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

• Has his attention been drawn to the attacks made by the Leader of the Opposition on the integrity of the courts in New Guinea and alleging racial discrimination? [More…]

• Has he yet undertaken any steps to eliminate, as soon as possible, this racial discrimination; if so. [More…]

• General of the United Nations of her programme and activities undertaken during this International Year for Action to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (Hansard, 6th May 1971, page 2847); if so, what was the (a) date and (b) tenor of the information given. [More…]

• On what dates, at what level, by what means and with what results have there been discussion with the Queensland and Western Australian governments since 3rd May 1971 (Hansard, page 2418) on the State laws whose provisions do not satisfy the requirements of the 1965 International Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Racial Discrimination. [More…]

• Was the 1965 International Convention on the Elimination of alt forms of Racial Discrimination considered at the conference; if so, with what result. [More…]

• The Minister for Foreign Affairs will know that petitions are circulating in New Zealand calling on the government of New Zealand to act against Australian discrimination against New Zealand citizens of non-European and nonMaori racial origin and that yesterday notice was given in the New Zealand Parliament of a question critical of the Australian Government. [More…]

• I ask the Minister: What protests and representations has the Government received from the New Zealand Government regarding the continuing discrimination against New Zealand citizens of non-European and non-Maori racial origin in entry requirements by Australia? [More…]

• On what date or dates did he have discussions with the Prime Minister about further possible protest to the South African Government against its racial sporting policies as mentioned in the Prime Minister’s statement to the House on 9th September 1971 (Hansard, page 989). [More…]

• On what date or dates did he or the Prime Minister or any representatives of the Australian Government have discussions with any official or officials of the South African Embassy in relation to how that Embassy and the South African Government would react to a possible expression of protest by the Australian Government against the South African Government’s racial sporting policies. [More…]

• That the Government should take effective legislative and administrative action to counter racial prejudice and violence. [More…]

• Sponsored students nominated by the Government of Malaysia are classified as citizens of that country, and their nomination papers do not distinguish among them according to their racial descent. [More…]

• These are racial tensions - ethnic tensions - which go back for a long time. [More…]

• I refer him to a number of resolutions adopted by the General Assembly of the United Nations on 14 December 1972, dealing with decolonisation and racial discrimination, which Australia supported and voted for. [More…]

• The answer to the honourable member’s question is as follows: (1), (2), (5) and (6) The Government, since 2 December 1972, has not made available any funds to religious or other agencies, such as the United Nations, for the specific purpose of combatting racial discriminition in foreign countries. [More…]

• Has the Australian Government declined to receive information from South African naval intelligence because of the racial policies of South Africa? [More…]

• Applicants for exploration licences in the Northern Territory are not required to state their racial origin. [More…]

• I will not take up the time of the Committee for any period, because I know the Leader of the House (Mr Daly) wants to get on to the Racial Discrimination Bill. [More…]

• Existing sub-clause (3) provides that Part II of the Act which prohibits racial discrimination, shall not apply to distinctions, exclusions, restrictions or preferences between Australian citizens and persons who are not Australian citizens. [More…]

• The present Government opposes racial policies wherever they may be. [More…]

• However, I can say that in accordance with Queensland ‘s policy, Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders would be viewed no differently from any other Queenslander regardless of racial ancestry’. [More…]

• I told the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting on several occasions that the Australian Government considered racial discrimination and apartheid to be an offence to human dignity. [More…]

• Pursuant to section 46 of the Racial Discrimination Act 1975 I present the annual report of the Commissioner for Community Relations for the year ended 30 June 1977. [More…]

• Pursuant to section 46 of the Racial Discrimination Act 1975 I present the annual report of the Commissioner for Community Relations for the year ended 30 June 1978. [More…]

• The records of the Australian Electoral Office do not distinguish the racial origins of persons claiming enrolment; therefore it is not possible to determine which electors are Aboriginal and thereby calculate the statistics sought by the honourable member. [More…]

• At the 1976 Census, 36,638 persons describing themselves as of Chinese racial origin were resident in Australia. [More…]

• I am advised by the Australian Statistician that tabulations of 1976 Census data as currently planned up to September 1979 do not provide information on the numbers of persons of Chinese racial origin in individual electorates. [More…]

• -Pursuant to section 46 of the Racial Discrimination Act 1975 I present the report of the Commissioner for Community Relations 1979. [More…]

• If so, should the Commissioner for Community Relations investigate this matter to ensure that there is no discrimination on racial grounds? [More…]

• 1 ) Has the Commissioner for Community Relations who is a statutory officer appointed under the Racial Discrimination Act 1975, received financial assistance, either direct or indirect, by way of air fares and accommodation from any organisation or person to enable him to travel (a) within Australia or (b) overseas, in the performance of his duties. [More…]

• These resolutions do not contravene the Commonwealth’s anti-discrimination legislation (the Racial Discrimination Act 1975). [More…]

• Today the world seethes with racial unrest - in the United States, in parts of South East Asia, in sections of communities all over the world. [More…]

• There remain only two States in the world where racial superiority has been raised to a fine legislative art. [More…]

• While 1 concede that all members on the other side do not sympathise with the attitude of this particular group - and I commend the honourable member for Bradfield (Mr Turner) for his question to the Prime Minister on Tuesday - it seems to me that there is an attitude of racial superiority prevalent amongst some honourable members on the other side that is demonstrated in the Government policies toward South East Asia - in particular Vietnam - towards New Guinea with its paternalistic colonialism, its immigration policy and its inability to carry out a concerted attack on the question of Aboriginal advancement. [More…]

• there is no evidence that the Mataungan Association is against anything except the Multi-racial Council’. [More…]

• He found as follows: (i have) the very heavy duty of publicly announcing that it is my considered opinion that the Mufti-racial Council elections of early 1969 should have been cancelled. [More…]

• The situation in the Gazelle represents a fundamental breakdown in racial partnership. [More…]

• They range from the aged and needy in our great cities to the hungry people of India; from the orphans in Vietnam to the victims of racial discrimination. [More…]

• I asked whether his attention had been drawn to attacks made by the Leader of the Opposition on the integrity of the courts in New Guinea and alleged racial discrimination. [More…]

• At this moment the Leader of the Opposition rose to his feet and burst in, saying that the matters which I purported to state could not be authenticated, namely, that he had made attacks on the integrity of the courts and alleged racial discrimination. [More…]

• Then the Speaker asked me whether I could vouch for the accuracy of the report; I take it, as I had mentioned no report, he meant the report of an attack on the integrity of the courts in New Guinea alleging racial discrimination. [More…]

• So let us look closely, for instance, at the honourable member for Fremantle’s description, as a lie, of the charge that I had just made and which I swear to this House to be accurately based, namely, that the Leader of the Opposition had carried out an attack on the integrity of the courts in New Guinea by alleging racial discrimination. [More…]

• Was it legitimate criticism, this condemnation of this court for deciding questions on a racial (or other non-judicial) basis? [More…]

• Let me quote the Leader of the Opposition’s words describing how he carried out what is an undeniable attack on the integrity of the courts by alleging racial discrimination. [More…]

• In any situation, let alone one where racial tension has been inflamed to fever pitch by extremists, those words are a grave attack on the integrity of the courts on the basis of racial discrimination. [More…]

• Last Thursday the honourable member for Oxley (Mr Hayden) added his voice spontaneously to the charges of racial discrimination in the courts. [More…]

• This was a meeting of people with a reactionary programme running counter to specific recommendations of the United Nations Trusteeship Council, to the determinations of their own House of Assembly and the popularly elected council, the multi-racial council. [More…]

• And there is another way, the way of democratic and constructive method, of reason, education and responsibility, of the encouragement of racial, inter-racial and multiracial co-operation and of the denial of violence and force. [More…]

• The immigration policy for Papua and New Guinea was a long standing one based on the need to avoid the sort of problem which has arisen in other developing countries over the admission of alien racial groups. [More…]

• I do not think that Australia has the right to flood Papua and New Guinea with alien racial groups, but it is astonishing when it is applied to the appointment of two lecturers, or rather to the renewal of the appointment of one lecturer and the appointment of another. [More…]

• I have never known of any racial problem anywhere on the face of the earth that was caused by appointments to universities. [More…]

• There are a number of racial problems in emerging countries around the world. [More…]

• Look at all the more important, wide ranging matters concerning New Guinea; the fees for high schools put up this year; the wages - the lowest, it appears, in the Pacific or the Indian Ocean areas, 40% at the highest of those which are paid to Australians in the same job; and the decline of workers associations, in a country where nearly every employer is an Australian and nearly every employee a New Guinean, where accordingly every industrial dispute becomes a racial dispute. [More…]

• Further discussions took place this month with the States on the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination at the Standing Committee of Commonwealth and State Officers on Aboriginal Affairs. [More…]

• Is the Minister for External Affairs aware that the SecretaryGeneral of the United Nations, instructed by the General Assembly, has addressed letters to all member states requesting them to participate in activities for 1971 which the United Nations has designated International Year for Action to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination? [More…]

• It is true that in the recent General Assembly there was a resolution by the United Nations on co-operation to avoid racial discrimination. [More…]

• The foreign affairs decisions, even the commitment of troops, have depended on internal political considerations of the most cynical kind Fundamentally, the Liberal appeal is to fear, and one of its ingredients is racial fear. [More…]

• The best that can be achieved with this regime would be a period of instability and racial strife with no slackening of the North Vietnamese hold on their bases in Cambodia. [More…]

• The smaller countries will continue to have many problems - political instability, economic rivalry, territorial disputes and trouble from minorities and racial and sectarian groups. [More…]

• The average Australian man in the street, when asked what he thinks about South Africa, would probably say he had a vague idea that apartheid in South Africa meant that the blacks were not paid quite as well as the whites, that they had to use separate public facilities and that they could not play in multi-racial sporting teams. [More…]

• The label on the package is ‘Apartheid’, meaning separate development, but the contents and the reality are racial dicrimination, exploitation and degradation. [More…]

• The whole structure of South African society is based upon discrimination between the different racial groups. [More…]

• The essence of government policy is the separation of the people of different racial origins and the elimination, as far as possible, of contact between them. [More…]

• Racial classification was officially introduced in 1950 with the Population [More…]

• Having classified people into racial groups they then set about separating them. [More…]

• The Prohibition of Improper Interference Bill, published by the Government in September 1966 will prohibit, members of one racial group from taking part in the activities of political parties or organisation of another racial group. [More…]

• Having divided, separated, categorised and restricted the movement of and between the various racial groups, how do they shut them up? [More…]

• Under these Acts, unions are separated on racial lines but the African unions are not recognised by law and they are denied the right to strike under the Bantu Labour (Settlement of Disputes) Act 1953. [More…]

• The result of its policy of prolongation has been that the whole of Indo-China is now engulfed in civil and racial war. [More…]

• There is no recorded breakdown into racial groups of adult students attending other courses conducted by the Department of Education but it is estimated that of the remainder 80 are Papuans and New Guineans and 396 are expatriate students. [More…]

• What was the date and text of the United Nations General Assembly resolution on racial discrimination which he assured me on 7 April (Hansard, page 736) the Government would do all it could to implement. [More…]

• I am quite positive that the Australian Government has not applied racial tests, as was suggested by the honourable member. [More…]

• The United States has huge racial problems and is faced with the proximity of Cuba. [More…]

• The distinctive features of the patterns of unrest could be characterised as, firstly, the influence of communications media in creating a generation consciousness; secondly, a crisis of legitimacy and a breakdown in the authority of any institution with which the youth generation disagreed; and thirdly, racial injustices and poverty. [More…]

• Only by open honest discussion at these conferences can we understand the problems of member countries be they racial, be they economic or be they political. [More…]

• Racial discrimination is no more evident in those countries than in most others. [More…]

• Racial tension is not confined solely to the problems of black people and white people. [More…]

• I doubt whether there is a country in the world - black, white or Asian - where racial discrimisation is non-existent. [More…]

• The Communists are shrewd enough to recognise the appeal of racial discrimination as an emotional catch-cry. [More…]

• They are not victims of racial discrimination. [More…]

• At least in Australia the Minister for Social Services (Mr Wentworth), who is at the table, is doing his best to reverse the tendency of majority rule to cause racial suppression in this country. [More…]

• The result of its policy of prolongation has been that the whole of IndoChina is now engulfed in civil and racial war. [More…]

• Measures which are based on racial qualification are divisive in any community. [More…]

• It is important for Australia’s future that we work towards minimising race consciousness and avoid steps which tend to emphasise divisions on a racial basis. [More…]

• I want to make it clear that there are no racial aspects in this. [More…]

• If his insulting attacks upon countries such as South Africa mean racial discrimination, and if his foreign policy will be to insult countries in which he believes racial discrimination exists, he will suddenly run out of countries and he will be able to dispense altogether with the Department of External Affairs. [More…]

• In the United States there were race riots at Watts and Newark, racial murders, the burning of towns and portions of towns, massive civil disobedience and’ civil rights riots in Chicago at the Democratic Convention. [More…]

• In a country that has many social, racial and economic problems, they have had a common standard and a common set of values to which these problems could be referred and against which they could be solved. [More…]

• I believe that in many respects we have adopted what might be called an ‘attitude of unconscious racial superiority’. [More…]

• But our restricted immigration policy is not based on any theory of racial superiority. [More…]

• Australia’s immigration policy is directed to maintaining a predominantly homogeneous population, mainly because we would not like to see Australia become the breeding ground of racial prejudice and hatred such as we are witnessing in America and England today. [More…]

• If we can adapt our resources to bringing in people who are readily able to be assimilated, then we may well avoid the problems of racial hatred, and maintain our goal of an homogeneous population. [More…]

• What urgent financial and physical policies does the Minister intend to apply to overcome these fairly serious defects especially as they are capable of interpretation as evidence of racial disadvantage and even racial discrimination against a minority in our society? [More…]

• In regard to the last part of his question may I say that I deplore racial discrimination in Australia. [More…]

• I deplore any attempts to exploit the feeling that there might be racial discrimination. [More…]

• Is he aware also that successive Ministers for Immigration have consistently, and quite rightly in my view, justified and supported the policy on moral, social and economic grounds evidently because of their belief that a government has a moral obligation to protect its own people particularly from racial tensions and friction? [More…]

• Will the Prime Minister also state what is immoral about a policy that admits almost 10,000 non-Europeans and people of mixed descent yearly, gives discretionary power to the Minister, has kept Australia’ free from racial hatreds and is based on the same principles as the immigration policies of practically every nation in the world? [More…]

• But “the honourable member has not concluded what I said, because I then went on to point out that in every country in the world in which there are significant groups of different racial origin there are significant racial tensions and they grow the greater the groups are, and this is true not only in countries such as the United States and Great Britain where we have seen it but in countries such as Malaya where Chinese-Malayan tensions are great, in Indonesia, in countries such as Kenya where they have tension with East Africans. [More…]

• I think that the 2 things are entirely different though, of course, as we will have noticed with great regret in this nation, even though people may be of the same colour they do have, when they are racial minorities of significance, tensions which can lead to the kind of actions which have recently been taking place in Canada. [More…]

• The Government knows, or should know, that it has the expertise to handle personal problems, whether they are racial, such as some Aboriginal problems are social disadvantages, with which Aboriginals are afflicted, or economic disabilities, with which they are also afflicted. [More…]

• I hope that in the near future - and when we become the government - we will take up the point that the honourable member for Grey (Mr Wallis) mentioned about racial discrimination. [More…]

• I should like to see racial discrimination illegal in Australia. [More…]

• Previous generations solved the problem of racial conflict in Australia by trying physically to exterminate the Aboriginals. [More…]

• We must all strive to avoid racial conflict. [More…]

• Formally proclaim 1971 to be the International Year for Action to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination and observe it as such. [More…]

• Issue, during the Year, special messages affirming this country’s faith in the dignity and worth of the human person and its dedication to the implementation of the United Nations Declaration on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination. [More…]

• Take steps to arrange a special meeting of the Parliament on 21st March 1971, the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination. [More…]

• Sign and ratify the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial discrimination. [More…]

• Give moral and material assistance to peoples struggling against alt forms of racial discrimination. [More…]

• Promote the widest and most intensive possible dissemination of United Nations Declaration on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination and the International Convention on the elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination. [More…]

• Ratify or accede to, if it has not yet done so, other conventions having a bearing upon the elimination of racial discrimination, including the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, the Slavery Convention of 1956 on the Abolition of Slavery, the Slave Trade, and Institutions and Practices Similar to Slavery, the UNESCO Convention against Discrimination in Education, the ILO Convention of 1958 concerning Discrimination in respect of Employment and Occupation, the International Covenants on Human Rights, and the Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. [More…]

• Ensure that the curricula of schools under its control and of other educational institutions include teaching of the scientific facts about race, that invidious distinctions about peoples are not made in textbooks and in classrooms, that all material susceptible of leading to racial discrimination and prejudice is eliminated from textbooks and that instructors are taught the value of principles of equality and dignity of all men. [More…]

• I wish to assure the honourable member that careful consideration is being given to a suitable programme to observe the year 1971 in Australia as International Year for Action to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination. [More…]

• Australia shares the concern of the United Nations at manifestations of racial discrimination and intolerance and has frequently made this clear. [More…]

• It is this concern which led us in the United Nations General Assembly to vote in support of the resolution designating 1971 as International Year for Action to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination. [More…]

• Australia has signed the International Convention on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination and the question of its ratification is under consideration. [More…]

• In this regard the honourable member may be interested to know that the United Nations Association of Australia, along with other interested non-governmental associations has set up a National Committee to plan the effective observance of the year, named the Australian Committee to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination. [More…]

• While its programme is not yet finalised, I understand that it will include the dissemination of information about the relevant United Nations documents dealing with racial discrimination. [More…]

• It certainly does not, although it does mean an attitude of prudent caution, taking account not only of our own experience but also of the experience of other countries in accepting for permanent settlement large numbers of peoples with extremely different racial origins, backgrounds and attitudes. [More…]

• I was disappointed that at the conference to which I referred earlier there were people who talked about racial equality, who opposed our so-called white Australia policy and who encouraged immigration on a non racial basis. [More…]

• It is selective, it is true: but it is selective because we wish to preserve a homogeneous population and because we have deliberately set out not to create a multi-racial society. [More…]

• There is significant racial discontent in that country, which is what I am sure we jointly seek to avoid in this country. [More…]

• It immediately broke down any racial problems or prejudice because they were able to talk in the common language of their new country. [More…]

• I agree with him when he says that we are the victims of a great many racial myths. [More…]

• It is a matter of assisting them to unburden themselves of their ignorance through formal education; it is also a matter of encouraging them to consolidate the pride which they have in their racial origins. [More…]

• Not one referred to ‘– ‘; no policeman or magistrate was upset by the racial insult and no one, as they went through the shame of writing out the four-letter word or inviting the v/omen in the court to retire if they wished, seemed to have imagined that there was some horrendous reversal of priorities in what they were doing. [More…]

• However, my critics seem to be bent on twisting my intentions as if I would extend welfare as a kind of Nazi racial dictatorship. [More…]

• Another problem that has been evident is that the incidence of crime is very high in inner urban areas, especially among disadvantaged racial and national groups. [More…]

• international year against racial discrimination. [More…]

• Formally proclaim 1971 to be the International Year for Action to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination and observe it as such; [More…]

• Issue, during the Year, in the name of Heads of Suites or Governments, special messages reaffirming their faith in the dignity and worth of the human person and their dedication io the implementation of the United Nations Declaration on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination: [More…]

• Examine the possibility of holding a special meeting of their Parliament or National Assembly, or other appropriate body, on 21 March 1971, the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination: [More…]

• Sign and ratify the International Convention on the Elimination of- All Forms of Racial Dis crimination, if they have not done so, and consider recognizing the right of communication provided for in article 14 thereof; [More…]

• Undertake all necessary measures in order to implement fully the principles contained in the United Nations Declaration on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, and in particular to undertake a review of their national legislation against the standards of the Declaration and to enact such laws and take any other measures in the field of legislation as may be necessary and appropriate for giving effect to the provisions of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination if the Stale concerned is a party to the Convention; [More…]

• assistance to peoples struggling against all forms of racial discrimination; [More…]

• Promote the widest and most intensive possible dissemination of the United Nations Declaration on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination and the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination; [More…]

• racial discrimination, including the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, the Slavery Convention of 1926 as amended, the Supplementary Convention of 1956 on the Abolition of Slavery, the Slave Trade, and Institutions and Practices Similar to Slavery, the. [More…]

• Ensure that the curricula of their schools and of other educational institutions include teaching of the scientific facts about race, that invidious distinctions about peoples are not made in textbooks and in classrooms, and that all material susceptible of leading to racial discrimination and prejudice be eliminated from textbooks; ensure teaching the instructors the value of principles of equality ‘ and dignity of all men; [More…]

• If this were not so - in other words, if we were to exercise racial discrimination and say that young men who are training for a Naval career should not have available to them experience in our senior ship - we would lay ourselves open to an entirely different line of criticism. [More…]

• It does not appear to know that millions of Vietnamese have struggled for a century and a quarter to get rid of foreign rule, racial arrogance” and international exploitation. [More…]

• The result is racial bigotry, military power and international exploitation - and that is the side we are on. [More…]

• He was convicted of the crime of saying he was going to organise a mass street parade against racial segregation. [More…]

• Whether it be a meeting of a political, religious, racial, unionist or pensioner group, the same distinct dangers exist. [More…]

• If the Government cannot realise that it is importing the violence and the discord of racial suppression from South Africa into Australia then it simply does not know what politics is about. [More…]

• That is the very thing that the visit of these racial teams to Australia is going to do. [More…]

• Every Government member should know that there will be demonstrations against this visit because the visit is an affront to people who object to apartheid and to the whole odour of the racial policies of South Africa in which this Government is only too willing to enmesh Australia. [More…]

• Every day the story of their plight is being told, from the aged and needy in our great cities to the hungry people of India, from the orphans in East Pakistan - and there are some 27,000 known orphans from the cyclone- to the victims of racial discrimination. [More…]

• Throughout last year’s General Assembly Australia refused to support resolutions on colonial and racial issues which were supported by all the countries in South East Asia and round the Indian Ocean. [More…]

• In 1964 South Africa was expelled and for the following Games in 1968 South Africa offered to send a multiracial team. [More…]

• Nevertheless, the offer by the Government to allow a multi-racial team to be selected was a significant breakthrough. [More…]

• MCC tours of South Africa have been called off until such time as cricket in South Africa is multi-racial. [More…]

• The West Indies, India and Pakistan do not play against South Africa because of South Africa’s racial policies. [More…]

• This brings us to the present situation that has culminated in the South African Cricket Association’s request for two coloured players to be included in the team, rejection by the Government of multiracial touring teams and the subsequent dramatic walk-off by white South African cricketers. [More…]

• The cricketers have completely overlooked the day to day change and current climate in South Africa and that firm support for the stand taken by the South African Cricket Association and their cricketers may be just the sort of pressure that needs to be exerted to end racial discrimination in cricket and permit South Africa to tour not only Australia but the rest of the cricketing nations of the world. [More…]

• I just think that racial discrimination as practised by South Africa is worse. [More…]

• He then makes the point that the question of racial discrimination is a result of deliberate Government policy. [More…]

• The whole point about the campaign against racialism in sport is that if South Africans could play sport across racial lines, they would soon discover a common humanity, and notions of racial superiority, or at least of racial differences as being something all-important, would crumble. [More…]

• Firstly, it would confront all Australians, and especially those concerned with the administration of sport, with the question of our tacit acceptance of racial discrimination and political interference in sport. [More…]

• And as Australians are not altogether blameless in the matter of racialism, it could challenge us to face up to our own shortcomings. [More…]

• Nothing could be better calculated to bring them to question their racial policies: And there is no greater service one could render the white community in South Africa than this. [More…]

• In the States, the statistics are based a great deal on conjecture because the necessary documents do not always contain information as to racial origin. [More…]

• Can the policy being followed lead to further charges of racial discrimination? [More…]

• By comparison, the migrant or Aboriginal child faces the massive obstacles of differences between his national and racial cultures and the culture of the white Australian school. [More…]

• On what dates, at what level, by what means and with what results have there been discussions with the Queensland and Western Australian Governments on the laws of their States which do not satisfy the requirements of the 1965 International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (Hansard, 6th May 1970, page 1961 and 23rd September 1970, page 1583). [More…]

• Discussions about legislation in Queensland and Western Australia have dealt specifically with provisions which discriminate against Aboriginal Australians rather than generally with laws which do not satisfy the requirements of the 1965 International Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Racial Discrimination. [More…]

• The stated reasons clearly indicated that the applicant’s expatriate racial status was the major determining factor. [More…]

• Furthermore, we have to face the situation posed by the 1965 International Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Racial Discrimination. [More…]

• It appears that we will not be able to carry out our obligations in 1971 which the United Nations General Assembly has designated as International Year for Action to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination. [More…]

• And, as I have stated already, there was the 1965 International Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Racial Discrimination and the group of 1966 international convenants on human rights. [More…]

• If so, will he either (a) disclose that evidence to those who have objected to his tolerance of the South African foreign policy to choose international sporting teams exclusively from a racial minority or (b) review his public comparison of the Soviet and South African regimes in this connection. [More…]

• What was the (a) date and (b) tenor of the information which Australia has given to the Secretary-General of the United Nations on the programmes and activities undertaken during 1971, which the 1970 General Assembly designated as International Year for Action to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination. [More…]

• What action has been taken on the Secretary-General’s suggestion that Australia should celebrate the Year by ratifying the International Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Racial Discrimination, 1966. [More…]

• Racial tensions between the Indo Chinese peoples have prevented effective cooperation against the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia. [More…]

• I have been told that I am a racialist. [More…]

• I have racial pride, but so has every man, whatever the colour of his skin - yellow, black, brown or white. [More…]

• I have no brief or time for the primitive name-calling of one group by another whether on racial, religious or colour grounds which is still indulged in by the xenophobic few in our country. [More…]

• In the past 20 years racial name-calling in Australia has been reduced and the bigots have been forced beneath the national floor boards. [More…]

• Unfortunately the Government has simply paid lip service to conventional criticism of racialism while putting the full force of its executive arms at the disposal of the ‘white man’s club’. [More…]

• It is undeniable that we are entering a difficult period in racial relations with the outside world. [More…]

• But the necessary act of walking a tightrope between our past and our future will simply be rendered impossible if we attempt to play footsie with the most detested and oppressive of racial regimes at the same time. [More…]

• It is time that all the leaders in South East Asia - Lee Kuan Yew, President Marcos and all the other leaders in Asia - spoke out publicly and made it perfectly clear what they think of Australia and our entertainment of teams that are selected on a racial basis. [More…]

• To my recollection we have never fought in this country on the question of racial prejudice. [More…]

• I hope to God I will never live to see the day when racial prejudice exists. [More…]

• It is so easy to exploit racial prejudice, particularly in times such as the present when economic pressures exist. [More…]

• Has the attention of the Minister for External Territories been drawn to what was considered to be a strong attack last week by Mr Johnson, the Administrator of Papua New Guinea, on racial discrimination in European dominated clubs in Papua New Guinea? [More…]

• Will the Minister inform Mr Johnson that he is not expressing the policy of this Government and draw his attention to the fact that, amongst others, the Minister for Education and Science, the Minister for Defence, the Minister for the Army, the present Prime Minister and the previous Prime Minister are all prominent members of the Melbourne Club which also practises racial discrimination? [More…]

• Has be been approached by the State Premiers for reimbursement of several million dollars spent to ensure the success of the recent Springboks’ tour and for payment of the anticipated expenses if a South African cricket team, selected by political decree on racial and not sporting criteria, is allowed to come to Australia. [More…]

• I wanted to make a brief reference to the fact that in this year, the year designated by the United Nations to combat racism and racial discrimination, the Government has done virtually nothing through our school system to try to eliminate one of the great blights upon our society- - racism. [More…]

• I mean prejudice of all kinds - religious, national and racial prejudice. [More…]

• He said, in effect, that by all means there should be Western ideas for Western children but that we should not try to impose on his people, who are of a different racial origin and of a different culture, our Western civilisation. [More…]

• However, unfortunately my impression of the greatest change was the dramatic growth in racialism and I left the Territory very concerned about Australia’s future relations with it, as I believe it is of paramount importance, not only to this generation but also to the future generations of Australians that a sound and friendly relationship and understanding of the problems of the people of Papua New Guinea and Australia should be forged. [More…]

• I am sorry to say that my impression is that a great deal of the blame for the growth of racialism rests with the attitudes of the great majority of the Europeans in the country, particularly those in commerce and industry, who have only their own self-gain in mind and who are not concerned with the problems of the indigenous people or with Australia’s relationship with them in the future. [More…]

• But I believe that at least 75 per cent - to quote some old-time Australians who have been there for many years and who have made it their life’s work to help to develop the country- of the Australians there are not a good advertisement for our country and it is a pity that some way has not been found to cull them out and send them back to Australia in an endeavour to reduce the growing racial tensions. [More…]

• He said that he went up there recently for the first time in 8 years and the only change he noticed was a change in the racial problem. [More…]

• As I announced in a statement on 22nd March 1971 to mark the International Year for Action to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination, the Commonwealth made a specific grant of$12,000to assist the Australian Committee to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination with its programme in connection with the Year. [More…]

• He said that he went up there- referring to New Guinea - recently for the first time in 8 years and the only change he noticed was a change in the racial problem. [More…]

• I want to make it quite clear that a change in the racial problem was one of the changes I saw, and it was one of the greatest changes. [More…]

• Although migrants comprised 18.3 per cent of Australia’s total population, and 25.3 per cent of the total work force in 1966 - and these proportions are most probably higher today - so far we have avoided any major clashes, the build up of ethnic groups in ghettoes or the development of racial disharmony and tensions in this country. [More…]

• I do not wish to get into an argument with Mr Dunstan, but 1 am firmly opposed to a multiracial society. [More…]

• Labor is for the preservation of a homogeneous society free from racial hatreds. [More…]

• Australia can no longer afford to be’ lumped with South Africa as a country basing its policy on racial discrimination. [More…]

• That fear is based on the knowledge that there are underlying racial and other tensions in those countries. [More…]

• The honourable member for Adelaide (Mr Hurford) lamented the fact that Australia has troops stationed in Malaysia and Singapore and he referred in particular to racial tensions which may erupt into civil war within these 2 countries and other Asian countries. [More…]

• This year is the International Year against Racial Discrimination. [More…]

• Above all, many of the civil and industrial disputes in our new partner in the Commonwealth will have racial overtones. [More…]

• There are people who perhaps provoke racial division. [More…]

• The Communist Party of Australia last year in the Tribune’ forecast, when it referred to a mass anti-racist movement attacking apartheid and racial discrimination in both South Africa and Australia as being vital in the coming months, that this movement would be built up on militant mass action and would spread to support for the Gurindji and [More…]

• It has been pointed out to me that some of those who talk most about racism seem bent on creating racial conflict where none existed. [More…]

• However, as I shall indicate later, the evidence also points clearly to the fact that on 6th April last year he also misled Parliament, when he stated that he had already taken action by communicating the Australian people’s feelings on the racial selection of a sporting team to the South African Government. [More…]

• Australian people’s feelings on the racial bias in the selection of sporting teams. [More…]

• We as a Government will go along with it in public because politics demand that we do so, but we are not really disturbed at your racial policies, and we will not criticise you’. [More…]

• It bears also on the important question of the attitudes of the Prime Minister and his Government to racial relations in South Africa. [More…]

• But the most surprising thing, which reflects upon the pathological tendencies of the Prime Minister in matters like this where veracity is concerned, is that only a few weeks later he was served up a question by the honourable member for Chisholm who asked whether he would take action about the racial policies in the selection of sporting teams. [More…]

• He wrote a letter saying that the Labor Party would continue to struggle against racial discrimination and was firmly committed to oppose any sports team sent to Australia, etc. [More…]

• On behalf of New South Wales, however, it is strongly asserted that, as presently structured, the Sydney metropolis is a social phenomenon which is beyond human scale, that, while it has as yet been spared the consequences of serious racial segregation, it nevertheless manifests a massive and increasing trend towards socio-income segregation; and that the higher order facilities of a big city (including central city job opportunities) are not in practice accessible to or utilised by its inhabitants to an extent commensurate with their apparent availability. [More…]

• Even such matters as birth control and racial discrimination must surely be tied up in any education system. [More…]

• When I say this I refer to the hungry people of Bangla Desh and India, the victims of racial discrimination, and the orphans of the wars in Vietnam and Bangla Desh. [More…]

• Firstly, it is a serious matter to make a racial or anti-Semitic statement in a multi-racial community such as Singapore as a senior supporter of the Government and indeed as a senior member of the Parliament. [More…]

• What we want to see is diplomatic initiatives based upon the fact that Australia can be a mutual and friendly partner with any country no matter what its government and no matter what its racial structure. [More…]

• I ask: Whatever be the truth of these allegations, will the right honourable gentleman assure the House that neither he nor any member who sits behind him on the Government benches would ever wish it to be thought that he or any of them would endorse, or would wish to be associated with, an expression of anti-Semitic sentiment or any sentiment based on religious or racial grounds made by any member of the Government parties, if it were made? [More…]

• The section has been inoperative for some time and, in accordance with the Government’s policy of eliminating any potential source of racial discrimination, is being repealed. [More…]

• On 23rd March - 4 weeks ago - this House unanimously carried a resolution against racial prejudice. [More…]

• This motion states: That the Government should take effective legislative and administrative action to counter racial prejudice and violence. [More…]

• This motion recognises that racial prejudice and violence cannot be eliminated simply by passing a law or by some administrative act. [More…]

• At least it calls on the Government to take action to counter racial prejudice and violence. [More…]

• Indeed, it is also one of the countries which is freest from racial prejudice. [More…]

• Racial prejudice is something that is deep in the heart of private individuals and is not readily controllable by legislative or administrative act. [More…]

• I do not say there is no prejudice but I do say that Australia is one of the countries freest from racial prejudice. [More…]

• I pass now to the question of racial discrimination. [More…]

• For our part, the Government is well aware of the resentment and frustration felt by the great majority of independent African countries, which constitute almost onethird of the United Nations membership, about the continued application of policies of racial discrimination and minority rule in southern Africa. [More…]

• It is important, therefore, that we should emphasise that the policies of apartheid, racial discrimination and limited franchise being followed by certain governments in southern Africa find no support in Australia. [More…]

• On the contrary, the Government’s policy is one of promoting an integrated Australian society looking towards political and racial equality for all, of supporting selfdetermination on the basis of majority rule, say for the people of Papua New Guinea, and of co-operating with the United Nations towards that end. [More…]

• In the motion before the House the Australian Labor Party has chosen to level the charge of racial prejudice and racism against this Government and this side of the House. [More…]

• This charge of racial prejudice in the present climate of world opinion, and very properly so, is a most grievous one to lay on any government or on any nation. [More…]

• Whether true or false, every charge of racial prejudice or racism damages the country against which it is made. [More…]

• Australia has been damaged in the past by some who, for their own particular purposes, have laid against us recklessly, carelessly and without caring whether it be true or false the charge of racism and racial prejudice, and a lot of them are on the Opposition side of the House. [More…]

• Racial prejudice, racism, is an ugly phrase which describes an ugly aspect of human relationships. [More…]

• Charges of racial prejudice must be examined carefully, responsibly and dispassionately. [More…]

• Charges of racial prejudice cannot be sustained against Australia. [More…]

• Such an attitude is not racist, since it is based not on racial bigotry or superiority, [More…]

• In fact, the Government’s policies have been deliberately aimed at preventing the emergence of those conditions under which racial prejudice flourishes. [More…]

• It is significant that critics can point only to isolated instances of alleged racial prejudice in Australia. [More…]

• By some strange alchemy of words, Australia’s responsible and effective policy of avoiding the creation of circumstances which could lead to racial prejudice is represented as racial prejudice. [More…]

• We are left by the critics - and many of them are opposite - with the paradox that only by taking action which could lead to racial prejudice could we avoid charges of racial prejudice. [More…]

• Who has moved, by appearing to abandon traditional policies, to create doubts in the minds of the Australian public that the conditions in which racial prejudice could flourish might be created? [More…]

• Who jeers at the right honourable member for Melbourne (Mr Calwell) every time he stands firm for policies which will not create conditions in which racial prejudice will flourish? [More…]

• It is not we - ‘the people who are being accused by this motion - who are taking the risk that by a conscious act of policy or a series of administrative acts the conditions will be created in which racial prejudice will grow and flourish. [More…]

• To retreat from our present policies, as the Labor Party proposes that we do, would be to lend credence to charges of racial prejudice. [More…]

• I said earlier that, whether true or false, every charge of racial prejudice damages the country against which it is made. [More…]

• Firstly, this morning the Opposition moved a motion in respect of what it called racial prejudice within Australia. [More…]

• Did he discuss with the Prime Minister a further possible protest to the South African Government against its racial sporting policies as mentioned by the Prime Minister on 9th September 1971 (Hansard, page 989)? [More…]

• 3669 which I placed on the Notice Paper on 17th August 1971, that the 1965 International Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Racial Discrimination was briefly discussed at meetings of Commonwealth and State officials and Ministers in Cairns in April 1971. [More…]

• It seems to be in conflict with a letter that you, Mr Speaker, wrote to me two or three weeks ago after I had drawn your attention to the fact that some material from a person called Russell in Queensland which had been circulated through the House attendants, in my opinion contained some objectionable racial propaganda. [More…]

• I wondered at the contrast between your standard in relation to racial propaganda from Mr Russell and your standard on some reference to sex in relation to Germaine Greer. [More…]

• Australia’s racial policies already stick in the throats of Asian nations, and with the SEATO conference opening in Canberra next month the Government apparently felt that the embassy’s continued presence (within sight of the conference hall) could bring even worse problems. [More…]

• Of course, the situation is aggravated where the depressed are a different racial group, such as negroes or Puerto Ricans, subject to discrimination, but it is bad without that. [More…]

• Maybe I am easily depressed but few things upset me more than the hypocritical patio intellectuals who lecture us on racial equality. [More…]

• If they believe in racial equality, then why not compare them with Aryan, northern European professional and business people? [More…]

• that if they want to continue to live iri a country with one of the highest standards of living in the world, in a country which is free from racial strife, in a country which provides incentives for those who are prepared to work and in a country which offers security to its citizens, they can ensure this by working for and voting for the return of this Liberal-Country Party Government which has served them so well over the past 23 years. [More…]

• Australia’s migration policy has aimed at maintaining a homogeneous population to avoid the racial problems which are so apparent, and so explosive, in certain other countries, yet at the same time we have allowed into our country, approximately 9,000 non-Europeans per annum, a figure which it is felt Australia can readily absorb without undue strain. [More…]

• ls he able to say whether the legislation of Queensland and Western Australia yet satisfies the requirements of the 1965 International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (Hansard, 13th September 1971, page 1220). [More…]

• On what date and in what terms did Australia give the information to the Secretary-General of the United Nations on the programmes and activities undertaken during 1971, which the 1970 General Assembly designated as International Year for action to combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (Hansard, 13th September 1971, page 1220). [More…]

• However, the legislation still does not fully satisfy the requirements of the 1965 International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination. [More…]

• The Leader of the Opposition has joined with other men of goodwill in this country in trying to spread tolerance and understanding and to remove racial prejudice but that kind of remark will inflame prejudice in this country. [More…]

• It just happens that this matter has no racial content. [More…]

• That the Government should take effective legislative and administrative action to counter racial prejudice and violence. [More…]

• The honourable member is well aware of the racial hatreds which date back to the First World War, which persisted through the Second World War and the aftermath of that war, and which still exist amongst the people in that area. [More…]

• This is a humane policy aimed at avoiding racial tensions such as we have seen develop in other countries, countries which have adopted a laissezfaire attitude to migration - a policy which is being advocated by the Leader of the Opposition at the present time. [More…]

• Although this legislation applies to a relatively small number of persons, Mr Speaker, as approximately 760 Torres Strait Islanders and 40 mainland Aborigi nals served during World War II in the Torres Strait Light Infantry Forces, it is nevertheless important as another move in the Federal Government’s avowed intention to remove the last remnants of racial discrimination from the statute books. [More…]

• The significance of the States in this situation is a significance which occurs in every federal system which has to enter into international negotiations, whether it be for a convention against racial discrimination, an International Labour Organisation convention or any other convention. [More…]

• Queensland has not yet brought its laws into conformity with the requirements of the 1965 International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination. [More…]

• The United Nations General Assembly resolved that 1968 should be the International Year on Human Rights, and 1971 should be the International Year for Action to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination. [More…]

• I do not agree with the racial policies of South Africa but at least it has not been dilatory about the signing of conventions. [More…]

• The Opposition endorses these Bills which remove the last vestiges of discrimination on racial grounds from the operation of the legislation giving benefits to exservicemen. [More…]

• In effect this clause declares that the repatriation laws are to apply without regard to racial differences to Torres Strait veterans of the armed forces. [More…]

• As I said at the outset - I suppose one can always learn something new in this Parliament - I had no knowledge of the discrimination that applied in relation to those from this area served in the armed forces during the Second World War, But at least the Minister for Repatriation (Mr Holten) and the Government have now accepted that there should not be any racial discrimination and the Bill which we now have before us provides for this. [More…]

• It is not racial discrimination but discrimination in relation to what is availale to ex-servicemen in the form of an appeal and what is available to ex-seamen in the form of an appeal. [More…]

• 107 - Indigenous and Tribal Populations, 1957 and No, 111 - Discrimination (Employment and Occupation), 1958 and the 1965 International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, if so, when and with what result [More…]

• The Aboriginal Affairs Council has discussed at recent annual meetings such matters as policies on land for Aborigines, discriminatory legislation and legislation prohibiting discrimination on racial grounds, which are relevant to, for example, the International Labour Organisation Convention No. [More…]

• 107, Indigenous and Tribal Populations 1957, and the 1965 International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination. [More…]

• Did Australia advise the Secretary-General of the United Nations on 27th October 1971, in the course of the International Year for Action to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination, that active consideration was being given by the Commonwealth and State Governments to the removal of the few remaining elements of legislation which may not be compatible with the provisions of the 1965 International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination. [More…]

• My Government intends to ratify the 1965 International Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Racial Discrimination and other international agreements dealing with human rights. [More…]

• The Bill which I now introduce to the House is designed to make changes to the Migration Act which are necessary as part of the Government’s policy to remove all forms of racial discrimination. [More…]

• With a view to ratification of the International Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Racial Discrimination it is necessary that this legislative provision, which is discriminatory on racial grounds, be removed. [More…]

• The action of the Government in making the repeal of these discriminatory provisions one of its first legislative acts is a token of our determination to banish racial discrimination within our community and is also a step towards building on equal terms the family of the nation in citizenship. [More…]

• It will also at long last enable us to ratify the International Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Racial Discrimination. [More…]

• It is impossible for any force on the ground not to become involved in internal disorders or in racial disputes in countries such as Malaysia and Singapore. [More…]

• They try to divide them on racial grounds and religious grounds, and there are many people trying to foment unnecessary trouble between employers and employees. [More…]

• The key to sustaining their idealism is more direct and effective action on the problems about which young people are concerned: the problems of the cities, of the environment, of racial injustice, of irrelevant and outmoded teachings, of overpopulation, of poverty, of war. [More…]

• Racial discrimination in all its forms is to be deplored. [More…]

• There is no doubt that education can play a significant part in contributing towards a better understanding of the problems facing Aborigines in our society and effectively assisting in the changing of attitudes which are discriminatory on racial grounds. [More…]

• I think the record shows that prior to his election to this House the honourable member did take a strong stand against racial discrimination. [More…]

• As my colleague, the honourable member for Flinders, pointed out, a great proportion of this discriminatory legislation was not based upon discrimination on racial grounds originally, but was part of the protective mantle which it was believed necessary to place around the Aboriginal people. [More…]

• I hope that in a few minutes we will pass through all stages this Bill, the provisions of which when enacted will wipe from the national statute book the last piece of racial discrimination that exists in our national laws. [More…]

• 1 remind the House that section 64 of the Migration Act is the last remaining provision that can be described as discriminatory on racial grounds. [More…]

• This legislation also enables us as a nation to go to the United Nations - the supreme international forum - with a view to ratifying the international convention on the elimination of all forms of racial discrimination. [More…]

• Will consideration be given by the Government to implementing or setting up a national committee to combat racism and racial discriminanon which would include groups from all sections of the community so that as well as educating our black population we can start to educate our white population as to the reasons for the plight of underprivileged groups of people, not only Aborigines but other sections of the community such as national groups and ethnic groups? [More…]

• We need to educate the Australian people as far as racial discrimination is concerned. [More…]

• Will he ensure that those Australian citizens who embrace the Jewish faith or who support the State of Israel are protected from acts of violence or an assault of propaganda based on racial hatreds? [More…]

• Industrial relations in the Territory frequently have racial ramifications, since most employers are expatriates and most employees are indigenes. [More…]

• Of the other 2 amendments adopted in 1964, one provided for the suspension from participation in the International Labour Conference of any ILO member State which had been found by the United Nations to be flagrantly and persistently pursuing by its legislation a declared policy of racial discrimination such as apartheid and the other for the expulsion from the ILO or suspension from the exercise of the rights and privileges of membership of the ILO of any member which the United Nations had suspended from the exercise of the rights and privileges of membership. [More…]

• Nevertheless, the Government proposes to ratify them to demonstrate Australia’s firm opposition to all forms of racial discrimination such as apartheid. [More…]

• It has said, in effect, today that it wishes to retain the past where racial discrimination was the factor which dominated our citizenship laws. [More…]

• To them, that means such things as discussions on womens lib, racial theory or the revolutionary aspirations of the third world. [More…]

• It is within the memory of every member of this House that when sporting representatives from a country that is notorious for selecting its teams on a racial basis came to Australia the people of this country, including of course trade union officials and members, raised great protest at the flaunting in the face of the Australian people of the policy of such a decadent regime as that of South Africa. [More…]

• We have heard such comments in relation to escalation of the bombing in Vietnam, detonation of a nuclear device in the Pacific area, a visit to this country of a sporting team representing a country that selects its sporting teams strictly on a racial basis, and many other issues. [More…]

• The particular legislation I have in mind is in the racial discrimination field, where it would appear to be necessary for us to use the external affairs power in order to override offensive State legislation. [More…]

• It can be the result of racial hatred, blind prejudice, fear and intolerance, or, in some cases, ignorance. [More…]

• On 20 March, on the occasion of the inter- national day for the elimination of racial discrimination, I reaffirmed our intention to ratify the 1965 International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination as soon as the necessary legislative and other measures could be completed. [More…]

• Our decision to deny racially selected sports teams the right to visit or transit Australia should also be seen in this light. [More…]

• The Government is opposed (and has made clear Its opposition) to the selection of teams on a racial basis. [More…]

• What funds have been made available, since 2 December 1972, to religious or other agencies, such as the United Nations, for the specific purpose of combatting racial discrimination in foreign countries. [More…]

• Are these the only countries in the region where racial discrimination occurs; if not, which other countries in the region practise racial discrimination, and does the Government intend making funds available for use in these countries. [More…]

• Which countries in the region do not practise racial discrimination. [More…]

• Is there any discrimination on ethnic or racial grounds when determining entry policy. [More…]

• Was this a multi-racial team. [More…]

• Applicants for employment in the Commonwealth Service are not required to provide information on racial origin. [More…]

• This is a beautiful example of racial discrimination, one which we are hoping to bring to an end. [More…]

• The purpose of the Australian Citizenship Bill is to wipe out racial and other discriminations in the granting of Australian citizenship. [More…]

• Further in this long history I wish to draw the attention of the House to the words of an Aboriginal civil rights leader, Mr Archie Smallwood, who summed up in a nutshell the feelings of the people of the multi-racial suburb of Hill End in Brisbane, a suburb where people have learned to live with people who are different. [More…]

• Unfortunately, some of those idiots who exist in our society endeavoured to whip up racial hatred. [More…]

• This stirring up of racial differences is something none of us, regardless of our policies, would want to see. [More…]

• Australia will cooperate in the United Nations General Assembly and all its specialised agencies in actions designed to change the policy of the South African Government on racial questions and, if the policy is not changed, to bring that Government down. [More…]

• The Government has foreshadowed an Act of Parliament to outlaw racial discrimination. [More…]

• However, I am sure that the Minister would agree that laws alone cannot hope to eliminate racial discrimination although they can serve to prevent its most disturbing manifestations. [More…]

• Racism and racial discrimination are the products of ignorance and misconception. [More…]

• In so doing they incite racial hatred. [More…]

• It shall promote understanding, tolerance and friendship among all nations, racial or religious groups, and shall further the activities of the United Nations for the maintenance of peace. [More…]

• It shall promote understanding, tolerance and friendship among all nations, racial or religious groups, and shall further the activities of the United Nations for the maintenance of peace. [More…]

• It shall promote understanding, tolerance and friendship among all nations, racial or religious groups, and shall further the activities of the United Nations for the maintenance of peace. [More…]

• The report makes the bland statement that there has been a purposeful and premeditated policy of racial discrimination. [More…]

• as one of the growing medium sized powers Australia can declare its loyalty and march in the front rows of the nations opposed to racial discrimination and international violence. [More…]

• There is no racial discrimination in the Ivory Coast. [More…]

• I do not think it is on a racial basis. [More…]

• It accused us of racial prejudice in respect of Papua New Guinea. [More…]

• Australia’s immigration program is totally and completely nondiscriminatory and based, in fact, on the assessment of individuals and not on their racial background, the pigmentation of their skin or their religion. [More…]

• I suppose that is an allusion to religious or racial groups - particularly after free drink. [More…]

• Is the Minister aware that racial ill-will is becoming increasingly evident in our society and that this has been caused by financial discrimination in favour of our Aboriginal people? [More…]

• It will work to eliminate all forms of racial discrimination, apartheid and colonialism. [More…]

• The rights of the individual citizen will be the subject of a group of proposed laws on human rights and the prevention of racial discrimination. [More…]

• It has nothing to do with the ethnic background or racial makeup of the individuals concerned; it has a great deal to do with whether they will in fact have a viability in our country. [More…]

• The Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam), speaking to the point of order in respect of my friend the honourable member for Boothby (Mr McLeay), said that he believed that the honourable gentleman’s absence from the luncheon today was highly selective; that it was due to racial prejudice. [More…]

• I also was absent from that luncheon, and by inference I was absent also on account of racial prejudice. [More…]

• Let me say at once, Sir, by way of complete proof that this is wrong thatI had prepared a question today to put to the Prime Minister and I think that if I read a few words it will be perfectly apparent that racial prejudice had nothing whatever to do with my absence. [More…]

• At least one aspect of the current procedures embodies precisely the kind of racial bias which we are claiming publicly that we have done away with’. [More…]

• The Government is trying to organise Australian public opinion towards a more enlightened attitude to racial discrimination. [More…]

• But the honourable member for Wannon (Mr Malcolm Fraser) and the honourable member for Kooyong (Mr Peacock) have come into this chamber today, deliberately setting out to stir up racial hatred and racial intolerance because they believe that latent in the Australian community is an antipathy towards people with coloured skins or people of different races and origins. [More…]

• They are deliberately setting out to whip up and capitalise upon this latent element within the community - which they believe is still there and which they hope is still there, because if it is not their exercise today will have been wasted - so that they can score some petty political point from the Government in regard to the very humane, sen sible and rational attitude it has taken towards the question of racial discrimination. [More…]

• It is unfortunate that this afternoon the Minister for Labour (Mr Clyde Cameron) must raise the question of racial discrimination in such an important discussion as this. [More…]

• Can the Minister also say (a) whether there is any evidence of ethnic, racial or religious discrimination between those of Hamitic origin in the south and those of Moslem origin in Eritrea and (b) whether hostilities have resulted in the death of over 100,000 persons over the last 4 years. [More…]

• At the weekend) the Queensland Minister for Justice said that there have been a few racial problems. [More…]

• He stands for racial discrimination. [More…]

• He stands for racial discrimination. [More…]

• It was a notorious fact that for years under Liberal governments if persons wanted to come to Australia their right of entry into Australia depended on their racial origin, on a consideration of their colour as shown on black and white photographs they had taken of themselves, and on similar issues. [More…]

• Is racial, religious or ethnic discrimination practised in Tanzania; if so, what are the details. [More…]

• The Tanzanian Government has not practised religious and racial discrimination. [More…]

• Legislation will be re-introduced to permit Australia to ratify the 1965 International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, which came into force in January 1969. [More…]

• Legislation will also be introduced to supersede certain provisions of the Queensland Aborigines Act and Torres Strait Islanders Act which are contrary to the principles embodied in the Racial Discrimination Convention and in the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. [More…]

• The Government hopes it will have a significant jurisdiction in defining civil liberties under the Human Rights and Racial Discrimination Bills which the Parliament will also be considering. [More…]

• I look forward to the time when we have legislation prohibiting all forms of sexual discrimination as well as racial discrimination. [More…]

• I recall very vividly that this man, after discussing many subjects, said: ‘Australia is very fortunate that it has no racial problems. [More…]

• The Government has not imposed discriminatory political, social, racial or religious tests in these cases. [More…]

• I also said on that occasion and on a previous occasion when I issued a statement last Friday that the Opposition rejects and abhors South Africa’s inhumane policy of apartheid, and in particular it deplores the South African Government’s recent extension of repressive laws and the further suppression of racial equality and freedom of expression. [More…]

• I am concerned at any form of discrimination, as are members from both sides of this chamber, particularly on racial grounds. [More…]

• However, it is not uncommon when someone points out the differences between races for him to be accused of advocating an argument of racial superiority. [More…]

• Certain achievements this year have been especially symbolic of our whole philosophyour legislation against racial discrimination, our work for women, our vigorous and successful policies for environmental protection, and our 30 per cent increase in our foreign aid program. [More…]

• We have confirmed our implacable hostility to racialism in all its forms by our vote in the Security Council on South Africa’s membership of the United Nations. [More…]

• 1 ) Has the Minister sighted a copy of the report on racial discrimination prepared by social work students at Sydney University and submitted to the Attorney-General which alleges that 1 7 out of 25 estate agents surveyed between March and May 1 974 would not rent homes to Aborigines. [More…]

• The Racial Discrimination Bill now before the Senate provides that such discrimination will be expressly declared unlawful by virtue of clause 12 and civil proceedings may be brought against estate agents refusing to rent homes because of the applicants being Aborigines. [More…]

• Among the Bills which he introduced and which are still before the Parliament are such significant and major pieces of legislation as the Corporation and Securities Industry Bill, the Family Law Bill, the Racial Discrimination Bill and the Superior Court of Australia Bill. [More…]

• The elimination of racial discrimination has been one of the major preoccupations of the international community since the Second World War. [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…]

• The United Nations has supplemented these instruments with numerous resolutions, conferences and programs designed to promote the elimination of racial discrimination. [More…]

• Subsequently, the United Nations designated 1971 as the international Year for Action to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination, and vigorous programs for the year were conducted throughout the world, including Australia. [More…]

• On 6 December 1971, the General Assembly of the United Nations adopted a resolution urging further ratifications of the Racial Discrimination Convention and this resolution was carried by 101 voting in favour (including Australia), none against and five abstentions. [More…]

• On 10 December 1973, the Decade for Action to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination was inaugurated by the United Nations. [More…]

• The program proposed by the United Nations for action on the national level during the decade includes the introduction of legislation, where appropriate, to prevent racial discrimination. [More…]

• Against this background, it has been the conscious policy of both Liberal and Labor Governments to eliminate all legislation in Australia that contains elements of racial discrimination. [More…]

• Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination’, as part ofthe United Nations program for the year that I have mentioned. [More…]

• In its report of its activities of the year, the Committee stated that during the year it had repeatedly urged the Australian and State governments to repeal all legislation of a discriminatory nature and to take all necessary steps to ratify the Racial Discrimination Convention. [More…]

• You may be assured, however, that the Government is continuing its efforts to end all forms of racial discrimination in Australia. ‘ [More…]

• As no action has been taken by the Queensland Government on these matters, provisions were included in the Racial Discrimination Bill 1973 to supersede the Queensland law that authorised the management of the property of Aboriginals and Islanders without their consent. [More…]

• Antidiscrimination measures are being introduced to counter racial discrimination and every other form of discrimination that the Government or Mr Grassby can think of at this time. [More…]

• All departments therefore have a responsibility to ensure that the services of government are equally available to all citizens to whom the services are appropriate, irrespective of their racial origin. [More…]

• The purpose of this Bill is to make racial discrimination unlawful in Australia and to provide an effective means of combating racial prejudice in our country. [More…]

• My predecessor, Senator Murphy as he then was, introduced a Racial Discrimination Bill into the Senate for the first time on 2 1 November 1973. [More…]

• The Bill introduces into Australian law for the first time the obligations contained in the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination. [More…]

• It is asserted in this Convention that aU human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights and that any doctrine of superiority based on racial differentiation is scientifically false, morally condemnable, socially unjust and dangerous and without any justification. [More…]

• Legislation has a vital role to play in the elimination of racial discrimination and the enactment of this Bill is a fundamental step, a condition precedent, it could be said, that must be taken if Australia is to ratify the Convention. [More…]

• The proscribing of racial discrimination in legislative form will require legal sanctions. [More…]

• The fact that racial discrimination is unlawful will make it easier for people to resist social pressures that result in discrimination. [More…]

• In making racial discrimination unlawful, the Bm follows the definition used in the Convention. [More…]

• It also deals in detail with racial discrimination so far as it concerns access to places and facilities. [More…]

• In addition, the Bill establishes formal administrative machinery for the examination of complaints of racial discrimination on a systematic basis and for the settlement of complaints by conciliation. [More…]

• The Bill also for this reason recognises that an emphasis on mediation and conciliation is a more satisfactory way of tackling individual instances of racial discrimination and the tensions that are associated with individual disputes A Commissioner for Community Relations will be established as an independent statutory authority to undertake these tasks. [More…]

• The Bill recognises the importance of developing programs of education and research and other programs to combat racial discrimination and to promote understanding, tolerance and friendship among racial and ethnic groups. [More…]

• Overseas experience has shown that the success of legislation dealing with racial discrimination depends very much on the effectiveness of programs of this kind. [More…]

• Both governmental and community-based programs to combat racial discrimination are necessary. [More…]

• Under the Bill, the Commissioner will have the function of conducting and fostering programs of education and research to combat racial discrimination, and a Community Relations Council will be established with an advisory role. [More…]

• Australia will be required by Article 7 of the Convention to conduct programs of this kind to combat racial discrimination. [More…]

• It will provide the basis upon which Australia can comply with the obligations imposed by the Convention on Racial Discrimination. [More…]

• The educative role is at least as significant and the Bill recognises that there must also be effective and systematic enforcement of rights and the promotion of education and research, if the elimination of racial discrimination in this country is to be achieved in fact as well as in theory. [More…]

• The Attorney-General (Mr Enderby) has just delivered a second reading speech relating to racial discrimination. [More…]

• The argument which has been advanced by the Government in support of the attitude it has adopted towards cricket contests between Australia and South Africa is that South African cricket teams are chosen on a racial basis, that is, that they are chosen on a basis which prevents persons of mixed and coloured blood from participating in South African teams which play against those of other countries. [More…]

• But that does not alter the principle that if the foreign relations of this country are going to be conducted with any consistency and if we are ever going to achieve a situation in which the horrible racial discrimination which does occur in South Africa and which is probably a level of racial discrimination which is duplicated in many countries throuhout the world is ever going to be broken down we are not going to break it down by hermetically sealing off South Africa from the rest of the world, we are not going to break it down by having no contact with the South Africans and we are certainly not going to break it down by preventing cricket contests between South Africa and Australia. [More…]

• That all words after ‘That’ be omitted with a view to substituting the following words: while the House supports the Bill’s condemnation of acts of racial discrimination it is of the opinion that the Bill should be substantially amended because it- [More…]

• I begin by stating- I trust with some particularity; I hope, further, with some clarity- the Opposition’s attitude to the question of racial discrimination before I come to deal with the provisions in the Bill. [More…]

• The first thing I want to say is this: The Opposition condemns, without the slightest sense of inhibition, racial discrimination. [More…]

• The breaking point will be hastened if those who find themselves in racial conflict also find themselves in possession of the weapons of mass destruction. [More…]

• We are opposed unequivocally to racial discrimination. [More…]

• I say with no ambiguity and no equivocation that the Opposition is opposed to racial discrimination. [More…]

• The second matter to which I draw the attention of the House with regard to this Bill is that in the gathering of powers conferred upon this Parliament there is absolutely nothing which gives to this Parliament an explicit right to legislate upon the question of racial discrimination. [More…]

• It was my kidney of government that signed the convention dealing with racial discrimination- 1966 circa- and now the Bill is to be ratified. [More…]

• The Bill seeks to outlaw racial discrimination and the various manifestations of it. [More…]

• In other words, I am seeking to assert the thesis that it is the view of this entire Parliament that racial discrimination, one of the disfigurements of the 20th century, should be silenced. [More…]

• This Bill seeks to establish, among other things, tribunals relating to the hearings of matters with respect to racial discrimination. [More…]

• The second part of the Bill deals with the prohibition of racial discrimination and it sets out what I may describe as the particulars of offences of racial discrimination. [More…]

• We are proposing by dint of this Bill that the transgressions with respect to racial discrimination should be solved by erecting an apparatus which would be more suited for a totalitarian country. [More…]

• It seeks to put into legislative form the man who comes along and says: ‘Jones has treated so-and-so in a shabby fashion, which infringes Part II of the Racial Discrimination Bill.’ [More…]

• The Opposition is unequivocally opposed to racial discrimination. [More…]

• There can be no doubt that in Australia since the white man arrived there has been a history of racial discrimination against the Aboriginal people. [More…]

• Countries which have tasted colonialism- or, rather, provided a feast for the imperial powers; countries where there has been inequality; countries in which the stirrings of nationalism have joined in complex relationships with ideologies; countries in which there are cultural or racial differences: There is no identikit to fit all of the nations, but the common thread is the need for reform- social reform, political reform, agrarian reform. [More…]

• Many people think that there is no racial discrimination in this country. [More…]

• On the contrary, racial discrimination is found at the highest levels. [More…]

• The Racial Discrimination Bill is long overdue. [More…]

• With such bigoted persons as those to whom I referred adorning the Opposition benches, is there any wonder that when they were in government they never introduced a Bill to ratify the International Convention on Racial Discrimination? [More…]

• I do not think such action helps the cause to the conclusion which I believe we are all seeking to see achieved, that is, a diminution in any discrimination or racial prejudice which obtains in Australia. [More…]

• The Government has introduced the Racial Discrimination Bill into this House after 3 Bills on the same subject had been introduced previously in the Senate. [More…]

• In the words of the Attorney-General (Mr Enderby) ‘The purpose of the Bill is to make racial discrimination unlawful in Australia and to provide an effective means of combatting racial prejudice in our country’. [More…]

• We are dealing tonight with discrimination- not only racial discrimination but discrimination against people of different nationalities as well as of different races. [More…]

• Obviously if this Bill does increase racial tensions, its operation will be counter-productive and the individuals it seeks to assist will be far worse off. [More…]

• A further matter that should be investigated at the Committee stage is that the Bill carries with it an underlying presumption that all racial discrimination is deliberate, which I dispute. [More…]

• I am merely pointing out that there are many situations where unintentional discrimination and racial intolerance do take place. [More…]

• A thorough educational program of pointing out our racial problems and difficulties in society would for the most part overcome those situations based on ignorance rather than malicious intent. [More…]

• One should also note that the Bill covers only racial discrimination. [More…]

• To concentrate solely on racial discrimination is to run the risk of over.simplifying the issue of discrimination as a whole. [More…]

• Certainly racial discrimination is readily discernible and more easily demonstrable, but other areas of prejudice should not go unnoticed. [More…]

• Careful immigration programs and selection process of course are major factors in smooth racial inter-relations in Australia. [More…]

• In the main, whilst many migrants will be able to complain of individual instances of prejudice or discrimination that they personally have experienced, Australia has developed with their help and effort, largely free from significant racial or cultural prejudice. [More…]

• It is with that background in mind that we should assess the structure and functions of the Racial Discrimination Bill as presented to the House. [More…]

• I welcome the opportunity being provided to fulfil the obligations that Australia has undertaken with the United Nations in relation to the international conventions on the elimination of all forms of racial discrimination. [More…]

• I reiterate that much can be gained by the passage of this Bill, bearing in mind the necessary modifications that we of the Opposition will outline, not only by Australia as a nation showing itself to be mature enough to tackle the problems of racial discrimination but also by each individual who has for so long been disadvantaged by the sad deficiencies in our present system. [More…]

• In 1975 we have suddenly found it necessary to introduce legislation to prevent racial discrimination. [More…]

• First, the Bill seeks to ensure that racial discrimination should be proscribed by law and fundamental rights and freedoms, without distinction as to race, should be guaranteed by law. [More…]

• Third, the Bill embodies the principle that there should be established formal administrative machinery to investigate individual instances of racial discrimination and attempt to achieve a settlement of issues by conciliation. [More…]

• Fourth, the Bill proposes that there should be fostered- and I believe that this is very important- programs of education and research and other programs to combat racial discrimination and promote understanding, tolerance and friendship among racial and ethnic groups. [More…]

• The Bill in its present form will sow the seeds of hatred, racial prejudice, ill-will and disruption among our people. [More…]

• The Bill provides a healthy breeding ground for sneaks, informers, pimps, jealousy and revenge, and an army of racial officials whose role will be of an inquisitorial nature with wide powers of law enforcement. [More…]

• Instead of ending hostility and racial prejudice between different racial and ethnic groups in our community, the enforcement of the provisions of this Bill will foment and exacerbate hostility. [More…]

• All compassionate and sensible people would aspire to end racial discrimination. [More…]

• Unfortunately racial discrimination has characterised modern history as man of different ethnic origins has achieved greater mobility enabling him to move rapidly from his own environment to the environments of other ethnic groups. [More…]

• During the last centruy and this century the spirit of nationalism has tended to foster racial competition, prejudice and racist attitudes. [More…]

• The first is to promote an understanding and an acceptance of the Act by developing and conducting research and educational programs to combat racial discrimination. [More…]

• Clause 28 makes it an offence to disseminate ideas based on racial superiority or hatred. [More…]

• One does not sweep racial prejudice under the rug by legislative process. [More…]

• Well, I think there is evidence to show that, if anything, legislation that outlaws racial discrimination has had some effect in countries where it exists, such as in Canada and in the United States of America where the Constitution is being used to outlaw it. [More…]

• If we reject all theories of racial superiority or inferiority, if we genuinely believe that the only differences between the peoples of the world are physical, cultural and environmental differences then we must ask ourselves why it is that racial antagonism still exists in today’s society. [More…]

• Attitudes changed slowly over the years until by the 1930s official attitudes at least had, with a few exceptions, ceased to propagate theories of racial superiority. [More…]

• One is the legislative portion attempting to outlaw acts of racial discrimination. [More…]

• So it is that all Aborigines are branded with inherent racial characteristics and inherent patterns of social behaviour. [More…]

• But legislation of this nature will make sure that they are equally careful not to eliminate somebody from consideration on a racial basis. [More…]

• In other words, every person in the community of a racial ethnic national group should be very careful when he or she makes any statement or exerts any pressure in the community that he does not say anything which will have an effect out of proportion to the group’s numbers in the community. [More…]

• I do not know whether I can convince them that they are wrong but I genuinely believe that legislation used with discrimination, not used with the mailed fist, can be the framework for the next great push in Australia to eliminate racism and racial discrimination. [More…]

• He was at least gracious enough to concede that the sincerity with which members of the Liberal and Country Parties oppose racial discrimination is not in dispute. [More…]

• There is a difference of opinion in this House on this legislation but it is not a difference of opinion regarding the abhorrence of racial discrimination; it is rather a difference of opinion as to the best method by which the problem of racial discrimination in our society can be handled. [More…]

• I do not want to canvass the evidence of racial discrimination, much of which has already been alluded to during the earlier part of the debate. [More…]

• There is no doubt that in certain areas of Australia the level and the incidence of racial discrimination is totally unacceptable and that methods must be devised to eradicate such incidence and to bring down such level. [More…]

• It was expressly conceded that the best hope of advancing the field of the elimination of racial discrimination was to be found in the processes of conciliation and of education. [More…]

• We concede- no, we go further, we totally endorse- the declared intention of this legislation to eliminate forms of racial discrimination. [More…]

• I know that there will be some on the Government side who will immediately say that the Opposition is speaking with 2 voices, that on the one hand we say that we are against racial discrimination but on the other hand we want so to emasculate the Bill that it will not be possible for any effective steps to be taken against the incidence of racial discrimination in our society. [More…]

• In our society there is a very strong body of opinion- it was given eloquent expression by the honourable member for Gwydir (Mr Hunt)that we will not lessen the incidence of racial tension and racial discrimination by passing fairly stringent laws about it. [More…]

• I know that they have been successful, but I would ask the Government to consider the fact that, while there is a problem of racial discrimination in Australia, there are significant differences between the problem that we have and the problem experienced in the United Kingdom. [More…]

• One of the great difficulties about this legislation, because it is to have Australia-wide application, is that while there are serious problems in certain areas of Australia there are large areas of Australia where legislation in the form proposed by the Government could be quite inappropriate, for the reasons outlined by the honourable member for Gwydir (Mr Hunt) and others, particularly as it is a first go at some kind of legislative proscription of racial discrimination. [More…]

• Let me hasten to say here and now that the whole idea behind this Bill- the prevention of racial discrimination- must be supported, but the manner in which these clauses have been drafted and the hidden meaning that appears to me to be behind them could spell disaster for many an innocent citizen. [More…]

• I know the argument that an act of inciting racial discrimination is in some respects more despicable than individual acts of racial discrimination, because the presence of intent by a person who incites an act of racial discrimination can hardly be called in to question whereas the intent of a person who commits an act of racial discrimination- certainly some of the acts of racial discrimination as they are prescribed in the language of this legislation- may not be quite the same malicious intent as that of the person who incites. [More…]

• But, that notwithstanding, the Opposition feels that the penalty or the consequences for inciting an act of racial discrimination ought still to be civil matters and that they ought to follow the pattern which the Opposition has endeavoured to establish with its other amendments to the procedures to follow complaints of racial discrimination. [More…]

• I ask the Attorney-General to contemplate the situation that could arise where, in plain language, there is a racially bigoted estate agent and a perfectly tolerant vendor and, just because the tolerant vendor strictly speaking does not comply with the exemptions which are in clause 17, he could find himself in a most unfortunate situation. [More…]

• Given that the Government is going to create a category of offences in respect of the letting and sale of property, I accept that there is a very strong argument in some way to bring in principals; but the Opposition is unhappy with the possible consequences of clause 17 to people who have no thought of discriminating on racial grounds and who could be the unwitting victims of discriminatory acts by their agents. [More…]

• I recognise that there are arguments to the contrary and that where there is a mixture of reasons some might argue that it is sufficient that racial discrimination be a substantial reason. [More…]

• But the Opposition believes that it should be the dominant reason for the doing of the act so that in all the circumstances it is fair to say that the reason why a person acted in a particular way was on the ground of racial discrimination. [More…]

• I think that quite deservedly it will catch a lot of people but it will also catch some people who have unwittingly committed acts of racial discrimination. [More…]

• We therefore think it is necessary in all the circumstances that there be no doubt that the reason why a person has done an act complained of is by reason of racial discrimination. [More…]

• Implicit in both the contribution from the honourable member for Bennelong (Mr Howard) and the honourable member for Moore (Mr Hyde) has been the difficulty of the task which is posed by this Racial Discrimination Bill. [More…]

• combating racial discrimination and prejudices that lead to racial discrimination; [More…]

• promoting understanding, tolerance and friendship among racial and ethnic groups; and [More…]

• His role shall be merely to conciliate in an effort to effect settlement of differences which arise out of acts alleged to be acts of racial discrimination. [More…]

• Yesterday I spoke as strongly as I could on the fact that most racial discrimination in Australia, I believe, comes about through inadvertence. [More…]

• This is the first time that an Australian government has ever sought to tackle racial discrimination in Australia with a law of this sort. [More…]

• When one seeks to enact a law for the whole of Australia one has to realise that there are different parts of Australia- different in the sense that racial discrimination might be found to be more extensive in some parts than in others. [More…]

• I think one of the Opposition speakers mentioned that in Australia generally racial discrimination, where it occurred, was often inadvertent. [More…]

• The amendment provides that a person who is unhappy with the conciliation process, a person who complains that he or she has been a victim of an act of racial discrimination and feels that nothing has been achieved can go to a civil court and commence proceedings in any court of competent jurisdiction for any of the remedies which are set out in clause 26. [More…]

• Again, the Opposition very sincerely asks the Government to consider the sort of procedure we have in mind, which admittedly is a softer approach to the treatment of racial discrimination than that desired by the Government. [More…]

• On the one hand, there is the demand to eliminate acts of racial discrimination. [More…]

• The Opposition accepts that any acts which incite racial discrimination ought to be made unlawful, and in fact the earlier sections of this Bill do make that sort of behaviour unlawful. [More…]

• Once again, this was part of the pattern of amendments put down by the Opposition which believes that acts inciting racial discrimination should attract the same types of consequences as those acts themselves. [More…]

• provided, however, that such measures do not, as a consequence, lead to the maintenance of separate rights for different racial groups and that they shall not be continued after the objectives for which they were taken have been achieved. [More…]

• I think that everybody on both sides of the House approves of the objectives of this BUI- I certainly approve of themwhich are not to maintain a stance of racial superiority. [More…]

• I believe that this Bill, unhappily, will cause more racial tension than it will alleviate and that it will add to the very problems that it is meant to solve. [More…]

• No one is a greater admirer of the common law and the ways in which it can achieve progress than I am but it has been a dismal failure in terms of trying to give relief where racial discrimination exists. [More…]

• Do not blame legislation like this that has appeared around the world for the rising tide of racial anger that exists in the world. [More…]

• The legislation has been in response to that rising tide of racial anger. [More…]

• My God, racial relations in the United States of America have been transformed, and transformed for the better, as a result of legislation in that country. [More…]

• Everyone has conceded that this is a serious attempt to do something about racial discrimination. [More…]

• This legislation, seen against the background of the racial discrimination Bills and other legislation which the Government has introduced or proposes to introduce, is designed to remove from the Queensland legislation certain discriminatory laws or certain discriminatory sections of existing laws. [More…]

• We have earlier this day addressed ourselves to the Racial Discrimination Bill which flowed from a resolution of the International Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Racial Discrimination from the United Nations. [More…]

• The chief feature of that Bill, as honourable members will recall, and its pertinence to the matter now being discussed is that by the introduction of penalties we will be able to achieve what understanding and reason have not been able to achieve previously, notwithstanding that the resolution, as evidenced in the Schedule attached to the Racial Discrimination Bill, insists that we are to promote and encourage universal respect for and observance of human rights and fundamental freedoms for all. [More…]

• Again, we swing back to features of the Racial Discrimination Bill which would necessitate that if one of these Aborigines from a reserve or, to a lesser extent, one of these Torres Strait Islanders who ethnically seem to demonstrate an all-round greater ability in their original state should apply for a position in this outside world and find that because of lack of opportunity he is not up to the job and preference is given to a non-Aboriginal, immediately, under the terms of the Racial Discrimination Bill, an employer who decides to exercise that preference is liable because of all the reasons advanced for discrimination against the appointment. [More…]

• The racial element will be considered as the determining factor. [More…]

• Last week I participated in the debate on the Racial Discrimination Bill- a Bill I had wanted to see introduced long before I came to this place. [More…]

• I am convinced that the international pressures on that area are based primarily on strategic concepts and only secondarily on racial issues. [More…]

• I say that because racial issues also exist in quite a number of other countries that are not subjected to similar pressures. [More…]

• Australia should plan to avoid any conflicts or frictions arising from racial or national differences and while doing so should be liberal in admission to Australia of people of any race or nationality who desire to come, especially those who are suffering from reprisals or discrimination in some other country. [More…]

• I refer to such matters as the Racial Discrimination Bill, the attempts to gerrymander the electorate in order to sustain an authoritarian system of democracy; and various Constitution Bills that were knocked back by the Senate and the people. [More…]

• The Senate has amended the Racial Discrimination Bill in a number of respects, the most important of which are as follows: First, the power vested in the Commissioner for Community Relations to commence legal proceedings where he is unable to effect a settlement by conciliation has been removed. [More…]

• Third, offences relating to increment and the promotion of racial hatred that are required by the International Convention have been removed. [More…]

• The Government would also have much preferred the inclusion of the offences relating to incitment and the promotion of racial hatred so that the requirements of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination could have been followed more closely in Australian law. [More…]

• The legislation will declare racial discrimination unlawful. [More…]

• The Commissioner will have power to engage in programs of education and research to combat racial discrimination. [More…]

• It applies to a broader range of acts based on racial discrimination than is found in overseas legislation and contains fewer exceptions. [More…]

• The Opposition believes that the amendments will have the effect of replacing the blunt instrument of the Bill as originally presented with a process of conciliation and education which we believe will do a great deal more effectively to reduce the incidence of racial discrimination in Australia than would have been the case with the Bill in its original form. [More…]

• There is no doubt, as the AttorneyGeneral (Mr Enderby) said, that a common ground exists between the Government and the Opposition concerning the abhorrence of racial discrimination. [More…]

• Throughout the Australian community there are many people of good will, without racial prejudice, who do not believe that one achieves anything in a reduction of racial tension by passing the type of legislation that the Government originally wanted. [More…]

• There are in fact a great number of people of similar good will who believe that one does nothing towards reducing the incidence of racial tension by legislative coercion. [More…]

• It was for that reason, and not because of any reluctance to oppose racial discrimination, that the Opposition moved the amendments. [More…]

• The problems of racial discrimination and racial tensions in the United Kingdom are vastly different from problems of the same nature in Australia. [More…]

• There is no posturing about the Opposition’s attitude towards the Racial Discrimination Bill. [More…]

• As my colleague has stressed, we are as much against racial discrimination as anybody in the land but we believe that the original proposals put forward by the Government were perhaps a little bit too enthusiastic in some areas. [More…]

• As my colleague has said, our attitude was engendered by a genuine desire to bring about a reduction in that little bit of racial prejudice which was not inadvertent and, as the honourable member for Bennelong said, we rejected the blunt instrument approach. [More…]

• I think that it is a step forward in bringing about a realisation within the total Australian society that racial discrimination, which I firmly believe is largely inadvertent, should not be countenanced. [More…]

• A lot of people are opposed to a racial discrimination Bill. [More…]

• I personally believe that a racial discrimination Act, as this will now become, embodying as it does the aspirations of our society for attitudes that ought to exist between individuals in the society will, in the end, promote the proper relationship. [More…]

• There are other resolutions of the United Nations dealing with discrimination in sport on racial grounds; there are none dealing with discrimination in sport on the grounds of sex. [More…]

• However, it should be carefully observed that this was the first time that Australia had instigated with regard to racial origins resettlement opportunities for Asian displaced persons who were not readily identified or connected with this country. [More…]

• Apart from the normal criteria which apply to any intending entrant to Australia, the only other criterion used to decide which South Africans will be granted entry visas into Australia is that they should not be entering as members or representatives of sporting teams, cultural or other organisations selected or structured on a racial basis. [More…]

• The overriding cause of the problems facing the mining industry is the policies of the present Federal Government, particularly the twisted ideological racial obsession and motivation of the Minister for Minerals and Energy. [More…]

• In the field of the protection of human rights, the Parliament will recall that very important law, the Racial Discrimination Act, which established a Commissioner for Community Relations and also a Community Relations Council. [More…]

• I believe that the Australian Legal Aid Office, the Racial Discrimination Act and the many other initiatives of this Government will help to right the imbalance, help to ensure that the migrant communities can play an active role in Australian society with a minimum of social cost. [More…]

• Appeals Regulations, the Conciliation and Arbitration Act, the Trade Practices Act, the Family Law Act, the Social Welfare Ordinance, the Legal Assistance Ordinance and the Racial Discrimination Act. [More…]

• The same thing happened in the Racial Discrimination Bill where the Minister and the Commissioner had overpowering and tremendous powers. [More…]

• To summarise the terms of the Convention, States Parties thereto declare that Apartheid is a crime against humanity and that acts resulting from the policies and practices of Apartheid and similar policies and practices of racial segregation and discrimination are crimes violating the principles of International Law, in particular the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations, and constituting a serious threat to international peace and security. [More…]

• But surely in the interests of racial harmony and of the acceptance of the Government’s program- it involves expenditure in excess of $3 5m- of the acceptance of the program of housing these people in the cities, it would be wise not to flutter a flag which could initiate or awaken racism which may be nonexistent or dormant in the minds and hearts of white people. [More…]

• So once again inadvertently or purposely- I do not know what motivates the Minister- we are contributing to racial tension and ill-will by the noise and disturbance which come from so many people living in the one residence. [More…]

• In-line with its general policy towards apartheid, the Australian Government firmly opposes racial discrimination in sport. [More…]

• The Government believes that the maintenance of sporting relations with South Africa should depend on that country’s willingness and ability to move away from racial discrimination in sport. [More…]

• As the Prime Minister has indicated, Australia will apply the test of selection on a proper multiracial basis to determine whether South African sporting teams will be permitted to compete in Australia. [More…]

• We will continue to support appropriate measures in the United Nations and elsewhere aimed at bringing an end to the practice of racial discrimination, not only in Africa but wherever it exists. [More…]

• The Government is also opposed to racial discrimination in sport. [More…]

• For this Government, the basic condition will be South Africa’s willingness and ability to move away from racial discrimination in sport. [More…]

• As the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) has indicated, we will apply the test of selection on a proper multi-racial basis. [More…]

• At the same time, we would hope and expect that Australian sportsmen would note the Government’s views on multi-racial competition and would take these fully into account in any plans they may have to compete in South Africa. [More…]

• One of those most responsible for racial outbursts was the honourable member for Cunningham (Mr Connor). [More…]

• It strove to reintroduce class distinctions, an industrial and political elite, a racial background for social division. [More…]

• Indeed, two of the cuts cast serious doubts on Australia’s status as a signatory to the United Nations International Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Racial Discrimination. [More…]

• I referred earlier to the fact that the cuts cast serious doubts on whether we have fulfilled our obligations under the United Nations International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination. [More…]

• We became party to this Convention with the passing of the Racial Discrimination Act of 1975. [More…]

• In other words, the new Government has effectively prevented the full expression of the Racial Discrimination Act and has rendered impossible one of the key provisions of the Act. [More…]

• If this Government is not prepared to allow the Council to be established, I ask the Minister whether he will give effect to article 14 ( 1 ) of the Schedule of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination. [More…]

• That article provides that a State Party may at any time declare that it recognises the competence of the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination to receive and consider communications from individuals or groups of individuals within its jurisdiction claiming to be victims of a violation by that State Party of any of the rights set forth in the Convention. [More…]

• States Parties undertake to adopt immediate and effective measures particularly in the fields of teaching, education, culture and information with a view to combating prejudices which lead to racial discrimination and to promoting understanding, tolerance and friendship among nations and racial or ethnical groups, as well as to propagating the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the United Nations [More…]

• Declaration on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, and this Convention. [More…]

• But before I outline the ways in which the cuts have had this effect, it is worth noting the views of the present Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs when the Racial Discrimination Act was debated on 8 April 1975 and he was speaking for the then Opposition. [More…]

• This cut has totally negated the educational component of the Racial Discrimination Act. [More…]

• The trusted lieutenant he sought out as his aide in this seamy exercise and towards whom he now feels so much affinity, a Mr Wiley Fancher, landed in this country in order to protect the integrity of his racial prejudices. [More…]

• I hope that we can look forward to the day when racial prejudice will be a thing of the past, but we must honestly admit that racism does exist. [More…]

• They are also in breach of the Australian Government’s Racial Discrimination Act and the Queensland Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islands Discriminatory Laws Act of 1975. [More…]

• The staff freeze makes a mockery of the Racial Discrimination Act of 1975. [More…]

• It also underlies the hypocrisy of the Minister who, when the Racial Discrimination Bill was debated - [More…]

• Is the Government concerned that continued trade, diplomatic recognition and sporting and cultural ties, may serve to bolster the white Government and to jeopardise racial justice and equality. [More…]

• This morning, Qantas Airways Ltd, the Australian Government international airline, brought to Perth the New Zealand Rugby Union team which had been engaging in contests with racially selected teams in South Africa. [More…]

• Until the end of 1972, on every racial issue Australia, New Zealand, Portugal and South Africa stood alone, sometimes beside France, the United States of America and the United Kingdom. [More…]

• It has conferred its latest blessing on the forces of racial hatred and intolerance during a visit to southern Africa by the United States Secretary of State. [More…]

• For the past two weeks, Dr Kissinger has been working to avert racial conflict in Africa and impress upon the regime in Rhodesia and the Government in South Africa the need for toleration and respect for the rights of the African people. [More…]

• He has embodied and represented the hopes, not only of the United States Government but also of all democratic governments for a relaxation of racial tensions. [More…]

• The Fraser Government has responded to this critical challenge by undermining and compromising the objectives of the United States Administration and the steady and difficult progress to racial understanding which the whole world has fervently desired. [More…]

• The Fraser Government has now given its blessing to renewed sporting contacts between racially selected sporting teams. [More…]

• The Government’s connivance at racial sporting contacts has once again exposed the weakness and hypocrisy of the Australian Foreign Minister. [More…]

• It bound all member nations ‘to refrain from all contacts with sports bodies established on the basis of apartheid or racially selected teams from South Africa’. [More…]

• On 4 March, the Minister told the Parliament that in deciding what sporting contacts would be permitted with South Africa: the basic condition will be South Africa’s willingness and ability to move away from racial discrimination in sport. [More…]

• As the Prime Minister has indicated, we will apply the test of selection on a proper multi-racial basis. [More…]

• For millions of people in Africa the question of sporting contacts with South Africa is the acid test of Western sincerity on all racial questions. [More…]

• It was South Africa which brought racial politics into sport. [More…]

• They have made no attempt to understand or respect the sensibilities of coloured peoples on racial issues. [More…]

• If Australia and New Zealand persist in these attitudes, not only will the 1978 Commonwealth Games in Edmonton and the 1982 Games in Brisbane be at risk, but we will be setting back the whole cause of racial tolerance in sport, culture, trade and international dealings everywhere. [More…]

• African and Asian nations will remember the encouragement given to racial sporting visits by the McMahon Government in 1971. [More…]

• They will remember the incitement to racial violence given by Mr Bjelke-Petersen in declaring a state of emergency. [More…]

• The Government is also opposed to racial discrimination in sport . [More…]

• While other nations work for an end to racial conflict, the Fraser Government has taken a course that will give new encouragement to the racists and reactionaries in Africa, in Australia and around the world. [More…]

• Let me make it clear, as the Minister for Foreign Affairs (Mr Peacock) has made it clear on many occasions in this place that in line with its general attitude towards the apartheid system, the Australian Government firmly opposes racial discrimination in sport. [More…]

• The Government is also opposed to racial discrimination in sport. [More…]

• For this Government, the basic condition will be South Africa’s willingness and ability to move away from racial discrimination in sport. [More…]

• As the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) has indicated, we will apply the test of selection on a roper multi-racial basis. [More…]

• At the same time, we would hope and expect that Australian sportsmen would note the Government’s views on multi-racial competition and would take these fully into account in any plans they may have to compete in South Africa. [More…]

• There is but one hope for these tragic peopleblack and white- in South Africa if more violence is to be averted and that is that there be detente at home as well as abroad for them and that there be an incredibly radical change in the thinking of the overwhelming majority of white people into realising that a multi-racial society that is built on the principle of human dignity for all- black as well as white- is the only hope for their future. [More…]

• It was the one which chose sporting teams on a racial basis- not us. [More…]

• No knowledgeable observer of sport in South Africa would pretend that there is non-racial sport there. [More…]

• The Labor Party has again raised this afternoon the issue of racially selected teams. [More…]

• I deplore the principle of selecting teams on a racial basis, as do all honourable members on this side of the House. [More…]

• We can see from this and from the speeches that members of the Opposition have made in this House on the Budget that the Labor Party is still aiming at stirring up racial differences in this country. [More…]

• I would venture to say that not a single member on the Government side has said that the New Zealand people should send sporting teams away and play against teams in South Africa that are selected on a racial basis. [More…]

• In line with its general attitude towards the apartheid system, the Australian Government firmly opposes racial discrimination in sport. [More…]

• The maintenance of sporting contacts with South Africa will depend on that country’s willingness and ability to move away from racial discrimination in sport. [More…]

• The Government is opposed to racial discrimination in sport. [More…]

• New Zealand is one country that may be pointed at as having genuine racial harmony. [More…]

• Are we to ban all Russians because Russians have demonstrated over many years that they have a very solid racial prejudice against Jews? [More…]

• We need action on racial harmony. [More…]

• Honourable members will recall that last year the Racial Discrimination Act was passed by the Parliament. [More…]

• I direct a question to the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs who is responsible for administering the Racial Discrimination Act. [More…]

• I wish to stress that the Commissioner for Community Relations is a statutory officer with certain functions set down in the Racial Discrimination Act of 1975. [More…]

• The Government supports the principles on which the Racial Discrimination Act of 1975 is based and adheres firmly to the International Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Racial Discrimination which Australia has ratified. [More…]

• That booklet contains a short foreword and a list of 23 organisations which the Commissioner regards as propagating racial prejudice in Australia. [More…]

• All honourable gentlemen are opposed to racial discrimination and the Government is committed to its elimination in Australia. [More…]

• Dr David Moran, who was working with Professor Hollow’s team, is reported as having said that poor education, virtually a total absence of housing, toilets or clean water, high unemployment, racial tension, gross poverty and the inability of existing medical services to cope were the problems. [More…]

• I draw the attention of the House to a scurrilous advertisement that appeared in the Australian of 29 October last, which sets out the most infamous resolution ever passed by the United Nations, whereby Zionism was said to foster the growth of racism and racial discrimination. [More…]

• Racism and racial discrimination, including apartheid, are abhorrent not only to the people of Israel but also to all other peoples of the world who similarly cherish democracy. [More…]

• Never let it be forgotten that the Jews themselves are the classic victims of racial discrimination and that their martyrs over the centuries run into tens of millions. [More…]

• As a sequel, it was necessary for the Australian Government to introduce the Racial Discrimination Act and the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders (Queensland Discriminatory Laws) Act which was assented to on 19 June 1975. [More…]

• Social, economic, ecological and environmental deterioration which are exemplified at the national and international levels by inequalities in living conditions, social segregation, racial discrimination, acute unemployment, illiteracy, disease and poverty, the breakdown of social relationships and traditional cultural values and the increasing degradation of life-supporting resources of air, water and land; [More…]

• It is therefore the duty of all people and Governments to join the struggle against any form of colonialism, foreign aggression and occupation, domination, apartheid and all forms of racism and racial discrimination referred to in the resolutions as adopted by the General Assembly of the United Nations. [More…]

• Of special importance is the elimination of social and racial segregation, inter alia, through the creation of better balanced communities, which blend different social groups, occupation, housing and amenities. [More…]

• Pursuant to section 46 of the Racial Discrimination Act 1975 I present the first annual report of the Commissioner for Community Relations for the year ended 30 June 1976. [More…]

• One particular matter to which I would like to refer relates to the assertion that there is a widespread breach of our international obligations under the international convention on the elimination of all forms of racial discrimination. [More…]

• The initiative to combat racial discrimination was taken by the Labor Government. [More…]

• Undoubtedly the rights of the Aboriginal people to land will be swept under the carpet, just like South Africa’s apartheid and many of the other racial issues which were ignored in the past and now have become major world issues. [More…]

• It has practised social ostracism and even racial discrimination and petty obstruction against highly skilled specialists in a way which is contrary to the so-called ethical standards of the medical profession and in total disregard of the interests of the public. [More…]

• We have also said that we will not support or welcome to Australia sporting teams which are selected on a racial basis. [More…]

• When dealing with South Africa the Minister stated that we are maintaining a policy of correct diplomatic relations with South Africa to oppose without reservation that country’s policies of racial discrimination. [More…]

• -Mr Grassby is currently using his position of great, and almost unlimited, power to pursue an issue under the guise of seeking racial harmony when his motives are blatantly political. [More…]

• The Racial Discrimination Act 1975 states clearly that the Commissioner should throw out a complaint if he believes the complaint to be quite frivolous, vexatious or not made in good faith. [More…]

• Some Australians are genuinely concerned about the possibility of racial and ethnic tensions, evident in other countries, developing in Australia as a result of continued migration from particular sources. [More…]

• By condoning this situation we are condoning a far more subtle, and in the long term effects, a more drastic form of racial discrimination than anything known or practised hitherto. [More…]

• The Liberal and National Country Parties are committed to the preservation and development of a culturally diversified but socially cohesive Australian society free of racial tensions and offering security, well-being and equality of opportunity to all those living here. [More…]

• They argue that as sporting teams come and performteams selected on a racial basis- that is not something which should concern governments or in which governments should take some action. [More…]

• The Royal Commission report ranges over such diverse things as the development of the Island’s economy, whether cows and horses should be able to continue to roam across it, whether duty free status should be continued, whether there should be a law library on the Island; matrimonial causes, legal aid, a prison and law enforcement, racial discrimination, unionism and social services. [More…]

• For that reason, I can assure the honourable gentleman that there is no suggestion of our severing diplomatic ties with the Republic, but there is a hope that as a result of calmness and reason it might see fit to change its racial policy. [More…]

• (a) At the census of 1966, 6048 persons describing themselves as of Chinese racial origin were resident in Australia. [More…]

• The above statistics refer to Chinese as defined by racial origin, not by birthplace. [More…]

• As my allegations subsequently have been proved correct and no malice was intended on my part, does my experience testify to the fact that the Racial Discrimination Act can in some instances work against the freedom and rights of everyone? [More…]

• Associated with that measure will be amendments to the Racial Discrimination Act. [More…]

• Under the Racial Discrimination Act as it is presently framed the Commissioner for Community Relations on receipt of a complaint which has, of course, to come from the person aggrieved or affected by the incident complained about, does have the power to refuse to entertain a complaint on certain grounds. [More…]

• In that respect, again I can only say to him that I will give attention to it when considering amendments to the Racial Discrimination Act. [More…]

• It will vest in the Commission functions under other Acts, such as the Racial Discrimination Act, relating to human rights. [More…]

• There also has been a movement towards the introduction of legislation on specific matters, such as racial discrimination, discrimination on grounds of sex or marital status, criminal investigation and invasions of privacy. [More…]

• The Commission is to have functions under other Commonwealth Acts- such as the Racial Discrimination Act- or under a State Act that vests functions in the Commission. [More…]

• The newspaper report alleged that Mr Grassby claimed that even in newly produced Japanese textbooks, Australian characteristics were held to include “racial bias”. [More…]

• In accordance with the Racial Discrimination Act, this amounts to a slur upon the Japanese. [More…]

• I would appreciate your immediately commencing an investigation in accordance with the Racial Discriminauon Act, Part II, Section 9( 1 ). [More…]

• In making these sinister accusations he has been undeterred by the complete lack of evidence to support his charges and apparently is in no way bothered by the thought that he may be fanning the flames of racial discord and intolerance, which could have devastating implications for a multi-racial society such as Australia is today. [More…]

• But when that section is narrowed to a racial group and totally unsubstantiated sweeping allegations are made in regard to them, one is playing with fire, particularly in a multi-racial society such as ours. [More…]

• If that becomes a widespread belief then the basis for racialism, discrimination and perhaps worse is established. [More…]

• Australia can ill-afford to fan the flames of racial tension. [More…]

• The major problem to be faced with regard to the Palestinians is that they are a racial entity and are recognised as such by the world community, and of course by the United Nations, which has given them the status of observers. [More…]

• Historically, it can be said with complete justification that in terms of their racial and ethnic origins the Palestinians are as mixed as the Australian people. [More…]

• Newspaper headlines this week and an answer given by the Minister for Immigration this morning provide even more grounds for concern about Mr Grassby ‘s suitability to hold down even a clerk’s job in the Public Service, let alone the position of a $44,000 a year commissioner who is supposed to mediate in cases in which it is alleged that racial overtones might exist. [More…]

• We recognise the fundamental right of Aborigines to retain their racial identify and traditional life style . [More…]

• Mr Grassby, with the powers which he holds under the Racial Discrimination Act as the Commissioner, has an obligation to come to grips with the matter and to say to Senator Colston: ‘Mr Cameron claimed that a group of people were doing this? [More…]

• It will produce racial tensions and conflicts. [More…]

• The Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs has written to me, informing me- his letter is dated 22 September- that under the Racial Discrimination Act such inquiries are to be made only by the Commissioner himself. [More…]

• The activities of the Government from the time it took office have been directed towards getting rid of Grassby or, alternatively, of getting the Office into an area where he would be suppressed so that he could not carry out his role of providing protection against racial discrimination. [More…]

• I am not suggesting that he is involved in organised crime, but having been a barrister in Sydney and having been a man of the world in Sydney, I think he would agree with me that the proportion of people involved in criminal activities probably does not vary much between people of different racial origins. [More…]

• I do, however, believe it is not in the best interest of citizenship ceremonies if party political, sectarial or racial statements are made at those ceremonies. [More…]

• Most Aboriginal Australians claim distinctive racial identities and it is certainly not an act of discrimation to record who they are in relevant administrative records. [More…]

• This organisation is strongly opposed by many groups in Australia, including the East Timor Association, the Aboriginal land rights groups, the Campaign Against Racial Exploitation, the Australian independence movement and the Australian Union of Students. [More…]

• However, since the Employment Discrimination Committees were established, the Commonwealth has enacted its Racial Discrimination Act 1975 and, in addition, the New South Wales Anti-Discrimination Act 1977, the Victorian Equal Opportunity Act 1977, as well as the South Australian Sex Discrimination Act 1975 and Racial Discrimination Act 1976, have been adopted. [More…]

• This failure to meet the needs of Aboriginal students is at least in part due to socio-economic factors, racial prejudice, cultural irrelevancy and inappropriate teaching and curriculum resulting in high absenteeism and dropout rates. [More…]

• For instance, if somebody said that he was discriminated against in his employment or in some other way- even on a racial or sexist basis- he would be able to go to a commission and put the matter before the commission. [More…]

• I am on record in this House as having said that I do not believe that apartheid is the answer to South Africa’s racial problems, but it is sheer lunacy to damage Australia’s export trade to that country because of its internal policies. [More…]

• Let me not dwell on this aspect any longer, other than to reaffirm that I believe any political, religious or racial refugee should be able to seek refuge, temporary at least if not permanent, in this rich, secure, free country. [More…]

• There is an element of racial exploitation in this thinking. [More…]

• There may also be an assumption of racial superiority, that is, that Australians are too good for light industrial and industrial ‘dirty work’ but others do not mind doing it. [More…]

• Notwithstanding the racial imbalance, the whites control approximately 87 per cent of the total land area in South Africa. [More…]

• It commenced the racial classification of every South African in the Population Registration Act No. [More…]

• It is a system of institutionalised racial segregation and racial domination which provides for discrimination against blacks in all walks of life. [More…]

• Other files include information on homosexuals; Eastern and Orthodox Church groups; worker participation movements; campaigns against racial discrimination; Persons involved in divorce law reform . [More…]

• It is clearly of international political advantage for the Fraser Government to be seen to be involved in and contributing sympathetically to discussions on the issue of racial conflict in Africa and on other political and economic issues in areas geographically remote from us. [More…]

• We recognise the fundamental right of Aborigines to retain their racial identity and traditional lifestyle or, where desired, to adopt partially or wholly a European lifestyle. [More…]

• The reference I made about the recognition of the fundamental rights of Aborigines to retain their racial identity and traditional lifestyle also affects another situation at Aurukun. [More…]

• They have tribal or racial characteristics that make that sort of behaviour the norm. [More…]

• Furthermore, it has been a longstanding policy of Australian governments to oppose the importation into Australia of alien political and racial feuds. [More…]

• They differ in history, racial composition, their degree of integration into the European community and in language. [More…]

• The authority of that legislation, in conjunction with the Racial Discrimination Act of 1975, the Aboriginal Land Fund Act and the Aboriginal Councils and Associations Act of 1976 gave the Government, if those authorities were taken up, a great deal of clout in its relations with the Queensland Government in the matter of Aboriginal welfare and rights. [More…]

• Unless one has actually seen and experienced the situation, it would be hard to credit that, in 1976, such oppression could be practised by the Queensland Government and its agencies against a section of its citizens; or that a State Government daily flouts two Federal laws, namely the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders (Queensland Discriminatory Laws) and the Racial Discrimination Act. [More…]

• If the Government were thoroughly genuine in this matter it would have long ago taken up the authority available to it under the legislation that we introduced to eliminate racial discrimination in all of its odious, oppressive and insidious forms in Queensland. [More…]

• They were people of a different racial background. [More…]

• I refer, for instance, to the Aboriginal Land Fund Act, the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders (Queensland Discriminatory Laws) Act, the Racial Discrimination Act, the Aboriginal Lands and Associations Act. [More…]

• In spite of that, not only was the authority under the Racial Discrimination Act not adopted but also the evidence is that the Minister prevented it from being adopted in defence of Aboriginal rights. [More…]

• Your letter of 7 December 1977 was also the first advice to me that the Commission had taken relevant legal advice in respect of the Racial Discrimination Act. [More…]

• He does not understand the way in which the Queensland Laws Racial Discrimination Act, which was passed by his own Government, operates. [More…]

• Further, the Commission said that it desired legal action to be taken under the Racial Discrimination Act, if that was possible. [More…]

• The honourable gentleman said that there was some evidence to the effect that I had prevented action being taken under the Racial Discrimination Act arising out of the report of the Commissioner for Community Relations on Queensland. [More…]

• The honourable gentleman ought to know what is provided for in the Racial Discrimination Act by way of inquiry and report of the Commissioner for Community Relations. [More…]

• I ) Letters sent to Dr Rowley of the Aboriginal Land Fund Commission of 3 February 1978 concerning land purchases in Queensland and the prohibition of the Aboriginal Land Fund Commission from obtaining legal advice under the Racial Discrimination Act - [More…]

• 1 ) Letters sent to Dr Rowley of the Aboriginal Land Fund Commission of 3 February 1 978 concerning land purchases in Queensland and the prohibition of the Aboriginal Land Fund Commission from obtaining legal advice under the Racial Discrimination Act. [More…]

• The superintendent of Cherbourg State Aboriginal settlement in Queensland told the Committee that he would not be allowed to inform it as to the racial descent of Cherbourg’s inhabitants. [More…]

• If people cannot give a firm address for a period of more than one month it would be difficult to enrol them, irrespective of their racial or cultural background. [More…]

• This appears to be designed to cause racial problems, a general dislike of people in the south by people in the north and a dislike amongst people in the North. [More…]

• As the Review recommended, we will establish a small group of experts in cultural and racial differences to advise on how these funds can be most effectively used to develop multicultural and community language courses in the schools, and I would expect that that group would liaise with the migrant ethnic communities in pursuit of that objective. [More…]

• The Committee has identified four interrelated characteristics underlying the AustraliaJapan relationship which generate unusual opportunities and challenges, namely: The very high degree to which the complementary aspects of our two economies have contributed not only to Japan’s economic miracle but also stimulated Australia’s own growth in the late 1960’s and early 1 970 ‘s the need to overcome racial and cultural barriers; the pressure for change stemming from regional and global political and economic developments; and the application to the relationship of modern technological and financing concepts. [More…]

• As employment in the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs is determined by the capacity of officers to meet the normal requirements for employment in the Commonwealth Public Service, a requirement that a person should or should not be a first generation migrant or should or should not be from a particular ethnic background would appear to be in conflict with the Racial Discrimination Act 1975. [More…]

• What steps have been taken by the Commonwealth and each State, to (a) abolish laws which breach international conventions, the Racial Discrimination Act and announced Commonwealth policies, and (b) to implement outside the Northern Territory the Woodward Commission’s recommendations on land rights as legislated for the Territory. [More…]

• The Commonwealth Parliament enacted the Racial Discrimination Act in 197S to implement the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination. [More…]

• It shall promote understanding, tolerance and friendship among all nations, racial or religions groups, and shall further the activities of the United Nations for the maintenance of peace. [More…]

• 1 ) Between what dates has the Commissioner for Community Relations been consulted by the Aboriginal Land Fund Commission concerning possible breaches of the Racial Discrimination Act 1975, by the Premier of Queensland. [More…]

• The Commissioner for Community Relations has advised that, in the course of an inquiry under the Racial Discrimination Act 1975 in relation to an action of the Queensland Government, he sought assistance from several persons including the Aboriginal Land Fund Commission. [More…]

• This is an inaccurate and crude attempt to promote racial hatred and community tension. [More…]

• This is a typical tactic of using racial slurs to draw attention away from other problems or to find scapegoats for problems in Australia. [More…]

• I believe that there is not a case for increasing the distrust and the dislike that some people of different racial origin have for each other. [More…]

• Continuing instability, resulting from conflicts which stem from racial inequality, creates the very conditions in which extremist influences can thrive. [More…]

• Inevitably problems of racial tensions and white supremacy will occur in areas such as this. [More…]

• Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that the Government will enforce the required standard of broadcasting as laid down for all other stations, on community radio 3CR call on Federal Government to legislate against incitement to racial hatred and violence. [More…]

• I believe that we must continue in our condemnation of the practice of racial politics to the detriment of the overwhelming majority of black South Africans. [More…]

• I end with a plea to the Nationalist Government of South Africa to realise the inevitable consequences of its racial policies. [More…]

• It is most unfortunate that in its political views and attitudes in the racial sphere it now seems to have pursued a course which is in complete conflict with the attitudes and views of so many Australians. [More…]

• The broadcasts are offensive and certainly should be regarded as being open incitement to racial hatred. [More…]

• This is nothing more than an attempt to incite racial hatred within the Lebanese section of the Australian community. [More…]

• They are broadcasts designed to inspire racial hatred in the Australian community. [More…]

• In the first place, is any money from the Australian Government going to support these broadcasts of hate and this incitement to racial violence? [More…]

• Secondly, quite apart from the finances of the station, surely the Australian community can do without incitement to racial hatred of this nature. [More…]

• Persons who consider they have been discriminated against in their employment on grounds of race or national or ethnic origin may, alternatively or additionally, lodge a complaint with the Commissioner for Community Relations under the provisions of the Racial Discrimination Act 1975. [More…]

• Finally, such persons who reside in New South Wales or South Australia, may seek redress under the provisions of the NSW Anti-Discrimination Act 1977, or the SA Racial Discrimination Act 1 976, respectively. [More…]

• I will speak on that matter in greater detail at some later date when I hope to tell the House of some of the experiences and discussions I have had with leaders from all shades of politics, but at the moment I would just like to say that I think it is terribly important to have peace in that part of the world and for the new government, when it comes to power in Namibia, to be a moderate and democratic government which will allow various points of view and racial groups to integrate in a democratic society. [More…]

• I believe that we have been badly mistaken in confusing our natural and proper abhorrence of the policy of racial apartheid as practised in so many countries under a great variety of names with official disinterest and forgetting to observe very objectively the issue of international power politics, to quote the Minister, which have become of fundamental importance, particularly in the areas of southern Africa and Indo-China. [More…]

• It is a cause of distress to many of us that the colour of a person’s skin or his racial background can prove to be of such personal disadvantage and distress. [More…]

• These gentlemen, though properly concerned about racial laws in the southern African area, have closed their intelligent eyes to the realities of international power politics. [More…]

• There is to be no racial discrimination. [More…]

• Whereas this meeting of Commonwealth Young Leaders has taken cognisance of the existence of racial discrimination in some countries ofthe world; [More…]

• Be it resolved that this meeting condemns the existence of racial discrimination in any part of the world. [More…]

• We have this dreadful situation of there being international covenants dealing with human and political rights and international covenants saying that there is to be no form of racial discrimination, and yet the Queensland Government thumbing its nose at the Prime Minister and the Minister for Employment and Youth Affairs. [More…]

• Discouraged jobseekers were defined as persons not in the labour force who wanted a job but were not looking for work because they believed that they would not be able to find a job for any of the following reasons: they were considered too young or too old by employers; language or racial difficulties; they lacked the necessary training, skills or experience; or there were no jobs available in their locality or line of work. [More…]

• Further Article 3 of the constitution states that ‘It is strictly forbidden for the Organisation to undertake any intervention or activities of a political, military, religious or racial character’. [More…]

• Was Jonestown, despite its Guyanan Gotterdammerung, essentially an American phenomenon which reflects uniquely United States stresses and tensions whether racial, sexual or spiritual? [More…]

• I refer the Minister representing the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs to the clear examples of racial intolerance by the United States pastoral company, King Ranch, at Lake Nash in the Northern Territory. [More…]

• In 1975 the Commonwealth Parliament enacted the Racial Discrimination Act and the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders (Queensland Discriminatory Laws) Act in order to supersede certain provisions of the Queensland legislation which had the effect of discriminating against Queensland Aboriginals and Torres Strait Islanders. [More…]

• The current repression in Vietnam, which is causing so many people to leave, is based on political, ideological and racial grounds. [More…]

• There were some who lacked necessary training skills or experience, or who had language or racial difficulties. [More…]

• However, it would not be unethical for me to say tonight that I share the obvious pleasure that Bishop Muzorewa must be feeling tonight on the swearing in of his new multi-racial ministry. [More…]

• I pray and trust that the course to recognition is not too long and that under his leadership Rhodesia will move towards peace and a better standard of living for all its citizens of all racial backgrounds. [More…]

• Racial Discrimination Act, 1975 s. 22 (5) [More…]

• Remedies are available under the Racial Discrimination Act 1975 to persons suffering from any acts of discrimination to which that Act applies. [More…]

• I am advised that Section 34 (a) of the Public Service Act is not in contravention of the Racial Discrimination Act nor of relevant international conventions. [More…]

• Australia has ratified the International Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Racial Discrimination which requires States parties to undertake measures that could be said to be designed to promote inter-cultural communication. [More…]

• Remedies are available under the Racial Discrimination Act 1975 to persons suffering from any acts of discriminationto which that Act applies. [More…]

• Provisions of the Racial Discrimination Act 1975 and the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders (Queensland Discriminatory Laws) Act 1975 override Queensland legislation which is considered to discriminate against Aboriginals. [More…]

• I wish to draw the attention of the House to the Declaration of the Commonwealth on Racism and Racial Prejudice which was adopted by the Commonwealth heads of government at Lusaka on 7 August. [More…]

• Lusaka Declaration of the Commonwealth on Racism and Racial Prejudice [More…]

• We, the Commonwealth Heads of Government, recalling the declaration of Commonwealth principles made at Singapore on 22 January 197 1 and the statement on apartheid in sport, issued in London on 1 5 June 1977, have decided to proclaim our desire to work jointly as well as severally for the eradication of all forms of racism and racial prejudice. [More…]

• The Commonwealth is an institution devoted to the promotion of international understanding and world peace, and to the achievement of equal rights for all citizens regardless of race, colour, sex, creed or political belief, and is committed to the eradication of the dangerous evils of racism and racial prejudice, [More…]

• We now, therefore, proclaim this Lusaka Declaration of the Commonwealth on Racism and Racial Prejudice. [More…]

• United in our desire to rid the world of the evils of racism and racial prejudice, we proclaim our faith in the inherent dignity and worth of the human person and declare that: [More…]

• While everyone is free to retain diversity in his or her culture and lifestyle, this diversity does not justify the prepetuation of racial prejudice or racially discriminatory practices, [More…]

• We reject as inhuman and intolerable all policies designed to perpetuate apartheid, racial segregation or other policies based on theories that racial groups are or may be inherently superior or inferior. [More…]

• We agree that everyone has the right to protection against acts of incitement to racial hatred and discrimination, whether committed by individuals, groups or other organisations. [More…]

• We attach particular importance to ensuring that children shall be protected from practices which may foster racism or racial prejudice. [More…]

• We recognise that the effects of colonialism or racism in the past may make desirable special provisions for the social and economic enhancement of indigenous populations inspired by the principles of freedom and equality which characterise our association, we accept the solemn duty of working together to eliminate racism and racial prejudice. [More…]

• Being aware that legislation alone cannot eliminate racism and racial prejudice, we endorse the need to initiate public information and education policies designed to promote understanding, tolerance, respect and friendship among peoples and racial groups. [More…]

• We are particularly conscious of the importance of the contribution the media can make to human rights and the eradication of racism and racial prejudice by helping to eliminate ignorance and misunderstanding between people and by drawing attention to the evils which afflict humanity. [More…]

• We affirm the importance of truthful presentation of facts in order to ensure that the public are fully informed of the dangers presented by racism and racial prejudice. [More…]

• In accordance with established principles of international law and, in particular, the provisions of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, we affirm that everyone is, at all times and in all places, entitled to be protected in the enjoyment of the right to be free of racism and racial prejudice. [More…]

• We believe that the existence in the world of apartheid and racial discrimination is a matter of concern to all human beings. [More…]

• We recognise that we share an international responsibility to work together for the total eradication of apartheid and racial discrimination. [More…]

• We note that racism and racial prejudice, wherever they occur, are significant factors contributing to tension between nations and thus inhibit peaceful progress and development. [More…]

• Nevertheless, the Federal Government has undertaken commitments to the States which are of particular relevance to the matter of racism and racial prejudice. [More…]

• While everyone is free to retain diversity in his or her culture and life style, this diversity does not justify the perpetuation of racial prejudice or racially discriminatory practices. [More…]

• We attach particular importance to ensuring that children shall be protected from practices which may foster racism or racial prejudicce. [More…]

• If achieved, it will be acceptable to leading African states, it will remove a festering sore which has threatened to infect Southern Africa with both the poison of racial war and great power conflict. [More…]

• As far as the white community of that country is concerned, it can hope for a stable and peaceful existence, only as part of a genuine multi-racial society. [More…]

• Zambia, they said, was a genuine multi-racial society without tension, without conflict. [More…]

• The Australian-born population has shown itself to be remarkably adaptable by progressively accepting many of the cultural values the newcomers have offered this nation, without significant racial antagonisms and tensions which have marred life in some other nations. [More…]

• Further, it has been a longstanding policy of Australian governments to oppose the importation into Australia of alien political and racial feuds. [More…]

• For the first time Australia indicated that it was ready to deal with the non-aligned and with Asia and Africa on their own terms, without racial discrimination in immigration policy and without overriding military preoccupation. [More…]

• What members of the Opposition call being mute on issues of principle and what they call being servile is, in fact, being independent and ensuring that responsible guidelines are adhered to so that we do not have, for example, racial inflammation on the radio, improper political attacks and the types of scurrilous abuses of privilege that we have heard today from the Leader of the Opposition. [More…]

• For example, there is a federal law which deals with racial discrimination and racial hatred. [More…]

• The fact of the matter is that examples have been given and I think the honourable member for Lilley (Mr Kevin Cairns) picked a good one, of how people can promote hatred between people of different racial or religious backgrounds- we have seen it in some countries of the world and we do not want it here- to such a degree that the peace, order or good government of a country can be endangered. [More…]

• On the face of it, this would appear to be a breach of section 14 of the Racial Discrimination Act which states, amongst other things: [More…]

• So, on the face of it, there does appear to be a breach of the Racial Discrimination Act. [More…]

• I will be taking the matter up with the Attorney-General for him to communicate with the Commissioner for Community Relations to see whether there has been a breach of the Racial Discrimination Act. [More…]

• But, worse than this, he is attempting to disguise the racial bias of the NUMAS selection procedure. [More…]

• Was there any definition of their racial, geographic or representational status on either their passports or other travel documents; if so, what was the definition. [More…]

• Such letters of authority do not define racial, geographic or representational aspects pertinent to the grantees. [More…]

• Racial prejudice is practised by the State. [More…]

• enable the Institute of Multicultural Affairs to conduct research into and foster community sensitivity for racial groups not the subject of study by the Institute of Aboriginal Studies while including the latter in the ambit of multicultural affairs, and [More…]

• To this end we propose part (e) of the Opposition amendment which states that we should redraft the legislation to: enable the Institute of Multicultural Affairs to conduct research into and foster community sensitivity for racial groups not the subject of study by the Institute of Aboriginal Studies - [More…]

• It further states that the Institute ought to be enabled to conduct research into and foster community sensitivity for racial groups not the subject of study by the Institute of Aboriginal Studies while including the latter in the ambit of multicultural affairs. [More…]

• It smacks of a sort of racial intolerance on the part of the Government. [More…]

• 1 ) Does the Government subscribe unreservedly to the Lusaka Declaration of the Commonwealth on racism and racial prejudice ( 7 August 1 979 ). [More…]

• 1 ) Has the Minister had any discussions with his counterpart in Queensland regarding the Queensland Government’s defiance of the Racial Discrimination Act 1975, as reported in the 4th Annual Report of the Commissioner for Community Relations; if so, when and where did those discussions take place. [More…]

• Was any consideration given to the role played by Mr P. J. Killoran in the matter which was the subject of a direction to Mr Killoran under the Racial Discrimination Act. [More…]

• I refer to such organisations as the Institute of Aboriginal Studies, Aboriginal legal services or voluntary organisations like the Campaign against Racial Exploitation. [More…]

• That war has brought great suffering to the peoples of Rhodesia and the surrounding countries, and has exacerbated racial tensions throughout the region. [More…]

• We can recognise the grave problems for all of us from racial conflict between white and black which creates enormous problems in the world. [More…]

• Participants in a number of these courses have included school teachers, and this program is therefore assisting to promote the goals of inter-cultural understanding and racial harmony within Australian schools. [More…]

• Has his attention been drawn to the statement attributed to Mr Richard Alston, on page 14 of the 4th Annual Report of the Commissioner for Community Relations, which states in part that the Government has undermined its international obligations pursuant to its ratification of the International Convention on Racial Discrimination. [More…]

• What has been the response of the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination to the submission it received from the Foundation for Aboriginal and Island Research Action, in which it was alleged that the Queensland Government was discriminatory in its legislation and administrative practices. [More…]

• Has a Legal Defence Fund to support Australian Aboriginal liberation struggles been established by the International Conference for the Eradication of Racism and Racial Discrimination. [More…]

• Australia, as a State Party to the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, submits national reports to the Committee established under that Convention whose task it is to consider measures taken to give effect to the Convention. [More…]

• and (5) The question of the dissemination in Australia of ideas based on racial superiority or racial hatred is currently being studied by my colleague, the Attorney-General. [More…]

• It is not open to the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination to receive and consider communications from the Foundation for Aboriginal and Island Research Action in the matter mentioned in the question. [More…]