powerful - senate - 1970

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

Has the Department of Air rejected the F111C aircraft in a bid to get the more powerful and costly FU IF aircraft as well as the use of Phantom aircraft in the interim period if necessary? [More…]
Will the amended National Service Regulations permit the Mintster to refer a case to a court and do they permit the possibility of any objector to national service training who has a powerful organisation supporting him being found to have conscientious beliefs or do the new regulations end the goaling of those refusing to obey the National Service Act. [More…]
Does the Minister recall the last occasion on which this powerful group aserted in influence in Government ranks, leading ultimately to the replacement of a Prime Minister? [More…]
We will discover that in the net position the American contribution to overseas defence and wars was substantial enough to outweigh any gain that country might have received by being a powerful industrial economy in times of war. [More…]
I thank the honourable senator for his help in this regard and say that the powerful speeches which have been made by him, by Senator Kane and by me will be conveyed to the Minister for Customs and Excise (Mr Chipp). [More…]
When will the Government take action to bring about a substantial reduction in the extraordinarily high interest rates which apply to home mortgages, loans and hire purchase transactions and which are a powerful factor in boosting inflation and destroying the standard of living of the ordinary citizen? [More…]
From what he said I rather gathered that South Africa and Portugal, these powerful nations, were the great threat to the world. [More…]
Following such a repugnant resolution of support by the powerful Victorian Australian Labor Party State Council for this blatant invasion by communist forces- [More…]
Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that the members in Parliament assembled will see that the powerful communicator, television, is used to build into the nation those qualities of character which make a democracy work- integrity, teamwork and a sense of purpose by serving, and that television be used to bring faith in God to the heart of the family and national life. [More…]
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…]
Senator Withers is not sufficiently powerful to subdue the rebel on the back benches. [More…]
For example, if a powerful union and a powerful industry were to reach an agreement which stepped wildly outside those guidelines this could have flow on effects which would immediately torpedo any system of indexation. [More…]
So the Commonwealth is in a powerful position to negotiate with the States if it were prepared to abandon its rights. [More…]
Is the Minister representing the Minister for External Affairs aware that during a powerful Press campaign to induce Australia to sign the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty it was freely stated in the Australian Press that certain top officials of the Department of External Affairs had decided that Australia should sign the Treaty and for a long period had pressed the Government to do so? [More…]
I repeat what I said before: In my view one of the most serious issues in this country today - an issue which will have a powerful effect on the result of the Senate elections to be held this year - is the situation of the primary industry. [More…]
Instead of the African societies as a whole being societies in which the mass of the people are elevated, we have discovered that in the African societies is an elitist group which oppresses the mass and the rich in the African socialist societies become richer and more powerful while the people become more subject. [More…]
We do not want to wait until we have no friends left and then be at the mercy of the first powerful aggressor. [More…]
If we are not ever-vigilant in our defence we could be a rich prize for some powerful aggressor. [More…]
Has the Minister seen a report attributable to the senior lecturer in Biology at the University of Sydney that it is believed powerful insecticide sprays, superphosphates or weedicides caused the death of hundreds of fish in a creek near Ballina in northern New South Wales, that a similar mass killing had taken place in the Tweed River in northern New South Wales and that if the present situation continues pollution by insecticides, detergents and washings from dairying and other country industries will eventually foul up our rivers and seriously affect the future of the Australian fishing industry? [More…]
We know how eyes have been closed to the intrusion of big powerful financial people who have gone into the wheat industry and helped kill the goose that laid the golden egg for the legitimate wheat growers. [More…]
He won a seat from the powerful Nationalist Party of Mr Vorster, the Prime Minister of South Africa. [More…]
Although President Nixon claims that the United States is the strongest, the greatest and the most powerful nation in the world, a nation which is divided to the extent that the United States is divided, I would suggest, creates a precedent the like of which has never been understood or realised before in a nation of such strength. [More…]
But I point again to the powerful industrial strength of the professional engineers employed by the Commonwealth Government. [More…]
Has the Minister seen a report attributable to the senior lecturer in Biology at the University of Sydney that it is believed powerful insecticide sprays, superphosphates or weedicides caused the death of hundreds of fish in a creek near Ballina in northern New South Wales, that a similar mass killing had taken place in the Tweed River in northern New South Wales and that if the present situation continues pollution by insecticides, detergents and washings from dairying and other country industries will evenutally foul up our rivers and seriously affect the future of the Australian fishing industry? [More…]
I drew the attention of the Minister representing the Minister for Primary Industry to a report by a senior lecturer in biology at the Sydney University which stated that it was believed that powerful insecticide sprays, superphosphates or weedicides had caused the death of hundreds of fish at Ballina and also in the Tweed River. [More…]
Since America is unquestionably the most powerful country, the transformation of America’s image within the past 30 years is very frightening for Europeans. [More…]
But the Vietnamese likely to be the most affected by a change of regime in Saigon, or by a Communist takeover - the wealthy and powerful - do not talk much about it. [More…]
It has been realised, however, that proper utilisation of new technologies can provide Sweden with a small but highly effective naval fleet capable of competing with the larger units of other more powerful nations. [More…]
It is a great credit to the industry that in the face of competition from more powerful and more wealthy nations it has been able to come to the fore so gratifyingly. [More…]
Has the Leader of the Government in the Senate seen a report attributed to Dandridge M. Colli of the General Electric Company’s missile and space vehicle department in the United States of America who referred to a huge and powerful super rocket which could be exploded behind an asteroid as it orbited between planets and would hit the earth with the force of several million megaton type hydrogen bombs; or has he seen a report by W. H. Clark, a physicist and explosives expert of the Utah Research and Development Company of the United States of America, in which he speaks of a bomb containing 1,000 tons of heavy water equipped with a nuclear detonator and a boron blanket? [More…]
Has the Minister seen a report attributable to the senior lecturer in Biology at the University of Sydney that it is believed powerful insecticide sprays, superphosphates or weedicides caused the death of hundreds of fish in a creek near Ballina in northern New South Wales, that a similar mass killing had taken place in the Tweed River in northern New South Wales and that if the present situation continues pollution by insecticides, detergents and washings from dairying and other country industries will eventually foul up our rivers and seriously affect the future of the Australian fishing industry? [More…]
Our Government has always shown that when a united case is put to it on behalf of a section of the community - whether it is an important, powerful section or otherwise - it will listen to that case. [More…]
It is in general beyond the capacity of Australian companies to finance such expansion from their own internal resources, or even from funds which they may be able to borrow in Australia in competition with foreign companies backed by the credit of powerful’ overseas parents. [More…]
In these areas of industry, it may often be” the case that Australian participation can be secured only by finding a niche for Australian production in the world-wide, integrated, production and marketing plans of these powerful units with their established market links. [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…]
1 do not think it needs Mr Harris of the Public Service Board or anyone else to apologise for people who subscribe to it or to say that when they say they are Marxists they are self-confessed Marxists because amongst some powerful western European countries at present we find people like Herr Willy Brandt, Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany, Dr Bruno Kreisky, Chancellor of Austria and Mr Olaf Palme, Prime Minister of Sweden, who are also Marxists; not, I would think, self-confessed Marxists but people who are proud to be described as Marxists. [More…]
The committees are sometimes described as - and 1 think this is fairly accurate - ‘little legislatures with powerful chairmen? [More…]
We have been in the situation of recent years that except for a film industry directed largely to supplying the needs of television we have not had the kind of film industry that a country like ours should possess.It is not necessary, as some people have suggested, to be a big and powerful country to develop a fine film industry. [More…]
Italy is an example of a country not needing to have powerful resources to occupy a prominent position in the film industry of the world. [More…]
The interim report of the Film Committee also pointed out that cinema and television are, in its view, amongst the most powerful forces in influencing our national character. [More…]
In the world of mass media the film of the cinema and the film of television can and will be a most useful and most powerful force in building up what I will call an Asian awareness of Australia. [More…]
When some powerful interests, be they private or public, can implement legislation which protects them against the citizen in the pursuance of his ordinary rights they do it. [More…]
A powerful group of organisations, of which the Unilever company, a very large overseas concern, is a member, is able to pour millions of dollars into a campaign suggesting that the butter industry is at loggerheads with some other primary industry. [More…]
Born in Inverness, Scotland, Donald Grant was a powerful orator and there are still people in this chamber who will remember his rich brogue. [More…]
1 want to pay my personal tribute to him because, as one who has conducted many election campaigns on behalf of Labor candidates in various areas of New South Wales, I always appreciated his co-operation and the excellent and powerful speeches that he made in every Federal, State or municipal election campaign in which he was engaged. [More…]
In another case of negligence, though obviously someone was negligent, against the powerful insurance company or a combination of insurance companies the worker may be unable to prove his case. [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 trade union movement has condemned the Budget and supporters of the Government might say that one would expect trade unionists to do so, but it has been condemned also by the Associated Chambers of Manufactures of Australia, the Chamber of Commerce, the Royal Automobile Club of Queensland which is a motoring association, the pensioners - most certainly they have not approved the Budget and have been trenchant in their criticism - and, last but not least, that powerful organisation in South Australia, the Young Liberals Association. [More…]
Will the amended regulation permit a question to arise and a referral to the court by the Minister, also the possibility of a finding of the holding of conscientious beliefs by any objector to national service training who has a powerful organisation supporting him, or do the new regulations end the gaoling of those refusing to obey the National Service Act? [More…]
The only way pensioners can and will improve their lot in life is to organise themselves into one powerful body to demand their rights. [More…]
Has any member of the Labor Party, let alone this magnificent Federal Executive which is all powerful, dealt with any member of the Labor Party because of his association with the Communist Party? [More…]
Powerful considerations of self-interest would be expected to operate to enable both Commonwealth and States to retain what powers they believed they had. [More…]
if that is not a sufficient answer to the honourable senator, let him go to Norfolk Island where the number of companies has increased from two to three about a decade ago to over 1,600. lt has become a tax haven not for a few companies looking lor small lurks but for some of the most powerful corporations on earth. [More…]
Some of the most powerful bodies on earth are registered on that island which is tax free. [More…]
We are building up a big and powerful bureaucracy and executive to govern this country without any real reference to those elected to this Parliament to make decisions for the country. [More…]
Small countries are disadvantaged alongside big and powerful countries which can stand - as big and powerful companies can stand against small companies! [More…]
When one considers that the position of our primary industries is bound up to some degree with what happens overseas where there are primary production crises, one can see that there are very powerful reasons for having a royal commission which will survey the whole field. [More…]
Discriminatory terms of supply is one area in respect of which the Commissioner reported that his Office has had no complaints from suppliers about threats or promises of a powerful buyer. [More…]
I direct my question to the Minister representing the Minister for Customs and Excise, in the light of remarks made by the Chairman of the United States Senate Sub-Committee on Juvenile Delinquency that in recent months a much more powerful variety of heroin has been circulating amongst Gls and others addicted to drug taking in South Vietnam, I ask whether this trend has been manifested in Australia in regard to heroin supplies impounded and drug victims under treatment. [More…]
Mr Percy Chatterton, a white member of the House of Assembly, said that the more powerful the powers of the police, the more powerful the checks on these powers should be. [More…]
Since then a tremendous number of queries have been raised by a very large and powerful body of skilled people outside of the Australian Atomic Energy Commission. [More…]
The power to take control of the finances of an assisted Aborigine can be a powerful method of punishment. [More…]
The picture most frequently presented is of a valiant band of people, united by tribal ties, lighting 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 tooled in their ancient history. [More…]
It is not the pensioners who are neglecting to see to it that Arm action is taken against the restrictive practices which are admitted on all hands to be a powerful inflationary factor in the community. [More…]
It would not be a bad idea if we got out of the Vietnam war, which is costing hundreds of millions of dollars and which is one of the most powerful factors in producing inflation in this community. [More…]
We will be in trouble with the powerful neighbour to the north - Indonesia. [More…]
[ rise to express my concern and the concern of a great number of people on the north coast of New South Wales at the manner in which an announcement has been made regarding the proposed merger of 2 large television stations on the north coast of New South Wales, and of the further projected concentration of this very powerful medium inthe hands of a privileged few. [More…]
We see very powerful associations forming into 1 organisation thus tightening the hands of monopoly on this very important medium. [More…]
They are cast in the role of policemen protecting the interests of the community against very powerful business interests. [More…]
Stalin’s Government in Russia was probably ‘the most powerful and determined ever known in the history of the world. [More…]
Over the years the Government has been at some pains to prevent the ownership and control of radio and television licences from falling into too few hands - from becoming the plaything of powerful monopolies. [More…]
Ringed around Australia is a series of powerful radio transmitters which continuously feed out the old, worn out discredited and useless shibboleths of Labor Socialist propaganda. [More…]
Our rather sizeable continent has been ringed with powerful radio transmitters controlled by the Australian Labor Party. [More…]
Kinged around Australia is a series of powerful radio transmitters which continuously feed out the old, worn out discredited and useless shibboleths of Labor Socialist propaganda. [More…]
Of course, there are others - people who lack the powerful industrial strength of members of the mighty unions. [More…]
I ask: Is there any intention to extend runways at the Adelaide Airport to accommodate bigger and more powerful jet aircraft? [More…]
The late Senior Cohen made a very powerful and convincing speech on this subject after I introduced a similar Bill before the Senate in 1968. [More…]
I think the most powerful bodies in Australia in terms of government are the Premiers [More…]
I am not aware of the investigation that is being conducted by the Sydney Press except in a general way and I am certainly not in a position to be satisfied that there is any cornering of land by powerful subdividers. [More…]
Although air pilots are few in number, they are tremendously powerful industrially and are able almost to hold the airlines to ransom. [More…]
We will be the first airline to put into service the more powerful long range ‘B’ version of the 747. [More…]
The powerful Communist parties of Italy and France were represented on this Cominform. [More…]
He seems to be an all powerful commissioner. [More…]
If the situation has not been rectified by then, I will make a powerful speech against those responsible. [More…]
In speaking to this motion, I congratulate Senator Webster on quoting one of the powerful trade unions of this country which happens to be led by a member of the Australian Democratic Labor Party. [More…]
But I cannot understand why members of the Australian Labor Party do not exhibit exactly the same disappointment when they realise that a great many of the most powerful unions which were once led by Labor men are now led by members of the Communist Party. [More…]
It must not be pushed around by pressure groups however powerful those pressure groups might be. [More…]
Sukarnoist Indonesia was committing violence against its near neighbours, with the then powerful Indonesian Communist Party exercising major influence over Indonesian policies. [More…]
Have we consolidated our alliances with our more powerful friends? [More…]
The days of great and powerful friends now belong only to history. [More…]
This, therefore, gives us much higher responsibility to ensure that our forms shall not be lesser than those of the courts but instead will be even more powerful in protecting the natural justice and the rights of somebody who even wishes to plead, when guilty, for the mercy of those who are about to sentence him. [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…]
This posit on has marked some overseas economies - powerful economies. [More…]
I think that is a very powerful argument. [More…]
Everyone knows that the tobacco monopolies are very powerful. [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…]
We do not need to have a powerful transmitter in the Thursday Island-Torres Strait area but we do need a transmitter. [More…]
That the Australian people both in Metro politan 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 no longer have the assurance that powerful allies will come to our aid in an emergency. [More…]
We were told that opposed to these commissars was our great and powerful ally, the United States of America, steadfastly determined to oppose Communism and to support democracy even if supporting democracy meant sending troops into the Dominican Republic to depose a democratically elected president. [More…]
There was our great and powerful ally with a great and powerful President, Lyndon Baines Johnson, with whom we would go all the way and with whom, I think, we have just about gone all the way. [More…]
We could rest somewhat easy thinking that, with us, this great and powerful ally would turn back the Red hordes which had shown such aggression against Australia that they had moved from North Vietnam into South Vietnam. [More…]
Is anyone seriously suggesting that the Democratic Republic of Vietnam- North Vietnam - has been destroyed or that it is any less powerful now than it was when the conflict started? [More…]
There are about 700 million people in that country, which is becoming one of the greatest and most powerful countries in the world, and the Americans intend to talk to them. [More…]
State and Federal Governments are under increasing pressure from powerful motoring lobbies to tighten the law on the motor vehicle insurance industry . [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…]
The article reminded its readers that 82 men had died in this disaster, and the inference was obvious and powerful. [More…]
I suppose that it is easy for us to stand aside and criticise small countries on the fringe of China, a great and powerful country. [More…]
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…]
It is an Act with immensely powerful provisions and penalties to match. [More…]
Is there some powerful reason which actuates members of the Government and the Democratic Labor Party to say. [More…]
They did so; they paid off their debts and have become an extremely powerful country. [More…]
1 said that the Americans had developed a powerful economy and they had paid off a great part of their debts. [More…]
‘I think it is rather significant that something as powerful as advertising is now almost completely in the control of the United States. [More…]
They need considerable expenditure on track, first of all, to put the track right; on modern equipment and on heavier and more powerful locomotives. [More…]
If we continue to equip ourselves with arms for the purpose of destruction the time must come when we will need those arms, and at that time we will have to hope to God that we are more powerful than our enemy. [More…]
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…]
I am sorry that a powerful union of forces has induced the Government to take the measures that it has taken. [More…]
I can remember Albert Monk, who was probably the most respected figure in trade unionism over the last 20 years, about 10 years ago at a conference on immigration, when the move to reduce the number of migrants was just as powerful as it has been in recent months, saying straight out: You cannot turn off and turn on immigration like a tap’. [More…]
We ak giving away our authority as a Parliament and handing it over to the civil servants, and they are get:ing a financial recognition of being the more powerful organisation. [More…]
They have shown that even the United States, the most powerful country in the world, cannot impose its will on Vietnam. [More…]
This is not to deny that we cannot, still look to powerful friends for aid if the need arises but this places a direct responsibility on us to be in a position to develop our own strength. [More…]
The British blockade of 1914-18 was a most powerful and effective weapon in destroying the ability of the Central powers to fight, by destroying what. [More…]
Now that our great and powerful ally has started to treat the Chinese as people they need to discover some other threat. [More…]
After having been assured by the Prime Minister (Mr McMahon) that anybody who spoke to the Chinese was practically equivalent to a traitor to his country, honourable senators opposite were confronted overnight with the spectacle of Australia’s great and powerful ally treating the Chinese as human beings. [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, points to a falling away of overall standards of efficiency and real productivity. [More…]
That is a pretty powerful comment, is it not? [More…]
This is unilateral fixing of prices by people who are powerful enough to do so. [More…]
This was illustrated in another way by the Government’s attitude towards the trade practices legislation which has had abundant time to show whether it can work any effect on the economy and in breaking down the practices which have the effect of prepetuating price rises and unconscionable price fixation by corporations which are powerful enough to do so. [More…]
Anyone familiar with proceedings, whether civil or, more so, criminal proceedings which are triable by a jury, will be aware of the powerful effect of a statement in a document. [More…]
This has a most powerful effect. [More…]
Here, there is a very powerful public interest in preserving the relationship between the spouses free from invasion of that privacy by forcing one spouse to give evidence against the other and especially by forcing one spouse to disclose communications which have been made between them. [More…]
We had advanced to us by the Treasury the most powerful argument as to why this could and should be done. [More…]
He fought against a lot of very powerful opposition. [More…]
In creating such a powerful body would the Government insist that the Board be composed of top marketing men rather than politicians and activists from among the ranks of wool growers? [More…]
One is by free sterilising operations which I advocate, but this wilt take slow effect unless also positive education is done with colour films and tv advertisements as powerful as those used to promote patent foods, drugs,, alcohol and smokes, petrol and detergents. [More…]
Why does the Government continue to pursue specially selected draft resisters while it refuses to prosecute a great and powerful friend of the Government which breaks the provisions of the Broadcasting and Television Act? [More…]
I have belonged to a union for many years which always recognised that it did not have the powerful economic punch to win improvements in wages and conditions by the use of the strike weapon because the strikes would last for a period in that industry which inevitably would mean that die workers would be starved back to work. [More…]
They thought that in the economic circumstances cf today they were in a powerful position to use unbridled the right to strike to improve their own conditions regardless of others. [More…]
If we believe in the unbridled use of the right to strike, the pilots have never had any responsibility or obligation to the clerks, the sweepers, the cleaners and others in the industry who work for Qantas, who could not ground the aircraft to gain the conditions they may have thought were their just right but who had to put up with a situation in which the great bulk of the profits of the industry and the establishment for which they work, went to the few who were in this powerful industrial position to use unbridled the right to strike to gain only their own ends. [More…]
I suggest that in the Public Service the number of employees in particular establishments has now grown to such a tremendous extent because of the needs of this nation that the loss incurred by the department concerned, by the Government and by the taxpayers of this country who pay the salaries of those who are immobilised by a small section which uses the right to strike, that they have as powerful a weapon for industrial blackmail as have the pilots who are able to ground the enormously expensive equipment that is used in their industry. [More…]
How, then, are we in some way to bridle those who have begun to realise that they have this powerful weapon to use and who are prepared to use it irrespective of the loss to their fellow workers in associated or kindred industries, and who are prepared to use it irrespective of the loss of public moneys which are paid in tax mostly by the people who work in this country - they are the largest taxpayers because of their numbers - if we do not bring in some restraints when we see the irresponsible use of the strike weapon to protect the public purse. [More…]
I am going to finish this powerful pronunciomento. [More…]
We do not have to go beyond the treachery of that decision to know how little interest the official opposition has in defence, foreign affairs and our relations with our great and powerful friends. [More…]
In these actions public servants have learnt one lesson, namely, that united they are a very powerful force and divided they fall. [More…]
Although the people he represents ate being discredited in the electorate, they still exercise a very powerful influence inside the Parliament. [More…]
In my own State, George Crawford and Bill Hartley, just fresh from his unlawful occupation at the La Trobe University - are still powerful influential men in the Victorian State Council of the Australian Labor Party. [More…]
Even on the basis of very conservative estimates it seems clear that MNEs will continue to grow and become increasingly powerful institutions. [More…]
In a world dominated by large and powerful MNEs to whom would non-elected boards and management of multi-national enterprises be responsible? [More…]
Even on the basis of very conservative estimates it seems clear that Multi-National Enterprises will continue to grow and become increasingly powerful institutions. [More…]
It is not going to rupture our relations with some of the countries which we term om powerful friends. [More…]
I say to honourable senators opposite: Your powerful friends - rightly - are not overly concerned when their own economic interests are involved. [More…]
We will be wise, then, to maintain ties with this potentially rich and powerful country and to do all that we can to foster friendship. [More…]
1 request him to muster all of the powerful self-will that he can bring to bear to support the things that I and my colleagues will be putting to the Government. [More…]
Despite the report’s powerful indictment of alcohol, the Committee recommends only that tax concessions for drug advertising should be discontinued; that greater restrictions should be placed on television and radio drug advertising; that treatment for alcoholism should be included in the rehabilitation facilities recommended to be set up with a $5m grant to the States; that drug container labels should have adequate warnings, and that better reporting of drug statistics be organised. [More…]
It is not the most powerful buying country in the world, but neither is any of the emerging countries. [More…]
We all know that restrictive practices are one of the most powerful causes of inflation. [More…]
We have had a history of delays, of disappointments and of pressures being exerted by powerful interests so that today, 10 years after it was clear that we should have had effective trade practices legislation, we still have no effective laws. [More…]
The opening of this central body means that two very, powerful and influential employer bodies in this country have seen the benefits to their members of combining together their resources to more effectively undertake their responsibilities in the field of industrial relations. [More…]
What months of careful thought and consultation should have made clear to the Government became apparent only when a powerful employers organisation trained its guns on the Government. [More…]
This flies in the face of the recommendations of employers who have stated that they prefer to deal with a large, powerful union rather than with a multiplicity of unions, because employers learn in the course of their experience that if they have to sit around with 15 unions instead of one the proceedings are going to be prolonged. [More…]
If a relatively small union could successfully mount such an attack, what could be achieved by the more powerful unions. [More…]
It appears to me that the Government expresses great concern about demonstrations by minority groups on the one hand but merely dilly dallies in regard to amending the law when if is under challenge so far as it relates to the control of powerful interests in this country. [More…]
If amongst those habits is the taking out of a box of cigarettes, the selection of a cigarette, the passing between mother and father of cigarettes and then the lighting up and smoking of them, the child has been subjected to the most powerful and effective influence in the form of advertising of tobacco smoking that it possibly can ever face in any period in its own lifetime. [More…]
Is Sir William Gunn, as a Board Member of the Reserve Bank, Chairman of the Australian Wool Board, the International Wool Secretariat and the Wool Bureau, using his powerful positions to act as a salesman of Australia’s heritage. [More…]
In that way we can all become better, stronger, more powerful and more fortunate. [More…]
It is just as powerful a drug as pot or anything else. [More…]
A powerful body of mass media employees are setting their sights on a struggle, an intervention, aimed at weakening the bureaucratic grip on the ABC and carving out a degree of independence hitherto unknown. [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…]
I wanted to disclose that the Government and its Ministers, in particular one Minister, had shown patronage or privilege to powerful people - to powerful friends. [More…]
I made the statement that there seemed to be evidence of patronage on the part of the Minister to suit a particular friend - a particularly powerful friend, a leading financier and a leading stockbroker. [More…]
The purpose of privilege is to allow members and senators to expose certain things without fear of retribution from powerful men. [More…]
There are in this country powerful men who misuse the forms of government and who through the use of close association and by taking advantage of patronage gain for themselves an advantage. [More…]
There is a powerful desire by these young adults for political recognition. [More…]
No-one says that he is not a powerful man. [More…]
I am certain that Senator Carrick was a powerful man in the Liberal Party, either at State Council or Federal Council level. [More…]
No government could formulate a specific policy to interfere with or direct one particular commercial contract, especially a contract being negotiated and forged by such powerful units as BHP and its subsidiary Tubemakers of Australia Ltd, the Australian Gas Light Co. and, I think, the Japanese company Mitsui. [More…]
It is this: Because of the tremendous powers under the Constitution of the Senate, and because it has the total power of veto of the lower House - it has been said that the Senate is the most powerful second chamber in the world - an increase in the membership of the House of Representatives without an increase in the membership of the Senate would result in an increasing concentration of power, particularly the power of veto, in a House whose numbers were diminishing relative to those of the people’s House. [More…]
Senator Byrne gave me the impression that he felt it could be dangerous if we were to increase the numbers in the House of Representatives and have a small, powerful Senate in comparison. [More…]
After the AttorneyGeneral had made his statement I spoke and referred to the pressure that had been applied by powerful interests to prevent the laws being made, and I said that there was no intention on the part of the Government really to introduce effective laws. [More…]
This has reached the stage of a public scandal in that those who are able to exert pressure upon the Government are so powerful that they can force the Government to refuse to proceed to do what it has said is in the public interest. [More…]
Their introduction has had a very powerful influence on the industry. [More…]
The trade union movement would be in a very powerful position to spread employment more evenly if it adopted a total ban on the 2-job practice that exists in the community today. [More…]
The only excuse - this is the rub - is Government neglect and disregard in the face of powerful recommendations by experts. [More…]
In support of my statement that the Government was getting far too close to its friends, especially its powerful friends, I mentioned a company called Jetair Australia Ltd. 1 mentioned Jetair, and other things followed. [More…]
At the time I suggested that there was evidence that a powerful man in Sydney financial circles was able to make a direct approach to the Prime Minister and that a reversal of the assessment followed. [More…]
This is an area of powerful discretion that ought to be taken away from the Commissioner of Taxation. [More…]
The Oxford Dictionary describes the hyena as an animal with powerful jaws but poor hindquarters. [More…]
Certainly, this Government has powerful jaws, because over the last 6 or 7 weeks we have seen so much legislation forced through the House of Representatives and the .Senate in an attempt to make up the ground which the public opinion polls clearly show the. [More…]
The rural community is represented in the Houses of Parliament by the powerful Country Party, whose influence generally is exerted on behalf of the graziers rather than the people who live in the provincial towns and cities. [More…]
I think it is highly discouraging that the spokesman for the Australian Labor Party, the President of the Australian Council of Trade Unions - the man who modestly says that he is the second most powerful man in Australia - should have adopted the attitude that he did. [More…]
We are against collusive practices between powerful employer and union groups in key sectors of industry, at the expense of increased prices passed on to the rest of the community. [More…]
The task of presiding over the administration of a nation as large and as powerful as the United States is onerous. [More…]
It is inevitable that the head of the world’s most powerful nation should have unparalleled opportunities to exert his personality and leave his mark on history. [More…]
The Queensland fleet, which is non-existent, would be more powerful than the armed forces of Australia under a Labor government, the way that the Government is going. [More…]
If one goes through the submissions which were put before that Committee one will find some very powerful submissions were made. [More…]
Also powerful submissions were made by judges in New South Wales through the Chief Judge in Divorce that there should be a separation of the ancillary proceedings - that is custody) property matters, alimony and- so forth - from the dissolution. [More…]
There was a powerful move in the trade unions to introduce compulsory unionism in States where Labor was in power. [More…]
That was how the late Joe Bukowski became so powerful in the Australian Workers Union in Queensland. [More…]
We also believed in the long and previously well known Australian tradition that one does not just sacrifice old friends merely for the sake of making new, even if more powerful, friends. [More…]
Whatever views were put forward by one body, there was a powerful body of evidence which was not put before the proper body delegated by the Senate to inquire into these matters. [More…]
Then in opposition to that we have the strong statement by Mr Hartley and the Victorian socialist Left which is extremely powerful in that State. [More…]
-I am absolutely amazed to hear Senator Georges say that, because one of the most powerful ministries in totalitarian countries is the Ministry for the Interior. [More…]
We have in this country the growing power of trade unions; they are becoming more and more powerful. [More…]
It seems strange that honourable senators opposite should want to stand up and defend their once great and powerful ally in view of the current day by day revelations about the highest office of that country at the present time. [More…]
Consumer knowledge of the properties and quality of products can serve as a powerful restraint on unjustified price increases. [More…]
The usefulness of the present provisions can 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…]
He knows that if I did read out this voluminous report I would not be able to put the other powerful arguments which possibly could convert all the members of his Party. [More…]
Honourable senators on the other side know that if I read it all out the powerful argument which almost certainly would convert them to my way of thinking could not be adduced. [More…]
Yesterday was the day opponents of the burgeoning Senate committee system had long feared and warned against, the day when a committee began to look as important as a Linked States Senate committee, and as powerful . [More…]
The introduction of a wideranging committee system will make the red-carpeted Upper House potentially the most powerful parliamentary chamber in Australia. [More…]
A powerful argument can be made out in favour of uniformity with respect to estate duties. [More…]
It seems quite possible that if this Government, through the Minister for Minerals and Energy (Mr Connor), who some people say is a powerful Minister, intends to purchase overseas petrol it will purchase it within Australian waters when it is delivered. [More…]
I think States are powerful enough to look after themselves. [More…]
When it comes to the ordinary people in our community who need protection more than the big and powerful companies, I believe that 7 days is not long enough. [More…]
I do not know how much the authority would override a State government’s powers but I think that everybody would concede that for a big investment of this nature to develop an area wherever it might be in Australia - AlburyWodonga is the only one mentioned so far - there must be a very powerful authority which can take the steps necessary to achieve the development, to decide which industries will go where, which will be financed and what usage will be made of the lands surrounding the district. [More…]
It would be wise to keep within this group of nations which maintains links giving us a defence connection, a strong association with powerful friends and, more than that, an association with strong friends with whom we have so much in common. [More…]
There has seldom, if ever, been introduced into this Parliament legislation which is so partisan, so sectional and so much a reflection of submission by government to the interests of a powerful pressure group as this legislation. [More…]
It is a Parry not only powerless to resist policy proposals which the trade union movement regards as vital, but as a government it is unwilling and unprepared to challenge powerful sections of the trade union movement when they act against the public interest. [More…]
It must maintain a balance between the powerful groups and interests in any community. [More…]
It is not surprising, in the case of a government which regards itself as the political arm of a labour movement which has for its industrial arm union militancy, that that overall purpose is to strengthen the power and influence of employees’ organisations, the powerful trade unions. [More…]
While the Government is threatening to sub ject the combinations of business to the strict rigours of the criminal law, it is providing a freedom of action to the amalgamations of unionism in a way which no society which expects its Government to hold the balance between the powerful economic groups in the community can possibly tolerate. [More…]
The area in which I am operating concerns the formulation of laws which will permit such standards to be implemented but, more importantly - -leaving aside the implementation of particular standards - the evolving of laws which will protect the consumer generally against the operations of organisations which, of course, are more powerful than the consumer. [More…]
I freely admit that very powerful arguments were adduced for the plan, and many of us would be concerned at the possibility of big profits being made by land developers who do not deserve them. [More…]
I think if we are to show clearly why we oppose this legislation we should have a look at the interpretation or the com mentary on the Convention debates by these very distinguished Australian constitutional lawyers and have a brief look, if time permits, at the report of the United States House of Representatives Committee on the Judiciary, particularly the 3 powerful minority reports which convinced Congress that territorial representation in the Senate should not be granted in the United States. [More…]
Here again we have a very powerful argument. [More…]
The United States Congress showed that these powerful arguments embodied in the minority reports were such that they defeated the proposal to provide Senate representation for the District of Columbia. [More…]
What are the reasons for using taxpayers money to fight a State government and to aid a powerful picture theatre combine to screen a film of somewhat doubtful decency? [More…]
I refer to the International Court of Justice at The Hague and its great, strong and powerful censure of the Prime Minister of Australia. [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…]
That is pretty powerful talk. [More…]
It is a very powerful factor. [More…]
The Leader of the Opposition has 2 very powerful allies for the view that he has given. [More…]
I do not think that any one parliamentarian or parliament is all wise, all powerful or all knowing. [More…]
We could then balance the revenue between the more powerful States and the smaller States by means of grants commissions and out of general assistance. [More…]
At the moment India, on her border, has 2 powerful neighbours with nuclear arms- the Soviet Union and China. [More…]
Rather, they took measures that made the powerful more powerful and the weak weaker. [More…]
Since labor unions in Israel are both politically and economically more powerful than ours, this study demonstrates the limited effectiveness of incomes policies even when they enjoy significant labor support. [More…]
If a relatively small union could successfully mount such an attack, what would be achieved by the more powerful unions with more resources if they acted in a similar way? [More…]
It might well be thought strange that we in the Australian Parliament seek to do something which could result in freedom for a man who gave the Soviet its most powerful weapon; and yet Sakharov has indicated clearly in his statements from behind the Iron Curtain that he is disgusted with Soviet society and the way in which it controls men’s minds, and for that reason I have no hesitation in bracketing him with Solzhenitsyn in the resolution which is before this chamber. [More…]
One cannot accept that the disastrous course of history is impossible to undo- that a soul with confidence in itself cannot influence the most powerful force in the world. [More…]
-The considerations that the honourable senator puts forward about the way in which a person under sentence ought to be treated are powerful ones. [More…]
Many of us can remember that in the period from 1935 to 1940 there were powerful disarmament organisations operating in this country and in the Labor Party. [More…]
The islands to the north of us have powerful subversive forces within their communities based on guerrilla movements which are sponsored by communist nations. [More…]
There is still a powerful underground communist organisation in Indonesia. [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…]
It was claimed by one Opposition speaker that we had in some way abrogated our responsibilities to our allies and to those people whom we have traditionally called our great and powerful friends. [More…]
I cannot accept that it is impossible to reverse the disastrous course of history, that one human soul with confidence in itself cannot influence the most powerful force on earth. [More…]
A view has been expressed by the Chairman of the very powerful House Ways and Means Committee, Mr Wilbur Mills, who joined with Senator Henry Jackson in demanding tougher humanitarian conditions in the arrangements which Dr Kissinger and President Nixon are seeking to make with Russia. [More…]
Those in industry and commerce who would be affected have great and powerful organisations with lawyers and others who are sufficiently capable and well versed in the principles of trade practices to understand well the implications of the Bill. [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…]
-The army will not be dissolved by then because it will be the only means of maintaining law and order in Papua New Guinea, and that will be the most powerful arm in Papua New Guinea. [More…]
There is no question that labour organisations can be a very powerful influence and I say, as I have already indicated, that I am not by any means always on their side. [More…]
Those in industry and commerce who would be affected have great and powerful organisations with lawyers and others who are sufficiently capable and well versed in the principles of trade practices to understand well the implications of the Bill. [More…]
Surely the whole purpose of the painful construction of the United Nations is to remove situations whereby important decisions relating to world peace are resolved by negotiations in which one powerful country can talk te a weak neighbour. [More…]
If this happens no one will listen to what is said by a powerful body such as the United Nations. [More…]
I believe that the Minister put before this Parliament a very powerful case to indicate that in his view the Australian Workers Union, the prime example of amalgamation, was a union in which there was a denial of the rights of the rank and file to a degree that should not have occurred. [More…]
That provision is still in the Act, and it could be even more powerful. [More…]
The Communist Party still exists underground and is a powerful party in that country. [More…]
Apparently Senator McManus wishes us to believe that in some way the Government has been involved in a conspiracy in order to clip the wings of the once powerful body- the Foreign Affairs Committeeand to hamper its activities under the new constraints under which he says it has been put. [More…]
It is a country which, whether one agrees or disagrees with it, is a powerful and increasingly powerful country and a country with which it is in the essential interests of Australia to have close relations and to have trade relations. [More…]
I was interested in a statement by the 3 federations in New South Wales which are a powerful group of people interested in education in Australia. [More…]
So it is quite clear that those 3 powerful groups in New South Wales would all support the right to have included in the consideration of education in Australia that parents have a prior right to choose the kind of education that should be given to their children. [More…]
The Government must have access to the details if it wants them, and the Commission cannot set itself to one side and say: ‘We are all powerful, we are all knowing. [More…]
The economic factor has been the most powerful argument in hastening the inevitability of a universal health insurance scheme. [More…]
Perhaps the Government should learn from recent occurrences in Denmark, where a party which advocates a general reduction of taxation has become very powerful almost overnight. [More…]
In other words this chamber has a tremendously powerful position as the initiating body in relation to a referendum. [More…]
We do not want to restrict it but to make it even more powerful. [More…]
The evident lesson which can be drawn from those figures is the very powerful and predominant position of the major States. [More…]
Therefore if we are now going to cut down the necessity for a majority in four of the 6 States and alter it to three, this will give an even more powerful influence to the 2 major States. [More…]
Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that the members in Parliament assembled will see that the powerful communicator, television, is used to build into the nation those qualities of character which make a democracy workintegrity, teamwork and a sense of purpose by serving- and that television is used to bring faith in God to the heart of the family and national life. [More…]
We must consider who is likely to have a powerful enough motive and the will to attack, in what circumstances this is likely to occur, where is the capability, and so on. [More…]
He had not realised until he met it- and he was sure that I did not realise- how powerful were the lobbies which were present to prevent the laws against restrictive practices. [More…]
Those lobbies, those powerful interests, are the ones which support the members opposite. [More…]
The Senate knows that in commerce and in industry are powerful interests concerned with these restrictive practices. [More…]
These powerful interests, these great lobbies, these special interests are making millions of dollars out of restrictive practices. [More…]
These powerful interests can ring up Mr Snedden, Mr Lynch, or those sitting opposite and tell them what they have to do. [More…]
There is another powerful reason why we should never adopt this Bill. [More…]
If we allow a disparity between the influential and powerful in high office too great as compared with other people we will do the constitution great disservice. [More…]
Its wealth has come from what its people have contributed to it, because while a nation may be very rich in resources it can only be as rich and as wise and as powerful as the people who comprise it. [More…]
I see a great task for this powerful chamber and I intend to play my part. [More…]
To provide the Government with control over the financial system at this time would permit it not only to restructure financial markets but also to use that control as a powerful instrument to effect social objectives; that is, to change the structure of the existing market and the existing economy. [More…]
It has been introduced to control the activities of these very powerful institutions. [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…]
These provisions were apparently prompted by a fear of big powerful unions. [More…]
The whole argument as to big powerful unions is misplaced. [More…]
What we ought to be doing is looking at these power hungry, powerful groups in the community with a view to ensuring that their activities are consistent with the public interest. [More…]
The secondary boycott had become an exceedingly powerful weapon. [More…]
To impact a discordant pattern of rules conceived and expressed by Senator Murphy upon the long existing pattern of State legislation in this field would be putting the consumer to the problem of having to litigate the question of Federal-State inconsistency on many occasions and would be giving to the powerful merchant the advantage that he undoubtedly has in litigation from a long pocket as compared to the smaller consumer. [More…]
He finished by speaking against the powerful merchants, as he calls them, yet his Party in the other place moved amendments which will very considerably water down the effectiveness of this Bill against the powerful merchants. [More…]
It was not so provided in the Bill because the view was taken that exclusive dealing is a vertical practice by which a relatively powerful supplier imposes restrictive conditions on a relatively weak producer. [More…]
The provision aims to prevent unscrupulous suppliers from attempting to gain an unfair advantage over their competitors by discriminating among buyers and to prevent unscrupulous buyers from using their economic power to exact discriminatory prices from suppliers to the disadvantage of less powerful buyers. [More…]
It is a current practice for powerful retailers to impose upon the manufacturer not only for discounts, but also for extra services. [More…]
There is no doubt that there are powerful pressure groups in this community. [More…]
We must not allow Canberra to become all powerful and take complete control. [More…]
It may be an illusion to seek to maintain the ideal of freedom with regard to these countries because the de facto situation is certainly one in which the Soviet Union has an all powerful control. [More…]
John Gorton’s proposition- and over-dependence on one great powerful protector; and, culturally, between slavish imitation and brash selfassertion. [More…]
We have got our political relations right with the United States, with Japan, with China, with Indonesia- with the United States, the most powerful nation in earth, with Japan, our greatest trading partner, with China, the most populous nation on earth, with Indonesia, the great next door neighbour of ours . [More…]
In doing so that Government, through its responsible Minister in each chamber, expressed the belief that it had produced a fair and powerful piece of legislative machinery to shape the future of Australia in this important field of uranium and atomic energy. [More…]
The attitude of Opposition senators seems to be that they must oppose anything which on paper seems to make unions more powerful. [More…]
The corporations of capital are not interested in confronting powerful unions if they can confront small unions. [More…]
This leads me to the proposition that the most powerful force in this country are the unions. [More…]
They are far more powerful than the Government that tries to manage our affairs at this moment. [More…]
They are far more powerful than the greatest corporation that manages industry or commerce in Australia. [More…]
When honourable senators speak to those who manage the commercial ventures of Australia, they will know who regards the other as the most powerful sector in the community. [More…]
I would have thought that there would be no objection from a Labor Party which believes in compulsory voting in all parliamentary elections and which, I understand, believes in compulsory voting in local government elections and will force people to vote and fine them if they do not, to the application of that principle to the union movement which in many ways is more powerful in this country than the Government itself. [More…]
If there were some pressing need to amalgamate the number of unions in the Post Office- and I am sure that there is such a need- then surely pressure should have been brought to bear, surely the information should have been given and surely the evidence, facts and arguments should have been advanced more effectively before now by the very powerful leadership of the trade union movement in order to ensure that support for amalgamation was obtained and that the amalgamation was decided on by the unions concerned. [More…]
It is important that members of the trade union movement should be well aware of the significance of amalgamations which very often are highly desired by powerful and ambitious men. [More…]
After hearing all the fears expressed by opposition senators, in the light of that information about the State arbitration Acts I ask whether they still contend that it is dangerous to make amalgamation proceedings easier and that this will develop left wing unions and powerful unions? [More…]
As Senator Withers said, there would be a couple of officers sitting in the box whispering an answer in the Minister’s ear while Senator Keeffe or some other honourable senator was directing a powerful question to him. [More…]
It has become all powerful and is increasing in its significance. [More…]
There is abundant evidence to show that the United States and other powerful international financial interests in the post-war years have deliberately set out to create a surplus money supply. [More…]
The members of that party are subjected to all sorts of powerful and unknown influences outside. [More…]
Ministers from the Liberal and Country Parties can no doubt be influenced by powerful unknown pressures upon them. [More…]
It is an example of how a government run by union pressures, by the powerful trade unions, does not care about anything as small as Tasmania. [More…]
I cannot understand the so-called free enterprise system saying that it wants to set up an all powerful dominating film commission which can run private enterprise out of the field. [More…]
On this occasion he is free to accuse others of being socialists, but he wants to set up in the community an all-powerful government film making and distributing body, and let the private operators dance as the elephant said among the chickens- every man for himself. [More…]
For the benefit of Senator Greenwood I again say to him that I believe that his view is completely socialistic, and I cannot support the letting loose in the community of a very large, powerful body free of any government direction which will gobble up the private operators in the film industry. [More…]
But what is happening in the community- it is becoming more and more known- is that there are breaches of the law by the powerful persons who go unpunished because it is hard to enforce the law and nobody bothers to enforce the law. [More…]
We have persons in this country- we will name no names but we could easily name names- who have shown that if you are big and powerful enough and if you are able to employ accountants, solicitors and Queen’s Counsel and you have the money to do these things you can obtain for yourself all sorts of assistance. [More…]
I have stressed to them that I am not satisfied with the way in which the system has operated in that it is concerned with prosecuting vigilantly the little people for minor infractions of the law and leaving aside the great crimes that are committed because the people who have committed them are too tough, too rich and too powerful and because it is too hard to do anything about it. [More…]
We have a lot of friends, a lot of powerful friends, who I do not think would hesitate to ask us if necessary, to do anything in this regard or in any other regard as they frequently do. [More…]
It is, or it has all the indications of being, a classic case of legitimate power and authority being challenged by those who hold private power, in this case not by a few powerful landholders or by a few important companies but by a few trade union leaders who have influenced and persuaded a trades hall council and now the State Parliamentary Labor Party to an action which seeks to undermine the authority of the Government of Victoria. [More…]
If the Minister’s proposal is accepted we will finish up with a very powerful sub-section of section 100 which will read: [More…]
It knew that by opposing our efforts to get those powers it would be deliberately robbing this Government of one of the most powerful weapons that it could have to fight inflation. [More…]
Inflation and the downturn in private housing activity have created special problems for which the Government needs additional and powerful administrative machinery to deal with. [More…]
That, Mr President, is a very powerful conjunction of thought on the part of the political leaders in Australia. [More…]
He informed me that we were having difficulties marketing beef because we had insulted our great and powerful allies. [More…]
Reports that multi-national 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…]
It is called the ‘Darwin Reconstruction Bill’ but it is really a Bill to create a huge and powerful commission. [More…]
It will create an all-powerful commission and that is the thing we want to correct with our amendments. [More…]
Yet unilaterally this Bill seeks to take away from the States that powerful right, that residual right that they feel they possess. [More…]
As I see it, the establishment of this large and powerful Superior Court would create a division in the country by dividing it into 2 court systems. [More…]
I have come to know that lawyers are a fickle, conservative and very easily influenced lot, and a very powerful lobby. [More…]
One of the most powerful lobbies in the country has been at work over the last couple of years to change lawyers’ minds about this matter. [More…]
These are difficult bodies to institute- we do not deny that- and -we know that we rub up against some very powerful private interests when these things are done. [More…]
Two of the biggest and the most powerful employer groups in Western Australia- the Employers Federation and the Chamber of Manufactures- appear to be on the brink of a merger. [More…]
He seemed to think that that was the most powerful weapon with which to refute claims by the Government. [More…]
In Australia the powerful voices of people such as Robin Boyd, Patrick White and Donald Home seemed to be crying in the wilderness with regard to the hope they held out for the development of arts and cultural activity generally in Australia. [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…]
Inflation and the down-turn in private housing activity have created special problems for which the Government needs additional and powerful administrative machinery to deal with. [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…]
They defeated France, one of the most powerful countries in the world, with all the military assistance being given to it by the Americans. [More…]
Ultimately it became apparent that the forces of the Vietnamese people were stronger than the combined forces of the puny puppet regime in Saigon and the United States of America, the most powerful country in the world, and its satraps who took part in the struggle along with the United States, were driven from that country. [More…]
The statutory commission proposed will be extremely powerful. [More…]
Yet bit by bit a quite vast array of powerful regulatory legislation is being built up in Canberra giving a variety of bodies a range of powers that would have been quite unthought of just a couple of years ago- in fact even now a great many of us are only slowly becoming aware of just how extensive this armoury of powers already is- the Prices Justification Tribunal, the Trade Practices Commission and next the Corporations and Exchange Commission. [More…]
Let me further say that I believe that the Liberal and Country Party members of the Senate Select Committee on Securities and Exchange have a track record which would gainsay any suggestions of their being a stooge for powerful members of the securities industry, as has been suggested during this debate. [More…]
Is it right for the powerful but not for the weak? [More…]
I think it was simply because he was an outspoken critic of the campaign developed by the Melbourne newspaper in favour of a register in which pecuniary interests could be recorded that he received from the Melbourne ‘Age’ the treatment that any powerful newspaper can inflict on a person if it chooses to do so. [More…]
South Vietnamese but were attempting to toady to their great and powerful friend, the United States, and were attempting to involve the United States more and more deeply in this part of the world. [More…]
The Opposition has a powerful weapon to use against the Government and if Mr Whitlam is concerned about the criticism he is receiving, he has no one to blame but himself. [More…]
The Parliament was given 12 days to study the implications of a complexly worded and vastly powerful piece of legislation and then the Government allowed a total of only 4 hours for the House of Representatives to consider the Bill. [More…]
Secondly, the Bill creates an incredibly powerful administrative tool that is not subject to judicial review except in the most meagre fashion. [More…]
In expressing support for the concept of an Inter-State Commission limited to a specific role, I guess it is reasonable to defer the Bill, although it is inviting the Government to run around the country and distort the argument, with the very powerful resources it now has in the media. [More…]
Opposition senators yesterday argued many of the clauses, which shows clearly that they understood what is contained in the Bill, although they argued that the Bill was too powerful. [More…]
It will also lessen the likelihood of creating an all powerful bureaucracy from the centre and we believe it will make the ultimate result more in the interests of the children of Australia. [More…]
The world’s most powerful companies are no match for the unions the law forces them to deal with. [More…]
The trade union movement is the most powerful entity in the community. [More…]
It is far more powerful than governments and it can dictate government policy at will. [More…]
So, without question, we are talking about the somewhat ludicrous position of educating the most powerful group in the community. [More…]
My second point is that not only are we setting up a Trade Union Authority Act to assist in the training of trade union personnel, we are also setting about training the most powerful group of persons in the community and the parent of the Australian Labor Party. [More…]
They are the most powerful group within us and of us. [More…]
Against powerful, highly-organised and ruthless capitalist forces, it had an essential, even noble part to play. [More…]
The trade union movement may be dressed up with economic committees and so forth; but its only real purpose is to bargain for better wages within an all-powerful capitalist system. [More…]
Powerful mcn who conspire together to squeeze the community are gangsters. [More…]
The logic, indeed, is that the most powerful must get the most money all along the line. [More…]
How hard it is to say to the most powerful groups, the political parents of honourable senators opposite: ‘You will be democratic’. [More…]
Anyone who criticises the most powerful group for the most blatant misuse of power in this community is called a union basher. [More…]
Senator Steele Hall said that it was the most powerful movement in Australia, so powerful that it controlled government. [More…]
The trade union movement in Australia is an immensely powerful institution. [More…]
Statistics have a very inclusive and powerful influence on our general life. [More…]
In order to carry out so many schemes of social service and control, powerful engines of authority have to be set in motion. [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…]
One wonders whether or not the power which was able to be exercised by a very significant and powerful union on the waterfront played a far greater role in securing increases at the level which was able to be obtained than the public interest properly justified. [More…]
I know that, away from this field, Senator Greenwood is a keen student of foreign affairs and he would know that there are many maritime disputes in all sorts of countries, even on the east and west coasts of our powerful neighbour, the United States. [More…]
Senator Button makes some caustic comment about national trusts being powerful bodies. [More…]
The reason why they have not been powerful bodies in the past is that they have not been given sufficient support by governments in Australia, and I think that they would have been entitled to have expected that support. [More…]
In the light of recent surveys of the use of marihuana and narcotic drugs in Melbourne and other cities, in the light of the published records of arrests of drug offenders, drug seizures and drug convictions, and in the light of the arguments presented in the articles written by Dr John Helmer in this week’s Australian Financial Review’ will the Minister advise the Parliament of his reasons for thinking that a new and more powerful police force is necessary to deal with this apparently declining problem? [More…]
As I see it, the establishment of a large powerful Superior Court would divide the country into 2 court systems, State and Federal, with the emasculation of the State Supreme Courts. [More…]
In that sense it is a powerful, independent corporation. [More…]
Yes, that is a good example of great and powerful friends and explains many of the attitudes of the same gentleman over the years. [More…]
An allegation was made this morning- by interjection it was stated that there was a tie-up with great and powerful friends- that he was a director of the Morgan Guaranty Trust Co. of New York. [More…]
It could possibly be that some powerful friends of the Opposition were in the habit of obtaining commissions on loans previously raised. [More…]
1 can remember powerful speeches in this place by Senator Cavanagh when he was in Opposition. [More…]
When one considers the mighty powerful nature of this Bill, the nature of the criticisms made in the recommendations of and the references to that Committee are significant. [More…]
One will note that these statements and criticisms would not require the setting up of an all powerful commission. [More…]
Mr Fraser went on to say that this Government now proposes to set up a new and powerful competitor with certain commercial advantages- I stress the words ‘with certain commercial advantages’- in an already highly competitive industry to the further detriment of the private sector. [More…]
I would suggest that there are many powerful forces in the Liberal Party which would support us on that attitude, if they were prepared to speak publicly on it. [More…]
Senator Poyser has said that he could make a powerful case for bringing his secretary from Geelong and placing her in a room in which she can at least have tea by herself. [More…]
In my view he has made a powerful case. [More…]
This Bill is another example of the determination of the present Labor Government to pay more than lip service to measures which will promote economic nationalism in Australia and which place Australia more surely on the path towards its eventual emergence as a powerful and independent nation. [More…]
The Grants Commission scheme, together with other Austraiian Government assistance programs to local government, has been a powerful stimulus in increasing local government’s knowledge of federal and State responsibilities in relation to its own and has set in train a more thorough appreciation at all 3 levels of government of the problems of raising and distributing money. [More…]
I suggest to him, however, that he does not rely on the force of such legal precedents, powerful as they may be, but that instead he should read the article in the Australian Financial Review to which I have referred and in which he will find a report from the New South Wales Corporate Affairs Commission in which it states, despite anything that Rex v. Kylsant may say, that it considered itself inhibited in prosecuting this particular person by the absence of the specific power to which I have referred and which, of course, will be repaired by the enactment of the Federal Bill which is at present buried in the Senate but which, I hope, will soon emerge from its burial place. [More…]
Whilst there may be a number of causes of the current problems in Britain, there is a general agreement that one major cause of the difficulties in that country is the extent of industrial muscle being used by a section of a powerful Trade Union leadership which is not always concerned with, nor receptive to, the national interest. [More…]
It is becoming increasingly clear that in this country, there is a powerful and vocal minority within the Trade Union movement leadership which is attempting to use that movement for radical political, rather than industrial, ends and, in this regard, is quite irresponsible in its disregard for the laws of the land governing industrial relationships. [More…]
Unfortunately, in human nature there is the characteristic that when people come into a top position they like to feel very powerful; they do not like anyone to stand in their way. [More…]
Honourable senators opposite receive directions from a certain small, powerful group to act in this matter. [More…]
This country merely became an appendage of powerful groups and powerful countries. [More…]
I would also observe that paragraph (b) would have the potential of making the InterState Commission the most powerful statutory body in Australia. [More…]
As regards the industrial questions which are bound up in the amendment, it seems to me, as I have mentioned before, that the amendment is just too powerful. [More…]
Paragraph (b) of Senator Wright’s amendment is the most powerful part of the amendment. [More…]
The choice is whether the Parliament is sovereign or whether the Prime Minister is all powerful. [More…]
The Opposition and the big powerful monopolies behind it think that they can take a short cut to office in the same way as occurred in Greece, in Germany after World War I or in Chile. [More…]
In this article he is referred to as one of the most powerful men in the Western Australian media. [More…]
Journalists are popularly supposed to be relentless seekers of the truth, iconoclasts all, firing penetrating questions at society’s most powerful figures. [More…]
They find some support for this view in the prominent and powerful position of the United States Senate. [More…]
When one remembers how treaties with other countries, in modern times, affect the national economy at home and the whole structure of relations with and obligations to other nations abroad, one sees how powerful is the position of the Senate in America. [More…]
Did this action give Mr Hawke, the most powerful Australian Labor Party figure outside Parliament, a distinct propaganda start over all other economic and political spokesmen in the community? [More…]
The Minister foresees such reports as being most useful documents and powerful forces for good through the exposure of malpractice and the lauding of good practice. [More…]
Until last May, agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation or the super secret, super powerful National Security Agency would pay a daily call on the Washington offices of International Telephone and Telegraph Corporation and the Radio Corporation of America. [More…]
I think they would agree that in America the Senate is in fact more powerful and more influential than the lower House. [More…]
The first thing we should remember is that those who framed our Constitution intended to create a Chamber far more powerful than the House of Lords and, indeed, far more powerful than any other second Chamber in the world. [More…]
On the first point- the point that the fathers of our Constitution wished to create a Senate far more powerful than any other second House- I would simply refer to a statement by the Right Honourable Sir Edmund Barton, the Leader of the Australasian Federal Convention 1897-98, the first Prime Minister and a justice of the High Court of Australia. [More…]
Although this practice means that particular expenditure items are certainly underestimated in money terms, it nevertheless has powerful advantages. [More…]
Neither of us was able to hear the ABC in Tasmania because our receivers are not powerful enough. [More…]
He formulated the ideal of a zone of peace, freedom and neutrality in South East Asia, whilst at the same time establishing friendly links with powerful nations outside the zone. [More…]
If any single, powerful pressure group in this country believes that it is being sold down the drain, that it is not getting a fair go or that favours are being given to one section rather than to another section, the fight against inflation is doomed. [More…]
Some of them were carried away with the enormous weight of the most powerful propaganda machine that has ever been assembled in any country against any government. [More…]
But when that Labor government was elected, we found that it could be thrown out by a coup d’etat and that that Government could be defeated by the powerful Press of Australia. [More…]
He was suggesting that perhaps in about six or nine months time issues such as the powers of the Governor-General, who at the moment seems to have the powers of an absolute monarchy, and the powers of the Senate, which at the moment is the most powerful House of Parliament in the world, and the problems created by these powers, which have been confirmed by the actions of the Governor-General in November and the elections since, can be discussed perhaps at a constitutional convention. [More…]
The big fault with such a situation will be that the industrially powerful will succeed and triumph and the less powerful fall by the wayside. [More…]
As a consequence of the December election, I believe that the Senate now stands confirmed as probably the second most powerful upper house in the world, exceeded in its power only by the Senate of the United States, on which it is modelled. [More…]
There are other centres of power outside the Parliament, centres that clearly are more powerful than the Parliament. [More…]
Sir Philip Baxter speaks of the facts that our known uranium resources are worth $ 18,000m and that it will cost only about $6,000m to mine and enrich that uranium to be sold overseas as a new powerful energy source. [More…]
I also congratulate the President because it appears from what has happened in the past few months in this chamber that he has been elected to the office of Presiding Officer of one of the most powerful legislative chambers in the world. [More…]
This philosophical trait of the conservative parties, of exclusive reliance on but one element of foreign policy consideration, that a great and powerful friend will always stand ready and able both to conduct Australia’s international affairs and to assist Australia should a crisis arise was the central guiding aspect of our foreign policy standpoint of generations long past. [More…]
I think this demonstrates how little control Parliament has over financial matters today and how powerful the Executive is in any modern parliament. [More…]
Such a moment for me was my election and admittance to this chamber which, according to the Clerk of the Senate, Mr Odgers, is one of the most powerful upper Houses in the world. [More…]
The universities are, perhaps, at this stage a powerful and coddled section of this community. [More…]
That there are also rapidly growing pressures by powerful forces tending towards the destruction of the Australian heritage. [More…]
I think he referred to them as being powerful and coddled sections of the community. [More…]
That there are also rapidly growing pressures by powerful forces tending towards the destruction of the Australian heritage. [More…]
That there are also rapidly growing pressures by powerful forces tending towards the destruction of the Australian heritage. [More…]
The basic reason for this is simple: inflation favours the active and the powerful; the position of poor people deterioriates [More…]
That there are also rapidly growing pressures by powerful forces tending towards the destruction of the Australian heritage. [More…]
That there are also rapidly growing pressures by powerful forces tending towards the destruction of the Australian heritage. [More…]
That there are also rapidly growing pressures by powerful forces tending towards the destruction of the Australian heritage. [More…]
That there are also rapidly growing pressures by powerful forces tending towards the destruction of the Australian heritage. [More…]
That there are also rapidly growing pressures by powerful forces tending towards the destruction of the Australian heritage. [More…]
That there are also rapidly growing pressures by powerful forces tending towards the destruction of the Australian heritage. [More…]
That there are also rapidly growing pressures by powerful forces tending towards the destruction of the Australian Heritage. [More…]
This was the basis for the powerful support from the Afro-Asian and socialist countries for the Indonesian claim to the territory. [More…]
That there are also rapidly growing pressures by powerful forces tending towards the destruction of the Australian heritage. [More…]
That there are also rapidly growing pressures by powerful forces tending towards the destruction of the Australian heritage. [More…]
That there are also rapidly growing pressures by powerful forces tending towards the destruction of the Australian heritage. [More…]
That there are also rapidly growing pressures by powerful forces tending towards the destruction of the Australian heritage. [More…]
I talk about this in the context of what I believe to be at the heart of modern government- that is, the search for a social compact, the necessity to convince the powerful sections of society that the Government is not ripping them off or favouring any other section. [More…]
First of all, with regard to the level of real wages and the fear not of unemployment itself but the prospect of it, we regard both these matters- that is to say, a threat to the standard of real wages and a threat of unemployment- as being very powerful psychological factors which are likely to inhibit and limit the level of consumer spending in our community. [More…]
There is nothing which acts as a more powerful stimulus to reduce consumer spending than the threat or the possibility of losing employment. [More…]
There is probably no more powerful threat than that against the desire and the capacity to spend freely. [More…]
Students of history would be fascinated by the powerful remarks of assorted spokesmen for the Liberal Party when the Hayden Budget was introduced last year. [More…]
That there are also rapidly growing pressures by powerful forces tending towards the destruction of the Australian heritage. [More…]
I also pointed out that for some considerable time it has been generally felt that free access to education was a powerful instrument of social mobility and for this reason governments everywhere had given a great deal of attention to the provision of free public education. [More…]
The government obviously intended to inflict a powerful blow to the movement for human rights prior to the Conference. [More…]
That there are also rapidly growing pressures by powerful forces tending towards the destruction of the Australian heritage. [More…]
Rather than seek a rational and fair incomes and prices policy and provide direction and assistance to the rural and manufacturing industries, this Government has decided to bow to the powerful mining sector at the expense of the public purse. [More…]
This Budget has dealt a powerful debilitating blow to the Aboriginal community of Australia. [More…]
The only sanction that the Ombudsman has, but it is a very powerful one, is in his power to report to this Parliament where a grievance is not put right to his satisfaction. [More…]
The people of Australia no longer have a say about who will represent them because the powerful forces of this country are able to manipulate the people who can dismiss a government. [More…]
That there are also rapidly growing pressures by powerful forces tending towards the destruction of the Australian heritage. [More…]
To my mind privilege stems from the desire to give to the Parliament and members of the Parliament protection against the mighty, the rich and the powerful. [More…]
I take it that the privilege given to us here is given so we can reveal the truth of a matter without having to face the intimidation of the powerful interests outside this place. [More…]
My advice to him is not to make a decision to repeat his comments outside this Parliament because this is a place in which a member of Parliament shall disclose information about the powerful in the land, including Bjelke-Petersen, the directors of Nema and the directors of all associated companies. [More…]
That truly amazed me until I learned that the people who asked me realised that he was a man who stood for principle, a man who believed that the law should be available to protect the weak from the powerful. [More…]
He fearlessly pursued this belief, not only for the ordinary people but also for the ethnic minorities when those minorities were under severe harassment from the powerful and the mighty in this country. [More…]
However, I think it should be realised that the United States Advisory Commission is in no respect either a powerful or influential institution within the framework of American administration. [More…]
Together these powerful forces obliged this Government to change tack and to reintroduce collegiate voting for industrial organisations. [More…]
Some of Australia’s most powerful unions are now controlled by officials who have gained their positions as a result of election at which only a very small percentage of members entitled to vote did in fact cast their vote. [More…]
I think the most effective answer which I could give today is to refer to one of the most powerful figures in the trade union movement. [More…]
God help Australia if that is the level at which we are to proceed in relation to the most powerful organisations that this country has ever seen. [More…]
The council can then elect its federal secretary, the most powerful official of any organisation of the trade union movement in Australia. [More…]
It can also elect the federal president of the organisation, who is also a very powerful official of any trade union. [More…]
He is so powerful that he has an influential say in the deliberations of the Australian Council of Trade Unions. [More…]
That there are also rapidly growing pressures by powerful forces tending towards the destruction of the Australian heritage. [More…]
The report states that in OECD countries: the forces of economic growth and industrialisation exert powerful influences on urban environments. [More…]
Totally disorganised is the way many people engaged in the beef industry have wanted it to be, do want it to be and will want it to be, because whilst the industry itself is disorganised powerful sections in the industry are able, because they themselves are organised, to rip off the producer and to make profits for themselves. [More…]
As he has said, the only sanction that the Ombudsman has, which is a very powerful one, is in his power to report to this Parliament where a grievance is not put right to his satisfaction. [More…]
It is a very powerful sanction. [More…]
Time and time again the present Government has argued that we have a powerful alliance with some of the super-powers, including the United States and Britain. [More…]
If not, what plans are in hand to meet the challenges of the British Broadcasting Corporation and other national broadcasting agencies which are reportedly establishing powerful transmissions to the Asian and Pacific area. [More…]
I think that we have to be realistic and acknowledge that the Bill that is being passed through this chamber, unaltered by any of our proposed amendments, has been designed by the powerful mining interests. [More…]
That sort of thing suggests haste and a very powerful motivation to get the whole matter cleared up by 1 January, to get rid of the Broadcasting Control Board, and the Australian Broadcasting Commission as it was. [More…]
They are a very powerful lobby and I know that their philosophy of using the air waves of the nation merely to make money without any regard for the public interest has many sympathisers on the Government side of politics. [More…]
What I am saying is that if we make a systematic analysis of the relative strengths of the U.S.S.R. and the U.S.A. we find that the U.S.A. is overwhelmingly more powerful than the U.S.S.R. [More…]
Capital letters are used for the words ‘Super Power’- however, can exercise a powerful influence on the strategic circumstances of nations in a region. [More…]
It is perfectly obvious that if this world ever gets to the point where there is a conflagration between the super powers- that description is not only used in the defence White Paper but also it is commonly used in the Daily Mirror and the Press around Australia- then Australia’s hopes of survival lie purely and simply in its capacity over the years to impress its more powerful allies that it is a place which is worth saving. [More…]
Traditionally, we have relied on our powerful friends to assist us in this effort. [More…]
No longer can we rely completely on great and powerful friends, as we may have been able to do in the past. [More…]
I pointed out that for some considerable time it had been generally felt that free access to education was a powerful instrument in social mobility and that for that reason governments everywhere had given a great deal of attention and a high priority to free public education and had tried to ensure that facilities were equal for all people. [More…]
The next thing foreseen by those who gave so much thought to this Constitution which some people would dismantle almost with the levity with which they would smoke a pipe, was that we had to have a powerful Senate- a Senate which Quick and Garran writing at the time said was unquestionably the most important and one of the most conspicuous of all of the Federal features of the Constitution- because if the House of Representatives were elected with numbers proportionate to the people, the great metropolitan States of Victoria and New South Wales would have a commanding domination of the Parliament unless the Senate showed an independence in its spirit to protect the States. [More…]
Never in my wildest dreams, Mr President, did I have the opinion that the Senate could destroy the government or that the Senate would become as powerful in electing governments as does the people’s house. [More…]
Today it has become the powerful body illustrated by the passage that Senator Wright read. [More…]
In all the formative years that I spent here in the Senate, the Prime Minister was primus inter pares, that is, first among equals; but there began in 1972 a new phenomenon that all other Ministers were less than the Prime Minister and the power of the Prime Minister became more enhanced and he became more powerful. [More…]
It is a fond pastime of political scientists and political journalists to discuss whether the Senate is indeed a States’ House, in the light of the rise of the enormous and very powerful political parties in this country. [More…]
I seem to remember that in late 1971, when the McMahon Government was in power and clearly these very factors which Senator Messner identified were exerting powerful pressures for a revaluation of the Australian dollar, the McMahon Government caved in to Country Party pressure, as Liberal governments always do, and refused to revalue the dollar. [More…]
As Senator Wriedt will appreciate, the then Minister for Repatriation in the Labor Government was Charlie Frost, who was a big, powerful man but who did not relish meeting an army of 50 angry women seeking to learn who would repair the houses and the fences since the War Service Homes Commissioner was not noted for speedy decisions. [More…]
The entire strategy of the Fraser Government has been directed not at trying to overcome the problems of unemployment in our country but at trying to turn the clock back and trying to improve the lot of a very small number of powerful overseas companies to make it easier for them to exploit and develop our natural resources. [More…]
If a government is supposed to be friends with another government- some people use the term ‘powerful allies’- it should talk frankly with that government. [More…]
Mr Whitlam is on record as saying that the aim of his Party and himself is to destroy State governments, to amalgamate local government bodies and to abolish the Senate and have one House, the House of Representatives, all powerful. [More…]
In the past the interests of universities and colleges of advanced education have been looked after by fairly powerful and, I suppose, substantially autonomous commissions which have built up a substantial body of expertise. [More…]
For a union that is powerful enough and a union that has muscle enough, that is a punishment which it can shrug off lightly and without care. [More…]
There is a powerful case for an independent bureau of transport which can take a broad overview of the whole transport question and reform or reverse existing extravagant transport practices and attitudes. [More…]
If the two Bureaus were amalgamated, the whole would be more useful and powerful, in an analytical sense, than the two separately . [More…]
Is this the Government’s normal way of doing business in the interests of its great and powerful friends? [More…]
Mr Lang Hancock may be great and powerful but he is not often a friend. [More…]
The availability of the injunctive remedy on the application of private persons gave a powerful tool to opponents of the merger. [More…]
The most powerful instrument at the disposal of governments is the power to prevent monopoly. [More…]
Far more powerful in the U.S.A. and Great Britain, as well as a number of other countries in the West - [More…]
Evidence shows that the ACTU has been the body- in coperation, if I can put it that way, with a number of officials of the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission- which has been powerful in settling matters. [More…]
The person who becomes the leader of this Bureau and implements the penalties which exist in the Act will become the most powerful man in this country. [More…]
However, there are a number of powerful unions which reject this convention, and strongly assert the right of unions to take any action, within the selfimposed limits of political expediency. [More…]
Is the Corporation being restricted because this will influence some of the very powerful friends that pay large amounts of money to the Liberal and National Country parties? [More…]
It was pressure from this powerful dealer, certain people in the agricultural ministry and LIPC who had me fired from my job’. [More…]
They surely are sufficiently powerful arguments for us not to become involved and locked into this nuclear rat race that is going on in the developed world. [More…]
As a result LANDSAT is being recognised and accepted internationally as a powerful tool for use in monitoring and managing the earth’s resources. [More…]
As a result it offers a powerful tool in monitoring changes in forests brought about by felling and planting. [More…]
It must be a very powerful ship. [More…]
That is a powerful incentive for new exploration. [More…]
She is a strong and powerful nation now. [More…]
We of the Labor movement when in government set out to change what we regarded to be the medieval way of life of these people despite the fact that they are few in number and are not a powerful lobbying group with any great or, indeed, any political sway. [More…]
If Mr Hayden is such a powerful man, if Mr Hayden can by himself in a couple of speeches affect so easily and so much the international monetary situation as it concerns this country and if Government spokesmen give him credit for being able to do that, I suggest that the best thing the Government can do is resign and hand over the Treasury of this country to Mr Hayden because such a powerful man could obviously quickly solve our problems. [More…]
For the year ahead, expansionary forces are powerful and likely to remain so. [More…]
There is in the Department a great number of very able younger men who have had no training in assessing intelligence; yet the curiosity is that when an attempt was made some years ago to set up a new structure known as the Joint Intelligence Organisation, the JIO, the Department was powerful enough to insist that the Chairman of the Joint Intelligence Organisation should be an officer from the Department of Foreign Affairs. [More…]
In that area are assembled the most powerful weapons one can possibly imagine to exist anywhere. [More…]
I do not see anything emanating from India, that great and powerful member of the Commonwealth of Nations, which has never given us support on anything. [More…]
I have been in Parliament sufficiently long to know that Ministers of State are very powerful and important people, but in my experience they have not always been wise. [More…]
They are powerful words. [More…]
I pay tribute to the vast majority of responsible trade unionists in Australia who are powerless to control their own economic future while there is this small, irresponsible and powerful group of people outside the movement who control it, as Ken Stone has acknowledged. [More…]
As far as I am concerned my view, which is shared by a majority of the people in South Australia, is that the strike in Victoria demonstrates clearly what has happened in Australia when a relatively few people in very powerful positions have sought to inflict their will upon a large number of people. [More…]
The Prime Minister is a powerful man. [More…]
I ask: In view of the distinct hardening of attitude of the President of the United States of America, Jimmy Carter, and his Government to all forms of whaling, including the impounding of an Australian cargo of that source, does the Minister not feel that, in the light of the attitudes of his party and my own, it would be wise to cut our losses and convert the Albany whaling station into a marine research station rather than affect relations with out large and powerful ally? [More…]
Those were good words, powerful words, words that I support. [More…]
I recall the former honourable member for Grayndler in the other place, Mr Daly, making great powerful speeches about the wickedness of how, if one electorate was 20 per cent below the quota and another electorate was 20 per cent above the quota,therecouldbeavariationof40percentin the number of electors in the two electorates. [More…]
When the Minister, in relation to that particular radio broadcasting licence, writes to the Chairman of the Broadcasting Tribunal, a so-called independent statutory body, and asks for the file relating to that matter and when the Chairman of the statutory body asks for the file back and is told that the file is lost, all the comments that the cynics make about the licence being taken away from the people the Broadcasting Control Board recommended and given to a great and powerful friend of the Liberal Party in New South Wales begin to take on a peculiar air. [More…]
We also recognise that the various forms of the media are so powerful in their effect on citizens and on growing children that they present an instrument which is very open to manipulation. [More…]
After waiting 21 years, particularly between 1969 and 1972 when the mass feelings of the ethnic community became a powerful political factor, it was the Labor Government which kept faith, firstly, by introducing pension portability; secondly, with the elimination of discriminatory clauses in the [More…]
His wartime experience gave him a deep and continuing concern for exservicemen and women and over many years he was a powerful and effective advocate in the Parliament on their behalf. [More…]
Assume that this man who wants to come to Australia and has such powerful friends trying to promote his entry- powerful friends who are threatening Ministers in the Federal Government and colleagues of mine in my Party- has in fact found a cure for cancer. [More…]
As this House has the right to refuse Supply, defeat a government and force an election in the other place without going to an election itself, it is a very powerful House as Senator Rae and others have said. [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 factions- each of which is usually divided between the leaders and led. [More…]
I think it is very disturbing for those of us engaged in parliamentary life to realise that we can come here representing our electorates and our States and see legislation with which all honourable senators agree- I think that was the case with the Aboriginal land rights legislationpassed through the Parliament yet other more powerful institutions than the Parliament, which are not answerable to anybody and certainly not to anybody in Australia, are able to deflect and distort our wishes as expressed in the land rights legislation. [More…]
This makes Mr Packer, Mr Fairfax and Mr Murdoch three of the most powerful men in Australia. [More…]
They obviously have interests in common with the most wealthy and powerful sections of the community and little sympathy for anybody or anything except their own bank accounts. [More…]
There is no doubt that however difficult it may have been and however little may appear to have been accomplished, the very fact that the President of the most powerful country in the world once again drew attention to the lack of human rights in so many countries and said that the foreign policy of such a mighty country would have as its objective achieving human rights for people in a number of different countries is a significant change from what we have been used to in the recent history of the world. [More…]
John Foster Dulles, that powerful figure in the formulation of American foreign policy and for so many years Secretary of State in the United States Administration, when asked to define what he meant by the ‘free world’ said he meant those countries which were free from Soviet domination and undue Soviet influence. [More…]
Prime Minister for so many years and one of the most powerful figures in Britain in the nineteenth century, was able to devote a large part of his time and writing to the exposure of the persecution of Bulgarian Christians. [More…]
Now it should be explained that there was at this time a very powerful magic in the kingdom. [More…]
New ladies-in-waiting would come, more rich and powerful than the old, but perhaps not so wise. [More…]
Let me put it this way: Privilege is given to members of Parliament to protect them from the powerful whom they seek to accuse. [More…]
A banana republic dictatorship has been set up by the Premier of Queensland and backed up by a powerful police force. [More…]
On many occasions, quite rightly, strong views have been expressed in this Parliament and throughout Australia on aggression undertaken by powerful countries against their small neighbours, such as the Soviet aggression against Czechoslovakia and Hungary, where only a few hundred people were killed. [More…]
It depends which Foreign Minister from which powerful country our Foreign Minister or Prime Minister last met. [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…]
The processor would be 1.6 times more powerful and would cost some $192,000 per annum less to rent than did the old 3168 processor. [More…]
The people of the Torres Strait, unless they have a very powerful receiver, do not hear the daily news broadcast by the Australian Broadcasting Commission. [More…]
We are therefore moving in this scene as a powerful, useful friend in a world of very substantial foreign policy initiative. [More…]
It will mean that he will have the right to subdivide a large tract of land and sell it off in his own market- in Japan, Hong Kong and other powerful financial centres in the East. [More…]
As questions of mining involving large corporate interests and vested interests of powerful private persons will no doubt arise, does the Minister anticipate that he will enjoy a much closer rapport with the Queensland Premier and his Government than that which is presently being experienced by the Prime Minister, the Minister for Transport and the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs? [More…]
Common Market governments backed by their powerful sugar lobbies, have refused so far to join the International Sugar Agreement- in spite of all their talk about the need to stabilise commodity prices- because they refuse to accept restrictions on their exports. [More…]
We know that there are many trade unionssome powerful trade unions- that are wholeheartedly in favour, and have publicly expressed that they are in favour, of the mining and the exporting of uranium whilst there are other trade unions that are diametrically opposed to the mining of uranium. [More…]
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…]
These being powerful instruments for change, they must not be used to dispossess people from their homes and their land, or to entrench privilege and exploitation.’ [More…]
Council is concerned that your powers under Clause 16 not powerful enough. [More…]
I ask the Minister: Does not Senator Knight’s question indicate quite clearly the concern being felt by many people in the community about the manner in which Australia’s contribution to the InterScan program is being submerged by very powerful overseas interests? [More…]
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…]
Where they are received from parliaments, particularly State parliaments, where they are received from the Public Service, where they are able to be stacked- under these provisions, in commerce by those within a favourably powerful position within a company- absolutely outrageous capital payments are being made to people who are simply villifying the capital system. [More…]
One way is to buy a transceiver powerful unit. [More…]
There were more powerful and aggressive negro tribes who preyed on their own kind’s lack of courage and lack of numbers because of their inability to be successful in their own environment and their inability to organise resistance or escape. [More…]
Common Market governments backed by their powerful sugar lobbies, have refused so far to join the International Sugar Agreement- in spite of all their talk about the need to stabilise commodity prices- because they refuse to accept restrictions on their exports. [More…]
It means that one is a much more powerful and influential citizen in this country. [More…]
I do not normally embrace conspiracy theories, but I am tempted by the conspiracy theory that the most influential studs, which are particularly powerful in the National Country Party, of course, had to concoct some spurious rationale for exporting merinos without destroying the stud ram myth. [More…]
He is a prime example of a hypocritical powerful, selfish, greedy politician. [More…]
Some of the housing commissions have become very powerful within the States. [More…]
For example, I have an advertisement which has been placed in Melbourne on behalf of Myers, a very powerful firm which is now a client of the PEO but which was previously a client of private employment agencies. [More…]
I came into this chamber under the possible misapprehension that it was in fact a House of review where honourable senators could make powerful, eloquent and logical speeches as Senator Missen has done. [More…]
I have been very tempted to move an amendment but knowing that on this particular occasion we would receive absolutely no support from my friends on my right, and after having heard the powerful speech from Senator Missen who is on my left, knowing that this matter has already been canvassed in the Liberal Party and that no one opposite is prepared to move over and support such an amendment, I simply register my objections and my fears during the debate on the second reading of this Bill. [More…]
We have this enormous impost on the Australian community because the Government did not have the courage to proceed with the resources tax, which it had promised in the 1977 Budget, because it caved in, as it is accustomed to do, to pressure from powerful business interests. [More…]
The House of Lords, which once stood guard over the actions of a too powerful House of Commons’, wrote another authority, ‘now stands guard over a too powerful Cabinet’. [More…]
This Senate has always been potentially powerful. [More…]
The soundness of the committees in gathering evidence and the fairness and co-operation of members of parliament from all parties is a powerful base for the findings and recommendations of the committees being given high attention. [More…]
We have an example of the most powerful country in the world, the United States of America, right before us in that regard. [More…]
However, I call upon him in the interest of sport throughout Australia to register his Government’s disapproval of this and other glaring examples of home town selection by the powerful sporting moguls in Sydney who seem to possess only one eye- and that eye is blue- and fail to recognise the performance of athletes in the less populous States. [More…]
How often do we consult the people for whom we make laws when they are not powerful and organised parts of society? [More…]
We stand here, we make powerful speeches. [More…]
People can talk to me until they are blue in the face but they will not convince me that in three to five years there will not be the emergence of nationalism in one of the Asian countries- I shall not stipulate a particular country- and then belatedly a powerful Defence Minister will prevail on the Government to try to pick up the pieces at Whyalla and Newcastle. [More…]
On 30 August the Sydney Morning Herald reported that a former international banker had accused the transnational banks of manipulating the value of the American dollarhitherto the most powerful currency in the world- to earn huge profits. [More…]
The problem, of course, is how to prevent inflation through wage pressure from over powerful unions as the economy reaches full employment, thus wrecking everything that has been carefully built up. [More…]
Radio Australia has been pushing out a comparatively weak shortwave signal since Cyclone Tracy wrecked Radio Australia’s most powerful shortwave station at Darwin in 1974. [More…]
In the meantime millions of listeners who live in South East Asia and who have become very dependent on Radio Australia have found that they can no longer receive a clear, powerful message from Cox Peninsula. [More…]
After the facility on Cox Peninsula was blown apart by Cyclone Tracy less powerful ‘reserve’ transmitters were used at Shepparton in Victoria and Carnarvon in Western Australia. [More…]
The radio programs which are beamed to Indonesia, Malaysia and other countries are so weak that they are drowned out by the much more powerful transmitters in Peking, Moscow and other places. [More…]
Radio Australia has been pushing out a comparatively weak shortwave signal since Cyclone Tracy wrecked Radio Australia’s most powerful shortwave station at Darwin in 1974. [More…]
Galarrwuy Yunupingu has been forced to submit not by any pressure applied by the Labor Party, as the Deputy Prime Minister in particular is so fond of repeating, but because of the powerful forces within this Government and the powerful forces outside this Government. [More…]
Again because we are in the southern hemisphere and because of our possession of a powerful radio telescope we are a world leader in detecting new organic groupings in space, whether they are planets or galaxies of different kinds. [More…]
We are setting up an Advisory Council which is much more powerful than it was previously. [More…]
If they died and were powerful enough the doctor was executed. [More…]
During my travels I was greatly surprised and astonished about the fact that such a small number of people have exact knowledge of Carniola although this was a noble country which was viewed with keen interest by the powerful Romans as well as by the old Germans, viewed from both as nothing else but the key which could lock the way to either Italy or Germany. [More…]
However, its main reason for existence is to maintain reliable communications with submarines of the US fleet serving in this area of the world (i.e., the Indian and Western Pacific Oceans)’- and, in particular, ‘to provide communication for the US Navy’s most powerful deterrent force- the nuclear powered ballistic missile submarine’. [More…]
‘5’ The VLF facility for communicating with the American submarines is the largest and most powerful of the three principal VLF stations in the US world-wide submarine communication system- the other two are Jim Creek, Washington, and Cutler, Maine. [More…]
One of these has been found by the AAT to be the most powerful quasar known, emitting the power of 7 supernovae per day. [More…]
Educationalists told us that television had emerged as a more powerful educative influence than the schools. [More…]
The Government time and time again has made it very clear that it opposes- as I am sure do the vast majority of the people- actions by powerful unions for political purposes, for demarcation disputes, and to enforce compulsory unionism. [More…]
No matter what policies this Government adopts, the prospect for improved exports lies ultimately with the policy of the United States to sustain powerful economic recovery. [More…]
The restraining role, if it is to be performed at all, must fall largely on the upper House; and this Senate, because of its powerful constitutional position, is better placed than any other second chamber in the Westminster system to perform this role. [More…]
If these Senate committees develop as they should, as public scrutineers of proposed government legislation and as watchdogs on the proper decentralisation of Executive power, their chairmen will be at least as powerful and important as any Ministers, and it is just that they should be appropriately recognised and rewarded. [More…]
The Senate would be a much more powerful body and would give due consideration to the needs and requirements of the smaller States. [More…]
The Soviet Union, which is certainly one of the two most powerful countries in the world, and China, which is at the very least one of the half dozen most powerful countries of the world, are on the very edge of armed conflict with states with which they were allied. [More…]
I do not believe that we have any right, particularly any moral right, to hide behind a barricade and expect to live in peaceful and stable surroundings while people in, for example, Timor- the example that I have used throughout tonight- are being oppressed, slaughtered, murdered, raped and deprived of everything they have owned by a more powerful and aggressive neighbour apparently just because it is in our interests, as seen by a lot of people high up in this country, not to ruffle Indonesia’s hair. [More…]
In my view, while the Executive is all powerful and, as I pointed out in a speech last week, while the Prime Minister, Mr Fraser, says: ‘I do not care what Parliament passes in relation to the indexation of pensions; the Executive or the Cabinet won’t fund it’, as he said recently, it is beyond doubt that Parliament is simply a rubber stamp. [More…]
Although I readily acknowledge that citizen initiative does enjoy some current popularity in certain overseas countries, particularly the United States, it is true that the idea of citizen initiative and a referendum dates from the time, and was most fashionable at the time, when nations were essentially run by elites elected by rich and powerful minorities, when full adult franchise was unknown, when representative democracy was not fully developed, and when there was genuine frustration at the absence of an opportunity for the popular voice to make itself heard in the business of government. [More…]
I am sure that very few honourable senators will remember, if they ever knew, the problems Kemal Ataturk had in Turkey, after he became the powerful leader of that government, when he introduced reforms on religious grounds. [More…]
This means that each Trident submarine will be able to destroy 408 targets, each with a nuclear blast about five times more powerful than the bomb dropped on Hiroshima. [More…]
Any such use of external force must be a matter of deep concern to the United Nations, the more so when a small and weak country is attacked by a powerful neighbour. [More…]
That was an instance of a strong and powerful nation annexing a small nation. [More…]
Both commodities are the raw materials of great and powerful evils. [More…]
However, the Opposition has strong reservations about the effectiveness of this measure because the Government succumbed to limited but powerful pressure not to introduce a proposed foreign tax credit scheme for the taxing of foreign source income. [More…]
Engines are much more powerful. [More…]
I find it distasteful and disgraceful that we have allowed it to develop to the stage where one or two powerful individuals, wherever and whoever they may be, can so distort our community values in respect of what is regarded in this country as being part of our national makeup. [More…]
He has warned us that we cannot necessarily rely on the sort of automatic support from our powerful allies which we might feel we have a right to expect. [More…]
In a confused world scene we could become involved in a relatively small sideshow operation in which, at least for some time, our powerful friends might not be in a position to help us. [More…]
They destroy things and they’ve got powerful things on them. [More…]
The net result has been that the Constitution has been designed on such a basis that we have the most powerful, the most independent, elected upper House, probably, in the world. [More…]
It so happens that the Senate in Canada- a not particularly powerful Senate and, unfortunately, a non-elected Senate- has taken to itself the role of scrutiny of legislation which is proposed in its lower House, the House of Commons. [More…]
I do not believe the Senate is all powerful and has all wisdom. [More…]
I suggest also that it is totally repugnant to the meaning of democracy to have powerful agencies investigating and reporting upon private citizens without those agencies being accountable to an elected body. [More…]
There is a real problem for government and security organisations, namely, that we do not want to have a Director-General who is all powerful and not subject in some way to parliamentary control. [More…]
Thereby the necessity for a powerful organisation that can protect Australia’s security and the Australian people can be seen. [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…]
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…]
We recognise that the Australian Mining Industry Council is probably the most powerful lobby that exists in this country, not only in its own right but because it enjoys the support of such people as Lang Hancock, the Premier of Western Australia, Mr Court and the Premier of Queensland, Mr Bjelke-Petersen, as well as very important and vocal sections of the Australian media. [More…]
When we look at the broken promises of the Government, and its dilly-dallying in respect of the pressures exerted on it from time to time by the powerful interests that exist in this country, we are entitled to take the view that constantly the Opposition should bring to the forefront in the Parliament the responsibilities of the Government. [More…]
As we well know, the development of the campaign and the legislative processes that have flowed from it have been the result of the evolution in attitudes that has taken place in the Parliament itself and throughout Australia, but there are very powerful influences in this country that still do not accept the view of this Parliament insofar as land rights are concerned. [More…]
If we look at what is under attack by this powerful lobby group, the most powerful lobby group that we have, we can see that there has been no repudiation from the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) since the publication by the AMIC of this statement. [More…]
It is a very powerful group. [More…]
I submit that as soon as this presidential election is over we will be in a situation in which, because of the powerful United States lobby, many of these beef markets could be lost. [More…]
I said that unless he did something now he would bc sorry later: the B class stations would become so powerful that no one would touch them. [More…]
As you would bc aware the bureau was set up to protect the rights of the individual against the powerful organisations of cither unions or industry. [More…]
A committee of six senators cannot claim particular expertise in sociology or social theory, but it does claim a powerful position in seeking information on behalf of the Senate- even information not generally available. [More…]
In spite of this powerful position, we could not obtain many, if any, of the answers to important questions which we sought- partly because people had not considered them and partly because they are challenging and difficult. [More…]
Let us take a situation in which, as envisaged by Senator Puplick, there may be some longstanding and powerful figure in the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation who, for some years, has had certain information in the back of his mind. [More…]
There is of course no likelihood that the Parliament, once it passes this very important and powerful piece of legislation, will continue to have any real powers to scrutinise the way in which those powers will work. [More…]
inflation favours the rich and the powerful; the position of poor people deteriorates’. [More…]
Sir Charles Court has made several powerful speeches which have indicated his complete contempt for that method of financing one’s party at the taxpayers’ expense. [More…]
One thing is certain: Senator Webster is in a powerful position because he is protected by the National Country Party minority in the Government. [More…]
Prospects: The merger of Pechiney and Ugine Kuhlmann created a powerful and widely diversified industrial group. [More…]
Congressman Mo Udall, one of the bill’s sponsors, had feared the gasoline shortage would give industry lobbyists a powerful argument for approval of an opposing measure that would have opened 63 million acres of Alaska’s wildlife refuges to oil exploration and hard-rock mining. [More…]
South Africa is a militarily powerful country and if necessary will fight to preserve her future. [More…]
I support what Senator Missen has said and indicate that I think the proposal that Mr President should report to the Senate from time to time is in itself a very considerable and powerful sanction. [More…]
The only way in which justice and peace will be achieved in South Africa is if there is some sort of consensus between the white populationthe dominant, overwhelmingly powerful white population- and the non-white population. [More…]
I do not think that we will find a situation there in which the still powerful white minority will surrender those small powers which it still retains. [More…]
Is it true that a portion of the grant has been used to pay off past debts of the company rather than the full amount being applied to the development of an extremely powerful computer system? [More…]
This lack of competition is directly related to the dominance of the consumer loan market by a few powerful companies. [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…]
Some powerful trade unions seem to be intent on demonstrating the need for restrictive legislation to curb their reckless strike activity. [More…]
I mention finally that J. R. Mallory, in an article entitled ‘Politics by Other Means’, which appeared in the Journal of Commonwealth and Comparative Studies of March 1979, cites Professor Reid as identifying in Australia a problem which was, as he saw it- a combination of ‘impatience with politics’ and a growing imbalance between the efficacy of parliament as compared with the increasingly powerful executive and the courts. [More…]
It is that assistance be given to a group of people who are suffering, not because of their fault but because of what a powerful nation has done to them. [More…]
I regret that we have not sought to use the test of the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms which I consider to be a much more powerful and much more appropriate document in current circumstances. [More…]
It resulted in the formation of the Organisation of African Unity which became a powerful force and directed international affairs for 15 or more years. [More…]
The Opposition fears that the pressure that builds up on governments, Ministers and political parties in respect of development is often such that it has greater effect and greater influence than the views of those who are less articulate, less organised or less powerful in the protecting of their interests. [More…]
If we look at it in the sense of the general way in which the Parliament ought to operate as distinct from the manner in which the Minister or the Government operates from time to time, I think there is a powerful case to suggest that we ought to be taking steps to extend more and more the role of the Parliament rather than the role of the Executive. [More…]
Your points on both Bills, if I may say so, seem to me powerful and persuasive. [More…]
But, in a war torn place where, I think, something like 2 1 Vietnamese army divisions are at this moment relentlessly pursuing the Kampuchean people, it is hard to see, with even the most powerful telescope, that in modern times an act of self-determination can become a real thing, however sad that may be. [More…]
A loud word of warning should be sounded about those people who would advocate the helter skelter, go ahead regardless of the consequences policy that the very powerful financially well equipped uranium lobbyists are influencing so many people in this place to believe. [More…]
have been marked by prevarication, policy reversals and concessions to powerful interest groups’. [More…]
have been marked by prevarication, policy reversals and concessions to powerful interest groups”. [More…]
As I said earlier, one is a bit diffident if one has to go to the International Court of Justice, or some other agency, and then finds a powerful government alongside a particular multinational. [More…]
I believe I was correcdy reported as making a general observation that trade unions are so powerful and their annual incomes often so great that they should be subject to some discipline in the interests of their own members. [More…]