protesting - hofreps - 1970

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

1 suggest to the honourable member that it is Opposition supporters who are doing all the protesting. [More…]
They may not have been protesting to the honourable member for Wakefield but they have been protesting to me. [More…]
In recent years I have written two or three letters to the Chinese Foreign Minister and two or three letters to the Russian Foreign Minister protesting against and arguing against the conduct of those nations in nuclear testing. [More…]
If they wish to continue protesting in the normal way, they will be quite entitled to do so. [More…]
Does the Government support the Seamen’s Union’s ban on French ships entering and leaving Australian ports as a means of protesting against the French nuclear tests in the Pacific? [More…]
They are protesting now. [More…]
But when the honourable member for Hunter sees 50 or 100 people gathered together - and this is a failing also of the Australian Labor Party - he suggests that it is the whole Australian community protesting and that the whole Australian community supports him. [More…]
It is no good the honourable member protesting. [More…]
I know this because of a number of telegrams I have received from southern meatworks protesting about the concession that was given. [More…]
If the Prime Minister has received the reports and noted the further march by 3,000 protesting farmers in Perth, will he tell the House what specific action he intends to take to end the economic deep freeze in the countryside contrasting with the Treasurer’s overheating? [More…]
I have also received copies of letters from fruit growing organisations protesting vigorously against the decision of the Loxton District Council to favour Dartmouth dam alone. [More…]
The honourable member for Adelaide (Mr Hurford) spent much time protesting that South Australia needs water. [More…]
That is what we are protesting about today and tonight. [More…]
On 24th February a petition bearing 115 signatures and protesting against the slaughter of kangaroos was presented to the Australian Embassy in Brussels. [More…]
He said: When not protesting about the possible loss nf professional freedom the less well informed members of the profession, and this seems to be a majority, protest that the present direct doctorpatient financial relationship is hallowed by centuries, if not millennia of sacred tradition. [More…]
When not protesting about the possible loss of professional freedom the less well informed members of the profession, and this seems to be a majority, protest that the present director doctorpatient financial relationship is hallowed by centuries if not millennia of sacred tradition. [More…]
As I have said, there is no monopoly of a desire for peace amongst those people who are protesting. [More…]
He asked the Minister for External Affairs (Mr McMahon) to make an example by approaching President Nixon and protesting about the death of 4 young people at Kent University a day or 2 ago. [More…]
Is there any agitation in Moscow from this peace front, protesting against the use of Soviet troops in those theatres? [More…]
Would the various State Ministers be protesting if they had not reason to believe that the Australian Minerals Council would have been continuing its discussions in February? [More…]
There would have been no basis for protesting that we have to balance the water grants to the States. [More…]
In Western Australia the amount of time some school children would spend travelling each day would be equivalent to the amount which some honourable members are protesting about spending weekly. [More…]
So, for example, an honourable member protesting at the disgraceful level of pensions in this Budget will be accused of wishing to cut back on, say, defence. [More…]
I have had numerous letters, telegrams and personal calls to my office protesting at the inadequacy of the 5()c a week increase in pensions. [More…]
He is here protesting on behalf of a worker, some poor innocent lad who is a plumber’s apprentice, a builder’s labourer or somebody who has committed an offence.’ [More…]
The Government is using every form of intimidation under the guise of law and order to try to stop people from protesting. [More…]
The Australian Security Intelligence Organisation wanted photographs of these sinister people who were protesting against the meagre increase in pensions. [More…]
It shows a Liberal senator’s daughter being bundled out of the Sydney Town Hall because she was protesting about the Communist Party Dissolution Bill. [More…]
That is what I am protesting about tonight, because I feel that this is the major health problem for every nation, particularly a nation involved in a destructive war as we’ are. [More…]
A department necessarily, if it is to be sympathetic and flexible, must have a certain degree of discretion; otherwise the letter of the law, against which the honourable member quite rightly was protesting a few moments ago, becomes inflexible. [More…]
They can lie on the tarmac or do many other things in protesting about whether their needs have been adequately considered. [More…]
In a speech to this House last June he said he is not too happy at the fact that every time a movie is shown in which sexual exploits occur he or his Department receives hundreds of letters from protesting parents, yet do not receive any letters at all about violence in movies. [More…]
It is not only the professors, the pedagogues and the politicians who have been protesting about this situation but also the Press. [More…]
I make this request for the simple reason that I sit near the honourable member for Sturt and when I start protesting I am called to order by the Speaker. [More…]
It seems that only a lack of understanding can explain the fact that State politicians, who claim they are short of resources to service their own urban areas, are not protesting a proposal to hand over an equity worth over $100m to the lessees in Canberra. [More…]
I have in front of me a copy of a letter sent by the honourable secretary of the Ringston-Narrabundah Returned Services Club in Canberra protesting at its rates. [More…]
Again in America in 1966, in the case of Bond versus Floyd, a coloured man was convicted of a crime of protesting against the Vietnam war. [More…]
They are protesting about it. [More…]
They are decent law abiding citizens who are protesting against an obnoxious law. [More…]
These days people are protesting and demonstrating against what they claim are. [More…]
Unless the Government can provide some legitimate and reasonable excuse for adjourning the Parliament on that day, I believe the Opposition is carrying out its responsibility to the people of this country by protesting in the only way we can protest when the Government introduces a motion of this nature to suspend the 11 o’clock rule. [More…]
1 rise to participate briefly in this debate to add my views to those of honourable members on this side of the House who are protesting against this Liberal-Country Party Government’s method of tariff making. [More…]
For some time now it has been known to all authorities, in particular to the Minister for Civil Aviation (Senator Cotton) and the Department of Civil Aviation, that residents in my electorate of Swan and in adjacent electorates have been protesting about the noise nuisance associated with the Perth airport, which is situated in the heart of a growing residential area. [More…]
I have in my possession a petition from a number of growers in South Australia protesting against the Government’s action in imposing an excise duty on wine. [More…]
During July, while Labor members, together with unionists and left wing students, were protesting about the internal affairs of South Africa - the vast majority of them never having seen the situation there - T spent 3 weeks moving freely throughout that country. [More…]
They are protesting because the servicing requirements will add very significantly to the costs people will have to pay for land in those areas. [More…]
But there are so many matters which could reasonably be said to come under this head that I. am almost forced into the position of the honourable member for Wills in protesting about those terrible people who cut down the speaking times. [More…]
Can the right honourable gentleman indicate any statement by himself or his Ministers protesting against America’s policy on this matter? [More…]
I think the source of that potential danger comes from the Government’s present policy towards Africa which can best be described as a low profile, middle course policy; a policy of polite restrained relations with the black African countries and quite an intimate relationship with South Africa, protesting at the same time as we properly do that we find apartheid abhorrent. [More…]
There may have been 3,000 or 4,000 people in the great underground parking area at the Miranda Fair protesting against the proposal to establish the airport at Towra Point. [More…]
Would the members who are protesting about its being overthrown then have said it was immutable - that it should stand like the laws of the Medes and Persians? [More…]
I issued a statement protesting at the increase. [More…]
If we stop protesting, that Post Office will be closed. [More…]
When there were particular instances in my electorate 1 sent telegrams to the PostmasterGeneral protesting strongly about the closure of those post offices. [More…]
In this case he wished to contrast his own attitude of ‘responsible concern’ about apartheid with the alleged irresponsibility of those who were protesting against the proposed sporting tours. [More…]
The Commonwealth has been forced, protesting and reluctant, to take an increasing role in the planning of rail and road networks, health and the whole field of education. [More…]
The ordinances were introduced in October last year, and promptly a number of complaints were made by local parents and citizens associations protesting about the increase and the effect it would have. [More…]
I think it should be explained that it was not made because it was recognised by the Union - I think this ought to be put forward - that there was a complete change of circumstances insofar as that at the the fact that they had made some offer the country was without government but such was not the case later when they were protesting against the use of a Japanese vessel. [More…]
All honourable members of this House must be receiving, as I am, protests from conservation bodies on a national or State level and from their own constituents protesting about proposals to give permission for supersonic land overflight corridors across Australia and permission for airlines to land supersonic transports - SSTs - in Australia. [More…]
Before these accurate assessments become official by the announcement of the Prime Minister at the completion of the day’s proceedings, we have the ridiculous spectacle of the Premiers presenting claims and the Commonwealth protesting that the demands cannot be met and recommending lesser amounts as an alternative. [More…]
People were protesting against nationalisation and the financial policies of the Australian Labor Party. [More…]
All the time the only real protesting parties to this were the maritime industry unions, not the Government. [More…]
The Council has written to the Minister for Civil Aviation and the Regional Director of Civil Aviation protesting at the continued breakage of the curfew hours as laid down by the Noise Abatement Committee. [More…]
The Committee decided, firstly, that it should write to both the Minister and the Regional Director protesting in the strongest possible terms at their practice of continually giving permission for aircraft to take off and land within the curfew hours. [More…]
Has he received a telegram from the President of Actors Equity Association of Australia protesting about the banning of the Australian Broadcasting Commission television series entitled ‘Our Man in Canberra’ and alleging that this was as a result of political censorship? [More…]
Towards the end of March the Labor Party members on the Opposition benches produced to this Parliament 10 or 12 petitions from my constituents - people who live in the Australian Capital Territory - protesting at the reported moves that the Government was making to move the embassy. [More…]
The honourable member for Reid (Mr Uren) has suggested that the Government has not been active in protesting against these tests. [More…]
The Australian Government has been protesting against all atmospheric testing, not in a selective way excluding Communist countries and being soft with them. [More…]
We have been protesting against both France and China. [More…]
Subsequently the Prime Minister (Mr McMahon) wrote to President Pompidou protesting and various other steps were taken. [More…]
In those circumstances it is not to be wondered at that honourable members who have expressed concern about those matters for well over a decade should have had doubts about the present Government’s genuineness in protesting against these tests.. Peru threatened last year to sever diplomatic relations with France if the tests proceeded. [More…]
The Treasurer says that it is the correct economic response in the present economic climate, protesting that it is not designed to buy votes. [More…]
For many years the Australian Labor Party has been protesting to the Government about the uncontrolled flow of foreign investment into this country. [More…]
After years of protesting by the Australian Labor Party the Government now is showing some interest in this matter. [More…]
Over the last few weeks I have presented petitions on behalf of the people who work in Parliament House protesting at working conditions. [More…]
He said that the Merchant Service Guild would send a telegram to the Minister protesting at the inroads made by foreign companies. [More…]
We were protesting that the Government had thrown overboard the proper safeguards evolved through many years of parliamentary practice. [More…]
I believe that we were quite right in protesting and in continuing to protest over the years and that we should take whatever responsible action we can to mobilise world opinion against those who continue to conduct atmospheric nuclear tests. [More…]
I have said we were right in protesting and continuing to protest. [More…]
There is little merit in protesting.’ [More…]
I join with the Deputy Leader of the Opposition (Mr Lynch) in protesting about the treatment which the Leader of the House (Mr Daly) seeks to mete out to us. [More…]
The Leader of the House and the honourable member for Chifley (Mr Armitage) are critical of the Opposition because we are protesting about the attempt of the Government to muzzle our opinion and to ride roughshod over what I believe to be an increasing measure of public opinion which is diametrically opposed to that of the Government. [More…]
I received a telegram pointing out that there was some concern in the minds of the people conducting Flag Motor Inns, and that they were protesting against the terms of the proposed Australian National Airlines Bill giving Trans-Australia Airlines unfair powers of competition. [More…]
It is no use the honourable member protesting. [More…]
It is a matter about which Ansett Transport Industries Ltd has been protesting for some considerable, time. [More…]
I commence my speech by protesting once again about the lack of time given to honourable members to speak in this place, which is turning this national forum into a farce. [More…]
They accept the money, but they accept it protesting. [More…]
The Labor Premier of Western Australia, Mr Tonkin, was so appalled by the actions of his federal colleagues that he offered money from his Government to help pay for the preparation of a submission protesting against the Federal Government’s action, which he personally will come to Canberra to present. “ [More…]
Yesterday, people in my office in this building drew my attention to 2 bundles of letters which had been received protesting about the health insurance scheme - one from, I think, Bundaberg and the other from Gympie. [More…]
To show that these people are not dropouts, I point out that on Saturday morning last 300 people attended a meeting and last night a similar number met at the council chambers protesting at a projected subdivision by a developer of a 4-acre site known as Bellbird Corner. [More…]
Does the Minister recall that he said he had received a bundle of letters from Gympie in Queensland protesting against the proposed national health scheme and that he said many were written on the same note pad and that one person ‘had written more than one of the letters? [More…]
You know, Mr Speaker, in another great English speaking democracy recently there were people who were protesting that they would brazen it out; the dirty tricks could not come home to them; they would survive; they would go to the parliament; they would go to the people. [More…]
It was a perfectly human explanation, but we do ourselves no credit by protesting, over-protesting, that the obvious explanation had no basis in fact. [More…]
I suggest to the Liberal Party and to the honourable member for Parramatta that they give that idea some very serious thought otherwise we will have another 100,000 people on the lawns outside this Parliament protesting at such a monstrous proposition. [More…]
Australia protesting against a proposal by the Post Office to alter the postage rate on their fortnightly journals by transferring it from category A to a higher rate? [More…]
For him to come in here protesting vainly that he had not had any notice that the matter was to come before the House really does not stand easily with the facts. [More…]
I preface my question by noting that the petition lodged by me today protesting at the proposed siting of a second Sydney airport at Galston contained some 6,000 signatures which were not by any means all from that area. [More…]
‘We are continually protesting to the Department of Health about the appalling time lag and the everincreasing waiting list of NHS patients.’ [More…]
I deeply regret that local government today is not protesting so much about the allocation of funds. [More…]
We are protesting about your conduct, Mr Speaker, and I think it is right to refer to the protests that have been made to earlier rulings. [More…]
The Tasmanian Government is protesting very strongly about our decision to increase ANL’s freight rates by 25 per cent, but at the same time it has increased its own rail rates by between 25 per cent and 33 per cent. [More…]
In fact, if all the people, including those in the Law Society, who are protesting today were to protest during a declared emergency they would be subject to arrest and penalties. [More…]
It is rather ironic that none of the protesting national farmers groups have had the grace to acknowledge the substantial assistance that has been provided to the wool industry, but I suppose we cannot expect too much from that direction. [More…]
I am sure if this happened that we would see the Minister- certainly the Minister who normally would be operating this legislation- protesting out in the streets. [More…]
No wonder the Aborigines are protesting against the Minister and his Department. [More…]
No wonder we see a first assistant secretary of the Department, Mr Charles Perkins, protesting outside Parliament House with those who were gathered there. [More…]
As I said earlier, I believe that the action that the Minister has taken against the Queensland Government and those who are protesting outside this House is a blackmail tactic, a petty tactic. [More…]
The protesting Aborigines certainly do not rate either the Minister or his Department highly. [More…]
In his protesting too much I think the honourable member reveals why the Government is pressing this Bill through with indecent haste- that is, that the system, as the honourable member for Port Adelaide pointed out, works against certain Labor electorates with the percentage of informal votes, and what is being dressed up in the cause of a very democratic and just procedure is really something that Labor wants to alter in some ways because it can see some advantage to itself in these alterations. [More…]
At the public meeting called to support this centre it was agreed- not unanimously because some of the protesting doctors were present- that this was widening the choice. [More…]
I think it might be to the benefit of the public if some of the protesting doctors and some of the Liberal members who were invited to the doctors’ meeting considered why the community needs a community health centre. [More…]
Already people have been protesting that the radius ought to be limited to 40 kilometres at the most. [More…]
Yet the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) endeavoured to hurry this Bill through this Parliament 5 minutes before the adjournment during the dying hours of the previous session and, due to the acceptance of a motion to adjourn discussion on this Bill, people are now beginning to realise the full ramifications of this legislation as is being shown by the vast amount of correspondence protesting against this Bill arriving on members’ desks daily. [More…]
Shortly after the passage of that legislation I realised that the then Department of Trade and Industry, and particularly its head, would want some sort of an all day sucker to keep it quiet and to keep it from protesting too much about the private organisation bank. [More…]
I am not suggesting to the Committee that it is beyond possibility that in very extraordinary circumstances it might be necessary for a government at some stage in the future to do it, but what I am protesting about and what the honourable member for Moreton (Mr Killen) protested about is a blanket Executive warrant being given by this Bill to the government of the day by a blunt action to close down any one of the stock exchanges of Australia. [More…]
The facts, as I understand them, were that a gentleman was alleged to have brought some friends home to his house and invited them to have intercourse with his wife, telling them that they were not to be put off by her protests because that was her way and that she really enjoyed protesting and the act of intercourse. [More…]
As you are very well aware it has been recommended and urged by the Society that we take personal action in protesting at Government proposals. [More…]
The half baked National Country Party now in this resolution is protesting about boundaries in Tasmania and South Australia. [More…]
So 10 000 people were prepared to put their names to a petition protesting against the proposals as they have been presented. [More…]
As this Airport falls within my electorate and as I have been protesting for several years about the noise factor associated with the airport, I am alarmed to think that while an investigation is taking place the State Government would impose upon the people resident within the flight paths a further aircraft which they have not had the opportunity to assess. [More…]
At long last, farmer organisations, which were fairly tardy about this matter, are also protesting. [More…]
Like many other honourable members on the Government side of the House I received hundreds of letters protesting against cuts in education expenditure and the bringing back of radio and television licences. [More…]
The officers are protesting against a proposal by the New South Wales Public Transport Commission to abolish travelling post offices from 19 September. [More…]
It is a means of protesting against unjust treatment which Oppositions sometimes justifiably feel is being meted out to them. [More…]
Now they are protesting devoutly that they want the RED scheme. [More…]
I was amazed to listen to the honourable member for Robertson (Mr Cohen) this evening complaining that members of the Opposition originally were critical on the one hand of the Regional Employment Development scheme and yet on the other they supported the principals of our parties in the States in protesting against its cessation. [More…]
Where are the so-called democrats, those who took to the streets protesting about our assistance to the South Vietnamese? [More…]
I recently lodged with the Consul at the Russian Embassy a petition containing 2500 signatures protesting at the harsh treatment meted out to Soviet Jewry, decrying the discrimination against them and highlighting the consistent refusal of the Russian authorities to grant exit visas to them. [More…]
I think that perhaps the major reason why he is protesting at this given time is the event that is going to take place in New South Wales on 1 May when the people of that State will be going to the ballot box to cast their votes for a State government. [More…]
I went to gaol for my convictions against the brutality and stupidity of the police in their illegal action against me when I was protesting against Australia’s involvement in Vietnam. [More…]
Since this Government was elected -again in marked contrast to our predecessorswe have been protesting, and not merely protesting verbally but making representations both to the Indonesian Government and earlier to Portuguese authorities. [More…]
He has not got an answer which he wants, and he is protesting against it. [More…]
The charitable organisations which are involved in putting forward these plans have lost no time in protesting. [More…]
1 hear an honourable member on the Government side protesting that he is a good Minister. [More…]
We saw on the ABC television news on Thursday night- no doubt it is kept on videotape- the Chairman of the Commission protesting against political comment by the Prime Minister of Australia. [More…]
The Leader of the Opposition (Mr E. G. Whitlam) has just claimed, once again falsely, that I was protesting at his quoting from the report. [More…]
It appeared that that provision was aimed at strikes and bans which had a social or political aim, such as protecting the environment, protesting about the Medibank rearrangement, a particular war or whatever. [More…]
I merely quote the words of the State Secretary of the Shop Distributive and Allied Employees Association in New South Wales, Mr O’Neill, who, in protesting about the manner in which that amalgamation was accepted, said to the packed meeting at the Sydney Trades Hall last night: [More…]
We still hear honourable members on the Government side protesting. [More…]
But, worse than that, the Government now seeks to blame the Public Service Board- the Board which has been protesting about the damage done by staff ceilings- for the problems that have arisen now. [More…]
Why has the Fraser Government caused this delay in protesting against Steve Biko’s death? [More…]
The first was the action of the French in protesting against a suggestion that the South African Government was going to manufacture a nuclear weapon. [More…]
I refer him to a telegram that he has received from the Northern Lands Council protesting at works projected at the Ranger uranium mine site in the immediate future. [More…]
Never again, if I have my way, will a bunch of anonymous men- three of them- sitting in their soft chairs behind closed doors be able to treat the people with the contempt that has been displayed, principally by the Chairman of Commissioners in Queensland, Mr Coleman, to those hundreds of people in those two subdivisions who reacted in a spontaneous way and wrote in protesting at what the Commissioners were doing. [More…]
The honourable member for Holt, in what I referred to as unfair criticism of the Soviet Union in this chamber yesterday, said such things as: ‘I hear no member of the Opposition protesting to the Soviet Embassy in connection with the Soviet nuclear powered satellite which came down in Canada’. [More…]
On 10 December 1976 it wrote a letter protesting against this matter. [More…]
Those honourable members opposite who are interjecting and protesting their support for full wage indexation, as they have done over the past two and a quarter years, are demonstrating a practical lack of concern for the levels of unemployment in Australia. [More…]
We would be nothing less than Australians were we not here today protesting. [More…]
I noticed with great disgust on the television recently three members of the Queensland Police Force surrounded by yelling crowds protesting about what they knew not. [More…]
They are protesting and writing letters and they will have influence within the community. [More…]
The Australian Council of the Aging, the Pensioners Federation, Professor Henderson and all the local government bodies are protesting. [More…]
Despite what the Prime Minister says, the workers, the unionists and the unemployed of this country are protesting in the streets, and will continue to do so. [More…]
While they are protesting the share prices on national and international stock markets are rocketing. [More…]
When there was no response from the Indonesian Government no fewer than 82 members of this Parliament from both sides of the House and in the Senate and representing all political parties signed a protest note, protesting against the refusal of the Government of the Republic of Indonesia to indicate whether visas would be issued to permit a delegation of members of the Parliament of the Commonwealth of Australia to visit East Timor on a fact-finding mission. [More…]
I want family units to know that I am protesting at the treatment that they are receiving. [More…]
I want the unemployed youth to know that the Australian Labor Party is protesting at the way that they have been treated. [More…]
Since April this year, the political detainees have been protesting against these persecutionary measures, staging sitdown protests after each visit because prison authorities have refused to discuss the issue of foodstuff brought in by the families. [More…]
It robs people of that very quality of resourcefulness which the Fraser Government is always protesting that it wishes to inculcate. [More…]
For Mr Hawke blatantly to use the second forum in his capacity as President of the ACTU as a means of protesting- I suppose he would like to call itagainst his failures in the ACTU Jetset field I think demonstrates what the President of the ACTU is all about. [More…]
Concern has been expressed right throughout New South Wales by local government councils in telegrams similar to the one I have here from the Blayney Shire Council in my electorate protesting that no advice has been received from either Federal or State sources of the amount or basis of rural local road grants in New South Wales, despite the passage of time. [More…]
Here I was, along with every member of the Opposition and the occasional reluctant Government supporter, protesting loud and long at the parlous state of employment in this country- no doubt our colleagues in New Zealand were doing likewise- when suddenly an American company is going to show us, for the princely sum of $2, where to lay our hands on 50,000 jobs. [More…]
I ask the Minister for Post and Telecommunications: Is it a fact that the Chairman of the Australian Broadcasting Commission, Mr Norgard, has written to the Minister protesting at the Government’s interference in the Commission’s administration? [More…]
We are again witnessing cheap talk from a number of Liberal back benchers who have been making noises and protesting against the recent changes which have made indexation annual rather than six-monthly. [More…]
We know that in France, in Germany, in Spain and in many other countries across the world people are standing up and protesting against the nuclear industry. [More…]
In the last 12 months the Council has been continuing to exchange correspondence with the Minister for Social Security (Senator Guilfoyle), protesting about the fact that the subsidy which has traditionally been paid by the Commonwealth Government towards the salary of the welfare officers has been reduced from twothirds to one half, which seems to me to be a fairly penny-pinching sort of operation, anyhow. [More…]
-I ask the Minister for Transport whether he is aware of the blockages of roads in my electorate by protesting truck owner-drivers who are suffering severe financial difficulties because of unfair State road taxes? [More…]
Today Government speakers took me back to the time, before I became a member of Parliament, when I was standing on the streets of Melbourne protesting about Australia’s involvement in the war in Vietnam. [More…]
But one does not hear members of the Labor Party protesting in this chamber about that situation. [More…]
What one hears them protesting about is a situation under which, after this cumbersome procedure in the Bill has been gone through, the public servant has his employment terminated, he gets the right of appeal, which as I say, the ordinary employee in Australia does not get and he gets a payment for two months of every unexpired year and of course he gets payments under the Superannuation Act. [More…]
The demonstrators were local residents protesting planned extensions to runways at Mascot. [More…]
I would expect that honourable members from Tasmania, especially the honourable member for Denison (Mr Hodgman), would be equally as protesting to his Government as I am now. [More…]
Some 250 people used the post office in that time and some 1,000 people signed a petition protesting against the closure. [More…]
What I am protesting about is that a person can have a file into which that information can be placed without there being any justification for the existence of that file. [More…]
So we have the absurd and ridiculous situation that Liberal Party members in Queensland are protesting vigorously about this enormous scandal of the Bjelke-Petersen fund and are pointing out examples of the way in which the whole processes of decent political behaviour in that State are being corrupted by the existence of that fund; but in this Parliament the Government is allowing the tax Act to remain in a form which enables contributions to that scandalous fund to be tax deductible. [More…]
A the time the trade union movement was protesting about the Government’s actions in respect of the Commonwealth Employees (Employment Provisions) Act so it boycotted the meeting. [More…]
Over a period they were involved in protesting about those guidelines. [More…]
If we were to say that this Government were responsible for the situation in Kampuchea, everybody would have his arms up and be protesting about the charge we were making. [More…]
I am amazed that the State governments that administer these schemes are not protesting a lot more. [More…]
I remember very well being vilified in the past for protesting at some of the approaches which had been utilised in the eliciting of information. [More…]