racist - senate - 1970

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

My friend Senator Wheeldon went to some lengths to set up, as Senator Mulvihill suggested, his own aunt sallys and to dispose of certain racist matters. [More…]
I do not think that the fact that Mr Perkins said that the Country Party of Western Australia was the greatest racist party in Australia would cause me to find myself in a great dilemma. [More…]
Does the Government regard the Government of Rhodesia as the ‘illegal racist regime in Zimbabwe’; if so, (a) why does the Government not refer to the Government of Rhodesia as the Government of Rhodesia; (b) why is it illegal: (c) why is it racist. [More…]
I will not support a regime anywhere which is racist in any way or which undertakes actions with which I do not agree. [More…]
I rebut the accusation by Senator Keeffe that Senator Chaney was making racist remarks. [More…]
Will the Government convey to the Vietnamese Government Australia’s repugnance of its racist policies and forced expulsion of nationals and indicate that we expect Vietnam to continue to observe some standards of human decency in its treatment of its ethnic Chinese minority? [More…]
If the Government will not do that, does it then place less value upon continuing friendship with Malaysia, the Prime Minister of which, Tunku Abdul Rahman, has been a leading advocate of the imposition of sanctions, than it does upon being identified with the unlawful, minority, racist regime in Salisbury? [More…]
Does the Government believe that the money received from these wheat sales is in any way commensurate with the damage done to Australia’s relations with Asian, African and other countries committed to the removal of the illegal racist regime in Salisbury. [More…]
We are getting a reputation all over the world for being racist and for denying the freedoms which are accepted elsewhere as the heritage of ail humans - the basic human rights. [More…]
The Government is a racist government. [More…]
It is regarded all round the world as being a racist government. [More…]
When I was in Teheran recently it was not only my experience but also the experience of others that the rest of the world regards Australia as being just about next to South Africa as a repressive country and a racist country. [More…]
It is a repressive, racist Government, and it should be exposed to the whole world for what it is. [More…]
He said that Australia and the Australian Government are getting the reputation of being racist. [More…]
It is worth no further comment than simply to say that anybody who thinks that this Government is following racist policies should study the number of students who are being assisted in this country at the moment, having been brought here as a result of the programme carried on hy the present. [More…]
For members of the Australian Labor Party - 2 members in particular, not all of them - to blacken Australia’s name by accusing Australia of being a racist indicates the depths to which some people will descend for the purpose of political advantage. [More…]
If the Government wants to keep the people of the Territory under subjection because of its racist attitude it will pay for it in the long run. [More…]
I have a theory that those who charge others of being racist have a guilt complex. [More…]
The numerous coloured nations in the United Nations will note again our support for so many reactionary things like supplying arms to South Africa and participating in the war in Vietnam, and we will be labelled as a racist nation. [More…]
Australia’s immigration policy could not be termed a racist policy in this respect; it is a policy of selective immigration in thai only those people who have skills which would enable them to be readily absorbed into our community are permitted into Australia. [More…]
But if the information which has been given is correct the deportation of Miss Lau could be’ only on racist grounds because she complies with all the requirements of the relaxed immigration policy of the Government. [More…]
I think that the South African Ambassador may regard it as an insulting statement to make about him if it were said that he was the representative of a racist oppressive regime. [More…]
He may well find that to be an insulting statement because it may well be that he does not believe that he is a racist or a supporter of an oppressive regime. [More…]
In December 1965, the 23rd General Assembly of the United Nations carried a resolution from the special political committee which declared that all states and organisations should suspend cultural, educational, sporting and other exchanges with the racist regime and other institutions and organisations in South Africa which practised apartheid. [More…]
Has the 17-nation Committee Against Apartheid of the United Nations protested to the Australian Government against the action in permitting the tour of Australia of rugby players selected on racial grounds and representing a racist country [More…]
To talk of anybody who speaks about not permitting certain types of people to migrate to this country as a racist, is idealistic poppycock. [More…]
He showed a completely racist psychology on this question. [More…]
Australia becomes known as a racist nation throughout South East Asia and to the west coat of America. [More…]
Why was it that when the Prime Minister recently arrived in America one of the first questions he was asked was: Do you come from a racist nation’? [More…]
Above all, we do not want Australia’s name smeared as a racist nation with, as I say, the embarrassing frequency with which it is occurring at present. [More…]
The fact is that certain people, although they have the skills that Australia requires and although they are not a threat to our standard of Jiving or to our culture, nevertheless cannot get into Australia no matter how desperate our shortage of a particular skill, on an assisted passage under - the administration - not the policy - of this Government, because the Government is racist. [More…]
Will the Government emulate the fine example of the Prime Minister of New Zealand, Mr Marshall, who has sent a personal message to Mr Ian Smith, the head of the racist, illegal minority regime in Rhodesia, expressing concern at the detention of the former Prime Minister, Mr Garfield Todd, and his daughter without formal charges being laid against them? [More…]
This South African white racist expression which is used to describe 65 per cent of the South African population - the Africans - is an expression which is just as insulting to the Africans of South Africa as the expressions ‘nigger’ or ‘boong’; yet we find that it is used in official Australian Government documents, ls it any wonder that when incidents occur such as that which took place at the recent Commonwealth Parliamentary Association conference in Canberra,” representatives of countries such as Zambia, Uganda and Tanzania, are inclined to believe the worst in the event of any misunderstanding between Australia and African countries. [More…]
We know that the AttorneyGeneral has been to Rhodesia as a guest of the Rhodesian Promotion Council and we know thai when the letter of the law provides for an offence which has been committed by his racist friends in Salisbury he has not the slightest intention of prosecuting them. [More…]
As I am sure that the Attorney-General would disagree with such sentiments, will he dissociate the Government from such racist views and ensure that all officers under his control are instructed not to intrude their personal views in actions involving the arrest of any citizen? [More…]
Later at the charge desk the distraught Marlene was surrounded by sniggering police and became the target of obviously racist insults, such as: Black Slut’, ‘Black Gin’, ‘Black S- ‘. [More…]
Her final appeal at the Bail Desk against her treatment and the racist abuse such as being called a Black Slut was met with the comment, Well, arn’t you?’ [More…]
We have not swept our problem under the carpet, as so many of our racist Australians would like to do. [More…]
‘If you want a nigger for a neighbour, vote Labor’ and that sort of slogan are illustrations of the feelings of these racist groups. [More…]
Such will be the basis of opposition to any team which is selected on a religious or racist criterion. [More…]
Does the Minister representing the Minister for Foreign Affairs not agree that there is universal revulsion in this country, as in others, to the racist actions of the Government of Uganda and, in particular, the most recently reported statements of General Amin, the President of that country? [More…]
Does he remember, on the occasion of the visit of the South African football team to Australia last year, the very noisy demonstrations and protests made by so many socalled racists against that team coming to Australia? [More…]
Has the Government received any protests from any of the individuals or organisations, which made such a grand display on that occasion, against the atrocities that Uganda is now committing in its extreme racist policy towards Indians and Pakistanis? [More…]
Secondly, will the Minister ascertain what steps are being taken both in the United Nations and by individual nations to bring an end to this obnoxious, racist and oppressive action by the USSR? [More…]
Aborigines, I draw attention to the fact that Opposition senators are trying to gain political capital by saying that the ‘Government is bad and is racist and that they, who have seen the light of a White Australia policy only a year or two ago, are the purists now. [More…]
There is no doubt that it was a racist speech. [More…]
If as a result of an agreement between our 2 countries some decision is made which alters the present status of the Torres Strait islands, then will be the time to debate the matter instead of this whipping up of racist frenzy that we have heard tonight from Senator Little when he talked about barbarism in Papua New Guinea and only a few areas being under proper control. [More…]
It is racist and sectarian and supports apartheid. [More…]
We also said that we would get away from the racist tag which had been dogging Australia for so many years. [More…]
This Government has been selectively racist. [More…]
How on earth this Government can justify the giving of money to the racist Amin is beyond me. [More…]
As Uganda is unquestionably the fiercest racist state in Africa, will the Government raise the question of sanctions at the United Nations? [More…]
The fact is that the Government of Australia is endeavouring to carry out the repeated statements and resolutions of the United Nations- its General Assembly, its Security Council and its other bodies- in order that this illegal racist regime in Rhodesia shall not be able to propagandise around the world. [More…]
Further, its position is aggravated because patently it is a racist regime. [More…]
The regime there is an illegal, racist regime. [More…]
The force and terror being used in Rhodesia have been used against the vast majority of the people who are being oppressed by an illegal, racist minority in that country. [More…]
They represent the overwhelming majority view not only of Australia but also of the world, which disapproves of the racist policies which are being pursued by the Government of South Africa and which have been repeatedly condemned in the United Nations. [More…]
It is a tragic situation for the people of Israel who find themselves in a small country of only some two million people, many of whom still bear the scars of the holocaust under the Nazi regime from 1933 to 1945, and many others of whom bear the scars of memory through knowing what has happened to their families as a result of racist, antisemitic persecution in many other parts of the world, fearful of their continued existence because they believe that they are surrounded by many millions of hostile neighbours who do not acknowledge the existence of their state. [More…]
In his introduction to the second volume, Mr Stevens asserts that from the broadest construction of the term ‘racist’, down to the inter-personal relationships between Aboriginals and Europeans in Australian society, it is difficult to deny that prejudice exists and that this prejudice, over the years, has been erected into a functional system. [More…]
Discrimination has had its effects on migrant groups in our community and there has been evidence of support in Australia for white racist regimes of South Africa. [More…]
Is the Attorney-General aware that savage racist persecution of Russia’s Jewish minority is still taking place? [More…]
I say that his action indicates that he, the Prime Minister, is a racist. [More…]
In my mind there are 2 things: The Prime Minister is a racist and he is such a conceited, arrogant person that all he wants to do is perform on a world basis. [More…]
Did I hear the honourable senator say that I am a racist? [More…]
If the objections to South Africa’s policies are objections to what are called racist policies it ought not to be ignored that the same types of policies are pursued throughout black Africa without one word of condemnation by this Government. [More…]
We ought to recognise that in the eyes of other countries the policies which are adopted by the Australian Government have the same racist tinge which we ascribe to South Africa’s policies. [More…]
But that happened under the bad old Act of Queensland, you know, that racist Act that was talked about in Queensland when there were approximately 1,500 people living on Palm Island and every able bodied man was required to do a certain amount of work to provide those things in the communities. [More…]
It is useless our saying, as Australians, that we are not a racist nation. [More…]
Because someone wants to live away from someone else does not mean that they are racist and that this is apartheid. [More…]
That was an interjection from Senator Webster, the racist defender. [More…]
I believe in some respects that both the Queensland Government and the Australian Government are adopting subconsciously a racist attitude on this whole issue because the Queensland Government is saying, The Australian Government is not going to take over Aboriginal affairs’ and the Australian Government is saying, ‘We are going to take over Aboriginal affairs’, but the people who are affected are not being consulted. [More…]
Further, does the Minister propose to take any action to ensure the elimination of racist attitudes in the writing of insurance business in Australia? [More…]
I believe his wife has sought to join the Memorial Club, about which 12 months ago Mr Perkins expressed the opinion that it was the biggest racist club in Australia. [More…]
The racist policies of a Nazi Germany did not become valid simply because they had the acceptance, as they did, of a majority vote of the German people. [More…]
When they were in Opposition I can recall how they constantly, in this chamber and outside it- certainly, from my recollection, in this chamber- accused the Government of being racist because of conduct in which it was alleged to have engaged when those of us in government who were responsible for the decisions which were being taken knew that there was not a spark of racism or race relations in that conduct. [More…]
The Press this morning reported that a senior Australian public servant claimed at Australia House in London that Australia is a racist country. [More…]
I mention these matters only because I feel that those who cry racist often create problems where previously none existed. [More…]
Australia was called the second most racist country in the world, eclipsing Rhodesia, the United States and Britain and beaten only by South Africa. [More…]
Honourable senators opposite even took steps to deny a Government supporter the opportunity to incorporate in the record of this Parliament some of the racist propaganda which abounds in this country and which this Bill seeks to contain and stop. [More…]
I cannot understand how any senator or any member of parliament can justify the racist propaganda to which Senator Coleman referred and to which I will refer in my speech. [More…]
The fact that he made that comment is not hard to understand because Senator Sheil comes from the most racist State in Australia, the State of Queensland. [More…]
He was elected as the member for Riverina because of that dirty, vicious, racist campaign- the most racist campaign that has ever been waged in this country. [More…]
It is hypocritical and racist for us to hold the opinion that little assistance ought to be given to the Aborigines because they take every opportunity to drink themselves into stupidity with any money they receive while we support and make contributions to organisations whose prime function is to deal with alcoholics, when we see in this Parliament members who are unable to handle alcohol properly. [More…]
I challenge the company to deny that the provision is not racist in operation and intent. [More…]
Do honourable senators opposite say that they believe therefore that racism did not have its origins in the superior race theories of Adolf Hitler and in some of those racist groups that operate within the United States which clearly are gaining in influence within our own country. [More…]
An unspoken inhuman discrimination- which I am sure was the substance of the behaviour of the insurance companies and of many others- from time to time manifests itself in a racist comment or joke and maintains the alienation felt by the migrant and the Aboriginal from the so-called original Australians. [More…]
It will make more difficult the task of those who seek to maintain a racist postion wherever they are- whether it be in government, in private enterprise, in organisations, in clubs, on the sporting fields, in schools and in our communities. [More…]
I have no doubt that the word ‘race’, with all its added emotional connotations, has helped to create the racist myth which has in turn inspired the bizarre form of political racism which the world has seen during this century. [More…]
The anti-racist, psuedo moralists of today who seem to be obsessed by race as the all important issue and who try to convince us that race is what it is all about are, I feel, leading us astray. [More…]
People in the respective groups in the party, couples, quartettes, or whatever they might be, do not look on other members as being racist because they do not go to morning tea and afternoon tea with them. [More…]
One speaker quoted some man who had come from overseas and said that we were the worst racist country in the world. [More…]
I read in the Melbourne ‘Herald’ this afternoon that Australia is a racist country. [More…]
Perkins has gone to England and has called this country the worst racist country. [More…]
There are people in countries who talk about Australia being racist. [More…]
Recently, we have had a man named Perkins running around the country accusing this Government and the people of being racist. [More…]
Does the Government think that legislation of this kind will stop people being racist, if we think they are being racist, that they have feelings about this person or that person? [More…]
Whether the barber himself is racist or not is irrelevant. [More…]
Senator Greenwood criticised the Bill on the ground that by forbidding the incitement to racial hatred or the dissemination of racist propaganda it infringed the right of free speech, of absolute freedom of publication and of speech. [More…]
However, Senator Greenwood did not bother to mention that the laws of defamation already provide substantial constraints against an absolute freedom of expression and of publication, nor did he explain why if the Bill is objectionable on those grounds the Government of which he was a member in 1966 voted for the United Nations Convention on Racial Discrimination which is appended to this Bill and which provides for exactly the same prohibitions against incitement to racial hatred and the publication or dissemination of racist propaganda. [More…]
Senator Sheil, however, proceeded to contradict himself by delivering a eulogy on South Africa and Rhodesia and by aligning himself quite clearly with the very stringent and very racist laws which exist in those countries. [More…]
If a clause like clause 28 was passed into law, it is possible that we would find that people who are genuinely trying to debate perhaps our immigration policy or other matters that they regard as being of importance, or even more abstruse subjects such as the inheritability of intelligence, might be held up by some as having a racist intent and of trying to divide the community when in fact that is not the case. [More…]
Those people I have an obligation to look after under my portfolio have been referred to frequently and I think it would be accepted that, if there was any racial discrimination in Australia, they would be the most aggrieved people by any racist attitude of the Australia public or of any sections of our community. [More…]
Is Australia a racist country in the way in which people in overseas countries have been told recently that our country is the most racist country outside South Africa? [More…]
Often the meaning of the word ‘racist’ has puzzled me. [More…]
When we meet some people in Australia, the immediate reaction of those people when they start a conversation is, ‘I am not a racist, but-‘. [More…]
Then follow all the racist utterances. [More…]
He would deny that he is a racist. [More…]
I deny that Australia is a racist country or that there is any widespread racism in Australia. [More…]
At present there is a senior public servant in this country who has been abroad and, while abroad, declared Australia to be a racist country. [More…]
We will not escape any slurs about racist conduct in Australia merely by passing this Bill. [More…]
When Mr Perkins goes abroad at Government expense and tells the world that we are a racist society, I think we do something to advance our cause as a non-racist society if we allow Mr Perkins- we have not got much choice anyway- to say what he likes about us. [More…]
A nonracist society or a society which is trying to eliminate racial discrimination is, I suggest, a society which can stand such criticism and which can say: ‘We stand on our record and we are doing what we can to eliminate racial discrimination. ‘ [More…]
But Mr Perkins, the signatories to this Convention and the rest of the world can go before whatever forum is available to them and still call us racist; we will be judged by our performance. [More…]
I just happen to have a racist barman. [More…]
The point I am trying to make to the Committee is simply that what to one man might be a genuine inquiry, a matter for intellectual study and perhaps even for publication, might be to another man dreadfully racist and a blot on the community. [More…]
Do they accuse this Government or the last Government of being racist for allowing such people to call themselves full-blooded Aborigines? [More…]
Senator Webster has just demonstrated his typical racist attitude. [More…]
No one could be more experienced in the machinations of insurance companies than those who work there in their sexist, racist and discriminatory anti-Labor activities. [More…]
On the same day the United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution condemning UDIResolution 2024- (xx) and on the following day the UN Security Council adopted a resolution- 2 16 ( 1965)- condemning UDI and called upon all States not to recognise the illegal racist minority regime in Southern Rhodesia’ and to refrain from rendering any assistance to it. [More…]
In order to truckle to and to remain the favourite bosom pal of Senator Jim Keeffe, the most obnoxious character in the Federal Parliament and the most virulent anti-white racist in Australia today. [More…]
He brings in racist overtones to every debate on Aboriginal affairs which is held in this chamber. [More…]
Is the Minister aware that the League of Rights has been denounced for its reactionary, racist policies by, among others, Mr Anthony, Mr Sinclair and Mr Hunt? [More…]
The Portuguese, of all the great European colonial powers, were certainly the least racist. [More…]
This would be about the most racist government that this country has ever seen, and there were some racist governments prior to 1972. [More…]
Clearly, the Government does not care what happens to Aborigines in Australia, and honourable senators opposite who have acquiesced in this measure have succumbed to the worst racist measure this country has seen in recent years. [More…]
Senator O’BYRNE Senator Sim is a racist. [More…]
Mr President, in deference to you I withdraw whatever offence there is in saying that Senator Sim is a Jew lover because I was about to go on to say that Senator Sim is a racist and a Jew hater. [More…]
I think Senator Sim showed a sign of antisemitism when he referred to the Manchester Jews, and Senator Baume must admit that that was a most unparliamentary, objectionable, unpalatable, racist, reprehensible phrase. [More…]
Has the attention of the Minister been drawn to the scurrilous racist circular forwarded to members advising of the formation of the Anti-Semite League and which calls for, among other things, the deportation to the state of Israel of all Australian resident jews? [More…]
Can the Minister advise whether this is one of the 23 racist organisations referred to by the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs in the House of Representatives? [More…]
The question initially refers to a scurrilous racist circular prepared by an anti-semitic group. [More…]
The suggestion that enclaves of these people, many or most of whom have entrenched racist attitudes, should be established in areas which have substantial Aboriginal populations is particularly obnoxious and will, I trust, be rejected by all responsible Australians. [More…]
We screen people to avoid accepting those with marked racist tendencies. [More…]
If we do not want to import racist prejudices, then one would think that there would be many areas of the world more satisfactory than Rhodesia for the purpose of recruiting migrants. [More…]
He accuses us of being racist unless we meet his every demand. [More…]
Early this year at a seminar at Sydney University I had the opportunity to face these claims by him that we are a lot of racists. [More…]
I want to refer to the racist statements made by my colleague on the other side of the chamber, Senator Wright. [More…]
Yet, that is the sort of racist legislation that Senator Wright and other honourable senators opposite are supporting. [More…]
Yet I know that there are a large number of ordinary Rhodesians with families who are gravely apprehensive of the future and who are in no way racist in character. [More…]
There is a racist consideration in the proposed amendment to that clause. [More…]
I always thought that he was a small ‘1’ liberal but his remarks were probably some of the most racist ever enunciated in this chamber. [More…]
I interpolate here to say that the debate is not helped when we hear words from the other side such as ‘racist’ and ‘sell-out’. [More…]
I wonder then why we cannot leave it to Aborigines to make the decision as to who is to be delegated to issue permits and how that responsibility is delegated, rather than leave it to the remote white, non-assimilated and possibly- I say this calmly this morning- rather racist dominated Country Party members of the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly. [More…]
My concern primarily was that the report contained assertions that the Queensland population was racist without providing any specific evidence to substantiate the assertions. [More…]
Only a person who was ignorant of the people ‘s development or who is a racist could claim the cards may ‘well have been tram tickets. ‘ [More…]
We are still a very racist country. [More…]
The position has deteriorated because of racist attitudes over generations since the arrival of European settlers or conquerors in this country. [More…]
Many of the text books published over the last century or so are racist in attitude, racist in origin and racist in interpretation. [More…]
They are totally racist. [More…]
When I say co-existence’ it is not meant to be taken as a racist statement- far from it. [More…]
When an application was made by Paths to Peace for affiliation with the Community Radio Federation it was rejected by the committee of the Community Radio Federation on the ground that Paths to Peace was a Zionist and therefore racist organisation. [More…]
The first is that it does give some evidence of the alarming growth of anti-semitism in this country which is clothed with the euphemism of opposition to Zionism, but from my experience with people who have been putting forward some of the allegedly anti-Zionist arguments I think this goes well beyond the bounds of legitimate political debate to the extent of being racist in the terminology which is used and racist in the propositions which are put forward. [More…]
The undersigned demand that a public statement be issued dissociating the UWA Liberal Club from the outrageous sexist and racist remarks contained in this issue of New Libido. [More…]
I think he was very racist when he said that giving Aboriginals the right to vote has caused irreparable harm. [More…]
By way of preface I refer to a letter which I presented to the Minister this morning which implied that the National Australian Association was emulating the National Front in Britain with its extreme racist views. [More…]
I think the organisation has shown itself to be racist in its attitude, and I am sure that an investigation of the matters that have been brought to our attention could be undertaken by the AttorneyGeneral. [More…]
Australia is a racist country. [More…]
Some 30 people left the cathedral in Perth on Sunday morning at about 10.30 and made their way to Quarading, a place noted perhaps for the racist attitude of the shire. [More…]
-Because of Senator Lewis’s racist attitude he does not believe that Aborigines have the same right to education as everybody else. [More…]
So people who want to do this sort of thing, who want to get carried away and use this place as a forum for their own racist attitudes ought to go outside in the streets and declare how well off they are. [More…]
I hope that Senator Lewis and people who think like him, people with the same sort of racist attitude, will read the Hansard reports covering these things and see what they are doing to our own ethnic minority who are not getting a fair go. [More…]
Here with Rhodesia was the issue- an illegal white racist minority government relegating its black people to the status of second class citizens, the entrenchment of white dominance and every other emotive racial charge. [More…]
Similarly the word ‘racist’ should be defined by the [More…]
That is a racist statement. [More…]
It is possible that some of those people when they were transferred to these communities saw an Aboriginal for the first time, and because of their racist upbringing they knew no better. [More…]
It also illustrates the feeling that when an Aboriginal person has been the victim of some racist police officer, they will not report the matter. [More…]
I have personally experienced casual confrontations with ignorant, racist, sexist officers at some stage- and still do on occasions. [More…]
Will the Minister take immediate action to prevent political interference by the Premier who, incidentally, has a long history of political and racist interference in Aboriginal affairs? [More…]
Will the Minister take immediate action to prevent political interference by the Premier who, incidentally, has a long history of political and racist interference in Aboriginal Affairs? [More…]
service pursues a radical, racist and militant philosophy and that office holders have criminal records? [More…]
The Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders Community Health Service pursues a radical, racist and militant philosophy. [More…]
On numerous occasions members of the Senate have expressed their opposition to the racist evil of apartheid in South Africa. [More…]
What further steps have been taken since the change of government in 1975 to implement abolition of the racist, feudal State settlement laws and regulations in Queensland- an action which was promised by the Government? [More…]
This decision by the Queensland Government is racist in the extreme. [More…]
As Commonwealth funds are directly involved, will the Minister do everything possible to have such a racist instruction cancelled as soon as possible? [More…]
Several of the key legislative powers conferred by the Queensland Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders Act are racist. [More…]
The Prime Minister himself must accept some responsibility for condoning by his silence the racist policies which the Queensland Government has implemented for 2Y2 years. [More…]
He then made at least three racist interjections. [More…]
I believe in some respects that both the Queensland Government and the Australian Government are adopting subconsciously a racist attitude on this whole issue because the Queensland Government is saying, ‘The Australian Government is not going to take over Aboriginal affairs ‘ and the Australian Government is saying, ‘We are going to take over Aboriginal affairs ‘. [More…]
Without being racist, I think it is necessary to find out what is happening, because of that very alienation, in Queensland. [More…]
All I am saying is that it is necessary for this Parliament to debate this project and to risk, shall we say, charges, which comes strangely from Mr Bjelke-Petersen, that we are racist in our attitude. [More…]
Mr Porter would be the most antiblack racist Minister of any Minister holding this position currently . [More…]
When they come from a white person, obviously they must be racist in nature. [More…]
the president of the board of management of Campus Community Broadcasting Association Incorported (licensee of radio 2XX) Miss Claire McGrath, said yesterday that 2XX had a firm policy that material of a racist or sexist nature should not be broadcast. [More…]
I remind the Senate of Ms McGrath’s words, quoted earlier, that station 2XX allegedly had a firm policy that material of a racist or sexist nature should not be broadcast. [More…]
That is not to be taken as a racist term. [More…]
I want to refer briefly to the rather racist tirade on which Senator Sheil based his speech and his whole contribution to the debate. [More…]
Irate ABC This Day Tonight viewers have described local government Minister, Mr Hinze, as racist and patronising and many said they were ashamed that he was seen to be representing Queensland on national television, a spokesman for the current affairs program said today. [More…]
Would it not also help to eliminate the racist policy of this Government? [More…]
This Government does not have a racist policy. [More…]
I believe that we as a nation are still a very racist people. [More…]
Some of us have been accused of taking a racist position because Japanese capital and a particular Japanese gentleman are involved. [More…]
Is this a racist attitude? [More…]
I refer the Minister representing the Minister for Post and Telecommunications to a report in this morning’s Melbourne Age which describes complaints made by an Australian Broadcasting Commission television journalist about derogatory, in fact racist, remarks made to her by a senior officer of the ABC. [More…]
The question arose from a press report that an ABC Television journalist had complained that derogatory and racist comments had been made by a senior officer. [More…]
Even the white racist South African Government has granted black Africans 2 1 per cent. [More…]
The proposition which is being put to the Senate is a simple, humane, sensible and highly ethical one- that we ought not to succumb to this sort of pressure which, if we did succumb to it, would place us in an extremely indefensible position against a claim that we are racist- nothing more or less- and that we have succumbed to carrying out what is essentially a racist action. [More…]
Did the officer succeed also in having discussions with the racist of all racists in Australia, the Premier of Queensland, Mr Bjelke-Petersen? [More…]
Can the Minister inform the Senate whether this publication which states, among other things, that the Israeli Government practises policies of ‘racist discrimination’ and ‘mass punishment’ is produced by the United Nations or one of its agencies? [More…]
Far too frequently in recent years Queenslanders have been described as being racist and oppressive of the Aborigine community, a statement which is completely lacking in fact and totally and completely unacceptable. [More…]
Far too frequently in recent years, Queenslanders have been described as being racist and oppressive of the Aboriginal community, a statement which is completely lacking in fact, and totally and completely unacceptable. [More…]
I have been told that to differentiate in this matter would be racist and discriminatory. [More…]
It lives in Australia still, and it lives in Queensland as much as in South Africa, Rhodesia, or in any other racist country. [More…]
We suggest that there is no excuse for the kind of tentative, tiptoeing, deferential attitude which the Government has so far adopted toward what can only be described as the racist bigotry of the present Queensland Government. [More…]
I am certainly not a racist and I am certainly not a knocker but if anyone thinks that the concept that is now being practised in regard to self-determination for Aboriginals is working, I would say that they are out of touch with reality. [More…]
One can certainly draw the conclusion- as indeed the Opposition does- that to impose such a tax on Aborigines is blantantly discriminatory and racist. [More…]
One is entitled to say that the Bill is not only discriminatory but also racist in its application to Aborigines. [More…]
He also described the legislation as racist. [More…]
He wrung his hands when South Africa’s racist repressive regime was kicked out of the Commonwealth in 1962. [More…]
Firstly, it appeals to the racist and bigoted element of the community in Australia. [More…]
Firstly it gives encouragement to that bigoted and racist group, that small element we have in Australia, to continue its campaign. [More…]
It seems to me to be a statement more calculated to gain support from racist sections of the community, than to be responsible. [More…]
The course which that Government followed within that country could not be described fairly as anything other than the policies of a racist government. [More…]
The practices were racist. [More…]
They will be at the mercy of the Dr Mulders and the Dr Treurnichts the extreme hard-line right-wing racist group within the South African National Party because people such as Treurnicht and Mulder will now be able to say: ‘It is all nonsense to say that we can move gradually, move rapidly or move at all, for that matter, peacefully in the direction of majority rule in which at least we can feel secure that we will be able to carry on as citizens, if not masters, of this country’. [More…]
This applied particularly to some newspaper reports that he had said that Western Australia was the most racist State. [More…]
Does the Minister agree that the real facts of the Queensland Government’s treatment of its Aboriginal people are likely to present a highly unfavourable, even racist, picture of Australia’s treatment of its Aboriginal people? [More…]
At page 2 of the report the Commissioner notes that he has identified 30 extremist or racist groups dedicated to promoting race hatred and community division. [More…]
I think that every senator will have received in his mail in the last few weeks copies of literature- if it can be so described- which is identified with these racist groups. [More…]
The Commissioner notes in the report that coincidental to the rise in unemployment and particularly youth unemployment, school children are being made deliberate targets for racist propaganda relating to the employment issue. [More…]
In practice, I have not been able to prevent the dissemination of racist literature, nor can a racial or ethnic group ( as distinct from a person) have any redress under the Racial Discrimination Act 1975 against racially defamatory statements. [More…]
He has the difficult but not entirely racist task of negotiating with the National Country Party in that State on behalf of the Liberal Party- a set of negotiations he handles with great skill and aplomb. [More…]
That has been so despite all the problems that had to be faced- the problems of narrow, racist attitudes which are held by many people and of tensions between peoples of different colour. [More…]
If the Northern Territory Government had hoped that by truncating the Alice Springs Special Aboriginal housing programme it would dispose of the irritating objections from a frenzied racist fringe, it has been disappointed. [More…]
Five Alice Springs Aboriginal organisations immediately responded to the public statements of the “Civilised Citizens” expressing their deep disappointment and outrage at the blatantly racist attacks. [More…]
They revive, whether justly or not, suspicions that our immigration policies are racist. [More…]
In some of the overseas countries there are suspicions that our immigration policies are racist. [More…]
This measure that we are debating tonight, which imposes fees on students who are going to come from overseas countries to study in our universities and colleges of advanced education, will only reinforce the feelings in overseas countries that we have a racist immigration policy. [More…]
Too many people who claim to be democratic and to support the parliamentary system adopt an attitude which can be described only as racist. [More…]
Such antisemitism is an illegal manifestation of religious and racist discrimination both by international and Soviet law. [More…]
The second motive is undoubtedly to suppress the hitherto all too irrepressible Mr Grassby who has long been a very embarrassing thorn in the Government’s side exposing, as he has done with so much flair and capacity, the unhappy state of racist attitudes and behaviour in this country, but again being able to dispose of Mr Grassby without at the same time being seen to be actually abolishing his office. [More…]
I ask honourable senators to compare that with the $lm which the Victorian Government, just one State, has indicated it is now prepared to make available for a promotional campaign to eradicate racism in that State and Victoria is perhaps the least racist State, if I might claim that, in the Commonwealth. [More…]
Both articles in our view are grossly inaccurate racist and demeaning to Aboriginal people. [More…]
These articles are grossly inaccurate racist and demeaning. [More…]
Such amendments need to relate to the powers of the Consultative Committees on Community Relations currently assisting in the administration of the Act throughout Australia; the outlawing of publishing and disseminating racist material; [More…]
To continue: the outlawing of publishing and disseminating racist material; group actions by discriminated parties; and wider power for the Commissioner for Community Relations to pursue actions where aggrieved parties are intimidated. [More…]
Australia has come to the situation which is right for the racist, the extremist, the total fruit cake to exploit racial and religious divisions in our midst. [More…]
Other bodies related to the League of Rights are: The Voters Policy Association; the Electors Associations; the Australian Heritage Society- rather a quaint name for an avid racist group; LILAC- is not that beautiful?- Ladies in Line Against Communism; and the Conservative Speakers Clubs. [More…]
In Queensland we have witnessed numerous blatant exercises by self-interested groups and land grabs by aluminium companies which are ably assisted by a very oppressive and racist government which, when it comes to the question of whose rights have to be recognised, seems invariably to go against the Aborigines. [More…]
The Opposition interprets it as being racist. [More…]
Even though we appreciate that it might not be competent for the Minister to make those sorts of statements, I think it is within our competence in this Parliament to point the finger where it really ought to be pointed- at those people who, in fact, have racist attitudes. [More…]
What happened when the housing scheme in Alice Springs was changed by a small but very biased and racist group of people? [More…]
Nevertheless, when Mr Skuse and his wife, Sue, were associated with that very racist organisation in Alice Springs this Government again knuckled under to the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly. [More…]