protesting - senate - 1970

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

Government in the Senate aware that hundreds of thousands of workers throughout Australia today stopped work and that workers and pensioners attended mass rallies protesting at the injustices and economic discrimination of the Budget? [More…]
Is it a fact that the Prime Minister has written to President Nixon protesting at Mr Nixon’s failure to give him advance warning of the announcement of the President’s proposed visit to Peking? [More…]
I make the point that the draft card burners are not so much protesting against the quality of this law as they are objecting to the rule of law. [More…]
I hear the law and order gang opposite protesting, but we saw what its attitudes and its sympathisers did in the United States in connection with students. [More…]
Secondly, months ago I wrote to the Auditor-General protesting that the action purported to be made by the Minister for Services and Property (Mr Daly) to allow members of Parliament a travel allowance quite apart from the electorate allowance allowed by statute was illegal. [More…]
I am delighted to hear you are at last considering protesting to the United Nations Commission on Human Rights over the violation of human rights, but perhaps you should be warned of the fate of those who live in glass houses. [More…]
His protests suggested that there might have been some guilt which he thought could be overcome by his protesting and shouting in this chamber. [More…]
For many years I have been protesting about the downgrading of Parliament. [More…]
When they have stopped protesting - if I may use the microphone to over-ride them and to continue - I shall point to something such as the Bien Hoa hospital which none of them has visited. [More…]
Wherever Mr Wilson, the Prime Minister of Great Britain, has gone in recent weeks, he has found big demonstrations by farmers protesting at the position of the primary industry. [More…]
I then wrote to the Stock Exchange in Perth, protesting that I was given no chance in the original issue through Blacks handling of thecase. [More…]
I again wroteto the Stock Exchange protesting their attitude, and my protect was once again rejected - copy of this is also attached. [More…]
We have been protesting about the late delivery of Bills. [More…]
No, it is concerned with this Bill because I am strongly protesting that this Bill is not taking the precautions which it ought to take. [More…]
In protesting about the Bill, she points out that her committee expresses its concern that the Act, while providing a subsidy on capital expenditure, makes no provision for subsidy on the maintenance of the assets. [More…]
I think wc all recall the full page advertisements which appeared in the daily Press protesting against this decision of the Tariff Board. [More…]
I think that this is a striking indictment and condemnation of the view of those people who organised a disruption of industry for the purpose of protesting against a parliamentary budget. [More…]
The Wine and Brandy Co-operative Producers Association of Australia Incorporated has sent a letter of 2 foolscap pages from Nuriootpa, protesting against the increased excise on wine. [More…]
Not only the pensioners of this country are protesting about the Government’s actions and its niggardly treatment of them. [More…]
Teachers and parents are protesting about the inadequacies of our education system. [More…]
As well as the sections of the community to which I have referred, our artists and writers are now protesting and are demanding the right to employment in their own industry, in their own profession, in their own country. [More…]
These are the people who are protesting about freedom. [More…]
They were protesting against the Government’s policies and against its inability to suggest remedies for the present situation which faces farmers. [More…]
If my proposals were adopted the demonstrating and protesting by pensioners before a Budget is brought down would be eliminated and these people would not be subjected to such ignominy and humiliation. [More…]
I want to say a few words about Government Business taking precedence over General Business, because from the time I entered this chamber I have been protesting against the taking away of rights of individual senators. [More…]
Why is it very tame cat in its approach to protesting? [More…]
This followed upon Tuesday’s meeting of unionists protesting against the Federal Budget, which is now under consideration in Parliament. [More…]
There’s no one left protesting [More…]
By way of preface, I refer to a report in the ‘Canberra Times’ of 19th March of a meeting by the Minister for the Interior with a deputation representing the Australian Capital Territory Study Group on Environmental Quality, which was protesting against the erection of a television tower and restaurant in the Black Mountain area. [More…]
Some people are prosecuted today for burning their draft cards and others are not.. Is it any wonder that there are people today who are protesting against the unfairness of these laws and the administration of them? [More…]
But it is manifesting itself not only here but also in the United States of America, the United Kingdom, many parts of Europe and even in Japan, where the youth are protesting against their lack of national purpose and their lack of something in which to believe and for which to strive. [More…]
I believe, in the first place, that the reason why the youth of this country are disillusioned and are protesting lies in our political system. [More…]
They are protesting in various ways to show that they are not satisfied with the way in which our society is operating. [More…]
Evans was convicted although protesting that the murderer was Christie, who had given evidence against him. [More…]
It is known that the people who have been standing outside Parliament House for weeks protesting against the Vietnam war and who want to go peaceably through the streets of the capital cities do not own the television stations, the newspapers or the radio stations. [More…]
I have sensed as I have been saying that that Senator Wheeldon has been protesting that that is not his point. [More…]
If people were protesting about the Vietnam war, or whatever else it was, and had the same number of people in the streets as they do at the time of the Moomba Festival and they were stopping people from passing by, it could be said that this is unreasonable. [More…]
Then there might be another person who says: ‘Here is an assembly that is protesting about apartheid, or something of that nature, and he may say: ‘Well, I agree with that, and I will go along with it, too.’ [More…]
Those people might be just there protesting about what is happening in South Africa, and they might invite that person to join them, so he does so. [More…]
Will the Government take note of the fact that a Government senator has presented a petition protesting against the weapons used by Australia and her allies in the Vietnam war? [More…]
Has the Prime Minister written to President Nixon, protesting at his failure to give Mr McMahon advance warning of the announcement of his proposed visit to Peking? [More…]
I have no detailed information of any action that has been taken by honourable senators or other people in protesting against the increased price of flour. [More…]
How far should we go in protesting about this matter? [More…]
The Amalgamated Postal Workers’ Union of Australia has received telegrams from Unions all over the world representing 20 million Public Service and Post Office employees protesting against the McMahon Government’s Bill amending the Public Service Arbitration Act to provide for greater penal powers. [More…]
Senator Webster refers to an incident which occurred some time ago when many Australians were protesting against the- [More…]
He was pushed to a car protesting that he was not the man whom they were seeking. [More…]
He was protesting, it seemed to me. [More…]
It was obvious that the young man was protesting as he was being led to the car and entering the car. [More…]
I did not hear what was said and I do not pretend that I know what was said, but I did hear him protesting at that time that there was no warrant for his arrest and that he was not Wood. [More…]
the Minister in charge of Racing, Sir Gordon Chalk, K.B.E., by the Licensed North Queensland Racing Association Bookmakers protesting against the action and attitude of the Queensland Bookmakers Council; 7. [More…]
Comment on the Queensland Bookmakers Council in the Cairns ‘Post’ of 14th January 1972; 8, A letter from the Mackay Bookmakers Association to the North Queeusland Racing Association protesting about being forced or bound in any way to join the Queensland Bookmakers Council; 9, A new document - a statement of receipts and payments for the period from 1st October 1969 to 31st October 1971, duly audited by B. M. Scott, public accountant, and showing an amount of $4,000 in a fighting fund. [More…]
Who now is protesting about that action? [More…]
The demonstrators were protesting against Communist domination of Croatia. [More…]
One of his problems, oddly enough, is that the Communist Party in Croatia - this is something to which 1 recommend honourable senators opposite should pay more than passing attention - has been protesting so much about the economic and political rape of the country that Tito’s main problem has not been with Croatian insurgents and terrorists and this sort of people; his main problem has been with the Communist Party in Croatia. [More…]
On this issue, let me just say that on Australia Day, 26th January, the Aborigines erected a number of tents on the lawns in front of Parliament House for the purpose of protesting against deprivation of Aboriginal land rights. [More…]
I will say that the tents were erected on behalf of the Aborigines who were protesting. [More…]
Are we to see the gardens outside Parliament House covered by the erection of tents which will carry banners protesting about the desires, some of the policies, of the Labor Party? [More…]
I was saying, Mr President, that my fellow Aborigines were protesting on the lawns outside Parliament House but they were not protesting wholly and solely against this Government. [More…]
They were protesting against things that have happened over many years and they protested in the way they thought fit. [More…]
Much has been said in this debate about my fellow Aborigines protesting on the lawns outside Parliament. [More…]
He was a foreigner protesting for a foreign cause and he was permitted to stay there for many weeks. [More…]
Then you forced the Governor-General to hand tha petition on to you against whose administration it was protesting. [More…]
Well, I think that reveals that those on the Government side and members of the Australian Democratic Labour Party, including those who are protesting that they are in favour of the vote for 18-year-olds, will do everything they can to prevent 18-year olds being given the vote. [More…]
I reiterate that that is why we are here and today we have a very rare opportunity of protesting our position and exercising our right as representing a component State of the Federation. [More…]
To me that rate, of increase even for such a high office and an office of great independence is altogether incommensurate with the circumstances to which I referred when protesting against the application of percentage increases to the high and low salary levels. [More…]
I am protesting at least on my own behalf very sincerely, but I have the authority to say that we will agree to this motion at this time because, in this instance, the Government should be able to put its policy into operation. [More…]
Senator Greenwood takes the line that because there is still not complete peace in the IndoChina states we should be protesting to somebody about what is happening. [More…]
In this place and outside of it they have always been protesting about the importance of the adequate and proper protection of civil rights under the law. [More…]
We thought that she would have some interest in protesting because of her dependencies. [More…]
The situation there is such a delicate one that our advice is that at this stage we should not be protesting to any of the various governments which we frequently are told are committing violations and doing all sorts of things not to bring about peace in Vietnam. [More…]
I understand that there are other signatories in the Northern Territory and if they were added the total number protesting against what has been done would be some 500 people. [More…]
It comprises a list of signatures collected from people protesting against this acquisition, obtained within 24 hours and extracts of Press releases from the local paper. [More…]
Senator Wright made the same kind of wrong statements that have been made here tonight about the Labor Party not protesting against the Chinese nuclear tests. [More…]
I think the King Island residents are justified in protesting about those rates, as they are protesting. [More…]
But the sanctity of life, as that phrase is used, is not something in which those honourable senators who are protesting against these new clauses really believe. [More…]
The whole thrust of this propaganda is that we are protesting against the French tests but we are not protesting against the Chinese tests. [More…]
-It is no use the honourable senator protesting. [More…]
The actions of Australian citizens or organisations in protesting against the carrying out by the French Government of atmospheric nuclear tests in the Pacific have to be understood in the light of the open disregard by France of the ruling of the International Court of Justice and the relative effects on the Australian environment of fall-out from French and Chinese tests (see the answer given in the Senate on IS May 1973 to Question No. [More…]
Did any Government Minister- the Foreign Minister or the Prime Minister- go to China directly for the reason of protesting against the Chinese tests? [More…]
France and ignore China in protesting about nuclear testing? [More…]
So we have this standard on the one hand- the method of protesting. [More…]
Representatives of innumerable organisations are writing to members of Parliament protesting about the proposals to increase postal charges. [More…]
in another attack on the West, accuses New Zealand and Australia of cowardice for protesting against the French nuclear tests but not against the nuclear tests carried out by the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
I hear honourable senators protesting at the action that was taken within several days of the decision of the Senate. [More…]
Is the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs aware of Press reports that 3 Aborigines are protesting at the bombing of Quail Island, which they claim is sacred? [More…]
In a week when we have scheduled into us yesterday a Bill of Rights protesting against discrimination on the grounds of sex, I ask honourable senators to listen to this: [More…]
This attempt by Canberra to arrogate to itself all power reached such an appalling stage that we had the most unusual spectacle of 6 State Premiers- the Premiers of every State in the Commonwealth of whom half were Labor premiers- going to London for the purpose of protesting against what they regarded as being unconstitutional and wrongful attempts by the Commonwealth Government to take power to itself. [More…]
We have had the spectacle of Mr Eric Reece protesting at the interference by the Commonwealth in the matter of Lake Pedder. [More…]
On the reading from Hansard those were not the words which were said and therefore Senator McAuliffe ‘s protest at that stage could not have any validity because he was protesting against something that was not said. [More…]
I thought that he may have had some justification in protesting. [More…]
Has the Government, in conformity with its record of protesting against inhumanity wherever it may occur, protested to the Spanish Government over the executions recently of 2 prisoners? [More…]
So far I have not heard any protest from some of those people- including people who belong to the same church as the Catholic Bishop of Bilbao- who have so rightly been vocal about what happened to Solzhenitsyn protesting about the Catholic Bishop who is being expelled from Spain. [More…]
The answer to the fourth question is: No, I have not heard of Mr McLeay protesting. [More…]
I seem to remember even the Australian Democratic Labor Party protesting against the actions of ITT in Chile. [More…]
I join my colleagues in protesting at the impertinence of this statement. [More…]
Foreign Affairs (Senator Willesee), who is a Western Australian senator, announced that the Government was protesting to the United States because the United States was responding to the increased Russian naval strength in the Indian Ocean. [More…]
Is the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs aware of Press reports that 3 Aborigines are protesting at the bombing of Quail Island, which they claim is sacred? [More…]
The Opposition, while protesting in some way about that action, felt that it should not obstruct the Government-although remarks are often made that we are an obstructive Opposition. [More…]
If the Commonwealth had the power to legislate with regard to the terms and conditions upon which goods and services should be sold or supplied, and therefore was able to bring into effect an effective and operative law which was simple, clear and easily accessible, we would not be protesting against provisions such as this one. [More…]
I hope that the people of Western Australia know that those decent people- the students, the churchmen and the others- who were out there protesting in favour of freedom were described in the words of Senator Willesee as a pack of louts. [More…]
Will he tell the Senate which industries are protesting and whether their arguments have merit? [More…]
Approximately 6 months after that I protested again, but there is a stage at which one gives up protesting about the delay. [More…]
Has the Minister’s attention been drawn to reports that the Lord Mayor of Melbourne will lead a deputation to the State Minister for Health protesting about the State Government’s threat to withdraw the $100,000 subsidy to 2 proposed council pre-school centres if the Melbourne City Council accepts Federal Government building funds? [More…]
Baltic Council in South Australia protesting against a reported insulting remark made by the Prime Minister to a woman at an election meeting in Queensland? [More…]
How genuine is the overall protest of the people in Darwin who, we are told, are protesting against the provisions contained in this Bill? [More…]
Were not all the farmers who marched in Melbourne, the thousands of them, protesting at the LiberalCountry Party Federal Government’s policy on wool in desperate straits after 20 years of Liberal-Country Party rule? [More…]
They have organised demonstrations protesting against oppression in Chile. [More…]
Has the Government received representations from the Queensland Conservation Council protesting at the votes cast by Australia’s representative, an officer of the Department of Agriculture, at the 1974 International Whaling Commission meetings? [More…]
Did the Legislative Assembly of the Australian Capital Territory on 2 1 April last pass a motion protesting against the Government proposals? [More…]
I thought Senator Georges did because he seemed to make protesting remarks when I referred to that very point at the beginning of my address. [More…]
Did the Australian Capital Territory Legislative Assembly on 2 1 April 1973 pass a motion protesting against the Government’s proposals. [More…]
It was an exercise in which he engaged during the 1974 election campaign when he required persons who had inserted advertisements in the newspapers protesting against the proposed laws on gun control to withdraw those advertisements, having used the Commonwealth Police and officers of the Attorney-General’s Department to indicate that action would otherwise be taken. [More…]
Has the attention of the Minister for Foreign Affairs been drawn to the occupation yesterday of the Indonesian Embassy in Canberra by a group of demonstrators protesting against alleged clashes between Indonesian and Fretilin forces inside Portuguese Timor? [More…]
They were protesting against alleged actions of the Indonesian armed forces which, according to one Press report, clashed with Fretilin forces inside Portuguese Timor. [More…]
have heard the previous speaker, Senator Carrick, adopt many postures but I feel that today his attitude was something like that of a felon in the dock, protesting too much and crying out to the people for clemency. [More…]
I replied on 18 November protesting at the failure to grant Mr Pavlovic a passport. [More…]
Why then is he protesting now? [More…]
I do not know that I have seen any reports, but I certainly have received communications from people protesting at what is alleged in reports. [More…]
I am more than interested that when incidents such as this happen one does not receive ‘ letters signed by 10 well known citizens of Australia protesting against such intimidatory tactics. [More…]
-Has the Minister representing the Minister for Health seen a statement by Dr R. Munro Ford, who is the Chairman of the Asthma Foundation and also the Chairman of the College of Allergists, protesting about a new requirement that asthma and allergy sufferers pay between $5 and $6 for each new prescription which they require for antihistamines. [More…]
I have enclosed herewith a copy of a letter sent to the General Manager of the Australian Broadcasting Commission protesting against the cessation of the Adelaide Metropolitan Regional News following the economy measures introduced by the Commonwealth Government. [More…]
The current situation is that members of the Department of Foreign Affairs, who were not previously organised into associations, are protesting to the Government about the cuts in staff. [More…]
It is not they who are protesting; it is a handful of people who see the weapons of obstruction and the weapons of violence as weapons of intimidation against freedom of speech and freedom of association. [More…]
That whereas the world is currently witnessing the slaughter of Africans, many of them school children, who are protesting against Apartheid; [More…]
I have to inform honourable senators that the Principal Parliamentary Reporter has received a letter from the Government Printer protesting at the quality of material sent to him for incorporation in Hansard during the sitting on Thursday, 21 October. [More…]
That is what the Opposition is protesting about. [More…]
On 25 February the President of the Haasts Bluff Council sent a telegram to the Prime Minister protesting against the action of the Government as a repudiation of its election policies. [More…]
I know that they are the operative words, and that is why I am protesting. [More…]
-Has the Minister for Social Security received a letter from the NOW Centre in Melbourne protesting about her withdrawal of the welfare rights officer grant from the Federation of Italian Labourers, Emigrants and Families? [More…]
Did the Minister receive a telegram from the Australian Council of Furniture Manufacturers, an employer organisation, and the Federated Furnishing Trade Society of Australasia, an employee organisation, protesting against this decision and offering to pay the air fares and any accommodation required by the commissioners? [More…]
I think that Senator Harradine, in protesting against that and saying that there is a section of the trade union movement which would regard that as an inducement to anarchy, is not speaking the language that we know. [More…]
That person could be, for example, a student protesting against some injustice. [More…]
That person could be a consumer protesting against dishonest business practice. [More…]
We had very oppressive legislation put through this Parliament some months ago in the form of the Commonwealth Employees (Employment Provisions) Bill to prevent Commonwealth employees from even protesting about the conditions under which they have to work. [More…]
To me that is a travesty of justice, a travesty of democracy, which leads to the very thing about which churchmen in Queensland are protesting. [More…]
The Daily Telegraph said that the Liberal Party was protesting, but the distribution commissioners made an in depth study and they were standing firm. [More…]
I think I remember protesting about this matter last year, in this Bill or in recent months. [More…]
Is the Minister representing the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs aware that 40 Aborigines were recently expelled by the Yarra Bay Sailing Club in Sydney and that the expulsions were carried out because some Aborigines had taken up a petition protesting about an alleged assault on an Aborigine by an officer of the club? [More…]
If they had wanted to protest against the infringement of States’ rights or, more importantly in my view, the gross and scandalous infringements of the rights of the individual and the denial of the most fundamental principles of AngloAustralian jurisprudence, they should have started protesting 25 years ago about the Atomic Energy Act. [More…]
Without documenting the situation any further, I simply say that when we sat on the celebrated Townley Committee- the Minister knows about this, although probably he was not quite as involved as others of us on the Committee were with our different attitudes- we learned that it would be completely wrong for these people who are protesting to claim that they are being persecuted. [More…]
Mr Tonkin has gone on record protesting vigorously about the dangers for the River Murray if a paper pulp mill is built near Wodonga. [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…]
I am considering protesting to the United Nations Commission on Human Rights over the violation of human rights in your home State of Victoria in New South Wales and now in Canberra. [More…]
It cannot afford to pay any more and it is no good protesting to this Government because it will not take any notice. [More…]
It is for this reason that we join with all those other people in the community who are protesting at the cuts in the Commonwealth subsidy for this important, humane and vital area of home help. [More…]
The Australian Council on the Ageing, the Pensioners’ Federation and Professor Henderson as well as local government bodies are all protesting about these proposed changes. [More…]
If the Social Security field officer does not get you there is a strong chance that the law will, and if you become politicised and show your disapproval of the way this Government is handling your life by protesting and marching there is a strong chance ASIO will have you on file. ‘ [More…]
In common with a number of honourable senators, I have received many letters protesting at this piece of legislation. [More…]
I know that it is of no use our standing here and protesting against this measure, because we are not going to get the support of honourable senators opposite. [More…]
One example was that of a mature aged trainee teacher, not a member of the Communist Party or any of its multifarious offshoots, in West Germany whose offences apparently were twofold: First, to organise his fellow trainee teachers when they were threatened with a salary deduction, to threaten a strike- not actually to carry it out- against the authorities; and, secondly, to sign in company with a number of other people who were communists- I repeat that apparently he was not- an open letter protesting against the violation of the Constitution in Chile. [More…]
Senator Ryan keeps protesting that the people I name are satisfactory, representative and the sort of people who ought to be on the Commission. [More…]
These Polish people are protesting about this film. [More…]
These people are protesting because they feel the film belittles the concept of all that the Polish people believe in. [More…]
But the Polish people are protesting about the manner in which their national anthem is prostituted in this film and things like that which grate on them. [More…]
Is it a fact, as reported in the newspapers, that the Chairman of the Australian Broadcasting Commission has written to the Federal Government protesting at Government interference in the running of the ABC? [More…]
Having been approached today, quite spontaneously, by dried fruit producers- people whose names were not known to me, people I have never spoken to before- who were protesting not about the intention in the four Bills which are before the Senate but about the fact that the Minister for Primary Industry (Mr Sinclair) has failed adequately to consult with the producers concerned, I feel that I must register a protest on their behalf in addition to the protest that I have already stated on behalf of members of the Senate collectively. [More…]
Finally, I would like to say only this: All those progressives, all those people who continuously speak about human beings and human rights, all those people who so recently marched in the streets protesting about the cruelty of war- any war- have forgotten that wars are still going on in which the same people, the same human beings, are being killed. [More…]
Is the Minister for Education aware that there is to be a public meeting held in the Australian Capital Territory this evening to be attended by parents, teachers and students from schools all over the Australian Capital Territory protesting against threatened closures of high schools and Narrabundah College in the Australian Capital Territory? [More…]
Was the housekeeper within his rights in protesting against the lighting of a fire in the rose garden? [More…]
Is it a fact that at the Blackburn North Baptist Church on 1 1 August and again at the Robert Blackwood Hall at Monash University on 12 August this year, Australian citizens protesting against the Indonesian invasion and continuing presence in East Timor were kicked and punched by staff attached to the Indonesian Embassy, resulting in injuries to these citizens? [More…]
There is a fine line between the rights of a person to protest about some government decision that they object to and the rights and privileges of people in the community to be able to go about their normal day’s work while they are objecting and protesting. [More…]
It did not consult them in that it brought forward the proposals for this legislation at the National Labour Consultative Council, at a time when it well knew that the peak union councils would not be represented because they were protesting about a specific failure of the Government to communicate and consult with them on the proclamation of another very controversial piece of legislation. [More…]
1 ) Were Australian citizens who were protesting against the Indonesia invasion of, and continuing presence in, East Timor, kicked and punched by staff attached to the Indonesian Embassy, resulting in injuries, at the Blackburn North Baptist Church on 1 1 August 1979 and at the Robert Blackwood Hall at Monash University on 12 August 1979. [More…]
Why then has not Senator Webster issued a statement protesting about the naming of these five people and, indeed, three or four other people, in another report tabled yesterday in the New South Wales Parliament? [More…]
Through the Chair, I ask Senator Kilgariff about his attendance at a meeting of a large crowd of Aboriginals at Alice Springs who were protesting because they wanted land rights. [More…]
Indeed, we have spent a good deal of time this session with Australian Security Intelligence Organisation and Customs legislation protesting against such intrusions of civil liberties at the Commonwealth level. [More…]
What is the total number of: (a) petitions; and (b) signatures on petitions, lodged in both Houses of the Federal Parliament since the first Parliamentary Session in 1976, protesting at aspects of the implementation of Metric Conversion. [More…]