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

• The next is: ‘The avoidance of discrimination on any grounds of race or colour of skin or nationality’. [More…]

• The possible interbreeding of the New Zealand race with any remaining Australian stock, resulting in possible genetic variations is one such problem and this is an important factor that must be considered by the authorities. [More…]

• It is Senator Bonner’s responsibility, as much as it is the responsibility of anyone else, as a senator in Queensland- particularly when it concerns a member of his race- to take up the matter and pursue it. [More…]

• Who gave permission for Laverton Air Base in Victoria to be used for the 1976 Australian TT International bike race. [More…]

• That it represents a major escalation of the arms race, and directly involves Australia even further in nuclear war strategies. [More…]

• Any application to migrate to Australia from Northern Ireland lodged by the holder of a Republic of Ireland passport would be considered within the scope of normal migrant policy which is applied globally irrespective of the race or nationality of the applicant. [More…]

• Commends the maintenance of the institution of the Commonwealth as a unique forum for discussion and the exchange of ideas between member countries, irrespective of race, creed, culture or colour; [More…]

• The Commonwealth is a free association of nations characterised by a great diversity of race, language, culture and economic backgrounds. [More…]

• Welfare officers in the Department are appointed to assist in meeting the welfare requirements of all our clients regardless of their race, their ethnic background or any other factors. [More…]

• Will the Minister assure me that Mrs Watson will forthwith be permanently employed by her Department and that immediate consideration will be given to employing others of my race within her Department to provide these essential services? [More…]

• Labor’s policy is that while we are not opposed to uranium mining, we are opposed to the mining and export of uranium when we do not have sufficient knowledge about safeguards to protect the human race. [More…]

• It is no race because every claim contained in the motion has been disproved. [More…]

• We have a right to deplore such discrimination on grounds of race or religion. [More…]

• Is conscious of the fact that in the long run the security of the world as a whole will depend upon effective measures to control the nuclear arms race and to bring about general and complete disarmament. [More…]

• If this were one of the traditional customs of the race, one would expect that the person charged would not receive the same penalty as someone in our capital cities or someone who was not influenced by a traditional custom. [More…]

• to eligible organisations towards the cost of approved homes to be used wholly or mainly for persons of the Aboriginal race; [More…]

• to provide donations for persons of the Aboriginal race; or [More…]

• such other similar charitable purposes for the Aboriginal race as the Minister from time to time approves. [More…]

• Australia and New Zealand are two countries whose people are predominantly of European descent and which are situated in the South Pacific area, far from people of our own race. [More…]

• We are living beside one of the great and significant movements of history, one of the most significant things that has happened in the history of the human race.’ [More…]

• the substantial uplift of the members of the Aboriginal race; [More…]

• The terrible concern that people in Australia have is not that members of the DLP are hypocritical but that they mean what they say when they say that we should be refusing to ratify the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty and when they say that we should be acquiring nuclear arms of our own, so setting off a race and a chain reaction among all the smaller nations around the world to acquire nuclear arms oftheir own. [More…]

• It would be the destruction of the human race. [More…]

• Measures for the substantial uplift of members of the Aboriginal race ought to be introduced. [More…]

• I do not have to reiterate this history which goes back 900 years during which the Vietnamese people, a gallant and proud race, defended themselves against all-comers. [More…]

• We have been engaged in systematically decimating a species of the human race. [More…]

• We also have to face up to the people throughout the world who will evaluate us as a race. [More…]

• the substantial uplift of the members of the Aboriginal race; [More…]

• I am not aware of any immunity in regard to any part of the penal law which attaches to anybody by virtue of his race. [More…]

• I know of at least one occasion when a senior member of the Office was told - and witnesses can be produced to confirm this if a royal commission is held - that if he found any fault when carrying out an inspection of the living and working conditions of some of the people of his race he was not to speak about it publicly at any time. [More…]

• The people of any race, other than the Aboriginal race in any State, for whom it is deemed necessary to make special laws. [More…]

• Even if the Parliament does last its full term it is a shocking state of affairs when one considers that in 1970 - 200 years after Australia was discovered by the so-called superior white race - we are still discriminating against the original Australians. [More…]

• The last generation or two of Australians have realised that the Aboriginals were becoming a vanishing race and that we should do more to protect them. [More…]

• The then Minister for Post-war Re-construction, the honourable J. J. Dedman, said: ‘We do not want a race of little capitalists’. [More…]

• Today we are trying to find a race of people and to emancipate them from the Establishment. [More…]

• Some of them probably even train race horses. [More…]

• The Government has tried to destroy, to decimate and to commit genocide on a race of proud people whose only wish is that they should be given independence. [More…]

• The policy that the Government is carrying out today is the same policy that the German Fascists carried out against the Jews, the Poles and other races in Germany. [More…]

• The Government is taking on the role of the Herrenvolk, the master race, lt believes we can destroy this whole race of people yet still have the hide to consider ourselves as Christians, people commanded not to kill and people who are commanded to do unto others as they would that others should do unto them. [More…]

• In other words, he was saying that our young Australians are behaving in the way in which the Germans behaved in the worst stages of the 1930s and the 1940s- that they are deliberately setting out to murder and expunge from the earth a race of people. [More…]

• He was jealous because he thought he was being left out in the prestige race of the right wing reactionaries of the Liberal Party so he had to come in to defend the statements that had been made. [More…]

• But, a loftier race than e’er the world bath known shall rise with flame of freedom in their souls and light of knowledge in their eyes. [More…]

• Eligibility for War Service Homes assistance is governed by the provisions of the War Service Homes Act which does not differentiate between persons on the basis of race or nationality. [More…]

• The military industrial complex of Germany had as a background the Krupp empire with all the militarism of the Prussians, lt had as the ideal historical background this long training of the German people towards the belief thai they were a superior race, the Herrenvolk. [More…]

• There was the brainwashing, over generations that they were the superior race. [More…]

• It is probably still more frightening for the great majority of the human race who are neither Europeans nor North Americans, but are Latin Americans, Asians and Africans. [More…]

• One station, of course, starts the rat race and another station has to join. [More…]

• Does the Minister obtain horse betting information from the personal columns of the daily newspapers and if so, is she aware that the code message Sue, ring Les, 16 South Street” when decoded reads ‘Brisbane, race 3, horse 16’? [More…]

• All children, without any exception whatsoever, shall be entitled to these rights without distinction or discrimination on account of race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or social origin, property, birth or other status, whether of himself or of his family. [More…]

• Can horsebelting information be obtained from the personal columns of daily newspapers; if so, is it a fact that the code message ‘Sue ring Les, 16 South Street’, when decoded reads ‘Brisbane, Race 3, horse 16’. [More…]

• ls it a fact that one of these aircraft, contrary to DCA regulations, flew at an altitude of 50 feet over the foreshores of the Derwent River on the day the yachts in the Sydney to Hobart race arrived in Hobart? [More…]

• However, modern taxonomic thought considers the Bennett’s wallaby as a sub-species or race of the rednecked wallaby(‘Macropus rufogriseus’) which is widespread and abundant in eastern parts of Queensland, New South Wales and Victoria. [More…]

• Senator Webster shares the views of those - and there are many in the Government ranks who hold this view, and everybody knows it - who believe in the master race theory. [More…]

• It is said that the rats do not race as hard in Tasmania as they do in other parts of the Commonwealth. [More…]

• We are reduced to an aircraft designed for a race of pygmies - the Fokker Friendship. [More…]

• It will race them through the House of Representatives and through this chamber because the Democratic Labor Party once again will vote to gag debate in this chamber on things which embarrasses it. [More…]

• It is pointed out the applications for all forms of war service homes assistance, including proposals to buy group homes, are considered only having regard to the requirements of the Act which contains no provisions in any way related to the colour, race or nationality of applicants. [More…]

• We keep no records of race or colour. [More…]

• I assure him that we keep no records of race or colour. [More…]

• This is a disgraceful state of affairs. [More…]

• We have now moved into the field where, if a person of white race has married outside the pure white race he will be refused assisted passages. [More…]

• If we take this to its logical conclusion it means that even if a person of white race who had married another person of white race adopted an Asian or coloured child, they would be prevented from receiving assisted passages to this country. [More…]

• The final paragraph of the Minister’s answer is one of the most disgraceful sentences 1 have ever read. [More…]

• The Minister in the first paragraph of his reply made it quite clear that Government policy now is that a person of coloured race who is not a European cannot receive or obtain- an assisted passage to this country. [More…]

• Mr Lim, an Indonesian national of Chinese race was first admitted to Australia for educational purposes in February 1954. [More…]

• But we are faced with an application by a British person whose only crime is that he has seen fit to marry a person of another race and that he has children. [More…]

• What is this race of 12 million people scared of? [More…]

• Other countries judge us rightly if we make a decision on such a case that the man cannot come for no other reason than that be happens to be married to a person of a different race and that he has children who are of mixed race. [More…]

• It illustrates the Government’s fear of one man, his wife who is of a different race and his children who are of mixed race, ls it not true that in 30. [More…]

• 40 or 50 years the wife will be longer be here, and if the children come here they will most likely be intermingled with people of our race? [More…]

• I suggest that the goodwill engendered by the tremendous amount of money we are spending in bringing people to this country will largely be offset by the poor reputation we will give Australia in the minds of thinking people in every part of the world, of whatever race or whatever nationality. [More…]

• But we get to the situation where a British subject born in England and of European race has married an Indian lass and is denied an assisted passage to this country because one or more of his family are ineligible. [More…]

• It is a disgraceful situation when, because he chose somebody he desired to spend the rest of his life with and because he chose to have a family and bring young children into this community, the Government says ‘No’ because the colour of his wife’s skin is different, and because the colour of his children’s skin will be different, from the colour of his own. [More…]

• This is a most disgraceful thing and cannot be fobbed off as far as I am concerned by the Minister saying that if it was an adopted child- [More…]

• We have a controlled immigration policy which says that no person, whatever his colour or race, or whatever be his creed, is to be denied entry. [More…]

• people of different races. [More…]

• But the Government has extended its policy now to include Europeans and people of other races who possess the skills which Australia needs. [More…]

• If Australia needs their skills one would expect it to be prepared to help them financially, whether they are European or of any other race. [More…]

• If we are prepared to assist an Englishman who has special skills to come to Australia, we should assist an individual of any race to come to Australia if he has skills which we require, lt was part of the policy to admit into this country nationals from other countries if they had skills which we required. [More…]

• In this instance the Government is discriminating between the races in providing assistance. [More…]

• I understand that as well as being the Minister for External Territories he is also the owner of the race horse Tails. [More…]

• We know that he is in Melbourne chasing his race horse around the Cup course. [More…]

• He simply says that if the Minister for External Territories (Mr Barnes) were here be could have obtained a copy but the Minister has a race horse. [More…]

• Senator Keeffe said (hat this Ordinance discriminates according to colour and race. [More…]

• There is not one syllable in the Ordinance which makes any of its provisions dependent upon an element of colour or race. [More…]

• The Commission has to try to examine whether we should be the last in the technological race or whether it is appropriate to move into this field now. [More…]

• In any race, if someone owns a piece of land, it is handed on through the generations. [More…]

• However, in the case of Perth the TAB authorities provide a personally answered service for race results, dividends, etc., which is listed on pages 390 and 391 of the current Western Australia telephone directory. [More…]

• The other 2 aircraft disposed of by private treaty were a Mosquito and a Fairy Firefly sold for use in a London to Sydney air race and to a British military museum respectively. [More…]

• Their race will survive despite our great overall purpose of subduing them and subverting them. [More…]

• These people will survive as an ethnic race and will guide their own destiny. [More…]

• The kerfuffle put forward tonight by Senator Sir Magnus Cormack about General Eisenhower’s grand plan and the 4 dots comes down to this: Whatever we like to say in this Parliament, South East Asia is peopled with human beings who have a pride in their race and a pride in their destiny. [More…]

• I do not want to race home just to get away from the place. [More…]

• The Commonwealth and State parliaments to pass Acts providing for human rights and civil liberties, and to take all possible legislative and administrative action and judicial proceedings to prevent infringement of such rights and liberties and in particular to prevent discrimination on the grounds of colour, race, sex, creed or politics. [More…]

• These young people cannot grasp the idea that advances in communication and transport and all the other conquests of increased technology and scientific knowledge have meant inevitably that humanity embraces all mankind, not just one section or race or creed. [More…]

• I am certain they will wonder about our standards of measuring the morality of intelligent men who manufacture and store deadly germs, nuclear bombs, lethal gases and all the other terrible weapons devised to destroy other sections of the human race. [More…]

• Some people have moral standards which enable them to condone this kind of thing, yet if people of a particular race do not wear formal dress, or wear little or no clothes, they are regarded by some people as being in a state of moral decay. [More…]

• The other 2 aircraft disposed of by private treaty were a Mosquito and a Fairy Firefly sold for use in a London to Sydney air race and to a British military museum respectively. [More…]

• The effect of the successful referendum in 1967 was to give the Commonwealth Parliament power to make laws in relation to the Aboriginals, as it already could for the people of any other race. [More…]

• They do not select many other countries in the world, which we could name one by one, which practice a policy of the most blatant racial discrimination whether it be against the Indians, the Chinese or some other race. [More…]

• So, this heavy capitalisation cost will go on if the rat race between international operators continues. [More…]

• One of them recalls a day in Perth when he was betting simultaneously on 6 different race meetings. [More…]

• We are a most unusual race of people. [More…]

• Senator Sir KENNETH ANDERSONI am sure that he will; he comes from Tasmania where there is a sturdy and rugged race. [More…]

• However, I shall play the role which my State of Queensland, my race, my background, my political beliefs, my knowledge of men and circumstances dictate. [More…]

• This I shall do, through the grace of God, to the benefit of all Australians. [More…]

• Throughout that long period my race developed many traditions and one generation has passed on to another a respect for these traditions. [More…]

• However I am conscious of the fact that I am the first member of my race to participate in parliamentary proceedings. [More…]

• I stand humbly in the presence of honourable senators to bring to their attention what I believe to be the lot of those of my race in 1971. [More…]

• It may also be possible to bring down legislation to restrict the manufacture of boomerangs within Australia to those people who own it as their special heritage - the Aboriginal race. [More…]

• I feel that all honourable senators would have a sense of pride that we have in our assembly one who is a member of the Aboriginal race, one who has an understanding of the problems of the people of his race in particular, and one who has shown in his speech last night a bigness in his approach to these problems. [More…]

• I was proud that Queensland, which has been rather villified because of its attitude to his race, selected Neville Bonner to represent not only his people but the people of Queensland. [More…]

• However, in Nazi Germany it was a matter of race. [More…]

• Some Jews were able to disguise themselves as being other than members of that race. [More…]

• I recall the importance of the swearing in ceremony when this new Senate was formed and the historic event which was recorded in the annals of this Senate when Senator Bonner, a member of the indigenous race of the Commonwealth of Australia, was the first of his race to be recognised to represent the people of Australia, and In particular the people of Queensland. [More…]

• It would be undesirable for us to place ourselves in a position of underpopulation unless we are prepared to change our attitude to race and immigration and are prepared to accept in far greater numbers people from the over-populated and under-privileged nations of the world. [More…]

• This is not to say that we as a race, as a nation or as a people condone crime. [More…]

• To me it comes down to a simple issue: Are we in favour of capital punishment for people who do not deserve to be allowed in the society of the human race? [More…]

• This happened because that individual was allowed to move in the society of the human race. [More…]

• Such people should be got rid of because they are of no value to this human society and race. [More…]

• Previously it was a form of taxation which had been feasible only on the race track and in the gambling industries. [More…]

• In his most recent Budget the State Treasurer made provision for a development fund to improve the real property of race clubs and to provide amenities for their members. [More…]

• Perhaps I am more conscious of the need for respect because I come from a race of people who have always placed great importance on the welfare of their aged and everything that is done for them. [More…]

• Australia today is in this race to become one of the greatest tablet swallowing nations in the world. [More…]

• Although to some extent this crisis is related to the general down-turn of the aviation industry, which has become something of a rat race, and the introduction of new sophisticated aircraft, everybody is aware that the plight in which Qantas finds itself is due to some extent to the lack of appreciation of current trends by the management of Qantas. [More…]

• We believe that in the private sector it is the speculator and the investor who are ahead in the accommodation race. [More…]

• I have visited many of our secondary schools and have been able to see the results achieved and what they have meant to students, particularly to children of my race. [More…]

• There is a measure of restriction on the entry into Australia of person of mixed race, even as fare paying migrants. [More…]

• The avoidance of discrimination on any grounds of race or colour of skin or nationality. [More…]

• But from the way in which Senator Poyser has been arguing today, assisted passages must be made available to anybody in the world, whatever their race, the colour of their skin or their nationality. [More…]

• The avoidance of discrimination on any grounds of race or colour of skin or nationality. [More…]

• To those who are continually yapping about racists 1 say: ‘What about some of the countries in which coloureds are the predominant race? [More…]

• Our policy is most definite that there shall be no discrimination on the ground of race, colour or creed, lt could well be that various members of the Opposition in explaining our policy could place different emphasis on or give different interpretations of that policy. [More…]

• But so that there would be no misinterpretation of this policy, the Leader of the Australian Labor Party, Mr Whitlam, in a Press conference before television cameras, together with the shadow Minister for Immigration, explained in the shadow Minister’s home State Labor’s policy on immigration, lt was stated definitely that there would be no discrimination on the ground of race or colour. [More…]

• On the figures that he produced, our Leader pointed out that this policy possibly would mean a smaller intake of Asian migrants because of the small number of Asians in this country, but the assistance we gave to migrants to Australia would not depend upon their race or their nationality. [More…]

• Admission to Australia as a migrant should not depend on race or colour. [More…]

• We would never grant or withhold assistance to migrants simply because of race or colour. [More…]

• The avoidance of discrimination on any grounds of race or colour of skin or nationality. [More…]

• The point of the avoidance of discrimination on any ground of race, colour of skin or nationality was in at the direction of the Conference. [More…]

• From time to time this Government has said that for a period it has to lay off allowing certain southern European peoples to enter Australia because in the whirl of things - I do not blame anybody for this; it can easily happen when the Government is bringing in more than 100,000 people a year - it starts to bring in too many people of one race, i applaud that action. [More…]

• We have the natural resources and we have a race of people who seem peculiarly adapted to this type of work. [More…]

• lt has become a rat race. [More…]

• I have had personal experience of many of these problems that are being faced by members of my race. [More…]

• I know what it is like to struggle as many of my race are struggling at the moment. [More…]

• The Queensland Government does not identify Public Servants and Crown employees by race and there is no record to indicate whether officials are white or non-white, but purely from some personal knowledge it is known that some Torres Strait Islanders and Aborigines are within the Public Service/Crown employees Staff establishment at Bamaga. [More…]

• Council of Race Clubs [More…]

• It seems a pity that a wonderful race of people such as the British has wasted its substance for over 100 years fighting for I do not know what. [More…]

• The union leaders were very quick to race around the place and interest themselves once the factory was closed more than they were when the strikes were going on. [More…]

• As far as I am concerned in this human race of ours we might as well take an example from some of the lower order of animals which get rid of parts of their community which are not worth while. [More…]

• Being an Aboriginal and being very concerned about the plight of members of my race, not only in my own State but in the Commonwealth at large, I was very disturbed that such an allegation should be made against my State, its Government, the responsible Minister and the Director of Aboriginal and Island Affairs in Queensland. [More…]

• It is about time that I, as an Aborigine, had something to say concerning the matters that affect members of my race in this country. [More…]

• Perhaps he is a little afraid because today the Aboriginal race has the fastest birth rate of any race of people in the world. [More…]

• He said it was about time that he as an Aboriginal had something to say about matters that affect members of ‘my race and my country’. [More…]

• There are many Aborigines who refer to Senator Bonner as the Uncle Tom of his race. [More…]

• This, I think, is a tremendous disgrace, when he is the first member of the Aboriginal community to be elected to a Parliament in this country. [More…]

• The infant mortality rate of Aborigines in this country is higher than the infant mortality rate of any other coloured race anywhere in the world. [More…]

• People such as Senator Bonner should have enough interest in their own race and enough desire to do something about such a matter that they expose it themselves. [More…]

• The black people of Queensland, if not of Australia, have given him away as being as they say ‘the Uncle Tom of our race’. [More…]

• But he has repudiated his race. [More…]

• In Australia we have the highest infant mortality rate of any country in the Western world, the highest of any coloured race anywhere, and if we do not do something about it we will be looked upon as sadists throughout the whole world. [More…]

• Senator Bonner, because of his race, objected to the way in which these people were being used. [More…]

• He was speaking with feeling because he saw that the people of his own race were being used for political purposes; and all he gets in return is an attack of a character which is basically personal and which suggests that he is not really speaking on behalf of his own people. [More…]

• They accept Senator Keeffe as a better representative of their race than Senator Bonner. [More…]

• I would be remiss in my responsibility if I did not congratulate Senator Keeffe on his great defence of coloured Australians, when compared with the attack made on him by one of their race in defence of the white man’s treatment of Aborigines in Queensland. [More…]

• He needs a bodyguard to protect him from his own race in Queensland. [More…]

• Does not this armaments race present a serious threat to world peace and does it not indicate a tragic failure of the United Nations Committee on Disarmament? [More…]

• We would not describe the military preparedness being undertaken by these countries as necessarily an armaments race. [More…]

• Separate statistics by race of the arrival of persons for settlement cross tabulated by country of former residence were not maintained prior to 1st July 1969. [More…]

• I want to respond to the article by saying that there is no evidence that the incidence of venereal disease in the Northern Territory poses a threat to the survival of the Aboriginal race. [More…]

• This is tied up with this question of race, of being a British subject. [More…]

• I should have thought there could be a no more slanderous statement about a person of the Aboriginal race than to call him an Uncle Tom in the context in which that term has been used among Aboriginal people. [More…]

• It is a matter upon which we all ought to have some shame, that the sort of attacks which are being made against the first person of his race who has won a seat in the Australian Parliament should have been made in this chamber by a person Who was once the President of one of the major political parties in this country. [More…]

• It seems to me that we ought to be rethinking the sort of rat race psychology in which we are engaging and we keep buying aircraft which are just off the production line. [More…]

• This leads to the conclusion that Australia is the greatest race of drug addicts or pill takers in the world. [More…]

• But in the face of all this, in the face of the obviously common sense tendency in the community to amalgamate, the Government has confronted unions which wish to amalgamate with what amounts to an obstacle race. [More…]

• On the other hand it is hardly right that a Cairns fielder who holds little more than $1,000 a meeting should pay the same as a Brisbane paddock bookmaker who would hold 10 times that amount ON ONE RACE! [More…]

• Is the Minister aware that Dr Reader of the National Heart Foundation and Dr Willee, Director of Physical Education at the University of Melbourne, have declared that Australian over- 16-year- olds are less fit than their American counterparts who are considered to be the most unfit race of people in the world? [More…]

• Leader writers are a special race of men. [More…]

• The less that we peddle various products by creating in people’s minds a need to smoke or drink alcohol the better it will be for the human race. [More…]

• An important implication of the establishment of this Institute is that it will research the possibility of food from marine sources being used to feed future generations of the human race. [More…]

• He also remarked that this car - the Cortina - had been caught up in a rat race of cars in this range. [More…]

• One can imagine the thoughts in the minds of members of a race which has lived and survived for countless centuries as tribal people in certain areas and as ethnic groups which have had a very simple type of life. [More…]

• It has survived to produce a virile and lovable race of people. [More…]

• I am certain that with or without us they will continue to thrive and to prosper, to love, to multiply and to hold their heads up as another race of people with equality under the sun. [More…]

• Mr Acting President, honourable senators will be aware that His Royal Highness Prince William of Gloucester, the eldest son of the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester, died yesterday when his plane crashed on takeoff at the start of an air race at Wolverhampton. [More…]

• This week Mr Greenway expanded his views by, saying the Australian tourist industry had fallen behind in the race to be internationally competitive. [More…]

• One of the purposes expressed in the United Nations Charter is ‘To achieve international cooperation in solving international problems of an economic, social, cultural or humanitarian character, and in promoting and encouraging respect for human rights and for fundamental freedoms for all without distinction as to race, sex, language or religion’. [More…]

• Discrimination between human beings on the grounds of race, color or ethnic origin is an offence to human dignity and shall be condemned as a denial of the principles of the Charter of the United Nations, as a violation of the human rights and fundamental freedoms proclaimed in the Universal Declaration of Human [More…]

• <1) No State, institution, group or individual shall make any discrimination whatsoever in matters of human rights and fundamental freedoms in the treatment of persons, groups or persons or institutions on the grounds of race, color or ethnic origin. [More…]

• No State shall encourage, advocate or lend its support through police action or otherwise, to any discrimination based on race, color or ethnic origin by any group, institution or individual. [More…]

• It was from the very first utterly heterogeneous and never likely to succeed because there were together in it at least 6 main divisions of people and groups of people who were not only different in race and in ethnic characteristics but also different in language, religion, history and, in terms of the provinces, in geography. [More…]

• Where Croatian boys have intended to marry Australian girls one or two of the Croatian leaders have talked in the Hitler vein about weakening the strain of the race and all these things. [More…]

• The Australian Labor Party says that, the Aborigines had a right to demonstrate and my colleague Senator Cavanagh pointed out in great detail that they did this with dignity and with honour, not only to the group who were demonstrating but also to their race in general. [More…]

• Nowhere in the world previously has statistical evidence been gathered and collated to show the infant mortality rate among people who live in and who are still influenced by the type of environment in which these people have lived and survived when probably our race would have been wiped out. [More…]

• If Senator O’Byrne wants to interject, does he suggest that it was never the culture of our race to grab women who were thought to be witches and dunk them in a pond and if they did not drown to burn them at the stake, and if they did not burn to declare that they were not witches? [More…]

• You start doing some research into matters pertaining to this House and matters pertaining to my race before you stand up and try to speak authoritatively about Aboriginal affairs. [More…]

• Allow me, as the Aboriginal in the Senate, at least to speak with some authority on matters pertaining to my race. [More…]

• I am not happy about the percentage of it; nor should the honourable senator be happy about the percentage of it amongst his own race. [More…]

• Disallowance would not benefit my race in any way at all. [More…]

• Aborigines always have been a very dignified race, particularly until the white man introduced grog and things like that. [More…]

• Although I will be trying, to the best of my ability, to bring about a situation where my fellow Aborigines will have a permanent lobby in Canberra, I do not feel that at this time I can support the motion to disallow the Ordinance because, as I said earlier, it can do no good for my race whatsoever. [More…]

• They claimed that their being of the Aboriginal race was justification in itself for their presence. [More…]

• The fact that the people were of Aboriginal race was inconsequential to the principle involved. [More…]

• A group of militant Aborigines, even if they are not representative of the whole movement by the Aboriginal people, is not prepared to permit their race to persevere under the conditions of the past. [More…]

• I do not think it speaks well for a member of their race who happens to be a member of Parliament to disown them to the extent that he would criticise anyone who seeks to be of some benefit to them. [More…]

• Recently, respected trade union leaders have told me that on jobs where there have been industrial problems he has had a tendency to get one of his messengers to go on to the jobs and provoke the people belonging to their race to continue working. [More…]

• Senator DOUGLAS McCLELLANDIf Senator Little is suggesting that parents who send their child to a State government school have to do so because they spend their money on race horses, I think, frankly, that that is a pretty poor interjection. [More…]

• Quite apart from Aborigines as a race, I am far from satisfied today that we are geared sufficiently to meet the situation as more and more manual work is phased out and that we are able to provide job opportunities. [More…]

• The fact remains that although we are training a race of people who will be skilled technicians to service the non-manual operations, fewer of them will be needed. [More…]

• It is helping many members of my race to fit into the community and enjoy the kinds of activities which they feel they need to do. [More…]

• I believe that there is a great need to assist the members of my race in relation to housing. [More…]

• I believe that there is a need for special legislation and special assistance to help members of my race who have come from a completely different culture and who are striving to adapt and integrate into the general community and become what we all want to be - respected and responsible citizens. [More…]

• When I say this I mean competent Aborigines, not necessarily academically brilliant but Aborigines who have suffered the problems which are facing many members of my race at this time and who have been able to overcome these problems. [More…]

• They would be able to guide and liaise with members of their own race far better than the fully qualified social worker could. [More…]

• I support it because it is a step in the right direction and will be of great assistance to members of my race in finally taking their place in the community as respected and responsible citizens. [More…]

• I hope that I will have the opportunity to move in other States also and to speak to members of my race about the opportunities now being made available to them. [More…]

• The main concern of this organisation is that while we are working towards Aboriginal advancement, we are endeavouring to build a better understanding of our people among nonAborigines in order to improve present existing race relations where our cultural differences seem to make it difficult for non-Aborigines people to understand. [More…]

• Race out to Kings Hall. [More…]

• Whatever they are, they managed to survive, to their great credit, in an environment in which I am certain that our own race of people would not have survived. [More…]

• I say this: The Aborigine people are just as intelligent as the people of our own race who conceived the principles of land rights and are just as capable of exploiting one another as we are. [More…]

• Does the honourable senator know the history of his own race? [More…]

• There are other things in their culture which we, if we look at the history of our race, had in our culture. [More…]

• They were the sort of things which helped to sustain them in the environment in which they were forced to extract a living - which they did - and which would have caused many other races and many other nationalities to disappear from the face of the earth. [More…]

• These people love their children as much as any other human race loves its children. [More…]

• Much more than many races of people who have been caught in similar types of primitive life, although not to the same extreme degree, they submit to medical attention and care. [More…]

• The problem that we are discussing now occurs most frequently among the Aboriginal race in the remote parts of Australia. [More…]

• He accepts no responsibility on behalf of the European race for the conditions under which Aborigines live today. [More…]

• He claims that if Europeans had not come to this island the Aboriginal race would be almost extinct. [More…]

• I think you have been a credit to your race and to this Parliament. [More…]

• Senator Willesee forgets that the Torres Strait islanders are a unique race of people. [More…]

• As I said before, these people are a unique race. [More…]

• The Brisbane ‘Courier Mail’ today features an article under the headline Islanders’ fear of end to their race*. [More…]

• If we’re going to be given away to Papua New Guinea, our race will die out,’ Mr Getano Lui said in Brisbane yesterday. [More…]

• But I see that what happened to members of my race is happening in 1973 in the Torres Strait islands to my fellow Australians and. [More…]

• I ask you please, for God’s sake, do not let us see again happen in 1973 to the Torres Strait islanders the same thing that happened to members of my race. [More…]

• We shall force people of one type and race to live under the jurisdiction of another.’ [More…]

• These islands have been occupied traditionally by members of the present race. [More…]

• They are a distinct race of people who have occupied these islands for generations. [More…]

• The Commission is to be guided in its work by the principle that a high standard of health is one of the fundamental rights of every Australian without distinction of race, creed, political belief or economic or social condition. [More…]

• Considering that the Declaration of Philadelphia affirms that all human beings, irrespective of race, creed or sex, have the right to pursue both their material well-being and their spiritual development in conditions of freedom and dignity, of economic security and equal opportunity, and Considering further that discrimination constitutes a violation of rights enunciated by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights . [More…]

• any distinction, exclusion or preference made on the basis of race, colour, sex, religion, political opinion, national extraction or social origin . [More…]

• Labor’s policy on wage and salary standards applies equally to all workers irrespective of their colour, race, sex, creed or politics. [More…]

• It may race too rapidly into some proposition without duc thought and thus aggravate some of the evils in the community. [More…]

• Physical persecution is taken to mean confinement, torture, or death on account of race, religion or political viewpoint. [More…]

• Secondly, the Acts provide that the Attorney-General should not issue a warrant for the return of a fugitive if he has substantial grounds for believing that, if the fugitive is surrendered to the requesting country, ‘he may be prejudiced at his trial, or punished, detained or restricted in his personal liberty by reason of his race, religion, nationality or political opinions’. [More…]

• Noting what you say, Mr President, that the race is not always to the swift, and noting that the Senate Standing Orders provide that when 2 or more senators rise to speak the President shall call upon the senator who, in his opinion, first rose in his place, may I ask a question now of the Attorney-General at twenty minutes to 4 o’clock? [More…]

• Unless the Commonwealth assumed the power or was given the power to control prices, I do not think any joint committee that we set up would be in the race of doing so. [More…]

• We are not in the race in trying to compete with southern manufacturers, and we just cannot go along. [More…]

• I cannot believe that they expect me and other honourable senators to accept this proposition enthusiastically because, as thinking people, we know that without complete power as the centre of government we are not in the race in controlling prices. [More…]

• the requisition for the surrender of the fugitive, although purporting to have been made in respect of an offence for which, but for this section, he would be liable to be surrendered to that state, was made for the purpose of prosecuting or punishing him on account of his race, religion, nationality or political opinions; or [More…]

• if the fugitive ls surrendered to that state, he may be prejudiced at his trial, or punished, detained or restricted In his personal liberty, by reason of his race, religion, nationality or political opinions. [More…]

• Prior to that, in respect of any of the new treaties with which we are dealing, insofar as we are changing or extending the law there would be a prior onus - if one likes to call it that - on the Attorney-General that he is not to give a notice - that is, not to set the process in train - or even to bring the person before a magistrate if there are ‘substantial grounds for believing’ that in effect, as Senator McManus is putting it, the person is being dealt with because of his political opinions, race, religion or nationality. [More…]

• But perhaps the money does not really reach those of my race who live in the Northern Territory and in other similar areas. [More…]

• For many years I have advocated, both at the State and Federal levels, even prior to my becoming involved in politics, that perhaps one of the main solutions to many of the problems facing members of my race is the involvement of competent Aborigines working in the field. [More…]

• Today many members of my race suffer what we may term psychological scars because of the destruction of their own customs, traditions and culture and because for far too many years Aborigines were treated perhaps with less esteem than the household pet. [More…]

• I find it very pleasing that Senator Little has taken a different attitude when speaking to this Bill from that which he took on the previous occasion when he spoke about Aborigines and said that he believed they owed a debt of gratitude to the white population of Australia because we had preserved their race which otherwise would have died out. [More…]

• The distress and dispossession of country people in the past 4 years are proof enough that they are not some sort of chosen race. [More…]

• Only a few weeks ago, I. remember, some motion was pulled on, again out of order, without any proper notice because at that time a meeting of the Standing Committee of Attorneys-General was in progress in Sydney; and so I had to depart from Sydney and race back to Canberra at night in order to- deal with such a motion. [More…]

• If he does not, let us have no more mouthing of generalisations and blanket assertions against a people who as a race are as fine and as dignified a race as any race on earth, including our own. [More…]

• He would not be in the race. [More…]

• Wesberry clearly established that the fundamental principle of representative government in this country ls one of equal representation for equal numbers of people, without regard to race, sex, economic status or place of residence within a State. [More…]

• The rather peculiar race of people in the island called Tasmania to the south of Australia, who have been enlightened in many matters and have shown the way to their mainland friends on many occasions, many years ago introduced an electoral system known as the Hare-Clark system. [More…]

• I would prefer to see the honourable senators who advocate that point of view as shepherds telling their tales as their sheep run through the race than as persons occupying senatorial benches. [More…]

• I agree with Senator Turnbull; the general practitioner is in fact a receding race largely because most of the universities and medical schools have no chairs of general practice. [More…]

• Then he can say that he is far superior to Mr Gorton at least in a race to convince the States on this matter. [More…]

• I hope that it is writ large in the literature which passes into the hands of the electors throughout Australia, because I believe that it will have the same impact on the Labor Party’s fortunes as did Mr Dedman’s famous phrase of some 28 years ago, ‘that the Labor Party did not want to create a race of little capitalists. [More…]

• Those who have studied the history of the Polynesian people, and particularly the Western Samoans, would very rapidly appreciate the fact that for purposes of integration this race probably has more qualities than has any other race. [More…]

• Members of this Government are the people who preach lack of discrimination on grounds of religion, race or class, but this is class discrimination as sour as the most disappointed politicians who are conscious of their unworthiness. [More…]

• I certainly would not camp on the lawns and lower the dignity of a very dignified race. [More…]

• I think that the sooner that we realise that something should be done to deter these criminals among us the better it will be for the human race. [More…]

• In view of the Australian Government’s announced intention to take over the full financial responsibility of all tertiary education, will the Minister take steps to see that all institutions receiving Federal funds accept the fundamental principle that no students will be discriminated against as a result of their race, creed, politics or sexuality? [More…]

• There is reference to race and religion which I think are generally acceptable as being extraneous grounds for almost all purposes, and there may be some controversy about the other ground mentioned by the honourable senator. [More…]

• I ask: How can anybody earning the average weekly wage of $ 100 or lower expect to be in the race to own his own home? [More…]

• In accordance with existing conditions, certain officers in the Australian Public Service, irrespective of race, who are under 18 years of age and in receipt of salar)’ below certain levels and living away from home, are entitled to travel from their place of employment to their homes twice a year at Departmental expense. [More…]

• So honourable senators can see that the average working man today is not in the race in buying his own home. [More…]

• Unless he is earning $1 15 a week and has a deposit of $4,200 he has no hope; he is not in the race in owning his own home. [More…]

• His children, who have had no opportunity, start a long way behind the scratch mark in the race for a decent standard of living. [More…]

• He complained first that his own Aboriginal race was being discriminated against, and then he referred to that tired old argument about people getting benefits they should not be getting. [More…]

• It was not to race off to London, Washington or Moscow. [More…]

• If laws are made which make an ethnic group an inferior race of citizens the Australian Government, through Commonwealth law has the power, and shall exercise it, to override State laws, to ensure the civil rights and the dignity of the individual in accordance with international convention obligations. [More…]

• They should not be made by the leaders of the Public Service or the intellectuals in Port Moresby who are wanting to race ahead in obtaining independence. [More…]

• Qantas is controlled by a board of people who are so old that they let their company lose in the race for charter flights. [More…]

• require collection on suitable reserves, complete isolation from contact with the civilised race to save them from that small section of Whites more degraded than any savage; kept free from drink and opium and disease, the young people and the able bodied taught industrious habits, and to raise their own food supplies; the people being decently cared for . [More…]

• Mr President, section 25 of the Constitution provides that if by the law of any State all persons of any race are disqualified from voting at elections for the more numerous House of the State, then in reckoning the number of people of the State or of the Commonwealth, persons of that race resident in that State shall not be counted. [More…]

• A basic provision of the legislation is to provide that everyone is entitled to the fundamental rights and freedoms set out in the legislation, without distinction of any kind, such as race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status. [More…]

• The Universal Declaration proclaims in its first Article that all human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights and Article 2 provides that everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms set out in the Declaration, without distinction of any kind, including discrimination on grounds of race, colour or national origin. [More…]

• The Committee also made representations to the Australian and State governments for the establishment of Race Relations Boards to administer legislation which would prohibit discrimination on grounds of race in respect of the provision or sale of goods, facilities or services, employment and conditions of employment, membership of trade unions and similar organisations, the purchase, sale or rental of housing accommodation, and the availability of business premises. [More…]

• There are still remnants of legislative provisions of the paternalistic type based implicitly on the alleged superiority of the white race in which it is assumed that Aboriginals are unable to manage their own personal affairs and property. [More…]

• It would be the height of hypocrisy for white Australians now to say to Aborigines that from here on the race must be on equal terms, without taking into account the 180 years start which white Australians have given themselves. [More…]

• It has gained acceptance in the race relations legislation of the United Kingdom and New Zealand and it is also widely recognised in North America. [More…]

• The Bill is divided into 7 parts, the first dealing with preliminary matters, the second with the prohibition of racial discrimination, the third with investigations and civil proceedings, the fourth with offences, the fifth with the Race Relations Council, the sixth dealing with administrative provisions and the seventh with miscellaneous matters. [More…]

• Clause 8 makes it unlawful for a person to do any act involving a distinction, exclusion, restriction or perference based on race, colour, descent or national or ethnic origin which has the purpose or effect of nullifying or impairing the recognition, enjoyment or exercise on an equal footing, of any human right or fundamental freedom in the political, economic, social, cultural or other field of public life. [More…]

• The purpose of clause 9 is to guarantee equality before the law without discrimination as to race in the enjoyment of rights and this clause will supersede laws of Australia or of the States that discriminate on grounds of race in relation to the enjoyment of rights. [More…]

• The purpose of clause 13 is to make invalid the provisions of the rules of a trade union that prevent a person from joining the union by reason of his race, and the clause also makes it unlawful to prevent a person from joining a trade union because of his race. [More…]

• I should point out that there are a number of other features of the Queensland legislation relating to Aboriginals and Torres Strait Islanders that are not in terms discriminatory on grounds of race or that form part of legislation intended to be beneficial but which are nevertheless unsatisfactory from a civil liberties viewpoint. [More…]

• Clause 7 also exempts from the operation of the Act charitable instruments conferring benefits on the persons of a particular race. [More…]

• Clause 16 makes provision for the vicarious liability of principals and employers and clause 17 ensures that the Bill will apply in situations where an act is done by reason of race, notwithstanding that this was not the dominant reason. [More…]

• Part III provides that there shall be an Australian Race Relations Commissioner. [More…]

• It will be an offence to refuse a person access to places and facilities on grounds of race. [More…]

• In addition, an act of violence to a person of a different race will be an offence under the Act. [More…]

• A Race Relations Council is established in Part V of the Bill. [More…]

• Part VI of the Bill deals with the administrative provisions and provides for the appointment of an Australian Race Relations Commissioner and his staff. [More…]

• Part VI also provides that the Race Relations Council is to consist of such members, not being less than ten or more than twenty, as the AttorneyGeneral appoints. [More…]

• This provision is included as it applies in circumstances where the reason for the doing of a discriminatory act alleged to have been done on grounds of race lies peculiarly within the knowledge of the defendant. [More…]

• This Bill is a first, but essential, step in providing measures for the elimination of racial discrimination in Australia and for the guarantee of rights without discrimination on grounds of race. [More…]

• I hope that the NACC is successful; but to be successful it needs the co-operation, assistance and support of every member of the Australian community regardless of colour, race or anything else. [More…]

• I think the first thing we have to realise- I have some difficulty about your ruling, Mr President- is that while we and you in your highest office may want recognition of all as Australians, the Aboriginals are a proud race. [More…]

• They are a proud race. [More…]

• They believe that the white man has achieved nothing for the black people of Australia because of the fact that they are not understood and that we do not recognise them as a proud race who need special handling. [More…]

• Are we to be condemned for giving Senator Bonner’s race power and money? [More…]

• Rather than wreck the scheme when it is about to be put into operation, those people who have any consideration for this race of people should join with us in ensuring that the scheme does work. [More…]

• In the long and tortuous evolution of the human race on this planet a stage has been reached when through the rapid acceleration of science and technology, man has acquired the power to transform his environment in countless ways and on an unprecedented scale. [More…]

• In the long and tortuous evolution of the human race on this planet a stage has been reached when through the rapid acceleration of science and technology, man has acquired the power to transform his environment in countless ways and on an unprecedented scale. [More…]

• The farmers out in the dry country are a rugged race. [More…]

• In view of the Australian Government’s announced intention to take over the full financial responsibility of all tertiary education, will the Minister take steps to see that all institutions receiving Federal funds accept the fundamental principle that no student will be discriminated against as a result of his race, creed, politics or sexuality? [More…]

• As they were members of what was once such a happy and proud race, I was wondering whether it would not be better to use the expression ‘the varying stages of their degeneration until they eventually got down to the level of the white man’s commecial way of living in the cities of the various States and the drinking of his poison’. [More…]

• If so, does he see a flow-on bringing violence amongst the young and more frustrated members of my race? [More…]

• If someone has sufficient antecedents of a European race and does not want to be recognised as an Aboriginal- despite the fact that he may be of [More…]

• We do not want to take away the right of somebody to opt out of that race if he so desires. [More…]

• In view of some of the things which have happened recently, I have become rather concerned particularly in relation to the problems which are facing members of my race. [More…]

• As the first and only, to date, elected Aboriginal member of Parliament, I seek the indulgence of the Senate for I feel compelled at this point in time, because of what is happening to my race with threats of violence and the inevitable backlash which will take place, to refer today to 3 sections of the Australian community. [More…]

• My first appeal would be to those of my race who are young, frustrated, eager and impatient for change and who, I feel, have been led to believe that violent demand is the answer to the present problems facing our people. [More…]

• If the young of my race mean the kind of black power which says that I am proud of my race and I am as good as the next person, and if they get out and help themselves in the white man’s environment and beat him at his own game, I say that is good black power. [More…]

• I warn my young friends that I will have no truck with the other kind of black power which, I know, brings in its wake violence, and I warn against it as I have done previously and as I will continue to do.I say to those of my race who are young, who have had the advantage of an education and who are articulate: ‘Use these God given talents to influence the thinking of non-Aboriginal communities’. [More…]

• Many have had the opportunity to become members of various committees, and they can do much for the Aboriginal race and the Aboriginal cause. [More…]

• Many young people of my race can do much by working within the present system because I believe that the present system can be made to work for Aborigines by Aborigines. [More…]

• I warn again the young and impatient of my race not to let themselves be brainwashed into believing that violence can solve the problems which are of concern to all members of the Aboriginal race because those people who encourage them along this course are evil and have no true concern for the benefit or the cause of the Aboriginal people. [More…]

• Through the forum of this Parliament let me now address myself to the older members of my race- those who, like me, have suffered so much because of past discrimination and prejudice; those who, because of the attitudes of the past, have lived in squalor on the banks of creeks and have seen the destruction of their culture, yet have been able to fight back and to give their children the best education that those conditions would permit. [More…]

• I say this to my race: Whilst we remember the bad things and endeavour to rectify them, let us also put on record our appreciation of the good things, such as the hand of friendship that has been extended and the opportunities that are now being offered. [More…]

• We who have crossed so many dry gullies and have known hunger, despair and discrimination in its worst form have paved a much smoother way for the younger members of our race. [More…]

• I realise that I have responsibilities to all sections of the Australian community, but I feel also that I have a particular responsibility to people of my own race. [More…]

• What a strange thing it is for the Whitlam Government, with its Rabelaisian tastes, a Government which will spend millions of dollars to race around the world in chartered aircraft, taking 70, 80 or 90 people along, including family, relatives, and loads of champagne, to suddenly say that we must not have elections because they cost money. [More…]

• After all, those who have the power of government recognise that if people are asked unnecessarily on too many occasions, too frequently, to express an opinion as to which Party should be in power there will be a reaction against them because it is generally accepted throughout the community that governments have an obligation to govern and if they must race to the people from time to time, either to have a issue determined by way of a referendum or to put their own authority on the line, there is a likelihood that the public reaction will be that some other government will get on with the job and will not require such frequent commendation of what it is doing. [More…]

• As Senator Marriott would know from experience with me on the Senate Select Committee on Drug Trafficking and Drug Abuse, when a new drug is introduced to a culture there is trouble, and the Aboriginal race was the only race which had had no stimulants of any sort throughout its history. [More…]

• Why is the Government demanding that we race straight to the people after there has been a broad agreement of principle following the Constitutional Convention? [More…]

• We all know now that because of technology, which in the last 20 years has advanced more than we have since the dawn of time and which in the next 20 years will advance further than we have now since the dawn of time, even including the last 20 years, we cannot go on having an arms race or having a cold war. [More…]

• History has shown that whenever there is an arms race it has inevitably led to war- world war. [More…]

• What you want is a race between the U.S.S.R. and the U.S.A. counting each day the number of ships in the area and fighting to see that the figures can be matched’. [More…]

• I say to those people who scorn us when we try to have the reverse of an arms race: ‘What is your alternative?’ [More…]

• The alternative that is put to us, is to have an arms race and to say to the U.S.A. that it can have 10 per cent more arms than the Russians. [More…]

• The Bill will make it unlawful for a person to do an act involving discrimination based on race, colour, descent or national or ethnic origin which impairs the enjoyment of fundamental rights and freedoms. [More…]

• The Bill guarantees equality before the law without discrimination based on race or national origin. [More…]

• It will make it impossible to deny rights to members of a particular race of national origin, where those rights have been given to persons of another race or a different national origin. [More…]

• The Bill goes on to deal in greater detail with discrimination in the enjoyment of rights on grounds of race, colour or national or ethnic origin. [More…]

• An Australian Race Relations Commissioner will be established to investigate alleged breaches of the Act and endeavour to achieve a settlement by conciliation. [More…]

• A Race Relations Council will be established to make recommendations on the action that should be taken to bring about the elimination of racial discrimination in Australia. [More…]

• The previous Bill applied only to discrimination that is made on the grounds of race, colour, descent or national or ethnic origin. [More…]

• Secondly, the provisions relating to the Australian Race Relations Commissioner have been revised. [More…]

• The New Zealand race relations legislation contains similar powers. [More…]

• Thirdly, additions have been made to the functions of the Race Relations Council to reinforce its role with respect to the promotion of education and research. [More…]

• It will be necessary for both the Government and the community to increase its awareness of the complexity of race relations. [More…]

• I want to say that this is in no way associated with any acts which people seek to describe as racial violence between one race and another. [More…]

• Wesberry clearly established that the fundamental principle of representative government in this country is one of equal representation for equal numbers of people without regard to race, sex, economic status, or place or residence within a State. [More…]

• It will be like a relay race; the senators from the Australian Capital Territory will pick up the baton and carry on serving on particular committees. [More…]

• Nor can a person be surrendered if he were to be prejudiced at his trial on account of race, religion, nationality or political opinion. [More…]

• It was not until the signs pointed towards a galloper of some 20 per cent in the inflationary race that it decided to have a mini Budget- which never came into existence. [More…]

• The Constitution in outlining the qualifications of electors made no distinctions on the grounds of race but the franchise was restricted. [More…]

• The Opposition attitude continues to ignore the legitimate interests of consumers who under its government when in power and under its current attitude comprise a forgotten race. [More…]

• Even after he ceased to be Attorney-General, he did not turn around and race in with an amendment and say: ‘Let us change that law; I forgot to do it while I was in office’. [More…]

• The board was unanimous in its recommendation of Miss Valadian so that it could take advantage of her ability as a social scientist and the fact that she is a member of the Aboriginal race. [More…]

• That nomination was denied by the head of the Department who has shown to this point a vindictiveness against this young person just as he has shown a vindictiveness against other people of Aboriginal origin who are not prepared to accept his attitude with regard to the solution of the problems of the Aboriginal race. [More…]

• I think Tasmania can look forward to retaining its dubious honour of being both the leader in the inflation race and the leader in the unemployment race. [More…]

• The real answer to this matter is for South Africa to cease to practise policies which have been condemned by the whole world as a violation of human rights and a degradation of the human race. [More…]

• Those problems of race relations and colour relations still exist in this country. [More…]

• Additionally, Mr Hoyle during his third year at the University of Sydney wrote a thesis on the history of race relations in Hawaii. [More…]

• The common law provides no effective remedies against discrimination in the exercise of human rights, whether it be based on race or colour or on other grounds. [More…]

• The Bill will thus make it unlawful for a person to do an act involving discrimination based on race, colour, descent or national or ethnic origin which impairs the enjoyment of fundamental rights and freedoms. [More…]

• The Bill will guarantee equality before the law without distinction as to race. [More…]

• Amendments were made to the Bill to supplement the advisory role of the Race Relations Council with respect to education and research. [More…]

• We are one of the leaders in the field in the international inflationary race. [More…]

• We are very proud to race around the Third World and recognise Russia’s sovereignty over the Baltic States to win a few votes to try to get the Presidency of the United Nations. [More…]

• The Australian society apparently is willing to have one group within its community which, if that group wishes to declare itself as being of a particular race, will be accepted by the Australian society as being of that race. [More…]

• I imagine that it would be our aim to encourage all the finance that is available to be appropriated by this Government to assist the less fortunate of the Aboriginal race. [More…]

• Some of us, and I myself, feel that there are instances where persons who have declared themselves Aboriginals over the years perhaps do not require the special race assistance which is being meted out by this Government today. [More…]

• Yet here we are trying desperately to race it through perhaps to serve the purpose of a very small percentage of people in the Australian community who want the Bill virtually at any price so long as it is quickly. [More…]

• That leave be given to introduce a Bill for an Act to make provision with respect to the peoples of the Aboriginal race of Australia, and the race to which Torres Strait Islanders belong, for the purpose of preventing discrimination in certain respects against those peoples under laws of Queensland. [More…]

• Some of these laws are discriminatory on grounds of race and others are of general application. [More…]

• The United Nations charter is based on the principles of dignity and equality inherent in all human beings and the charter provides that one of the purposes of the United Nations is to promote universal respect for, and observance of, human rights and fundamental freedoms for all without distinction as to race. [More…]

• The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the 25th anniversary of which was celebrated on 10 December 1973, proclaims that all human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights, that everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms set out in the declaration, without distinction of any kind, in particular as to race. [More…]

• The International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (1965), which was signed on behalf of Australia by the then Minister for External Affairs, Mr Hasluck, on 13 October 1966, and to which 81 countries have subscribed, requires countries to prohibit racial discrimination in all its forms and to guarantee equality before the law without distinction as to race. [More…]

• It further stated that gross denials of human rights arising from discrimination on grounds of race outraged the conscience of mankind. [More…]

• They are intended only to remove elements of this legislation that are inconsistent with what the Australian Government regards as basic civil rights to be enjoyed by all Australians, without regard to race or colour. [More…]

• In my area of Mackay if it came to awarding a prize to the person who was the fastest racehorse in the malpractices stakes we in the Liberal Party would not be in the race. [More…]

• You go out and live in the rat race. [More…]

• Senator Rae is claiming that by conducting some sort of poll on some specious grounds he is going to solve all the problems that he and his race have created insofar as the Aborigines are concerned. [More…]

• No greater insult could have been directed to this proud race. [More…]

• I will do everything in my power to assist the advancement of my race. [More…]

• Any action based on a person’s race would then be illegal under Commonwealth law. [More…]

• I think the Constitution permits the making of special laws for any race of people other than normal Australians. [More…]

• In the long and tortuous evolution of the human race on this planet a stage has been reached when, through the rapid acceleration of science and technology, man has acquired the power to transform his environment in countless ways and on an unprecedented scale. [More…]

• In the first place, the last part of that question referring to Aborigines as partAborigines is an insult to the entire race of Aboriginal people. [More…]

• No other race is categorised in this chamber as part-this, part-that or partsomething else. [More…]

• I think that the Minister for Foreign Affairs (Senator Willesee) when he answers will say that of course the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) when in Opposition had the availability of a public relations man such as Mr Race Mathews. [More…]

• Is the Government aware that the people of Portuguese Timor are totally different in race, languages, culture, religious and social customs from the people of Indonesian Timor? [More…]

• It seems intent upon relegating Australians to being a race of flatdwellers and occupiers of rental homes. [More…]

• In relation to an article in the ‘Queensland Times’ (21-8-74) headed ‘Ipswich Aborigines a forgotten race’, outlining an interview with Mr Fisher of the National Aboriginal Consultative Committee I would like to add a few words in protest. [More…]

• I would like to refer to the story ‘Ipswich Aborigines a forgotten race ‘ (‘ Q.T. ‘ [More…]

• The common law provides few effective remedies against discrimination in the exercise of human rights, whether it is based on race or colour or on any other grounds. [More…]

• The Bill will thus make it unlawful for a person to do an act involving discrimination based on race, colour, descent or national or ethnic origin which impairs the enjoyment of fundamental rights and freedoms. [More…]

• The Bill will guarantee equality before the law without distinction as to race. [More…]

• In Canada, compulsory evidencegathering powers are given to Human Rights Commissions and similar powers are vested in the Race Relations Conciliator established by New Zealand legislation. [More…]

• The absence of evidencegathering powers in the United Kingdom legislation has been said to impede seriously the effectiveness of the Race Relations Board under that legislation. [More…]

• The changing of community attitudes is a matter of vital significance in the field of race relations. [More…]

• It is very much the same as I said a little while ago; you register companies and even race horses. [More…]

• They also draw there for positions when they line up for the race, and this is the way it ought to be when we line up for the greatest race in the world, namely, to see who can be elected to this Parliament. [More…]

• I believe that keeping the polls open until 8 p.m. affords the many tens of thousands of Australians who spend their Saturday afternoons in various sporting activities an opportunity to go to the polls without the race to get there before 6 p.m. [More…]

• It appears from the report that instructions to the representatives of this company are that white Australians of European origin may be insured for up to $35,000 without medical examination but that a medical examination is required in all cases where the applicant is a person who is not of British parentage and has resided in Australia for less than 2 years, or is a full, half or quarter caste Chinese, Indian, etc., that is, a person other than of the European race. [More…]

• Do Aboriginal people have an excess mortality measured simply on a basis of race and would this be a valid factor for actuarial calculation? [More…]

• I believe this ought to be exposed to the people so that the people of Mediterranean races, for example- I think there are nearly one million of that descent in Australia- can make up their own minds about the authenticity of these companies. [More…]

• The other thing to do is to see that an office is established in Australia which will not function on the ground of race or sex discrimination. [More…]

• The particular provisions indicate that it shall be unlawful to refuse or to deny access to public places or to vehicles by reason of the race, colour or ethnic origin of a person or of a relative or associate of that person. [More…]

• There is no express power in the Constitution to make laws with respect to race relations or racial discrimination, or the conduct which may take place which is proscribed by this Bill. [More…]

• It states that any party to the convention shall guarantee the right of everyone, without distinction as to race, colour or national ethnic origin, to equality before the law, notably in the enjoyment of certain specified rights. [More…]

• That is the case notwithstanding that there have been race relations Bills designed to avoid it. [More…]

• One which is called ‘Race Relations in Britain’ is published by the Reference Division of the Central Office of Information in London, and it was published in October 1972. [More…]

• After indicating certain advantages which flowed from the Race Relations Act of 1968, it stated: [More…]

• They also show that this discrimination is more related to race than to foreign origin, since the level of discrimination against Italians or Greeks is comparatively low. [More…]

• When they were in Opposition I can recall how they constantly, in this chamber and outside it- certainly, from my recollection, in this chamber- accused the Government of being racist because of conduct in which it was alleged to have engaged when those of us in government who were responsible for the decisions which were being taken knew that there was not a spark of racism or race relations in that conduct. [More…]

• There is discrimination because of sex, age, race, colour, religious or political beliefs, an accident of birth, or otherwise. [More…]

• Everyone is entitled to the fundamental rights and freedoms as set out in this Part, without any distinction of any kind, such as race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status. [More…]

• The Race Relations Bill comes up for debate in the very near future. [More…]

• The beauty of the human race is that we are all different- one from the other- black, white, red, yellow or brindle. [More…]

• Only nature could alford to play the genetic lottery on such a massive scale and with such huge losses and wind up with 3 billion people on this planet, each of whom is unique and different from every other one no matter what the person’s religion, race, colour, descent or national origin or sex. [More…]

• Far from eliminating racial discrimination by making it illegal, the Bill will highlight the problems between the races and create an official race relations industry with a staff of dedicated anti-racists earning their living by making the most of every complaint in much the same way as does the Race Relations Board in the United Kingdom. [More…]

• It will be headed by a race relations commissioner with the status of a High Court judge and with powers similar to those used in the Spanish Inquisition. [More…]

• Any objection would be stifled by the race relations commissioner while complaints would be deterred by the magnitude of the fine -between $2,000 and $5,000. [More…]

• Australia scores another first as being the only nation in the modern world to succeed in exterminating a distinct race of people. [More…]

• It might be said that our inaction was fostered by a lack of information or by mistaken information in respect of matters of race which had fostered intolerance and ignorance for the 200 years that we have held this continent. [More…]

• These views are inaccurate, in my opinion, and are not based on evidence and are misleading in that they attempt to attribute to a race an effect which excessive drinking would have on any race. [More…]

• It would be the height of hypocrisy for white Australians now to say to Aborigines that from here on the race must be on equal terms, without taking into account the 180 years start which white Australians have given themselves. [More…]

• Under the provisions of this Bill it will be unlawful for a person, ami gst other things, to do any act involving a distinction, a restriction or a preference based on colour, race, descent or national or ethnic origin. [More…]

• No longer will it be possible for people to be refused access to public places by reason of their race, a question which was raised by one of the previous speakers on the Government side. [More…]

• It will become possible now for those public officials to be charged with discrimination if they persist in their unfair and discriminatory practices which are synoymous with the activities of certain policemen in the Redfern area, activities have been noted by lawyers of substance in the region, activities which are continuing to this very day to the everlasting disgrace of sections of the New South Wales police force. [More…]

• No longer will people be refused employment because of race. [More…]

• No longer will people be able to do what has been done in several universities in this country where people have been discriminated against for positions within the university because of their race or their political point of view. [More…]

• No longer will people be disadvantaged financially in the acquisition of rented premises by reason of their race. [More…]

• It will not insure persons other than of European race, persons such as Chinese, Maoris, Hindus and so on. [More…]

• It says that Mediterranean races are not eligible for weekly benefits. [More…]

• Yet these insurance companies say that the Mediterranean races are not eligible for weekly benefits. [More…]

• This is one of the companies that have the temerity to challenge the established and declared policy as enunciated in the policy speech of the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) on 2 occasions that we shall establish an Australian Government Insurance Office in which there shall be no discrimination on sex, race or religion. [More…]

• Do honourable senators opposite say that they believe therefore that racism did not have its origins in the superior race theories of Adolf Hitler and in some of those racist groups that operate within the United States which clearly are gaining in influence within our own country. [More…]

• Substantially the Bill seeks to re-educate the Australian people, to bring about the understanding that all men are brothers and that race is not a question that ought to divide us. [More…]

• I believe that the word ‘race’ was largely derived from the works of Georges Buffon, the French naturalist, scientist and author of the voluminous ‘Histoire Naturelle’ which was published in the 1 8th century- I believe between 1750 and 1800. [More…]

• I have no doubt that the word ‘race’, with all its added emotional connotations, has helped to create the racist myth which has in turn inspired the bizarre form of political racism which the world has seen during this century. [More…]

• Personally, I define ‘racial discrimination’ as an expression of malice towards any human being because of his race. [More…]

• The anti-racist, psuedo moralists of today who seem to be obsessed by race as the all important issue and who try to convince us that race is what it is all about are, I feel, leading us astray. [More…]

• To blame everything on race is a cheap excuse and an evasion of personal responsibility. [More…]

• After all, something can be done about economics, education, culture, skills and so on but no one can change his or her race or colour. [More…]

• I believe that conciliation and education, which I see as the prime tasks of the Race Relations Commissioner will have far more effect than the form of judicial action which may be taken by him in accordance with the proposals of the Bill which is at present before us. [More…]

• Why was the word class ‘ left out of clause 9 of the Bill when it mentions acts ‘involving a distinction, exclusion, restriction or preference based on race, colour, descent or national or ethnic origin which has the purpose or effect of nullifying or impairing the recognition, enjoyment or exercise, on an equal footing, of any human right or fundamental freedon in the political, economic, social, cultural or any other field of public life ‘? [More…]

• However, as soon as we want to combat discrimination on the basis of race, colour, descent, national or ethnic origin and class, we should adhere to the great tradition of this country that a person is innocent unless proven guilty. [More…]

• The facts are that the world is one race but the modern attitude of the so-called intelligentsia in many instances is leading to the promotion of the idea that all animosities between people are genetically based. [More…]

• The New School- the Nouvelle Ecole- founded on evolution, is committed to playing out 2 theses of neo-Darwinism and polygenesis and to underlining the inequalities and the profound differences which are alleged to exist between the races and to translating various degrees of evolution in the transforming movement of these races towards new species ‘between which unions will probably be no longer be fertile’. [More…]

• The first of those basic principles is that racial discrimination should be proscribed by law and that fundamental rights should be guaranteed without distinction as to race. [More…]

• He is not asked to determine rights in the same sense as his equivalent is required to do under the British Race Relations Act. [More…]

• The British Race Relations Board is required to make a judgement of the issues between the parties but it has no power to compulsorily acquire evidence as this Bill now before the Senate provides. [More…]

• A lot of criticisms have been made of the British Race Relations Board. [More…]

• If this legislation has any strong relationship with that of other countries, it is clearly with that of the provinces of Canada and not with the United Kingdom Race Relations Board. [More…]

• But even in England, where the Board is said not to have had a great deal of success, I noted when I was there in 1973 that there was a big debate about the activities of the Race Relations Board, not directed at the existence of the Board but at whether certain machinery provisions under the Act could be changed, and whether they were working as well as they might. [More…]

• That committee, which had the support and co-operation of all the major churches in Australia, most major welfare organisations and both major political parties, made representations to State and Commonwealth governments asking them to introduce legislation prohibiting discrimination on the grounds of race. [More…]

• Most honourable senators will have read yesterday’s Australian’ in which a letter appeared from a lady who described herself as being of British race. [More…]

• This group says that under the Commonwealth Racial Discrimination Bill and Human Rights Bill and the Victorian Avoidance of Discrimination Bill a person who chooses to marry his or her race, ethnic group, nationality, or religion, and not to marry a person of another race, ethnic group, nationality or religion, does an act involving a distinction, exclusion, restriction or preference based on colour, descent, national or ethnic origin or religion can be prosecuted and could happen under the Racial Discrimination Bill. [More…]

• There are so many countries on the African continent that one gets mixed up in the races. [More…]

• The result was that there was a war and they got fixed by another coloured race. [More…]

• It was a division because of races. [More…]

• Fights between races have taken place in Papua New Guinea. [More…]

• In South Australia we have a law which makes it an offence to discriminate on the score of race or creed. [More…]

• We hope to have a law through the Commonwealth Parliament which will supersede State laws and make it an offence throughout Australia to discriminate on the ground of race, religion or ethnic origin. [More…]

• There are good and bad in every race in this world and even within the race of one country- take the people in Australia who are established citizens- there are people we like and people we do not like. [More…]

• Most of his blood is white race blood. [More…]

• When people have something of another race in them, no longer, in my mind, do they belong to the race from which they may have stemmed, so the sooner we wake up to this sort of nonsense the better for this country. [More…]

• Sometimes people have an aversion to others either because of personality, race, creed, or whatever it might be. [More…]

• Because of the character within them, because of what they believe in and because of their aims they are today a race that carries a very high respect in a very great section of the world. [More…]

• Just as we cannot stop people of the same race from not caring for each other so we will not in the main change this attitude that begins very often when people do not know each other very well. [More…]

• Race after race of coloured people fight each other, stab each other, cut each other and kill each other. [More…]

• I realise that it is often most difficult to establish discrimination on race, colour or ethnic grounds, and of course there is always the risk of creating the converse situation. [More…]

• Franklin D. Roosevelt said: ‘There has never been, there is not now, there never will be any race of people on earth fit to serve as master of his fellow man’. [More…]

• I will not quote the story of Boswell and Dr Johnson on this because it would immediately arouse a little bit of enmity around the place, but the fact is that according to Senator Gietzelt, this has become a poem of some import apparently because Mrs Walker happens to belong to the Aboriginal race. [More…]

• But if I had written it, because I belong to the European race it would have been a bad poem. [More…]

• We give the ground away, not on the basis that we are ashamed in any way, but simply on the argument that I first adduced, namely, that you cannot eliminate discrimination on the ground of religion, race, colour or anything else except if it is done by an educated society. [More…]

• I have obtained a copy of a monograph by someone in the United Kingdom in relation to race relations. [More…]

• It is probably a bit out of date, but on page 128 it mentions the Race Relations Board in England. [More…]

• The monograph which I have mentioned, referring to the Race Relations Board in England, states: [More…]

• The Race Relations Act seems to have been effective in reducing discrimination in public houses. [More…]

• The Race Relations Board and its committees found 23 cases of racial discrimination concerning public houses in 1970-71 and in twenty-two of those cases conciliation was successful. [More…]

• Senator Sheil offered the opinion that countries which have laws pertaining to race generally have more racial problems than countries which do not have laws pertaining to race, a view which he subsequently contradicted. [More…]

• All of us would have had complaints that this Bill would encourage pimping, and there was the possibility, I think, as the clauses were originally worded, that one could have an anonymous informant and a person could be hauled before the Race Relations Commissioner without knowing who his accuser was. [More…]

• When I speak of discrimination I simply mean that a large number of people are treated not because of what they are but because of their racial heritage- because their parents were Aboriginal, Greek, or of some other race. [More…]

• In my professional life I came across a consistent series of examples of discrimination on the grounds of race that I found highly objectionable, and on many occasions the law did not provide an adequate remedy. [More…]

• What we have said is that a person who believes that he has been offended by somebody who has done something which is illegal under these provisions should not go to court but to the Race Relations Commissioner. [More…]

• So the situation is that whenever somebody feels aggrieved under the provisions of the Bill, his recourse is to go to the Race Relations Commissioner who can bring the parties together and attempt to conciliate. [More…]

• Race Relations Commissioner out of the civil proceedings. [More…]

• I suggest to the Government that if it wants the Race Relations Commissioner to be accepted as a genuine educator and conciliator, it ought not to permit him to be involved in litigation because again my rather short experience as a lawyer- it is short compared with that of many lawyers in this chamber- has convinced me that when you go to law and you go into court and you have lawyers on each side attitudes harden and very seldom do you get a solution which leaves both sides satisfied. [More…]

• If those people who are actively discriminating on the ground of race see that the whole of the Parliament is united in this declaration that racial discrimination should be unlawful, I believe some will lose heart at least to some extent and cease the sort of campaign that I think has been offensive to most of us. [More…]

• Not only do I represent what is possibly the most deprived section of our community; I come from the only State that has made it an offence to discriminate against people on the score of race, colour or creed. [More…]

• A person shall not, with intent to promote hostility or illwill against, or to bring into contempt or ridicule, persons included in a group of persons in Australia by reason of the race, colour or national or ethnic origin of the persons included in that group- [More…]

• The whole question is that a person may still publish literature and talk about the black race, the yellow race, or any other race and possibly show his attitude to these people, but it is a matter of whether his intention is to promote hostility or ill will. [More…]

• I wonder whether Senator Chaney, on reflection, would say that there was anything wrong in regard to anyone who purposely set out to create the hostility and ill will against anyone by virtue of the fact that that person happened to be of a different race or colour. [More…]

• Legislation will not cure racism but at least it will give the opportunity for some attempt to be made to police it and to make it a breach when there is information that an action was taken which was detrimental to an individual only on the score of his race. [More…]

• As a result of our democratic rights, we are a race which is inclined to discriminate. [More…]

• Draw this thing to its natural conclusion: People who are of a different race and who are dissatisfied with their lot in life, could quite likely present a case to the Commissioner because they were perhaps unsuccessful in obtaining employment. [More…]

• That person, of a different racial origin, would come to the conclusion: ‘I was not employed because I was of a different race’. [More…]

• The Commissioner would receive all day, every day complaints from people who had been discriminated against, but not by reason of their race. [More…]

• Clause 9 states: lt is unlawful for a person to do any act involving a distinction, exclusion, restriction or preference based on race, colour, descent or national or ethnic origin which has the purpose or effect of nullifying or impairing the recognition, enjoyment or exercise, on an equal footing, of any human right or fundamental freedom in the political, economic, social, cultural or any other field of public life. [More…]

• The German race is very prominent in that connection in my area. [More…]

• I honestly think that this legislation could be the means of insulting that section of the new races we have in Australia because it implies racial discrimination in an area in which I think it does not exist. [More…]

• I have seen extracts from the book ‘Voices From Other Cultures’ in which it is stated that an officer of the Aboriginal Medical Service was asked to leave a restaurant because people of her race had caused trouble there previously and that the officer, who was with companions, felt humiliated because she was being victimised or discriminated against somewhat in being asked to leave because of what someone of her colour had done in the past. [More…]

• All of these many-sided facets determine the status of a person in our community whatever his race, whatever his origin or colour. [More…]

• The Bill makes it unlawful for a person to do an act- I am looking very broadly at the Schedule which is contained in the Bill- involving discrimination based on race, colour, descent and national or ethnic origin. [More…]

• any distinction, exclusion, restriction or preference, based on race, colour, descent or national or ethnic origin, which has the purpose or effect of nullifying or impairing the recognition, enjoyment or exercise on an equal footing of human rights and fundamental freedoms in the political, economic, social, cultural or any other field of public life. [More…]

• The African slave era developed theories that there were differences between races, differences in habits, attitudes and beliefs. [More…]

• Later there were claims to justify racism on the ground that certain people were a deviation from what was then called the white norm of the human race. [More…]

• Whilst legislation may seek to guard against complaints it may well be, as we look at this Bill, that we are seeing the development of what I will call a race relations business with a whole range of staffs seeking to justify their existence in earning their living through the investigation of complaints. [More…]

• The Bill concerns racial discrimination in the broad sense in which it is interpreted in Article 1 of the Convention, namely, distinction, exclusion, restriction or preference based upon race, colour, descent or national or ethnic origin. [More…]

• The Bill is not in the narrow sense a mere matter of race but relates to those matters of prejudice which we know follow together in those various contexts. [More…]

• If the meaning of that is that some are inferior and some are to be regarded as such because of their colour or race, I reject that proposition. [More…]

• I will now read in this context a statement which was made on the nature of race and racial differences by a group of scientists, composed of physical anthropologists and geneticists, convened by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation in June 1951. [More…]

• In matters of race, the only characteristics which anthropologists have so far been able to use effectively as a basis for classification are physical (anatomical and physiological). [More…]

• The statement goes on to say that within a single race there are vast differences between people and that social changes occur without any necessary connection with race. [More…]

• Far from eliminating racial discrimination by making it illegal, the Bill will highlight the problems between the races and create an official race relations industry with a staff of dedicated anti-racists earning their living by making the most of every complaint in much the same way as does the Race Relations Board in the United Kingdom. [More…]

• They do not realise that someone has chosen someone else instead of them for a job on grounds of race. [More…]

• One is the provisions in the Bill that allow the Commissioner of Race Relations not only to conciliate but also to proceed then to gather evidence by an unusual method and then to proceed to institute proceedings at law. [More…]

• Some refer to the ‘Race Relations Bill’- they do not even get the name of the Bill right- and urge not the amendment of the Bill but the removal of the Bill. [More…]

• It is cooked up ostensibly to protect Aborigines and other ethnic groups from so-called ‘ race hatred ‘. [More…]

• I emphasise the words ‘so-called race hatred’. [More…]

• This evening I have mixed feelings to some extent because I have travelled and have seen what has happened to members of my race. [More…]

• Perhaps if there is a law which says that we cannot discriminate against people some hope and some dignity will be given back to members of my race. [More…]

• Because of past discrimination and things that have happened in the past, a group of young Aboriginal men and women could become angry, and outside this place they could shout, ‘Down with the whitey ‘, or something about some race of people. [More…]

• I wish to add a little which I believe has not so far been adverted to in the debate in relation to the experience of the Race Relations Board in the United Kingdom. [More…]

• It is of some interest to note that in the calendar year 1972 a total of 908 complaints were made to the Race Relations Board and that the Board formed the opinion that there had been some discrimination in 181 of those cases. [More…]

• Table 9 of the 1972 report of the Race Relations Board in the United Kingdom shows the completed cases for the period 1968 to 1972. [More…]

• That has been my reservation about this legislation- not in any way in relation to the objective which is attempted to be achieved but to the mode of approach and whether you are not better to view all citizens in Australia as being entitled to certain rights and certain protection by law, whether they are of a particular race, of a particular religion, or of a background or origin which may mark them as a minority group. [More…]

• I refer the Minister to Article 4 which provides that adherents to the Convention are to ‘condemn all propaganda and all organisations which are based on ideas or theories of superiority of one race or group of persons of one colour or ethnic origin, or which attempt to justify or promote racial hatred and discrimination in any form, and undertake to adopt immediate and positive measures designed to eradicate all incitement to, or acts of, such discrimination’. [More…]

• Under Article 5 of the Convention there is an undertaking to guarantee the right of everyone, without distinction as to race, colour, or national or ethnic origin, to equality before the law, notably in the enjoyment of certain specified rights. [More…]

• We consider that to introduce the criminal law into this area would be wrong because it would only serve to exacerbate tensions that underlie race relations. [More…]

• All I want to know as a layman, having listened to 3 eminent legal senators, is this: Does the owner of the hotel, the restaurant or any place that serves or treats other people have to have in writing or recorded on a tape instructions to his staff that they must not take this attitude to people of another race, colour, clime or religion, if he is to have the onus of proof as his safeguard? [More…]

• A reference in this Parliament to the doing of an act by reason of the race, colour or national or ethnic origin of a person includes a reference to the doing of an act for two or more reasons that include the first-mentioned reason, whether or not that reason is the dominant reason for the doing of the act. [More…]

• That means that if there are a number of reasons for the doing of an act, each contributing to the reason that an act has been done or the reason that there has been a failure to do something which ought to have been done, and if one of those reasons happens to be the fact that you object to a person’s race, colour or national or ethnic origin, then that is sufficient to render responsible the person who did the act or committed the omission. [More…]

• -To take up Senator Cavanagh ‘s interjection, if there is also an objection possibly that people of a particular race are reputed to be credit risks, then that creates another reason. [More…]

• Under the clause as it stands it is immaterial that the reason of race, colour, nationality or ethnic origin is not the dominant reason. [More…]

• I understand that that Act required a complainant to show that the discrimination occurred by reason only of race, country of origin or colour of the skin. [More…]

• If that is considered a wishy-washy point to make, I would refer to the sort of statistics quoted by Senator Rae in the second reading debate and to the statistics of the English Race Relations Commission which indicate that in that country, at least, a large number of cases are brought which are found not to be based on racial discrimination. [More…]

• The Race Relations Board in Great Britain has the power to institute litigation in the way we are suggesting. [More…]

• The counterpart of that Board, that is the Commissioner for Race Relations, should have similar power. [More…]

• We have the Race Relations Commissioner who has certain functions and then later in the Bill there is provision for a Commissioner for Community Relations. [More…]

• In his speech in the second reading debate, Senator Greenwood made some play of what he called the ineffectiveness of British legislation dealing with race relations and I must confess that he made his point with some cogency. [More…]

• A person shall not, with intent to promote hostility or illwill against, or to bring into contempt or ridicule, persons included in a group of persons in Australia by reason of the race, colour or national or ethnic origin of the persons included in that group- [More…]

• the alleged superiority of persons of a particular race, colour or national or ethnic origin over persons of a different race, colour or national or ethnic origin; or [More…]

• hatred of persons of a particular race, colour or national or ethnic origin. [More…]

• This clause contains a prohibition upon the publishing or distributing of written matter, the broadcasting of words by means of radio or television or the uttering of words in any public place, or within the hearing of persons in any public place, or at any meeting to which the public are invited or have access or to which any section of the public is invited or has access where that written matter promotes or those words promote ideas based on the alleged superiority of persons of a particular race, colour or national or ethnic origin over persons of a different race, colour or national or ethnic origin or hatred of persons of a particular race, colour, or national or ethnic origin. [More…]

• We are opposed to the publishing of written material which preaches superiority of persons of a particular race and so on and which encourages hatred of people of a particular race. [More…]

• The facts are that the world is one race but the modern attitude of the so-called intelligentsia in many instances is leading to the promotion of the idea that all animosities between people are genetically based. [More…]

• There is reference to an essay entitled ‘Can we and should we measure race differences?’ [More…]

• Do we regard it just as a matter of race and colour? [More…]

• We know that people of one coloured race often criticise people of another coloured race. [More…]

• That is an example of racial discrimination between people of 2 coloured races. [More…]

• We have people who parade themselves as being of a certain race when they are not. [More…]

• A full-blooded Aborigine might say that it is an insult to the Aboriginal race. [More…]

• Everyone, whatever his race, is proud of his race and naturally is suspicious of people of other races. [More…]

• These are the bad things, not being proud of one’s race. [More…]

• I understand that this yacht is the only Australian entrant in the London ‘Financial Times’ Clipper Race to be conducted in August. [More…]

• I am informed by a prominent yachting man from South Australia that in order to participate in this race it is necessary for this vessel to be equipped with a world range radio transmitter. [More…]

• I think that as this race has the blessing of the Australian Yachting Federation the Government ought to give some consideration to providing what appears to me to be a very insignificant sum of money so that Australia can be represented in this world recognised race. [More…]

• Being a courageous person, he intends to go to London for this race and join the yacht, which will be sailing from Adelaide, I believe, on Sunday 15 June. [More…]

• I know that the Minister is a man interested in sporting activities, and I believe that he is also one who would recognise the importance of having Australia represented in this race. [More…]

• He suggested that in order to compete in the race it would be necessary for the vessel to be equipped with a world-range transmitter, ranging from 2 to 18 megahertz, I think he said. [More…]

• Lives other than of European race, such as Chinese, Maoris, Hindus, etc., will require to be dealt with under special instructions from the office with which the representative corresponds, and from which he should obtain full information should any likely proposal be under consideration. [More…]

• Ratification of the Convention obliges Australia to eliminate discrimination in employment on the grounds of race, colour, sex, religion, political opinion, national extraction or social origin. [More…]

• No distinction is made on the basis of origin, colour, race or creed in respect of the skilled people that the country is still seeking. [More…]

• No distinction is made on the basis of origin, colour, race or creed in respect of the skilled people that the country is still seeking. [More…]

• Is not such a requirement a distinction based on either race or creed? [More…]

• to encourage respect for human rights and for fundamental freedoms for all without distinction as to race, sex, language, or religion, and to encourage recognition of the interdependence of the peoples of the world; and [More…]

• As a direct result of this Government’s restructuring of the economy in favour of government enterprise, if one can call it that, and opposed to private enterprise we are breeding a race of bludgers and parasites who are waiting on government handouts. [More…]

• Will the Minister cause investigation of this incident which appears to be in breach of section 1b of the International Labor Organisation Convention to which Australia is a signatory and which renounces all forms of discrimination in employment based, inter alia, on race, sex, religion and politics? [More…]

• I knew that a motion had been moved in another place and I wanted personally to pay this tribute to the great leader of this very fine race of people, the [More…]

• Faced with considerable problems of race within his own country, he maintained a high degree of respect from people of the various nationalities in Malaysia. [More…]

• The latter, for political reasons, have attempted to project the image that Aborigines are a homogeneous race- a fact which is vigorously disputed by the cultural Aborigines. [More…]

• My Party is not against the principle of granting land to the Aboriginal people, yet at the same time we are vitally concerned that such legislation be implemented to the satisfaction of all Territorians without being at the expense of one or the other race. [More…]

• To be more concise, we must look closely at the intricate issues involved in granting Aboriginal land rights in order to ensure that those rights are not abused by either race and also to ensure that their sole basis is not the overemphasis which is so often placed on theorist ideals. [More…]

• While members of the Australian Labor Party continue to have themselves possessed of those issues, I am sure that they will be viewed as runners who are very far behind in the race. [More…]

• It has been large enough to achieve its requirements, large enough to be eye-catching, large enough to raise the spectre of a naval race. [More…]

• But the Soviet’s real objective, should the West respond, is to arouse the non-aligned nations to the dangers of a naval race and so create a hostile climate for the United States and European countries, and perhaps even ourselves, if they seek to counter this Russian presence. [More…]

• The Opposition has attacked the provision of facilities on Diego Garcia and accused the United States of America of threatening a naval arms race in the Indian Ocean. [More…]

• Having done that, we cannot assume- we would be totally wrong to assume- that equality is a total part of the human race. [More…]

• It did not campaign on promises to dismantle Labor’s most popular reformsMedibank, legal aid, equal opportunity in education, and the elimination of discrimination based on sex, country of origin or race. [More…]

• Need I mention our climate, the friendliness of our people, the lack of the proverbial rat race and the steadier pace at which we live? [More…]

• One of the things that saddens me is the names that have been given to many members of my race. [More…]

• Women of such quality will be employed irrespective of their age, race, religion, colour or any other form of discrimination which anybody might be able to dream up. [More…]

• To begin with, the female of the human race is biologically the one to bear and nurture children. [More…]

• All I can say in relation to that gentleman’s contribution is: ‘My brother, where were you when they crucified our race?’ [More…]

• Senator Bonner sees 2 kinds of Black Power: One which says, ‘Be proud of your race . [More…]

• There is the type which says ‘be proud of your race, you are as good as the next person, get out and help yourself in the white man ‘s environment and beat him at his own game’. [More…]

• Can he, any man in the Senate, or in this nation tell me how much blood of what race I have? [More…]

• That it represents a major escalation of the arms race, and directly involves Australia even further in nuclear war strategies. [More…]

• It was not so much a miracle as the ability of the Japanese people to take advantage of the opportunities offered and to reveal the very strong and, I think, admirable characteristics of the Japanese race. [More…]

• In 1944 the late J. J. Dedman went on record on behalf of the Labor Party as saying that he did not believe in home ownership because it created a race of little capitalists. [More…]

• That it represents a major escalation of the arms race, and directly involves Australia even further in nuclear war strategies. [More…]

• In many areas in the Northern Territory and, no doubt, in other places in Australia people, particularly those of the Aboriginal race, because of lack of work opportunities are paid living allowances or unemployment benefit. [More…]

• When one comes to think of it, it is something like backing every racehorse in a race. [More…]

• I suggest that one would have to be the most avid racegoer and fanatical follower of the sport of kings to judge in which order one wanted all the horses in the Melbourne Cup to finish, especially if there are 40 or 50 horses running, and then, having determined the order of all the horses, to expect one to make a book on the whole race. [More…]

• President Sukarno went on to observe that the nations participating, however, were united by more important things than their superficial divisions- he was talking of colour and race- and notably the common detestation of colonisation. [More…]

• Their claims were made not on the basis of race or culture but on juridical grounds about the integrity of the Netherland East Indies which had acquired its independence. [More…]

• To me, and I am sure to many people of my race, this is perhaps one of the most exciting and most important measures ever taken with regard to the education of Aboriginal children. [More…]

• To endeavour and encourage a continuous voluntary association of residents of Doonside and those of neighbourhood either Australian Citizens by birth or naturalisation or citizens to be, and to promote thereby a realistic process of integration based upon pursuit of mutual interests, direct social relations without discrimination resulting from origin, race, religion or political beliefs. ‘ [More…]

• Integration implies that the white race is going to absorb the Aboriginal people and that is not going to be the case. [More…]

• The latter for political reasons, have tried to project the image that Aborigines are a homogeneous race- a fact which is vigorously disputed by the ‘cultural’ Aborigines. [More…]

• That it represents a major escalation of the arms race, and directly involves Australia even further in nuclear war strategies. [More…]

• Is it a fact that this Australian designed all-weather landing system might be adopted internationally with great financial return to this country, or is Australia losing the race to an American system? [More…]

• If this is allowed to go on indefinitely we will become a society in which it will be a case of ‘every man for himself and ‘if you cannot keep up with the rat race, you miss out’. [More…]

• We did not have any divisions of class or race until the advent of the great leader who wanted to save Australia and to make Australia another socialist state. [More…]

• One could go further and say that tragically for Australia at that time we were winning the international inflationary race. [More…]

• If we want to start talking about authorities with regard to the creation of inflation I doubt that there is a better leader in the world than Mr Whitlam because he was winning the international inflation race. [More…]

• We have the Sydney-Hobart yacht race at Christmas time. [More…]

• We have another race from Queenscliff in Victoria to Devonport in Tasmania, which I have become very interested in and actively associated with. [More…]

• In quite recent years there has been another race down the west coast of Tasmania. [More…]

• Senator Rae was one “of the participants in that race last year. [More…]

• We are in a race for survival in the world markets and we are playing in a game where the winner takes all. [More…]

• If we lose this race, the whole market has gone. [More…]

• Indeed a renewed arms race now looms as a real prospect. [More…]

• Maybe this is being taken into account by many of those people who criticise the Government for what it is doing for Aborigines because, as I understand it, we have one of the highest birth rates of any race in this country at the present time. [More…]

• The station has broadcast the Gold Coast foot race, which has outstripped the Stawell Gift in importance at the present time. [More…]

• This Act has a more general application to discrimination based on race, colour, descent or national or ethnic origin, and makes it unlawful for a person to do an act involving racial discrimination which impairs the enjoyment, on an equal footing of fundamental rights and freedoms. [More…]

• This Act also contains provision which guarantees equality before the law in the enjoyment of rights without discrimination based on race, and which are designed to supersede State or Commonwealth laws that discriminate on ground of race in relation to the enjoyment or rights. [More…]

• This is so because it is not until we as Australians come to accept the problems of minority groups living by different historic cultural values that better race relationships can be established. [More…]

• Further, both Acts forbid extradition where there are substantial grounds for believing that the alleged offender might be prejudiced at his trial in the foreign state by reason of his race, religion, nationality or political opinions. [More…]

• All the psychological sets of the personality were smashed so that Aborigines could not identify except with shame, embarrassment and cringing at the thought of the once valued images, the ideas that once programmed their personal, social and race identity. [More…]

• I believe that general support of its intentions by the Labor Party could bring about a revitalisation of our community and a pause in our rate of inflation so that we can catch up again in a race that I am afraid we are all too good at winning. [More…]

• In view of the latest race violence in Soweto and other parts of South Africa and also in view of Australia’s known and accepted antiapartheid policy, can the Minister inform the Parliament whether Qantas Airways Ltd will be carrying the New Zealand All Blacks rugby team from South Africa to Australia, leaving Johannesburg on or about 1 9 September and arriving in Sydney on or about 23 September? [More…]

• It is like trying to get the beaten favourite going when racing down the straight at Randwick; even though the jockey knows that he is losing the race he keeps on whipping the horse. [More…]

• I am sure that all honourable senators have some sympathy for and some little understanding of the problems facing members of my race throughout this Commonwealth. [More…]

• People who are unemployed, whatever their race, are likely to be in poverty. [More…]

• These of my race were the fringe dwellers, the legion of the lost, the dirty, ignorant, mentally inferior, Abos’, Boongs ‘Blacks’ as you were want to call us, and treat us accordingly. [More…]

• The plight of my Islander brothers was no different from that of my race. [More…]

• Therefore, is it any wonder that in such conditions as these we have today the inescapable fact that the indigenous and Islander peoples of Australia are the most incarcerated race in the world? [More…]

• Does this indicate also that his Government approves of the race violence in South Africa? [More…]

• As to the fourth question, no, we do not support race violence anywhere in the world. [More…]

• Unlike the Labor Party, we are not selective as to countries in which we support or oppose race violence. [More…]

• Ill concerning discrimination in respect of employment and occupation affirms that: all human beings, irrespective of race, creed or sex, have the right to pursue both their material well-being and their spiritual development in conditions of freedom and dignity, of economic security and equal opportunity . [More…]

• I would be quite happy to race my friend Senator Mulvihill over 100 yards, but I am glad I now have the call to speak. [More…]

• These are the essentials to man’s survival and yet are likely to be destroyed within one 99 year lease of the white race gaining ownership. [More…]

• The white race has lived on Australia for less than 200 years and already the destruction of land has been enormous. [More…]

• Race does not come into it. [More…]

• And whereas such Chaner and Universal Declaration purport to uphold the fundamental and permanent right of every country and of every race to genuine free elections and to proper self-determination. [More…]

• Firstly, I do not know how that squares with the United Nations Convention on the status of refugees in respect of persons who, for example, could have a very well founded fear of being persecuted for reasons of race or political opinion. [More…]

• In view of the undoubted success of this scheme, can the Minister give an assurance that further such units will be set up to deal with this disease, which is peculiar to my race, in all other remote areas of Australia where the density of Aboriginal population warrants it? [More…]

• If we take young people from their families, a great cost to their race, and separate them from their families, if we teach them to read and write and do not give them any means of living by those skills but send them back to a society in which those skills are not used but are forgotten we have somehow or other failed those people educationally. [More…]

• The reason why that single child was attending school was that both its parents had a certain minimal level of education, and they were of the few, as far as I could gather, of their race who still believed that education for their children meant something for the future of the childrenthe opportunity of a decent life. [More…]

• Too often in this area in recent years hope has been an illusion for that race. [More…]

• It comes through loud and clear in the whole area of Aboriginal policy in Australia that the Aboriginal people need leaders of their own race, people who understand the problems of their own race, who can communicate to them and who, through their own success or whatever it is that moves that race, can motivate them to try to lift themselves to basic standards of decency. [More…]

• Unfortunately, in all too many cases, the influence is the very worst that the white society could possibly have on that race. [More…]

• There are some areas where I personally believe we could embrace certain aspects of Aboriginal culture to the betterment of our culture. [More…]

• In fact, I find it quite an honour that people of the Aboriginal race-when I talk of the Aboriginal race I am talking about the full-blood Aboriginal race- have honoured me by taking my name. [More…]

• The experts say that depending on the race at which we are looking, we are looking at a period some 10 000 years, 20 000 years or 30 000 years ago. [More…]

• It is my belief that in the Northern Territory of Australia we are considering not one race but probably two. [More…]

• There is evidence to show that about 20 000 years ago there was another race living in the north of Australia. [More…]

• He coasted along but he still won the race. [More…]

• If they are picked on the basis of merit in a sport, as I understand the policy, there is no objection to them coming here, but Australia does not wish to have contact with teams which are picked on the basis of race and race only. [More…]

• History teaches us that when gunpowder was invented it was believed by many that that was the beginning of the end for the human race. [More…]

• I daresay that it was not until the first atom bomb was dropped on Japan in 1945 that most of us realised that finally we had arrived at something that could spell out that fate for the human race not only through war but as the outcome of a number of other factors with which most of us are now reasonably familiar. [More…]

• I have no doubt that for quite some time many of us in this Parliament have thought that Australia would be in a unique position in the world because of our supplies of uranium and that because of that we might be able to exert an influence on others to try to arrest this possible mad race to destruction. [More…]

• Provided people recognise this with plutonium and it is kept in its right place, as all other poisons should be, there will be no problem for the human race. [More…]

• The Methodist Church of Australia, the Quaker Race Relations Council, the Presbyterian Church of Australia, the Congregational Union of Australia and the United Church of Australia have all come out in support of full land rights for Aborigines. [More…]

• The dignity- perhaps even the survival- of a wonderful race of people hangs in the balance. [More…]

• For a short time, a very short time, I would like to address myself to the members of my race. [More…]

• Aboriginal’ means a person who is a member of the Aboriginal race of Australia and is registered or entitled to be registered under the provisions of paragraph 24 (a) or who has been nominated by a person so registered as a member of his land-owning clan or group. [More…]

• I have seen people of his religion being persecuted by people of a superior race, of similar ilk to Senator Harradine, who tried to tread the people of Senator Baume ‘s religion into the ground. [More…]

• I want to state categorically something I have stated many times over the years since I have been a senator I see my responsibilities as a senator representing the State of Queensland, first and foremost to God, secondly to my nation, thirdly to my State and fourthly to my Party, but interwoven through this sequence is my love of race and my burning desire to do whatever I possibly can to advance the cause of my own race of people. [More…]

• In this connection, I add that it is not proposed that a deduction will be available in respect of the cost of race horses and other animals used or bred for sporting or domestic purposes. [More…]

• One of the matters that he must take into account is that both extradition Acts forbid extradition where there are substantial grounds for believing the alleged offender may be prejudiced at his trial in the foreign state by reason of his race, religion, nationality or political opinions. [More…]

• In addition, there is continual pressure not only from within Australia but from outside to reduce defence expenditure as a contributing factor to the lessening of the arms race. [More…]

• The strategic arms race has been mentioned as one area. [More…]

• The honourable senator told us with great aplomb that he was overseas early this year and during that time he had discussions with an Asian politician who told him that we in Australia as a European race, had no right to be here. [More…]

• Schooling is not a race. [More…]

• They sound like sheep baabaaing at a race. [More…]

• 2 ) The Department does not identify staff by race. [More…]

• I am sorry that Senator Rae had to race through his contribution tonight, anticipating that he would have to finish it in 1 5 minutes. [More…]

• Why can money not be channelled in the way that members of my own race on Aboriginal communities in the Northern Territory have suggested? [More…]

• These facts show that there are excessive costs because of the problems of industrial unrest, a lack of productivity, the wages race that has gone on for quite some time and absenteeism. [More…]

• Any opportunity to overcome the deprivation, the poverty, the disease and the squalor around this world that I mentioned a moment ago is beset by the great arms race which a large number of countries have joined post 1945. [More…]

• An arms race is going on throughout the world. [More…]

• The competition within this arms race is feared. [More…]

• No doubt many honourable senators in this chamber have heard the comment that perhaps the world is lucky that Russia and China today do not see eye to eye; that it could be the saving grace ofthe world. [More…]

• I hope that as time goes on we can see a reduction in this arms race. [More…]

• In theory it is an excellent idea to support the initiatives to lower the arms race in this area but in reality such a move could be accepted as appeasement and appeasement has never operated successfully because the end result is that there is one dominant power. [More…]

• I support any moves we can make, as the Prime Minister stated, to reduce the competition of the arms build up and the power race in the Indian Ocean. [More…]

• I hope that more prominence will be given to the inhumanities that have taken place in preceding years and generations and that more respect will be paid irrespective of race, colour or creed by man for his fellow man. [More…]

• If Australia- a country rich in food, minerals, energy, space; a country far removed geographically from other developed countries; a sparsely populated country; a country with a black minority- is to move successfully through a quarter century in which issues of resources, economic inequality, food, race, population are going to assume an unprecedented importance, then it is essential that the Australian people as a whole become involved in and informed about the process of shaping our foreign policy. [More…]

• I have been in this Senate for only a year and Senator Bonner has been here for a much longer period, but I believe that he has been a most suitable representative of the Aboriginal race of Australia and I think that they are very fortunate to have him. [More…]

• Of course, it is rather invidious to look at the precentage of blood of one race or another in a person’s veins and say whether that person is of one particular race or another. [More…]

• I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race, where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat. [More…]

• I believe that charity begins where there is the greatest need for it and we have sufficient wealth in our country to satisfy the problems of Australia, assuming we do not set our goals too high; but so many other nations comprising probably one-third of the human race have little prospects other than poverty and almost hopelessness. [More…]

• We must understand that what we have been doing over the decades- indeed the centuries- however unwittingly, has been to produce a serious loss of dignity, a loss of significance and a loss of ability to cope in a race of people who, over the millennia, showed a miraculous ability to cope, remarkable dignity and very rich cultures. [More…]

• A group of civilians, perhaps of the same race as the victims of Entebbe, may be motivated by patriotism to their colleagues and take action without the Australian Government authorising it. [More…]

• I come from a race of people who have gone through, to some extent, what the East [More…]

• The Timorese people have a sturdy sense of independence, and hostilities between the two ends of the Island have persisted ever since the days of Magellan and of the Dutch East India Company, “here are great dissimilarities in race, religion, language and culture [More…]

• For far too long Australians have had to put up with motor cars with poor handling characteristics; which are unsafe at any speed in a moment of crisis; which are especially fast on the open highways and especially dangerous on our open highways; and designed to race from one set of traffic lights to another set of traffic lights at high speed and to come to a sudden halt. [More…]

• It should not discriminate on grounds of age, sex, religion, race or anything else. [More…]

• Any person who owing to well-founded fear of being persecuted for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group or political opinion, is outside the country of his nationality or is unable or, owing to such fear, is unwilling to avail himself of the protection of that country, or who, not having a nationality and being outside the country of his former habitual residence, is unable or, owing to such fear, is unwilling to return to it. [More…]

• I will regard this, my last term in the Senate, as a jockey regards the last furlong of a race- one to be ridden vigorously with whips acracking’. [More…]

• The Department of Aboriginal Affairs works closely on such matters with the Office of the Commissioner for Community Relations, other Commonwealth and State Departments, and with influential community groups and will continue to do so in order to inform all members ofthe Australian community of their rights and obligations, whether they be informal or as set down in the Racial Discrimination Act, in respect of dealings with members of another race. [More…]

• This included a definition of a refugee as ‘any person who, owing to well-founded fear of being persecuted for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group or political group, is outside the country of his nationality and is unable or, owing to such fear, is unwilling to avail himself of the protection of that country; or who, not having a nationality and being outside the country of his former habitual residence, is unable or, owing to such fear, is unwilling to return to it ‘. [More…]

• 2.9.52-Philco Recording Company, Recording of commercial broadcasting race descriptions for sale. [More…]

• I believe that in a short period reason will prevail across the boundaries of race and religion and that independence, full freedom and peace will come back to the Cypriot people. [More…]

• Comparable statistical information for other pans of Australia is not available since Aboriginal vital events are not distinguished by race on registration notification forms. [More…]

• At the same time we must recognise that there is an Aboriginal population in the Alligator Rivers area with a history which can be traced back for about 25 000 years. [More…]

• All these sites are extremely valuable for the history of Australia and to the Aboriginal race. [More…]

• When project Manhatten was going it was obvious that there was a race on to be the first to build that atomic bomb before our then enemies did. [More…]

• We in the developed world press on, victims of our own mad race for more and more of everything while the developing countries will fall further and further behind. [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…]

• He will outline the problems that we get ourselves into by this mad rat race of technology and the consumption drive. [More…]

• Australia’s immigration policy which is nondiscriminatory on grounds of race or nationality gives priority to the reunion of close family relatives with Australian residents. [More…]

• I preface my question to the Minister representing the Minister for Post and Telecommunications by commenting that in the early hours of this morning many thousands of Australians would have been listening to an Australian Broadcasting Commission broadcast of reports on the America’s Cup yacht race. [More…]

• -There would be many people who have gone to a race course who would not agree with the honourable senator’s proposition that to speculate is to accumulate. [More…]

• I would say that many of them have ‘decumulated’ at race courses. [More…]

• Successive Commonwealth governments have wanted to see apartheid replaced by a society in which all have an equal right and opportunity to participate in the political process and in the creation and enjoyment of wealth, regardless of race. [More…]

• Australia’s involvement in the acceptance of genuine refugees is not limited on the basis of nationality or race. [More…]

• I should like to say in this chamber tonight that whilst I am very conscious of my responsibilities, which embrace all the people in Queensland and all the people in Australia, I believe that interwoven with those responsibilites is my love of race and my burning desire to do whatever I can to ease the lot of my Aboriginal fellows and to do whatever I possibly can to improve the conditions under which my fellow Aborigines live at this time. [More…]

• So I intend, for a short time, to speak about matters that concern the Aboriginal race of this nation. [More…]

• As an Aboriginal he ought not to need reminding of how little was done to improve the conditions of his race. [More…]

• But it believed that a race of people which had been discriminated against for so long should be discriminated for. [More…]

• Let me say that he is not the only one of the Aboriginal community who seeks power and prestige by exploiting the Aboriginal race and using his Aboriginal origin. [More…]

• The Aboriginal race is deserving of assistance and support. [More…]

• The Republic of South Africa remains a threat to world peace insofar as it is surrounded by countries which have black African populations that are not prepared to tolerate the continued suppression of people of their own race living only a few hundreds of miles away across the border. [More…]

• He said at the founding conference of the Progressive Federal Party, held last month in Johannesburg, that ‘there was no greater priority in South Africa ‘s politics than the banishment of race and colour discrimination’. [More…]

• Perhaps the white man is in greater need of liberation, in greater need to be freed from fear and liberated from the threat which race and colour discrimination is to our future safety. [More…]

• He needs to be liberated from the blot that race discrimination is on the name of our country, from the burden it is on our conscience and the curse it will be on our children. ‘ [More…]

• There was no greater priority in South Africa’s politics than the banishment of race and colour discrimination, Mr Basson said. [More…]

• On Sunday the bible belters will get up and preach ‘thou shalt’ and ‘thou shalt not’, but they can justify the fact that a race of people were obliterated because those people were inconvenient. [More…]

• What a disgrace! [More…]

• The fact that Senator Bonner, as a representative of his race, had to raise this matter in the Senate indicates how hopelessly backward this Government is in regard to the needs of this day and age. [More…]

• Such a provision would be completely in conflict with Australian policies, particularly the immigration policies which are administered without discrimination as to race or colour. [More…]

• If the Government had waited until May to hold the forthcoming election it would not have had to race around, causing terrible upheaval, because of the time limits imposed by that election. [More…]

• It also gives me a great deal of grave concern because, as a member of the Aboriginal race, the article is referring to members of my race. [More…]

• In this case, I happen to be concerned about the attitude that the Premier of Queensland has to some of my constituents who are people from the race to which I belong. [More…]

• I, too, always enjoyed his hospitality at the Onkaparinga race meeting at Easter. [More…]

• 1 may not know about international diplomacy, but I certainly do know what it is to be a member of a deprived race of people and to be walked over by someone else. [More…]

• I intend to refer to some statements that have been made concerning members of my race and the land rights Act introduced by the Government to give the tribal lands back to many of my people in the Northern Territory. [More…]

• The motion, which was carried by the Senate that day, commended the maintenance of the institution of the Commonwealth as a unique forum for discussion and the exchange of ideas between member countries, irrespective of race, creed, culture or colour. [More…]

• For the time being, businessmen are losing the race to find new consumer goods to sell to the masses. [More…]

• Race Mathews, the former Federal Labor MP who also chaired that Committee on Specific Learning Difficulties, came to similarly depressing conclusions. [More…]

• That is indefensible when one looks back to Hitler’s Germany and realises that there was a race there that had nothing to hide but plenty to fear. [More…]

• I recall that a few years ago the Standing Orders Committee, when discussing Standing Order 64, dealt with the problem of the race to get in first to the President’s office with an urgency motion. [More…]

• They are the sort of people that the Aboriginal communities at Aurukun and Mornington Island rely upon in determining the future of their area and the future of their race. [More…]

• It has power to make laws for the people of any race for whom it is deemed necessary to make special laws. [More…]

• to make it possible for the Commonwealth Parliament to make special laws for the people of the Aboriginal race, wherever they may live, if the Commonwealth Parliament considers this desirable or necessary. [More…]

• If Australia is to maintain any credibility on race issues internationally the Federal Government must intervene. [More…]

• If Australia is to maintain any credibility on race issues internationally the Federal Government must intervene. [More…]

• The people of any race for whom it is deemed necessary to make special laws. [More…]

• It is carefully designed to achieve that result within the constitutional power of the Commonwealth, given by the 1967 referendum, to make special laws for the people of any race for whom it is deemed necessary. [More…]

• The purposes of these proposed amendments to the Commonwealth Constitution are to remove any ground for the belief that, as at present worded, the Constitution discriminates in some ways against people of the Aboriginal race, and at the same time, to make it possible for the Commonwealth Parliament to make special laws for the people of the Aboriginal race, wherever they may live, if the Commonwealth Parliament considers this desirable or necessary. [More…]

• This Queensland Act is apartheid in principle and the ill-considered outbursts of the Premier cannot conceal that his Government’s legislation is a blight on race relations in this country. [More…]

• The growing confidence and pride that the Aboriginal people feel about their culture, heritage and race is something which growing numbers of other Australians have indicated as something which is good and justified. [More…]

• I hope we can assist Aboriginals in the difficult task of finding how they can come to terms with what is left of their culture- I am afraid that at this stage it is a damaged culture- their race and their Australianism. [More…]

• It is disgraceful that those who are in a position of influence and power over their opinions would so blatantly use that position of power and influence to terrify them with statements which could not in any way be claimed to be based on truth. [More…]

• If we leap into a confrontation of the sort that appears to be building up surely the only result will be a disillusioned and saddened Aboriginal race. [More…]

• It is carefully designed to achieve that result within the constitutional power of the Commonwealth, given by the 1967 referendum, to make special laws for the people of any race for whom it is deemed necessary. [More…]

• I suppose if one looks at the question from a human rights situation one realises that Aborigines are entitled to their rights but I think all sections of the community would realise that alcohol has been one of the destroyers of the Aboriginal race. [More…]

• We have this deplorable predicament of such unique contention between the State field and the federal field with regard to an issue that should provoke the utmost urge to get down to business, resolve differences and create the most productive system whereby the welfare of the Aboriginal race is advanced. [More…]

• I will not accept from anyone in this chamber, great as I respect my colleague who sits next to me, Senator Neville Bonner, a unique representative of his race, accusations that impugn the white race with regard to the history of Aboriginal experience. [More…]

• Nor will I join with those who attribute to the Aboriginal race violence and deceit with regard to their experience with the European settlers. [More…]

• In the interests of Australian democracy let the Senate take a stand and again say, not that it will halt a budget to force an election but that it will halt a particular piece of legislation on a most sensitive matter of the highest significance in Australia’s national history beginning at the definition of race relations in this country for the next 50 years. [More…]

• We all support Commonwealth authority, if need be, for the welfare of the Aboriginal race. [More…]

• Our side took a position, which has fairly to be stated as a matter of judgment, opposing the proposition on the ground that the Commonwealth authority would produce a better opportunity for the Aboriginal race than would the State authority. [More…]

• What is the virtue of that substitution from the point of view of the Aboriginal race? [More…]

• I know there are people on the other side who deny that these people have rights as the original owners of this country, but let us not forget that our race bashed them, burnt them, raped them, murdered them, tortured them, poisoned them, starved them, cheated them, denied them education- it still does- denied them good health- it still does- and destroyed or commercialised their places of religion. [More…]

• Any special measures taken for Aborigines or partAborigines are regarded as temporary measures, not based on race, but intended to meet the need for special care and assistance to protect them from any ill-effects of sudden change and to assist them to make the transition from one stage to another in such a way as will be favourable to their social, economic and political advancement. [More…]

• One would not regard people in any other country as belonging to that country if one of their parents had married into another race and they were half of one race and half of another race, or one-quarter of one race and three-quarters of another race. [More…]

• For reasons which go through my whole attitude to this question of race- I believe that to have a good community we need to have good co-operative relations- I say very firmly to the Opposition and to the National Aboriginal Conference that they should not advocate that sort of drastic action at this stage. [More…]

• Many years ago, when I first started to take an interest in politics, I decided, as an Aborigine, that perhaps it was time a member of my race became involved in parliamentary procedures and endeavoured to become a member of parliament. [More…]

• It gave the Commonwealth power to make particular rules for the people of any race over whom it has power to make laws. [More…]

• That section of the community- that is the people of my race and in particular the people of Aurukun and Mornington Island- has a grave and deep concern over the Queensland Government threat of what will happen to them. [More…]

• In fact a former Director of Social Welfare, Mr Giese, made the comment that in the Northern Territory if it had not been for the mission people the Aboriginal race would have died out. [More…]

• This country should have a conscience about the past treatment, the past atrocities and the past injustices that have been perpetrated on this race of people. [More…]

• They are a fine race of people. [More…]

• For as long as the human race is likely to want energy it will be able to obtain it from the sun but the amount of solar energy research being done in this country is pitiful indeed. [More…]

• We do not want to see this country entering into the nuclear race, particularly on the export side, and probably causing long-term damage to people in other countries. [More…]

• We do not race out and give copies of the documents to the people before we table the documents in the Parliament. [More…]

• Our population is made up of mixed races. [More…]

• Co-existence recognises that the Aboriginal people, despite the troubles they are going through now, are a proud race and will always exist. [More…]

• It is only in recent centuries, largely due to the technology of the white man, that we have begun to mix up the races. [More…]

• We have tried integration, assimilation, segregation and other forms of race relations as solutions. [More…]

• At present it appears to me that of all the different coloured races on the earth today only one race is being used for world wide political warfare, and that is the black race. [More…]

• In this chamber charges have been made that the Queensland Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders legislation is discriminatory and repressive and a blight on race relations in this country. [More…]

• Each person from every race represents his own small individual slice of history, unique and unrepeatable and only nature can afford to play the huge genetic lotteries of genetic selection. [More…]

• All races are different. [More…]

• As this project would provide a tremendous stimulus to sadly flagging industrial development in South Australia, can the Minister say whether Mr Dunstan has abandoned the race for such a plant and is allowing the enterprising Court Government in Western Australia to beat him to the punch on the establishment of a uranium enrichment facility? [More…]

• Just because a small number of unscrupulous accountants and tax agents seeks to advertise tax avoidance schemes in the Australian Financial Review all members of the same race should not be condemned. [More…]

• They are not a separate race. [More…]

• The people of any race for whom it is deemed necessary to make special laws: [More…]

• It is carefully designed to achieve that result with a constitutional power of the Commonwealth, given by the 1 967 referendum, to make special laws for the people of any race for whom it is deemed necessary. [More…]

• I see many of the white people’s scourges which have virtually decimated that beautiful race of people. [More…]

• I am very proud to say that a person of the Aboriginal race who is an Australian Democrat is in Canberra at this moment acting on behalf of the Aurukun Shire Council. [More…]

• If no further action is contemplated by this Federal Parliament, the decimation of a race of people is not impossible. [More…]

• I Hebrides, one fraught with great complexity because of the interplay of race, language and re- ; ligion. [More…]

• I repeat that I am not blaming you, Mr President, for what has happened, but there does appear to be great sensitivity by the Government not to talk about race relations. [More…]

• I am a member of the human race. [More…]

• That is a most extraordinary statement to come from a member of the human race. [More…]

• That it represents a major escalation of the arms race, and directly involves Australia even further in nuclear war strategies. [More…]

• To be in such a situation means being in solitary confinement, which is a form of psychological torture, with frequent visits from an interrogator, who is the only link with the human race. [More…]

• Whilst the Constitution says that we have the power to make special laws for people of a particular race- much of the legislation that I would have presented would have dealt with part Aboriginals- it was not thought by the legal profession that a part Aboriginal would be classified as a person of any particular race. [More…]

• It was possible that he would be classified as a person without a race. [More…]

• When the Founding Fathers wrote the Constitution, under section 51 (xxvi) they gave the Commonwealth the power to make laws for the peace, order and good government of the Commonwealth with respect to the people of any race, other than the Aboriginal race in any State, for whom it is deemed necessary to make special laws. [More…]

• We had the power to make laws for the good government of the people of any race except the Aboriginals. [More…]

• It was believed that any special laws would be a restriction upon people of a special race. [More…]

• Following the referendum in 1967 and despite the fact that it was fought on the ground of a better go for Aborigines, we deleted the words ‘other than the aboriginal race in any State’. [More…]

• Now we have power to make laws for the good government of the people of any race for whom it is deemed necessary to make special laws. [More…]

• One legal opinion I have seen assumes that the High Court could well rule that Aborigines are not people of a special race. [More…]

• The intention of the Constitution is to restrict the power of the Commonwealth to make a uniform law for its citizens- that is, for Australians if that term can be denned- and another law, a separate law, for people of a particular race. [More…]

• Is he a person of a particular race? [More…]

• It is no use saying that the people gave the Parliament power to make laws in respect of Aboriginals in 1967; the Parliament has the power to make special laws in respect of people of a particular race. [More…]

• In the latest edition of their publication, The Annotated Constitution of the Australian Commonwealth, Quick and Garran, in dealing with people of a particular race, say: [More…]

• The subsection can only exclude the action of State legislation respecting ‘the people of any race’, when the Federal Parliament declares, by legislation, that such race is a race for whom it is deemed necessary to make special laws’. [More…]

• Before such legislation the State Parliaments will be free to pass laws concerning any part of their resident population, including the people of any particular race, coloured or otherwise, but as soon as the Federal Parliament by legislative intervention has shown that it has dealt with, or contemplates dealing with, the people of a particular race by special laws, the power to discriminate in respect of that race will thenceforth be exclusively vested in it and the State legislatures Wili be deprived of jurisdiction. [More…]

• Even contemplates dealing with- the people of a particular race by special laws, the power to discriminate in respect of that race will thenceforth bc exclusively vested in it and the State legislatures will be deprived of jurisdiction. [More…]

• In 1974 the Federal Parliament showed its intention to make special laws for people of a particular race, namely, the Aborigines. [More…]

• If the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders Anti-Discriminatory (Queensland Laws) Act, under which we decided to accept Aborigines as people of a particular race, is a valid law, then the laws which Bjelke-Petersen is operating today are not valid. [More…]

• We accept that the Commonwealth Parliament has the power to make special laws for people of a particular race, the Aboriginal people. [More…]

• The only power is the power to legislate for people of a particular race. [More…]

• Whilst 1 do not think that the Australian publicwould give the Commonwealth Parliament power to acquire land for all people of a particular race, I am certain that if all parties supported an appeal to the Australian public to allow it to alter the Constitution sufficiently to let the Government legislate to give land to Aboriginal people there would be a successful result. [More…]

• Why should I enter this rat race?’ [More…]

• Discrimination against race is despicable and is to be deplored. [More…]

• I repeat what I said at Question Time, that is, the Government deplores discrimination in any context on grounds of race, religion or for any other reason. [More…]

• Therefore Australia and the other countries using the air space have to fly over countries whose policies, whether of race, religion or otherwise, they certainly would not support and not condone. [More…]

• and observance of, human rights and fundamental freedoms for all without distinction as to race, sex, language, or religion. [More…]

• It constitutes a discrimination not only against religion, not only against race, but also against nationality- all three. [More…]

• We should stand up, seek out the other countries which are signatories to this United Nations Charter and make them put their money where their mouth is and stand up for what they believe, if they really believe that there should be no discrimination as to race, sex, language or religion. [More…]

• For the many years that I have been privileged to sit in this chamber, I have listened attentively, if somewhat cynically, to the many debates concerning my race. [More…]

• I am aware that perhaps I have traversed this ground before, and although it needs to be reiterated time and time again, perhaps I can condense this with the words of two white scholars to whom my race will be eternally grateful. [More…]

• I would have thought that the present Government made it clear that it was not tolerant of distinctions on the grounds of race or religion and so on. [More…]

• In addition, South African Airways has notified the Department- I think that was the morning after Senator O ‘Byrne’s question-that it has never refused to carry passengers from Australia on the grounds of race. [More…]

• All South African Airways passengers are treated equally regardless of race or colour. [More…]

• If, in fact, the complainant has said that he did not make inquiries as to why he was excluded, then automatically to assume that he has been excluded on a basis of race and to make public accusations to that effect is perhaps a little unwise. [More…]

• Is the Minister for Health aware of media reports that a super-international horse race is being planned for Flemington in early 1980, in which overseas horses are expected to take part? [More…]

• I understand that the Minister for Health is aware of the proposal being put forward by certain Victorian racing interests that an international horse race be planned for the early 1980s, in which overseas horses would be invited to take part. [More…]

• The attitude of the Government to the proposed race is that horses imported to Australia would be required to comply with normal quarantine requirements. [More…]

• Noranda ‘s strong entry in the race [More…]

• In an endeavour to untangle and clarify what has become a very muddled situation, the Committee ‘s report does four things: First of all, it gives a detailed analysis, for really the first time in the legal literature, of the nature, scope and extent of section 51 (xxvi) of the Constitution, which of course empowers the Commonwealth to make laws with respect to the people of any race for whom it is deemed necessary to make special laws. [More…]

• Nevertheless, he has had the ability to stand up for his race and, I believe, to lead them to the fine and honourable decision which has taken place. [More…]

• Just lately, at the same time as this Government was announcing that it had initialled an agreement to sell uranium to South Korea, the South Korean Press came out and pointed out that South Korea had the equipment, it had the warheads and it had the equipment to transport the warheads; and that all it needed was the nuclear warheads and it was then in the race with other larger and stronger powers in the world. [More…]

• I realise now that the continuation of this dangerous industry all over the world can be only fraught with danger and apprehension for the whole of the human race. [More…]

• But I do not believe that the human race- after all, we are a very young race, are we not?- has reached that stage or anywhere near it. [More…]

• What value has it got to the human race if it does not do that? [More…]

• These countries arose as a result of a conference in Berlin about 100 years ago, when there was a race by the European powers to settle Africa. [More…]

• We made no effort to apply the sort of pressure that should have been applied to both countries to ensure a dramatic change in their race relations policies, policies which to varying degrees have been cruelly oppressive of the great mass of their people. [More…]

• If a suggestion were sought of me by Senator Baume concerning Africa, I would say that … we made no effort to apply the sort of pressure that should have been applied to both countries to ensure a dramatic change in their race relations policies, policies which to varying degrees have been cruelly oppressive of the great mass of their people. [More…]

• Their reaction, of course, is to engage in an arms race to match the arms race against them. [More…]

• Any policy based on the belief that one race is superior to another is an affront to human dignity and to the well-being of mankind, and must be condemned. [More…]

• Mr MacKellar said the new system eliminated race, colour, nationality, descent, ethnic origin and sex as points factors. [More…]

• The 1977 report makes particular reference to race relations in north Queensland. [More…]

• I want to quote four examples from the references that were made by the Commissioner as an illustration of a lack of race relations in this country. [More…]

• In compliance with the fundamental obligations laid down in article 2 of this Convention, States Parties undertake to prohibit and to eliminate racial discrimination in all its forms and to guarantee the right of everyone, without distinction as to race, colour, or national or ethnic origin, to equality before the law, notably in the enjoyment of the following rights: [More…]

• It is obvious that a new series of initiatives is required, if equality for all people, regardless of their race or colour, is to be achieved. [More…]

• Yet today Opposition speakers have sought to drag forward this most unfortunate example of the misuse of a person’s race or description. [More…]

• The first thing the report does is make a quite detailed analysis of section 5 1 (xxvi) of the Constitution, the Commonwealth’s power to make laws with respect to people of any race for whom it is deemed necessary to make special laws, a provision which assumed that form as a result of the 1 967 Aboriginal powers referendum. [More…]

• When I last spoke on this question, I expressed considerable doubt whether the High Court would uphold the point that the Commonwealth had power to acquire land for the settlement of people of a particular race. [More…]

• One is: What are the people of any race? [More…]

• The Committee next refers to the question of race and asks: Who are the people of a particular race? [More…]

• It asks whether they are part Aboriginal, quarter-cast Aboriginal and whether a person who has only one-eighth Aboriginal blood can be classed as being of a particular race. [More…]

• The Committee refers to Parliament’s powers under the definition of special laws and questions whether Parliament is restricted from making particular laws for one race of people which may be contrary to the rights given in law to another race of people. [More…]

• However, the conclusion of the Committee is that Parliament has the power to make special laws, whatever that may mean, for the people of the Aboriginal race and those laws need not be ones that we would normally make for the balance of the Australian community. [More…]

• An extensive aggregate of persons, so closely associated with each other by common descent, language, or history, to to form a distinct race or people. [More…]

• The Australian Mining Industry Council puts forward the pathetic plea that Australia should have a law for all Australians, not a separate law for people of a particular race. [More…]

• The Council forgets the fact that the Australian public voted in 1967, by an overwhelming majority, that there should be special laws for people of particular races, and this included the Aboriginal people. [More…]

• The people of any race, other than the Aboriginal race in any State, for whom it is deemed necessary to make special laws: [More…]

• At that referendum people voted for the Commonwealth to be able to make laws with respect to people of any race. [More…]

• Australia’s land mass should be alienated for special groups, whether they are Aboriginals or of any other race. [More…]

• Are honourable senators opposite suggesting that people of another race should be given large tracts of land? [More…]

• The first thing it did was to make a detailed analysis of section 5 1 (xxvi) of the Constitution, which relates to the Commonwealth’s powers to make laws in respect of people of any race for whom it is deemed necessary to make special laws. [More…]

• But interwoven through the whole sequence is my love of my race and my burning desire to do whatever I can to advance the cause of the Aborigine people of this nation. [More…]

• I am- I deny it not- a member of the Aborigine race of this nation. [More…]

• First of all, it gives a detailed analysis, Tor really the first time in the legal literature, of the nature, scope and extent of section 5 1 (xxvi) of the Constitution, which of course empowers the Commonwealth to make laws with respect to the people of any race for whom it is deemed necessary to make special laws . [More…]

• I trust that the report of the Committee will be useful to the people of Australia and to the Aboriginal race in Australia. [More…]

• Arc there agreements between Qantas and any other nation which prohibit entry to Australian citizens on the grounds of race or creed. [More…]

• Sydney Hobart Yacht Race 1 977-Hong Kong [More…]

• Sydney Hobart Yacht Race 1977- Brunei [More…]

• At that time the Aboriginal race was in dire straits. [More…]

• The Aboriginal race was being whittled by neglect and illness. [More…]

• He saw the Aboriginal people as a black race and because they were black they had a commonality. [More…]

• The Aboriginal people are a proud race, and will always remain so. [More…]

• We therefore say that this tax ought not to be imposed upon Aborigines in order that they may have in peace the paltry amount that they are to receive as only part com.penstion for the injustice their race, their culture and their rights have suffered over the last two centuries. [More…]

• I hope, for the future of this country and all the races who inhabit it, including the Aboriginal race, that the Government is sincere. [More…]

• They are the race that we have termed ‘Aboriginals’. [More…]

• If Australia is to make the grade in the international rat race it will depend very much on our capacity to be a skilled, talented and educated society, particularly so in the region of the world in which we happen to live. [More…]

• The power under which it would be suggested that we would make such laws is the same power which enables us to make special laws for the people of any race. [More…]

• There is, of course, the perennial problem of the potential for personal discrimination on the grounds of religion or race or simply a personality conflict where a more senior officer does not like a particular employee. [More…]

• By 1 973 discrimination on grounds of race had disappeared from immigration selection policy. [More…]

• White Australia policy is long dead, that our immigration policy today is totally nondiscriminatory and is applied consistently to all applicants regardless of race, colour, nationality, descent, national or ethnic origin and sex. [More…]

• I feel that they are hypocritical, taking into account the attitude the Government is taking to certain races and nationalities in the world. [More…]

• I have again reviewed this case but I am satisfied the decision to refuse Mr Grekos a visit visa was reasonably based on policy and there was no discrimination based on race or nationality. [More…]

• In the judgment of one NCI official at the House subcommittee hearings, it represented ‘the worst piece of work that has been done to date on fluoride’ Drs Burk and Yiamouyiannis had somehow managed to ignore the most fundamental factors involved in cancer mortality rates- age, sex, and race. [More…]

• 1 ) What is the estimated total cost to the Australian taxpayer of the 24 metre ketch Anaconda’s leaving Australia, taking part in the Parmelia Race and returning to Australia including the cost of leasing, fitting out and crewing the vessel. [More…]

• The estimated costs to be borne by the Australian taxpayer through Defence Force participation in the Parmelia Yacht Race amount to a total of $ 127,520. [More…]

• One addict-pusher described these juveniles, who are sometimes armed and carry several thousand dollars, as ‘ a race of superkids ‘. [More…]

• Indeed, all sorts of allegations were made against a race of people. [More…]

• As Senator Baume often reminds honourable senators, the two killer drugs known to the human race are alcohol and tobacco. [More…]

• From memory, the World Health Organisation now rates alcohol as the third largest killer of the human race. [More…]

• My question, which is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, is about a report that the yacht Anaconda II will be sailed as the Federal Government’s entry in the Parmelia Yacht Race commemorating Western Australia’s 150th anniversary. [More…]

• Will the Government have any continued equity in the yacht after completion of the race? [More…]

• What will happen to the sails and equipment after the race? [More…]

• Will the owner of Anaconda II, Mr Josko Grubic of Adelaide, be on board the yacht during the race? [More…]

• Has the Government assisted any other yachts in the race, in particular the famous Siska or have all other owners had to finance participation without any government aid? [More…]

• I am advised that the Government has approved a Defence Force entry in the Parmelia Yacht Race from Plymouth in England to Perth which is being staged as part of the anniversary celebrations. [More…]

• Terms and conditions governing the loan of Anaconda II to the Defence Force for the Parmelia Race have been documented in a formal agreement between the Commonwealth and the owner. [More…]

• One important condition is that Mr Grubic is the skipper during workout trials and the forward passage to the United Kingdom as well as during the race. [More…]

• The most serious issue facing the human race is under debate. [More…]

• The Commonwealth Employment Service has a policy of not discriminating on the basis of race or, indeed, on any other basis. [More…]

• Is the Minister representing the Prime Minister aware that in the final document adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on disarmament held in New York in 1978, many countries expressed their concern about the continuing threat to mankind of the proliferation of nuclear weapons and the spiralling costs of the arms race and the effect of the latter on the economic and social development of the peoples of the world? [More…]

• Of course, it also deplores the fact that there is an arms race and that there are spiralling costs of armament throughout the world. [More…]

• Whereas the United Nations has, in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights proclaimed that everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms set forth therein, without distinction of any kind such as race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property binh or other status. [More…]

• All children without any exception whatsoever shall be entitled to these rights, without distinction or discrimination on account of race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status, whether of himself or of his family. [More…]

• As the honourable senator will be aware, the Australian Government does not believe that any distinction or discrimination should be made on the basis of race, colour or creed. [More…]

• I was in Cairns the other day after the Prime Minister had been there for the Far North Queensland Turf Club race meeting. [More…]

• I think it is well known that he would rather bet on motor bikes, even if he has to pay $40 extra for a trade-in, than he would on racehorses. [More…]

• Has the principal concerned a business association with the Department’s area officer, including a common interest in race horses? [More…]

• He operates the Kentucky Fried Chicken chain in Victoria, has leased race horses in partnership with Andrew Peacock, the Foreign Minister, and is married to the daughter of a former Lord Mayor. [More…]

• It is a criticism of the insanity of the human race that we could fly in 700 tons of food and double that amount of weapons in war time and yet say that it cannot be done and do not take the necessary steps when two million people are faced with starvation. [More…]

• 1 point out that at no stage in the lyric or in the visual presentation are the original Australians- my race- considered worthy of a mention. [More…]

• Can the Minister assure this chamber that that slight against my race- being considered not worthy of recognition as Australians- will be rectified immediately? [More…]

• At page 2 of the report the Commissioner notes that he has identified 30 extremist or racist groups dedicated to promoting race hatred and community division. [More…]

• Action has been taken to repeal laws that may have discriminated between people on grounds of race, colour, national or ethnic origin. [More…]

• Australia is fundamentally opposed to and condemns all propaganda and organisations which are based on or profess ideas or theories of the superiority of one race or group of persons of one colour or ethnic origin, or which attempt to justify or promote racial hatred and discrimination in any form. [More…]

• Someone commented to me the other day that the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen) had had a bad month: His new planes were falling out of the sky, his submarines would not submerge, the radar and the Skyhawks had tumbled off the Melbourne, his race horses could not win and the lizards he backed at Cunnamulla had got the message from the Government and were running around in circles. [More…]

• We are dealing with a group of people who over the centuries in which we have been here have shown themselves to be very patient, very courteous and very retiring people, people who are not aggressive by nature, people who are very co-operative and people who find it difficult to comprehend our system of values as we seek to rectify the effects of the great crimes we committed against their race over the 200 years in which we have been here. [More…]

• Such information is in the same category as the religion or the race of a person. [More…]

• They are issues about the survival of the human race as such. [More…]

• I said earlier that Stan Davey wanted the Aboriginal people to be able to stand as true Australians and to be a proud race of people in their own country. [More…]

• There are tensions which I think are very destructive of good race relations. [More…]

• Noting that, while millions starve, expenditure on the arms race is $1,000 million per day for the World, and $7m per day for Australia; and noting that the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has listed ‘peace and disarmament’ as a theme for the International Year of the Child; and further noting that a reduction in expenditure on arms could contribute in both developed and developing countries to the eradication of hunger and disease and to the provision of more adequate housing, education, health services, economic security and social welfare for all people: [More…]

• Has the principal concerned a business association with the Department’s Area Officer, including a common interest in race horses? [More…]

• I suppose it could be argued that the earth exists for the use of human beings regardless of race, colour or creed. [More…]

• Senator Davidson made general comments with regard to the Government’s view on the concept of the world being for the use of all people, regardless of their race, colour or creed. [More…]

• Therefore, we have a race without a dress or a language. [More…]

• We have had reports from the Government that there is a desire in Australia generally to pursue a policy of non-discrimination in the admission of migrants, but this sort of legislation containing these sorts of charges discriminates on the grounds of the ability to speak English and, of necessity, on the grounds of race. [More…]

• Noting that, while millions starve, expenditure on the arms race is $1000 million per day for the World, and $7 million per day for Australia; [More…]

• Because today marks the start of Disarmament Week, it is appropriate for the Senate to consider again the effect of recent attempts to limit the arms race. [More…]

• One of the resolutions that it adopted was to invite states to carry out effective measures to expose the dangers of the arms race, to propagate the need for its cessation and to increase public understanding of the urgent tasks in the field of disarmament. [More…]

• In other words, the arms race in Europe will accelerate and all thought of a mutual reduction of forces will be ignored. [More…]

• Whatever the rights and wrongs of the particular issue, the circumstances demonstrate that unless the level of distrust between nations is lowered, even minor matters can lead to another outbreak in the arms race. [More…]

• I have already referred to the resolution of the 33rd session of the General Assembly which called for the dissemination of information and for the organisation of symposiums, meetings, conferences et cetera, to expose the danger of the arms race and to increase public understanding of the urgent tasks. [More…]

• compared to the risks of not disarming, the risks of sitting on your hands’, of drifting on with the arms race and the so-called balance of power. [More…]

• Like a juggernaut defying all attempts to control it, the arms race today continues with mounting speed and intensity. [More…]

• In the United States Senate, Senator Mark Hatfield said that SALT was another one of those escalating steps in the nuclear arms race which would stimulate production of new weapons. [More…]

• The United States and the Soviet Union would race to reach the maximum levels of nuclear weapons allowed under the Treaty, including missiles suitable for destroying the other nation’s offence. [More…]

• This threat would prompt the Soviets to take counter measures, escalating the arms race to still more dangerous levels. [More…]

• Something like $ 1 m is spent every minute on the arms race. [More…]

• In individual countries the percentage diversion is mostly in the 2 per cent to 8 per cent bracket, although in some cases there are expenditures ranging from one per cent to 30 per cent of the gross national product on the arms race. [More…]

• Let us consider the connection between the arms race and poverty. [More…]

• The arms race, with its economic cost and social and political effects, nationally and internationally, constitutes an important obstacle to effective progress in establishing a new international economic order. [More…]

• Resources now being absorbed by the arms race are scarce and are needed for socially constructive ends. [More…]

• This is quite apart from other economic problems the arms race causes. [More…]

• On several occasions it has been seen how the public, when adequately informed, can exercise a moderating influence on developments in the field of armaments, and fostering a genuine and widespread public concern about the dangers of the arms race may be one of the most important ways of giving a new momentum to efforts towards disarmament. [More…]

• Let me sustain that argument in this way: The arms race is fundamentally inflationary. [More…]

• It is patently obvious that what is happening in this respect is not in the interests of the human race and its survival. [More…]

• Noting that, while millions starve, expenditure on the arms race is $ 1 , 000m per day for the World, and $7m per day for Australia; and noting that the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has listed ‘peace and disarmament’ as a theme for the International Year of the Child; and further noting that a reduction in expenditure on arms could contribute in both developed and developing countries to the eradication of hunger and disease and to the provision of more adequate housing, education, health services, economic security and social welfare for all people: [More…]

• abroad by racial group; the percentage of respondents perceiving different problems as very important or important by country of origin; the long-run migration plans by country of origin and race; the indices of return for majorityminority groups by country of origin; and the index of return by sponsorship, scholarship, source of financial support, bound bond job guarantee student. [More…]

• The policy made a link with the future leaders of Asia and was inherently right in itself in the sense that tertiary education was made free from January 1974, regardless of race, and won Australia a great deal of goodwill. [More…]

• The propaganda attack on this country is for race bias. [More…]

• The participating States will respect human rights and fundamental freedoms including the freedom of thought, conscience, religion or belief, for all without distinction as to race, sex, language or religion. [More…]

• When one looks at the situation in New Zealand, one finds that the Race Relations Commissioner, Mr H. L. Dansey, is a Human Rights Commissioner. [More…]

• In New Zealand one man deals with race relations- a very important part of human rights in New Zealand- yet at the same time he is a commissioner. [More…]

• I pointed out that quite curiously there is such a difference between what we are proposing to do in Australia where Dr Grassby, the Commissioner for Community Relations, is not to be a member of the Human Rights Commission, and the position in New Zealand where the Race Relations Commmissioner, Mr H. L. Dansey, is of course a Human Rights Commissioner. [More…]

• This is what the Race Relations Committee in Townsville said in its telegram today: [More…]

• Previous article ‘The Real Story Behind WA’s Race Riots’ the Bulletin 9 October 1979 equally offensive. [More…]

• Deeply offended by tenor of the Bulletin’s articles 9 October, 13 November 1979 “The Real Story Behind Western Australia’s Race Riots’ and ‘A Happy Story About Aborigines’. [More…]

• One eminent jurist has advised the Commissioner that provisions of the Act, including certain prohibition provisions, cannot be supported by Commonwealth constitutional powers since they are not directed to people of a specific race. [More…]

• Those rights can be abrogated provided that such measures are not inconsistent with other obligations under international law and do not involve discrimination solely on the ground of race, colour, sex, language or social origin. [More…]

• Article 2, for instance, would commit us to ensuring that everyone enjoys the rights laid down without distinction of any kind, such as race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status. [More…]

• We can also agree, as has been said today and as was said last week, that human rights are indivisible and should be the same for men and women, black and white, child and adult, whatever one’s race, religion or social or national origin may be. [More…]

• They have, it claims, the right to affection, love and understanding; to adequate nutrition, medical care and free education; to full opportunity for play and recreation; to a name and nationality; to special care if handicapped; to be the first to receive relief in times of disaster; to learn to be a useful member of society; to develop individual abilities; to be brought up in a spirit of peace and universal brotherhood; and to enjoy all of those rights regardless of race, religion, colour, sex and national or social origin. [More…]

• The tenth suggested right is the right to enjoy all of the foregoing rights irrespective of race, religion, colour, creed and national or social origin. [More…]

• Article 55 of the Charter binds all members to the principle of equal rights, self-determination of peoples, human rights and fundamental freedoms for all without distinction as to race, religion, sex or language. [More…]

• As a number of honourable senators have said, that is an extraordinary anomaly, especially when one bears in mind that in New Zealand, where there is a Race Relations Conciliator, the Conciliator is one of the human rights commissioners. [More…]

• Nonetheless, Mr Dancey the Race Relations Conciliator, is a member of the Human Rights Commission there. [More…]

• As we are to have a situation in which race relations in Australia will be severely strained not only, as I have said, by the increasing education of the Aboriginal population but also by the increasing number of Vietnamese refugees and the increasing tensions in the employment situation in this country, the Commissioner for Community Relations ought to be one of the members of the Human Rights Commission, one among many and an equal among many. [More…]

• In addition, I now have an adopted child of mixed race. [More…]

• It happens because he is the only child at that school of a different colour, not so much because he is of a different race. [More…]

• There certainly are a vast number of different interest groups involved in the area in which this Commission will be concerned and not just in the area of discrimination on the grounds of sex, race, religion or handicaps. [More…]

• In Kampuchea we saw not only a devastated country but also a devastated race, a devastated civilisation. [More…]

• Whatever we can do as Australians, as very wealthy individuals in a very rich country, to alleviate the extraordinary suffering and devastation that that race and country have undergone we must do. [More…]

• There may have been some slightly bad engineering, but the point one has to realise is that nuclear engineering has some of the highest forms of technology that the human race has yet attained. [More…]

• If by reason of the race, colour or national or ethnic origin of that other person or of any relative or associate of that other person. [More…]