in the media and certainly not by Government members- that the real foreign threat to the interests of the Australian people comes from the powerful transnational corporations and their associated institutions. [More…]
With it there is also the insecurity of this oppressive legislation to answer the pressure of those external forces and those powerful corporations that are putting greater and greater pressure onto the representatives of the conservative elements of this country. [More…]
Indeed, they have used the vulnerability of the community to their disruptive tactics as a powerful industrial weapon, and even, on occasions, for blatantly political purposes. [More…]
He was concerned not merely because it was another strike, but because involved in that strike were quite powerful communist elements, who made no bones of the fact that they intended to alter the nature of government within Australia. [More…]
It is true it is not an executive instrument, as I think I heard the honourable member for Lilley (Mr Kevin Cairns) say in the course of the debate, but insofar as it helps in the construction of administrative judgments it is a very powerful instrument for injustice. [More…]
We led a very powerful delegation to it and were able to persuade those present that perhaps the Opposition had some right to have some say in these matters. [More…]
Here we have a situation in which there is a powerful organisation with, in the Opposition’s view, quite inadequate supervision. [More…]
I remember that the Deputy Leader of the Opposition, the honourable member for KingsfordSmith (Mr Lionel Bowen), made a powerful speech, I think in the second week in August, just before the Budget was introduced. [More…]
No matter how great or powerful a nation may be it cannot isolate itself from what is going on in the international economic system. [More…]
Inflation is imposed upon the people of this country by a government which is prepared to allow the more wealthy element in our society, those who are the most powerful, the most resourceful and regrettably often the most unscrupulous, to prosper under it. [More…]
The Australian people are coming to believe that they cannot trust this Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) or this Government to redistribute wealth in any other way than in favour of the more affluent and powerful. [More…]
I do not believe that the aged people of this country should have to suffer simply to meet the whims of a few powerful men. [More…]
As a result anomalies were created, expectations were raised among certain powerful unions and the community was forced to suffer a great deal from the industrial disruption which followed. [More…]
The effect of that, of course, is to redistribute wealth away from the poor- taxpayers in generaltowards the wealthiest and the most powerful people in Australia. [More…]
Consequently, any State which found itself in a minority in any vote on the Ministerial Council for Companies and Securities would still be in a powerful and independent position. [More…]
Undue luxury or display on the part of others was also sharply discouraged and, while showing relative clemency towards the poor and weak, the Emir would inflict the most severe punishments on the rich and powerful. [More…]
When some unions come out and try to say that the real answer to these small interminable demarcation disputes is to set up an industry union covering a whole industry, honourable members opposite oppose it simply because they do not wish to see unions becoming powerful. [More…]
The arguments I have put forward against the Minister’s two assertions provide, I believe, powerful reasons why this House should reject the optimistic conclusions in the second reading speech. [More…]
Arrangements have already, been made for the provision of a Nomad Searchmaster L aircraft fitted with powerful radar equipment to be stationed on the central Queensland coast for fisheries surveillance of the outer Great Barrier Reef. [More…]
In the United States of America, the home of the free enterprise system, the powerful Finance Committee of the United States Senate in 1973 completed a most exhaustive inquiry into the operation of multinationals in the United States. [More…]
One has to say that the Soviet Union is powerful, influential and stable. [More…]
have been marked by prevarication, policy reversals and concessions to powerful interest groups ‘. [More…]
The honourable member for Sturt (Mr Wilson) and this powerful, influential Government back bench committee which deals with taxation matters have been saying how concerned they are. [More…]
Quite clearly, the Treasurer has been rolled by massive lobbying of the Government by powerful and privileged interest groups, and not for the first time. [More…]
Will a successful takeover by News Ltd concentrate the ownership and control of the great majority of Australia’s Press and television in the hands of two powerful media organisations? [More…]
Having regard to the extra accountability of the police vis a vis the Narcotics Bureau, we would have to give an even more powerful response to him. [More…]
Is he also aware that powerful companies, some foreign owned, are already active in many areas ostensibly waiting to pounce on large tracts of bankrupt people’s land? [More…]